San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-01-16
WHAT THEY THINK.

An Interesting Correspondence
Upon Important Local Topics.
The following correspondence explains
itself:
GEORGES ENQUIRY.
MANsLADo EsTADo DE CoABUILA, MEN, [
January 3, 1887. !
DEAR john SCHMTT, JR.,
San Antonio, Texas:
You ought to be glad you did not 20
with me. Its fearful cold here. | can
hardly keep warm enough 10 live, and
no stoves here, and The doors and
windows don't 1T. Last year bananas
were blooming in January when | was
here; but OF the other banaDas--the
girs-bloom still, but 1 have met no
girl worth kissing yet.
have to lay over for q while. The
| railroads here are so arranged that just
| ten minutes before you arrive, the train
| you have TO go on to travel further, has
| left aud you are left too. What Ia the
news in San Antonio! Did Newcomb
get It? Yours,
GEo. MILLER, SEN,
sCHMIIT's ANSWER.
MR. GEo. MILLER, SR.
some where In Mexico.
Yes. Newoomb got IL In the neck. He
says II the first, second, third sixth and
seventh wards would have voted for
him, then he perhaps had a better
chance. The "ifs" did 1t.
Our city OF iniunctions Is going
ahead slowly. The bonds have arrived,
and the lawyers are happy. "Don't tell
the reporters about It."
The "prohibs" have sworn OF again on
New \ ear, as usual.
Since the first of this month we write
and say 1888 In San Antonio, which
don't seem to be the case in the place
you are.
The Committee OF Thirty are bringing
lots of strangers here, but the recorder
sends them of again. No burglaries
since last night. Some rascal tried to
steal the Navarro street bridge, but the
Waterman held on to Ii and shot In all
directions; they say he fired ut his
shadow.
That sweetheart Of yours got married
since you left.
Your % cent republican club No. is
reported to be very sick since January
9TH, and in eXtremis.
The bill Of lading for the New Years
gift you promised me has not yet ar
rived.
Ht DlK UOOm slOWlS
way. The Wiener Wuerstchen are al.
ready getting larger and a heavy decline
In sawdust 10 reported.
Ifyou can't get warm, try mescal In
quart doses and camp out, II the doors
and windows don't fit in your house.
Your cremation company has refused
to meet at the old office any longer, be-
cause they have been told TO look for az
other place.
A lawyer shot of his pistol instead OF
his mouth as 10 customary In the prOfes-
sion, and provided for by Blacklist me.
Nobody was hurt but everybody was
scared. Next.
You missed greet treat mot beer
Emma Abbott In new opera last night.
did not see anybody on the stage be-
cause 1t was so dark. but il must have
been nice as every body hollered, "opera
book and opera glass;" all evening.
They told me that's the two stara they
cry after.
There is a big discovery by few phi
lanthropists In the newspapers about
getting 1854 millions or billions OF hard
silver dollars here, laying idle In Boston,
New York, CastroviIIe and Graytown,
to be loaned out to everybody; no inter-
est, and a chance to keep the capital,
too Homestead and usury, you know:
Big speculation; supreme court is sill
you the and Breckenridge don't need
any.
The weather is comfortable-near a
hot stove. | have to keep the thermOm-
eter wrapped up in blanket to keep 1t
from freezing. Yours,
JOHANN SCHMTT, Jr.