San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-22
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FRIDAY. MARCH. ~. 1899.

FRIDAY. MARCH. ~. 1899.
THAT runaway match of foolish
Miss Fuller, daughter of chief justice
of the United States, is all the excite
ment at Washington. The young
lady did not take kindly to Washing
ton society and preferred her native
city ON the banks of the lake. The
family profess to disbelieve the reports
and refuse to speak concerning the
matter in the ears of press representa-
tive. She is variously reported at
from seventeen to nineteen years of
age and no reason other than the dis
like of Washington is assigned for the
act.
The Alamo Monumental associa-
ton ask of the press of Texas, that
the work of collecting funds for this
patriotic work be kept constantly be-
fore the people of the state. With
this request the LIGHT does now COM
ply, as it has heretofore, and as it
expects on future occasions to do; it
urges upon all the natives of Texas,
the new corners, the transients and
the strangers within her gates, the
propriety of providing at once the
necessary funds for erecting this
monument to the heroic defenders of
the Alamo. The wisdom of each Sec
ton will best devise how this may be
done. The Monument association will
shortly issue it's circular and put
forth its programme for systematic
work. Let all contribute something
and all can share in the credit of a
good deed.
THE Bracket News is little dila-
tory in securing the news. In it's last
issue it says:
1.-THE work of locating the road-bed
of the extension of the Arkansas Pass
railroad to Kerrville has been COM
menced and it is thought the road
will be finished by fall"
If the LIGHT is not mistaken the
trains of the Arkansas Pass road have
been running to Kerrville for the past
twelve months and more, and that
fact has been duly chronicled in the
railway columns of the papers in this
city. The News man probably refers
to the Llano extension via Fredericks-
h1 ia
Work OH the extension has COM
menced and will be pushed right
along as rapidly as possible. San
Antonio has recorded VOW to run
line into the panhandle and this
road is a pointer in that direction.
The Old Alamo City moves slowly,
but she moves and her speed shows
symptoms of being accelerated.
AN exchange sends the following
flying around the country:
"The Fort Worth Gazette INDUCES
in bit of prophecy. 1t says Mr..
Blaine will not be member of Har-
rison's cabinet longer than six
months"
The wish is so often father to the
thought, particularly in a democratic
mind when discoursing of republican
disagreements, that too much faith is
not to be placed in prophecies like the
above. There is no doubt that the
democracy would welcome any rup-
ture that might come in the cabinet,
and would particularly rejoice at any
disagreements between the president
and secretary of state. Every attempt
has been made to awaken a feeling of
uneasiness in the presidents mind
and destroy his cordiality of feeling
for Mr.. Blaine by assertion that the
latter is vertical head of the govern
ment and the former but a figure
head. The pretext is too thin. The
game too apparent. President Har-
rison is no fool, nor is Blaine an ass.
The LIGHT is of opinion that the Ga
zette's prophecy will fall to the
ground like an untimely fig blasted
by the east wind.
Cad. the Painter,
Has gone back to his first love, and
can be found at 1856 East Houston
street. His reputation for tirst-class