San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-20
Abbott opera Sale Tomorrow


secured for any or all performances,
four evenings and two matinees, at
one call. The engagement next week
will open with a special Christmas
day matinee on Wednesday, for
which Bohemian Girl" is put on,
two prime dome and full company.
Emma Abbott will appear in the
evening in I'll Trovatore," Thursday
in "Ernani," Friday, Norma" Sat
urday matinee in "Rose of Castillo"
| and Saturday evening i'm '"The Yeo-
men of the Guard" Prices for matt
nees are 81, IS cents, so cents and gal
ley 70 cents. Evenings, $3.50, 81, 75
cents and 80 cents. All operas are
put on as grand opera.
| The New Orleans Saengerbund.
The New Orleans Times-Democra
has the following to say in regard to
| the North American Saengerbund
! which meets in New Orleans Febru-
airy II. and which our Beethoven
Maennerchor will visit as the repres.
[ entative singing association of Texas:
"The list of singers aggregates
l54S, insuring over 100 trained sin
\ gers who will participate in the festi-
val, each one bearing his own trav-
| cling expenses, while boarding and
lodging here will be betrayed by the
local committee. To accommodate
this large. number in comfortable
style, the following committee of &C
I commodation is now having spacious
hotel constructed in the rear of the
| Saengerf ast Hall, fronting on Howard
avenue aud Carondelet street: E.
Lalmant, chairman; j. VOegtie, X.
II. Benners, H. Opitz, H. Hodgson,
S M. Wonderland. Paul Schneider and
! n. f. Baumgarden.
| The Sangerfest association is incor-
porated under the limited liability
act of 1888 with capital of $50 200,
and is now managed by its directory,
which includes the names of all who
formed the executive committee and
| the officers OF the local festival COM
mittee.
The president OF the National Saen-
gerbund, charged with the arrange
| ments of the coming Saengerfest, is
Hon. Jacob Hassinger, proprietor of
the New Orleans German Gazette.
The Saenger hall building is now
being built at the corner of st. Charles
| andHoward avenues, and is greatly ad-
mired. 1t is pronounced most suitable
and perfect in its acoustic properties.
The sum of $4,000 toward expenses
has been raised.
The last singing festival of the
North American Singers Union took
place in June, 1885,"
The British lion is shaking his
name at poor Portugal in a blood
curdling way.
THE Globe Democrat echoes the
opinion of the LIGHT expressed some
time since. 1t is too soon to talk of
presidential candidates.
The repeal of the tobacco tax is |
called for by men fall parties, regard
less. Repeal it then.
RECIPROCITY measures between |
Mexico and the United States should
be pushed to a definite conclusion.
The sister republic will he glad to |
meet us half way in this thing.
NEW ORLEANS board of trade me-
morializes congress to remove the old |
wrecks in the Mississippi between
the city and the mouth of the river.
The Crescent City is rapidly enlarg-
ing the volume of her ocean commerce
and wants no obstruction between
her docks and the sea.
THE New York dude generally &C
cepts anything from John Bull with
thanks, but his anglophobia draws
the line at the purely English ep-
izooty which has overrun London and
threatens the peace and pocket-ker-
chiefs of New York. 1t is a genuine
epidemic and if anything like that
which struck this country forty-fiye
years ago is not to be sneeZed at.
THE long drawn fight between the
Iowa railroads and the state admins
tration has ended in a draw. The
state dismisses its suits against the
railroads for alleged violations and
the roads dismiss their injunctions
brought in the federal courts restrain
ing enforcement of schedule rates.
The slate is now clean but who marks
next and what?
REPORTS from Brazil continue TO
be very conflicting. The prepond-
erance of testimony is to the tranquility
Of the rapuhlic and tbaiporaooaJ |