San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-24
Telegraphic Brevities.

London.
Parnell commission resumes work
today.
Presiden Carnot is making arrange
ments for visit to Bulgaria.
Lyman Davis, aged ia, died in
Salisbury N. Y.
The second Egyptian cotton crop is
being gathered. The yield is poor.
The Grand opera house of st. Pau,
Mimi, is destroyed by fire. Loss,
about 100000.
The agreement for loan to the Bull
garian government by the Vienna
Lander bank has been signed.
Archduke John Salvador of Austria,
desires to resign all his titles and ap-
pointments and live private citizen.
Eighty tenants are threatened with
eviction at Falcarragh county, Done
gal.
The banns of marriage of the Prince
of Monaco and the Duchess of Rich
lieu have been published.
The r. r. Station Agents Associa-
ton of North America is meeting in
Kansas City.
Mr.. Gladstone delivered an address
at Southport yesterday and was en-
thusias tically welcomed.
King Humbert's wedding present
to Princess Sophie was magnificent
tiara of diamonds.
w. F. Campbell, shot in saloon by
Policeman Morris, in New York, has
died of his wounds. Morris is in GUS
tody.
Turkish officials in Constan-
tinople are in fever over
the discoveries of Russian agents
in Armenia of the cruelties Of Turks
and Kurds upon helpless Armenian
Christians.
The longest telephone circuit in
Europe is that just opened between
Vienna and Leipsic. actual distance
over the wires is $50 miles.
The immense hacienda of Zeca Jux-
tia, in Morelas, Mex, with an accom-
panying silver mine is sold to Lon
don syndicate for $2,000,000
The Russian police at Odessa arrest
ed two men, said to be Americans,
charged with circulating large sums
of the new and dangerous forged 25
ruble bills of the bank.
THE French Republic is making
progress under Carnot. The old dis
migrating elements are thems elves
dIssolving, and as the purpose and
republication of the government
grows more clear the more formidable
elements of opposition are found ally
ing themselves with the national
authorities. The action of the press
has been most significant of late and
the conversion of Figaro from its sup
port of monarchism to become Il Q
pillar and defence Of republicanism
must be most gratifying. Concerning
the influence of the change in Figaro
which has come out sqnarely for the
republic as the most stable form of
government for France, Two Republic
SAYS:
"Figaro has been the main reliance
of the monarchists hitherto, and its
opposition has always been the gray
est thing the repu blicans have had to
encounter in Paris, where it has al
ways. been the most popular of all
the French papers. It's conversion is
an important sign of the times"
The eighteen years of republican,
ism pass. No new revolution is in
augurated. Boulangerism though
still alive is seriously crippled. The
republic gains strength, and bids fair
to live. Vive la republique!
The Brenham Banner cannot help
it. 1t would if it could, but fit could
not, how could it? Would any news
paper say such words as the follow
ing, if it was not compelled to by it's
own incomprehensible and irresistible
senselessness? We think not.
Benny Harrison is nothing if not
narrow-minded, bigoted and section
al partisan. Hence the burden of his
forthcoming message to congress will
be the South"
"When Harrison started out to adj
minister his high office of chiefmagis-
trate on a policy of civil service sham,
pension frauds, sectional hatred and
protected monopoly, he acted without
wisdom or discretion"
Solomon certainly bad his eye on
the Banner when he wrote his little
proverb about a fool and mortar.
Vandyked or deep pointed laces,
cream. white, black and colored, fire.
quently embroidered in beads and
tinted metal and colored silks, are