San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-27
ghe Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY. 27. 1889.


Did some one call me?n Nay,
It was only the wind, my darling,
Giving the night away,
Only the wind and the shutter,
Talking as two friends may.
"But now hear some one speaking:
Oh, listen and you will hearW
1t is only the nightbird calling
To her mate in sudden fear;
ONLY the dead leaves falling,
The last love leaves of the year.
"But now there is some one coming,
I hear a step on the stair"
Nay, nay, it is nothing, darling,
But the rocker of my chair.
I have Just been out in the hallway,
am sure there is no one there.
Never a knock at the doorway,
Never a step in the hall.
Yes, the king is certainly coming
How lightly his steps do fall.
A sigh and straitening downward,
And silence is over all.
THE Dallas Times-Herald has the
effrontery to issue statement like
the following as an editorial opinions:
General Harrison, in converse
ton with friend few days ago, de-
clared that he would make a clean
sweep of the pOstofiices, even to those
of the fourth class, and that republi-
cans in such offices would be the first
to go. He will not tolerate any repub-
lican who holds any office by virtue OF
| a commission from Mr.. Cleveland or
by that gentleman's consent"
General Harrison has been so reti-
cent concerning any expression of
policy, much less of practice, that
even his most intimate friends profess
no knowledge beyond his public utter
ances. His cabinet appointments five
days before his Inauguration are all
unknown, and yet comes an obscure
democratic journal of far away Texas
with a thus saith the president con-
corning wholesale removals of office
holders. Bah!
THE LIGHT having criticised Sena-
tor Coke's speech against the
adoption of the report of the Washing
ton county outrages committee, the
Houston Herald takes offence. The
LIGHT said that Coke endeavored to
excuse the Washington outrages by
alleging bribery and fraud in Indiana.
Whereupon the Herald remarks.
The LIGHT sIanders Senator Coke.
If all the political bribe-gtvers and
rascals in Texas were sent t. the
penitentiary such radicals sheets as
the LIGHT would not be trouble with
large subscription list.
To this the LIGHT replies. Senator
Coke is upon record, aud the LIGHT
has not slandered or misrepresented
him. If all defenders of ballot box
stuffing and political assassins were
sent to the penitentiary the Herald
would need another editor.
No less than fifteen boys have been
drowned this season at Pawtucket,
r. l., while skating on thin ice or
around air holes.
There are about 10000 lace makers
in Normandy, and in all France there
are nearly 300 900 women engaged in
this industry.
A thief in Carlisle, Pa, steals moth
ing but Bibles, and he has taken
ninety-one from the people of that
town without being discovered.
Mr.. Limberger, of Coffey county,
Kas, has asked the legislature to
amputate "Iim" for him. He want
his name made plain "Berger.n
1t has been calculated that not less
than 10000, 900 of meteOrs each large
enough to be visible as a shooting
STAR" enter our atmosphere daily.
A gentleman in Columbus, Ga, has
razor which has been III constant
| use 104 years. 1t bears a close re-
| semblance to a broad ak, but does
good service yet.
There are thirteen open saloons in
the little city of Fort Dodge, in the
prohibition state of Iowa, and "activ e
measures are to be adopted at Oncen
to suppress them.
A Litchfeld (Mich.) lady who
thought she had her gold watch
| stolen at an entertainment in the G.
| A. r. hall several weeks ago, found il
one day last week at the bottom of her
flour barrel.
The Richmond Christian Advocate
in commenting upon the great educa,
tional advantages Of the southwest
says that they already have twelve
universities in Texas, and that they
are cutting the poles to build the
thirteenth.
The Paris Academy of Science is
excited over plant called Colocasia