San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-08

application of ice poultices to their
heads will reduce their cerebral eX-
element.
Jim Davis methodist Jim) has
gathered up all the victuals in sight
and left the democratic wigwam and
gone into camp with the third party.
He is now supremacy happy, as he
can "shoot his mouth of" to his
hearts content.
The movement to start O democrat
ic paper in San Antonio is q hint to
the Express that it's democracy does
not come up to the regulation stan
dard. The word "protection" has the
same effect on Cleveland democrats
that red flag has on a bull.
The daily papers in Austin are Pc
culiarly rich in their vOcabularies
and reel off slang in fine style, but
there is danger that their readers
may become Disguised with the same
ness of the diet. Better feed readers
on knowledge and understanding, as
the LIGHT does, and give up the boot
less attempt to be witty.
Marion Martin has scrambled out
of his political grave and attended a
third party pow WOW in bis shroud.
The scent OF an office, borne to him by
the wind, revives the dropping spirits
of Marion, the patent leather patriot
OF the rural regions, and lubricates his
stiffened joints.
How does it happen that Galveston
is SO "barren and unfrultful" in the
way of first-class talent Is 1t the
soil or the climate that is responsible
for Its dearth OF men of first-class
talent? It is SO much on the outside
of Texas that men of ability and am
bition recoil from camping on the
island of sand and oleanders.
The Estate Press" column in the
Galveston News is growing "stale, fiat
! and Improbable. Less taffy and the
infusion of more acid, would impart
on agreeable pungency to state
Press" 1t Is now soporitic for the
victims of insomnia.
The devil seems to have fired the
blood of Mexican young people in San
Antonio. In the last fortnight, two
of them were arrested for kidnapping
young girls and living with them
without going through the formality
of marriage. They married them, In
| preference to facing the buzz saw
District Attorney George Psschal.
If Dallas and Fort Worth are tired
| of their water famed Trinity water
is too full of mud and other things
too numerous to mention to be drink
able) they can get a supply of pure,
clear water from San Antonio. We
can spare it without missing it; so let
them lay down the mains as soon as
they please.
There are half-a-doZen married
men of prominence, in San Antonio,
of polygamous turn, as each one of
them has a wife and a mistre ss.
Whenever their wives "cstch on to
their racket" these unfaithful hus.
bands will find themselves in pretty
pickle truly.
Some girls, when they want to
marry, contrive to get themselves Sc
duced, have the fellow arrested for
seduction under promise of marriage,
swear it positively, and the victim of
q woman's Wiles, willis, like q shirt
collar on hot day, and marries the
girl out of hand. This new way to
win a husband is becoming monoton
GUS.
George Clark of Waco was in San
Antonio few days past, and as no
court was in session, the supposition
was, that he was here to look into the
Arkansas Pass receivership. He
never takes a brass band with him,
when he goes forth to set politician,
who has aroused his ire by insubor
dinstion. AS he did not groom Hogg
for the governorship, he would like
to treat him as Joab did Abner- Vide
the Bible.
The "signs of the times" betOken
stormy weather for the democratic
politicians in Texas. The third party
is much stronger than was at first
suspected. The detection from the
bourbons is going on daily. The
bucolic democrats appear to have
soured on the democratic party. Taffy
does not coax them worth cent ana
they laugh at the bugaboos set up to
brighten them. Democratic politicians
are being demoraliZed and obfustlcat
ed, they are unable to tell how many
are going to desert the democracy for
the third party, and are walking over
eggs.
| There are four candidates in en-
bryo for congress in San Antonio, and
two wards still to be canvassed by
the census taker. Rumor says Bryan
Callaghan, Judge McCleary, Judge
Wurzbach aud A. w. Houston are
anxious to De struck by bolt of con-
gressional lightning, as soon as the
state ia redistricted. Hope springs
eternal in the human breast" for the
benefit of politicians and old maids.