San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-10
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

10 per cent, for five years, they will
land in the abyss of bankruptcy as
"sure as falling off slippery log"
The Austin Globe is one of the
neatest and best weeklies in the state.
Its columns are free from spitefulness
and scurrility.
The present law as to legal notices,
appears to have been prompted by q
spirit of untriendliness to the press
never manifested in other states. The
greater the number of persons at a
sale, the greater the likelihood, that
the property will fetch fair price.
In prosecutions for seduction under
promise of marriage, the production
of promise of marriage, IN writing,
should be made Indispensable. This
sort Of seduction is becoming epidem-
zeal as well as demoralizing.
When farmers in Texas cease to
raise cotton in order to purchase corn.
flour and meat, they will have no
more attacks of sub-treasury crazy
ness. Every farm should be self-sup.
, porting.
Texas presents the best field for
foreign capitalists to operate in, and
they know it. Where else can they
obtain 10 per cent interest on loans,
| aud the loans amply secured? They
have been playing the bluff game.
Not one of the apostles, disciples,
or any one of the army of martyrs,
attained the distinction Sam Jones
has had thrown at him-None of
them were pelted with a shower of
| Over-ripe hen-truit. But they never
visited Houston.
Wonder If Bill Sterrett, whose
head is done up in red morocco, Is
still at his old trade of "gaffing, at
the rate of forty tiutters to the min
ute," Fort Worth.
In case Governor Hill should net
be nominated for president, the edi-
tor of the Times Herald will have 10
take a room in the lunatic asylum.
To prevent this let Hill be nominal
ted
From all accounts the bottom has
fallen out of the Rockport boom, the
fever of speculation has subsidized as
| suddenly as il came on, and Rockport
is left as "daIl as the lake that slum-
bers in the storm"
1t is an imposition on Bexar county
for so many counties to pack of their
prisoners to the Jail here, tor safe
keeping. They should erect secure
jsils in their counties, or corral their
prisoners and set guards over them.
The BeXar jail is sometimes so full
that our own evildoers are unable to
get accommodation inside its walls.
Every county in Texas is able to build
q secure iall.
The Iconoclast got bad start. The
craft itself is all right, the helmsman
ran it too close to the breakers, out of
a spirit of bravado. The editor is an
IshmaelIte, his hand is against every
body and every body's hand Is against
him. In reply to his unjust and un-
provok ed attack OIL all the newspa-
pers in Texas, the press merely says
to him physician, heal myself"
The Waco Day is one of the best
papers in Texas, and is generally, fair
aud manly in its comments on meas.
ures and men. There Is nothing
underhanded or sneaking about the |
Day; nor does it talk with a forked
tongue and studied ambiguity of
language.
The press OF Texas owes it to itself |
to insist upon such change in the |
law as vii require all sales by sber- |
ifs, tax collectors, executors, admin |
istrators, etc., to be advertised In a |
newspaper in the county for three |
weeks. This would attract people to |
the sale as well as produce competi-
ton among bidders.
Just think, of Dick Hubbard, ex-
governor of Texas and ex-minister TO |
Japan, going along in an exhibit car |
with a lot OF cranks, as a hireling |
spouter!! He will have to below, |
rant and cavOrt at every station. His |
self respect must surely have oozed |
out of him.!
The democratic party of Bexar
seems to have gone the way Wards
ducks went. All the rural democrats
are burning incense to the sub. treas
ury aud fixing TO jump overheard
from the ship, Democracy. The city
democrats, with she exception Of
about twenty of the "Old Guard"-
whose motto is, 1.-THE old guard dies,
but never surrenders" have grown
too fond of mixed pickles." or half
snd-half, in county ticket, ever to deal
in straight goods again. Sic transit
gloria hunkerorum.
Every aspirant for office, i'll that
portion of Texas situated west Of the
Colorado river, should pack mis-
clothes into his valise and strike
bee line for east Texas. Tyler would
be q good camping ground for them,
but for the fact that it Is already OYER
flowing with aspirsnts for office.
Palestine is also lucky place. Light
ming hits it, frequently, but it usually