San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-24

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hotel and a good fair. Ono
these two are secured the LIGH
will point out half dozen othe
things that would help this city.
How many more times will tn
press announce that the SOutI
Carolina courts have knocked on
the Tillman dispensary act befor
that same act will be knocked on
! of time. 1t comes up game.
| There is good prospect for frost
before the feathers of the Thanks
giving turkey are picked. Thu
winter season at the north may b.
predicated from the promise o
early frosts in this latitude.
There are some good Thanks
giving races arranged for by tn,
San Antonio Jockey club, anC
these are to be followed by some
good Christmas sport on the best
half-lnile track in America.
Mexico swears that the seat OF
that reported Palomas insurrec.
ton is in the imagination of the
American press liars. That imagf-
uation is a fertile ground of mis-
| representation, for fact.
San Antonio is leading the pro-
cessiOn still in the number and
character of her buildings under
and approaching completion. Her
building permits, also, loom up
favOrably for the future.
PeiXotO announces his intention
to die in the last ditch rather than
surrender his government. If
PeiXOtO and Mello both were dead
and in the last ditch the country
would be more tranquil.
The confidence of the Republf-
cans in the situation is to be most
accurately measured by the general
distrust of the Democracy, even in
those states usually considered
sOlidly Democratic.
Cleveland has stolen all the
thunder of the cabinet officers,
made in their reports, which he is
withholding from publication I'M
til after the message is proclaimed
as his masterpiece.
There is hardly a square acre of
this city that does not need some
provision for drainage, and it is
also true that nature has bounti-
fully prepared the natural arteries
for such drainage.
That Lehigh tie-up is much
more effectual than the officers of
the company are willing to admit.
All coal trains and freight traffic
are tied up. That is no light mat
ter for Lehigh.
Colorado has quit mining silver
with her mouth and is taking out
gold with her hands. This is the
best possible way of equalizing the
output of the two money metals of
the country.
The Ways and Means committee
has heard from Ohio and is not as
mean as it threatened to be a few
weeks ago. There is a method of
reaching even the Democratic con-
seriousness.
That Chrysanthemum show in
this city is a decided success. The
products OF our home florists show
faVOrably along side of the Denver
beauties that have taken no end of
prizes.
That old savage in Cape Town
dies hard in the defence of his
wives, his homes and his gold
fields. 1t is to the everlasting dis
grace Of Great Britain that he dies
at all.
Even Indiana Democrats have
caught the alarm, and are holding
a council of war to arrange against
a brilliant Republican success in
the ensuing congressional eloc.
tiOns.
San Antonio is preparing to put
her best aesthetic foot forward.
Help the good work along, it all
tends to the advancement of HUI
manity and the civilizing Of the
race.
Thanksgiving proclamationsa and
ObscrvanCrs are the order Of the
day. Even the Dominion over on
the other side Of the blue Niagara
finds something to be thankful for
The ability of Florida to knock
the pugilists out is OF equal i'm
pOrtanCe just now to the other
question, that of the ability of the
pugilists to knock each other out.
Florida has pulled Off that pugil-