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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

hausted, but not retreating--the Texans
ceased to make or offer resistance. The
Mexicans scrambled over the walls, and
soon filed the fort.
THE MASSACRE. (.
Then occurred q hand.to-hand fight'
man to man, followed by scene OF car
mage and blood surpassed in horror by
few of the massacres of history. The
survivors of Travis's company fought to
the last. Some dubbed their guns and
did execution on their assailants even
after they were overwhelmed with num-
bers. Only a few cried quarter, but
were not needed. OF the entire garri-
son all were put to the sword, not one
surviving, and all fighting till dispatch
ed by the conquerors.
TRAVIS AND CROCKETT.
Among the defenders was the cele-
brated David Crockett, who had gone
to Congress from Tennessee, but come
to aid the Texans in gaining their liber-
ty and freeing themselves from the Mex
lean power. Crockett was killed in the
eastern corner of the fort, while the
Texan commander fell on the western
side. 1t had been agreed upon by the
Texans that the last surviving one OF
their number should fire the magazine,
thus blowing himself and the enemy in
side the walls to destruction, but Major
Evans, Master Of Ordnance, while in
the act of performing this last solemn
duty was killed.
The brave Colonel Bowie, who had
been for some days sick, was alss butch
cred in his bed and his body horribly
mutilated.
TAE DEAD HEAPED UP AND BURNED.
Thus fell the Alamo; thus persisted
the 1888 brave patriots who defended it.
The sound of the artillery had died away
in'the distance of the plains, and the
clear, serene Sabbath sun had risen
alike upon the swell Of the grassy hills
in the east and the begrimed and
bloody faces of the slain. Around and
about the fort, beside the Texans, there
lay 521 Mexican corpses, stark, stiff and
cold, besides an equal number of wound
ed, an evidence of the desperate character
of the conflict. The Texan dead were,
after being subjected to numberless in
dignities, thrown into heaps and burned
within the walls.
THE SURVIVORS.
Though none of Col. Travis's band
were left to tell the tale, Mrs. Dickin-
son, wife of Lieut.. Dickinson, who fell
in the defense, her child, a negro SER
want of Col. Travis, and two Mexican
women of San Antonio de Bexar were
the only survivors of those in the fort.
The blood of the immortal Texan band
still stains the massive walls of the Ala
mo, and as the footsteps of the modern
visitor reverberate through its solemn
old halls he almost fancies it the echo OF
the bloody strife that sent 1SS heroic
spirits to their last abode Sunday morn
ing, March 6, 1886.
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22
A Lovers Murder and Suicide.

A tragic occurrence happened at Nor
folk, Va, on the Cd, involving the death
of two young people in manner both
romantic and startling. A young
painter named Benjamin Godfrey, about
is years of age, had been for several
months deeply in love and engaged to
be married to Miss Mollie Winingder, a
very beautiful and sweet-tempered young
lady II years of age, the daughter OF
Stephen Winingder, prominent butch
er of Norfolk. A few days since the
the couple became estranged and the
lady refused to see her admirer. On
the morning of the I'd Godfrey fol-
lowed Miss Winingder to the Cum
berland Street Methodist Church, and
after service insisted on seeing her home.
The young lady peremptorily refused
the proffered gallantry, and her would
be escort left her in furiously angry
mood. Godfrey was further incensed by
seeing Mr.. Graham go home with his
aflianced. 1t seems that he then went
off to a bar-room and got drunk, after
which, about O'Clock, he procured a
revolver and went to the residence of
Mr.. Winingder and asked an interview
with Miss Mollie. The request was
granted, and the young lady came out
into the hallway to meet him. As She
did SO Godfrey drew his pistol, and aim
ing at her heart fired. Miss Winingder
fell and died within few moments.
Godfrey at once placed the weapon to
his own breast and blew horrible and
ghastly hole through his body. Hewas
carried to the station-house in dying
condition.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

"HERE," she said, leading the way
into a secluded part of the garden and
sitting herself languidly down upon
rustic settee, "here is what we call 'lov-
ers' retreat Isn't it easy and pleasant
like?" "Y-a-a-s," he responded, lazily
folding his arms and looking about him,
''deuced nice, but damp. l say, let's
join the folks in the other part of the
garden" And she arose and refused
his profered arm, and stalked indig-
nanily ahead, while he followed after,
muitering, "What ais the girl, any
how"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.

The Story Of the Massacre Retold-One of
the Most Thrilling Tragedies of His
tory-Present Condition of tho Blood
Stnined Fortress.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
Proverbs for Subscribers.

"a wise son maketh glad father" and
prompt paying subscriber causeth an ed
itor to laugh.
"Folly is joy that is destitute of wis
DOM" but delinquent subscriber causeth
suffering in the house ola newspaper MAX
er.
"All the ways of man are clear in his
own eyes," except the way the delinquent
subscriber hath in not paying for his news
paper. "Better is little with righteous
ness" than thousand subscribers who fail
to pay what they owe.
"a Just weight and balance arc the
Lords" but that which is due upon news
papers belongs to the publisher thereof
"Better dry morsel and quietness there
with, . than long list of subscribers who
cheat the printer.
"Better is the poor man that walketh in
integrity" and payeth his subscription,
than the rich man who continually telleth
thy "devil" to call again.
Judgements are prepared for scorners,
stripes for the backs of FOOLS" and ever
lasting punishment for him who payeth not
for his newspaper.
"Hope deferred maketh the heart SICK"
is proverb sadly realized by the publish
er who sendeth out bills.
"a righteous man hateth lying" hence
an editor wakes wroth against the subscri-
Der who prowises to call and settle on the
morrow, yet calleth not to settle.
at biteth like serpent and stingeth
like an adder" when the adder gets
through adding up the amounts due from
his subs.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

And as she stood, there were no words
trooping through her mind. An inner
door opened and an old woman crept in.
1t was Mrs Wadsworth, broken down at
last, and with the strange, restless light of
an unsettled intellect in her light blue
eyes.
She held an old letter in her hand, and
it rustled as she slowly crossed the room
and stood beside the coffin.
"Jim," she said, "here's your letter.
I've been thinking it over, and since you
take it so hard, you'd better have it. I
only kept it for your own good, Jim. She
amt the girl for you-but you take it so
hard. Wake up, Jim; here's your letter."
But the white frozen hands lay still upon
the chest, and other small, living, woman's
hands grasped it instead.
Nellie knew her letter, and knew all the
story now.
Here is your letter, JIM" she whisper
ed; ooh, Jim, Jim !" and she laid it soft
ly under the white flowers upon the bosom,
and STOPPING, kissed the waxen hands and
brow. "Oh, jim, Jim !" she said again,
and let her black veil down over her face,
and then went away.
And the gossips who stared after her, as
she passed down the village street, wonder
cd again if she had ever been engaged to
jim Wadsworth.
But none of them ever knew.
The grave keeps its secret.
So also docs a woman's heart.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
VOL. XXI---NO. 43.
farMers' Column.
speed the PIOlp.o
Fattening Hogs.

The season has now arrived for farmers
to commence fattening their hogs for mar
ket, and the question naturally arises
whether it is cheaper to fatten them with
that nutritious food, corn, or to sell the
corn. Experiments have proven that choice
breeds of pigs, the Chester Whites for in
stance, will increase in weight at the rate
of 81 pounds for every bushel of corn fed
them. So at the present prices of eight
cents per pound for pigs on the hoof, and
sixty cents per bushel for corn, it would
be more remunerative to use it as feed.
regular intervals, while the comfort of the
animals must be looked after. Clean, dry
pens are always more conducive to the
health and growth ofpigs. Neglected pens
and careless, irregular feeding will prevent
the animals attaining the weight they
otherwise would. In converting the usual
portions into sausage, scrapple and pud-
ding, only those animals of moderate
weight should be used. One of the most
successful manufacturers ofthese compound
in this city, who has made fortune at the
business, tells us that he never kills hog
weighing over 800 pounds. He prefers
those weighing from $50 to 200. They
are the most profitable. He seldom slaugh-
tiers any but Chester Whites. He buys
wherever he can, and usually feeds on corn
from five to six weeks before killing, AS
rule the sausage sold in our city markets
is too fat, and when fried or broiled shriv-
els to about one-third its original size. If
animals of moderate weight were used the
products would be more satisfactory to the
consumers and more profitable to the
sellers Germantown telegraph.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
The Bank that Don't Break.

The land is the farmers bank, and it
never fails to discount proftably, if the
farmer keeps up his deposits. Still
it is his capital, and if he exhausts the
principal, he can not expect much inter-
est; but the bank never breaks.
With the commercial banks, often both
deposits and capital are consumed and
used up by the management, and the
depositor and stakeholder both are los
ers.
With the farmers bank there is no fail
ure, except when the depositor consumes
his original capital without any adequate
return-when be consumes the principal
instead of the interest-crops without re-
turn.
Says judicial successful farmer: "My
bank never fails to return to me good in
terest, because keep my deposits of rich
manure and sound, good seed, and thereby
always derive good dividends"
The farmers bank is the safest; and his
mine, the soil, is the surest; with a fair out
lay of labor and manure, his granray and
Golfer always have something to show for
the outlay.
Still further: the success of his neigh
Dor is not his failure Often with
manufacturers and merchants the success
of rival or competitor is his own loss and
ruin. Not so with the farmer; the rich
crop of one is no detriment to another; one
does not depend on the other for success.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
Poe tic al.
The Names Oh the Window Pancs.

Upon the window panes at Brandon, on James
River, are inscribed the names, cut with dia-
mond ring, of many of those who have compos-
ed the Christmas and May parties of that hos
pitable mansion in years gone by.
As within the old mansion the holiday throng
Re-assembles in beauty and grace
And some eye looking out of the window, by
chance
These memorial records may trace
How the past like swift-coming haze from the
sea,
In an instant surrounds us once more,
While the shadowy figures of those we have
All distinctly are seen on the shore.
Through the vista of years dimy stretching
We but look and vision behold
Like some magical picture the sunset reveals
With its colors of crimson and gold
All suffuscd with the glow of the l.earth's ruddy
blaze,
From beneath the gay "mistletoc bough"
There are faces that break into smiles as divine
ly
AS any that beam on us now.
While the the Old Year departing strides ghost
like along
Der the hills that are dark with the storm,
To the new, the brave beakcr is filled to the
brim
And the play of affection is warm.
Look once more as the garlanded spring reap
In her footsteps VIC welcome train
OF fair women, whose eyes are as bright as the
That has cut their names on the panes
From the canvas of Vandyke and Kneller that
hangs
On the od-fashioncd wainscotted WALL
Stately ladies, the favored of poets, look down
On the masque and the revel and all;
But their beauty, though welded to eloquent
verse,
And though rendered immortal by art,
Yet outshines not the beauty that breathing be-
In a moment takes captive the heart
Many winters have since frosted over those
With the tracery work of the rime;
Many Aprils have brought back the birds TO the
lawn
From some far-away tropical cline;
But the guests of the season, alas where are
they?
Some the shores of the stranger have trod,
And some names have long ago carved on the
stone
Where they sweetly rest under the sod.
How uncertain the record the hand of q child
In its innocent sport unawares
May at any time lucklessly shatter the pane,
And thus cancel the story it bears;
Still portion, at least shall uninjured remain
Unto trustier tablets consigned
The fond names that survive in the memory of
friends
Who yet lingcr season behind.
Recollect, young souls, with ambition inspir.
ed! -
Let the moral be read as we pass
Recolect the illusory tablets of fame
Have ever been as brittle as glass;
Oh! then be not content with the name there
inscribed,
For MS well NAV Won trace IL in dust
But resolve to record it, where long 1t shall
stand
On the hearts of the good and the just
JOHN Il. THOMPSON
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
VARIETIES.
In New Jersey, when they want to

! In New Jersey, when they want to
praise man, they say, SHE has such a
mean face that fly wouldn't light on it."
-"Why didn't you insert my article 2"
asked q contributor, twas it too long
"No," replied the editor, SIT was too mar
row."
Josh Billings says he has tried all the
most approved plans, and finds the cheap
est way to manage q woman is to let her
have her own way.
-"You're smart fellow" said lawyer
to witness, the other day, in a Brooklyn
Court. "1'd return the compliment if I
wasn't under OATH" replied the witness.
(which do you prefer, Linda, cornet
band or q reed band ?" asked one girl of
another.
II like a cornet band"
"And which do you prefer, Sadie 2"
~ think good reed band is the sweet
est"
"And which say you, Emma ?"
"Well, I think we shall all agree that a
good hus- is the sweetest ~
"A well known barrister having won q
suit, the opposing party was SO much en-
ragged that he declared that whenever he
met his legal adversary he would pitch in
to him. They encountered each other at
an oyster counte-. The gentleman address
cd him, "Mr.--, is there cause so bad,
or an individual so infamous, that your
services cannot be obtained 2" II cannot
say" replied the barrister, swallowing
another oyster; and then STOPPING over, he
asked, "What have you been doing2"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

Too LONG WHFFLETREEs ON PLoUGHs.
Most ploughmen have so long whiffletrees
that it is often impossible to make any
plough work satisfactorily. Excellent
ploughs are denounced as worthless and re-
jected, simyly because the whiffletree or
the OK yoke is too long. Yet the ploughs
man never suspects wherein consists the
true cause of the difficulty. Our own
practice from boyhood has been to make
double whifletrees for ploughing never
more thae two feet between the points of
the attachment of the singletrees, which
were about twenty-three inches in length.
When it was desirable to plough narrow
furrow- slices, the singletrees were attach
ed only twenty-five inches apart. Let the
ploughman attempt to plough with a
doube-tree six feet in length, and he will
readily understand why plough will not
run correctly when the double-tre is too
long. The plough will be drawn too far
from the furrow to the unplouged ground,
unless the ploughman makes constant eff
fort to prevent the implement from cutting
a furrow-slice wider than can be properly
turned over.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
To PRESS AUTUMN LEAvEs.-Press the

To PRESS AUTUMN LEAvEs.-Press the
leaves carefully between newspapers, tax
ing care to avoid tapping one over anoth-
er. The next day take out the leaves and
dry the paper. Put the leaves again in
press and the next day repeat the drying
process. This should be done three or
four times until the moisture is extracted
from the leaves. This is troublesome, but
the result will be brilliant If the face of
each leaf, after the first pressing, is brush
ed over with sulphuric acid diluted one
half with water, the color will be still brigh-
ter. Do not wax or varnish the leaves, as it
gives them an unnatural gloss. They can
be made into sprays or garlands by means
of the fine wire which florists use, twisted
lightly around their stems.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

-"My dear boy" said mother to her
son as he handed round his plate for
more turkey, "this is the fourth time you
have been helped" 81 know, mother" re-
piled the boy, "but that turkey pecked at
me once, and want to get square with
him." He got bis turkey.
MADAM, don't you know that your
baby will catch his death of cold there ~
mo sir" she promptly responded. "Well
it's such carelessness as that which fills our
cemetery with little graves" he continued.
awhile all the old fools continue to live
she replied. tf. ..,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26
IS thee believe thee has any ?"
A Dread Revenge.

Many long years ago, the chief of the
district Maclean of Lochbuy, lin the ISL
and of Null, had grand hunting excur-
sion.
To grace the festivity, his lady attended
with his only child and infant then in the
nurses arms.
The deer driven by the hounds and
hemmed in by surrounding rocks, flew to
a narrow pass, the only outlet they could
find.
Here the chief had placed one of his
men to guard the deer from passing; but
the animals rushed with such impetuosity
that the poor forester could not withstand
them.
In the rage of the moment, Maclean
threatened the man with instant death
but his punishment was committed to a
whipping or scourging in the face of the
clan, which in those times was considered
degrading punishment, fit only for the
lowest of menials and the worst of all
crimes.
The clansman burned with anger and
fresh revenge.
He rushed forward, plucked the tender
infant, the heir of Lockbuy, from the hands
of the nurse, and bounding to the rocks in
moment he stood upon an inaccessible
cliff, projecting over the water.
The screams of the agonized mother and
chief at the awful jeopardy in which
their child was placed, may easily be con-
ceived.
Maclean implored the man to give back
his son, and expressed his deep contrtion
for the degradation lie had in a moment of
excitement inflicted on his clansman.
The other replied that the only condi-
ton ON which he would consent to the
restitution was, that Maclean himself
should bare his back to the cord, and be
publicly scourged as he had been.
In despair the chief consented, saying he
would submit to anything ifhis child were
but restored.
To the grief and establishment of the
clan, Maclean bore this insult, and when it
was completed, begged that the clansman
might return from his perilous situation
with the young chief.
The man regarded him with smile of
demoniac revenge, and lifting high the
child in the air, plunged with him in the
abyss beneath.
The sea closed over them, and neither,
it is said, ever emerged from the tempestu-
Gus whirlpools and basaltic caverns that
yawned around them, and still threaten the
inexperienced navigator on the shores of
Null.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

To KEEP TOMATOES FOR WINTER USE.
AS the tomato season is now here, l con-
tribute one way for keeping them for win
ter use that may be new to some of your
readers. l ate them in February sliced
snd seasoned with sugar and little vine
gar, that seemed every way as nice as to-
matoes picked from the vines They
were preserved in the following manner
"Dssoive teacup of salt in a gallon of
water. Pick ripe tomatoes, but not over
ripe, leaving little of the stem on. The
tomatoes must be well covered with brine,
and they will keep till spring and over.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple is the wheat
king of Minnesota. The Dalrymple fam
is near Cosseton is tract of 100 acres,
and has 1000 acres in wheat this year.
Mr. Dalrymple also owns half interest in
what is known as the Gradin farm, a tract
of 1000, just north of the Elm river, in
Trail county, Dakota territory, thirty-fiye
miles north of Fargo. On the farm there
are $500 acres in wheat this year and
5000 acres broken for next year. To
harvest the crop of $500 acres on the two
farms it required AZ self,binding reapers,
225 horses and mules and $50 men. Nine
steam threshing machines, with the capa-
city of 1000 bushels day are now at
work threshing the grain. Mr.. Dalrymple
also owns 1000 acres Of land in Cottage
Grove, Minnesota, near st. Paul, 1900
acres of which are in wheat.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

EASY LESSONS IN PHYSIOLOGY. -Suppos-
ing your age to be Is or thereabout.-
You have 100 bones or 500 muscles your
blood weighs 25 pounds, and your heart
is inches in length and 3 incees in
diameter. 1t beats 70 times per min
ute, 1900 times per hour, 100000
times per day, and 36,772,200 times
per year. AT each beat a little over ounces
of blood is thrown out of it; and each day
it receives and discharges about tons
ofthat wonderful fluid. Your lungs will con-
tain gallon of air, and you inhale $4,000
gallons per day. The aggregate surface of
your lungs, surprising them to be spread out,
exceeds 5000 square inches The weight
of your brain is 3 pounds; when you are
man it will weigh about s ounces more.
Your nerves exceed 100000 in number.
Your skin is composed of three layers, and
varies from I to of an inch in thickness.
The area of your skin IS about 1,70O
square inches. Each square inch contains
$500 sweating tubes or perspiratory pores,
each of which may be likened to little
tlrain-tile of an inch long, making an ag-
gragate lenght on the entire surface ofyour
body of 201,166 feet, or tile ditch for
draining the body almost 40 miles long.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

LONDON London is the greatest city
the world ever saw. Babylon, Thebes,
Rome were never so populous; while the
largest city in India at the present time
contains less than million Inhabitants
Within the border of the metropolitan and
police districts, circle of fifteen miles, it
is computed there are at the present time
upwards of four million persons. London
is three times more populous than New
York, four times more populous than st.
Petersburg, twice as populous as Con-
stantinople, with two-tbirds more people
in it than Paris, and one-fourth more than
even the hiving multitudes of Pekin. All
Scotland but equals it in the number of its
people, and half as many Yorkshiremen
again as are numbered in their own coun-
ty could find accommodation within its
circles. Every eight minutes of every day
of every year soul goes out of London,
and in every five minutes of every day Of
every year new immortal enters upon the
scene of its probation. 1t is at once the
court, the seat of government, the centre
of fashion, the home of all the charities,
and the general rendezvous of all the GRIM
inal and desperate characters of the king
dom,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-10-26

1t is stated that in 1878 Mr.. Decker,
of Centre county, found grain of wheat
in package of coffee purchased at the
village store. He planted that single
grain, and this fall he threshed twenty
nine bushels. 1t is white wheat, very large
in the grain, and weighs sixty-six pounds
to the bushel. Mr.. Decker calls it coffee
wheat. He will sow sixteen acres this
fall-all from single grain planted four
years ago. ..#,