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

OFFICIAL.
|coSaRkssMAx-6TH DISTRICT:
Hon. Gustave Schleich.r, Of Dewitt Co.
SENATOR a-3lsr DISTRICT:
Hon. L. J. Storey, OF Caldwell Co.
RkPGx sENrArlyEs-8 84rn.DisTRicr:
Hon. J. v. Hutchins, Of Hays Co.
Hon. " N. Rust, Of Guadalupe Co.
DISTRICT CouRr--l5rn DISTRICT.
Hon. l.. W. Moore, Presiding Judge. LsGrange.
TINES oY HOLDING COURT.
YAYs.-2d Mondays in March and September.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Sterling Fisher, Judge County Court,
F.J. Manlove, County Attorney.
Ed. J. l.. Green, Clerk.
Jas. A. Wren, Sheriff. G. s. Cock. Deputy.
CIV: Grooms, Justice Of the Peace Pre-. No.
|. NJ. Breedlove, :" &" - .
II. G. Little. 3
l.. Smith, -
II. A. McNeans, County Treasurer.
A. lieatoi, Assessor.
Ben. q. Hardin, surveyor
b. 7. Hopkins, COLi'r Precinct No. !.
d. H. Moore Q
J. r. Burieson, 3.
j l.. BazpmOre. 4.
Geo. H. Ward, Constable.
TIMES or noLpISG CoUSry AND PRkcrYcr COuRrs-
Criminal County Court-lst Monday In each
mOnth.
County Court for Civil and Probate business
LIST Monday in February April, June, August, Oc.
tobcr and December
Commissioners COurt-2d Mondays In February,
May, August and November.
Justice Court Precinct No. list Friday In each
month, San Marcos.
Precinct No. 3-2d Friday In each month MtCity.
3-3d '' Wimberley's Mill
- g. 4-4.h Dripping Springs.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor-A. B. r. Kerr.
Council-w. O. Huichson, W. B. Fry, L. W. Mitch
ELL u. p Hopkins, Z. H. Turner.
MarLhal-A. B. Daley.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22
CHIILS AND FEFER.
SIMMONS, LIVER ssEGULa

Is eminently a Family Medicine: and by being
ept ready for immediate resort will save many an
hour OF suffering and many dollar in tine aud
Doctors bills.
After oyer Forty Years trial il is still receiving
the most unqualified testimonials TO its virtues
from persons Of the highest character and rsspon-
sioility Eminent ply sieans recommend IL as the
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-12-22

After being locked up the man with
the many names assumed the role Of
insanity, which be carried ont very well
till late last evening. when Chief Walsh
got to talking TO bin about some trif-
ing matters, Ehen be forgot bis charac.
ter and ecnversed as rational as any
one.
The Chief seat OH>er Bea Godin to
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One inch In space constitutes square.
Legal aud transient advertising payable strictly
in advance.
Local notices, 10 cents per line each insertion.
Announcing candidates Tor office, county,, 5.eo
For District or State offices, ........... lo"o
obituary notices OF over ten lines charged at
dvertiSing rates.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
Helena, Montana, Thursday, March 80, 1877.


Half century ago bellows-making was a
thriving trade. Every house had its pair of
bellows, and in every well furnished mansion
there was hung pair by the side of every
fireplace. Ipswich, in Massachusetts, ac-
quired quite notoriety all over New England
for the elegant and substantial articles of the
kind it produced. But as stoves and CRATES
took the place of open e-places, and as coal
was substituted for wood, the demand for bel
lows diminished until the business as separ-
ate trade quite died out. The same is true of
flint cutting. Flints were once necessary,
not only for firearms, but for tinder-boxes,
and tinder-box was as necessary for every
house as gridiron or skillet. Every one
who looks to childhood of forty odd years
ago, must remember the cold winter morn
jDgs, when the persistent crack of the flint
against the hard steel sent up from the
kitchen all odor of igniting ,inder and sui
phur, which pervaded the house.
l have no more idea what became of the
flint producers than the old man of sorrowtu
memories. who three or four times a week
called at our door with rhinestone matches,
for sale at one cent the half-dozen lunches.
Both have been as completely banished from
Indians and the Druids.. Then again, are
SOAO CAO PIA>AA0AOAo3 "AO3 CuCy udVC
been in their graves this quarter of century,
still figure in the lectures and essays to illus
trate the advantages of divisions of labor.
Instead of pin taking men to cut, grind,
point, head, polish and what not, as it used
to do, pins are now made by neat little ma
chimes, at the rate of three hundred a minute,
of which machines little child attends to
half a dozen. Matchmaking at the forge is
another lost industry. Time was, and that in
this nineteenth century, when every nail was
made on the anvil Now, from one hundred
to one thousand nails per minute are made by
machines. The mailer who works at the
forge has small chance in competing with
such antagonists; and he would have no
chance at all were it not that his nails are
fold tougher than the others. AS it is,
the poor men follow the all but hopeless
vocation, and are compelled to live in hand
grips with poverty.
In the days of Presidents Madison and
Monroe, and even later, straw-bonnet making
was practiced in every middle-class house
where there were growing families, and straw
plating formed the staple of domestic leisure
work. At my grandfather's, around the huge
kitchen fireplace, Caesar, born slave, who
sat on an oak bench directly under the gap
ing chimney, and we boys, who crowded
upon the settee, used to pass winter evenings
splitting straw, while the lassies were plait-
ing them. Then bonnets were bonnets, COW
ering the head with a margin of foot or two
to spare, and presenting sort of conical,
shell-shaped recess. in which dimpling smiles
and witching curls nestled in comfort. The
work has vanished, and will never reappear.
unless the whirligig of fashion should glide
again into the forsaken track.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
Coffee Leaves.

The leaves of the coffee tree promise to be-
come as important as the berry, perhaps more
so. The leaves contain notable proportion
of the curious double salt which is called
caffein when derived from coffee, and them
when derived from tea, but is the same in
either case, and affects the nervous system
similarly. 1t is true coffee and tea differ in
their effects on the nervous system, and while
the consumption of tea increases that of coffee
decreases. But the difference of action is
not due to any difference of essential or fun
damental property, but to the accidental ac
compartments, roasted coffee containing
fatty matter, albumen and glucose, which are
scarcely traceable in tea.
But the leaves of the coffee tree are nearly
destitute OF these accidental accompaniment
and contain large proportion of the stimu-
lating property which renders the leaf of the
tea tree so refreshing and generally accepta-
bic. There can be no doubt at all that a
reasonable use of coffee and tea in their
customary forms is beneficial, for they are
not only stimulants, but true nutrlments, the
infusion of q good sample of either contain
ing nitrogen in form suited to appropriation
in the organism, and therefore contributory
to the fabric
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
A Bit Of Strange Romance.

SAN FRANCISCO, March G-Twelve years
ago w. & J. Harper & Co.. hardware dealers
of Philadelphia, desiring to invest in oil lands,
employed an Englishman named Edgar g.
Martin to negotiate for the purchase of land
near Pithole City. Twenty thousand dollars
was intrusted to Martin to make payment
He absconded with the money and Mrs.
Estella Warren, the young wife of the bar
tender at the hotel where he boarded. In the
twelve years two members of the firm have
died, and the surviving member, VIM. Harper,
became bankrupt in 1878. He removed
from Philadelphia to Forest county. In the
early part of February letter postmarked
San Francisco was received from the long
missing faithless agent, Martin, proposing to
refund the $40, 900, with interest, provided
no legal measures should be taken against
him. Mr.. Harper came to San Francisco,
agreed to all of Martins propositions, and
received 1886, 800 and his expenses. Martin
says he went to Peru and accumulated for
tune. He left wife and children in Mary
land, and says he provided for the family and
they had gone to England, where his wife's
parents live. A child ten years old is the re-
suit of his liaison with Mrs. Warren. Martin
is SO years of age and his mistress is now 81.
She is said to be remarkably handsome.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
A Little Real Life Romance.

Rochester. Minnesota, has romance. The
story is that young Bostonian, named Carl
ton Stanton, went to Minnesota for his health
in 1870, and at Rochester met, loved and be-
came engaged to Mary Phillips, worthy girl
Unfortunately, however. Stanton was thrown
from sleigh, few months after, and fa-
tally Lurt by the discharge of a revolver III
his pocket. His mother, then visiting at
Chicago, reached him in season to zee him
die, and then returned to Boston. The poor
girl heard no more till last summer, when
she received letter from Mrs. Stanton
saying that her dying boy made her promise
that $5, 900, half his estate should be given to
Miss Phillips; the mother had postponed the
fulfillment of her promise, but was not con-
tent; her only remaining son had just died,
and she assured the girl that she should soon
have her money. Months passed, till, about
Thanksgiving time, another letter from Mrs.
Stanton begged the girl to come to Boston,
for she was i'll. Miss Phillips went, and was
taken to a luxuriant home, not too soon, how
ever, for Mrs. Stanton died that night. But
she appears not to have forgotten her pledge,
for within few days Miss Phillips has re-
ceived, at home, $8, 600, the amount due from
her lovers estate, with the news that Mrs.
Stanton had willed her $685. 900.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29

The English residents of Shanghai in place
of spelling contests or singing bees, they have
conundrum matches, prize teapots being
awarded for the best and worst samples of
wit. On December 2G there were many CON-
petitors. The prize conundrums were these {:
Q) the best. %. What grounds are there
for supposing that our new ruler is regular
Turk?. A. None, except that he is the new
Boss. fOr-us.'
(2) the worst. 20. Why is Hong Kong
like cavalry horses keeping time? A. Be-
cause one has Timeprance temperance
Hall and the others (h) all prance time"
The stimulating effect of these contests is
evinced by the following contribution to The
Celestial Empire:
20. Why is Remington Oval like three
cornered tart? A. Because neither of them
is Eaton Square,"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
No. 10
Does Sheep Growing Pay.

In Victoria, Kansas, there lives gentle
man by the name of George Grant. He is
the owner of large farm, and ten years ago
invested $1,000 in ], 1,00Oewes at $3apiece, and
80 rams at $75 apiece. To-day he has 81, 637
sheep of all ages, worth $4.6O per head, or u
total of $1O1,O1O. His receipts for wool dur
ing this time have been $191, ,739 O5, and his
expenses $45,74720. Add to the latter the
first cost and expense of wintering first year,
and it makes $55, 76320, which, deducted
from present value of stock and wool sold,
leaves his total profit in ten years $685. 184.S5.
BY crossing the native ewes with long
wooled rams he was enabled to raise the aver
age annual clip from 3 to pounds, and the
price from 30 to AZ! cents. The quality of
the wethers being correspondingly increas-
ed, the price of them also rose from s. to S.
per head, and the total profit on them alone
was $32, 962 from sales of carcases, and
$3.50, IT'S from wool.
OF course Mr.. Grant is nabob now, and
it has all come about in ten years. He Will
keep growing rich, too, for his last years
clip brought him in over $50, 900, anil his
sales of mutton over $4,000.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29

A woman has opened bank in Madrid for
deposits in sums of a hundred dollars and up
ward, on which she pays interest as follows:
Twenty per cent. on receiving the deposit,
20 per cent. at the end of the first, second
and third months, and then, at the expiration
of the fourth month. when so per cent. has
already been paid, she reimburses the entire
sum lent. The payments thus far have been
regularly made, and the public are tlocking
in crowds with their money. the deposits now
amounting to several millions of francs. The
bankers and savings banks are being drained
OF their deposits by this extraordinary traffic.
hours before the bank opens in the morning
hundreds of depositors collect, and the pres
ence OF the police is necessary to preserve or
der. In this case nobody is to know " how
the money is employed, and on that point
contrary rumors prevail some assert that
the capital is used in working mines of fabulous
wealth others, that the woman is an agent
OF the government, adding that it is thus
procuring money on more advantageous terms
than with its regular bankers. This is almost
a precise repetition of a. case which took
place in Germany four years ago-the Spit,
zeder affair of Munich. In this case enor-
nous sums were coDfded 10 woman banker
who lived in opulence, squandering the
money of her derositors, and, as she could
not repay them, she was sentenced to three
years imprisonment. Hei time expired some
months ago.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
A Bribe Of Ten Million Dollars.

A correspondent of the London News
writes from Constantinople: II beg to place
before your readers the following, which may
perhaps give them clue as to the real reason
Of Midbat Pasha'S downfall: Twenty DAYS
before it happened, the Sultan called the
Grand Vizier and told him that he had been
offered (through firm OF well-known bank
ers aere) the sum of f2,000, 900 to replace
him by the representative of power which
has always shown the greatest hostility to
Midhat, and whose interest it was to displace
him at any cost. But said the Sultan,
knowing your fidelity to me, and your devo-
tion to the throne and your country, have
refused, and always shall refuse any such
be the inducement offered what it
may. Unfortunately, the representative of
this power who tried to bribe the Sultan with
e. 0O0, 900 appears to have been successful in
corrupting his Ministers with tenth of this
sum-"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
MULTUM IN PARVO.

Love is kind of warfare.-Ovid.
Soon or late love is his own avenger By
ron.
For faults are beauties in lovers eyes,
TheOcritus.
Find me reasonable lover against hi;
weight in gold.-Plautus.
Craftiness is quality to the mind, and {;
vice to the character. .-Sanial-D -Dubay.
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate
wooer, kisses the blushing leaf. gfellow.
Upon thy cheek lay this Jealous kiss, as
seal to the indenture of my love.-Shakes-
peare
Mercy and truth are met together; right
eousness and peace have kissed each other.
-Rible.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in
Ms practice, and dull in every other.-Sir P.
Sidney.
Justice is the first virtue of those who
command, and stops the complaints of those
who obey.-Didderot.
This even-handed Justice commends the
ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our
own ps.-Shakespeare.
There are few occasions when ceremonv
may not be easily dispensed with. but kind.
ness never.-HOsea Ballou
That best portion of mans life his little
nameless, aforementioned acts of kindness
and of love.-Wordsworlh
o, the pain of pains is when the fair one
whom our soul is fond of, gives transport.
and receives it from another.-Young.
Jealousy lives upon doubts-it becomes
madness, or ceases entirely, as soon as we
pass from doubt to certainty.-Rouchefou
cauld
Without belief in personal Immortality
remgion surely is like an arch resting on one
pillar like bridge ending in an abyss
Max Muller.
>. Gun seems 1t strange that thou shOuldst
i've forever: Is it less strange that thou
shouldst live at all: This is miracle: that
no less.-Young. ~
IL IS the mind that makes the body rich
ana as the sun breaks through the darkest
clouos, so hOnOr peereth in the meanest habit.
Shakespeare. VA. '''''' >''
How difficult q thing is it to persuade man
to reason against his own interest thonch ha
Is convinced that equity is against him.9Dr.
John Trusler.
Ignorance is the mother of fear. as vel, as
admiration. A man intimately ACQUAINTED
with the nature of things has seldom occa
sion to be astonished. d.-Henry Home.
A man is never astonished or ashamed at
not knowing what another does, but he is
surprised at the gross ignorance of the other
IN not knowing what he does.-Haliburton.
When flowers are full of hcaven.descended
Jews, they always hang their heads; but men
nola theirs the higher the more they receive,
settlng proud as they get full.-Beecher.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
Didn't Match Her Dress.

The Chicago Ecenang Journal relates the
following incident connected with the Lenten
services in that city:
''Oh, ma, " exclaimed a stylish young Chi
cago miss on the opening day of Lent, Il
can't go to service after all, for I've no prayer
book"
''Why. yes you have daughter said the
Christmas? ?"
''Oh, that one," replied the miss; II could
not carry that, Tor it doesn't match my dress
at all"
And the poor girl had to remain away from
the church privileges.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
The Pumpkin.

Several of our exchanges comment upon
nature, history and value Of this well-known
vegetable. Says one Our knowledge of the
nutritive value and farm value of the pump
kin is as confused as is our knowledge of its
history. We know of no comparative expe-
,imepts having been tried wherein the pump
kin enters as an element OF food, although in
the aggregate immense numbers and weight
are raised throughout the country yet it is
generally as a stolen crop or as a crop Incl
dent TO the raising of corn.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
A Com pariSOn OF Girls.

Good for the Baltimore Gazette, which is
responsible for the following: The Balti-
more girl is placed in the midst of the hap
piest conditions for the perfect unfolding of
all the latent possibilities to beauty. Reared
in climate that knows neither the rigors of
the North nor enervating languors of the
South, she c0meth up as a flower. Moreover,
the Baltimore girl has what Alexander Dumas
called 1.-THE higher alimentation of superior
beings" Far upon the shores of the Chesa-
peake alone do the terrapin, the bay mack
erel, the oyster and the canvas-backed duck
blossom in native luxuriance. The delicate,
dainty and highly nutritious fare is needed to
bring to perfection the purest type of beauty.
1t has frequently panied us to notice that there
is disposition among some of the Western
homeliness in their women. If we may trust
the Chicago press, the girls of St. Louis have
large feet. 1t is even said that at St. Louis
wedding derrick is necessary to throw the
slipper after the bride. st. Louis retorts with
the accusation that the Chicago girl has large
ears. 1t describes in detail how a Chicago
girl spread out one ear for a parasol, and
uses the other as fan. 1t is alleged, also,
that the Cincinnati girl has an unnecessary
development Of foot, and that she uses
pumpkin to darn her stockings on. These
ungallant remarks are to be deplored. We
concede the beauty of the girls Of Cincinnati,
St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston, and believe
that if they were nurtured under the kindly
influence of Baltimore they would attain the
highest possibilities of beauty. The Boston
girl is charming There is a flavor of the
East wind in her voice, and suggestion of
Goldfish balls in her physique, but she is
bright, intelligent, bookish, artistic, and self
reliant; she wins her way everywhere. The
Western girl is of exuberant health and vi
tality; the Southern girl has a dreamy
]anguor and grace indescribable. But wo-
man, beautiful everywhere in America,
reaches the pinnacle of perfection only on
the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
A Miner Falls 700 Feet.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

[From the San Francisco Chronicle.]
COLFAx, March 2.-This afternoon, as the
men were about descending to work in the
Rising Sun Mine at this place, John Eddy
stepped into the tub, when the wire rope
parted, and he was precipitated to the 500
foot level. His remains, when found, were
shapeless mass. Seven men at the bottom
of the shaft narrowly escaped death from
the falling bucket
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29

1t ever household affections and loves are
graceful things. they are graceful in the
poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the
proud to home may be forged on earth, but
those that link the poor man to humble hearth
are the pure metal and bear the stamp of
heaven.-Dickens
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
tten for the Herald.
a MONTANA STORM.

Where shall turn for solace tonight?
The snow has obscured all from my sight;
Its mantle cen covers hills and dales,
TO our windows it has lett demi-vails
And we sigh for relief here below,
From the maelstrom which is all aglOw,
It's fieecy and sparkling. too, ween,
But its depths before ne'er hath seen.
Deliver us from Montana SHOWS;
These chilling thralldoms are mundane woes,
Whose sequence will be mud and mire,
Filling our souls with bitterest ire.
But what e'er is sent in veal or woe,
IL divinely decreed-this we know.
Then why rebel or ever complain,
Though the snow should reach our caves again
ADA.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29

nl-humor is nothing more than an inward
feeling of our own want of merit, a dissat-
isfaction with ourselves, which is always uni
ted with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
Goethe. ..5
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
Written tor the Herald.
A PRAYER.


A PRAYER.
.. Father OF Light, hear my call:
Thou who marketh the sparrow's fall,
Whose tender love Is over all,
Yet DER my soul there hangs pail.
'Tis Thou alone canst give relief,
And only Thee nspre'h belief:
All other sources tend to grief;
Hear US now for time is brief
Thy throne we approach without tear;
To all who trust thou wilt be near,
Thy blessed name to us so dear;
Thy promise true we will not fear.
Thy gracious love to all is free,
Our contrite spirits Thou dost see;
All conditions are known to Thee,
Oh, grant nepcntha unto me.
ADA.
The Republican journal., 1877-01-04
From the Chicapo Times

Senator Logan lately said to some
body, who told Troy Times correspon-
dent: "What could do without my wife
| should be nothing without that woman "
Mrs. Logan attends to her husbands pri-
vate correspondence and her chrography
is SO like his that many letter signed by
her hand, John A. Logan" is carefully
preserved by the recipient as the auto
graph OF the Senator.
For once in q while Senator Logan spoke
sober sooth. The best part OF the Logan
establishment is the amiable and quick
witted woman whom the Senator had The
honor and fortune to wed. His toga is UNI
doubleday due to her tact and manage
ment, actively eXerted in the contest with
Oglesby six years ago. 1t is honest and
credltable in man who is not burdened
with good qualities to acknowledge his
dependence upon one who has been con-
siderably more than helpmate. In the
coming contest On the Senatorial question
it is Mrs. Logan who will secure the sable
Senator a footing, but her adroitness, so
potent six years ago when the Republican
majority in the Assembly was large, will
scarcely avail now, when success absolu-
tely depends upon putting the very best
man forward