San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-20

honor at Brussels, greeting and applauding
him with great enthusiasm during speech
making time.
SENATOR BRUCE's bride is dentists
daughter.
YOUNG FREMONT is to be his fathers
Secretary In Arizona.
NINE. BoNAPARTE, of Baltimore, who
Is about 90 years old, is in the enjoyment OF
fair health, having recently recovered from
q severe attack Of illness.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT is said to
control railroad and telegraph companies
having capital of 33,07O,479.
Mr.. ROBERT N. DOUGLAS, who has
lust been reappointed United States Marshal
for the district Of North Carolina, Is said to
resemble his father, the "Little Giant"
more and more as he grows older.
The Pan-Anglican Synod OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church assembled at
Lambeth Palace, London, on the I'd. Ninety
Bishops were present at the first meeting.
The Archbishop of Canterbury presided.
JUSTICE MILLER of the United States
Supreme Court has recently undergone a
painful and dangerous surgical operation
known as lithotomy. 1t was performed by
DR.. Smith, Of Baltimore, and Is believed to
have been entirely successful.
PRESIDENT HAYES took part in the
Wyoming Centennial celebration at Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the 4th. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Hayes, Secretary Sherman, Attor-
ney- General Devens, and others. .g ... p
Harley Brown, "a discharged employee,
has confessed to placing distractions on the
track by which passenger train was wreck
ed near Wilmington, Del, and four persons
killed. He claims that he intended to stop
the TRAIN just before it reached the obstruc-
ton, thinking that out of gratitude for his
zeal the company would restore him to his
former position.
MRS. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN, the
poetess, died recently Of heart disease at her
home in Providence, r. L., aged 70. She
was in her youth engaged to Edgar Allan
Poe, and possessed great influence over him,
but not enough to restrain him from his ia
| tai passion for drink, on which account she
broke off the engagement. 1t was to Mrs.
Whitman that Poe addressed his well known
lines ITO Helen"
Mr.. w. F. STOREY, proprietor and
editor of the Chicago Times, was recently
stricken with severe paralytic shock while
travelling in Switzerland. Though so Sc
rious sufferer as to be unable to speak for
over week, he has since considerably re-
covered. He is now in Paris, under the i'm
mediate charge of DR.. Brown-Sequard, and,
though still finding it difficult to use his low
er limbs, is likely to eventually be in fair
health again. He contemplates returning to
the United States the last of July.
Col. H. G. PRoUT, lately Governor
General of the provinces of the Equator, in
the service of the Khedive of Egypt, has re-
signed his position in the Khedive's army
and returned to the United States to engage
in railroad enterprise of some kind in New
York, where he is now located.
THE King of Belgium has offered to
pay the expenses of another African trip
and Stanley has accepted the leadership of
the expedition.
MISS BRADLEY, M. D., who has just
died in Philadelphia at the age Of 40, made,
20 years ago, numerous efforts to Sc
cure admission to a medical college, but all
in vain. At last she cut her hair short and
dOnned masculine attire, and in this dis
guise went through course in Philadel-
phia, graduating with high honors, and sur
prising the college authorities when, few
days later, attired in the garments proper !
to her sex, she called upon them, showed /
her diploma, and, proving her identity, de-
manded leave to practice. They had to ac-
cord it.
DAVID TRUMBULL, the Yale oarsman
who was drowned on the 9Th while trying to
save a child, was q student of the Theologi-
cal School, aged %, had pulled seven in the
college boat only couple of days before,
and was remarkably swift runner. He
came Of the same Connecticut stock whence
sprang Jonathan Trumbull, of Revolution
airy fame; John Trumbull, the painter; and
ex-SenatorLym Trumbull, of Illinois.
MIR. l.. d. INGERsoLL, author of the
" Life of Greeley" and for long time con-
nected with Western journalism, has been
appointed by Secretary McCrary Librarian
Of the War Department.
DENNIS kEARNEY, the Californian
agitator, is 81 years Of age, a native of Cork,
Ireland, married, and Catholic.
MINISTER MOVES was rendered grand
dinner by Wash. Mclean, Esq, of Cincin-
natl, on the eth. A number of distinguished
gentlemen were present.
DR.. JAMES c. AVER, the well known
patent medicine proprietor, died recently in
IN asylum for the insane.
AUGUSTUS NJ. JACKSON, editor of the
Sew Albany Qnd.) Ledger Standard, a
'eteran journalist, died on the 9Th, aged 81.
THE reported death of the Sultan of !
Morocco is officially denied. II
Major MILL n WOpDSpx ASso