San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-01-26
HERE AND THERE.

ROBERT BONNER has bought Maud
Macy, a six-year-old Kentucky trotter,
for $4,000. ,..,.,,,,,o %.
The Oldest house in New England is
said to be in Guilford, Conn. 1t was built
in 1859. -. l~.nsl-
HEREAFTER no person can vote in
Maine unless he has paid q poll-tax with
in two years of the time when he offers
his ballot. HbD .1diQJhs bal'tj
A LITTLE girl in Syracuse, N. Y, died
in commissions from drinking brandy
handed to her by her mother during the
night under The superstition that it was
water. -,
MAss4s. iI fcc Iov veA,Il@a ppluciyt sSriStH,
has just closed successful term of
teaching at East Enfield. N. H., in a
school from which the big boys had
bouncedN male, teacher just before.
THE following awful warning is 60
ing the rounds: "a few years ago Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague paid $4,000 per
yard for dress material To-day her
husbah q. p.ppf s4lss fOfRf CENT? pnshs'
A CURIOUS, thesdstone, stands in the
old burying-grou at Newport, r. l.,
which chronicles the death Of 2 son and
daughter 81 William Aad Desire Tipp,
"also his ,wife's arm,''', amputated Feb.
90, 1776:c A representation of the sew
cred member is cut upon the stone. "
A SIchIAN ibrigand Of some little
note and of high pedigree recently con-
sented to give, himself !, W, = On }
condition !, that t'het might first
be allowed to visit His mother, who
is an Industrious Nwasherwonnan lOf
years old. The request was considered
reasonable and granted, -, ~sv
AT P1ymoath, Ind, "a few days age, an
old man named Ferris was suspected of
stealing some wheat. He was seized, a
rope was put about his neck, and he
was drawn up. On the third applica-
ton of this persuasive argument he
made confession and restored the wheat!
In Salem, Mass, Christmas was cele-
brated by the free distribution of food
to all the needy who came to ask. The
goods, in the shape Of bread, meat and
vegetables, were piled up in front of a
grocery store on Essex Street, apd al,
day long mem and boys were busy lde-
livering packages 70 the, poori, js b,d...
THE Scientific american illustrates a
curious pocket-book, recently invented
by Oscar Frankman, of Nuremberg,
Germany 1t comprises in one article
the somewhat iltcongrdous combination
of pocket-bbok, cigar-chse, and revolt
yer. The owner, with one Of these ar
ticles, is prepared for beggar, FRIEND or
foe. r..amraas .o ..s,aisa ne"rs- ~ ..H
Two physicians were married to each
other at Kalamazoo, Mich, last week.
DR.. Justin Emerson and Miss Will
helmina Eliot, a descendant of the Eliot
noted in the annals of early New En-
gland, who graduated with honor at the
New York, Medical College last spring
and from Vassar several years previ-
ously. sao. ..,is In .gs' 10 'ir''a.a -''. q
AT the recent silver, wedding of MIR.
Croker, a bullionaire of California, his
wife presented On appearance unique
and valuable. Her gown was a mass OF
silver brocade and gapze she wpreiia
girdle, necklace comb, earrings, and
fan chatelaine of magnificent diamonds
and browning this silvery glitter was,
her thick Iahhins sfisetFVhi4 hair y
In tie year 1861, f9.t per cent. Of the
population of Ireland spoke1rish, name
ly, 1,1O5, 1856 persons. In the year 1871
this proportion had sunk to 1871 of"the
population, namely, to sl7,ST5 persons.
Thus it appears that the use Of the Irish
language is dying out at the rate Of
more thaa 100000 persons in ten years;
a fact made still more obvious'by an
other table, showing that durin gtN0.
years in question the proportpneke44
had changed still more markedly than,
the numbers of speakers. The younger
generation are all learning English, and
only the parents retain the use Of their
native tongue. 100 .'''--.s p
AT the clinic of the Nashville Medi-
ca. College, recently, Prof. Cook pre-
scented boy, who, from scrofulous in
fiammation, had lost one eye; the entire
nose, including the bones, so that non;