San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-10-26
TEXTS TOPICS.

county to deliver corn ut 10 cents pei
bushel.
The Bonham Ners says the screw
worms are literally eating up the horses
and cattle on the prairies.
Dallas is receiving from five to six
hundred bales of cotton per day when
the weather and roads are good.
The city physician of Dallas has
taken from the nostrils of patient, in
the hospital, some two hundred sore"
worms.
A yellow catfish weighing two hun,
Ired and six pounds, caught in the
Brazos, was sold at ten cents per pound
in Fort Worth recently.
Planters in Western Texas are be-
ginning to fear they will lose consider
ably on their cotton crop by failure to
secure sufficient force of pickers.
THE Jacksboro Echo says:-Any man
who would take his county paper three
years and never offer to pay for it would
do anything mean, from ornamenting II
dogs tail with tin-ware or stealing soap
grease from his grandmother, down the
long list of mean things. Reader, is it
you?
The city Marshal of Workman,
Freestone county, was shot and Instant
ly killed on Monday of last week while
attempting to arrest man by the name
of Frank Polk. The Mayor of the town
then shot and killed Polk. The Mayor
escaped uniniured, although several
shots were fired ut him.
Mr.. Delaney, a well-to-do old gen
tleman of more than ordinary intelli-
gencc, went to the undertaken shop OF
j. NJ. Mills & Son this morning, and
left his measure for coffin, giving
minute instructions as to the trimmings,
and asked that it be stored away for
him until the first of next month, mt
which time he expects to die.--Denison
Herdld.
Elevations of prominent points in
Texas above tide water: Houston, 81
feet; Hampstead, 245 feet; Chapel Hill,
1874 feet; Brennan, 1876 feet; Elgin, 600
feet; Austin, 5l5 feet; Duval, SAG feet;
Hearne, 300 feet; Navasota, 219 feet;
Millican, 800 feet; Calvert, 1913 feet;
Bremond, 416 feet; Waco, at depot, 1856
feet; Corsicana, APT feet: Dallas, 467
feet; Mckinney, G15 feet; Sherman, 745
feet; Columbus, 2l0 feet; San Antonio,
ut depot, 662 feet
Rev. Ben. Parker shot and killed Il
negro named Killingsworth, near Elk
hart, on the evening of the 9th ult., at
Burkett e. Murphy's wood camp undol
the following circumstances: A party, OF
which Parker was one, armed with writs,
had arrested the negro on charge OF
hog and cattle stealing. Killingsworth
got away and succeeded in reaching his
quarters. from which he reappeared with
IL shot gun and leveled it at Parker The
old pioneer was too quick and shot him
dead. Killingsworth bore Il bad charac-
ter.
MIR. William Able, a farmer of Aus
tin county, has picked this season
seventeen bales of cotton from seven
I ,en acres, and says that if good weather
continues for three weeks longer, he
will gather eight bales more. The
bales picked SO far averaged 800 pounds.
His help in growing and picking the
cotton consisted of himself, wife and
four children. Mr.. Milton, in the same
county, has this year made seventeen
bales from seventeen acres, and has
done all the work himself. Near the
same locality W. A. Sherod will make
sixty bales, with six hands to help him,
besides an abundance of corn for the
plantation and some to spare.
A short time ago young man
went to San Saba to get Il license to
marry his girl. He got the license and
proceeded to the home of his intended. |
When he arrived the old man met him
ut the door and said: Your girl is gone
am sorry, but she ran away this morn
ing with another Teller Thunder and
lightning" the young man exclaimed.
Which way did they go? must follow
them, l can't afford to lose my dollar |
and a-half" He borrowed horse and
side-saddlc. followed them fifty miles, !
overlook them, brought the tickle bride
back to her father, her senses and the 1
altar. Soon after their marriage they
wended their way to his home in Leon
county.
On Tuesday of last week a little /
daughter of Will Rice. who lives about 4
four miles from Hillsborough, Hill
county. fell intoa well and was drowned.
No one was at home at the time but the
mother who heard it fall and scream .
when il hit the water. She ran to the
well and saw the child trying TO cling TO
board which had fallen in with it. .
She procured rope and. fastening one
end TO a post. tied the other around her
and lowered herself in the well But