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

Woman's rlgntS III EulnDurg.
THERE has not been case of small
pox in Boston for more than a year.
SINCE 1856 over 81, 900 Mormons have
arrived at Castle Garden, New York.
ONE hundred and twenty-five acre.
of watermelons are planted in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Spring Green, Wis
The graduating exercises at a school
in Brooklyn, suburb of Cleveland
(O.), were varied by the marriage of the
school Superintendent to one Of the
girl graduates.
PERRY BowsHER, who was hanged
in Chillicothe, Ohio, was convicted on
the testimony of his brother, to whom
he had incautiously shown bond stolen
from the murdered man. III, .-u
The trunk railroads now pay their
employees according to the number Of
miles they run; the plan gives satisfac-
ton, and is fast coming into general
use on the leading roads. ,Eg
FATHER MATHEW HELBEDs, Catho-
lie priest, of New Orleans, has fallen in
love with one of the fair members of his
church. He has withdrawn from the
clergy in order to marry her.
AN agent of Hartford marble-cutter
visits every house that death has entered
and leaves his business card, with the
following written thereon: "Rite if you
are in want of stone"
WILLIAM O'NEIL, New York news
boy, who has rescued six persons from
the river, saved another man from
watery grave the other day by plung-
ing into East River at Peck Slip.
SOMEBODY will find red hair woven
into piece of ingram carpet one of
these days. Libby Barley, while work
ing at loom in Thompsonville, Conn,
let the machinery get hold of her long
!, curls, and in twinkling they We're alb
sorbed in the carpet.
THE candidates for the Office of At
torney-General in Tennessee mean bus
mess. One candidate promises, if elect
ed, to give one-fourth of his official in
come to the pablo and private schools,
and another pledges himself to give the
entire proceeds to an orphan asylum.
In his Health Monthly for July, DR..
Foote says that poisoning from oak and
ivy can be cured by the frequent local
application Of a solution made by dis
solving an ounce of mLriate of ammo
MIA in quart of water, and by taking
internally teaspoonful of the same
three or four times day.
AN article in recent number of the
Pekin Gazette, written by Chin Hoo, says
Kung Foo Wiling, distinguished phi
losopher, who flourished about the year
$40, invented the telephone-which is
known in China as " thumthsien''-in
the year 968.
THE St. Lawrence is alive with young
shad four or five inches long, supposed
TO be Matched from ova placed in Amer
lean waters by Seth Green. Pike, pick
erel and bass gorge themselves with the
young fish, and sometimes they may be
scraped up by the bucketful inshore.
As railroad train neared Elmira, N.
Y, loving couple told the conductor
Of their desire to be Immediately mar
RED. A clergyman was found on the
train, and at the Elmira station the bell
and whistle of the locomotive noisily
honored the event.
DoNA EULALIA PEREZ DE CULLEN,
said to be 143 years old, died recently
near San Gabriel Mission, Cal. Some
Of her descendants were exceedingly
anxious to take her to the Centennial
and exhibit her, but other members of
the family obtained from the Court an
Injunction.
THE boys of Columbus, Ca, petition
ed the Mayor of the city to allow them
70 60 swimming in the river. Their
petition was backed by the prayer OF
their mothers and sisters. The Mayor
appointed three days in the week when
!ne privilege would be granted, and now
'ne boys want to support him for re-
election.
HE relatives of Mr.. Byers, of Lewis
Ourg' Pa, residing in another town,
we're told by a half-witted boy that he
was dead. Going to attend the funeral,
Ar. Byers was found as we'll as usual,
and the affair was treated as huge joke,
unhl the shock of its suddenness scared
MIS-. Byeis into fatal stroke of apo
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