San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-16
TEXAS TOPICS.

Bexar ty are in blossom.
Last week Jack Frost visited many
parts of Northern Texas and met with
cordial reception.
A lady in Fr0estone county is re-
ported to have been frightened to death
by two dogs fighting over her twin
babies.
A fire occurred on plantation near
Waco OH Thursday of last week, destroy
ing cotton gin, machinery and fifteen
bales of cotton. Loss, $4,000.
Some of the farmers Of Young conn
ty have raised the second crop OF corn
this season from the same land, some OF
which will make thirty bushels per acre.
W. p. Sides, living on Cream Level,
Van Zandt county, has three acres OF
ribbon cane maturcd eight feet. This
crop will be worth more than twenty
acres of cotton.
A number of Mexican carts passed
through Uvalde, Texas, few days ago,
loaded with Mexican coin and silver
bullion, to be shipped from San Anto-
MO to New York.
THERE is only one thing that is more
wearing and annoying and depressing
TO a man than having to wait for train
and that is, when the train hasn't wait
cd for him.
DIR. Rutherford, the Houston Health
officer, has extended the quarantine to
the 2lst of November, but it is greatly
to be hoped the necessity forit will have
passed long before that time.
A destructive fire occurred at Den
ison on Friday of last week, CONSUMING
the mammoth slaughter house erected
by the Texas and Atlantic Refrigerator
company ut cost of $50,OO0. The
building was insured for $4,000.
Texas has escaped the yellow fever,
but the scourge of the deadly pistol pre-
walls to an alarming extent all over the
State, and appeals to the officers and
courts for protection against this COW
ardly barbarous plague seem to be OF
little avail.
Inning. alton into Texas is on the
increase. Some fifty teams arrived ut
Denison one day last week from Mis-
soari and Illinois, and they report the
road from Baxter Springs, Kansas, to
Denison Just lined with wagons south
ward bound.
Highwaymen infest the chapparals
around San Antonio and stop travellers
with the hope of making II raise. Two
of them halted gentleman about five
miles from that city on Saturday and
tried to rob him. but he ran the gaunt-
let of their bullets, putting spurs to his
horse as they fired upon him.
On Thursday of last week rs two
farmers were returning home from
Sherman their team became unmanage-
able and ran away, throwing both men
out at the front end of the wagon. The
wheels passed over the men, and one OF
them, named Patton, was so severely
injured that he died in few hours.
Taylor Pounds was tried at the late
term of the court in Delta county for
burning the city of Paris, and the jury
adjudged him guilty and assessed his
punishment Mt four years in the peni-
Tertiary. He took an appeal, and is
now in our county Jail to await the judg-
ment of the appellate court.-Sulph'u'
Springs Gazette.
A correspondent, writing about
Fort Richardson. which cost the gov
ernment about 100000, and which was
permanently abandoned last spring. says
the buildings are falling down, and the
place presents sad appearance. This
fort was, during the years lS6S-9-7O,
the largest garrison in the United
States. The hospital, it is said, cost
$4,000, and is now useless pile. The
property is now owned by Col. Fosque,
Of Tarrant.
The contractor for carrying the
mails between Fort Worth and Yuma,
Arizona, reports to the Post Office De
partment that his coaches have been at
tackled and robbed twenty-seven times
in the past six months. In one instance
where the coach contained 700 pounds
of silver the robbers overpowered the
passengers and driver and seized the
vehicle. and the horses were driven away
with the plumber He has secured from
the War Department an order for troops
to accompany the mail coach to prevent
such lawlcssness.
On Friday of last week two men
were engaged to clean out well in
Uyalde. One of the men descended to
the bottom. He soon gave orders to
the man above to haul him up, and they
bad made hut two or three turns of the
windlass when they discovered he had
fallen out. and when asked what was
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