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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
France, Is coming home to testify before the
Potter investigating committee.

France, Is coming home to testify before the
Potter investigating committee.
TAMMANY HALL has issued an adj
dress, approving the Potter investigations
but disappearing of any steps towards re-
opening the Presidential question until the
next national election.
GEN. GRANT will remain in Paris I'M
til the last of June, when he goes to Berlin.
Gov. PRESCOTT, of New Hampshire,
was inaugurated on the 9th.
Mr.. LAYARD, English Ambassador at
Constantinople, has been decorated with the
grand cross of the Order of Bath.
JOSE MIGUEL BARCELLoN, President
of the House of Representatives OF Venezu-
ella, was recently shot dead by Edward
Scanlon, editor of the Tribunal Liberal.
A political quarrel was the cause OF the
shooting.
THE Kentucky Press Convention held
its annual session at Hopkinsville, beginning
on the 9TH.
The Pope has directed Cardinal
Franchi to dispatch urgent instructions to-
the Catholic clergy Of Germany to use every
effort to prevent the spreading of Socialism.
THE President has nominated Gen.
John G. Fremont, of New York, for Gov
ernor of Arizona, and Mr.. John P. Hoyt, OF
Michigan, for Governor Of Idaho.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN CHARLES READY,
of Murfreesboro, Tenn, is dead.
Gov. WADE HAMPTON, of South Car
DINA, having bought fine cottage at Salem,
Va, will summer there with his family.
RUFUS w. COBB, the Democratic
nominee for Governor Of Alabama, is an eX-
Confederate soldier, prominent lawyer,
and still a young man. He has been mem
Der of the State Senate for eight years, and
for four years President Of the Senate.
REV. C. C. BURLEIGH, famous anti
slavery leader and late pastor of the Flor
ence, Mass, Free Congregational Church,
was run over on the railroad recently and
seriously injured.
Miss ANNIE B. IRISH, Nebraska
girl, is Assistant Private Secretary to Secre-
tary Schurz, and reads and answers all his
German, French and Spanish correspond
ence.
THOMAS WINANs, the Baltimore mil
lionaire and Russian railroad contractor,
died at his residence at Newport, r. l., on
the 9th.
THE Shah of Persia has arrived at
Paris.
Col. Don MANUEL FREYRE, Peruvian
Minister at Washington, died on the Sth,
aged 60.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

Mrs. Geistlach, of Philadelphia, on
the sth killed herself and her two children.
Family troubles caused her to commit the
desperate deed. r
Mrs. Jennie Miller, wife of Anderson
Miller, Of Burkeville, Va, on the morning
of the 9th Drained her husband with an AK
because he said to her at the breakfast-ta-
BILE" Jennie, you are bad cook, to let flies
get into the bread" After she had felled
him to the floor, with finishing blow Of the
AK she completely severed his head from the
body. A guest was present at the breakfast
table and witnessed the tragedy. They had
been married about two years. Mrs. Miller
is said to be very handsome woman but
with most ungovernable temper.
Mrs. Harriet A. Van Auken, of Par
ish, Oswego County, N. Y, who shot her
husband a year ago, cut him up and buried
the pieces in two different places, where
they were discovered two months ago, has
been sentenced to Sing Sing prison for life.
One.half of the town Of Searcy, White
County, Ark, was destroyed by fire on the
10th. Loss, $4,000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mr.. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT is
likely to recover fully from the injuries re-
ceiyed by his recent fall during an attack Of
vertigo.
THE newspaper profession is well
represented on the Democratic ticket in
Iowa, Mr.. Walker. the candidate for Secre-
iary Of state, being editor Of the Bloomfield
Democrat, while Colonel Eiboeck, the can
didaie for Auditor, runs the StGdts-Aa-
zeiger At Des Moines.
Mr.. W. J. MCDONALD, for many
years Chief Clerk Of the United States sen
ate, died on the sih. His wife died three
days previously, her death being due TO the
shock caused by the announcement that her
husbands illness would terminate fatally.
GIN. NoTEs, American Minister to
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
THE EUROPEAN CRISIS.

A London Times dispatch from st.
Petersburg says Russia will set more I'M
portance ON guarantees for the state OF things
to be established by the Congress than Oh
the question Of frontiers. Correspondents
of the Times at St. Petersburg and ViennA
both report very sanguine feeling as |"
the peaceful result of the Congress.
The Vienna NeW Free Presse az
nounces six divisions of the Austrian army
are to be placed in few days on a WARRIOR.
ing, so that means may be in readiness I"
execute the decisions of the Congress afec''
ing Austria.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
Advance of Agriculture in Amer
lea.

The United States are now far In aa'
vance of any other country in agricui'
tural products. This is easily demon
strated by reference to official statlstics,
For instance, the corn crop increaseu
from 76s, 800, 900 bushels in 1867 70 y
SAC, 100000 in 1877, or nearly lOOpef
cent. in single year. The hog croP,
which may be said to be product :.
the corn crop, reached the enorlUu,
total for the year ending with ias'
month of 9,O4s,566 head, an increas'
rising well on 100 per cent. during Wv
last 10 years. The yield of whea. ~
the past year was S6O,OOO,OOO ousn1 ~
or so, 900, 900 more than was ever =
fore produced. Deducting the aino-
necessary for home consumPuon 10.
seed, and we still have upward Oh y.
600, 600 bushels left for export IA L..
most every other form of farm prOuJT;Snr
there has been nearly correspond"
increase.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

PRESIDENT HAYES, in correcting GER
tain misstatements made by a Philadel-
phia newspaper correspondent in ref
erence to recent conversation, author
ICES the following:
"What he did say was that Wade Hamp-
ton and Gov. Nichols had deserved well;
that he was satisfied with his Cabinet; that
caucus government was to certain extent
an evil; that present agitation of the Presi-
dental title might be threatened with mu-
tiny, and that he would in
no way recognize any attempt to remove him
except by joint impeachment of both hous-
es Of Congress; that this was the only con-
stitutional method by which he could be re-
moved, and any other movement in that d.
rection would be resisted at every point by
him. He had taken the oath to preserve the
Constitution of the United States, and would
use all his authority to do so. He would
deliver the Executive Office in its integrity
to his successor. He also said he did not
believe that the Senate would acquiesce II
the House should impeach him."
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

THE Indiana Republican State Con-
vention, held on the 9Th, nominated the
following ticket: For Secretary of
State, Isaac S. Moore, of Vanderburg
County; Auditor, Gen. A. o. Miller, of
Boone; Treasurer, Major George F..
Herritt, of johnson; Attorney-General,
Judge d. p. Baldwin, of Cass; Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, John T..
Morrell, of Tippecanoe. The platform
favors ga sound and staple currency
of gold, silver, and paper of the
same value; national legislation au-
thorizing the receipt of greenbacks at
par in payment of customs and in the
purchase of Government bonds; oppo-
sition to further financial agitation. "
The House investigation into the Presi-
Dental election is characterized as an
act of party desperation, and any at
tempt to GUST the President from office
as revolutionary; and the Convention
pledges the party "to support and
maintain President Hayes and the law
fully constituted authorities of the Gov
eminent in resisting the revolution"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 5th
saws: The friends of the Texas Pacific
have abandoned all hope of reaching a
vote on their measure during this ses-
sion. Its advocates in the Senate state
that the time between this and the adj
iournment is too limited to afford room
for full discussion of the measure, and
they could not hope to secure its passage
without permitting number of Sena-
tors, who wish to speak on the subject,
to have an opportunity to express their
views. Ii has, therefore, been deemed
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

GEN. SHERMAN is reported as pre-
dieting general Indian outbreak dur
ing the coming season. Sitting-Bull's
forces are said to have left the vicinity
of Fort Walsh and to be gradually work.
ing south; the Indians upon the Up
per Columbia River show a
disposition to harass the settlements in
that locality; and finally, the Bannock
Indians, who have already begun hos
tilities, are gathered in force in the lava
beds and threaten another Modoc War.
Gen. Sherman thinks that the army
upon our borders should be Immediately
strengthened to meet this impending
conflict.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

A BERLIN dispatch of the 9th an
nounces that decree has been issued
proclaiming n regency, and nominating
the Crown Prince Frederick William as
Regent. The decree is signed by the
Emperor William and countersigned by
Prince Bismarck. The Emperor's
wounds were said to be progress
ing satisfactorily, but some weeks
must elapse before the crisis is
passed. At the first fire the Emperor
received seven shots in the right fore
arm and wrist and five in the head and
face. The helmet is completely rid
died. BY the second discharge he re-
ceived about twenty shots in the left up
per arm and shoulders and six in the
neck. The folds of his thick military
cloak deadened the effect of this charge.
The excitement throughout Germany
does not abate. Every organized body,
and every newspaper in Germany, and
very many other parts of Europe have
given publicly strong expressions OF
horror at the deed. A large number OF
arrests have been made of parties ex-
pressing sympathy with DR.. Nobling,
the assassin, and printer at Posen has
been sentenced to four years. imprison-
ment for using offensive observations
with regard to the Emperor.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

THE public debt statement published
June / shows q decrease in debt for the
preceding month of S3,O7O,19S; total
debt, less cash in Treasury, S2,O33, 637,-
450; legal tenders outstanding, $780,
1888; total coin bonds, 81, 76S, 1885,
$50.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

DIR. CANPBELL, of Gallon, ",
has had for IA years severe coug ..-S
spasms, which have sometimes L. -;
strangled him, coughed up . hsn .O,;rs
last week, which has given him '
relief.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

advisable not to press the NATTER and
they have formally decided to postpone
action until December next.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

THE Michigan Greenback Convention
held on the 9th, nominated Henry s.
Smith, of Grand Rapids, for Governor.
The platform demands the uncondition-
al repeal of the Resumption act and the
National Banking law, and the issue by
the Government of all paper money, to
be legal tender for all debts, public
and private,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

THE Maine Greenback Convention,
cid on the 9th, nominated Joseph W..
Smith for Governor. The Toledo plat
form is Endorsed.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

THE spring crop reports received by
the National Department of Agriculture
show very favorable condition
throughout the country generally.
There is an estimated increase in acre
age of As per cent. in Kansas, 30 per
cent. in Illinois and Nebraska, and a
slight increase generally in most of the
Western States. The Eastern States
about hold their own.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

THE Oregon State election, held on
the Sd, resulted in the election of Beck
man, Republican, for Governor, by a
small majority. Whitaker, Democrat,
is elected to Congress, and the Legisla-
ture will be Democratic on joint ballot.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26
Bob Ingergon on OhiIdren,s RIGHTS.

In speaking Of children he said that,
in his opinion, they have all the rights
we have, and one more, the right to be
protected. If women have been slaves,
what shall | say of the little children;
of ia little children in the alleys aud
sub-cellars; the little children who turn
pale when they hear their fathers foot
steps, the children of poverty, the chill
dren of crime, the children of brutality,
wherever you are, my heart goes out to
you, one and all. tell you that they
have the same rights that we have, and
We ought to treat them as though they
were human beings; they should be
reared by love, by kindness, by tender
ness, and not by brutality. When your
little child tells a lie, don't rush at him or
her as though the whole solar system was
going into bankruptcy. Be honest with
the child; tell it you have told hundreds
of them yourself, and it don't pay. A
tyrant will always have liars for chill
dren. l thank Mother Nature that she
had put ingenuity enough in the breast
OF child, when attacked by q brutal
parent, to throw up little breastwork
IN the shape of lie. Suppose a man as
much larger than you are as YOU are
than five-year-Old child should rush at
you with liberty pole in his hand, aud
ask you in voice of thunder, "WhO
broke that plate ?" there is not man or
woman of you but what would swear
that you never saw the plate, or that it
was cracked when you got it. So, say
to you, be honest with them, aud you
will succeed in bringing up children
who will be an honor to themselves and
to you.
When your child commits a wrong,
take it in your arms; let it feel your
heart beat against its heart; let the
child know that you really aud truly
and sincerely love it. Yet some Chris
tians, good Christians, when a child
commits fault, drive il from the door
and say, "Never do you darken this
house again" Think of that Aud
then these same people will get down
on their knees aud ask God to take care
Of the child they have driven from
home. / will never ask God to take
care of my children unless / am doing
my level best in the same direction.
But l will tell you what | say to my
children: "Go where you will, commit
what crime you may, fall TO what depth
Of degradation you may, you eau never
do anything that will shut my JOor, nv
arms, my heart to you. As long as 1
/ live, you shall have no more siucere
[ friend"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26
A Little Sermon on Eduoation.

Mrs. Victor, who is known as a
thoughtful writer, and one who does not
venture her opinion without due delib-
Grafton and research, speaks thus of our
public school system in a recent letter
to the Ashland TsdiHqs,
We educate too much Does that
sound heteTodox2 , The facts remain,
however we theorize about the benefi-
cial effects of education. Learning is
only useful TO Us in two ways-as a help
to our work in the world, and as an in-
tellectual enjoyment. II man is poor,
and has a family of children, who must
be supported either by themselves or so
ciety, should we say that such a man
should educate his family with a view
TO their intellectual enjoyment only ?
Would not a proper sense of personal
dignity aud honesty dictate TO parents
vino could not give their children for
tunes the safe course Of giving them a
business training in preference to a
"high schoon education, unless, indeed,
they could have both?
such, however, is not the course
adopted by the heads of families in
these days. Every body insists on a
graded school, and all the grades, and
that every child should go through the
whole course, which keeps them study
ing closely until they are-say sixteen
years Of age. We all know that by that
time the character aud habits are so far
formed that the whole life is more or
less biased by what has gone before. II
boy or girl has never been taught any
kind of labor before that time, IL will be
found difficult business bringing them
to this kind of learning after it. They
are educated TO be men aud women OF
leisure, but as they must live in the
world and cannot labor, they must olive
by their wits" 1t is this living by
their wits that has brought about the
age of frauds and humbUgs. Would il
not be better to educate the hands at the
same time We educate the brains, aud
then let circumstances and natural abil-
ity decide whether the individual shall
live by handwork or headwork, or both
together? That is my little sermon tC
parents and teachers, and is intended as
the preventive Of the prevailing hood.
lumism Of which the public journal:
everywhere complain.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26

here some years ago from Iowa with a
reputation badly besmirched through
some shortcomings in one of the land
offices there, and we can but hope that
New York will give him 8 term Of years
in Albany. He will get it if he comes
back here, but we prefer others should
save US the trouble and expense of Civ
ing him his just deserts. We are not
down on pet-baggers to any great ex-
tent in Washington City, for nineteen
twentieths Of our citizens belong to that
class, yet We depreciate the coming in
Of men Of other States who should have
been retained there for service in their
penitentiaries.
Our fishermen are at their nets and
are supplying our markets with finest
Of shad which the mild February and
March have started for their spawning
beds several weeks earlier than in 1877.
The great decrease in our shad catching,
in contrast with thirty years ago, occa-
sions much comment, aud should it con-
tinue, the Potomac will in a few years
be destitute OF this fine fish. While We
have no dams or other artificial obstruc-
tions of that nature to prevent fish from
reaching the fine spawning beds Of the
Upper Potomac, yet there is no effective
law operative upon the Potomac to pre-
vent fishermen from spreading their
''gil" nets all over it, and experience
shows that wherever these nets are
placed the entire destruction of fish fol-
lows. Attempts have been made by
the States of Maryland and Virginia to
prevent this most pernicious system of
fishing, but so far without beneficial re-
suits. The general government should
interpose with severe statutary enact
meuts. But Congress has something
else to do. FELIX.
Washington, d. c., March %, 1873.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26
Our Letters


What is the matter? Oh, it fs the
mail again! You didn't get your letter
Tor two days after the proper date of re-
eeipt' anu last yearyou lost one? Uncle
sam uses his children dreadfully; the
| post oHlce Is shamefully managed" d" aud
| you are going to write to the papers
about it ?'i
Well, write to the papers, if YOU like.
/ Every one is free TO do that. But. ou
/ the whole, we are pretty well off, as to
our mail matters. II there are no trail
/ tors in our own households we generally
get all the letters that are written To us.
/ if they are directed properly. When
I people forget to direct them at all or
leave out the name Of the city, why,
naturally, there Is a little difficulty.
Under such circumstances the wises5
postmaster is puzzled, and it is a case
for the Dead Letter Office.
Uncle Sam is pretty good old uncle,
as far as letters go. We have very little
to complain Of; less than your fathers
had, aud how much less than your
great-graudfathers Have you any of
those old, yellow letters on long sheets
Of foOlscap, without envelope, and often
crossed? For letters cost something
then, and people made them as light as
possible. Ah! they were waited for
long and sadly while the old stage
coaches plOdded along, or the slOOp
took its time from port to port; and so
often this is the postscript:
81 waited that / might send this by
hand, as Mr. is going your way aud
kindly favors it,"
All! you and I scold about a days
delay in our letters. A months delay
was common when those yellow, crack
lin al nd 10 W ~ =
ten by hands long, long ago turned to
dust
You waited two days, did you? Go
back farther, before, for common folk,
there were any letters. Wait with the
mother, to whom some passing stranger
is to bring word from her absent SOIL
with the wife, at whose door manned
soldier pauses 10 say her soldier sent
his love, and the battle would begin
tomorrow and that message three
mouths old, and the war raging still,
aud no more news until some other
wandereT brings il.
Wait in fancy for the word of love
the tidings of recovery or death-days,
weeks, months together; and, coming
back to our almost hourly mail, to the
I promptness aud care with which these
/ little missives of ours fly over the lines
aud are carried to doors thousands of
miles away, you will feel like laughing
at the annoyance which an occasional
failure causes you, aud think that you
are fortunate in living in an age and
country in which postal arrangements
are so nearly perfect. /, for one, don't
like to hear Uncle sam abused, where
he so little deserves It. He has his fail
ings, but he is very good about our let
ters, considering all things.-Uary
Kyle Dallas, IN NetU York Ledger.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26

NARIETY.-Variety is a necessity of
life. The man that lives upon one kind
of food must deteriorate in body; the
student who gives all bis thought TO
one idea will become crOchety; while
the devOtee to a single phase of religion
will in time be a bigOt, which is but
another name for monomaniac. Same
ness is the border-lsnd Of insanity.
There is many man living a life of ex-
cessive toll or Of idleness, of so fixed a
routine that be is partially insane. II
should be the aim of every man TO 50
arrange his life as to bring into it q
good degree of variety, if he would Sc
cure physical, mental, and moral health.
In this particular, division of labor often
works mischief to the individual, how
ever advantageous it may be to the
community. Imagine the stupidity
that must creep over the mind Of Il man
who spends year after year pointing
pins! It may be well to inquire as tC
whether OF not the social and business
/ framework OF society is not doing much
to reduce some Of its members to a state
l little better than mOnOmania.-JOhH "
Saxon, IN Popular Science Monthly.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26

A BOYS 5 AFFECTION FOR HIS MOTHER.
Next to the love OF her husband, Moth
ing so crowns a woman's life with
honor as this second love, the devotion
of the son to her And | never yet
knew a boy to "turu out' badly who
began by falling in love with his
mother. Any man may fall in love
with fresh-faced girl, aud the man who
is gallant to the girl may cruelty neg
lect the poor and weary wife. But the
big boy who is lover of his mother at
a middle age is a true knight, who will
love his wife as much in the sere-leai
autumn as he lid in the daisied spring.
There is nothing so beautifully chival-
rous as the love Of a big boy for bis
mOther-Bcridh Green.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-26

a negro minister who married rather
sooner after the death of bis wife than
some of the sisters thought proper and
becoming, excused himself as follows
"My dear brederen and sisters, my grief
was greater dan could bear. / turned
ebery way for peace and comfort, but
none came. l searched de Scriptures
from Ginisee to Rebelation, aud found
plenty promises 10 de widder, but nary
one to de widderer. So | took it dat de
good Lord didn't waste sympathy on a
man when il was in his power to CON-
fort hisself; and habin' fuss-rate
chance to marry in de Lord, did so,
and would do so again. Besides, bred
eren, 1 consider dat poor Patsy was Just
as dead as she would eber be.n