San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-09

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now resides in Comal county, some ID
miles.from this place.
Rev. Mr.. Swank has sold his home
here to Capt. Turner, and gone back
to his farm near Austin.
Miss Wilcox has resumed her school,
aud Miss Lide DAVIS is about to open
one i'll the Ellison neighborhood.
Hon. John, ireland was recently 10
this place, but whether his mission was
political, this deponent sayeth not.
Mr.. Northcraft has built new plank
fence on the front side of his prospect.
i've homestead property on San Antonio
street.
Mr.. Alkyre. a wealthy and prominent
citizen of st. Louis, is visiting at this
place, and will leave bis wife here a
month or SO while he returns home.
T. R. Fourqurean is doing actual
| service 10 his mill as miller.
'Hey, the jolly miller
With his dusty coat"
as the old Scotch song says.
Maj. Dixon, a prominent citizen and
pillar of the Baptist church in this vi
cinity, has had some % or 20 children,
nearly all Of whom are living, and is
still hale and vigorous.
A family of newcomers from Vir-
ginia, named McMullin. are occupying
the old house by the rivsr.' Still
they come, now and then, but there is
ample room for four times as many.
J.W. McCarty, just from Mississip.
ri, is stopping near Mountain City. He
took the FREE PRESS before coming
here, and called on us to renew his
subscription. We found him quite an
intelligent gentleman.
We should never have suspected our
quiet, steady.goiug friends, Reynolds
a. Daniel Of a tendency towards spread
eagleism," yet it has become plainly
manifest iu front Of their drugstore.
Who would have thought it?
Ben. Reynolds has not returned from
bis last excursion, and his mellihuous
devotional notes-a;crose between those
of negro revival meeting and Next
can doukey-are lost to this com
munity. 1t is said he is at Austin.
E.W. Smith, of Water Valley, Miss,
agent for organizing lodges Of the "Au-
cient Order of United Working Men,"
delivered an address at the Court House
on Wednesday night in furtherance Of
his object, butswe have not heard the
result
We lately had the pleasure Of max
ing the acquaintance of Mr. Clayton, OF
Purgatory Springs neighborhood. He
is an Old Countryman, quite fond of
reading, and with a correct and eleva-
ted taste in that respect. We wish
there were more like him.
Mine host of the Travis House, Mr..
Driskill, has a new and permanent
boarder. Our information comes
through DR.. Blakemore, and may be
considered official" It's a bouncing
boy" We congratulate him on the
improved prospects of his house.
w. T. Swanson and Mrs. j. A.
Swanson, of Llano. were here the first
of the week on visit. Our pleasant
neighbor, Mrs. Bell. who had been to
Llano, returned with them. All speak
favorsbly of Llano. Mrs. B. and little
daughter both improved greatly in
health during their brief stay there.
We learn that George Harris, freed
man, of this place, has beat all the i'm
migration bureaus. He went recently
on q visit to his friends in Arkansas,
and brought them back with him en-
n,asse. We have not learned whether
our county authorities propose to award
him premium or pension for his SER
vices.
We have read somewhere of party
who went after wool and returned
shcrn. Something like this was ex-
emplifed by a Mr., Isaacs on Saturday
last, who while mapeuvering to get a
friend out of Jail, got in jail himself
where be is likely 10 remain for some