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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
The Popular FOur.Per.Cent. Loan.

WASHINGTON, June 20.-The Secretary of
the Treasury has issued circular calling at.
tention to the four-per cent. funded loan of
the United States now offered by the Depart.
ment at denominations for coupon bonds of
$50, $780,. $500 and $1,000, and for registered
$4,000, at par and accrued interest to date of
subscription in coin. The bonds are redeem
able July l, 1907, and bear interest payable
quarterly on the first days OF January, April,
July and October of each year, and are eX-
empt from thepaymentof taxes or duties to
the United States, rs well as from taxation in
any form by Or under State, municipal or
local authority. Upon full receipt OF full
commission of X of per cent.
will be allowed upon the amount OF subscrip-
tions. Commissions will be paid by check
only, and will not be applied in payment of
subscription. All national banks arc now in
vited to become financial agents OF the Gov
eminent and repositories OF public moneys
received on sale of these bonds upon com
plying with section 8, 1853 of the Revised Stat
utes of the United States. All banks, bankers
and persons are invited to aid i'll placing
these bonds, and can make their arrange.
mcnts through national banks for the deposit
of purchase money of the bonds. The pro.
ceeds of the sale of the bonds WILL until
further notice, be only used in the redemp-
ton OF 500 6'per-cent. bonds OF tine
United States under the Refunding act.
Payment for bonds may be made in coin,
coin certificates, certificates of deposit OF
Government repositories, "called" bonds,
coupons maturing within 30 days, or in cur
rency drafts on New York in favor of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, which will be receiv.
ed ut coin value thereof at the National Bank
of Commerce, New York. Any payment IN
excess will be returned with commission. All
coin and currency drafts on New York should
be forwarded directly to the Department by
subscribers or their agents. The circular con-
tinues: "The favorable state OF the money
market induces the Secretary to press upon
the people this loan, by which they can Cd,
tain direct from the Government natlonal
bond of the highest credit and sanction, ex,
empt from taxes, and payable, principal and
interest, in coin. Every citizen Of
the United States is interested IN
the success of this loan, as every
sale of these bonds enables the Government
to save one third of the interest on an equal
amount of the outstanding debt to be re-
deemed. These bonds should be the store
house for the savings of the people. No Ia.
cility or advantage will be given to large
subscribers. 1t is in the interest OF the pup
lie that bonds be distributed in small sums
among the largest numbers IF our fellow,,
citizens. subscriptions to an amount equal
to the bonds now redeemable would make
an annual saving of SS96l ,632, and such SUD
scriptions can now be made without VIII.
drawing from circulation any OF the money
of the people. All blanks, or forms, or IN,
formation needed will be furnished by the
Department without cost.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

Jacob Levels was hanged at Little
Rock, Ark, on the 2lst, for the murder Of
Robert Swan In June last. Both were col.
ored.
Jeremiah Connolly and George Sher.
nv were hanged at Chicago, on the Goth, for
the murder of Hugh McConville in January
last.
Charles Burns was hanged at Paris.
ILL.,, on the Goth, for the murder of Deputy
Marshal Elijah Burdwell in November last.
The First National Bank of St. Joseph
Mo-, was very mysteriously robbed on the
21st of several packages of money amount.
ing in the aggregate to $4,000. The Cashier
says that the money was in the safe at 0 A.
M, when the days business begun, and
its loss was discovered at noon. As no
outsider had any means of securing access
to the safe, the disappearance Of the money
can not be accounted for.
Near Lawrenceburg, Ind, ON the 2lst,.
Ezra Guard, young and wealthy, but dis.
sipated farmer, shot his divorced wife, kill.
ing her instantly, and then attempted to
take his own life. His own wounds are not
fatal, and he was sent to Jail to be tried for
murder.
The Indian scare in Northern Wis.
consin is said to have been entirely ground
less.
A Silver City dispatch of the 22d
says the Umatilla Indians have all left their
reservation, and the mountains are full of
them.
Mrs. Lemlin, aged 80, of Prairie Coun-
ty, Ark, was burned to death by kerosene
on the 10Th.
William Vaughan was hanged at St.
John, N. B., on the ed, for the murder of
Mrs. Quinn, widow, in February last.
The returns made to the General
Land Office show an extraordinary tide Of
immigration this season into the States of
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado and
Dakota, where settlements are being made
under the Homestead and Pre- empton acts.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

the oldest ex-Congressman living, having
been elected In 1885,
Ex-CoNGREssMAN VANCE, of Ohio,
has been adjudged insane and sent to an
asylum.
MOSES A. WHEELoCK, for 26 years
President of the New York Stock Exchange,
killed himself on the 23d. Financial troubles,
loss of position in the Exchange and intern
nerance are said to have been the causes.
THE estate of the late William G. Bry-
ant is valued at $3.50, 1000, and, with the ex-
ception of few trifing requests, is divided
by his will equally between his two daugh-
tiers, one unmarried and the other the wlfe
of Mr.. Parke Goodwin.
REPRESENTATIVE ACKLIN, of Lousi-
ana, has been involved in an unpleasant af-
fair in Washington, growing out OF his APP
parently too jealous attentions to New
York lady, sister of a Congressman from
that State. The episode occurred in FASH
ionable restaurant. Gen. ROsser, well
known ex-Confederate officer, was dining
with some friends in an apartment ad-
jacent to that occupied by the Louis
lana Congressman and his fair friend.
Some unusual EXPLANATIONS on the part OF
the lady caused the chivalrous Rosser to fly
to her rescue. Tableau. Mr.. Acklin's
friends protest that there was not the slight
est cause for Gen. Rosser's alleged imperti-
nent interference, as the lady will bear wit
ness, and the insult to Mr.. Acklin is one that
can only be expunged upon the field Of
honor.
GEN FITz HENRY WARREN died in
his native town Of Brimfleld, Hampden
County, Mass, on the 21st, aged 81 years.
He resided in Iowa for number of years
and was largely engaged in railroad build
ing. He was also well known as a newspa-
paper writer and an active politician. Since
1855 he had been connected editorially with
the New York San.
EX-KING George of Hanover, who
died recently at Paris, was the first cousin
of Queen Victoria and Duke Of Cumberland
and Teviotdale in the British peerage. He
lost his crown when Prussia beat Austria
in 1866, and Hanover became mediatized.
He was blind, and had resided in Paris for
several years.
THE degree of Doctor of Laws has
been conferred by Princeton College upon
Gen. William T. Sherman and Gov. George
B. Mcclellan, of New Jersey.
Col. GEORGE P. KANE, Mayor of Bal
timore, died on the 23d.
SENATOR BRUCE, colored, of Missis-
sippi, was married on the 23d to Miss jose
phine b. Wilson, a prominent colOred belle
of Cleveland, o. The honeymoon is to be
passed in Europe.
T.V. VAN JAsMUND, a German baron,
local editor of the Detroit VOlksblatt, is sup
posed to have committed suicide on account
of being crossed in love.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

Cot. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, Demo-
cratic Representative in Congress from the
Twelfth Pennsylvania Luzerne) District,
has been renominated by the Greenback and
Labor Reform party.
REPRESENTATIVE T. j. QUINN, of the
Sixteenth (Albany) Congressional District,
New York, died on the 18th.
GEN. RENO has addressed a letter to
Hon. II. B. Banning, Chairman Of the House
Military Committee, asking an investigation
of certain charges made against him in the
public press in connection with the
Custer massacre. General Reno
states that If this request be
refused he will ask military court Of
inquiry. The responsible author of the
charges is Fred. Whitaker, author of Life
of Custer, and he claims that it was through
Renos culpability that Custer's band were
annihlated.
THE wedding of Col Russell Hast
ings and Miss Emily Pratt, niece Of Presi-
dent Hayes, was solemnized at the White
House on the evening of the 10Th, Bishop
Jaggar, of Ohio, officiating. The wedding
was very quiet one, only the immediate
friends of the President and his family, and
of the bride and groom being present.
THE President and Mrs. Hayes at
tended the commencement exercises at
Princeton College on the Goth.
The Vermont Democratic State Con-
vention, held on the Goth, nominated W. H.
I II ID g, ho resolutions
advocate the gradual substitution of green
backs for national bank bills.
| CONGRESSMAN SWAN, of Maryland,
was married at Princeton, y. j., on the
I Goth, to Mrs. John X. Thompson, sister-in-
law of Speaker Randall. The groom has
reached the mature age of 20, and the bride
80. She is the widow OF a former Senator
from New Jersey. swan has been Governor
Of Maryland, and United States Senator
I from that state. II is said to be love match.
Both the bride and groom are very wealthy,
Swan being a millionaire.
Hon. JOSEPH PULITZER, of St.Louis,
was married on the 10th to Miss Kate Davis,
one Of the reigning bellies Of Washington,and
a relative OF jefferson Davis. Although the
wedding was intended to be private, large
number Of distinguished people were pres
eut, including Senators Lamar, Gordon,
Cockrsll and Armstrong.
CHARLIE Ross father, who has spent
all his property in the vain search for his
lost boy, has been appointed by Gov. Har-
iranfi Master Warden Of the port Of Phil
adelphia, with 4 salary Of $500.
Hon. DANIEL SHELTER, Of York
SPRING, Adams County, Pa, recently eel
cbra;ed hi 95ih birthday. He j. probably
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

A SILVER CRY Qdaho) dispatch OF
the 18th says: The hostiles have left
STEMS Mountain, and are moving to-
ward Harney's Valley, thence to Mat
thews's Agency and Snake River, and
will probably keep on until they effect a
junction with the Columbia River In
dams, which addition to their forces
will, they calculate, enable them to
sweep the country. Camp Harvey will
probably be captured by the Indians to-
morrow, and if so there will be terrible
slaughter of the whites congregated
there for protection. Nothing has been
heard from Howard since yesterday.
If he does not effect junction with
Stewards forces, the party accompany
ing him from Camp Lyon could easily
be captured by savages. The general
situation is quite critical, and the mas
sacres that will be perpetrated bid fair
to exceed in numbers those of the Nez
Perces war.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

The Iowa Republican State Conven-
ton, held on the 10Th, nominated Capt.
j. A. F. Hull, of Davis, for Secretary
of State, and j. r. Powers, of Cass, for
Register of the Land Office. The other
incumbents were renominated. The
platform indorses the financial policy of
the Republican party as having resulted
in the practical resumption of specie
payments, and denounces any change
in policy as wholly evil and injurious.
On purely political questions the plat
form is extremely radical. The Presi-
Dental title is declared to have been
definitely and finally settled by the For
ty-fourth Congress, but further than
this there is.no.allusion to the Presiden-
tial office or its present incumbent,
Hon. j. f. Wilson made speech con-
graduating the Convention upon the
radical stand it had taken, and eulogiz-
ing General Grant. His remarks were
greeted with loud and continuous ap-
plause.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

At Tamaroa, ILL.,, On the evening of
the 18th, j. McNamee shot his wife
through the head and then shot himself
through the heart. He died almost Instant
ly; she retained consciousness for some
hours, but was believed to be MORALLY
wounded. McNamee lived at Anna, ILL.,,
and his wife was the daughter of Mr.. John
Little, Of Dongola, Ill. Mrs. McNamee had
left her husband and was visiting at the
house of friend in Tamaroa at the time of
the tragedy.
According to the report of a commit
tee appointed by the Iowa Legislature to ex-
anime into the affairs of the State Peniten-
tiary, S. H. Craig, late Warden of that in.
stitution, during his six years. term Of serv-
ice has defrauded the State out of over
$200, 200.
June returns to the Department of
Agriculture indicate an increase of fully 3
per cent. in the area planted in cotton. The
average condition of the crop is better than
in June last year.
Six prisoners confined in the County
Jail at Keokuk, Iowa, made their escape on
the night of the 18th by locking the Sheriff
in cell as he was making his nightly rounds.
Edwin A. Andrews, cashier of the
wrecked Greenwich Bank, Washington
County, N. Y, hanged himself on the 10Th.
Perry Bowsher was hanged at Chilli
Gothic, o., on the 2lst, for the murder of Ed
mund and Ann McVeigh in October last.
The centennial anniversary of the
evacuation of Valley Forge was celebrated
on the battle ground on the 10Th, 10000
people participating. The military were re-
viewed by Gov. Hartranft, Gen. Hancock
and Others.
Two men named Pearson and Sadler
were taken from the Jail at Springfield, Tenn,
and hanged by a mob on the morning Of the
Goth. They were charged with having COM
mitted an outrage upon lady named Mrs.
Groves.
At Newport, r. l., on the Goth, Geo.
Tiffany, II years old, son Of wealthy gen.
tleman of New York, with his tutor, VIM.
SIN tn, We're fishing from the rocks, when
young Tiffany lost his foothold and slipped
into the water. The tutor sprang in to save
him and both were drowned. Smith was
formerly principal of the Dayton, Ohio,
night school.
Reports from Northern Wisconsin on
the Goth were to the effect that the Indians
there were becoming troublesome, and that
the settlers were apprehensiye Of concerted
attack upon the white people. The Governor
has been appealed TO for aid.
Two little girls, aged respectively 5
and wears, the children Of Elijah Smith,
living at Freelandville, Knox County, Ind,
were burned to death on the 2lst. They
were playing in the barn with some matches,
and accidentally set fire to some loose hay.
Their mother tried 10 rescue them from the
flames, and was badly burnedin the attempt.
The ehilaren's bodies were burned 10 a
crisp when taken from the IRE.
Edward II. Costley was hanged at
Frederick, Nd. on the 2lst, for the murder
q his cousin, solomon Cosiiey, in Novem-
Der lat. Both were calored.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
I. H. JULIAN, Editor.
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE President has informed members
of the Cabinet, with regard to the mat
ter of contributions to campaign funds
and assessments for political purpos S,
that he desires letter addressed by
Secretary Schurz to one of his clerks
on that subject to be considered as en-
bodying his own opinions and the rule
governing the Administration in its diff
ferent branches. This letter informed
the clerk who addressed Secretary
Schurz that he was as free as any other
citizen to spend his spare money in any
legitimate way he pleased, and as his
political principles or public spirit
might suggest; and that his contribute
ing or not contributing would not in
any way affect his official standing or
prospects in the department.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

By clerical error in engrossing the
Sundry Civil. Appropriation bill during
the last hours of the session, the section
providing for the continuance of the
Hot Springs Commission, which was
created in 1877, to appraise and sell the
Government reservation, was almost
entirely omitted, so that the intend
ed section is rendered wholly
nugatory. In order 10 rectify the
error, rs far as possible, Senator Dor
sey, who had the matter in charge, had
copy of the amendment engrossed, as
agreed upon by Conference Committee,
and obtained thereto the signatures Of
the conferecs on the part of lighthouses,
and will present the same to the Presi-
dent, with the request that he, by exec
utive order, reappoint the Commission
ers and authorize them To proceed with
the work until further action by Con-
gress.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
Burying a Giant.

They had considerabletrou burylng
William Campbell, the Scottish giant
and heaviest man in the world, VINO
died at Newcastle, England, May, 20
% years of age, of congestion OF tine
lungs. A coffin had to be specially
made for his corpse, which weighed 40
pounds, and as he died in room in the
third story of the Newcastle inn he OWL
ed, the body could only be removed
from the house by taking out the WIN
dow of the room, knocking away the
brick-work at its side and slowly lower
ing it by block and tackle. In two
hours this was effected, but, as no hearse
in town would hold such a monstrous
coffin, it had to be placed on an ordinary
dray. Preceded by brass band, the
funeral procession, consisting OF family
friends and members of an order 10
which Campbell belonged, proceeded 10
the cemetery, its route being lined oy
thousands who had gathered, and VINO
jammed into the cemetery so thickly
that great damage was done, some oe,
ing crowded into the freshly openeu
grave. 1t took an hour to lower the
coffin, which weighed about ton, ln'I
the grave, and, though Campbell had
been dead but "a hours, his remains
were 50 decOmposed that the workmen
could hardly endure the stencil.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

GEN. NUNCIo, the Mexican officer
who was reported killed in a recent en-
gagement with Escobedo's force, has
turned up alive, and on the 18th was re-
ported at the head of poorly mounted
body of cavalry in pursuit of our Gen.
Mckenzie, who was making a flying
visit along the other side of the Rio
Grande, with some 500 men, looking for
stolen cattle and horses
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

or device to avoid the contingency OF a
lapsed election, for which the Constitu-
ton had made no provision. Congress-
he says, by express word of law, de-
clared that its object and effect were
provisional only. The President enter
ed upon his Office with the express no.
tice that his tenure was questionable in
character, of doubtful validity, not made
absolute by the interposition of an extra
constitutional Commission, but to
be examined and adjudicat ed up
on by the Courts. He agrees
with the committee that Congress
has no power, under the Constitution,
to confer upon the Supreme Court of
the United States the original jurisdic-
ton sought for it in the Blair-Kimmel
bill, but he says the question at issue is
whether the actual President of the
United States has a just and legal title
to the Office he holds. A condensation
upon that question, if it were possible
to be had before the Court, would make
case which may well enough be de-
fined to be controversy between con-
tending parties under forms of law be-
fore Court.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

tary of the Navy Robson and the late
Chiefs of the; various Bureaus of En-
cheering, Construction, Supplies, etc.,
be tried for corruption and malfeasance
in office. A large mass of testimony is
published, upon which the committee
base their recommendation.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

THE continued wet and cold weather
has seriously injured the standing crops
throughout Great Britain, notwithstand-
inc which the market shows steady de-
cline on account of heavy receipts from
America.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

The Maine Democratic State Con-
vention, held on the 18th, nominated
Alonzo Garcelon for Governor. The
resolutions oppose an irredeemable cur
rency, and favor the gradual substitu-
ton of greenbacks for national bank
bills.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

CALIFORNIA held an election on the
Goth, for the purpose of choosing dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention.
In San Francisco the Workingmen's
ticket was elected by about 1000 ma
jority, and it is estimated that out of
1852 delegates from the entire State the
Workingmen will have plurality.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

The House Naval Committee, by vote
Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. adopted
resolution recommending that e1-Secre-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

GEN. MCKENZIE arrived at Eagle Pass
on his return from his Mexican raid on
the 22d. He penetrated about As miles
into Mexican territory from Newtown,
the place of crossing, where he was
confronted by detachment of Mexican
troops under Colonel Valdez, who for
babe his further progress. To
this General Mckenzie replied
that he should force passage if neces-
sary, and overawed by his determine
ton, backed by a superior force of
troops, the Mexican commander thought
wise to retire. One account says Nc
Kenzie recovered 400 head of stolen
stock; another one says he made no
captures.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

Mrs jerks, wife of Captain jerks,
testified before the Potter Committee on
the 22d that she was the bearer of the
Anderson-Weber letter to Sherman,
asking for written guarantee; that she
did not deljyer the letter to Sherman,
but opened and read it, and then dictat-
ed herself the reply to the same, which
she claims is the only original of the So
called Sherman letter. Who wrote the
letter at her dictation she refuses to tell.
Her cross-examination, conducted by
Gen. Butler, developed numerous dis
crepancies in her testimony.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

NEXT yearthe eighteen hundredih an
niversary Of the destruction OF PomPeh
and Herculaneun Is to Be celebrated =
Pompeii.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06

GEN. BUTLER, as an individual men,
Der of the Judiciary Committee, sub
mitted to the House OF Representatives
his reasons for dissenting from the res
olution and report of the majority in
regard to the inviOlability of the Presi-
dents title. lie thinks it remarkable
that, in the face of the sixth section of
the act establishing the Electoral Com
mission, the committee should have
come to the conclusion that the pro-
ceedings of the committee, or of Con-
gress, subsequent thereto, constitute an
immovable finality, when the law
itself declares the contrary, and the
contrary was empha;ically assured by
the House Of Representatives. Instead
Of constituting a finali,y, those proceed
ings were. on their face and in express
terms, merely temporary eNpodiency