San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
HERE AND THERE.

PROF. II. r. PALMER returned to New
York, May 20, from his European tour.
IT is thought in Ireland that Lord
Leitrim was murdered by men from
America whose families had been ex-
patriated.
MRS. A. T. STEWART owns solitaire
diamond worth $4,000, which is said
to be the largest in the United States.
The bark Azor, which sailed recently
for Liberia, took as q part Of her cargo
two entire Christian churches-one Bsp-
tist and one Methodist.
THE usual pay Of Sepoy is about
IA shillings per month, out of which he
has to buy his own food. When on &C
tive service his pay is about double.
THE nina is a small green parrot,
very common in India, and great
many of them are taught to say the
first verse of the Mohammedan prayer
or creed.
QUEEN vIpToRIA's new saloon rail-
way car is one of the most beautiful Of
its kind ever built, as may well be i'm
agined from the fact that its construc-
ton and fittings cost over $4,000.
"RAIsE that pot and I'll raise you,"
said johnson to Bush, in the midst of
poker game in Eureka, CAL, drawing .
revolver. Bush did not heed the warn
ing, and was shot through the head.
The St. Louis law firm of Thomas &
Thomas is composed of twin brothers
SO nearly alike that attorneys and the
Judge arepuzzled to tell which one it
is that is conducting case. no .rIsi
A WRITER in DR.. Foote's Health
Monthly says: once knew an old gen.
tleman who used to enforce his plea for
good living by saying: 81 should be
ashamed to show myself in Heaven and
be obliged to confess to the good God
that while He had filled the earth with
delicious foods 1 had been too lazy, too
stingy, or too careless to enjoy His
bounty. How can expect to be in
vited to partake of His good things in
the life to come if l neglect to make use
Of those with which He has surrounded
me here" d. ts rlgtua d ulr
THURLow WEED, who knew the late
Prof. Henry when he was an appren-
tice to silversmith in Albany, says that
young Henry then showed such talent
as an amateur actor that he was offered
an engagement in professional troupe.
Henry thought favorably of the offer,
but DR.. T. Romeyn Beck, Principal of
the Albany Academy, offered him a
gratuitous academic course, and he
gave up the opportunity to 60 upon the
stage. .t ..taf.
PEDEsTRIANIsM has become fashion
able in San Francisco among both men
and women. Walking clubs are numer-
GUS. The members meet on an appoint
ed day in suburb, and start off on trips
of from i've to fifty miles, but the
/" roughing it" is generally more in fam
cy than fact, for carriages are taken
along fer the tired ones to ride in. Dio
Lewis party of so tourists has returned
demo1alized. They intended to journey
and camp in the mountains for three
months, but the Doctor fell sick at the
outset, and two weeks of outdoor life
was enough for the rest. ..,.l .tla.
A VERY successful swindle is being
practiced upon the farmers of Indiana
by parties claiming to be agents for a
barb wire.fence. One agent makes q
farmer a present of 40 rods or more,
having him sign an agreement to put it
up in conspicuous place for exhibition.
Another agent follows in his wake with
q bill for the wire, and has the farmers
order for the wire, at on exorbitant
figure. They nearly always succeed in
fleeing their victims out of 1926 to $50
on compromise, taking back the wire.
Texas contains an estimated popula-
ton of 2,OOO,O 1t receives an annual
increase by immigration alone of $780,
600. There are produced in the State
annually about 100000 bales of cotton.
The value of this crop is S3O,OOO,OOO.
The annual export of cotton is esti-
mated at $4,000, 900 in value, of wool
at S1,5OO,OOO, of hides at $1,sOO,OOO,
of beef in barrels and cans at S2,OOO,-
900, and other productions besides
wheat at 80, 900, 900. The present wheat
crop will bring between six and seven
million dollars.
The terrible suferings of Tenth
Cavalry company on the Staked Plain