San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-23
4 Leaf From Rowan Histor,,.

Rome WINS seusieo W TWO young men
who came to Henry county about 75sB
G. Their grandpapa's brother sent them
down the river on steamboat, onlv
there was no steamboat. But the youny
men did not drown; they Just floated
along like deep-water baptists until thew
came to Rome, where they landed. They
were only few weeks old, so they hired
an old wolf to take care of them and
give them rations. Then when thew
were old enough they slew the old wolf
and took her scalp to the county clerks
Office and got $3.50 for it. Afterward
they called on the old gentleman who
paid their passage down the river and
had it out with him. Remus held the
old -gentleman's ears while Romulus
passed thin slab of steel from the ster.
po.hyoid muscle through the common
carotid arteries and jugular vein, and
emerging little below the occipital
bone. Shortly afterward the action of
the heart became irregular and weak.
the pulse fell rapidly, and there was
general decrease in the rtemperature Of
the body; respiration became difficult
and finally impossible; articulation was
impeded, and when the family physician
arrived it was evident that permanent
suspension of the vital forces had already
ensued. 1t is claimed by some histori.
ans, indeed, that poor old .Amulius new
er recovered from the shock, but died
the same day, which, being washday,
covered the memory Of Amulius with
ignominy.. Shortly after this event the
| two brothers returned to Rome, where
one day Remus, while climbing over
picket fence around his brothers water
melon patch, was shot by Romulus, al
though other authorities say he was kill
ed on the railroad, while trying to carry
two quarts of Roman whisky across the
track in front of q B. and M. freight
engine. After that Romulus disappear
ed, and the Romans think he went TO
heaven, although the appearance Of the
Illinois sheriff in Rome two hours after
Romulous became seldom, has caused
some authorities to think he went to the
penitentiary. Romulus and his brother
we're considered great men, and stood
very high in society, though it is said
that their ma was no better than she
should have been, which was very con-
sistent in her. These boys had two
Mars, in fact, and one Of them was their
pa. This sounds very strange, but it is
us true as anything else in this history.
As Rome grew, society was rent in two
great divisions. Nobody was consider
ed anybody who did no own red sleigh
and mouse-colored horse, and didn't
live in house with bay window, cha
teau roof, mechanics lien and cut
throat mortgage on it. A Roman lady
who didn't belong to literary club, and
attend conversations, and get trusted for
five new hats year, was snubbed at
prayer-meeting and neglected at mite
societies. So the patricinns did all the
voting, and held all the offices, and run
all the public institutions, and spent all
the public funds; and the people who
smoked clay pipes, and carried hods, and
clerked, drove drays, did all the fighting
and paid part of the taxes. So, when
ever the patrician caught a plebeian
they sent him to jail OF drafted him into
the army. And whenever a plebelan
saw patrician alone, they mauled him
around and pelted him with stones. The
patricians were called general, colonel
mayor, captain, Judge, and honorable.
The plebeians were called plain Bill.
Once in while plebeian would aspire
to honor and authority, and become a
kind of brevet patrician, and was then
called squire. -Burlington BdrEeye.