San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-23
TEXAS TOPICS.

WHO WHO wv bVANs $780, y
sit down in comfort.
Ships drawing seventeen feet pass
in and out of Sabine Pass without diff
Guilty. 'i ''' -
-Four gins have been burned in Ma
varro county this season, three OF which
were burned in one day. ,.r ..
The Capital Fair closed at Austin
last Saturday, and was'a success IN
everything except the races. 4l..
In Victoria, Victoria county, such
tropical fruits MS the, date, banana,
lemon and orange, grow to great per-
lection.
-Coal found in Bexar county in
large quantities is used extensively IN
San Antonio in offices and for genera
ting steam. I'd ya.a r.r'.
You may talk about the clean and
hungry Cassius,"' but did you ever take
n side view of the man who has run q
store ten years without Advertising?
IT is reported that one Of the men
who recently robbed the stage coach
near Fort Worth was found dead on last
Saturday near the scene OF the robbery
The Fo,tr Counties, paper publish,
ed at Richmond, Fort Bend county, i'll
this State, heads one Of its columns
with this pertinent query is this your
paper, or borrowed one?"
No man can know all things, but there
are lots of men who think they do. They
are the fellows who give an editor SO
much valuable information rs to how to
run q newspaper--into the ground
Kenneb,tsek Star. .s .rt. .o
Two men, recent immigrants from
Illinois, engaged in deadly afiray with
knives near Dallas on Friday OF last
week. One of the combatants was NOR
tally and the other seriously wounded.
Family difficulties was the cause OF the
trouble. .4'..
--Millet Brothers, cattle kings OF
northwest Texas, have the contract for
furnishing beef to all the Indian agen-
cies in the territory, embracing the Fort
Sill, Wachita, Cheyenne fort RenoJ
Usage, Pawnee, Conca, Modoc, Nez
Perces, Quapaw, and Sac and Fox agen-
cies. To supply these ten agencies, it
requires about one thousond head OF
eight hundred and fifty pound cattle
per month. Echo.
Colonel j. w. Lawrence yesterday
received letter from w. l.. Goddar, OF
the town of Lawrence, in Kaufman coun-
ty, stating that he had reliable informa-
ton that the laying of iron on the Sa,
bine Pass and Northwestern railroad
would commence inside of ten days, the
contract having been contaminated ut
Kansas City, and taken by Messrs. Bliss
and Christie, of Washington and Phlln-
delphia, to iron and put on rolling stock
for $40 miles-Austin Statesman.
The west bound stage on the Fort
Worth and Fort Yuma line, was again
captured by two masked robbers, about
thirteen miles west of Fort Worth on
Thursday of last week, mt place called
Robbers Hollow. While the robbers
were rihing the mail pouches, some
teamsters came up and opened fire on
them. When the firing commenced the
robbers fled, having secured but three
of the eight registered packages in the
mail pouches. The amount OF money
they secured is not known.
The campaign is over, and the yell
low fever is about at an end; the sus-
pence of the politicians and the fear on
the part of the people of an outbreak OF
the deadly scourge is past. Whom the
Lord loves, He chasteneth: and while
in His mercy He has exempted Texas
from the yellow fever, the politician has
overrim our Empire State from Texar-
kama to Brownsville, and the people
with Christian fortitude have meekly
endured the visitation. But its all over
now, and We are happy.
A scamp called at the residence of
Mr.. Loller, in Hopkins county, to pur-
chase some goods. John Loller went
with him to the store and sold him
goods to the amount of Sl3 %; after
which young Lollcr refused to sell him
any more goods until he paid for what
he had bought The stranger picked
mp his goods and said he would not pay
for them, and started of. Young Lol-
Ter started after him, when the stranger
turned and shot at him twice with a
pistol, then mounted his horse and
scampered away. Several parties went
in search of him, hut no clue of him
vet.
Another Of those cowardly mid
night murders that would disgrace even
4 sncaking cowardly Grcaser, was per
petrated at Houston, on Thursday
night of last week. A man named
Adolph Shachiupp. residing in the
Fourth ward. beyond the bayou. was
csllcd from his house and family. Ivy a