San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-07-12
from ssenr Greek.


EDITOR FREE PREsS For several
nelson's | have not written fora long
tins. Eirst-uppcr Bear Creek has
been in 40 uproarous coudition.tor sew
oral mouths, and l did not want to be-
come a reporter, nor did like to write
and not gisS the news. The old nd,
sce /, a still toogus makes wise head
in this oase l think it at least HIS
been good to preserve whole one-lip
mrvi,e aud rafting tongues have not
paid eeut. / propose u"w to on'y
touch ia high places, aud speak IN =
whisper. About the fore part Vt Lust
february. i think, l heard thut u
youog gentleman aud a young LADY
both Of Bear Greek, were 10 marry
, oa a stated dry which was near pit
Land. The guests were iuvited-the
teas, prepared the license obtained :
the legal man ut lland--the hour ar
r,yed-the guests were ass, mblcd-the
table set-tbe bride was properly at
ircd-,ll things seemed to be rendy
except the bridegroom, who did not
put in bis appearance. All stood
ashast. Everybody wondered what
was the matter. All was exaggeration
ani speculation for days. Finally the
toaaue, that uuruIy member, that sets
IN FIRE the course Of nature, broke its
tacxling, or slipped the bits and spoke
grca. swelling words aud boosted great
thugs, so that orders were issued to
Certain parties to leave the country on
douGie quick which they did. Wars
aui rumors Of wars were the order OF
rho day. I learn that it was said that
"A wedding. n fight or foot race must
take place; we'll, believe that all have
taken place except the wedding, and
that is predetermined. Two Of the
parties met some time sgo-One armed
with rocks, and the other with peck
II, knife. the one with the rocks rails
ed bumps of combativeness on the
other ones head, aud the one with
the knife fell about the other in such
II iuuay way that he quit throwing
rocks and went to throwing gravel,
and when the thing was over they
both nearly or quite had the thumps.
The body Of the one who was felt
around SO closely with the knife did
not suiier much, but his clothes did
suffer tremendously. The next | be-
leye worthy of note, was q race be-
tween one OF the parties and an officer:
the race was exciting to the spectators
and | suppose it was to those engaged
the former winner again beat the
race. Subsequently there was an ar.
rest made and an appearance bond ia
kcn-lhe examining trial, l learn is to
take place to-day. 1t is feared by
some that the fire has not yet reached
the magazine, but is sure to do so yet.
il so the cad is not yet. Let there be
peace.
Below here on lear Greek, an old
lady aud her son. in-law had fight,
but neither Of them were mortully
wounded. Several persons have been
arrested as accomplces, and for viola.
ton OF the arms law, &c. If the
righteous scarcely be saved where shall
the sinner and the uueodly appear
1t is written that it is appointed unto
men oace 10 die, aud after that the
Judgment
Rain-We have had some rain since
my last writing. There fell here nice
rains about the last OF April. again in
May il rainei lightly. About week
ago we had beautiful showers again
we:tiuS the ground some six or eight
inches deep. Small grain was nearly
u failure. Corn is OF will be light
Cotton is looking well yet. There is q
lair appearance of rain at this writing
iIcalth-The general nealih is and
Las been good. There has been somt
pretty severe eases recently of cholera
EoT.us, but axe ccnvalesceD, now.
There wa Methodist proirac;et
z-estiag held st Salem which lasieC
"a O. iwslya days, ending lsst week
here is Sandy school again q
I,EasLiT- SO :; Salem ard Besr