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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
Fabulous Treasure.

Nearly three weeks ago Henry Chap
man was making his way from Harri-
sons gin, at the pool on the Clear Fork
70 Squire N[illiner's, near the mouth OF
Salt creek, through the woods. When
near the head OF Salt creek, not far
from Skeen's peak, his mule scared,
and broke his saddle-girth, and while
fixing it, he discovered some fresh dirt
lug up and some brush piled over it.
He supposed at first that some fellow
bad been enticed out into that wilder
ness and murdered, and being one OF
those coolheaded, deliberate fellows that
never get excited, he proceeded to re-
move the brush and dirt. He soon I'M
earthed box that was made of walnut,
that would hold about bushel and a
half. Upon opening it., he was COM
pletely dumfounded for it was full OF
gold and silver. He says that he re-
members distinctly that there was all
denominations of American coin, from
twenty dollar gold pieces down to. nick
les thrown in promisclously. His first
impulse was to ill his pockets, but it
flashed into his mind that he had a sack
under his saddle, that he had substitut-
ed for blanket SO he proceeded TO
take the sack from under his saddle, but
inst as he began to fill the precious
metel in his sack, he was Mortified by
discovering eight men advancing upon
him with their guns all leveled on him.
Henry, like anybody else under the cir
cumstances, jumped on his mule and
galloped of. He says that he is salts
fed that there was near bushel and @
half of the coin.
At first people didn't know what to
make of such Il strange story. Henry
Chapman is one of the most truthful,
Trustworthy and unassumiug young men
in the county. but recent developments
have convinced everybody that his tale
il the unyarnished truthfrom beginning
TO end. The facts in the case are that
Sam Bass and gang had their money
buried there when attacked on Salt
creek last summer, and that Mr.. Under
wood, jackson and gang had returned
to replenish their finances and had the
money temporarily buried but were
watching it when found by Chapman
We0tLeTJord Exponent
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
Il Strange People.

DR.. Z. r. Health, in paper on "Pe-
ruvian Antiquities" describes a strange
people living in town called Ellen, in
T degrees south latitude and about two
miles from the sea. They number
about 1000, and they speak, besides the
Spanish, language which some of the
recently brought over Chinese laborers
understand, but there is no other SINH
larity between the two peoples. They
intermarry uncles, nieces, brothers and
sisters, nephews and aunts, that is, pro-
miscuously, and with no apparent curse
of oonsanguinity; but they will notper-
NIT any intcrmalTiage into their num-
bcr, or with the outside world. They
have laws, customs and dress of their
own, and live by braiding hats and mats,
and weaving cloths. They will give no
account of the place whence they came,
or of the time they settled at Ellen.
History does not mention their ex-
istonce before the Spaniards arrived.
Among them there are no sick or de-
formed persons, their custom being to
send committee to each sick or old
person, and those who are reported past
recovery or past usefulness, are prompt
y strangled by the public executioner.
Ellen orders it, they say, and with Et-
lens orders there is no interference. -
Scientific Notes.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
with hewn stone and their buildings are

with hewn stone and their buildings are
palaces. ...
The Aztecs understood the art of nm.
algamating the metals with tho native
mercury, and the Italian sculptor, Ben
venuto Cellini, pronounced an Aztec
fish he saw great work of art, because
Its gold scales on silver body had been
cast in one mould. In 1857 Spaniard
applied amalsnmation to very extensive
mining, or two centuries before the
Freiburg people discovered it in 1856.
At Tresnillo, Mexico, A. d. 1900, 1000
900 of hundred weight of ore were am
algamated: Spain supplied the quick
silver from her Amaden mine or 10000
hundred-wcisht annually. After Mexi-
can independence, England got the
quicksilver trade, and about 1857 the
Rothchilds got it and run quicksilver
mp on mankind, cornering the markets
of the world. This was stopped for a
while by opening mines of quicksilver
in California. Mules and horses at the
Mexican mines supply the want of water
ior power. The Indian laborers ut the
mines sometimes carry up 500 weight OF
re, climbing up an inclined tree nicked
for steps.
There are four minis in Mexico; gov
"rnment takes three per cent. Thous-
snds of mines are pedtlled for sale and
many instances common laborers
strike bonanza and grow rich. Mexi-
can recklessness is largely dependent on
he mining lottery. In the town of Tas,
20 an Indian and u small foundry pro.
prietor worked $4,000 out of an old
nine. The white man turned gambler
md the Indian shod his horse with sill
yer. The common miners of Mexico
ire full of superstitions; the agricul.
wrists are qniet and responsible.
The mining wealth of Mexico is I'm.
!oubtedly very great. In sulphur it is
mmense-found in the volcanoes. I,
Produces rubies, topazes, emeralds, OPP
Is, carbuncles, in twenty specified To-
.alities. In Puebla state, between Mex
co and Vera Cruz, mountains of marble
,orphyry, slate, alabaster, gypsum and
itharge arc common. 1t has petroleum
laphtha and coal oil. Coal is found
uear Vera Cruz and in the state of Pu-
'bla, but it is not plentiful nor good
= There are many mines of lead, zinc
bismuth and "copper" eight mines OF
quicksilver and several of iron. Gold
and silver are worked in q majority OF
the states. 4lESF....l
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
JgOMEN OF CYPRUS,
from the Pail Mall Gaxette.l


Seen at her best, on one Of those in.
Vulnerable saints days, when she does
no work beyond tricking herself out in
ane clothes and assisting her mother to
dispense hospitality, the Cyprian dam
al looks like q masquerade heroine.
whatever be her station. She weaves
M her hair with gold coins, twists it.
nlaits it, and contrives, with q red and
yellow kerchief, head.dress which
looks like turban, but is made top
heavy by being surmounted with an
embroidered muffin cap and tassel. She
wears buggy breeches, sky-blue or pink,
which descend to the knee, the rest of
the legs and feet being bare, except
when to honor company she reluctantly
dons pair of babouches, in which she
feels uncomfortable. She is generally
fat, and wears short jacket, profusely
braided, which does not reach to her
waist. She rouges and whitens, her
creamy complexion till it looks like the
face of wax image; she paints her eye.
brows deep black, and by some cunning
pencil touches at the corners of her eye,
contrives to make them look twice thei,
proper size. Then she feels happy, and
CYCLES when complimented. She can
not read oiswrite, but she can sing. pla,
on triangular guitar, and spin round in
q iantastic dance which takes her breath
away and makes her cry "Hoo!" while
the stranger who watches her turns gid.
dy for sympathy. Nor is she without
religion for during the long Lenten
fast aud on Fridays throughout the year
she lives on bread and olives, consider.
ing it n deadly sin to eat anything that
has hreathed fish included. She sees
less sin in telling fibs and in discussin,
scandal. 1t takes some time to famil.
iarize ones self with Cypian girl; TO,
something of the Mussulman practice OF
secluding women prevails among tn,
Greeks, and bevy of maidens vii
scurry off like frightened poultry if /,
man approaches them to talk; but once
this shyncss has worn off the chief con
versational topic of the bashful maide,
will relate to her neighbours shortcom,
ings. On working days the Cyprian
girl dresses loosely in cotton breeche.
and chemise, and let's her hair fall down
her back, tying it just below the mech
with string of beads. She is surpris,
ingly active, despite her plumpness, and
races about after goats, pigs and fowls,
with afeetness which would do credit to
a boy. If of q manageable age she
will not beg, but at sight of a. stranger
halloos to her younger sisters to come
forth and claim backsheesh; the which
having been duly obtained for those
little Greek girls are wonderful coax
ers), she levies her share, which is ex-
pended in buying fnery of the peddlers.
The dream of the Greek girl is to be as
sumptuous as those Musselman ladies
whom she occasionally sees driving
about the island in carts drawn by OK
en-, and whom she envies with all hel
heart, without being able to see then
faces.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08

THE post.office department will save
some $4,000 annually after April |, by
abolishing the agencies in fourteen cities
for the sale of postage stamps. The
government has allowed the agents two
per cent. on their sales, but has finally
come to the conclusion that, if people
want stamps they viii buy them wheth-
er there are agencies or not.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08

THERE are 800 mule teams constant
" OH the road between Leadville and
Carson City, both Of Colorado. 1t is a
fair estimate to suppose that at least one
mule balks each day. Now imagine the
rest, remembering that there are mule
drivers on that road who SPEAK four
languages and several dialects.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08

Az Iisb gentleman having purchased
an alarm clock, an acquaintance asked
him what he intended to do with il.
@Ochi- ANSWERED he. sure I've nothing
to do hut pull. the string and wake my
SELF
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08

THEEE arc some scenes almost too pure
and sacred. TO be viewed by the though
less world. One Of them is 200 pound
woman, with a mole on her chin talk
ing baby TO an ounce and half canary
binl IN a brass cage.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
The Exports Of Wheat.

The exports of wheat and its value
for ten months of 1878, compared with
the same period of the nine preceding
wears, compiled from the returns of the
bureau of statistics: ''
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08
charge 1t.

An oldish citizen who had scraped a
few hundred dollars together started in
the saloon business on Hastings street
few days ago, and q man whom he
knew and did not particularly admire
started in the same business at the same
time few doors above. There was
something of 3 rivalry between the two
places about fixing up and the old man
was constantly on the watch to see that
the other did not get ahead OF him. He
had just settled down to the belief that
he was long way ahead, when in came
u customer who said:
"Ah! you'll have to hang up your fid-
die now. The man above you was just
showing me his slate. He has over
twenty names on it since morning and
four men have just gone in there after
ten cent drinks" a.
"Ish dot some facts?" exclaimed the
old man, thoroughly aroused in mo-
mant.
"Yes, and III bet he Will have 500
charged to customers before night"
"Und shall baf more as forty! What
till ! runs nit der grocery for slate,
ind den you sthapd on der corner und
gif all der poys some winks to come in.
/ don't let dot man get aheadt OF me il
| have to puy ten schlatesp
Night closed in on the old man top Of
the hcap.-DeirOt Free Press.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-08

Eddie Lawhorn, n boy twelve years
of age. was sentenced to five years in
the pcnitentiary at Mckinney last week
for stealing horse. This was the sec
ond horse he had stolen. For the first
oilense he was Ceased with a reprimand
from the Judge, but when brought up
on a second charge he received five
years imprisonment.
President DIAz sends word that he
wants to live in peace with the people
north Of the Rio Grande IL he will
attend to the border Greasers, there is
no reason why everything should not go
smoothly.
There are four men confined in the
Hopkins county jail for robbing post
Offices and store-bouses at Miller Grove,
Lone Oak and Donation.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30
Blotches, Ro ugh Skin, Pimples.

Rochester, N. T., Feb. Is. 1875.
DR.. n. II. Fenner, Fredonia, N. Y,
Dear sir:-A young man here has had a
terribly diseased face for many years. He
began taking your medicine. BE is now on
the sixth bette Of your Blood and Liver
Remedy and Nerve Tonic and his face is Ell =
tirely well. Yours truly A. HENRY.
Dr.. Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy
and Nerve Tonic may well be called
"The conquering hero" OF the times. 1t
is the medical triumph Of the age. Who
ever has ''the blues" should take it, for
it regulates and restores the disordered
system that gives rise to them. 1t al
WAYS cures Billiousncss and Liver Com
plant, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Conslipa.
tion, Headaches, Fever and Ague, Spleen
Enlargmehts, Scrofula, Erysipelas, Pim-
Piles, Blotchss, and all skin eruptions
and blood disorders; Swelled Limbs and
Dropsy; Sleeplessness, Impaired Nerves
and Nervous Debility; Restores flesh
and strength when the system is running
down or going into decline; cures Fe-
male Weakness and Chronic Rheuma-
tism, and relieves Chronic Bronchitis,
and all Lung and Throat difficulties.
1t does these things by striking at the
root Of disease and removing its causes.
DIR. Fenner's Improved Cough Honey
will relieve any cough in one hour.
DR.. FenneI's Golden Relief cures any
pain, as tooth ache, neuralgia, collie OF
headache in to 80 minutes, and readily
relieves rheumatism, kidney-complsint,
diarrhea, dysentery. For sale by DR.. 8.
B. Emerson. DR.. Fenner's St. Vitus
Dance Specific. One bottle always cures
For sale by dealers.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30

We get a more hopeful view of the
condition and prospects Of 'Poor Lo,'
from an article in the Tribune giving q
comparative statement of his advance
ment in civilization, education, agricul-
ture and stock raising between the years
1858 and 1878. We have not room for
the figures but we quote the conclusions:
From this statement it appears that
more than one-half Of the Indians have
discarded the blanket and donned civ
ilized garb; that about one-half have
moved out of their lodges and wigwams
into houses, the number Of which has
increased nearly three-fold in ten years;
that the number of pupils in Indian
schools has more than doubled; that al
most one-sixth of the population can
read; that the number OF acres of land
cultivated by the Indians is about five
times as great as ten years ago; that the
production of wheat has increased nearly
tvefold, of corn sevenfold, of oats
and barley nearly fouriold, and of hay
nearly ninefold, and that the Indians own
about three times as many horses and
mules, six times as many cattle, seven
times as many swine and about seventy
five times as many sheep as they did ten
years ago. They now own two head of
sheep for every Indian man, woman and
child in the United States. The whole
number of Indians in the United States
is estimated at PSI, ,S64 and it is certain
that at such rate of progress if coDtin-
ned, the festhered and bisnketed savage
who now fills the public mind whenever
the Indian is mentioned, must soon dis
appear, and the fat contracts for beef
and flour cease to exist, except in the
sad memories of lucky contractors"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30

price, Bishop Simpsons Yale Lectures
to Young Preachers. -
II did not know that the Christiani-
ty of the Bible is vastly better than the
lives of even the best Of its professed
followers Ishould be somewhat disturbed
in my own mind by the detected vices
of certain professors of religion. But I
have also learned never to reject a good
"greenback" because there are some
counterfeits aflcat. You will certainly
admit that the person who lives up most
closely to the pure and benevolent and
holy teachings of Jesus Christ is decid-
edly the better for so doing. Upon the
tree of his daily life there may be a few
guarled or wormy apples among the
bushels of good fruit. Now, is it not
contemplate to spy out those scrubby,
and worm-eaten outgrowths and claim
that they are fair specimens of the fruit
which his piety producesi No sensible
Christian processes to be perfect. The
best things in every Christian are the
legitimate fruits of his religion. The
weak or wicked things are born of his
own yet imperfectly renewed heart. You
fasten on his faults, and refuse to ac-
knowledge the immense benefits he has
gained by his even imperfect limitations
of his Divine Master. You see his few
sins; you do not see his repentances.-
Theodore L. Cuyler in the Independent.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30
Dairy Matters.

Pittsfield dairymen voted to pay one
eighth of their cheese proceeds for
making, furnishing nothing.
Hon. Y. A. Willard is to deliver an
address before the New York State Dali
rymen's Association and Board OF
Trade, st Utica, Feb. 9th and 9Th. Sub
ject: sour Dairy Products and our Con-
sumptive Demand" The Little Falls
Farmers Club we're to discuss at their
last meeting "To what extent should
dairymen of Herkimer County skim
their cheese.-lLittle Falls Gazette.
The Meadville Index was so full of
description of its Loan Exhibition 1t
had no dairy news last week.
Prof. Mott, PHI. D., has niade series
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30

The Earnest Worker" for January is
on our table. The number contains an
engraving Of the Home" on Walnut st..
Cleveland, and pictures of the 'Retreat"
and the "Old Ladies' Home" are to follow
in subsequent numbers. We have time
only to glance over many Of the period
icals that come to US. but we always read
the Earnest Worker" It is almost a
complete record of the public charities
Of the city nearest US, and the Reports
given from time to time keep its readers
informed Of what is done and the great
need of more to be accomplished in def
mite directions. Published monthly by
the Women's Christian Association Cleve-
land
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30
Random Gems.


The appreciation of Christ On human
effort was given in the words: "She hath
done what she could" And when q min.
lister does all that he can; when he
brings his body and strength and skill
and tact and prayers; when he has ex-
hausted all the resources which God has
put into him. then Divine power accom-
plishes the rest. But If the preacher
expects Divine power to supplement his
incidence in the study. his waste of time
in frivolous conversation, his hours spent
in amusement, his waste Of opPortuni-
ties and energies, no wonder that he
should be disappointed. To him the Di-
vine voice is: 'Cursed be he that doeth
the work of the Lord deceitfully." He
il an Ananias holding back part OF the
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30

At the recent marriage of Princess
Thyra of Denmark, to the Duke of Cum
berland, the various members Of Eng
lands royal family gave very elegant
presents to the bride, and Victoria's old.
est daughter, the Crown Princess Of
Prussia, wore magnificent costume at
the wedding and diamonds representing
value Of at least s., soc, 900.
Most of the presents given were jew
els and in view of the great distress in
England, the practical mind can scarcely
help wishing tha. the price Of few of
those costly baubles might have been
used to set in motion the wheels of Eng
lands languishing industries, paralyzed
for want of means, that instead of CIV
ing $1,000 to help her starving people her
Majesty the Queen had given more in
accordance with the liberal provision of
pin and pocket money allowed herself
and children.
With due reverence for the dignity of
q chief magistrate the average American
cannot see the reasonableness of going
out of the family in the requirements OF
Court mourning and just at this time
every surplus English pound should go
for bread instead Of black silk; and all
the world would the more revere the
widowed Queen who mourns a daughter,
if, instead of any selfish indulgence in
the emblems of grief, she and her family
unite their energies rs they are able to
do in bettering the condition of her sub
jects, many of whom ii the factories are
idle, have nothing before them but star
vation and distress.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30
els That SOP"

Few slang phrases have been put tS
harder wear or more perverted use than
this. It has become habit in the com
mon conversation of very many excel
lent, sensible, well-informed people, who,
if they were asked why, could give no
reason for its use. To question any and
every statement made, with an incredu-
lous SIS that sos' is SO often the subter-
fuee Of those who are lacking in ideas,
that the phrase should be turned over
to the exclusive use of persons who have
no other means of keeping up a conver-
satiou. ss-.s-.r. r-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30
HoLBRooK BROS,
Surgeon Dentists.

Do not neglect to care for AMI SO lose
your teeth. A small amount of money
expended to keep them in good con.li-
ton is good Investment. We keep
Tooth Brushes. Powder and Mouth
Washes and will be glad to select for
each of our patients just such as their
care demands.
This is the time of the year to have
your bad teeth removed before the cold
weather comes and they begin to ache.
We make Gold, Silver, Continuous
Gum and Celluloid Plates (bcsides 9TH
er kinds), but find Gold much better
base for artificial teeth than Rubber.
Examination and counsel free.
We will be glad to work for any who
may desire our services.
Teeth extracted without pain by the
use of Nitrous Oxide Gas. 9-3m
HoLBRooK Brothers. D. d. s.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-30

DIR. n. o. Firestone, youngest son of
DR.. L. Hrestone, of Wooster, died Of
congestion of the lungs at the Asylum
for the Insane, Columbus, Jan. goth. 1t
win be remembered that the father &C.
cepted the superintendency of that in
stitution q year ago, on condition that the
son should be appointed assistant physi-
clan. The age Of. the young man was
thirty-three years.