San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-01-25
,rExAs NEWS.

A. young man in Fseestone county
recently fell dead while Kidding ~ .
ball,
As the result Of the bad weather
there ID u good deal OF pneumonia
prevalent IN tho State.
DR.. J. Rawlius Of East Dallas, Mon
day became suddenly sick, lay down
and in an hour was corpse.
In bar-room difficulty Of Bryan
on Tuesday, John lilo, bar tender
stabbed merchant named Williams'
but not fatally. .-n'l Iii
The lawyers and doctors Of WACO
have gotten mp petition to the legs
lature 10 repeal the law laying ~ CO.
cupstiop tax on their professions. .'a
Mrs. Bruce, residing in Waco, was
severely injured the other day by be.
Jog thrown from her buggy. her hsad
striking the street railway track. ''t
The Palestine Neo Era suggests
that the agricultural features OF the
Bryan college bs dropped excspt'as to
theory, and that the institution be
known as the ''Tsxas College,
Two negroes. John Harrison and
Tom McShan, who recently made an
assault on the Jewett merchant Worms'
have both promptly been sent up ior
seven years each.
The town Of Sulphur Springs passed
on ordinance against cock fighting, but
suspended it's operations 10 defere nee
to the wishes Of citizens as exp ressed
in petition numerously signed.
Holcomb, charged with the assas sin
alton of T. NJ. johnson, his father. in.
law, in Ellis county. has been tried
aud acquitted. The affair is still
profound mystery.
j. W. Crawford, a prominent oiti-
zen Of T errell,, formerly Terrell cor
respondent Of the Dallas Herald, has
been sentenced to thirty years impris-
oumeut for stealing freight from the
T.& p. depot.
According to the Bolton journal a
reverend gentleman 10 charge OF a con-
eregatiou at Lost Prairie in that part
of the country, has confessed to fall.
ing victim to the tender glances Of
one of his flock.
Maud, a little daughter Of I. B.
Simpson, of Bouham, recently lost her
life by accidentally stepping into and
overturning i pot Of boiling lard. The
scalds were so severe that she died q
few hours afterwards.
Dan Anthony. jr., while out hunt.
ing last week, looked back and discov-
cred large catamount following his
trail. Raising his gun he shot the
animal dead. 1t was one Of the larg'
est of the species.
Friday difficulty occurred at Sher'
man between Deputy United States
Marshall Walter johnson and a gam
,, bier named Harrison Thurman. Both
drew their pistols but Thurman got
the drop and killed his antagonist
During the ice at Palestine. Col
Ewing of the Advocate, who was
wounded in the ANGLE at the battle Of
| Mansfield and has had stiff leg eve,
since, fell on the side walk, striking
his head against the post, and being
otherwise severely bruised.
The Galveston committee, consisting
of NIessrs. Fisher, Robira and Spraight
have met to make recommendations t.
the legislature in the matter Of quar-
rantine. Capt. Fisher goes for Stst'
board of health and strict quarantine
during certain months. Ia..
Miss Louise Pomeroy, the actress
now filling engagements in this State
and who was hnrt ir the accident OF
the T. AID P, the other day, is tn
divorced wife Of Brick Pomeroy. Sh'
used to write tor his paper under thu
nom de plume of sEmalee."
| A cougar. or Mexican lion, was kill
ed on Lampasas creek Lass week b!
w. R. j. Newton. The animal meas
ured 8 feet 10 inches from the poin