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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-05-25
RETAIN paIer list Of the lgADIna aaOsGaIts,

Crushed Sugars lbs for ST.
Fine Crushed Sugars lbs for 81.
San Francisco Refined Sugar, 10 pounds for 81.
No. Island Sugar, IL pounds for ST.
Best Costa RIGA Coffee pounds tor 81.
Choicest Brands of Tea TIb. Observation-Disclosures. Soc
Tomatoes in cans y dozen ................. 81 90
Winslow Corn p dozen ............$ 50 rs
California sugar-cured Hams p h. ........... l2sc
Choice Breakfast Bacon p b.. :.........:.. l2c
Carolina Rice l24 pounds for ST.
Standard brands Oregon -four y Dbl. So 90
Lard in ten pound q can ................ 81 70
soan "A box Observation-Disclosures. 75c
Coal OIL five gallon cans per can. 81 70
Goods os,svsssa within the City Imss.
SCHWABACHEk BROS. Il CO.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-05-25
RETAIL PRICE LIST OF scaWADAcNER DRos. L CO..
FOR THIRTY DAYS.

1914 Lancaster Beached Sheeting y yard ....... Csc
Standard prints, fast coors, Is yards for 81.
All Linen Crash Toweling y yard 80. .......... l23c
A English Prints p yard Observation-Disclosures. 1Oc
Ladies White Cotton Hose p pair ...-....... 12ac
All oolors in Trimming Silks per yard. ..... 81 80
Black Cashmeres double width y yard. ........ 5Oc
Imitation Japan Silks double width y yard. 25c
Genuine Jouvns and Alexanders Kid Gloves pr 81 90
Black Silks from 81 upwards.
Bleached and unbeached Canton Nannels y yard 1Oc
And all other goods in the line of CLOTHING DRY
GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES in proportion
In aAaien ahsve prices VIII allsw Disssunt
Of Ten Fer Cash Purchases In the sbsve NAMED
Lines II Goeds.
. q q
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-08-30

speech I think 10 more than probable.
When the eyes Of the doomed man
took in the full situation shade Of
disappointment seemed to cross his
face, but twas but for amomeut. The
shade passed from his brow and he
was himself again. He stood upon
the sallows gazing with uublanohed
cheek upon the prepsrations. He was
asked by the sheriff if he wished .
handkerchief to drop when be was
ready His reply, iu . loud aad firm
voice Was: "No-keep me no longer
than is nesesssry." The CAP was
drawn over his face, the rope cut and
John Brown was left danglins iu the
air. His neck was broke BY the fall.
He suffered but little, and soon hung
. lifeless corpse. The sensation was
great; no voice spoke and no sound
was heard while the awful scene from
life to death was enacted. ai a,s
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-08-30
Mission Valley Nurseries
AT MISSION VALLEY, VICTORIA COUNTY
TEXAS.
G., ONDERD0NK, Prop'r.

We have studied closely the various questions
relating 10 truit culture in Western Texas during
the twenty seven years Of experience and obser-
walton, upon our own ground. We have thus en-
abled ourselves to present TO the public list Of
fruits better adapted TO our climate than can oe
offered by any other establishment.
Our pears cannot be excelled anywhere. Any
one who has good clay sub-soil and good drain
age need not hunt better pear country than this.
Our plums and grapes are of the only classes
that have been found successful here.
Our scclimstedlist Of peaches 10 grated, with q
single exception, from new varieties originated
from seed in Western Texas. We do not cieim
that our peaches are better than every oiher, but
we do claim that our trees are proved as hardy
aud productive as any scrub seeding, while tie
qualities are not inferior 10 the old lists.
We propose to introduce our fruits into the san
Marcos neiyhborhood. wherever you can raise
scrub seedlings our trees xiil do equally well.
This question Of combining hardness, productive
ness and guilty is our leading feature.
We osn supply good sssortr1tnt Of ornan'entsi
trees and plants.
Eyerybedy {. invited to eeme ard see our orch.
arcs. vineyards, nurseries and ornamental
Oar new abridged eftslague furnished free on
.pnIIc,,ien. We resefto Rev. John Gillc,t Of San
Marcos, for evidence ef oar 1jisbiiiiJ.
We have no travelling tree pesers-
b. W. Breeding 10 our resiaent agent ~ san
Narcos.
For farther insorras,ion sppiyto
O. oSDERDoyK,
NIssson vsney, vicioria Co.. Texas.
Oct 2s-iy
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-08-30
The New school Law.

The sixteenth legislature made some
very important changes in the school
law. The certificates Of teachers arc
to BE- we'll graded, and the pay is regu-
lated by the grade Of the certificate.
In order to get 6rst class certificate,
the teacher must be examined and
found proficient in reading, writing
spelling, geography, arithmetic, gram
mar. composition. history Of the United
States, the elementry branches ofalge-
bra, geometry and natural philosophy.
school discipline, aud the methods Of
teaching. A teacher holding first
class certificate cannot receive more
than $2 per acholar within scholastic
age. nor more than $50 per month for
the free school. A teacher applying
for second class certificate, must be
profcientin the first eight branches
above named, and cannot receive more
than $l.50 per scholar, nor more than
$40 per month. Teachers applying for
third class certificates must be prof.
cient in orthography, reading, writing,
geography and arithmetic, and cannot
receive more than 81 per scholar, nor
more than $25 per month. Teachers
are allowed such additional compen-
sstion for pupils over and under the
scholastic age as they may agree up.
on with the parents, or guardians Of
such children. 1t would seem from
this that all teachers must lie re-exam-
ined, as the trustees are required, in
contracting with them TO regulate the
salary by the grade of the certificate.
With this change, we think the schools
can be run as long with an appropria-
ton of one-sixth as with one-fourth,
as there will be more third than first
class certificates.
The law also deducts o proportion
ate amount of the teachers salary
when the average daily attendance
falls below seventy five percent.
This may work n hardship in some
cases. but the teacher is to some ex-
tent responsible for the average daily
attendance Of his pupils. Parents
should see to it that they do them no
injustice.-Hamilton Herald.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-08-30
NO.41.

The latter 10 an unconscious agent, on
which color and perfume would be
completely thrown away. Therefore
the flowers hsbitually crossed BY the
wind do not posesA SNOWY blossoms
and hence the reason Why grasses,
which ere chief among the wind. CROSS
cd flowers have such an unpretendinE
and incouspicuous kind Of inAorescence
The perfumes Of grasses are not SO
abundant 40 those Of ether plants, al
though they are quite % distiaotive.
The ell-known smell of new. movu
hay 10 evolved chiefly BY tho sweet
smelling vsrnsl srssa and no other.
The presence Of this species ID quite
sufficient to perfume the rest, and to
produce that most delightful Of sum-
merry smells, the odor.of the hsy-Asld
This perfume can now be arti6oially
initiated from the products Of gas tar.
and . regular manufscture Of il is car
ried on for perfumery purposes. Gas.
sells Msgasine. sa co~f p
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-08-30
A Modest Conductor.

A few nights ago Conductor Verrill
of the Virginia and Truckee express
train was going through his car wht n
he noticed lady asleep in her seat.
Her head was resting on the window
sill and her feet extended to the aisle.
Her dress was 30 badly disarranged
that her ankle and q goodly portion Of
an exquisitely. fashioned calf were
plainly visible. and number Of men a.
few seats further down were contem-
plating the scene with evident salts.
faction, Dir Verrill. who always keeps
things pretty straight on his train, no
ticed this, end tapping the womsn on
the shoulder awoke her.
Madame, excuse me for disturbing
you, but your dress is so dissrrapged
that your ankle is exposed"
"Oh. that makes no difference, sir"
replied the lady. smiling sweetly. its
nothing but cork"
Verrill was in the baggage car in
lees than four seconds. riping the per
splration from his. broE.-ViTgiaia
Chronicle.
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CHURCH, ES.

MISUNDERSTANDING at the Methods
church every Sabbath. Rev. J. 3. GilIett. Pastor
CHRlSTI Misunderstanding At the Christian
Church ON the second and fourth Sabbathstn each
month by Elder J.J. williamson.
Observation-Disclosures at the Presbyte'
rian Church on the second and fourth Say
bathin each month by the Rev. W. L. Kennedy.
PROTESTANT Services every
sourth Sunday in each month at 10h O'Clock, A.
NJ, and 7 D. m, tat St. Marks Church.)
BAPTIST.-Preaching at the Christian Church
on the third Sunday W each month, by Elder H.
M. Burroughs.
in the Presbyterian Church on the first Sunday In
each month, by Rev. F. Il. Lawler.
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JOHN BROWN.
His Executlon Described By IN
.sAa Eyewitness.
! rHNn>luu.x Rur,t.>,1

t.lI5 fCineinnati EnQuirer] ,..
By the kindness Of the gentleman to
whom had letters. / was the only
newspaper man inside the guards that
Burrounded the scaffold. The newspA.
per reporters were placed on slight
rise Of ground, in perfect view, but
where they could hear nothing. The
reason assigned for this was that Brown
had determined to make speech Of
an incendiary character. To prevent
this they determined, if speech be
made, it would be to the military and
to the officials who would be within
hearing distance. 1t was thought best
that some one of the northern. resi-
dents in the shape Of a newspaper cor
respondent should be present, to the
end that, if speech was concocted for
Brown, and published as if he had
spoken it, there might be written evil
dence of its talsity. l happened to be
the person selected, and stood within
ten feet of the gallows when the execu.
ton took place. Brown wss brought
TO the place of execution--an open
field near the town-in q wagon, seat
ed on his coffin. He was neatly dress
ed in his every day apparel. His long,
white beard and his fine face-for he
hal fine one-gave him truly patri-
archial appearance. No one seeing
him at that moment could suppose him
to be a bound malefactor on his way
to the gallows. without hope of re-
prieve. None of the early martyrs Of
the Christian church ever met death
with more of seeming stoical indiffer-
enoe. Brought up with fixed aud
firm belief that he had been doing
Gods work, he believed the course he
pursued. the shedding of innocent
blood. the taking the property of his
enemies, and that the death he would
die had been traced by an Almighty
hand in the beginning. and nought
could change that decree; and hence
he would pass from earth to heaven as
one that God had selected for this par.
ticular work and the change from earth
to bliss immortal would more than
compensate him for the pain of stran-
gulation. The gallows was surround
ed in front by the cadets of the mill
tary institute. the West Point Of Vir-
ginia. They were fine looking youths
of from sixteen to twenty years of age,
dressed in blue pants and red flannel
shirts. Behind them were picked
companies Of volunteer infantry. other
forming the sides and
rear of the hollow square in the Gen.
tire of which was the gallows. At
proper points the artillery was placed
in position, the guns loaded and point
ed at a portion of the field occupied
exclusively by strangers and those sus-
pected of not being true to the Old
Dominion. In case of an emeute or
hostile disturbance, the cadets had or
iers to shoot Brown, SO as to prevent
, rescue, while the cannoneers aud in
fantry were to FIRE on the suspected
crowd. The outlying pickets and the
reserve guard, stationed within proper
distance. were to flank The rescuers,
md the cavalry to charge upon them.
md to finish those that the cannon and
The musketry failed to send to kingdom
come.
If Brown anticipated ressue, 8
glance at the field was sufficient to
convince hin it would be folly to at
tempt It. That be iu.eDded TO make a
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-08-30
Where The shadow Falleth
Never.

Alsns the silver summer sss J
We saw The white ssils drifting.
And sunset gloriss silently
. Their golden heights we're lining.
Ny love sang low - sank the glow
s. Aciess the homsward river; s
"Ths day may die. but you and I
Wfll Hive and love fsrsver."
We shall live and levs forever.
sN.a Whore tie shadow fallsth never:
1hs song may die. but you and I
viii live ed love forever.
Sweet day that died N sussst light
Sweet sons shas failed for swsstasss.
sweet soul that rose beyond my tight
To bathe In hssvsn's eomplsssssss.
The song rings still. hear II thrill
Acaoss deaths solemn river:
''rhs day may die. but yousnd
WIN live and love forever"
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that of grasses has OF late years been
most popular. Their graceful shapes,
variety Of species and abundance rem
der them attractive objects to the young
botanical student. They carpet our
English meadows. aud give them that
characteristics greenery which is 60
vividly remembered when one is far
away from them. :. The cattle upon q
thousand hills browsh upon their nu-
tritious foliage. The gsologists know
that they were among the first flower
ing plants to appear on the earth; the
geographer is aware of their singul lrly
extensive distribution aDd peculiar a.
daptation to climaturc. The botanist
has Of late years identified their meth.
cd of fertilization with one ofthe most
singular and unlooked'tor relationship
between plants and other objects. No
other kind OF herbage contributes 80
largely to the support Of the animal
world, from the ss-feeding hangar
oos of Australia to man. Our staple
food is prepared from their seeds, and
this las been the case since prehistoric
times, so that it is impossible to tell
for a certainty from what species such
cultivated forms as our common wheat
were originally derived. Mankind has
forgotten the very sources of this prim
eval food supply. Even in classic .imes
it was found necessary to invent some
such poetic fable as that of Ceres, to
account for the benefits which these
plants have conferred on man. How
long the seeds Of certain grasses have
been the staple food Of our race we
cannot tell, Half burnt wheat and
other corn grains have been found in
the debris of the Swiss lake dwellings,
showing that it was grown aud garner.
ed for food at that early epoch. IF it
be true that the wild grass known as
Hgilops, found in western Asia, is the
original of the common wheat we now
80 largely cultivate. then the lat
ter may have been first reared by our
early Aryan Ancestors, and have ac-
compauied their migrations from the
time when the first colony went forth
into the unknown world outside their
home.
The incouspicuous and uncolo
flowers of all grasses are not without a
reason. Within the last six or seven
years it has been proved that the
cause ofaowers possessing beautiful
corollas and sweet perfumes is
is that these qualities may attract
the insect tribes. The lat
ter carry the pollen. grains from flower
to flower, and thus unconsciously ben
eft them by crossing. And. as rule,
the plants which bear the most attrac
tive flowers require to be crossed in
to their attractiveness.
whilst less snowy corollas do
not require crossing in the same degree.
II is known beyond doubt that
this prir ciple OF cross fertilization in
plants is one Of the most important
and necessary. The shapes. internal
and external Of flowers. are frequently
Designed with special reference to
to bringing it about. Only two agents
are universally capable of crossing all
kinds of flowers-ihsects and the wind.
The former are attracted BY bright col
ors and sweet perfumes, and the flowers
which require insect aid are therefore
obliged TO display these attractions
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Business Directory Continued.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.

:=>--a.:=
n " g OEFHCIA1G
sa ). coxsRsssxAx-- Ora DISTRACT: II
Hon. Columbus Epson, Of Bsxar county. i'.l .
SENATOR R-31sr DIsralof:
Hon. Z. J. Storey, Of Caldwell Co. -
y. as.rssssNsAFIvss- -e4ra.DirMos:
hon. J: N: Holmes. Of Guadalupeco.
| Hon. W. y. Delany !" ~, - -
DISTRICT oouRr-l6rR DrsfRof.
Hon. L. ". Moore, Presiding Judge. LAGRANGE.
rIuIs OF HQDns oouKf.
HAYs.-eA Mondays 10 March and September.
"'sF COUNTY osnosRs.
Ed r. Kens, Judge County Court.
BIO. Hardin, District Clerk.
ID. J. L. Green, County Clerk.
o. T. Brown, County Attorney.
Jas.-A, Wren, sheriff. 9. y. Cock, Deputy.
g. v. Groom'. Justice Of the Peace Pre- No.
$.:X!;;,SSy.''. G; :: !: !. =
Il. X.HoMe..s. County Treasurer. '.t
A. HeAton, Assessor. Htl
Joe. G. .Rve, Surveyor.
3,Pp. Hspkin'' cc1,'r Precinct No !. J.
Peter Schmidt, T." 3. q
John II. Patterson, Constable. =
TfAlKS OF HOLDING OooNTy AND PRvciNcf COURTS.
Criminal County Court-lst Asndsy In sacf
" County Court for Civil and Probate bustness-
Let Monday iu Fabruar0' April @9spe, August oe'
Sober and December.
CornmissionerS Cod1>-2l Mohdaysin February
May, August and November.
Justice Court Precinct No. list Friday In eacn
Precinct No. sd Friday in each month MtCity
SD +" Wimberley's MIL
- :. z-4th Dripping Springs.
... 0wN dr'IcERs.
Mayor-H. B. CofReld.
Council-W: o. Hutchlson, !. R. fourqursan. L.
W. Mitchell, D. P. Hopkins, p. r. Turner.
Marshal-S. L. Townsend.
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Free Press.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:

One year, In AdvAnoo ...." ........." ....S1 v0
six months y. Af.''.. '....''..'.......... 20
Three months ..'.'.''''''."'''.'"' 70
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May0r-H. B. CoMeIu. ,
CoIncil-W: o. Hutchlson, J. R. Fourqursan. L.
W. Mitchell, D. P. Hopkins, r. X. Turner.
Marshal-S. L. Townsend.
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MAILS.

Austin Stage arrives at II O'Clock NJ; Fan
Antonio Stage arrives at u O'Clock N. Both
Daily arrivals. Mails close at l1;30A M;
Luling. arrives Tuesdays and Fridays at4 P. H.;
leaves at 7 A. n. next morning.
A. vow STEIN, P. n.
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CHEAP JOB WORK At -HE
FREE PRESS JOB ROOMS
Al ALL TlGFL.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-06-30
The Greenback Convention
At Johnson Hall, Gardiner.
ADMITTED BY TICKETS.
None hut Delegates nnd simon Pures
Admitted.

The hour fixed for the meeting ofthe conven-
ton was fixedat 10 o'clock, Saturday. Prompt
ly at that hour your reporter, accompanied by
a young man not tinctured with imitation,
sought admittance to the hail. At the first
landing we were informed that we must pro-
cure tickets before we could enter, and that
Mr.. White was the inspecting officer before
whom we must appear to ascertain if we pos
sessed qualifications that would cnttle us to
seats in the august assemblage. We sought
the State Treasurer, and learned that the hon
est greenbackers were afraid that 4. +. Pills
bury would capture the convention for the
democrats and that j. G.. Blaine would pack
it for the republicans. We assured him that
we were not seeking admission in the inter
ests of either of these men, but to see the fun.
This was not considered sufficient reason.
but upon informing him that we wished to
add glory to their already acquired fame, by
reporting their doings in the Journal. Mr..
White very kindly furnished us a pass, but
indicated to our young friend that they dis
trusted him, and he must stay out. We com
miserated him then, but afterwards we felt
we needed his sympathy more than he ours.
so dilatory and cautious were these honest
yeomen at their work
After much caucusing the convention
was called to order by the Chairman
of the County Committee who called
X. W. Rack OF Augusta, to the chair.
After assuring the convention that the
poor mans friend Cor plaster). Joseph
L. Smith, was to be elected Governor
next fall by big majority, because he
couldn't be bought he mournfully called at
tenton to the awful hardheartedness of the
republicans, who pitied the poor black man
standing on the banks of the Mississippi and
stretching his hands toward the land of free
dom, but had no sympathy for the poor white
man, who stood on the banks of the river of
distress, and stretched out his hands for re-
lief, which could only come through green
back doctrines
l.. NJ. Arnold and J. &. jennings were ap-
pointed secretaries of the convention Mr..
Jennings declined, and C.. W. Davis was
nominated.
Mr.. G. \. White objected, because Augusta
would then have the chairman and both secre-
taries. which was too much Of a good thing.
Thereupon Weston Lewis of Gardiner, was
chosen. and then the temporary organization
was made permanent.
The County Committee were made commit
tee on credentials.
Treasurer White moved that the chairman
of each town delegation be committee to
recommend list Of county officers to be vo-
ted for by the convention.
Some one moved that reporters and per-
sons not delegates be excluded from the hall
and that they have little social talk about
the candidates.
J. l.. p. Johnson moved to name the can
didates from the floor.
Things at this stage began to look exciting
but after much confusion and explaining, and
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Fresh Supplles OF Xitalit

To renew n waning stock may be gathered from q
source accessible to ALL and sought in vain by
any whose constitution and yigor not much
dapidaed as to be wholly past repairing. Evidence
direct, convincing and ample, indicates Hostetter's
Stomach Btters rs "a tonic of unexampled efficacy
and perfect purity, and possessed of properties that
constitute it an invaluable remedy for dyspepsia con-
stipation, liver complaint, urinary and uterine weak.
ness, rheumatic complaints and malarial fever. Del
cate females and infirm old persons are invigoraed
and solaced by it, and the prosration which
usually follows severe illness IL in great degree
remedied and convalescence accelerated through its
use. Ii occupies leading position among medicinal
staples.
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One of the speakers at the recent green
back meeting near the Cushnoc House.
Troup of Connecticut, complained that the
kennebec Journal endeavors to make the
greenback party ridiculous instead of dis
cussing its principles. If such a show us
Troup is engaged in is fair sample of
greenbackism rdicule is the only argu-
ment it deserves. Nothing that we can
say can make that party appear half so
ridiculous rs the comic n:instrelsv and
low, blackguard songs and speeches of the
dirty troupe in which this Connecticut
Troup is an actor. If they think the yeo-
many of this State are so foolish as to be
converted to greenbackism by such absurd
and vulgar performances they will learn
their mistake very soon.