San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-05-12
TEXAS GLEANISGS.

MO ~ about cofnpicoe"'
A newspaper will soon be started
in Lagarto, 1.-Two Oak county, Will
Orian Wright as publisher.
Tho San Antonio merchants offer
from $40 to S25 as premiums for OK
ceiling competitors at their fair
While preacher was baptising O
rcpcntant sinner ut Sherman, some
scoundrol went of with the preacher
double-solcd boots.
The bill granting lands to Texas
veterans and disabled confederate
soldiers, docs not take effect until the
18th Of July. .
There arc seven 'ox-governors Of
Texas still living-Bcll, Poase, Lub
book, Throckmorton, Davis, Coke and
Hubbard.
Galvcston's artosian well is now
800 feet deep and tho water in tho
newly made hole continues to flow to
tho surface freely, and is pronounced
10 DO pure water.
A frightful fash Of Lightning tho
9Th inst. struck tho stable OF +. l
Meyer OF Austin and killed his horse.
The building was set on fire and con-
Sumed.
About twenty-five Polish immi-
grants arrived recently ct Navasota,
ind have gone into tho country to
work on farms where they had been
engaged beforehand.
Two men near San Saba sold their
stock Of cattle tho other day for $7O,-
600, the largest sale for several years
in that region.
Jay Gould offered to purchase a
controlling interest in the SANTA nc
road. The owners refused to sell.
and Gould says he will soon come to
Galveston over q new road OF hisown.
Thoro will be grand sham battle
of all tho colorod troops Of tho state
ut Houston, May 25th. Sham bat
ties should always be fought by col
ored troops; if they powdor-burn
themselves it don't count.
Texas towns grow SO fast TINT tho
population is always ahead OF tho re
turns. According to the last census,
Galveston had 22,253; San Antonio,
2O,5G1; Houston, 1866; Austin,
1O,9GO; Dallas, 10,35S.
The Texas "Farmer" gives the fol-
lowing good advice to farmers: Do
not mortgage your crop. 1t is easy
to raise n crop on Texas land, but I'M
der tho present system, it is power
full hard to raise mortgage on it.
It is said that Mr.. Sam Holland
has promised to donate the marble on
his land to the state if the commits
sionors finally decide to use it in
building the State Capitol. This gen
tleman is certainly very liberal and
patriotic.
Says tho Bulletin, "to show the rail
road spirit in Burnct, Mr.. Haber in
vited Mr.. jeff Brazealo to attend the
first meeting. "Oh, haven't time"
ho replied, '''but tell tho meeting to
just draw on me for any amount, and
I'll cash it." He was drawn on for
100000.
While at n jewish picnic at Long
Lake, in Anderson county, May l,
Messrs. l. N. Eppstein and Shilling,
merchants of Palestine, sailing in an
unsafe boat were both drowned. Tho
boat was capsized and the men never
rose. Their bodies were afterward
recovered.
On May 6, Lieut.. Bulls pursued
the Indians who murdered the Nc
Laurin family, followed them across
the Rio Grande at the mouth of the
Pecos, and few miles into Mexico,
overlook and fought them, killing
four bucks, and wounding and cap
turing several squaws and children.
Bulls lost no men, and will return ut
once.
The conservation of the very Rev.
]. c. Norez, as bishop of this cath
ole diocease took place last Sunday
at the Cathedral of San Fernando, in
San Antonio. The church was beau
tifully decorated and extensive prep
srations made for the grand event
The consecator was Right Rev Ed
ward Fitzgerald, Bishop of Little
Rock; bishops assisting were Right
Rev. c. II. Dubuis, OF Galveston: and
Right Rev. d. Manucy OF Corpus
Christi Bishop Quinlan, Of Mobile