San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-02-24
Texas State News.


Major Penn is holding forth in Palcs.
tine and taking sinners ." on the wing.
Mrs. Ella Riyes Taylor is the ruling
,prima dona in Texas.
The Fuy Templeton troupe are com.
ing toward Austin.
A $50 600 seed oil factory is to be in.
.augurated at Waco.
The |. 4 g. II, r. will cross at La.
redo. aud property there is looking up.
A new evening paper is spoken Of at
Houston.
The town of Manchester, Fort Bend
county, has been destroyed by fire.
Crockett county has 1877 inhabitants.
They must multiply and increase.
Salt is TO be manufactured on large
scale ID Van Zandt county.
COMETS tails will be worn shorter this
year.
Who shall decide when doctors dsa
gree? The undertaken.
Thermometers will be cut low in the
neck all summer.
The G, II and S, A. r. r. extension
is seventeen miles west of San Antonio
The bell punches Of Galveston. says
the Houston POST only brought $40
into the state treasury" Pro-dig' ious!
The engineering corps of the Denison
and :. II, Il X. will soon commence
practical survey pia Palestine.
The next annual meeting of the
Grand |. U. o. II. is to be held at San
A,ntonio,
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe r.
II. will soon be knocking at the doors
Of Bolton.
The citizens of Comanchc talk of
stock company for starting n wooden
mill at that point.
The leading robber of the stages west
Of San Antonio is said to be woman.
Wo be to her man
A Nucces county man last season
baled fifty tons OF hay. His rancho con.
tains 300 acres
The boys have inter county mule.
cared rabbit races in Fannin and Gray
son counties.
Columbus was visited recently by
cyclone. Fences and houses had to
suffer.
Sandy Jones. the negro rapist of
prostitute at Corsicaua, was sentenced
10 tbirty.nine years in the pcnitentiary.
Over $500 have been raised by ladies'
for the purchase of Protestant orphan
home on Center street Galveston.
There is talk of amending the charter
Of Honston so as to have paved streets
and sidewalks. Houston needs them
badly enough.
The general ticket Office Of the l. &
q. N, r. r. in San Antonio will he on
tho corner of Commerce and Casino
streets.
Turkey buzzards roost in the Bantist
church steeple Mt Wcatherfnrd. They
doubtless assemble there to meet and
Dreu,
The Texas and New Orleans II. r.
90. have had S75OOOO nlaced at their
disnosal to raise and ballast the track |
and lay down steel rail.
Mrs. Copcnhenper, the snnciifcation.
list woman at Dallas. hns renowned her
tanaticism and says she was ION the
wrong track.'
The Texas senate bill, cutting off the
Insanity dodge, passed by iorty nine
TO thirty one, and goes TO the governor |
Tor signature. 1t Is said he will put his |
fifth toe On it.
The mail carrier, on horseback, from
schulenburg 10 La Grange, was nearly |
nrowDed recently 10 the Nayidad river. |
Also on the 9th Mr. Smjsteria aud his |
daughter, nine years old, were drow ned
III the same river. lie went into the
water while intoxicated,
February II, party of eastern capi.
taliSts aud business men from Maine,
representing Slj,OOU,0tO capital, were at
Dallas, seeking places in the southwest
Tor investment Tor cotton and WOODEN
mills. No better point can be found
than Saa Marcos. Let her citizens
awake aud be an the alert,
The body Of Mr. BIN Basel. lead
ing aud wealthy citizen of Sicpheus
vile, was recently found in a dccom.
sed state ia the lott Of a log cabin.
\ hali-emn'ied loiile of carbolic acid.
aud a note were 10y his side. the latter
staiing 20 his wife ami family that lac
came to lis death because lie was poor
and iIicEdltss.
At tie hi,uc.iirr of the Grand
Lodge q 1. q % 7 AZ Austin. a.. follow
ufhcers were installed tor the year lSSl
T. J.. Wren. VI. W. grand psirisrch
j. II, Starr, VI ", grand hi.h uric,i
J. J. See. grand junior warden. IF
peLesDenicr. grand se-ile: rs. Gsrn
10y. Grand senior Wariea: Charles n
nafsnbaugh. grand Inside sentinel: J
W. llinka4e, grand oatside seuiinel.
The fclls-ing oficers were elerfei for
the year ISs2; Z. u. Sfarr. rrsrd ~.
iriarch: J. J Sc. trsna hirh r-iest
j.. z DeiscsdenieT. grand .-r-l.s- I'M
Joseph. grand treasurer: ! = Racer.
grzul seuior Ear1en. ;. ". Kur.
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