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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11
Texas Items.

Carpenters are in demand at Austin
and good wages are paid.
The North Texas liquor dealers vii
hold u convention in Sherman on III,
tenth Of August. r-
The Uyalde Hesperian gives favor
able account OF the stock prospects ID
Edwards county.
Seven car loads OF bones aud thirty
car loads OF cotton seed have been ship
ped from Giddings since The lst Of Sep.
tcmber.
The total valuation OF the property in
Washington county is S5,7S7 81 with
the supplemental roll of upout S2OO, 0GU
to be added ~ it, making a grand total
Of nearly sG,OOO,UOO.
Brennan has been offered $4,000
for her four leagues of school lands in
Tom Green county by Mr.. Z. Is. Met,
calf. The offer is thought to be u good
one and will likely be accepted.
In FL Paso eggs sell at fifty cents per
dozen, trying chickens at seventy five
cents and grown chickens at one dollar
each.
Abilene is doing an immense cattle
shipping business. One hundred car
loaus per week aud could do more had
! she the trans pOrtatirn.
Mrs. Mary Cameron received the first
lnud certificate Issued under the law
donating land to Confederate soldiers
and their widows.
Weaving is now being done on the
Clement attachment mill at Cuero, which
is the only one in the state. Tie prob
abilities are, however, that they will so
into general use before a great while.
A wealthy German and a Bohemian
are negotiating for six leagues OF land
in body in Burnct county for the rur.
pose Of locating colony Of Buhcnians
thereon.
As the result of the extension of
railway northwest from Austin, fifty
families are already preparing to locate
in Buruet county. There is nothing
Ike a railroad to settle country up, if
the land is worthanythine,
There are 2,536, 96a acres of land rem.
dered for taxation in Tom Green county
The total value Of real and personal pro-
perty in the county foots up S2. 1881.
On the unrendered rolls are 4, 637 acres
OF land, valued at 81 1886. x i
Luling Signal: We have noticed that
where corn was planted two feet apart
and we'll cultivated the yield will be
much larger than where it was planted
close together. 1t is mistaken idea to
leave corn SO thick, but the farmers
seem slow about finding it out.
Hon. A. NJ. Martin, formerly reporter
Of the Supreme Court of Indiana, late
ly prominent lawyer Of indianapolis,
has located in Austin aud engaged In the
practice OF law here. Fix Governor
Hendricks commends Mr., Martin in
high terms.
Galveston News: a Sherman paper
somewhat petulantly declares that it will
advertise saloon or any other legiti !
mate business. All right; but what is
wanted is the name If some saloon
which advertises with publisher who
does not drink.
We are informed by several of our
most promintnt sheep men that they
will raise this season an average of
ninety per cent Of lambs, This is Ger.
tain ly inc crop and profitable Increase
and speaks well for the sheep busness
in Texas.-Stock Journal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

Prof. Baldwin, of the Kirksville
Normal School, after an arduous and
successful years work, has concluded
to take n rest.
He travels about 1000 miles, and
has engagements to deliver 1876 lee
lures, visiting and conducting Tnsti-
tutes in Texas, Iowa, Missouri and
Nebraska Some one ought to see
tn Board of Regents, and have him
stirred up little!-St. Louis Journal
of Education.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11
A WORD ABOUT GROCERIES.

I offer the trade such inauce-
mcats in the Grocery line this sea-
season that purchasers wiH find it
to their adrantage to order q
FULL LINE Of Groceries from
me, rather than go farther or
scatter their Orders. lean supply
them with fresh, reliable goods at
shorter notice than By ordering
elsewhere, and cheaper too, If they
wiH figure closely and correctly.
VIM. D. Cleveland,
Cotton Factor and Wholesale Grocer,
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11
w ON A N,
HOW SHALL SHE PRESERVE HER HEALTH AM
REALITY.

HOW SHALL SHE PRESERVE HER HEALTH AND
BEAUTY.
One who has long investigated the sub
iect gives the result and is happy to say
that in Woman's BEST friend" 1t is adapt
cd especially to that great central, all con-
trolling organ, the womb correcting it's dis
orders, and curing any irregularty of the
''mcnsesn or courses DIR. j. Bradield's
Femal Regulator acts like charm in whites,
and in sudden or gradual, checking, or in en-
tire stoppage of monthly courses" from
cold, mental tronble or like causes, by re-
storing the natural discharge in every in
stance. In chronic cases so often resulting
in liberation, falling of the womb, its action
is prompt and decisive, saving the consti-
tuition from numberless evils and premature
decay. Prepared by J. Bradfeld, Atlanta,
GA. Price: trial size, Toe; large size, $3.50.
For sale by all druggists. ily % I'm
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

Col. John w. Forney, in the last
issue of Progress, gives an interesting
account of past party divisions in
New York, and the many fatal duels
growing out Of them. After tracing
the history of parties in the Empire
State from 1897 to 1881, he says:
"But in nil this lapse of time there
has been but one Roscoe Conkling
He is the cap sheaf of the pyramid Of
self-admirers; the emperor of empi-
RIGS; the car of coxcombs; the high
priest of the Hidalgos. He is like the
freshman who was put in n bucket
and hung in q deep well. His tor
mentors would neither let him down
nor pull him up. so by the mother
of Moses, said Pat, Il will get the
best of them, and he cut the rope"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

A dispatch from Kansas City says
James Bridges, an old soldier and
companion Of Fremont, after whom
Fort Bridges was named, and who
was the first white man to follow
the Santa Fe trail across the plains,
is dead /; age SO.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

From indianapolis we learn that
it has been decided by the Board OF
State officers to pay off the Wabash
and Erie Canal bonds, due from the
State to Henry Coglan, Of England.
The sum required to liquidate the
obligation is about $4,000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

PRoHIBITIoN has failed in North
Carolina. Reports from seventeen
counties give a majority against pro-
hibition of 21,748. Other counties
will probably run it up to G0.0O0 or
10000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

The Chicago News says there is a
borther Of Gen. Sam. Houston living
inthat city, who is nearly n hundred
years old. He came to America a long
while ago, but strange to say, never
visited his distinguished brother. He
spoke in strong Scotch accent, the
family being of that stock.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

The author of kathleen Mavour
men," L. N. Crouch, IN Englishman,
who was a soldier in the Confederate
army, is living in Baltimore, Mt the
age of more than 70 years, and in
is Strengthened circumstances.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11
Entered as Second. Class Matter at
the Postc6ice at San Marcos, 7eras.1

VIZ give place on our first page, by
request, to the address OF the Execu-
tive Committee OF the Prohibition AL.
lance OF this State.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-11

We are informed by several of our
most promintnG sheep men that they
will raise this season an average Of
ninety per cent of lambs, This is Ger.
tain ly fine crop and profitable Increase
and speaks well for the sheep business
in Texas.-Stock Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-06

M, LnU rom the vicinity of Fort
Inc e9p If hottie, sre confirmed by
fadsb arrivals of Indian runners, but no
lresn 90 from Msjor COchrane or the
n mess ksant to relieve him has been re-
tlGOpd In the attack on the post the
G GeiE were rsckless'y brave and de-
f fn one of them riding General CarF's
bo- isto the parade ground, and whirl-
nc and firing as he passed out. He is 8
hT5ther of Civins, spd is z Mexican
csptivs among the Apaches. Troops ara
Being hurried forward and strong REIN
forcenents are needed. Ths report
comes in that in the attack on the post
lieutenant and seven men were killed. Ii
this il true, it was probably Lieutenant
Gordon, Sixth Cavalry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-06
TEL RAJ E1IC
CARR NOT KILLED.

Bus He ssRs ana is ia a Tiaht
Place.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28

Mr. Hopkins was . good hardware
merchant, but could hardly tell loco
motive from canal boat OF the eight
original Directors Of the road only five
were solvent when they went into the
scheme. Mr.. John +. Henry corrob-
Grated Mr.. Watrous. On the Pacific
coast, he said, the fortunes Of the Di-
rectors of tho road are estimsted at
from go, 600, 900 to $50, OOO, 900 each,
all accumulated within fifteen years.
The charge for certain classes Of
freight from New York 70 San Francisco
il q per 100 pounds, and those lor the
same freight from New York 10 Ogden,
800 miles less distance, are ez.00 per 100
pounds. Such charges were m outrage,
but they were no worse that those at
this end of the line. Col. Frederick A.
Conkling, who was member Of the
Thirty-seventh Congress, which enacted
the charter Of the Union Pacific road,
showed up tho frauds Of that organizar
tion. For Gov. Stanford, with $4O, ,OO0,-
600 or $5O, OOO, 900 made out Of robberies
perpetrated on the people to write such
. letter struck the speaker a. m net Of
unparalleled audacity, and one worthy
Of stronger language than that Of the
report. The report Of the committee
was adopted with q whoop, only one
member voting against il.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28

10 more clearly seen that law makes
money without regard to the value OF
material used.
From 1893 to 1857 coins Of most
other countries were legal tender by our
laws.
In 1857 all foreign coins were demone-
tized by the Government and they have
not been money here since.
The talk about " world money" comes
from ignorance. Money is created by
law, and no nation can make laws for
other nations. II gold and silver we're
money by virtue Of their intrinsic value,
as is generally assumed by our oppo-
nents, there would he no need to de-
monetize them, and they would be money
the world over.
We need not pursue this investigation
further to convince the most ignorant and
preiudiced that specie is money only by
force Of law, and that law gives value to
coin by making il money which as a
commodity it does not possess.
We have established the principle for
which we as party contend, and which
is stoutly and pcrsistently denied, that
law regulates the value Of currency, and
mot the material Of which it is made.
GILBERT DE La MATYR.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28

Working III the famous "Sutro tun-
mel /" is no joke. The rats and bats have
it all tlle.r own way. The miner who
brings his lunch. basket is not ut al sure
thnt lie will cat its contents. Ii he
leaves it for few moments, the rats eat
lunch and basket and all. Nor is his
chance for dinner much better il, IN
stead Of the basket, he takes the orll-
nary tin kettle. A party Of rats will
steal kettle before its owners eyes,
and roll it away down in hole where no
man can follow them. The, foroe the
lid OF and ,levonr the contents at their
leisure. There are millions Of these rats,
and many Of them are larger than kittens
and more muscular and rapacious.
The hats bother the miners. and tho
mules. When one big bat flies against =
miners face, and another bat equally rs
big flies in the face Of that miners mule,
there is complication Of troubles. Tho
man cannot see which way tho mule is
going to kick, and the mule, who cannot
sec either, kicks ut random, and is apt
| to hit the man where the bat hit him.
| The bats are almost rs large, AZ numer-
ous and rs powerful rs rats.
/ For man to have his dinner stolen
by rats, then to be hit by . bat, and
| kicked by mule, is . combination OF
infelicities calculated to make him wish
himself at work in almost any other
| field Of labor,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28
OBITUARY.
I.OrA Hsoac0nsfaeDil.

The Earl OF BeAconsiod, Englande most
brilliant statesman md d,nlomat exnired at
:. no,s !; .,,,a,,,, =, ~. ,,,,-.,;,,, i, Te.
No noue = aonuou ~ 'uo nlo. 1'us !. 4ue
Benjamin Disraei was the son Of Isaac
n.r..,, an Eno,;.h .nthor /. descendant ~
iamny q spanish Jews. ne NoenJaMln) VA
born 1t Islington, London, in lS05. After an
education At : priyate school. he was placed
m an attorney's Office. where hc con-
tlnued for some time q 8 preparation
10 a appointment in ! Government Office.
which. however. he did not obtain. Ii 1896 he
became contributor TO 1 paper started in the
Tory interests. and called the Representative.
10 nave had come eject upon the mind OF Mr..
Disraeli. IN 20 far = 10 give It political bias
II l82S appeared his novel or SYLVAN Gray,"
vhlch vas at various times succeeded by s.Con-
tarini Fleming" 1.-THE Young Duke" "Ihe
Wondrous Tai. OF Alroy, "Tne Rise OF Iskai,-
der" ssHenr,etta Temple" ..Veuetia. j. ssCO,-
inosby." ..The Sibyl,d and "Tancred." Be
slde these, no produced, in 1884, quarto poem
entitled 1.-THE Revolutionary Epic;' and, IN
1889 "Alarcos, . Tragedy While thus ac-
lively engaged in the world Of letters, he was
contsnualIy before the public 6 ! politician.
IN 1887. after many defeats, he was returned
member from Naidstone. HIS first speech in
the House was like his trst attempts ct
polt,cal reprcsentation-a complete fail
ure. His speech was laughed 1t throughout
and he was compelled 10 ut down before it was
finished. This however. he did MOI do until
he had said, II have begun several things
many times, and often have succeeded ct last
I shsu cit down now, but the time will come
prophetic. Tho time did come when DC was
S,.%o,,os1 - 18th anxinna S.~Uor,,asa k&C Mia
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28
WARRINGTON NOTES.

A physician OF Warrington asserts
that Blame ID victim or Brights disease,
the desperation of tho attack being shown BY
bleAched cara.
The Comptroller Of the Currency up
on examination OF tho securities held by ma
tional banks finds that AIS banks in thirty
States and Territories hold G. OF 1854 to secure
circulating notes amounting in the aggregateto to
e45, ATS $50. Bonds for continuing the out
standing O. OF 1881 It S1 per cent. are similar
TO the original s., except that they have an in
dorsement OF tho conditions.
Friends of Attorney General MacVeagh
say that il william +. Chandler y confirmed -
Solicitor General the former viii decline TO ~
sigh him any court business, - hs has author
ity TO do, and will confne Mr.. Chandler TO Office
work. II il evident that Mr.. MacVeagh h de-.
terminsd TO prevent Chandler from becoming
Solicitor 0socral
There il no opposition yet expressed
TO Gen. Longstreet's confirmation - United
states Narshal Of Georgia, and 1t il generally
believed that no will bs confirmed BY practi-
sally unanimous vote.
Postmaster General James promises
to make his department self-snstaining within
two years.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the wel-known
female lawyer, il IN applicant for the position
| OF Minister TO Brazil.
/ An order has been issued making pos
tal-cards unavailable with anything but the d.
rect,on on the address side.
| President Garfield, who il an enthu-
sast on baseball, received call from the
Princeton nine, two Of whom are sons Of Jus
/ tice Harlan.
Within two years the annual pay on
ninety three star mai. routes was raised from
e727, ,llS TO t2,soa,all -
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28
Joining Issue.

Stanford and Gould, Pacific Railway
monopolists, and Gould and Vanderbilt,
telegraphic monopolists, do not defend
their acts and positions by excuses and
explanations. They take the public
bull by the horns and threaten to break
its neck. Stanford, Of San Francisco,
the forty-million Plutocrat, denounces
the Supreme Court decisions asserting
the right Of the States to regulate rail-
ways, impudently insists that they are
private property, Notwithstanding the
fact that not one Of them could have
had an existence without the exercise 0f
the right Of eminent domain, residing
solely in the State, refers fippantly to
the theory Of Government control as .
relic Of barbarian, and defles the Gov
ernment to interfere except upon condi-
tion Of the purchase Of the road. includ-
ing watered stock, Of course. Fink, the
great Railway Pool Commissioner,
writes g il backed by millions Of cap-
ital, = he il, boldly asserting that tile
antly assuring the public that their
owners and managers are inn0cents in
danger Of being driven to despair and
bankruptcy BY the cruel public.
DR.. Green, Gould Lieutenant, '.pokes"
fun at the public for it,
verdancy in trying to control his chief,
and, Aourishing handful Of dissolved
iniunctions against the telegraph con-
solidation scheme, laughs pleasantly in
the face Of his audience, the American
people. . il he would say, with the ut
most good nature "What are you 60.
ing to do about it," Meantime Mr..
Vanderbilt and Mr.. Gould treat the sub.
ject with gravity, protesting that they
are wearing themselves out in philan-
thropic efforts in the service Of the pub
lie; that they are unselfsh to . wonder
full degree, and rob themselves Of tho
sweet solace of sleep in efforts to reduce
the charges Of transportation to the low
est price consistent with the necessity of
providing for their families out Of the
meager profits Of their little railway
enterprises. The varied character Of thu
defenses interposed by the monopolists,
the cool defiance, the firm denial OF the
right Of any power to interfere, the care
full defense Of stock watering operations,
and determinations on through con-
tracts, and consultations. and pooling.
the retort explanatory, the retort court
eous, and the retort impudent-all these
show thnt they are prepared TO hold
their gains. wntered stock and AL, Ut
every hazard.-Cnicago Tribune.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28
improvement In the Sick. Room.

The changes Of our time have been as
marked in the sick-room rs in the rail
way car or the telegraph Office. The
frightful doses Of calomel and SIENNA and
castor oil, 90 common century ago, are
almost unknown. We wonder how our
ancestors survived the administered
drugs, when the disease was not fatal.
In attacks Of typhoid fever it was Gus
tomary to bleed patients, and to starye
them also, in order to loosen the hold Of
the fever on the system. 1t is now
thought important to retain all the
blood and enrich it by nutritious food,
that the strength may be sustained
against the severe drain made on the
system by fever.
Cold water used to be refused to pa
tients parched with thirst, though they
begged for it piteously. It is now given
freely, a. nature demands it.
Flowers, akso, used to be banished
rigidly from sick-rooms, as they were
thought to consume oxygen by night,
and make the mir nnwholesome for the
patient. But tests applied in large
greenhouses have found the air as pure
and rich in oxygen in the morning o.
at midday, and It may be hoped this hu-
perstition will bs abandoned. A little
beauty and fragrance in the sick-cham'
Der may keep up cheerfulness and hope,
which often are better antidotes than
drugs
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Sultan Of the Sooloo islands, in
the Indian ocean, d dead, and : civil war has
broken out over tho election Of his successor.
parnell maintains that the Land bill,
o. at present framed, will not provide the
slightest protection for small tenants, but will
rather tend TO their destruction.
The International Monetary Confer
ence was opened at Paris by st. HilAire, Minis.
TOR Of Foreign Affairs. On motion Of Mr..
Evarts, M. Magnin, tho French Finance Minis.
ter. Was chosen President.
A Nihilist manifesto, announcing the
approaching death Of Alexander ILL.,, has been
received BY al tho Russian Minister'S and court
officials. The Car still lives At the diminutive
chateau Of 0atchira, guarded BY six cordons Of
soldiery. He 10 never seen outside Of the inner
circle.
With force Of 10000 Turks, Der
yisch pasha attacked and defeated the Albani-
ans near Uskup.
According to advices from Vienna, the
Enlpcrors Of Austria, Germany and Russia will
meet a Ems In the coming fall. Such meet
lng seems to be probable considering the pres
ent political situation.
Twenty-Five thousand emigrants sailed
from Hamburg for America during January,
February, and March.
Tho importation Of American pork has
been prohibited by Turkey, and tho stock on
hand win bc destroyed after IN appraisal BY !
committee Of Americans.
The WOODEN trade in England IL very
much depressed, and several manufacturers Of
Bradford contemplate transpogting their ma
chinerv to this conntrv.
Five servants in the Imperial Palace
1t Constantinoplc have confessed that they
.uifocAted Abdul Axis, tho late Sultan, and
opened veins in his arms TO msks it appear
that he killed himself. Three officials are said
TO bo implicated.
Fnhloff, tho executioner q the Nj.
hilirts, has been given 100 lashes because III
the hanging Of Nichailof the rope bleke
twice.
Bismarck ID said 10 be decidedly
favorable TO the maintenance OF tho gold
standard.
The police Of St Petersburg continue
to seize printing presses used for seditious pu,.
roses and arrest the workmen.
A fery-boat crossing the Dneister
rivcr, in Austria, upset, and, according to one
version, sixty-threc persons drownod. Anoth,
account says thirty drowned.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28
lrrscELLANEous oLEANINos.

A new and dangerous counterfeit SO
gold pieos has appeared in San Francisco.
Leon Chateau has arrived in New
Yoi from France on business connected with :
o,mpany organized in Paris TO import American
he stock. Its capital 10 20 OOOO, 900 francs, and
fho first shipment viii be made by ito agents
next month. NJ. Chateau has also formed An
other company to import All kinds Of American
products. He believes our silk goods viii find
large sale throughout France.
Gen. Joseph Lane, who ran for Vice
President on tho ticket with Breckinridge, in
1860, died recently at his home in Oregon. He
was born in North Carolina in 1901, emigrated
to Indiana, and was for many years member
of tho Indiana Legislature from Vanderburgh
county. He Was Drigadier General in the Mex
iran war, and commanded the left wing Of uen.
Taylor's army It the famous battle Of Buena
Vista. He was appointed Governor Of Oregon
Territory in lsAS, and was subsequently elected
Delegate in Congress, in which capacity he
served until the State WAS admitted into the
Onion, whom he was chosen United States Sem
ator.
Secretary Window will establish IN
Office in London for convenience in substitut-
ing ~ per cent. bonds for = held by for
eigners.
Three children Of Mr.. LIE Duo were
burned to death at Hull, Quebec
The value Of our exports Of provisions
and tallow for the nvc months ending March
81, 1881, was s65 ,s79, ,269. against e48 400, los
for the corresponding period last year.
The colored men are organizing 4
movement to gain admission TO Indian Terri
torv.
A report comes from Panama that the
cashier Of the De Lesseps Canal Company has
abeconded with Il, 900, 900 in gold belonging to
the company.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28

II is understood that the Brazilian
mission will be given to James Monroe, Of
Ohio and the Italian mission toJ. N. Gregory,
of Illinois.
Rear Admiral Rodgers is to become
Superintendent Of the Naval Academy in juno,
snd Rear Admiral Balch will 90 to San Fran
cisco and take command OF the nava, force on
the Pacific station.