San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-06-02
Various Items.

The ci.iseus Of Coutocook. N. h" u
l..e hsd ." quske" Of earthquake.
The business portion Of Harrison, At
kansas. be- been burned loss, s2o'oo'
Mn. Belle Y. Burohill. Msy %. vss
appoiussd pos.mis,ssss a. Fort WORTH
Mr.. Psrnsll. tho Euslish agitaso'' is
seriously III.
Cotton choppers are wanted all over
tho state Of Texas.
There il . great deal Of typhoid but
few cases Of yellow fever st Havana.
whsas harvesting has commenced in
Williamson county. ~ H.
Gov. Coke has returned to his nome
at Wsoo.
One hundred armed men have been
reoeu tly hunting stolen cattle in DsWit'
county.
90 C.rlotts, the ex-empreSs Of Mexico
il q large shareholder 10 the Panama
canal. Jaws.
A Nihilist's mandatory OF bombs
and explosives has been discovered at
Paris. France.
Com modoro Mutt. the celebrated and
Intelligent dwarf, died the 18th, at N.
Y. City. ~ ---r-.
Msy q, at Floyd. L.. during d ifi'
Guilty, Two boys, II. j.. Sage and I. D.
Lot we're fatally shot. '4.' q"
A young man at Gilmor, Texas, ran
OF recently with smother mans wife.
She let two young twins At home.
Carl Sohurs, Horace White and i. H.
Godk,u have taken charge OF the n. I,
Hyssing Posd; Carl Schurz takes the
elitorship.
Herr johann Most, editor Of the Fret
heit, 81 London, has been found guilty
Of tho charge Of iuoiting to murder.
Tits thought that the entire tribe Of
Cherokee Indians from North Carolina,
, viii be sent 70 Indian Territory, Some
have already gone.
Fifteen saloon keepers and liquor
deslers ct BRENNAN have peti'ionsd to
, havsths Sunday lev enforced.
lstersal Revenue Collector CLARK. at
Atl.sts. Ca, has seized ten Illicit di'.
tillssiss In Georgia. and destroyed over
1900 GALLONS OF mash and beer.
Bpsoimeaa ssssyed from silver On =.
]. 0lsssooek's place. three miles from
Georgetown, Texas, warrant thu form
suea Of company to opon the mine
immediately.
Sixty two miles Of wire, and other
materials IN proportion, have been re-
ceiyed for the Austin telephone con'pa-
ny. The telephone exchange will DO put
In working order At once.
Nay ., the stesmer Victoria with
over oOO excursionists was returning
from Spring Bank to London. and when
near the Cave railway bridge one mile
below the city, the steamer collapsed
like 90 egg shell. and became q total
wreck 70 the waters edge. The passen-
eers were plunged suddenly into the wa
Ter, and over 200 were drowned. The
accident was owing to the gross careless.
ness Of the captain 10 permitting the
bost 70 b overloaded. So far 23s bod
les have been recovered. and il is sup
possd more will yet be found.
The Prussian electric railway from
Berlin TO Liohtcrfsld, has been opened
with sreas success. DR.. Werner Sic
mess. Of Berlin. Is the inventor. The
tails are insulated from the earth by
wooden s.sspers. ssd ere 10 electrical
conuec.ion with dynamo-electric ma
chine worked by steam. power at . sta
ton. 1t is so built that magno electric
machine works BY steam power at sta
uOu. n mdkuctO citVuS uheS"'oS w"
the locomotive is so fixed with the axle
Of one pair of wheels Us to impart mo-
tiop TO il, the driving axle being severed
electrically BY on insulated washer. A
current Of electricity. passed along on
ono rail to work the machine, returns by
she other rail to the stationary machine
OF the ground.
Educa,ios and newspapers 20 hand
10 hand. The Rusk County News says:
The newspaper business in Texas. du-
ring the next decade. will be more prot
liable than il has been 10 the past. Five
yosrs ago such thing as negro taking
a Newspaper vas rarely ever heard Of.
Nov, since the adop,isn Of the Tree
echoed system. and their children have
been taught to read, and in some cssss
10 write. they are beginning to manifest
Interest in their educstion. and 10 many
Instances are subscribing for papers. to
induce them to read The News has
rey,rsl subscribers 90 lie let. Who are
de.ceodspts Of Ham, snc il they would
al p.y q, promptly, a, tbo,s We have. We
vsaId be pleased to have ,hous,nd