San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-09-22

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can't and substantial buildings OF that
character in Texas.
The Texas and st. Louis Railroad
carries passengers for cents less per
mile aud cotton 81 less per bale than any
road in the state.
With the opening Of the business
season throughout the State, the road
agents." AS we'll as other people, are
Getting in their work. The most sue
cessfnl haul 80 far reported this season
WINS made by two highway robbers near
Dallas on the 9th inst, They rounded
mn six farmers who were on their way
home alter having disposed OF portion
of their cotton crop, and renewed t s,e,,i
of 81. 700 cash and two watches. VIVID
this booty the thieves rode away.
-Saq, A7stonio Express: Major w.
f.. Penn. tho evangelist, addressed
letter to the public some time ago I'M
narting the information that the people
Of the Baptist Church OF Palestine have
given him authority to build them
house of worship. He proposes TO 40
this by nickle contributions, no one be-
ing permitted to give more nor less than
K cents. All names of contributors
must accompany the contributions, as! 1t
is intended to preserve them. AT this
rate 100000 contributors wonld De re-
uuired to build $4,000 church, or
100000 to build o 500 0 church.
Should these 100000 contributors mall
their contributions separately, paying
postage of three cents on each letter,
the cost of forwarding the money would
be $4,000, which would 60 into the
Golfers of Uncle Sam. In addition
would be the cost of letter-paper and
envelopes, which would reach about
5000 more, making the total cost OF for-
warding the $4,000 fully $4,000.
I'm every portion of the state where
settlements have been made, oil the va
rieties of fruits do well except the apple,
and by study, care and experiment, the
knack OF raising this fine fruit is &C.
auired. All the species of peaches, OF
grapes, of berries, of plums, OF cherries
and of pears, with nectarines and april
cots, grow to perfection. This seems to
be q climate and soil peculiarly their
own, AID the bulbul never sang Its
sweetest notes in the native peach groves
of Persia, where more luscious fruit sur
rounded it, or appeased its hunger with
o more grateful favor, than are those
which grow in every section OF Texas.
Onr early and genial springs and our
mild and breeze.tempered summers,
cause our fruit to bloom, mature and
ripen early, and wheL the blossoms are
barely ready to fall from the trees and
vinesin the northern states, we, OF Texas,
are luxurating on our peaches and plums
and nectarines and cherries, our grapes
and berries. And that is not all we are
boxing them up and shipping them
north to the great metropolitan cities
to tickle the palates of the wealthy at
fancy prices. There is no necessity to
enumerate the counties or specify the
sections of Texas where the various
fruits grow and mature best, for there
can not be said to be difference. In
southern, southeastern and southwestern
Texas they ripen, some earlier than in
the other sections, but that is the only
difference. 1t is right to state, too, that
it. is in north Texas where the apple
does best and where yet il is to become
one OF the staple fruits. In north Texas.
the fig, pomegranate, orange and lemon
can not be raised as in other portions
of the state, except in conservatories.
When we tell you that we have plucked
ripe oranges and lemons from the trees,
in the fall of the year, in the open air
and delicious figs, equal to any that
Smyrna ever knew, in south and south
east Texas, then you can form some
thing like an estimate of what Texas is
as fruit country. Dallas Herald.
The public lands of Texas set aside
for common schools, aggregate it Is
stated, 100000 of acres. Ii properly
managed, they ought to realize not less
than 500, 200, 900, and that within ten OF
twenty years at the furthest. There is
disposition among number of public
men in the State to get rid of them as
soon as possible, and without regard to
their ultimate value. This is manifest
~ wrong. They ought to be managed
just as they would be if they were in the
possession of sagacious money-makine
individual, bent on realizing all tina
they would sell for. Such aman would
not withhold them entirely from tn,
market, but would divide them up ant
sell perhaps half of each section, ant
by this means render the half that h,
retained valuable. Such course on tn,
part of the State would bring in alarge
thrifty population of taxpayers. Thes,
first sales might not aggregate NOR,
than Sl5,000,0O0, but the twenty mil
lions of acres of land left unsold woult
sell for much more, and doubtless full,
realize eighty five millions. 1t is Away
wise for a government TO look to thu
future, and when the period ahead, a
in this case, is so short and can be easi