San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-04-14
DOTS AND NEWS.

Verbum ssp-maple sugar.
Armadillos arc said to be found lin
Gonzales county.
When one is rich. how easy it is "a
be quoted, lovely AMI accomplished.
San Saba Is organizing = military
company.
How to be cheap !swycr-keep your
own counsel.
Major Kampman has model farm
under way on the Salado river.
A poor actor is like q defective Aue-
he doesn't draw.
The Pa.ola county Jail has no in
macs. 1t doesn't" pan out we'll.
The son of the king Of Portugal is
sick. No wonder, he has thirty names
Tho average increase in the sheep.
folds of western Texas is estimated at
ninety per cent. the past season.
Why does 1881 resemble a pair Of
bashtu, lovers Oh sofa ? Because there
is one ut each end Of it.
Three degrees OF mining-positive
mine, comparative miner, superlstive,
minus.
Since October ]. 1880. the county Of
A uderson has received, as permanent
citizens. about 600 immigrants.
The Texas prohibition bill was killed
in the house by not receiving the rcqu;.
site wo.thirds vote.
A man 10 England was put in prison
for false enoouragement-ho encouraged
iorty-three women to believe he intended
TO marry them.
Among the new enterprises at Saguin
area free public bridge to cost $l5 900,
across the Guadalupe, and an immi
grants home.
A Cincinnati man Gays that Mary An
dcrson's cherry red lips nre the prsttiest
III America Bah! Well put our lips
against hers any day.-Boston Post.
It's said Major Penn has beer the
means Of converting 200 wicked sinners
in Palestine. Will they stay converted?
That is the question.
Near Weimar, Frank Halls boy aged
two years, was bitten by dog on Fri
day and died the next Sunday Of by
drophoblr.
A negro man. Of Fall county, has
been sentenced to two years in the pen
ientisry for heartless cruelt, to his own
child. His wife is also under iudict-
mept for completely.
The bridges on the I. 4 G N. r. X
between Austin and San Antonio cost
100000. The bridge across the Colo
RADIO is 200 feet long, having six spans
OF 200 feet each.
Douglas Jerrold and Henry Compton
to admire pictures at the Gallery
OF Illustration" Before we proceed
further" said Compton "see this beau
iiful picture in the Rlsss'-pointinr to
his own reflection Yes" said Jei-
rold, very fine, but NEEDS hanging.
says the Houston Post. the Gull, Col
ora 10 aud Santa Fe r. R 70. offer for
~ acres Of land, free of charge. to &C
tuil settlers on their lands near the
Town Of Scaly. Austin county. on line OF
the road. This land is located between
ihs Brazos and Bernard rivers. and iu-
clides 1900 acres Of rolling prairie.
adapted tocottou, corr and sugar. Set
lars are TO receive one forty acre lot out
ut every four, reserving the other three.
i,r sale BY the company. Applications
should be made to G. c Allen. secrc
tiry Of the eoupsnys land department
1t Gslvestos.
In spite Of Sunday laws and Gus
toms there are some kinds OF work
hat 60 on increasingly, and one Of
them is the indiscrimmnate slaughter
II railroad brakemen. Seldom does
more than one Of the useful fellows
cave the world at time, yet the
Killing goes on 30 rapidly that IN the
course Of the year the number sacri-
feed is about equal 10 the entire loss,
in killed, Of both armies at the battl,
Of Gettysburg. OF course the com
pznies are not to blame-oonpanie
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