San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-04-27
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Louisiana will lose at least $50, OOO, 900 b,
the food, TO say nothing Of human life.
Lake City, Mimi, has been nearly de
stroyed by fro. Five blocks burned
San Antonio IL crying aloud for a fire.,
postal delivery. II ought to have it.
The house committee on commerce viii
probably report the river and harbor bill by
the 9TH of May.
Lookout for the new comet. 1t is thought
that within a few evenings it will be visible
to tho naked eye.
Judge L. W. Moore, of Lagrange is spok-
en- of as probable candidate for Congress
from the fifth district.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee il writing history OF
the campaigns Of the Army of Northern
Virginia.
freight and passenger war between
the international and Sunset roads is re-
ported TO have been inaugurated.
The death of Darwin, the renowned scien-
tist who promulgated the theory of sexual
evolution, Ii reported from London.
Henry Kaplin, secretary of the Bexar be.
uCNOACus uboOCiutIou, Va Ouu hutOhiOj hho
skipped the town. He has embezzled mon
victims.
The Chinese merchants in Hong Kong
and Shanghai have received dispatches
from California depreciating the arrival of
80 many Chinese passengers
A complete through telegraph connection
between the United States and Germany
is opened. Emperor William sends the
president congratulatory dispatch.
The Chinese government is reported as
taking alarm at at the prospects of interior
ence with emigration to this country and n
revival of the Chinese prejudice is predicted
A northern Republican paper states that
Ex-Governor DAVIS returned to Texas with
assurances that he will be made minister to
Mexico in the course of time.
Joe Brown, desperate and murderer, was
killed by sheriif's posse in Wise county,
night before last, while resisting arrest.
His body was taken to Fl Worth and fully
identified.
Governor Pitkin, of Colorado, has mp
pointed George NJ. Chilcott, of Pueblo, to
succeed Hon. H. M. Teller in the United
States senate.
The Illinois Central, Cairo Short Line and
Texas and ST. Louis lines have formed an
alliance for fifty years, giving tho narrow
guage roads through connections from Tex
rs to st. Louis and Chicago.
NJ. III. DeYoung, editor of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, the lending Republican pa
per on the Pacific coast, predicts that the
veto Of the anti Chinese bill will result in
solid Democratic delegations being sent to
congress from all the Pacific states.
The delegation from Wisconsin, includ
ing Postmaster Gen. Howe. Senators Saw
yer and Cameron, waited upon the president
and invited him to be present at the Wis
consin industrial exposition, at Milwaukee,
September >.
Mrs. Scoville recently stated that she in
tended to prepare petition to the president
for a communication of Guiteau's sentence to
Imprisonment for life, and travel around
the country lecturing and circulating the
petition for signatures.
George Scoville late counsel for Guteau,
has forwarded to Washington from Chicago
n long letter addressed to the supreme
court justices, withdrawing formally from
the case, and giving his reasons personal
and judicial for doing SO.
On May 2sth the people of San Antonio
Will vote on two important questions, one
being the proposition to appropriate S15O,-
900 for the improvement of the Streets and
the other to levy a tax of 10 cents on the
500 for the purpose of building central
school house.
Col. Fred Grant, president of the Texas !
Western Railway, says his trains will be !
crossing the Brazos river by the first of
biay. and the road will be ut Sealy by the
10Th. The bridge across Buffalo Bayou I
viii be finished and connection made with !
Bremond's road before that time.
Ben. w. Rusk son of General Rusk, of
early Texas fame, committed suicide in the |
lulstic asylum Mt Austin, recently The |
deceased was sent to the asylum from Ma !
cogdoches, and had only arrived two days
before his death, II will be remembered
that his inustrious father was a suicide.
Arrangements have been made by Presi- /,
dent II. L. Goslin Of the Press Association, .
with the Pacific road to reach FL Paso Sun
cav. He has received the following dispatch Z
san Francisco. 24th-To II l. Goslin You
Lave Fl Paso Monday. Arrive at Los An
gelos Thursday night. and Frisco Friday 4
evening. Sleeping car berihs seven dollars \
from FL Paso to San Francisco. including
occupancy Wednesday at Los Angeles. Give
me the number of the party. aud also the !
dAy and date you wish TO leave Frisco on re-
turn. lSignedl J. II. Goodman, q. 2. A. (.
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