San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-04-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


There il bill before Congress 10 reduce
the fees on postal money orders to five and
ten cents.
Senator Logan continues very ill-too i'll
u 20 TO Hot Springs as advised by his ply
stefan.
The widow of the late Bishop Marvin,
disd at Frederickstown, Mo-, on the 10th
Of last month.
n is said that General Ed. Burleson who
died In 1897, was the first person inferred
in the State cemetery at Austin.
Tho only member of Garfeld's Cabinet
now remaining il Secretary Lincoln, and
il liz thought he will not be disturbed.
Gen. Rosecrans has been elected per-
mancnt chairman of the democratic con-
gressonal committee with Gen. Lefevre as
Secretary.
Tho circulation Of standard silver dollars
for the week ending April Sth was
sl57. 900 against $249, 996 the correspond
ing week last year.
The Legislature of Massachusetts has now
enacted law allowing women to practice
law in any of the courts Of that State, on
the satne conditions as to qualifications re-
1uired of mon.
The liquor or prohibition question is
sgitatng the politics of Indiana, Iowa, and
Kansas. as well ms Ohio, and from its pres
snt shape is likely to be about the only issue
in tho coming elections in those states.
The interior papers report serious dam
age to the fruit crop by the cold snap--all
h, Maine IN California The az
tent Of the injury to wheat is not yet -s"'r
tanned. but su opposed to be very r'.E
Postage stamps, cards, anu g'au .':
ve'opes issued for the nine mOLt.. 81
March 3lst amounted to $50, 679, ia; an
increase of 81 ,GG6, 9l5 over the correspond
ing period of the previous year.
The governor of Georgia has pardoned
Mrs Kate Southern who, it will be remem-
bered, killed woman in ballroom some
three years ago while dancing with her
Mrs. Southern's) husband.
The census of 1880 shows there are more
than six million people in the United States
over ten years of age who cannot read or
write. One-half of these are colored per-
Sons. and three fourths of the whole num-
Der are found in the old slave States.
So far as Mr. Longfellow had any distinct
religious creed, he was, like his brother, |
Samuel Longfelow, liberal Unitarian. He
was not church-goer but his family have
usually attended the College Chapel at
Cambridge.
Horace Greeley's Oldest daughter, Ida,
Mrs Nicholas Smith, died of diptheria, in
New York, on the morning of the 18th inst.
She leaves three children, the youngest only
four weeks old. One only is boy, named
Horace Greeley, without the Smith.
The case of Mary Baker and husband VS..
the Houston & Texas Central railroad COM
pany, for damage under the civil rights
bill, for having been elected from first
class car, was decided in the United States
circuit court, by the jury rendering YER
dict for the plaintiffs, assessing the damages
at five hundred dollars
The president has notified General Fitz
John Porter, in answer to his petition for
relief from the sentence of the court martial,
that he can do nothing in the case, as it is
entirely beyond his power. This action is
based upon the opinion by Attorney Gener-
al Brewster, and received the unanimous
concurrence of the cabinet
synopsis of the April report of the
department of agriculture, on the area and
upon the condition of winter grain, shows
an increase of nearly half million acres or two
per cent of the estimated area of the previous
crop. which was twenty-four million three
hundred and forty -six thousand acres. The
condition of winter wheat is fine throughout
the west.