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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

The St. Louis Republican thinks that
those who opposed the nomination of Gen.
eral Grant at Chicago will stand poor
chance for Office from Mr.. Arthur, and
adds:
There is but one thing left to those who
opposed General Grant at Chicago, and
that is to make square fight for their po-
litical lives. In an. acquiescent mood they
will not amount to the Yankees traditional
ROW of pins" In the stalwart caravan of
progress, under command of Arthur, they
are not respectable ''yaller dogs" under the
wagon. Every time the Strengthening axe
comes down Garfield Republican headfalls
into the basket. The President does not
talk but there is concentrated logic in all his
acts.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12
Poverty And Distress.

That poverty which produces the great,
est distress is not of the purse but OF the
blood. Deprived of it's richness it becomes
scant and watery. econdition termed 0'.enata
IN medical writings. Given this condition,
and scrofulous swellings and sores, general
and nevous debility. loss of flesh and appe.
tite, weak lungs, throat disease, splitting OF
blood and consumption, are among the CON-
mon results. If you are sufferer from
thin, poor blood employ DIR. Pierce's ''Gol-
dnen Medical Discovery" which enrches
the blood and cures these grave affections.
Is more nutritive than cod liver oil, and is
harmless in any condition of the system yet
powerful to cure. By druggists.
The Rev. O. B. rockingham, who has
heretofore been q conspicuous teacher CT
religious unbelief, has concluded, at last,
that possibly those persons who deny the
essential truth of revealed religion are all
wrong" He sumsup his present position by
saying: ''The work which have been doing
appears to lead to nothing, and may have
been founded upon mistaken premises.
Therefore it is better to stop. But do not
want to give the impression that I recant
any thing I simply stop denying and wait
for more light"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12
Truth and Honor.

Query: What is the best family medicine
in the world to regulate the bowels, purify
the blood, remove costiveness and bilious
ness, aiddigestion and tone up the whole sys-
tenn? Truth and honor compels us to answer,
Hop Bites, being pure, perfect and harm
less.-Ed, See Another column.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

Az tonic and nervine for debilitated
women nothing SURPRISES DR.. Pierce's ':Fav-
orr to Prescription" BY druggists
The New York Tribune wisely and patriot
icaly urges the repeal of the Arrears of Pen
sions act and thinks it should pass both
Houses by unanimous vote. For once the
Tribune has laid down proposition that
will meet this hearty concurrence of large
majority of all parties.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

The Austin Statesman donned new dress
on New Year. 1t is now nine column pa
per, greatly improv ed in appearance and
interesting reading. The FREE Press is
glad to note the Statesman's prosperity.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

That very persuasive married man, Mr..
Reed. of Hinzie's envited us to a warm meal
ut his warm-hearted fircside. VIM. is en-
ployed with Captain Hinzie, who, by the
way. is doing a better bushes than ever at
San Marcos. Whatever Martin Hinzle
touches flourishes like the green bay tree, v
and IL all citizens would evince as much
public spirit and energy as he, the state
would rapidly increase IN wealth.
Thus writes Mr. Deming in the Palestine
Advocate, which we copy mainly as just
compliment to Major Hinzie. AproPos, il
occurs to Us to inquire why married man.
j. supposed to be particularly persuasive!
We should think an unmarried one would be
more inspired to practice The persuasive art
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

DIR. Pierce's pheasant Purgative Pellets"
are sugar coated and inclosed in glass bot,
ties, their virtues being thereby preserved
uuimpaired for any length of time, in any
climate. so that they are always fresh and
reliable. No cheap wooden or pasteboard
boxes. BY druggists.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12
The San Antonio Express of a few da..

since svys:
A gentleman from New Braunfels tells us
that Notwithstanding large amount of
work has already been done on the new
factory, complications have arisen which
NAV interfere with the success of the enter
prise We sincerely hope that such will not
be the case.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

THE Edison Electric Light Company an
nounce that they have placed wires in H. 600
houses in New York city, with 1900 lamps
This will probably affect the dividends OF the
gas companies somewhat
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

The American Book Exchange expects tt
get on its feet again, and be able to fulfill al
promises Alden is trying hard to organize
a new stock company.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

independent movements do not alarm
the san Antonio Express. That paper says:
The Express would Ike TO see good and
respectable Independent movement inanger-
ated in this state. and presenting a ticket
COMPOSED Of men OF vel known character
and ability. and enjoying the confidence Of
an clases We believe i wolld result IN a
very great benefit TO the TOIiics Of The
state
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-12

Health ari strrnztb gireu u deliests -sura
rr--frE mothers aud iu'aut cEiidrsn ste use
Er~su's lrgu Biters-
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
AN ANCIENT HERBARIUM.

A small herbarium of. plants, some thirty
five centuries old, must be an object OF consid-
cradle interest Such an one, says Nature, has
recently been found by DR.. Schweinfurth,
from garands found on the breasts of mum
mics discovered last year at DER el Baharl. by
NM Brugsch and Maspero. Two garlands on
the body of King Aames /. consisted of leaves
of Egyptian willow (SaliK safsaO folded twice,
and sewed side by side along branch of the
date-pam, so forming clasps for separate
flowers inserted in the folds. The flowers were
those of Acacia Nlotica of NymphGa cgrulea,
with isolated petals, of Alcea ficifola, and Of of
Delphinium, believed TO be orientale. The
garlands of the other kings contained flowers
of Carthamus tinctorius, and the folded leaves
were those of Mimusops Kummel.. Leaves OF
the common watermelon (Cucumis citrullus)
were also found on the body of Neb-Seni,
high priest of the twentieth dynasty. Dr.
Schweinfurth managed to preserve many of the
leaves and flowers, by moistening them, putting
them In alcohol and then spreading out and
drying. remarkable thing Is the preserva
tion Of color Of the chlorophyll violet in Del
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
A YOUNG TAPIR.

If New-York has a baby elephant, London
can boast of baby tapir,-the first one said to
have been born in Europe. The little visitor is
a cross between the two principal American
species, the mother (Tapirus Americanus) from
Brazil, being Il brown animal, and the father
Ct. roulinD from Colombia, having black hair
The young one, like all young tapirs, is curl
ously lined and spotted with white on u ground
of bright fawn color. 1t is lively little
fellow, about the size of a roasting pig, and ap-
pears to enjoy life amazingly. When only
day old t readily entered the water, and when
not following its mother about frequently in
dulges in swim. The tapir is pachy ydcrn,
one of the links which unite the elephant with
the wild boar and rhnOcerOs. The snout of
the animal forms small proboscis not unlike
the elephants, but much smaller and minus the
lingerlike tip. 1t has the appearance of
trunk cut short. The American tapir is q great
swimmer and haunts wooded parts on the mar
gins OF streams; it is powerfully built, and has
the merest apology for tail. Its food consists
of leaves, young shoots OF trees, native fruits,
and probably submerged water plants and
other vegetable matter.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE.
PENNSYLvANIA's TERMINAL MORAINE.

At recent meeting of the Boston Society of
Natural History, Professor G.. L. Wright, OF
Oberlin, Ohio, gave an account OF the discoveries
made last summer by him and Professor III. =.
Lewis concerning the southern limits OF Ice
action, otherwise called the terminal mOraine
in Pennsylvania during the glacial age. Pre-
vious to last summer, Clarence King had,
first in 1876 called attention TO the terminal
moraine at Woods Hole, Mass. Subseque ntly,
Warren Upham, taking up this cew, had fol-
lowed it through Cape Cod and Long Island,
where the line joined on to that discovered 10y
Professor Cook of New-Jerscy, reaching the
sea at Perth AmbOy just below New orl1, and
crossing the Delaware River at Belvcdere,
little above Easton, Penn.
From this point the line Of the terminal
moraine crossed Northampton County by a gen
eral northwestern course to the centre OF Mon
roe County; thence westward, crossing the
Lchgh fifteen miles above Mauch Chunk, and
the Susquehanna twenty miles below Wilkes
barre thence by a northwesterly course
through Columbia County, rising to the summit
of the Aleghanics in LycOming County and
crossing them diagOnaly through lloga ana
Potter Counties, where the general elevation oil
the country is upward of 1000 feet. FROM
Potter County the mOralnc enters Cattaraugus
County, n. y, and continues to trend north
ward as far as Little Valley, six miles north OF
Salamanca, where it makes sharp turn To the
southwest, running nearly parallel with the
Allegheny River to COumbiana County ONO.
The whole length of the line explored this last
summer is about 400 miles. The signs OF
glacial action abruptly cease along this line,
and it is marked by special accumulation OF
unstratiiied material composed OF ely,
scratched stones and granite b0uldcrs which
have been transported hundreds of miles.
North of that line the signs OF glaclation are
everywhere apparent; south of it there are no
scratched stones, no transported bouldcrs, and
no till or boulder clay. Where streams cut
through the line, however, bouldors Of granite
and quartzitc have been transported by water
and deposited in terraces and dcltas.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
From these elements is derived the
ephemeriS:
Tbr hghi on March 10 is taken as

The light Of the comet at the time Of perihe-
lion passage should be (mathcmatically) more
than three thousand times greater than at DIS
covery, bat in cases of close approach TO the
sun the actual increase is always many times
more than that computed. The orbit presents
some peculiarties winch will interfere with the
brightest Will not be such that it can be OBJ
served by northern observers, and again as it
passes around the sun in the same direction rs
the earth is moving in its orbit, the comets
head will be turned almost directly toward the
earth, the tail being thus forc,hortcncd. This
will add to the brillancy of the tail, but will
diminish its apparent length. The length of
time during which it will be visible will extend
well into September, for the comet, after pass
ing the sun, comes north of the ecliptic, and
will be in favorable position for observation.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
ACROSS TIE GARDEN WALL.

looked across the garden wall,
And saw her there-I see her yeti
A little thing that played ut ball.
What mattered fright what mattered fall 7
clmbed-I broke the peach-trees net
looked across tho garden wall,
And, crrls and pinafore and oil,
Beheld her-nover TO forget
A little thing that played at ball.
Grave has she grown, discreet and tall,
Since when the morning dcws were wet,
looked across the garden wall
Since she was five years old, and small,
With slipping sash oil crooked set,
a little thing that played at ball
But still. sweet wife, when ! recall
How first we loved, how first we met,
watch across garden wall
A little thing that plays at ball.
MAY PRoDXy.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
4 PERSONfTOR PERSONATED.
From The London Echo.


The Fdnjrl'G relates with glee an anecdote OF the
late Carnival III Turin The Artists Club gave a
masquerade ball, Go which a number OF eminent
residents had been invited. ipcludng among others
latter is one of those many dilettanti who in both
halves of the globe have gone mad over the genius
and the charms of the sensatIOnast Sarah Bern
hardt. The committee informed the Count that
they had succeeded in persuadlng the " great
actress i'll spite of heI slight Illness TO appear at
the ball. The excitement was intense. When a
member Of the committee rushed into the salon and
announced that the sensational Sarah had Just
arrived everybody thronged about the doors. The
Duchess OF Genoa held her lOrgnette to her eyes
Count Ferrars prepared a speech of welcome. The
door was flung open, and the famous Diva, worn
and feeble, and resting upon the arm OF Signor
Giacosa. entered the ballroom. She replied with
graceful bow to the eager and reyerential saluta-
one hand, and in the other a lace pocket handker
CHIEF behind which she cOughed slightly while
Count FeIrarIs greeting her with an adulatOry
speech The Duchess of Genoa graciously told her
how delighted she was 10 make the personal ac-
Quaintance of SO wonderful an atlst
After peTambulating the room for some time,
chatting with one and another. the traOeficnnC
quested a cavalier TO lead her to the robing-room.
Here she threw OIL her magnificent ball dress, ana
reappcared in the ballroom clothed IN masculine
black dress-coat and trousers. While the company
at largo were whispering It's astOnishlnent al the
eccentric bizdrree Of the actress one OF the guests
looked the supposittiOusSarah closely in the face
and suddenly exclaimed, Why, 1t is Signor Caan-
Calandra, with the assistance of a few fellow
consDlrators had resolved to play trick upon the
gushing admirers of the sensational Frenchwoman,
and had succeeded only too we'll. The deluded
victims not likely 10 sit to Sgnor Calandra Tor
their busts hut he has been applauded for his
highly practical criticism of rival artist-Sarah
Bernhardt being sculptross as well as actrcSs-by
his companions OF the chisel.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

phnium, green in the watermelon leaves. All
the species named are still found in the East |;
and they afford examples of both spontaneous
and cultivated plants continuing for many
centuries without variation.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
CURRENT DELICIOUS OPINION.

Ii is one of the happy signs of the growing feeling
of fellowship among peoples of al races and rclig
ious beliefs that disasters and mistortunes are in
varlably made the occasion for the expression of
fratcrnal interest. No more gratifying instance of
this has recently occurred than the profer and the
acceptance of the Jewish Temple Emanu-El, tho
beautiful structure at Fifth-avo. and Forty third
ST. in this city for the worship of the cOngrcgaticn
of the Church of the Incarnation, whose building
was recently destroyed. Every thoughtful person
will find an additional brightness IN an Easter
Jewish temple. The Rev. DR.. Gustav Gottheil,
Rabbi of the Synagogue, has done a graceful and
beautiful deed, which should have the heartiest
recognition from all Christian people The Chris
tian Union.
In several Protestant churches of Buffalo, the
regular services were dispensed WITH and selections
from the works of the poet read to the congre
cation on the Sunday after Longfellow s death We
the public schools of Of the Eastern cities have
been taught the practice of devoting a day every
year TO the worship OF certain literary saints This
is, however the first instance of q dead poets
receiving divine honors. The Bible pushed out and
the poems of Longfellow put in Could Protest.
antchurch 60 further In man-woTshipf lalk about
the reverence which Catholics show TO saints alter
this When Whittier dies. these Protestant churches
will make another new god 1.-The New-lork Free
man's Journal
Let the clergy refuse to solemnze marriages
where either party has been divorced for other than
Scriptural reasons. Let Christian magistrates and
lawyers take o similar stand and let all do their
utmost to develop public opinion and overcome the
gigantic eyu.-iThe Religious Herald.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
TIE GREAT PYRAMID.

Richard A. Proctor, WHO has been cxpOund-
Ing his views on the use OF the great Pyramid
of Cheops i'll HROUledge, claims that the struc-
ture was both tomb and an astronomical OBJ
servatOTy. When we remember, he says, that
the astronomy OF the time OF ChcOps was essen
tally astroOgy, and astrOlOgy most important
part of religion We begin to see how the cree
ton of the mighty mass of masonry for astro-
nomical purposes may be eXplained,-Or
rather we see how, being certainly aStrOnOml-
cal, it must be explained. lnasmuch as 1t Is an
astronomical building, erected in a time when
astronomy was astrolOgy, it was erected for
astrological purposes. It was III this sense Il
sort of temple, erected, indeed, for the peculiar
benefit of one man or of single dynasty; but
as he was a king in time when being king
meant gcat deal, what benefited HIM he
doubtless regarded as benefit also 20 his peO-
pie: in whatever sense the Great Pyramid mad
a religious significance with regard to him, 1t
had also national rcligio significance.
There is no other theory of the Great Pyra-
mid which comes near to giving common
sense Interpretation OF the combined aStrOnOmi
cal and scpulchral character of this wonderful
structure. If it is certain on the one hand that
the building was built astTOnOmicaly, and was
meant for astronomical observation, 1t Is
equally certain that 1t was meant Tor tomb,
that 1t was closed IN very soon alter the KING
died for whom ii was built, that, In iine It's
astronomical value related TO himself alone.
As an astrological edliice a gigantic horoscope
for him and for him only, we can understand
its pu1port much though we may marvel at
the vast expenditure of care, labor and treasure
at which it was erected. Granted full faith in
astrology (and we know there was such faith),
it was worth while to build even such struc-
turc as the Great Pyramid; Just as, granted
the ideas of Egyptians about burial, we can
understand the erection of so mighty mass,
and all save its special astronomical character
OF no other theory than that which combines
these two strange but most marked character
istcs of the Egyptian mind can this be said
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION OF POWER.

Sir w. Thomson showed in his inaugural
address last year to the British Association, that
if it were desired TO transmit 2G,2JO horsepower
by a copper wire half an inch i'll diameter, from
Niagara to Ncw-YoIk, which is about 300
miles distance, and not to lose more than one
fifth Of the whole amount Of work-tlat is, to
deliver up in New \ Ork p 900 horse power
the electrOmOtivc force between the two wires
must be $4,000 volts. Now, what, asks Pro-
fessor AyrtOn, is to be done with this enormous
cectromotive force at the New York end of
the wires
The solution Of this problem, he says, was
also given by Sir W. Thomson on the same
occasion, and it consists in using large numbers
of accumulatOrs All that is necessary to do in
order to subdivide this enormous electrOmotive
into what may be called small commercial cleo
tromotive forces is to keep Faure battery of
10000 cells always charged direct from the
main current, and to apply a methodical system
of removing sets of 80 and placing them on the
town supply circuits, while other sets of 30 are
being regularly introduced into the main cir
cult that is being charged. Of course this re-
moval does not mean bodily removal OF the
cells, but merely discOnnecting the wires. 1t
is probable that this employment of secondary
batteries will be of great importance since it
overcomes the last difficulty in the economical
electrical transmission of power over long dis
tances.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

"Some other folks would deceive you about
these goods, but have been In the business twenty
years. and told a c," said the gueless drygDods
clerk. And why do you begin now T. said the gentle
fair in front Of the counter she gathered her dra
pertes together and gided away-tBOSton Commercial
Bulletin.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
THE NEW COMET.

II. Y. Egbert, of the Dudley Observatory, has
made calculations of the elements of the new
comets orbit, which may be considered fairly
accurate. They are as follows:
Time of perihclion passage June 10307G. Greenwich
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

:, The lot Of the Salvation Army in England is
not happy one. They seem to be continually
to by the 1uans of
their work. About ton days ag0-at Weston
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

The Boston UatchmdR, ii seems, was anxious
some time ago to have The COngregationaiist
"nstance point in the testimony of Christ
which Baptists not only fail to observe, but
persist in perverting and justifying themselves
in so dong" The COngregatiOnlist is happy
to comply with this request" and in its last
umber names the following:
A new commandment | give INTO you, that ye
love another; even as have loved you, that ye
also love one another. BY this shall all men know
that ye my disciples II ye have love one to
other John xiii. 81. 35), with: This is my com
mandment. that ye love one another even as have
loved you John XIV, 12
In the face of this express command" The
CongregdtiORdkst says, of our Lord that Bap
fists Gf they are His children) love Congrega-
tionalists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, MethO-
dsts and others who may also be His children,
'even as He loves them Baptists, as o matter
of fact, do not do so. Christ loves those unim-
mersed believers enough not only to send His
Spirit into their hearts, and bless their
churches, but to elcOme them to His table
which Baptists refuse To do because they think
too little water has been used in their baptism"
What good this kind of discussion can possibly
accomplish or what purpose it is to serve, it
would be difficult to say. 1t certainly displays
extremely bad taste.
= The lot Of the Salvation Army in England is
NOT a hannu opa Thav oaap, IN 10 NJ, m tinu oll
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

At recent meeting of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of ST. Louis, missionary
told of the difficulties of learning the languages
difference. The missionary that tried to tell the
Hindoostanee audience that In My Fathers
house there are many mansions" informed
them that In my Fathers house there is much
butter" And n most learned minister had
translated the first line of the hymn 20 for a
thousand tongues to sing in this wise, 40, for
a thousand sausageS."
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

The canonzation of the Princess Maria Chris
tina, of Savoy, first wife of King Ferdinand III.
of the Sicilies, Is at present undergoing discus
sion by the Congregation of Rites which met
on April l. The virtues and the authenticity
considered and weighed. The cost of the pro-
cess-for even canOnization is expensive-are
to be borne by the Empress Maria Anna, the
widow of the Emperor Ferdinand OF Austria,
and sister of the dead princess.
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

completed in his church at Philadelphia a re-
maIkable series of lectures They were begun
in 1864, the subject being the New Testament.
Beginning with st. Matthew, DR.. Boardman
went over the ground chapter by chapter, verse
his 626th lecture the last chapter of Revelation
The lectures, If printed in book fOm-dreadful
thought-will make 40 duOdecimo volumes of
$50 pages each
New-York tribune., 1882-04-09

AT a meeting Of the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia last week the report of the committee ap-
pointed TO inquire into the charges against tho
Rev. DR.. a. A. Willis, who, it was claimed,
delivered a lecture on a certain Sunday in o
Cincinnati opera house for the benefit of the
Unity Club, an admission fee of ten cents hav-
ing been charged, was presented. The COM
mittee, sustaining the accusation, decided that
the lecture, " Sunshine; or, the Secrets of a
Happy Life, was secular in character, the time,
place and circumstances of its delivery being
Objectionable.