San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-01
ATE NEWS ITEMS.

W X. Foster, an old editor of Williamson
county, has become insane.
The House Committee on Naval Affairs
have unanimously agreed to report adverse
" on another Arctic expedition.
The editor of the Seguin Times proposes
10 70 for the scalps of the dead beats" who
went on that San Francisco excursion. ut
the next meeting Of the Press Association
ut Dallas.
Col. Tom Bowers, of the Pamela Watch
man, is candidate for representative from
his county.
Governor Churchhill, of Arkansas, previ-
Gus TO his election as chief executive, was
treasurer of the state. A senate committee
has Just ascertained that he is defaulter in
the sum of S10O,OOO.
OF the editorial excursionists to California,
Maddox of the Montgomery Journal has the
has the smallpox, and Robinson of the
Huntsville Item tie fever since their return.
Count Telefner of the New York, Texas
and Mexican railway, has returned from
Europe and is expected in Victoria in few
day.
Col Geo H. Sweet has retired from the
Galveston Journal of Commerce and Even
ing Journal The name of the Daily is
changed to the Call. The Thompson broth
ers and others are his SUCCESSORS.
Every now and then there appear a CEN
s,s of the world. The very latest returns
are found in a new German work, which es-
Inmates upon the most reliable data available
and counts by Millions rs follows: Europe
$4,000, 600; ASIA S34 OOO,0 900; Africa,
2O5, OOO, 600 America. $1,000, 900; Austria
lin and Polynesia, 10000 600; Polar regions
under ], 900, 600. Total, l.455, 600, 600, be-
an increase of over lG,0O0,o0O upon the
previous census.
Guiteau is now placed under continual
guard, better known Ms the death watch"
Every action will be observed up to the fatal
moment, and not a word will be permitted
to be spoken to him except by his spiritual
adviser, or by persons generally authorized
by the warden, Gen. Croker who has en-
tire charge of and responsibility for the rs
sassin from this time on until his dead body
il, ready to be cons gned to the doctors for
post mortem examination. District Attor-
rey Corkhill has determined upon an exami-
nation of the brain of the assassin by n board
of the most eminent medical experts in the
United States to put ut rest, ns he believes,
forever the question of his insanity. After
the autopsy the body will be delivered to
r latives of the doomed man if any of them
call for it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jones. of st. Louis
celebrated the Goth anniversary of their
wedding few days since Mr.. Jones was
n lad when George Washington visit d the
elder Jones house in New York city. and
lie remembers very well how the father of
his country placed his hand on his head,
kissed him and said he hoped he would grow
up to be good man. He remembers Adams,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and all of the
early fathers of the republic. When he grew
up and began to mix with the world he met
and became intimately acquainted with
Thomas Paine, and to this dry he remem
hers the great intidel for his brilliant attain
rlents. Aaron Burr and Alexander Ham-
ton, Washington Irving and Robert Fulton.
were friends and associates of MIR. Jones, and
he takes delight i'll relating anecdotes OF
them Mr.. Jones has lived under every
president since the nation was born, ana
his thoughts and memories of the early days
Of the republic are fresher than they are Of
matters that happened last year.
Postmaster Gen. Howe. in his letter to
congress recommending the abolition of
postage upon newspapers and magazines,
says 1T may well he doubted if the whole
people get rs much information of public
affairs from the volumes gratuitously thrown
at them by the government as they do from
the newspapers aud magazines which they
purchase and pay for" The postmaster re-
cites other considerations which lead him to
the conclusion that congress may Mt the
present time safely abrogatC all discr imina-
lions between subscribers To newspapers
and magazines aud send the same through
the mails without charge, whether such sub
srribers reside within the county of publica-
ton or out of it."