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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

PICTURES Pictures New stock OF large
Chromos also easel and velvet frames
beautiful styles at SAN MARCOS BOOKSTORE
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

We send out some extra copies of this
weeks FREE Press We trust those who
receive them may like them well enough
upon examination to favor US with their
subscriptions.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

Tm FREE Pass Office printed 1000 cleo
ton tickets.
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A pRoTRAcTED meeting began on Wednes-
day night at the Baptist church under the
leadership of Rev. M. 7. Martin, and will
continue for some weeks. A general invi-
taton is extended.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

THE LADIES' will please coll nd see our
new line of Zigler shoes, just received.
P. II. TURNER d Co.
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MARKET REPORT.
San Marcos Retail Price Current.

CORRECTED WEEKLY FOR THE FREE
PRESS, BY @. w. DONALDSON d CO.
Coffee, per ID. I2192o
Sugar, brown. per ID. IL to 1Ga5
4" sranul.,ed. per ID. I2H lsh
crushed, " IA
Eggs, per doI. l5c.
Butter, per ID. Is
Chickens. per doz. 81 80
Bacon, elsir rides. per ID. 10
Lard, choice refined Z" 10
Cotton Seed OIL, per gal &C.
Hams, 10
NoI.sss,, sorghum. per gal O.
Ia. 20 9S
Syrup. Golden, g 50
Rice. choice. per 10. sxSls
Apples, dried. 10
Prunes. Turkish, 1zH
soda, English, 49,
Pepper. bh. fs
Spice. all, -
Starch. T68
s.l'. s ss.r''' per :.f. 40
Uosr. TsI.s. per 100 Ibs t5p
81 Loais. per bbL. - -
Neal. per s1shsl. Is
o.ss' IS
EIssi. per Sssssi. t1a
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LAST Saturday was very busy day on
our streets. On the south side one could
hardly find passage through the parti-col-
ored crowd.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

Go TO P. R. Turner & Co., for your wag-
ons They have the Avery and Caldwell.
which are the best in the market JeS-2m
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09
o SHEEP MEN :

We arc agents for Temples Scotch Sheep
Dip, Of which we have Just received sup
ply G. W. Donaldson, d Co.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

New Crop Louisiana Sugar House Mo
lasses at G.. w. DONALDSON d Co.'S.
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BARLEY, Mules, Farm to sell. cHrSowErH.
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The ungathered cotton crop is still i'm
meuse We heard an intelligent gentleman
soy that he thought what yet remains to be
picked is alone equal to an average crop.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09
Change at Hinzie's.

Our MT. DrlBBs ufto ioeihou AVN LAO
position as bookkeeper at Hinzie's, and by a
singular coincidence is succeeded by anoth-
err gentleman of the same name, not only as
bookkeeper, but as general manager of the
whole business at this place. A revised
price-list with reference to thei local trade
here will at once be settled upon, which will
appear in our columns at an early day.
MORE ADMINISTRATIONS Hart and
Cowley, blacksmiths, have constructed q
standard platform scale in front OF their
shops which will prove great convenience
at this busy period of cotton, and other
hauling. We tested it and found it remark
ably accurate We so found them full OF
business in their line, which includes general
blacksmithing, wagon and carriage-making
(including painting and finishing), machine
work etc. Their new shop is headquarters
for lively and stirring business. See their
card in our columns, and give them coll
when you want anything in their line.
w. E. ROACH has been removed as post
master at Kyle, and is succeeded by Lon.
Martin. We were under the impression
that MIR. r. made a good and acceptable
officer.
P. R. TURNER & Co.'S stock of clothing is
now complete, comprising beautiful line
of English Diagonal, and Cloth suits, also a
great variety of business suits to suit every
body. They are offering great Inducements
to cash buyers. Call on them before buy
ing elsewhere. No trouble to show goods.
A GOOD stock of cooking and heating
stoves Just received at Hinzies.
WooD wANTED.-Cash will be paid for a
load or two of cedar wood. Wanted also a
few loads of winter wood. Will those who
have promised us the article please send it
to US? Call at FREE PRESS Office for direc-
tons.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

THE division into two voting places here
worked well, and greatly facilitated count
ing out
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

READ prospectus of the peoples Illus
trated Weekly" an attractive pictorial paper
at 81 year--only one half the usual
price. We will club it with the FREE PRESS
at So so for both.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

Cleasby is turning out fine photographs
and other pictures. Call at his gallery and
see specimens.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

INTERESTING ANNoUNcEMENT.-Now that
the election is over, we shall have more
space for interesting matters of non-politi-
cal character. Prominent among these will
be series of letters from our well known
correspondent DR.. Erhard, giving his re-
collections of the Santa Fe expedition and
other of his early Texas experiences. We
will begin their publication next week. We
need not say they will be found very inter-
esting.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

SEE advertisement of Fine Steel Engrav-
ings."
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

Picked Pigs Feet,
Buckwheat Flour At
G.. w. DONALDSON & Cos.
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Mr.. Cady, who favors US with quite an IN
teresting letter descriptive of the uPPei
country, promises to continue the subject
We hope he will do so.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

We see in our Texas exchanges notices OF
the return of various theatrical companies
We fear we shall not have our proper share
of them, unless We have q better ball We
call on Malone a Green to 60 ahead with
their proposed opera house. There can oe
no question that it would pay vel over al
possible expenses.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

p II. TURNER & Co.,
Have just erceived q large lot of bug
gies which they offer to the trade at living
prices. Call on them before purchasing
elsewhere.
Go to Hinzie's for your supplies of family
groceries. Very large purchases by him
warrant low prices to his customers. The
best articles at lowest prices always.
WANTED BY the first of Dec, an intelli-
gent and active boy, (black or white) from 10
to IL years old to do light chores. A comfort
able home and clothing furnished. Inquire
at the FREE PRESS Office. L. POWERS.
Something New.
P. R. Turner & Co.. have just received a
full line of Military Braids and Ornaments,
the latest thing out in trimmings, the ladies
should not fail to see them before the stock
is broken.
Valuable Land for Sale.
I have 200 acres of land for sale, fronting
San Marcos river, two miles below town. All
fenced. Nice building site on the river,
above high water mark.
G. L. MoGEHEE.
Oct.-12tf.
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P. r. TURNER & Co., have just received
q carload of Caldwell wagons.
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New Styles of Fas lionable Goods to ar
rive ut ERwIN's.
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Fruit,
Vegetables,
Jams,
Jellios, at
G.. w. DONALDSON & Co.'S.
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New Prints, nice assortment Mt
JOHNSON a. JoHNsoN's.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-11-09

A GOOD stock of cooking and heatin
stoves lust received at Hinzie's.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
A Bill 10 Make Idiots.

The New York Herald says, stbat
Delegate Post Of Wyoming Territory
has introduced into Congress a bill,
which, 1t is to be hoped, will not be
passed. 1t is called, A bill to reduce
inc internal evcnue tax on cigarettes
but a more appropriate tito would
be-. Bill to make lunatics and idiots,
and for other purposes the 'other
purposes being TO Oil up the cemete-
ries and make millionaires of the under.
takersl MIR. Post" tho Herald contin-
ues, ''mnst be all enemy of the human
race. lie could not, IL he tried, hit un-
a large portion of the rising genera
ton, and ofmaking idiots Of the Ole
that Is to follow it. Tho cigarette
annually kills thousands of thousands
Of children and young men; those
whom it does not dcstoy physically, II
ruins mentally. The tax on it should
be increased, not decreased: 1t would
be well to place it 50 high as to put
those poisnous packages beyond The
roach of the small boy" So far speaks
the New York Herald. And what it
says as to the poisonous effects OF ciga-
rettes is fully confirmed by the leading
physicians of the country. Their uni
form testimony is, that diseases Of the
lungs and OF the heart are the almost
sure result of smok ing, and that the
brain is weakened, and the nervous
system shattered, and the general
health undermined by it, to an extent
that is little imagined. When will u
young men learn that for wrong indul-
gehces in carly life they have to pay
terrible penalties in later years, If the
penalty of death does not cut down be-
fore they reach such years!
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

In Java an inferior must walk with
his hands on his heels till his superior
is out Of sight.
The variations in the rainfall Of India
involves the food supply, and is Q ques-
tion OF famine or plenty.
Chinese dentists attribute toothsche
to the gnswing OF worms, and profess to
extract the same from decayed teeth.
The first elephant ever seen in Eug,
land was given to the king by the king
OF France in 1855, but only lived to be
twelve years old.
According to the estimates Of O French
statistician the total length of all the
telegraph wires at present laid 10 sufi-
oient to reach forty-six times around
the world.
The domes Of the great churches in
MOSCOW and st. Petersburg are plated
With gold nearly q quarter Of an inch
thick. The dome OF the Isaac Cathedral
IN st. Petersburg represents q value Of
e45, 600, 900 and that Of the Church OF
the Saviour in Moscow, SIS, 600, 900.
The diadem originated in q ribbon,
Or fllet, woven OF tilk thread or wool.
It was tied round the temples and fore.
head, the two ends being knotted be-
hind and let fall on the neck. It was
usually white and quito plain, though
sometimes embroidered with gold and
Get with pearls and precious stones.
According to Pliny, 1t was invented by
Bacchus. A'henmus assures US that
topers first made use OF II to protect
themselves from the fumes Ct wine, by
tying it tightly round incl neads, and
that IL long afterward came to be q
royal ornament.
During the Thirty Yecrs war In Ger
many, the little village OF Coserow in
the island OF Usedom, on the Prussian
border Of the Baltic, wal sacked by the
~contending armies, the villagers escap-
ing TO the hills to rave their lives. Among
them vas a simple gastos named
Mary. When the danger was over, the
villagers found themselves without
houses, food or money. One day, We
are told, Mary went up the Streckel.
berg to gather b~lackberries ; but soon
after she ran back Joyous and breath
less to her father, with two shining
pieces OF amber each Of very great eize.
She told her father that near the shore
tho wind had blown away the sand from
. vein Of amber /; that she straightway
broke oil these pieces with u stick ;
that there was an ample store OF the
precious substance : and that she had
covered 1t over to conceal her secret
The amber brought money, food,
clothing and comfort but those were
superstitious times, and q legend goes
that poor Mary was burned for witch
craft. At the village of Stumen, amber
Was first accidentally found by q rustic
who was fortunate enough to turn some
up with his pillow.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
4 Sensible Girl.

Some months ago, q young English
woman came to New York to marry a
young mau to whom she was afiianced
In England, aud who had como TO this
country two years before TO engage In
business. She was 10 marry him at
the home Of d friend Of her mother
with whom she was ST. piping. During
tho time she was making up her we'd
ding outfit he came to see her one eve-
ming when he was juft ''full" enough
to he foolish. She was shocked and
panied beyond measure. She then
learned for the first time that he was in
the habit of drinking, frequently to
excess. She Immediately stopped her
preparations and told him she would
not marry him. He protested that
"she would drive him to distraction"
promised to drink another drop,
etc.
mo-" sail she, 81 dare not trust my
future happiness with a man who has
formed such a beastly habit. / came
three thousand miles to marry the man
| loved, and now rather than marry q
drunkard l will 60 three thousand
miles back again" And she went.
Let all respectable womon follow her
example, and all men who love law
and order, and see If the passengers
who are on the broad road to perdition
won't conclude to take the temperance
ronte.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A vein OF hot water has Deen tapped
near st. Etienne, France, at a depth Of
about 1900 metres. Tbis Lew geyser
sends q volume OF hot wst,r and car.
bonic acid TO a height Of twenty-six
metrAs.
A gas we'll in Clarendon, Pennsylva-
mia, dug in 1881, TO q depth OF little
more than 1000 feot, now supplies fuel
to twenty six drilling wellp, three
pumping wells. 1875 stovos, two machine
shops, and two pumping stati MS.
Anew torpedo boat has been launpied
at Pola. II is provided with Gil the
most approved apparatus, both for dis
charging the torpedoes and for the man
agement Of other offensive weapons.
This boat is 1877 feet long, twenty
seven feet beam, and draws twelve feet
of water.
Iron Stag is ceasing rapidly to be q
waste product. At an English iron
works il is employed as q non. conduc.
tor Of heat. When it is ground it is
nodded into bricks Of great touebness,
which are also impeivious to frost and
thirty per cent. lighter thsn common
clay bricks. Cement, concrete, and NJ
tifcisl stone are likewise made from the
Stag.
It is reported that Professor ]. Law.
renee Smith, Of Louisville, Kentucky,
lately discovered in q native iron which
was found in 1875 in the Province OF
st. Ostarina, Brazil, the singular phys
ical property that in its natural condi.
tion it is very feebly attracted by the
magnet, but il Q fragment is heated to
redness and then cooled there is mani.
tested o magnetic property with the
usual intensity OF iron.
The supposed extinct volcanoes in
Central Asia vouched for by Humboldt,
have turned out 10 be large anthracite
coal fields over five hundred feet below
the surface. And so it is that the ques.
ton Of the existence OF volcanoes in
Central Asia appears to DO decided In
the negative by this report, which also
strengthens the theory that the action
Of volcanoes is chiefly due to water /;
for the supposed volcanoes in the inte-
xior Of Asia, now known not to exist,
afforded the only exceptions to the rule
that all volcanoes are situated near
large masses Of wnter.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
Making the Most OF q Horse.

In France, when o horse has reached
the age Of twenty or thirty it is des-
tined for o chemical factory; it is first
relieved OF its hair, which serves to
stuff cushions and saddles; then il il
slaughtered and skinned; the hoofs
serve to make combs. Next the CARCASS
is placed in q cylinder and cooked BY
steam at q pressure OF three atmo-
spheres; q cook is opened, which allows
the steam to be run off; then the 70.
mains are cut up the leg bones
are sold to make knife handles,
etc., and the coarser. the
ribs, the head, ETC.. are converted into
animal black and glue. The first are
calcined in cylinders, and the vapors
when condensed form the chief souroe
Of carbonate OF ammonia, which con-
stitutes the base OF nearly ell ammoni.
scal salts. There is an animal oil
yielded which makes q capital insect.
eide and q vermifuge. TO make glue
the bones are dissolved in muriatic
acid, which takes away the phosphate
Of lime, the soft residue, retaining
the shape Of the bone, is
dissolved in boiling water,
cast into squares, and dried on nets.
The phosphate Of lime, acted upon by
sulphuric acid amt calcined with CARBON,
produces phosphorus for lucifer
matches. The remaining flesh is dis.
titled to obtain the carbonate Of am
monia; the resulting mass ia pounded up
with potash, then mixed with old nails
and iron OF every description; the whole
is calcined, and yields magnificent yell
VIZ SSic6 tissues are dryssadfs 81 P rGssis 56iiasss''
and iron transferred into steel; it also,
forms the basis of cyanide OF potassium
and prussic acid and the two most terri
BILE poisons known in chemistry.
Since Parisians learned the merits of
horseHesh as AN article Of food during
the siege. hippophsey has mado steady
progress in the French capital. In 1875
the butchers disposed OF 1000 borses,
1870 nf 2 900 AMI in 1881 Of 1900.
increased ty the care asses Of 100 asses
and mules.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
Making Drunkards.

Drunken men 90 on running proper
ty and destroying life, and wise men
profess their helplessness concerning
remedies. They even cultivate q habit
of turning away from drunken
men aud seeking for other cGus 9 Of
their ruip though the drunken man
stands Slbse 10 the cause of disaster.
No banker would have a bar to his
bank, but most are complaeent of bars
On every corner A proposition TO set
~ a bar in the parlor I O citizen en-
terlaining his friends would be consid-
cred an insult. but the citizen will set
up a free bar In the dining room. The
miserable drunksrd is despised when
he reels before our eyes; but the bust
meas of making drunkards goes on oil
about MS and provokes small concern
or pity for the homes Il desolates. IL
this strange? Is II any more strange
10 1t not of the same quality Of moral
stupor that we see men Keeling past
US into endless ruin?-that we see
drunksrds made and do moi cry out
and that we see men going to hell and
do not cry out-both these witness to
the fallen nature that 10 In all, and that
forbids us 10 sense the moral dangers
Of mankind. We are like those who
sleep while their honses burn over
their heads.-lMethodist.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
National Temperance Society.

ny seventeenth annual meeting of
ne Ns'ioiui Temperance Society in
NeW 'ork, May y, showed most grail
il,,"g pr 'yiess Ia the increase OF the to-
,ai ABSTINENCE sentiment aud in efforts
10 restrain mud prohibit the manufac.
lure vi alcoholic be, eragcs. The cor.
r~esponuing secretary, /. N. Srearns,
Esq ~ II carefully prepared report no.
ted inns progress, in general and in
particular. The distinctive work of
the society las been p.usecn,cd with
more 'ig,r a,hl elrerg, uld has pros.
perez anu ,Xtendcd more than in any
previous wear Ut lis history. This Is
seen IN The large Increase of the publi.
cations aud IN the wide scattering of
i"niorinaiiUn, discu.siuns and ANNALS.
all 10 produce conviction { Inc sin and
woe OF intempcrance, and it, disiru,-
tlon everywhere. "A literature has
been provided written by over two
hundred and fifiy first-class writers.
winch mas gone over The world and
Deem u hope anu help and blessing 10
Hiiiiohs D peopie-a literature for the
common school and for genaral read
ing. A greatly needed and hopeful
work has been inanguratcd and prose.
cuted among the Freedmen and many
parts OF tho south stirred to practical
a ai' tias' . US never !" ee ,s..sr a dlis qha gssn
ever awe 10 II e ehormity OF the drink
cvii ana the responsibility of the fol-
lowers VI Christ to labor for its entire
extlrpatlOn. Intemperance is more
u more sech TO be the great enemy
OF the church and the greatest obstacle
10 the conversion of the world. A
large number .. local and individual
churches and ministers have taken &C.
uve part against the drink system,
while conferences, prcsbyteries, asso-
Citations, conventions and synods in all
parts Of the country have taken this
matter into serious consideration and
advance action has been taken,
States have also moved, Kapsas lead
ing The van 10 prohibit the manufac-
'ure anu sale OF Intoxicating liquors a.
a beverage: Iowa has sent the ques.
tioh OF prohibition 10 Tho people. In-
diana has carried prohibition through
one branch Of the Legislature and is
engaged in q spirited canvas to make it
a law Of the land. Connecticut has in
itiated the prohibitory measure, and
about twenty other states are actively
agitating this question. The friends OF
temperance throughout tho nation are
last coming 10 me conclusion that this
line OF battle gives greatest promiec for
permanent results. This progress has
called out and organized resistance as
never before. Nearly every state has
it's organization, While the large cities
have special conventions and leagues
with full funds and a spirit to defy law
and trample all restrictions under their
feet.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-07-14
Flax Raising.

Al the present time fax il mostly
raised, in this country. and particularly
in the West. for the seed, the work 20
preparing the aber being more proAta.
bly, performed by cheap labor in En-.
rope. During the early part Of THU
century farmers raised small patches of
fax for working into homemade cloth.
ing' coarse linen being worn then
more generally than nov. It was sown
broadcast, pulled by hand, bound in
small, even bundles, and placed in
small stacks. 1t Was afterward ex.
posed to Moisture to soften and break
the woody portion, by spreading early
in autumn, and on the short grass Of
meadows, whence in the course Of .
fortnight it was taken up, dried and
worked by hand into the fiber for use.
but this practice was long since gener-
ally discontinued. The increase in the
cultivation for seed has been quite
rapid OF late yeara, while q portion OF
the crop. NJ q secondary interest, has
been made into COARSE bagging. In
1850 five Western States reported 1885,.
900 bushels of seed. in 1860 1916. 600
and in 1870 l All, 900 bushels. The
crop is profitable only when raised on
the right kind of land, in q fine state Of
cultivation aud free from weeds. The
soil must have y dry bottom, and be
thofoughlS undermined il necessary,
and some cultiVAtors pillow three times.
1t usually follows wheat and potatoes,
and, as the production Of tho seed ex-
hausts the ground. it should not CO.
cupy b .apIa Held oftener than
once in Ave Or six years. About Q
Dushel and a half If seed are required
for an acre; and for raising the fiber
over two bni b IL, as a dense, upright.
hne growth gives n finer aber. It ID
important to SOW none bat plump, clean
seed, FROM which all The seeds OF weeds
should be taken hy using the best
'separators" made for this purpose, OF
by hand, using a sieve, twelve bars to
the inch. The seed crop is cut with a
self raking reaper. Much practice and
skill ars required in sowing evenly, as
The seed easily clips from the hand, and
the covering shoald lie dnne with q
very light, tine to Tia hai row, 30 that the
seed may not he Covered more than an
inch deep aud The w,rk should be fin.
ishtd W tn d roller. Tue process OF
preparing the dber requires much ex.
p~erienee and SKILL Country Gentleman.