San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-16
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Menard county.
Roses have bloomed out OF doors
nj San Antonio during the whole win
ter
The looms ordered by the Cuero
cotton mills are now en- route. Cotton
cloth will be made ut the mills. Inc
Bulletin says that other manufacturing
industries will speedily follow.
The Kansas City Journal has been
talking to "A successful Texas sheep maH
who considers cattle mach more easily
kept and more profitable on large
scale than sheep. He states that the
day when the sheep men can operate
in Texas without buying more or less
land is past, thus making it IA necessity
for men to have considerable capital
for buying and fencing land to insure
success.
Geo. West, OF Lavaca county, has
bought the ranch of ID. II. FAINT, on the
Nueces river. The purchase involved
100000 acres of land ut 5000, 900, and
$4,000 cattle at SID per head. Inc
amount of money that changed hands
was over half million dollars.
The governor is in receipt OF o
memorial, signed by forty Texas pub
fishers and printers, asking that herec-
ommend the passage OF law yestln1g
in the state the copyright OF all works
published under the authority OF the
state, and obliging the states work to
be done within its borders.
The flood that is now prevailing IN
the Brazos river has deepened the
channel through the bar mt the mouth
of that stream to full twelve feet. The
beach is strewn for many miles with
timber, telegraph poles, rails and other
debris brought down by the current.
A terrible rain and wind storm,
which in some places assumed the char
acter of d destructive tornado, passed
over the central portion OF the otate
on the night of the 9th OF February.
Considerable damage was done TO
buildings and fences, but SO far as
learned no lives were lost.
Among the cadets recently dis
missed from the naval academy for IN
efficiency in their studies was Beau
mont B. Buck, of Texas, who shot
Thompson when he was being gwen
dose of hazing. Secretary Lincoln has
issued an order, upon the recommends
ton of the academic board, reappolnt.
ing Buck as cadet at West Point, and
granting him leave without pay until
January l.
-Cuero Star: Tuesday evening the
children of Mr.. G. Dietze, while driv,
ing up the mich COWS, found a mall
pouch which had been cut open and
left in an unfrequented spot, about
half mile from town. The pouch still
contained letters and papers, and they
brought it to Mr.. Dietze, who turned it !
over to Postmaster Frank. On
Wednesday the postmaster went TO the
place where the pouch was found and
picked up other letters, among them
the registered packages, which he found
had been opened and relieved OF their
contents. The pouch had been taken
from the HARDWOOD hack which lett
Cuero Saturday evening, Feb. 18th.
In his interview with the citizens
of Marshall, Manager HoXle says the
reduction of force on the roads was
rendered necessary by the falling OIL III
receipts. That the receipts were actu-
ally less than at corresponding period
last year, though the company had 4OO
miles more in operation. He had orders
to make still further reduction, which
would continue until June or July.
when he hoped to be able to restore
the full working force. He expects to
the line to New Orleans by
the LIST OF Nay, and said that the work
shops of the New Orleans Pacific
would be at Marshall, more than com
its citizens for the removal
of the Texas & Pacific headquarters.
Globe Democrat: Messrs. Isaac
Cloud, l.. G.. Carnes and j. NJ. Cuip,
of Gainesville, now in the city ana
Guests at the Planters, are three of the
heaviest shippers of cattle III that
State, who have come to st. Louis to
ask of the Missouri Pacific railroad
some remuneration for losses they feel
that they have sustained since June
last i'll delay in forwarding stock and
overcharging Tor feed. Within these
past nine months, the three have for
wsrded u Northern points over this
road some 800 ears of cattle, and the
sum they bold themselves entitledtO in
Justice aud equity runs up into the
thousands. Major Cup said last even
ing that there we're a number OF other
shippers III waiting 10 present claims
ON the same account, the total amount
Jy ala being about $4,000.
The Major said that Gainesville had
paid the Missouri Pacific road many
hundreds ii thousands Of dollars, and
.iad san5.ed great loss by tie careless
ness and neglect Of the road 10 proper