San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-25
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Water melons etc., brought from Floridi
are on sale at San Antonio.
DAMAGING frosts in Illinois and snow
storm in Iowa are reported on the 23rd.
Work on the New Courthouse building a
San Antonio was commenced on Monday.
The May music festival is in full blast al
the Music Hall in Cincinnati.
The democratic state convention meets in
Galveston on the 18th of July.
Gosling has been confirmed as marshal fol
this district.
Miss Gerald, of Waco, is going to New
York to prepare for being an actress.
I,eut Danenhauer and other survivors OF
the Jeanette expedition, are now at Liverpool.
Probably on their way to the United States.
The state convention of the greenback
labor party has been called to meet at Fort
Worth on the Goth of June.
May-was the birthday of Queen Vic
toria She has occupied the throne of Eng
land 40 years.
The State will build temporary capitol
opposite the courthouse, Mt the head of
Congress avenue, Austin.
Judge Sam A. Wilson has been commits
stoned to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Judge Winkler.
Guiteau's appeal to the superiorc curt has
been rejected, and he will doubtless hang on
the 3Oth of June.
The "Alamo" is to be the name of pros
pective new Monthly Magazine to be pub
iished at San Antonio. 1t will appear in
July.
The San Antonians are exercised over the
q ,estion of finding accommodations for the
O .pected visitors to the Volksfest, it COM
mences June End.
A dispatch to an Atlanta paper of the 18th,
from Eureka Springs, indicates that Senator
b. H. Hill is rapidly approaching the close
of his illustrious life.
Vennor thinks there will be frost in some
sections of the South in June and August,
but he did not refer to this latitude. He
seems to be settled in his prognostics that
we are to have cool summer and plentp of
rain.
In obedience to public sentiment James
Gordon Bennett will abandon his proposed
arctic expedition, which was to have been
on much grander scale than that of the
Inflated Jeanette.
Mckee is the new United States marshal
to succeed A. B. Norton, whose term ex-
pires, and with the new marshal comes In
Bigger man for district-attorney
The Houston Post says the Texas editors
were extended no public courtesies whatever
at San Francisco. Probably not more than
dozen people knew that they were in the
city.
New ORLEANS, Nay 20.-The jury in the
case of Capt. Axariah F. Wilde, of the Uni
ted States secret service, charged with man.
slaughter for shooting and killing Albert A.
Weeks, aged r. returned verdict of not
guilty.
A dispatch from Brownsville, of Nay 10th
says Two youths named Emanuel Boscola
and Ricardo Gonzales, belonging to aristo-
cratic families, fought q duel with swords
Yesterday in Arizalo, Mexico. Both were
wounded, the latter seriously.
Jim Collins, Chinese laundryman. had
a misunderstanding with his wife, and was
before the recorder. getting
hue Oh 10. Ills 10 tuO hISp SAiihOoc
case in the city of San Antonio.
The San Antonio Times says the Missouri
editors while at San Antonio were over
charged by the Menger hotel, and that two
Of the ladies of the association had their
pockets picked while there.
On the 18th, it was learned that the de-
oision on the Guiteau exceptions will be
rendered by the District Supreme Court
next Monday. and that it will be unanimous.
There is no longer any doubt that 1t will
override all exceptions, and consequently,
affirm the sentence of the court below.
Austin. May 15.-The Capitol Board to-
dav decided to erect temporary capitol on
the state lots nj the head of the avenue, the
structure not to cost exceeding SO, 200, and
TO be ready for use by the time the legisla-
ture meets. II is proposed to construct the
building with the view 10 its conversion into
a hotel at nominal expense, for which use
the state hopes 10 be able to sell or rent it,
when the capitol will ae completed. Bids
will be opened on the 2Srd-
The colored citizens Of Anderson county
have issued an address to colored voters. de-
clAring themselves practically debarred from
serving as Jurors in that county, and de-
claring their intention not TO vote for any
officer who favors this treatment Thew IN
yi;e the election Of delegates from every
heat in the county to q convention in Pales-
enc June Is.