San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-07-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In East Texas Walnut lumber sellsat 800
to $3.50 per 1000 feet or ten cents foot
The new school building at BRENNAN cost
$50, 900, and has all the modern appliances.
San Antonio newspaper men are about
forming q press club.
Grass-hoppers are ravasing cotton two
miles east of BRENNAN.
Judge Ireland says he hasn't spoken word
to Gov. Roberts in two years.
The coinage for the year ending June
so, il $l17, S4l,5 74.
Two hundred cases of smallpox are re-
ported at Muscogee.
General Skobelof, the famous Russian
general, has just died suddenly at Moscow.
The crop report of Kansas by the state
agricultural board is exceptionally favorable
and especially US to wheat.
The archbshops and bishops of Ireland
have instructed the priests to discountenance
Inc Ladies' Land league.
Military preparations continue to be made
actively in England. and more troops have
Deem ordered to embark for Egypt
The Senate has confirmed John Davis, of
of the District of Columbia, to he Assistant
Secretary of State.
A dispatch to the Houston Post states
that Judge Moore will withdraw from the
race for Congress.
Garfeld's physicians asked for $4,000.
but Congress concluded that their part in
death of the president was worth only
$50, 1000.
Jack Labatt has been out West and re-
turned TO San Antonio. He reports the
country between that place and Fort Davis,
Ior hundreds of miles barren. dead waste.
The body of Mr. Strasberger, who was
drowned while bathing in the surf ut Gal
weston, has not yet been found and it is not |
probable that 1t ever will be,
TYLER has been struck with the water
works fever and has sent a delegation to
Palestine to examine into and report upon /
The system now employed successfully in
that city
1t is said that the cold backward spring |
held the cotton crop of Tennessee i'll check |
Tor while, but the prospects are now fair
Tor good yield. The acreage for cotton
in East Tennessee is the largest ever known.
The Senate recently, in executive session,
after confirming large number of nomin- |
ntions, ratified commercial and consular |
treaties with Servia, commercial treaty |
with Rounania and trude mark treaty |
with Spain.
District Attorney Corkwill has fled n
motion for reconvening of the grand jury |
in Washington City to act upon the recently |
discovered important evidence against the |
Star Route swindlers.
Judge Moore is censured with some
rausibty for holding on. To his |
u lgship while running for Congress. He |
u obably has an eye to the old adase-''A
..rd in the hand, etc.
Arthur W. Ashley. the printer who, in
April last, murdered Judge J. j. Lyons,
EDITOR of the Gilmer New Issue was arrest
I'd at Selma, Ain. He confessed TO the |
murder, and has been brought back 10 Up
i,hur county for trial.
OF the delegates instructed up to date
ireland still has majority, but 80 many
counties have failed to instruct that II Is I'M
,ossible to say who i ahead Until u vote Is
tikeu a; the convention
Political excitement is At fever heat at
GALVESTON and considerable feeling has
l-srn engeniered by the lale Democratic
,OuyentiOn which was held there. II j. IKE
Y TIA; a serious rupture viii take place IN
tire pGrty. and that IN the next contest
'a-Te All b. Two Deu1vSrai.e Tickets a. Tie
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