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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-07-26
A Secondhand Coat.

A party of three young men from the
agricultural districts entered a second
hand store, and one of them finally
brought second hand coat. He was
solemnly assured that it was fit that
Shakespeare would have been proud of,
and that it increased his beauty 200 per
cent, and he went away perfectly salts
fed. In about an hour he returned
and said:
"Say, this coat isn't fit after all"
"Vhat ais dot goat now, eh?"
"Well, its too short in the back for
one thing"
''Let me look. Too short, Ell? I'm.
My friendt, who tells you SOP"
"Both the boys"
"And vhas dose poys tailors?"
"No."
'Do they get oudt some fashion
plates from Paris? ?"
"No."
"vhell, how ish it does poys know so
much? Dot goat allows for you to
shtand oop und bend oafer. 1t allows
for your back to shorten oop and
lengthen oudt."
DuU Ullo Slo0Nco dI y wv olOlU.
sLed me see. Only last night my
wife sit up all night to cut off dose
sleeves und make 'em in style, and now
you vhant sleeve like Noah wore in
der ark. Well, nobody would think
dot of YOU"
81 can hardly bend my arms" con-
tinued the buyer.
"Vhell. L sold you dot goat for Sun
day. You doan' chop wood on Sundays,
I hope? When you desire to bend your
arms, put on some odder coat"
81 am not at all satisfied with it, no
matter what you say"
"Vhell, 1 can't help dot. After you
buy dot goat you fall down, or shump,
or drink peer, und get your body all
out of shape, und den come back und
complain. Ny friendt, dot goat vhas
for shentleman. When you wear it
YOU must be shentleman."
81 paid you s. for it, and I'll take
S."
'No."
'You can have it for 49,"
"Young man, let me explain. vhas
partner NIT my wife. She buys und /
sell. She is now in Chicago. Doan'
you sell dot goat. Take it home und
wait until you shrink little und your
back shortens oop, ind you Will den
put on dot goat und set all der girls
crazy und make all der young men
shealous. Take my advice. L vhas il
der clothing peesness forty years, und
l know der cloth in dot goat. il
WANTS good thunder shower und two
games of base ball to maka it fit you
like handle to a coffee-mill.-DetrOi
Free Press.
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TOrpedO.prOOf.

AS we have neither guns nor ships in
this country to defend the cities upon
our sea coast, we are depending upon
the torpedo system to protect our
harbors in case of possible war; and
this in spite Of the fact that torpedoes
have proved ineffective in all modern
wars to defend assailable harbors.
Admiral Farragut showed his con-
tempt of torpedoes in Mobile Bay in
his attack on New Orleans. Sir Ed
ward Reed, the eminent naval con-
structor, has invented an improve
ment in armor-plated men-of-war
which he thinks will make them alb
solutely safe against the explosion of
a torpedo. In his design for war
ship the magazines and engines are
placed in the upper part of the hull.
To the vessel he gives great breadth
above the water line, and he covers
her with a dome shaped turtle back
deck, that is intended to be intirely
shot proof-partly in consequence of
it's thickness and partly in conse-
quence of it's inclination. The hull
of this vessel is intended merely to
to float the armored upper part, and
is not to be used either for engines,
stores, or quarters for men. 1t is to
be furnished with vast number of
water tight cells, and even if the
whole of it is blown to pieces by tor
pedoes, the upper part will float like
vast raft. The hull can be made
with lines adapted for great speed,
and no matter what breadth of beam
may be given to the vessel above wa
| ter line it can not affect her speed, ex-
cept by the resistance it's surface may
be to the wind. With few such YES
els as these in the navies of other ma
tons, what ridiculous figure the
United states would cut in foreign
war! According to General McClel-
Ian, our war vessel" enjoy the unique
distinction of being unable to fight or
run" In fact, if we sold off the old
hulks we would save great deal OF
money and would be quite as well
protected. To fight other navies we
are as helpless to cope with them as
are our savages, who offer battle with
spears and arrows against TRAINED sol
diers using rlfe, cannon and drmes de
precis-ion.-From DsmOrest's Monthly
for ,Julu.
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sTIssION VALLEY NURSERIES,.
Twelve Miles from Victoria, Tex.

These Nurseries have claims upon the people
western and southern Texas that cannot be urged
by any other establishment.
To give TO western and southern Texas q list Of
fruits adapted 70 the climatic requirements is the
object 10 which the proprietor has devoted his life.
He has been able 20 bring TO his aid the advantages
OF early hortcH.tJ raj training, and by the e1pend
tore Of over twenty thousand dollars In experiments
upon our own ground--by close observation and
study through the quarter OF century during
which horticultural Etudy, experiment and labor
has been his leading pursuit-hs has been able to
become acquainted with the peculiar wants Of our
very peculiar climate.
Takag advantage Of the principle well established
By physical geographsts, viz that all fruit trees
are improved By being carried toward their polar
nit aud that they are deteriorated by being car
red toward their eQuEtoriI limit-he has made nif
experiments and established his nurseries father
south than any other general nurseries IN the United
states He sells no c5eap northern trash 70 his
customers His trees and plants are therefore bet
Ter Futed 20 TEXAS culture tsan tkoss Ct any other
establishment IN the world
Our uurferies a-d grounds. embracing about 81
lcres n horticulture VIII Be freely shown b viEt-
on every day bat Sunday.
Orders for tres and pifEss received By rail, q
through any e cur sufhorized agsnts
Csfalogues seat free 20 ever applicant foT ia
her from tfiol ETpey 20 "
GILBERT ONDERDONK.
s.ptzs Nissson waller. vtotoria Co. Texas
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ADream DiscIOses Money.

A correspondent of the Terra Haute
Erpyess tells queer dream of Mrs.
T.. living in Middlebury, Clay county,
who engaged some carpet rags Of Mrs.
S, of the same village. Before they
we're delivered Mrs. S died. She was
supposed to have some money, but
none could be found after her death. A
short time after the death of Mrs. S.n
the rags were delivered to Mrs: T.;
who dreamed that there was red ball
of rags among the number that con-
tanned a pocket book with a certain
amount of of money in it. She told
Mr.. II. her dream, and he laughed and
said it was nothing but a dream; but 1t
rested on her mind to that extent that
she went with some other ladies to the
attic in search of the above described
( hall. 1t was found, and the process of
winding commenced, and to their IN
finite surprise they found the book and
the exact amount of money was found
that she dreamed il contained.
The supreme court holds that IN
absence of the county Judge the pres
enee of the other four members con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction Of
any business. Both the present at
tofney general and his predecessor adj
vised that three would make a quo
rum.
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The st. Joseph MO- Gazette re-
ioices over the shooting OF Editor
Elan, of Richmand and says; NOW for
that little weasel Malone" IL is sup
posed the killing has commenced.
II You want to see man indulge in
the maizey dance, tread on his pet
corn.
A FERRY boat is like good rule be
cause it works both ways.
THE most difficult punctuation is to
put a stop to gossips' tongue.
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Roblnson Crusee's Island.
Letter 10 the Rochester Democrat.

ram Letter 10 tho hoenos'oF pehoerat
The sun was bathing the beautiful
land With :. food of golden light as
ls ~ neared its picturesque harbor. In
Wiz boats we went ashore and land
D y in the primitive manner Of run
e. No the boat aground and pulling it
ni' On the shore. II was difficult to
W ,,;1e that we were, indeed, on the
historical, mysterious island that inn
naog;nation had pictured from child
h uSS' early hours in so many fanci-
iI forms. The books tell you that
~ was on this lovely island that, in
,7Cl. the celebrated english navigator,
hammer, landed his coXswain, Alex
a u" Selkirk, with whom he had
aauuarreled, and left him alone on this
d1uuinhabited spot::with small guam
.;tv Of provisions and tools. Here he
lived ES four years, till picked up by a
nassing ship and brought back to Eu-
p rone. 1t was from the notes he made
hiring his solitary residence that Dan
;s1 Defoe composed his incompatible
W., of Robinson Crusoe." No
nook doubtless, ever held the childish
interest with greater fascination than
that which describes his wanderings
On this mysterious and enchanted
Island. That which has always
seemed but dreamy romance was
now before you. The scenes where all
the wild and wondrous experiences
we're described are just at hand, and
Won wander on, as it were, but just
aroused from a fanciful dream. Per-
chance it was on this sandy beach
along which you wander that Crusoe
first discovered the footprints of his
good man Friday.
The island is about seven Spanish
leagues in circumference, or trife
ever twenty English miles. 1t be-
longs tn Chill, and for a number of
voars the government used it as a
ynlace for transporting convicts, till
one night all the prisoners arose in
their power, killed their keepers and
taking the only boats on the island
sailed away and were never heard OF
more. Of late years the government
has leased the island to one man, who
paws something like $4,000 year for
it's use. This man has small COL
ony of workmen whom he employs
in cutting timber, drying fish and
goat skins and sending them every
few months in large quantities to the
markets at Valparaiso. There are to
be found in the waters about the
island, Holsters Of peculiar kind,
from two to four feet in length.
Every variety Of fish in the greatest
abundance seem co swarm about this
lone island. It is great resort for
whalers, who put in here for a few
days to supply themselves with fish,
poultry and game, which they obtain
at marvelously low prices from the
sovereign ruler of the island. Many
years ago two lone, lorn goats were
brought to the island and their fami-
lies and children have increased SO
rapidly that to-day thousands and
tens Of thousands of them are to be
found in every part Of the island.
Large numbers of them are shot each
wear, and their dried skins sold IN
Valparaiso are source oflarge income
to the lessee of the island.
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A1n. sses m.ds a. home By the Indust1
- Zpublic. Capital not needed We viii
- - start you. Men, women, boys ana iris
wanted everywhere % work for n. Nov IL fhs
line. Iou can work ip pare tine, or i've yOuf
vhsle tine 20 TIE ousineis. No other blEfnes1
taafs enornonl P.y, oT slg.r1ng a. onee. Cos1S
80 ~ soa0ras'y. tesfss Tfs1 CO.. KsE.Fss
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A CommOn.ssnse Remedy.
SALICYLICA

NO MORE RHEUMATISM, GOUI
Immediate Relief Warranted
Permanent Cure Guaranteed
Five years established and never known
70 FAIL In Q single case, acute or chronic.
Refer TO al prominent physicians apd
druggists for the standing OF Salicyli6a.
SECRETi
Tho onlv Dissolpor of the PotsonoMS
Uric Acid tohich erists n. the Blood
of Rheumatic and Gottty Patients.
SALIOYLICA Is known as O con-
non-sense remedy, because IL striksS
directly a the cause OF Rheumatism,
Gout and Neuralgia, while so many So
called specifics and supposed panaceas
only treat locally the effects.
II has been conceded by eminent sol
sntists that outward applications. sucb
as rubbing with oils, ointments. Nl1'
ments and soothing lotions viii n9t
eradicate these diseases WHICH are the
result OF the poisoning Of. the blood
with Uric Acid,
SALIOYLfdA works With marvellous
effect on this acid, and 90 s3Wov 4 thf
disorder. It Ii how etSlpsively used By
all celebrated physipianh q AmSfiSSs
and Europe; highest medical aca9emy
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three DAYS.
REMEMBER
hat sALIoyLIoA is . SSssain cure f9r A4yv6,
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At6ed or money refunded. Thousands OF tdSH'
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DRUGGIST FOR IT. But do not DO delHqed NE
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smmended as 'Just as goodr Insist on the geAu-
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
Instructions for Sabbath Observance by
the L., n. A. & C. II. II.
T,oIrrSv1r.J.E XIV !

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 3.
Tuesday Colonel Bennett H. Young,
President of the Louisville, New Albany g.
Chicago Railroad, issued all order that, so
far as possible, no work be done or trains
be run on that road on the Sabbath
day. Only passenger trains will be
run on that day in carrying mails,
and efforts be made to arrange for
their di~scontinuance. In cases of perishable
goods or live stock freight trains will run
when necessary only. The order further
says: "You will in future run no excur-
sion trains of any kind for any purpose dur
ing the Sabbath. This order applies to
camp-meeting trains. If the Christian peo-
pie can not find other places for worship
this company will not violate Divine and
civil law, and deny it's employees the essen
tial rest of the Sabbath to carry
them to the camp-meeting ground.
/ am also informed that a
number of the c%ompany's employees have
conscientious scruples against any work on
the Sabbath Day. There are likely others
who do not feel so strongly on this srbject.
Under no ordinary circumstances must any
employe who objects OH the ground of his re-
ligious convictions be ordered or required
to do any service Sundays. If any diff
culties arise in the execution Of this regula-
ton you will please report ,nem to me for
consideration, and you will also notify the
employees of their right on conscientious
grounds to be fully protected in the obsery-
ance of the day of rest.'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
A Plucky Old Lady.
CHICAGO. Ma,

CHICAGO, May L.
The Western Indiana Railroad Company,
III its work of extending its line in this city,
has been having considerable trouble with
property-owners along the route of the pro-
posed extension. Recently almost a riot oc-
Cured between the workmen and property
owners. Among the rioters was one lone
widow woman, stalwart and loud voiced.
She owned a house and lot between Third
and Fourth avenues, above Twelfth street,
and the company had made a verbal con-
tract to buy the property, but no pa
pers had been signed. When the workmcn
reached her place she came out with a fire.
shovel, and objected to any further progress
until her property was paid for-objected
so forcibly and with so many feminine re-
marks, that for an hour she kept fifty men
at bay. Promises would not move her, and
entreaties had no effect, and the Superin-
tendent had to be sent for, the contract Of
sale signed, and the money paid over before
that woman would allow the work to go on.
1t was very funny, but fifty men were kept
idle for two hours by one woman until her
claim could be satisfied.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
NEWS

The six-day contest at Boston between
horses and bicycles ended on the 9Th in a
victory for the horses. Tn total score was:
Horses, 921 miles; bicycles, 800 miles.
A POWDER magazine on Priddy's Head,
Portsmouth Harbor, Eng, was accidental
ly exploded Oh the 9th, killing two persons
outright and mortally injuring five others.
THREE tramps were arrested on the 9Th
for being implicated in the robbery of
Major WATSON, army paymaster, on a
Texas Pacific train a few nights ago. Notes
! of a large denomination and 5000 in gold
were found on them.
AN earthquake a few days ago in the city
OF Tabreez, Persia, demolished many build.
ings and killed several persons.
A DISPATCH of the 9TH from Hermosillo.
Mex, says al engagement took place be.
tween the Apaches and Mexican troops in
suequeach Canyon, in which the Indians
We're defeated with the loss Of twenty.seven
Killed and a large number wounded. The
loss of the troops was sill ght.
THE French Minister of Commerce has
been instructed to examine into the pork
question, with a view to resembling the
order against it's importation.
WHILE carelessly handling a rifle in a
Chicago shooting-gallery on the stu, John
Heavey shot and instantly killedh his brother
Martin.
In a fire at Rondout, N. Y, a few morn
lngs ago five dwellings and some barns and
sheds were consumed. Two children of M.
Cohn, aged four and twelve years, persisted
in the flames.
GILLIAN troops under Colonel Canto re.
Gently had two engagements with Peru
Monteneros, defeating them on both occa.
slons, killing fifty-nine, and capturing a
cannon and forty rifles.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND on the 9TH signed
the bill which practically repeats what are
known as the "Sunday blue laws" of New
York.
IHE Piegan Indians on the 9Th left their
agency, northwest Of Fort Benton, NJ. T..
ana were making for the Sweet Grass Hills
with the intention of killing cattle wherever
found, as the Indians were said to be starry
ing.
DURING the progress of a fire at Hanover.
N. H., on the 9Th, Prof. Henry E. Parker
had his skull crushed by n falling chimney
Eight dwellings, and outbuildings were do
stroyed.
HENRY and Mary Pesun were
arrested at New York on the 5th for the
robbery of $4,000 worth of diamonds from
a Paris jeweler. They admitted the crime.
MOODY AND SANKEY, the revivalists. ar
rived in New York on the 9TH from Europe.
HE steamship Alaska arrived at New
York on the 9th, making the trip from
queenstown in six days twenty-three hour
and ~forty-eight minutes, the quickest time
on record.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
Burned to Death.
yICKsBURG. Miss. Mav4.

VICKSBURG, Miss, May 4.
Between ten and eleven o'clock Wednes-
day night all explosion i'll the gas department
occurred at the Refuge Oil Works, owned by
Ed. Richardson, about two miles below this
city, resulting i'll instant death to Miss
Minnie Lavender and serious, and pro-
badly fatal, injuries to Miss Lille
McMastcrs, Harry Parks and Robert
Hobson. Bernard Donnelly and Andy
Green was also painfully injured. 1t seems
Misses McMasters and Cavandcr, accompa-
nled by MIR. Harry Parks, about nine O'Clock
Wednesday night took occasion to visit the
mill Tor the purpose of witnessing it's work.
lngs throughout all its various departments.
Mr.. Parks escorted the young ladies through
all the departments with the aid of a lantern,
and explained their various workings.
When the party came to the gas-house.
which is isolated from the main buildings. the
door was opened by Bernard Donnelly. whose
duty it is to wind up the machinery
at night. Donnelly requested Parks not to
come in the building with the lantern, but
he, determined on showing the ladies the
workings of the machine, approached near
to the door, tn" ladies followed closely be-
hind, when almost instantaneously the en-
tire building seemed to be one solid sheet of
ire. The garments of the ladies were soon
ablaZc. They made an effort to reach the near
est resldence. and while doing so were literally
Durnt almost to a crisp. The blaze from
their clothing lit up the country around as
they fled across the hills through the night.
MISS Lavender died at two p. M, after suf-
1erlng the most terrible agonies. It is be-
leved Donnelly and Green will recover. but
little hope is entertained for the rest of the
injured.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
A Merchant Mistakes His Partner for q
Burglar, and Kills Him.
BOSTON. Mass. May

BOSTON, Mass, May !.
Albert H. Beals, of the firm of Beals g.
Pickett, spice dealers of Boston, shot and
killed his partner, A.. Perley Pickett, OH the
Fall River steamer Bristol Monday night.
Both men occupied a state-room together, and
about 1880 Pickett got out of his berth
and went to the window. Beals, awakened
by the rafting of the blinds, and thinking
some one was trying to enter the room, fired
his revolver. The bullet entered Fickett's
forehead, and passed out of the back of his
head. He lived about an hour and a half.
Beals was delivered to the police on the ar
rival of the boat at Fall River.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
Catching Sharks in Arctic Seas.

Those old piscatorial pirates, the
sharks, often invade the Arctic, no doubt
tempted by the carcasses of the whales
or seals and walruses left to rot by
white men engaged in their pursuit.
Natives, angling from their skin canoes
in deep water, occasionally catch a
sluggish shark who has engulfed the
bait, but there is no use pulling against
such a mountain of flesh and relying
upon sheer strength to bring him up,
and this the 1nnuit Izaak Walton fully
knows, and overcomcs his strength by
sagacity. At every brisk pull by Mr..
Shark, showing him to be irritated, the
line is lowered to appease him, but cau-
tiously hauled in again almost imme-
diately, the shark slowly rising to this
strategic manipulation, until, like a
tinny fool" he rests upon the surface
of the water merely by the aid Of the
weakest tishing-line, when, with a long
knife, the fisherman d%exterously dis
patches him by Il well directed thrust
through the spinal cord. From their
well-known ~voracity in warmer climes,
it seems singular indeed that they do
not oftcner attack the native fishermen
in their little skin canoes, but there is,
not 4 recorded or known instance of,
such attacks even on the west shore Of
Greenland, where they are most nu-
merous, and where the natives catch
large numbers of them-from $1,000 to
10000 year, according to DR.. Rink,
Danish inspector of this coast for a long
number Of years. The most usual
method OF catching these fish can hard
ly be said to be fishing at all. Near a
hole in the ice a lighted torch is placed,
and two natives stand on opposite sides
OF the hole with two sharp hand-hooks,
like deck hands of a steamer at the end
OF a chute waiting for merchandise,
antil the shark sticks his lose out, when
he Is treated in about the same bust
ness-llke manner as he is hauled on the
ice, where their carcasses often accu-
mulate by hundreds, as this shark fish
cry when once commenced is generally
carried on through the whole winter.
The cartilaginous bones are the favorlte
parts OF food, as the raw frozen fish
seems to have a depressing effect when
long continued, and to it is attributed
the dog disease of the North when fed
to them, and which everyfew years car
res Off SO many Of these useful animals
-FOrcst and Stream.