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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
From q Coffin to the Alter.

II does not often happen in real life
that young lady once enveloped in
her burial shiout' ard placed in COT
fin as dead, becomes bright and hap
by bride, yet such p singular romance
has Just developed here.
Last evening The Immaculate Con-
cepS1on Catholic Church in this city
was thronged v Sh. cocieSy folks to wiz
ness the nupy;alS OF Miss Mary {, 4i9l5h,
daughter OF Ghe laJe John A. GRIFFITH,
a former prominent merchant OF this
civ, and NJ. Viv;Au -,ea'e. The bride
is u pretty young LADY of about twenty
summers, and for The past two seasons
belle in Baltimore society. Rev.
John A. Maloney performed the mar
rage ceremony, and the alter and sane
tuary of the CHURCH were magnificently
adorned with flowers. After the we'd
ding reception, the young couple left
on Che Western express for bridal
trip to Cincinnati and Chicago.
Several years ago, when the young
lady was residing in Cincinnati, she
had a terrible fall down a flight of
stairs. and received injuries which were
considered fatal. Prominent physicians
pronounced the casehopeless, and final
", the young girl grew much worse,
sank into comatose state and was
thought dead. The body was prepared
for burial, and exposed for two days,
in a casket, to the view of friends. The
day of the funeral arrived, and at the
appointed time the carriages and hearse
drove up to'the house. Relatives and
friends had taken their farewell look at
the remains, and the undertaken was
about to close the coffin, when It was
noticed that the life-hke appearance of
the corpse became more pronounced,
and there were slight signs of return
ing vitality. A physician was sum
moned. and in a couple of hours sue
ceeded in restoring Miss Griffith TO
consciousness. The solemn gathering
was turned into one Of ioy. She re-
covered rapidly, and has since been IN
excellent health.-COmmercial Gazette.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
The Panama Isthmus Canal.

The people of the United States
have persistently Rugged the notion
that the Panama ship canal connect
ing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
projected by M. De Lesseps, will new
er be built; and that after he has
souandered some millions of money
in getting ready to abandon the I'M
dertaking, Ameaican capital and en-
terprise will put themselves together
and leisurally construct a ship canal
of our own on the Nicaraguan route,
over which the United States will
have exclusive Jurisdiction. The man
ner in which the isthmus project
is progressing is calculated to impress
Americans with the tardy conviction
that they have been deluding them
selves. M. De Lesseps is certainly
not man who makes failures, or is
disheartened by enormous difficulties,
OF neglects to count the cost of the
enterprises he undertakes. His Amer
lean agent, Captain Nathan Appleton,
of Boston, who has just returned from
a visit to Panama, comes back full
of enthusiasm over the progress and
prospects of the work that has been
steadily advancing there for the last
two years. He found between three
and six thousand men at work at
different points along the forty miles
of the canal, and company paying
out a half a million of franks week
in wages. Thus far the work done
has been largely preliminary, the
building OF shops, docks, hospitals,
houses, machinery, etc. But a vast
deal of dredging has also been done
at both ends of the route; and enor-
NOUS dredging implements of both
European and American manufac-
ture, are hard at work, while others
have been contracted for and are arriv-
wing rapidly. The principal work of ex-
cavation vet undertaken is at Mt. Gu
Zebra, the highest point on the 18TH
mus, about three hundred feet above
the level of the sea, and some fifteen
miles from Panama. The contract
for removing 100000 cubic feet
from the summit of the hill has been
awarded to Albert Millet, an Amen
can citizen of French arentage, and
mon this work be has now some ten
excavators engaged, built expressly
for the purpose in the United States,
Captain Appleton after looking the
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
TEXASTOPICs.

Captain E. NJ. Daggett, an ola
citizen of Texas, and a prominent anu
good man, died at Fort Worth a faw
days ago.
Mr.. Reynolds of Palestine. w..
chloroformed enc night recently, and
jewelry and money to the amount Of
$500 taken from him.
Henrietta Shield: From all mart.
of the country comes murmur ~
unrest about, the fencing up of tha
country. Men who buy and paw f.,
large or small areas of land have tbs
same right to enclose it for their ind;.
vidual use. The amount OF ones
purchase cuts no figure. The rights
of citizenship and property are eouaI
among rich and poor. The sword is
edged on both sides. The man with
a hundred thousand acres of land has
the same right to fence and use it as
the man has 10 fence and use his
forty acre lot. But he has no more
right to enclose and fence up the road
than the small owner has. And in
the adjustment of this road business
it is important to keep these truths in
in view. Give each individual his
full measure. of justice and protect
the public interests. Do not get mad
because you are not the lucky owner
of a large tract, and injure yourself
to spite some one else. Consider all
points, and ask only for justice to the
community.
--Brazos Pilot: The occupation tax
levied upon merchants comes out of
the people. But this is not all. This
outrageous imposition does more to
crowd out tradesmen with little CAPT.
tai and to prevent competition than
any law ever passed by congress. I'm.
less one has fortune with which to
buy his license and enough to begin
business he can not open shop in Tex.
as. So he is driven away, and the
consequence is that many atown has
one store and no competitor, where
it ought to have two houses and low
er prices for goods. If free trade is
really a democratic principle, then
the democratic legislature of this
state committed O grave error in i'm
license upon useful occupations.
The recent Legislature seems to have
been democratic enough in some
particulars, but failed to see and cor
rect this abuse. The tariff question
is coming to the front in national
politics. Would it not be well
enough to bring it nearer home and
to see that the next Legislature Of
this state is composed of men whose
words and actions correspond?
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.

All, here II IL, the dear old place
Unchanged through all these years.
Vow like somo sweet familiar race
Ny childhood's homo appears
The grand old trees behind tho door,
still spread their branches widei
The river wanders as OF yore'
with sweetly running tide;
The distant hills look green and gay
The flowers arc blooming wild;
And everything looks glad to-day
Az when was a child.
Regardless how the years have ilown'
Half wondering stand;
catch no fond ondearing tone,
/ clasp no friendly hand;
think my mothers smile to meet
list my fathers call,
pause 10 hear my brothers feet
Come bounding through tho hall;
But silence. all around me reiBnS,
No trace of those love remains,
And tears unbidden start,
What though the sunbcams fail as ia'r'
What though the budding flowers
Still shed their fragrance on the air
Within life's golden hours?
The loving ones that clustered here
These walls may not restore;
Voices that filed my youthful ear
Will greet my soul no more.
And yet quit the dear old place
With slow and lingering tread,
AS when We kiss clav cold face
And leave il with the dead.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
What Are Sun-Spots!

The great atmosphere of the sun,
whose breath is flame, is yet, says Mr.
Proctor, so cold compared with his IN
tensely glowing surface that IL absorbs
n large proportion of his light as well
as of his heat. But while the general
absorbtive action of tire sun is wonder
full, the story is still more wonderful
which the spectroscope has to tell about
the specific absorptive effects due to its
constitution. We find that whereas IN
our air the vapor of water is present
Ito condense into water drops and form
clouds at certain levels, and to change
to ice crystals and form cirrus at high
levels), in the sun the atmosphere Is
laden with the vapors OF ron, copper,
zinc, sedirm, magnesium, and like ele-
ments. to .'orm clouds of metallic drops,
great gatherings of metallic crystals,
while the rains that pour down toward
the concealed true globe OF the sun are
mighty showers of molten metal. When
hurricane occurs in the sun, the
clouds which form tbe suns surface are
swept along, OF viii. led around, not at
the rate Of which we measure our
storms, but with velocity compared
with which their swiftesG motion is ut
rest. The solar tornadoes rage, not
over few hundred square miles, but
over regions as large as the whole sur
face of The earth, over Hundreds, even
thousands of millions Of square lilies;
and they t4.vel over taeGe enormous
regions at rate nc5 o. so mary miles
per hour OF per ninu5e, bet OF many
miles. sometimes more Tran hundred
miles in every second o time.
Such storms are in progress now,
when we see the Spots rpon the sun:
Such storms tell rs O? the acUiv'Uy OF
that great central engine whose throbs
are +. le life-beat OF the solar system.
We measu the suns work, pc. force,
by our own fo!ms Of wo..k. We speak
OF his emission OF ]i.;-'t ard hea5 as COR
responding to wla5 would result from
the burning o. eleven thorsand millions
of millions o. tons OF the finest coal IN
every second of time. Bu5 what mind
can conceive the vitality Of that nightly
orb which seem so silent and so still
in our skies? The throbbing of the
great engine which beats out light and
life to the whole family of planets can
only be seen by the minds eye, and as
yet that eye is no more capable of see
ing the suns wo:k as il really is than is
the bodily eye OF seeing the distant
millions OF suns which the greao gaug-
ING telesco es OF The Herschels bring
within our Len. Nor can the mental
ear hearken to the uproar aid tumult
with which the works of the great CEN
trail engine is accomplished, OF imagine
what would oe heard if one could visit
that spot which looks lie tiny speck
on the suns surface, and passing be-
low the limits of the solar air so that
sornd waves could not reach him, could
find Gas assuredly he would if he could
live at temperature which turns the
hardest metal into vapor) all forms OF
noise known to us--the roar of the
typhoon, the crash Of thunder, even the
hideous sroaning of the earth throe-
surpassed million fold by what takes
place within every square mile OF that
disturbed region.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03

Did 1 understand you to say that
he left New York ten years ago for
Texas without dollar, and died the
other day worth S15,OOO?"
"Yes, sir, said So"
Must have had cattle rancho"
Yes, he had one.
Cattle increased pretty fast, didn' t
they?"
Wonderfully fast, l believe they
proved that his herd increased over
500 in one night.
DO tell. That doesn't seem pos
sible."
well, I'm bis executor, and l have
the name of the coroner who found
that he died of too much rope and
limb, and ought to know what I'm
talking about"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03

APRErTY girl positively and truly
saws. If our Maker thought it wrong
for Adam to be single when there was
not a woman upon earth, how criminal
" guilty are the old bachelors with
the world full of pretty girls.-AT
kansdtC Trdueler.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
RENJiE'SOLD HAT.

He sent me get Mr.. Coles bill, the
boss did, and said to hurry up. Well,
ran all the way there, and Mr.. Cole
he paid it, and it was forty dollars,
and tucked it into my hat band on
the inside, in the "sweat, as my un-
Gle, that's the halter, calls it, for mon
eyhas been snatched from fell rs, and
fellers pockets hare been picked, you
know.
Nobody wanted my old hat and 1
felt as safe as bank with the money
that was in it.
And so going home, when l saw
Jim and Bill Rigs playing marbles,
and l stopped to speak to EN-.
"Come and play" says they.
Cant says 1. "Doin' narrand. y
ooh, pshaw," said they, "just one
game.
Well, 1 thought I had time enough,
and gave in, and at it we went-and
go into anything when do so into
it-and was playing for all | was
worth L can tell you, when all of a
sudden Bill says:
"Benjie, where's your hat?"
HMy hat"
I gave howl, and put my hand to
myhead. 1t was bare.
"Oh, fellers, says L, "don tease me.
Give it back. It's got suthing into
it," But Jim and Bill swore they
hadn t got it, and nobody had passed
by but two old ladies and big gen.
tleman, regular swell, they said. 1
had not seen 'em, but they could not
want boys old hat. Jim and Bill
turned their pockets out, and let me
feel their backs. They hadn't got it.
And 1 looked high and looked low,
and l felt as if 1 was going crazy for
l couldn't find it. l didn't know
what would be done to me; but l
thought may be I'd be sent to prison.
And l thought, considering what my
old granny would say, and how she
would feel if she was to see me in d
striped suit with chain on my leg,
I'd better go hang myself, only that
was wicked and no telling where I'd
60. If I was to run away it would
be about as bad for granny. And if
| was to offer to pay it up out ofmy
wages, and only got two dollars
week, and two times twenty is forty,
and twenty weeks is almost SIX months;
and Teller has to have shoes, and l
give one to. granny for my board, and
how she'd get me any without it
for washing don't bling in fortune
| didn't know.
"Oh, fellerJl fellers" says l. "Oh
fellers am just done for. L wish
somebody would kill me, for there
was money in that hat that belongs
to the boss, and it's stole and gone
forever
"That's rough Benjie," says Bill,
"Oh, that's rough on you"
"You hadn't orter stopped to play
with us, said Jim.
mo" SAYS 1, 81 hadn't orter. What
would you dol"
"Td own up, says Bill:
"Td run away" says Jim. "Ithink
somebody must have knowed about
the money and followed you up. 1
think it was the swell old gent. Pick
pockets look stylish enough some
times"
"Whoever got it, I'll never have it
again." says l. Goodbye fellers.
MAY be You will never see me again.
And off went.
1 wasn't sure Jim hadn't got 1t, but
| knew about Bill. Bill was square.
l went ofiice-ways at first. Then
turned back and went towards gran
ny's. l felt ike / would die, and l
wished l would. l thought If / did
granny could tell EN- afterward. So
up 1 went, and there she stood starch
INC uoor old soull
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03

ground over thoroughly, came to the
conclusion that the building OF the
canal is not such an enormously diff
ficult Job as is generally supposed
and is confident that it will be COM
pleted and in operation before the
end of the present century.-Ot'ca
Herald.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
Known by Their Weapons.

WlaJ SORT OF Wehpoh uoeo sAS
binary business man buy?"
HE buys revolver that will kill
a thirty. two or thirty-six caliber weaP,,
on. The calculation is that he Will
never use the weapon unless his
life is in danger, and consequently he
wants what will be of some practical
service. The prices run from 30 TO
SIS or $40. Private watchmen anu
officers of the law all carry good weap-
ons and pay good prices"
"Thieves and burglars usually car
ry good weapons do they not?"
II can't swear to that. You see
they do not tell me their business
when they buy from me. In fact L
never ask them. Rough, villainous
looking men often drop in and ask to
see revolvers. They always buy the
best in market and choose revolvers
of large caliber. 1 have customers
who, from their personal appearance
l would Judge to be burglars and
roughs, but as l remarked before L
never ask them what their occupations
are. Sailors and Italians seldom car.
~ revolvers. They are customers OF
mine, however, but always buy knives.
Look at this instrument" as he said,
drawing large dirk from the showcase;
The blade was sixteen inches long and
as sharp as razor. "That is what
Jack Tar carries. 1t makes no noise
and does the work in a more effect
i've way than the revolver. There is
another nationality which buys heav-
ily of both revolvers and knives. 1t
is the Chinese. John has learned
that he has got to protect himself,
and he always buys the finest of re.
volvers. He first asks the price and
never buys until he succeeds in beat
ing you down several dollars. The
consequence is I always put up the
price about four dollars when l see d
Chinaman come into the store. He
sets to work and beats me down about
three dollars, and 1 sell him rovol-
YER for about one dollar more than
the average citizen would pay. He
also buys knives and prefers large
one with very long blade. Twill
tell you one thing that [ think ought
to be attended to by the authorities.
That is the selling of weapons to
small boys, and in fact all boys,
whether big or little. [ know that |
am doing wrong. What can l do?
If I do not sell to them some one else
will, and 1 am obliged to do wrong
because my neighbors do. This re-
volver is called a toy pistol. 1t is ~
caliber, and will kill the strongest
man that ever lived. They are sold
from one to three dollars each, and a
great many are bought by boys and
women. The misguided females
think they have provided themselves
with an effective safeguard against
burglars, but they sometimes shoot
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03

CATTLE are dumb beasts, but By
getting together IN large numbers
they make themselves herd.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-15
What She Said.

A rather fast young man, becoming
enamored of pretty girl, finally decided
to make her an offer Of his hand and
neart-aii ne was worth-and then he
hoped to be INDUCED in loverlike demon
strations, tue young. lady being 30 far
cooliy indifferent in her manner toward
him. He attributed this to maidenly
reserve, for it never occurred to him that
she was not in love with him. He eau.
tiously prefaced his declarations with
few questions, for he had no intention of
Throwing himself away" Did she love
him we'll enough to live in cottage with
him -? Was she n good cook and bottle
washer? Did abe think it wife's duty
to make home happy? Would che con.
suit his tastes and wishes concerning her
associates and pursuits in life? Was
she economical? Could she make her
own clothes, etc.? The lady said that
before she answered his questions she
would assure him Of some negative vir-
tues sho possessed. She never drank,
smoked or chewed; never owed q bill to
her tailor; never stayed out all night
playing billiards; never stood on the
street corners and ogled giddy girls;
never stood in with the boys for cigars
and wine suppers. "Now," said she,
rising indignantly, II am. assured by
those who know that you do all these
things, and 1t is rather absurd for you
to expect all the virtues in me, while you
do not possess any of them yourself. I
can never be your wife," aud she bowed
him out and left him ON the cold door.
step madder If not wiser man.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-15
Salt for the Throat.

In these days when diseases of the
throat are so universally prevalent, and
in 80 many cases fatal, remarks an ex-
change, we feel 1t our duty to say a word
In behalf of most effectuai, if not DOS.
tive cure for sore throat. For many
years past, indeed we may say during the
whole Of life of more than forty vsars,
We have been subject to dry hacking
cough, which is not only distressing to
ourselves, but to our friends, and those
with whom we are brought into business
contact. Last Fall we were Induced TO
try what virtue there was In common
salt. We commenced by usiug it three
times day-hnorning, noon and night
We dissolved large teaepoonful of pure
tablesalt 10 about half small tum.
bier full of water. With this we gar.
gled the throat most thoroughly just be.
foro meal time. The result hes been
that during the entire winter we were
not only free from coughs and colds, but
the dry hacking cough had entirely dis.
appeared. We attribute these satisfacto.
~ results solely to the use Of salt gargle,
and most cordially recommend trial Of
1t to those who are subject to diseases Of
the throat. Many persons who have
never tried the salt gargle have an Inn
preston that 1t is unpleasant, but afte. q
few days use, no person who loves d nice
clean mouth and q. first-rata sharpener Of
the appetite, will abandon il. Exchange.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-11-15

and associations, is romans work. In the
necessity that forced Colonel Washington
to part with it, he applied to the Com.
monwealth of Virginia (within whose
borders it lies) to purchase it. On her
refusal, he offered it to the Federal Gov
ernment with like failure. 1t was then
a.iSouthern woman, Carolina's-- gentle.
high. hearted daughter, Ann Pamela
Cunningham, appealed to the ,romen of
America to do this noble work Of homage
10 him whose greatness lowered above
the splendors of place, filling the world
with wonder-whose stainless worth out.
shone the grandes. attributes of human
praise. | think we cannot be faithless
to this high record nor can we see our
heritage of honor in Washington's hcme
pass from our keeping.
cannot say more. You will realize
that, with my responsibility, l could no,
say less. And earnestly entreat you to
secure SUCCESS by contribution from
each County to the funds nowssin the
hands Of Mayor Courtenay, our generous
and patriotic Treasurer. This ask in
behalf Of The Stale we lcvo and. delight
to honor. l.. II, PIcKENs.
Vice Regent for South Carolina.