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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
CarniyOreus Plants.
New Orleans Democrat.

Thew are not often met with IN
Mexico, nor has the writer seen them
elsewhere, save in the States of Mi
choacan and Guerrero. In 1866 he
served with Alvarez, and was en-
camped for over six weeks on the
very mountain summit that over
looked Tixtla, and almost daily hunt
ed over the mountain slope atguard
the beautiful valley, yet he never
knew of these plants nor OF their car
nivorous tendencies until 1873, when
an old German naturalist, who was
collecting specimens of insects and
studying the flora of this tropic vege-
table zone, took him to q mountain
pass, where the bases of the noun
tain were apparently eaten away for
many feet near the ground far into
their rocky sides. We craw-ed in the
opening a few yards until We came to
a mass of these training vlne-like
ferus. The writer thought they were
p species of the sensitive vine. but the
naturalist proved that they were not,
for upon running the finger over their
leaves they appeared senseless to the
touch, but when the old naturalist
threw some flies, whose wings he had
pulled off to prevent their escape,
upon them, the fan-like leaves imme-
diately closed upon them and held
them prisoned IN their Tenacious
grasp.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Isthe World Growing Wore I!

The world seems to be growing
more and m ore distrustful every day,
und we are gradually returning TO
first principles and barbarous Gus
toms when might was right
and the strong lorded it over the weak
until they in turn were subdued by
others still stronger. Unlike in early
times, however, it is not the sword
and spears of the mailed warriors that
clash, Ior the brawny arms of giants
that strive for the mastery. Modern
warfare is carried on by the force of
intellect and the combination of kin
bred interests. What was formerly
captured from opposing hosts and
carried in triumph home, or demand.
ed as tribute by the victors, is gained
nowadays by the force, combination
and unity of action of purpose. 70
bombine seems to be the prevailing
method adopted by those who win.
Considerations of all kinds and char
acters are on the increase. Capita
lists, manufacturers, all combine for
their protection or advancement, and
he who figures as a free lance" is in
a sad plight indeed. We hear OF the
milkmen' convention, the truck
farmers convention, the oleomargar-
inc convention, labor convention,
miners convention, ticket agents
conventions, and, in fact, every enter
prise or calling of any consequence
has an organization by which the bust.
ness and affairs of the many is turned
over to and managed by the few.
Each enterprise has little monarchy
of it's own, wherein the members of
the executive board are the lords
temporal" and the president is king,
and to whom every act and interest
is confded and entrusted. 1t is not
the love of organization nor the
desire to incur the expenses of carry
ing it on, which prompts people to
carry them on but it is necessity
which compels them. We are op.
posed as a people to the surrender OF
our personal freedom, and dislike los
ing our individuality in ASSOCIATE ons,
vet experience teaches us that isolat-
ed resistance to the solid front of a
warning interest Is useless task, and
ii a show of resistance is to be made,
or Il hope of triumph over a rival is
to be entertained, it must be predica-
ted upon the irresistible power of the
comb ined many, unanswered and
directed by skillful leader.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
General.

S. w. TALLMADGB, Of Milwaukee,,
whose reports are alleged to be held
in repute estimates the wheat crop Of
the United States for 1888 at a little
over 400,0O0,000 bushels-being 104,-
100000 bushels short, as compared with
last year, and 50,O0O,000 bushels less
than the average of the past five years.
THE worst storm of the season oc-
Cured on the night of Sept "a, on
Lakes Erie, Ontario, and Huron, Sew
eral vessels went to pieces and sank !;
property losses will foot up large
amount, and there was some loss of
life -. The Chief Superintendent of
the Panama Canal reports that it will
not be finished in 1888 Next month
100000 subscriptions of 500 francs each,
will be offered at 25S francs.
THE yellow fever is spreading at a
terrible rate along the Mexican coast.
A recent dispatch from San Francisco
says: Capt Caverly, of the steamship
Colema, Who touched off Manhattan on
his way up from Panama, confirms the
report of the burial of the dead by a
band of hired Indians, who, he says
roamed from house TO house, gathering
corpses as a garbage man would make
his rounds. This resulted in many
persons being buried alive. in one
case a man taken up for dead, was
carted away and buried in less than
half IN hour. Ii was rumored that a
noise was heard in the box as it was
being cartcd off. A friend hearing this,
went to the cemetery, disinterred the
remains. and found the body turned
over from the agony Of suffOcation.
The comet recently observed 10y Prof.
Brooks will be visible in this country
before Christmas. 1t is the comet OF
1912.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11

MAJ. Gen. Pope, now commanding
the department of the Missouri ~,li
probably succeed Gen. Sheridan in the
command Of the Military Division OF
the Missouri, when includes, besides
the department of the Missouri, the
Department of Dakota, Texas and the
Platte Gen. Sherman has fixed up
on the lst of November as The date
upon which he will turn over the com
mand to Gen Sheridan, and practically
retire to civil life, although he will not
DC placed on the retired list Of the
army until the Sth of February.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Texas.

General Mcclellan, who has recent
ly visited many parts of the Texas
Panhandle, predicts that by the year
1890 the State will have a population
of 100000, while he also attirms
that it can support 2O,ooo,ooo with
out overcrowding. The capabilities
of Texas are only just being discov-
vered; it is larger than France, with
better soil and an equal climate, is
we'll watered, and is being completely
intersected by railroads. There was
large increase of population between
1870 and 1880, and there will be still
larger during the present decade.
The State is already second only to
Georgia in the production Of cotton,
and it produces more cattle than any
other two States. II is anticipated,
moreover, that the social and com
mercial relations between California
and the Southwest will in few years
become verv close. The Northwest
Texas Cattle Raisers' Association re-
Gently in session at Fort Worth, has
a membership of 223, who each own
from 1000 to 10000 cattle, and rep
resent grand total of 100000
cattle. There are several members
who can boast of the ownership of
from 10000 to 10000 head, and four
teen who lay claim to the ranching
business is furnished by the brothers
Hartwell, who went from Blooming
ton, H., i'll the fall of 1875. The
aggregate of their worthy possessions
amounted TO $4,000. This they in
vested in $500 cattle. Now they are
the owners of 10000 head, and are
worth at least, S1,500,00O. The
largest ranch in the State is that OF
Mr.. Charles Goodnight, at the head
of Red River. lie began buying land
only four years ago, and now be con-
trolls 200, 900 acres. To inclose his
landed possessions, $50 miles Of fen
eng are required. He has the finest,
though not the largest, herd of cattle
in Texas. His recent sale Of year
lincs fetched $50 per head, the average
price being S15. The Matador Cattle
Company's ranch is another immense
property, which vas recent sold 20 a
companyof Scotch capitalists for ST.
] 100000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Advertising by Telegraph.

AS an example of the expenslvene;s :,
of sending telegraph messages IL
England, where the postal TELEGRAPH
is in use, it is noticed that one tlrm i
to take advantage of the reduction II II
rates about to take place, ana WIZ WIZ
send, rs an advertisement, QUIZ
kilograms the first day the sl1:penn!
rate goes into operation. This Is :
new form of advertising that IS grow,
ing in England. A correspondent %
an American newspaper writes ia ~.
he was made quite angry by a a.s
patch from a patent medicine LII
worded something like the rolloElns
"As you value your life SEND lOi
hottie of-immediately.
Another instance is menuonea =
the advertisement Of a certain p:
called caroline. A gentleman : r
addressed Geographically as ioliO.s.
"Be sure to come TO see Caroline ~
night AZ g." Ills wife received =
message in his absence, and ti'eIs =. -.
music In the domestic ar unul -
matter was explained.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11

ness to keep complete record OF
every bale Of cotton that leaves MS
station. Each bale, you know, is
so marked when it is put up that 1t
can be easily identified, so it can be
traced back through record after rec
ord by its marks, from the mill in
England in which it is opened, to
Liverpool, to New Orleans, to Gai,
weston, to the railroad station where 1t
was first shipped, to the cotton
sin where it was first picked, and
finally to the field where it was
grown. The system is perfect. L re,
member when I was there they traced
back in this way bale of Texas cot
ton which, when opened in England,
was found to contain the body OF q
bow. He had mysteriously disap-
peared from the farm where the bale
was pressed about picking time.
A man who worked there with him,
and had q grudge against him, gave
out that the boy had told him that he
proposed to run away and return to
his friends in the north, and it was
assumed that this was where he had
gone. Instead, he was on his way to
Europe. The bale of cotton convicted
that NAH, and he was hanged for the
,,,rrdor
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
South

THE Georgia Legislature has DELHI
erately refused to pay the bills con-
nected with the funeral of Governor
Stephens, and the citizens of Atlanta
will be called upon to reimburse the
undertaken. E. Near Shreveport, La,
the boiler Of a boat upon which were
workmen constructing the Red River
railroad bridge, exploded, killing and
drowning five persons, and wopnding
five others, one fatally. "A loss of
half q million dollars were. entailed by
the burning of the Oxmore iron fur
naces at Birmingham, Ala.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
'sTis sixty Years Since"
Detroit Free Press.

The young traveller who bowls along
from one ocean to another in "pal-
ace" car with all the luxuries of up
holstery and of the table surrounding
him, finds is hard to conceive that
within the lifetime probably of several
Of those around him, the locomotive
and railroad was in far cruder state
than the electric light of the electric
motor of the present day.
The idea of the "tramway" and the
self propelling engine were Sin the
air" some time before, but it was on
" sixty years ago that George Stepnen.
son, the centennial anniversary OF
whose birth has just been celebrated
crystalized and condensed into
working machine the vague and foggy
suggestions and purposes which many
mechanical minds were already con-
templating. Within the sixty years
which thousands of men in Europe
and this country can easily recall, the
whole railroad system of the civilized
world has been born and has grown
to its present proportions.
There are at present nearly 225 ,OOo
miles of railroad representing ST.
600, 100000 of value, overr'nnlng
every continent and many of the
islands of the globe. And yet, sixty
years ago, the man to whose ingenw-
ty, but more particularly to whose
foresight, comprehension and patience
all this is due, fought, as for his per-
sonal liberty and his life in order to
get permission to set his locomotive
upon It's rails.
Both the. Lords and Commoners
opposed him with might and main.
His engineers and surveyors were at,
tackled by mobs. He was denounced
as a lunatic and a fool, as were all
who believed in and supported him.
The entire country rose against the
project. He was sneered at and nd
iculed. Prophecies of utter failure
were as plentiful as block-heads. The
great lawyers and scientific men OF
the day laughed him to scorn. They
said the engine smoke would kill the
birds and the cattle, ruin the fields,
drive people mad with the noise and
excitement, and, even if successful
would destroy the wealth of the com
munity then invested in horse-fesh.
His bills were thrown out of Parlla-
ment, and even after he was permit
ted to build the Liverpool and Man
chester road, including the filling up
of the shaking bog know as Chat
Moss, it was with difficulty that ne
persuaded the authorities to try loco
motive instead of stationary engines.
The civil engineers themselves were
his enemies. He was not "one of
them" he never received an engl-
neer's education. Everything he pro-
posed was shown to be impossible.
They said an engine could not be
driven at more than twelve miles an
hour; it would be driven back by the
wind; the smooth wheels would not
"bite" on the rails" the wheels
would not turn around, and the ma
chine would stand still.
And all this happened in the boy
hood or girlhood of many traveller
who shoots across states and contln-
ents more easily than they numbered
from town to town in the rudest OF
only sixty ago.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Coricfed by a Bale Of Cotton.

A Washington correspondent says a
truthful young Pennsylvania told the
following as a fact: i went to
Texas some years ago for my health,
and II suited me so well that 1 stayed
there a wear OF two. Most Of
the time was cotton clerk ct a sta
ton where a great deal Of cotton was
summed. Il Is a cotton clerks busi-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Washington.

OFFICIALS Of the Postofiice Depart
inert say that Postmaster General
Gresham VII in his forthcoming report
take stronger grounds in favor Of the
adoption .; The postal telegraph sys-
TEN than any Of LIS predecessors Mr..
Gresham VII also urge the establish
ment q g postal Savi-gs-bank system
similar 10 that nov IN operation in
England. which has been found TO work
very Successfully.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
West.

WILLIAM SIMS, secretary OF the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture, makes
an estimate of the corn yield OF the
State. based on returns from 800 cor
respondents. The estimate is 44.4
bushels per acre, or production OF
2OG,S99,739 bushels, 50,OOOOOO bushels
more than the large crop of last year
This yield, if realized, will place Kan
sas nearly at the head of the corn
growing States for 1888.
The Indians will probably resist the
orders issued by Commissioner Price,
requiring the discontinuance OF dane
ing among the tribes and that Indians
having tive wives shall at once give up
one of them. The wisdom of the or
ders is doubted, and the Indian Agents
say that any attempt to enforce them
will lead to bloodshed. q. Twenty dl-
vorces were granted in Chicago by
Judges Gardner and Moran in one day
The former made the Lest score, de-
cree, every nine minutes.
LYMAN BLAIR, q prominent Chicago
merchant, met his death in tragic man
ner. He had arranged to go hunting,and
had his gun in his sleeping apartment.
Immediately after lunch he went to
his room, and the report of the weap-
on was soon heard The muzzle must
have been close to his mouth, as his
false teeth were shattered and his
tongue burned. The upper portion OF
his head was blown off; the room was
besmeared with his blood and brains,
and one eye lay on the bureau.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11
Deg Oil and Cats Skins.

I'VE skins the nOrSeS anu tue Jugs.
Sometimes we skins the cats. Then
we bile 'em all up together, and make
that and these here out of EN-" The
speaker was bloody from neck to
boots, and shat and these here" were
two piles of black stuff, the odor from
which was somewhat off color. The
place was one of the four or five car
rion-rendering establishments which
dot the river banks quarter of a
mile below Bridesburg. The cats
and the dogs referred to were the
twenty or thirty barrels of these ami
mails received each week from the
city dog-pound and the "eat home"
on Lombard street, below Thirteenth.
Here also was taken all the dead car
rion which can be begged or purchas-
ed in the city. In the darkest hours
of night, great covered wagons make
their mysterious way through the by
ways of Philadelphia. These lumber
ing vehicles are large enough to
carry two dead horses, and no matter
how long the carrion they find has
been dead, if it will hold together
it is gathered up, and the wagons
march resumed until their rounds
have been completed, and they dump
their repulsive loads at the establish
ments on the river bank.
Sometimes" said the man in
charge, 1--WE gets a big supply in the
way of fire. After the Knicker-
bocker's Ice Company's fire, we had
all we could do for some time. In
the ordinary run we gets here about
thirty horses and mules, and twenty
barrels of dead cats and dogs every
week. What do we do with em.
Well, you see, they goes three or four
ways. We cuts 'em up, bone and
all, and losses 'em into that big biler
over yonder. When that has billed
away for twenty-tour or more hours,
we get out the bones, and they go to
the boneyard to make phosphate.
We press the oil outen the ba4ance,
and that goes mostly to make lubri-
cation [lubricating] oil, or to soap
makers. The other stuff is dried, and
we make phosphate out of it our
selves"
The skins, the men said, were
sold to the tanners. In the winter
and early summer the cats are skin
ned, and the hide is used in the lin
ing of winter circular for ladies. Two
curious uses are, however, made of
the dogs. Their fat is carefully taken
off and manufactured into dog oil"
which among superstitious persons,
especially the colored people, possess
es miraculous virture in the cure of
various diseases, but chiefly of rheu-
matism. In all localities where the
colored population is large, this oil is
for sale, and always sells for good
price. 1t is also in demand for con-
sumptives. Very frequently people
who have been pronounced incura BILE,
go to the establishment and beg the
people there to sell them some of the
oil obtained from the dog-fat. o.
casionally persons bring dogs which
they have killed themselves, and have
the dog-oil manufactured from them.
Some of the rendering establish
ments along the river, do enormous
business, receiving their supplies not
only from the city, but from abroad
by the car load. Some of them use
the intestines and refuse matter from
the slaughter-house and abattoirs.-
Philadelphia Record.
4 AR.CuF1op so oraotlv admired The
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11

A BACHELOR so greatly admired the
way in which his housekeeper prepared
his coffee that he proposed to her and
was accepted NelC York Morning
Journal. An Irish servant non at
tends the matter, and the gentlm an
confines himself to tea.-ROehyter
Post-EzpTess.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11

A FIFTH avenue Young ladv has q
tame dude. She feeds him on tsff-
and glucose.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11

NOTHING makes a man lame SO suick
q pension in sight.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-07-13

The recent Ohio Democratic State
Convention adopted no following plat
form q principles;
sc'nsed. 5ecsy u r y; ;As pr'se'piss q 10
ana Nsiieaai rl-iierns Il ssrsri y persoasl
ma ss, :, .n as s so po q cssS e.
cratic rar.y Thomas jeacr<on. The AZ
pllcsf.cn q these prce'p!ss q our
ton 81 Ue public scrYlce. m. punish
ncnt Of the ronbers ~ che public treas
ury. the equalization o. ~ public burdens
&c .,ss, q ss sns y sse y
isiEs a9d to-. chang z s1s pSsy sn,, bee
ssysr!ns eaIy!dsel 80 els ;n,sssss g ;hs
people 81 t6c connlry: ana " rcsilIrm our
previous dcclarntions Tor stable money. no
gradual exl,rcs,on q enc soo:Ic oe94 eno -
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ncccs<is.cs q me Goycrnment cconomIcally
productive indnsirlcs q 6cns. a6ord j1ss
compensation q labor. but nos - crca1o 81
ss 4; I; I: .: & r: & . s ss. c 2
highly protected. We iniQ0lCDm lcE!nIn<lon,
discriminating IN fa<Qr ~ uonopoly and
dry. and ought % b corrcc(c1; an1 ~ heart
IL approve the action. a che DenocFafio
members or the Ohio designation q Congross
IN voting against that incrce1e-
4 The Democrats party q. - . elveyo hao
eesn epPos e ssP<sor 5 x sne u g
the larzsst liberty q rrls.1e conoucs conss.
rlrhss o. Others, AID o. !exul.ilng re liquor
franc and providing egainst the evils result
ing !herfrom 81 5udic'ous and properly
& The abuses 81 tho present conlreoe system
IN our state Pcnitculary. ~ which ehc PRO
ducts or the labor Of co1vic(s are brought q
competition With the products q honest labor
g ne sfes, s9 ss ,ssss e css n!sF
and the promises Of The Republican parry g
abolish This system arc shown - - folee and
hypoerilical ~ n failure . % = vhile q b.
hs e e .sSs s.s sI,g es
born. abroad - well - q home
Z. We rcafIlrm me rcsolullons q ~ SKATE
Conventions Of Ohio ~ l1G4 I9l End - and
and o. the Dcmocratic National Co1venttons
o. Isl Ia and 'ss de9 = ~. e.. '.oro1ss
and chsrss that To RspS6lIcsn psrv - vio'
lated every pledge = So hereto.
fcTs giyen 81 &c reform thereof.
q re Goxcrnmsnt g ecr<sss s<e9 &c
fore e6s5se Il he executive s6pinissssito1
or the Goyefnmcnt itself - ehe rofoFm nrst 81
all necessary - made e1ill morn manifcGt b
the recent klar~rou(c trlalsl thereby oustin1
corrupt rin<s conisderaie4 g grossos crime
by - doing 10 make Il poGsIble oG1in 10 pun
ish fraud and theft Ii (he public service
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-07-13

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-07-13

~. Ncrx>S fr>r 81 No. -, Chestnut Al. sprise
n'iL Mas. vritx Arrii "A r>k seyIar;
'II&<in< fit aflrflon caused ~ kidney and iircn
dsa<<H end eftrf enduring the aches palma w.akncss
and depression inc.icnf thereto mill hody and snul
veU nearly di<<rAcied. ranrhi fof rlisf and cnrs
from my trpuhIc. and ~ns TOLD ~ friSnd. Who ma
hcsn currd By 4 himself THAT tho bHi ana only sarc
cur was Hunts Remedy. and upon M rccomn,niA-
tIcn commenced taking 4. aud an f-l frw dos In
proved my condition II ,rry marked manner and
continuance of ~ nsc h>> ju&ed ~ thai my frrnds
my friends u SprInrnfii have used Il with che noso
gratifying rr<nii< and feel a my duty ~ ven a.
pressure % me - recpmmrnd Hunts Remedy Ia ~
hlrhc<, possible tsrms