San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-04
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"a HONIE NEWS
NorrcE.-victor Julian, who has charge
of tile mechanical department of the FREE
' Pass Office, is flu ly authorized to receive
ri and receipt for subscriptions, etc., due the
the same make contracts for job printing
and to attend to any other business of the,
- Office.
n MUD and drizzle.
CoTToN PICKING played"
O Houses in town at last all occupied
- TIE Saturday before Christmas we be-
6 lieve was regarded as the busiest day in the
history of our town.
=! We had splendid weather for Christmas,
- hit the less said about New Years the bet
= ter.
A THERE were Christmas trees at the Presby-
y terrain, Baptist and Christian Churches.
Go to Cleasby's gallery for fine photo
= graphs and other pictures.
'T WEY don't Christian ministers and others
" set their faces against the prevalent abomi-
d liable desecration of Christmas.
HE Court House will be completed early
- in February Scarcity of labor has delayed
u the work.
n AT Austin the other day we noticed that
~ the excavation for the walls Of the new Capt.
= tol was complete and one derrick on the
y ground Construction, we suppose, will
= soon begin
- WE want local correspondent and agent
- at every post Office in the county. We
= shall be pleased to send copy free to any
~ such as will interest themselves in the way
- we suggest.
z Stock for Sale.
a The undersigned have lot of gentle and
w unbroken mules, also some gentle saddle
n ponies, which they offer for SALE The stock
u is in G. L. McGehee's pasture.
ID THOMAS &c ERNEST.
n San Marcos, Dec. 14-3w
- SEE our Clubbing List. Make up your
mind what papers and periodicals you wish
4 to take, and let us order them for YOU
You will save money by SO doing.
ri Read the prospectus of the Eclectic mag-
X azine. 1t is indispensable to all who would
" keep abreast of the best thought of the age
y The Artistic Almanac, with a copy of
@ which we have been favored by the publish
ers, j. A. & R. A. Reid, Providence, II. l. Is
very complete and handsomely got up.
IN SrcuRE the shadow ere the substance
~ fade. All wishing for photographs of any
-4 description, either cards, Cabinets, Panels
- or eight by ten or gem pictures can get
@ them at reasonable rates by calling at
rh Cleasby's Gallery, back of Dr. Combs Den
. tai office. Satisfaction givrn in oil cases or
no pay.
9 WE send out some extra copies OF TINS
, weeks FREE Press. We trust those VINO
z receive them may like them well enough
y upon examination to favor US with thel
= subscriptions.
IN DAILY papers-New York, st. Louis. Gin
q cinnati. &c., for sale at the FREE PRESS
- Office. Also some choice weeklies, maya
" zines, and valuable books. Call and see.
- TIE old cry, ''cant afford to take news
- paper" will hardly pass muster such a sea-
3 sou as this, when the country is full OF
~ money.
= Lost.
A medium sized brass door key. The ind.
- er viii be suitably rewarded on leaving II
- at the FREE Press Office.
Q A Valuable Cyclopedia at Bargain.
a., We have a new copy OF the latest Dui IL
- burg edition of Chambers's Cyclopedla' Win
" an addition of about one-third by American
q editors. devoted TO American topics, the
= whole in 10 handsome volumes. 1t Is con-
- cedsd 10 be the best work of the kind for
- the price. and is brought down to ISL
- Having another copy of the same work, We
- vii sell this one very low. CAL al the Z kkh
PREss Office and examine Il