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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
MISSION 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 list Of
fruits adapted to the climatic requirements is the
object to which the proprietor has devoted his life
He has been able to bring to his aid the advantages
of early horticultural training, and by the eIpend
ture of twenty thousand dollars In experiments
upon our own ground--by close observation and
study through the quarter Of q century during
which horticultural study experiment and labor
has been his leading pursuit-he has been able to
become acquainted with the peculiar wants Ct our
very peculiar climate
Taking advantage Of the principle well established
by physical geographists, viz that all fruit trees
are improved by being carried toward their polar
limit and that they deteriorated by being car
ried toward their equatorial imit-he has made his
experiments and established his nurseries farther
south than any other general nurseries In the Unhed
States. He sells no caeap northern trash 10 his
customers His trees and plants are therefore bet
ter suited 10 Texas culture taan those Of any other
establishment in the world.
Our nurseries and grounds, embracing about 65
acres in horticulture, will be freely shown 70 visit
ors every day but Sunday.
Orders for trees and plants received by mail, OF
through any Of our authorized agents.
Catalogues rent free to every applicant For fun
Their information apply 20
GILBERT ONDERDONK,
sspt2s Mission Valley, Victoria Co.. Texas.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
A Salt Mine.

1t is generally known that Louisiana
can boast the possession of one of the
largest deposits of salt in this country.
1t is found on Petit Anse, OF Avery's
island, in Vermilion bay, the island be-
ing connected with the mainland by q
causeway which runs through the sea
marsh. The island has an area of
about $500 acres, covered mostly with
woods. The salt is struck at a depth
of twenty feet below the surface, and
found in solid mass so hard that it
requires to be mined like coal, OF ore,
holes being drilled into the face of it,,
and the explosion made with dynamite,
which leaves no discoloration to the
salt. An explosion is followed by the
trlmbling of the face of the mass to the
floor in huge blocks, which require to
be broken with sledge hammers before
they are loaded in cars to be drawn out
of the mine. The Jumps are afterwards
passed through steam crusher, which
breaks them into smaller fragments,
and these are ground in mill to any
required fineness, when the salt is
ready for market. About 200 tons a
day are taken out. The working OF the
deposit has been attended with difficult
ties owing to the position of the island
in shallow water, but a railroad will
reach it the present year, and, then,
larger quantities will be sent to market
The deposit shows plain qualification,
but the layers and seams are upright,
showing that the whole mass was up.
heaved in some remote CONFUSION OF
nature. The galleries in the mine are
hewn through the solid saline mass,
and it is estimated that there is enough
salt in the mine to supply the whole
population of the United States for
years.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
The Great Republic.

We have before us a public docu-
@ent of 164 pages prepared by the
Bureau of Statistics, under the d.
rectiOn of the Secretary of the Treas
ary, entitled Statistical Abstract of
the United States-1682, Fifth Num-
Der" Its contents are entirely made
up of tables and figures relating to
nance, coinage, commerce, lmml-
grafton, shipping, the postal service,
population, railroads, agriculture, coal,
non, etc." The figures are fruitful OF
thought. No intelligent American
can bestow upon them a half hours
study without becoming more or less
snthused with the idea that of all
iSnds upon which the sun shines and
me rains descend America is themost
laVored-a country and a heritage so
lnspeakably grand that the magma
aon In its widest freaks fail to COM
prehend Its boundless resources and
Snspeakable possibilities for human
Hppness and progress. The area OF
1e great republic in square miles is
TT'ooO,2I5, and In acres 2, 291, sac, 2SS.
4 Is an ocean-girt and a continental
0bhc. Make the journey around
: y fancy, starting from the north
POINT IN Maine where it touches
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26

the British possessions, follow the
eastern boundary of Maine to the At.
iannc, along its coast TO the southern
eSapes OF Florida, along the gulf coast
line until you reach the Mexican boun.
Diary, then to the Pacific coast, then
north to the dividing line between
Washington Territory and the British
possessions, then follow that boun-
Diary until you reach the point of be.
ginning 1--WE omit Alaska) and YOU
have made the grand circuit, and
your fancy may challenge the stars to
show in their ceaseless rounds any
thing more poetic or profitable. 1t is
interesting to contemplate the growth
OF the great republic in population
since the year 1890. 1t is as follows
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26

TYPoGRAPHICAL errors are horrid
things, as rule. They frequently Gre
ate a comedy of errors" Sometimes
they should be called Typographical
terrors." The one we record cannot be
SO called, however. An old fellow died
recently, and the paper said he would
Gown many thousand dollars when his
estate had been administered" Here
the error comes in and plays the deuce.
The next day the sons of the old man
were cultivated; the undertaken forced
a handsome coffin; half dozen minis
ters wanted to remark" at his grave
the livery men sent a number of car
riages; lots of people attended the flu
neral. All thought the old man had
been living misery in order to die and
surprise the public some day. Many
remarked who would have thought it !?
After several DAYS Of such business, the
paper corrected the error, by request.
IL should have read he would owe
many thousand dollars etc. Thus an
m in place Of an &c" played havoc in
lots Of calculations, and insured one
man a decent send of IL wouldn't be
a bad idea if such errors would occur
frequently.-Grip.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26

such q growth in population was
never known in any other country
within the range of authentic history,
but it does not compare with the
wonderful advance made in develop
ing the agricultural and mineral re-
sources of the republic. 1t is easy to
measure the growth of population
from 1890 to 1880--it can be counted
but the increase of agricultural
products admits of no such definite
calculation. They have been not
only sufficient to feed the millions
who live within the bounds of the
republic, but to send abroad such
vast supplies as bewilder the mind by
the enormous sum totals. Taking
the figures showing the product of
the cereal crops for ten years, 1872
to 1881 inclusive, we have the fol-
lowing:
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
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 ii absorbs
n large proportion of his light as we'll
as of his heat. But while the general
absorbtive action of the sun is wonder
full, the story is still more wonderful
which the spectroscope has to tell about
the specific absorptive effects due TO it's
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 10 change
to ice crystals and form cirrus at high
levels), in the sun the atmosphere is
laden with the vapors of iron, copper,
zinc, sodium, magnesium, and like ele-
ments, to form 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 moltenmetal. When
hurricane occurs in the sun, the
clouds which form the suns surface are
swept along, or whirled around, not at
the rate ut which we measure our
storms, but with velocity compared
with which their swiftest 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 miles !;
and they travel over these enormous
regions at rate not'of so many miles
per hour or per minute, but of many
miles, sometimes more than a hundred
miles in every second of time.
Such storms are in progress now,
when we see the spots upon the sun.
Such storms tell us of the activity of
that great central engine whose throbs
are the ife-beats of the solar system.
We measure the suns work, per force,
by our own forms of work. We speak
of his emission of light and heat as cor
responding to what would result from
the burning of eleven Thousand millions
of millions of tons of the finest coal in
every second of time. But what mind
can conceive the vitality of that mighty
orb which seems 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 work as it really is than is
the bodily eye of seeing the distant
millions of suns which the great gaug-
ing telescopes of the Herschels bring
within or ken. Nor can the mental
ear hearken to the uproar and tumult
with which the works of the great CEN
trial engine is accomplished, or imagine
what would be heard if one could visit
that spot which looks like q tiny speck
on the suns surface, and passing be-
low the limits of the solar air SO that
sound 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 grooming 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, 1883-04-26

The Austin Statesman says: The
town of Toyah is destined at no dis
tant day to become place of great
importance. The Texas and Pacific
railway company will soon erect ex-
tensive stock yards there, and as a
shipping point Toyah must become
the most noted on the line of the
road. Two months ago the compa-
ny's artesian well project there cul-
minated in securing a tremendous
flow of water. The water is mineral
warm sulphur--is pronounced by
scientific men as equal, if not SUPER
or. as a curative agency, to that of the
celebrated Hot Springs, Of Arkansas,
and II is confidently anticipated that
Toyah must become a great health
resort.
@WHrS Will the editor be in2" said
The Office boy at a Colorado newsPa-
-, oHioe aWen, / don't know, I'm
t-,,s: not til they kind Of quiet down
and quit watching to lynch hum for
;bss editorial Published yesterday.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26

ATA. .sst made a. home By the Insustrs
HOus. Best busfrtsa nov hefore -.
- Hpublc. Capital not neefef We -
- lt.rt you. Men. ronts, boTs and rirfs
Nante1 everywhere % Wcrk for ua. Nrw n -
nme- Yea can work in spare fire. or I've -
whole u1 ne - t1t b1liness- No ether buffne.s-
vi pay ycu neariT - vel. No enc ca "a -
sale e1orncut par, ~ enrArfnr a. o1ee. en-
clttt and terms Tree. Acrfy Dads fnrf 49,
80 soaoraoy- Ao1rsns TErE Co, AurlIis-.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
Total. =, 20, 356 354, 975 10, s91, 1856, Gal

During the ten years named the
hay crop amounted to 305, 563,693
tons valued at $685., 615,646; the
tobacco crop yielded 4,749,0S0,014
pounds, valued at 1926, 3S6,336. No
other country in the world can ap-
proximate such sum totals for a de-
cade.- Indianapolas Sentinel.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26

DIR. All COxsox Of Gainesville,
was IN the cattle business SIX weeks
and cleared s12, 600.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26
PAT ENTS

Obtained aud all other businets IN the L. s. Pat
enf Ofice attended 90 for MODERATE Yrs.
our oflce Is opposite the L. :. Patent Of1cf, and
Ne ear obtain patents On less time than those re-
mote from WAeHINGToN.
S-nd MODEL or DRAWING. We advise as 20
e.,.1ts5yl,.I FREE q shsTss, 1Sd Ss DAfe NO
We refer. here. % tke Postmaster. tke surt. o.
roney Order DIV. ard - orelals 81 TIE L. 3.
Psfe-f Once. Yer circular. advice. terms anf
references % aetual Cheats in your ovn state o.
C.A.sNOW a CO.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-26

Cheapest Bibles s.. ss.;1 ~ sE .:::. ~ =.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
SCHOOL OF MINES.

Candidates for admission OF the six regula
courses VIZ. Mining engineering. Civil Engineering
Ana Ttical and Applied Chemistry Geology. Meailnr ~
ATcntectuI Sanitary Engineering vail present ihuii
selves Tor Examination TU G5DAY sept 20 al siSo IN
Candidates conditioned June last will be TO examined
the same tune
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21

COD OUT AND MAN IN; OK REPLIES TO ROBERT g.
ise.EsoLI. BY W. II. PLAT, - D.; rector OF 81
Paui's Church. Rochester. n T. New-forK; Iholhas
Whitaker.
DIR. Platt was lawyer before he became clergy
man and In the present volume he submits the
rhetoric of Mr.. 1ugersoli to calm and merciess
legal analysis The result is disastrous to the So
called arguments of the champion of in6delty.
Nevertheless we question the wisdom of giving a
serious answer to the sneers and ndicue which Mr..
Iagersoll employs to assaIl Christianity. In this
age of serious thought. irreverent persage may be
fifty left to the verdict of any serious thought
will reach without aid or stimulus.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
Brooklpn Schools.
Gaw Schools.

A NNUAL SESSION (25th) of the Law School hoe
of the University OF the city OF New York begins Ooto-
her next and ends June , 1894 Al. Vanderpoe Lib,
President OF the Faculty For catalogues go aR9y
professor l. r. RUSSELL Ill Broadway, or X JAgUEo'
Secretary OF Law Faculty. Bryant Building 90 LDerysI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
C0LLEGIATE INSTITUTE
OF
DIR. ]. SACHS,
No SO West jSth-st..
REoPENS MONDAY. SEPT. IT.

Thorough preparation for colleges Ie'oscially HAIR
WARD COLUMBIA and CORNELL, and scientific schools
fullv ORGANIZED business cOurss FRENCH aud GERM AN
form Of regular scheme Of instru'u'a
NEW BUILDING. perfect in ssn,ary arrange nent+
LAME A Nd WE'LL ECU LPPED GYMNASIUM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
4oth and : tn sta. Madison and 4th AYES. New

The first session Of each Of the schools will begin
MONDAY. oct l, at $3.50 a. no.
FA p BARNARD IL. D.. President.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.

The purpo,e Of this school give complete general vie
OF ali The snbiect OF internal AMI external puohc point
from the three stand point Of history law and pcsoph
Candidates for matTcualiOn will present their cernca
TO the President. at the College on FRIDAY MORNING
Sept. 20
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21

ct. Louis College, 1874 West 37th-st.-Select
y Catholic School. Six languages Complete business
course Warn lanch Light Gymnastics. Terms moderats
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
SCHOOL OF ARTS.

The examination Of candidates for admission will begin on
WEDNESDAY. sept 49, at $3.50 m
Candidates conditioned in June last present themselves
al time
Candidates for admission 70 the COLLEGIATE COURSE
FOR WOMEN will present themselves at ths college, on
TUESDAY Sept rs, AZ 1U a. Circulars OF Information
sent on application
Candidates for the GRADUATE DEPARTMENT Will
present their diplomas President at the College on
FRIDAY MORNING. Sept Is Circulars containing the
courses of instruction the may be had upon
application
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-21
Citp l1ropertp 60 Get.

ITO LET.-The highly desirable four-story,
bi9h stoop brown. stone dwelling No rs East 8Sd-st
BET ween 5th and Madson Apply to II. c. PEDDER
Arnold, Constable q Co, 6thave. and lSthsL
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-11
Other BLGzeS.

WHEELING, W. Va, May 10, II noon
Fire broke out at Bridgeport opposite this
city in Ohio this morning at $50, caused
by the overheating of terra chimney in
the three-story frame tenement house be-
longing to Amos Osborne of this city. This
house and the Cochran house, three-story
frame hotel adjoining with wagon and
blacksmith shop on the same lot, were all
destroyed. The hotel was situated at the
west end of the wood bridge spanning the
west channel of the Ohio and this caught
fire several times, and only by berculean
efforts was its destruction prevented. Sew
eral firemen were badly burned. The fire
department of this city sent over three en-
gines which saved the bridge. Loss $11,-
600; no insurance. Much excitement was
caused. The bridge that was threatened is
the only communication between the CEN
trail part of the city and Ohio via Wheel
ing Island.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio,ls May 10-Eight
buildings, including the post office and
three stores, all frame, at Vienna, Trum-
bull county, were destroyed by fire last
night. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Thought to be inceudiary.
New YORK, May 10.-The sash and blind
factory of Bradley & Currier was struck
by lightning and fired. Loss $4,000.
ST. ALBANs, VT, May 10-The Baptist
church here, fine brick structure, was
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-11
THE MAY CROP RETURNS.

WASHINGTON, May 10.-The May returns
of wheat to the department of agriculture
make the condition compared with April
average materially lower in New York,
Michigan, Ohio and Illinois. Further in
jury was done by the frosts early in April,
and in more northerly districts the real
damage by March frosting was more fully
disclosed as the covering of snow and ice
disappeared. The average is seventy
seven for New York, Michigan eighty
three, Ohio sixty-two and Illinois sixty-six.
Further loss is suffered by the blowing up
of large areas in Ohio and Illinois. A
reduction in Missouri from eighty-three
to eighty is reported. In Indiana the av-
erages are seventy-fve, and New Jersey re-
ports 1O1, both the same as
April. All the remaining northern
states show an improvement since the
April report, as well as the Pacific coast
and nearly all the Southern states. These
averages are Connecticut, SO, Pennsylvania,
95; Delaware, So; Maryland, 80; Virginia,
81; North Carolina, 90; South Carolina,
90; Georgia, 81; Alabama, 90; Mississippi,
80; Texas, 81; Arkansas, Sc; Tennessee,
SO; w. Virginia, 80; Kentucky, 81; Kansas,
81; California, n, and Oregon, 70. This
is an improvement of fifteen points in
California and seventeen in Oregon.
The average condition of winter wheat is
8315 against so in April. The loss in
area from replanting may be assumed to
reduce the prospect to that of April l.. In
1879 and 1880, the general average was 80;
in 1881 it was SO; in 1882 it was 102, and
in May of last yeNr 100. In former years
there were no May returns.
1t should be understood that in the re-
ports of condition, 100 means medium
growth with a full stand and healthy plant.
The Ohio and Illinois state reports COM
pare with last years crop, thus: Ohio reports
GO as compared with an average crop.
The spring wheat area will not be COM
plete until May Is, and will be reported
June l.
The statistic agent for Dakota makes
amount for Minnesota is reported as Sc
per cent. of last years area already plant
ed, and an increase of Is PER cent. is re-
ported in Washington territory. 1t is not
| probable that the increase in
| Lu0 SpIAAS nhCuS oAOo VIII
moro than make good the loss OF
the winter wheat acreage. Without regard to
the spring wheat breadth the present pros.
| pect for the winter wheat area in consid-
Grafton of the reduced condition and acre
age, is twenty per cent less than in May
last, representing loss of about 100000
bushels.
A dispatch from London under date OF
April %, reports an improvement in Eu-
ropean wheat prospects during the last
month. The severity of March was follow
ed by three weeks Of dry weather which
was followed by one weeks invigorating
rain. The season is still backward anC
! higher temperature is needed. The small
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-11
NEW YORK.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.1

lDptCldl 1616RIdul W Ill0 OlOU0.l
New YORK, May 10.-The bears had quite
a little carnival to-day. Stocks were on
the down grade from the opening, and it
was within half an hour of the close
before anything like rally appeared, and
when it did arrive, it was very feeble one.
There were evidences this morning that
holders who had become disguised waiting
for the long looked for improvement,
which does not come, we're marketing
stocks. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
was particularly weak at enetime, selling
at 1884. New York CentrH1and the 9th
er Vanderbilts were all lower than on yes
terdaY. Louisville & Nashville was freely
supplied all day. Pullman was well sus-
tanned and closes higher by trife than it
opened. The market seems to be entirely
in the hands of the scalpers, who are con-
tented with small profits. The specializing
public have evidently forsaken the vicini-
ty of the exchange, waiting for
something more tempting to be offered
before participating. The market closes
without life and apparently without lead
ers, being left to drift as it pleases. 1t is
quite natural under thgse circumstances
that it should decline.
The Graphic is particularly bearIsh and
says: "The existing troubles between the
east-bound trunk lines, the conference
in progress at Commissioner Fink's office,
the open warfare in the extreme west, and
the continual cutting of rates and disre-
gard of pool obligations, are regarded by
many as fatal to the predictions of any
advance in the price of stocks, except in
special cases where, in default of oppo-
sition, the controlling operators force
prices up. 1t is believedIthat there will be
a general railroad war this summer, and
one that will be stubbornly contested. AL
most every pool combination in the
country is in danger of disruption. The
arbitrationsof the questions in dispute have
not as yet proved sufficiently satisfactory
ting of rates. The session of the
passenger agents east bound trunl
lines will probably continue the rest of tn {
week. In addition to the re-arrangernen
of percentages the differential rates are II
be settled, and new points established a
which differential rates will be allowed
Next week the general managers ant
freight agents will meet in response t.
Commissioner Fink's request, and it is be
lieved rates will be made in order to post
pone still further an open defiance to tn
pool regulations. One of the great dis
patch lines, which does business over
prominent road identified with the poo
Is reported as taking business at largel
reduced rates, and the increased percent
age of the road in question is corroborativ
of the statement.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-11

area of spring wheat in England is thin
and much of it will be displaced
by barley. In France and Germany
rain is needed, and higher temperature
necessary. With the reduced acreage in
western Europe and some injury from
freezing, reduced crop is probable. In
Austria and Hungary the prospect is IA
vorable for at least medium crop.
Returns of progress in cotton planting
show that the crop is better than usual in
every state, and indicate that on May 1,
"a per cent. of the proposed area had been
to be 81 per cent. In Virginia and North
Carolina it was very late. The percentages
planted were: Virginia IS, North Caro-
lima SO, South Carolina 55, Georgia "a,
Florida Sc, Alabama SO, Mississippi 80,
Louisiana 81, Texas IS, Arkansas 72, Ten
nessee 81.