San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-01-18
TEXAS TOPICS.


for arrests on acquisitions from other
States. Other statistics are not ye'
ready.
State Health Officer Swearingen'
report opens with a history OF the
quarantine of the past year, he rep
resents a deficiency OF S2O,OOo, oc'
casioned in combining the yellow fever
endemic to Brownsville and the south
side of the Rio Grande, to which pur'
pose he reports the United States
Marine Hospital service as having
expended $4,000.
The st. Louis Rail,ray Register
saws that Galveston has forever lost
the golden opportunities and that New
Orleans will have the preference and
become more than ever the metropolis
of the south. The trouble was that
Galveston allowed Houston to become
the principal railway terminous OF the
state. If Galveston had offered to
stand the expenses of the bridges to
the main land the railroads would
have done the rest, but now the En-
rors of the past cannot be rectihed.
SO late as 1867 hostile Indians
made incursions into Wise county. In
that year Mr.. Babb, who still resides
in the county, left his wife and small
children at home while he visited
Dallas to dispose of some cattle.
During his absense Indians made a
dash upon his house, snatched an IN
FAINT from the breast of Mrs. Babb,
then cut her throat, leaving her
wallowing in her own gore, and car
ried the children into captivity. After
long and anxious search Mr.. Babb
found his children, but to secure their
ransom exhausted his means.
Albany (Shackelford county, Star:
In the year 1878 the first flock of
sheep was driven into the county, and
since that time the focks have increased
in numbers year after year, until to-
day there are no less than GO, 1000 head
quartered in the county. Sheep-rais-
ing has proved to be very profitable
occupation, and as it increased in di-
mansions, the range became too crowd
ed for both sheep. and cattle-raisers,
consequently, the majority of the
large cattle owners moved their herds
farther west, and those who remained
have purchased and are fencing in
large pastures.
There are scores of planters who
oppose the sale of seed to the mills
because of the low price offered for it,
and also because this loss of seed i'm
poverishes the land; but they can
scarcely favor system which allows
nearly one-third of the cotton seed
crop of the south, worth in manu-
featured form $30,0OO,O0O, to rot
away and be completely lost, return
ing no advantage to any one, mill
owner or planter. If this seed, now
absolutely and totally lost, could be
carried to the mills, it would largely
increase the wealth of the soath, with
out affecting its fertility.-Brenham
Banner.
In his report to the governor, the
secretary of state recommends pro-
vision in the election law, for two sets
of election officers, to enable the
count to be proceeded with as the vote
is cast. The presiding officer will
make returns to the county Judge
within three days, and the county
Judge Immediately to the secretary of
state, who shall open and count the
vote on the fifteenth day, instead of
on the fortieth, as the present law re-
quires. He also suggests the printing
of sufficient number of Legislative
journals for sale to private indi-
viduals at cost, and advises that only
one copy of the court reports be fum-
ished each county. He reports 100
counties supplied with Texas reports
necessary to complete their sets.
San Antonio Express: The Qua
dalupe and San Antonio river stock
association, organized for the pro-
lection of the stock interests of the
gentlemen connected with the associ-
alton, have decided to publish their
brands, so that there can be no posi-
bic mistake as to who the real owners
of the cattle are. This step has been
taken by the association to inform the
people, both those who know and those
who do not know brands, who the |
owners of stock are. The brand lists
and records Published in Texas are
quite interesting to many persons who /
do not know the value of this mark
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