San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
General.

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fancy dress ball the other night Is es'
timated at $500, 900. ~,
The trotting stallion Jerome Ed,
DIV. with record of 1:16l, changed
hands at Chicago the other day. The
price paid was $4,000.
The Lemoyne furnace at Wash,
ington, Pa, has just cremated its
eighth human body, that OF the late
Charles Sochuer, of Indianapolis.
"A feud between cattlemen cul-
inflated in q fight near Fort Huach-
cua. on the Mexican border OF Ar1zo-
ma, in which six men were killed.
Near Charleston Arizona, aparty
of coal prospectors were set ,upoGn, by
band of twenty Apaches, who killed
several of the party and wounded
three.
1t is said that $5,O00,0OOs worth
of precious stones, silks, velvetss'
laces, etc., were worn by the attend
ants at Mrs. w. II. Vanderbilt's fan
cy dress ball at New York.
Forsyth Street M. E. Church, at
New York, Were originated the prac-
tice of inviting penitents to the alter,
celebrated Sunday as its Ninety -tilrd
anniversary. Many prominent per-
sons attended the services.
IA train on the Bound Brook rail
road, drawn by locomotive burning
"coal dirt" arrived at Philadelphia,
after 12O-mile trip, on time. The
"coal dirt" consumed cost S1.O5, one
seventh the usual expense.
The survivors Of the Jeanette
Arctic expedition, left in Siberia by
Engineer Melville and Master Danen-
hover to continue the search for
Lieut.. Chips boat, have reached
New York in charge of Ensign Hunt.
Judge Lawrence, of the Treasu-
ny Department at Washington, has
promulgated an opinion that the pro
vision in the new Tax and Tariff bill
for a rebate upon manufactured to-
bacco and snuff does not extend to
dealers.
Cleveland will try to wrest from
Cincinnati the honor of being the
musical center of the United States.
One of her citizens offers $4,000 to
start fund for the erection of mu-
sic hall and the organization of fes-
tival society.
The British Minister at Wash
ington, does not apprehend STAINED
relations between America and Eng
land because of the violent utterances
of certain Irish citizens regarding the
London explosion. He says the
present feeling is very cordial.
More than twenty men were
killed by the Apaches in Arizona last
week. 1t is expected that the Indians
arc concentrating at a point about
forty miles from Tombstone. They
have set fire to the grass, and the
country thereabouts is in blaze.
"A letter has reached Ottawa,
Ontario, from resident of Moose
Jaw, Northwest Territory, stating
Virgins storm materialized in that
section on time; that the wind blew
at the rate of seventy-five miles per
hour, and that many buildings were
wrecked.
"A call for a convention to be held
at Philadelphia April 25th has been
issued by the Central Council of the
Irish American Land League.
Messrs. Parnell and Eagan will be
present at the convention, at which
in all probability action will be taken
placing the movement in behalf of
Irish freedom on wider basis than
heretofore.
At o'clock on the afternoon of
March % six miners descended the
shaft of the Diamond at Braidwood,
penetrated its recesses, and found
six bodies, which were brought to the
surface about midnight. They were
in an advanced state of decomposi-
ton and frightful to behold. All day
crowds thronged the scene of the hor-
ror and remained all night to view
the remains.
Stephen w. Dorsey testified in
his own behalf in the star-route case
at Washington, entering a general
denial of the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the Government. Previous
to swearing the witness, Mr.. Me rick, |
of counsel for the Government, de-
of Mr.. Dorsey statement of
his views as to the future state, but