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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
Cleveland and Hendricks.

Our readers will recollect that just
after Tilden letter of declination the
FREE PRESS expressed the opinion
that Cleveland would be the nominee.
We were surprised that Hendricks
would accept the second place under
the new desl. The ticket we believe
is the best that could have been
selected. For many years we have
not seen q presidential CANVASS open
in so a acceptable a shape. The
nominees on both sides arerepresepta-
live men of their respective parties,
and whatever may be the result, we
may expect a fair and square contest.
However, we like the democratic
platform less than we do the nominees
1t is equivocal as respects the tariff,
and the whole might have been better
expressed in one half the space.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
St. Leonard Hotel,
MAIN PLAZA,
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

This Hotel has lately been open.
ed on the European Plan, and
promises to be rery popular. All
of the appointments are frSt-ctdsS
aud ne,C. The rate is 81 per day.
The proprietor, Phineas f.
LOunsbery, is a N'w York man,
and knows hOU a hotel ought to
be kept 4; and nee can dns'rer from
personal experience that those once
enjoying its comforts wH be sure
TO return again. Cars and ON.
nibuses pass the door. !StO'k men
rM please make a note Of this.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
RECENTLY ISSUED.
In a FREE PRESS EXTRA, "a
New and Full Description Of
HAYS COUNTY,; All iis Divi-
sions md Towns, Lists of Bsus-
Iness Nlen. &C., Nc.

The following is partial list of
the contents {:
HAYS COUNTY-Historical Sketch |;
Area Altitude, Location, etc; Pro-
auctions Streams, etc.; Climate-Health :
Prices of Land and improvements, Sections
of the County Particularized; The Mountain
Region: Additional notes and Comments {;
Adjoining Counties.
Towns OF THE CoUNTY.-San Marcos,
Romantic Situation, improvements; Water
Power and Business Kyle; DuPre; Drip
ping Springs; kimberley; Purgatory Springs
Hunter
STATISTICS Rolls for 1883 compared
with 1882; Railroad Business; Schools and
School Fund Apportioninent
HAYS COUNTY SCENERY described at large ;
Boat rides on the San Marcos Springs as de-
scribed by Bishop Doggett and others.
Their Wonderful Fairy Scenery; Grand and
Beautiful Views in the Mountain Region, de-
scribed by tourists.
MISCELLANEOUS why Go to Texas;
1.-THE kind of People Who are Wanted in
Texas :" The Right Time to Go North and
10 Come South; Texas Exemption and
Home stead Law Terms of Renting Land
State Free School Endowment Fund; A
Ten-year-old Boys View of the Situation
about San Marcos in 1876
| POETRY. THE River San Marcos" by
Mollie L. Moore, a beautiful production OF
celebrated Southern poetess Prophetic
Tribute to San Marcos Beautiful Texas,
graphic and spicy parody.
( Just the thing to send to friends and cor.
respondents abroad. Orders filed at the fol
lowing rates:
Single copies, five cents each six copies
for 25cts; IA copies for Scots; and at three
cents each for larger numbers. Orders from
distance will be promptly filed, postpaid
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17

La Revista de Monterey of the
fourth instant has a long editorial
headed "El 4 de Julio, into which is
copied the Declaration of Independ-
ence OF the United States of North
America: referring to which 1t says:
This cry resounded in the old
world like a thunder of dread omen.
borne ON the salt waves of the
Atlantic, causing the monarchies to
tremble at tho sound: while on the
American content the Latin races
frO,n Florida to the straits of Magellan
contemplated with amazement this
northern Gre, which produced in the
sky OF liberty s beautiful aurora
borealis On The fourth Of July,
lT76. the American people laid the
first stone Of the sublime edihce that
to-day. in the name 81 the American
Union. points the waE by which the
people Of The new world may attain
liberty.
The above shows al excellent
appreciation Ct the principles and
worldwide s,5pe a nc republican
movement Of l77s ani goos - prove
tssi Iat.ligsni men N or htighbOr
TX Rspub,ie @. t,o1ico are TT Nth
ias 5srch q proSrest ~ political
z-slssTs.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
The Li0uOr Traffic,

The quantity OF distilled spirits IN
the United States in October last was
115,949, 235 gallons, of which the
United States were taking care OF
74,5S2,116 gallons in bond until the
owners could find it convenient to
pay the tax on it. The amount OF
human misery, says The Nation, the
murders, the fires, the suicides,
the defalcations, the loss of property
and health, the divorces, and the
family shame and sorrow, stored up
in this amount of liquor, is simply
incalculable.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
~.
nEpnHsrNrATIyE.

We arc euthorized to announce j. r.
BRIDGES. Of Caldwell county, ~ = canai'
dato for representative from the oist Din-
trict, subject to the Democratic nominating
convention.
We are authorized 10 announce GAIT
FERG. KYLE as candidate for Reprcsen'
t.tive, oist district, subject to tho Demo
cratic Convention.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17

BEN BUTLER made formidable
demonstration on the streets OF
Chicago, but did not make much show
in the convention us candidate.
It is regarded rs uncertain as to
whether he will support the nominees.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17

Is is not high time that the mer-
chant, the agriculturist and the labor
ing man united in a demand for
Protection-protection against this
long-icensed spoliation of all other
men by the manufacturer Grand
RAPIDS, Mich, Leader.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
News! News I!

Travellers and others will find at the FREE
PRESS office copies of the st. Louis Republi-
can and Globe-Democrat, Cincinnati Times.
STAR Chicago News and New York Sun, all
Daily; besides Texas Dailies and various
Weeklies and Monthlies from all parts of the
country. Also some choice Miscellaneous
Books, very cheap. Call and see.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
IN SHORT {:

If you want to "get good and do
good" please and instruct your
families, make favorably known
your locality, uphold intelligence
and good morals and all the best
interests Of society
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
The President vetoed the bill for
the relief of Gen. Fitz John Porter.

Dun report of the national conven-
ton VIC give pretty much ae we find
it in the Austin county Times.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17

A paper out-spoken, fearless and free,
owing its first allegiance, under
God, to the people, and telling the
truth for their benefit, whether
agreeable to political managers and
posture. masters or not;
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17

A paper which you would take pleas
ure in sending to your friends
abroad as a creditable representa-
tive of the merits, business and
progress of your town and county !;
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17
THLRTEE.NTH YEAR
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-17

Ai,cr the convention had been
opened with prayer BY Rev. Geo.
{. Lorimor Of Chicago. the call Of the
states WAS resumed
Mansur Of Missouri seconded the
nomination - Thurman
Thomas T. Powell OF Ohio nOmIEa-
ted Hon. Geo Hoadly.
I'm A Wallace Of Pennsylvania
dominated Samuel J. Randall snd
Governor Abbott Of New Jersey
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE House of Representative met on
the 10Th for debate only, and the time was
occupied in discussing the bill for the re-
lief of General Fitz John Porter, but with.
out reaching any action adjourned.
THE Garfield Memorial Church in
Washington was dedicated on the ooh.
COMMUNICATION is still open between
Cairo, Egypt, and Khartoum.
SENATOR EDMUNDs will make a
strong fight against any further anti-Chi-
nese legislation.
FIRE on the goth destroyed the can
dle-factory of E. Schneider at Chicago.
Loss, S1a5.0
The Egyptian government is pleased
with the appointment of 'Chinese" Cor
don to settle the Soudan trouble.
ONE-FoURrH of the town of Leipsic,
O., burned on the 10Th.
| AT the close of business on the 10th
the New York banks held 81, 2s4 ,225 in ex-
cess of legal requirements.
AT Lowell, Mich, on the 10th twen-
ty-one buildings burned.
| An alarm Of fire early the morning of
the 21st in the Laclede Hotel, st. Louis,
Mo-, caused almost panic among the
guests, who hurriedly left their rooms in
various stages of deshabille. Prompt ac-
ton prevented spread of the fire and
quiet and confidence was soon restored.
BURLINGTON, Ia, boasts of a citizen
who was wounded during the war and drew
pension regularly until quite recently;
but, his wounds having healed, he declines
to accept charity from the Government any
longer.
An explosion of gas demolished a
large building ON Hanover street, Boston
on the 18th.
The President has approved the ST.
coo, 600 appropriation bill for the Missis.
sippi River.
CAPTAIN WRIGHT of the wrecked YES
sci City of Columbus is reported to have
gone insane.
A BOILER explosion in Cincinnati, O.,
on the 18th caused 100000 loss to the Cor
rugated Iron Company.
CHINESE bankers are said to be COM
uniting suicide because OF the unsettled
condition of affairs.
BURGLARS robbed the safe of VIM. C..
Pierce, Philadelphia, Pa, ef. lot of rail
road securities on the 18th.
LEROY DONOVAN, hanged at Rawlins,
W. T on the 18th, was the irst white man
legally executed in the T-rrtory.
The Achenese demand heavy ran
som for the crew OF the steamer wrecked
on their coast last fall.
AT st. Johns, N. F., Head Constable
Doyle and SIX Orangemen were placed ON
trial on the 18th for murder.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24
Missouri STATE NEWS.



The viii of the late Ralph Sellew,
whose sudden death from apoplexy oc-
Cured recently in st. Louis has been ad.
mitted to probate. By its provisions the
sum of SD, coo is willed to his brother, Os
man Seiiew, and his sister, Angeline Sell
lew, both of Cincinnati, to be held in trust
| for them by Timothy G. Sellew, of New
York The money is to be paid in quarter
ly payments, in such sums as may be nec-
essary to make each comfortable, but the
payments are not to exceed - 90 to either
of them in any one year. The sum OF SIo,-
900 is also given to Timothy G. Sellew, in
trust for JOS. G. Sellew and Frank G. Mum
SON. of Cincinnati, nephews of the testator.
to be paid in sums of 500 each, annually !:
$4,000 is left to Ralph FL. Sellew, of CIncin-
matt. In consideration of the long am:
faithful services in his employment of
Louis and Frank Kleinschmidt, the de-
ceased wills to them $4,000, to be held in
trust for them by the executors OF the will.
The legacy is to be paid in annual sums of
s. O. To Washington University, OF
st. Louis, is left $4,000 for the
use and benefit of the Manual
Training School connected with the Uni
versity. To St. Luke's Hospital, OF st.
Louis and to the Mission Free School, To-
Gated at the corner of Ninth and Wash
streets, is willed SD, go each. Five thousand
dollars each is left to the following named
institutions: Missouri Historical Society,
Episcopal Orphans Home, Memorial
Home, German Protestant Orphans
Home. the annual payments provided
for are to commence at the end of one
year from the date of letters testamentary
on the estate. The remainder of his prop
erty, of whatever description and wherever
situated, is bequeathed by the deceased to
to his nephew, Timothy G. Sellew. Daniel
&. Ferguson and Melvin L. Gray, are APP
pointed executors of the estate without
bond. The will is dated May q, 1882.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Convention of Cane-Grower:
opened in St. Louis, NO., on the 10th.
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla, ot
the 18th noticed the appearance of small
comet bearing west forty degrees from the
horizon.
Ii is looked on as reasonably certain
that Archbishop Gibbons will be the mex,
American Cardinal.
IT is rumored that an Investigation is
to be made as to the action of several Con
gressmen in the o. II matter.
IT is said that General Gordon will
be allowed to retain his commission in the
English army and take service in the Con
go expedition too.
Ir is asserted by the President of the
British Board of Trade that the .Cabine,
will only be satisfied when Irishmen have
the same rights as the English.
On the 10th twelve coal miners were
arrested near Pittsburgh, Pa, charged with
conspiracy to cause strike.
Oh the 18th Fannie Walker. fourteen
years old, was arrested for setting fire to a
school-house at Summerville, N. Y.
On the 10th Detroit (Mieh.) jury
gave W. c. Coup, the circus man, a verdict
for $4,000 against the Wabash Railroad Col
damages caused by train accident in 1892
On the 10th the Secretaries of the
War and Navy Departments appeared be-
fore the House Committee on appropria.
tions to urge an Appropriation for a Greedy
relief expedition.
IT is reported that Jay Gould has
bought large waterfront property in Port
Oxford, Oregon.
On the 10th the American Society of
Civil Engineers, in session at New York,
elected Don j. Whittemore President.
TIE Bartholdi Pedestal Committee an
nounce that Hartford insurance company
has contributed $1,000 to the fund.
UNLooKED-FoR opposition has devel-
oped to the ratification of the commercial
treaty with Mexico.
Much excitement is reported in
Bodie, Cal, over alleged rich discoveries of
ore in the Standard and Bodie mines.
The White Star Line steamer Ger
manic was spoken at sea few days ago
with a broken shaft.
IT is expected that the remains of
Lieutenant De Long and his comrades will
arrive in New York about February Is.
On the 10th the annual meeting of the
Women's Board of Missions begun In Bos.
ton, Mass. The Board now includes twenty
two branches, two Conference Associations,
over 800 auxiliaries and mission circles.
The Board has ninety seven missionaries,
eighty.one bible women, twenty five board
ing schools and homes at Constantinople,
Kisto, Osaka and Madwa; also 1913 village
and day schools. The work of the Board
abroad, in Turkey and Japan particularly,
is encouraging. Addresses by missionaries
were made at the morning session. The
Treasurer's report shows receipts of the
year, SOS, 45o.
A CoDIcIL IN the will of Joseph Ar
mold, late President of the Birmingham
(Conn.) National Bank, bequeaths to the
town Of Derby, in consideration of the
kindness of its people, thirty shares of the
capital stock of that bank, with accumu-
lation and increase, to be held until prin-
cipal and accommodations are equal to ST.
000, 900. This viii be in the year 2034, when
interest on the aggregate amount is to be
devoted to the local secular schools and
academies.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate on the 18th Mr.. Anthony's
resolution in relation TO retaliatory legislation
was discussed. A resolution was adopted call
ing for correspondence regarding the discov-
cry of phosphate beds in Brazil and the rights
of American citizens in connection Herewith.
The report of the select committee appointed
was presented. 1t favors a uniform system
OF Improvement vigorously sustained 1t was
decided not to discuss the Mexican treaty with
open doors. In the House several measures
were reported and referred. A minority re-
port was made on the Fftz John Porter bill.
The judiciary Committee was directed to pre-
pare a report on the powers of the President
to negotiate treaties changing existing tariff
nav oscer had reeeived aift fr"m foreigg
Prince was adopted. The bill appropriating
one million dollars to continue work on the
Mississippi was considered in committee of
the whole.
The Senate on the 10Th passed the bill for
FORGETTING the Arkansas Iron Mountain land
grant, and the electoral count bill. Several
measures were introduced regarding foreign
exclusion of American meats. The new rules
were adopted. In the House a resolution
calling for all correspondence relative to the
American hog was adopted. A bill was intro
al bank securities Also. to appropriate ST.
100000 annually to maintain the Erie Canal. A
Of sate assSss ae
Several similar resolutions were variousy
disposed OF. The 100000 Mississippi River
bill was discussed in committee of the whole
and reported back to the House, but final ac-
ton was not reached.
In the Senate on the 18th memorial was
presented from ex-senator Kellogg, asking
for an investigation regarding the Southern
Pacific land grant transfer. Various petitions
were presented. Bills were introduced: To
secure reasonable rates of transportation over
railroads aided by the Government; authoriz-
ing National Banks to issue notes to the value
of bonds deposited. The bill passed appro-
priating $4,000 to compensate for the seizure
of a Spanish ferry-boat in 1871. In the
House the resolution calling for correspond
ence concerning star-route frauds was
adopted Also resolution relating to the con-
dition of affairs in Mexico and Guatemala
The regular order being called up. the 81 Co.,
go Mississippi River appropriation bill was
passed The bill making all public roads post
routes passed.
In the Senate ontle 18th messages from
the President were submitted. touching the
Greedy relief expedition and the workings of
the Chinese exclusion act. The bill prohibit
ing importation of opium from China was re-
ported and placed on the calendar. The Sem
ate went into executive session on the Mexi-
can treaty In the House. a resolution
calling for inquiry as 10 the Hewitt-West con-
troversy regarding the ODonnell affair." was
referred. The House went into committee
and General Slocum delivered an address on
the Fitz John Porter bill favoring its passage.
Mr. Steele opposed it. MIR. Lyman advocated
it At times there was considerable heat in
this discussion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24

OK the 18th a freight train on the
Northern Central Railroad ran into the
rear of a coal train at Shamokin, Pa. The
engine and several cars were completely
wrecked. John Childs. the fireman, was
fatally scalded. The engineer, James Kee-
nan, and two brakemen were seriously in
jured.
On the 10th the steamer j. ID. John
SON was burned at Woods Run, Pa.
A MERCHANT named d. P. Hill, living
at Highbridge, n. J., was called to his door
by masked men and assassinated before
daylight on the morning of the 18th.
FIRE destroyed the Beehand Bros. ;
brick brewery at Fond Du Lac, Wis, built
in 1880, on the 10th, and boy aged four
teen years, supposed to have been in the
cellar, is missing. The origin of the fire is
alleged to be incendiary. Loss, 5000;
insurance, $4,000. The brewery contained
1900 bushels of barley and malt, and 200
barrels of beer.
On the 18th the Montezuma Hotel at
Las Vegas, n. NJ, burned: loss. SaO0,0eO.
FIRE destroyed a large part of the
business quarter of Canastota, n. Y, on
the 18th.
On the 18th an express train with a
great number of passengers, including
many members of the Canadian Parliament
on their way to Ottawa, was wrecked at
Trenton, Ont. No one was killed, but
many were injured.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th, Prof.
Peter Voltz was found dead on the Tenth
street bridge. He had been shot and
robbed.
On the 18th fire caused extensive
damage In block of office buildings known
as Exchange Court, New York.
On the night of the 18th the Summers
Powder Company's mills, nine miles from
Scranton, Pa, blew up, one mill at a
time, destroying nine of the ten mills. 1t
is certain one man, L. II. Emory, and
probably many more were killed. The COM
pany was organized a year ago. The loss
is serious.
BIZ dynamite explosion at Attention,
Pa, on the 18th, three men were killed and
three buildings destroyed.
By the confession of one of the cul-
prits the Maybee mystery is solved and one
of the Long Island murder horrors fully
explained. Edward Tappan says his broth
er killed the two women, he himself being
present as an acce ssory.
OK the 18th four men were killed and
several others seriously injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler in E. G. & E. Wallace's
tannery at Rochester, n. Y.
On the morning of the 18th the steam
ship City OF Columbus, of the Savannah
steamship line, went ashore on DEVILS
Bridge, Gay Head, Mass, and of 136 souls
on board. 104 persisted.
FIRE destroyed the general offices of
the Indiana, Illinois d Iowa Railroad at
Kankakee, ILL.,, on the 18th, with all the
com oany's papers.
By the explosion of a kitchen range.
at Hunters p oint, L. l., on the 18th, two
persons were fatally injured and another's
eyesight destroyed.
On the morning of the 18th Mgr.
Cesare, high dignitary of the Church in
Rome, was found dead in bed. He had
been murdered and robbed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-24
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The mystery of the murder of Clug-
stone at Valley Forge, Pa, in 1881, prom:
ises to be unraveled. A man named W. b.
Atkins is in jail at Norristown, PA, charged
with the crime, and not without strong cir
cumstantial evidence.
On the morning of the 18th the pres
bytery of the Catholic Church at Bayou Du
Large, Bonnie Terre Parish, La, burned
and Rev. Father Coastarst persisted in the
flames.