San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-01-31
STATE NEWS.

10 gAunt EIxes ricnes
STATE NEWS.
Houston Post.
Weatherford wants first class col
1ege.
San Antonio has a pootical pawn
broker.
W, T. Allen CT Rock Dam is still
missing.
BerryUlle wants first class wood
workman.
Pork sell at IS end Z cents per pound
at Bastrop.
Naoogdoches had three fires during
Christmas week.
Several horses have been shot near
San Marcos lately.
Not single fence Yves cut in Ei
Paso County last year.
Indiana has 3,737 church edifces,
valued at $12,555, 900. She pays hor
ministers $1,037,337.
People living ON the banks Of the
Mississippi reap u profitable living by
selling the drift wood floating down
the river.
Germany is going in heavily for
beet root culture. Ninety new facto-
ries were started last year, and near
ly as many are in course Of construc
ton.
Miss Bertha Won Hiilern has been
commissioned by the Pennsylvania
Colonization Society TO paint for it o
large portrait of Judge Bushrod
Washington, its first President.
Capt Shaw, Chief Of tho London
Fire Brigade, has been studying OF
Berlin the anti -fre-at-theatre arrange
ments introduced there after the Ring
Theatre fire at Vienna.
Some miscreant stretched barbed
wire across sidewalk in Austin and
small boy ran against it, cutting out
one eye and terribly MIGRATING his
face
The "Blue Devils, Gre generally
more pointed than correct. They use
two negatives in the same sentence.
The spelling in their warning letters
is abominable.
Jonesboro is good place to live
in cold weather whatever it's attrac-
lions may be in warm. Pork is plen-
tiful there at 5 cents C. pound and
good. wood at 5000 a cord
Forney has ''missing man" or
rather she hasn't got him. His name
is J. G. Reed and his landlord, with
whom he left his trunk and unpaid
bill, would be glad to hear from him.
In Navasota the ."colored ladies re-
fused to attend to culinary prepare
tons on account of the intense cold.
The white folks had to cook for them
selves or live on cold victuals.
j. 81. Martin and w. L. Martin
found and dispatched on the 4th
thirty three rattle snakes under big
rock, near San Saba Peak Mr., Mar
tin says they were too cold to wrig-
gle much.
Wood & Co, of Wichita Falls, re-
.ceived recently from California fifteen
of the finest breed of Angora goats.
Two of the bucks cost $3.50. They
were for Charles Goodnight, the
Panhandle cattle king.
The Suny Cline, serio- comic lit
erary paper recently burned out in
Terrell, has removed to Dallas and
opened anew. 1t il published by
three deaf mutes, all practical prin-
ters.-Tocsin.
The DeFau University, in Green
castle Ind, was to have eight more
buildings law college, medical
college, a theological college, an OBJ
servstory, two dormitories, and other
.structTres-to be erected without dc
lay.
Mr.. G. @. Stock, leader Of the Ma
bel Norton Band, lost an only daugh
ter Of fifteen years, Misc Emma Stock,
in the burning of the Immaculate Con-
vent, at Bellville, last Saturday week
ago. The message was forwarded 10
Mr.. Stock at Baird. where the com
pany filed an engagement last week.
For long period SOnneberg in
Germany, supplied the world with
toys, but the protective tariffs intro
dnced Of late years in France, It.ly.
Sweden. and America have injured
the trade TO the extent Of some $3.50
900 . year and thrown hundreds ont
OF employment
In reheArsing the advantages Of
Hauitobs for immigrants. a Canadian
paper gsss these statisticE The az.
srzee yied Per sore Of wheat n hAn-
itoba dzring tbe past Ave years va
STr so hashslss barley, 81 bushels;
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