San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-04-03
Personal.

It. II. Ford, Of Dripping Springs, made
Is pleasant call on Tuesday.
]. W. Nance Is keeping ''baeheloi's hall. "
Airs n having gone on visit to MISSISSIPPI
d and Georgia.
VIM. ii. Nance, late Of Palestine, has
zone into business here with his brother. j.
W. Nance.
Look out for counterfeit silver dollars.
IIankla had four of them palmed of ON him
he other day.
Mrs. Hofheinzs condition il only slight
" improved. II has been ascertained that
, bone was broken, no one Of her ankles has
been encased in plaster OF paris.
In our recent reference TO Patterson's new
harness, IL should have been stated TINT u
was the work of Mr. White, Of O. s. Cocks
saddle and harness shop.s
DIR. Combs spent last week at B!aneo. He
says tho freighting business Of that place Is
turning decidedly this way. The principal
dealers have adopted this route, and the rest
will follow. Good for all concerned.
We understand that the opposition to tho
''old ticket" corporation Thought they were
voting on Local Opton"-hence the vigor-
Gus fight they made. 1t was worthy OF
better cause.
We saw our friend J. @. Rogers at Rob
bins last week arranging for present for
his ''better-half on the 35th anniversary
of their marriage. II is pleasant to see
'old folks" thus keeping up the romance Of
'love's young DREAM"
Mrs. Fromme, we regret to learn, is and
has been for some considerable time under
medical treatment ut San Antonio, with
small prospect Of recovery. MIR. +. hns re-
been summoned from his business
here TO her bedside.
DR.. Woods is arranging to extend the
handsome brick pavement of Reynolds d
Daniel in front of his building occupied by
Mr.. Hankla. We trust Mitchell will extend
it across his corner. His was the only pave
ment in the place when We came here; 1t is
old enough to need replacing.
We referred last week to John William
sons water-works at his saloon, and his
iberality in daily standing treat" in that
line. For saloon keeper he has most re-
freshing partially for cold water. There is
hope for John. Apropos, We now drink
there regularly twice day-by proxy-we
mean by our natural pacer." =.
We learned recently of q new evidence.of
the healthfulness of our climate. @. @.
Clark, who has charge of Steele's planning
mill informed us that he came to this coun-
try from the North pretty far gone with
iropsy. He soon grew better after coming,
and now has scarcely any symptoms OF the
disease remaining. This is something
which persons similarly affected would do
we'll to make note Of.
Judge Woods new building on the square
is about completed, and we intended writing
it up this week, but have not been able to
reach it. Will attend to it in our next We
understand the Judge, with his accustomed
liberality and good teste, expects to put in
side blinds to the front windows. as nice
addition to the appearance of the building,
rs we'll as the comfort of some of his ten
lnts
We had the pleasure ON yesterday of max
ing the acquaintance of Miss Tollinger, the
Young lady from Baltimore, who has recent
" taken charge of the millinery department
Of Daley & Bro. We regard them as for
tunate in having secured her for the posi-
ton. We were pleased to learn from her
that her impressions of our town and sur
and also of our people ore very
favorable. We trust her sojourn in San
Marcos may prove in nll respects pleasant
and profitable to her.
Combinations in criminal cases are IN old
trick for the benefit of the criminals, We
wonder that courts allow them, unless for
the best cause, as they lead to lynch law, or
q repetition of crime by the criminal or 9TH
ers. We remember hearing Rev. Mr.. Joyce
make truthful remark in q sermon, viz:
that for every criminal who escaped just
punishment by such MEANS some one else
was likely to prove victim; or words to
that effect.
Prof. Graves principal Of the commercial
department of Kyle Seminary, made us
pleasant call on Saturday. Also MIR. McLe-
more, printer of the News. He and Mr..
Vaughan are now running that paper Mr..
Cashell also works in the office, and we are
not surprised to learn is making more mon
ey than while he attempted to run the Nut
she'll According to our observation and ex-
perience, printers of country newspapers
get most of the money.
In confirmation of what is stated in the
obituary notice of Maj. Mike in another
column, as regards the interest he took in
moral reforms, we can testify that he never
failed to inform us of his hearty approval
whenever we took decided step in that di-
rection. Only few days before he was
taken with his last sickness he with great
difficulty assembled the stairs to our office to
so express himself as to the recent course OF
the FREE PRESS and to contribute material
aid for our encouragement. That was truly
q noble trait in his character.
RET1RED.-F. A. Douglass, late editor-in-
chief of the Kyle News, has suddenly drop
ped out of that position. The paper con-
tains no eloquent "Valedictory," such as
young editors are wont to in
dulge in on such occasions, nor in truth, the
slightest reference to the important fact.
"Not drum was heard. not funeral note"
on the solemn and momentous occasion.
We wonder what was the matter?
Mr.. Douglass assumed the tripod scarcely
three months ago, with considerable flourish
of trumpets. Although we had never had the
honor of his personal acquaintance, he at
once displayed great interest in us and in
the FREE Press. We believe there was not
an issue of the News during his administra-
ton but was largely devoted to the FREE
Pass and its editor. He ayowed, in effect,
that the county was too small to hold both
papers, and evidently thought it would be
a mere breakfast spell" for him to run us
out" 1t always grieves us TO see the high
hopes of youth, the noble aspirations Of ris-
inc cenius. thus prematurely blnsted But