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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-01-17
STATE NEWS.
THouston Post. !
Terrell has a model girl.

Terrell has a model girl.
Belleville wants more residences.
Abilene is to have ten-pin alley.
Bonham claims to be still booming.
rneyindulges in 'pound" parties.
Pickton had two fires Christmas
night.
Henderson is to have a first-class
college. 54 ase1 Ha8
The artesian well at Bryan froze
up last week. jnamniaTcd e5t a7idw
Wilson County has an epiaemic Of
typhoid fever D 9i8olg ja5s waaa
Longview girls beat the boys in
spelling matches.
McKinney's female barber is kept
constantly employed. te
The Franklin Courthouse fence is
ornamental butnot useful. aii, aff
A pet bear was rafiied off at Bren-
ham during Christmas week.
A new paper is to be started at
Mckinney, about February first.
The oil mills OF Texas marketed
150 600 tons of cotton seed last year
Texas is receiving accessions to it's
population at the rate Of $50 day.
The thermometer stood at zero at
Paris, Texas, on last Saturday morn
ing.
Emmett johnson of Collin County
was shot and killed on the Sd inst.
Leap year balls are in favor all
over the state. The girls are losing
no time. /, safe..go3 + roh 90
The Cisco Round Up published an
original poem on "Boautiful Snow"
Dogs killed thirty-fve sheep near
Temple last week belonging to Ed.
Flint.
Forney boys pass the time by "kill-
ing cats in winter, and going fishing
in summer.
An Abilene man sold a hog for $53.
He was butcher and the hog weigh
ed 425 pounds.
A man near Sabine pass sold his
crop of oranges for $50 per thousand
on the trees.
Sherman ladies are TO rattle of the
old bachelors Of that city at their
leap years's ball.
The Tocsin. q recent journalistic
venture OF Dallas, uses the personal
Il" editorially.
There are sixty well-organized pub
lie schools in Navarro County, besides
the city schools
The kaufman jail will not be com
pleted in time to give ''birds Of prey
a winter residence
Several families recently arrived
from Kentucky, aud settled on Elm
Greek in Bell County.
10, Lirson vas recently shot and
killed at Goshen, BY Jim Carpenter.
made his escape
Frzaklins artezian vel is as dry
As q powder house and work has been
disoOEtiEaed On Il for the Prssent
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-01-17

II assure you, gentlemen" said q
convict upon entering the prison,
"the place has sought me, and not /
the place. My own affairs really de
mand all my time and attention, and
I may truly say that my selection to
fill this position was an entire surprise.
Had / consulted my own interests I
should peremptorily decline to serve.
but as lam in the hands Of my friends
1 see no other course but 10 submit"
And he submitted
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geois; about 100 lbs of Nonpareil, (both sec
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Elmo Nelson was shot while out
hunting near Terrell, and, may lose
the use Of bis right eye from the ef-
fects. D'i ~ ''D.' NJ" a ~ 'e'''
The Age thinks that Houston and
Sabine Pass deserve as much consid-
Grafton as Galveston as "ports on the
gulf" rf so2 3 gsi lS selfl
A gentleman who recently arrived
in Sherman on q west. bound train
said he counted forty-nine babies. on
one coach. eas a fgse sad
Dr. Wills Of Lone Elm, made Al
bales of cotton on 55 acres and TOO
bushels Of corn on % acres with only
three hands.
The mother-in-law is abroad in San
Augustine County. She attempted
to shoot her son-in,law, . Mr.. Free
man.
The San Marcos Free Press gives
credit for column OF State news from
the Post. The Free Press is o "fair
and square" little sheet, anyway.
Some Of San Antonios so-called
ladies are afflicted with kleptomania
If they were paupers. driven by me-
cessity, the actiwould bear . different
name. --..-.--------sz.-.--.
The Bonham Advocate says Of the
popular comedians .Rolla Ryan IL
q Texican and no mistake. having
been raised on the Guadalupe
river in Western Texas"
The merchants and citizens Of
Temple made up o handsome purse
as New Years present for a Bell
County farmer, who lost his residence
on Big Elm Creek by fire. 's.s'gFlSes
Franklin has given, a, ball, the pro-
ceeds for the, benefit OF the grave
yard fund. After due reflection that
seems to us to be too much like the
proverbial "dance on a grave" to be
pleasant.
The Bonham advocate says that the
wheat crop on the line Of the Inter
national railroad between that place
and Fort Worth promises to be Q
magnificent one. Il is Of such lux
uriant growth that the farmers are
obliged to turn in the stock to keep
it down. The cattle are rolling fat,
and the farmers jubllant
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-01-17

American ideas on the North Ameil
can continent Holding the opinions
you do, it is the wonder Of all Eu
rope that you have permitted your
means of defense and offense, that is
your army and navy, to become 30 re
duced. Your navy has not single
modern ship Of war. How, then, do
you intend to maintain the Monroe
doctrine il France questions your
right of interference with the Les
seps' Canals" The American rather
shamefacedly said that that doctrine
had been the me-honored theory OF
the Government when it was less
strong than it now is. II admit your
wealth, but not your physical power,
was the sharp answer. "The glory
Of the great country across the sea is
an actual threat to every nation in
Europe except France, and nothing
would so please them as to witness
your humiliation. Why there is not
o first-class forti6cation on the whole
American coast line. Ittakesa whole
year to build q first-class modern
gun. Your cities would be shelled
and sacked and laid under tribute
while you were creating a navy, and
how could you rebuild your fortifca-
tions with 1OOO-pound shells falling
about the ears of the workmeni Be
sure that your defenseless condition
is thoroughly well known and com:
mented upon by every power in Eu-
rope, and sooner or later your humili-
alton will come if you persist in your
course of allowing the rich cities Of
the Atlantic seaboard to become o
temptation by their defenselessness
to the cupidity or arrogance Of the
ironclads of the weakest power in
Europe" I have repeated only in
part the material portions of this
most interesting conversation. The
member intends Offering a resolution
relative to the Lesseps Canal this $685.
sion, and he will repeat on the floor
in discussing it what is said in the
interview above.
The report of the acting Secretary
of the Senate for the last fiscal year
developes some curiods facts and fig
ures, relative to Senatorial beverages,
pills, etc. 1t shows that $50 quarts
of Apollinaris and SIG quarts of Be-
thesda water were consumed by that
body. The water is kept in bottles
upon ice in the cloak rooms, and un-
til last year members of the House
used to come over and drink with the
Senate. Then the Senate told the
House that if it was so fond Of min
eral waters it might buy them out of
it's own contingent fund. 2100 two
grain quiniue pills were also purchas-
ed, an average Of nearly "a grains to
each Senator. Among the peculiar
purchases was a bottle of arnica, 3
dozen shoe brush sets, Mt $50 per
dozen: dozen italian cosmetics, half
. dozen Lubin's powder, 2 dozen bot
lies of ginger. Each Senator is al
lowed $125 for stationery and news
papers for the year. This account
shows that some of them read high
class of literature, some literally pat
ronize home papers, and some, nota-
bly, Senator ingalls,, provide their
children with the best standard juye-
nile publications. David Davis drew
$50 81 Of his fund in cash.
LENox.
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The Terrell Times beads . tbTill-
ing account Of bow some bot Asbes
burnt a hole IN the bottom q an Old
oottoa bzsket -Ths FIe Fie1d
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Why Some People Fail 70 Succeed.

Why Some People Fall 10 Succeed.
They neglect details.
They fail to push business.
They talk politics too much.
They have no eye TO business.
They initiate their neighbors.
They know not the power Of meth
cd. fistaai iiN leiiel sai ftai eaf
They become rusty and lose ambi-
ton.
They let their help waste and de
stroy. f.i'a sest
They have too much outside bust
ness.
They fail to invent, or have new
IDEAS.
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MAILS.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF, TO AND
5 s 'FRoM SAN MARCOS PosT oEFICEXV
Mails from Austin arrive 3:35 p NJ; close st 400
NJ Pm.
81" " San Antonio arrive at 2:25 r. NJ, close
st 200 P. VI
Luling, arrives at - ", elosss - 12:%s.iP. N.
Above mails arrive and depart daily.
Dlance, vis wimberley parts Monday aud Friday
NsA. N. Arrives Tuesday and Saturday at
1P. u.
Gcueral Delivery from A. ito II NJ. and from
lP' X.to6P. u. u &As
Postoffce open on SUNDAYS hour after distribu-
Mon Of malls. .---..,
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HURCHES.

MISUNDERSTANDING at the Methodist
Church every Sabbath, Rev. Buckner Harris, Pastor
Sunday School Al 0 O'Clock, A ~. Glass meeting
or young Mems Prayer Meeting at > o'clock P. II
Prayer Isottpg on W wednesday. a~eNA
PROTESTANT RPISCOPAL.-.Serviess lst Sun
day each month, at l0K O'Clock, a. NJ, and ?. NJ,
lat St. Marks Churchl, bS ths Rev. NJ. Allen,
BAPTIsT.--Preachiug at the Baptist, Church
on the first and third Sundays IN each month.
CATHOLIC, services 4th SUNDAY In each month,
Rev. Father Mofandi, pastor.
There are also Presbyterian and Christian
Churchssand congregations, but they have at pres
ent no regular pastors. II
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sOCIE'rIEs.

before full moon. A. C. DanForth W. n. Albert
Hesion Secretary. ..,,-,--,....-.....
San Marcos Chapter No. l29, meets Tuesday an or
before full moon. p. J.C. Smith u. E. H. p.
Albert Heaton. Secretary. -
Hays Lodge K. Of n. No. 1858, meets Ind md 4th
r. J. Peel. Reporter.
aLO OF. Mountain Lodge Ne. l5l meets every
Monday night. u. o. James. y. G. Albert
Heston' Secretary. @A 40
Perkins Enosmpment No. So mssti 1st 3rd and 9Th
Friday Of each month. J. Ward, Q. p. Alber
Heaton secrstary. Et,9
Order Of Chosen Friends, Basil Daley, Q. O.
Albert Heaton, Secretary.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY. !.
OFFICIAL.
oosaanssxAx-8ra DISTRICT:

ooxaRnssNAx-8rH DISTRICT:
Hoa. James r. miller. Of Gonzales County.
- sEnAYoa 26rH DIsrRICr: NlstAst@
Hon. Geo. PfsufIsr. Of Comsl Co. s,s.,.e4
sEPsssRxrAT,vEs-9lsr DIsrRIor:
Hon. Sterling Fisher. Of Hay. Co. ss.sg.r
Hon. J. N. stsgnsr, Of Caldwell Co.
DISTRICT oouHr--l5rH DIsrsror.s
Hon. L. ". Moore. Presiding Judge. LaGraass.
J. n. Bethany. attorney, Austin Co.
rrxss or uoLoIxa COURT. "a
HAs.-7d Mondays In March and septembsr.S
COUNTY ogyiosns. Z
Ed n. Kone. Judge County Court. k,sAsl
Jas. G. Burleson, Dist. and County Clerk.
Owen po,d. County Attorney.
G.s; Cock; justice. of the Rs:es Pt:, No
WV WI ; %y.a; :: !. :: -
J. Il. Patterson. County Treasurer. x, =.
n y. vortson, ASSESSOR. HA = - ="
Joe. c. Rve, Surveyor.
IL. no!.rv, 'Con'r preoine' No.
J.R. Burie.op. " 81 '..7''-"
". n. wood. NE" "nl.
r.. Ptt,s, Constable Precinc, No l..
TIMES OF HoLpIxo County AND PnsoIxor OouxTs-
t,onnty Court1or Criminal. Civil aud Pr.bate bra-
Iness-lih Mondays in .January, March. My, July,
Sep tembsr and November.
Commis sionsrs' Court-2d Mondays In February.
May, August and November. -
Justice Court Precinct No. list Friday IN each
month. San Marcos.
Precinct No. 3-2d Friday In each month Mt. City.
!" 3-3dH '.s wimbsrley's MIL
e. 4-4,h e. Dripping Springs.
rowx otEscxRs.
Mayor-C. g.. Cock. ~
Council-w. O. Hutchison,g G. VI. Donaldson, r. P.
bailey. D. A. Glover. Vim. Giesen.
II. Prince.
Council meets the frat Tussdsyin each month.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-21

THE FIRE LIMIT.

The action of our council in de
feating the ordinance prescribing
a fire limit in Palatka was asurprise
to many, and now that the heated
discussion is cooled, it is only just
that the reasons actuating the vote
of the majority should be placed be-
fore the public.
The limit proposed was very small,
and the space was already filled al
most entirely by wooden buildings.
On the few vacant lots there is no
immediate prospect of any erection,
except on the part of the Putnam
House square just bought by Mr..
OrVis. To compel man to build of
any particular material would be
unjust unless that material would
serve as a protection to the builder
Now a brick structure joined to the
old Putnam would be burned as cas-
lily as pine one; 1t might be some
protection to the buildings surround
ing it, but it is no justice to make
one man use brick for the benefit of
others, when he can draw no advan-
tage frcm the extra expenditure nee
essary.
To be brief, the ordinance in all
probability would affect no one but
Mr. Orvis for long time; a brick
building from the nature of the sur
roundings would be no protection to
him; he has already made contracts
for the completion of an immense
structure actually begun, and from
these the ordinance would compel
him to recede at a heavy loss fol
damages. We submit that under
the circumstances, the action of the
majority was right.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-21
The Philadelphia Times.
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THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 1881.

THE ZINES will enter upon the new year
stronger and more prosperous than ever be
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
tierCeiy criticized, with a more complete or
ganiZation, and an able ssof Of contributors
and with the same independence and fearless
ness that has made 1t successful and powerful
THE TIMES has no PARTY to follow. no candi-
dates to advance but viii meet every issue, as
it has ever done, with consistent devotion to
the right, to honest government, and the pub
lie welfare. And, while maintaining its posi-
tion as the leading journal of Philadelphia it
viii aim to be continually III the advance in all
that can add value TO a newspaper.
The value of a newspaper Is not in its size or
display, but in the intelligence and care, the
cOnciScncsS and freshness with which it is
edited. THE TINES spends lavishly for news
from all parts Of the world, but all its dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed, IN
order to give the complete news of the day IN
the most concise and attractive shape, and with
II a large variety Oh entertaining ttil4 IHsIfGc7
tive reading. The best wrirers at home and
abroad are employed to enrich its columns,
and to make 1t journal adapted both 10 the
busy man and to the leisure of the home cir
Gle Il welcome visitor 70 intelligent and honest
citizens of every political, religious ana social
taste.
TRE WEEKLY TIMES is altogether different
from the weekly news papers or twenty years
AFRO. The day OF those papers have gone by.
The telegraph ami better local newspapers
everywhere. especially i'm the thriving centres
Of rural population. have made the old weekly
METROPOLITAN newspaper unS3JlSfYlug. Those
that cling to their ancient uSages have lost
their hold ON our fOrward-mOYtng people; they
are but shadows OF their former greatness, and
they have but shadow of their former power.
Those papers have had their usefulness. but it
Is gone; aud. with il. they are going, too. 1t
was not the fault of the papers: 1t was the i'm
prOYement OF the country JhaJ Drought ABOUT
the change. Men and women. wherever they
live. now require fresher news; and they re-
Guirc more than news.
'THr WEEKLY TIMES gathers off the types Of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest TO the people at large, and sets it before
them in such generosity 0I paper and print as
would have aStonished us all twenty yeOrs ago.
DATIY-Twelye cents week, fifty cents a
month. Sc a year, two cents copy
SINDAY-FoUT cents copy, 3 4 year.
WEEKLY-One copy. - a year; five copies,
s. a wear: ten copies, SIS year; twenty cop
les So year, with one copy free TO the getter-
up Of every club. -
THE TINES,
PHILADELPHIA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-21
Glass in Smelling. Stand Up.

bufuGtte III burlington HaWkeye.
Professor March says dropping of du-
plicated consonants saves 1.6 per. cent,
and of silent e's 4 per cent. NOR. The
complet clearance of silent letters saves II
per cent. 1t is a current statement
among spelling reformers that we thro
away 800, 100000 a yer in pament to
printers and publishers for sprinkling our
books and papers with silent letters.
Now there, young man, is a plan. chep.
esy rod welth. L can now understand
how Josh Billings got rich. Just say vlr
letters. Don't vast 1; not / solitary Ion
lost lingering l. The silent letter must
go. Swer Of from the silent e's that fiji
up, but do not balanc yur cash. By alb
staining from the Us Of al silent letters
you f-ekt a saving of item pr ct. Yur
salary is, sa. 500 5 pr yer. Il pr ct. of 500
5 Is snug little sum , save evry yer
q, IN saving thes :. u 7 not losing any
plaSur. 1t dos u 40 good to us silent let
ers. There Is no JOY in it ? u. 1t does
not creS NOR blisful st8 of mind in vur
mart to spell belev with 3 e's and then find
that u hay got the middl I on the rong
SIDE OF the l. We 1der, then, that u
cling to the absurd and wastful ed
EN-. Turn your 10der mind ? the eco
nomlc paths and SO ways of re4m spell
ing, and save II per cent. of yur salary.
anu 4tunS has in stor u.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-21
Minnie PaIme9's "Efashers. ;,

Miss Minnie Palmer, the American ac-
tress in London, Is being made the sub
ject of a ridiculous and humiliating SEN
sation. During her London season she
was much annoyed by the disagreeable
attentions proffered her by the ''mash-
ers' who frequent the Strand Theatre
These beasts, as the American actress
describes the Cockney dudes, would not
be driven away, and, when their bou-
quets were rejected some of them took to
Fostering the object Of their affection
with love letters. --a
Many of these illusions were from
young society 'bloods" of high order,
and were models of sincere idiocy.
Most of the offensive compositions were
thrown away in the green room, and
some enterprising journalist, who man
aged to secure a number Of them, has
procured the publication Of the most
gushing in one of this weeks society
journals, giving, in many instances, the
real names of the writers.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-21
THE CAMPAIGN

The Democrats seem to have
abandoned all idea of trucking long
cr to the desire of appeasing grum-
blers Until lately, any small body
which made itself particularly loud
in It's threats, could force the adop-
ton of "straddle" plank in a ma
tional platform. The same Speaker
would urge protection in Pennsyl-
vania and free trade in the West.
The party creed was made so wide
that it meant nothing, and the fac
tons had expressed so many doc
trines that no measure of orthodoxy
could be found.
If we would be useful in politics
or in morals, we must have convic-
tions; if we would impress others,
we must act up to these, and no het-
erogeneouS mass can call itself an
army. The compact phalanx will
Away defeat the masses even if
numbering millions, and if the peo-
pie would not see themselves ruled
by thr monopolist plutocracy, they
must act together, organize and con
centrate their efforts under definite
principles. The realization of this
fact by the party shows in the crys-
talization of all the best elements
around Carlisle Hitherto the fact
of Southern birth even in a State
which did not east its fortunes with
the Confederacy, was enough to pre-
clude any man, however worthy.
from the hope of place on national
ticket. 1t has now been proven to
the satisfaction of all that the war
in deed and in truth, is over, and the
South, which gives a large. majority
of the Democratic votes, can put
forward its chosen on the national
arena once more. Carlisle's record
as Speaker is unexceptionable. \
prominent Congressman from New
York in conversation lately with one
of our citizens, declared his ruling.
so impartial that no one could decide
from his course in the chair to which
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-21

New York Evening Telegram.
Miss NIilly Edwards and General Mite
(Mr. Frank J. Flynn, who have been for
some time drawing large attendances at
st. James Hall, Manchester, England,
brought their receptions to a close on
Saturday. Love has been busy with
their two little hearts, and ae a result an
interesting ceremony took place in Man
chester MOnday-no less than the mar
riage of these, the two smallest people in
the world. General Mite is nearly TWEEN
ty years of age, and weighs only nine
pounds. Miss Milly Edwards is about
seventeen years old. and weighs only
seven pounds. The ceremony of mar
riage between two such morsels of hui
mainly was one of the most extraordi-
nary sights ever witnessed After the
wedding they departed for the Continent
to spend their honeymoon, and will visit
Amsterdam, Hamburg, and possibly
Brussels. They will then return to their
native land, America, and retire into pri-
waite life. -