San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-01-24


| Terrell has no calaboose.
Cleburne has q town clock.
Davilla has q graded school,
Forney wants q public library.
Bowie has population Of 1000,
Gregg county wants a $4,000 jail
Del Rio is to be made a port Of
entry.
Terrell is to have another newspa-
per. 5sej W.
Temple is to have q telephone
exchange. rfr Y
Ducks, brant and snipe abound at
Orange.
The "Javelinas" are doing Cook
County. '
Bacon sells at 8 cents a pound q
Nockenut
Temple boasts Of a first-class female
school.
Denton manufactures pottery sue
cessfully.
Whitesborough is to have tele-
phone exchange.
Colorado City boasts Of FIVE first
class hotels.
Cisco has only two pair OF skates
and plenty Of ice.
Lufl1in has literary society called
"Utile Dulce."
Grimes County has new postofice
called Keith
Whitesboro shipped 5000 bales Of
cotton this season.
Only one fence has been cut in
McMullen County.
Mount Pleasant had a destructive
fire on the 8th.
Young folks at Cameron are indulg-
ing in skating.
Temples waterworlks are in course
of construction.
School is suspended in Mckinney
on account Of scarlet fever.
Terrell waterworks will be ready for
operation by the first of May.
Paris is to devote 100000 or &c.,
600 to the building Of waterworks.
The Del Rio Dot says; "Castroville
is now a great railroad scenter."
Willis, Of Montgomery County, has
q new paper called the Index.
Wichita Falls has new church bell
weighing 500 pounds and costing
$3.50.
A teacher is wanted at Cut OF. The
last one was cut off by being mar
ried.
A Dallas skater broke through the
ice last week, and came near drown.
ing.
The Cemeteries OF Galveston are
said to present very neglected ap.
pearance.
Jonesboro wants wooden, cotton
and Touring mill. Modest for
small town.
Three members of the family of
Mr.. Bird, on East Fork, were poisoned
last week.
Gatesville boasts OF ga Missionary
Baptist Saloon with Hard Shell
Baptist clerk"
Pigs in Temple weigh $40 pounds
according to the Times. How large
do the hogs grow.
The little 9-year old stepson Of j.
L. Cozens, Of Sherman, has been miss
ing for several days,
The Brenham Banner has discov-
cred that Tom Ochiltree is the only
native Texan in Congress.
Clay County Javelinas are enter
prising. They kill the cattle, take
them to town and sell the beef.
The Waco Day says that new
building association in that city may
be considered a settled fact.
The cold weather has seriously in
jured the shrubbery in Galveston, des.
troying many oleanders.
A j. Conger, Of Quitman, lost his
gin-house and grist mill, and six bales
OF cotton by fire last week.
Work on the Dublin machine shop
has commenced. II will be one OF
the largest in the State.
Land can be bought in Pecos for
from rs cents to SO an acre There
are IL, 900 acres in thecounty.
The cold snap killed most Of the oats
and wheat in the State, bat the far
mers have time to SOW again
The Hamilton Times objects 10 the
-'Howling Dervish, as il calls the ed
itOr Of the Tocsin- Let him rsFe-
The nickel contributions 70 Major
Penn's church taken up one night Of
his stay in San Antonio amounted 10
sls2
A colored burglar beng canght IN
the act Al Round Rock, Eas shot add
the ball hroakinQ his thigh. the limb