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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-03-13

Another Washington Correspondent,
Speaking Of social matters at the
National Capital, says:
There will be q perceptible social
halt after Ash Wednesday. Germans,
balls, and formal afternoon receptions
will cease for awhile, md Vanity Fair
will find resort in dinner parties and
church Fairs Cabinet days" will be
also discontinued This will be well
come relief, for the Ladies' Of the
Cabinet were never in greater need
Of rest. Some idea OF the duties
which devolve upon them may be
formed from the fact that their call
ers number four and five hundred il
q single afternoon. Custom requires
the hostesses and assistants to stand
while receiving. The receptions be-
gin at two, and rarely end before
$50 o'clock. All Of these calls must
be returned in person by the wife OF
daughters, illness alone being q par
donable reason for sending cards.
Not only friends, but every stranger
visiting the national capital is at lib
erty to call on the families Of officials
having regular days for receiving, as
they are 10 this extent public recep-
tions.
The past week recorded the first
dead lock of the winter in the House,
the cause being the Mexican and In
dian War pension bill. The fllibuster-
ing went on with varying excitement
all night and in the morning the hall
of the House presented the appear
ance Of o room in which there had
been held night Of revelry. The
weary attendants and clerks were
sleeping in committee rooms or mo-
ping about, and no quorum could be
collected for any Of the committee
meetings. Though the House has
got well into the appropriation bills
the business Of Congress- is still back
ward to an extent which means some
hurried work in warm weather 1t
It is probable that the session viii
not adjourn before July sth, and the
presence of Congress till that date
gives prospect ofa brilliantpostLent
en- season at the Capital
The presence Of the Democrats
has revived the talk Of
presidential possibilities. until booms
md booms are rife This
political amusement however. Is very
much like that Of the boys in the f.
Die: it may be fun for them and
he by ISLANDERS. bat it is death 10 the
,oOr frogs LEso1
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-03-13
"Reminiscences OF q Texas vetoran-..The
Santa Fe Expedition, etc.
Tx.
xrNpALL's NAnnArrvr CONTINUED.
By O. ERHAR,

1 Don Antonio had two or three
daughters, pretty, and accomplished
too, for that country; we afterwards
learned that one of them formed ON
ardent attachment--fell in love, in
more common parlnnce-with one OF
our young friends, and was affected
even to tears and Mysteries when he
was ordered to Mexico. It is said
that no attachment can be stronger,
no love more enduring, than that Of
the better informed Mexican young
lady, when once her heart is touched
by some Anglo Saxon; she may not
'.live and love forever" but she loves
as long as she lives, and that is long
enough in all reason.
A day or two after the party OF
Texans / have just referred to were
conducted through the town, another
party, numbering ten, also arrived.
They were prisoners, and had the
good fortune to be quartered at the
house OF our old friend Vigil, the
man who had saved our lives when
we were first captured by Salexar
We did not see this party, but from
descriptions given us of their leader
by our guard and the girls who visit.
ed us, we felt confident he could be
no other man than "Old Paint" Cap.
tain Caldwell, the well-known leader
of our spy company, and in this con-
lecture we were not wrong. Busta-
mente told us that they had been
taken prisoners by large party Of
Mexicans south of the Angosturas,
and that the main body of Texans
was rapidly approaching. We at
once came to the conclusion that the
two small parties Of our friends, now
in prison near us, had been sent on
in advance, and, as in our case, had
been oyerpowered by numbers and
forced to give up their arms.
A most unwonted excitement was
now created in San Miguel. The ru-
mors rife among the people we're, that
the much dreaded Texans, whom Ar
milo had taught them TO look upon as
SO many blood-thirsty cannibals, were
advancing in countless numbers,
threatening the country with fire, de
vastation and the sword The wax
figure of the patron saint Of the
place. San Miguel, was dragged from
the niche in the little church, mount
ed upon large platform, and carried
about in procession. A more comical
figure would be difficult either 10 i'm
agine or describe. cannot say that
his saintship had ever been tarred,
but he bad certainly been feathered
from head 10 foot From his sboul-
ders hung glistlessly apair Of huge. i'll
wings, his face was that
Of q large doll, while his head TO
complete the lndicrous tout ensemble,
was covered with Q lace cap Of the
fashion Of our grAndmOtbers. An
other figure intended 10 representt the
Virgin Mary but nothing more than
= don Of The largest size, ~as carried
IN state upon the same platform. snd
Over al wAsa oanOPyO Of faded yellow
md pink satin trimmed with fringe [
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New Yorks new penal code makes
an attempt at suicide . criminal Of
fense Capt William A Kirkland
nov in command Of q vessel At that
city, has volunteered TO command The
proposed 0reely Arctic rtief ezpe.h
hon, but Al last accounts he had not
been arTostsd--NorT Her.ld
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF. TO AND
FROM SAN MARCOS POST OFFICE.
Mais from Austin arrive at 225 P NJ; close at 200
P.A.
Z" San Antonio arrive at 2:25 P. NJ, close
at 200 r. n
Luling, arrives at 10 NJ, closes at l2:i5. P. NJ.
Above mails arrive aud depart daily.
Blanco, via Wmberley-dcparts Monday and Friday
at6A. NJ. Arrives Tuesday and Saturday at
TP. NJ.
General Delivery from A. NJ, to u NJ. and from
] P. N. to 5 p. NJ.
Postofice open SUNDAYS one hour after distribu-
tion Of mails.
ALBERT HEATON, P. n.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
OFFICIAL

cosoBrssaAs-5ru DisrMor:
Hon. James y. Miller. Of Gonzales County.
sssAros -25ru pIsrsIor:
Hon. Geo. Pfeuifer. Of Comal Co.
REPnrsrsrArJvEs-9is DISTRICT:
Hon. Sterling Fisher. OF Hays Co.
Hon. J. N. stagner. Of Caldwell Co.
DISTRICT oounr-l6rn DISTRICT.
Hon. j.. W. Moore, Presiding Judge. LaGrange.
JIM. Bethany. Attorney, Austin Co.
TINES OF uoIpSe COURT.
UAYs.-2d Mondays In March and September.
COUNTY oyrIoERs.
Ed r. Kone, Judge County Court.
Jas. q. Burleson, Dist. aud County Clerk.
Owen Ford, County Attorney.
H. X. Barber Sheriff. J. M. Turner, Deputy.
Cs; Cock, Justice. of the Peace Pre-. No. !
wv; Wyatt I" " =. {. :
y;o; u " R0ss, s'so. :. :. &"
J. Il. Patterson. County Treasurer.
X 8. Fortson, A ssessor.
Joe. G. Eve, Surveyor.
~. heGsr'y, CSI'r PrCcino. No. /
J K. Burleson, 8:
J. r. Pitts, Constable Precinct Mol.
TIMES or HoLpixn County AND PRroISor CouarS-
Comfy Court Tor Criminal, Civil and Probate bus
iness--4th Mondays in January, Marsh. May, July.
seriembet and November
COMMISSIONER Court--2d Mondays In February,
May, AUGUST aud November.
Justice C9u.t Precinct No. list Friday In each
month"; San Marcos.
Preciuc, No. 2-2d Friday in each month Mt. City.
" SD wimherley's Mill.
" :. T. 4,b Dripping springs.
rows oyricEns.
MAyor-C. 9. Cock.
Council--w. q intchison g. W. Donaldson. T. p.
DALEY, u. a. Glover, Vim. Gie-en.
Marlhal-i. N. Prince.
Council meet the frat Tuesday In each month.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22
TIE NEWS.
o.-nniled from Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.

.so cenate 81 the 18th joint resolution
j" .-4roduced hy Mr.. Jackson for a Con-
n, .,.,ional ameAdment fixing tie term of
n-,siIent nt six years, and making him
@,'-;1.Io ,>re.election. A debate took place
@i.5 lo oIo,,-o-pneumonia bill and on the
% 'H0 ! a. the relief of Fitz John
sea- ~ =, the House. in Committee of
4" Ct a. on the Post-office Appropriation
.G NhUl,g hUa,orsa limiting the salaries of post
VII %. W :" sl00l was stricken out, and an
n2'lne5,oent Increasing the item Tor clerks Dy
.s, aa was rejected "A "A proposlllon WAS WAS
low ~ Increase by $iO0,O0J the appropriation
q carriers.
,.,J for the relief of Fitz John Porter
he .s.od in the Senate on the 18th by vote
'@ .s.tao5 A Joint resolution was submitted
..,+inr $4,000 for the suppression of
#,I. ord.mouth disease among cattle in
w. favorable report was made on the
~ Tho admission of Dakota. In the
.o in Committee of the Whole on the
s4,oii s4toiica Appropriation bill, an amendment
r.os.ing the amount for the 1ree-deLVery
s.riee To 81. G00, 900 was passed.
r,tbc senate on the 18th a prolonged dis
.'an took place on the joint resolution
.enriating S250)0 for the eradication
M foot-and-mouth disease, in CO.
ton with the authorities of Kan
y, hnt no action was taken. Adjourned
\ \ tbe % nth. In the House bill
,,tiny t 4 nension Of $500 per year to the
sja il'.i Surviving grandchild of Thomas Jeffer-
on was defeated. Mcssrs. keifer, forney
md Ellis were appointed as conlereeS on tne
icnronriation bill An evening session was
iili for the consideration of pension bills.
Tgg Senate was not in session on the loth
In the House the time was occupied, IN
rommittee Of the Whole, in discussing the
Tostofice appropriation bill.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1884.

in Congress for three terms, died al few
days ago, aged fifty-seven years.
The West Virginia Republican State
Convention, to elect delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, will be held at Martins
burg April 13.
MRS. McELRoY, assisted by fourteen
ladies, received over one thousand persons
at the White House on the 18th.
DURING discourse on the evening of the
10Th in the Madison Congregational Church
in New Y York Rev. j. p. Newman said he
hoped to see the day when foreigners
would be compelled to reside here as long
as native-born citizens before they could
exercise the elective franchise, and he
would be glad if legislation was enacted
declaring that no foreign-born citizen
should ever enter the halls of legislation.
In the Ontario Legislature on the 18th
the bill giving widows and spinsters who
have the necessary property qualification
the right to vote at municipal elections was
passed.
MISS ELIZA, eldest daughter of Governor
Thompson, of South Carolina, died on the
18th from burns received while reading at
an open CRATE.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22

ON the 18th that not single lottery agent
was doing business in that city, mainly be-
cause the courts there sustained the action
Of the Post office Inspector.
THE value of exports of breadstuffs for
February, 1884, was $40, 0,103,33S, against
$11, 81, ,301 for the same time last year.
For the eight months ended February 20
the value was 10,309, $40, against S149,.
431, 143 for the corresponding period last
year.
AT Dayton, O., on the 18th the brother
of Christine Kett, young girl murdered
seventeen years ago, made death-bed
confession declaring that their mother
had, previous to her death, confessed to
committing the crime.
A vIRULENT disease resembling blind
staggers has appeared among the horses
of Oregon, and large number of valuable
animals have succumbed to it. Over four
hundred had died in two counties up to
the 18th.
OFFICIAL reports at Washington showed
on the 10th that for six years and seven
months, ended with December last, ATS, sos
persons emigrated from the Dominion of
Canada into the United States.
ALL the land from Sharkey to Green
wood, Miss, distance of one hundred
miles, was overfowed on the 10Th. No
loss of life or stock was reported, and the
planters were in good spirits, as they be-
lieved the worst was over.
THE annual meeting of the American
Tract Society was held at Washington ON
the 10th. The receipts for the year were
shown to be 1859, ,066; expenditures, $751;
:S); donations and legacies $116,957; avail
able for benevolent work, $94 sol.
WHILE attempting on the 10Th to clean
out the saloon of John Chesman, at Wal
Harding were shot and killed by the pro-
prietor.
The Secret-Service division of the Treas
urv Department at Washington discovered
a counterfeit silver certificate of the de
nomination of twenty dollars on the 18th.
The paper is much shorter than the gen.
uine, and is thick and stiff.
WHILE carelessly handling revolver on
the 18th IN Brooklyn, N. Y, Dennis Riley
shot and killed his betrothsd, Celia Rem
ney, aged seventeen years.
In the cattle -contagion district of Kansas
quarantine was strictly enforced on the
10Th, and it was believed there was no
danger that the disease would spread from
any herds now known to be infected.
CHARLES w. HAsLER, of New York City,
a railroad bond broker, failed on the 18th
for $100, 900, and Wolff & Seligsberg, coffee
dealers, suspended for 100000.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22
FOREIGN.

A DYNAMITE explosion occurred in ho-
tel at Fulham, Eng, on the 18th, and one
man was killed. 1t was attributed to
FenianS.
PEACE between Chilli and Peru has been
definitely arranged. The treaty has been
ratified by the representative bodies Of the
two countries.
THE Irish Justices in opening the assizes
on the 18th agreed that there had been a
gratifying diminution of crime.
The French occupied Bac-Ninh on the
18th. The victors had seventy wounded,
and the Chinese loss was heavy.
GENERAL GRAHAM on the 18th defeated
Osman Digma after stubborn fight of two
and one-half hours duration near Suakim.
The rebels fought with such desperation
that they at one time broke the second
British square. The rebel loss was esti-
mated at four thousand killed and six
thousand wounded. The British loss was
seventy killed one hundred wounded.
BISMARCK, in speech in the Reichstag
ON the 18th, on the Lasker resolution, said
he recognized the good intentions of the
American Congress, but could not harness
himself to the car of opposition. The re-
lations of the two countries had been quite
satisfactory during his whole term as Min
lister.
TRICHINIAsIs, engendered by home-bred
pork, has developed at several places in
Germany. The Lyons Chamber of Com
merce on the 14th entered protest against
the embargo on American hog product.
Two EDITORS and thirty-six other persons
were arrested at Pesth, Hungary, onthe
14th, on the charge Of completely in the
schemes of the Anarchists.
AL1CANT, Ea province of TSpain, was se-
verely shaken up by an earthquake on the
14th.
CUBAN troops had a fight on the 18th
with the bandit band of Santa Claro, kill
ing three and capturing eleven. Twenty
two others subsequently surrendered.
Two PERSONS in the Sandwich (Ont.) }
Jail for robbing post-office, in making
their escape on the 10th, killed the iailer
and TURNKEY.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22
AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS.
The Secret of a Shocking Murder Commit
ted Seventeen Years Ago Just Revealed by
the Death-Bed Confession of the Murder
ess-The Victim Her Own Daughter.

ted seventeen Years Ago just Revealed by
the Death-Bed Confession of the Murder
ess-The Victim Her Own Daughter.
DAYTON, o., March IL.
A horrible and somewhat sensational
crime of seventeen years agoh been re-
called by the death-bed confession Of Mrs.
Catherine Kett, that she murdered her
own daughter on the evening of January
IL, 1867. Christine Kett, bright, pretty
German girl of eighteen years old, was
found dead at her mothers house. Her
head was pounded into a shapeless mass,
and by her side was a bloody axe which
told the story. Part of the skull
had fallen into the cellar
and her brains were spattered
about the room. The widest excitement
ensued. Several parties were arrested
and narrowly escaped lynching, her lover
among them. Her mother seemed frantic
with grief, and urged lynching the prison
ers. In course of time all the accused
proved their innocence, and the crime has
been almost forgotten. The mother soon
removed from that house. She grew old
rapidly and looked haggard. She had hor-
rible dreams and slept poorly, awakened
with screams. Once she got mad at her
son, caught him by the throat and said:
81 have shed blood once and may do it
again" Aweek or so ago she was taken
sick, but refused to have physicians.
Last Sunday, seeing she must soon die,
she called her son and after charg
ing him to keep her secret till death,
confessed with minuteness how she had
got mad at her daughter for staying all
night with a friend and struck her with
an axe, killing her. She then SO arranged
things that no suspicion attached to her,
and caused the arrest of innocent parties.
She soon died. Her son meant to keep
his mothers secret, but somehow an ink
ling of it reached the ears of the report
ers, and two of them have, after much
hard work, succeeded in getting the
whole story. Mrs. Kett was sixty years
of age when she died.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22
Miscellaneous Items.

G. d. Sharp, convicted of outraging
two gi-ls at Gainesville, Tex, has been
sentenced to hang.
Chas. Lippincott, who married col
ored girl in Louisiana about a year ago,
was arrested in Denison, Tex, recently
with his wife on charge of miscegena-
tion.
An aged couple at Monroe, La,
named Rodgers, were murdered few
nights ago by two men to whom they ex-
tended hospitality. The murderers failed
to secure the old mans money, which was
concealed in a mattress.
The Galveston (Tex.) Cotton Ex-
change recently passed resolutions urging
Texas Congressman to oppose the further
coinage of silver dollars upon tho present
basis of valuation.
In the United States Circuit Court n
Louisville, KY, the trial of a notable dam.
age suit was recently inagurated. The
plaintiff was Thomas Sufford, negro, the
defendents DIR. N. w. Johnson, John Want
ers, D. jenkins. J. G.. Stetson, DIR. Bush
and S. Adocock. All are white men. The
plaintiff made oath that on the night of
July 2, 1888, the defendants went to his
house at English, near Turner Station, KY,
and after getting him out of bed, carried
him to a branch near by, where they point
ed pistols at his head and threatened to
kill him unless he turned over to them a
sum of money which they ch h,rged him
with stealing from the Express Office at
English. He refused, and after threaten
ing to kill him if he ever disclosed the out
rage they left him standing naked by the
branch. The negro's claim is 600 dam
ages.
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, has
been elected Chairman of the COMMITTEES to
arrange for the reception in New Orleans
of the Supreme Lodge of the World Of
Knights of Pythias.
A cyclone few days ago damaged
the agricultural college at Starkville, Mis-
sissippi, to the amount of $4,000, and
wrecked every cabin on a plantation near
West Point.
The next session of the Southern I'M
migration Association is to be held in New
Orleans.
On a street corner in Nashville
Tenn, few days ago, from disagreement
about some business matters, William
Spence killed Edward S. Wheat with re-
volver. The victim was son-in-law of his
murderer, and succeeded him as United
States Marshal for the Middle District of
Tennessee.
A contract has been let for the erec-
ton of $4,000 addition to Bishops Bap-
tist College (colored) at Marshall, Tex, for
the use of the females. This is one OF The
most fourishing institutions OF. The kind in
the South.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-22
LATER NEWS.

In the Senate on the 18th Mr.. Hoar
offered a resolution inquiring as to the
cause of delay in passing on pensionclaims.
The resolution was referred after some de-
bate, in which the claim agents were round
! ly abused as the cause of all the trouble.
A resolution was adopted calling for infor-
nation as to the means by which foreign
corporations acquire large tracts of public
land. The resolution to approprs sate S23,00O
| to suppress foot and mouth disease in Kan
sas was taken up. Mr.. Bayard opposed it.
Mr.. Pendleton opposed the amendment
| striking out the word Kansas and provid-
| ing that Government supervision be exer-
| cised by and with consent of the States.
Messrs. Cullom, Garland and Plumb IA
vored the resolution. After the adoption
of several amendments it passed. In the
House the special deficiency bill passed.
Senate bill to construct Congressional
| library building was made special order
| for April 8. Resolution appropriating
| s., 900 for the Jeanette investigation was
adopted.
THE loss of life by the Pocahontas
| (Va.) mine explosion is now placed at liz
men.
A FAST mail service from Chicago to
New Orleans via the Illinois Central Rail-
road is talked of.
| THE troops at Suakem are discomfort
ed at the prospect of possible march to
| Berber.
A PLOT to blow up the principal
| buildings at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng, has
been discovered.
IN County Cork. Ireland. placards
are posted announcing that civil war will
break out in March.
! AN Afghan chief is publishing an an
ti-English paper in Paris to be circulated
| in Moslem countries.
THE commercial exchanges of Russia
have petitioned the government for a
heavy duty on manufactured iron.
THE Spanish conspirators arrestedre-
Gently had formed a plot to seize the King
and Ministers.
! PRINCE ORLoFF, for twelve years
Russian Ambassador to France, has pre-
sented his letters of recall and goes to Ber-
| lin.
THE clearinghouse transactions for
last week show a falling off of twenty per
cent. as compared with the corresponding
week last year.
THE net earnings of the Chicago, Mil
waukee 6; ST. Paul Road last year showed
an increase of s., ,6s1, ,132 over those of the
year before.
| A TRAIN of thirty-one cTs loaded
with corn contributed tor the food sufferers
lof the Ohio Valley started from Wichita,
Kas., on the 18th.