San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-05-22

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considerable note, had on exhibition
at the Hall Of the Press Association
a largo oil painting Of "The Storminl
OF tho Alamo" which attracted mucl
favorable attention, and photograph
and microscopes Of which were in dc
mand.
We met on the train returning from
Fort Worth, Mrs. Lamour wife o
the architect OF tho Austin cour,
house, IN agreeable and intelligent
lady. They now reside at Dallas, but
she is quite partial TO Austin, theil
former homo.
Numerous stock trains were fire.
ouent on our route. We were told
much OF the stock now goes to Wich'
ita Falls by the Fort Worth and Den
yer road, which is completed to the
Falls.
We were pleased to renew our old
acquaintance withJ. S. Penn, Of the
Laredo Times.
The city of Dallas has made great
progress since our visit a year ago,
including some Of her finest build.
ings. The spirit of enterprise and
the means to carry it out which exist
there are something wonderful to us
of tho West. Fort Worth exhibits
tho same characteristics and assumes
to be rival of Dallas, but in our
opinion it will be long time before
she will really reach that position.
At the press banquet the mayor
and councilman came in at "a late hour,
after having closed one of their meet
ings. Among the councilmen was
John Henry Brown, q noted pio-
neer citizen, but who has been living
very retired for some years. Having
q pleasant recollection of him through
some correspondence we had with
him concerning Texas, before leaving
Indiana, we were pleased to see him,
md to hear him respond to call for
d speech. We were told that he had
suffered for some years from the ex-
cessive use of ardent spirits, but had
had resolution enough to stop, and
We were gratifed on the present oc
,asion to see him drink q toast in
,old water, stating that he found
better off without the use of
stronger. MIR. Brown is
quite an historical character, and
lnows rs much, probably, concerning
he early annals of Texas Us any man
living. We trust he is employing his
etirement in putting his recollections
N record, We think it is q service
10 owes the country.
A word more, rs promised in our
list, concerning the literary and gen
raj museum of Judge Norton. 1t is
10 wonder he is q marked man, for
lis ancestry were remarkable, both on
he paternal and maternal side. The
ormer were intimately connected not
My with tho history of Now England
nd Ohio, but also of the South, nota-
ly Louisiana about the time of it's
ession to the United States. Their
correspondence on that and other
uestions with most of the eminent
ublic men of their day, is in the
Judges possession. His grandfather
II the maternal side, Anthony Ban
whom the Judge is name
ake-was q distinguished and veter,
n Methodist minister. The Judge
as o manuscript volume Of Scrip
ure texts and comments written by
i'm in 1900, which is wonderfully
iell preserved and would scarcely be
bought to be over q dozen years old.
Ie also has large portraits in oil of
t Mr.. Banning and his wife, which
re very interesting as to their sub
,cts, and also as works of art.-But
} return. We can give no adequate
lea from our hasty survey of Judge
Torton s literary treasures. OF course
@ has complete files of his own pub
cations during his long editorial
arreer, and full line (as the mer-
hants say, of leading Ohio and 9th
r papers of the same era. But far
ack of these his newspaper files are
all, prominent among which are nu-
ferrous volumes of the old National
He informed us that
mong bis still older and rarer speci-
lens wero copies of the original edi-
ons of Thomas Paine's "Crisis,"
'hich was read ut the head of Wash
lgton's armies to inspirit their patri-
tic zeal during 1.-The times that
red mems souls. The Judge
Gems to have had a passion for
relics" equal to that of q devout
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