San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-07-10

w. Z. Moore and Jodie T. Barbee.
CHoIoE vegetables have suddenly played
out" Our irrigated" gardens, like all other
sublunary tbings, appear to fail in dry
weather.
Most OF our exchanges contain long lists Of
candidates announcements. Have We no
candidates for Office in this county or arc
they too modest to make the fact known in
the usual manner ?
THE Sunny South printing company and
advertising agency, late Of Brownwood, re-
moved TO Waco, and soon after busted. I"
All right-it deserved to bust some time be-
fore IL did.
EsoumE WYATT informs us that Mrs,
Mary A. Bryan, of his vicinity aged 75
years, committed suicide on Tuesday OF
last week by cutting the veins Of her arm
with razor.
The 4th was day of quiet enjoyment at
this place. The business houses were ap-
propriately something we believe
we have never known before here on the 4th
Of July.
The article from the Galveston News by
Mr. Young, on San Marcos, referred TO in
our last appears on our first page, A limit
ed number of extra copies of this weeks
paper will be printed. II will be found n
good thing to circulate. Call and supply
yourselves in time.
The latest annual catalogue Of Coronal
Institute has been laid on our table. II is
very lucid and replete with good sense, and
exhibits marked progress in the Institute
and fair outlook as to its future. The
total number of pupils at the last session
was 265.
We arein receipt of the catalogue of the
Sam Houston State Normal School for the
scholastic year 1881. 1t is neatly
printed pamphlet, giving full information
about the institution. From the Huntsville
Item we extract the history of the school
found elsewhere in this issue, under the
head of "The Sam Houston State Normal
Institute"
EVERY SATURDAY of Austin and Every
Sunday of San Antonio, both readable pa
pers, are no more They did not pay, and
hence are not We cannot say we regret
the failure of the former, though the pub
fishers are clever gentlemen, because it was
an attempt to publish paper worth 81
year at Scots, and hence the effect was in
its tendency damaging to the newspaper
business.
THAT lawn-mower is rather superfine for
the courthouse yard in its present condition.
If the authorities had followed the advice of
the FREE PRESS early in the season and
cleaned off the stones and other rubbish
and smoothed down the knobs and other
inequalities, then the lawn mower might
have come in with satisfactory results. AS
the case stands the attempt to use itreminds
one of DR.. Holmes comparison about
thedge-hogs dressed in lace"
In the various mutations of fashion, at
long intervals and for short time the tickle
goddess strikes on something rational and
in good taste Our ''fashion editor" thinks
this has actually occurred as respects the
present style of ladies dresses, far beyond
any thing which has prevailed since his
youthful days. For many years past the
female form divine has been disguised in
the most outlandish fantastic and barbarous
toggery imaginable, SO that the present
change is quite delightful.
REFERRING to our moonlight voyage on
the San Marcos, we were impressed, as
every one must be. with the fact that with
proper preparation San Marcos must be one
of the chief watering places and summer re-
sorts in the State. The fine boating facili-
ties alone would ensure this. We hear and
hope it is true, that the present owners of
the water-power intend building larger and
better boat-something much needed, We
hope they will also take effectual means to
clear out the "bonnets" and other vegetable
matter which now mar the pleasure of boat
ing.
The Lockhart Register and Luling Signal
favor Seguin as the place of holding the
Representive convention. What has the
San Marcos FREE PRESS and Kyle News to
say 1t is it not about time that the place
and date for said convention should be an
nounced ?-T Seguin Times.
We believe our people are not inclined to
be particular as to the place of holding the
convention. We await the call from the
proper quarter
To a young man away from home friend
less and forlorn in great city the hours of
peril are those between sunset and bedtime:
for the moon and the stars see more evil in
a single hour than the sun is his whole days
circuit. The poets visions of evening are
all composed of tender and soothing images.
II brings the wanderer to his home, the
child to his mothers arms, the OK to his stall,
and the weary laborer to rest. But to the
gentle hearted youth who is thrown upon
the rocks of the pitiless city, and stands
homeless amid thousand homes, the ap-
proach of evening brings with it an aching
sense of loneliness and desolation which |
comes down upon the spirit like darkness
upon the earth. In this mood his best
impulse becomes a snare TO him; and he is
led astray because he is social, ahectionate,
sympathetic and warm-hearted- IL there
be young man thus circumstanced with
in the sound of my voice. let me yet tell him |
that books are the friends of the friendless,
and that a library is a home 70 the homeless.
A taste for reading will always carry you