San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-07-23
Personal.

business. What nexty
Our friend Alex, Smith of Dripping
Springs, was in town yesterday.
We notice that DIR. De Steiger is making
considerable additions 10 his dwelling,
Mr.. VIII Johns, of Austin. made a visit
to his cousins, the Connally boys, last week.
Miss Mary Richardson left the first Of this
week ON visit 10 Old Virginia.
Mr.. Alf. Price. of Grecn Il Price, left
sometime since for New York TO buy goods.
He will return about the first Of Sept.
We had call last week from Mr.. Kim
ball, an attorney of Bosque county, seeking
q location.
Rev. Mr.. Hayden, editor of the Texas
Baptist, was here last week, and we had
the pleasure of meeting him.
Judge Cheatham. as we learned from the
sermon of Rev. Mr.. French, was the first
County Judge of Hays county.
Thanks to Mr.. Wootten for nice pres
ent of grapes, A vine of his which never
produced much before, after being trimmed
by Mr.. Chastain now bears profusey
Rev. b. Harris left Tuesday evening for
Hondo City, whence he will go to Sabinal
to preach the funeral of the late o. A. Fish
er. He will return next Monday.
A son of Mr.. G. W. Reed, with his wife
and child, from Arkansas. are here on a
visit. He is thinking of making his home in
Texas.
ID. w. Pritchett informs us that he is ex-
pecting another visit from his friend Will
s. Houchins, and that he will probably ar
rive on Saturday.
r. w. Thomas, st. Louis; Sam Brown.
New Orleans; II. ]. Hardy and s. j. Ssmp-
son and II. West are registered Mt the Hof-
heinz,
In another place will be found one of the
best poetic illusions of Bessie smith,"
Our readers may expect others from her pen
from time to time.
Miss Lizzie Thompson, most amiable
young lady, who has been for some time WIS.,
iting her cousin, Miss May Joyce, at this
place, returned home last Saturday.
Mr.. Campbell who bought cotton here
several years since. and who shipped the
first bale from San Marcos on the railroad,
was in town Tuesday.
DIR. Fuller, dentist, of San Antonio, is in
the city, and will remain for short time.
We commend the DIR. to our citizens His
Headquarters are at the San Marcos Hotel.
Billy Thomas is from Preside county. He
is delighted with it rs stock region, ana
because of its cool climate. He says Maria
is evidently destined to make furnishing
town.
Miss L B. Carey, whose call we men,
toned in our last, we learn has been at Con
Zales for over year since her return from
the North. She left for Manchac where she
viii spend some time.
Our friend 2. T. Cleft, of the vicinity of
Martindale, has handed us some fully
opened and developed cotton bolls, grown
on his farm-the first which have come un-
der our notice.
Mr.. Phil P. Cage, one of the contractors
Oh the Blanco court house, formerly in the
hardware business in our town, and mn old
resident of Blanco, favored us with his sub
scription last Tuesday.
= Our Normal Institute WIZ honored day
or SO this week by the distinguished presence
of State School Superintendent Baker and
DIR. Baldwin, President of the Sam Houston
Normal Institute.
Money is getting so abundant that neigh
Dor of ours on the North side sent up large
lot of new bank notes, in sheets, to be sep
arated by the FREE PRESS paper-cutter. We
refer TO the National Bank of San Marcos,
p Frank Buck is now farming on Capt. Il.
H. Ellisons place. down The river. He has
about 30 acres of fine cotton, and feels safe
for q big CROP We trust his anticipations
may be fully realized.
DIR. Meyers has rented the late home of
Capt Martin. Capt. M. and family left on
Sunday evening for Tuscaloosa, Ala. He
will leave his children in charge of their
grandparents there, but will himself at once
return to Texas.
McLemore devotes half columns space
of his last issue to mess of unmltlgated
gush and bosh over the departure from the
Austin jail of his Industrious predecessor,
Cashell.
"a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind"
We have at present three Thomases, not
doubling but praying ones, so that when
Bro. Harris calls on one to pray, all are
ready to respond. The good parson may
find Unnecessary to devise some means to
distinguish them.
Messrs. John W. Speer, Phil. P. Cage, G.
P. Boon, w. J. Jackson, T. Donovan and
J. B. Brice, from Blanco, were in attend
ance on the trial of the court house injun c.
ton suit before Judge Teichmueller last
Tuesday.
In a paragraph in our last, referring to
the fishing expedition of Will and Burns
Connally, Mr.. Kelly and Allie Smith, Roger
Byrne appeared by mistake. However,
that does not materially affect the the au-
thenticity of the '' coon story.
Prof. Rote delivered his second lecture at
the court house Tuesday night his subject be-
ing School Discipline. His discourse was
instructive, not only to teachers but to 9TH
ers as we'll. His next lecture will be on
methods of Instruction.
While large business houses and able
financiers are now and then failing, we are
glad to learn that the San Marcos Book
store, conducted by Russell L Ellison, our
leading business house conducted by ladies,
their recent taking of stock shows to be on
a most healthy business and financial found
alton.
Happening at the residence of Mrs.
Matthews-late the Col. Ellison place-we
we're courteously received by the proprie-
tress. She is sister of the breckenridge
brothers, so well known in western Texas.
She is delighted with her new home. max
ing. however, frequent visits to her old
place of residence, San Antonio.
Mr.. Voolfolk has on exhibition at Ray
polds & Daniels remarkable vegetable.
partaking in about equal proportions of the
nature Of the squash and the pumpkin IL
=. IL. t.rc,s aio,,t the size Of n pumpkin