San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-05-21
IINAS ITEMS.
Harold has n building boom
Tho wool market r. booming al

ing Iort Worth
The East Texas Prosbytory met q
. Livingston, Pol, county, last Friday
SIr J. NJ. Hancy proposes to built
a 100000 cotton mill at Corsicana
Tho second day Adyontists ar'
holding forth ut Aurora, Texas,
They had n $4,000 cyclone a,
Taylor Saturday evening,
sam. White cou"l, m armodiIlo on
bis place near Bolton last week.
Crop prospects are excellent al
over the state,
The second meeting Of tho Travel
ing Mems Union conycncs at Dallas
to-day.
There is to be grand Confederate
union at Fort Worth on the 9th OF
August next
Hon. J, w. Thyoclmorton is sick
again, Bad results are feared from
his relapse.
Picnics are raging Mt Marshall, and
the Sunday law is to be strictly en-
forced,
Col 7. ]. Campbell, attorney for
tie Texas IL Pacific railroad, died at
his home in Paris Saturday.
Col. A. II. Belo, OF the Galveston
News. has Just returned from an in
apecting tour TO The City OF Mexico
The Diocesan Convention of the
Episcopal church met at Bryan yester-
day.
A cave of unknown extent near
San Pedro Springs, San Antonio, was
brought to light by blast.
The Holmes literary society at
Corpus Christi, received an autograph
letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes
The county commissioners Of Me-
nard county have awarded the con-
tract for new court house to Messrs
Vickery & Haynes, at S12,5OO.
Pres. Cleveland appointed Thos.
r. Cooke postmaster at Victoria, and
Willis II. Batts postmaster at Dal-
ton, Monday.
Prof. Dabncy, of the State Uni
versity, has beer offered a chair in the
Presbyterian College at Columbia,
$. C., but declined to accept.
Gov. ireland has rendered his COM
mcndation, rs commander-in- chief of
the State Militia, to the Houston
Light Guard.
Officers are requested to DO on the
alert for bay marc Il hands high,
branded diamond II disconnected,
lately stolen at Chappell Hill.
A very successful Methodist revival
is progressing at Weatherford under
charge OF Rev. II. NJ. Wells. Over
100 conversions have been made.
The city council of Galveston met
last Friday and canvassed the returns
Of the late election Of the 18th inst,
and declared r. l.. Fulton mayor.
Z. G.. Jones, negro teacher, forged
school voucher to the County Judge
at Tyler last Friday, and is wanted
by the officers.
The Austin public schools closed
last Friday afteran eight months SEES
sion. The scholastic population is
about 5000.
Thirty State convicts were released
from the Clay farm on the Brazos last
Thursday by q gang of their friends
who overpowerod and captured the
guards.
Wednesday night of last week Mrs.
Catherine Huff, of San Antonio, re-
tired as usual, and in the morning
her husband found her dead by his
side.
Nine of the thirty conyicts who es-
capped from the Clay farm, on the
Brazos, have voluntarily surrendered.
The Governor has increased the re-
ward for the releasers to $500.
Portions of the Texas Mexican
railway running into Corpus Christi,
were destroyed by heavy rains last
Sunday for the third time in the past
three weeks.
The annual encampment OF the
State militia will be held at Lampasas,
commencing June %. It Is expected
TO exceed all previous gatherings of
Texas military.
The Milan county grand jury found
IOt indictments; 81 felonies and the
samenumbor of misdemeanors. For
ty-two trials for felony resulted in
thirty eight convictions.
IL. Cashell was convicted of steal
ing law books from Smith & Trigg,
attorneys at Austin, and sentenced to
one years imprisonment in the county
iaii. He had sold the books to sec
ond- hand bookstore for trihe.
Messrs. Coombes s Gano, of DIAL
las. have been retained by parties liv-
ing in Mississippi and Ohio to bring
suit for bodies of land in BeXar coun-
~ originally granted to one of the
heroes of Texan Independence,
A.C. George and \. NJ. Sharpe,
who murdered Mr.. kncsent, a Fla
touia merchant. were sentenced to be
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