San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-02-12

Gall at this ONCE and see specimens Of
job printing before sending OF for your
work. |Nr pax
Owing TO the pressure Of other duties We
have been unable to collect much local mat.
ter this week.
Mrs. 8. II. Perkins, national organizer
for the womAns' Christian Temperance
Union will lecture ct this place one week
from next Sunday night. More anon.
A sharp norther prevailed on Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week, aud as we
write "wednesday p. m,,) II IL accompanied
by drizzle with indications fair for sleet.
Our editor has run away to the Press
Convention, and the whole burden Of get
ting out the FACE PREss dsvolves on US as
pro tenn; and We hope II will Be for short
tenn.
Only ono case in Justice Cocks Court this
week State w. Jack Powell, (col.) alias
Flsmming; horse stealing. In default Of
bond was remanded 70 Jail TO await action
Of District Court.
A letter has been received BY the authori.
ties here from the sister Of Mrs. Busch tho
missing woman, who. disappeared from tho
Minter House recently. She IL said to bs
respectfully connected at st. Louis
Sec advertisement of the Caligraph Type
writer. our junior has one Of these machines
and il able to write correctly much faster
than he can with pen and ink; though his
practice has been very slight as yet.
CHANGING to drop in ct Green's Bank yes.
terday, we became interested in converse
ton between him and "Uncle Pres" Con-
nslly on the horse question. We were al
most tempted to give the views Of Uncle
Pres publication in this issue, but space
forbido.
The Caligraph writing machine costs
from $40 to $s5 and will pay for itself in
three months il you have the work forit to
do. Operators on the Caligraph are in de-
mand by leading business men everywhere,
and receive good remuneration. See adver-
tisement in another column.
Brown 4 Lindsey's new hearse was out
for the first time yesterday at the funeral of
Mrs. lglehart The arrival Of this hearse
in San Marcos Is another evidence Of in
creasing civilization which 1t Is comforting
to note The absence of such vehicle has
been disgrace to this town for long time.
Ed. FREE PRrss:-In your paper of last
week, in commenting on an article written
from this place, tn an Arkansas paper. you
(not Intentionally have led parties here to
believe that wrote the article. will take
this method to state to the public, that I
neither wrote nor I'D anything to do with
writing said article. A. g. DuaoIR.
Mr.. T. P. DALEY hands Us the following
recipe for chicken cholera, which comes just
apropos, az the disease is very prevalent
among the poultry just at present:
Put about pound of live oak bark and
lump of alumni the size of partridge egg
into half gallon of water, put into the
chickens drinking trough, and keep oil other
water out OF their reach until cured.
Mr.. Daley saysshis wife has used this
remedy for ten years and has meyer known
it to fail.
The following IL what tho Texas Editors
have done and are now doing according to
the programme given In the Galveston News:
Yesterday was taken up in sightseeing at
Galveston. Tho points of interest visited
we're the News ofice, Cotton exchange.
Union club. Ball school building, fremont
observatory, and some Of the leading whole
sale mercantile establishments. The Ak
curson to deep water took place at ll:sO a.
m. Wednesday.
A meeting of the Fire Department was
held on Friday the 9Th inst, to elect officers
and perfect permanent organization. The
following officers were elected: E. p. Ray
nolds, Chief. reelected; Chas. Hutchings.
Assistant Chief; !. F. Pate, Secretary; W.
q. Digger, Treasurer; Theo. Herring,
Steward.
After some discussion it was decided to
order bell for the engine house, to weigh
1000 pounds.
A. axchapoe plumbs the truth when il