San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-01-29

READ the the large displayed adverti'
ment of II. HARDY a CO., Grocer
and don't fail TO give them call. They dis
play the spirit and enterprise which are sur
TO win success
MARY" marriage. license since our last
Wood plenty in these parts since tn
"windfall" caused by the late sleet.
The weather has been quito mild this
week and We notice that some preparations
for gardening are being made
The crying need of street crossings wal
made manifest during the late muddy per,
iod but We suppose ''all will DO forgiven, v
since the mud has partially dried up.
The AGENTS HERALD continues TO be q
readable paper, and devoted to an expose Of
advertising and other frauds. This special.
| h"noo ~ bohoiuhy Noiunoio.
The genuine Sedgwick iron and wire,
fence, without any wood, may be seen in
front Of Judge Woods new residence. II
il 30 thing Of beauty"
County Court is in session. Our colored
folks charged with disorderly conduct at
Kyle, were acquitted. In the case of Mr..
Ferrol charged with assaulting Marshal
Prince, he was fined So and costs.
See advertisement of the Caligraph Type
writer, our junior has one Of these machines
and is able to write correctly much faster
than he can with pen and ink; though his
practice has been very slight as yet.
Remember that G. G.. Bills has removed
into the late stand of Mr.. Wilcox next door
to the Post Office, where, with larger
stock, he hopes to greet old and new Gus.
toners. He also keeps the Telephone Office.
We acknowledge receipt of the New Or
leans Times-Democrat Almanac for 1885.
1t is chronological and statistical and hand
somely illustrated. The Almanac is issued
as q supplement to the Times Democrat
and is mailed free to every yearly subscrib-
or, daily or weekly, and is sold at 25c retail.
The Caligraph writing machine costs
from $40 to $s5 and will pay for itself in
three months if you have the work for it to
do. Operators on the Caligraph are in de-
mand by leading business men everywhere,
and receive good remuneration. See adver-
tlsement in another column.
All last week was solid winter weather,
the landscape for the greater part of the
time was encased in with sleet
so heavy as to break off large
limbs from the trees. In this respect
it was novelty down this way. Yet that
week was but sample of the sort of
weather people at the north are called on to
endure for months together.
The new fence around the court house
yard is progressing. Although we do not
approve of cheating the county of any of
its legally allotted space, yet the added size
makes quite q change for the better. The
ornamental iron and wire fence comes from
Sedgewick Bros, of our old home, Rich
mond Ind. 1t is rather light for the pres
ent use, but is admirably adapted for in
closing dwellings, cemetery lots, etc.
We have received the first number of In
dustrial America issued from the same Of
fee and under the same general manage
ment as that sterling weekly, the Electrical
World. Industrial America presents hand
some typographical appearance; its matter
is carefully prepared and ably edited, and
its illustrations are of a high order. 1t is
published every other Saturday at No. 8
Murray Street, New York, at ten cents a
number, or SO 90 year.
A MYSTERIOUS CAsE-We are indebted to
Marshal Prince for the particulars of a mys-
terious case which has just transpired at
this place. A woman came to the Minter
house from New Braunfels Monday the 10Th
inst. She appeared to be some IS or 40
years of age, and had trunk, She rep
resented that she was the wife of a Mr..
Busch, of New Braunfels or San Antonio;
that he had staid behind to collect som
money and would Join her in short time.
She appeared to be respondent and spoke
to some of the hotel folks of her purpose of
committing suicide. She also spoke of 60
ing to Lampasas. On Tuesday about 10 A.
M. she left the hotel and has not since
been heard from. She left her trunk
which the Marshal has opened, but found
nothing to identify her, save receipt given
Josephine Horn at the Carrollton House
Austin, in June 81
Mr.. Prince has since visited New Braun
fels and interviewed Mr. Bush, who dis
claims the woman as his wife, and says he
only knew her short time while boarding
at the same place. He learned that she was
known as Betty. The name of Stephen
Kirsch was given as one who knew the wo-
man.
As we go to press there is no further
light on the matter The indications are
that the woman has committed suicide.
Go to the Travellers Home, San Antonio,
for good accommodations, No. 62s Austin St.