San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-05-28

tho situation. Hs Is smart, wide-awake
citizen, whose enterprise in various ways haS
been beneficial to the community. We have
no quarrel with him, but none the less hold
the commissioners to just responsibility
for their manifest favoritism.) No bids,
We repeat, were called for or permitted In
these important matters. But when this
immense matter of the county printing, It
IL thought, may be handled so ~ to punish
the FAKE Pass, then bidding Is proposed
And such bidding The Kyle News man
was required to make no bid In writing,
AID there IL nothing but hearsay evidence
as TO what itreally was. No matter. II was
foreordained that he should have II whatev-
ever might have been our bid-and We
made none. The distinguished commits
sioner from this precinct even raised the
question AZ TO whether Il was worth while TO
lot us know anything about II |! Indeed, we
should have thought quito as well OF them
had they not done 10.
One provision a. 10 the printing is that
'noue but frst.class paper shall DO used
All right. But what about hrstclass print
ing? The Kyle News cannot do tit has
neither the material nor the printer. The
FRER Pass has both, right at hand, oppo-
site tho Court House, where officials could in
spect their proofs, II desired, aud DO sure
of having the work just right in every par
ticular. It will not be pretended that we
have not given full satisfaction as to the
printing we have done. Now the work, II
respectfully done, will have again to 60
abroad The darling ideas of damaging
the FREE PnEss and building up tho Kyle
News at our expense, will have to be given
up, because there is little or nothing involv-
cd, save detriment to the county. In
short this childish exhibition Of petty Off
cial spite il clearly a fragrant case of Cloves
labors lost"
Our official directory, mails and railroad
time table, all "stand corrected.
Scarcely time Of late ''betweon showers"
for the weddings.
All the rings" are not in Washington
or New York City.
Railroad travel and the mails nre again
suspended Oh account of the heavy rains.
A little "civil service reform" it would
seem, might not be out of place in Hays
county.
Remember the excursion to San Antonio
on Saturday next. The round trip from
this place Will only be about $3.50.
Some one carried off our file paper of
April Both. We are also short of copies of
May 7th. Will not some of our subscribers
who do not file their papers kindly favor us
with their copies
Usual services at the Christian Church
next Lords day. Subjects of discussion
will be
la. M. The Poverty of Jesus the Wealth
of the Saints.
sp. IN. Tho Work of the Devil.
All are invited.
The frequent rains, which heretofore in
this section had not been very violent, cu.-
minated on Monday night in regular rain
storm, which did considerable damage, The
most serious was that done to the dam of
Steel L. Code, the earthworks of which were
badly wrecked. We learn that they estimate
that it will require $1,000 to repair the
but We trust it may not prove so
serious.
Much damage was also done to tho grow
ing crops, and to the fields by washouts,
VERIFY the PRESS is mighty, especially
when backed up by a sound public senti-
ment. Shortly after our last issue, His
Honor, Judge Kone, appeared in the court
house yard. hoe In hand, vigorously cutting
and slashing the biggest weeds in that part
Of the grounds which the Hays County
News had declared perfect and "beauti-
full" The exercise must have reminded
The Judge of the cotton-chopping days of
his boyhood. The FREE Press sincerely
trusts that this unwonted e1rtion may not
result in anything seriously detrimental to
his health. His sudden disappearance
from the scene leads us to entertain some
on the subject.
But we are pleased to say the good work
was not to stop with the Judges efforts.
On Monday morning, not the SOLITARY
horseman" of g. P. r. James novels, but
solitary freedman Knight have been seen"
cutting down the sunfowers, cockle-burs,
ETC., on the other side of the ground. He
.lso removed some of the brush piles. He
dispatched the long dreaded work in few
hours, and it looks much better, although
only part of the surface work has been
done.
Apropos, we beg to suggest the removal
Of the old hogshead, barrels, boxes, stove,
ETC.. from their present conspicuous position
IN one side of the clerks Office.
Upon the whole we begin to feel encour-
.ged, and to hope that when the
grounds are wanted for an out door festi- |
val or meeting, they may be found in q toll
.rable condition.
A Most COmmendable Suggestion.
We notice that Mrs. Ireland, the wife OF |
BUR Governor, and a lady ever foremost in 4
every good word and work, makes an eI-
,ellent suggestion through late issue Of