San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-11-05

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Moore Davis, the gifted Tens poe,oss has
lust returned 20 New Orleans from visit 10
relatives IN Comanche eounty,,,,,i72 Ger,
nan enisran,s landed a Galveston last
Friday, many went to weimar, Piatonia and
Sehulenberg Tho lats railway magnate
Col. II. w. Pierce, by a clause In his viii,
beau0athed 10 the following towns on the
Sunset route 81, 900 each as a permanent
fund for public education Schulenberg,
Marion, Flatonia, Luling Weimar, Waelder
and Columbus; and 70 HARDWOOD and Ellen
ger, O. 900 eaoh.,...T. W. House, OF Hons-
ton has received the elegant gold and silver
medals awarded him at tho N. o. Exposi'
ton for the first and second best grades gu
CARA. II was tho product OF his Arcola
plantation. ...... Tho fair at sherman has
been success and greatly beneficial to
Sherman and Grayson countios......T Tho
hands Of tho Howard oil mill at Palestine,
struck on Monday for reduction Of time.
...... The express and railroad agent at Leon,
on tho Houston a Texas Central, was rob
bed at the point Of the pistol, Of Sl2, 900
of his employers money Saturday night.
DOMESTIC.
Ferdinand Ward, tho great swindler OF
the nineteenth century, OF Grant d Ward
notoriety, was sentenced at New York Sat-
urday, TO ton years at hard labor at Sing
Sing. zee. Senator Stan1eld, OF Gal, having
lost his only son and heir, purposes to dom
ate his three immense ranches valued at
90, 500, 900 for the endowment OF unversi'
~ and school at Palo Alto, Cal......The Utah
Commission in its annual report to the Sec
Rotary of the interior. says the point has
boon reached whore no person living In po-
lygamy can vote or hold office, and that po-
lygamous marriages have been few owing to
the enforcement Of the law, and that SO in
dictments and 20 convictions have been
found for polyaany within the past two
years Tho commission recommends that
settlement on the public lands be prohibit
ed to polygamists and that emigration laws
be amended to prohibit polygamistic emil
gration..... The Boston slugger, j. l.. Sulli-
van, proposes to leave for Australia In April
II 10 hoped he will strand there......Gen.
Geo. B. Mcclellan, died suddenly at his
home in New jersey, Of neuralgia Of the
heart no was the only surviving comman-
dor OF the army of tho Potomac. He died
last Thursday morning. The London
News says Of him: Gen. Mcclellan was
a capable soldier, but he was scarcely equal
to his opportunities. He might have left
great reputation II he had been called to the
second place. or mover aspired to the first
place ..... The second annual convention Of
the brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
for the western hemisphere closed at Bur
lington Iva, last Wednesday. They meet
at San Antonio in 'S6.
Chas. s. Coon, assistant secretary of the
treasury has handed in his resignation by
request it has been accepted Coon was
q very efficient man in his position, but q
republican. ....3, 750, 900 standard silver dol
lars were put in circulation during the month
of October. New Mexican Stock-growors
held their annual meeting at Santa Fe and
adjourned Saturday ; strong resolutions
were passed asking the governor to contin-
no the quarantine against Texas cattle In
force. .....263 catholics died of smallpox in
in Montreal during the past ......Sena-
tor Sherman, and Gov-eleot Foraker, of
Ohio are stamping for Wise and Malone in
Virginia
Grasshoppers are devastating portions Of
Mexico. go. An American friend of Gladstone
has unearthed an autograph letter from him
written in 'G5, denying that he took any
stock in the Confederate cotton loan Of %.
The statement had been repeated in a late
issue of Harpers's. Japan has adopted
our money order system.....Dr, Pasteur the
great French medical savant, who has been
experimenting with hydrophobia virus for
long period thinks he has proved inocula-
ton to be q success. 1t has been tested on
tne human subject with apparent 5uvooso.
....Parnell's home rule party in Ireland has
nominated 3S candidates for Pertinent, 20
of them new men who have never sat In the
house of commons The Irish cause is be-
ginning to attract respectful attention In
The fox spinning industry is
in very depressed condition in England,
because Of her free trade policy. Capital
lists are talking Of removing their invest
ments to the United States. zee. Germany Is
making her competition felt by the manu-.
facturers of England......The fussy little
kingdom of Greece is nearly ruined by It's
late expenditures in war preparation......M
de Lesseps has applied to the French gov
eminent for permission to issue new Pana-
ina canal bonds to the amount Of 120 mil
lions to defray the cost of necessary expenses
no provided for in the original estimate......
The ferment In regard to the union Of Bull
garia and Roumelia in southeastern Europe,
is still Tin statu quo ante" with no visible
prospect Of settlement......Th catholic
of the American colony In Paris
held fune ral service for the repose of the
late Cardinal McCloskey, the other day,
which cost $50, 000......An attempt was
made last Thursday to assassinate NJ. Frey
cinet the French minister of foreign affairs
by an Italian laborer who was pronounced
nsane...... Elk Empress Eugene has been
advising with the Pope as to her conduct
in the present condition Of affairs in France
1.-THE King of Corea established On Am
srican farm in his dominions upon the return
Of the Corean embassy to the q. g., which
was successfully stocked with blooded ami
mails from California the seeds were from
he Agricultural depsrtment......A Hugue-
not festival was held Thursday at Berlin in
honor OF the bi-centennial Of the revo-
,ation Of the edict of Nantes. Grown
prince William was present. Cardinal
and IA British catholic bishops
ire denouDcing public education on the
lround thas Christianity will be imperiled
Unless the State subsidies sectarian as we'll
IS secular schools alike. 81. Gladstone says
hat the public mind in England Is not pre-
Jared for the scheme Of church disestab-
and that rhe question is only used
IS political dodge by the tories.
Bennett Robinson, Charlie Brown, and j.
Brown col. were before Justice Cock
londay charged with assault to murder