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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
From Rock Shoals.

Mn, EDITOR :-This correspondent,
upon seeing hia first letter in print, is
encouraged to write again.
There hasn't been anything unusual
happened in the quiet little neighbor-
hood of Rock Shoals since last wrote
you.
Farmers have commenced planting
corn in earnest.
Some of the weather prophets shake
their greasy wool and say, "Look out
for the late frosts,
Tho old sisters haven't quit dying
yet. The first thing that met our eyes
this morning, on getting up, was an
old sister piled up in the cow-pen
gate,quite stiff.
The grass is putting up every where
and if ii continues warm, think in the
course of two weeks, there win be
very good picking for the cattle.
received letter from n prominent
stOcSmnn living at Colorado City, who
writes that there has been no rain in
that section of any consequence up to
March lst. The same man says cattle
are dying right sharply up there 1t
il really very hard on us poor cow
punchers. Cow-PUNCHER.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
In calling attention To Dr. Tnrlor,e

In calling attention to DR.. Tnylor's
article on the local school tax question
last week, we enormously stated That
it was the article read by Prof Wal
lace at the meeting Of the Teachers In
stitute. We were led to this belief by
the fact that tho Institute ordered the
article which Prof. Wallace read to be
published in the next Issue OF tho pa
per, and DR.. Taylor's article came TO
us from the same point with a request
to publish. Our mistake was not ap
parent until Monday morning last
when we received Prof, Wnllace's arti-
Gle and also note from DR.. Taylor
asking an explanation. Prof Wallace's
article appears on the first page Of this
issue, to which we respectfully direct
attention. We appreciate both these
articles and are glad that the learned
authors arc interesting themselves in
ondeavoring to secure better educa-
tional facilities for tho children of
their section. Would that the people
all over tho county and State
would also interest themselves in this
great cause.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

The past week has been disap-
pointment tonlmost every body, as the
transactions have fallen far below the
anticipations. The causes for this
were plain and legitimate; and were
first the bad weather, which has but
just cleared, but moro particularly the
rail road strike. The one now in pro.
gross on the fould system simply par
alyzes the stock business in this sec
ton, the buyers refusing to talk bust
ness until tits ended. Prices are i'm
possible to get at, but IA far as known
80, Sl2 and SIS may be taken as n
basis for oues, twos and threes. While
little or nothing has yet been done, the
wise ones say that trade will yet be
lively enough before tho end of the
season, and some helpers predict that
prices will yet go up to 80, Sll and
500 for ones, twos and threes, before
the season ends. The recent splendid
rains have had the effect to stiifen the
rancheros in their demands, as it is
claimed that already good grass is as
snred for the coming summer. Stock
j Journal,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
Dissolution Notice.

The partnership heretofore existing
between r. r. Mccoy and Ira j. Bow
man is this dissolved by mutual con =
sent, Mr.. Mccoy retiring. All ac-
counts duo the firm are in the hands of
X. T. Mccoy for collection, and Mr..
Bowman will settle all accounts due
by the Arm, r. T. Mccoy,
IRA j. BowMAN.
Referring to the above desire to
express my gratitude for the liberal
patronage extended the firm in the
past and solicit continuance of the
same, believing that | can give salts
faction in goods and prices.
Very Respectfully,
IRA j. BOWMAN.
San Saba, Tex, March II, 1886.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Miss Mary Sloan, special guardian of
the minor children of tho lato y. c,
Woods, has received through the local
lodge of Knights of Honor of this
place, the sum of two thousand dollars
the amount of the policy on the life of
the deceased, This order is one of
the best and most reliable insurance
organizations in the world, and every
man who desires to secure his family
against the hardships and privations
incident to wiodwhood and orphnnago
shoald become member. II costs
less thar any of the old time life in.
surance companies and is much safer,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Malone Duggan, local agent for the
Goldthwaite and San Saba stage line,
informs the NEWS that there viii be Il
change in the time of the arrival of
the mail at this place after the lat of
April. The mail will then arrive at
about l2 o'clock at night instead of
~ in the day time, as at present. This
will be quite convenience to our
people as they will be able thus to to-
cure their mail at least six hours calli
or than under the present arrange.
ment. If the News knew to whom
thanks should be given for this change
ii would proceed at once to express its
gratitude.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
From Bowser Valley

Mn EDITOR - Please find room in
your columns for these few lines, as
this part of the county, it seems, is not
represented.
a few days ago you might meet n
granger with a frown on his face foot
long, but since the rims began their
smiles arc 80 large that you could not
make their mouths larger without set
ting their ears back.
We have good society, Sabbath
schools, and singing school, con.
Quoted by Prof j. NJ. Dobbus. Also
preaching the drst, third and fourth
Saturdays in each month.
We have highest.minded man the
NEWS over heard of. a skunk dis.
turbcd the chickens, and the gentle
man took his weapons Of warfare and
approached the intruder. Being an
excellent shot, no took aim ut the OBJ
icct, which was ia about fifteen feet OF
him, and fred. But instead of killing
the -eatiug skunk, he killed q
COW, ono that was never known to dis.
turb chicken.
We have no deaths to report. Nei
thcr can we report any marriages, to
the regret ofyour correspondent.
The debate, between Revs Holcmnn
and Brady, will occur the frat Tuesday
ia April. A largo congregation is ex-
pcctcd to be in attendance.
George Aimes says he would be glad
the northern factories know he was in
Texas, so he could get pair of over
nils that would be short enough foI
him 1t requires too much of his time
Ia rolling mp tho present patterns this
bad weather. INK Singer.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

If every drunken man were arrested
and fined or otherwise punished as the
law directs, thare would be fewer
cases of murder, and drunkenness
would in a very large measure cease
to be. 1t hardly looks fair to jerk up
poor man and fine or imprison him,
while his brother, who has some mon
ey and moro influence, is allowed to
60 scot free. Justice is represented as
holding an even scale, but the way
this particular olfense has been treated
by officers during the past few weeks
shows that the scale is sadly unbal-
anced. When man so loses control
of himself, by filling up with corn
juice, arsenic and fusel oil, that he is
liable to damage himself or others, the
officers of the law should take charge
Of him and sec that he is pat udder
proper restraint. Simply because n
man is leaving town at full speed is
no reason why he should fail to an
swer for crime which is forbidden by
the law. II the pAfties who left town
Wednesday evening had been placed
under proper restraint, in all proba-
bility there would have been no TRACE
dy to report, and no trial to follow as
the result, costing the citizens Of this
county many hundreds Of dollars, aud
depriviug wife ani mother Of their
stay and dependence in life.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20


Several of the leading business men
of San Saba, who are interested In Sc
curing larger population for TINS
section, have expressed themselves as
being in favor of getting up complete
description of San Saba county, and
circulating it among the people who
are seeking homes in the Lone Star
State. We nre pleased with the idea,
and will gladly do the work necessary
to bring the advantages offered by this
county prominently before the people
seeking homes 10 tue west; provided
we arc given encouragement suilis,ent
to Justify the undertaking. To do the
work properly and successfully would
require considerable expense, and in
order to meet this outlay we should
have sale for at least one thousand
extra copies, over and above the reg
;'si---'s-li.,en for that particular we6S.
There onght to be ct least ten firms in
San Saba who would each take one
hundred copies at IS per hundred and
send them to friends and inqurers
abroad, or to appreciated customers in
this OF adjoining counties. If this mum
Der OF subscribers can be secured we
will undertake the work at once, and
rs soon as the necessary data can be
secured, we will issue an edition of the
SAX SABA News, in which will be given
complete write-up of the county, de-
scribing it's area, soil, climate, pro-
ductions, industries, and enterprises-
its county seat and interior towns,
its schools and churches, its lodges and
benevolent organizations, It's past his
tory and lis capacities for the future
in other words, we will endeavor to
show something of what the county
has been, what 1t is to-day, and what
1t may be under the favorable auspices
of the future. Are you Interested in
seeing the beautiful valleys and fertile
uplands of this county paying tribute
to the commerce Of your town, in hav-
ing the rate of taxation reduced, in SO.
curing large and prosperous popula-
ton for your county, so that schools,
churches and other organizations for
the civilization and enlightenment of
society and the advancement of every
material interest affecting the prosper
ity of tho county, Then, hero is an
opportunity which you should not neg
lect Send one hundred copies Of the
paper, containing q description of the
county in which you live, to your old
friends In other states, who are tired
and sore from toiling and carrying
mortgage and Gnano from year to
year. Let them know that there Is
rest for the weary, that new lands can
be purchased cheap and on reasonable
terms, that the land produces abund
antly, that crop mortgages are almost
unknown, and that tho people here do
not know what guano is use for. Let
this be known and our population may
DO doubled OF oven trebled in the next
five years. Do you want that special
edition. If so speak out. Five dollars
will buy one hundred. Three dollars
will buy fifty. One dollar and fifty
cents will buy twenty FIVE. Send in
orders by mail, or deliver them in per.
son at this Office. When we have Sc
cured a sufficient number of suscrip-
tons at these prices to justify getting
out an edition of 1000 extra copies the
work will be commenced at once.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

DR.. Rankin, State Superintendent OF
The American Bible Society, was here
last Sunday in the intereat OF the
eaaae he 40 nohly represents. His ser
mon az the Methodist church SUNDAY
morning was "a grand effort, showing
eoneiHsigsly that tho fiihlA had done
more towards enlighteniug aud civil
ling the naiioos Of the earth than ali
Other agencies combined. A collec.
ton was taken Ia the interest Of the
local society aud lhe people Of San
esha responded nobly, a. they always
do The local society waa5eorganlzod
aud COW g 10 work ulih fresh i'm
pesas aee II smith, sht local
90 ofleaf, Is constantly visiting
stiCash IN ghis aoeilap of country
W. bspe he VIII report lhp lesqli II
hlalabqgs shloagh tho NrNa
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Died, on the lGth of March, NAsSIE
r. infant daughter of NJ b. and Annie
Bowman, aged q days. Her stay with
us was only long enough to twine
aroand our hearts with warmest love,
when God took our fair fiower-too
bright and beautiful for earth-to live
with himi and while We weep to know
aho
"She isnot in her msther's arms,
Not on her fathers knee
still We have the assurance that she
as safe from all pain aud sorruw--
Safe, our Savior, with thee
-AusriE
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
Notice to Contractors.

Bids are wanted. and will be considered
at tho next term of the commissioners
court. for taking down, repairing and set
ting up in new Jail the iron cage now in
the old Jail. Leave sealed proposals at the
Office of tue county clerk.
4 B HAYwORTH,
County Judge, San Saba County
San Saba, Tex, March l5,l556. -.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Quite o number Of cllizeua and husl-
meas men were mp IN this oAloe Tues
day 20 witness tho nrat operation OF
oar new power printing press. Il did
Ia work well, but We expect better To-
salts Yet, whom ell H. parts aFe prop
elly adjusted. persous desiring 10 500
e 10 operation win please call on
Tuesday moipiagsot Friday moloipas,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Carrying arms, except by travel rs,
is positively prohibited hy the lave of
Texas, yet hardly a week passes tlat
there is not dozen deaths la tho
state caused BIS tho carrying Of deadly
weapons. Such terrible tragedies %
occurred a few miles south of town,
Wednesday evening, could be avoided
II tho officers would do their whole
daty.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
Special Notice.

All accounts due the former firm of
Mccoy s. Bowman are now In my
hands and must be settled by cash or
goodlnote by the Let of April, 1886.
Prompt attention to this notice may
save cost and trouble. R.T.McCoY.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20
saturday Morning, March 20, 1856.

Entered ., the pos,ofHce at San Saba, Texas Ne
second class matter.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Eugene Houghton, an attorney of
Llano, was killed Wednesday night
near j. s. IIarts store, on Cherokee
creek, in the southern part Of this
county. He had been in San 5ahn
during the day defending man 10y tho
name of Bybee, who had been arrested
on charge of horse stoaling. Late in
the evening no left for nome accom-
panied by man who seemed to have
charge of tho bGggy and team,
Thursday morning there was call
made for sheriff to 60 to Cherokee,
the messenger stating that IIoushton
had been killed and that one man had
been arrested, while another had es.
aNPod. IL ia supposed that the man,
being full of whisky, got into dim
Guilty which resulted as above stated
The case will likely be brought before
Justice Thomas for investigation, aud
if so, he has promised to furnish full
particulars.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

Some three or four wocks since n
report came to San Saba that negro
woman, the wife of Humphrey Moore,
who was convicted at the last term Of
the district court of an attempt to oom-
nit an outrage, had found her twin
infants beside her in the bed dead,
one having its neck broken and the
skull Of the other being mashed To-.
An inquest and examination was hold
by Justice Hanna, and the jury, upon
the evidence of the only physician
present, decided that the children met
their death by lightning. This WIS
thought to be rather strange verdict
as those who are posted say that
lightning was mover known to break a
bone or disjoint an articulation In tho
human body. Parties who believed
the children had been murdered ma 10
affidavit to that effect before Juatice
Hanna, who issued n writ reiurnnble
before Justice Thomas, md Thursday
last was set for the examination,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-20

An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Matt
Bowman died Tre,day evening about
four o'clock. It had been suffering
since ita birth with bronchitis. The
parents have the sympathy of a large
circle Of relatives and friends.
The strike on the Gould system Of
railroads, extending all over Texns
and into several other states, ia still in
operation, though the company has
secured sufficient hands to enable
them to move freight again.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-09
EOREIGM

MICHAEL DAvITT on the 23d urged NJ.
Morley. the Chief Secretary for ireland,
to take some measures for the relief of tie
starving people on the west coast of tie
Green Isle.
The Canadian Court of Appeals decided
at Montreal on the 23d that a deal On
change was gambling.
The ship Hudson Bay %foundcred in a Ie-
cent storm off the cape of Good Hope, and
fifteen Of the crew persisted.
THERE was a fresh rupture on the 23d te-
tween france and Madagascar, and heavy
fighting was reported.
TIE Emperor of japan has forwarded to
New York five hundred dollars i'll Ameri.
can coin as q contribution to the Grlnt
monument fund.
In the State of Santander, United States
of Colombia, a family of eight persons
were slain recently by six men, who nave
been arrested.
AT a banquet given him on the Path at
St. Nazaire, France, NJ. de Lesseps IN
nounced that the Panama canal Would he
completed in 1889. '
IT was announced on the oath that the
labor strike was extending all over Bel
GUM under the lead of the Anarchists. At
Liege the civic guards had been summoned
to arms.
The British troops on the Oath defeated
four hundred Burmese near Yemethen,
killing sixty and capturing many prisoners
and guns and a number of elephants.
THE motion pending in the Dominion
Commons censuring the Government for
having hanged Riel was defeated on the
25th by q vote of l25 to u.
JUSTICE BUTT, in London, has rendered
q decision to the effect that a divorce OBJ
tanned in America from the bonds of IL
marriage performed in England is invalid
in England.
BISMARCK, in a speech of two hours in the
German reichstag on the 26th, warned that
body not to stand in the way of the Ma.
TONS progress.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-09
A. N. KELLOGG.

Death of the Originator OF the Auxi;-
larry Publishing Business in the United
States.
CHICAGO, March 25.-News has been re
ceived OF the death, at Townsville, Ga,
OF Mr.. A. N. Kellogg, president of the A.
N. Kellogg Newspaper Company. The de-
ceased had been an invalid for MANY
years, and OF late was unable to devote
his personal attention to the large busi-
ness enterprise which is mainly the out
growth oflais foresight, energy and excellent
business talent. He was the pioneer in the
auxiliary publishing business, which has
lance within q little over twenty wears
time. He was u philosophical man, a
man OF sterling integrity and uprightness
OF character, and was greatly endeared to
all i'll any way associated with him because
Oh his kind and sympathetic nature and un-
os~tentatious generosity. He was fif~ty-four
years OF age. He leaves a widow and two
daughters, who have their home in New
York, to which city the remains will be
taken for burial.
Mr., Kellogg was born at Reading. Pa,
March ~, ls3s; ana graduated with d .stinction
was a son OF Frederick Kellogg and the
youngest of six children. He married AMMO
In 1861, while publishing the Baraboo (Wisl
Republic. u weekly newspaper, he became
short OF help and conceived TIC idea OF the
Mad son tWis) Daily Journat Company. He
continued to print Il ''patent-ins.de" paper
Until lst5, when ne came to Chicago and began
He built up, the Kellogg Newspaper Company,
which row has offices i'll Chicago. St. Lou s,
cleveland, kansas City, Memphis, New York
anu Iluc.unaT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-09
An Entire Family Murdered.

PANAMA, March 16.-An entire famil,
has been murdered at Arboledos, in the
State OF Santander. The victims were Car
beion M%arciales; Facunda Ortega, his wife,
Camilla, aged twelve; Valeria, aged ten,
Ricardo, aged eight; C~ayetano, aged five;
Virginia, aged two, and an infant to which
the mother had given birth in the excite
ment which preceded her murder.
The murderers, six in number, have been
arrested. They are Antonio Estabar,
francisco Marciales, Miguel Flores, Pan.
talon Kosc0 and IL deaf and dcmb man.
Ihey will be tried by court martial. The
apprehension OF The assassins has brought
to light other crimes OF a reyolting char
acter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-09
LATER NEWS.

In q conflict on the 9th with Belgian
troops near Char]eroi five rioters were shot
dead. The strikers had done damage in
that city amounting to 2,50o,O00, and
threatened to destroy the gas works.
Thousands of workmen were idle because
of the looting of gas factories worth 81, OOO,-
900.
HEAVY sn~ow-stol1ns occurred on the 2Sth
in the West.
By the burning of Neiswanger's livery
stable in Kansas City on tho 2Sth one mau
and thirty-eight horses lost their lives.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 9th aggregated $685.
7s5,75o, against 1925, 49,, SO7 the previous
week. As compared with the correspond
ing week of 1885, the increase amounts to
45.5 per cent.
JAY GOULD on the 18th consented to sub
NIT to arbitration the troubles on the
Southwestern railway system, and Grand
Master Workman Powderly issued orders
to the Knights of Labor to commence work
again. ..
REV. SAM JONES on the evening of the
18th Informed a Chicago audience that he
had ceased to use tobacco. Sam Small
shook off the same habit a short time ago.
M~AYNARD's hoe-shop at Northampton,
Mass, was burned on the 2sth, causing a
loss of 100000. Miss L. H. Adgate, the
b~ook-keeper, persisted in the flames.
GENERAL CROOK and staff held a confer
ence on the 9th in Sonora with Geronimo
and his Chiricahua hostiles. The chief
begged for the lives of himself and com
panions, but was informed that he must
surrender Internationally or fight to the
death.
WASHINGTON dispatches of the 2Sth stated
that Acknowledgement Garland was suffer.
ing from a severe cold, and was confined
to his bed. The physicians reported Sec,
retary Manning's condition as unchanged.
THE great railway shops of the Northern
Pacific road at Brainerd, Mimi, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th, the loss being
100000.
TIE liquor dealers of Massachusetts
formed q political organization at Boston
on the eth.
THE Mississippi river was open on the
2Sth from La Crosse, Wis, to tie gulf.
TERRITORY has been leased near Murrys.
vile, Pa, by a syndicate of New York
bankers, who intend to bore twenty gas
wells.
On the 9th the snow in Maine averaged
from three to six feet in depth.
The United States Senate was not in ses-
sion on the 9th. In the House the time
was devoted principally to discussing the
Silver-Coinage bill, but no action was
taken h prayer by the chaplain at the
opening of the session called out objection
by Mr.. James IN. ~ to its perpetuation
in the Record.