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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-04
The Liquor Traffic. Heavy Blows from
q Leading Democratic Paper.

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The time has been when the con-
demnation Of the liquor traffic was
left mostly TO the religious or tenn
peranco journals, and was subject to
suspicion OF being ministered in a
professional, matter of course way ;
but here is how it is done by the
Louisville Courier Journal, o thor
oughly secular and political paper:
1t is business which is opposed
to every clergyman in tho country.
1t is a business which every mer-
chant and business man hates and
detests.
1t is business which is the stand
ing dread of every mother.
II is business which makes nine
ty per cent of the pauperism for
which tho taxpayer has to pay.
1t is q business which makes nine
ty per cent. of the business of the
criminal courts.
II is business which keeps en-
ployed an army of policemen in tho
cities.
1t is business that puts out the
fire on the hearth and condemns
wives and children to hunger, cold,
and rags.
II is a business which fosters vice
for profit and educates in wickedness
for gain.
Drunkenness comprises oil other
vices. 1t is the dictionary for vice,
for it includes every vice.
Drunkenness means peculation,
theft, robbery, arson, forgery, MUIR
der, for it leads to all these crimes.
II now the Courier Journal can,
either for gain or anything else, OPP
pose prohibition, will it be entitled
to be called consistent?
A Welcome Visitor to the Family Circle.
Chicago Mail.
The power and influence of paper
does not depend on size alone; nor
upon its profuseness; nor upon its
excellence alone; nor upon the num-
Der of it's readers. tt does depend
upon it's character, and upon the man
ner in which it is read.
A prominent newspaper man was
recently asked to define his ideal of
paper. "It is such q Sheet" he said,
"as I can take to my house and lay
before my wife and sister without
hesitation or blushing." Given q
paper that reaches the homes of the
people and mingles with the home
atmosphere; given paper with such
a tone and character as drives all hes
itation from the mind of the husband,
brings no blush to the cheek of the
wife-given these factors, and the pa
per that will live and WELD power is
outlined.
Other qualities the paper must
have, of course. To be newspaper,
it must give the news; give all the
news that people want to hear and
ought to hear; give this succinctly
and clearly. The other qualities Of
the desirable newspaper have been
freouently described.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-04

Up to 1884, for upwards of three
hundred years, gold did not equal a
hundred cents on tho dollar. and dur
ing that time silver an equal weight
Of our American dollar was at no time
worth less than a dollar and seven
cents. Silver is worth double that
to-day TO merchants and manufactur-
ers of Great Britain, who are anxious
to take cog weight Of American coin
metal, aud make it go for a dollar in
India, China and Egypt for wheat
silks and cotton The farmers Of the
United States must combine for the
silver dollar. unless they wish 10 give
ap their farms 10 New York and Ea-
rOpsan banking syudicstss.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-04

The rth-day of Christ was the
occasion for a disgraceful orgie all
over the United States, and it's re-
cord was written in blood. It was q
scarlet holiday in the cities of
America. From every quarter the
telegraph brings tidings of murders,
suicides and butcheries that are hor-
rible to read. The rum tariff, knows
no law and no God, has turned our
merry Christmas into a season Of
mourning. Take the daily papers Of
that week and read the record of
crime committed by men under the
influence of liquor obtain ed at
saloons licensed and protected by
the government, and you will agree
with us when we say that such q
government is a disgrace to the peo-
pie Of America.-CGatt syille Advance.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-04

Gentleman-aIft the world owes ev-
cry man a living, as you say, why
don't you collect yours
Trlmp---I can DO Il the world
has too mA1y preferred creditors. -
y. Y. sur
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-02-04
FREE PRESS.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1886.

ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT SAN MARCOS
TEXAS AS SECOND CLASS MATTER.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
Effects of Prohibition.

When the high license bill was up, re-
Gently, before the New York Legislature
Professor Cook, Of Potsdam, in opposi'
tion to it, and to those who repeated the
State slander that prohibition has failed
in the State of Maine, had this story to
say:
"I want to say to him that can take
him to Maine, and show him whole
counties that have not farm with a
mortgage on. l can show him towns
where they put their poor farm at auc'
tion fifteen years ago and have never had
a pauper since. I can show him a gen.
Grafton of boys and girls, grown to be
men and women, with families of their
own, who never saw drunken man, OF
drank a, drop of liquor" Turning to
DR.. Crosby he delivered this singing re.
buke: "I want to say, that in my judg'
ment, such opinions as were expressed
here to night, that drinking is not wrong
and encouraging the drinking of beer
coming from such men, of influence and
character, are doing incidentally more
harm than We can repair iu long years o.
labor"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
Prohibition in North Carolina.


RALEIGH, N. G., June Local op-
ton elections were held to-day at many
points in the State. There was much
excitement, but the elections passed off
quietly. The prohibitionists carried the
day at Raleigh by sixty majority, and
also at the following places: Oxford,
Kinston, Henderson, Warrenton, Louis.
burg, Winston, Salem, Apex, Beaufort
Township and Seaboard.
The anti-prohibitionists carried the
elections at Charlotte, Durham, Frank
linton, Reidsville, Holly Springs, More
head City, Asheville, Goldsboro and
Littleton. The elections were upon the
question of "license" or "no license" for
the sale of spirituous liquors, and goes
into effect at once where prohibition was
carried.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17

The Rev. DR.. Sunderland received
a fee of $10O for performing the Presi-
dents marriage ceremo. =. 1t was a
brand.new bill which had never appar'
emily been in circulation. 1t was handed
to the Doctor by Colonel Lamont, imme-
diately after the Presidents departure.
The Doctor made his wife present of
the bill, and she will keep it as me.
mento of tho occasion.
"Ah," sighed Brown, "this life is
full of disarpointments." yes" re-
piled Fogg, glancing Significantly at Mrs.
T., "and some disappointments are full
Of life"
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A bit of romance occurred here fen

~ Ult VI LOuphSO OSS0iAS0 ASAS :" ~"
days ago. A Federal soldier, who had
fought in front of Marye's Heights on
that memorable 18th of December, 1862,
brought bis intended to Fredericksburg,
procured vehicles for the party, went out
in front of the Heights and were married
in the open field.
To-day we got horse and buggy and
drove to Charlottesville, twelve miles
from this place. As we drove up to the
memorable Chancellor house we we're
met by most agreeable gentleman, Mr..
T. F. jenkins, of the. 9th Virginia caval'
ry, who showed US around with true
Virginia courtesy. The house is brick,
was burned out in the time of the battle.
A good many Federal soldiers were
burned in the conaagration. The house
was afterward repaired. In the Western
end of the house five bombs passed
through the wall. The shells have been
replaced projecting so as to be plainly
seen. Gen. Hooker was wounded in this
house. Facing towards Orange @. H.,
and going about half mile along the
plank road is seen on the right side of
this road q great stone which marks the
spot where Stonewall Jackson was wound
ed May z, 1863. A little further along
this road on the opposite side just in front
of marshy fiat, nearly at right angles
with this road is the line of breast works
first encountered by McGowan's brigade
on Sunday morning, May Sd. This place
will be vividly remembered by many
surviving Copfederates. Signs of this
line of breast work and the trench are
plainly visible. A few hundred yards in
front of this position and in the direction
of the Chancellor house is plainly seen
the position of the one hundred and fifty
Federal cannon bearing on the Confed.
crate advance.
In all this skirt of woods I noticed
carefully hundreds of trees. and I did
not see tres of any considerable size
that had not been torn by cannon shot
or shell. Most of the trees were topped
by shells. The survivors of the brigade
remember how the whole Heavens seem
lit up by The flashes of cannon and the
exploding of shells the night on which
Jackson was wounded, and again the aw-
full thunder and death on that memorable
Sunday the Sd of May. Old canteens,
plates, cups fragments of shells, grape
shot and mimic balls lie scattered over the
ground. Selecting some relics of the
battle, we returned 10 Fredericksburg
satisfied to return home Having enjoyed
our tour very much indeed.
"Calmsbe the resting placeof the brave
and true. Gentle be the summer rains
on famous fields where armies met in bat
tie. Forgotten be the animosities and
heart. .burnings of the strife"
BIC.
[The writer, Mr.. Chapman, is too
modest to tell how he fell, fearfnlly
wounded, close up to that famous 30 gun
battery, with the other l20 laundering on
the right and left, in front Of the Chan
cellorsville house.. and about $50 to 200
yards from the interminable line of blue
that was stretched along the road. He
and Lieutenant Copeland, of Captain
Bowden's company, were wounded about
the same time aud q few minutes before
the enemy was driven back.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
The Methodlsts for Prohibition.

The General Conference of the Metho'
dist Church. held at Richmond, Va, has
adjourned. A correspondent of the Ne'gs
and Courier says:
"Much time was consumed Monday in
debating an amendment to the report on
temperance, offered by the Rev. Mr..
Gambler, of Augusta, Ga, offering so to
amend The law of the Church that pastors
shall be required 10 deal with persons
engaged in the liquor traffic as they would
with persons guilty Of any other 'immor-
atty This brought out some of the best
speakers in the house pro and con. Those
opposed to this amendment held that the
discipline, as it now stands, gave the
preacher all the authority he needs to
deal with the case.
"But prohibition gained the day. Lo.
cal option had to take back seat. The
yeas and nays were called for, and the
amendment was adopted by handsome
majority. 1t is not necessary, presume,
to state here that both sides are ardent
advocates of temperance, the difference
in their views as regards this present leg
islation being largely question of expe-
diency. Some of the strongest and most
Jealous friends of tho cause voted against
the amendment; men who have been
lecturing on temperance and working for
it for many years. and who have been,
and arc now in great demand us speakers
ON the temperance platform. The moro
timid relormers were pushed aside, and
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
has now placed herselfin the forefront
in the lire of battle for prohibition-not
as question of politics, but purely and
solely as a question of morals"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
A Twenty-Five Years. Silence.

One of the queer cases of domestic
infelicity which will soon be tried on a
divorce libel in the court of this County
is the outgrowth of difficulty which
arose on an evening twenty FIVE years ago
between husband and wife, then of
middle age. During all of these weari.
some years the husband and wife have
lived together, but have not spoken.
Communication was BY interpretation
never direct. No tete.a.tetes, no conf.
dences, no discussion Of things Of mutual
interest to husband and wife, no plans
for the future, no common thought for
the welfare of their children. This farce
was kept up until about a month ago.
If ever man or woman forgets anything
it is when the household is enjoying its
spring moving. 1t was so in this case.
The wife spoke to her husband on this
occasion for the first time in rs years.
She said: "Where's the nails 2" He
looked at her and said nothing. The
conversation, it is reported, has never
progressed beyond this point. We will
bet nickel that after it happened the
woman would rather bave bitten her
tongue off than have broken the eloquent
silence of quarter of century with
that momentous, soul.thrilling sentence,
"Where's the nails ?" It is said that
now that the nails, instead of closing the
breach, have only widened it, the unhap-
py pair are to seek bliss apart, through
the medium of the courts. We can
almost imagine the wearisome sigh of
hundred husbands for just about week
of evenings of that mans married life.
"Some folks" says Smith and Jones,
"don't know when they are we'll off,"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
Horrible Work Of Flames.

CHICAGO, June Eight persons were
smothered and burned to death in the
frame house at 731 and 793 South Canal
street at 4 o'clock this morning. The
names of the dead are Michael Murphy,
aged 40, employed by the South Divi-
sion Railway Company; Mrs. Murphy,
aged S5; Annie Murphy, aged 8; Nellie
Murphy aged eleven; Mrs. Mary Dur.
kin, aged 80; Patsy LAWN, aged 4, a son
of Mrs. Durkin by q former husband /;
John Durkin, three weeks old, and
William Hand, a hatcher, aged So.
The fire broke out in the cellar of 7SS
Canal street. The flames shot upward,
quickly burned through the first floor,
which is on level with the ground, and,
shooting upward the next floor was soon
consumed. The fire spread through the
wooden walls of the basement, and No.
1888 was soon wrapped in flames which
enveloped the adjoining number. Both
houses we're filled with smoke before any
of the occupants were aroused. Many
of the sleepers were doubtless smoth.
cred in their beds, probably never
awaked and tried to escape from the
sitting smoke and scorching flames. The
flames following rapidly after the smoke,
burned the bodies until they were unre.
cognizable masses of black and charred
bones and flesh. The lower floor of 7S3
was occupied by John Raleigh, Jr. His
wife was awaked by sense of sufoca.
ton. .She aroused her husband, who
hastily donned few articles of clothing
and threw up window. The raging
flames rushing in scorched bis face and
singed his hair and moustache. He
caught his wife in his arms and with q
terrible effort threw her bodily through
the flames out of the window. Her night
dress caught fire, but with great presence
of mind she extinguished the flames
with her hands and lent assistance to her
husband in saving the lives of their tNo
small children.
The fire had gained additional mead.
way, and he was unable to put the chill.
dren out of the same window. He then
kicked on the wall to arouse the people
on the second floor. Catching the babies
in his arme he ran upstairs and jumped
with them from the second story window.
The second floor of No. 7S3 was occu-
pied by the Durkin and Murphy fami.
lies. No member of either of these fam.
lilies escaped. The 6remen in searching
the ruins of the house came upon the
most narrowing scenes. Some were lying.
in their half burned beds. Others, who
were awaked before death came upon
them were clutching each other in groups
on the floor. All the victims had evil
IDENTIFY been overcome by smoke before
any effort could be made to escape.
The fire was undoubtedly incendiary.
Two previous attempts 10 burn these
buildings were frustrated. A tub filled
with clothing saturated with kerosene
and partially burned from the top was
found in the cellar after the fire. was exf
tinguished. -
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
New use for Pine Straw.

"Got any news, Captain 2" asked an
ENQUIRER Sun reporter of Captain G. NJ.
Williams, of the Swift Manufacturing
Company, yesterday evening.
"Well, yes" replied the Captain.
"I've got something out at the mill that
is new to me. 1t was sent to me by the
Acme Manufacturing Company, whose
mills are situated near Wilmington, N.
c."
"what is itan queried the reporter.
"It is a yarn made Of long leaf pine
straw. Inever saw anything like it be-
fore and it is an entirely new use for pine
straw. The yarn is somewhat of tht
character of jute, and seems to be equal
ly strong. Itis said to be fine for bag
ging, and is also recommended for pill
lows and mattresses, as it is claimed t.
be remedy for catarrb."
Whoever thought of pine straw being
made into yarn or being put to other us'
than covering Irish potatoes or the stable
aoor2 Indeed, this is an age ofprogress
and the question is, "What next?'
Who knows but what pine straw will ye
be made into the bagging that cover
every bale of cotton produced in thi
country?
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17

=. The first penitentiary in Indiana
was built of logs, and the first inmate
was farmer, sent in for countcrfeiting
money. This prisoner was allowed
to 60 home to do his spring plant.
ing aud also to put in his crop yearly
during his stay.
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game, and the advantage of fixing the
facts more firmly in the mind.

s>~S
facts more firmly in the mind.
On small slips of paper, write all the
proper names that have been used in the
study of the map-mountains, rivers,
lakes, eapes, peninsulas, CULTS, bays,
islands, countries and cities. Put these
slips into a box, and the class Is ready to
begin The game.
John, coming before the class, and,
drawing a slip of paper, says, II
have here name in Europe begin
ming with D." Up come the hands.
Hay asks, "Is it river in the north
ern part of Russia 2" John says,
mo, it's not the Dwina."
Katie, feeling sure that she knows,
asks, SIS it the second river of Eu-
rope?" John has forgotten which is
the second largest river, and some.
body must tell him that she means
the Danube, to which he answers,
= "No."
Maud asks if it is strait connecting
the English Channel with the North
Sea. Again John replies, "No, it is
not Dover"
Eddie, who has been patiently waiting
to be called upon, asks, "Is it the
mountains in the Scandinavian pen
insulas' This time John says,
.s.Yes, it is the Dovrefeld Moun-
tains." Now Eddie has his turn at
the box.
Do not use the same letter twice in one
game.
The spelling can also be reviewed at
the same time by requiring the pupil to
write the word on the blackboard, as a
condition of having turn at the box.
Commend those pupils who can answer
every question without being prompted.
2. They also enjoy this exercise:
i. Send one pupil out of the room; and,
while he is gone, let the others decide on
some name on the continent that is re-.
viewed.
When he returns, tell him the first
letter of the word. Then he must ques.
ton the class, or point to what he thinks
it is on large map, the answers being
given in concert.
8. Their knowledge of the location and
also the spelling may be brought out in
this way: Having placed the points for
q large map on the blackboard, send a
pupil to put on it any thing he chooses,
while the others write the names on their
states.
This keeps eyes and hands busy.
Map-drawiDg and locating often be.
come dry and uninteresting and most
pupils will put q little more vim into
their work, if, once in while, they can
recite their lessons in any of these ways.
Popular Educator.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-06-17
Fish.

There is nc class of creatures who have
done less harm to mankind than fish.
Yet it would SEEM that there is none
which have been 30 much the victimr of
the human Imagination. 1t seems to
have come to the point that people have
got to think that there is some unac.
countable incongruity between fish stories
and truth. Yet some strange things,
which are told about fish, are true for all
that. Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian
Institute, one of the very highest author.
tiles on that subject, has assured Herald
correspondent that there is authentic
evidence to show that carp have attained
an age of 200 years. Prof. Baird also
says that there is q tradition that within
fifty years a pike was living in Russia
whose age dated back to the 18th centu-
ry. "There is nothing" he says, "to
prevent a fish from living almost indefi.
nitely, as it has no period of maturity,
but grows with each year of life." There
are gold fish in this city that have
belonged to one family for over fifty
years. They do not appear to be much
larger than when they were originally
placed in the aquarium, and are every
bit as lively as they were when young.
The Russian Minister Gays that in the
royal aquariumns in St. Petersburg there
are fish that are known by the records to
have been in them 140 years. Some OF
them arc, he says, over five times as large
as they we're when first captured, while
others have not grown an inch in length.
An attache of the Chinese Legation cor.
roborates this statement. He says there
are sacred fish kept in some of the
palaces in China that are even older than
any of those in Russia.
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DEVICES IN GEOGRAPHY
! BY, NJ. j. MOORE. /.

Aflerithe study Of one of the grand
sdisisions has been completed, frequent
reyiaussare necessary to keep the proper
names from being forgotten. The fol-
lowing exercise has all the pleasures of a