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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-10-28

The amount of silver dollars in cir
culation is now $60,139,972, which
is the largest sum ever outstanding
at any time since the passage of the
Bland-Allison law of February 28,
1878. II we add to this amount the
sum of the silver certificates outside
the Treasury, which was 1896, ,4S7, ,112
on October l, we find that there is
$155, ,527,0S4 in standard silver dol
lars or their paper representatives ip
the hands of the people at the pres
ent time. There are still remaining
in the Treasury senough Bland dol
lars to bring the sum in the hands OF
the people and in the possession of
the Government up to $25l, ,4O2,565.
The new small denomination silver
certificates will undoubtedly lessen
the amount of the coins in circulation.
as many of them will be surrendered
and certificates obtained in their
place on account Of the greater con-
venience of the latter. The new form
of currency will also decrease the
amount of silver lying idle in the
Government vaults by bringing an
increasing portion Of it, by its paper
substitutes, into the channels OF
trade. They will replace, although
with an inferior form of currency, all
the national bank bills which will be
surrendered in the next year or two
in response to bond calls.-Globe-
Democrat.
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PETERsoN's MAGAZINE for November is on
our table, the very queen OF lady'B-oooKs'
It has charming steel-plate, "A Message
From the Sea-" mammoth colored fashion
plate, portrait of Ann s. Stephens, some
fifty other illustrations, and several original
stories of unusual power. How the pub
Usher can afford to keep improving the
magazine, as he does, is standing wonder.
With this number appears the prospectus
for next vear 1t promises even better
things, and Peterson" always keeps his
promises. There will be over l, 200 print
ed pages, IA steel engravings, IL mammoth
colored steel fashion plates from 800 to 900
wood cuts, and six copyright novelets, by
Ann s. Stephens, Mrs. John Sherwood,
Edgar Fawcett, Frank Lee Benedict, Mrs.
M. v. Spencer and Agnes Bowman--and
one hundred smaller original stories, etc.
In short, the magazine will continue to be,
as heretofore, the cheapest and best for
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year. To clubs, it is cheaper still, viz;
four couples for six dollars and half, with
an extra copy to the person getting up the
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both M extra copy and the Book of Beau
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engraving, "Mother's Darling" Every
Indy should take this magazine. Ii is really
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Specimens are sent, gratis, if written for. to
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The premium engraving issued by pet
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W. lhAAo 1nonNDAi'

and moral reformation generally, II we now
surrender the citadel Of defense to the en-
emy without one grand united effort we are
gone, tho cause Is lost and the mass Of the
paoplo viii go down, down, down. Now,
brethren of tho great aud good cause, lot
us raise our banner and let II wave indepen-
dent of what anyone may think or say OF
us. Let us look to God and go onward and
upward even though we should die martyrs
70 tho cause as some are now doing; q
crown will await us at last. was raised
democrat after the old Jeffersonian school
of politics, but that party to-day in Texas
have become SO very independent that they
ask neither God nor men for favors. They
have ignored and insulted the friends Of the
prohibition movement and every movement
to sustain tho legitimate claims and just
and upright dignity of honest labor.
The republican party don't want us. So
there Is no alternative left us. We are to
be driven TO the wall, or to become an in
dependent political party. 1t is not mat
ter Of choice with us, or not at least with
myself to do so, but as they have made the
issue, l, as Wash Jones would say, "accept
the situation" and would beg every true
prohibitionist to at once tear loose from
any and all other parties and rally around
our own standard, under our own vino and
fig tree.
How holy, how pure and how natural the
sentiment as set forth in tho prohibition
platform, which is this, Anything that il
morally wrong cannot be politically right. "
j. ID. CADY.
Cypress Mills, Blanco Co., Oct 0, 1886
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sam Jones on Base Ball.

II learned how to love man once
by game of townball. When l was
a boy we used to play townball. But
1 will tell you what, if Ihad a dog and
he were to get out and look at a game
of base ball an hour, l would go and
kill him, 1 would. None Of your base
ball in mine. There is not n more
corrupting thing this side Of hell than
base ball. Now, put that down.
They all thought 1 had forgotten
that. never have had any use for
it. The idea of great big young
bnck twenty-five years old running all
over creation for q bali. II your
mother wanted you to cut stick OF
wood she couldn't get you to do it TO
save her life, but you dress mp in a
FOOLS garb and run after a ball, the
hottest day, until your tongue lollf
out, you fool You.
THAT amt all. It is one OF the
finest fields for gambling in America.
And that is not all. / wouldn't wipe
my feet on any crowd that would go
out and play base ball on the Sab
bath. Those are my sentiments.
couldn't put it in any more concise
way than that / don't know wheth'
er you agree with me or not; but you
understand me, / reckon, don't you
/ will let my boy play ball until he is
10 years old, but after he is Is year.
old 1 believe will work him of il
catch him at such foOlishness AZ
that
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CnrresnOndence.

OLD FRIEND JULIAS;-After along silence
I wish to present few thoughts 10 the pub
lie through the columns Of the PREE PKEss.
Twas pleased TO see the withdrawal Of
the proposition 10 sell ont the FREE PEEss.
Your enemies and the enemies Of the pro
hibition movement. the enemies Of the poor
man. the enemies Of honest labor, the enc
mie, Of all that Is good. pure and moral,
would have regarded Il as brilliant victory.
But sir. stand 10 your post. 40 The old
saying goes. Hang 10 the willows till the
water falls" You aud may yei both I've
to see the day When the dark clOuds that
today oyerhang a8d obseurs The moral hon
I'm q this gorernDsut shall Be geuily bloru
away By the pure spirif Of moral rsfor1na-
tiOn that seems 10 have taken an uuyisldius
bod On ths minis ani oonsoiensss of the
bsftsr elsnsui of honss.-thinkiBg PsoPls-
usn AMI u5zssn q svsry ststs Eod terri
to-y q ls-s.f IN this government I pr1E
ncs for tboss alo1s-- EoE. ] void sHy N
al osoilr 70 81 tr1s frisnas of isuperEncs
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Texas Patents.

s. A. Haseltine q Bro, Patent Solicitors,
Springfield, Missouri, send us the following
list of patents which were issued to citizens
of Texas during the past week:
Belts, VIM. L., assignor Of one-half ia
d. Morrison, Orange, balanced slide-valve.
Bryant, W. H., Clarksville, brand-stamp.
Carley, j. w., Thornton, car-coupling.
Mitchell, w. A., Lawrence, assignor Of
one-half to J. A. Simpson, Terrell, W. II.
Brooks, j. Il. Airhart, and j. I. Crister,
Lawrence. car-coupling. =
Ramsey, H. s. Comanche, assignor q
one. half to G. d. Streter, Waco, double
acting pump. -
Murchison, E. Il. and W. j. Rogers, Ter
rel, poultry medicine Trademark.
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The people of Galveston seem to
be wrathy against Judge Cook for
virtually turning loote the murderer
Odell. Whether the people will take
any further action, as they did against
the Wills Point Judge in a similar
case. must yet appear. The killing
of Quinlan occurred during the dem
ocratic state convention aud. accord
ing TO the published statements at
the time. was a cold-blooded assassi-
nation, for which Odell ought to be
hung. The interests of human life
and good order demanded that he
mount the gallows; yet Judge Cook
virtually turns him loose. In this
Judge Cook cannot be defended
Austin Statesman.
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The Saloon in Politics.

There is one view of the saloon in
fluence which is rapidly attracting
the attention of thinking people, even
though they may not be pronounced
temperance advocates, we nean the
undue and most pernicious influence
of the saloon in politics. This is
becoming SO outrageous that he who
runs may read. We append some
very sound and pertinent observa-
tions on the subject from the San
Francisco Alta:
The Prohibitionists have certainly
struck one popular chord. They
raise an outcry against the influence
of the saloon in politics. We do not
stop to consider their motive, but the
subject which it brings to public at
tention is woIthy OF thought. In all
our large cities candidate is expect
ed to make round of the saloons,
and set up the drinks, and consult
the bartender. We don't say that it is
the fault of the bartender. He is not
expected to resent the confidence OF
statesmen when offered to him, but
is 1T not strange that he enjoys those
condolences to the exclusion of the
butcher and baker, the groceryman
and the dry goods merchant?
The remedy lies in watching the
statesman who carries his cause to
the bar, and defeating him with the
votes of those in other lines of trade
who have not had the benefit of his
wisdom and are outlawed from his
society because they sell dry goods
or chops instead of whisky.
1t is difficult to conceive of any in
terest in good government which the
saloons do not have in common with
other lines of trade, and so their ex
elusive power in politics is about to
be resented. 1t is probable that the
stubborn disposition of municipal
government to go wrong is due to the
generation of political activity in sa-
looms. If the statesman wishes to
fortify his high purpose with whisky,
let him resort to the bar for the ma
terial, if he must, but let us have
done with the offensive intrusion oi
that influence in our politics.
Young men who take their first
lessons in the science of the govern
ment in a place where personal con
troll is lost in indulgence, cannot be
expected to reflect in their conduct
the high purposes which should ami
mate the citizens of free country.
TIE cry that the saloon ''must go
out of politics will gather force as il
gets age, and politicians, candidates
and statesmen will do well to hear u
while II is a still, small voice.
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A RETURN.

The charm Of the golden troes,
Tho glow of the autumn day, bees,
And the garden walks with their murm'ring
Soothe all my cares away.
Ny soul ia sick Of the strife
Where pulses never are stilled
But here, in the rest of simple life,
Gods promise is fulfilled.
When tho bramble bears its fruit,
And mists creep over the leu,
As soft as the sound Of distant flute
The sheep-bells chime to me.
When the bracken turns to gold.
Aud down in the winding lane
A little bird sings me the songs of old
Till youth comes back again;
Then trouble and pains depart,
And comfort and peace draw near,
And all the foes of q timorous heart
Like plantoms disappear.
And the autumn lands grow fair
With light that seems divine;
And the treasures / left in childhood there
Once more are wholly mine.
The Culver.
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OF the efforts of politicians to trim
the party tails to the strong, swift
winds Of the anti-saloon-element, the
Western Advocate says:
What success will follow these ef-
forts it is impossible to determine
with any exactness Just now, but the
lines are being drawn and the parties
which refuse to give the people a
chance to speak at the ballot-box upon
the question are doomed TO over
throw. The people Of this country
will be heard IN some way, and the
party leaders who are trying to stife
the popular voice upon the most
dreadful crime Of the times viii short
" see in the ruin Of their schemes
the proofs Of their erro-. The weary
evening Of the day Of compromise
With this inIquity has nov come and
tie dawn Of 4 new day VIII show the
adoption Of new measures
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER %, 1886.
A Good Book.

a GOOu DOOks
The Union of the Churches.-By
John III. Drummer, ID. d., of Hols-
ton Conference M. E. Church,
South; President of Hiwassee Col
lege, East Tennessee.
Rev. J. A. Thomas, of this place,
has favored us with a copy OF the
above work, handsome volume OF
$50 pages, with fine steel engraving
of the author. Mr.. Thomas informs
us he was pupil of Dr. Brunner,
and hence is taking some interest in
the sale of his book. On hasty ex-
animation we do not hesitate to give
it our hearty commendation. Its
purpose is to bring about a union OF
the Northern and Southern branches
of the Methodist Church, and we re-
gard it as an earnest and perfectly
unanswerable argument in behalf OF
that purpose. 1t reviews the history
of the division in temperate and
truthful manner, and in various ways
shows couclusively the folly of per-
sisting in division of the Methodist
Zion, and that the Southern branch
has everything to lose and nothing
to gain by it.
This work ought to have the wild
est possible circulation. Copies may
be had of Mr.. Thomas, OF we under
stand of Reynolds & Daniel. Price
S125.
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The man who viii not and does not
pay bis debts is the man who Injuries
society and destroys the prosperity
of his neigbbor. Taking goods. Ia
Dor. or any commodity Of commercial
trade without making the proper re
turn is only q polite metbOd Of theft.
and stringent laws should be enacted
for the punishment Of such cOnduct
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sIcE HEaDacEn-Th Thousands Who have
suffered intensely Win sick headacbe say
fhaf Hood q SarzapuriIla has completely cured
fhena- one gentleman thus relieved, rriics;
sHood's sarsaparilla is uorth its relghi IN
ro5d-" Rcader, II you are a sufertr siih
rick kendacbe. give Hoodf sarEaQ1rilIa q
t1a1- u rm % y0u poslnFs god N.tt y
G. L He'd a Co. Low11, hnaA SD y ~
trurxlsia. 1oo Dousl One Do1E.
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The Michigan Advocate notes 9
terrible contrast;
The churches and schools combined
cost this nation one dollar for each
.inhabitant, while the accursed rum
traffic costs eighteen dollars.
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In some Swiss villages the custom
is for the town authorities TO insure
ali the buildings instead Of leaving it
to private companies.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-25
COULDN'T AGREE.
Nine Stubborn Jurors in the
McQuade Case.
SKILLED KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
COMMUNICATIONS Report Brave
stanley-The MeddlesOme Rus
sians-Other Notes.
The jury Disagree.

NEW YORK. November ga few
minutes after II O'Clock, Recorder
smythe made his appearance in court,
and at II.4O the jury came into the
loom. Foreman Lynn stated that they
had not agreed upon a verdict, adding
We have remained the same since IL
O'Clock Monday night" Recorder
Smythe said he did not think il was
worth while 10 keep the jury longer
and asked District Attorney MARITIME fer
his opinion. MARITIME thought If the
status of the jury had remained un-
I changed since - o'clock Monday night,
thsy had better be discharged. Re
corder Smythe thereupoR discharged
the Jury. District Attorney MARITIME
then addressed the court. He felt that be
had performed his whole duty in this
matter and his assistants had worked
manfully. They had presented the
full case and be was at loss to under
stand how the Jury or any jury could
fail 70 agree upon some verdict. He
felt that the result of this trial was a
public calamity, and the case should be
called for q speedy retrisL He there
fore moved for q new trial on Monday
next.
NeKCOmOG LQOuEuN at HGtucN luO4C
time TO prepare for new trial.
The recorder thought that the
lawyers had ample preparations and
he therefore granted the motion for a
new trial to begin on Monday aext at
IL am.
To the general surprise Of those who
had closely watched the trial, the first
ballot taken at midnight, on Monday,
stood az nine for acquittai and three for
conviction. There were only three bal
lots after that zone on Tuesday morning,
after breakfast, another last night at
9 O'Clock, after which came the report
to the court. The three who held out
for conviction were Lounsbery, Dough-
erty and Fry, all of whom are CONNER
ciAl men. The scene &C the court house
was one Of excitement, and the recep-
ton Of the announcement OF the status
Of the jury was anything bat fatter
ing TO the nine who could not see
conviction in the evidence. The gen
eral expression has been, since the
close of the evidence, that the only hope
for AcQuade was that the sympathies
of some Juror had been worked on by
Sewoombe's plea for his wife and chill
dren, or that some juror. disgusted
with and distrustfuI of inforners Full
gran and Duffy. had entirely disre-
garded their evidence, or that some
Juror, hopeful that his act would pre-
duce reoompense. would disregard his
oath and vote without regard to the
evidence. In short, every one outside
Of the jury box had convicted the ao-
cused