San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1889-04-04

An industrious laborer in Mexico
can command eighteen cents a day.
Louisville, KY, handled 55,76O
bogsheads OF tobacco in 1888.
Queen Victoria contemplates writ
ing, or rather debating, her mentors
Charles A. Dana, editor OF theNeN
York Sun, is worth two millions.
Senator Morrill,, OF Vermont, has
been longer in public life than amy
other American now living.
Lastyenr the Smithsonian institute
spent Sl22, 750, it will need this yeai
S199,12l.
The tide OF travel TO Europe is
said to be unusually large for thf
time of the year.
Newport, Ark, has six manu'ac.
turing enterprises working, and NIL
crowded with orders ahead.
The Emperor of Japan is allowed
S2,5O0,O0O n year for lis househo d
department and his private fortune
is large and increasing.
Birmingham, Ala, is about to en-
large it corporate limits by taking in
the suburbs and several thousand OF
its suburban population.
During January there were only
twelve guests at n hotel in st. Angus
tine, Fla, that cost S6,OOO,OOO to
erect.
+. w. Dawson, the noted editor OF
tho Charleston, S. 9. News and Cou-
rier, is dead, murdered by DIR.
Mellow Of that city.
That girl OF the period should re
member that habitual appearance in
the street operates to her disadvan-
tage.
There is not n whisky-shop in Tyr
rell county, N. G., not prisoner in
the Jail, and not State case on the
docket at the last court.
Both the Baptist and the Metho-
dist Churches Of Florida have resolv-
cd in favor of prohibition and de-
nouuced license.
Robert r. Church, colored man,
owns, it is said, one of the finest no.
tells in Memphis, and ho is the owner
of sixty houses besides. His check
is said to be good for S250,00O.
It's mighty uncomfortable to be
covered with blanket in hot wealth
er, still it dosen't compare with the
disagreeable sensation of being cover
ed with a gun.--Burlington free
Press.
The trade OF Portland, Oregon,
shows great progress. Last year it
amounted to between 800, 900, 600 and
S1OO,000,000 and against S75, 900 900
in 1887. The manufactures of the
city and vicinity aggregate nearly
100000, and the value of build
ings erected S3,500,000.
G. P. Huntington declares that the
Chinese Exclusion bill has killed our
trade with China, and rs n conse-
uuence the steamers running between
San Francisco and China will be dis
continued as soon as their charter ex-
pires.
Mistress--"Did you tell those
ladies l wos out, Bridget" Bridget
"Yis. num-" Mistress-"Dld they say
anything?' Bridget-"Yis one sed to
the other, Il didn't s'pose we wud
found her in; she's on the strates
most av the tonne New York
Sun.
Ex-Gov. r. B. Hubbard will pro-
badly soon return to Texas, Presi
dent Harrison yesterday selected his
successor in the person of John +.
Swift, of California, for the Japanese
mission. This is beginning in the
decapitation Of the Cleveland dilpo-
matte service. and Consul-general
Cardwell in Egypt, another Texas
appointment, will of course be reach
ed after awhile.-Statesman.
Washington's Birthday was cele-
brated this year bv the birth of four
baby States into Uncle Sans house
hold. Dame Columbia is doing well,
thank you. 1t was not surprising
that among the other thirty eight |
children there should have been shown
some jealousy Of the new corners, |
but the fact that they had right t.
be born overcome all serious complaint |
and we are now happy family Of
forty-two.-New York Voice.
Reports from sixty-fve winter
wheat growing countries in
Texas, as 10 the acreage and condi /
ton of the plant forty-two counties
report an increased acreage Of from
10 to 400 per cent; fifteen counties
report a decreased acreage Of from
10 TO 500 per cent; FIVE report the /.
acreage about the same as last wear.
The condition is uniformly reported |
fair TO good.
The bagging trust. which caused
so much excitement and opposi- /
ton from the planters last season, I
has again scared its hydra head and
threatens 10 again cause trouble to
The cotton growers Of the south