San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1881 Page: 2 of 8
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SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS.
L H. JULIAN Publisher.
BAN MARCOS
TEXA8
TEXAS TOPICS.
. ' siii- .n linndred tllOU
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sand dollars wortn OI oonua ui
Texas railroads were placed upon tho
bv Mohamroon Monday
of last week.
. ' "Wills Point Pointer October 8
There will be at last 800 per cent more
-w .own in thia county tliisiau suan
last Oar farmers seo the necessity of
this and are profiting by what they
bave exoerienced
The Texaa and Paciflo track is now
' laid to a point forty-seven miles west
tj-. flroaainff. Texas eighty-two
miles beyond the operating terminus
at Arroya and 704 miles worn
na. About 125 mUes remain to reach
ElPaao.andthisis nearly all graded.
It is expected that the road will reach
El Paso a little in advance of the time
aet in the contract which is December
81 next. ' "'.
A negro named Moore Jiving a
few miles from .Texarkana bought an
empty whisky barrel took it home and
left it in the yard where several cuu-
dren were playing. A lot of rubbish
hA nut been comsumed and the em-
1 ' . . ..in uiav.intr. when one of
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. the children lighted a pine stick and
tt.. tf in tlia hnnchole of the barrel.
A violent explosion folloyed the barrel
. aMvering to atoms killing one oi uie
ohildern and wounding the others very
'. seriously.
' The 1280 acres of ground bought
bv the Palmer-Sullivan Syndicate are
ten miles from Galveston. Both freight
and nossenger depots will be establish'
ed. The intention of the company is
miA a. town which will accomodate
mechanics and workingmen taking
them away from the noise and bustle
J of city life. Trains will run there every
half hour and under the commutation
vntnm of tickets the price will be so
low as not to be felt. City taxes will
' . be saved. The town will . probably be
. named Garfield as a kindly memorial
to the lata president. The ground
bought runs from beach to bay and is
on high dry ground. It is now Being
. laid off in lots and af teethe surveyors
got through the lots will be put in
market.
..Palestine Advocate: The display
of products and collection of artioles
gathered along the line of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern and Texas
and Paciflo railroads recently exhibit-
ed at the manager's offloe were the
finest ever yet seen in Texas. The lot
in charge of B. F. Yoakum were shipp
ed September 24th for the exposition
the exposition
at Atlanta Ga. The list comprises
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K.-uu v.v ' . - I
MM.in. lUKia a nf ail Kinaa. minerals.
ores marble building stone ooisou xu
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Le. woolen'goods. '(New Braunfels
x " flrA-hriok
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clay (potters' clay; and in lact every-
thing connected with the agricultural
anmannfantiirinff interest ot the stole.
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from $8000 to $10000 in bringing them
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Fl'l MA1lAAinna n.ta. tnfl Ilia flT T. 1 1 M rilHU
into shap. The minerals marbles
coal etc. place Texas in the van of
useful resources. Great core has also
been taken to secure representation
from the southwest system of roads
thus rendering a fair show from all
sections.
"Waco Telephone October 9: Gen-
eral L. S. Boas a large planter says
that the reported top -crop is a myth;
that there is really no top-crop proper
but there have been some new bolls
thrown out by the old timber since the
late rains bat that it amounts to almost
nothing. Mr. J. E. Stone who was
present at the interview with General
Ross fully coincided with him. Mr.
J. Q. Ayersrom Bosque county says
that the top-crop is so worthies in his
neighborhood that the fanners are tak-
ing advantage of the present favorable
condition of the soil and they are plow-
ing the cotton lands for Ihe purpose of
owing wheat Colonel D. R. Gurley
who had the control of C50 acres of
cotton. bjt with a late fall very liuie
will be realized from the new growth I all its environment. Even the acat-
... ... n 1 :!irn.1 ncmnt ulirlla at the front irate
while an eariv itom wuu iruutt
Iv -Cr. v;n if. who
iim in milaa south of the city and
.Ivi is nn of the best fanners in the
county and had thia year one of the
best crt p. aays that be has ninety
acres in cotton and be would gladly
Mil tb yield from the top crop at one
dollar per acre. It is useless for us to
peak of nan there whom wo bate
interviewed on thin subject We oonld
pile npwbole oolnmna of testimony all
' '
going to prove ' that the nice
stores that have been invented and
telegraped to the North about our ex
pectod large late crop of cotton are
only so many fantaaes produced from
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0f the New York cotton market and
propuaated by their hired emissaries
who are endeavoring to swiudle the
laborer out of the earnings of a year
to toil
' The Study of Thunder Storms
Studies of special phenomena have
beoome very popular ainco it uas ooen
found thot valuable results are' often
obtained . in this . way . Recently I a
French oontleman M. Lespiault by
name lias been studying the subject
of thunder storms in the Girondo and
oomcs to the curious conclusiou that
valleys are more struck by hail than
tiiiia nr initio land. It seems that a
certain depth below the clouds is neces
nr. far Mia formation " of the 'all of
hail in oecnr without obstacle a ur-
tw tli direction of the valleys traver
cofi imvA a marked influence on the
direction of the clouds though they
only cause a momentary deflection and
the clouds after following them a oer
tain time are carried ou in the gen
ami direction of the vertical move
ment. For example if a valley be n
the axis of the zone of hail or a little
inclined to that axis the hail clouds
seem to be carried along that valley as
dead leaves are carried along by the
ni'twi in a trATinh. If the valley be
subdivided by a mountain spur into
two others the hail cloud also divides
and the two secondary volleys ore rav
aged in their turn at least to the ex
tent in which they are within the zone
of hail. Valleys lying across this zone
have also an influence though less
marked. When the clouds pass over
them they show a tendency to descend
and to snread out on the two sides of
the zone so that the zone is broader
over valleys than over plateaux and
the ravages are often greater. It might
have been added that this was to be ex-
pected since storms and air currents
of all kinds genorally follow the de
pressions of the earth being guided
by the hills to a very great extent.
A Stone-throwing Ghost
Baltimore Ann r lean.
There is reported to be a mysterious
visitor hanging about the corner of
Frederick and Fayette streets who for
the past week has been throwing stones
and coal in the most reckless manner.
Where the missiles come from is a
Thn "snirit
commenced
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its work during the latter port of last
niir an1 thrown atones at a stated
Tha mnrninff Bounces began
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nnnr. Thnn in the afternoon stones
. i O 'linlr nnrl
nnirilll II 1 II V MUUU Ui LCX u v
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U o'clock. On Monday last the stones
CUUDIUUCU wruUKU IUD iukui I
fell so frequenUy that it aiarmea tue
naiffhhnrlinnd. The Drinciole place
o ...
where they seemed to drop was in the
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nATt in thA norner. On Tuesday the
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servant girl was struck on the arm by a
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falling stone and severely injured
Windows of Fayette street were next
broken: the skvlsght in J. A. Ives'
machine shop No. 11 Frederick street
was smashed and other windows of the
shop facing the yard were damaged.
The firemen of No. 1 truck house de-
termined to ferret out the mystery and
for some nights laid upon the house-
tops or frequented the yards in the vi-
cinity but still the stones fell and the
thrower could not be discovered. The
police were applied to and Sergeant
Nippard and two officer were detailed
for duty at the place. Tho officer spent
the night on the roof but the stones
flew around as usual. They came the
next night but again failed to unearth
"the ghost." While the officers were
watching Wednesday night and Ser-
geant Nippard was talking to Mr. James
II. Bollman the engineer at Mr. Ives
shop a stone came flying through one
of the windows and jast missed the
Sergeant who made an investigation
but found as usual nothing.
LoTK impresses its tender image on
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! Monday morning are ailent witne. of
ts all-embracing sway.
Sctekal notable harrv marriages
have been made on two hours' court-!
thin bat it is a nrettv safe rule to know
the girl at least three days and a pic
nic
; J: TV UTntr'i Beek. ; '
. OalTMto
In a prefatory letter to the publish-
ers Governor Roberta tells not only
by he tells what be knows about farm
I m
ing but bow he. happens to know it
and incidentally something of life in
Texas forty years ago. .The old Alcal-
de was prepared for the practice of the
law in Alabama where it used' to be
M MM . . t 1 I .1 1
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date fcr admission to tho bar were Can
you swim?" Have you a horse?" "Can
thehorso swim?" Ha incidentally teiis
how himself and steed proved their
proficiency in those accomplishments
before the days of ferry-boats and rail-
roads in the Lone Star State and how
he bajl een the oountrycon verted from
a state of nature to the most flourish
ih.g State of the Union tx hi introduc
tory Jetter as follows :
Nothing appears to me as being more
appropriate than an explanation oi
how it happened that! a small farmer.a
lawyer and a iudge most of the. time
duringa residence of pearly forty years
in Texas should have collected the ma-
terials for such a work while busily
encaged in my ordinary pursuits. Hav
ing settled in San Augustine in Eastern
Texas in 1841. 1 entered upon my pro
fessional pursuits' v the; m'nflie'ihen
common in - the country. That was
then the legal and political center of a
large portion of the surrounding coun-
try. The district courts' (correspond
ing to the circuit ceurts in other States)
were then held during the spring and
fall months of the year. It was not
unusual when the time ' for holding
them arrived to see a dozen lawyers
with the judge mount their horses with
addle-bags' blanket and tie-rope and
thus equipped started on their journey
around the district which then' em
braced many counties spreading over
a large scope of country. As some of
them would drop on and not go around
the whole circuit others would fill their
places so that about an equal number
of traveling lawyers joined to the local
bar would be met with at nearly every
court. This mode of practice was kept
up until the late civil war after which
the members of the bar became more
and more localized in their practice.
At once adopting the habit of fol
lowing the circuit in which I located
I traveled over a wide scope of country
from the Sabine to the Trinity Rivers
a distance oi lou mues. we encount
ered the usual hardships of travel in a
new and sparsely settled coun-
try from rains and storms of
ten having to swim creeks and the
slough of rivers. Upon one occasion
being the youngest man in the party
I had the honor of being selected
to swim the Neohez River on horsebock
to bring over the ferry-boat from the
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opposite side where it was fastened
On annW.nna we often met with Meth-
I liot ifinornnf. nrAftftherB fTOing or COm-
i -
.
ntW in crossing streams they coming
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XUO umvoioai uuoinvvj . -
0ers was a socacing relief to aU our
fatigues of travel. iNigutor aoyuieir
Annra wam thrown oDen. and a hearty
; . ' . .
welcome was given to share whatever
-j
withont once. . Their humble fare sea-
r
80ned with their unobtrusive kindness
fA. mam M.f.a:hinff fhan fnA aniB.
was far more refreshing than the artis
tio dishes of modern hotels. I was
never refuse admittance for the night
but once Traveling with a young
friend in a sected of the country where
the houses were from five to ten miles
apart just before dork when a misting
norther was jnst coming up wecalled
at a lone cabin and asked the man of
the house to let us stuy all night. He
replied that he could not take us in
because his wife was sick. I answered
that I could probably give assistance
having mcdicins along with me which
I usually carried. He then said he had
no feed for our horses. I replied that
we could tie them up and feed the
next day ; shelter from the coming storm
was what we wanted. He answered
welL you can stay. I asked him how
far it was to go to the next house and
what about the road to get there. He
said it was a plain road of six miles to
the next house-where a Norwegian
lived: that by taking a left-hand pa'h
just before we got to a creek we could
cross it just above the fork without
swimming as we would have to do if
we crossed at the ford and that we
could reach the creek before dark. We
lost no time in getticg to the creek
and crossing it as directed and putting
on our blankets and adjusting our bagg-
age. not then being able to see our
hands before as we put our hortes in
the road aide' by side' gave them the
dridle-reins and went in sweeping
trot the six miles where we wear hos-
pitably entertained; and then for the
first and only time in my life I slej.t on
one feather bed with another for a
covering.
At that early day their was much
muoh in the character and habit of the
people of all crosses and occupations
nti.h th rarind characteristics of the
auMVM v
country then seen almost in the state
country then seen almost in me mv
of nature being oocupiod only by the
villages auu . Jiniuo dimb
tween each other much in the varied
1. ' 1 t amnll aftH fill tlA
nroductions
to the'extent then exhibited
much of the history and institutions
of the country to. arrest theattention
ana.excue tu uiicouuuuyi"
inoiiirinff" mind. ( The 'lawyers wi
whom I associated were' ' for the most
part men - of " great intellectual "vigor
mm A m9 jliafirttfilTA AliaPAfttArfl. HO tWO
ofjhem being jalike in r their leading
"-LLZl.MM.iMM J - CI mm vmfrl.- Atl-iA 'Aif.iv.Allfl. A
strong individuality and a general in
telligence in : common sence matters
characterized them Men of no class
seemed. to bejbuilt on any common pat-
tern in anything but -each stood out
for himself a! unit in. the association of
people herehrown together from dif-
ferent localit&s. i TnereVere rnfta who
had settled in the ' eountry as '-far as
1822 and had passed through and par-
ticipated 'in oil the revolutions that had
transpired 'some of them as officers in
the army and others as officers of civil
kf)foBt.of hemjtrere itam'UuVr with
the stiring events of the past and had
leisure and wiUinghess to : freely com-
miininf.A tVipm. Tli a old settlers knew
I. each other: often for hryidJ-eds'of injiles
distant. Thus the oporiumty was fur-
nished to learn much of the past histo-
ry of the institutions' 'and the-1 men of
Texas.' V i ' 1 y.. ;.'
Through the region of douhtry over
which I first traveled was smalil in ex
tent compared to' all the territory of
Texas it presented a great variety in
almost 'everythinginthe different parts
of it different in its soils its growth
of trees shrubs vines and 1 grasses as
well as in its streams of water its farm
garden and orchard products. Having
some learning in the natural sciences
I very soon began to notice and fix in
my mind the facts constituting those
maked differences and without any
specific object in so doing commenced
to investigate the reasons therefore.
In a few years my business led me to
JOB lU . 1UO W
from Red Ri-
extend these reseaches from Bed Iti-
ver to the gulf coast and as far west as
Fort Worth and Austin and afterward
to San Antonio in the west. ' Through-
out all the country over which I Pass
ed I discovered these differences in the
condition of things in different sections
to have largely increased which fur
nished a still wider field for my inves-
tigation. To this was added the read-
ing of everything I could find and
conversations with well-informed per-
sons calculated to give me information
about other sections of the State over
which I had not traveled. One very
great advantage of traveling over the
country then was that it was done on
horseback or in stages which gave
much greater opportunities for observ
ing all the peculiarities of the different
sections of the country than the pres-
ent mode of traveling by railroads.
There never having been as yet but a
very limited geological survey or in
deed a survey of any kind by which
accurate information could be obtained
on many subjects treated of I have had
to rely in this work on the best inform
ation that I could otherwise obtain.
Having collected and preserved many
facts pertaining to Texas and being
encraged in teaching a law class in the
vears of 18G8. 1869 and 1870. 1 deliver
ed to the studients occasional lectures)
emurociug mucn oi wuac u nere pre-
aantod. with a view to friva to thnu
young gentlemen a good knowledge of
the Thous characteristics and bast re-
sources of the btate in which they ex-
nwtrtl to BDend their lives. Sin then
it has been put in the present shape
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aiiu is uu fuuuouni wnv bui'u gen-
eral information as it contains and es-
nAciallr to atimnlate others who ma
have more time and better opportuni
ties to correct wuaicver uimj uave Deen
wronefullv vresented. and to pita m
more exact and extensive view of the
extraordinary qualities and vast resour-
ces of Texas.
A Calitorxu editor last week started
to accomplish the oft attempted feat of
eating thirty quail in as many eonaecn-
tive daya. The experiment ' failed in
consequence of the singular behavior
of a restaurant keeper who should have
furnished the quail without pay. Thus
is the path of scientific investigations
impeded.
. VTeddetf Imii the Clesds. .
AnoapIla DUpaich to Um N. T. Sua.
Society circles here are. agog over
the recently discovered marriage of
Miss Clara Hamilton aged seventeen
daughter of William T. Hamilton to
Mr. John Stanhope aged twenty which
was solemnized in August last The
Stanhopes and the Hamiltonslive near
eaoh other in Hagerstown' and it was
known that young Mr. Stanhope lad
been uaving attentions to Miss Hamil
ton. rue; governor uujuuiou mimi
months ago to tho young man's' atten
ton. The " govorn6r objected some
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tions and the intercourse uetweenwe
v onn(r00Uple waa apparently broken
- Aho t th6- middle of Au
gust' however the lovers planned
an elppmenf. Young. Stanhope went
to Wesmiuster Carroll county and ob-
tained a license and the' services of a
methodist clergy nfan .the Rev. Dr.
Murray who agreed to marry them. It
was arranged that the ceremomy should
be performed at Pennmar a summer
resort on the summit of the JJIue Judge
mountains a few miles from Hagers-
town. ; One day a pleasure party went
to Pennmar Miss Hamilton . being of
the number and on her arrival she was
met by Stanhope and the clergyman.
They went up the side of the mountain
to High rook said to be the most' ele
vated point in. the State being more
than two thousand feet above the sea.
Here among1 the clouds ' the marriage
was solemnized and tne young couple
returned to their companions as though
nothing of importance had occurred.
Since that -time they have lived at their
respective homes. It is said that the
faot.of the.marriage was discovered by
a friend of "Governor Hamilton who
happened to look over the records ' at
the:cpurt-house.. Mrs .Stanhope ;4 has
been kept closely . secluded at her
father's country house since the discov
ery but it is probable that the stern
parent will have to relent' ' The groom
is a son ef Mr. Lewis G. Stanhope
superintendent of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal and is a clerk in a Balti
more commisison house. ' The bnd s
family which is one of the oldest and
wealthiest In Maryland are very indig
nant It is said the bride will have
$25000 in her own right when she
comes of age. ' .
Advertisements as a Newspaper Feature.
Good fresh advertisements are not the
least interesting and valuable portion of
newspaper. We have been told that a
prominent New York journalist hoped
to see the day when the prohts on toe
circulation of his paper would be so
large that he could dispense with ad-
vertising altogether.' We think he is
mistaken in his opinion of advertising
and newspapers. Advertisements are
news. They tell the readers what they
want to know where goods can be
bought what they are sold for who
has houses to rest or sell who wishes
to purchase real estate where employ
ment and labor can be obtained and a
thousand other things that they want
to know. It is an error to suppose that
only the editors and reporters supply
news worth reading. The skillful ad--
vertiser furnishes a good share of it
and if there are any readers who fail
to look over the advertising columns
of their paper they miss a good deal
of information that would preve valua
ble to them.
A Bright Boy.
An editor of an Illinois paper took a
boy to learn the printer's trade. He
was careful to impress upon his mind
the necessity of obedience and of do-
ing everything thoroughly. After pre-
liminary instructions the lad was given
a stick and rule and was taken to a case
to wrestle with a piece of copy. The
editor went off to a political conven-
tion. The other boys in the office paid
but little attention to the new recruit
and when the editor returned half a
day later he found the boy down upon
his knees seacmng for something on
the floor.
"What's the matter Johnny ? said he.
"Why I droDted a trne before I got
the first line set" replied the boy "and -
yon told me before I went to work .that
whenever I dropped a type I must stop
and pick it op before I did anything
else. I've been lonkinir for that con
founded type all day and I cant find it"
Need we say that boy succeeded w
business? He grew up went West
and became President of an editorial
association.
V.nr v-v rt;nli having
KmmI thai ITia n-rtttjir mn VU iniUTed
by the drouth are prepared to give
each oyster plenty of water as soon as
usual. The water will be served hot at
the usual rates.
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