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SAN HARCOS FREE PRESS.
I. II. JULIAN Publisher.
BAN MARCOS
TEXAS
TEXAS TOPICS.
Large deposits
minnrala hsvo been
of coal unit and
found in El Paso
county. .
The Southern Tsciflo railroad baa
been constructed to a point 230 miles
east of El Paso. It id fctill advancing
eastward.
Tbe St. Louis & Texas Narrow
Guage railway wo iiro informed will be
-completed by the lirht of October next.
Five different couHtrnetion forces are ut
work and somo of tbem aro making one
and a half miles per day.
Mr. Joseph Ilalston. of Brenhani
has received the gold watch and chain
and gold medal awarded him at the
Atlanta Cottou Exposition of 1881 lor
the beat cotton cleaning macbiaery on
exhibition. They are both suitably
inscribed. The medal weighs sixty-two
pennyweights.
It is stated that Senator McPber-
son of New Jersey has offered $(00000
for tho contract to build the state-houHO
at Austin. He will accept the land
granted by tho State and for this land
will build the cupitol jm agreed on and
will pay the parties $000000 for their
contract ?nd relievo them of the entire
matter.
nr.ii TTnrrifrtn flllil liOgCrS OI
iUvaotoi w t
Jefferson have headed a subscription
7.r. nnn for the erection of a
cotton-seed oil mill to cost $150000 to
$200000. Forty thousand dollars have
i.An imi.ii'TihiMl for a cotton fac-
UOU UlUU .
tory. Such citizens are worthy tho past
glory of Jefferson and their enterprise
UCDU IUO " v... "
probably receive.
niTiiTiTiiPv fr.'niiGiitlv make original
applications of Scripture texts or trite
proveros. a muo yjn
daughter of the rector of a church in a
neighboring city had ten cents given
lm- in unpll l. She made some foolish
purchase which was in pieces before
v.a wnf.Vwwl Immfl. Ilor father bad a
" long talk with her and in tho courso of
it quoted: "Aiooinnuuis luoucjr mu
soon parted" impressing the lesson by
every moans he possessed. Somo Sun-
days after in Sunday school the plate
being passed she bad to think for a
text to say as is the custom on making
the contributions. Finally dropping
her money into the plate she recited
triumphantly: "A fool and his money
are soon ported."
Columbus Citizen: Married at the
residence of Mr. J. M. Moorse in this
city on Friday 17th instant Mr. C. E.
Smith and Miss Sallie Taylor all of
this city the liev. C. W. Thomas offici-
tating. There was a slight tinge of
romance connected with this wedding
the happy contracting parties it is un-
derstood having determined upon its
consummation only six hours before its
realization. One of our retired mer-
chants has been given the credit of
doing a considerable part of the talking
in the management of the affair and
his friends aro bantering him to open a
bureau for the transaction of business
in this line. The gallant groom is one
of our most trusted and honored young
nfln. iml the beautiful and accom
plished bride one of the "fairest of the
fair." t
Some months ago an elderly gen
tleman whose home is in far-off Canada
advertised in a Northern paper for a
wife and invited correspondence from
ladies desiring to contract a matrimo-
nial alliance. The advertisement met the
eye of a comely widow lady living in
the neighborhood of the village of Lex-
ington Leo county Texas and a cor-
respondence with the ijw to matri-
mony was opened. t was kept up for
some three months the parties being
mutually pleased with each other. A
matcu avas maots am. to
from Canada arrived at uexmgiou a (JnimUon m Hiiisdale county just
few days ago. A marriage heno U uu
a parson were soon procured u e i Member; 1874" by James
couple were duly married. On .the h r a t OQe timQ
22d instant the gentleman his newly- PJ0 relUticmi against the
made-wife and her three children em-1111 he by hard work and
bark.1 on the Control r .ulway .at I. .id- W succeeded in redeeming and
diut. on route lor the gentleman s . ftmi tQ.day ha3
1Jomo' ! probably the best and richest mineral
iilobe-Vemo.rat March 2: Co'.. : tl.iim in the United States. The ore is
John M. Swisher of the Texas Veteran ;f two kinds leaf tin and English or
Association stopped yesterday at the J silver tin carrying also lifty ounces of
Planters' leaving for a continuation of silver and rive or sis ounces of gold
his way home at S in Antonio in the I The vein is twelve feet wide between
eToniug. The Colonel has been at! walls aud shows on the surface for
Washington 1. C for nearly a month ir.oo feet the mineral extending the
where he went to present congress with I wiJth ot the vein. The ere is pro-
a petition that in the fixture of the uouueed bv experts ?u Tin bio Denver
boundary I:ne between iexas aud the !
Indian N.t:or. Orecn eouiitv be grautt d
tnrviv
tion. or their
widows tach of whom
holds a lan.l c. rtihate granted by tue .
Texas lil dure giving each 1280
acres ui receive wua: incy iiave i-
i i ti . ..... i ... i
J.rll"vi tor. luc uuuu mas iiau nuu
erred t th e iumittee i n ternt.r-
and Col. biLer thinks
it will be ;
stained.
liuffalo 'nati Terrible PlJ?np.
Lis state. 0..r l.r.:)(IUA ucre of ex- h. Denver and aslnm ton ar
ct'Ieut land iiie involved and should :(t r th monertv. but Docy k
the Petition be passed favorably the j what he ha.? cot aud proposes to
lug vete rms of l tic lt xaa revclu- on and make his sUke out oi it.
The terrible letter rec ived on Monday her lover faiLted deal awsy. He bad
It the relief cocusfioners reveals a cotU-d Ler two years w:ih out safpect-
eUte of aHairs ia K:chlaLd piritb ig that her dte look was of g.aas.
which would require the pencil rather
than the pen. to depict in all its pathe
tio horror. While the innndatious of
the Nile or the Ganges have a fixed
periodicity which allows of provision
and calculation the risings of the Mis-
sissippi aro irregular and erratic to a
degree whiih at present renders precau-
tionary measures null aud void. Low-
lands become lakes-lakes full of
treacherous whirlpool and currents;
and tho result of 20 years' toil ia anni-
hilated in a few hours. At this moment
vast nnrcbers of people aro living upon
charity; and that charity must be
brought aud given in boats. Tho loss
of stock is enormous and the destruc-
tion of property incalculable.
Tho llichlaud correspondent abovo
referred to announces circumstances
which do not seem to belong to a civil-
ized portion of the world but rather
to those swampy regions of Africa des
cribed in Livingstone's travels the
homo of tho retse fly. NY ith the rising
of tho waters a new and terrible plague
made its appearance tho merciless
buffalo gnat. Katun has taught the
wii.i lmifulo u means of protection
against this bloodthirsty enemy; the
buffalo already Doner proiecicu iuu
any other bovine creature against flies
by reason of its thick ana spienaiu
robe rolls itsell in son muu wuicu
drying subsequently forms a curiass
...oKl.. tn inKPCt WeaPOnS. TllO
doniehtio cattte unaccustomed to such
enemies aro defenceless against them
especially when lighting for life against
the pursuing waters. Over every knoll
hillock and ridge woore nmiuounuum
hud footing the buffalo gnats hovered
in clouds tnicit ejisib DwiiR"bi
lifrt. The hogs horses.
cattle aud sheep died under their stings
in myriads.
Nor was this all. When those wild
creuturea which rarely show themselves
even to tho hunter become tamed by
suffering and fear and voluntarily seek
protection from their greatest enemy
m..n nu in Dnrn'M pictured legends of
the Deluge-the climax of cataclysmic
destruction would appear to nave ueeu
reached. And this has been the case
not only at llichland but also doubt-
less in many regions overflowed
Tim wild deer made no effort to avoid
men : on the contrary they sought bu-
man protection and covcreu wiwi
gnuts the blood streaming over their
Hanks often followed people home
who encouraged them. At Natchez a
troop of some forty deer actually en-
tnrni i fii town and galloped through
the streets unmolested ; for no man had
tho heart to injure the timed gentle
creatures during their flight from de
struction.
Many of the hogs and cattle in tne
rr a o a liHtvir'ts are said to have been
killed by gnats and it is not likely the
plague will diminish if indeed.it does
not increase for some time to come.
The wild deer and other creatures are
being destroyed in great numbers by
the pests. Those protected and taken
home by kind-harted people soon ex-
pired from the venom of tho insects'
stings. Under ordinary eircum-
animal has the resort
of flight or can at least rub the unpro
tected portions of its uoay against u
frpfi. Kiit under present circumstances
they can only endure and die. They
are literally eaten alive. If they plunge
fpr tn cet rid of their tor
mentors their nostrils are attacked and
swelling up render natural breatuing
imnosHihle. When the poor animals
open their mouths to gasp for air the
Hurra nrriu tn Pitrnnd cause inconceiva
ble agony. Pharaoh's plague of Hies
seems to have been revived in this
American Nile; assuredly from all ac-
counts that plague of Egypt which
"corrupted the whole land" could not
have been much more grievous.
'Jin "find" in San Juan.
Cor. San Juan Herald.
San Juan Colorado now again locnis
up in having the richest and largest tin
mine in the United States and from
prospects so far one which bids fair to
1 equal any in the world
... . i
lode situated
in the
fork of
At11ri(in blIsilJ.
on the JLako
and oshingtou to ie me rienest un
nrt v.-t found in the couutry. Parties
fs
e already
UOWS j
commissioners are expected out in the I
Kphug as soon a practable to examine .
the mine and if it fills the bill of which :
soon a pracublo to examine .
there is utile uouoi iocy iu rewnr
. . . i .:;.-vt-. i
me uui emilieLlfc It .am ivi iut v -w .
t.rT. There has been qoito a large
amount of work done on the property.
ana i in gooa uu'w - j
l : . - - - 1 T.'.; 1- m.AMn
Wmix a Cairo girl wan Uizg led to .
the idtar her gls eye feU cut. and
Texas As An Arrlcoltural Coontrj.
QlveloD New.
The productiveness of the soil of the
large areas of land in Texas is no longer
a question admitting of dispute and
the inducements of the state to immi-
grants not only of small but large cap-
ital are being demonstrated by the la-
bors and success of a steadily increas-
ing stream of settlers attracted hither
by the cheapness of land by the mild
climate healthful conditions variety of
pursuits which are open to enterprise
on almost any scale and by social sur-
roundings of which tho immigrants are
ready to testify in terms of satisfaction
and praise when writing back to their
old homes. Yet still persons are found
from time to time reciting isolated facts
and making them the basis of denun-
ciation of Texas; and their letters find
way into northern newspapers which
aro not supposed to be especially well
informed about Texas and which
therefore at tho best may be expected
to print such matters with little dis-
crimination. If especially interested
in any northern land enterprises such
papers often base articles of their own
upon a few reckless assertions of a dis-
satisfied person who has perhaps not
remained in Texas long enough to see
made and the comments
will in many cases show tho interested
feeling with which one-sided staitmcnis
am wwlnnmed. In the cases where no
animus is visible but whore the effus
ions of ignorance and prejudico are
simply received and printed without
comment as often occurs in first-ciass
northern papers such matter still has a
tendency to create prejudice for tho
writer Kuldoni states the extent of his
experience and what is his own observ-
ation and what heresay which bo might
as well have written without ever being
in Texas nor does he often show that
ho has been successful elsewhere in a
niirsni t of which he alleges the inade
quacy of the condition for its prosecu-
tion in Texas. There are men who
come down here with an idea that any;
man can farm who never farmed be-
fore. Some of tbem know a little less
than nothing. That is to say they
have no practical experience but they
have imbibed certain crude views as to
what should be done to raise a crop
and they would practice on these views
without regard to change of climate
and soil from the place of their first
slight observations. Consequently if
they begin to farm they are fortunate
if they unlearn their unwise confidence
in their own knowledge in a year or
two. They are likely to plant at the
wrono- season plant the wrong kind of
a crop not to cover their corn or grain
with regard to a southern sun end a
warm soil and generally to neglect or
despise the methods which local experi-
ence has taught their neighbors and
which if they came with a Iran ac
knowledgement of entire ignorance
thftv ftniild soon learn and which the
real farmer with some variety of experi-
3nce and some grasp oi mind ior nis
ivusinAKs would exnect to have to learn
on changing his location from a rorth-
ern to a southern state where the seas-
different. Some of the new
comers who are heard to say that Texas
is no farming country have had a fancy
that they could take the management
of a farm and get a good salary for it
though they never farmed before and
they are disgusted that they are not
taken at their word and aiiowea to ai-
rect the operations of a number of
hands before they have been in the
state long enough to raise a hill of po-
tatoes. They remind the Texas farmer
who knows them by their clothing
and fair skins of the fellow who came
along to a farm bouse one day and
asked for work saying he could do ev-
ery sort of farm work except plowing ;
he had never plowed. They would be
equally confident that they could man-
age a hotel or a bank or a newspaper.
It is not such persons who will ever be
competent to decide what constitutes
an agricultural country. They would
be capable o? going out upon a barren
hill suitable only for a sheep ranch
and trying to raise figs and oranges-
knowing in fact no more of the condi-
tions of successfr! cultivation than lit-
tle Johnnie who raised a Hat stone in
tli fluo-ced vard of his citv home and
OO w
deposited an orange pippin beneath its
center then replaced tne stone ana
confidently watched for tho growth of
au orange tree. Ihey may chance to
take up their abode in some swampy
bottom and get the chills and forth- J
with write their views of Texas as a
health destroying fever and ague
livi'pfl-ec nest forgetting that the wide
Empire State of the southwest contains
a great variety of climatic conditions
and that they would as surely be wrong
in some respect in any one place as in
any other unless it should phase
Providence to transplant them to some
! favored is'.o where men did not need to j
! observe and think and work. Yet
I Texas has its distinctively agricultural j
us it has its stock country and there i
'are good reasons why produ:o is some-j
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1 11 Xne COUUirV la SClluug m iu oiuio
itions and 'new-comers buy the corn
iheL . . i
- . r ntlor xa I
' interest Predominates not !
interest predominates not
tbere ftav Uc of fertiIe
. cit'mI.ri.
out seiuemenis
are lew and lar be-:
& 1 .tVmin tier (h lnrn (
figures that ciike the northern critic J
exclaim : "Now if that were a fanning i
country corn
rn wcnld not be so high r j
Such exclamations are founded in ig-
norance. A few years ago both corn
and oats were generally msner uia
tney average iiare luure iuu u .
tivstion. The land was not less good
than it if cow. There was less grain
i t iminnt monff the causes
of high-priced cornAd grain a T.s
is the extensive cuiu u w.
If the farmers of Illinois and Ksnsas
. .ii .n.l finban sugar-
i..n. thy would not raise
vuuv Mvw-r- - j -
A unm nnr have to sell
a writer addresses the
(1 UIIO vuvwyt .
Chicago TimtH from Dallas and asserts
broadly that the prices 01 gw
Texas are high because the crops are
small. He instances also the imp?"
t i.Aoa TAPetables and fruit
llu u mvvi D . .
lie gives no proof as to the crops but
appears to take his own assertion as
something that is in tho nature of a
.-um it in nn far from being so that
it is easily reduced to an absurdity. Jf
high prices were au inuox 01 uu"
..11 lin th a most favored
of Europcau countries wuld be proved
. T I 1 .l.nn
to have only a sman yicm ui
English laud is put in grass; Texas
in notton. English cities
demand more wheat than tho couutry
nrnliir..H. Texas teamsters stocKmeu
i.mM.iAru nntton crowers. sugar
growers wool growers. and others do-
maud more corn ana muubh uuu
vat; the average
lOlUU AVAtW I' vv vw y - ' .
corn crop of Texas is such as to reward
the husbandman and me oai crop w
freouently from sixty to ninety bushels
rtr acre and at Places at iimeo ctuu
r-
more.
A farmer whoso boy
hood was spent in Illinois told the
. . -
Areu- that he had tried wheat as a crop
in a situation only moderately lavora-
in Travis county for nine years
and that his average was about thirteen
bushels per acre. The average in ui-
nma in onul tn Vifl twelve and a half
bushels. The Texas plan to got that
crop was simply to sow tho wheat after
mitiiArinc norii. plowing the seed in
and harrow smooth. The corn bad not
been manured. Somo of the land was
noor hill land and the richer land had
not been drained. These 'facta goto
show the probability of a better yield
ot o fntiirn timfi. That wheat sold for
$2 a bushel some years ago then $1.50
and then less xne price was uon
measured by a local demand. So of
other crops. Some years ago millet
was worth $4 a bushel. The critio
would say the country was not good for
millAt. On Mia contrary it grew ex
cellently and was reduced in price till
it could be bought for 50 cents per
lmshfil. The critic would apparently
argue that Texas is not a grazing coun-
try by reference to butter and cheese.
It is just the very fact that butter and
cheese are dear while so many are
raising cattle and beef; and oats corn
and wheat are dear while so many are
raising cotton that makes Texas a
promising country for the northern
farmer to come to.
Yennor's Weather Forecast for April
1882.
Sunday before Easter (2) generally
fine warm weather with frosty nights
in portions of Canada and northern
Naw York. Unusual warmth in western
sections during the week; showers prob-
- . ... . 1 ni 1 3
able about the hth and tn. uooi anu
nnnett.Wl wfinther may occur again.
with cool nights and frost in some sec
tions general signs of an advanced
season.
Easter Sunday (9) fine warm and
dry weather with every prospect of
speedy opening of navigation in north
ern sections. A colder wind may set
in for a day or two. Very little rain
so far. Altogether a fair warm to hot
week.
Low Sunday (16) change to cloudy
and possibly cooler weather with show-
ers or indications of rain. Navigation
will probably open on the St. Law
rence river this weeK. l-iatter portion
nf wpftt colder with rain sleet and
probably snow in northern section and
particularly m lower tot. .Lawrence ana
New York State about 20th or 21st.
Fine warm to hot and dry weather on
and after the 22d.
d Rimrlav after Easter C23d)
probably change to warmer and gener-
ally dry weather ; indications of storms
m nhteblv cith hidi winds with cooler
and stormy weather in the West ; alto-
gether a warm and dry week in the
majority of sections; not at all like
usual April weather; change to cool
and rainy weather after the 2Sth day ;
third Sunday after Easter (30th) colder j
weather with rain and snow-falls in
somo Northern portions probably
ushering iu a cold and wet May.
Tice's Weather Probabilities for April
1882.
First to 2d clouding weather with
rain; 3d and lib clear or fair; oih to
i 7th clouding and threatening weather
j with heavy storms about tha 5th; 8th
'and 9th clear or fair; 10th to 13th
' threatening weather with severe storms
i about 11th; 11th and 15th clear or fair;
lGth to 19th clouding threatening
weather with very severe storms about
18th; 20th to 22d clear or fair; 23 J to
2oth clouding threatening weather
with very severe storms about 2Gth;
-Th n.1 OStn. nr f.ir: -29th n1
rlMi .1 i ii cr a t 1 thranf pninrr slnrmo
( 0
! Comparatively warmer days about
.juiii tth i-:fh-istli. 2."jtli ami nntli
Comparatively cooler davs about the
1th 8th 11th 20th and 27th.
Earthquake causes in their greatest
energy aoout me in ma ictn zna
AT.il A Mh-
Auroras if the skies are favorable
wiU probably be visible on the 5th Sib.
i:n ma ia.
The railroads last week brought two
car-loads of Mexican goat si ins and
one hundred tons of bones by way of
Larado and Galveston to be shipped
to New Tcrk.
TWO OLD DUELS.
From tlif Colborn'i Vulted Berths MaguiM 1
A singular fatal duel was fought soqa
years ago in New York by the lite Bte.
pben Trice well known in England ai
a iormer icsBuo v vmij ajuuo i neater
"vj - ' - ! iqq
handsomest of bis family though his
brother Stephen was not to be des-
pised either as regards good looks or
abilities. Benjamin o.'e evening had
escorted a very pretty woman to the
Park Theater when during the per-
formance a British officer in an aj.
joining Ikx took the liberty to stare
her full in the face. She Complained
of it to Bon Trice who on it repeti-
tion seized the offender by tbe nose
with "his finger and thumb ond wrung'
it moi.1 effectually." Tbe officer left
his box and went to Ben Trice's. Ben
in answer to a knock opened the door)
when the officer w aose name was Green)
asked Ben whr.t ho meant remarking at
the same time thet he meant no insult
to t'-e lady. "Ob very well" 6aid Ben
"neither Vid I mean to insult you by
what I did." Upon this they shook bands
as sworn hi others and some time after
Mr. Green went to Canada to join the
regiment. The facts of tho affair how-
ever had reached Canada before Mr.
Green did and of course got noised
about. An officer of his regiment hav-
ing a pique against bim was particularly
active in airing tbe scandal and
brought the mater so strongly before
his brother officers that one of them a
Capt. Wilson insisted upon Green be-
ing ostracized unless he went back to
New York immediately and cbalonged
Price. Green however being no shot
he was allowed to get up his pistol
practice to a favorable standard and
having practiced for five hours daily
until he could bit a dollar at ten paces
nine times ori of ten he came to New
York and chellengcd Ben Price. They
fought at Hoboken Price being killed
at first fire. The seconds immediately
decamped while Green who had ob-
tained leave to go to England on urgent
private affairs took a small boat crossed
the river and got on board a vessel
in the bev ready to sail for tho old
country. Price's body was found where
he had fallen with a piece of paper at-
tached to his breast on which was writ-
ten the following words :
."This is Benjamin Price boarding
in Vesey street New York ; take care of
him."
The body was brought to tbe city
quietly and he was buried in New
York.
The death of Ben Price was however
but one-half of the tragic transac-
tion that resulted from the pulling of
Mr. Green's nose. Some years later
Capt. Wilson who has been already re-
ferred to arrived in New York from
England on his way to Canada and put
up at the Washington Hotel. Thre one
day at dinner the conversation turned
on the death of Ben Price and the man-
ner thereof when Capt. Wilson who
had joined the conversation took cred-
it for having been mainly instrumental
in bringing about the duel detailing
all tha particulars therewith. This
Kaniam n .1'riCB WaB COriHIif nra.l n.
statement was carried immediately to
Stephen Jf rice wno was tying in witn
tbe gout at home. His friends said
that he at once implicitly obeyed the
instructions of tho physican and ob-
taining therebv a short cessation of the
u j
gout was enabled to hobble out of doors
his lower extremities being swathed in
flannel. His first course was to seek
the Washington Hotel where his in
quiry was:
"Is Capt. Wilson within r
"He is" said the waiter.
"Show me up to his room" said Ste
phen and up he was shown accord-
Hobbling up stairs with much diffi
culty cursing alternately as he went
the gout which caused tho pain and tne
riflntiiin who wjir the cause of his hav
ing to hobble with equal vehemence he
at last reached Capt. Wilson's room-
bis feet cased in moccasins and his
hand grasping a stick. Capt. Wilson
rose to receive him wondering all the
time who bis lame visitor could be but
bis mma on that point was soon re
lieved.
'Are you Capt. Wilson?" said the
stranger.
"That is my name replied the cap
tain.
"Then sir my name is Stephen
Prire Ynii air. T run KfiarcelV PUt
one foot before the other; I am afflicted
with the goutJ My object in coming
hero is to insult you. Shall I have to
knock you dawn or will you consider
what I have said a sufficient insult and
act accordingly."
"No sir" replied the Captain smil-
ing; "I shall consider what you have
said quite sufficient and shall act ac-
cordingly You shall hear from me."
In due time there came a message
from Capt. Wilson to Stephen Price;
time place and weopons were arranged;
and early one morning a boat left JNew
York in which were seated face to face
Stephen Price the Captain and two
friends. They all landed atBedloes
Island the principals took their posi-
tions and Capt. Wilson fell dead at
the first shot The Captain's body was
interred in the vault there and Price
and the two seconds returned to
York. Capt. Wilson's friends in Amer-
ica thought he had departed sudde niy
to Canada and his friends in Englana
thought he had either died suddenly or
had been killed in a duel on his way w
join the regiment.
Whit can make more noise than a
boy driving ten cews through a townt
Why aboy driving two cows of course
the more cows the less noise.
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Julian, Isaac H. San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1882, newspaper, April 13, 1882; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth295394/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .