San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1883 Page: 2 of 8
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SAN 1IARC0S FREE PRESS.
1 H. JTJLLiK FahliaW.
BAN MARCOS
TEXAS
TEXAS TOriCS.
The governor during tlio year is-
sued 121 requisitions for fugitives
from justice and sixtythreo warrants
for arrests on requisitions from other
States. Other statistics are not yet
ready.
State Health Officer Swcaringen's
itli a history of the
quarantine of the past year ho rep-
Aofinioncv of S20.000 OC-
casioned in confining the yellow fever
epidemic to Brownsville nhd tho south
sido of tlio Itio Grande to which pur-
i. nnnria the United States
rnrJnn Hospital service as having
expended 05000.
The St. Louis nailurag JtegUer
says that Galveston has forever lost
the golden opportunities and that New
Orleans will have uie preiereuuu
tli an over the metropolis
WlUUJV ww -
f onntli. Thfi trouble was that
Galveston allowed Houston to become
tlio nrinrinnl railwavtcrminous of the
eta Tf fJnlvnuton had offered to
stand the expenses of tho bridges to
land the railroads would
have done the rest but now the er
rors of the past cannot be rectified.
So late as 1807 hostilo Indians
made incursions into "Wise county. In
that year a Mr. I3abb who still resides
in the county left his wife and small
.liJUron at homo while he visited
Dallas to disposo of some cattle.
ln's ahsonso Indians made a
dash upon his house snatched an in
fantfrnm the breast of Mrs. Babb
til Ml P.ll t licr throat leaving her
wallnwincr in her own core and car
rt tlifi children into captivity. After
a lone and anxious search Mr. Babb
found his children but to secure their
ransom exhausted his means.
Albanv ( Shackelford county) Star
In the year 1878 the first flock of
elinan wna driven into the county and
since that time the flocks have increased
in numbers yea after year until to-
day there are no less than 00000 head
quartered in the county. Sheep-raising
has proved to be a very profitable
occupation and as it increased in di-
mensions the range became too crowd-
ed for both sheep and cattle-raisers
consequently the majority of the
large cattle-owners moved their herds
farther west and those who remained
have purchased and are fencing in
large pastures.
There are scores of planters who
oppose the sale of seed to the mills
because of the low price offered for it
and also because this loss of seed im-
poverishes the land; but they can
scarcely favor a system which allows
nearly one-third of the cotton seed
crop of the south worth in a manu-
factured form $30000000 to rot
away and be completely lost return-
ing no advantage to any one mill
owner or planter. If this seed now
absolutely and totally lost could be
carried to the mills it would largely
increase the wealth of the south with-
out affecting jts fertility. Brenham
Banner.
In his report to the governor the
secretary of 6tate recommends a pro-
vision in the election law for two sets
of election officers to enable the
count to be preceded with as the vote
is cast. The presiding officer will
make returns to the county judge
within three days and the county
judge immediately to the secretary of
state who shall open and count the
vote on the fifteenth day instead of
on the fortieth as the present law re-
quires. He also suggests the printing
of a sufficient number of legislative
journals for sale to private indi-
viduals at cost and advises that only
one copy of the court reports be furn-
ished each county. He reports 106
counties supplied with Texas reports
necessary to complete their sets.
San Antonio Kxprt: The Gua-
dalupe and San Antonio river stock
association organized for the pro-
tection of the stock interests of the
gentlemen connected with the associ
ation have decided to publish their
brands so that there can be no possi-
ble mistake as to who the real owners
of the cattle are. This step has been
taken by the association to inform the
people both those who know and those
who do not know brands who the
owners of stock arc. The Imnd lists
and records published in Texas are
3nite interesting to niany persons who
o not know the value of this mark
of distingnishmcnt. Until within the
pat two or three years the cattle of
onr stockmcn had roarud at will ortr
the vat prairies of western Texas
bun? exclusively upon the native
crasso l.trba anl cactu- In the
northern states where the country is
thickly populated cattle are kept in
stalls and fed and are great pets and
need branding as little as does the
poodle dog. But here in Texas where
the stockman's riches are scattered
wherever grass is most p entiful and
water most convenient the brand or
ina Wn the only means
nt uWiHF marks of. distinction as
to the ownership of property. Men
havo grown wealthy under this course
of describing their property forwithal
care increases tho value of their pos-
sessions and business tact has i helped
to extend their growth in wealth. But
those who have been used to a differ-
ent manner of carrying on the same
business can hardly realize until duly
initiated what its realities are. lo
finch the brand lists may appear as
complex as a Chinaman s wash bill
but these brand rec6rds indicate who
are the real owners of stock and they
warn tho unoffending wlnlo they tend
to convict the guilty by strengthening
the presumption that no man wi 1 take
or destroy an animal which he knows
does not belong to him and when the
proof that it belongs to some one else
is unmistakably given him.
A Year of Storms.
From the New York Mall and Expreafc
On looking over the remarkable
events of 1882 none is more striking
than the number of destructive
cyclones and other convulsions of na-
ture that have occurred in this coun-
try and elsewhere: On the 7th of
January a great storm in Great Brit-
ain caused many shipwrecks and
1 aver a loan nfliffc: on tho 10th 250
persons were killed by an earthquake
in China; on Uie iuui a gre.uo ytuo
off-Newfoundland caused the loss of
nine vesels; on the 19th destructive
floods occurred in Tennessee Ala
bama Mississippi and Louisiana; on
the 20th ten shipswrecks occurred
mostly off the United States coast; on
the 21st began great floods in the
ami tli a. risn of fiftv-five feet and three
inches at Nashville which continued
throughout February and March.
April 5th saw a hurricane in Kansas
and Iowa; and the 18th a tornado at
Brownsville Mo. ; the 23d cyclones m
Minnesota Georgia Alabama ana
North Carolina; May 1st there was
great gales and storms throughout
western TCnrone: Mav 10th two vil
lages were annihilated by cyclones in
Indian Territory and Missouri; May
12th terrible storms occurred in uou-
lsiana. .Kansas Virginia aim iibw
Jersey; May 23d Polk county Ark.
was "laidout by a cyclone; June xzm
a (Treat storm killed many people in
southern Colorado; June 13th sixty
persons were drowned Dy a water
spout in Versetz Hungary; June iui
and Ifith. twenty lives were lost in
floods in Indiana and Kentucky; June
17th the Grinnell tornado occurred
killing over 100 persons and destroy-
ing over $2000000 worth of property;
June 23d another wind storm in
Iowa and a great tidal wave in Lake
Erie destroyed mucn property; June
24th there were great storms in the
Northwestern Ktates lulling over ivu
-v . ll 1
persons J June S28ttt eartnquaKes
storms and floods occurred in ban
Frcncisco and Kentucky; July 2d
Manitou Col. was destroyed by r a
cloudburst; July 5th Long Branch
was visited by the severest storm
known for years; July 12th thirty
persons were killed by lightning in
Arkansas; August 7th lightning did
great damage throughout tins region
August 15 saw great storms in the
west; great storms floods tidal waves.
hurricanes or earthquakes also hap
pened August 27th September 11th
14th. 18th. 23d. 24th and 27th Oc
tober 1st 7th 27th and 80th Novem-
hpr 8th. 16th. 24th. 26th. 27th and
29th December 7th 15th snd 18th.
Space in tbe Universe.
The nearest of the fixed stars is twen-
ty trillions (20000.000000000) of miles
distant from us. The next in distance
is four times farther removed. If we
attempt to fix an average distance for
the surrounding group of fiixed stars
nearest our system we could not safely
give it a radius of less than four hun-
dred trillions of miles. Yet what does
this involve? Light which reaches ns
from the bud in eight and a half min-
utes would take seventy years in its
journey across this vast domain of space.
If the volume of space included with
our solar pystem were occupied within
oue huge sphere of 5600000000 miles
diameter even Euch a mighty mass
would bo bat as a floating feather in
the marvelous spread of empty space
surrounding. This space would con-
tain twenty seven hundred trillions of
such sphere and would contain the
material contents of our solar system a
uumber of times indicated by tbe
figure 5 itb twentj-two ciphers at-
acxed. rLi'a!eli hia American.
The dud announced to Uie place j
Utwcen Loui.de Catenae ani an- I
o:h r officer i to 1 marked bv a nov-!
1 feature. Tbe rrincinals are tofbt
iih
1 .1 1 1 .1.
-T-i . ' .1 4
catairr aiir vu iivim.i.. :
both of the combatants wiU be hart
by being thrown from his Lorse. '
a
kmu . u r..U. iw.oeo.ooe wit w loo
wna ami
v k. tendon SnacUtor.
Very few tabulations of things to
happen fifty years after ever prove ao-
curate some unexpected and dormant
factor always intervening wo"""
. i .... mi a W am not.
Uie wisuoin vi uie . '
therefore much frightened when a
uuMr. R. Gillcn tells
us in tho near future America may be
or.i that Lurope its
emigration stopped will bo filled with
masses of workmen driven to dan-
gerous discontent by insufficient food.
Over production is a possible evil for
it has occurred in China; though bo
it noted without the result of produc-
ing social discord there is no certainty
that the evil will arrive. We know
to begin with little of the true law of
tho expansion of population. The old
theory that population expanded with
prosperity is totally opposed to the
facts. Not to mention the phenome-
nal growth of tho population of India
without a proportionate increase in
their means of subsistence the Irish
population multiplied in misery .till
subsistence failed; while the Jews a
eimrillv lioalthv and fairly-fed peo
ple have either not increased at all or
with exceeding slowness xiuu uiey
mnltinlied after the final dispersion
like Teutons the world would now
belonstothe Jewish people. ine
two branches of the Teutons again
increase with' such startling rapidity
that they promise to overwhelm all
otliM- white races but the rapid in
crease is novel and did not occur for
example during the long period of
comparative peace enjoyed in Lngland
under the House of Tudor. In 1982
there may as Mr. Giffen intimates
be 800000000 people in North
America but also there may not be
200000000. The emigration from
Europe may stop altogether or be
divereted; the age of marriage may be
thrown hack bv social cause as has
undoubtedly happened among certain
flnasps nf nnr snpiotv. or the rate of
increase may change as has repeatedly
occurred in different parts of the
world without the visible interven-
tion of new causes of mortality. There
to bfilieve. as Mr. Giffen will
know much better than ourselves that
in Scandinavia from 1700 to 1800
without any ncrceritible emigration
the increase of the population stopped
altogether.
For the nresent that is. for the
thirty years beyond which we hold it
vain to calculate witli any nope oi
certainty the grand rush and sweep
of tliA "F.nronean neonle to the west
which the future historian will record
as one of the distinctive marks of the
Victorian era need not cease for any
want of room. A historian of some
mark writing in our own columns
many years ago predicted as the result
of personal observation that the United
States would reiect immigrants within
twenty years after he wrote his letter.
Three-fourths of the time haselapsed
and that astounding march of the
European people before which all
other movements shrink into insig-
nificance has only increased in
breadth and volume till as we write
from all the Teutonic and Scandina-
vian countries and from Ireland four
regiments a day precipitate themselves
upon the new world and still the old
world is full. Here and there in
Sweeden and Ireland principally the
drain begins to tell perceptibly in
numbers until North Sweden is
threatened with something like de-
population and the place of Ireland
in the British empire sinks as Mr.
Giffen has noticed year by year. The
thousands who pass on westward
in endless succession settle on the
land and still there is room for all.
The average population is only thirty-
five to the square mile. The state of
New York itself is still very unsettled
still full of ancient forests the state
which if peopled like Suffolk could
maintain 80000000 at least contain-
ing as yet only 5000000. There is
except in the Eastern States where
the fertility of the land originally
poor has been partially worn out .no
exhaustion nor can we trace even
the first beginning of that cry in the
West against further immigration
wliirli w ill be the first probably even
the first premature sign that the land
is full.
As for the huge Canadian domin-
ion.
which might hold 50000000 in
.-inf.irf trif lintit neighbors ever visit-
VUilVttf -5
ing each other on foot its great lam-
entation is that people dc not come
fast enough whue its government
is straining every nerve to increase
rOPULlTIKU THE WORLD.
the cultcrable area nnaer us control. ; ana colony Unas ine scnooi.-uni-
i v i .1 nm.r.;i...J 1 r 1 . 1. !
I OrauHIUiV rl'IiAi uie tujuivnj
r jTing a nilroad westward irom
the lakes crossing the wattes and
T "rs P nmaa Darners
1:? V "m
tl.r- I'acinc. UW
... t ... .
raj 3 me
innrLfT to lr.In loimi5a ui
" "-e journey 10 ceo-.
L uuou u
fairly well as Governor General of Uie
Dominion is uo ; . nT..
but he has been staying in British
Columbia and the visible resources of
the colony rouse him almost into elo-
quence lie finds a country full of
coal full also of vast and dense
forests where men cut logs 00 feet
in lencth and 40 inches square. In
this vast province of 850000 square
miles nearly double the size oi
pMni.A. thorn are . but 20000 whito
lie too strong to
men. aw - -
ln; tho rlinrm of this dchghtiu
land where a climate softer and more
constant than the south of England
insures at all times of the year a full
enjoyment of the wondeful loveliness
f nahiM nronnd you. There is room
lnmhin. alone for 20000
000 of happy people and Liora ijorne
believes that the railroad once finished
it
nnn . immigrants a
day a fourth of the over-spill of Teu
tonio anu Dcaaiuuuuuu u"tu
A Battle with the Bees of the Buttes.
From the Gridley Herald.
h Vi v nan vIt fiftaAii vefirs oast a colo-
ny of bees have had their quarters
X Ul UVW4 I J
in a large cave situated on the hignes
Linff of the Bnttes. Thev have occu
pied the place so long that the rock is
generally known as "Bee Rock." It
is locateci aoout u umimue uuiuihm
of South Butte and stands alone at
the head of an extensive and picxur
esque glen. . The rock is about 60 by
inn feet at the base and is from 1 to
6 feet wide on top. To reach the top
frrm fiiree ci pa it. is necessarv LO
llVUi MAWW - r
climb a perpendicular wall from 150
to 200 feet in height. The top is ac
cessible at only one point ana mere
bv crawling through a crevice barely
wide enough for a man to pass men
a bridge 20 feet long and 1 foot wide
- " . w . mi -
lma to hfi oroKRp.d. It is . about 400
feet from the bridge to the ground
beneath. On the 16th of last month
a partv of men living in the neigh
horhood of Pennington went to the
place determined to rob the mammoth
hive. They were suppnea witn pow-
der fuse drills bars etc. with which
to assail the stronghold. Few of the
iivaders had nerve enough to cross
the bridge but three of them got over
all right and fired a blast. The re-
sult was a cloud of bees that made
them retreat. Next day the assaults
were renewed. After a lively battle of
three hours the bees were defeated.
The dead bees filled three grain-sacks
to overflowing. The cave was tnen
blasted open and the party found a
solid mass of honey in the comb two
and a half feet thick. The expedition
was a success but many of the par
ticipants paid dear for their victory.
Sheep.
That was a merciful provision which
gave to sheep the warmest natural
covering of all our domestic animals
In the system of promiscuous herding
of live stock wnicn prevails- in nine
tenths of the country or lack of sys'
tern would be nearer the mark the
mild mannered 6heep fare the worst
of all. The horse is given the best
nlace some kind of a stall with par
tial protection at least. The cattle
by reason of their strength and bel-
ligerency select and hold the best po-
sition at the fodder racks and on the
lee side of anything that wards off
chilling winds and driving storms.
The swine nestles in the warmest
corners in the straw or manure
heaps perhaps. The timid sheep
have to take up with whatever place
is left unoccupied by others. But
they feel and suffer from cold in com-
mon with all warm-blooded animals
and outside of the tropics need and
will pay for artificial protection. If
no warmer quarters can be secured it
will pay well to provide for them a
tight boarded fence with boards or
battens over the cracks and let it ex-
tend down into the earth to shut out
all drafts below. Fence this off with
an entrance small enough to keep out
the larger animals. Let the ground
be dry enough naturally or by drain-
ing to give them always a comfort-
able place for their feet. Provide
some kind of a covering against rains
even but slanting boards or poles
covered with straw. Everything that
saves sheep from cold and wet pays
well for the doing in the better future
health the better growth stronger
lambs and in the saving of extra feed
aJwavs rennired to counteract unnec
essary cold. Ex.
Albany Star: In Shackelford county
are about 192000 acres of university
and school lands. ib.OOO asylum
lands also large quantities of railroad
jiisiij auu ;iuui atuiua ua.c uwu .
ranging from to -2 per acre . andj
include some of tie finest lands m
me county lnas ownea Dy private
rarties ran re in price from 2 to 5
per acre. Titles here are not clouded
by eld Spanish grant as in
nun r t- t m a in cm . 1
some
para 01 me oie. 1 ae uae 01 un
uU i-ij
Farmers in turope and Texas
Uldlud ETiew.
Americans often wonder why it
that farmers from Enrope all seea
to- prosper and grow rich when ther
settle in this country. The matter i
easily explained. In most of
countries of Europe farming is attend
ed with many difncnltien nn.i ti..
most care and diligence are necessarv
to insure a good harvest. The farmer
must labor from morning until night
and must use every availablo foot of
ground. The amount of land to be
cultivated is limited and therefore the
soil must bo made to produce its ut-
most capacity. Industry and frugality
are necessary characteristics of tie
farmers of Europe and when he emi-
grates to America he brings with him
tho habits and customs which were
so necessary to his success at home
and in these characteristics lies the
secret of his prosperity. The emi.
grant from Europe expends on bis
Texas farm only the same amount of
time and attention that he was accus.
tomed to do at home and his labors
produce much greater results. He
exercises the same economy that he
did in the old country and in conse-
ouence improves his condition (worn
year and finally becomes rich. Our
native American farmers would do
well to study the habits and customs
of the sturdy German. Swiss. Nom.
gian and Bohemian farmers who are
settling in this country and developing ;
its wonderful agricultural resources.
The rich nroductive soil of Tptqo
' A -
has no equal on the face of the globe
and only industry and frugality are
necessary for any farmer to grow rich
in a a few years.
What Do Yon Sleep on!
Do you sleep upon a feather bed?
We hope not. Years ago a feather
bed was supposed to be an imnortant
X x j. "
part of a housekeeping outfit. If you
have a feather bed put it in a spare
room lock the door and loose the key.
A curled hair mattrass of the best
quality makes one of the most desira-
ble couches but curled hair is exnen-
sive and all cannot afforded it. The
next best thing indeed almost as
good is afforded by that plant so dear
to every American farmer Indian
com. Whoever grows corn need not
lack for the most comfortable of beds.
We are aware that ticks are sold filled
with husks with the stem part left on.
A bed of this kind is not the kind of
husk bed we have in mind. To make
the very best possible busk bed save
the kusks from the green corn as it is
daily used. The husks are coarse and
should be slit. An old fashioned
hatchel where their is such an imple-
ment answers well but a substitute
can be made bv driving a few large
j j v
nails through a board and filing them
sharp drawing tne nusks across
these will slit them into threads an
inch or less wide. An old carving
fork may be used to slit the husks.
Then put them to dry in a garret or
some airy loft. If the green corn
season is past then at tne regular
husking of the field crop secure a
stock for mattrasses. Eeject the
weather worn outer husks taking only
the thin papery ones American Agri-
culturiat. . Immigration.
The total immigration to the United
States for 1882 at all ports was about
735000. Germany sent zazvvv
England and Wales l.OOU Ireland
7n o.no! Scotland. 17.000: Sweden
59000; Norway 27000; Canada 89-
000; all other countries 160000. The
arrivals in the last three months show
a decided tailing on mose oi kciuum
showing a decline of about 20 per cent.
Those who have been close observers
of immigration for many years think
it has reached its maximum it
holiovorl there may be an influx 01
UVUW.v J -
Pnooi'ano in tho nresent year and tney
are the most enterprising people who
come going immediately lo me
and establishing new homes. Their
powers of endurance are wonderrai.
The tide of immigration which nas
set in from the mountain districts of
Hnnfrarv is beginning to occupy the
attention of the Hungarian Govern
ment. Many take advantage oi u
Gallician frontier to get across with
passports. In order to prevent tnis iuc
Hungarian authorities nave iiu-
Austria to arrest the passage of sucb
Hungarians as are not provided witn
proper documents and especially01
those who have not performed their
military service. Oath in CinannaH
Enquirer.
It is believed that a full
nmirll
" .uci - - "on.
TTi77ly hear could pull a loaxi OI tW
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e J " . . i f yjg
'fJ ' harness
SHST
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M miAava worth oxer fiO.OOO ecb.
.
knt rV..tW 4O.0Oi3 is a teiapUnoa.
rarry a Cincinnati widow u aiOti
'thing.
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