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SAN 1IABC0S FREE PRESS.
t B. JULIiK Publiaher.
BAN MARCOS
TEXAS
yjSWS iy BRIEF.
rOEEIGH.
Jt la stated rrinco aortschakofTa illness
U diia to attempted poisoning.
Tho rrinco of Wales has been ma Jo a
Held Marshal of the German empire
British iiDDort show a comparatlvo In
crease for February of 3887000; vhu tho
exports decreased AOwoua
Byrne the IrUh suBpect has been re-
leased from custody In France
Tvm tiimilroi iHrlii left Limerick. Ireland
last week for Now Hampshire where they
will bo employed In a cotton mill
Ludy Florence Dlxlo charges that far-
nell and Llggar as trustees or in uina
Lcaguo funds havo failed to account for
152000 which of right belongs to tho starv-
ing peasantry.
A Socialist gathering at Tarls was dis-
persed by the police. A mob assembled
later and broke windows and overturned
carriages. Some arrests were made.
Tho Hull and Yarmouth fishing Hoots
suffered sovcrcly. Many vessels foundered
and several fishermen were drowned.
The steamer Navarre with eighty-one
Bouls on board foundered during a gale in
the German Ocean and sixty-flvo persons
perished.
Frank Byrne intends to make tho United
States his future home.
rrinco Gortschakoff ex-Russian Chancel-
lor diod at Baden-Baden.
It Is claimed that other Land League
loaders will soon follow Egan Into exile and
that tho inquiry now proceeding will impli-
cate them In the patronage of crime in Ire-
land Judah T. Benjamin will be tendered a
British Judgeship and will accept if his
health permits.
A meeting of 2000 persons at Taris pro-
tested against the action of tho Chamber on
the constitutional revision question and fa-
vored the revision. Many Deputies of the
Extreme Left attended.
The murder-conspiracy trials will open
at Dublin on the 0th of April.
Tho Socialistic disturbances In Paris are
attributed to tho fact that there are 00000
workmen out of employment
FINANCIAL ANDINDUSTEIAL.
The moldcrs employed by the Beading
(Ta) Hardware Compuny have had their
wages increased 10 per cent
Business failures in the United States for
the week ending March 9 numbered 208 a
reduction of fifty-two from the previous
week. Tho record is thirty-ono over tho cor-
responding week of 18S2 and seventy-eight
more than in 1881.
Fall River spinners complain of the tyr-
anny of overseers in discharging workmen
without just causo.
The St Louis boot and shoe firm of
French & Blossom has failed with liabil-
ities of tl3500rt and assets at $100000.
An advance of 50 cents and 01
per ton for pig iron has been demanded by
the f urnaco men of Alabama and Tennessee
who supply the Cincinnati and tributary
markets.
Favorable weather for operations con-
tinues in the Wisconsin pineries. The esti-
mated cut of the season on the Black river
and its tributaries is 200000000 feet
Work has been resumed at the rolling
mills at Allentown To. giving employment
to 400 persons.
D. R Mussclman fc Co. Louisville to-
bacco manufacturers have made an assign
ment Their liabilities ore $10000.
The Statistician of the Agricultural De-
portment at Washington says he has re-
ceived no reports of injury to the growing
wheat crop.
GENERAL.
The star-route trial at Washington was
enlivened tho other day by atllt between
the presiding Judge and Congressman Bel-
ford of Colorado in which the latter got
$100 tho worst of the discussioa Rerdell
tho "squealer'' stated in his testimony that
a star-route check for $2000 was drawn
payable to "James B. Belford or bearer"
and Mr. Belford who was called as
a witness for the defenso wanted to testify
that he never received such a check. He
was not allowed to do so but while leaving
the court made the statement solemnly and
Indignantly. The court declared his action
to bo in contempt of judicial dignity and
all the eloquence of Ingersoll could not save
Mr. Belford from a $100 fine.
The Nova Scotia Assembly has passed an
n t abolishing imprisonment for debt
There seems a strong probability that
Gen. Ha.en Chief Signal Officer will be in-
vestigated by a court martial. Secretary
Lincoln is said to have designated the
officers who will compose the court
A correspondent who recently passed
down the Mississippi river from Memphis
telegraphed as follows to the St Louis
6 W.-Vmrr.:f : "There are not more than
two or three spots of dry ground between
Memphis and this joint and scores of tho
best farms in Arkansas and Mississippi are
in a cvmplito Hate of wreck. Most of
them have been aMndoned. the owners and
laborers having fled to higher ground. At
HarbuTs landing eighteen colored men and
women in two )oat are moored to a tree on
the flooded bank waiting for a steamboat to
tike them aw cy. Thrre i not a foot of dry
hud in fortv mile Skiff-loads of colored
people with their household goods are seen
at various points seeking for ground to rest
on. At Sterling the colored people horses
and cattle are Indiscriminately huddled In
the upper story of the only store there. Most
of the fences and houses along the river bank
are still intact though many of them have
floated away. At Star Landing the dwellings
oro full of cattle and the gin houses full of
negroes. The water In St Francis river
is still flowing down from the sunk
lands and slowly rising at all points. The
river Is covered with saw-logs. Tho suffer-
ing is intense and many people are believed
to bo dying for want of food." Later ad-
vices report tho water declining at Helena
but rHIng below causing breaks in tho
levecH.
The ritlladelphla Academy of Muslo and
Horticultural Hall havo been engaged for
tho Irish Land League Convention to be
held April 25 and 20 nt which Mossra Tar-
nell Duvltt and Fgan are expected to be
present
. Ono hundred and fifty carrlngcs fol-
lowed the remains of Jim Elliott the mur-
dered pugilist to the grave in New York.
It is stated from Washington that the
new Tax and Tariff law underwent some re
markable transformations from the time it
was passed in the Senate until It reached the
President for signature the responsibility
for which docs not appear in the record
In several instances tho intention of the
framcrs of the bill has been defeated by the
transposition of a conjunction or a punctua-
tion mark and the probability Is the Treas-
ury Department Instead of being relieved
In tho matter of construction of the law will
havo little time for any otner business than
explaining the purport of the act of 1881
Judge Lillcy an aged Washington law
yer called upon Stephen W. Dorscy at the
latter's residence in Washington a few
sights ago and in tne course or a conversa
tion about the star-route trial Lilley made
some remark that greatly enraged Dorsey
who struck his guest from the chair in
which he was sitting and then jumped up
on and kicked him inflicting serious injur-
iea The storm foreshadowed by Wiggins
the Canadian crank failed to pan out
A good many people throughout the country
had prepared themselves for the worst and
some were rendered insane from fear and
apprehension. There was no unusual at-
mospherical disturbance though thero were
local storms in several sections of the
country as usual in March. None of them
bowover took tho form of a tornado or
blizzard. There were strong gales and heavy
rains on the East Atlantlo coast On the
Nova Scotlan and New Brunswick coasts a
heavy gale prevailed but the damage caused
was trilling. A great snow-storm raged
in tho region of Waterloo Quebec' Tho
loss to the Gloucester fishing industry occa-
sioned by the refusal of fishermen to go to
Bea on account of Wiggins' false prophecy
is estimated at not. less than $150000.
A Washington telegram of the 13th inat
says: "Mr. Wm. Lilley tho gentleman who war
assaulted by ox-Senato-: Uorsey. Ism a very
precarious condition from tho effects of the
assault and hjs physician thinkB his recovery
is a matter of considerable doubt lie is un-
able to' retain food upon his stomach and
suffers a great deal of pain."
"Prof. " Wiggins says an Ottawa (Canada)
dispatch so far from being cast down
claims that his predictions relative to the
weather from the 9th to the 11th of March
were literally fulfilled and alleges that the
so-called tidal-wave at Halifax was the
highest ever known.
Patrick Levy from Mullingar Ireland
confessed on board the steamer Samaria
that he murdered a farmer named Hurley
who occupied an evicted farm for 20 and
was arrested upon the arrival of the Bteamer
at Boston .
PEES0NAL.
Ex-Gov. William Sprague of Rhode
Island was married In Staunton Va. to
Mra Dora Inez Calvert of Greenbrier
county W. Va
Ex-Congressman John Crow ell of Cleve-
land died in that city last week in bis S3d
year. He was conspicuous in Ohio politics
a generation ago and enjoyed a high repu-
tation as a lawyer and orator.
Mrs. Berkemier of Knox county Ind.
died the other day at the age of '109 years.
The death is recorded of Bishop Quinlan
who has for a quarter of a century filled the
position of Catholic Bishop of Mobile
The newly-wedded wife of ex-Gov.
Sprague of Rhode Island is the daughter of
a poor shoemaker and like her husband
has been separated from her first conjugal
partner by the divorce court
President Arthur is suffering from an
aggravated catarrhal affection.
Secretary Lincoln has asked the Presi-
dent to order a court-martial for tho trial of
Gen. Hazcn chief signal officer of the
United States arrav.
FIRES AITOOASUALTIES.
Fire at Bellows Falls Yt destroyed
property valued at $1000001 The mills of
tho Rock Island Taper Company.near Milan
11L were burned; loss $55000 with $30000
insurance.
One man was killed and two fatally in-
jured by an explosion of dynamite near Mc-Kce.-iort
Ta.
Seven men were drowned oppwite Jer-
sey City by the sinking of a scow.
Two little children were burned to death
in the house of their parents at Pittsburgh.
Theodore Deffenbach and Orin Sargent
cnginwr and fireman on the Northwestern
railway were killed by an explosion at
Rocheile II
Near Brownville P. T. the other night
at the wood camp terminus of the Black
Hills and Fort Pierre railroad. Head A
Scott's lodging shell was burned and eleven
men ierHied in the flames. Four othert
were wfiouly injured.
Much dauuere has been done by back-
water in t!ie Old town Lake country near
i
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Helena Ark. In one Instance a settler's
house was carried away by the flood and his
four children were drowned.
Near Alamo Ind. a passenger stage came
In collision at a crossing with an i JJ. ft w.
train Mr John Clark Milton Rush and
Green the driver being Instantly killed.
A boiler explosion on a Cuban plantation
killed six negroeH one white man and a
Chinese ond wounded six negroes ana lout
Chlnamea
Tho roof of ono wing of the Tayrol
Theater at Havana Cuba fell crushing luto
a coffeo house beneath and killing several
persons.
POLITICAL.
Tho Michigan Democrats met in con-
vention at the State capital on the 7th Inst
The convention put In nomination half a
ticket and authorized the Chairman of the
State Central Committee to treat with the
Greenbackers who were to hold their con-
vention the following day for the other
'half and In case of failure to agree
upon a union ticket John w. cnamp-
lin of Grand Rapids was named for
Judge of the Supremo Court long term
and Arthur I Clark of Sanllao county for
Regent of tho University. Tne resolutions
censure the Republican members of tho
Legislature for tho prolonged and expensive
Senatorial contest and declare that any
Judge who accepts a railroad pass
should be impeached and removed
frqm office. The Greenback Convention
convened according to 'programme
on the 8th. ' and unhesitatingly accepted
the proposition of the Democrats for a
union ticket The convention then pro-
ceeded to nominate Thomas R. Sher-
wood of Kalamazoo for Justice of tho
Supreme Court and Charles J. Willett
of Gratiot for; Second Regent of the State
University. Resolutions were adopted re-
affirming the Chicago Greenback platform
of 1880; arraigning the Republicans for the
long delay and consequent expense in elect-
ing a United States Senator; denouncing
Congress for Its failure to meet the publio
demand for revenue reform; favoring the
election of all Federal officers including
Senators and Postmasters by the peoplo
denouncing monopolies and advising a f ull
representation from Michigan at the pro-
posed Anti-Monopoly gathering at Chicago
on tho 4th of J uly next
The Ohio House has passed a joint reso-
lution for submitting to the people an
amendment for a tax on liquor or to pro-
hibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing beverages. ;
A New York State Senator has intro-
duced in tho Legislature biile to repeal the
charter of the Manhattan Elevated railroad
and to authorize the Attorney General of
New York to make examination of the cost
of various railroads with a view to their
acquirement by the State 1
The members of the Civil Service Com
mission have had a short conference with
the President in regard to the sreneral plan
of operations to be observed in carrying tha
law into effect It wa3 agreed the commis-
sion should prepare a set of rules in regard
to the questions under their jurisdiction
and submit them to the President for ap
proval The selection of a chief examiner
tinder the commission has not yet been
agreed upon.
The Arkansas Legislature has changed
the name of Dorsey county to DeSoto coun-
ty. It was named after Stephen W. Dorsey
during the reconstruction era while he was
a Senator from that State.
The New Jersey Senate has passed a bill
prohibiting the sale of tobacco in any form
to minors under a penalty of $20 for eacn
offensa
The rumor is current in Nevada that
Senator Fair will resign his seat on account
of ill-health; that Gov. Adams will then re-
sign and that Lieut Gov. Loughton who
will then succeed to tho Gubernatorial chair
will appoint Adams Unite d States Senator.
CRIMES AND0RIMINALS.
The freierht steamship Glamorgan
lOBt in mid-ocean seven of the crew perish-
ing.
Fire in Nashville Term. destroyed prop-
erty of the value of $250000 upon which
there was $100000 insurance.
In the Cambridge flats In East Sixty-
fourth street New York fire broke out
burning Mra Wakeman aged 56 and her
daughter Rosa
A telegram from Little Rock Ark. of
the 8th Inst says: Last night the east-bound
passenger train on the Little Rock and Fort
Smith railroad was boarded by forty men
two miles west of Mulberry Station Craw-
ford county 140 miles from Little Rock.
They ordered the passengers to throw
np their hands and began firing pistols.
Conductor John Cain was in the rear and
was fatally shot The robbers rushed for
the engine but before reaching it Engineer
Rogers pulled out and prevented a robbery.
Brakeman Lester was also shot during the
firing. The robbers jumped off after the
train was In motioa Superintendent Hart-
man offers $5000 reward for the capture of
the robbers.
William Lyon of Cleveland made a
murderous attack upon a woman from
whom he had been divorced five years ago
and then killed himself. The woman's
wound Is severe and possibly mortal.
Martin L Helps of Springfield Ohio re-
turned from church with his wife and fif-
teen minutes later fired at her three times
and shot himself dead.
A house was burned near Frederick
51 J. and its owner his wife and a hired
man were cremated.
A horrible double crime occurred re-
cently at the ranch of J. IL Landa a wealthy
rtock raiser of Sill county Texaa Tom P.
Yardell son of a prominent stock man wbow 1
gmeral character is that of a "roue" had
recently been forcing bia attentions upon
the daughter of Landa a young lady of rare
personal attractions. Dnriny a 111 given
l y Landa la honor c f bis daughter. Tardea
a as present and induced the girl to take a
i
walk from her house. When some distance
away he drew a revolver and threatening
mi t.h ' o-lrl. committed . a
brutal outrage upon her. Miss Landa raised
an outcry which drew the aiienuon oi wo
..0f- nt th bnlL and a party of men led
by the father of the girl made pursuit of
Yardell who shot Landa tnrouga mo near
niniA his esoane In the darkness. The
Landa family offer a large reward for hla
apprehension and the Governor has made a
proclamation of his crime Landa was a
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former resiuent oi n wuuumu.
At Springfield Masa John B. Loomls
-urn hnnerod for murdering David Leavitt
Dec. 1 1882. Uriah Moyerwas hanged at
Mlddleburg Ta. for killing oretonen runis-
VrlnlSTT.
Two murderers rosqaole Ma jane and
Michael E. McGloin were executed in now
vnrv. The execution .' of Bob Cochran
(colored) for murder occurred at Clayton
Ala . i
W. r. Rcnowdon and Arch Mclntyre
were murdered by persons unknown near
San Joso CaL . ' -
John S. Cox one of those charged with
the theft of $100000 of bonds of the city of
St Joseph Mo. from the vaults of the City
Register has turned State's evidence and
on the witness-stand gave a circumstantial
account of the theft of the bonda
Married by a Drove of Mules.
In the Richmond Va. correspon
dence of the Washington Capital. . pc
curs the following: A little circum
stance happened here' last fall that
bore great issue. A trifle " as light as
air yet it made a man and a woman
meet that but for this episode t would
never have known each other. As it
is society talk of course everyone
knows it and I will narrate it just to
show whatinconsiderable events which
some call chance and others fate
shape our lives. A large drove of
mules just after darkwere taken from
the cars of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad and corraled but something
stampeded them and they dashed up
the street' a half hundred or. so with
all the clattering and fire of a squad-
ron of cavalry at full charge. Pe-
destrians hugged the sidewalk or hur
ried into the nearest open door and
then looked pantingly at the dim
rushing mass. Now it happened that
a young lady from Boston Mass.
who was on a visit here was coming
from a friend's house and just as she
was crossing the street the head of
the column came toward her with the
velocity of an express train on a down
grade. It was so sudden that her
presence of mind failed her and she
stood directly in tne pathway or tne
advancing drove. A thrilling tableau
it must -have been.... She' clasped
her hands and the light of the lamjps
showed her dilated eyes and - rigid
figure. A dreadful death seemed in-
evitable when a gentlemen passing
bvi with a valise in his hand saw her.
Like a flash he was by her side and
swinging her with a rapid motion to
him he carried her to the sidewalk
just as the thundering mass passed
by in the darkness. The danger was
over but she was too unnerved to con
tinue her way. He offered his arm
and together they proceeded to her
house. She thanked her deliverer.
He presented his card Mr. Louis
Shearer West Point Miss. Me had
just arrived on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad and was on his way
to the Southern train when the vision
met his eye. He asked her name.
Miss Alice Beauchamp she answered.
Mr. Shearer did not go on his south-
ern trip that night nor the next ; and
so and so well the same old story.
Wken the roses bloom in bleak New
England then will be heard the
sound of the bells and the southern
palmetto and the northern pine en-
twined will adorn the altar.
Honeymoon Performances in a Bath'
itoom.
A newly-married pair who arrived
on their honeymoon trip at a cele-
brated Scotch watering-place when
accommodation was at a premium
had & mattress spread for them by a
compassionate inn-keeper in one of
his bath-rooms. In the middle of
the night the house was alarmed by
loud shrieks proceeding from the nup
tial chamber. What was the matter?
Well this: The young bride wish-
ing to ring for a servant had caught
hold of what she supposed to
be the bell-rope and pulled it sharp
ly. Unhappily for her and her spouse
it was the cord of the shower-bath
over their head3 and forthwith down
plunged such a deluge of cold water
as would throw a damper upon the
most devoted honeymaking couple.
Her husband in dismay caught fran-
tically at another cord on his side of
the extemporized couch but the only
response was an equally liberal de-
luge of water this time nearly boiltng
hot. The unhappy pair then screamed
in unison. When the servants came
they found the door of the room
flooded with water and the wife was
perched like a monkey on her hus
band s back uttering the mostlament-
able cries while her good man was
fnmllirg about in the dark trying
bis Lest to find the door. lmdon
Ttlt'iram.
TEX IS TOPICS-
Thejaw mills along the Sabine
k East Texas railroad are working
to their fullest capacity and bavt
enough to keep them busy for some
time to come.
Tho Legislative committee baa
finished the count of money on hand
in the treasury at Austin and findtbe
snug little sum of 2431 in cash and
500000 in bonds exactly the
amount that should be on hand.
-The Texas Beekeeper Associa
tion will meet m McKinnev on ti
17th and 18th of April In August
the reunion) of the Ex-Confederate
Missourians Boss and Ector's Texas
brigades. and Fitzhugh's regiment of'
Texas cavalry will hold their reunions
therS. '
The ages of the living Govern-
ors are as follows: Roberts G8 served
four years. Lubbock 60 served two
years. Pease 71 served four years.
Throckmorton 57 served one and a
quarter years. Coke 54 served three
years. . Hubbard 50 served two and
a quarter years. Ireland 55 present
governor.
An artesian well at Toya Tom
Green county is COO feet deep and
the water flows out of it at the rate
of 00000 gallons pure water per
hour. This would indicate that the
dry plains of west Texas may yet be-
come the finest watered country on
earth.
Texas Mesauiter. We were at
Austin a few days ago and while
there visited the state treasury de-
partment and took a .squint at the
much boasted of cash balance which
amounts to -more than twenty-three
hundred thousand dollars in gold sil-
ver and currency and is kept in a big
vault in the temporary capitol. The
safe in which the the currency is kept
is inside the vault and is burglar
proof.' The silver is in sacks a little
larger than shot sacks and the gold
is in boxes of $1000 each just as
they came from the mint. We no-
ticed one package of currency of $20-
000 another of $43000. But the
greatest curiosity shown us was the
$5000 bill which the treasurer keeps
in an envelop as a kind of curiosity.
The vault has a heavy iron door to
which is attached a time lock. The
vault is closed every afternoon at 4
o'clock and can not be openod until
8:30 the next morning when the bolt
drops. And the lock is so arranged
that it is ' locked at four o clock on
Saturday and does not open until
Menday Morning.
Railroads and the South.
Boston Commercial Bulletin
The people of the Southern States
who own most of the real estate and
pay the taxes have discovered that
railroads are enriching that section
of the Union. The Atlanta Railroad
Record in speaking of what railroads
havo done for the state of Georgia
says that in twelve years of develop-
ment in that direction new routes
have been opened to good markets
and an incentive has been given to
the agricultural as well as to the-
manufacturing calling.
The showing for 1882 as compared
wit 1870 shows over 200 per cent." in-
crease in corn 600 per cent in oats
200 in wheat 75 in rye 100 in pota-
toes 800 in cane and sorghum and a
similar increase in yield of farm and
garden products. In 1870 Georgia
raised 473934 bales of cotton. In
1882 the production was 925443-
bales the crop being raised on 261-
713 less acres than was the crop of
814441 bales in 1880. This increase
is the result of improved methods
and more attention to the business.
The value of the farm products of
the state is estimated at $125000000.
which is $45000000 more than in
1870.
These important facts are not de-
veloped by the census of 1880 but
by the increment thereof the past
two years having shown great pro
gress on the part of the Southern
States cenerallv. The penetration of
railroads in that section has brought
obscure points close to distributive
points and resolved inertia into ac-
tivity. The Harvard College papers say that
the students are in great peril from fire-
in the dormitories. These buildings
are four and five stories high in raarj
the Btaircases are winding and narrow
and with exceptions they are unpro-
vided with fire escapes. The Harvard
Herald thinks this condition of things
very serious and has solemnly warned
the college authorities not to wait for
disaster to teach them their duty. Oth-
ers pronounce the danger wholly imag-
inary. to Jle-
dina county to establish an ostrich
ranch; the birds are to brought froo
Algiers Africa.
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