San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1883 Page: 2 of 8
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SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS.
X. H. JULIAN Publisher.
SAN MAKCOS
TEXAS
NEWS INBRIK.F.
iMnrnLlo daiUftC in
liunt v iv
Jlew England and along the valley of
rati 1 . iAl.niAA in
the Hudson me ioa ou iuuw...
.1 .intita in lfasRachuBCtts 18
wuru ;i'umi."
placed at 1125000.
Thk operatives f.t Fall liiver wero
TiHitcd and catecniHCU ujr uiw on .
Bub-coinniitteo on education ana iauor.
Tho lra'B of the mill operatives owned
by tbo corporations were found to be
in a bad condition. An old English
woman said that the operatives were
tetter off in iingianu man uerc
Tun Foreign Exposition in Boston
was formally opened on the 3d though
still very incomplete. The Japanese
exhibit which is large and artistic is
attended by natives in their homo cos-
time. Among the products of Ireland
ar a btono cross weighing five tons
anil a model of the treaty-stone of
Limerick. The Rajah who eatertained
General Grant in India has sent a case
...iiiii nincifnl instruments. Mu-
sic is furnished by the Victoria Rifles
baid 9l Montreal.
WeU
1ur.UR were received in Chicago in
n day 2233 car loads of grain of
wbioh 1300 were corn. If placed in a
straight Jine the procession would be
fourteen miles in length.
A man who boarded a train at Smith-
add Utah covered eight passenger
and two trainmen with a revolver robs
bed them of their watches and money
and escaped in the darkness.
Redfield and Tuttle who roblied
tho Riverside stage and killed the ex-
press messenger the night of Aug. 11
were hanged the other day at Florence
Arizona. Tho cowboys assembled in
force protesting against the hanging.
A BAG and paper warehouse on .Wal-
nut street Cincinnati was gutted by
fire. Three girls jumped from the
third story one breaking a leg and re-
ceiving internal injuries. A man in at-
tempting to escape fell unconcious n
the stairway and his head and face
were almcst burnt to a crisp. A fire-
man fell from a ladder and a spectator
was crushed against a wall by a hook
and ladder wagon and fatally injured.
Five female employes of the rag house
are missing and it is feared they per-
ished in the flames. The total loss is
afcout $115000.
Hekey Villaed's party of distin-
guished guests was given a gorgeous
reception at St. Paul and Minneapolis
bath cities being arrayed in a wealth of
decorations. The processions were
large and unique the different indus-
tries being represented in the ranks.
At Minneapolis machinery in wagons
was kept working during the entire
route grinding wheat sawing logs and
planing lumber. President Arthur and
party joined the tourists at the latter
city and wereweicomea touuuuuuuu-
ed enthusiasm. At the Hotel Lafay-
ette at Lake Minnetonka a banquet
was given the speeches being laudato-
ry of tho Northern Pacific system the
wonderful growth and resources of the
Northwest and complimentary to the
foreign guests.
President Arthur and party arrived
at St. Paul from tho West on the 3rd
inst. and were lunched at the State
Capitol. There he made a brief con-
gratulatory address to an assembled
multitude in tho course of whicli he
expressed great surprise at the general
progress of development in the North-
west and the unbounded resources of
the country. He predicts for the twin
ities unparalled success and prosper-
ity. Alter tho speech thej President
received the people for a half an hour
and then departed by special train for
Lake Minnetonka where tho night was
spout. Early the next morning the dis-
tinguished party left for Chicago.where
a reception was given at the Grand
P acitie Hotel and everybody who felt
so disponed was given an opportunity
ef shaking the Chief Magistrate by the
hand.
South.!
Samuel Bulger colored for out rag
iga white child some time ago was
kanged in the jail at Maysville Ivy.
Two negroes of Edwards Miss. con
fessed to having robbed the grave of
Mrs. Howell. One ef them who at
tempted to escape was riddled with
bullets 'lhe other was takoi from
the Sheriff and hanged. They con
fessed that they stole the body for the
purpose of securing the bones of the
arm which they used in carrying en
their profession as conjurers.
I'orrlcm.
Thk Swiss government refuses to ex-
tradite an American student named
Leunig who killed a schoolmate in a
Jnel in Germany aa daeling is not
imcd in the treaty.
SrrciiLs to London journals say
13000 Chinese troop have entered
Tonquin territory and others are mov-
ing to the frontier. The French Cabi-
net decidd to tend reinforcements to
Tonquin. Advices received from Ber-
lin are to tLo Sect that China means
Fir.
ti ..M.a rst tlm horrors in
Java and Sumatra arrive with every
. a v i id sntirhlv in.
IlOlir. A wuuiu uiv v
accessible and the population la sup-
posed to have perished. Nothing can
U heard from Lampong the dibtrict
. m. - ..1 ' Tooa Tim filial
wave which swept over the Tieriiigin
. 1 Torn .Irnwnnl ftll the in-
labitants about 10000 people.
At a mass-meeting held at Cappa-
lore. Ireland Michael Pavitt delivered
operations of landlordism in Ireland
H 000 householders had been deprived
of their homes within tho quarter end
ing July 1. Davitt contended toa: tno
question cf tho complete abolition of
linuioruism mufc u r"
1. nl. T.nn1 Ant. bfl stated if
people .mo - .
not a failure at tho present time was
rapidly becoming so and that not one-
SIXbll OI H.O liuuui -
couitry have yet succeeded in having
their rents fixed. He urged the people
olnte and calm and not lose
self-control.... The obsequies of the
n .1. rimmlvinl tnnlc nlact at Go-
ritz Austria in the presence ! 50.000
foreigners. The funeral car was
drawn by six horses and followed by
thousand French Royalists were in me
ft J elocutions ef work-
men from Paris and Lyons.... While
a numoer oi peopia wco "wb "
a irain as oie(5mtucnuUJ i -
dashed into their midst killing thirty-
nine persons. The corpses were mu-
tiiatea in a suociiiuj5 muuu" . . . .ww.
ous ant i-Jewish ritting tok place at
ci-: TTnmfYni-ir tliA mnh eommit-
infr tfrribl havoc unon property. Uno
person wua mm ivm .
Tlia Deuteronomy manuscripts
have been declared forgeries and ef
forts are being maae to trace me
mlm i'a cnrmnsPll to hd 0. clever
UU111U1 1 niiw "11 ....
Artist and counterfeiter of Moabitic
characters Near Naples Italy a
flooded house crumbled killing eleven
inmates Ivan Tourgueneff the Rus-
sian novelist is dead.
Washington.
fliTTFw Postoffice inspector D. B.
Parker tendered his resignation to
tafco pflfpt in October. His succeosor
will be Alonzo G. Sharp of Ten
nessee.
How t Destroy the Cotton Miller.
an Antonio Express.
A Tiom'siana nlanter has written to
lift New Orleans Cotton Exchange
rronosinc a cheap plan for destroying
the cotton worm fly. The same plan
might also be tested m tins vicinity
and should any of our planters maice
such a test they will confer a great
benefit on their brother planters if
they will promptly communicate the
result of their experiments to the Ex-
press. The planter writes as follows :
"The cotton worm fly feeds on sweets
such as sugar or honey; it docs not
feed on vegetable matter. It may be
seen sucking the sap that flows from
bruised trees or plants or melons or
figs or oiher fruits.
"I have seen the cotton miner coi-
ect iust after nieht in myriads on a
- J W V
lmo-flRRfi nile. near this place to suck
saccharine from the haii-pressea cane.
It is a common experience or fact at-
tested by many that if one of the lit-
tle vacuum pans used to grind the
small patches of cane in the cotton
countries is left uncovered at ni'jht
and is allowed to cool that the cotton
worm fly will collect about it just af-
ter night in swarms and feed upon
the syrup. It feeds at night. It will
find bagasde piles and mills remote
from cotton fields. Saturate more
cotton rags or bagasse with solution
of half water and one-half molasses
and honey or a solution of any
tweet. Poison this solution with ar-
senic strychnine or cobalt or any
other poison ; put on platforms.
"All experience teaches that birds
animals or insects fin1 their food with
a wonderful instinct; for instance fox-
es buzzards etc.
"This plan is very inexpensive."
British Capital in Cattle.
The following significant statement
o Jr v . i
is made by the London Live Stock
Journal:
"T1-. wrmld armear that a considera
ble amount of British capital has
hppn invested in American cattle. An
English company has been organized
to go into the ranch and cattle busi-
ness on the line of the Northern Pa-
cific railway. Mr. Fewer who has
been in business in Wyoming and
southern Montana for five years esti-
mate that English capital to the ex-
tent of eight millions is now invested
La cattle on the American continent
most of which has gone to Texas
lie also states the shipping of live
stock is wasteful and expensive and
cattle are unnecessarily bruised in
transfer. The company of which
he is a partner could ship dead meat
to England much more economically
than live stock as' the refrigerating
system is now nearly perfect. This
opinion supports our contention for
a dead-meat trade.
T st.rPT and dreamed that life was
beauty and waked and found that
life was duty.
Tot Uosd 014 Time.
Tho more you find out about the
much vaunted "good old times- tho
hotter rleased you aro not to Lave
lived in tnem. ino psoiuo ui
like does lut they fed like
hogs. A pauper in a workhouse
would kick now at tho meal which a
1 in devour then. Tho
rna at. biAf rf nld En eland was unheard
of; beef was onlv eaten salted and
boiled and bread was a luxury uuk
in common use even by tue nooios.
The records of the Tercy family in
tho reign of Henry VII. show tho ex-
imA rnftrKPiiefia of tlio modo of liv
ing and an txtract or two from the
irmBhrtld hook of that famous fami-
In Trill mvrt n mod idea of the manner
in which the most famous noble of
tho time lived. The permanent
imneoiiftM numbered ICO persons and
the average of guests was fifty and
the whole of the wasuing ior uieee
oi n wan for ono vear 4Us: a sum
probably equal to $2 in the present
S i t 1 I. fn. 4 list .Vinrt.
oay most oi wmcu wo iw m v.-
el linen.
Vr.it. i uiMpinnmer to Michaelmas
wa the only time they indulged in
fresh meat and the instructions sav
"My Lord has on his table for break-
fast at 7 in tho morning a quart of
beer and wine two pieces of salt fish
six red herring four white ones; and
on flesh days half a chine of beef or
mutton boiled." At dinner men rank-
ing a3 knights had a table cloth
which was washed once a month;
and as they had no napkins and the
fingers being extensively used in feed-
ing this portion at least of their lin-
en must have been in a sad condition.
Until tho thirteenth century straw
was tho bed of King3; and before that
date the King and his family slept in
the same chamber. The first change
was to throw a coverlid over the
sleeper; then another was used and
the persons undressed their linen be-
ing substituted for blankets. Beatrice
says she would "as lief sleep in a
woolen" which shows that such a
thing was done even in Shakspeare's
time. The use of nothing but coarse
dirty woolen next to the skin seldom
changed and the heavy exciting na-
ture of highly salted food on which
all lived of course tended to produce
those diseases for which hospitals
were founded all over England; hos-
pitals for leprosy in particular abound-
ing. New York Dispatch.
How Tacks are Made.
The iron is received from the roll
ing mills in sheets from three inches
to twelv3 inches wide and from three
feet to nine feet in length the thick-
ness varying according to the kind of
work into which it is to oe maae
imm one-eichth to onc-thirty-second
of an inch pieces and by immersion
in acid cleansed cf the hard outside
flintv scale. Thev are then chopped
into strips of a width corresponding
to tho length ct tho nan or tacK re-
mu'red. Supposing the tack to be cut
is en etoht-ounce carpet tack the
'-3 -i -i
strip of iron as chopped and ready
for the machine would be about eleven-sixteenths
of an inch wide and
thirty inches long. This piece is
placed firmly in the feeding apparatus
and by this arrangement carried be-
tween the knives of the machine. At
each revolution of the balance wheel
the knives cut off a small piece from
the end of this plate. The piece cut
off is pointed at one end and square
for forming the head at the other. It
is then carried between two dies by
the action of the knives and these
dies coming together form the body
nf the tack under the head. Enough
of the iron projects beyond the face of
the dies to form u:e neaa anu
while heldfirmly by them a lever
strikes this projecting piece into a
round head. This as we have said
before is all done during one revolu-
tion of the wheel and ths knives aa
soon as the tack drops from the ma-
chine aro ready to cut another piece.
These machines are run at the rate
of about 250 revolutions per minute.
The shoe nail machines for cutting
headless shoe nails are run at about
Sf)0 revolutions per minute and cut
from three to five nails each revolu-
tion. Girls TThe Chew Uuin.
In a Division Street millinery store
says the New York Morning Jwrnal
a small girl comes down and hands
madam behind the counter a note and
is given a package.
"Do you suspect what I gave the
girl?" asked the madam.
iSO.
"It was spruce gum. There is
something strange about the matter.
We can't get the girls to work well
without it. We found that thev
talked so much that a great deal of
time was lost from our wort ana al-
though they work by the piece when
we are rushed with orders we get be-
hind. Our forewoman issued an order fo
l.idircr talkine durinc working hour
We tried this but yoa might as we 1
4 i n An m a river with a sand bank.
Then wo tried fines but that did not
work they would resort to all manner
of tricks to get a moment of gossip
they would rather lose half a weeks
wages than bo deprived of their talk."
"I found it would not do. I just
racked my brains to find some way to
stop their clatter. At ono time I
timnrrht nf buildinc a lot of little cells
where each one could bo kept alone
but I was afraid my girls wouia an
70rt mA. Then I tried bribery. I
bought some spruce gum and had it
announced I would give each girl ono
hit moraine? and evening on condition
they did not talk. Tho plan has
worked admirably. You can go up
in tli a work room and all tho noiso
vou will hear will bo tho "slush" of
. i -l i
ono nunorea pairs oi jaws m tuuouvu
mntinn. Ilardlv a word is spoken.
Tho girls aro contented. The prob
lem is solved. A girl must nave em-
plovment for her laws and if it isn t
chewing it is talking."
Tkree Ways of Life.
A certain rich man being reminded by
tho increasing weight of years that
b would never be any younger and
must one day go the way of all flesh
called about him his tureo sonswnom
he thus addressed:
"My children when I die all I have
will be yours but in addition to the
nrnnertv. which I shall divide among
vou equally I have a ring in which is
J . A- a -i i. l..- rri
set a aiamonu ui yreao vuiuc xjuo
I intend for him who after a twelve-
month shall have made the greatest
advance toward success in life. Here
take each of you one of those purses
f ontaininff a hundred pieces of silver.
go out into the world and at the ex
piration of the time prescribeareturn
that I may iudge which among you
deserves the prize."
Thereupon the sons received their
father's blessinc. and taking the
purses of silver went away. But when
a year and a day were passed they
returned and presented themselves
before their father and it appeared
they had chosen widely different
means of gaining a common end.
"My father" said the elde3t with
a part of the hundred pieces thou gav-
est me I bought a certificate setting
forth my great skill in healing the sick.
I cultivated my beard and put on my
glasses that I might appear to be a
man of learning. I gave out tnat i
was able to cure all known diseases;
I administered bread pills and sweet-
ened water to all who placed them
selves under mv care and as a result
I have gained wealth to the extent of
one thousand pieces of gold.
"My son" remarked the parent
well-pleased "truly thy cheek is co-
lossal" "Mv father." then said the second
youth "with thy hundred pieces of
silver I purchased votes by which I
secured to myseit a ijovernment con-
tract. I engaged to transport the
mails for one thousand pieces of gold
per annum and by exceeding pru-
dence of management I have garnered
profits upward of fifteen hundred
pieces of gold.
"Verily thy prudence is monumen-
tal exclaimed the father "but thy
brother hath not yet spoken."
"With one of thy pieces of silver O
my father" began the youngest son
"1 purchased some tools and became
a plumber "
"My son thou pride of my heart!"
cried the enraptured old man falling
on his neck while the happy tears
coursed down his aged cheeks "thou
needst sav no more. Thou hast clear
ly shown that thou hast discovered
the true road to success. It is to thee
without a question the rings belongs.
Toronto Globe.
Tfhy He Wanted Office.
A gentleman who had seen much
of public life once told the following
story to illustrate how min are will-
ing to serve the State if they thereby
may serve themselves. The reasons
given were certainly as sensible as
those under which many of our con-
gressmen and legislator's are chosen
and the man was very likely more
honest than most politicians :
In a certain town not far from Bos-
ton there lived a large family of sev-
eral generations by the name of C .
At one of the elections whereat mem-
bers of the Legislature were chosen
William C . was a candidate. The
whole family were present distribut-
ing votes for him.
"Won't you vote for William?"
asked one of the family of citizen.
Why should;i? I never heard that
William had any qualification for a
legislator."
"Well" replied the relative "I'll
tell you how 'tis. William's got a
leetle behindhand and wants to
shingle his barn. This will cost
about $100. Now if he can get to
the General Court one session he'll
6a ve 1 100 and so vou see he ean
shingle bis barn."- -Politic.
Seren-YearOU iiorm.
An old farmer onco said- "lev
year
w buy.
remark I "
w n uo Known that C
wants to buy a good horse he m t
struck with the circumstance ffi
ho will let it bo
i "i um
tu uit ue oi any partictrtT
account were born seven yeara
Occasionally there is one that ia
years old but they are not jij?
Now those of us who lived wo2
hero seven years ago did not have on
attention called to the fact that th
country was flooded with colts. The
were very few twin colts and it w.1
seldom that a mother had a half dozen
colts following her. Farmers and
stock-raisers did not worry themselves
about what they were goingto do with
so many colts. The pepers if
recollect right were not filled with
accounts of the extraordinary n.
bcr of colts born. And vpf. it .I
have been a terrible year for colts
because there are only six horses ki
Milwaukee that are over six years old
but one of them was found to have
been pretty well along in years when
he worked in Barnum's brickyard in
18C8 and finally he owned p that
he was mistaken twenty-six years.
What a mortality there must have
been among horses that would have
now been eight nine or ten years
oldl There are none of them left
And a year from now when our pres-
ent stock of horse would naturally be
eight years old they will all be dead
and a new lot of seven-year-old hor-
ses will take their places. It is sing-
ular but it is true. That is it is true
unless horse-dealers He and we would
be slow to charge so great a crime
upon a useful and enterprising class
of citizens. No it cannot be and
yet doesn't it seem peculiar that all
the horses in this broad land are
seven years old this spring? We leave
the subject for the youth of the land
to ponder over. It beats us. V. S.
Veterinary Journal.
J!sop Revised.
A dog and a rooster who worked
the Damon and Pythias racket were
traveling together one summer and
finding no wayside inn en route
wherein to rest at night took up
their abode on the soft side of a tree.
The fowl flew readily to a leafy branch
near the top but the dog remarked
that "it was a heathen climb up
there" lay down on a root and slept
the sleep of a democrat.
At early dawn the rooster waked
and tooted his calliope as only a roos-
ter can. By his noise which indeed
was louder than the bark of the dog
(or the tree for that matter) he at-
tracted the attention of a fox who
was in search of his morning meal
and who viewed with delight the pros-
pect of rooster on toast.
"Ah my pretty bird" said he
"how useful you are. Will you not
come down and live with me and be
my owny little alarm clock? Come
down; it is raining; you'll get wet
"Doe3 it rain hard?" smiled the
fowl.
"Don't move" said the fox. "A
bird that will make such tough puns
must according to the proverb
toughs from the tough' be unfit for
mv purposes. Whv. I believe that
vnn are so touch that if vou were a
hen you'd lay hard boiled eggs.
iou re a
Just then the doer awoke ana
striking the fox on the collar-button
sent him to his hole thereby deduc-
ing the moral that it don't pay to vi
tuperate a rooster.
ATery Homely Man.
A correspondent writes that during
his trip on the great American lakes
his companion was a Canadian a jol-
ly fellow who loved a joke told a
good story feared God admired the
ladies and was withal an abominable
stammerer. We hadn't been long
aboard when the captain called our
attention to a remarkable-looking
individual seated at the other end of
the cabin whom he declared was the
ugliest man that ever lived; where-
upon our friend from over the hne
offered to bet the drinks he had seen
a worse one in the steerage. The bet
was taken and off he started to find
his man and bring him up for com-
parison. He found the fellow ho
was a bit of a wag as an intolerably
homely man is apt to be and wita
the promise of a "nip" readily g&mw
his assent to the trial. As they en-
tered the cabin Kanuck with an
of conscious triumph turned to direct
attention to bis companion when m
found him trying to insure success tj
making faces "gt-st-st-st-op! sua
he "no-none of that. Stay J"
God Almighty made you. Yon ca
ca-can't be beat." And he wasnt-
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Choleba victims in Egypt
a 9 hours afUr th r att-
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