San Marcos Cresset. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 29, 1885 Page: 1 of 4
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Office—Over First National Bank,
South Side Square.
PROQRES
VOLUME 1, HUMBER 0.
SAN MARCOS, HAYS COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1885.
f Entered at the Postoffice at San Marco®
| as second class mail matter.
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR,
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
DISTRICT OFFICERS.
Congressman Eighth Distric t -Hon.
James F. Miller, of Gonzales county.
• Senator 25tli District—Hon. Geo.
Pfeuffer, of Comal county.
Representatives 91st District—Hon.
J. H. Combs, of Hays county, and
Hon. J. M. Jolly, of Caldwell county.
District Court 22d District—Hon.
H. Teichmueller, presiding judge, La
Grange. J. M. Bethany, attorney,
Austin. T.ime of holding court in
Hays county, first Mondays in March
and September. May continue three
weeks.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Judge—Ed. R. Kone.
District and County Clerk—James
G. Burleson.
County Attorney—Owen Ford.
Sheriff—H. E. Barber, J.S Davis,
deputy.
County Treasurer—J. H. Patterson.
Assessor—R. S. Fortson.
Surveyor—J. C. Eve.
County Commissioners—Precinct 1,
T. J. McCarty, Precinct 2, Charles
Lightfoot. Precinct 3, J. R. Burle-
son. Precinct 4, Peter Schmitt.
Time of holding county court, for
criminal, civil and probate business,
fourth Mondays in January, March,
May, July, September and Novem-
ber.
Commissioners’ court Second Mon-
days in February, May, August and
November.
PRECINCT OFFICERS.
Precinct 1—C. S, Cock, J. P. Sam.
Perkins, constable. Court last Mon-
day in each month, at San Marcos.
Precinct .2—David Lynch, J. P.
Wm. Steele, constable. Court sec-
ond Friday in each month, at Kyle.
Precinct 3—H. C. Hubbs, J. P.
Court third Friday in each month, at
Wimberly.
Precinct 4—J. C. Rowe, J. P. Court
fourth Friday in each month, at
Dripping Springs.
SAN MARCOS CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor—Wm. Giesen.
Marshal—T. M. Prince.
Assessor and Collector—D P. Hop-
kins.
Street Commissioner—Samuel Wat-
kins.
Councilmen—W. D. Wood, G. W
Donalson, John Williamson. D, A.
Glover, Ed. J. L. Green.
Council meets first Tuesday in each
month.
MAILS.
Mails arrive at and depart from
San Marcos postoffice as follows :
From Austin, arrive at 8.45 a. m.
and 8.30 p. m., close at 8.15 a. m. and
8 p. m.
From San Antonio, arrive at 8.45
a. m. and 6.45 p. m., close at 8. 15 a.
m. and 6.15 p. m.
From Luling, arrives at 12 m.,
closes at 12.45 p. m.
Above mails arrive and depart
daily.
From Blanco, via Wimberly, ar-
rives Monday and Thursday at 7 p.
m., departs Tuesday and Friday at 6
p. m.
Office Hours—General delivery from
8 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 p. in. to
5 p. m., except (luring distribution of
mails and on Sundays and holidays.
Open on Sundays thirty minutes after
distribution of each of the principal
mails. Albert Heaton, P. M.
CHURCHES.
Methodist—Rev. Buckner Harris,
pastor. Preaching every Sabbath.
Sunday school at 9 a. m. Class meet-
ing or young men’s prayer meeting
at 3 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednes-
day night.
Christian—D. W. Pritchett, preach-
er in charge. Services every Lord’s
day morning and night. Sunday
school at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting ev-
ery Wednesday night. Ladies’ Aid
Society meets at 3 p. m. every Fri-
day. A cordial invitation extended
to all,
Presbyterian—Rev. J. B. French,
pastor. Services second and fourth
Sundays in each month. Sunday
school every Sabbath at 9.30 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Thursday at
7.30 p. m. All are invited to attend.
Lutheran—Rev. C. Kreuzenstein,
synodical missionary, will preach on
the first Sunday in each month at
the Presbyterian church, at 11 a. m.
All Germans cordially invited.
Baptist—Preaching at the Baptist
church on the first and third Sun-
days in each month. Rev. L. D.
Jackson, pastor.
Catholic—Rev. Father Smith,
pastor. Services fourth Sunday in
each month.
Protestant Episcopal—No pastor.
SOCIETIES.
Alert Hose Company No. 1, meets
on the first Thursday in each
month. B. B. Rose, president, By-
ron W. Smith, foreman, W. S. Carter,
first assistant, J. F. Pate, second as-
sistant, T. J. Peel, secretary, C. L.
NcCay, treasurer.
Hook and Ladder Company No. 1,
meets the second and fourth Wednes-
days in each month. Ed. R. Kone,
president, R. Byrne, foreman, B. F.
Blount first assistant, Julius Ru-
dolph,second assistant, A. C. Danforth
treasurer, J. K. Stuart, secretary, Will
Taylor, financial secretary, Gus Lun-
deburg, stewart.
San Marcos Lodge No. 342, A. F.
and A. M., meets first Saturday night
in each month. J. E. Pritchet W. M.
Wm. H. Nance, secretary.
San Marcos Chapter No. 189, R. A.
M., meets first Tuesday night in each
month. P. C. Smith, Al. E. H. P.
C. C. Weems, secretary.
Hays Lodge K. of H., No. 1668,
meets second and fourth Friday
nights in each month. W. C. Dug-
ger, dictator. T. J. Peel, reporter.
Mountain Lodge, No. 154, I. O.
O. F., meets every Monday night.
G. F. Ward, N. G. R. Fromme, sec-
retary.
Order of Chosen Friends meets ev-
ery alternate Wednesday night. Ba-
sil Dailey, C. C. Albert Heaton,
secretary.
D. A. GLOVER,
President.
W. D. WOOD,
Vice-President.
TOM H. GLOVER,
Cashier.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF SAN MARGOS.
Capital Paid up $50,000, Authorized Capital, $150,000
A General Banking business Transacted. Accounts of Merchants,
Firms and Individuals solicited.
DIRECTORS.
W.D. WOOD, W.O. HUTCHISON, J. V. HUTCHINS, GEO. T. MCGEHEE D. A. GLOVER.
ED. J. L. GREEN,
President.
j. W. HERNDON,
Vice-President.
G. F. KERR,
Cashier.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SAN MARGOS
Capital Stock Paid Up, $50,000, Authorized Capital, 100,000.
A General Banking Business. Collections Made On All Accessible
Points. Accounts of Merchants, Farmers, Stockmen,
Others Solicited.
DIRECTORS.
J. W. HERNDON, J. G. BURLESON, II. HARDY, ALE PRICE, ED. J. L. GREEN.
MARTIN HINZIE.
Wholesale and Retail Grocer.
-HANDLES-
HARDWARE. TINWARE. STOVES.
And everything kept by First-class Grocers.
SOUTHEAST CORNER SQUARE, - - - SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
Gen. Longstreet has taken charge
of his hotel at Gainesville Ga., and
will conduct it in person.
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The trial of Minnie Wallace
Walk up charged with poisoning
her husband at Emporia, Kas., is
set for the 10th of (l)ctober.
Poor Turkey! First a leg th m a
wing goes to satisfy the greed of the
“powers.” Soon th<f poor thing wont
have any backbone left.
Texas newspaper stock is not en-
tirely valueless, as instanced by the
recent selling of a,half interest in
the Austin Statesman for $17,500.
4. HARDY & CO
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERS.
The trouble between white and
Chinese labor in the west abateth
not. Whether or not the Chinese
must go is becoming a very serious
question.
Police are in search of Millie N.
Costello, adopted daughter of J as.
Gleason, of Salem Mass. The
young lady inherits $2,000,000
from a dead Cuban uncle.
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Occasionally one sees in the pa-
pers that a schooner at the Crescent
city has been stolen and sailed
away. For tine shades of trickery
commend one to New Orleans.
But for the fact that the Creset
cares not to lay bare what is in our
neighbor’s cupboard a tale might
be unfolded of the skeleton in O.e
closet of our Kyle cotemporary.
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Telegraphic report of an election
of school trustees* at Binghampton
New York, in which both sexes
handled the ballots, says the ladies
generally voted for the successful
candidates.
N. A. West, who has been tend-
ered the positiorJ ol Chief of the
department of pilstoffice inspector
is the son of Gen, A. M. West, who
run for vice president on the Ben
Butler greenback ticket.
The salvation | army, which is
said to be a very rich concern pays
one counsel a thousand dollars for
each appearance in court in defense
of Gen. Booth* •nd Mrs. Jarrett in
the Eliza Armstrong abduction
case.
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
Glassware, Crockery, Tinware, Wood and Willow
ware kept constantly on hand.
WM. H. NANCE.
J. W. NANCE.
J. W. NANCE & BRO
DEALERS IN
Georgia claims to have no au-
thority to spend a cent to be rep-
resented at any Exposition in the
world. Georgia is like the man
who thinks he can run a business
without advertising. She will be
left.—N. O. Picayune.
In July congressmen were enti
tied to 1000 packages of turnip
seed and three bushels of grass seed,
each. The man who remarked
the name of representative at the
NationalCapital wasa hollow sound
will please take in his sign.
Furniture, Carpets, Wallpaper,
Mattresses, Etc.
S-AuUST MARCOS, TEXAS.
SAMPLES' ROOM,
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS.
B. PITCHFORD, Proprietor.
DEALER IN
Imported and Domestic Liquors,
CIGARS, Eto.
Agent for the celebaated Stonewall Whisky, America’s finest production.
Newspaper enterprise at Dallas is
without end. First a branch office
of the Galveston News is secured;
then the Farm and Ranch is in-
duced to pack up its types and de-
sert Austin; and now Mr. W. G.
Sterrett has* an organized capital of
$20,000, propping up the Evening
Times.
The Thirteen Clubs.
Victor Hugo confessed to the pos-
session of only one superstition.
Nothing could induce him to form
one of thirteen at table. Whenever
a thirteenth arrived at the last mo-
ment it was M. Lesclide’s business
to pick up his hat and depart. The
vitality of this hoary superstition,
which no doubt orininally grew out
of the story of the Last Supper and
of the tragic events which so quick-
ly followed it, is remarkable. Any
one who takes the trouble to refer
to the accepted tables may see for
himself what is really the expecta-
tion of human life. It will be found
that, in order to obtain a mathe
matical probability that one out of
a given thirteen healthy persons
will expire during the following
twelve months, the average age of
the thirteen must, in default of the
presence of one or two on the verge
of centenarianism, be very great in-
deed. It must, in fact, be about
eighty-eight years, and it is scarce-
ly necessary to say that, in prac-
tice, the united years of a festive
party of thirteen never amount t©
the requisite 1,144. The annual
rate of mortality among males and
females of all ages is only one in
forty-one, and forty-one therefore,
instead of thirteen should be held
to be the unlucky number. This
has been demonstrated over and
over again, yet the number thirteen
still remains ominious to the thou-
sands of excellent people in all class
es of life.
In Paris there are streets in which
12 does duty instead of IB; and the
householders who thus ingenuous-
ly sought to circumvent fate would
not for the world let the proper
number be painted upon their doors.
Some years ago Prince Napoleon
tried to laugh his countrymen out
of the superstition, but his efforts
did not benefit his cause, for with
characteristic perversity, he used
to invite twelve friends to carouse
with him on Good Friday, whereby
he greatly scandalized right-feeling
people, whatever their theological
views.
In America similar but less ag-
gressive attempts have been made to
correct popular error, and numer-
ous Thirteen Clubs have been es
tablished, the members pledging
themselves to dine thirteen at table
on every opportunity. In France
too, there is a Thirteen Club, the
headquarters of which are at Senlis;
and even here in England there is
a little coterie of thirteen men who
dine together monthly at a house
numbered thirteen, and pay thir-
teen shillings each for their dinner
and thirteen per cj each to the
waiters. Yet still the superstition
is as lively as of yore all over Eu-
rope and America, and probably it
will continue to flourish and to
make people uncomfortable until
the end of time. There are in all
likelihood men and women who are
even now undergoing 12 months’
vague uneasiness because the pres-
ent year of grace happens to be a
multiple ofthirteen.-London News.
day Senator Vooihees came here ^ to
see the Postmaster General. The
messengers had been instructed to
inform callers that the Postmaster
General would see no one. It ap-
pears that the Senator was in a hur-
ry or had an engagement with Mr.
Vilas, and when told that he could
not be admitted he became very
angry. He caught the messenger
by the throat or coat collar and
threw him across the room. Then
he walked in. He said he was tired
of this flummerjyand proposed to
go in whenever he wanted to, and
no red-tape could keep him out,
nor messenger either.”
“What was done about the as-
sault on the messenger?” I asked.
‘The Postmaster General sent for
the messenger and no one will tell
what was said. The affair was
dropped. But you may be sure
that Senator Vorhees isn’t ‘stood
off any more when he wants to see
thqJPostmaster General.”
This is not the only instance, I
am told, where violence has been
resorted to before prominent men
could see the Postmaster General.
It is never so difficult to see the
President as Mr. Vilas. The latter
has set up a dominion of his own
that borders on imperialism. He
gets behind three doors and as
man/ messengers, and only the
dukes of the party are admitted to
him. And yet he is a public ser-
vant, paid out of the people’s treas-
ury.—Washington Correspondence
Ohio State Journal.
YOU AND I.
For the Times-Democrat.
Though winter winds may whistle
Or summer roses blow.
The rose may be a thistle
For aught that we may know. .
Time alone is noticed,
For the hours too swiftly fly,
And that is all we care for
When togetim —you and I.
The trees may droop their branches
Beneath a steady rain,
Or throw their shadows o’er us
When the sun comes out again;
They may be bare and shivering
’Neath an icy winter sky,
But our hearts heed not the seasons
When together—you and I.
Ah, yes ! I see the violets—
They tell me of your love ;
Perhaps we’cl rather linger
In the shelter of the grove.
Young Love has glances far too sweet
For colder hearts to spy,
So we’ll keep our stolen kisses
And our secrets—you and I.
Ruth Ramay
BRIC-A-BRAC.
Silver bricks will be thrown at
the next Congress.—N. O. Picayune.
A crank is a man whose ideas
differ from your own.—Texas Sift-
ings.
Don Cameron goes about his ho-
tel in California in his shirt-sleeves,
shocking the modesty of the dudes
who are summering there.—Boston
Post.
We envy’ our frisky Kyle cotem-
porarnota single type nor dash
rule nor lead, nor anything that is
its. On the contrary we wish the
News office may grow to the extent
of as many new presses as the editor
wishes. Neighbor regulate thine
own bunch of type before thou par-
adest the defects of the office of thy
neighbors.
Ioe Cod Beer always on Tap.
Finest Billiard Hall and Tables in Town.
Polite attention to customers and satisfaction guaranteed.
The king of Bavaria, who is said
to he insane, is guilty of all manner
of eccentr icities. He slaps his cour-
tiers and kicks his soldiers. Re-
cently he had an attack of tooth-
ache and ‘summoned a dentist from
Munich, to look after the aching
thing. Thejolly king refused to take
chlorofor m and the dentist had to
wrestle w ith the tooth while the
patient squirmed and riggled. In
his pain .he is said to have bellowed
and roarpd out “You regicide, you
deserve tlo be torn to pieces by wild
bulls.” ,11c made a rush for the
dentist who fled for his life from
the palace.
Plucky Conduct of a Woman Surround-
ed by Apaches.
Las Cruces, N. M., Sept. 19.—To
the list of sufferers b}7 the late In-
dian raid already published, must
be added the name of Mrs. S. Allen,
who lives with her three children
on a ranch about eight miles from
Georgetown, N. M. Mrs. Allen was
only wounded, but made a heroic
fight for the lives of herself and
children. Mr. Hefley, who was
Mrs. Allen’s nearest neighbor, no-
tified her to be ready to go in his
wagon in a short time,/as he would
send a wagon to her. About twen-
ty minutes after Mr. Heflay’s de-
parture, four Indians attacked the
Allen house, Mrs. Allen being in
the milk-house at the time. It
seems that the Indians had been
hiding in a small patch of popcorn
within a few yards of the house.
The children, seeing them first,
gave the alarm. Mrs. Allen start
ed for the house, but was met at the
door by two Indians. She then
went around the house, and
smashed in a window, trying to get
her six-shooter. In breaking the
window the poor woman cut her
hand and arm badly. In trying to
get in a third time, an Indian, al
ready in the house, drew his gun on
her, saying to the others at the door
in plain English, “There she goes.
Mrs. Allen then retreated from the
window, making for the chicken-
house, followed by another Indian
when a large-sized bulldog caught
the red-skin by the leg, and fought
him hard. Meanwhile, Mrs. Allen
picked up her youngest child and
fled to the bed of the creek, wading
through the water some distance,
and then concealing herself in a
bush near by.
Unknown to Mrs. Allen, the
elder children, who had fled before
their mother, ran up the mesa at
least three miles, and from there
home, and upon seeing the Indians
coming up from the inside, they
dropped into a canyon and hid,
waiting for the Indians to pass.
After the villains had gone, the two
followed their
No other man in the country
has power to touch the hearts of so
many people as Assistant Postmas-
ter-General Stevenson. — Missouri
Republican.
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An Ohio man has invented a
practical thinking machine. It
will be the greatest boon for dudes
since the invention of the sword-
pointed shoe.— Burlington Free
Press. /
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The inhabitants of Burmah wor-
ship idols of brass. Book agents
would probably meet with a very
different reception in Burmah from
what they do here. — Burlington
Free Press.
Horatio (thought to have pro-
posed to Miss Lucy)—Do you like
ginger ale, Miss Lucy? Miss Lucy
—No, I don’t like anything that
pops, except champagne. All pres-
ent (in chorus)—We thought so.—
N. Y. Sun.
The Monroe doctrine, translated
into the governmental maxim to
“mind your own business”, would,
if adopted and applied by all for-
eign governments, cure the biggest
part of the evils that at present af-
flict their people.— Boston Herald,
Inch
The South is doing well, and
there is not a spark of rebellion
wrorth a moment’s attention. If
there are no issues flush with this
year of 1885 to talk about, we Re-
publicans had better keep still.—-
Clarinda (la.) Journal.
The silver problem— how to get
it.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Voorhees and the Messenger.
It has been the vaunted boast and
promise of the democratic party for
many years that when it got into
power there would be no red-tape
business with it and everybody
would be received in the good old
fashioned homespun way. ' The
course of the party since March 4 1 poor little ones ........
last has been in very far deviation, I wmph
however. Such manifolding of red . m0™evs “ack’ "bich took them
tape ways was never dreamed of nght to the h°use- On arriving
under an American government.' there they found the mother and
These dispatches have from time baby gone, and the house furniture
to time told of the way visitors are all demolished. Then they went
down the river some eight miles,
partment, and predicted that ere ’ arriving at the government saw-
long there would be protest made | mill about dark, after being the
against it by the more sensible ele- \ whole day without food.
ment of the party. I have just j The mother now returned to the
learned that one prominent man m1, . , , . ..
the party entered his pro test several h°use t° see^ her two other chil-
weeks ago, and in a way to be keen- dren, and on arriving at her once
ly felt and appreciated. It comes comfortable home, found it in ru-
Departm^n^0^6 ^ ^>os^°®ce': ins, and her children gone. The
“Oh! but it’s hard being messen- * Poor sorrow-stricken woman went
ger here now,” said one of the sable down the canyon, seeing, as she
door-bangers at the Postoffice De- went along, the foot-prints of her
partment to-day. So many men ios^ little ones in the sand. She
complain on account of the rules. ,, 1 .< . ...
Some of them when refused admis- lolloYed them to the saw-mill,
sion to Mr. Vi ’.as swear at the mes- where, to her jcy, she found them
sengers and rail like madmen. One alive and well.
Judge—“Prisoner, have you ever
been sentenced before?”
Prisoner — “ Much obliged for
your Honor’s friendly inquiry.
About two years ago your Honor
had the goodness to to give me
twelve months.”— Fliegende Blat-
ter.
“What you want,” said the bar-
ber, as he ran his fingers through
the fewT remaining hairs on the
head of a customer — “what you
want is a bottle of my hair restorer.”
“What I want.” replied the cus-
tomer, “is a divorce.” And the
barber said no more. — Boston
Courier.
Minister Keiley “may stay re-
signed”, as the Denison Herald
News puts it, but Minister Keiley
has no regrets for what he has said
to cause the little codfish monarch-
ies to decline to receive him. It is
not likely that Keiley would re-
tract one word of that now famous
speech, if by so doing he would be
accepted as minister to the greatest
nation on earth. Some men val-
ue their own rugged individuality
more than office, and he ig <m-e eif
them.—Ft. Worth Gazfcttp.
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