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an Marcos
"Prove All Things i Hold Fast that which Is Cood."
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SAN MARCOS HAYS CO. TEXAS SATURDAY JANUARY 10 1880.
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GENEEAL DIEEOTOEY.
ooatiii4 era DitraicTt
Bon. Colambua Upton of Bazar county.
inaTOi-Slar niaraiori
Bon. L. i. Storey oCaldwell Co.
uraneawATivae 4t Dirraior:
Hen. I. U . Holmee of OuadalupeCo.
Uou. W. F. Delany
BIBTIIOT OOOaT 1ST. DltTBIOT.
Hon. L. W. Moore Preiidlngjudge Ladraoge.
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Hart. td Monday! In March and September.
oooarr orriotM.
Ed B. Kone.Jndge County Court
B.C. Uanliu Di.trlclCiark.
Ed. J . l. Ureen Uouuly Clark.
O. T. Browu County Attorney.
Jat. A. Wren SUerlff. O. 8. Cock Deputy.
0. W.urooaae. Jutlioeof tbePeaoePre. No. 1
R.Manloe ' ' "
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it. Smith. " " " " "4
B. A. McMeaut.CenntjTreainrar.
A. Htaton Alienor.
Joe.C. Bve (JurTejor.
D. P.Hopklna Coa'r PreolnotNo. 1.
D.R.Moore .
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J. B. Poai. . 4. .
John 0. Patteraon Conttable.
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J Vtkaaa wilbng v nrt. Tew aawail
try woahtag 1m watil yew era 9
Sloae Th lTom att.
Yea ttono the woman l.t the man go free I .
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May touch her garment! aa aha paaaea
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Toolatp with hit that led btr to destruction
And ditgraea. Shut up to her theaaored
Wayt of toll that the no mora may win an
Boneat meal I but opo to him all honorable
Patha whar ha may win dluloclloo.
Give him fair pratted down meatnret of
Llfe'a iweetetljoya. Pan bar O maiden
With pure proud face If aha pull out
A poor polluted palm but lay thy hand In
Hlron bridal day and iwear to ollng to him
With wifely love and tender rerereuoe
Truit blm who led a titter woman
To a fearful fat.
Yet ttono the woman let the man go free I
Let one aoul tuffer for the guilt of two .
It the doctrine of a hurried world.
Too out of breath for holding balanoai
Where nice dla Inctiona and lnjualloet
Are calmly weighted. But ah how will II bo
On that itrange day of final Are and Same
Whan man ahall Hand belore the one true
Judge I Shall tex then make A dlHerenee In
Sin f Shall Ha tbe 8earoher of tbo bidden
Heart In hi eternal and divine deore
Condemn Iho woman and forgive tba man!
Tbe Time tvhlcU Tried Ittett'e
goals let Texas.
We make soother extract from the
autobiography of Col. J. M. Swishor
in the Amerioao Sketch Book. Alter
the surrender of the Mexioane ud-
der Gen. Cos at San Antonio the
Tezans were so elated that an invasion
of Mexico was planned and attempted
which oamo to grief. Still no appre-
hension waB entertained in Texas till
the receipt of Col. Travis' manifesto
announcing the siego and imminent
danger of the Alamo. Col. Swisher
writes :
"This put a different appeot on the
face of affairs. A few days before I
had joined a surveying company under
Adolphus Hope for a two or three
months' expedition on the upper Bra
zos river and we were all ready and
intended to start next day on that ex-
pedition; but in place of this we faced
west aad started for the Alamo on the
firetof March. Our surveying pary
was composed of seven or eight men
all of whom volunteered-
Others joined us and we left home
with ten or twelve men. More joined
us on the march and before we reach
ed Gonzales we had organized a full
oompany and .elected W. W. Hill
captain H. H. Swisher and Adolphus
Hope first and second lieutenants-
We arrived at Gonzales on the fifth of
March and found about two hundred
volunteers from the Colorado and the
more contiguous points already there.
These troops had no commander save
their company officers and each oap-
tain seemed to be acting on his own
responsibility. Gen. Edward Burle-
son who was lately in oommand of all
the troops at Bexar-was drilling in the
ranks as a private soldier in Captain
Billingsley's company of Bastrop vol-
unteers. Our force was considered too
small to justily a further advance in
the direction of the Alamo; so we had
nothing to do but remain in camp and
await reinforcements which were daily
arriving in small squads. On the
tenth of Maroh to the great gratifica
tion of the troops. Gen. Houston with
some of his staff arrived. He imme-
diately assumed command and went to
work in earnest organizing his army.
Gon. Edward Burleson was eleoted
ooloncl of the First Regiment Captain
Sidney Sherman of the Kentucky vol
unteers lieutenant colonel and Alex
ander Somervoll major.
Shortly after the organization news
was received of tbe fall of the Alamo
and that every man had been slaugh-
tered. Notwithstanding all in camp
believed the report it was not deemed
conclusive and scouts were sent out
in the direction of San Antonio to as-
certain if possible the facts in the
case. They returned about sundown
bringing in Mrs. Dickinson Col. Tim-
vis' servant and another who had es-
caped and who can firmed the unwel-
come newt. Orders were immediately
issued for a retreat.
While the news of the fall cf the
Alamo fell like a blow upon the hearts
of all Texans no where was it so s-
verelj fclc at by tbe people of Gon-
tales. Only a few dayt previous thirty-two
tceo residents of that place io
fact the very flower of itt male citizens
had rone to tbe relief of the be!-ged
fortreM at San Antonio to J tUbting
their way through the guard. LrJ anc-
eeded in retting iota it only to fall
victim to the enexr't "word a liule
later. TUrre w.s not a le't
atooog the tU.'ieet ot Gouta!. who
Lai sot lotta father. hnbaaJ broth-
er or to is that terrible tbAMtacre. 1
thall sever ferret the eoese whack fol-
!:tl the coannatioe ei ih d:eaJ-
fulnowt. The mad agony of the wid
ows and the shrieks of the ohildlesi
and fatherloss boggar all description.
Above all other sounds arose tbe la-
mentations of the bereaved and
though all tho soldiery were making
preparations for a hasty departure one
and all moved about with bated breath
and noiseless steps. Iodeod the tern-
bio massaore had. for a timo struck
terror to every heart. At about eleven
or twelve o'clock at night the army
took ud the line of march on the re
treat to the Colorado. The families
had loft a few hours aarlior soma of
them had wagons others carts others
had oaok horses and othors again
went on foot. Couriers had been dis
patohed in all directions to tho sot
tlements and a goneral exodus there-
from at once commonoed none desir
ing to be left behind tho retreating
Texas army at the mercy of tho ad
vancing Mexican troops. They gath
ered whatever tbey could carry aband
oning the remainder of thoir worldly
possessions and startod on without
delay. Many put thoir Iittlo all into
their wagons and went on foot bosido
them. Polioate women marohed thus
until their shoes wete worn out then
oontinuod the journey with bare feet
which were wounded at almost every
step and sometimes covered with
blood. Thoir clothes were fow and as
they had no means of shelter from the
freauent storms they often rriarched
through long days in wot and mud be-
drabbled apparel finding even at night
no relief from their sufferings since
the wet earth and the angry sky offer-
ed even less oomforts in darkness than
in day-light.
A Metr Lincoln Story.
Wathlngten Letter to Chicago Tribune.
A now story of Linooln now to me
at least at Bepublican headquarters
in Chioago during the Grant recoption.
and whioh in this connection it may
not be amiss to tell.
Your readers will reoall tho Peaco
Conference wbioh ocoured in February
1865 at Fortress Monroe; botween
President Jjincoln and Seorctary Sew-
ard on the one side and Alexander
H. Stephens John A. Campbell and
R. M. T- Hunter on tho other. The
attenuation of Mr. Stephens has long
been a matter of suoh general notoriety
that it is not offensive to speak of. it-
It seems that Mr. Linooln bad never
seen Mr Stephens before. At that
time a kind of cloth was wora by
Southern gentlemen nearly of the
shade of the ordinary corn husk ; and
Mr. Stephens' greatcoat was made
of that material. But Mr. Stephens
who always has been a frail man wore
many other garments beneath to
protect him against the raw wind of
Hampton Roads and Mr. Lincoln
watobed with much interest the pro-
oess of shedding until tho man was
finally reached. At last Mr. Stephens
stood forth in his pbysicial entity ready
for business. Mr. Lincoln giving Gov.
Seward one of his most comical looks
and pointing to the discarded coat
said : "Well I never saw as much
shuck for as little a nubbin in all my
life"
Par-ell the Irlmlt Atfltator.
Mr. Parncll the preoent leader of
the Irish peoplo is EDgliBhJby descent
his family having settled in Ireland in
the reign of Charles II. The celebra-
ted poet Parncll archdeacon of Clogh-
cr the friend of Pope Addison 'and
Swift was an ancestor of his as ' were
also Sir John Parnell Bart. M. P.
for Queens County and Chancellor for
the exchequer and Sir Henry M. P-
for Rothlcague Jthe celebrated commen-
tator on the penal laws. Mr. Parnell's
mother is an American the daughter
ot one of our naval officers and resides
now with her daughter in New Jersey
passing the summer usually at New
port He was educated at Cambridge an
ivereitv is only 33 years old of very gen
tlcmanly appearance tnd manners and
though not eloquent in the usual scnse
is vigorous and clear in speech.
Though his landed estate yielJs only
110-1 a year he it rich in American
and other securities.
Deacon Richard Smith of the Cin-
rinntti (Jaz-Ue who his been tpend-
nt a week r two in tT-c north part
I k fi-r!a l.t'Y in!in I
Vni'.nt r-'-pnblvan r. .litl-lau I J faro."
tbe ew.u.uoe of itm. Crast for the
preeideaer. aad state farther that I.e
it partialarlr ebjectiuaalle to the Ger
bum ef Okie
The Bage ef SLan Marees Kx
pleres the Baa J alee Verae
Oatdeae.
Read at th Baengerfeat at Baa Marooi
apt. Mth 18TS. Beported by the au-
thor for th Faaa Paaaa
To-day is Sunday tborofore I deem
it proper to give a lecture on tho sun.
Have coma to tho conclusion that
there it more truths in poetry (the
Bible inoludod) about astronomy and
geology than in all modern astronom
ical and geological toxt books. There
fore I choose for my toxt on the sun
he following strophe from the
song ofthe angola in Goetho's Faust:
"Der Anbllnk glabt dan Eag.ln Steerke
Dakeln.r dlohergruend.n mag."
Have so muoh esteom for Goetbe'i
inspired works that if it had read in
Faust "da kein'er dioh ergruonden
kann" I never would have underta-
ken the horouloan labor to solve the
mysteries of the sun.
The sun is believed by most people
to be a wild eternal ooean of fire. As
tronomers envelope the sun in an in-
comprehensible photosphere oroorona
Aooording to careful observations of
the sun for tho last twenty years the
heat and the height of the flames is
oomputed ; the order of the periods of
the sun-spots is known ; but on the
nature of the spots and the production
of the flames is nothing known. The
spots are incomprehensible ; beoause
under the known laws of nature all
solid or fluid dark elements would be
in the neighborhood of the white glow-
ing sunflames converted into white
glowing gases'
I believe the laws of nature in the
whole universe the samo ; but nobody
will rlnnht that there is on the 'sun
elements combinations of elements and
laws we do not know Praotioally we
can know but little of the sun hut
with comparisons and reasonable
theories we oan come him noarer.
If for instance a large town like Lon.
Ion Berlin or New York in a dry sea
son and strong wind would be set on
fire at a hundred different places with-
out 'preparation to quonoh the fire;
said town would be oonyertod in 21
hours into a dark and smoking pile of
ruins. But if the oombustible mater-
ial of suoh town would be oarefully
burnt on the streets and public plaoes
the light would shine for several
months. If tho flames of the sun were
produced in spots or lines the theory
would have been advanced long tgo
the fires ofthe sun to bo artificial.
If the best pyroccchnicers and archi
tects would receive an order to produoe
an artificial moon on a mountain 5 or
10000 feet high ; the thing oould bo
accomplished in a few years; but to
make an artificial sun nobody would
undertake.
There is only one theory to compre
hend the structure of tho sun that
is vhen it is supposed that the sun is
hollow and posesscs a solid shell with
an atmosphere oomposod of elements
or conjbinations of olemonts which aro
no heat conductors whatever. ' Thon
the height of tho sunflames the. dark
spots in the white glowing fire and
many other things are oomprchensi
bio. . It is possible that ioop!o can
live between those sunflames if they
keep without the reach of the fire ;
even when the sun has no spots thero
may be room for one' or a hundred
thousand nations on tho surface of the
sun ; because it is reasonable to sup-
pose in order to have control over the
fires that the gases produced in the in-
terior of the sun are ejected on tb'e
surface of the sun from small orifices
which widen as they advance thunder-
ing into space until the heat is absorb-
ed by the planets. I am well aware
that moisture aod water ao esrential to
man's existence ou earth are heat con-
ductors ; but we have instances in nat-
ural history that some aoimal organism
can live without moisture ; and a small
change in the human organism would
make it iodependendent of water. All
animal organisms live on the product
of moisture ; but I believe that those
intelligent atoms which constitute the
elements aad build nature are to sim
ply coaxtructed thtt they' do not.
eat drink or propagate id their eternal
life; and the same may be paid
of those higher order of
Deiogt which . inhabit build
anl rcgalate tho snive . It it is
eonforoitv with the criptnree that
! the mr.'ac of the etrlh it a snnery
1 for the J -rvl actios of rack higher ke-
Uji V I developed is a fstnre life at
I . r . I a tnm af lb b.Ihii.
G. youtUAjco.
IsCottoa KlagY
EoitobFbei Press: In an able
artiole of the Galveston News of a lata
date it shows that tha exportation of
oheese and butter and money received
for them is even greater than our
boasted ootton export. Now sir
while we here in Texas raise an im-
mense quantity of cotton whioh to bo
sura is always readily marketable at
home for cash we also oan raise rice
sugar and tobaoco with tuooess and
profit in this aomi-tropioal climate.
We Texans with all our vast prairies
and almost continnal summer with
our vast herds of oattle roaming over '
tho grand expanse of our open prairie
or uncultivated lands yet the dairy
business so profitable in the North
where they have to be fed six months
iin the year at least is neglooted here
while this prolific climato furnishes
our roaming stock food (by natuer's
provisions) all the year round all tha
painstaking we have is to mark and
brand our.stook in the spring to prove
ownership. . ..
Certainly this looso way of letting .
milch cows roam over the prairies
would not answer for a dairy business
but I say oattle oan be reared with so
little expense .and as that branoh.
ruddy as it is oonduoted in Texas so
far as a beef market is oonoerned is as
profitable and important a branoh aa
the tedious and laborious production
of ootton very fickle and 6ften unsta-
ble in market. Texanpay more at;
tention to profitable and improved
stock more attention to the dairy
(making oheese or butter.) You may
say eithor will spoil in our warm cli-
mate; very true but if yon make suf-
ficient to induoe exporters to buy then
they will enoourage you by sending
your produoe off by refrigerating cars
provided you produce plenty and de-
liver the artiolo fresh and sound. But-
ter eggs and obeese fan be as safely
exported as fresh beef and mutton by
veBssls and contrivances . peculiarly
adapted to tho trade with the South. .
But while 'I am in favor of stock-
raising and the dairy I would not
havo you neglect our staple products
in whioh the North cannot compete.
C. Ebiiabd.
la Store For Vs.
It is given as a rumor that Jay
Gould is endoavonng to secure a con-
trolling interegt in the Texas and Pao
ifio railway that there is groat antag
onism between Boston and New York
capitalists and that tho New Yorkora
are determined to make the first con-
nection with Huntington's road. This
may indicate that the Pierce road will
be run in the direction of the Upper
Rio Grande. In oonnootion with this
rumor it may be asserted positively
that the Texas and Pacific will at onoe
be pushed from Weatherford towards
El Paso. At tbe meeting of its stock-
holders iq Philadelphia last week it
was decided to issue bonds to tbe a.
mount of $25000 per mile to be uted in
completing the road to the Rio Grande
Tho acquisition of a majority of tha
stock by Gould would add muoh lifo
to the operations of tho oompany and
would insure the completion of tho
road to El Paso within two years In
tho moaotime if the Pioroe expedi-
tion to the Cbinati mountains demon
st rates that there is a rich mineral de
posit on this sido of the Rio Grande
no time will be spared in developing
the vast amount of railroad lands in
Presidio oounty and along the Pecos.
In two years we may reach El Paso by
rail from Dallas aod Fort Davis by
rail from San Antonio. Then too tbo
International will reach San Antonio
and the Waoo branoh of the Central
will tap the Texas and Pacifio in East-
land county while there will be direct
rail connection with New Orleans.
With all this railroad building- and
a good crop season wa may expect Tex-
as to assume a degree of prosperity
within the next twelve toogths never
before equaled. States aa.
Keep m Ceartla.
The yoaog folks were talking about
mistake is courtship when Uscle
Jib broke in with the declaration
"that there wis sot acr tack thinr.
for." said he "nobody ever makes any
amUkes worth taentioaisg is court
this. It't after the coartthis's ever
and the lovers hare b-a married that
tbtbartlal aniaUket trfi." "Well
ancle" said oae ef bis poetry a item
"what's the mora of thatr "The
moral rexelaiahe4 Hecle Job. What's
the moral f Why. I rpose the tcwal if
keep ea coartia'"
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