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SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS.
I. II. JULIAN Publisher.
BAN MARCOS
TEXAS
TEXAS TOPICS
The estimated value of railroad
property in Texas is placed at $lo0-
000000 which is thought to be rather
an tinder estimate.
The contract for building a new in-
sane asylum at Austin has bonn given
to John McDonald. The work will cost
Jittle less thaa $95000 and is only for
three wards and the central buildings as
the cottages were left olf for the pres-
ent. A little Texarkana girl who has
been cross-eyed all her life awoke a
few mornings since with the defect en-
tirely gone. Since that timo there has
not boon the least symptom of its re-
turn. No remedies had ever been used
to euro her.
On the 10th of January the con-
tract for building the State House at
Austin was awarded to Mathias Schnell
and others'' of Bock Island Illinois
they to receive 3000000 acres of land
for completing the building. Work is
to be commenced by the 1st of March
and the building to bo completed
within five years. .
Adjutant-General King is prepar-
ing statistics with a view of. applying
once more to the national government
to pay the expenses of our frontier de-
fense. He will try a new plan and will
ask Senator Maxey to have such bills
passed as will allow the authorities to
go before the proper tribunal of the
general government prove services
rendered and receive pay for them.1 He
also is enlisting eight or ten recruits
for the purpose of giving Capt. Boyton
a full complement of men at El Passo.
The Chicago Texas & Mexican
railroad is now completed and in run-
ning order from Dallas to Cleburne
about 54 miles and work is being rab-
idly pushed forward from Dallas to
Paris. Five miles of grading from
Dallas toward Paris are completed and
the line is located as far as Farmers-
ville forty-two miles. Two hundred
men are now employed on the line
north-east of Dallas and in a few days
the company expects to have 1200
men at work and the road will bo rap-
idly pushed through to Paris where it
is to form a junction with the St. Louis
& San Francisco road which will be
extended south through the Choctaw
nation next summer.
Houston rout: Probably the larg-
est sale in mercantile phraseology of
a single table of cotton ever made in
the United States was effected recently
by Wm. D. Cleveland viz : 5125 bales
amounting to $290000. This cotton
came to him in the regular course of
business in the past ten or twelve days
of which a portion was held during the
closing holidays to tide over a dull
market in the interests of his friends.
-Notwithstanding the reported shoii
crop Mr. Cleveland's receipts thus
far have exceeded the same time lust
year when the season's receipts reached
50000 bales. The largest single sulo
made by him last year was 3500 bales.
The fortunato purchaser of the 5125
bales was Majr A. Kuttkay a heavy
buyer on both home and foreigu ac-
counts. The Uninvited Uuest.
Some years ago when John McCul-
lough was in Now Orleans a compli-
mentary dinner was given him to which
Iiobson and Crane the comedians were
invited. Eobson tells the following
story of an incident which occurred:
"It was a very private affair so that
when I saw sittiug between Crane and
myself a very seedy -looking old gen-
tlemen my attention was arrested and
I began to eye the old chap with suspi-
cion. By and by he began to attract
the attention of the company. He was
a man of say sixty or thereabout un-
shaven and very shabby dressed. The
night outside was bitterly cold and yet
tho old fellow wore a thin summer
coat buttoned up to the throat. What
first drew ray attention to him was his
appearance and after that his appetite.
Ho ate voraciously and his drinking
kept pace with his eating. Again and
again did Crane and I replenish his
plate and fill his glass and again and
again they emtied. I confess that a
barbarous sense of the humor of the
thiug came over me and I gave way to
it. From my 'pride of place' I deliber-
ately plied the ancient mariner with
wine and made a point of inviting the
attention of the whole table to him.
They all went into tho joke and insist-
ed one alter another ujmii drinking
wine with the old man. The idea of
conrso. was t get liita tip.y but here
we all failed for the old gentleman had
a heud as hard as Socrates and mere-
over seemed to know whon he had
enough. The quiet whu-per and nudge
wan going round the festive loard
Who's oar friend ? Who brought him
in?' etc. But it was piiekly suppress-
ed for at Lift with ipiiot dignity but
firm courage ho leeh;.ed t J drink any
more and no f.tre-ly could move him
from bis reflation. None of our party
toe-mod to know him h wc cjue.ad-.d
that it was a poor relation or jn-.ia.au-j
taucc of ora f the givers . f the
banquet who h id piiotly run lira iu i
for a good feed. In the cieautim?!
speeches were ni.I toasts were dratk.
and a slightly inebriated individual
nrg oat: 'Sax mine ancient friend)
"" I
won't you give ua a apeeohf Something
taut Shakapearo you know-he's the
fellow.' - lL.t
Nobody of course imagineu iuai
the old man would have the nerve to
get up and aay anything but he did.
Well sir in the course of my experi-
ence I have heard a great many clever
people talk about the immortal bard
but on this occasion I heard in fifteeu
minutes the roost intelligent exposition
of ShakBpeare'a gonius that it has ever
been my fortune to listen to. And the
wholo thing' was. done bo easily and
withBUchan entire absence of effort
that it was not until he had finished
that we all began to realize that wo
had been under the spell of a profound
critio and an accomplished orator. And
those who came to scoff remained to
pray. John McCullough rushed over
and grasped his hand enthusiastically
and thanked him for the honor of his
presence and begged his name that the
company might know to whom they
were indebted. For the first time the
old man seemed to lose his self-possession.
He artitulated a few words but
it was plain that his emotions were get-
ting tho better ' 6f him. Crane filled
him up a glass of wine and the old
man 'drank-it and after a little
pause rose blowly and with difhculty.
His manner has been changed. He no
longer looked the keen critic and fluent
orator but a weak iniirmokl man who
in spite of every disadvantage of ap-
pearance still retained a certain digni-
ty an elusive but unmistakable some-
thing that pronounced hisa to be a gen-
tleman. ..!!-. '
-Said a friend to me asthe old mangot
upon his feet 'Bob this don't look like
art this is nature.' 'Gentlemen' eaid
tho unknown in a voice tremulous and
full of pathos "I owe an apology to
you all. I have no excuse to oiler for
having intruded upon your festivity
but I can at least make the amend of
confessing that I am no intruder. I
came to this house this evening on the
invitation of a man I once knew and
I stumbled by accident into your ban-
one!. I came here hungry and cold
(und I thought I could here the wind
whistling outside as he intoned rather
than pronounced the words 'hungry
and cold') and I could not resist the
temptation. I wanted to eat and drink
and get warm.'
"And the old man's eyes dropped on
the table as if overpowered with a
sense of his degradation.
"I know this is shameful' he con-
tined 'but physical weakness sometimes
begets mantal weakness and I have
eaten nothing for three days. For
wofiirn mist I have not slept in a
UULCU I t
bed but stole a rest in door-ways or m
a chair in the ohice oi some uuh.
o T v.ni7 wnlked the streets till
daylight. Such things gentlemen tell
heavily upon a muu ui my -
wise no man with a remnant of pride
lift could have acted as I have done to-
Tint T fliniik God I have at least
retained courage enough to tell the
truth. And now gentlemen uu
fitraiffhteniner up with
wonderful dignity of manner accept
my gratitude for what I have received.
I have eaten and drank with you and
am refreshed and grateful. I trust you
will pardon my infringement of hospi-
tality and common honesty and permit
me to depart. .
The dinner party lnimeiuitioy
ftfiS for their needy friend.
pAl.onti will lint t 11 his name but says
xjijowl " -
that twenty-five years ago he was a
Congressman troni umo aim u
onco a candidate for the Vice-Presi-
leucy of tho United b'aes. .
Punctuation.
Punctuation is an art and one that
tasbeen learned in comparatively mod
ern times. The ureefcs am uoh .uuw
the meaning of it and left no space
between the words. The llomans put
up a kind of division without any ap-
parent method. Up to the end of the
fifteenth century only the comma and
colon were introduced and thj latter
at that time only as a parpendieular
figure. We are indebted to Aldus
Minutius au eminent printer for the
comma as we have it now and in 17 JO
he introduced the semicolon into print-
ing and published a set of rules for
the guidance of writers. It was not
known by whom they were hrt used
but inverted commas (") were brought
into common use by a French printer
to supersede the use of italics but the
English adopted them to specify quota-
tions. A Plan for Producing liain.
A Capt. Campbell has been advancing
a theory according to which rain can be
produced whenever and wherever do-
Kiro.b so that a dronth-t-ticken locality
j may speedilv llnd relief. He proposes
j to take a well already dug and explode j
j in it say one hundred keg of powder j
Tho powder is to be arranged xu such j
! a mauuer that cotton layers or inter-;
' tius will prevent tho whole mass from .
i exploding on the same instant to that .
j a continuous sheet of tire and confusion ;
t will bo kept up for some little time i
shooting up into tue sty iMas"-"
! distance and producing such a concus-
sion and condensation cf moisture that
' he thinks a torni center would be soon
; formed and rain precipitated. He
I bases his singular theory on the ob?erv-
' k.tior.8 he made on tho result of tho ex-
plosior ef the Confederate ram at the
'tireeofllupassago c' MisMsMIT1
! foru by rrra?ufs fi'et and on the re-
bull of "the Chicago Gre.
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' The Court tr-Jourva1 says that "One
of the most proving needs of Louisville
Is a zoological garden stocked with ani-
ci!j that cat cats."
Ih'j Let Him Stay.
BY BILL KYK.
In th early history of Cummins
City' when Calamity and Lengthy
Johnson and Tapeworm Charlie were
thobou ton" of the new gold camp
there was a man whom we will call Dr.
Farrar who went there partially to
assay for the camp and partially to
wear out hia young life. Dr. Farrar
had a pretty up-hill job of it from the
start for the mines hadn't boomed
very fast at first and a good many of
the boys sent their samples of ore to
Salt Lake or Denver for assay and the
rest of them used to salt his flux for a
good showing and then stand him up
for hia pay. One honest miner gilded
the pestle one night in the assay oflice
and sold his gopher hole on Virginia
hill the next day on an assay of $lo28
to tho ton.
After a while Dr. Farrar found that
ho had to lock up bis mortar and flux
in his trunk and fcleep with his cruci-
bles or his reputation as an assayist
would become a by-word and a stench
iu the nostril -hi the pilgrim with the
ping hat and the tenderfoot would say
"fid upon him" and spit upon him and
smile him on the bugle.
On top of all this aiiinjurious report
got out over tho camp reflecting on the
morality of Dr.' Farrar. Society was in
a crudo state and most every stove-pipe
in town had been bored so full of bul-
let holes that it wouldn't draw and
there was a general feeling of insecur-
ity. Most every one said that unless steps
were taken to quiet things a little before
long there would be musio by the en-
tire baud.
It was "generally decided that the
vigilanteos would have to begin on Dr.
Farrar. The town was. getting a bad
reputation outside and something must
be done. The committee; . however
was not in working order as a part of
the number had gone over toward Last
Chance on a placer stampede and half
a dozen more were in Laramie on dis-
trict court business. -However it was
decided that two members of the com-
mittee whom we will call Trustworthy
Kersikes' and- The ' Annihilator were
delegated Jo arm themselves and drive
Dr.. Farrar out 'of town ?or inform him
that they would shoot him on sight.
Great care was used to prevent Dr.
Farrar from getting any premature no-
tice of this arrangement because those
who knew his very shrinking and gen-
tle disposition were sure that if he were
to drop on tho programme he would
skip the camp and the amusement
would have to be postponed.
It was therefore decided that Trust-
worthy Kersikes and The Annihilator
should go down to the assay office
armed and prepared to either scare the
assayer to death or. spatter his .quiver-
ing flesh all over Polecat avenue.
About opposite the palatial dugout
occupied by Calamity the avengers
met Dr. Farrar.
He lad just been down to Sam
Wood's and hoisted in about six fingers
of what was known at that time as
Vinegar Hill sheep dip. It was way-
billed over the Union Pacific as "liquid
crime."
The avengers stood back anroment
to give the fugitive a chance to escape.
He seemed to court death.
Ho simply walked up to Trustworthy
Kersikes and twisted the double-
barreled shotgun out of his hands like
u flash. Then he pulled it on the An-
nihilator and told him to throw up his
hands. Calmly as though he were
making an assay on Gilt Edge blossom
rock Dr. Farrar went through the gar-
ments of the avengers. The six-shooteis
he stowed away in the bust of hU pan-
taloons and the double-barreled shot-
gun ho broke over a pino log and threw
it up on the woodshed.
Then he told the avengers that ho
would spare their unprofitable lives
this trip but if they ever tried to kill
him again there would be a good deal
of hilarity on tho main street. He said
he was not of a revengeful or antago-
nistic disposition but that if this thing
was repeated every evening with a
matinee for ladies and children every
Saturday afternoon he would get a re-
weatiLcr hoe handle and clean out the
entire vigilance committee.
Dr. Farrar said he nau never uoen
looked upon as a quarrelsome or deadly
man at all; he was just a plain every-
day style of citizen without any con-
suming ambition to fill the world with
funerals and hang a sable pall of
monrninc over the land but if the vig-
i ilance committee wanted to make an
example of him and would give him
notice enough so that he could arm
himself with an old salt bag full of con-
valescent eggs nnd an old pick handle
he would be willing to abide the result.
The committee turned in silent
un1 lpft. him. and the disagreea
ble subject was never broached again j
afterward.
About Breaches or Promise. j
Breach of promise f nits are very i
common in England bnt American j
girls when jilted rarely appeal to the j
courts. No matter what she might j
suffer no American girl of proper self
respect would think of trying to get j
damages from a recreant lover for a
disappointment of that kind. A case j
has recently occupied the courts of New ;
York which attracted a good deal of si-:
tentiou but the litigants in this case j
were Jews. Miss Ida Uliman of New-
York sued Henry H. Meyer of Bich- j
moud Virginia for a breach of promise :
of marriage. The defendant admitted i
that he had courted the girl that he
Lad made her presents and that they .
were engaged to be married. After the
a. i.. At t .hnnca his
engagement no w - "
mild. He did not think he could live
happily with bor and ao hebrole tbe
engagement. A sister of his helped to
break the match by reporting giddy
and unladylike conduct on the part of
Miss UUman. The affianced bride went
out riding with young men and allowed
them to kiss and caress her. The jury
after hearing both sides gave Miss
Ullman a verdict for- $1750 instead of
the $10000 she asked for but the case
has been appealed. It is really a seri-
ous question what n young man or
young woman should do who found
after being engaged that they had
made a mistake. No woman should
want a man to marry her on compulsion
or out of pity and a union for life is
too serious a matter to be entered upon
without both persons being Bnea
that they love each other. Should
there not be tribunals where such mat-
tArH oojld be put to arbitration?
(Breaches" of promise by the way. are
old affairs in English law courts avec-
ords of Buch cases have been found as
far back as the thirteenth -century.
From DcmoresV Monthly for Feb
ruary: r f . ' ' i 1
" White Labor Preferable. (
Mr. J. N Cha'dwiokof Washington
county owning about '20000 acres of
land determined last year to try white
labor on a portion of it. He engaged
Mr. A. P. DeKarwowski as manager of
his plantation four miles east of Bren-
ham and containing in all about 3000
acres. Mr. DeK. had on the planta
tion last year about seventy families in
all; of these fifty-two are Poles the re-
mainder all Americans and colored
people. Tho latter mado very poor
crops. ; The average of the crop on this
plantation was three-fourths of a bale of
cotton and forty bushels of corn to the
acre ; the land on ; the plantation is of
the very best quality bnt still the aver-
age is very large considering the dry-
ness of the season. Mr." DeKarwowski
cultivated with two pairs of mules 100
acres; made 57 bales of ;cotton and 500
bushels of corn. Hired labor by the
day at 50 cents and board. Andrese
Stagnant cultivated 45 acres with one
yoke of oxen and a pair of ponies; made
23 bales of cotton and 450 bushels of
corn. . His own family. did most of the
work. Jan Nowack cultivated 25 acres
with one horse and one mule ; made 11
bales of cotton and 350 bushels of corn.
He did not airive on the plantation till
the 12th of March. Andreas Harcinski
cultivated 20 acres with two horses and
made 10 bales of cotton and 250 bush-
els of corn. These instances might be
multiplied indefinitely but enough are
given to show fully what was accom-
plished. Nearly all the renters among
the Poles have corn to sell the landlord
to supply new comers. In the center
of this magnificent plantation there is a
pasture of 600 acres and in the center
of the pasture the cotton-gin is located
so that it is convenient to all tenants ;
around the pasture houses all com-
fortable and substantial box-houses
are located and in addition each ten-
ant has sheds for his stock and cribs
for his corn. Lumber has been pur-
chased for the erection of a school-
house for the children of . the Polish
tenants. Mr. Chadwick rents the land
on his plantation at $3.50 per acre in
money rent or at the rate of one bale
of cotton to twelve acres to croppers.
Mr. DeKarwowski brought this colony
of Poles to this plantation and states
that he can get 500 or 600 more families
by next year if proper encouragement
is given him. A fine opportunity is
thus offered other large land owners to
procure reliable labor if they want to
do so. With such results as those stated
above it seems like folly to dally witn
colored labor and it also shows what
any industrious man can do who has the
energy and industry to buckle himself
down to honest and hard labor. The
prediction may safely be ventured that
in less than live years every one of
these Polish tenants who have made so
auspicious a beginning on the Chad-
wick plantation will bo the owners of
farms of their own and will be well
along on the road to wealth.
Paying Factories.
The city of Augusta Georgia has
clearly demonstrated that manufactories
will pay in the South. We give below
the facts about tho factories of Augusta.
They aro gleaned from' a circular just
issued by a banking firm in that city.
During the year of 1881 the Augusta
factory with a capital of $000000 de-
clared cash dividends aggregating 10
per cent. and passed the same amount
to surplus fund. The stock is held at
$170 per share. The Graniteville fac-
tory with a capital of $600000 also
paid 10 per cent dividends in cash and
passed 10 per cent to surplus fund ; its
stock is also held at $170 per 6hare.
The Langley Company with a capital of
$100000 paid a dividend of 8 per cent
for the 6ix months ended June 30. and
will pay an 8 per cent dividend for the
six months ended Dec. 20; all of the
earnings are paid to the stockholders.
and the stock is held at ?180 per share.
Ihe enterprise uompany with a capital
of $500000 has just added 50 per cent
to its capital stock ; it made 10 per cent
divided in cash for 181. The Sibley 1
Company with a capital of $000000 j
and the John P. King" Company with a !
capital of $1000000 will toon be in op- j
eration and their stock is already con-'
side-rably above par. These are elo- j
quent figures and cannot be refuted. '
Morning WorlL I
Ax Arkanses girl refused to marry I
her lover unless he performed seme'
heroic action. He eloped with her)
mother.
Same Old Thlnr.
An old granger strolled into Alfred
Warren's bookstore Sixth and Centra
Avenue the other day and stopped
a table where a lot of cheap n0teh
were displayed. He picked one of them
up and began to turn its leaves with
a curious and amused expression 0t
countenance. A clerk passing by W
then the granger said :
They keep on writin these yaliet.
kivered novels yet I Bee
Clerk said they did.
Used to read every blessed one that
cum out when I was a boy. Reckon
I've gone through more'n fourteen
bushel on 'em in my day thonRh I'
haiB't tackled one in about fourteen
years now. Don't s'poBe they'd read u
they did then. Gittin married and
raisin' a large family sort o'knockstha
romantic and picturisk out of a man
as it were.' '
Clerk thought it might have a ten-
dency that way.
You can jes' bet your boots.' said the
granger. 'What's a hull passel of 'Eej
Avengers of the Spanish Main' when i
man has to scratch gravel to keep
mortgage from eatin' him up body and
britches. And with a wife and child-
ren lookin to ye for bread what do
you care for 'Ogarcta the Forest
Queen; or the'Trajerdy of the False
Eyebrow hey ? I used to set up all
night readin' the 'Mysteries of the
Castle of San Juan del Boot Jack' or
somethin' like that with my teeth chat-
terin' till I shook the whole house.
Couldn't do it now. But I say do the
novels run as they used to?'
'Pretty much the same way replied
the obliging clerk.
'You don't say? Does the boss he-
rowine exclaim 'Unhand me villain or
by me father's great horn spoons I'll
throw .nie8elf from yonder cliff and
seek a peaceful grave beneath the
waves that rattle for a position at its
foot!"
'That's about the run of it.'
'Well I declare 1 And when the vil-'
lian swears she must be his'n though
the heavens fall and. hell yawns at bis
feet she shrieks tho name of Gonraldo
and takes the . fatal plunge into the
seething waters of the dark abyss. The
billows close over her be-e a u-tious
form when lo Gonraldo what does
Gonraldo now a-days say?'
'Gonraldo plunges in '
'Exactly?' interrupted the granger
excitedly. 'Gonraldo who has been
watchin' things from another cliff
plunges in and rescues her from the
clutch of the demon waves crying
'Ha! ha! foiled! foiled! Ob it's just
the way the old thing run when I was
a boy. Hain't changed it a bit. And
the pirate stories. Do they still skim
the bright sea foam in rakish lookin'
skuner. (five cents askuner) hull paint-
ed jet black with a narrer streak of
rod runnin' along the sides ?'
'Oh yes.'
'You don't tell me! And is the pi-
rate's bride as good lookin' as she
used to be ? I can see her now srandin'
at the door of the powder magazine
with a coal oil lamp in her hand as she
exclaims to her husband who is about
to throw the handsome captive over-
board 'Gomez de la Kutabaga hold
thy hand! Toutch but a hair of that
fair youth's head and I will blow thee
and thy murderous crew to the weeping
stars and scatter thy proud bark among
the coral reefs of the down-sweeping
sea.'
'What a memory you have got.'
Oh. I'm a hustler. Hain't read a
pirate story since I was a boy but I
remember just how they used to go.
And the pirate's cave too.'
'Pirates cava f.s soon as anybody
when the right party gets after them'
said the clerk.
'llight you are. Same old cave J
s'posa ?'
'Pretty much the same cave. They
light them with electricity now though.'
Well I s'pose so. Times tumwe w
these new wrinkles as quick as anybody.
Cook by steam too probably. Street
cars ruunin' from the cave to the
dock?' .
'Yes and a telephone connecting it
with a signar station.'
'Well' said the granger 'we must ex-
nppf Komfl nhaiiflffia in fortv veaM. A
see that the novel jogs along in about
the same old beaten track though. But
an old man like me hain't any use for
'em any more. Good day.
And with a lingering though saddend
look at the yellow coveis that had called
up fleeting visions of a past intellectual
life the old granger lsft the store.
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
One of the best natnred men of Jack-
son Michigan played it on the boys of
that city recently in a way they will
remember for a long time. He bought
a large cast-iron bull frog such as are
sold for paper weights and placed it
on a log out in the river and then let
nature take its course. Boya on their
way to" school and boys on their wy
anywheieand nowhere would see tie
frog and pick up a stone and let drive.
V. T-n .f-.TA in o Vinncinrl Would IU"
the frog and it wouldn't make any dif-
ference if a stone did hit him as he was
f piked down. The fun was kept up un-
til people began to complain of tte
slackwater which flooded thegardeni
and cellars and which waa caused tj
the dam created by the stones that tw
lcen thrown into the river. Then ue
frog was removed.
A laege estate in England awai
the heirs of Henry Jones who caoe v
this country ia 1S51. There u
money in it to give the
Joneses almost a cett apiece.
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Julian, Isaac H. San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1882, newspaper, January 26, 1882; San Marcos, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth295383/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .