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1 San Marcos Free Press0 I.H.JULIAN, . "Prove All Things I Hold Fast that which Is Cood." PltOPKIETOIl. ' VOL.V11. SAN MARCOS, HAYS CO., TEXAS, FEBRUARY 9, 1878. NO. 11. .. Free Press. VUBL1S1IED KVEttY SATURDAY BY ISAAC II. JULIAN, To whom a' I Lettor should be Addressed. Office South side of Plaza. RATES OK SUBSCRIPTION t On year, lutdfuet. Six months " Thro, month! " M 00 75 RATES OF "ADVERTISING. Am innira AHA Insertion II 0 t .ach addition at Ineertlon under on. month, 60 o.nti per aguare. I mo. 3 moil. I 0 moi. I U mos 1 Square. ... 3 " ... 3 " ... 4 " ... u colm. . .. " I " ... $ 3.50 .B0 T.or 8.00 9.00 1S.0O t 13 00 20 no 36.00 30.00 36.00 80.00 10C.00 une mcu in Legal and transient advertising payable etrloMy -1. I a .nn.HhllAI 1 RflUtre. n advance.- .... . - ii n.r una each Insertion I.ocai nonces, r- . ..nAin-.ndldi.tei for odlea, oounty, $ 6.00 For Dlitrlot or State office 10 00 Obituary notice, of over ten lines coargou dvertlslng rates. BUSINESS DIEEOTORY. Kewspaper. t EST TEXAS PRICK PRESS, t. H. JULIAN, I ..! Pronrletor. office south- I Mlior, I ... v, J... lo the DOSt east eoruer aaiu r " office. Banken. M' ITOHKLL, GLOVER CO., Mitchell's Building nrf Goods and Orocer.on. DONALS0N JOHNSON, North aide Main Plaza. JV. H0TCHINS CO., West aide Main , Plaza. rn P. DAILEY BROS., West side of the Main I Plaza. STK1N A G1E3ES, South a de of the Main Plaza. BRIGG8 C. H Korth aide of the Main Plaza. y B. FRY, South side Plaza, p J. 0. SMITH, North Side Plaza. Grecerlei. T B. COCREHAM CO., norlh side of the 1). plaza, adjoining Harper's stable. IHARLES BOCK, South side Plaza. Druggists T) AYNOLDS t DANIEL, north aide of the Main 11 , Plaza. QTTO GRAHM, Travis' Corner. Phriicla ns. ,R8. WOODS & BLAKEMORE, office In Woods Vari Uaulel a Drug store DBS. DENTON 4 PENDLETON, office Colleg street, nearly opposite Hutchison iCo.'s store Dentist, TR. J. H. COMBS, office North side of of the 17 M Main Plaza. Lawytrs. jjUTCHI90N.it FRANKLIN, 1. the Court-house, g B. McBRIDE, office In the Court House, gTEKLING FISHER, office In theConri House. T. BROWN, office over Mitchell'a store. - . ..m rr Pablifl. tttaai bu T H. JULIAN, .office Fane Paasa Bulldog, nexi X door to post omc. Hotels- JiRAVIS HOUSE, west aide Plaia. Hoarding: House. WISIA5. West aide of public square. .llilllnerr Store. HOFHEINZ, south aid. Plaza. D Wagon and Carriage JIaker. U. Kan, rear of Devinney Co.'a Black' G, amfth Shop. Blacksmith. J) THOMPSON, S. . cor. Ao.tln Mountain I a rpeiler Jk Builder. r' VOGELSANG, San Ant.nl. street. l.irery- aad "ale aiakles B. BALES, Saa Aateai. stretU Caaiat-. akers. TW A ED, eaat aide ef Fl. a. 6.00 t T.00 8.00 13.00 10.00 16.00 11.00 20.00 16.00 36.00 36.00 46.00 36.00 80 Waurls cnakrr aad Jeweler. H S03S:3, east ade plaia. GENERAL DIRECTORY. OFFICIAL. oomaas,sitAt Sra oiirsicr: Hon. Guetave Schleicher, bf DeWlttCo. asKAToa Slar Diaraior: Hon. L. J. Storey, of Caldwell Co. asreasaiiTATiras 64Ta',l)ltTKl0l! Hon. J. V. Hutehlne, of Hays Co. Hon. W. M.Bust, of GuadaluoeCo. DIBTBIOT (JOOST 16TB DISTalOT. Hon. L. W. Moore, Presiding Judge, LaQrang.. Tinaa or nouiixa oodkt. Have. 2d Mondays In March and September. oooxtv orrioaaa. Sterling Fisher, Jndge County Court. F. J. hUnlove, County Attorney. Ed. J. L. Green, Clerk. ' Jas. A. Wren. Sheriff. O. 8. Cock.Denotv. C. W. Grooms, Justice of the Pesos Pre. No. I I. M. Breedlove. " " 2 H. Q. Little. " L. Smith, " " 4 H. A. Molfeans, County Treaaurar. A. lleaton, Assessor. Ben. O. Hsrdin, Surveyor. D. P. Hopkins, Com'r PreolnetNo. 1. . O.E.Moore " ' " 2. J. K. Burleson, " " "8. J L. Basemore. " " ' 4. Geo. H. Ward, Constable. TlMCS Or HOI.DIKO COCNTT AND PanOIHOr CoUaTS Criminal Coli'ity Court lat Monday in each month. County Court for Civil and Probate business 1st Monday In February April, June, August, Uo tober and December. Commissioners' Court 2d Mondays In February, May, Ausust and November. Justice Court Precinct No. 1 1st Friday In each month. San Marcos. Preoinot No. 2 3d Friday in each month Mtclty. " a 3d winioeneys aiii ' 4 4th " Dripping Springs. town or r i curb. Mayor A. B.F.Kerr. Council W.O. Hutchison, W.B. Fry, L. W. Mitch- ell, D. P. Hopkins, P. K. Turner. Marshal A. B. Dailey. I'll I! It CHICS. METHODIST. Preaching at the Methodist Church every Sabbath. Kev. J. S.GUIett, Pastor. CHRISTIAN. Preaching at the Christian Church on the second and tonrth 8abbalhs In each month by Elder J. J. Williamson. PRESBYTERIAN. Preaching at the Presbyte rian Church on the tecoud and' fourth Hab bathin eaeb month by the Rev.W. L, Kennedy. PKOTE8TANT EPISCOPAL. Services second Sunday in each month at 10( o'clock, A. u., and 7 p. hi., ;at St. Mark's Cuurcu.) MAII.N. Austin Stage arrives at 12 o'clock San Antonio 8tage arrives at 12 o'clock u. Both Daily arrivals. Mails close at 11 a m-, Gouzales.arrives Tuesdays and Fridays atS P. m.j leavea at 8 A. at. next morning. i , A. Vo Brsw.P. M. AN ADDRESS TO THE SICK: Do you want to purify the system t Do you want to get rid of Biliouxnesa? Do you want something to strengthen you f Do you want a good appetite f Do you want to get rid of nervousness I Do you want good digestion 7 . Do you want to sleep well T Do you want to build np your constitution ? Do you want a brink and vigorous leellng I If you do, TAKE LIVE It j J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Sole proprietors-Simmons' Liver Regulator, Philadelphia. sn wa a innrnn inn until- Home llrmi'dy Tb wArr&nlpd not to eonUin slnnle pnr ticle of ileicury, or any fnjnriuu uiiuer al uU--t-iic, Irai Ii jVUHKL. VKUKT- HI K, contamiu iboHA toother. Rot and Hcrbi, which an X- JJT .Aii-Wise Providence has rlaced In countries wbere Mver istsse roost prevail. It will cikk all 1isasbsousbd at o- aAMlBMHNTOr THC LlVBK A.U UuWIU, KaOULArK TUB Li VK a AND PSKVKKT CHILLS AND FEVER. R HOW LIVE It KtXil)L.A TO- Ia amlnentlr a Familv Medicine: and by being kept ready ror Immediate resort win aave manj an hoar of eufleriag and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. After orer Forty Veara trial It la atlll receiving the most unqualified teatimooiala to lu vlrtnee from persons ol the highest character and respon sibility. Eminent physician, recommend it aa the moat EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR CONSTIPATION, HEADACHE, PAIN IN THE BHODi.UKKS, I IZZINKS,OUR "OMACH, Bin TlTh 1.1 IHI MUUin. Bii.i.iiil;a TACKS, PALPITATION OKTHRHEAKT. PAIS - .. - j D.- Lfta it" U V I I IK IT Vel lib' IPflVll- I il I n ft n ritt itj.i ur inn i a - - ESCT, GL'OM AND FnRKBOWNG Of KVIL, ALL OP WHICH AUK THE OFKSPR1SG OF A DISEASED LI V tit. COLIC IX CHILDREN. For children complaining cf colic, headache, or sick atom ach.a lea.peonlol more will give relief. Children, aa well a adelia eat aometimea to. ' mack upper, er.est eome thiog li.b does not digest well, prodocmc eor stowiach, keanber.. er rleo; a a;o-d dos. ot Liver kecalator will He reliet. Thiaappltea t. prsMa .f all ages- i. the ckrape.1. pare.i and bit Family Medicine la the wmMI IT HAS NO EQUAL. - . . i aiaanTr UT. fu- e r1 'i - wr . ' k " T RRiiCL ATOS aale-i i eaarrme-d . witk Tr e Mart. Msafi aad Sigimiar. aabr.kem. see er as gesarlo.. J. S. ZZZ,i & Price . 09 aa,iie.leiie,aa. Faith In Human .tutu re. The dogma of an endless hull is be iu severely tested by reason. The kindred dogma of the total depravity of human nature can not endure the test of investigation. The poet Halleok beautifully says : ' i "It la i oy t. speak the best W. may of human-hlod." And we will add that it is also joy to to be able to speak to much good of our nature and tell the truth. Dr. Chan ning was the great champion of the doctrine of the worth and dignity of human nature, and we every day see the effects of his teaching reflected In other writers. The following lines, by Caroline A, Soule, may be taken as a sample: I know that for .very crime that's told There's something done that'a good aa gold; That the evil we hear, hut the, aweet and true Hid. out of sight like the violets blue ;, ' For one that steals, there are hnndreda of hands That couldn't be tempted for gold or lands j For one that lies, there are hundreds of lips That wouldn't be tralton, though scourged with whips; for one, (hat his neighbor's life would slay. A hundred to aave It would haste away ; For one that a pure young heart would break, Hundreds stand ready Its love to make. And so I will not Idly weep O'er crimes that make my blood eold creep, Nor alt me down In sad array When wrong doth meet me on the way I Bntl will pray to God for power To do the duty of each hour ; And Joining bands, my friends, with yoo And all that love the god and true, With reverence I this hour will ssy, ' I thank my God I live '.to-day," An Awful Warning to Young; , II unbuilds. A young wife in Michigan bad just got settled in her new home. Al) seemed fairaud promising, for she did not know that her husband was a drunkard. But one night he came home at a very late hour and much the worse tor liquor. When he Btaggered into the house the wife, who was great ly shocked, told him he was sick and to lie down at once, and in a moment or two he was comfortably settled on a sofa in a drur ken sleep. His face was reddish purple, his breathing was heavy, and altogether he was a pitiable lookiug object. The doctor was sent for post-haste and mustard applied to his feet and haods. When the dootor came and felt his pulse and examined him and found that he wns only drunk, he said: 'He will be all right in the morning.' But the wife insisted that he wa8 very sick, and that severe remedies must be used. 'You must shave his head ad apply blisters,' she urged, 'or 1 will send for some one who will.' The husband's head was according ly shaved olosely and blisters applied. The patient lay all night in a drunk en bleep, and notwithstanding the blis ters were eating into his flehh, it was uot till near morning that ha began to beat about disturbed by pain. At daylifcht he woke up to a most uncomfortable consciousness of blis tered agonies. 'What does this mean?' he said, put ting bis hand to his bandaged head. 'Lie still you musn't stir,' said his wife; 'you have been very sick.' 'I'm not Bick.' 'Oh! yes you are; you have the brain fever. We have worked with you all night-' 'I should think you had,' groaned the poor victim. 'What's the matter with my feet?' 'They are blistered.' 'Well, I'm better now ; take off the blister do,' be pleaded piteously. He was in a most uncomfortable state hit head covered with sores and his feet and hands were still worae. 'Dear,' he said.groaniog, 'if I should ever get sick in this way again, don't be alarmed and send for doctor, and above all, d jo t blister me again.' 'Oh! indeed. 1 will; all that saved you wera the blister, and if you have another such spell I should be more frirhUned than ever; for the teodcy. I am sure, is to apoplei j ; and from the nxt attack you wiil be likely to die aoleM there are the scveiett neas u i !.' He made farther defence. Suf fice it to tay, he never bad another attack. WAgUIXG roi LETTER. Washington. D. C.,1 Jan. 31, 1878. The most cheering indioatiou ou the faoe of publio affairs here is the decid ed tendency of the Democrats in Con Kress to stand together in a struggla for economy and retrenchment. Until quite lately it has seemed almost cer tain there would be a laok of harmouy on these subjects, and that the Repub lican leaders with an experience in leadership of noarly a score of years, and used to the excesses and corrup" tions of war times and the unsettled period immediately following the war, would succeed in keeping the Govern ment io the old road to bankruptcy. But thero is a good hope of better things. ' Expenses will be reduced in all brandies of the Government. The army will be reduced io numbers, and excessive expenditures for the force decided upon will be cut off. The na vy, which has cost since the war a filth as much as the whole amount of our publio debt, will become far lesB ex pensive. Our relations with foreign countries will be made to cost less. The revenues will bo collected for less money. In short, unless thero should be an unexpected lapse from virtue on the part of Democruts, the cost of oar' rying on the Government will be very materially reduced. It is time, for He General Government is not only ex hausting the people by burdensome taxes, but is sotting a feurful example of extravagance to States, cities and in dividuals. A neat job wbb killed by the Su preme Court lately. Under the law the salaries of certain grades of Posimas ters are fixed upon the basis of the business at their offices in a given pre ceding period. The wording of the law was such that various postmasters thought they could get increased pay under it for time prior to the date whon the readjustments were officially mudo. Test cases wcro tried in the C.ourt of Claims, and, on arpeal, iD the r upreme Court, aud this latter Court decides against the applicants. ; This Court also deoided the other day that the sale by the Confederate Government of cortuin stocks confia cated by it in Charleston, S. C, did not takeaway the title of the owners or give title to purchasers. The Pacific Uailroad men are now here in force. All the roads, from Duluth to the Gulf of Mexico, are reDresented. . The chief interest, of couibq, is io the rival Southern roads. The anti-subsidy resolution punned by the House a few days since is not con sidered a dangerous blow to any road that seeks Government aid. 1 he reso" lution does not prohibit assistance to works of "National necessity, and every man interested in a Pacific Rail road feels that his particular road is excepted from the prohibition. But what with Quarrels among themselves and the rapidly growing and consoli dation belie! that economy is the great. est and most pressing of "national ne cessities," 1 believe all these railroad subsidy men will come to grief. A le vee system for the Mississippi river and some of its tributaries is, however, not to be classed with the railroad sohemos, and Government aid to it would meet with comparatively little objection. Capt. Kada has been paid, with little grumbling from any quarter, an enor mous Hum for his jetties at the mouth of the great river, and will yctrcoeive much more. It is idle to make a dis tinction between payment of money for this purpoi-e and piyment for the con struction and preservation of levees. It is very generally conceded now that the silver bill of Mr. Bland will in tome lmpe pasa the House end Sen ate, even over a veto. I confess I can" not vet fiure out a two-thirds majori ty ir. the S-oate, but the friends of the bill find no difficulty in doing so. If rumor i' correct the "bon of the Lroei-iaoa Returoiot Board, Wells, is os LU way here to consult the Presi dent of bia creation as to probable means of defeating justice in Louisi ana. The other members of the Board remain at New Orleans to stand trial. The coming interview between Wells and Hayes should be made the subject of a great painting. The event will live in history, whether or not the art. iet of this generation puts it on ennvns, ' The local robber, voder indictmout at home for crime,, comes to tho man benefitted and made powerful by that ' crime; to ask for protection. . The great : man has no power to grant it ; his own position would be imperiled if he should attempt it, There it but one thing for Wells to do, He must go homo and to the penitentiary. ' His fate is an ex ample for all time to subordinate ras cals and teaohes them not to mako tho . receiver seoure in' his plunder until they, too, are secured against punish ment for tho theft. ' Kr.x. ' Hog ItaUlns In We-irn lxu. A oitizen of this oounfy, as wo sup pose, writes from Onion Creek to the Lockhart Echo, as follows. We oom mcud what he says to the considera tion of our readers. Ed. FberPhehs, Texas has greater facilities foi rais ing meat than any other Statu in the Union. And still sho buys yearly a great amount of bacon shipped from' the North. : This is sending uimny from the State that enn bo profitably invested at homo... True Texi'S !ips yearly a great amount of beef , hut this is no argument aauiii'-t raiding hi r own hog-meat aud also some to sell. ' It may be said that ouisi.to the tim bered districts where ilmro is plenty mast, that we canuot. eouipotu with the Northern States, we cm mint 'produce food for them as oneap, This is a great mistake. Texu eau ' iiroduce corn, potatoes and turnips equal to most any of them. Besides she lias a plant, viz: the Sugarcane, which they , have not, this plan' is excellent , hog food, easy raised, will mako two crops ' a year. JIojis will do fine upon, it st;V. en or eight months iu the year., , Far from confining hog raising to , the mast regions, I believe ere long that the majority of our in:iit will be raised upon the' pniirio farms', in pens and pastures where thi-y 'lan bd tended to properly, fed anil improved with 'ho beat Block' of tho country. ' tLo a pasture, hog proofadjoining your HeKf plant Sugarcane next to it, convenient to out aud throw over to tln m. Io the fall separate the hogs you .wir-h lo fat ten tor market and Iioiik consumption, feud them u corn, lu laot I tin day is , not far distant whon all kiud ol stouk will be kept and reared iu pastures, I. e. the portions that are devoted to agri culture. Sinou coru cannot oonvouieutly be transported to market, it will not pay to plant a great amount of it expressly for the market, but you can raise it profitably.you will convert it into pork and baoon by procuring hogs and leed ing it to them you can always sell it at paying rates. The farmers ot this county should manage some way to make grain raising profitable, forcqttoo can no longer suo ceed in supplying all of the wants of the farmers, as it used to do, when they could get from fifteen to twenty cents per pound for it. We should pay special attention to the improvement of our stock, fino stock is comparatively cheap now, so now is the time to strike. The man that has the foresight to see these facts first, and the enterprise to grasp its privileges first, will bo the one to profit by them. W. A. Teas Eft. John Bright, the great Euglish statesman, wrote lately a note in which, occurred this passage ''If children at school can be made to understand how it is juit and ncble to be humane even to what we term inferior animals, it wil' do much to give them a higher char acter and toot through life. There is nothing meaner than barbarous and cruel treatment 'of the dumb creatures, who cannot answer ns or resent the misery which is so often needlessly in flicted npon them." There are over three hnnfred arte aiaa wtl's in Sintt Cars Valley, Cat. SOLD ST SU BKtvvisis. 8 1. 1 ly