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SAN 1IARC0S FREE PRESS. II. JULIAN, Publisher. BAN MARCOS, TEXAS NEWS 1NJMIKF. W'vmt. The Michigan Attorney General is called upon to decide tho legality of the flection of threo ladies on tlio Flint School Hoard. Moro than 10 ) women cunt their ballots for them .... Mack Mamlen, leader of a gang of hog and eattlo Htealers who have infestml tho vicinity of lliltaboro, Mo., and who was BUHiucted of tho murder of two men, who lvuched ly his neighbor. . . . Tho trial o'f Sctli 1 . CrcwH, member of tho Illinois House of llaprcHonta tives, at Hellevijlo, on tho charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, resulted in an acquital . . . . Mowbrays's flour mill at Stockton, Minn., was de stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $50, 000. Tiikue are fears that tho forco of volunteers organizing in Arizona, as is claimed for protection against tho In dians, in reality contemplate a raid on tho San Carlos reservation, a course which Agent Wilcox tells the Depart ment of tho Interior will prove disas trous.... A cave-in occurred at tho llidgo mine, between Quinnesseo and Iron Mountain, in Northern Michigan, carrying down the engine-house and eight jnon, namely: Tat Egan, ltichard WiHiams, W. Henderson, John Morris, Thomas James, Edward Wicks, William Jeffrey and William Polard. All of tho men were killed. . .'.The greatest snow-storm of the winter raged at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 10th of April, causing a suspension of street car travel. Tho snow crushed in the roof of the roller skating-rink and wrecked tho walls. The storm was felt throughout Minnesota. .. .Prof. Mac Lenn, of the Michigan State University, comes out largely ahead in his libel mit against James E. Scripps, editor and propritor of the Detroit Evening Neics. Tho paper published a story to the effect that MacLean had been criminal ly intimate with a woman whoso name was given, but a jury, after two weeks' trial of tho case, cast Scripps in $20, 000 damages. Tiierk is a great rush of immigrants to Northern Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba. A recent dispatch from St. fanl says: "Arriving and departing trams are taxed to their utmost to sup ply tho demand for accommodations, and the resources of the roads center ing at St. Paul are daily drawn upon to their farthest limit. In conversa tion with railrad men upon the subject they express themselves as surprised at the daily accessions mado to the city's- floating population. Nothing like it was ever before seen. At pres ent it is thought that n? less than 10, 000 passengers are received here per week and forwarded to Northwestern points by way of tho Northern Paciiic and Manitoba lines."- Advices from Arizona report that tho people of that Territory arc much disappionted at the inaction of Gen. Crook, and have about lost all hope of protection by the army. Several independent companies of miners and prospectors have been organized, and a war of extermination Avill be waged against the copper-colored pests lienjamin F. Cocker. D. D. LL I)'., professor of mental, and moral philosophy in tho University of Michigan, and a man of high standing as a preacher and author, is dead .... The Atlantic Milling Company, of St. Louis, of which George Bain is Presi dent, has been obliged to suspend tem porarily on account of dullness in tho European market and overstock of wheat. South. A coxsideraul'k portion of New Or leans was submerged, as a consequence . of recent heavy rains. The Mississippi river reached tho highest point ever known, washing over the leveo at sev eral points. One of tho city cemeter ies was under water, and numberless headboards were washed away There wore eighty-six deaths from small-pox at New Orleans last week. A bill regulating railroads has passed the Texas Legislature, and the law goes into immediate effect. It pro vides 4or a Stato engineer who shall inspect the roads and the manner of operating them, so as to secure the safety of tho public and prevent any unjust disc initiations under a penalty of a fine of $5i 0 for each offense. It fixes the passenger fare at 3 cents per mile for adults and 2 cents for children under 10 years of age. .. .President Arthur arrived at Sanford, Fla., and was given a Warty reception by prom inent citizens. Ho went thence to Hissimee City, when he made a brief Mop. going from there to hunt and lish. While intoxieat d at Nashville, Tenu., Dudley Porter, son of ex-Gov. Porter, provoked a quarrel with James Grundy a drummer for a Cincinnati house, and in the tight which resulted the latter was fat.illy cut Nine and a half inches of rain foil at New Or leans in one day. Pr.Ksinr.XT Ar-Turu landed a ten lounl lass at KNsimee. Fla., very shortly after casting las line. Happy angler happy fish, to U caught by a real live President, the first one that cr angled for Iwi in Florida waters. The telegraph alo informs an anxious world tL&i Mr. Philips, the President's private wentary, nude an alligator happy by shooting it with but little gun, putting out both of its oyen. . . .An incendiary lire was started in Thomp hou'h livery stablo at West minster, Md., which consumed eighteen buildings and caused a loss of $U U,0( 0. Twenty-five horses in tho stuble were cremated. An attempt was also mado to burn tho Mintour Hotel. A negro man and woman have been arrested as tho fire bugs. .. .A construction train on the Missouri Pacific railroad was wrecked near Weaker, Texas, and live men were fillod Twenty prisoners in tho Tar rant county jail, in Texas, over powered tho guard and escaped. hen tho alarm had 1 wen given, about twenty llvo citizens started in pursuit with shot-guns and bloodhound,, and before evening seventeen of tho fugitives had been captured. WuMliliigfoii. The Treasury Department Jias de cided to accept tho proposal of the Hawaiian Government for the coinage of silver for tho insular kingdom at the San Francisco mint. The Secretary of the Interior has decided to offer the Otoe Indian lands in Kansas and Nebsaska for sale May 1. The appraisers have valued the land at from four t3 ten dollars an acre .... Tho comptroller Knox has authorized the establishment of the following na tional banks: The Vineland National Hank, New Jersey, capital, $50,000; the Third National Bank of Sedalia, Mo., capital $100,000; and the Merchants' National Hank, of Amsterdam, New York, capital, $100,000. The Department of State has been strenuously endeavoring to obtain a hearing for tho seven Americans ar rested at Panama in January, on suspi cion of robbing the Panama Railroad Company of $50,000, intended for a Eayment of the officers and crew of the United States steamer Lackawanna. Many obstacles have been encountered, but the Consul at Panama reports that the men will soon be heard in court and represented by csmpetent counsel. Political. A Boston newspaper has been collect ing opinions from all sections of the country as to the availability of B. F. Butler as a Presidential candidate. Tho result is not altogether favorable to tho Governor.though Senator Brown, of Georgia, says he would vote for him if ho were nominated, and a Southern correspondent expresses tho belief that he would divide the colored vote. The Michigan Senate has passed a measure in which it is specified that if a newspaper prints m gooa iaitn anu without malice, stories which are sub sequently discoverod to bo unfounded, the publication may not bo deemed li belous if a thrice repeated retraction is inserted with a full explanation ot the circumstances. A memorial has been sent to tho President by the Chairman and Board of Directors of the Central Committee on National Labor Legislation, jeti tioning an extra session of Congress, to be called as early as practicable, for the purpose of considering the relations of labor and capital The Pennsyl vania House of representatives have passed a bill prohibiting the letting of convict labor by contract. , Foreign. O'Connor Power broached a scheme of home colonization in the British House of commons for the relief of distress in Ireland, which calls for a loan of 5,000,000 by tho Government, secured by leans upon the land taken up. The Ministry opposed the scheme, on tho ground that it was in oonfHict with measures already inaugurated for ameliorating the condition of Ireland. .... Four slaves were sold at public auction in the streets of Tangiers, re cently, causing much indignation among the foreign residents A laige section of country in the Southern part of llussia is covered with water, owing to the floods in the rivers. . . .A carbuncle has been the cause of Mr. Parnell's in disposition. A MAX named Kirton, claiming to have only recently left the United States.was arrested in London forbeing connected with the nitro-glycerine plot. Bernhard Gallagher, a brother of one of the men arrested in London, has been taken into custody at Glasgow on suspicion of having been concerned in the recent explosion at the gas works there. He also claims to have lately arrived from America. The house of an avowed sympathizer with the con spirators, at Birmingham, was mobbed, and the man was obliged to seek safety in the police station. A contrivance was found in the lodgings of the Lou- Ton prisoners for filtering sulphuric acid into chloride of potash, which would cause a disastrous explosion. . . . A cartridge containing dvnamite was placed in a cavity in the tower of Chateau Plessis near Paris. The car tridge exploded, but did verv little damage An American named Ans- burghe was arrested at London in con nection with the dynamite plots. A. M. Sullivan has denounced the dyna mite faction, and O'Donovan Ilossa has warned him to be careful of his utter ance. .. .Minister Lowell spoke at a banquet of civil engineers at Kensing ton, and in the course of his remarks assured his hearers that no American any more than an Englishman l-lieves assassination is war or dynamite the raw material of policy.". .. .Prince Bismarck's famous appetite has failed Lira, occasioning Lis physicians great anxiety. , Mr. Willi iv Vesxox IIaecoi-kt in troduced in the British house of com mons a bill to amend the law in regard to explosives, and it passed through the committeo of tho whole without oppo sition, was reported to tin house and passed, being sent 'immediately to the house of lords, where it was adopted. Tho bill imposes severe penalties for causing or attempting to cause explo sions imperiling lifo or property, and for the unlawful making or keeping of explosives, accessories being held to account equally with principals. The bill also enlarges the power of tho po lico and vessel captains in searching for explosives, and authorizes tho seizure of such compounds and tho ingredients thereof Brady, one of tho Phoenix Parks conspiritors was placed on trial at Dublin on the 10th inst., and plead ed not guilty. Dr. Webb Adams was assigned to defend Brady by the court. Hugh Gladstone, a cousin of tho Prime Minister of England, and a member of the Liverpool firm of Gladstone & Sons, committed suicide hy taking strychnine berious frauds have Veen unearthed in tlie accounts of the different Russian Ministers during the last ten yeras, but as several persons of distinction are implicated, the matter will probably be hushed up The Czar and Czarina took a drive in an open carriage through the streets of St. Petersburg without the usual military escort. .. .The ultramontanes of Germany are preparing for an im posing celebration of the twenty-fifth aniversary of tho consecration of the exiled Archbishop of Colonge. . . . A Vi enna dispatch says that in consequence of the' success of Edwin Booth in King Lear, the engagement will be renewed, The' Colored Man and the Hog. A writer m a jn ortnern magizme wants to know why the negro con stantly figures before the courts of the South. This question is very easily answered. We have been study ing the colored gentleman'? legal, or rather illegal, prominence for some time, and we have an abiding faith in the belief that the leading thinkers of the South will agree with us when we affirm that the hog, the unregenera ted United States hog, is the cause. Place on a prairie, without any sur roundings whatever, tho average col ored gentleman might prove to be an honest citizen, but when he lives in a community where hogs abound, there is no chance for him but to conduct his business on the silent under-current plan. From the remotest incep tion of slavery m America down to the last overflow, the negro and the hog have been linked in a relation ship unknown to Hottentot. The grunt of the hog to him has ever been a sound as familiar as the lament of the missionary is to the Fiji Islander. This is not the fault of the colored gentelman. In no respect can you load the blame on him. He was do ing business in Africa, at an obscure stand, when the white man transport ed him to America and introduced him to the hog and assisted him in cultivating an appetite for the flesh of the animal despised by the lineal de scendants of Moses. He did not claim relationship with the hog until the white man, the pioneer of earthly mischief, induced a lasting acquain tance. The intimacy, carelessly be gun, soon ripened into passion. The colored gentleman insisted upon as sociating with the hog. Now it is im possible to effect a separation. The hog is willing, but his legs are weak. The law is willing, but the negro is not. He adheres to the custom of his fa thers. His father said let us have hog, and immediately there was hog. No revision that the law may make can effect this ancient declaration. The law may say thou shalt not steal hog nor bear false witness against the sow, but the action of tradition says, "gimme deshoat". No, sir, the colored gentleman can not be an undoubted Christian so long as the hog inhabits the land. He may struggle and pray a great deal, but when the light in the church is extin guished, and the sisters with tearfu eyes go home, the colored gentleman looks around for a place where he can have undisturbed association with the swine. We don't mean that all or one-third of the colored gentleman do this, but we mean that the old-time representative is the man who will not forego the pleasure. Arkansaw I ravel a: Galveston. Xew: A light between a ratuesnaxe ana a uiacK snane was recently witnessed near Fort Worth. The black snake forced the fighting, gliding around in swift circles, while the rattlesnake lay coiled. The cir cles grew smaller, and the rattlesnake appeared confused as the black snake drew closer. His rattles ceased to give their usual sharp sound and his head dropped as if vertigo was seizing him. The black snake by one lightning movement seized the rattler by the throat, and winding about him the two rolled over and over together. In a few moments the rattler ceased to breathe. An examination of the dead rattlesnake revealed fracture of the spine as complete as if done with a club. The rattlesnake measured five feet four inches. TEXAS tOTTUX. i.'.n.i.j iiu-.iMta at tlilfditoi for tbt Prat Kcmo 000,000 8la. Globe -Democrat. riiT,M.-uN. Anril 12. Tho total Mn.;nt rntinn ftt GalvC8tOU tllUS far this season, in round numbers, or no cm bales net in excess of the roMmi, nf this liort durina tho Af in fit vear. There aro live months of the nresent cotton season lacking eleven days, still to run. It is estimated that the total peceipts at Galveston during the present year n nrmrnYimatfl 000.000 bales. The follnwinff table shows the total re enmtn fit the five leadine: cotton ports of the United States thus far this di'nrr Inst evenincr. and for the same time during the two pre- Drevious seasons: for 1882 and 1888. Bales. Galveston 757,881 New Orleans 1,582,220 Savannah 77182 Charleston 516,122 Norfolk.... 731,151 for 1881 and 1882. Galveston 400,084 New Orleans 1,181,499 Savannah.. 697,643 Charleston... :. 476,124 Noorfolk 571,915 for 1880 and 1881. Galveston.. 618,841 New Orleans.. 1,416,790 Savannah 814,068 Charleston'. 587,882 Norfolk 644,592 The total receipts atthe ports above named during the whole ot the sea flnr.fi 1881 and 1882. and 1880 and 1881 were as follows. The figures are those of the running account as given at the close of August, and do not include the corrections subse quently made by the National Cotton Exchange : for 1881 and 1882. Galveston 442,860 New Orleans 1,188,242 Savannah , 788,668 Charleston 499,485 Norfolk 618,937 for 1880 and 1881. . Galveston 694,661 New Orleans 1,605,584 Savannah 889,383 Charleston 625,164 Norfolk 719,536 Receipts at the five points from the present date to the close of the season in 1881 and 1882 were as follows: .... FOR 181KJ. Bales Galveston" 41,876 New Orleans 56,747 Savannah 36,205 Charleston 23,361 Norfolk...... 47,022 for 1881. Galveston 61,320 New Orleans 188,794 Savanah 75,320 Charleston 37,782 Norfolk 74,924 The increase this season over last season and the increase and decrease this season over 1880 and 1881 are as follows : increase for 1881 and 1882. Galveston 350,400 New Orleans 45,072 Savannah 73,657 Charleston 69,998 Norfolk 159,236 INCREASE FOR 1883 AND 1881. Galveston 144,043 New Orleans 115 43G Savannah None. Charleston None. Norfolk .' 80,559 DECREASE FOR 1880 AND 1881. Galveston None. New Orleans None. Savannah .' 43,703 Charleston 41,200 Norfolk None. GALVESTON S PROGRESS. ' It is interesting to note the pro gress which Galveston is making as a cotton port. In 1871 and 1872 her rank in point of receipts was sixth in the list of cotton ports. From 1872 and 1873 to 1875 and 1876 she was fifth in the list. In 1875 and 1876 and 1876 and 1877 she held the fourth place. In 1877 and 1878 and 1878 and 1879 she was third. In 1879 and 18S0 and 1880 and 1881 she went back to the fourth place, and in 1881 and 1882 she was led by four other cotton ports, giving her the fifth place. This was due to the fact that the cot ton crop suffered more severely from drouth in Texas that year than in any of the other cotton-growing states, the yield falling off from 1,2 CO, 3 17 bales in 1880 and 1881 to 829,851 bales in 1891 and 1882 Texas during the rresent season has made an immense cotton crop, which will undoubtedly rlace Galves ton second in rani anions the cotir.n ports of America, At this date the ! is led ly New Orleans and Savannah, ' butit is believed that befn . ' soncloses Galveston will lead Savant Galveston's receipts to date areT'? 884 bales, against 771,800 bale. . Savannah, the latter port betoffia VJ bales ahead of Galveton at ffffl and with a considerable amount of t Texas crop still to come forward ! differenco in favor of Savannah ?n shortly be wiped out aud Galveston will take rank as a cotton port SECOND ONLY TO NEW ORLEANS When it is understood that GaJvei ton is dependent for her cotton" ' ceipts upon the state of Texas1 aloS' the increase in her cotton iTusbeu shows the wonderful productive de velopment that is going on ia the in terior. New Orleans has tributary to her cotton business more or less of the trade of some seven or eick states, while Galveston has but Texas alone. Yet two-thirds of the total cotton product of Texas in the way of receipts will make Galveston the sec ond cotton port in the United states. Results such as these demonstrate what the state of Texas now is, and what she may become when all her grand possibilities and varied resourc- es are fully developed. Galveston, however, to maintain her supremacy as the second . cotton port of the Uniqn and fully meet the requirements as the principal seaport of Texas, must speedily remove the bar at tho entrance of the harbor, and secure a depth of water to admit the passage of all vessels seeking tonnage at her port. She will then become the leading commercial city of the southwest, and not only the great ex- orting point for Texas, but of a arge portion of the northwest, unless the powerful syndicates that now con trol the railway system of the south west, by discriminating against Gal veston and diverting the products seeking exportation, from her to New Orleans or ports on the Atlantic sea board, as is now indicated. TEXAS TOPICS. Twenty-five freight cars were re duced, to kindling wood- by a collison on the Texas and Pacific road near Marshall on the 6th. There are capitalists, both Ameri can and English, now at work making arrangements for the purpose of ship ping beef by the refrigerating process from Texas to England. They have already made a contract with the English government to furnish them with all the beef they can take over. This company now has six 5,000 ton steamships ready to put on the line. Chicayo Shoe aud Leather Ileview: The grading up of cattle in the west and southwest has been going on rap idly for the past ten years.- It would be difficult to decide whether Elinois or Kentucky is the centre of the short horn breeding interests in this coun try. The centre, wherever it maybe, is a moveable one. The Texas steer, that is, the original, broad-horn, half wild animal, is rapidly disappearing. Droves of these cattle are now rarely seen. They have been displaced by better ones. This, as we have previ ously pointed out, means that one source of supply for plump, heavy hides is being cut off. The improved breed of cattle, with their sleek, glossy coats, have very thin, flabby hides. It is already getting to be , serious question as to where the future supply of thick, heavy hides will come from, for this grading-up process is going on to some extent on the South American pampas. Now that the foundation for the new capitol has been excavated, the syndicate are met with a trouble in the character of the cement to be used in the building, which the Capitol Board will be called upon to settle. The specifications require Texas ce ment to be used, that will stand a tensile strength of 800 pounds, and a crushing strength of 2,000 pounds to the square inch, the samples when tested, tn bav linrl an exnosure 01 seven days. Captain W. D. Clark, superintendent of construction, gives the following opinion upon the sub ject to the capitol commissioners: "Cements that will sustain so large a weight at seven days, are necessarily very quick setting, and are objection able on the ground that in making concrete the time required in mixing the matrix with the broken stone, wheeling or conveying, placing, spreau- inrr in flio frenrboo and manlin?. the cement is liable to become set and the bond destroyed; consequently, tlow setting cement is preferable. 1 venture the assertion if a cement will be permitted that will be equal to the best American brands, and the con crete made in a jroper and thorough manner, the stone thoroughly bedded, with the vertical joints filled, that the expiration of three years it will be ta rnnertte with out Uastinff. and as difficult to J1 the stone at their joints as to fphi their centers."