SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS. t. JL JULIAN, Publisher. SAN MARCOS, TEXAS NKWS JNJHUKF. l'.uwl. This party of German statesmen, lawyers, ollicer nnd jonrnalints, who were invited by Mr. Henry Villuid to witness the opening of tho Ao:-tlern raeillo railroad, arrived in ev lork on tho Bremen steamer Kibe, nfter a pleasant pussnRe. They were wel comed by Mr. Yillard and a number of his friends. . . .A tiro broke out m a Uoston tenement-hoiiHe, and four of tho inmates were Buil'ocnted before a rescuing party could reach them. One man was fatally injured in jumping to escape. . . .11. H. Wolf & Co.'c wire factory at Amesville.Ji.l. was burned, entailing a loss of $75,000. WeU . The Presidential party arrived in the Upper Gevser basin of the Yellowstono Park on tho 25th of August, after a horseback ride of 2!30 miles, and went into camp near Old Faithful geyser, which treated the excursionists soon after dismounting, with one of its hourly eruptions. Tho party were in tho best of health and spirits. A sen sational story is telegraphed from Idaho, to tho effect that a band of cow boys had gono to Yellowstono Park to kidnap tho President and hold him for a $500,000 ransom ; a Tcx.is desperado was the leader of the gang; that five Indi ans were employed as guides, and that each member of tho band was sworn by all tho gods to do his duty. At St. Louis Mo., Judge Noonau de cided that the Downing law does not repeal the special act of 1857, which was bubmitted to a vote of the people and carried, and which permits of the sale of beverages and refreshments, other than distilled liquors, on any day in the week. This decision does not permit dram-shops which sell liquor, to keep open Sunday, and the beer sa loons and garden-keepers are reported as happy A duel was fought near Vandahu, 111., by Louis Phillips ami Jacob Kosenbrook. Each fired but once. The latter was killed instantly ; the former lived only four hours. . . .A railway conductor living in Chicago became so annoyed by the "shadowing" of detectives that ho caused the arrest of one of tho "spotters." In the Police Ceurt tho spotter was ilned $25 for dis orderly conduct. The prizes of the Knight Templar drill tournament, at San Francisco were awarded to the Do Molais of Louisville, tho ltapers of Indianapolis, and the tit. Bernards of Chicago, in tho order named. The sword of Ilapcr Commandery of Indianapolis, won at tho Chicago conclave, was attached for $1,300 board bill. Tho boarding-house man agreed to furnish rooms for $1, each of which was to give lodgment to four Knights. When the crush came eight persons were put in every room, and the commandery, after protesting, evacuated tho premises in a body. Tho next triennial conclave will be held at tit. Leuis, in 188G. .. .Thirty masked men from Park City, Utah, tok Jack Murphy from the jail at Coalville, a neighboring town, and hanged him. Murphy was suspected f having shot a man named Brenham at Park City A negro at Ogden, Utah, wh killed the City Marshal and wounded another official, was taken frm jail and lynched, the body being dragged through the streets Pen Wilhoit, a wealthy farmar of Bowling Green, Mo., usd hia toes to discharge gun withwkioh his brainawara blown ot. South Citizexs on both sides of the Ilio Grande at El Paso have made up a purse of $500 to secure the prize tight between Slade and Mitchell. The Al calde of Paso del Norte, Mexico, has given permissiom for a mill on that side of the river. P. V. Middleton, a South Carolin ian of illustrious descent, who recently passed away at Greenville, refused to cross Mason and Dixon's line since his library was destroyed by Gen. Sher man's army. . . .Congressman Win. F. Poole, of North Carolina is daad. Foreign Volcanic eruptions in Java and oth er islands of tho Malay Acrhipelago have resulted in fearful disasters. Scores of villages have been destroyed, and thousands of the inhabitants, including Americans and Europeans, have fallen victims. Ax enormous fete was given in Paris for the iK-netit of the sufferers by the earthquake. One hundred and 28,0LH) entrance tickets were fH, and nearly every purso-opening contriv ance was used iuide for furfhering the puroes of the charity. Every cele brated actress had a Iot U fr the sale of Luickknacks. Tho ruins of the Taileries having K en at la-t removed, the pardons a'nl Mte of the celebrated ditioe t re r.M-d for the affair. . . .lliots aint tho Jews are rci"orted at several 1'l.uvs in II nuary. notaMy atEjrerszog. whero, for throt days, tdjvnts of Mur dor the Jf-ar e?e hoard fror.i 2,i.0 peasants l.o wro liil tho bouse and and f-LojH, of Hebron. It i stated Ihat ia the r.ioloe forty roMier and riot rn were killed. In tho revtnt riot ui llkatcrinofby. K:issi.tl.el;onMnof 147 Je-s were wrecked tvctv-cinLt Ilussians wore killed by soldiery. The loss to tho Hebrews is (511,000 rubes. The British Tarliamont was pro rogued Aug. 25. The Queen's speech becites the facts that she is at peace with all foreign powers ; that tho troub les arising from the Tamativo affair are being settled with France in an amica blo spirit; that tho convention with the Transvaal Government is not working satisfactorily; that she feels great sa tisfaction in being able to report an improvement in the condition of Ire land, and the works of parliament have shown its anxiety to promote tho Mel fare of the Green Isle; that tho state of trade in the British islands is sound, and that the agricultural depression in some districts has been relieved. . . . A French and an English vessel came into collision in tho English channel. The English steamer, the Woodburn, was disabled and sank. Eighteen of the crew were drowned. The French steamer was badly damaged, but was enabled to land her own passengers and those saved from the Woodburn at Plymouth.'. . .The convention of the Irish National League of Great Brit ain, which will meet at Leeds Sept. 27, will demand self-government for Ire land and direct representation for Irish laborers in Parliament. . . .A report comes from Lisbon that Ilenry M. Stanley, tho African explorer, has closed tho Upper Congo to commerce. General William W. Bolden pub lishes a card in aPaleigh (N. C.) paper . . . - 1 r i 1 announcing his withdrawal jrom me republican party, i-nd stating he is not a member of tho Liberal party. The Chicago Tribune remarks: "From tho tLu..ing made by the clear ing houses of the country it appears that business was 13 per cent, poorer in New York city last week than it was Wt, vpn.v at this time, but 1 "per cent. better everywhere else in America. While therefore, tno snowing is unia whole, it need eive the West little disturbance of mind. Plain ly, the speculators are the ones who are suffering from the present squeeze. Tim tnt.n.1 rdefiriners were $800,589,755 last week. They were over twice as lavrro nt, tlia lritrh-water mark of the great boom, with four less clearing houses to make reports. "Knmnel J. Tilden." says a New York telegram, "apparently unmind ful of tho thousand and one things Hfud n.! inn t. him and his Presidential aspirations, is just now assiduously devoting himselt to yachting, and Diets fnir tn lilnssOTYl Ollt sllOl'tlV as a fil'St- class sailor. This fondness of yacht ing on the part of Tilden, which has been developed, it is said, by. a numijer nf Rftili-ncr excursions made during the wvnsifmt. Kiimmev on one of the crack yachts of the Yew York Yacht Club, has taken a decided turn in tho en gagement of John Roach's magnificent steamer yacht, xosemite, ior iue rusu of the present season." An oil-tank of large dimensions ex ploded in the South Brooklyn (N. Y.) the tlaminer fluid, which ran in all directions, severely burned many persons. The works were entirely, destroyed, and sparks from the blazing structure fired Daniel urays suipmu works, which suffered a loss of $25,000. Tho damage to tho oil company is $60, 000. . . .Flames appeared in a tank at the South Brooklyn oil -works, and pro gressed until the building was con sumed, together with the sulphur works of Daniel Gray, the loss being $85,000. . . .Lumber-yards and other property at Williamsport, Pa., to the estimated value of $500,000, were de stroyed by fire All places in Phila delphia where pools on horse-races were sold have lee closed by the police. Waskinfffton. The report of the Postmaster Gen eral will show that 8,000 postoflices were established during the last fiscal year ; but, as many have been discon tinued, it will appear that the net increase is about 1,840. This will put the total up to about 48,000, or a little less than one to every thousand poo ple in the country. Of these about six thousand are money order offices. A vacancy having occurred araoag the lady clerks of the National Bank Redemption agency at Washington, the local civil-service examiners were re quested to furnish a lfct of those eligible to the place. The names of the four who stood highest in the recent examina tion were submitted to the Acting Sec setarv of the Treasury, who selected Miss'Minnie I. Hoyt, of Connecticut, a graduate of Vassar College, whose average at the examination was SS.'.'G. She formerly received $1,200 per an num in the cecsas ofiice, but only re quested to bo examined for a I'JCO po sition. . Some philosopher has said that "no thoroughly occupied man was ever unhappy." We have our doubts about that. As a rule it may be all right, but there are exceptions. Wc remem ber teeing a young man sit down on a hornet's nest once, when the hor nets were ct Lome. For a tirao Le was the most thoroughly occupied young man we ever saw; and if Le wn not cchapry uppcararces are de ceiving, that's &A.Zliti!f!n Tran eri) t. i:-Conr.ty Clerk Andrew C. Warren fell three Ui from a haystack fo-nda-t:n on Lis farm r.rr StanforJ, N. tad brete k;s reck. Ht di4 imtantly. THE FETER TREE. 6o. IatmUtf rcti ibonl Itt Voadwfol rroperUM. Correspondence Chloeo Tribune. Fobt Keoou, Mont., August 17. Now that the dread ecourgo yellow fever has again made its appearance in our country and bids fair to be come an epidemic, I would like to call attention to the eucalyptus, or, as it is best know, Tho fever tree." For one I may say I believe strangely in its virtues and its power to dry up miasmas and drive away fever. In proof of its usefulness I would ask those interested to read tho following evidences and history of the eucalyp tus : Among bis other great enterprises Garibaldi, the great Italian hero, en gaged in planting tlie eucalyptus, or blue-gum tree, about Rome to prevent the malarial fever with whicb the inha bitants of that city were afflicted. As this tree is little known in our country some accounts of it may not be uninteresting. According to the best authorities it i3 an Australian production, and was first discovered by the French scien tist, La Nillardiadiere, who visited Van Dieman's Land in 1792. It was brought into the South of France about tho beginning of the present century, and noble specimens of it are now growing in the public gardens of Nice, Cannes, Hyeres, and Algiers. Its medicinal qualities did not, how ever, become known until about thir ty years ago. The Spaniards first dis covered that it was a preventive of fever, and the colonists of Tasmania used its leaves for a number of pur noses. It was not until 1860 that its full power became known, and as a hygienic measure it was introduced into the Spanish realm as an antisep tic. The people of Valencia were suffering from maiana lever, eucalyp tus trees were planted about the city, and a marked improvement in the healthfulness of tho locality followed. bo popular cuu it Decome iiiai uie t.i-pps had to be eruarded. the inhabit- frnts stealmer the leaves every oppor tunity they had to make a decoction to drink. The Spaniards namea tne lvnt.ua the fever tree, and soon after it was introduced into Algeria. It next traveled to the Cape oi Good Hone. Corsica, Sicily, South America and California. finrihaldi's attemnt to introduce it into Eome was not entirely new ; many years ago a lew dozen specimens were planted about the walls, and although nearly all the trees lived but few of them are vigorous. After a trial of many years in Southern France it has Tailed to become hardy, or suck up and destroy the poisonous vapors of the swamps in which it was planted. The Tranpist monks of the Tre- Fontane set out large plantations of eucalyptus trees and have tended them with the utmost care. This may be fairly looked up as a decisive iment. The place known as Tre-Fontane lies some miles south of Eome, and is the seat of a magnih- cent monastery. Its climate, once healthy in consequence of the destruc tion of all tne timber m tne vicinity, has become so deadly that notwith standing its splendid buildings, rich mosaics, marbles, its frescoes, the place is wholly deserted dmring the summer months. To live there in Julv. June and August is said to be almost certain death. what it has done. The record of the eucalyptus tree as an antiseptic and disinfectant is excellent. The districts in which it is indigenous are healthy, and those into which it ha3 been introduced and thriven have become healthy. A a i e few miles from Algiers is a iarm which was once noted for its deadly rivers. Luc on it in tne summer months was almost impossible. In the year 18G7 the owners planted 1.300 Eucalyptus trees.and they grew nine feet in thirteen months and not a single case of fever appeared; nor has there been any fever there since. "Now, if the Eucalyptus will make the sickly climate of the Fontane healthy, it can safely be relied on as an anti septic and disinfectant, and I advise those curious in such matters to watch the success of the Trappist monks ia its cultivation. Near Constantine, Algeria, there were vast swamps, never dry even in the hottest months, and prospective of violent periodic fevers. About 11,000 Eucalyptus trees were planted there, and they soon dried up every square foot of the swamp and killed off. all fevers. Maisen Carrie, near Ilanasch, was once a great market for quinine, as there was much fever, but since the Lire gum Las been planted there the demand Las dmost entirely ceased. Mexico an I Cuba were also, a great many years a-e, lar'c- consumers of quinine, and, as thcCrncrcai:tiIe locks of exports thew, since the in trodsction of E-cyjics into these countries the dcrarj Las 1 greatly fallen oil. Mr. John P. Cuiry relates the sue cessful completion of the contract for planting 200,000 slips of the Austra fian gum-tree, Eucalyptus, in the City of New Orleans. lie says: The sprouts having been raised in a hot house, the planting of these trees commenced some 6ix years ago, the City Goverument paying at the rate of 10 cents for each treo planted. It has already been proven beyond question that this tree, when fall grown, absorbs or rather kills, the miasmas in all malarial and fever ridden districts wherever planted. It is also believed by scientists and many medical experts that it will prove a safeguard against the spread of yellow fever, as it has been seen that since these trees have been planted in the City oi rsew uneuiia ytmuw fever has not become epidemio in that usually yellow-fever section. Tt. is reported that a very unhealthy railroad station in the department of Var, Southern France, has been made healthy by a grove of forty Eucalyp tus trees. Efforts are now being made to introduce this wonderful treo into Cevlon as an antidote to jungle fever, and it is also being carried over in large numbers to the jungles of In rtin,. The Endish have given it great attention, but tho most intelli gent of English tree-growers believe it too delicate to stand the cold water of English sprines. The Eucalyptus seems determined to make the tour of the world, but it will be found to prow best in the La Planta States and California. IN CALIFORNIA. Referrinor to our own country.plant- ers have met with the most wonderful success in cultivating it on the Pacific coast. One gentleman, who planted several thousand trees at Wilmington, California, says: "When set out they were only from three to five inches in height, and in one year they grew G and 8 feet high." But not only has the Jimcaiyptus tree become a favorite in California for its well-known medicinal proper ties, but it grows so fast and to such an enormous size that it is now being planted for wood. Mr. J. H. Byers, who had a farm near the town of Colusa, on the west bank of the Sacramento Eiver, plant ed 50,000 Eucalyptus of the narrow leaved, iron-barked variety, which he intends growing as an orcnard, tno trees beinar set out about ten feet apart. His reason, he says,for planting iron- bark instead of gum tree i. e., oiue gum is that they stand the frost bet ter. While I was at San Francisco. Mr. W. A. Matthews came down from Sa cramento to purchase 50,000 Eucalyp tus plants or tne lron-DaiK variety, which he said he was going to plant on about 100 acres of land that has never been broken. He said he would grow cotton the first year between the rows of trees and the second year sugar beets, af- ter which the trees would be grown alone, as thev would probably cast too much shade for the successful cul tivation of crops with them. Mr. Matthews raised 50,000 trees in one season eight inches high, from two and a half pounds of seed gathered from trees grown in Oakland, Califor nia. This is quite important, as it proves that the native uaniornia seed will germinate quite as readily as the imported article. He used on one piece of land equal quantities of a. j j : i ,i :j lmpotbeu U.11U niuiiuriuu Beeu auu &tuu he found the result so much in favor of the California seed that hereafter he would use no other kind. LET IT BE TRIED. It is unnecessary to discuss further the merits of the eucalyptus tree. The evidence already adduced is so overwhelming in its favor that it must commend itself strongly to the favor of our farmers and tree-growers. It should be given a full and fair trial in all the States. I think it would thrive luxuriantly in the South ; it should be planted at once in all our fever and ague districts, and if it will suck up and dissipate the poisonous vapors lurking in the swamps of Ar kansas and other Southern States, it will do a semce for America worth millions of dollars, and alleviate much suffering, as well as save many valua ble lives. Let us by all means give the Eucalyptus a fair trial. The Wilmington Enterprise reports that "Col. D. B. Wilson planted a park cf 2,000 Eucalyptus trees cn the 20th of March, 1875. The trees when set out were from four to six inches in height, and many of the lower tranches in a year grew ever four feet ia length. It is no exaggeration to say that thest trees Lave grown four feet in five aonths. We Lave finiilar instances cf the ex traordinary growth of the eucalyptus in San Diego." The Eucaljrjtcs Lvs a taU, red dkh, tzzooHi' item, with ragred. Lairing bait, ard a dclido", olcr- ous, gummy smell. It Miwico. Ag m useu as a Li i ".c &X?'?ct( throat I! uuu, Boove an, as a bath 6 1 Tho leaves and small 'branches put m hot water, and it is said tW such baths .remove neuralrio w ' rheumatism, and the maW?' utuw fcw tuu country, Xue flow. tho Eucalyptus tribo is verv lit. myrtle flower, is full f iL9 attracts a multitude of Oies.becV if and the birda nnfnvall. - they find not only food but ft,vv warm, icaty cover in winter shelter from the burning sua h'sml mer. 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