Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - February 14, 1874 - Page: 1
Texas Items
MR. JAMES LITTLE, who fought to secure Texas independence, died at Long Bottom, Freestone county, on 31st ultimo, aged seventy years.
Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - July 11, 1874 - Page: 2
State Items
Mr. Bert Johnson, son of the late Colonel Johnson, of Freestone county, first worthy master of the Texas State grange, died at Tehuacana on the 4th, and was buried by the patrons of husbandry on the 5th. Both father and son were devoted patrons, and their loss will be severely felt in that region, as well as by the order in the state generally.
Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - October 24, 1874 - Page: 3
Married
E. P. Graves, Esq., one of our rising young lawyers, was married on Thursday evening, to Miss Julia Gibbs, of Freestone county. The bridesmaids were Miss May Jeffries, daughter of Dr. Jeffries, of this city, and Miss Ella Gibbs, of Huntsville. The groomsmen were Captain Duncan, of the firm of Messrs. Cummins & Duncan, and Dr. Allen, of the firm of Allen & Ewing, of this city.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - March 6, 1875 - Page: 1
HOUSE
...
Mr. Manning of
Freestone, who had yesterday
voted for the substitute moved to consider, which motion was carried by a vote
of 41 to 35.
[same issue, same page]
Pending the call, Mr. Manning, by consent, called up the senate bill incorporating the Fairfield, Hillsboro and Cleburne railroad company. Passed under suspension of the rules.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - May 1, 1875- Page: 1
Texas in Brief
We have been in correspondence
with a young lady at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, whom we requested to seek out the graves of the confederate
dead of Freestone, who sleep in the cemetery at that place.
Accompanied by the sexton, she examined the portion occupied by the loved
ones of company G, 7th Texas infantry, (Colonel
Gregg's) who fell by the hand of disease, and although it will afford no
consolation to the surviving friends to know that the simple head boards, rudely
written by the hand of a comrade, have rotted to the ground, so that their names
could not be discerned, yet it is a pleasure to revert to revert in memory to
their last resting place.
No silver-mounted coffins enclose
their dear remains, no costly robes enwrap the cherished forms.
They were laid away in their uniform, which had been worn through
toilsome service, perhaps, but, oh! how honored by their noble deeds!
No mausoleum grand may ever rise to mark
the spot where they have fallen, but their names are graven on the hearts of a
grateful people, who fought so long and so gallantly in defense of the "Lost
Cause" - Freestone Herald
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - October 14, 1876 - Page: 4
General Braxton leaves but one surviving brother. Captain Dunbar Bragg, who, for over twenty years, has been a resident of Freestone county, Texas. It is our pleasure to have known him years ago, and to bear testimony to his great worth as a private citizen.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - Nov. 18, 1876 issue - Page: 3
The engineer corps have completed the survey of the Waco, Fairfield and Palestine Railroad. The length of the line is ninety miles. A number of the citizens of Waco have subscribed to the stock of the road.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - January 13, 1877 - Page: 1
TEXAS has the railroad mania, the State is being grid-ironed with railroads. Luckily there is method in the mania and shrewd calculation, as iron and all railroad plant is cheaper than it has ever been. A first-class road is now about to be built from Palestine by-way of Fairfield to Waco, at the cost of only $10,000 a mile. Wish the fever would break out in Louisiana. [New Orleans Times]
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - March 10, 1877 – Page: 4
Wortham
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A Prominent
Citizen Aroused, Called
to His Door and
Shot down in Cold
Blood - The
Unknown Assassin Escapes,
but is Being
Pursued
Special to The Herald
WORTHAM, Texas, March 2. - Our neighborhood has been electrified and horrified by the brutal assassination of one of our most respected citizens, in the person of Dr. J. S. Webb, who lived five miles east of this place, at 8 o'clock last night. He was aroused by some unknown person, and upon appearing at his door was shot down in cold blood, falling without a word. Only a glimpse of the assassin was caught as he was making his escape, and the most vigorous search has, as yet, met with no success. The cause is supposed to be an old feud of long expanse in the neighborhood, and well known to all in this section.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - March 17, 1877 - Page: 4
The State Over
The Waco, Palestine and Fairfield Railroad drags a little. No enthusiasm and less money.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - May 26, 1877 - Page: 2
The people of Freestone county will soon decide the question of local option in that county. The question presents itself squarely before them, and it will elicit a vote of all parties at all interested on either side.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - June 4, 1877 - Page: 6
State News from
All Sections
Navarro County
…Mr. T. A. Hays informs us that the crop prospects in and around Birdston are looking very fine. No damage from grasshoppers. This section of the county is rapidly filling up and improving…
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - July 28, 1877 - Page: 4
The State Over
Freestone County - On Wednesday of last week; at Davids' mills, a Mr. Bugg was killed by his brother-in-law, Adams, for abusive language in reference to Adam's mother. Adams made his escape -- On Saturday, the 14th, at Woodland, Mr. Haralson was killed by Mr. W. P. Johnson. The Freestone Herald did not learn the particulars. -- Plenty of rain has fallen just when most needed. -- The corn crop is secure and abundant, and cotton is growing finely -- The district conference of the Methodist Episcopal church met in Cotton Gin on Wednesday, the 25th.
The Dallas Weekly Herald (of Dallas, Texas) - December 8, 1877 - Page: 6
The State Over
Freestone County - Fairfield Reporter: A serious difficulty occurred at Woodland last Sunday evening. A young man named Whittaker got intoxicated and boisterous and rode his horse twice into the grocery store kept by P. E. Waters. Mr. Whittaker was put out by parties both times, and the last time he drew his knife and tried to re-enter, but was prevented from doing so. Being ordered away by Mr. Waters, Mr. Whittaker started off from the house, but when Mr. Waters came out afterward, Whittaker turned round and was walking up to Mr. Waters with a knife in his hand, when Mr. Waters struck him on the side of the head with a gun inflicting, it is feared, a mortal wound. Up to Wednesday noon Mr. Whittaker was still insensible from the blow, and had considerable fever. The wounded man is a stranger about Woodland, not even his first name being known. He is apparently not over twenty-five. The only paper found on his person was a bill of goods bought of Mr. J. J. Beckham, of Mexia.
Galveston News (of Galveston, Texas) - December 10, 1877 – Page: 6
A Murder at Wortham
Wortham, Dec. 3, 1877
This community was terribly
shocked this afternoon by the murder of the town marshal Jackson Barfield.
In a difficulty with three desperate characters, Alf. Rushing, F. P. Carter and Haror Scruggs.
The shooting of Marshal Barfield
was done by Alf. Rushing, who shot him while the Marshal’s back was turned towards him.
There are now five indictments pending in Corsicana against him for
cattle-stealing, and he is under bond of $1300.
They fled from town, pursued by
citizens of the town and country, and F. P. Carter was captured after a chase of two miles.
He was found lying on the prairie wounded, and was brought back to town
by a posse. A party is still out in
pursuit of the other two, who have lost their horses, and there is good prospect
of capturing them in Pinoak Bottom.
This town has lost a good officer and citizen, and his sad and untimely end is
deeply deplored.
Galveston News (of Galveston, Texas) - December 17, 1877 – Page: 3
The Late Murder
of the Town Marshal at Wortham
Wortham, Dec. 8, 1877
Eds. News – In justice to the
citizens of this community, and owing to many incorrect statements in some of
our local papers, which lead to a general misconstruction of the affair, we give
below a true account of the horrible murder perpetrated in our midst last
Monday, causing each citizen to recoil with horror at its barbarity and total
lack of provocation.
Rushing, Scruggs, and Carter came in to town, armed with shot-guns,
proceeded to the store of J. J. Stubbs, and demanded a pistol which they accused
him of having taken from their saddlebags, left in his store a few days since.
Mr. Stubbs told them he knew nothing about it.
They remained in and about the store for some time, occasionally alluding
to the matter, with Stubbs, saying they intended having the pistol, seventeen
dollars, or blood. Stubbs still
persisted, saying that he knew nothing of it.
The attention of the marshal was called to the disturbance brewing.
He quietly walked across to the
store and asked them, in a friendly manner, not to raise a disturbance and to be
more quiet. The marshal was not
accused to his face of having taken the pistol, but seemed to be trying to
pacify them, and apprehended no danger to himself.
Turned his back upon them to walk off he was shot in the back by Alf
Rushing, nine buckshot passing through his body – three through his heart.
They had previously mounted their horses.
Immediately upon firing they wheeled and, under a shower of buckshot,
with their horses at full speed, left town.
As quickly as possible several citizens procured horses and went in hot
pursuit. Some distance from the
town they turned on their pursuers; several shots were exchanged and they
continued their flight. In this
encounter Carter was slightly and his horse
badly wounded. He left his horse
and, attempting to escape across the fields, was captured.
After a running race for several miles the others reached the bottom and
were lost in the brush.
All vigilance has been used for their capture, but up to this time without
success. Rushing is suppose to be secreted in Pin Oak
Creek bottom, in the neighborhood of those who sympathize with him, and are
supposed to use every means to aid him in escaping the hands of the law.
K. K. H.
The Galveston Weekly News – Jan. 14, 1878 – Page: 1
Rangers Unable to Capture a Desperado –
A
Bloody Feud Imminent
AUSTIN, Jan. 9, 1878.
Lieut. Arrington,
of the Frontier Battalion, with a detachment of eight men, returned from Wortham Depot,
on the Central, and reports the capture of Rushin a failure.
Rushin, with a party from Pisgah, in Navarro county,
took Wortham by storm not long ago,
and killed two of the town marshals.
The people in a large settlement about Pisgah, are relatives and friends
of Rushin, and harbor and protect him.
A mortal enmity exists between him and the people of Wortham. These facts
the Lieutenant gives, and says the civil authorities can not take Rushin, and
that there is great danger of a bloody and disgraceful feud.
He says at one house the surrounded he found six men, with ten or a dozen
improved Winchesters. They have
bought all the guns they could find at Corsicana,
and tried to buy arms from the rangers.
On his return he captured one Cook, who deserted from the rangers at
Hearne.
The New York Times (of New York City, New York) - Wednesday, July 23, 1878
Fruit in Eastern Texas
The Galveston (Texas) Christian Advocate of the 20th inst. says: "East Texas, though its lands may not equal in fertility those of some other sections, has resources that will insure a large population. Its mineral resources, its fine timber, and its fruit lands, will open industries which will make it the home of a crowded and prosperous population. Each visit we have made has impressed us with the special adaptation of its soil and climate for the production of fruit. It is only of late years that the attention of fruit-raisers has been turned to the choicest varieties. The results show that it can compete with the orchards of Maryland or the finest products of the tree or vine sent out from California. We were presented with a box of peaches raised by Brother C. B. Richardson near Henderson, of the Chinese cling variety, which would have averaged over a half pound each in weight. His orchard has varieties which begin to ripen about the 25th of May, and other come on in order until frost. His Irish potatoes yield 200 bushels per acre, and other vegetables in proportion. We saw specimens of the Texas mammoth apple, grown by G. B. Kelly, some 20 miles from Henderson. We were ready to believe the statement that this variety is well named. They weigh about 22 ounces each. Pears and grapes do finely. Many think the pear is, of all fruits, specially suited to this climate. Large quantities of fruit are shipped annually from the orchards in this region, and are a source of increasing income to those who are paying attention to this industry. One farm we visited in Anderson County is shipping about 75 boxes of peaches per day. These boxes sell at from 40 to 75 cents in Galveston.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) – March 10, 1879 – Page 2
State Press
The
Freestone Herald is opposed to the idea of
changing the constitution so that judges shall be appointed instead of being
elected by the people, and says:
The elective system has worked most admirably in this and other districts
in Texas.
If the people are qualified to elect law-makers, it appears to us they
are also capable of selecting the judges and administrators of the law.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - April 21, 1879 – Page: 3
Railroad News
Waco Telephone: Col. Wm. A. Taylor and Dr. G. C. McGregor have returned from their trip over the line of the proposed railway from Waco to Palestine. They found all along the line the most hearty appreciation of the certain benefits of the road, and an earnest desire is not mere words, either. Mexia, Fairfield and Palestine are each willing to give liberally to the enterprise. Palestine promises $40,000, depot grounds, and the right of way to the Trinity river; Fairfield pledges $40,000, depot grounds, and the right of way through Freestone county; Mexia engages to raise $30,000, will give depot grounds, and will give the right of way to Christmas creek in Limestone county. These sums are not mere promises. They are already pledged, secured and guaranteed by such gentlemen as Oliver & Griggs, at Mexia and Bradley & Peck at Fairfield. ….
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - September 18, 1879 – Page: 3
State Press. What the Interior Papers Say
The Freestone Recorder says the running of the lines dividing Navarro, Freestone, and Limestone counties showed Wortham to be one mile in Freestone county; Phillipi about the same distance in Freestone; Hava’s store about 500 yards in Navarro; Birdston about one mile in Navarro, and Winkler about 200 yards in Freestone. One house was found to be exactly on the line, which was Mr. Hazzard Anderson's who will claim his citizenship in Freestone.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - December 18, 1879 – Page: 1
What County Merchants And Planters Think About Cotton
MEXIA
Your correspondent has interviewed the leading merchants and some of the largest planters of Limestone and Freestone counties in regard to cotton weights in Galveston, and find no special complaints. Shippers think the owner of cotton should have account sales of weights of cotton when sold.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - April 1, 1880 – Page 2
THE GIBBET.
Two Men Legally Launched Into Eternity Yesterday. John Henry, at Corsicana, and Allen Towles, at Fairfield, Pay the Penalty of the Law for the Highest Crime Known To the Calendar
CORSICANA, March 26 – John Henry rested well last night, and when your
reporter visited him in jail at eight o’clock this morning, he was not only
resigned to his fate, but was cheerful, an ate a hearty breakfast.
Mr. Edens gave him a good supply of tobacco and cigars, which he received
gratefully, and shared liberally with his fellow-prisoners, giving Doran, his
condemned cell mate, the largest share.
Though not very talkative he answered all questions promptly, and in a
kindly manner. He expressed himself
as willing, and thought he was now prepared to die.
The gallows was erected just beneath the window of the
prisoner’s cell. It was arranged so
that a weight snatched the prisoner up instead of dropping him.
A large crowd gathered at the court-house, at an old store
near the jail yard – on the adjacent trees, fences – on any object that afforded
elevation.
At precisely 8 o’clock the sheriff cleared the jail yard of
all spectators except, those allowed by law.
At 3:15 the prisoner was brought to the scaffold, dressed in a black suit
of broad cloth. Sheriff Dunn made a short address on the solemnity of
the occasion, and was more nervous than the prisoner, who was perfectly calm and
quiet. The sheriff then read the
death warrant, and at the end of it asked the prisoner if he had anything to
say. He replied as follows:
“No, I have nothing to say. I
am willing to take my portion,” and then added after a short pause and slight
shudder: “I am willing to go.” Rev.
Z. Pardee then exhorted him to confess
any sins, before he died, that he committed in his life.
The prisoner replied: “I’ve nothing to confess.”
Pardee then made a short address: “This is the most solemn scene I have
ever witnessed. The law has been
violated and must be fulfilled.” A
chapter from the New Testament was read, a prayer was said and a hymn sang, the
prisoner was again bid to confess any secret sin of his life, and again
answered: “I have nothing to confess.”
His hands and feet were then tied.
He turned to Mr. Dunn and asked him to give Pardee some money for his
(Henry's) children. The sheriff told him
he could say anything he
wished.
He made the following reply: “I will make a few remarks to make you a
warning. This is the only man I ever
killed; never
desired to kill anybody; I am sorry for my Maker that I did so; hope God will
forgive me; I am willing to go; I
have no hard feeling for anybody, for the keepers treated me very well.
I hope to meet you all in heaven.”
Pardee asked: “Do you still believe you will be saved?”
He answered, much agitated, “Yes; I have nothing more to tell.”
The sheriff then adjusted the black and rope, and, stepping back, said:
“Good bye, John.” Deputy sheriff
Mallery cut the rope, and the prisoner was jerked up four feet, falling back one
and breaking his neck.
He remained motionless for two minutes, when he commenced writing,
drawing up his hands and feet, and breathed hard for ten minutes.
At 3:53 Drs. Blair, Telman and Seale pronounced him dead.
At 4:13 the body was cut down.
The facts for which John Henry suffered
the extreme penalty of the law to-day are about these:
On the morning of the day of the murder, John Henry, Jim Young, and a number of
other negroes, were congregated at Jim young’s house, amusing themselves by
popping an ox whip. Presently the
deceased, Alonzo Whitman, came up to the fence where Jim Young was standing, and got into a
difficulty with him about an altercation they had had at a party the night
before. Young tried to strike
Whitman with an ax, but was prevented.
Whitman then tried to cut Young with a knife, but Young ran from him down
the road about fifty yards from the house, where he got a stick and turned on
him. Friends to both parties
followed them, and one of his friends got between them, when they tried to get
at each other. At this juncture,
when they were trying to get together, John Henry ran into the house and got a
gun. When he came to the door the
belligerents were coming toward the house but were still trying to fight.
John Henry then stepped over the fence, raised his gun and shouted “clear
the track, God damn it! I’ll settle
that fuss!” Young and the other
negroes jumped to one side leaving Whitman standing in range of the gun.
Henry fired and Whiteman turning, ran a few feet and fell dead.
John Henry then said, “I told you, God damn it, I would fix it!” and
walked away.
An effort was made to prove that Henry and
Young were half brothers, but the evidence only
showed that they were good friends.
Whitman and Henry were both fussy, quarrelsome
men, and had not been on good terms for some time.
Jim Young fled the country when John Henry was arrested, and has not been
heard of since. The colored people
of that community (where murder was committed) believe that Young and Henry had
plotted the murder before hand.
In an interview had by a NEWS reporter with the doomed man
some two weeks ago, Henry made the following statement:
I am in good health and feel pretty well, but I don’t sleep
much. I am 29 years of age.
I lived in Matagorda county, this state, till I was 14 years old.
My parents either died while I was an infant, or I was taken away from
them; anyway I don’t recalled my father or mother.
I was never
married, but had a wife once. I
don’t feel disposed to tell what I have done wrong besides killing Alonzo
Whitman. I will say this much, however, I
have always worn a good reputation till I killed Lon.
I first fell out with Lon, in ’74 at a ball.
I walked … on the floor with a lady to dance, and he came betwixt me and
her. I told him then,
never to cross my path or I’d kill him and he knowed
[sic] I means what I said. I did not
expect to kill him when I did, but the old passion sprung up in my heart when I
say him and two or three other men fighting the rest who had almost been a
father to me. The difficulty of the
killing commenced on Thursday night before the day I killed him.
I saw him at a colored lady’s house that night and he tried to stab me.
The next morning, when I say him fighting my friend, I remembered him,
and shot him dead in his tacks. I
feel very sorry for what I have done.
I believe in a ??????, and that if I keep on like I am I will be saved.
Before I got in this trouble I didn’t believe in religion, but now I do.”
Execution of Allen Towles at Fairfield
FAIRFIELD, via Mexia, March 26 – The legal hanging in
Freestone county
took place today – Allen Towles, colored, paying the
death penalty for the atrocious murder of his wife last December.
Five minutes before execution the condemned man was interviewed by the
NEWS reporter.
He accused the judge, jury and officers
of unfairness in his trial, and insisted that he had no recollection whatever of
any of the circumstances in connection with the murder.
He did not deny having committed the crime, but said he was unconsciously
drunk at the time. Continuing in a
rambling way, he said that in 1874 he had killed, at Bryan, an Irishman one
night, dirking him to the hilt in the breast seven times.
At Waco, in 1876, he had exchanged shots with a white man and had floored him, but
whether he died then, or subsequently, he did not know, having immediately fled
the city. He said he had read the
Bible and the Age of Reason, and was of Paine’s way of thinking.
He believed that Christ had lived, but doubted his divinity – regarding
him as a good man, who had by his virtues been had a high priest in his
generation,, and when dead had been deified by the ignorant masses, traditions
finally attributing his birth as divine.
The scaffold erected in 1861 was in the hall of the jail,
and his execution was witnessed by only twelve persons.
At 2:05 p.m. he was lead form his cell to the grated window in the hall.
He spoke as follows: “Colored
people, I have only this to say; Take care of my two children; see that I am
buried by my wife, and bring the children occasionally to our graves.
Farewell.” He was moved to
tears. He stopped on the dead fall
at 2:10, and four minutes later was launched into eternity without benefit of
clergy. His neck was broken and
pulse ceased to beat at 2:22, when the corpse was cut down.
The crowd around the jail was small, not exceeding 150 persons.
Of the four executions in Freestone, two were for wife-murder, one for
incest, and the other for murdering an overseer in slave time.
Before leaving the cell the condemned asked to see and
speak with a playmate in boyhood. He
said to him in substance that he had sent for him to obtain three solemn
promises - first, that he would be a father to his children; second, that he
forswear drinking; and lastly, that he never touch cards; as those two sins
brought him to the scaffold.
Before leaving the jail at Corsicana, some two weeks ago, a
NEWS
reporter interrogated Allen Towles as to his past life.
Towles made the following statement:
I was born in Alabama and was raised in
Georgia. Came to this country when I was seven years
old. Lived in Grayson county till ’65, when I ran away from my
mother and went to Freestone county.
I never did anything mean except kill my wife, and I have been wretched
every since then. I had rather die
twice over than to suffer in my mind as I do when I think of her and my two
little orphan children. Me and my
wife went to Fairfield, the day of the night I killed
her, to buy some things for Christmas.
After we bought them, I got drunk, and she went home.
Towards night I went home and went to bed.
That’s all I remember until after I had killed her.
The witnesses said I went to bed with her.
After I had been asleep a little while, she woke me up and called my
name, and I told her if she knew me I would kill her.
She answered and said, “Why, Allen, do you suppose I don’t know you?”
As soon as she said that I shot her.
I am willing and I know I ought to die.
I hardly know what to think of a hereafter.
I have been treated very kindly, with only one exception; since I have
been here. Whenever a woman comes in
jail, the jailer jokes and tells her not to come near me; that I kill women.
I don’t like to hear this; it grates on my feelings.
Otherwise the jailor is as kind as he can be.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - July 8, 1880 – Page 6
Over The State.
Special Telegrams to the Galveston News
Celebration of Independence Day – Death from Morphine - Etc.
MEXIA, July 4 - ….
Mr. J.
F. Teague, an old and very highly respected citizen of
Freestone county,
died at his home, near Cotton Gin, on the
3d inst.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - July 15, 1880 – Page 2
Over The State.
Special Telegrams to the Galveston News
Fourth District Greenback Convention
BRYAN, July 7 – The greenback convention of
the fourth congressional district convened here to-day.
The attendance is estimated at 250 or 300.
Dr. Rankin
made a speech last night, and speeches were made to-day by Col. Kennedy, of
Freestone county,
Capt. A. N. Smith, of Robertson, and Col. Brady, of Houston.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - July 29, 1880 – Page 8
State Press. What the Interior Papers Say
…
The
Fairfield Recorder is satisfied with
“well enough”. It says:
Maj. Sayers and Col.
Lang are both good men, and men of considerable ability.
It is probable that either of them would make a good governor, yet there
is no positive assurance of the fact.
But it is not so with Gov. Roberts.
His administration is before the people.
It has benefited the State for more in a year and a half, than all the
other administrations did since the war.
We can not say that Gov. Roberts is the best man in the state for his
office, but with the lights before us, we do say that it would be unwise and
hazardous to experiment with new governors, when we have been so long in finding
one as good as the present incumbent.
The Recorder says McMullen, the blind
phrenologist, is lecturing and feeling head in
Fairfield.
As phrenology now stands in the estimation of critics, a blind man knows
about as much of the science as anybody else.
What may be true in the abstract has been overwhelmed by such a mass of
fable as to impair confidence in such facts as may exist.
The Standard (of Clarksville, Texas) - September 24, 1880 – Page 2
“The Clarksville Standard and
Fairfield Recorder seems much befogged
over the following remark made by us some weeks since:
“We exceedingly regret that the present canvass has shown
so little regard existing for popular opinion by our leading dailies.”
Both papers wonder what it is we regret in connection with
the dailies, but we cannot see how language could well be plainer. …
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - November 18, 1880 – Page 1
Seventeenth Legislature Of Texas
House of Representatives
District
43. B. P.
Philpott, dem.; Freestone, farmer.
Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - December 30, 1880 – Page 8
State Press. What the Interior Papers Say
Mr. Geo. K. Anderson, editor and publisher of the Freestone Herald, in consequence of long-continued ill-health, and upon the advise of physicians has been forced to suspend publication of the Herald and devote his time to a more active business. He takes an appropriate farewell to the profession. The Herald was an excellent weekly and useful representative of the interests of its county. It was characterized by good sense, independence and moderation.