03 Dec 1853
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Newspaper
Gonzales Inquirer
Location
Gonzales, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1853
Page
1
Publication details state a weekly Saturday edition by Smith and Darst with annual and advance payment terms. Rates include one square up to ten lines at .100 and .80 for subsequent insertions, with yearly ads discounted and all political addresses treated as regular ads.
The poem likens people to barbers in a playful critique of vanity and courtship. It argues some shave for money or humor and others for appearance, while warning that flattery in courting leads to later consequences in marriage. The narrator claims to prove the idea that all are barbers.
Gen D W C Clark praises Texas as the superb land with vast wealth resources and rail access to markets. He notes fertile Brazos bottom land near Waco yielding high cotton and corn, low labor needs, and expansive rolling prairies with large cattle herds and cheap cattle prices.
A Texas letter extols cattle, swine, and mineral wealth near Waco, notes coal, iron, and limestone resources, and praises the proposed Pacific Railroad route to El Paso. The writer predicts swift legislature action to charter a line and lauds Senators Rusk and Houston for mobilizing support.
The narrator recalls fleeing an unarmed pursuer and crossing a river amid gunfire shouting Texas forever. A dog accompanying them dies from Mexican cruelty as bullets force the crossing. Farther south Col Fannin's group is massacred at Goliad, with only a few spared to tend the wounded.
A Barbadoes churchyard vault has repeatedly displaced coffins during openings from 1807 to 1819. No cause found, with theories ranging from earthquakes to noxious gas. Similar incidents occurred in Hauton Suffolk England before the vault was hermetically sealed again.
A fragmentary feature mixes a boys dialogue about reckless fun with champagne and wedding talk, plus a New York Sun note on Arnold treason and Philadelphia effigy demonstrations. The piece blends juvenile banter with historical reportage and satire from the era.
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