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MATAGORDA, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1859.
..VOLUME I,
POLITENESS PAYS.
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THE PRINTER.
THE POOR LAWYER.
“And why shouldn’t I ?” said tike grocer,
were
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within. I returned to breakfast, but could
Tire:
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depend upon it that half the success of hom-
oepathy is due to the sweet peace it has
Between the
gurgling down of lothsomo mixtures and
the saccharine delign essence of minute glo-
bules, what tender mother could for a mo-
ment hesitate ?”
to a young shop-
three cents’
for 4
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the inn on the preceding evening, when I
had knocked him out of doors ; for striking
an old man, was circulated with favorable
exaggeration. Even my beardless chin and
Z j “Seems to me you treat that ragged
motion to lay on little brat with more politeness than I should,
said a rough looking man to a young shop-
THE GAZETTE,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
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intends to make ladies’ caps, re pack pork,
set hen’s eggs under wild ducks, and horse
jokeys and faro dealers can be supplied
with old saddles, smelling bottles, and all
the vegetables of this year’s growth. Also,
quail traps repaired, renovated and fabri-
cated. All kinds of needle work can be
done with accuracy pantaloons patched with
one hundred pounds of new lard and forty
pounds of hemp—tow cloth, goose grease
and gridirons to be bartered off for soft
soap. For reference apply to Hostetter’s.
To interest a number of people in your
welfare, get in debt to them. If they will
piece until the eagle on it squeals like a lo-
comotive or an old maid. Let us print the
bills, and inform the country that we are as
full of patriotism as an
tadpoles. ^Laughter.) I don’t believe in
doing things by halves. Permit me, Mr.
Speaker, to make a practical quotation from
one of our noblest authors !
“I love to see the green grass among the
red May roses ;
I love to see an old gray hoes, for when
he goes, hegosu (Peals of laugh-
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more
you know they will cause. Be very gra-
cious, with children especially. I have
seen old men shiver at the recollection of and slipped it under his vest.
Time passed, and Wyman the grocer, was
the most popular man in town. His smil-
ing face at forty years was greeted every-
where. Young men and maidens always
patronized Wyman. It was strange to see
the transformation that took place so grad-
ually; the little dirty faced juveniles shot
up into awkward youths learning truths,
and then grew to be respectable business
men. Wyman enlarged his shop,and built
him a splendid house, “all the fruits of the
childrens pennies,” he often said laugh-
ingly-
Yes, with him, It paid to be polite', it al-
ways pays. It pays the merchan t as well
as the mechanic, the lawyer as well as the
physician. Urbane manners have been the
means of making many a fortune, while the
of triumph, “I told you so !
pays.
,keof sag
s time pj|
-tycCOI®
r-Execuiq|
;d Testaijji
No man can tell wbat he can do untilj
tries, and tries with resolution.
Crinoline Dethroned nr Paris.—The
.. correspondent of the Boston Traveler, vof De
and clear.
“0, I don’t know; it’s queer, that’s all ;
you are the only man that does it, I reckon
in these parts.”
“Well, I’ll tell you,”said Wyman delibcra- actors, traveling preachers, ventriloquists-
tely unwinding the spool of cord and twist-
ing the string about the package he had in
hand : “the fact is, if I wasn’t naturally
they are not alive to their own. It is to the
advantage of creditors to aid their debtors.
Osesar owed more than a million of dol-
lars before he obtained his first public em-
ployment, and at a later period his liabili-
ties exceeded his assets by ten millions.
His creditors constituted an important con-
good than the very considerable harm stituency, and doubtless aided to secure his
barrel. I shall have many a good customer
among the “brats;” besides, I have always
ting-needle. Let us not squeeze a five cent found that politeness pays well.”
one of the grandest events ever recorded, looking up with his honest face, wide open
in letters of living fire, upon the walls of the
temple of fame, by the strong right arm of
the good of warl On such occasions we
should rise above party lines and political
distinctions. I never fought under the ban-
ner of Old Hickory, but, “by the eternal,” I
wish I had. (Laughter and applausej If
the old war horse was here now, he would
not know his own children from the side of tender towards the children, I should treat
Joseph’s coat of many colors—Whigs, Know
court closed, I found myself with a hundred ^°thing8> Democrats, hard, soft boiled,
R
This is a resolution simply asked that no-
tice be given to the public that we will cel-
ebrate that day. We have declared our
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the people gave me far more credit than I
deserved. The chance business which oc-
curs in our courts came thronging in upon
me. I was repeatedly employed in other
cases, and by Saturday night, when the
man,
“something in that; but I never looked at
Illinois swamp is of it in that light before ”
“The boy who bought the sugar,” continu-
ed the grocer, “is one of no ordinary mind
if I am not mistaken. If his father was
dead I’d take him with me into the store
and make a man of him—though I reckon
nature will do better for him than I could;”
and the far-seeing grocer smilingly handed
a cent’s worth to a little timid child, whose
top curl just reached to the counter.
Time verified the prediction of Wyman,
the grocer. There wasn’t a shop in the
place where so milch small change was
spent as in his; for the children loved to go
where they were not afraid of rough ac-
tions or rude speeches. They felt themselves
safe while making their little purchases ; throned,
they saw that their rights were respected ;
and it is well known that on such trifling
elections.
A loafer took a fish in the market-hause,
The tail
the rhubarb and jalap of infancy. You may hanging down so as to be seen, the first
man he met suggested to him that he should
either wear a longer jacket, or steal a
shorter fish.
A Dutchman’s heart-r?nding soliloquy is
described thus : “She lofes Shon Mickle so
much petter as I, because he’s cot koople ragged boy, the drunkard’s son, became
! tollars m ore as I has I”
court, the expectations the culprit bad
formed of my talents ; all of these and a
1 had done when I robbed her of the kiss crowd of similar notions, kept whirling in
n the room, and take to flight; my mind. I tossed about all night fearing s;ck nian unless it is clear that they will do
chained to the spot, for I really morning would find me exhausted and in-
competent—in a word, the day dawned on
me, a miserable fellow.
I got up feverish and nervous. I walked
out to breakfast, striving to collect my
thoughts, and tranquilize my feelings. It
was a bright morning—the air was pure
Do you and frosty—I bathed my forehead and my brought into the nursery,
hands in a beautiful running stream, but I
lously clean, but his clothes were poor and
patched, though not as the man had insin-
uated, ragged. His mother was a woman
intention, and now, when we come to pub- possessing much force of character—a hard
didn’t get along. The roughness that
speaks its mind at all times and in all
places, boasting itself that it is only honest
blunt and straight farward, is a habit that
demoralizes as well as insults. Ask any
man you chance to see, if he remembers
those who treated him with urbanity when
he was a child, and he will recall his name
with a throb of pleasure. Perhaps, too, he
will couple some other name with the
epithet of “old rascal 1” and “I never liked
that man—I wouldn’t have dealings with
him.”
It paid the grocer to ‘ be'polite.
ter.)
The resolution was not tabled.
Western Life.—We clip the following
advertisement from a recent number of the
St. Joseph’s, Mo., Daily Gazette :
Special Notice.—Bartholomew McGinnis
offers his services to the citizens of this
city as a wig-maker, music-master and
dealer in dry fruits. He has come here and
gives people information that he intends to
working woman who had been reared in
apparently better circumstances than those
that now surrounded her, for she was the
wife of a drunkard.
The grocer was busy, and he evidently
had not heard what was said, so the rough
looking man remarked again.
“I say Wyman, you are a queer one.”
“How queer, Gross ?” asked the grocer,
lomy is like that of the old skinflint who throwing a scoop of tea into the scales.
“Why you treat all the little beggars
about here with as much consideration
when they come with their pennies, as if
the eye, that expressed a volume of comic
recollections ; we both broke into a laugh,
and from that moment all went on well.
Passing the delightful discription that
succeeded, we proceed to the denouncement should have given back to the
of Ringwood’s love affair—the marriage
and settlement.
That very Autum I was admitted to the
bar, and a month afterwards was married.
We were a young couple, she not above
sixteen, and I not quite twenty! and both
almost without a dollar in the world. The
establishment which we set up was suited
to our circumstances; a low house with two
small rooms, a bed, a table, a half dozen
knives and forks, a half dozen spoons; eve-
rything by the half dozen, and a little delph
ware, everything in a small way, we were
so poor, but then so happy.
We had not been married many days
when there was a court held in a country
town, about twenty miles distant. It was
necessary for me to go there, and put my-
self in the way of business, but how was I
to go? I had expended all my means in our
establishment, and then it was hard part-
ing with my wife so soon after marriage.
i tea, and blatherskites 1
I belong to no party. I am free, unbri-
dled, unsaddled, in the political pasture.—
Like a bob tailed bull in fly time, I charge
r own
flies. (Great laughter.) Gentlemen, let us
show our liberality on patriotic occasions.
Why, some men have no more patriotism
than you could stuff into the eye of a knit-
THE MATAGORDA GAZETTE
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per, and tied it very carefully.
The^boy in question had presented a re-
marked physiognomy. From under his rim-
less hat proceeded a wide, full brow, deep
sparkling eyes, and features full of bold re-
appropriate manner the 8th of January, solution. His face and hands were scrupu-
lish it, some gentleman is suddenly taken
with “the retrenchment gripes,’ and squirms
around like a long red fishing worm on a
pin hook. (Laughter.) Gentlemen keep
continually talking about economy. I my-
s elf don’t believe in tying the public purse
with cobweb strings, but when retrench-
ment comes in contact with patriotism, it
assumes the form of “smallness.” Such
econ<
had a pair of boots made for his little boy
without soles, that they might last the lon-
ger. (Laughter.) I reverence the day we
celebrate. It is fraught with reminiscences they bought by the wholesale.”
the most soul-stirring ; it brings to mind ‘
repast. It was time to go to court; and I
went there with a throbbing heart. I be-
lieve if it had not been for the thoughts of
my dear little wife in her lonely house, I
! man bis dol-
lars and relinquished the cause. I took my
seat, looking I am convinced, more like a
culprit than the rogue I was to defend.
When the time came for me to speak my
heart died within me. I rose embarrassed
and dismayed, and stammered opening my
cause, I went on from bad to worse, and
felt as if I was going down. Just then the
public prosecutor, a man of talents, but
somewhat rough in his practice, made a
sarcastic remark on something I had said.
It was like an electric spark, and ran ting-
ling through every vein in my body. In
an instant my diffidence was gone. My
whole spirit was in arms. I answered with
promptness, for I felt the cruelty of such an
attack, upon a novice in my situation. The
public prosecutor made a kind of apology.
This, for a man of his redoubted powers,
was a vast confession. I renewed my ar-
gument with a fearful growl, carried the
cause triumphantly, and the man was ac-
However, go I must. Money must be made <fultte(D
This was the making of me. Every body
was curious to Know who this young law-
yer was that had so suddenly risen among
them, and bearded the Attorney General in
Her last look, so sweet the very outset. The story of my debut at
tio 00 : 6 months $7 00 ; 3 months $5 50
18 00; “ 12 00; “ 10 00
25 00; “ 18 00 ; “ 15 00
35 00; “ 25 00; “ 18 00
€0 00; " 35 00; “ 25 00
100 00; “ 60 00 ; '* 3o 00
Mir Advertisements of aporsonalcharactcr, when admis-
sable, will be charged double price. ..... ,
MW*Political circulars or public addresses for individual
benefit will be charged as advertisements.
Carriage or Obituary notices exceeding ten lines in
length, charged as advertisements. ... ...
KVYearly advertisers will be confined to their legiti-
mate business ; if otherwise they will be charged
Advertisements whan handed in not specifying the
number of insertions, will be continued until iorbid,
and charged for accordingly.
Advertisements from a distance must be accompa-
nied with the cash, or city acceptance, to secure in-
sertion. ..
Candidates’ announcements for County offices, Jo :
State, District and Congressional, $10 ; payment re-
quired invariably in advance. ....
M3_A11 advertisements, the publication of which is re-
quired by law, must be paid for in advance.
—■——
them as I do from motives of policy. You
see, I’m but a young man; and these
scrambled and fried ; Lincolnites, Douglas- “brats,” as you call them, are giowing up
fast. Many of them, of little worth as they
seem now, will become men of chaiacter
and men of business. Now I want to re-
tain their custom,” he said laughingly :—
their pennies in the course of a few years, were printers,
will turn into pounds; their three cents
Be Sparing of Drugs.—Dr. Holmes in his
valedictory address to the medical students
of Harvard University gives the following,
advice to the students who were about to
graduate:
“With regard to the exhibition of drugs not then promote your interest, it is because
as a part of your medical treatment, the
Many remedies
ken, to speak for tne first time in a strange y0U give would make a well person so ill
that he would send for you at once if he had
taken one of your doses accidentally. It
is not quite fair to give such things to a
ecessor. It is long, and draped,
ing, like a Muse’s costume—or lik|
tire in wich Milton robed the 'p j
devout and pure.’”
The other day, a teacher ot
while putting a company of yj
the gentle sex through the
to the word “lad,” of which iira
with the modern method, she aski
nification. One little Puss, on tk
being put with a sidelong loom
ingly answened, for oortin’ wi’fl
He who never relaxes into
is a wearisome companion ; bu’"
him who jests at everything! su
parage by somo ludicorous ass'''
o w r objects which are presented to n'gEESS (j0(
cross-grained, have wondered why they thereby render themselves* '^
_i— mi. . . of any emotion, which can eitherur
soften. * t ■
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Marriage Extraordinary.— Thq Afir1'
boro (N. C.) Argus says :
In the Public Square at Monroi
county, by T. C. Wilson, Esq,, Mr «
Watts, aged 83, to Miss Mary Ha *
65, both paupers. The marriay
made np by subscription am^’*
nesses, and ten cents worth ' '
tributed around to commenu
event: s v¥_
A hale old man was Thon rs.
But Mary was a Ha_d
Good luck attend the mb
ft er first born be a W’
and fifty dollars in silver, three hundred dol-
lars in notes, a horse that I afterwards sold
for two hundred more.
Never did a miser gloat more on his mon-
ey, and with more delight. I locked the
door of my room, piled the money in a heap arou°d in tLe high grass and fight my
on the table, walked around it, sat with my
elbows on the table, and my chin upon my
hands, and gazed upon it. Was I thinking
of the money ? No 1 I was thinking of my
little wife at home.
Another sleepless night ensued, but what
a night of golden fancies and splendid air.
As soon as morning dawned, I was up,
mounted the borrowed horse with which I
had come to court, and led the other which
I had received as a fee. All the way I was
delighting myself with the thoughts of the
surprise I had in store for my wife ; both of
us had expected nothing but that I should
spend all the money that I had borrowed
and return in debt.
Our meeting was joyous as you may sup-
pose ; but I played the part of the Indian
hunter, who, when he returns from the chase,
never for a time speaks of his success. She
had prepared a rustic meal for me, and
while it was getting ready, I seated myself
at an old fashioned desk in one corner^ and
began to count over the money and put it
away. She came to me before I had finish-
ed, and asked me who I had collected the
money for.
“For myself to be sure,” replied I with open Middleton’s alley, No. 12, where he
affected coolness ; “I made it at court.”
She looked me in the face for a moment in-
credulously. I tried to keep my counte-
nance and play the Indian, but it would not
do. My muscles began to twitch ; my feel-
ings all at once gave way ; I caught her
in my arms, laughed, cried, and danced
abont the room like a crazy man. From
that time forward we never wanted money.
If paid in advance. $3 00
If not paid in six months
If not paid until the expiration of the year.. .$4 00
JO-No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid.
syRnt»s of Advertising.—One square (ten lines) first
Insertion
Each subsequent insertion...... . . .... ■ • ■ ■ ■
I square 1 year f
i column
or we would have the wolf at the door. I
accordingly borrowed a horse, and borrow-
ed a little cash, and rode off from my door,
leaving my wife standing there, and waving
her hand after me. ]
and so becoming, went to my heart. I felt
as though I could go through fire and wa-
ter for her.
I arrived at the town on a cool Octo- • r r
ber evening. The Inn was crowded, for the J!" ‘"L^™u2°!r
court was to commence the following day
I knew no one, and wondered how I, a stran-
ger and a mere youngster, was to make his
way in such a crowd and get business. The
public room thronged with all the idlers in
the country, who gather together on such
occasions. There was some drinking going
on, with great noise and a little altercation.
Just as I entered the room, I saw a rough
bully of a fellow-man. He came swagger-
ing by me, and elbowed me as he passed.
I immediately knocked him down and kick-
ed him into the street. I needed no better
introduction. In a moment I had a half
dozen rough shakers of the hand and invi-
tations to drink, and found myself quite a
personage in this rough assemblage.
The next morning the court opened—I
took my seat among the lawyers, but as a
mere spectator, not having any idea where
business was to come from. In the course
of the morning a man was put to the bar,
charged with passing counterfeit money;
and was asked if he was ready for trial.
He answered in the negative. 1 fe had been
confined in a place where there were no
lawyers, and had not an opportunity of con-
sulting any. He was told to choose coun-
sel from among the lawyers present, and
be ready for one the following day. He
looked around the court and selected me.
I was thunder-struck ! I, a beardless young-
ster. unpractised at the bar, perfectly un-
known. I felt diffident, yet delighted, and
could have hugged the rascal.
Before leaving the court, he gave me
one hundred dollars in a bag, as a retaining
fee. I could scarcely believe my senses, it
seemed like a dream. The heaviness of the
fee spoke but lightly of the man’s inno-
cence but that was no affair of mine. I
was to be advocate, not judge or jury. I
followed him to the jail, and learned of him
all the particulars in the case : from thence
I went to the Clerk’s office, and took min-
utes of the indictment. I then examined
the law on the subject, and prepared my
brief in my room. All this occupied me un-
til midnight, when I went to bed and tried
to sleep. It was all in vain. Never in all
my life was I more wide awake. A host
of thoughts and fancies kept rushing into
my mind ; the shower of gold that had so
unexpectedly fallen into my lap, the idea
of my poor little wife at home that I was to
astonish her with my good fortune. But
the awful responsibility that I had underta- gOi(ien rule j8 sparing.
The
> a
great as well as rich man. He established!
ONE OF THE SPEECHES.
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On the 1th inst., in the Missouri House
of Representatives, on a i
the table a resolution offered by Mr. Pitt
that “the Speaker be authorized to cause to keeper, who had just done up
be printed and posted one hundred bills, an-
nouncing that the 8th of January, 1859,
will be celebrated by the Legislature.” Mr.
Pitt made the following speech :
Mr. Speaxer—The House passed resolu-
tions, sir, the other day, to celebrate in an
I had taken my breakfast and was wait-
ing for my horse, when passing up and
down the piazza, I saw a young girl seated
near the window, evidently a visitor. She
was very pretty, with auburn hair and blue
eyes, and was dressed in white. I bad seen
nothing of the kind since I had left Rich-
mond, and at that time I was too much of
a boy to be struck by female dainty look-
ing, so different from the hale, buxom, brown
girl of the woods—and then her white
dress ’ It was dazzling 1 Never was a
poor youth so taken by surprise, and sud-
denly bewitched. My heart yearned to
know her ’ I had grown wild in the woods,
and had none of our habitudes of polite life.
Had she been like Peggy Pngh, or Sally
Pigham, or any of my leather dressed belles
of the Pigeon roost. I should have ap-
proached her without dread, nay, had she
•been as fair as Shurt’s daughters with their
looking glass lockets, I should not have
hesitated ; but that white dress, and those
auburn ringlets and blue eyes, and delicate
looks, quite daunted while they facinated
we. I don’t know wlrat put it into my head,
but I thought all at once that I would kiss
her? It would take a long acquaintance
to arrive at such a boon, but I might seize
upon it by sheer robbery. Nobody knew
me here. 1 would just step in and snatch
a kiss, mount my horse and ride off. She
would not be the worse for it; and that
kisa—oh, I should die if I did not get it.
I gave no time for the thought to cool, but
entered the house and stepped lightly into
the room. She was seated with her back
to the door, looking out of the window, and
did not hear my approach. I tapped her
chair, and as she turned and looked up,
snatched as sweet a kiss as ever was stol-
en, and vanished in a twinkling. The next
moment I was on horse-back, galloping
homeward, my very heart tingling at what
I had done.
After a variety of amusing adventures,
Ringwood attempts the study of the law,
in an obscure settlement o f Kentucky,
where he delved night and day. Ralph pur-
sues his studies, occasionally argues at a
debating society, and at length becomes a
genius, and a favorite in the eyes of the
married ladies of the village.
I called to t»ke tea one evening with one
of these ladies, when to my surprise and
confusion, I found here the identical blue
eyed little beauty whom I had so audacious-
ly kissed. I was formally introduced to her
neither of us betrayed any signs of previ-
ous acquaintance except by bushing to the
eyes. While tea was getting ready, the
lady of the house went out of tip room to
give some directions, and left us 4one.—
Heaven and earth what a situatio> ? J
would have given all the pittance I -as
worth, to have been in the deepest, dell
the forest. I felt the necessitji.^ saying
something in excuse for my formers leness;
I could not conjure up an idea, nor utter a
word. Every moment matters were grow-
ing worse, I felt at one time tempted to do
as
.—bolt from the room, and take to flight;
but I was <
longed to gain her good will.
At length I plucked uv» courage at seeing
her equally confused withmyself, and walk-
ing desperately up to her I exclaimed :
“I have been trying to muster up some-
thing to say to you, but I cannot. I feel
that I am in a horrible scrape.
have pity o» me and help me out of it.”
A sad smiled dimpled upon her mouth and could not allay the fever heat that raged
played upon the blushes of her cheek. She
looked up with a shy, but arch glante of not eat. A single cup of coffee formed my
his san mother in a handsome residence of I
her own, and sent in unlimited orders to the ■
grocer. It was his influence that gave I
Wyman several posts of honor in his na- |
tive city—for the town became a thriving
city, and when silver hairs hung on the
worth of sugar very neatly in a brown pa- of the old^.man, and the young
congressman’s name rang ^far and wide,
spoken by admiring tongues, praised by
men of wisdom and sterling worth, it was
no idle boast for him to say, with a smile
” Politeness I
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The Belfast (Ireland^ Mercury givge the g
following in relation to printers :
“From high to low they are the same
reckless light hearted clever well informed 1
reck fellows—knowing how to act better
than they do—nothing at times-everything *1
if the occasion requires, or the fit takes i
them. No sooner are they comfortable in (
one town, than they make tracks for an >
other even though they travel on ‘hair j
space’ means. And to what will they not
turn their hands? ‘We have seen,’ says an
American editor, one and the same individ-
ual of the craft, a minister in California, 11
lawyer in Missouri, a sheriff in Ohio, a boat ’
man in a western canal, sailing a privateer f
an auctioneer in New Yoik, and pressman d
in a great printing office.’ Nor are these ;
characteristics of the printers confined to 1
any country; they are everywhere the
same. We have met them as lecturers,
in fact, everything. We have met them on I
the tramp in this country members of tiggg|
roving profession from all parte of^
globe—Frenchmen, Spaniards,
Germans and Sweeds—and all a
as much at home as in their own'inSSSoM
Ardent lovers of liberty, king crJ
but little favor in their eyes. They are al-
ways with the people. When the Chartist |
excitement was raging in England, the I
most eloquent leaders in the movement I
When the baricades were I
raised in Paris, in 1848, the compositors I
i worth of sugar will turn into orders by the cast their types into bullets, and fired them !j
at the royalists’ troops. When the Ameri- I
cans were at war with Mexico. Geasral »
Taylors regiment waa composed almo?-jrf
"Something in that” ejaculated the coarse entirely of printers, and they were the ‘
thrusting his hands into his pockets, bravest of his troops.
Success in Life.—A man’s best- help is in I
himself—his own heart, his own soul, his#’ I
own resolute purpose. Ths battle cann<^f |
be fought by proxy. A man’s mind may
aroused by another—his desire to impio^ v|
and advance himself be excited by another (J
but ne must mould his own stuff, quarr* (
his own nature, make his owrr character.—f of
What if a man fail in one effort Let hi -
try again I Let him try again-—try ofteuj^1®
and he cannot foil ultimately to succeed.— J
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W
ing Octoder 14th, says “Crinoline is * r X]
” and writes as follows of the
fashion of train: “I almost like tlgK
fashion, although I suspect it may
sales much profit accrues in the aggregate, gentler enemy to man’s purse thaa^t|K
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Lipsey, E. J. The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 12, 1859, newspaper, February 12, 1859; Matagorda, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1329840/m1/1/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.