Newspaper Cuttings. (original) (raw)

Remember way back before the advent of the internet when people clipped newspapers instead of downloading stories?

Way back, newspaper clippings weren�t even called clippings. People referred t them as �cuttings.�

So, for some lazy summer reading, here are some early-day �cuttings� from various Texas newspapers:

�Latest date from Texas state that the commissioners have located the seat of government on the Colorado River at a point called Waterloo, thirty miles above Bastrop, and ten miles below the mountains...The name of the place is to be changed to Austin, which the capital of Texas will hereafter bear in honor of its illustrious founder.� � Maine Farmer, Winthrop, Me., May 4, 1839

�A company of about 180 volunteers and ten or twelve Indian spies went out with Captain Lewis some six weeks since in pursuit of Comanches, and for sport generally. A determination was expressed at that time to remain out during the whole summer unless a respectable body of Indians could be found sooner.� -- Houston Morning Star, June 2, 1841

�The Lockhart Clarion says that a drove of three hundred and fifty Beeves passed through that town on the 25th ultimo, for markets in Missouri. If we are not mistaken, this is a new direction the stock trade of Texas is taking.� -- Texas State Gazette, May 6, 1854

�Robbing An Editor. � There are ungodly people in San Antonio � the robbery of editor of the Texan furnishes incontestable evidence of the fact. Under what strange hallucination did the person or persons labor who committed the unreasonable act � searching an editor�s trunk for money, and packing off his worn clothes.� -- Texas State Gazette, June 14, 1855

�Fort Town�s men hanged an abolitionist in the early morning of July 17 on a pecan tree near the bank of the Clear Fork, three-fourths of a mile west of Fort Worth. They left him hanging there. All through the day people thronged to gaze upon an abolitionist.� -- Fort Worth Whig Chief, July 25, 1860

A Galveston man, who had a mule for sale, hearing that a friend in Houston wanted to buy a mule, telegraphed him: �Dear Friend: If you are looking for an A No. 1 mule don�t forget me.�� � Galveston News, reprinted in Wit and Wisdom, Jan. 20, 1881

�At Baird, Texas, on the 3d instant Thos. Jones and George L. Franks, of Cotton Springs, getting into a dispute, met on the street, Franks with a shotgun and Jones with a revolver. Both fired and both were instantly killed.� � Silver City, N.M. Jan. 11, 1883

�Vote for the Confederate home amendment to the constitution. Surely the great state of Texas which has paid millions in pensions to Union soldiers, can afford $100,000 for the brave defenders of the Lone Star, in their old age.� -- Eagle Pass Guide, Nov. 3, 1894

�The Beaumont gushes have lost their force and the Lone Acre Oil Co., has filed a petition asking the court to modify the regulations so as to permit the construction of setting tanks near the wells. The conditions have changed so that pumps will have to be used to obtain the oil.� -- Texas State Democrat, Farm and Home, June 5, 1902

�A Triple Hanging
Smith, Brown and Jones hang their hopes of recovery upon Cheatom�s Laxative Chili Tablets. They will be around soon shaking hands with friends. 25 cts. No cure, no pay. A.M. Gilmer & Son.� � Rocksprings Rustler, Jan. 31, 1903

�Early Sunday morning Johnson Bird was passing the Arsenal block school when he was fired at twice, but was not hit. Mr. Bird states that he knows no reason why any one would wish to kill him, unless it was for some small affair he had at Lytton Springs several years ago.� -- Texas State Democrat, Farm and Home, June 5, 1905