Freestone County, Texas
History - 1850s



THE LOUISVILLE DAILY COURIER newspaper 
Louisville, Kentucky 
Monday Morning, April 18, 1853

"Texas Items

  J. W. Simmons, the clerk in the post office at Galveston, concerned in the 
mail robbery alleged to have been committed in that office, has been examined 
before the United States Commissioner, and admitted to bail in the sum of 
$2500.
  The explosion of the "Farmer" is to undergo a further investigation in the 
courts of justice.
  The citizens of Victoria have voted to subscribe $20,000 to the stock of the 
San Antonio and Mexican Guld Railroad. The proposals to contractors to build 
this road, were to be opened on the 1st inst.
  We clip from the San Antonio "Advocate" of the 2d inst., the following
paragraphs:
  "We are informed that late discoveries have gone far to prove that the old
story of a gold mine near Austin is not the humbug as it was believed to be.
  Four hundred United States troops passed through our town on Monday last, on
their way to the frontier posts. We were informed that only four Americans were
in the ranks of the whole number - most of the soldiers being Irish, with a few
Germans and Poles.
  Mr. Robert Lott, of Golland county, lately had two valuable negro fellows
decoyed off by some Mexicans.  Mr. L. pursued them to the Rio Grande, where,
having obtained aid from the ranging companies, he attempted to retake them.
Their Mexican companions and themselves resisting to death, the Rangers were
compelled to kill the whole party, including a negro woman whose owner is 
unknown."