Freestone County, Texas History 1871 News Dallas Herald March 11, 1871 Page 1 ... quietly in the courthouse yard at the time of melee there! Judge B. was employed by the friends of the prisoners and that is supposed to be the reason for the murderous assault. Judge Baker is known to be one of the most amiable and gentlemanly men in Texas. The transaction in Freestone county where Liety Stokes entrusted an armed criminal to the care of Smalley, and he was killed by the criminal, Hardin, was an ugly piece of business. Stokes pretends that some friend of Hardin must have given him the pistol with which he killed Smalley, while they were travelling on the road. If so, it shows that he guarded his prisoner very carelessly. Gen Davidson now comes before the Legislature with a petition to allow him more men and a fund of nearly half a million dollars to carry on his system of blackmailing. Verifly the times are out of joint. - [Navasota Tablet.] =================================================== The Galveston Tri-Weekly News published in Galveston, Texas July 7, 1871 issue Page: 1 The Fairfield (Freestone county) Ledger learns from different sources that the cotton crop of the State will scarely be more than half what it was last year. We think that three-fourths of last year's crop will be nearer the truth, provided present prospects are realized. The same paper is probably near the truth in stating that the crop of the other Southern States will be a third less than last year's. The same paper says the crop of corn will be verfy abundant, and also that the oak mast promises to be sufficient to fatten the hogs in the woods. ================================= The Galveston Tri-Weekly News published in Galveston, Texas July 21, 1871 issue Page: 1 At the Radical convention of Freestone county, the delegates to the Congressional Convention were instructed to vote for Stevenson. A motion to indorse [endorse] Clark was unamiously voted down. An effort was made to break up the convention, but failed. ================================= The Galveston Tri-Weekly News published in Galveston, Texas August 11, 1871 issue Page: 2 The Democratic meeting at Stonewall, Freestone county, was a rousing one, and a great success thoughout. ================================= The Galveston Tri-Weekly News published in Galveston, Texas September 20, 1871 Page: 4 There was a grand Democratic meeting and barbecue at Box Chuch, Freestone county, on the 6th inst. More than a thousand persons were in attendance. At Stonewall, in the same county, another large meeting was held on the 7th. - Fairfield Ledger, 9th. ================================= The Galveston Tri-Weekly News published in Galveston, Texas November 15, 1871 Page: 4 [Communicated.] Fairfield, Freestone Co., Texas, } Nov. 4, 1871 } EDS. NEWS - I have had my attention very recently called to a publication in the Daily State Journal of the 13th ult., purporting to be a "statement" signed and sworn to by W. H. Tracy, registrar, Freestone county, appended to which is what purported to be the sworn certificate of Edgar Emanuel, Wm Harrison, ... ================================= The Galveston Tri-Weekly News published in Galveston, Texas November 29, 1871 Communicated. Butler. Freestone, County, } Texas, Nov. 24th, 1871 } EDITORS NEWS: I am a subscriber for your weekly paper and have been for two or three years. Last year we did not have any postmaster at this place and we had to get our mail at Fairfield, so we could look over it, that is for not getting your paper until it was two or three weeks old, but that cause is now removed. We have a regular Postoffice here now, and I am the Assistant Post- master at this place and attend to the office myself. We have a mail here three times a week from Groesbeck, Tuesdays, Thrusdays and Saturdays. Your weekly paper is published on Mondays, and we ought to get it in Thrusday's mail, but in the place of that, we never got it, until the next week, on Tuesdays or Thrusdays mail. I know the paper is mailed at Galveston to this office, or I believe it. The delay is somewhere about the head of the railroad or the office where it connects with the railroad. Please look after them, and give them fits. I remain truly yours, N.