The Velasco Times. (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1894 Page: 1 of 2
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VOL. 3.
VELASCO, BIIAZOKIA COUNTY.
•HflRMlON’S SUB-DIVISION >*
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COLONEL. REUBEN
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For more then fifty y
and fact, of Reuben It. Bro1
familiar to tho people of B
ty, especially to thoee Of
Ho wan in some r«e|
Air man in form and
Jaa about live feet ohr
height, with high for hi
oyim, aquiline nose, eXpl
and handsome face. U
perfect, graceful, lythe,
aetivo,without a pound of
Hi> wan always fond of
Hilling and indulged him
a porta, often camping out
a time with no covering to
spread live oaks and tl
H. aven lie had strong **»
paaniotiH and convictions; oaf
to have strong frendshipi notf
if he liked one lie spoke and I
ami hie dislike* were aamr
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Accounts of Merchants and Iniividuals Solicited.
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llotiKhttnd Hold mi all paid id the United htah*. and Kurope.
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L. M, DISNEY
nivlle* you n> rl.lt
See the Inllta and Vegetaldi
And Try our Climate
Choice Lands Near the City
For Small Fruit Faria., mid a large U«t of Cl^iieral land..
Write for price, and hill particular*.
■_.. IN. DiaNBV, Heal E.taU,
AI.VIN. TKXAM.
<XJ A. B. MAYES l CO.. tx>.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS,
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IUve Rnbcllylded Uic Wharton Plantation, AdJ«'ont tt» VeUsro, uni) A'ljoltiltiv ( Ihu st**-
tlon, on the Veliief* T»*miliial Kallwtiy. Thil 1h one ol the moM fninoiiH trm tH of land in tin*
County fur fertllttv and itnHlnctlveiieNs.
AGENTS FOR LARGE TRACTS OF LAND.
For Further Information Call on or Addrena ;
A. B. MAYES 6l CO., Velasco, Texas.
A Mild and Healthy Climate
WHERE tO
Fruit.. Vegetable, and Flower, grow and come to perfection during nine month. In the
year, whore two garden, of a general variety of vegetable, are made every year, .ml
of tome thing, three crop. In one year.
Lands in Large or Small Tracts.
Ai.vrs, Tbxas.
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THE LIVE OAK SALOON
urines, Liquors, Cigars
laeco,
Texas.
THE INTERNATIONAL ROUTE.
Hhorte.t, Qulrkct and Beat Route
To tlie 3\Toirtlx and Ejast
as* Only One Change of Care to the Principal Cities, in
The Dlrwl Route to MKXIOO via Laredo.
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: Line bet.
i Ron.ton and Ualve/
-Time I hour and 10 minute Train No. I
> at »06 p m. and Houston at UtW p m earrtea a Pullman Roflbttaieeplng Cm
n. J. run.
JQalMMne Teiae
. Ignat Pntnattan Te.a>
ASM Own Puaa Agent. PalraUne Texas
He. 8tMaisaWe
*’g a<i vanol np'ariny of iirgiioH; dJ
what oould not Im used or narried
It',thus delaying and diverting Santa
na’g march. Also to give auxlliiary
to tint Federal leaner* who wore
An
atri
a
Annii’a march.
aid to tlie Federal leaders who wore
con.piring and ««erting tholr cfTorle
to grotiw the northern states of Mexico
against Hanta Anna arttl (Ynturaliam.
('olonoi Brown said, that "in our
command at this time there were not
twelvo men in favor of Independence.
Iml wo wanted to keep Sant*
Anna in Mexico and out of
Texan. Thu object of the expedition
wan worthy of the military getune of a
Mnaby, a Job Sewnrt op ft Stonewall
Jaekmin. Hail It Imwiii RtitvuMoful lt
would have pnrfclvged Santa Anna or
di'tainud him in Mexico, but ho many
obntaclea were thrown in the way that
tlie <-X|M-dilion wan delayed until It war
defeated. When Jnhimon ipul (Irani
reached Ooliad they found Captain
I limit in eommand’, with a portion of
the troopa they proceeded on to San
Patricio having reeelvetl an order from
Cannin to collect horsea to mount the
men for the da«h on Matamoraa. Col-
onel (Irant with a nmall fornu of about
thirty men, one of1 whom 1 was, pro-
ceeded as far aa the Sal Colorado,
where he eaptured aliout three hun-
dred head of hornea, a Mexican Captain
and hla company In charge of them; re-
turning to San Patricio with prlaonem
and horaea. Grant went on another
expedition a* far aa. the Rio Grande,
defeated a party of Mexicans and oap-
tin-txl auverai hundred head of horaea
On our return, Placido Huenavldea,
Colonel Grant and myself lining about
half a mile ahead leading the hones, the
rest of the company following we were
imaalng between two points of timber,
when Htiddnnly from out them came
auverai hundred Mexican dragoons,
who quickl v surrounded bothnten and
horses. Grant, Placid<f''VMF> myself
could have then made our escape an we
were well mounted, and Home Distance
in advance but our first impulse was to
tv. Weditla
reflecting upon the imposailAiity of
return to our party. We did so without
•E UP
being of assistance to our comrades.
There were at least 1000 Mexican
cavalry with Hrrealn command
1‘lacldo wished to return with n.,
hut wo persuaded him to go atonoe to
Goliad and give Fannin imfortnation of
Urea’s advanoe. As Grant and I ap-
proached to ioin our party the dragoons
opened their lines and we pressed
through. We at once saw that most of
our men had been killed and we de-
termined to sell our Urea as dsarly as
My hone was i
a lam*-, but Grant told me to
IKmdble.
with
qulekly kl'
it told m«
mount Maior Morrlse’s who had Just
been killed. I did so without seeing
the object to be accomplished; Just
then however, the horses stampeded
breaking through the Mexican lines,
ypl Grant and I finding we wars the
only survivors, went with them, the
dragoons pursuing and shooting at us,
hitting but not badly wonodlag our
horses. As we were flying a dragoon
rushed neon me with b la Imps eat, tout
I knoeked It to one aide and shot kirn
aad fled on with Grant, the Maximum
oepl Johnson and ’three com nan lor*,
who oauapnd h) having a llghahuraUg
in their house by accident, and by that
signal were the Mexioau inhabitants
to have boon located and left unmolest-
ed., Fortune favored thuiu anil they
eaoaiied. W« were a woek on our way
and uporl our arrival, were imprisoned
and kept several days witliout ftaxl or
drink.
After a mock trigl wo wore condemn-
ed and MntoncSd to la» shot on the 8th
of April, 1888. At the apiaiinted time
we were all marohod out for that pur-
oya1' greatly emaciated lor the want of
fetid, und'Hic inhuman manner of our
imprisonment.
Our sentence was read lint uponnin-
teroesaiona and implm-allcna of the
priests and women, who had lieon in-
fluenced by our American friends in
Mataiaoras, wo wer«< respited. There
was a church in the city that had been
left in an unfinished state for the want
of uieatiK to complt^to it, unil to secure
the Interposition of the priest in our
bohaiL the Amerieans liad agreed to
raise and give them a sufficient sum
for this purpose. During the respite u
messenger was sent to tile city of
Mexico to obtain a reprieve; let re-
turned having secured a change of
sentence from deatli to a life-time im-
prisonment; we were hare footed and
all most destitute of clot hing and death
was preferable to Imprisonment. We
wore all young men. I believe I was tho
oldest of the party who had come to
Texas in search of adventure, and we
were certainly successful in our search.
Finally McNeely /xniisinnn, and I de-
termined to escape. Friends on tlie out-
side hail horses ready for our flight. We
determined to got out or die trying.
Wo waited for a favorable oppor-
tunity and one very dark uud stormy
night succeeded ill getting out.eludlng
tho notice of the sentries, sealing the
wall and finding the prepared horses
and weapons we had Isten promised
We traveled at night and concealed
ourselves during the day, anti after
many hardships /uul narrow tflibn.
emaciated, weak and almost starved, I
reached Victoria; from there I went to
Columbia, the capitol of the Kepuhllc,
and Hrasoria county has been my
home over sinoo.”
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Colonel Bros n returned to Georgia
the latter part of 18,17. married, and
shortly after returned to Texas with
his negroos anti projierty. He rented
a plantation on the Brazos or Bernard
In tha upper portion of this county,
until he had improved hla own platxi on
BuflkloOamp Bayou near Loke Jack-
son. When rils dwelling was complete
he brought his family from Georgia to
his homo In Texas.
In 1848 on aooount of their health,
he moved them to the mouth of the
Drams, twelve miles below bis plan-
tation; where he resided until the fall
of 1816 ghen he improved another
plantation upon the north hank of the
Hraaoa, about two mils# above whom
the aaw town of Valamo is situated.
Hem kg reaMe aatti Mm death of his
wllo la 187A. Ha than sold hla homo*
■ ■■ W M'jwnn allTI Jtlst cOrN
elusion that lt hi the \luty ojf the com-
monwealth to provlde\him with em-
ployment ()ne of our eAngrtwsmen has
recently introduced a bill apprujirlat-
ing fifty-two million dollars, in toe in-
terost of the unemployed.\ The Mtat««
of New York has authorised (New York
city to appropriate n million dollars,
evidently of “*■- * ...
the state furidki for the
unemployed. The mayor of tlie city of
Oakland, California, a sliort tlrno ago
caused a registry of tho names of tho
unemployed to tie made, and a thoinand
men stsin made their appearance and
were put to work improving the streets
at 82.00 |s<r day. A numlier of the un-
employed wert> given places as extra
watchmen on the |sdlce force on ac-
count of the prevalence of foot pods
and burglars In the vicinity. The men
thus employed receive fifty dollars a
month.
It is the manifest duty anti safest
policy of national, state, ‘ county and
municipal gnvernmomt to co-operate
In maintaining public works In the
way of needed improvements. That all
unemployed iiersons may find work at
fair wages. Those who choose to be
idle and live on the industry of others
hy questionable moans should tie
coerced bv authority, nnd required to
make an honest living. In the un|mr-
alluled sevurlty of tho time* through-
put the (xmntry, especially as to the
| forced Idleness of so many thousands of
strong men and wailing hands, It seems
that tlie inherent right of'government
to tax some of the auper-ahundant
wealth of the nation was never before
more urgent and Justifiable. As there
are a vast number of public enterprises
all the way from tho»o of a national
character down to our county roads and
bridges, no time seems more op|>or-
tune than now to forward internal Im-
provomonts and supply the poorer of
our fellow citizens with the means of
providing for themselves and families,
anti that In a direction which could be
made to render double returns for all
needed expenditure. B. H. T.
Deputy Hhersff'W. W. Webb sent in
ills resignation as deputy sheriff last
Monday Intending to go into raising
hogs and honev tin Oyster Crook a few
ifillos from Velasco, where he has a
ranch and five year’s lease on an ex-
tensive range. M*. Webb has proved
a most efficient officer, anti Thr Timkh
regrets his resignation.
The three year old son of Mr. anti
Mrs A. B. Mayes, who was so soMirrly
burned about five weeks ago, Was re-
lieved from his sufferings Friday after-
noon "Little Dick’’ made a noble
fight for life hut his injuries were of
too serious a nature.
Tkx Times extends its heart-felt
sympathy to the bereavad parents
Saturday last little Joe Freeman got
the big finger on his right hand oatight
in the door at the bank. It was pretty
badly mas had, but tha hone was not
broken and Joa will soon be *11 right
again.
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