Moments in Time is a collection of recovered newspaper briefs and other publications compiled by local historian, Steve Hathcock, offering a look back at the history of the Rio Grande Valley.
SERVED THEM RIGHT:
We learn from the Brazos Courier of the 14th inst., that a party of Texian citizens who had gone to the Rio Grande for the purpose of driving off the stocks of horses and cattle of a class of Mexicans who are friendly with our people, and are engaged in commercial traffic with the merchants of this country, have recently met a melancholy fate. It seems that the Texans had gone to the Rio Grande and driven a large number of cattle as far as the Nueces, where they had made them secure. They then proceeded to return with the view of procuring an additional stock of cattle or horses, when they met a party of Mexican traders, with a cavillade, destined for this country, whom they attacked and robbed. The Mexicans immediately returned home, procured a reinforcement, and pursued the Texans. And overtaking them on the Nueces shot three of their number, and took all the others prisoner, except two or three. The prisoners were hung up by their feet, and in that condition left to die. A few more such lessons will probably teach an abandoned portion of our western population that “Honesty Is The Best Policy.” (The Evening Star (Houston) Jan. 24, 1840)
Troop Movement Rumors False
We learn from Austin that a gentleman came into that place from the Rio Grande on the 12, who brought information that the Federal army had left Matamoros and were on their March to Monclova. This, like 1000 other accounts of the movements of this army that reach us, is a rumor on which but little reliance can be placed. Two small schooners, the Wasp and the Francis Eliza, were wrecked some days since near the Brazos Bar, no lives lost. (The Morning Star. Houston, Jan. 24, 1840.)
Mrs. King Injured By A Lamp Explosion
A telegram from Corpus Christi dated January 5, to the Galveston News says: A telephone message was received in this city from the King Ranch stating that Mrs. H. M. King, the owner of the ranch, had been painfully burned by the explosion of a lamp. Medical assistance from this city has been summoned.
The news correspondent is informed that no serious consequences will result, although the injuries are very painful. The explosion was caused by the lamp being knocked over. The HERALD voices the sentiments of Mrs. King’s friends all over the section in hoping most sincerely that her injury may not prove serious her caused her much suffering. (The Brownsville Daily Herald, Jan. 9, 1900.)