The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 16, 1892, Page 2

i \ i HH | eesti zm } A full and complete line of the best makes just received. Such as BARLOW AND JIM DANDY PLANTER Western Cultivators, And the greatest Riding Plow on earth the beet = them herrid he: ‘I s of 522 dead Mex D U TC : I I MA N x Peer and 5 ; ore Wounded CORN FLYING Also a full line of Walking Plows and Harrows. Buggies, Spring Wagons, and Road Carts, Mitchell and Turnbull Farm Wagons, Grass Seeds, &c Call and see me. SHIRLEY CHLDS “REMEMBER THE ALAMO!” How Santa Anna's Thousands (i? single rank and took his place in ' front of them. Besieged a ‘lexan Handful. | The Long, Desperate Fight That End- | ed in the Slaughter of Captatn Travis, Davy Crockett and Every Man of Their San Antonio is the oldest of Tex. | an cities, and possesses historical | and picturesque show places which ; in any other country but our own would be visited by innumerable | American tourists prepared to fall down and worship. The Alamo is to the southwest what Independenc: hall is to the United States, and Bunker Hill to the but the pride of it belongs to every Ameican whether he lives in Texas or Maine The battle of the Alamo event of greatest moment in the war | between Mexico and the Texans, | when Santa Anna was president,and the Texans were fighting for their | independence. And the stone build- ing to which the Mixicans laid siege and in which the battle was fought stands to-day facing a plaza in the | center of San Antonio. There are hideous wooden structures around it, and others not so hideous— modern hotels and the new postof. | tice, on which the mortar is bardly | yet dry. But in spite of these the grace and dignity the monks gave it | in 1774 raise it above these modern | efforts that tower above it and dwarf them. On the 23d of February, 1836, General Santa Auna himself, with 4,000 Mexican soldiers, marched in to the town San Antonio. In the old mission of the old Alamo were the town’s only defenders, 145 men, under Captain Travis, a young man 28 years old. With him were Davy Crockett, who had crossed over from state to help those who were freeing theirs, and Colonel Bowie (who gave his name tua knifewhich government later gave to afort,)who was wound- ed and lying on a cot. Their fortress and quarters and magazine was the east; was the his owe hame our their ar tillery, fourteen mounted pieces,but there was little amunition Santa Auna demanded unconditional sur- render, and the answer was a ten days dogged defense, and skirmishes | by and sorties for food and water by | night. The Mexicans lost heavily during the first days of the siege, but not one inside the Alamo was killed. Early in the week Travis had dispatched couriers for help, and the defenders of the mission | were living in the hope of reinforce- ments, but four days passed and neither couriers returned nor re en- forcements came. On the fourth day Colonel Fannin with 300 men and four pieces of artillery started forth forth from Goliad, but put, back again for want ef food and lack of teams. The garrison of the Alamo never knew of this. On the let of Merch Captain John W. Smith, who has found teams, and who has found rations, brings an of- fering of thirty two men from Gon- mussion, zales, and leads them safely into the | to the pit inside, hundreds and hun- | seen his shadow... fort. They have come with forced | marches to their own graves, but neither do they know that, and the gaitison, now 172 strong, against 4,000 Mexicans,continues its desper- ate sorties and its desperate de fense. Farm Implements, ;ed them with hopes of reinforce- | but those who failed him, he makes | excuses for them, they have tried tos Companions. | ‘dying | fore they have gained twenty yards | then stooping, draws a line with the | point of his sword in the ground fantry came up on every side at once | Here are some things the Gov would’! held the ladders dropped them on They die fighting on their knees, haeking up desperately as they are his elbow and shooting fiom his cot Crockett fighting like a panther in| the angle of the church wall and. Travis with his back against the west. The 172 men who had} 4,000 men at bay for two sleepless, weeks are swept away as a dam tha‘ goes that has held back a flood, and! the Mexicaus open the church doors from the inside and let in their com rades and the sunshine and shows There are no w a oandsa among the | Texans; of the 172 who were iu the | Alamo there are 172 dead. With an example like this to fol low, it was not difficult to gain the independence of Texas, ever Sam aud wheu- Houston rode before lis the battle wa It was Tlike to think. It was rath- | er the Lolaing up of the cross to the “By thi was a watchword to i who had suf- | their ady } was a cessation in the bombardment 1 TE ; not a cry whol and Captain Travis drew up his men ‘ venge, cruss uders, and ery conquer. It gu we He tells them that he has deceiv remind men of those died that ments, false hopes based on false and | promises of help from the outside, fered might live. ctuse Shiloh’s Cough ae Consumpti Is sold by us ona guarante consumption. Sold by HL It cures Tacker. reioh him, no doubt, but have been | killed on the Sidney Lanicr | quotes this excusing of those who | had deserted him at the very thres hold of death as best showing the fineness of Travis, and the poet who way Jolnstown Items. Wills aud Pettis are still tooting the U. party horn. My dear brothers ove word to you; in former | but Bros. has judged the soldier so truely has touched here one points of this story of great heroisn. Captian Travis tells them that all that remains to of their death, but to decide they days L loved you a brother, of the strongest wed left you toll ft strange gods; you L ve your fine estate are in the dark ness of U. L. vue Lord bring them out of the] pit of destruction where the U. L.| HOW VOU them is the choice wilde sin end and that they have manner of serve their ; may in which will best party . sure to why will go soon; oh turn, eases I am proud to Bay to the demociats of Bates coun- ty that the Hon. J. D. Allen of the Times is a staunch democrat anda man that will do honor to himself, Bates county and the democratic party, and furthermore this is the| first time that Mr. nounceed country. They can surrender and ye di | be shot down mercilessly, they can a make a sortie and be butchered be or they can die fighting to the last and killing their enemies until that ast comes. He gives them their choice, and shila Hine ever an” himself for any position in the democrat party and 1 think it from the left to the right ef the is nothing more than due respect | | rank. : and courtesy to honor him as a dele- “And — he Saye) TEVCEY _ gate to the national convention., who is determined to remain here Mr. Siduey Graham was in town to- day....The Jobnstown cornet band expected Prof. B. U. Crawford to have been with them this week, bat on account of the rain did note me | |and to die with me will come to me | across that line.” Tapley Holland was the first to cross. He jumped it with a bound, as though it were a Rubicon. “f ‘he said. } with fine success and we And then all but one man, named | Rose marched over to the other side. Colonel Bowie, - The young inen that advert: sed| | for ace met | feo, seme more young men that will epr-! with ladies between the jages of 1S and 30. Address Messrs. elbow. | Will Covey, Sherm Harbart, Lee Radford Geo. Wells. Wa: Jackson, | Won't some of you carry meacross?” | Burt Gilland. Write at once to And those of the sick who could | th. se young men xt Johnstown and walk rose up and tottered across the | to Chas MeComb at Butler, Mo. | and | Photos exchange _ Hage ad ix wood could | for 60 days......3 . Ed Waiuscott this | and sister will start for California | sealing the} Uncle Wim Grig town. to- day. am ready to die for ny country corresponderts have titi }respond ng wounded in bs raised hit “Boys,’, cot, on his he said, ‘don’t leave me line; those who could not walk Rose, who trusted to escape, and were carried. speak Spanish, chance of pAussec au imenpt “We under-! stand that Miss Cerrie “TEE mon will aplace/t-ach school this summer ...C Through him we know | Clizer is out ou his rm batebing what happened before that fina! day | put says he will have a new cook came. He had his reward ‘fall... Wonder Low Walt Me. made Three after this, on the | it on south Deepwater last Sunday | morning of the 6th of March, Santa |night. Ah, there! .... Wonder how | Anna brought forward all of his in es Radford got home from the! fantry, supported by his cavalry. | singing at MeComb’s Monday night and stormed the fortress. © The in [and how about Bogas and Cart.... | rgs soon, wall of the Almo. dropped other side,: hidden by the of safety. into ditch on the and crawled, | cactus, Inly days in long black solid rows, bearing the | like to kuow.. scaling ladders before them. and en-| couraged by the press of great) numbers about them. But the band inside the mission drove them back, and those who -How Jobn aud Geo. | got home Tuesday nigbt?.... Where | C C Clizer was going Friday eve? Why Walt McComb don't marry How old a girl is before she is an old maid....How big a man has to! | be before he can vote the U. L. tick- the ground and ran against the bay | «t*....How Buddy Carroil’s health onets of their comrades. A second |is at this writing?....Now here are time they charged into the line of/ some things that the Gov. thinks... bullets, and the second time they | That Hon. J. D. Allen will be | fell back, leaving as many dead at| delegate to the national convention | the foot of the ladders as there were| ....Tbat it rains 7 days out of the standing at bay within the walls. |week....That the democrat party is| But at the third trial the ladders are \ the party..... That Uncle Tommie! planted, and Mexicans after Mexi- | Wolf has a bad ear for music... ... | cans seale them and jump down in-/That the ground hog must have | -That the U. L.| | party is a failure....That we would | love to go to cengress....That Will! | { dreds ef them to be met with bul- lets and then by bayonet thrusts.and | at last with desperate swinging of | | Covey is mighty pretty and oh, that | the butt, until the little band grows | hat -That he will get a horn and | smaller and weaker and is driven up | join ihe band...... That some one and about and beaten down and|ought to get married and ask the | stamped beneath the weight of over | Gov. to the wedding....H. P. Cal- On the 3d et March, 1836, 0 cag and unending numbers. ‘eae is selling goods cheap; now is beaten and fpinned {down by a dozen bayonets, Bowie leaning on! g hy men crying “Remember the Alamo,” ! jand what every the time to buy your spring gcods/} . Mr. Geo Tillery of Spruce, tela us eee he has sold his stock of dry oods to his brother and will go to the Indian Territory and open a Mr. T. is a cour- teous gentleman aud good salesman. Gov Syort dry goods house I Have, as You Know, ator for ¥ increasing it tc S:z-a Him Up. “IT shall neve: forget how Gen eral | Jo. Shelby evened up with Genera! Holmes.” said Henry White this ive “We Lad just returned cond raid into M ‘G3 and hada frou sour | sed Ar-| |in the fall of o postipation, rrhopg> Eructation, a gives ‘sled promotes ous medic HOR, as superior to any prescription H. A. Ancuzra, M.D., So, Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y. A O Welton General Shelby went to| Holmes’ tent to. re NY id 2 tention to lin when he entered, but} ~ : j ‘fiually turned to him and said: | ; “Ti Coloael Sbelby, I pre-| Feed and Provisions of all\Kinds. sume? i t ~Yes sir., was the response. “Colonel Shelby, you aud your set of d- Wen are o j thieves, Holme General eral Shelby. *T think not ‘responded Gex “Yes, you 80." “No “repli es lunperturbably. ia eae I necessai ily, “Now Gen know you gentleman and a general, but everye and | body says and lonely | and folly, jrule, you are an old so you are according to the lewan anda genera “Have a seat, Colonel Shelby. I has lied on Tom (ealling to his factorum) crack that last bottle of champaign and fill Colonel Shelby’s glass. Yee, Colonel, common report is not al- ways reliable.” but I know to contrary— You are a peut think common report you. Sleepless nights mad that terrible cough. theremedy for vou. er, druggist. miserable by Shiloh’s Cure is (Sold by HL Tuck- A Newspaper Change. W. 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