The Alamo Star (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 25, 1854 Page: 3 of 4
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TO COREÉ8POI DENTS.
As It has been noised about, feat we were on
ihe ere of publishing a paper, We have reeeite-
communications and will proceed Io
them as breifiy as possible.
X00 length/,—■we will be glad to
you again.
•One of your items is rejected—-too per-
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THE MARKETS. —\ ...
Tkb~lu great demand—weekly scores be-
ing evidently on the increase.
hntUr—Soft, the weather being rather Sultry
Lin* #— Essentially unchanged, no trouble
in the washing line,
8tript$—Not much inquired after, several
Üfceltíous j uVeniles having received several
castigations lately, much against iheir will.
Iron—Unchanged ; hart! as ever.
éñmzgh Profhtítims--I*lent/, the arrival of
from the coast, give-abundant
evidence of the fact; Brewers are enabled to
*
risws ten per cent, o " beer."
" " mmiS' ru y
EJT1 * ■he other day we overheard a man—
who is now employed in the government ser-
vice in thi3 city—expounding to the public,
(composeti of tvvo darkle ,) the following;
V ua see, mine irow is de y unnie.s&vo man
, vot never \ as, for ven 1 gets my every
moot, mine vite is potter as pefore; she loves
me niity plenty urn} it I gives her mine monisb,
ven she jus üurns round and Jucks me pehind
my pack out de door."
•t % We vanished, holding our sNfes. Poor fel-
low, jbis trow is too much for hire.
1ST We learn from tlui Tintes that the young
; men of Austin are abouj^ettfng up a Thespian
Society in that city. Good luck to the* enter-
prise. ' ' . %
- Jk-'
OOU^ VERY GMI).
.¿at, the eta> drinking sa-~
looii, the A me r Ex change, has been fur-
nfched with a Very peculiar kind of hollow
fatcks. This is certainly a decided improve-
ment in* the article of heavy bricks, hereto-
fore worn in the hats of our b'hoys. What,
«***) ,/ h Bill,
M ~~7É^ ' '
OINTMENT FOR POLITICIANS.
App-oín¿m< ;ii. It is an ointment by no means
disagieeablt to take.
pT We are oí opiniqp that the rebels who
have broken up China, sfcnoid be bound over to
keep the piece(s). ? *
tw Our youth are so well educated in the
*tree! academies of San Antonio, that their pre-
-jg of knowledge is frightfnl toconilmplate.
Lift haafli
Ofbaanty and
But they fcattf I
On. the edge of
ÍBearitesthe/ bring
As lively as brief:
They meet us when happy,
And leave us in grief.
Hue* of the morning,
Ringing the sky,
Come on the sunbeams,
And oCwith them fly
Shadows id evening
Hang toft on the shore,
Darkness enwraps them,
We see them no more.
So life's better moments
In brilliance appearT
Dawning in beaut? .«
Our jourhey tsn&eer.
Round us they finger *
Like shadows ofevten •
Would that we, like them,
Might melt into heaven !
« Mind, John, if yon go outinto the
/on will wish /on had «laid flftfcc
"Wall if I staying* hemm, I
waa i* the yard i so, where Is tlif j
ence, dadl" f t "
An editor somewhere inthe west liaa
so hollow frgm depending on the printing frail-
ness alone for bread, that ha proposes to sell
lobe used aa a stow*
i ins out west lias just patented a machine
for making sweet potatoes. He is
the old gentleman who put handles oo pfidñf
pears, and soy them for curry combs.
precocious little child " whig^
en your mamma
, and puts no b
jBenatofTom Corwin onre remarked that,
when '** he first entered an otlice to study law,
ha was the subject of ridicule for every student
in town on account of his homespun dressj—
but," adds he, u I have lived to see every one of
them ten times as ragged as lepras at that time
—and wb!y*l I Was economic#!, they Were
spendthrifts." 4
.. - — - ... , i* h -
Core is selling on the Brazos river at $!;50
per bushel.- '--Él. *
A Da«k Day Co fMH|P#e will be an
extraordinary eclipse d^e sun on fie íáCth oí
May next, such an one as jione but the oldest
to th" -reat eclipse of 1806, éince phich there
has been nonjtfcscmblfag It nearer than that of
1830, when eleven -twelfths of the sun was ob-
8<fured.
"fte Scarlet Fever is raging with fatal eiTect
upon the Brazos river. pK -3
Cqclebur leaves, wet with w^er, and ap-
plied to the place bitten by a rattlesnake/ will
effect a cure. The juice taken infernally f^ll
" Papa," sa
ishumbug f
^tl ís, my deaf
to be ver/ iond
my shiTt." % \
* ' ■i- ■ ' -m- ■ :M '
. . mu * mu ,0 £0,.
John Adams being eat!#! *npon
button fos foreign missions,
"f have nothing to
there are hertr tn thré
not one of whom will p:
pit; nosv I will give
any one else, to civilize
* «■«
" He that giveth to
yiiPpered Des
contfttStt oft-bit
stref? note sbayer.
' " That may be," said the mo
" but he dont get two per cent/
his money."
ft No inan," said Mrs^P
ter calculated to judge pf pork
deaft husband was; when he
YYi *i n k ¿A
uiatr^ ttxr
been brought-np awng 'cm
hood." 'il£^
. " There 4* a
ty old fellow to lis wife.
"I'll believe tha
you pay for your ne
m-M
m
or all things,said a crns-
/
biswif*
eoc
tSP The place for gross things is the^TM^ry.
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QF*"ll pleases, us much to learn that A4a-
•forida has beer joined in the holy bonds of
mammon^ also, that S<0-Soda is engaged}
also aid in ejecting a speedy
In Boston on Thanksgiving da/, a man was
seen to creep stealthily np to a barberVshop,
open the door cautiously, a^ij—pitch in a
twelw pound turkey, and then sodásnlv retreat
as though he hadtotnmitted somé gaeit crime.
iJpon being ^quired' of for his reason W such
^«d shaveitóm^for
V,., o'.^;
■ntiíst 7T9 ,:
HtKZ.
An un^ucpsssful lovet was asked
means be lost hi* divinity 1 u Alnsi**:
441 flatercd her till she got too
tome." ■ **•••- • ■ ■ mmm
Cactioi .¿4h old lady fn H
sola occupation waa Kbosewifer/,
sitting room floor TOtil «be fell i
cellar, and dislocated ber shoulder
írgiana, €N rgiana# Whare lathe
14 Tip's got it In the
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The Alamo Star (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 25, 1854, newspaper, March 25, 1854; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth176969/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.