NEWS ITEMS

The University of Texas Library has bought for the Littlefield Collection a file of the National Intelligencer (Washington) from 1823 to 1866.

Miss Julia M. Pease has deposited in the Library as a loan four volumes of the Texas State Gazette (Austin), extending from August, 1849, to August, 1857.

Mr. S. W. Farrow, of Hico, Texas, who served through the Civil War in the Nineteenth Texas Regiment, Walker's Division, has presented to the Library a collection of eighty-five letters writter, mostly by himself to his wife, during the period of the war.

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During October, 1915, many newspapers of the State gave prominence to the recovery by the State Comptroller of large quantities of canceled and uncanceled currency of the Republic of Texas which had been stolen from the basement of the Capitol and sold to dealers in curios and antiquities. It appears from a detailed article in the Sweetwater Daily Reporter of October 13, 1915, that Hon. R. C. Crane, postmaster at Sweetwater, and a vice-president of the Texas State Historical Association, discovered the theft and conducted the investigation which led to the recovery of the currency.

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How to cite:
"NEWS ITEMS", Volume 019, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page not available. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v019/n3/back_9.html
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