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Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, [7 January 1880] (open access)

Letter to Cromwell Anson Jones, [7 January 1880]

Letter from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Date: January 7, 1880
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, January 2, 1880 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 1, Ed. 1, Friday, January 2, 1880

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 2, 1880
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, January 9, 1880 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, January 9, 1880

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 9, 1880
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, January 16, 1880 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 3, Ed. 1, Friday, January 16, 1880

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 16, 1880
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1, Friday, January 23, 1880 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1, Friday, January 23, 1880

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 23, 1880
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, January 30, 1880 (open access)

Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 5, Ed. 1, Friday, January 30, 1880

Weekly newspaper from Brenham, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 30, 1880
Creator: Rankin, John G.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hook and Buckle. (open access)

Combined Hook and Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved combined hook and buckle. This design "protect[s] straps from wear at the point of attachment to or contact with rings or eyes" (lines 12-14). This patent references another, the invention of which this one is intended to supplement.
Date: January 13, 1880
Creator: Padgitt, Tom.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Door Fastening. (open access)

Car-Door Fastening.

Patent for sliding car-door fastening to improve the fastening of said car-door.
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Buser, William H. & Shaw, Burrell L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cloth-Measuring Machine. (open access)

Cloth-Measuring Machine.

Patent for a cloth cleaning machine to "furnish bagging-reels, so constructed that the bagging can be conveniently unwound from the roll, measured automatically, and again wound into a roll" (lines 13-17).
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Dodson, Orson W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compressed-Air Water-Elevator. (open access)

Compressed-Air Water-Elevator.

Patent for new and improved compressed air water elevator to lift water from reservoirs.
Date: January 27, 1880
Creator: Keating, Thomas, B.; Clarke, Lafe. W. & Gelatt, Wallace W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Washing-Machine. (open access)

Washing-Machine.

Patent for an improved washing machine: "The invention consists in combining a lower cylinder having longitudinal spiral grooves with an upper cylinder having longitudinal straight grooves and holes" (lines 14-17).
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Dorris, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary-Engine. (open access)

Rotary-Engine.

Patent for a new and improved rotary engine. This design consists "of a wheel provided with radially-sliding pistons and revolving within a fixed circumferential steam-chest, and having fixed on its axle an eccentric and spring, that operate to throw the pistons or floats outward to receive the pressure of the steam or other motor that is to drive the engine" (lines 19-26).
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Adams, James Ansley
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fruit-Gatherer. (open access)

Fruit-Gatherer.

Patent for "improving fruit-gatherers designed to be thrust into a tree and cull each fruit separately" (lines 17-20).
Date: January 20, 1880
Creator: Eddleman, James P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Triplicate Warrant, January 13, 1880] (open access)

[Triplicate Warrant, January 13, 1880]

A triplicate warrant for Levi Perryman, in the amount of $64.15, is dated January 13, 1880.
Date: January 13, 1880
Creator: Dardeux, Stephen
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Triplicate Warrant, January 21, 1880] (open access)

[Triplicate Warrant, January 21, 1880]

A triplicate warrant for Levi Perryman, in the amount $300.00, is dated January 21, 1880.
Date: January 21, 1880
Creator: Dardeux, Stephen
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Triplicate Warrant, January 21, 1880] (open access)

[Triplicate Warrant, January 21, 1880]

A triplicate warrant for Levi Perryman, in the amount $1,799.00, is dated January 21, 1880.
Date: January 21, 1880
Creator: Dardeux, Stephen
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Triplicate Warrant, January 21, 1880] (open access)

[Triplicate Warrant, January 21, 1880]

A triplicate warrant for Levi Perryman, in the amount of $300.00, is dated January 21, 1880.
Date: January 21, 1880
Creator: Dardeux, Stephen
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Sworn Statement, January, 25, 1880] (open access)

[Sworn Statement, January, 25, 1880]

A sworn statement saying that two men held in custody and identified as Jim and D. Baily were known to the person taking the oath and making this document as G. B. and I. J. Baily.
Date: January 25, 1880
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Sworn statement, January 25, 1880] (open access)

[Sworn statement, January 25, 1880]

Sworn statement made by Frank P. Rudolph that he knows Jim Baily and D. Baily, who are charged with murder in Comanche County, Texas, and that the men held in custody in Montague County, Texas are not the men he knows.
Date: January 25, 1880
Creator: Williams, W. A.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Indemnity Bond, January, 1880] (open access)

[Indemnity Bond, January, 1880]

Indemnity Bond in the case of Thomas H. Allen vs. Floyd Brazelton, in favor of Mr. Allan. The document lists possessions that have been attached by Levi Perryman, sheriff of Montague County, in order to obtain the amount of $400.00.
Date: January 1880
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Receipt of Levi Perryman, January 15, 1879] (open access)

[Receipt of Levi Perryman, January 15, 1879]

Received of Levi Perryman through W. A. Morris the sum of $20 for the cost of execution issued by the Court of Appeals in case No. 618.
Date: January 15, 1880
Creator: Smith, Thomas
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Receipt of Levi Perryman, January 21, 1879] (open access)

[Receipt of Levi Perryman, January 21, 1879]

Received of Levi Perryman $2,483.10, for various costs like School Certificate, fees and executing Death Warrant. The return of these fees some are for court minutes and others showed to be a kind of theft.
Date: January 21, 1880
Creator: Darding, Steph H.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Envelope from Matilda Brantley Dodd and Betty Franklin, January 2, 1880] (open access)

[Envelope from Matilda Brantley Dodd and Betty Franklin, January 2, 1880]

An envelope addressed to Charles B. Moore in Collin County, Melissa Texas. A postal stamp on the front reads: "Gallatin, Tenn.; Jan 2." A postal stamp on the back reads: "Melissa, Collin Co., Texas; Jan 6, 1880." A handwritten note reads: "Matilda Dodd; + Betty Franklin; Received [Jan]; 1880."
Date: January 2, 1880
Creator: [Dodd, Matilda Brantley] & [Franklin, Betty]
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Matilda Brantley Dodd to Charles B. Moore and Mary Ann Dodd Moore, January 18th, 1880] (open access)

[Letter from Matilda Brantley Dodd to Charles B. Moore and Mary Ann Dodd Moore, January 18th, 1880]

A letter from Matilda Brantley Dodd to her daughter, Mary Ann Dodd Moore, and son-in-law, Charles B. Moore. It discusses local weather and people about town.
Date: January 18, 1880
Creator: Dodd, Matilda Brantley
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library