A bond dated July 1872, guaranteeing "the sum of Fifty Dollars with Interest to be paid the the bearer of this bond, at the seat of government or such place of deposit as may be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury". It has John H. Reagan, Postmaster General of the Confederacy's photograph on it.

Cadastral map of Williamson County, Texas in the Hill Country region. Additional notes have been made in red and black ink. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. G. W. Ballard, accused of carrying arms, filed July 12, 1872. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman Phil W. Thompson, alias capiases, a subpoena, and capiases.

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. James Moore, accused of "theft of ten hogs," filed February 20, 1873. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman Phil W. Thompson, a subpoena, capiases, a request for witnesses, alias capiases, and a bond.

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Joe Ellick, accused of "assault and battery on Helen Ellick," filed October 26, 1874. Documents include alias capiases, an affidavit, capiases, and a request for witnesses.

Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Washing-Machines" for which "the novelty consists in providing the tank with two separate apartments or boxes for containing, respectively, suds and clear water, and in arranging the separating partition so that an ordinary wringer may be attached thereto and used on the clothes as they pass from the suds-box to the clear-water box."

Patent for improvement in fasten materials that are used for mattresses or cushion together without being drawn through and lifted by the needles. Illustration is included.

Patent for an improved cultivator, with adjustable wheel base, plow height and more (pg 1).

Patent for improvement in iron fences by using rails and bars to support the braced posts. All the parts are easily taken apart, this flexibility allows the fence to be set on uneven as well as on level ground. Illustration is included.

Patent for "an Improvement in Wagon-Axle Skeins" that "has for its object to furnish an improved iron axle for wagons and other vehicles which shall be stronger without being heavier than iron axles made in the ordinary manner."

Patent for the improvement of grinding-mills, including a description and illustration.

Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.

Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.

Patent for improvement in railroad-switches by “mounting a frog on a plate, and provided with pivoted rails or rail-sections, arranged for operation in connection with fixed rail-sections upon the plate, to form a continuity with either line of main rail, and connected below the plate by pivoted bars or levers, to secure a relative action or adjustment of the pivoted or movable rail-sections, whereby a very perfect and simple frog operating to prevent break in the main line or lines is obtained, and which is capable of being adjusted by passing trains in opposite directions of travel.” (Lines 5-18) Illustration is included.

Tri-weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Tri-weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Tri-weekly newspaper from Austin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

This document is from the Charels B. Moore Collection. It is a letter by Charles B. Moore that is badly torn and unintelligible. Keywords deciphered from the visible writing include: Ziza, bushel weight, thrasher weight, number of bushels which was 38, Rowlett Creek, wheat, Baltimore, cotton prospects, emigration, Henry and Clarence, and Mill. In the letter's closing, Moore states that the receipeint should write to him and Ziza.

The author says that everyone is doing fine. They had a little bit of horse trouble, some of the horses got scared and loose and ran away. They were able to recover the horses though. The author went hunting in Cooke county, which didn't go well, but he found a bee tree.

Weekly newspaper from Clarksville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Clarksville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Clarksville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.