{"id":3425,"date":"2023-06-24T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/3425"},"modified":"2020-02-02T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T04:24:15","slug":"letter-from-galveston-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/letter-from-galveston-2\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 24, 1863, <em>Galveston<\/em><em> Weekly News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">Galveston, June 18, 1863.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Yesterday morning the wagon of Mr. Butler, market gardener, was surrounded by a number of soldiers at the market place, and about thirty watermelons taken from it.&nbsp; This is a hard case, as Mr. Butler has been moderate in prices compared with others, who are too exacting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Water is beginning to get scarce.&nbsp; We have lately had but little rain.&nbsp; There are but few cisterns, most of which are out of repair, and families are already experiencing much inconvenience from so limited a supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>A large amount of jewelry was taken from Mr. Shaw&#8217;s store, on Tremont street, during Friday night.&nbsp; The burglars at first were baffled in their attempts to effect an entrance, but finally succeeded by means of a false key.&nbsp; The articles which have been received were found by some children at play, concealed beneath a house in Mr. Lidstone&#8217;s lumber yard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Some soldiers have committed depredations on the property of farmers upon the Island, stealing their watermelons, &amp;c.\u2013The latter threaten to destroy their crops, rather than be robbed, if this practice is allowed to continue.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 1863, Galveston Weekly News Galveston, June 18, 1863. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday morning the wagon of Mr. Butler, market gardener, was surrounded by a number of soldiers at the market place, and about thirty watermelons taken from it.&nbsp; This is a hard case, as Mr. Butler has been moderate in prices compared with others, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}