. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. owards Springs 1872 Odd Fellows Hall on Houston street dedicated. (Since rebuilt 1889-90.) 1878 27 Dr. Cupples arrives in San Antonio 1844 Bexar County Court House rebuilt on Soledad street 1882 Susan J. Hannig I widow of Lieutenant Al. Marion Dickinson, who was killed in theAlamo) revisits the Alamo with H. B. Andrews, Bishop Quintard of Tennessee, andsome early Texan friends. She and her daughter were the sole white survivorsof the fall of the Alamo 1881 28 General Twiggs is unjustly court-martialed 1858 Cornerstone of Bexar County Jail laid . 187
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. owards Springs 1872 Odd Fellows Hall on Houston street dedicated. (Since rebuilt 1889-90.) 1878 27 Dr. Cupples arrives in San Antonio 1844 Bexar County Court House rebuilt on Soledad street 1882 Susan J. Hannig I widow of Lieutenant Al. Marion Dickinson, who was killed in theAlamo) revisits the Alamo with H. B. Andrews, Bishop Quintard of Tennessee, andsome early Texan friends. She and her daughter were the sole white survivorsof the fall of the Alamo 1881 28 General Twiggs is unjustly court-martialed 1858 Cornerstone of Bexar County Jail laid . 1878 142 . SAN ANTONIO DE BKXAR. 29 The iild central ilome of Sail Feniaudo Catheiiral is ileiiiolished 1872 The Maverick Hotel just opened 1882 The Odd Fellows Cemetery dedicated 1883 (ieiieral Schofield visits San Antonio 1885 30 Edward Miles and Antonio Menchaca, two very well known old San Jacinto heroes. were in town at this date 1873 The Taxpayers vote $150,000 for the new City Hall and other improvements . . 1887 ,~\^/^. MAY. ^^ isy. The removal of the Alamo Mission San Jose del Alamo is ordered by the MarquisValero, viceroy of New Spain, from the Rio Grande to its present site, andnamed San Antonio de Valero. (This Mission was orisiinally founded on theRio Grande in 1708.) 1718 Guenthers second or upper mill begun ■ 1868 Major loses $:i4,000, for which on the Stli he is charged with embezzlement 1883 San Antonio and Aransas Pass Depot located 1885 Chapel at the Concepcion Mission, as repaired, is rededicated to our Lady of Lourdes by Bishop Neraz 1887 3 A young bull buffalo is run down through Commerce street by a cowboy horseman from the plains 1869 Mexican Gulf Railroad compromise bonds signed by the County Clerk 1882 Maverick Bank building, corner of Alamo Ilaza and Houston street, is begun . 1884 THE MONTH OF MAY. 143 6 W. W. Kflkuap, Secretary of War, orders work on the Croveniiiient Military Dejjotto be begun, and directs that the appropriation be applied f
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