Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-05-22

oekoRA cANoetARiA.
A dispatch announces that sonora
Csudelsfla lice ~. 1Nls WOMAN links
two centuries together aud has almost
entered upon third, and now suners
the frst illness In I'll her life OF 100
years. On the San Pedro River. where
4 winds through the Mexican quarter Of
IAN Antonio, Tcxas, stands . little
adobe house, scautily furnished and
quite hare Of ell that one could term
luxury. 70 h the home OF the woman
who lived through the bell ut the Alamo
massacre, Who avera that abe nursed
bowie when he lay III In the vaultcd
chamber at the leh end Of the mission
door, and Who vas supporting him upon
her arm % the Mexican solilefy rusled
In and bu.cherrd him In HE bed--lnhlct-
Ing upon her, HE faithful seryltor, .
wound In the chin, the scar of which she
viii carry 90 her grave. Thc cup OF
water abe had brought him % drink
never molstened HE psrchcsi lips, whose
fever WAS then % barbarously quenehed
In death.
In the old spanish settlement Of I.sre-
de-, on the Rio Grand del Norte, Was
born Andrea Castznou, upon the day
sacre,i % St. Apdre~, In November, l'sS.
The girl grew sud learned from the
grave Spsnlsh priests In the mission
church, which the women and children
heiped 10 build aud where the Indian
neophytes, In their new religious amor
lived and Iabored. Her hearts first love
~as won by Sllberio fioresby Abrigo,
and how they we're wed aud lived h .
romance 90 old that even Andres herself
torgsts Il and looks back only TO her
secOpd nuptiais, when che married Can.
deisria viisneuys and became "Senors
CandeIaria." IA such abe wIll go dow n
In history and her name be- ever reu,em.
bercd With those of the heroes who fell
al the Alamo, and, dying. gave . watch
word TO Texan patriots With which To
conquer liberty.
How this Mexican came 10 leave her
husband, himself = Landowner In Ssn
Antonio, aud 20 With the Texans Into
the Alamo, then fortified and used NJ =
fort. no Que seems To know. IL might
be that the question MAS = too personal
one upon which Ia venture, for the aged
LADY, had q trick az replying With consld-
cradle asperity " the interrogatories or
lnterlocutor did not please her. Hut shc
~as there and MAS one Of the i've surviv-
ors (three women, little girl, and Col.
Travls's negro ssrvant), Who lived Ia
come through that wonderful sIege and
assault where IL. men fought against
Goo Of the enemy, from Feb. I'D Ia
March 9Th. Daring those twelve awful
days the little force Was depleted, IL
strength exhausted, lts ammunition ex.
PENDED, yet when the assault came and
the go arming Mexicans broke through
the mission walls and In upon the small
remnant, they bsttled still for i've hours,
hand 10 hand, bowie knife and pistol
from room 10 room, until the very last
Of their devoted band fell dead. hut
they died not alone the Mexicans slain
lay around them In heaps. 10 u said
that during the siege aud ASSAULT u!
lTexss.Americans fell, aud M less than
500 MexicAns we're Killed, besides ~
more wounded. The Alamo monument
Il Austin bears this legend; "rhsr'
mopylse had her messenger To defeat
the Alamo had noDe!" Beneath are ths
names of 10 who fell on that memorable
9Th % March, ls56, and To thee seoors
Candelsria has said there should IL add
ed the names Of four Mexlcans Who Joln-
Ell the Americans. aud who. living ou
Texan .oil, laid their lives down Tor hei
liberties.
Locking hack upon her long life, chat
an experience has S~pora Csbdslafi.
had! she Ia. seen the dominion ol
spain, thu raid of the Wild indisns, the
rv,olt 20 Mexico. Tben came the sirug'
gle 10 Texas FOE separate sxistcnce and
the .uecessful establishment of q repub'
lic. soon the Lone Star DAG waved oveI
an indepsndeot nation M longer. hut b,
the ~lll 20 u. o~n people nuttsr~i h.
ossth the es.lga % the United State.
Next TIL. It'll. Mexican woman, slrrsd,
80 year. 90 age, sa~ the squadron
marching on to that var which extend
ed The boundaries. of the union io tn
Pacific east aud made the lilo Grand'
the border lIoe % Texas. Pour nag
ha,. thu. fosisd atose her head. each u
~. turn holding dominance, ~hen . am
Toe tlm. superseded them. and tn
southern cro.. famed upon the sies
Then once more the star spsngled Han
nsr waved over the land that twenty
years before had laid down her sceptsr .,
. r,cosnirci aud sovereign go,srnmen
Ia become one 90 q .i.terhcod of states
A. loo years % age, until her pre.en
illne... the sonora VAS quite sctive ans
alert, quick to perceive aud understand
she l. an in,eierste cigarette smoker
wrinkled aud scanned, almost toothless
and With but little halr--not . pleassn
object surely, but still 9 wonder aud |
woman Who IL regarded With almos
.upsrsiitious ave by the people Of be-
own race among whom she lives.