The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-12

Bxtfos. BELLE Co, Texas |
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Oar fodder 10 about all secured, and a. Il 10 a
leisure time We are having prosracted and camp
meetings IN almost every neighborhood. BAptists,
Methodsts and Rcformers are about equal as TO
some good.
Almost all our farmers are making syrup from
the Chinese Sugar cane: some are making largely
Tor SALE They are offering II at so cents per GAL
Ion. This 10 much better than the uaoiasses We
have TO pay 81 90 per gallon for in the stores The
freight makes IL cost 90 high here. One acre of
cane makes from co to so gallons of nice syrue.
aud It grows luxnriantly on our d,yost Isnds.-
$25, can make IS or 40 gallons per day, Of nice sy.
rap. 1t takes about Ave gallons of the juice to
make one gallon Of good syrup.
We have an inexhaustfble quantity of Ene grapes
here, which grow wild over all the bottoms -
They make fiae quality OF wine. Three hands
can gather ten bushels In day, which will make
% gallons of pure wine. They are free for every
one who will gather them. =
Our friend John Henry Brown, late editor Of the
Galveston Civilian, who has permanently located
In our town, had valuable negro man to run
away from him few weeks age, who was seen by q
gentleman between San Antonio aud Mexico He
attempted to arrest him, hut the negro resisted,
and the gentleman drew six shooter and shot
bim down. He lived long enough to tell who he
belonged TO. ~
Our election comes off next Monday. and We
have a tountful supply of candidates for al
almost every office. man can get drunk, or make
the candidates treat to watermelons by the load,
and the bar keepers allow candidates to treat at
Arkansas rates. cents per drink.
We are enjoying fine health; no sickness in this
portion Of the country that hear OF. 1t is quite
warm 10 the sun during the day, but about ight
cool sea breeze springs up, which makes our
nights truly delightful Though We have no ice,
our water Is as clear aud almost as cold as Ice
And then bath In our Lampasas river is equal
70 sea bath, as the water 10 strongly impreg ia
ted with salt sBd sulphur.
The Sulphur Springs Of Lampasas county. are
on the banks of this stream, forty miles above
here. They run a stream large enough TO run
two pairs of burrs. The water is more strongly
impregnated with sulphur than the old Green.
brier sulphur in Virginia. The gravel for three
hundred yards below the Springs Is perfectly
white with sulphur, and presents beautiful a p
pearance. One of the springs boils up so strong
that rocks, weighing two or three pounds, are
tossed about like bubhlss.
There are now about four or five hundred visitors
at the Springs mostly in camps. Every fami J
carry their own provisions and hobbIe their horses
out on the prairie to graze. Hunters bring in
any quantity OF venson and wild honey every d day
which they sell very low, or at least it would
seem low to an old Virginian-seventy-hsa cents
for a fat pair of hams. plenty of trout, perch
and other fish can be caught in the Lampasas
within a few hundred yards of the Springs, 1T any
time. 't
There is one good hotel at the Springs and sew
eral places where the ardent can be had.