Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-03-21
OUR HOUSTON LETTER.
lloUsTOY, Texas, NJ


| would give the readers of tho
Herald another chapter on the
weather, embracing the aggregates
averages, extremes, means. etc, oI
the thermometer, barometer, etc.
for the month of February, but
don't believe it will be appreciated,
and accordingly | will omit all but
to say that we had 4 rainy days, II
cloudy ard IA clear days in the
month also frosty mornings. l
hope they were the last of the winter
The recent fever of the cotton
market has had the effect to induce
some further attention to cultivation
and it is now promised that a con-
siderable breadth of land will be
planted in the staple this year. A
somewhat backward season, and u
favorable cultivation of the soil con-
duces to agricultural labor, and
sh >uld the year now going in give
US reasonable alienation of rain
and dry weather it is not impossi-
bic that the gulfpor crop Of Texas
may roach 10000 and possibly
l5U,GO bales.
An election for Directors of the
Planters Mutual Insurance Compa-
ny took place to day, resulting in
the choice of the following gentle.
men, viz: A. } Burke, Rob't Brow
stor, G. S. Longcope, J. T. D. Wilson,
J. Colman, Z. II. Gushing, J. w.
Henderson, b. A. Bolts, Wm. M.
Taylor, J. r. Morris, John Shearn,
John Brashcar and A. NJ. Kliebcr.
This company has been open for
business but a short time. 1t has,
| am told, done very well so far. 1t
is a very solid company, having an
ample capital, and as it proposes to
have an agent in Dallas, ere long, it
gives me pleasure to commend it to
the public good will. | have shown
my faith by my works, having ia
ken out policy in the Planters
on my homestead this year.
The names Of the Directors gives
ample assurance that it will do
very safe and careful business.
! regret to see tho Intelligent en-
of some of the citizenry is
leading them to unwarrantod length
in the hide business. 1t is not at
all unusual to find these colored
thieves striking down cattle on the
prairies simply to get their hides.
Several convictions for this sort of
theft have occurred, and it is much
TO be hoped that more will follow.
Scarcely man living near Houston
this winter but has lost one or more
valuable cows, in this vagabondish
style. The evil has become intoler-
'ble, and vengeance is openly spo-
zen Of
An unfortunate affair took place
place in a bar room in this city
! yesterday, in which Major Patrick
.ook the life of Mr.. Harris. He was
arrested at once and is now in du
'ance. The cause of the difficulty
lid not como to my hearing.
The growing Spring season re-
minds me TO say, what it is possible |
have said before, and that is, the |
nan who plants trees is public 4
,enefactor. Itis objected that trees
ire of such slow growth that few /
an hope TO live TO enjoy the shade /
hey have planted. 1t is because /
n the future We regard a year as a
ifc- time and ten years as eternity. |
lore than half the men of forty I
i've who plant out trees in the
spring Of 1868, will live to see them |
make a stately growth, while if
-Ounger men who have grounds 10
and utilize in this way, not .
ne ia five but viii live 10 see a
.rowth thar will supply beauty,
hade foliage. ire ana fence wood,
lai,y long years before be reaches
be aiioiisa SPACE of iile L0ok ~
he beautiful rins in New Orieaus
he live oaks in Mobile. 90 saT Do-
hing Of the Pride Of china, Caiaipa
nd other trees. Look at the mag
iacent trees Of BaltimUrs, Phila-