The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-07-28
Texas Items.

The PRosPEcT.-Capt. Stephens has gone down to
Huntsville for the two hundred hands that to be put
on the Airline road Within two weeks, according to
the Houston papers, the Central road will be completed
to Calvert when several hundred more hands will be
transferred to road. Thus it certain at last
the work is to be begun in good earnest and road
built to Austin. We must remember that we un-
worthy of road unless we help to build it, and we
must not expect Others to do all the work.
Austin Republican.
Very dry is the weather, and has been all this week.
On Sunday last looked hopefully for rain but it
did not come All this week there have been flying
spots of clouds which look promising but the promise
has been void Early corn would be benefited by a
heavy rain now though WILL doubtless do passaby well
without We have had so much rain however during
the spring that sudden deprivation makes the corn
twist. Cotton, we think, is doing well generally.
... [Clarksville Standard, 18th.
We make the following extracts from the Bonham
News of the 10th:
The people of Jefferson are so afraid of the military
authorities that they won't allow their hens to cackle
when they make nest.
Our exchanges from all parts of the State bring US
the intelligence of unprecedented good crops. For
corn and cotton Texas has never done better.
The Waco Register wants to know if pententiary
convicts are made take the test oath. We suppose
not-the members Of the late convention were not
CURED to do so
1UOLndS Is CdileQ Tue poet OI leXaS. bacon,
of old, was fac writer but who would expect poetry
from hogg?
Many people are not aware that Jack Hamilton and
E. j. Davis, the two Radical candidates now in the
field, were once raving, ranting secessionists.
saddle belonging to Mr.. johnson, living near
town, was stolen from his horse on last Wednesday
night while he attending the theatre Mr.. j., in
company with his brother, followed squad of FIVE
Yankees to Honey Grove the next day, and found his
saddle in the possession of of the party His
PLANTATION of the matter entirely satisactory-that
his own hurt his horses back, and he bought Mr. Us
saddle from negro. =
Our only wonder is that he didn't say the horses
had snapped in the absence of the riders.
STEAMBOAT ON THE NEcHEs.-We see from the Rusk
Observer Of the l7th that there to be meeting
in that place devise means for building boat for
the navigation of the Neches The Observer does not
doubt the practcabty of its being done successfully
as high up that county for at least six months in
the year." Experienced men give it as their opinion
that it is better river than the Trinity. The Obser-
yer continues:
Cherokee county is very much in need of facilities
for transportation. We have to depend upon hauling
"a distance Of over 100 miles. Every hundred weight
Of cotton that is taken to market from this county is
taxed 80 for transportation and every hundred weight
of merchandise brought back to is taxed likewise
l. costs $40 to transport 500 weight bale of cotton
from here to Shreveport. II we could send the same
bale by steamboat to Sabine Pass to Galveston the
cost would not be one-haf as much.