The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-06-14
AsI returned from hesiable, / saw the

Az returned from the stable, saw the
old gentleman talking In very excited
manner 10 crowd Of attentive listeners,
and q 4 once surmisfd that he was not dis
cusslng The probabilities Of tho weather
la o few minutes he rushed frantlcally
down the street to auolher group Of men
and began TO gesticnlalo like French
men, In the course OF half mn hour ! was
interviewed by twenty or thirty men to
know II had brought the news, md how
| Ind heard II. When Informed them
that "mine host Of the Virgina House
was my authority, they turned away WIN
a heart full Of disappointment to mediate
on tho uncertainty OF terrestrial things IN
general md railroad news in particular
Fort Worth Is at present very dull, ana
everybody seems 'down In the mouth
In walking down Main street, passed by
the door OF confectionery and peanut
stand, and entered with the intention of
investing nickel, but found the pro-
prietor lying on the counter, taking his
rest, with blue-tail ny on his nose, and
so concluded to DIET him sleep on"
In about half hour returned that way
and peeped in 10 see how he and the fly
were making II.
But that fly never Hitting
SIN was sitting, still was sitting
I'm that peanut mans proboscls,
Just above his hash-house door.
| visited almost every place in Fort
W orh, and on he inr crwalls the cry was
still dts dull | dined at the virginia
House, and Ind winc(I) for dlnncri |
breakfasted at the Pacific House, where
they have waiting girls to attend the table.
ate several times at aBob's restaurant,
where got good equarc" meals, but !
had 10 poy twenty-five cents extra for
eggs for breakfast. paid seventy.Gve
cents at the Pacific House for the privilege
of sleeping in the garnet.
Most of my time since lett Dallas, |
have spent on the "lrail' about seven miles
above Fort Worth, and have seen more
cattle passing than have ever seen be-
fore in the samo length of time in my
life.
From three 10 six herds were in sight
oil the time, having from five hundred TO
two thousand head in each; from fifteen
hundred to FIVE thousand head Of cattle
are crossing West Fork daily on this
trail These herds are composed Of all
classes of cattle; there nre more stock
cattle being driven this year from Texas
than there ever WAS before Cattle are
worth in this county from three dollars
and fifty cents to sixteen dollars per head.
Corn and oats look well everywhere
that have been. There is not much Cot.
ton raised west of the Cross Timbers, ey-
cept in the Brazos Valley. The wheat is
light, and not so good by twenty-five per
cent. as it, is.in Dallas county. In this
immediate vicinity wheat was injured by
the grasshorIers. In TarrGnt county it
was cut short by the cold dry weather in
the winter. Cotton in this valley is late,
on account of tho grasshoppers, but the
farmers are confident that they will make
u good crop.
am now 100 far west to find the DAILY
HERALD, and consequently. am among a
people who know but very little of what
is going on in the outside W orld.
found at Fort Worth that the DAILY
HERALD had superseded ali other dailes,
and was eagerly sought after as the only
reliable source from which news could be
obtained.
When | told mine host tonight, tina,
we had street cars in Dallas, he avowed
his intention of visiting that city as soon
as he laid by his crop, TO see the "sights.
have heard no Indian news at all.
G. H,J.