The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-09-26

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restless populssioa 81 the east. which
soaghl successfully 10 better its con.
difion. The ncw generations
base out grown the cooienfmept Of
the first settlers. The terrible i've
months Of sinter with neither snDw
enough for sleighing. nor Eve days Of
dry land enoogb for shccled vehicles.
IN which the temperature changes
sometimes forty degrees IN two hours.
IN which every fifth mao you meet has
a crossing Catarrh and every other
q cold IN the head. in which III farm
operations cease because impossible.
This winter they do not like aud are
going 10 .eavc. They will also es.
cape the intense beat Of sumner. when
the thermometer goes up to 1862 in
the shade. The flow Of population
rom these States will be even larger
than from the Southern states be.
cause with their desire to better their
condition they couple enterprise
push and vim which are too much
wanting in on easy going peo-
pie of the South. They are coming
to show Texans how to produce
wheat on every acre Of this territory.
They are coming to make Texas the
gar den and truck farm of America.
New York and New England are
following the contagious example, and
they are the people who know what
Salado, the San Marcus the
Comeel and San Antonio rivers were
made for, who will utilize rivers
flow in an unvarylng current
with a thousand horse power current
from beneath the hills. and which de.
cend by daminI gradients for too
hundred miles to the sea and who
know the value of a sheep raising
country where the finest wool can be
grown at a cost of seven cents a
These people have been
compelled to utilize their dimes half
dimes and copper cents and to attach
a value to them and they will teach
Texans that there are FIVE times more
fortunes wasted in Texas by small
heedlessness and minor extravigances
than are made.
And overwhelming the emigration
from the eastern states of America
will come the people Of Germany and
Britain to whom Texas is indeed a
land OF promise and reward.
How many people are in Texas?
In 1870 the censu gave nearly a mil
lion, but was taken with great in
difference, no man for tie pay allow.
ed could afford to do the work, no
did the work of a single count,.
II was largely made up of guesees.
Texas had then DOUBTLESS over a mil
lion. That vas four years ago. She
has to-day a Million and q half.
Should the increase this year be a
quarter of a million as all belive,
and should this increase lie kept up
1880, Texas will have three mil
lions or one sixteenth of population
of the country.
in Texas are interesting now as the
state is in the midst of an exciting
Congressional Camtaign. The Dem
ocrats have held Conventions in the
various Districts. and have put the
following nominations in the field.
In the first District the Hon. John
Fl. Reagan. Post Master General OF
Confederate states during the
war, was chosen. Col Davis b Gull
Of Marion county was nomi-
mated. Ex. Gov. j. w. Throck-
was the unanimous choice in
third District, Hon. Roger Q.
MHls present representative fourth
Dist. let, Hon. John Hancock present
incumbent after p bitter fight be-
tween himself, Giddings and Shop
fifth, and in the sixth District
T. compromise was made on the Hon.
5nstaye Sch!eicber. Mai. John Il.