The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-11


a serious matter. some of the counties
in Tennessee have more dogs tlIan
people. aud alter having brought about
the above described state of affairs at
home. these people are emigraiing be-
cause times are dull, and are taking their
curse with them.
is large State, and il will take long
time TO overrun 1t, and the ranchcros are
not at all squcamish about taking hand
in IN alters when occasion seems TO war
rant their doing so: besides. the unwrit-
ten law of the State is stern and implaca-
Bile as the old Mosaic law. II is a lie for a
lile--a dogs life for a shecp's-and II is
enforced every time. The owner of the
offending dog usually knows when he Is
we'll of, and does not interfere. II would
not he healthy TO do so. A good dog is
q good. familiar creature. rs Shakespeare
says but when il comes to toting
around the country such mean. NANCY.
lank, discouraged looking mongrcis, that
never had good square meal, and look
a. though they never expected to. a.
these people do. protest, and call upon
the powers that he TO promulgatc at once
stringent dog law, taxing all dogs one
thousand dollars each. and making it
a penal oil'ensc TO keep more than one
in a family. But To
cir AWAY FROM orr MILTON.
after their arrival here the immigrants
usually spend a few days here when they
scatter to different parts OF the country.
most of them going west between here
and Fort Worth. distance forty miles.
1t 10 Il splendid appearing county to me.
but as am only an amateur farmer. per.
haps too much reliance should not bc
placed OIL my Judgment. They harvested
on immense crop of wheat this season.
but as this is comparatively n new de-
paiture. it remains to be seen whether
the last was not an exceptional year. All
of Texas is
SUBJECT 70 SEVERE DRouTHs.
and during one of these have seen i'm
mense cracks in the earth three and five
feet wide. This. however, was near the
Brazos river. The soil la the vicinity of
Dallas is more tenacious and has better
adhesive qualities: anyhow, it adhcres 10
your boots with a iervor that would pro
woke anything bu. a blessing from an av-
erage man. Durn. the
RAINY SEASON,
which j. the Winter, the whole OF North
ern Texas becomes one immense boot
jack. and il will tax six good mules TO
their ntmos, TO haul an empty wagon
over the same ground that four would
haul it loaded in dry weather.
1t is proposed to extend the line of the
Texas and Pacific railroad TO Fort Worth
at once. Ii remains 10 be seen whether
in that event
DALLAS WILL NOT sUBsIDE
into mere railway station ~ so many
other pretentious Western towns have
done before 1t. The merchants here
claim that they derive most Of their trade
from the North and East. and that the
proposed extension will not affect them.
which idoubt. One of the prominent
citizens OF Dallas is General Alfred Watts.
with whom your correspondent arrived
here four years ago.
WITHOUT 4 NICKEL
in our pockets, and signals of distress
fluttcring in the rear. having walked
from about hundred miles west of Fort
Worth, where we had been engaged with
the surveying corps of the Houston and
Pacific railway, and which had been
deserted by the contractors, when they
so suddenly quit work, without notify
ing US. We remained at our camp as long
rs our provisions held out, and when
starved out. hoping against hope, we be-
gan our march for Dallas. subsisting
on the stray pigs or sheep we captured.
and shiyering the long nights through
by our camp fire in hourly fear of an
avenging Nemesis, in the shape OF some
ranchero, who never came. We were a
sorry looking lot oftramps when We ar
rived at Dallas on Christmas day. and
wandered around the streets watching
the gaily dressed througs as they joyfully
wished each other a merry Christmas, or
glaring with hungry eyes into the WELL
filled restaurant windows. BY chance
ne met friend from whom We borrowed
enough money for our most pressing ne.
cessitie.-which Were something 10 eat
and wear. II takes such an experience
once in while TO make a man appreci-
ate what it is TO always have enough TO
eat and warm place to sleep. We had
a merry time Of it Iii, Christmas and
drank several
BUMPERS or WINE,
standing. and in silence" 10
the recollec,ions of our mem.
orable tramp. The foundation Of Cen
eral Watts fortune was = piece of scrip
calling for one hundred and ,ixty acres
of land, for which be had given worn
ont mustang. and which he had vainly
tried 10 barter for something 10 eat four
years ago. Appearances We're against
rs everybody eyed u with suspicion
and disirust. and declined our collateral.
Shortly aftcrward he made some inquiry
as 10 the location of his land aud found
that it lay Just
~ IRE SUBURBS
Of Dallas, then small. but growing city,
and ready Co be laid ont into lots and