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

TEXAS LETTER.
DALLAS, T.xAs. Jan. ,. lS,6.
\ pleasant ride by rail Of eight hours
from Rockdale, through some beautiful
prairie country. brought us 10
DALLAS,
too late to see much of the town that
night. SO we were driven to our hotel
the San Jaclnto. through cold misty
rain. Arrived there. we asked to be
shown to our room and to have fire
lighted. Imagine our surprise at seeing
in this magnificent new three story brick
hotel. In an eight by ten feet room. a lire
place two feet wide by three feet high.
1t was not a crate, it was an old FASH
Toned fire place and 1t was the intention
to burn wood in IT, 1t must have been
an old resident who built this house. for
in addition to the fire place, which smoked
considerably, there was not bell or
speaking tube in the building. aud We
were compelled TO 20 to public trough
In wash room TO remove the stains and
dirt of travel. However the bed was u
good one, fare passable and charge reas-
enable, so I'll not complain. lie had a
right to be a hunded years behind the
times In the construction of his house If
he wanted 10. This city is the present
western terminus of the Texas and Pa
cific railway, and at its crossing of the
Houston and Texas Central railway !;
and the
BUSINESS
transacted here is something i'm
mense. everything goes with a rush.
There are stores the stocks in which
would not suffer by comparison with
those in cities of four times the size of
this one. They have one line OF street
railway in successful operation and an
other building. New buildings are go.
ing up every day. An elegant new hotel
the Lamar House-has just been CON-
pleted, being the third hotel erected in
two years. and each eclipsing its prede-
cessor In cost and style. Three
VARIETY SHOWS
are in full blast, and the check of some Of
the buffers who advertise themselves as
actors and try to gull long suffering
public into believing it by appearing on
the stage and numbering the Queens Eu-
glish, is truly amazing.
LAWYERS AND DOCTORS,
good. bad, and Indifferent. have overrun
the town, and are having hard time of
il. The town is dscouragingly healthy.
and women so scarce a. 10 make the
lucky possessor of "A wife shun divorce
courts. 1t is said that an accident &C.
CURED at the depot the other day, and in
less than hall an hour twenty-sevcn doc
tors had put in an appearance, each and
every one willing aud anxious to do
something TO relieve the poor sufferer,
and the man didn't look as though he
would pan ont much wealth to reward
their solicitude either. Three fourths
of all the
IMMIGRANTS ARRIVING
in Texas come to Dallas. They have heard
OF this place il they do not know the
name OF another town in the state. This
is the result Of steady persistent advertis-
ing "hlowing" ] call it. Two years ago
the people organized sort of a commit
tee which included all the editors. law
yers, doctors and other professional men
in the surrounding counties, and sent
them TO the older Southern States where
they preached n new crusade. They
might have taken tor their text Great is
Dallas, and immigrants are her profit"
because so long as immigrants arrive
freely everything goes swimmingly by.
The result was that people began coming
in such numbers that il threatened TO de-
populate some Of the older S,ates-Ten-
nessee, Georgia especially, and some of
the papers sent ont correspondents TO
write letters home depreciaiing this coun-
try, but ii did no good. Many of the i'm
migrants had barely enough money 10
bring them to this new Eldorado. where
corn bread grew on bushes and roasted
hogs walked about waiting to be gathered
in and eaten. Bitterly did they repent Of
their folly in coming to new country at
the beginning OF winter, without funds
sufficient TO see them though ii. but there
was no help for it now, and as work Wa,
scarce. and many OF them would not have
worked If they could have gotten it. moth
ing was left but 10 subsist upon the char.
ity Of the resident population. SO grew
Gus did this burden become tina, the cit,-
zens finally organized score of soup.
houss for the feeding of the HUNGRY
horde which they had precipita,cd upon
themselves.
AND SILL THEY CONE.
The rush this winter has been a. great
II not greater than last, ~ many as
eight hundred have arrived on a single
train Of the Texas and Pacific railway.
They, however, seem TO be better pro-
Nided with funds than their predecessors.
Almost every family has from two to
seven dogs in is re,inue, and by some
queer Oversight, the constitutional con
'ehtion, recently adjourned. failed TO
make any provision for the determination
OF them. This may seem small matter
but when We come to consider the con-
dition Of affairs in Tennessee brought
about by
THE DOG NUISANCE.
where they are talkingof