The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-03-08
A MANITOWOOIAN IN TEXAS.
What he Thinks of the Country, the
People, Climate, etc.
DALLAS, Texas. Feb. %, 1877

IeOple, Ultimate, etc,
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. %, 1877.
ED. TRIBUNE Allow me through
the columns of your paper to inform my
friends-and I have many of them judg-
ing by the number of letters of inquiry
concerning the Sunny South, particu-
larly of Texas.
First, then, my friends of small CAPT
tai, do not come to Texas, unless you
wish to be ''dead broke without EN-
ployment anu without friends. The
state is crowded with people looking for
work of all kinds, for which they search
in vain unless they wish to go to farm
ing. Some have come here with capital
and succeeded; but only by the most
persistent economy and hard work
AS for the people, they are the most
suspicious L ever saw. Everybody is
watched with a jealous eye, and is sup
posed to be a Desperate or robber-all
seem to be afraid of O ne another. You
see here the most uncivilized set of men
which by good fortune CD person can
come across. Most of them come here
with the high expectation of making
money, but once here, things turn ont
IN different light and they become
disappointed, and here they are, unable
to find anything to do, or, if they find
work. it Is only of short duration. The
money they get goes for drink and
gambling.
To my professional friends I would
say if it is possible for you to live on
barroom lunches, stay in Manitowoc :;
it is far preferable to coming to Texas.
But If that cannot hold You, come here
and you can always get all office-that
of deputy Shorthand be sent after
horse thieves. In that line Of business
you can make your mark, providing you
are bullet proof. Murder and robbery
is daily occurrence, and in dispute
there is no fighting like up north, but
the man that draws his revolver first
and shoots his opponent is the best man.
The house that am stopping at is in
the so-called quiet part of the city, and
I was told that there was no cause for
alarm; hat there were only two men
killed within its walls in the last ten
months Of course that Gained my
fears.
The crops look good wheat is about
six inches above the ground, and the
weather now is like May or June in
Wisconsin. Grasshoppers are Matching
out by tho millions, and there is cause
for alarm as this is their first visit here.
am told flies, musquitos, feas, etc.,
are an awful pest in summertime, when
the thermometer is from 80 to 100 most
al the time, cooled off now and then by
the gulf breeze, and the dust is said to
be fearful-rising in clouds covering
every thing, 20 rain after July, and the
hot sun parching everything. Just
imagine yours elf here at such time,
prespiring in the heat and dust, an occa
sional musquito BITE for pastime, and
enjoying a refreshing drink of fiat, warm
rain water, which is said to be far better
than the spring and well water, which
is perfectly abominable and last but not
least to mention, are the rats and mice;
there are legions of them, and they are
a dangerous nuisance destroying and
breaking into everything about the house
or cellar An old shanty was torn down
and two rat. terriers went in and killed
l33 rats in one-half hour
This is the home of the hooking birds,
and small negro boys are around the
streets offering them for sale from Scots
upwards. Every house is full of noisy
birds
Now in conclusion, dear reader, don't
let railroad maps and circulars about
Texas get you to come here. If you do,
you will find it as I write you. Better
stay where you are-people can come
here cheap, at reduced rates, but it takes
small fortune to return.
Yours, etc.,
CHAs. BURMEIsTER.