The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-10-25
1,rom Narasota. Texas.

LIZ IL
tempt to offer excuses for not comnIviny
me throa,h the columns of vou. manor
should fnI it :, tc,Iious task 70 cprn,or,te
them. Suffice if to SIN that have been
about as busy II man since nv arrival in
Texas, as was ever seen in it. I came to
this country expecting t" settle for myself a
permanent place q abode, and although
cast down ana discouraged at times, have
ever believed that, with strict attention to
business IN whatever have been engaged,
should hnaIly triumph IN securing good
PoSItion2
lew words personally before l enter
upon the task OF telling your readers in
series OF short letters what | know about
Texas" Alter an unfortunate and unpleas-
ant disappointment IN an enterprise III
which was induced to engage, at Ennis, in
Ellis county, became, on the lst of March
last, the editor OF the Corsica"a htder. This
position gave me good opportunity to look
about me and to learn something OF the
country and people. l made friends from
the start During the three months and
half that was thus employed, | took advan-
tage OF every available facility to post my
self as to Texas Ny performances on the
columns OF the IHder were acceptable to the
Pabiic, and were in some measure the means
OF my securing the position Of
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only for tho nleasur, Of those who's esteem
AMI friendshin enjoy. that | attcmpr In
gir. YOU for publication, what must obvi-
"u+!y be q small portion oi NY observations
and czpcr'cnces OF lexis The lille city OF
A.u'sota, IN which / have I"cd1edr Is sItna-
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hundred and twenty miles northwest OF
Galveston. and on the Houston and Texas
Central Railroad. We claim between l 800
anI 1000 population, and The place is grad
ually improving. We ere just six miles
east Of the dead town OF Washington, on the
BrHos, which was for short time, many
years ago, the capital Of the State. During
the year ending September Ist, there wer,
shipped from the Nayasosa depot sixteen
thousand and one hundred bales Of cotton,
and buffer the cotton worm, the shipmen,
would have reached the present year eiglI-
teen thousand bales As it is, ten thousand
bales will cover the shipment. \ bale 10
the acre is the usual crop. This Is a delight
inl climate for the most part, but il Is fear
fully hot in summer, whenever there is a
calm. Fortunately, we have more breezc
here than YOU bave in Tennessee, and III,
nights are delightful. Killing frosrs com,
about Christmas, and
WE PLANT coRx IN FEBRUARY.
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