Middletown transcript., 1877-06-23
Written for the lIiddlstorn Transcript

4eAAb-AAArO ENpers
The stores in Calvert are on the same
plan as those of Middletown; they dc
not confne themselves to any partieu.
lar line Of goods; they keep what we
would call frst-class country stores on
a large scale, and when you enter a
store in Calvert you feel sure you can
fit yourself out with every article you
want, whether useful or ornamental,
from needle to a threshing machine,
or from the plainest calico dress to the
finest silk, and at reasonable prices.
Some things at very much less than
the same article can be bought for in
the northern cities. All kinds Of pro
visions except flour and hams-very
low; beef from three to five cents per
pound, chickens twenty to twenty-five
cents per pair, vegetables plenty and
cheap. There is all kinds of mechan-
ical work carried on; every branch of
business fully up to the times. To be
short, they have ever thing that that ne re
have in the North. There are three
churches, and the fourth one will be
built this year. think there are three
schools, all in prosperous condition.
Church service morning and evening I;
Sabbath Schools well attended they
sing out of the same books and study
the same lesson every Sunday that the
schools in Middletown do. So you see
that the people in Texas are not
heathens But as / intend to give you
in my next my views on the morals Of
Calvert, shall continue with the i'm
provements. There is in the town
very large oil factory, two stories high,
substantially built of brick and fitted
up with the latest improved machinery
for separating the seed from the cotton
and manufacturing the seed into oil.
The hull taken from the seed is used
for fuel to make steam. The meal is
put through a process and the oil ex-
tracted the meal is then pressed into
cakes and shipped away and sold for
feed. Thus you see that everything
connected with cotton. is made use Of
to profit. The factory turns out one
hundred barrels Of oil per week, and
the company intend this year to put in
for making soap and can
dies. There is also a new Jail built in
modern style, and the court house will !
be built this year. The houses in Cal /
vert, as in all parts of the State, are
built cheap, with view to comfort and !
convenience, and almost every man
you meet is his own landlord no one
to bring him a Christmas present by
way Of notice to give up peaceable pos
session by the 25th of March, or pay
twenty-five dollars more money the
lext year, as is the case in Delaware.
lie can say "I am monarch of all l
uryey; my right there is none to dis
,ute, " which can never be the case in
he old States. Every man tries to
keel his neighbor in style and appear
nee. Ifhe should own a farm worth
hree thousand dollars, he must put up
five thousand dollar house, even if
Ie should have to mortgage the land
o do it, and the furniture inside will
ost as much as the land is worth.
he carriages, horses and harness as
luch more. All this is done, not with
view to comfort, but for appearance,
ecause in the Old States he is estima-
ID by the style heputs on. In word,
very one tries to excel his neighbor,
nd by so doing, men with ordinary
leans make failures, and sometimes
Extraordinary men ditto. In Texas,
on can, for five hundred dollars build
Ourselfa a house that will compare IA
orably with your neighbors, live COM
pay your debts and be respect !
| 1t is the internal and not exter- !
al qualifications that recommend a !
ian in Texas, which makes the words
{ Scotsman true in the. EUery Evening
nd Commercial, in his article copied /
| that paper on Texas. Alternating I
lem out the worst people in the world, !
a man for his pocket-book {
there was nothing in it, and the hogs i
dig his grave and turn his body out I
pleasure. That did not happen on e
y route, but my business in Texas !
as different from his. / met only E
but he finished up by say a
Ig that if a man behaves himself he
i'll 60 through Texas safely, and so
y !, and if he don't my word for it, I
ley will enforce the law and let him n
now that he is in the United States. t
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