St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-06-01


of cotton, at fifty dollars bale-an in
come of $34 100000. Wheat, corn, cane
and rice grow there abundantly in diff
ferent sections. Texas has 100000 of
cattle, besides horses and sheep and
hogs like the sands of the sea for null
titude. One hundred and sixty five
thousand head of cattle and four million
bushels of wheat, were brought to st.
Louis last year, and the exports in
wool, hides and beef in barrels, amount
ed to eight million dollars. visited a
factory in Galveston where beef cattle
are put up in tin cans at the rate of rs
day, for the German army. Mr.. Allen
has rancho near Galveston, pasturing
two hundred thousand cattle, ,all bearing
his brand. Hekeeps three hundred herds
men. Mr.. King near Corpus Christi, has
one hundred and forty thousand head of
cattle and eight Thousand horses. Mr.
Kennedy his neighbor, has about an equal
number. There are uncounted numbers
of sheep. There are cattle Oh thousand
prairies, and horses are so plenty that
the beggars ride. All kinds of stock
feed themselves entirely the year found.
The climate is paradise of mildness
and comfort. In April, We had on the
table green peas, beets. onions, pota
toes, Strawberries, and blackberries,
fully ripe and in the greatest abundance.
Magnolias, and oleanders larger than
those by the Jordan, were in full bloom.
Peaches were half grown, corn as
high as your knee, and wheat in the
head.
From st. Louis to Houston, distance
nearly equal to that to New York, it
seemed like a plunge from an April
morning into the balm of June. Twenty
thousand people live without shelter
on the prairies of Texas and camp
nightly under the open heavens. No
frosts fall on the orange and lemon and
citrOn groves of the coast. The land
scape of Texas is wonderfully finished
and attractive. There is some forest in
the eastern part, and along the water
courses, but it is mostly open, rolling
country, smooth and beautiful as a
with roller. While the houses are
new, the country looks old like the
parks of England. Level down Boston
Common considerably, preserve the
trees standing under trimmed here and
. there, make it green as an emerald and
extend it to the size of four New Eng
lands and more, and you have the ap-
pearance of large portion of Texas.
Her population are lost in so extended
garden lawn. In passing through the
State you hardly see more people than
: you see vessels in crossing the Atlantic,
and you wonder where the people are.
There is q softness and richness OF
beauty to the living green of these wide
: reaches of landscape, which remind you
of the valley of the Nile. The sense OF
growth and productiveness is without
parallel. The great. wants of the State
| dlC IHOIil anu DOBultt-
F. ton is heterogeneous, coming often
broken in fortune and broken in char
acter. This is the dark side of the
picture, relieved, however, by strong
lights, for some of the best men in Chris
are there. There are twenty-five bun,
dred churches in the State, with one
- hundred and sixty thousand communi
cants, besides an army of sixty-tivt
thousand Sabbath school scholars. The
first American colony planted in Texas
was taken out by Moses Austin, "a native
of Connecticut, in 1921, and the frs
Sunday school was founded by T. =,
Pilgrim, who went as Spanish inteIprete
st for the colony. His school was organ
lied in Gonzales forty years ago, an,
he was present at the Annual Stat
Sunday School Convention at Houston
s. April 26, to tell the story of his labor
y for Christ, and the vast progress mad
during these years. One of the frs
preachers of Texas was Rev. Sumne
Bacon of Massachusetts,, who came Ou
in 1928. He was man of great energ
+! and courage, and wrought powerful
he among the colonists of all classes. H
n N distributed copies of the Bible from tn
Mt Sabine to San Antonio. So the father
of Texas were largely New Englan
- fathers. was approached 10y minister
3 who said there were a large number {
churches in the State which are indt
er pendent in government, and would lik
VS IS to come into fellowship and affiliatiO
" with those of the Congregational way.
RS The American Sunday School Unio
has a strong hold in this state and
- doing a noble work. Being undenom
national, it makes its way into tho:
T. little communities where there is L
church, and where there are a fe