Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-26

buildings, but Oh! the muo, the dis
agreeable mud. thought had seen
mud in Missouri and in Deui.op. blu,
IN now convinced that had seen
very little until l reached Dallas.
The streets were Il perfect quagmirc
from six 10 eighteen inches deep all
and you just had II wade
one block o the next. Business
III Dallas, As every where else l had
been, was very dull. owing, they said,
to the excessive rains. However, l
no doubt that in fair weather
docs an immense trade.
Remained in Dallas oulv n day or
I wo, and then came to Fort Worth.
THIS town is at present the terminus
of the Texas & Pacific railroad, is
si:uht d thirty miles west from DaIla-
i'll u magnificent farming country,
contains about ten Thousand people
and, | think, doe more business than
ANY town OF the size l haIervcr seen.
Beside its local trade il supplies, III
present, to q more or less extent the
country for one hundred and fifty
miles west, northwest aud 8, uthw eat
Some Of the hou.e- carry inmrns,
stocks and | am tod thu larger on, .
d. from "irt hundred Thousand dol.
lars to tx undred thousand dollars
''u>ln">s pa a,nnm, aud one nous
Claims 10 have. during the Year 1877
sold nine hundred Ihnustni do I $
"orIh OF mrr~c!inmdi>r. The place tn
Increased in population at the ate o
seven y five per crnt durimg th= past
year. NJ rrh,uts complain of its bc,
ing dui'to". bur l have seen nothing
Ike il IN Missouri tor sevrra! yeais
The business part of The town i
literally crowded all day with Wa
CONS bringing in cotton and wheat
and others hauling out merchandise
Cotton is king here. The publ,
square covers TWO blocks (abou'
eight acres) in the center OF which
occupying about M acre OF ground
are an elegant court house and yard
the remainder of the square is con
stantly filed with men. horses anC
wagons loaded with cotton bales
Thirty-five thousand bales have
already been shipped from here dur
ing the present season. A very in
teresting and important feature o
the public square Is the horse market
where horses are continually being
sold all day long. There are ahout
three opposition ~auctioneers. fol
could hear IL sing out loud enough
TO drown Mounijoy's voice, were he
here ''H-e-a-r-'s your mule;" another
Just ago!ng at twelve dollar, a;d ;
half" and another like Jake Conner
Sixteen dollars I'm bid Tor thi,
thoroughbred mustang plug, saddle
and bride worth ten times the
money and so on ; many fair plug:
changing hands at from ten dollars
to twenty-five dollars. Liquor deal
ers. faro, keno, poker, monte. pedro.
Old sledge. and in fact every game
imaginable tlourisi.es openly and t,
perfection. Every conceivable occu,
patton is carried on here. You viii
find the knife sharpener and giass
cutter pedler, street pcdlers of all des'
criptions, fruit stands, blind org Al
grinder, book peddIers, numcrouslv
boot black. bcggar, and last, but BY
no means least in number, the on.'
uipresent tramp; YOU can SIC at nny
time long files OF HIN asking in III
turn at the po>totice window for !
that he has not received II since
years ago when he was a respectful
fellow. Fort Worth has on iIs prin,
cipal street a street railway the stock
of which | am told pays five p.l
cent. per mouth, and of course il j.
not for sale. Tn. weather, since
have been here, has been delightful
through the wiutcr up III ten da>.
ag" has been very wrI. ! tiud q great
scarcity Of ia TX and butter A.; have no
been abie 10 get q glass "f milk since
coming to the state. The but er ha.
most al been imp 'rred. aud Is @cmer-
ally putty "IVui.' Since coming
here | have had the pleasure oil
meeting Mr.. Tnos. A. TIdbail and
family, Nj, Be tie Arnold, and Mr..
l.. T.. iiu'ch n, all formerly Of Laiay.
cite county. Miss Arnold, together
with h,r sadly partner (what a pity
such a lovely Idly SHOULD select a
psrtn.') are conducting very
flouri>hing rr,vate sch, o, and are
buiIt al this time tie hes;
building IN the city. The yard
of their temporary sc~tioo!-hDuse Is
covered with cotton bales, for
the children to play upon | presume.
Mr.. Tidball is OF the firm of Tidbaii,
,ndt g. Co, bankers. The firm is
considered the strot g.st one III tie
city and does a lang. business. Mr..
L. is a popular and Influential cit
zen here. being one of the proprie-
of the str, ct rail way and several
other public enterprises. Mr.. l.. G..
lIufchins is clcrhiug in the bank
above mentioned; is a first rate bus
young man, and is liked very
much by his associates. Well, I'll
not wear you with TOO much at Il
me, SO farewell until you see yours
A TOURIST.
Prince Frederick Charles, nephew of
he Emperor OF Germany, not long since,
or family reasons, it is reported. was
of being separated from his
wife. He accordingly spoke to his uncle
On the subject, The Emperor calmly
My dear nephew, have not
oeen separated, your father has not been
your grandfather was not
separated. neither will you be separa-
ed" and he has not been separated.
During the year 1877 the lawyer.
have lost two able trrs, Perkins,
Of Salem, and cx.Gov. En- ,ry WASH
burn, the author ut tie beet law book
Du real properly now in use. P"r-
in the death of I1erculano de