Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-06-28

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Correspond ence of the Staunton VINDIcAToR.l
LANCASTER, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS,
June 18th. That zone good turn deserves
another is good old Valley rule, and as
] have just been gloating over a file Of your
admirable paper, and taking birds eye
view Of dear old Staunton and its loved
people, will (if you can call all this
''good'') return the favor by sending you
few lines about some of it's people ''away
down south in Dixie,'' this warm June
evening.
l read your paper at the hospitable home
of that gallant West Augusta Guard boy,
John Baskins, 2 miles from Lancaster, aid
discussed its manifold merits aud the cold
folks at home," with that genial, whole
souled old gentleman, his father, Capt.
James A. Baskins. The Captain is true
Stauntonian still, and we have talked the
town and its people over from Genesis to
Revelations, and then went back and talk
ed it over again, as some item in your pa
per would bring up a fiood-tide of pleasant
memories of the good old times past and
gone. Age begins to whiten his head and
dim the clear, kind eyes, that for so many
years SO kindly beamed out from the L. o..
delivery upon your people, but he is still
good for many years, and his good lady
also. Nor has time or distance changed
his noble nature or affected his loyalty to
Staunton and Virginia. His son. John, is
the same -'old john" who when boy
stepped so gaily and boldly forth to battle
in the Stonewall Brigade. Time has not
changed bis erect soldier-like figure or his
genial nature. Fortune has blessed his in
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wife, three fine children, and a fine $50
acre improved, ''black- waXey," prairie
farm. His brother, Little Will.'' once 50
popular as the SEQ. - of Funkhouser &
Co., is ''Little WIZ still, and not much
larger than Sam of the band and bank. He,
too, has been blessed with wife. as sweet
and as small as himself, a daughter of DR..
| J. III. Swindels. formerly of Portsmouth.
Va, and one of the first physicians here.
Will has quit merchandising for awhile.
and is now ''hoeing the cotton and the
corn" on his place, and is tanned as yellow
as an Indian, but is robust and healthy.
Here, too, is Col. Howe Y. Peyton, a rising
lawyer, with a future before him as brill
liant as his strict sobriety, talents and
| business habits deserve. He is a promi-
nent candidate for the legislature and
matrimony, and will, l think, make a good
man for each. He has not aged or changed
a particle in appearance, but IS more Sc
rious thoughtful and studious, as becomes
his years and position. No young man
stands higher, and Texas and hard times
have developed in him all those sterling
qualities that lay dormant under the
quiscent influences of older prosperity and
plenty Then we have n. R. Grove. Esq.
named after that princely gentleman OF
the old Virginia school, Nicholas Kinney,
ESQ.,, his uncle. who gave him, years ago,
100 acres of Missouri land, upon which,
after going to California with other Au-
gusta pioneers in 40, he has built up a
handsome Independence. With him comes
Capt. r. S. Guy, son Of the late Jno. Guy,
ESQ.,, of Augusta. and brother OF Robert
and Emmett, who is the popular State
Senator from Dallas county, and d rising
man in the State. Near here is j. S.
Burns, of Bath, hear Augusta line, a gal
liant soldier of the 1lth Va. Reg, and pros
porous farmer, and near by Mr.. Francis
Newton, Of Botetourt counry, also gal
liant soldier. He is farming and after u.s.
ing hard knocks, doeth we'll and likes
Texas. On a splendid fruit farm one and
a half miles East is MIR. L. M. Adams, OF
Southampton county, Va, a most genial
old gentlemen, whose hand and heart are
ever o. en- to those from the old State. Ii
YOU could enjoy bis fine plums, peaches
and other fruits and his ''roasting ears, -
as have done lately you would get over
your false ideas of Texas Wanting for
nothing to make life happy, there is
nothing raised in Virginia that you can
not raise plentifully here, and this is des-
tined to be tie great fruit and grape sec
, ton of the South, in a few years. Such
orchards of peaches every where, never
saw, and the apple is rapidly becoming ac-
climated and will do well l thought
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and that people lived on corn bread, bacon
and black coffee, but l find they live, when
they want to, as well as our folks at home,
and as for rain we have had it every day
for three weeks, but, luckily, and by run
| ming the reapers. binders and threSherS
day and night, the great wheat crop was
mostly saved, an average of Is to 20 bush
els to the acre. and the oats, corn cotton,
&C., are better than ever known before.
When you know how many good old
Augusta folks are here, and here abouts,
and that this is par excellence. the lem
perance, prohibition town Of North Texas,
prohibition carried Saturday by 176 ma
jority) and has been in force here years
and that the society is good all around
here, YOU will not be surpi ised that d
ssMurphey,' like your humble servant
makes it in his Travelling corresDon-
dent's'' way to lay over here frequently
, and often, A pleasanter little town never
visited. and the benefits Of ''local option
are shown by its order, freedom from law
| lessness, ami tue two churches and a college
built, in place of saloons, in 4 years
When come back to Virginia this fall
and return to Texas with my family, l
hope to settle here for life, and have lit
tie paper uf nay own to grind out my fan
cies to the world. to have old war
dogs,' to flight my battles over again.
with: have dumb George" to make a
small farm and have time to write up my
sswar sketches" make "Murphy'' speeches
and live to green, sober old age and die
happy. Selah
In Dallas the Harry Bros. prosper, or
rather their good mother and three OF
them do, the others having moved to Deni
son, the town you hear SO much about,
connected with Capt. Bass and his train
robbers 1t will soon be the terminus OF
the Dallas q Wachita R. r., and is bound
to be large business place. and their
move was good one, as Dallas has over
done business and is at stand at present.,
but is bound to 60 ahead soon with re-
newed life, when the present big. crop is
marketed. Dallas is first class city in
every respect, and marvel in its Wav,
Seven years ago it was struggling village
and cow it has 900 people and every ad-
junct of 2 first class city..street cars,
operas, business exchange, large hotels,
large grain elevators, cotton COM
presses, dance houses, faro and keno banks
over 100 saloons, two German parks open
with music and dancing every Sunday and
every night, four daily papers and week
lies, large wholesale houses, two banks and
| two just broke, 3great railroads, churches
a big college, water works, and IN short
everything that money can buy or live
men create.
The press of Texas is go-ahead. The
great "Galyeston News has grown to
mammoth proportions with the State, and
now has as large list as all the dailies in
the State combined and as large II not
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