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

FT. WORTH, TEXAS, Jan. IS, 1878.
EDITOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
request write 10 YOU of my trip To
Texas, my opinion of the country,
etc. Ilelt home on Tuesday evening,
Jan. Sth, for Sedalis where l stayed
over until the following evening to
take the through passenger train.
The trip from Sedalia to Denison is a
very pleasant one. and IS made be-
tween $50, p. m. IL day, and 5
o'clock, p. M, the following day. l
was somewhat disappointed with the
beautiful Indian Territory" but of
course saw it under very u%nfavora-
bic circumstances. Owing to the re-
cent rainy weather which has lett
small ponds all over the prairie and
the roads i'll all almost impossible
condition. Through the timbered
regions, every hundred yards or SO,
would be seen rails and piles of wood,
with which wagons had been gotten
out of the mud holes, aud in mtny
places wagons still stuck in the mud.
At9:30 q. III. the train stopped at Mus
co.ee for breakfast, and as all had
tasted since the evening before, there
was a general rush for the hotel, aud
then such q wrestling with tough
Indian beef expect You v Jaw.
| Tho inHn- NJ sn1tbar, mart Of tho
Indian Territory, l consider much
the prettiest and most fertile couu-
try bling diversified, rolling prairie
iuterspersed with timber belts. 1t
reminded Inc more of Lafayette.
Saline aud adjoining counties than
any country that | have ever seen out
of Missouri.
Arrived at Denison, The Gate
City at ) pun, OH the 10Th, together
with 8 cars chock tu!l of hum ,u
freight, two thirds of whom were
! going to Texas to make it their
home; aud that reminds me of what
3 immense immigration OF people
there eeins to be TO his country.
Four or five railroads enter it from
! the east aud I am told every train
comes loaded down with pe"ple. at
least half OF won are immigrants
Wei, Us | said before. | reached
D .uisOu, buI was not, aud fear | can
MT, say HAT am altogether pie re /
with III. town. Here also l found
that tlev hid had an immense guam
THY of rain, amd the mud was
very deep III the .treets. | believe
that the town claims TX thousand
peofl.. which is pr';'y good Que
number not tie pc p!') c~uu.idering
the place il only three ~ four yrar>
old. StIil, business il We Y much over
dpue, aud the merchants complain of
its being very dull. II Re I met Mr..
Henry L. Haynes and family formerly
OF Lexington; also met a Mr..
Hughes, who has a daughter at the
Baptist College in Lexington. MIR.
Hughes is a stirring, wide awake real
estate agent, and has done much to-
ward setting up Northern Texas.
Next evening, at $50, started for
Dallas over the Huston 4 Texas Gem
trail railroad, and verify believe
this is the toughest piece of railroad
| ever travelled over. One thinhsevery
moment that lie is about to get his
neck broken. From Denison TO Dali
las | am told that the country is very
fine, producing abundantly corn,
wheat, oats, rye, cotton aud to some
extent fruit. Peaches are produced
plentifuiIy, but apples are almost a
failure. On the way down from
Dcuison a well dressed and pleasant
looking man took a seal beside me.
We naturally fell into conversation,
aud | mentioned that there were s
large number of miserable holes,
gambling els. etc, III Denison. He
replied: ''Wel stranger you will be
surprised to know that gambling Ia
my professions and has been for TWEEN
'y1esr>." He said he was n regular
faro dealer, aud when Deuisoh was
first started he made five thousand
dollars there in three months,
but next went to Huston and lost
it i'll twenty days. From that
time ! have not said any thing
about gambling bells. AT one of the
stations | was standing neal a coffee
stand when a tall, lauk, hungry look
ing fellow came up and asked the
proprietor "thc price of II of those
pies and what they were made Of"
| remarked t. him. in a very solemn
way, that he should ask sucn a
question Of q pi. dealer: that pies
would not pear investigation.and that
he ought never t. ask a vender of
pies hat was i Iside of the pies, but
just <" ii blind. He got angry with
me in d m%oneut,anI ave me to un-
d.rstand that he was in The habit Of
asking no., what-ver he Cd din
/ pleased. Pve tried to joke 10 Texans
since. for fear of getting my head
shot oil.
Dallas contains twenty thousand