The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-12-25
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
W AxAHAcHIE, TEXAS, Dec. IA, '78.

WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS, Dec. IA, rs.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
After little more than years ex-
perience, write you another letter. My
soiourn in Texas has been true April
weather; many clouds and but little
shun-shiue, but the soil and climate is
all that I could ask. came here almost
a complete invalid, and now my health
is splendid. The soil is very produc-
tive, but at the present low prices of
farm produce, and especially cotton, the
| prospect for farmers is rather discour-
| aging. Supply and demand govern the
| prices of all things, and as a matter of
course the soil is not accountable for
| the general debility of the times, but
rather class legislation in the interest
of the few and against the many. It
| it is to be hoped that the Forty-SiXth
| Congress will do something to relieve
the country. If aot, we may pass in
our checks"
But to my subject. The Texas Pacific
! Railroad is now being extended from
J Fort Worth to eatherford, a distance
of forty miles farther west. If Congress
makes any appropriation for this road,
it will soon be extended several hun
dred miles farther west, and will pass
through one of the most arabic countries
in the world.
For capitalist and men of moderate
means, this is splendid country, but al
man with family and without means,
will be many years in accomplishing
much. No man will find Texas an asy-
lum of resort from his former cares and
labor. The good times, of which Mr..
Charlton wrote last spring, are now as
the things that were. Lands are chead
to buy, but it costs about $500 eight
dollars per acre to improve land here.
We have good public school system |
The annual interest on the tSchool |
Land" thatshas been sold makes a splen- J
did school fund. The land is sold on /
ten years credit at ten per cent interest.
The interest being payable in advance. |
am now teaching the young idea |
how to shoot" at $50 per month. The 1
public schools run six months here. We I
are having a norther to-day, and it is
very cold, though cold spells don't last
long here. F.-
Before closing the letter, would like
to tenderly speak of that little sheet
known as the Whitesburg Times Since
the Times doomed political attire in the
phase of the bloody shirt, its course has
been an insult to the intelligent Repub
licaus of the First District The war is
over. The North and South have shaken
hands across the bloody chasm, and al
though the South wears a scar upon her
face that can never be effaced, she is
great deal wiser by sad experience, and
asks nothing but peace and self govern
nent. If the political editor of the
Z lines is not an exscarpet- Dagger of some
IF the Southern States, fail to recog-
lize the true rattle of the garment, and {
90, when the starch is not knocked out
Hhen the Solomon of the Times waved
lis shirt over the heads of his would !
lave them be dupos, and they failed to 6
receive Instructions" there was great /
vailing and crashing of teeth, and they 3
we're termed the weak men" of the4 4
first District / know that Solomon is t
rise, very lciss, bat then he is not al $
rays right. For instance, the negroes t
ave decided to let the people who own
he South govern it, as they have tried
legislation and know that
works well. 'Verely, the word do /
love-" TON. II