Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-09-19

de into the yearth 'thout going
beyond the rich black top soil.'
"I'll wager I'll be sendin' Texa;
Eaters to England long store they
git their own Eaters each year,
said another man quite as irrevo
lently, and added, "I'll put 'em UP
in barrels" The women were diff.
ferent. They looked backward.
"Do you know what viewer is ?'
asked one. mo. Well viewer
looks after things in colliery.
My father was viewer when he
was younger. He is very, very
old, now; too old to come. Phi never
see him or mother again. She
was on her way to meet her hus-
band.
"Nearly all these people have left
relatives, | suppose" the writer
ventured.
"Oh--all have" was the answer,
"some that will come after, and
some that'll not be seen again in
this world. But the most will
come if we send 'em good reports"
There is bright boy of fifteen in
Mr.. Elders care. He said he had
been apprenticed to grocer in
Nottingham, hut there was so
much "cuttIng" (competition) in
trade there that his father had OBJ
tanned him plac, in this party.
He said that he had runaway
brother in the Seventeenth
Lancers in Iuluand and a younger
brother at home that will come if
he does well. Perhaps his father
would come also, he thought.
There were two carpenters-or
oiners as they called themselves
in the company, and If their trade
offers no employment they are able
to turn to farming. There is also a
young man of higher social
rank than all the rest =. a
ColonePs son-who goes out with
two practical assistants to buy
large tract in Texas. The others
refer to him respectfully, aud are
almost certain to refer to the wealth
of his father in speaking of him.
The majority of the emigrants are
going to settle in and near the
towns of Luling and New Philadel-
phia, places in the neighborhood of
San Antonio, in the heart of the
grazing district. They expect to
surpass the natives and all other
emigrants in the management of
sheep and cattle. Others are going
to Dallas, in the cotton and grain
country. In these places they will
find some of their couutrymen from
the suburbs of London and Edin-
burgh, who came over in the Hol.
land and Spain year ago. These
settlers purchased considerable es.
tates, paying one dollar an acre
and upward, and in their letters to
their relatives declare themselves
contented and prosperous.
One OF the emigraDts in the Hell
vetia set great store upon the fact
that the latest news in England
was to the effect that the owners of
the Great Eastern hive at last con-
cluded to tear out the Joiner work
of that vessel and use her as cat
tie boat to import live Texas beef
into England. 1t is said that this
vessel will accommodate 5000 head
of cattle. More than one of the
hopeful farmers spoke as if just
such extra arrangements for hand
ling Texas cattle would be needed
after the new colony is once fairly
established. Another emigrant
said that the only bad news he had
heard about Texas was in regard to
railroad fares there. They seemed
to him to be eXtortiOnate. He is
going to work for what are called
"parliam entary trains" in England
trains upon which only a penny
a mile is charged for transporting
passengers.
The farmers were asked what
they had to say as to the truth of
a statement in an English journal
that these emigrants came to
America merely to learn new ideas
and unlearn old ones, and that in Il
few years they will return to till
English soil again. Their reply
was that they expect to learn u
great deal, but that they left Eng
land mainly on account of the ma.
ture of the soil in the agricultural
regions, and because of the system
of renting tarms-and these are
things not likely to be altered.
A few of the immigrants started
to go to Texas by rail. The others
will be put aboard the steamship
State of Texas on Wednesday
morning a few hours before she de-
parts for Galveston.
The English Parliamentary Com
Observation-Disclosures. Glare Sewell
Read and Albert Pell-who were
appointed to ascertain the best
measures for the relief of the Eng
lish farm ers, visited the Produce
Exchange yesterday. They re-
manned II few moments and were
introduced to President Hincken.