The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-01-03
Texas, land OF Sound Politics and
Healthy Children.
DEAR COMET -


am gladdencd weekly by the appearance
of your intelligent face in this far-otf land
1t is like meeting with II friend from whom
| get news from home and kindred. And
then my joy is enhanced by the solid ground
you occupy in politics generally, and on the
"Grant boom" in particular. There you
are sound on the goose. Your article on
that subject in Il late issue, was worth ten
times your annual subscription price. NY
intercourse with men in this State is pretty
extensive, and | have not yet found the
first man, who prctends to be Il Democrat
who would not rebel with Indignation,
against such thing as the support of Grant
by the Southern people.
The Waco Examiner and Patron, pa
per not second to any in this State in point
of patronage and influence, in late issue,
speaking on this subject says: ''Thc South
will support Grant when - freezes
over" What was intended by the space
the dash occupied | suppose the editor left
his readers to guess. Itmight have ment
the Mississippi river, on the Atlantic ocean
or some other place. 1t evidently referred
to some place not likely to undergo the
cooling" process named, lat an early period
of time. Itmay not be IL very chaste phrase
but it expresses the sentiment of the people
with no uncertain sound
Knowing your correspondent to be man
ofpeace, it may astonish you to hear that
he lately came
NEAR DOING A MURDER
with malace afOre-t thought. Travelling |
through remote section of the interior, he
came to house where all the women in the
region round about had assembled. 1t was
wash-day and there was the only water
within circle Of many miles. The long
dranght had dried up the contiguous wells
and springs and streams. Were you ever
at Sunday school picnic or Il lisll-fry? If
so you may form some idea of the number
of children that thronged about this water
ing place. Their name was legion; there
appeared to be half score for every wo-
man on the ground; the long drouth and
the short crops was the subject Of CONVEX
sation between fat, genial old lady and
the writer, when The latter said,
"Madam, there seems to be one crop the
lrouth has not affected"
"What crop is that p said fatty.
"The crop of children" was the reply. {
And here is where the murder part comes 3
IL. That old lady, then and there, went I
nto fits, one following the other in rapid
She held her side and laughed q
he sat down on the wash-bench and laugh
ID, she stood up and laughed. The bakers
lozen of mothers who were present, at first
pretended to blush and avert their faces,
nut it was no go. The laugh of the merry !
I'D soul was too contagious, and they had ?
0 give in, and, figuratively acknowledged s
he corn. Whatever else may be said of
'eXas, it is certainly one of the most pro- u
fic countries on the face of the globe, so ii
lr as the ''genus hOmeo' is concerned. Il
he whole land teens with children, and u
he cry is "still they come" fc
l see no Use in the world in fostering I'M c
ligratiOn. Texas can soon populate her q
wn vast domain without any help from ~ ~
utsiders. The writer frankly acknowl- OF
dyes to being "particips criminis" in this
usiness, ifthere be any "criminis" about :,
for he, though not decrcpit with age by tr
long way, owns up TO thirty-siX descen- Iii
ents. TEXAS. oil