San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-08-25

Boards Halter Shop and Dobscn's x
Roads, North Carollna-A Demo-
cratic Quaker Town.

Boards Halter Shop and Dobson's X
Roads, North Carolina Demo.
cratic Quaker Town.
Luther Benson, an Indiana tenn
perance lecturer, was on o lecturing
tour through North Carolina for
several weeks previous to the first Of
this month, when an election was
held in tho State to determine wheth-
er they would have prohibition. Lu-
ther had been writing, during his
lecturing tour, to the Rushville Jack
sonian, some letters descriptive Of
the manners and customs Of the peo-
pie Of North Carolina, and of points
Of historical interest. The following
are extracts from one Of these letters:
"The next historical object was
Boards halter shop. Yes, sir! I
have seen Boards halter shop.
When I was q little boy I heard per
sons in Rush county talk about
Boards halter shop, but in my wild
est imagination, l never thought to
be permitted to see, to mo the then
mysterious wonder. The shop, or
house, where David Beard made hats
out of rabbit fur forty years ago, Is,
or was, a brick building, forty by six.
ty feet. The walls or sides have oil
fallen in; the four brick corners still
stand and support the upper story.
It is now used for O barn. David
Beard, the halter, has been dead forty
year, and some Of his manufacture OF
hats are still in existence and worn.
How is that for old hat or hatsf An
old gentleman named Zebulon Eng
lish, whose guest was, told me that
more than forty years ago he went to
Boards shop for his hat, and that he
often made three or four trips, dis
tance of fourteen miles, before his
hat was made. Hat making had not
then been reduced to science.
"Tho next historical point is Dob.
sons X roads. Who in Indiana but
has heard of Dobson's cross roads! !!
They get their name from Dobson,
who lived there, and were made no
torious and historical from being the
place where whole counties used to
rotber to muster. get drunk, fight
horse race, etc. The country every
where bears the evidence Of age
Many farms worn out fifty years ago
are abandoned, and where cotton
corn, wheat and tobacco grew fifty
and seventy-fve years ago, are now
grown up thick with bushes. Some
very poor white people are still try
ing by sweat and toll to compel old
worn out wastes to yield them q sus
tenence, but it is a scanty living they
get. They look lean, lank and hun
gry, and the bones Of their horses
and cattle can be counted distance
of forty rods. Their bones are theil
most conspicuous parts, and theil
hogs! Rush county farmers-yor
owners of China and Polanders-yor
ought to see the North Carolins
hog! Slim and slender as o blood
hound, and tleeter on foot than fox o.
deer"
DEMOCRATIC QUAKER TOWN.
In his tour through tho Pine State
Luther came across O town settled OK
clusively by Quakers, and oil Demo
Gratis ut that; and he gives them the
following "sond off"
"One more strange item and l have
done. I have Just visited beautiful
little town called Bush Hill, Gt ough'
to be called Grove Hill or Forest
Grove, for what were bushes wher
the town was born are now beautiful
groves) but that - not the strange
thing I want to tell. This town il
settled, populated and owned by
Ouakers, and they are all, every one
Democrats. Think of Democrat Qua
kers! My experience is. that where
ever I find Quakers, North, South
East or West, and whether they bt
Democrats or Republicans, they are
the grandest and best people OF
earth. Kind of heart, God-fearing
God loving and Ged-serving people
God bless the Friends everywhere
Friends is the better name, for in
deed they are tho friend and helper
of every suffering being on earth
i, The friend of every pure and holy
cause.-the friend Of God, ready ev
erywhere and at all times TO acknow
ledge Christ as Saviour and Re
deemer, and out of time they will
be gathered into an eternity OF noon
The announcement of Houston AZ
candidate for the location OF the
Medical branch OF the University ap
pears in the columns of the Advertis
er to-day. As Houston is the rail
road centre Of the state, with nins
railroads, placing that city in imme
date railroad connection with al
parts OF the state, and every section
Of the Union, the well-known liber
ality Of her people, cheap living and
healthy climate, il presents many
claims and advantages for the loca-
finn of the medical department of the