Connecticut western news., 1882-01-18

As the weather is supposed to be safe topic
 anywhere, w9 will discuss that for 6 while
 Up to the present time-the first week of the
 New Year-we have had no real winter wealth
 CT, this season being as remarkable for mild
 ness as last Was for its severity. Ofthe storms we have had, all have been warm and light rains, and the mothers have been very mild
 or 'baf1ed nortAers." lasting but one or two days. The coldest night, ice formed about half an inch thick on pail of water standing
 on the north side of the house.
 As the winter has been so dry and pleasant,
 live stock of all kinds looks uncommonly well,
 and as that is the leading interest in this vii clnlty, and as there has been quite an advance In prices within the last six months, people
 are nearly all feeling good those who are not, being few old moss backs who fear their
 COWS will be killed by the ears when we get
 our railroad running, which will be in the course or few months, more or less. My | authority for the last clause of the preceding sentence Is the Blanoo Star Vindicator, the editor o% which, in company with the real es. | tate owners and business men of the town of Blanco, has on immense rose colored goggles, and everything looks lovely to him, and the prospect of & railroad is good, as the surveyors are on the route between here and Fredericks-
 burg. and the road is under contract from Pat l terson on the Brazos river, to that place.
 Fredericksburg, the county seat of Gillespie Co.,, the county northwest of Blanco, is quite | large town of between three and four thou | sand inhabitants. and is one of the few towns
 of that size which has no railroad communica-
 tion with other parts of the country. It is a German town, nine-tenths of the people being
 of that nationality, and their customs and
 ways are slice out of Deutschland. A large German colony settled there some years before the war, and have increased and prospered, as they always do, go where they will. About the time they reached their lands their treas urer absconded with nearly all their money
 and they were obliged to eat rattlesnakes and anything else they could find for while, un-
 til they could raise something.
 All that Blanco needs:to be guite 8 town, is
 about four times as many people as live there
 now. They claim io nave four hundred, but
 think they have to go out among the hills to find that many. But 1t is q lively little place.
 and there is a heap" of business done there One of the three cotton gins has put up be- l tween six and seven hundred bales of cotton
 this fall, and the other two, one a mile above town and the other a mile below, must have put up as many as that in town, and probably as much as three-fOurths of all the cotton was | sold at Blanco It would puzzle stranger passing through the country to tell where half l of 1t grew, but there are good many little | patches of land i'll cultivation among the hills | and dells, within twenty miles. It is the head quarters of a drover or two every spring, and | a fright smart'' of wool is sold there every | summer, so that in the aggregate & large amount of money changes hands there prob- | ably as much as changes hands in a town of | ten times the people in yankee land.
 ] The fall has been so favorable that nearly every farmer has, or will put in an extra quan- | tity of wheat and other small grains some of them are already blowing their corn and cet- | ton ground. Nicarauga wheat is getting to be
 a great favorite in this vicinity; those who | sOwed it last year harvested flom twenty five | to thirty bushels per acre, while common ] wheat averaged about twelve bushels. It is l about as much like rye az wheat, but 1t ''eats mighty we'll in biscuits" TExEAN. Blanco, Tex, Jan. 4th. 1882.