The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-09-30
Texas Crop and Progress.
Especial Cor. Times-DemOcrat.l

For the past IL days we have |
had superb weather for cotton. |
No rain has fallen, the sun has
shone clear, and the thermometer
every day indicating from 90 to 100
degrees of heat. II has been de-
cidedly the best weather for cotton
we have had in three months.
LARGE CROP is ASSURED.
l don't think anything is going
to happen to prevent us gathering
the biggest crop ever raised in
Texas. The fields are as full as
they can stick with it. hear of a
great many planters who will pick
a bale to the acre. If this weather
lasts 10 days longer there is just
no telling how much will nature
certainly as much as we can mus
ter force to pick'between this and
next February. There is an active
demand for pickers, and hundreds
of our stable boys, cooks, house
girls and street loafers have left
for "the front.n They can make
from $40 to $15 per week. This
very much Oppressed race" can
make enough by Christmas to buy
watermelons all next summer,
which is their summer resort.
Our cotton receipts are begin
ming to count up respectfully, and
in few days it will come in by
the hundred. Planters have ga
pre-" that there is going to be a
tumble in price before the ides of
November on the order of the tum-
BILE of Arab Bey, and hence will
hurry up their deliveries as fast as
possible. The surrender Of Arab
will open Egyptian cotton to the
market, which puts an end to our
hopes that its continuance would
stiffen prices. But Texas can
stand almost anything that may
happen in that direction. Our
corn cribs are bursting full, and
hogs and cattle fat.
100000 BALES.
1t is estimated the crop of Texas
will this year foot up this figure,
which, at s45, viii bring in $63, 3,000,-
600 from the outside world. To
this add 15O,OOO,OCO to 1sO,OoO,OOO
bushels of corn and a proportions
ate amount of wheat, oats and 9th
er productions, and you have a
rough guess Of what the crops o.
Texas will amount to in 1882.
] know of nothing from the mus
tard bed to the cotton field whicl
has not yielded enormously
which has doubled last year
Northeastern agricultural secreta
ries are pretty loud in their boasts
until they get down to our cottol
money, after which they quie
down or begin to talk about butte
and cheese.
THE RICH SOUTH.
1t is exceedingly gratifying t.
see all our papers beginning t.
: drop "the poor MOUTH style 0
literature, and to talk rich one,
more. This years crops are so ex
traordinary they will make every
body essy. In Texas, at least, W,
haven't been playing the role 0
the poor boy at the frolic for som,
years past, and hereafter propos
to lead the bIide-elect herself il
, the mazos of this merry dance.
SPEECH OF AN ENGIIsHMAN.
| happened to be at a meeting
the other afternoon of prominen
men who have undertaken to rails
money for cotton factory in Dial
las. Among them was a Britor
who got up and said he was raise,
in cotton mill, and had all hi
means locked up in Mancheste
mill. "Gentlemen," he said, "coi
: ton factories are no longer payinI
institutions in England. The rea
son of this is they cannot compel
with this country. We cannot pa
freight on the raw material 70
three and four thousand miles an
make goods as cheap as you dc
and predict it will not be twent
years before the mills of New Eng
land will be in the same prcdics
ment with reference to the Soutl
!, They are in that fix now, only yo
fail TO make enough to supply tn
markets. The lives of Old an
New England mills are limited t
the development of cotton mills /
. the Southern States. This is il
evitable. This is fate. This is
revolution which will take plac
:. : during the present generation"
And these remarks of the loys
subject of Her Majesty the Quee
!, Of England, Empress Of India an
: Boss Of Arab Bey, reminds me I
speech Of a South CaroIinian iui
! after-immediately after-the wa
Any number of people were sittin
!, around and standing about th
streets of Columbia mournin