The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-04-04
OPINIONS OF TEXAS.
How Two Per-Ons Disagree In
Eheir Conclusions.

In the issue of March Goth. of the
Barnesville (Ga.) Gazette, we find the
! following
Tuesday afternoon, Edgar L. Rogers.
who left here two weeks since for Texas.
returned and was cordially welcomed by
/ his many friends. "Wednesday morning.
orr reporter found him at the LYON
house and desired to know how it was
that he could 60 to Texas, make a for
tune and return III two weeks time. He
replied in positive terms, 81 did not like
Texas and I thought the sooner came
back the better"
But why did you not like it -
"Because was not satisfied with the
country nor the people. l stopped at
Jefferson City to see an uncle, and be-
fore left two men were shot to death.
/ One Of them drove buggy against a
woman and started back to apologize,
and he was met by the hus-
band and shot down with a
shot gun before he could render his re-
grets The other. | do not know what
lac was killed for Besides these two
murders, met the sheriff Of one
county, who had broad leather belt
buckled around his waist, and hanging
10 i was fearful pistol and d two
edged dirk, which was reeklng with
gore but two hours taken from the body
OF man whom the she III had to kill,
because he refused arrest after having
murdered two men. In addition to these,
when jim Howard and myself got off at
d station two cowboys were heard to say
there they GO
As the time for closing this issue of
the Gazette WAS near at hand our re-
/ porter left Mr.. Rogers with promise
] that lie would give the readers of the
Gazette full version of his trip III our
next issue"
/ In connection with this we will merely
say that We have had the pleasure OF
meeting Mr. Howard who was the COM
! panion Of Mr.. Rogers on his trip to Tex
AS, and the above is as much d surprise
10 him H. it is 10 us Now the facts rs
/ Mr. Howard states them, are, that he
and Mr.. Rogers visited Jefferson and the
latter began to exhibit a very severe
attack of home sickness, but was per-
81 .ded to come to Cleburne, arriving
there IN the evening. Next morning
Rogers decided to return az once to
Georgia. and took the first CONVEYANCE.
What Rogers or anyone else could see
of Texas on such trip Is more than we
can cOmprehenl but anyone with Il
grain OF sense can discover falsity on
the face of the above, and we are sur
prIsed nj q paper like the Gazette being
taken in and giving publicity to such n
tale. Mr.. Howard says with all his love
for the good cid GoOber state, he is
ready TO admit that Texas SURPRISES il,
and he has seen nowhere better eoun-
try OF more quiet and orderly people
He has decided to locate III Waco and
make his future home III this part of the
Lone Star State. Ii the truth was only
known We expect Mr.. Rogers is a big
Uver-grown calf who gets frightened and
thinks he Is lost whenever he gets loose
from his mothers aprons-tring. If he
only had d little more grit and took a
good look at the state instead Of form
ing ms conclusions while sleeping he
might be here mapping Gu; his
way 10 ii future business career as his
friend, Mr.. Howard, now ls No doubt
when he got back home after only two
weeks absence, in which space OF time
he seems to have learned more about
Texas than the oldest settler, he felt
ashamed of coming back and had TO tell
some horrible tale to keep people from
4diS li-IIN al AILu' Il - pIIE SOME crown
Of scLOoI-hols did not take him out
'nlpe-iumtint while he was IN the state
Bat he Is safe at home now, and sonny
will have ms nose wiped and sit upon II
high chair when the reporter of the Ga
zette calls to get another batch of blood
rurdllug news about Texas Tor has next
weeh ISSUE from the young man who
,ras afraid to go out of the house or stay
long enough IL the state to get a square
breakfast