The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-16
ALBANY.
Using anu Attractive Town Situated
in a Fine County.

- in this beautiful young town, the
coeat OF Shackleford county and the
pA OF the northwestern branch of the
Il Texas Central railroad. 1t
vale through which runs the
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- rk of Hubbard's creek, as it
D from a range of the lesser noun
N the northwest, and, taking the
surroundings in connection with
hiate locality, is the most beauti-
Hlted town / have seen in Texas
o feet above the level Of The sea,
above Dallas. 1t is =
TO look on the liberal
he town, so expressive of enter
aste IN its projectors, The main
courthouse square Is 40 feet
more than four times as large as
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\ DALLAS Every street running at
IS, north, south, east and west,
Ill vide. Every block is crossed by
III alleys twenty feet wide. The
lit good front and ample depth to
Vv The whole plan insures ventil-
INV ntort, convenience, cleanliness
~ and is in strange contrast with
n merated mass of incongruities,
IA, crammed and smothered
pa, our own city of Dallas,
mao As ustiiul by nature, but distorted
and inc mmost impossible of cleanliness
BY III" "aace or cupidity of man. The
caDerol Il admirable plan of Albany
TppderedW impossible for the filthy odors
nfone ho,l or establishment to become
griously Offensive to another. The projec-
tor or projectors of the town should be
awarded a rare medal by the American sam
ary commission, for setting such an exam
ne to town-makers. 1t is impossible in the
nature of things for one
70 be citizen of such
aplace without q feeling ofjustiiiable pride
init | confess, most sincerely, to the ex-
hierating influence of such generous and
intelligent lberality, and pray that others
throughout Texas, in founding townsin the
iatu.e, while land is cheap and hberality
PAYS by inviting men of taste and worth to
s,tte in them, may adopt the ideas of the
htLers of Albany. The town has, by actual
count, l07 houses. OF those fifteen are
store buildings well built, and'six are two
stories high. About twenty-five are bust
ness houses, shops, etc, and the remainder
residences. A few Of the residences are
nice frame or stone houses, but chiefly they
are plain, wooden buildings. The two
story stone Jail is splendid building-the
most secure jail, it is claimed, in Texas.
for the weary and hungry. One each by
Mrs. Pool date of Tehuacana), Mr.. Barr and
Mr.. Buck. Each has all the modern "idee"
Of-"Dinner for one"
At first glance the country looks broken
and rather uninteresting at this termina-
ton Of a snow storm; but on examination,
tits found to be as rich in soil as beautiful
inlandscape.
Ny otherwise dull stay has been enliyened
by meeting many old friends from else
where For instance, Joe Fisher politely
Joseph H. an old friend and Dallas-raised
boy, is the county Judge, and lives as a
Christian ought to, in This own house and
boards at the same place." This, as
Mark Twain says, is quotation. But Joe
iihere and prospecting all the same. He
came from Dallas to this vicinity five years
ago with his wife, babies and little else. To-
day he has a fine farm, and 800 acres of as
fine land as | ever saw, three miles below
on Hollands creek-a nice residence in
town, another residence and three business
houses, several other properties, and to set
oil the whole, is the popular and acceptable
county judge, whom the people are
gplng.. TO re-elect in spite
CfMolly Mcguire and high water. With
apartner, he is considered one of the reli-
able and prosperous land agents of west
Texas. In short, Joe Fisher, the Dallas
boy, is on the upgrade. Another old Dal-
las county boy here in prosperity is jeff
that is, Thomas j. Grounds, from the Cedar
Hill neighborhood. | meet, also, Mr.
Reeves, from Lavaca county, man of
means; Mr.. Boer, from Caldwell county, also
iul handed; Mr.. Porter, from Tennessee,
apractical farmer, and many others, whose
united testimony shows that this is u splen-
did country for wheat, barley, onions, Irish
and sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and UNI
MAILED for sorghum and water melons.
name only those products which have been
tried from two to five years under system
dcultivation necessarily imperfect.
see cattle on the plains, at the tail end
Of the winter, that have lived all their lives
On natures voluntary productions, which
would make respectable beef to-day.
Three miles below town visited to-day,
Unknown to him flor | have never seen
ann a 2,oO0-acre pasture and farm,
belonging to Mr.. ]. w. Ellison. 1t is en-
closed by three-wire fence-plain wire
listened on mezquit posts eight feet apart,
ana would resist the butting of buffalo
Dull Mr.. Editor: Please spell "mezquit'
write 1t. am as tenacious on that
point as am ON being
respectable people as Texian, despite the
Impairment, stuck-up and maudlin squibs
Of that shallow-pated injection into news.
laperdom in Austin, called the Texas
sgulbs, Squills, Squirts, Squint.Eye, SQUAD
eles, or something of that sort.
am requested by Judge Fisher, Drs.
POWELL, Durham and others TO express to
,,ae people of Dallas their great esteem ioI
Mrs, Fox, ofSanger Bros, the noblelady who
volunteered to come here and nurse the
smallpox patients. Her praise is in every
mouth, and write the fact more freely be.
cause Of not personally knowing this good
samaritan, though she Is known TO those
next door to me.
The smallpox in nutshell; Six death:
y one house; eight new cases; all oonvalesc
ing No new cases for week. The sick
quarantined with good nurses, and the
alarm all gone. j. b.
Fever and ague and chills and fever bro
Mhup and prevented by using the purely
,esetable remedy, Carters Liver Bitters