The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-13
RUSK
Corre.nOndence Of the Herald

Correspondence OF the Herald.
Il, RISK, TEXAS, January photographic
Communication between this place and
Jacksonville is cut off, but will be again es-
tablished on the completion of the railroad,
Rusk is unfavorably situated. in CONNER
mercial sense, from Dallas, but your city
sells some goods here in the saddlery line
We cannot get the HERALD as soon as the
Galveston and Houston dailies, as the mail
facilities are not as direct Our town has
experienced no boom in the way of improve
ments on the advent of the railroad, as the
work has been accomplished by convict
labor, and our prosperity has somewhat
been retarded for several years by the coun-
ty division question, which has so often
been agitated. Jacksonville, sixteen miles
north, and Otto, twelve miles south, have
taken advantage of this state of affairs, and
have exerted themselves no little to
TO cause division whereby they would both
get
A CoURT-HoUsB,
and Rusk become a place OF refuge for the
owls and bats. We needs new courthouse
and q new jail, but when such a thing is
spoken of it meets with opposition from
both ends of the county, and as it is, Chero-
kee, one of the banner counties in the State,
has courthouse and Jail which is dis
credit TO any county in the State. Consid-
ering that she has over sevene Q, n thousand
inhabitants, and as much as ten thousand
dollars cash in her treasury, she could well
afford new jail, ii not courthouse. The
moneyed and progressive people are in
favor of the measure those who pay the
most tax; the opposition, though in the
majority, are those who pay the least.
Though Rusk has had opposition from every
section detrimental to her progress and
prosperity she has by the exertion of her
wide-awake business men secured the
Kansas d Gulf Short Line Railroad,
NARRow-GAUGE FROM TYLER,
where it connects with the Texas & St.
Louis TO Homer, in Angelina County,
where ii connects with Bremond's narrow
gauge and also with the narrow-gauge
system being built by the way of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, from New Orleans. The
part OF the road between this place and
Jacksonville has been graded, and the
bridge force are within three miles of town,
having finished the gap intervening be-
tween that point and Jacksonville. Twenty
fiat and boX-cars, together with an engine.
have been received at Jacksonville, ana as
soon as the steel rails arrive, which are
looked Tor every day. Il large force will be
put on to lay it down. With all her draw
backs, Rusk has twenty-one substantial
mercantile firms, with three or four
small, unpretentious dealers, three
blacksmith shops, one matchmaker, one
gunsmith, two wood or wagon shops,
one defunct newspaper and job office, three
hotels, one restaurant, four church build
ings, one college with good corps of teachers
and one thousand inhabitants The sun
day law is strictly observed here
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