Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-08
JEFFERSON.
An Intervisw With Gen. King-What He
Accomplished mt Mar>hail-The Sui
phur Springs College.

An interview with Gen. king-Wiat He
Accomplished ut Mar>haii-The Sui
phur Springs College.
Special to the Gazette.
jefferson, September Maj. Estes
returned from sulphur Springs yester-
day. He spent nearly week there,
and witnessed the opening ceremonies
of the Central college under President
Atkinson. late of Mississippi, and Que
of the most polished scholars and edu-
| Gators in the south. They have in
spired great enthusiasm there on the all
important subject ofeducati on. Ninety
six students were registered the
! first day of the session and bankers
and business men closed their houses
1 TO witness the ceremonies.
No rain in that section since the
first week in AI.9ust, Crops of corn
and cotton are better as you go west
| along the line OF the railroad Your
reporter would estimate the crops in
| the section mentioned as follows:
/ Cotton from two to five hundred
/ pounds per acre; corn from ten 10
thirty-tive bushels; oats, millet and
sugar cane good.
/ District court is in session at SuInhnr
! Springs. The grand jury is iueesii "a
ting the,fenca cutters aud infrinrnsnts
| OF the Sunday law. Rumor SAWS there
are many indictments on this point.
! Col. Weaver, prominent citizen and
banker, was foreman of the grand
] jury and has been dangerously sick.
i but is now conva!escent. AS long as
! they have such men as he is on the
/ jury, evil doors had better get away.
/ Twcnty-three bales of cotton were re.
/ ceiged vt Sulphur Springs Wednesday:
! fourteen at Campbell, sixty-iive mt
/ Pittsburg, six mt Cason, seventeen at
4 Daingertield and several carloads at
! Jefferson.
Gen. King, our worthy adintant
/. general, is here, and is warmly
/ greeted by his many friends. Some
OF the most prominent citizens have
I served under him in the late trouble
and The only fault ever alleged against
him was his strict discipline and want
OF alacriiy in obeying orders to re-
treat. HE'S still young, vigorous and ms
courteous as ever. Presuminy on ante
belium and on my acquaintance and
newspaper privileges, your reporter
interviewed him at his elegant apart
ment at the Grigsby House. The
most prominent article of furniture is
the narrow gauge beds which the gem
eral persists in using. He was
warmly welcomed along the route and
every facility offered him hy all parties
at Marshall in the Investigation
OF the recent troubles between the
whites and blacks. He was especially
oepntized by the state authorities 10
visit the seems of the conflict. He had
given the matter thorough and ia.
tent examination, inviting and not
/ eNciuding any testimony pertaining
10 tue riot Many of the leading RE-
pnolieans, white aad colored. assured
iiim that they knew nothing OF the
immediate cause of the sudden ami
mostly manifested by the blacks To-
wares The whites that the law-abidinc
coiored men had nothing to complain
/ or mat they were all dealt with fairly
ana Tue idle and awless were creating
the uis1nIbanees. Gen. King is salts.
hed mat GrgoIy's enterprise was a
speculation aud not political move
ment; that Gregory's swindle has been
explained and he is rebuked even Inv
ms own race. Gen. King patiently eI-
POUNDED the law to the leading coiored
men OF Harrison county, ana assured
lheni mat 1t was not ooRiined to Har .