Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-05
PARKER COUNTY.
The Gazette's Correspondent Stretches
His legs Under a Oongresamans
Mahogany,
And is Moved to Dilat upon that Gen.
tleman's Good Qualities.
The Business and Business Men o
Weatherford.
,o,,ssnonacre. Of The Gazette.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WEATHERFoRD January 3, 1883.
Your correspondent had the pleasure
of dining with the Hon. s. w. Il.
Lanham, representative-eect from the
Eleventh Congressional District, at his
house, on New Years day. The din
ner was good, but naught TO be COM
pared with the feast of reason and
the flow of SOUP that combined to
render the occasion one of the happiest
episodes of long and eventtul lite.
Colonel Lanham has about laid aside
his law books for the present, and Is
devoting his time and his energies
chiefly to those branches of study that
will best fit him to measure lances
with the bravest and the best of his
compeers when he shall have assumed
his position in the councils of this
mighty nation. Let no man of
the Eleventh District harbor the
least doubt or fear but that
he will be ably and honora-
bly, represented when that happy
event SHALL transpire. If the council
chambers of our nation could be filled
with just such men it would indeed
begin to look like happy return to
the good old days of the fathers of the
republic.
Considering his nge (thirty-six
years. and the embarrassment under
which he has labored ever since he
came to the state, in 1866; growing
family to support and n profession to
acquire, with no intrinsic aid aside
from his indomitable will and spark
ling genius, he and all his friends
and relatives whereSoe'er dispersed
have Just cause to feel proud
OF his brilliant career in life thus far
| is very rare that n man jumps from
the humble walks of private life to the
council chambers of nation, the
first leap. Most men have to toll and
labor up the steep and rugged PIN
nacles of fame, but he has taken sud-
den flight, this being the first, official
position he has ever held in life out
side of his profession, thus atfording
the historian another brilliant illustra
ton OF what genius founded upon the
strictest integrity can accomplish
under republican institutions.
The good people of Weatherford are
proud to see il announced in late is
sue of the Daily GAZETTE, that
theirs is not "a dead city, The great
wonder to them is, that such an absurd
idea should have invaded the sanctum
OF printing office that they have pat
roniaed so literally for the past six
months. They accept. however,
the apology Of your correspond
ent with great pleasure, and
trust that he will never again suffer
the scales of ignorance to so bedim his
mental vision. He should have
learned, long ere this, not to place too
much reliance on what Madam Ru-
NOR says. Your present correspond
ent was formerly citizen of Weather
ford, and after an absence of eight or
ten years. it affords him infinite pleas
ure to be permitted to return and find
his old friends and acquaintances, who
had to struggle and skimp ito make
buckle and tongue meet when he left
them, now financially able to snap
their fingers in the face OF the world 90
far as begging its favors is concerned.
| Brighter examples of individual
prosperity are not TO be found in any
city than in this same reputed dead
city," No, Weatherford is not dead
nor Is she even conscious that the
seeds of mortality are even lurking
within her financial bosom, and should
any other molder Of public opinion be
laboring under similar delusion. let
him Danish it at once. They are Just
on the heels of the holidays, and in the
midst of a bad spell of weather, and
trade is little dull just at this time,