Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-25

that pantbers never come except in the
neighborhoods where colored people live
and at the season of watermelons and
early spring chickens. We certainly had
good time yesterday and did not allow
our fear lest we might come in contact
with the panther unarmed, take from
our enjoyment. The Conley track is
looking beautifully now The cotton is
in full bloom and the corn and cow peas
and all other crops are very promising
Much Of the corn is nearly ripe and cot
ton bolles are to be found as large as q
hens egg and will soon open and be
ready to pick. | should not be surprised
if new cotton were harvested there tits
month. | will not be cruel enough to
write much about the melons. | will
merely say, in passing, that the small one
we had for dinner yesterday did not 90
over fifty pounds and that it did not melt
till we put it into our mouths. If live
to be centenarian it will be only under
protest that | shall never again taste Of
any but southern melons. I regret to
say that the Conley tract is no longer for
sale at any price. The owner of it has
just awakened to the fact that the Mont
gomery of to-day is not the Montgomery
of years ago and in the development Ct
this new south he sees in his 900 acres of
land, so near the city, gold mine which
he would do well to hold on to. One by
one the good bargains of last spring are
being taken or withdrawn altogether and
soon real estate here, instead or being
exceedingly low will reach the other ex-
IRENE and be exceedingly high.
Monts uery certainly has some splen-
did citizens and the present upward
tendency OF things is developing in them
courage that knows no bounds and
there is about these men kindness of
spirit and readiness to accommodate
which, as stranger, [ can but appreciate
andRmost heartily commend.
The firm of Moses Brothers is doing
business in banking and real estate upon
the same modern princip Piles used by Mr..
Pollak in his mercantile trade. The
Moses brothers, like Mr.. Pollak, are not
native born southerners, although they
have been identified with the south for
great many years and yield to no one in
their zeal for her welfare. They are of
Jewish parentage but most thoroughly
American in their sympathies and acts.
A few years ago the city Of Montgomery
was bankrupt. She had no credit at
home or abroad. In this condition one of
theMoses brothers was elected mayor Of
the city. gHe put into the Office the meth
obs he had used in his private business.
These, with his long workmanship
and integrity in New York City, enabled
him, in the course of two terms, to rees-
tablish the city's credit and to turn over
It's government to others with her debts
all provided for and money in the treas
urysand now in Montgomery's days of
prosperity it is source Of great satisfac-
ton to all good citizens to see these broth
ers reaping d rich reward. | hope some
time to have the pleasure Of introducing
many Of my northern friends to these
large.hearted, enterprising men. In my
next letter hope to tell your readers
something of the wonderful results ac-
complished by the Moses brothers in their
real estate business with the colored peo-
pie. Just now [ must put myself in order
to attend real Southern barbecue to be
given on the Conley tract and to which
the whole family is invited.
r. G.. BEDFORD.