Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-02-02
TEXAS TINS TIME.
A Graphic Reader On his Travels
Notes Of Travel.

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lines and YOU can hand it al .und. We
boarded the cars at Greentop on the
. llth, 8 hours behind time. Got through
10 Appleton City, l. hours behind
with nothing more than the common
incidents OF travel Found while
: there that the NJ. +. r. X. had advertis.
' ed to sell on tue Goth, ronnd "trip tick
cts to Ft. Worth and return, good for
80 days for S24.5O. so my brother and |
concluded to wait. While there Eli
Perkins was billed to lecture in Apple.
) ton. Subject wit and Humor' or
the philosophy of ,un. Well | got
there Eli, and Eli got there also.
must say he is the greatest humori>,
that | ever saw or heard, for if the au-
; dience tailed to see the point to laugh
at, he invariably did the laughing for
them. Well we boarded the train on
the evening of.the Goth, Tor Dennison
leaving our better halt 10 enjoy the
frosts of Appleton, while we explored
I the sunny cline of the Lone Star
State. We got about fifty miles INTO
the Indian Territory by daylight next
morning. l was greatly disa opointed
at the appearance of that fine Indian
country that | had heard so much
about The north third and south
4th will about average with Missouri
but the rest is hardly ft for what it is
usedfor. 1t is in all shapes and sizes
very hurriedly spread out, big rocks
and little ones, mostley big, in every
shape and position, edgeways, endways,
sideways and every other way even in
the highways and hyways, laying
around loose and piled up IN heaps and
rows, big rows and little ones. 1t
seems to be Of some use for it supplies
all of northern Texas with coal. There
Is about three hundred WEIGH miners
at McAlister in this territory. We land
ed at Dennison at 1 p. NJ. Of the twenty
first. Found that Dennison had Just
been visited by an arctic wave, the
the thermometer at two deg. below
zero. Stayed at Dennlson wenty-four
hours ana saw nary row, guerrilla or !
despera do not even a pocket knife or
even long spur. Not as much profanl-
ty as have heard in Greentoo in fivo
minutes. 1t has population of about
SIX thousand, seven churcnes and fine
public school Sunday was as much
observed as in Kirksville. We left
there on the 22nd for Whitesboro, dis
tart twenty-five miles and laid over
several hours. 1t is neat little un-
pretending railroad town of about 800
population. From Dennison to Whites
boro it is fine farming country and
will compare favorable IN improve
ments with Missouri cotton Is very ex-
tensively cultivated. Corn don't seem
to be success but still it Is raised, Irish
potatoes do tolerably we'll hut they
went keep we'll, but if half what the
people say In regard to peaches. april
cots. plums, black and raspberries is
true / don't see why man can't make
a fortune in that cline, in few years.
The finest peach orchards that | ever
saw are around Dennison. We came
from Wh,tesboro herein the night so l
| can't say much about the country be-
tween here and there but we have been {.
all day taking in Ft. Worth. 1t beats
any inland town except Sedalla that
| am acquainted with. 1t is on the
Elm fork ofTrinity river. At pres
ent it is supplied with water from three
artesian wells. They are putting
iown the pipes to throw water over
The city from the creek 1t has two I
ines OF street cars, very fine court {
house, fine, substantial brick and stone !
business blocks, gas works almost CON- 2
,leted, and population OF $1,000, and +
-ou would be arrested for using pro- >
ane language on the streets in less
ime than 1t would take you to use
t. We leave for AUSTIN in the morn y
ng.
l have formed the acquaintance of a t
Ir. c. NJ. Calhoun of Grayson Co., Tex p
S. formerly OF South Carolina, who tt
lalms to be a cousin OF John C. Cal I
oun, resident of Texas, so years, al S
} of J. B. Morgan of Archer Co., res q
lent here % years, from KY, also J.
[. Bush, formerly of Ky. but resident
t Collin Co., Texas for the last q years
nd cousin of our Mo. VIM. Gentry of
ettis Co.. the first farmer Of con- p
derable Importance, and a Baptist; re
lie second man that neither drank or CT
wore IN the a hours we were togeth- sc
;; the third, we'll cultivated man Il
lth high sense of morals, and a sh
ule raiser, and they all say they v.
ould not trade Texas with any other G.
untry. and instead of Texas socially n
,ing to rough for them, They were
o rough for Texas, and that it man ~
nj make living in Texas it is be- !"
use he is too lazy and shiftlessto work pl
r it. If you can get through with this
may come again. As Ever,