Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-28

L0fland, son OF ex-Mayor L0tland, ha
gone to Galveston to live. Mr.. Sal
Finley, formerly of Memphis. is div
sion superintendent Of the Texas OK
press company, from Dallas to K
Paso. with his headquarters at For
Worth. 1t is q matter of remark ths
most or all Msmphians and Tennes
seeans who have gone to Texas an
gone to work 10 earnest, are doin
well and growing up with the country
Charles Bell, a grandson Of Captain
Bell, who gave the name to the Bel
House at Knoxville, is Chairman o
the Democratic Executive COMMITTEES
of the Eleventh Congressional Distric
Of Texas, and is also Prosecuting At
torney. DR.. M. NJ. Newsom, formerly
of Bellbuckle, is City Physician O
Dallas. Barrett Gibbs, q State Sena
tor, is a nephew of our Charles M
Gibbs, late Secretary of State. Senator
Matlock, of Montague county, is {
native of Blount county, East Ten
nessee. Mr.. West Hargis, of South
ern Express memory, is General Man.
ager of the Texas Express Com
pany, and is rich and popular
Major Hugh Ewing, formerly of Pulas,
XII, brother-in-law OF Ex-Governor
John @. Brown, and a member Of his
staff during the war, is in the insur-
anoe business and lives in one of the
hsudsomest residences of Dallas. And
so the list might be continued on and
on. These names were picked up in
the course of few hours spent in
walking and riding about Dallas
The place is one of the future cities
of Texas, and is taking on the ways of
a city that is animated by spirit of
enterprise and utmost self confidence.
Many fine business blocks have been
built on the main streets within the
last few years, and the more prosper
GUS citizens have erected many hand.
some residences in the suburbs. Col.
Fitzhugh, a genial and prepossessing
old time gentleman, once doorkeeper
OF the House OF Representatives, and
a "biger man than old Grant" owns
and resides in one of these. He is
one of the notable characters of the
place, and is held in high esteem.
General w. L. Cabell, native of
Virginia, who gained the soubriquet
of "0ld Tige," during the
war for his fighting quail
ties, has lately been elected Mayor Of
Dallas. He is graphing with sewer
age, paving aud water questions. l
referred him to DR., Porter and Judge
Hadden, of Memphis, for all necessary
information.
At Dallas our party, which num-
bered among others Captain w. L
Smith, late Superintendent of the
Memphis and Little Rock rail
road, was joined by Mr.. Betterton
and Mr.. A. Y. Stevens, of
that city, and Mrs. A. L. Smith,
now of Little Rock, but formerly Of
Memphis, and came direct to FL Paso,
making the run in about thirty hours
over the Texas and Pacific railway.
West Of Fort Worth all the towns
and eating houses and what few resi-
dences are to be seen are new. Abilene,
Colorado, Big Springs and few other
towns are busy, active, growing places.
Colorado shipped 10000 carloads of
cattle last year and fully as large a
business is expected this year. One
Of the conductors, by the way, that we
travelled with, wasMr Jno. p. Hughes,
formerly a we'll known and popular
Memphis alderman. He came out
here for his health in 1873, got a good
berth and sticks to it. He is fat and
hearty and talks rancho at every spare
moment like everybody else out here.
All these people expect to 90 to a bic
rancho when they die. West Of Abis
lene, for hundred or two miles, the
traveller who passes through the
country for the first time is aston
ished at the vast number of prairie
dogs that play around the little
mounds and holes in which they live.
AS the cars pass they are scarcely
startled and many Of them come
out and stand up as il TO take a
look in a jaunty fashion like little
monkeys in a show. Further west on
the vast staked plains, however, the
comic prairie dog is no longer seen,
though great herds Of graceful ante.
lOpes are often seen skimming over
the plains in the distance. The sta
tons are far apart and few people are
seen. Great wells have been dug,
which furnish abundance of water
for the tanks and trains. Several
hours before reaching this place great
mountains begin to loom up in the
distance on either side. These are in
the State Of Texas, in New Mexico on
the north and in Old Mexico to the
south. The distances Travelled thus
far are as follows: Memphis to Little
Rock, l35 miles; Little Rock to Tex
srkana, l45; Texarkana to Dallas, 22l
Dallas to I'll Paso, 6i8. Total, ll49
This is particularly interesting place
on the frontier, half Mexican in pop
ulation, perhaps, but foursffthsAmer
lean in business and speculative meth
DDS. An international street cal
railroad, the only one, perhaps, in the
world, spans the famous Rio Grande
connecting FL Paso with the ole
Mexican city of Paso Del Norte. Thi
road is partly owned BY Gov. W. B
Bate, which alone would account 70
him being able to accept the Office h.
holdsiwith its small salary. The road i
q little fortune to its owners. Captain
james H. Bate, the governor
brother. is the Superintendent. Som
description of the twin cities, so nea,
and yet speaking different languages
SO much alike 10 many respects, We
under different flags and utterly dis
similar in other aspects, is reserved
or rather is necessarily deferred, fo
another letter. j. H. NJ.
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