Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-09
THE TOWN OF BoNHAM.
ou,et and steady Prosperity = ine
New College Bailding-Cheno-
weth aud Culbers0n.

BoYuAN, May S. ia Bonham
growing any?" asked several ana
the general answer was, yes 81
None Of your booms, but asteady,
healthy crowth.n And 40 1t appears
to the wayfaring man; for while Bon
ham has probably enough stores ior
her present business, there are being
built nil over the town neat Ill Tie
homes which attest the intention oil
the builders that they have come 10
stay. Indeed, the growth of Bonham
is Of that steady, quiet kind that
arouses no particular notice on the
mart of the Bonhamites, they seeming
10 take II as matter of course and
are not burdened with the hope OF
making their comfortable town a
metropolis. Yet the spread of new
railroad tracks and the erection
Of n round house here indicate that the
town will have measure OF greatness
thrust upon 1t, to the extent OF becom-
ing an end of two divisions of the
Transcontiuental. There are some
marked improvements In the rolling
: stock of the Transcontinental road,
, and after you leave Sherman coming
eastward, gliding over the smooth
steel rails leads you to think trans
+ formation has been wrought; but by
the time you leave Bells you reaiize
: what recent writer meant by speak
y ing of certain railroad as 'trottinp
p road" a sort of bouncing up and down
v not more agreeable to the passenger
;, than it Is beneficial to- the rolling
e stock; but eastward that steel track i
y stealing its way, and ere long tn
d Transcontinental will cease to be
!, , trotting road.
J. One indication of business bein,
J, done here Is the work done by the tw
lie express companies. The Texas eX
\, press shipped and received at Bonhan
~ 900 packages of merchandise and 10,
n 900 pounds OF beer, (Bonhamites don
"a drink II by the pound thought, ice an
n produce, all during the month {
&c April. This express is here represent
e, ed by J. NJ. Smith and his quiet an
"a good-looking deputy, Chas. Caldwell
y. The Pacific express is under the cal
re of j. w. Faas, and he tells me n
company is doing more than o9e-ha
n the business done here, and is steadll
y increasing its patronage.
ne Yesterday the stockholders of IL
pm Fannin college were called together
III public meeting for the purpose
increasing the amount of none
ly already secured to the desired amour
Ill of SIC, 900, and to act upon plans Il
at the erection of an elegant brick buil'
no ing. As the house now occupied /
ny the college Is too small and has to
Is surrendered at the end of this term,
hd 10 necessary that the new building
put ap this summer. The plans SUI
mitted are from those excellent arc
fleets of Sherman, Ritenour & Woo
ard present substantial and he
nal appearance. The building is to be
brick and stone, two stories his
and to accommodate 400 pupil
as the college increases
ere age the grades will be raised, and Fla
On. min county can well educate her SO
at home and as thoroughly as at al
an seat of learning elsewhere, while &
ma young ladies are already taken care
are by the Masonic Female college he
and At the meeting yesterday buildii
ado committee was appointed. consist
are of S. b. Allen, w. A. Nunneiee a
,ad, John Sparger, who will select
lid plans ana have the work done. i
ado site of the college is one of the bt
and the moral and cultured surroul
the ings which pupils will have at b
eets ham add to the enterprise not sn
will item bearing upon the education
d be youth.
be This being the home of Col. j
At TO Chenoweth, his rice against Col.
berson for congressional honors Is
shed ing here watched with unusual in
iare est. There can be no doubt Of
1t Chenoweth carrying Fannin cou
and and others but Col Culbers
friends choose to assume that c
curt Fannin county will not 90 for Oh
ham weth; but they assume too I'M
These Whatever the outcome, it will be
$780, OF the liveliest races Texas has
for the gentlemen are 30 ne
ed in matched in many particulars.
z fair Col. Culberson' Is friends have not
,es to successful In getting the county con
ton deferred until the colonel
Ifned rise among his constituents to ma
exico. a few explanations, Chenoweth "
news getting in some good work for hin
try to In the meantime, while Culbersol
feeble mains at Washington and mourns
ust he the Morrison bill, over which
return like all new converts, was so emit
ed In astic. Those who know Culberso
New slow to believe that he will get |,
liling, personal popularity and great ma
d, will ism will 60 for aught on the hust
GA and while the political sun Is shi
Ir. st. in the morning OF this race, the
been looking colonel of BoDhain is o;
z and the district putting in several SD
during of influential hay.
sd one