The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-15
From Houston, Texas.

Special correspondence.
You so kindly published my last letter
that am encouraged to write again, and
tell you something of the leading Texas
city, Houston. According to the emu
meraton recently made by the Govern
ment, there are p 500 people residing
within the city limits, hecity directory
gives Houston population of 4S ,D0opeo-
pie living within and just outside the
corporate limits.
There are thirteen connecting lines dE
railroadih operationhete. BuffaloRivef
is navigable at all seasons Of theyear, and
freight from Boston, Mass, is delfveres
at this point by water without change.
There are three street railway comps-
MES, and the car shops of the several rail
roads are located here, also the Rich
inson's car-wheel factory, where the car
wheels are manufactured from native
Texas iron, mined at New Birmingham,
in Cherokee County The water-works,
electric lights, and telephone facilities
are irst-class.
Houston is the best cotton market in
the South, excepting New Orleans, and
the enterprising merchants here propose
to make Houston the leading cotton mar
ket on the continent. Cotton-seed finds
a market here which rivals the markets
of the world. There are six immense
cotton-seed oil mills here, and employ
ment is easy to obtain, the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company alone pays out
at this point each month to shop men and
laborers over 100000. There are about
one thousand men engaged in work on
our streets, and between four and five
hundred houses are in course of erection.
There are two magnificent opera houses
being erected, to be'coFapleted Fp7 nete-
Der l, next; we have four banks; ana
while money is never scarce, it does not
"grow on bushes"
We have many kinds of people here,
but so far we have failed to discover one
, in the great State of Texas with horns.
On the contrary, the people of Texas are
educated and refined, and are more enter
prising than the people of good old Ben
ton, for the writer is native Bentonian.
Ihave met several of the Benton County
boys in Texas. All of them are pleased
with this country, and the majority are
doing well.
John Bartlette is at Columbia; Travis
Davidson is successful attorney at At
l lanta; while the energetic and lrrepreSs-
ibleJ.J. WHY is attending Hill's bust
ness college at Dallas.
In Burnett, met John h. Bullock.
S John Rushing is a prosperous farmer of
Lee County. In this city resides w. ].
+ Shelton and Il. N. Graham. The lstter
g gentleman is prominent attorney here,
and man that old Benton can Justly feel
/ proud of. He has only recently located
l. at Houston, having previously resided at
Franklin, in Robertson County, Tex,
, where he has reputation second tonone,
81 as the following clipping from Frank
lin paper OF recent date will show:
d Z" MIR. T. N. Graham, of Houston, was
e in Franklin several days this week. and
was unanimously chosen as a delegate at
! large to the State convention. 1t was a
y compliment paid Mr.. Graham for hlsfor
L mer services tc tie party iE shis cesats1.
is and the able manner in Which no zen.
Quoted the Office OF county attorney. 3Ie
can always be relied upon as a Democrat
and as a lawyer, ana we predict for him
success in Houston, where he has but re-
Gently located, and which we regard as
the city of cities Of the Lone Star State. I"
4 As to politics, we have a general assert
!, ment of all the several creeds. Most
notably are the Prohibhonists, Woman's
! Rights, Greenbackers, Republicans, and
: Democrats, OF the last mentioned. the
woods, streets, and prairies are filled
a with them in numbers equal to the mule
a cared rabbits. Then we have few peo-
=. pie here just like your own B. f. David
son, who declare they are Democrats, VET
&c they refuse to shade themselves under a
=. Democratic camp. Political scientists,
!. who have endeavored to diagnose theii
case, are bafled, and we have decided
-. that such men are worse that those WIN
: would force upen us the Federal election
ne law, and Tor want Of better name fol
re such political agitators, we call then
c- non-partisan" in Texas, which, bein.
interpreted, means: "rhe worst enemie:
of our common country"
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