The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-30
Correspondence Of the Union TIMES.
Intereeting Letter from Texas.

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Interesting Letter from Texas.
BAILIY, Texas, Jan. 2O.-The Legislature
met Mt Austin a few days ago in annual
session. and it may be said that the farmers
arc in the saddle in this legislature, for IL Is
a fact hey ond doubt that the delegates to the
assembly we're elected by the Fa'mers
Movement, so also was the Governor. II
can t,uthfully be said that this is q fa' msrs
administration. There will be many re-
forms introduced into il, but whether tbesp :
reforms win be made ihts laws and executed
is doubtful at this time.S
Mr. Hogg, the newly elected Governor,
suggests that his party will make this prs
grsssive and q live administrations some
thing far in, adrauces sofsanyihing the Ss<sec
has ever had !; but no one can predict -
yet, what win take placest Austin.@ lt l3 : !
safe guess, no doubt. 10 say that tofhing
very extr, ordinary will be done, because tho
circumstances do not demand anything very
extraor dinary. A railroad commits siouer
will be created, and some other legis'a'ionN {
affecting .he railway companies in the Stnte,
in minor way, which said companies viii
not care for or will hardly know, and which
the balance of The Toxaps will ever realize.
The first bill in roducei in the Texas
House was to create n railroad commission,
aud many bills have been introduced relating
most import-nt, so far, however, Is tho one
creating q commission and Que requiring the
railroad companies to provide separate
coaches for white and colortd passengers
Yes, there has been one other bill introduced,
which is very important TO the lawmakers
themselves and the object of that bill is
! nothing moro nor less than to increase the
| pay of legislators, Notwithstanding IT was
unders, COL and believed that one Of the
%Rsh IN P5se4 # Was The rFtaHssGa FHssg a
aud general rctrenchmeut all along that
| line.
There ave n grca' many awful ambitious
young Statesmen in Texas, nnd it is quite
possible somn Of them may try 10 make
Themselves famous by an unlocked for ex-
plmt even in The legislature.
Only a few days ago at Dodd City, in
Fnnnin County, u paper was in circulation
10 prohibit pcrson not atle to prove that
he had paid poll tax from Voting in any
election, which, in my humble Judgment,
would be good law here, because we have
in this State many very "smart Alecks" who
go from place to pace aud take large stock
in all elections, who never pay any poll tax
or any other tax-or their accounts either,
as to that. By the bye, this reminds me
that this State, with all o: its boastei school
laws and its home ted laws, &C., still is a,
great stamping ground for rascnls, and q
good'y number find their way TO the Lonc
Star State TO prey upon the goo1 people.
Last years cotton crop was the largest
ever raised in the State, and suppose there
was less money realized out Of il, in ptopor-
ii to the amount, Of any crop ever pro-
| dnced, owing in part to the low price of the
staple anu the heavy cost Of gathering the
same.
Corn was almost n failure in Eor,he1{
Texas, consequently the price is high, with
hny, oats and all feed stuff scarce aud high,
which makes thing look somewhat gloomy
10 many; but. of course, it is reasonable 10
suppose that the majority of US will not know
the difference in q twelve months.
The long line of railroad leading from
Cairo, Illinois, through Missouri, Arkansas,
to Gat.sville Texas, with tn, many ramifi-
cations leading from the main line into Little
Rock, Ark, Shreveport. La, Sherman, Fort
Worth, Hillsboro and Lufkin, Texas, known
as the Saint Louis, Arkansas and Texas
railway, the "Cotton Belt route was sold
sometime ago under mortgage. A new
company was organized at Tyler on tho 18th
inst., with . now charter ard the name
changed to the Saint Louis aud Southern.
The big railroad manipulation Of the United
/ States is large. owner Of the STOCK, "a
Edwia is thaasst vice president Of TIE Com
cern. S
Texas is n great country for mercantile
failures, as we'll as many other failures. and
will only mention one which occurred in
the city of Fort Worth sometime ago: Tho
Bateman Brothers, Wholesale grocers, failed,
ana when schedule of assets and liabilities
was made, it showed the assets amounted to
Sl25 600, and the liabiliic, were over
$4,000 They made n proposition to
settle with their creditors, by paying 20
cents on the dollar, which did not exactly
suit oil around. Suits were instilated
against them which. IL 10 said, amount to
400, in oil. If all of these are t, he tried
by the grinding of the court mills. with the
great expense incident to court trials, the
creditors of this firm in the end will get
what the traditional little boy shot Mt, and
you know what that was. Or 10 use trite
e1pressi in Texas pariance, their names
will be Dennis
There is one Texan authoress who is
coming TO the front as writer of poetry aud
fiction. That person is Mrs. 8. A. Short
ridge, of Terrell, who writes under the nom
de plume of "Bele Hunt" She is writing.
oil the time in one line or the ether, aud 10
making quite reputation. Mrs Shor.ridge
is n,tive Texan, having been born in Wise
county, and she was the first White female,
born in that county. s ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Worth Duncsn and Mi5S
Lizzie Moorhead, of Paris, Texa-, intend
visiting South Carolina the coming sIrine.
They viii likely go to the Southern Baptist
Convention At Birmingham, Ala, aud from
there to Carolina. J.S.C.
!
THE FIRRr STEp.--Perhaps you are ron
down, can't eat, can't sleep. c,n'l thin.
c,n't do anything 10 your satisfaction, and
you wonder what ails you. You rhouid
heed the warning, you are taking the first
step into Nervous Prostration. Yeu need 4