The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-30
Correspondence ef the Union Trsss.
Intersstiue Latter from Texas.

Correspondence of the union itAks. 49,
Interesting Letter from TEXAS.
BI,urr. Texas, Jan. 20.-Ths Legislature
met at Austin few days sgo in annual
session. and il may be Said that the farmers
are in the saddle 10 this legislature, for IL is
fact beyond doabt that the delegates to The
assembly were e'ec:ed by the Farmers
Movement, so also was the Governor. lt
can 4, uthfully be said that this is o IA msrs
admin; n;stration. There will be many re-
form. introduced ;-..- =, :: .s~sp =
reforms will be made ints laws and executed
is doubtful! nj this time
Mr.. Hogg, the newly elected Govevnsr.
suggests that hi. party will make this PR
grsssive snd live administration5sc some s
thing far ius adraoee sofapything the ssafe
has ever had but no one can Pr&oz -
vet. what win take placest Austss l$ ~
safe gucss, no doubt. TO say tbst nohing
very e1trs ordinary will be done, because the
circumstance, do not demand anyth,ng very -
extraordinary. A rsiIroad mmissioner
will be created, and some other legis' a'ion i
affecting the railway companies In the State,
in a minor way, which said companies viii
not cave for or will hardly know, and which
the balance of The Texans will ever realize.
The first bill in roducel in the Texas
U,use WINS TO create n railroad commission,
and MANY bills have been introduced relating
i'm some way to railway companies. The
mos, import.nt, 80 far, however, IL tho one
creating a 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 vcry important TO the lawmakers
| themselves and the object of that bill is
nothing moro nor less than to increase the
| nav of legislators, Notwithstanding 1t was
| unders,o and believed that one OF me
| mai, objects of the Farmers Movement
aud general retreuchmeut all along that
| inc.
There a,e n grca' many awful ambitious
young Statesmen in Texas, and it is quite
| possible some of them may try TO make
| Themselves famous by an unlocked for ex-
| plr,t even in the legislature.
| Only few days ago at Dodd City, in
| Fannin County,a paper was in circulation
asking the prcscn legislature to pass q law
| TO prohibit person 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 Alexis who
| 20 from Place TO pace and take large stock
in all elections, who never poy 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 boastel school
laws AMI its home te,d laws, &C., still is a
| great stamping ground for rascals, and q
| good'y number find their way TO the Lone
Star State to prey upon the COOL people.
| Last years cotton crop was the largest
ever raised in the State, and suppose there
was less money realized out Of it, in p, opor-
ii to the amount, OF any crop ever pro-
duced, owing in part to the low price of tho
staple and the heavy cost of gathering the
same.
Corn was almost failure in Eorhe<
Texas, consequently the price is high, with
| hny oats and all feed stuff scarce aud high,
which makes thing look somewhat gloomy
TO many; but of course, it is reasonable 10
suppose that the majori,y Of us will not know
the difference in q twelve mouths.
The long line of railroad leading from
Cairo, Illinois, through Missouri, Arkansas,
to Gat.svilc Texas, with tn, many ramii-
cations leading from the main line into Little
| Rock, Ark, Shreveport La, Sherman, Fort
Worth, Hillsboro and Lufkin Texas, known
a. the Saint Louis, Arkansas and Texas
railway, the "Cotton l.elt route was sold
sometime ago under mortgage. new
company was organized at Tyler on the 18th
inst, with now charter and the name
changed to the Saint Louis and Southern.
The big railroad manipulator Of the United
States is large owner Of the stock "A
Edwin is the II ist vice president of Tx CON
cern.
Texas is a great country for mercantile
failures, as well as many other failuros, and
| will only mention one which occurred in
the city Of Fort Worth sometime ago: The
Bateman Brothers, wholesale grocers. IA led,
and when schedule Of assets and liabilities
was made, it showed the assets amounted to
Sl20 600, and tho liabili;c, were over
$40O 600. They made a proposition to
settle with their creditors, By paying 20
cents on the dollar, which did not exactly
suit all around. Suits were instilated
against them which. it is said, amount to
400, in all. If oil of these are t, lie tried
by the grinding &C the court mills with the
great expense ;Gciient to court trials, the
creditors of this firm in the end will get
what the traditional little boy shot at, and
| you know what that wns. Or 10 use n trite
cxprcssi III Texas pariancc, their name,
Will be Dennis
There is one Texan authoress who is
! coming TO the front as n writer of poetry aud
fiction. That person is Mrs. s. A. Short
| ridge, of Terrell, who writes under the non,
de plume of "Bel'e Hunt She is writing
all The time in one line or the ether, aud is
making quite reputation. Mrs. Shnr!ridge
isan,tive Texan, having been born in Wise
county, and she was the first VIII to female
| BON in that county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Worth Dunc,n and Miss
Lizzie Moorhead, of Paris, Texas, intend
visiting Sou'h Carolina tho coming ri.aa.
Thsy ~ likely 90 TO the Southern Baptist
Convention at Birmingham, ALI, aud from
! there to Carolina. J.S.C.
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