The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-09-01
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Tszas Crops, efe-,--Ths Wor!fs fssr-y~e.
D,moerqts--an Oktahoma "Brigss cbss
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Enrros OF TIMES few inee
In IN. TINES from Texas might be Of intefeet J
to your readers, concluded to wrate Tor
The oat crop ia Northern Texas WAS the
noorest have ever seen, both in quantity
and quality; the yield per acre did nos9
average over forty bushels, then the- rust
planted 40 0ais. .ihis year wss not 90 large q
last year, and in the face Of this the price
has been rather low, 1t having ranged from
Is to 22 cents per buehel.
Wheat was remarkably good in sections.
In the Panhandle Country the yield was
short, but many farmers who raised wheat
for sale have found il q "drag." on account
of the general supply and the scarcity Of
money. The highest price paid for wheat
! so!d sor uauca less. Tic prevailing retail
price of -four is $l.75 to 1925 per hundred
pc unds.
The corn crop Is not as good this season
as last, though there is little doubt but
what there will be plentiful supply. in this
| part Of the State, at least. The farmers are
selling old corn at 25 to 80 cents to make
room for the new crop.
Texas people are turning out to the
Worlds Fair pretty well. great many
| have gone already and many more will fol-
low. 1 saw it stated that Texas was send
| ing more people to the Worlds Fair than oil
/ the other southern States comDinea..-4i 4 can
/ not say whether that is true or not, but II is
fact that many would like to go who caunot
| afford the expense. John Il. Dickinson, the
secretary of the Worlds fair Commission Is
a Texan, and a jolly good fellow he is;
he was in 1879, when l knew him. Thomas
| A. Rice, aud Samuel s. Farrar, Of your
| County, will doubtless remember him. Mr..
Dickinson was at the Commercial College,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, with us in 1879.
was duie we'll acquainted with him; we
| were on a committee together for while
prior to and during On anniversary ce'ebra-
ton of the founding of the Eastman's busi
ness College. MIR. Dickinson was Secretar
of the Capitol Board, at Austin, Texas. in
1888. He filed the place so well, that
Hons. Abner Taylor, and John V. Tarwell,
and others from Chicago. who were the cou-
tractors and builders of the State Capitol Of
Texae. successfully pressed his claims for the
Worlds fair commission Secretaryship. He
is q lawyer by profession. He recently
rnarried rich widow in Chicago. With his
splendid qualifications, ability and wealth.
he is ut orce an influential and prominent
citizen. g.s,
It is indeed strange what strange things
| some srrunyc pcupfe do; we oftentimes say
or do strange things, and are surprised after
a sober second thought at the very acts Of
ourselves One of these curious puzzles te
me is, why people will grow mad and becomS
transported with passion, aud commit SOM
rash or foolish deed, like the hanging, shodH
ing and burning Of the president of q
United States in efhgy. Some of the demon
cratic Soveregns Of Bowie County. Texas,
are charged with this foolish act. Why hold
Mr.. Cleveland or try to hold him up to the
scoru Of the American people for the strin.
gency in money matters. He is not responsi-
bic for it, either directly or remotely, still
he is at this time between the "Devil aud
the Deep Sea- having, as it were, the Anti
silver meu on one side and the pro-silver
men on the other, camoring that "Some-
thing must be done at once" What is it
they want done? was talking to-day with
man whom l consider as possessing good
common sense, ani he belongs to good old
Virginia family, about the unreasonableness
, Of some linen in the country burning the
, p'osiden. in eeisy, otc He said that he
would prefer to burn Cleveland himself !
And so it goes. am free to admit that the
financial condition of this country is deplora.
bic, but would like for some ono to tell me
t how Cleveland could be blamed for it. 1t is
only the ending of what had commenced
when he came into office last March.
will tell you of q Briggs Case up in
$ Oklahoma, and then close. When Okla
homa was opened David l.. Briggs, Professor,
School teacher and local congreg iti ,nal
preacher, settled on fine claim near the
village of Downs. Some months ago he and
} a widow, who also owned fine farm, mutn-
ally agreed 10 join their hearts, hands and
, farms for better or for worse This arrange
ment, no viewer, did not suit them exactly,
and early in June Amanda S. Briggs petit
toned for divorce from David s. Briggs
, The divorce was granted in the same month,
but once parted they pined for each other,
and in exactly fourteen days they were
remarked. Now in little over one moath
they have again fallen out, and Amanda, 3
few days ago filed q petition asking the
courts to release her from the irksome yoke
of wedlock.
am personally acquainted with man
out here who has married three different
women, has been divorced three times, and
| still bos Iyifa n