Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-21
LETTER FROM TENAS,'
Missouri CITY, TEX, July 10, '97,

IIlbHliNtN Buollb III ~
to the-State which may be acquired by
the provisions of the law relating to
homestead donations.
The common school, university and
asylum lands set apart for the benefit
of the public free schools, the university
and the several asylums comprise in
all 30, 000, 900 acres classified as agri.
cultural. pasture and timber lands and
valued according TO classification be.
fore being placed on the market
Lands classified as agricultural are
sold to actual settlers only in guam
tities of not less than eighty acres and
in multiples thereof not more than GAO,
provided that where there is a fraction
of less than eighty acres of any section
left such fraction may be sold. The
minimum price of lands sold is two
dollars per acre.
Lands having permanent water
thereon or bordering thereon are sold
at not less than three dollars per acre.
Timbered lands are sold at not less
than five dollars per acre.
Loafer's Glory Society. What a
name, and what does it imply. Say,
Brother D., are you the president or
secretary About six years ago I passed
through Yorktown and l saw some Of
the finest land l had ever seen, some
of it | believe would make forty or
fifty and perhaps more bushels per
acre, but that Equality of land was in
deed very scarce. B~lackberries and
dewberries were just getting ripe; q
great many places the dewberry briars
didn't grow high enough to fall down.
they had two or three berries on top of
the vine all right; and such pure, clear
delicious water | never saw. | remem-
Der a school house on top of a hill and
the water was seaping out of the rocks
along the road near by, it reminded
me of the blood oozing out of a tara.
pins back after the shell had been
cracked. Say, Brother D., was that
Free Hill? 1t looked like everybody
in that country belonged to loafer's
society. You say Dhale had 475 dozen
wheat that would make n half bushel
to the dozen; that's just 2S74 bushel,
just put it 200 and you will do well.
Say, that is not an average crop. Allow
five bushel per acre for preparing land,
sowing, harvesting, threshing and put.
Ting into bin, then take enough out to
pay your fertilize bill and how much
per acre have you got left? enough to
pay you for the extra barnyard fertil-
ize you put on it.
Put up your money boys, I'll be there
when | see the stake. | said for money
enough. But your Loafer's Glory So
ciety hasn't got it, apply to the money
power. Your little farm of $50 acres
l expect your dad owns that amt a
drop in the bucket. Put up a million
or two, 90 to Nashville, erect your
rostrum and wait till | come.
We had a Loafer's Glory Society
here last summer and it proved a fail
ure, so us old bachelors organized an
Anti. Donothing Society last winter
aud went to work with a vim and this
summer we have a prospect of getting
a bountiful crop. We've had water
melons wei since the first of June
some of corn is ripe enough to cut
up for fodder, good corn too; our oats
was cut in May and crops are looking
fine.
Glad to know Uncle Fuller has
sympathy for US, he will be surprised
to know we are alive and well, able to
breast the waves of the Gulf of Mexico
Perhaps the next you hear we'll be ex
ploring the Alamo, where some of the
noble blood of Tennessee was shed fol
Texas liberty, as next week there is
grand Inter State Drill commences
there, lasting a week or two.
Say Uncle Fuller, do you remember
the bottom on the little farm dowr
close to Uncle Boff, you used to cult
vate with the left foot on a silt anC
the right knee for the other, where thu
apples would fall plump into the creel
100 feet below, but Brother D. say
that isn't a fair specimen. Fair or I'm
fair it's there as level as when you lef
it. Boys come down and I'll show
you a crack ! saw today, it's so deep i
will make your head swim to lool
down into it. It's three feet l guess
although | did't measure it. 1t hash
rained for a month or six weeks an
the sun is hot (104 in the shade an,
the earth is expanding or contracting
one and something has to bust. l rea,
of many deaths in Georgia and Ten
/ nessee from heat the 9th OF June. W
had several days that warm and W
suffered no Inconvenience by it. On
young fellow said his thermometer wa
up to 1872 and the young lady told hir
I she thought it vas entirely too fast
, The gulf breeze tempers the heat @
keeps the air in motion till it is nc
3 noticed 80 much. If n is movln
5 with the wind he feels the heat oppreI
sively, but moving in any other dire'
ton he don't suffer from it. No on
. quits work here because of heat. 70
: can buy ten watermelons here twent
. inches long by ten wide for fifty cent
t five cents each and make fifty dolls.
per acre at that. How's that for