Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-10-06
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Yellow ver--Immigrants From the North
sorghum Making.

Yellow Fever Immigrants From the North
Sorghum Making.
MISSOURI Cry, Tx. Sept. 81, 1897.
Houston was a city of sixty odd thou
sand souls, but it is being depopulated
at the rate Of 1900 week just now,
so was informed by the president of
the B. A. D. s. today, who has just re.
turned from two days visit there.
Although Yellow Jack has not put in
his appearance ther', they are terribly
frightened and are going north by the
train load. He has been there years
ago and another visit is expected; the
trains have quit carrying passengers
and goods from New Orleans and are
not allowed to stop there, and strict
quarantine is kept outside of the limits
on railroads coming from the east, to
see that none pass or repass without a
strict examination by the powers that
be- The B. A. d. $. talk of having
Missouri City quaiuntined under the
same restrictions although it is com.
posed of onlv three family groceries,
one hardware stor", one saloon and
about twenty dwellings. We don t
want Yellow Jack here any more than
Houston does, and we will pass the
train on through and out of our city
limits just the same. Our city is only
three years old in November next: we
are young and small Of stature but we
feel just as big as Houston.
State Health Officer Swearingen re.
ports no yellow fever in the State. DR..
Swearingen today wired request to
Manager Van Week of the Southern
Pacific to sidetrack for twenty four
hours at the Sabine River station all
mail and baggage cars for the purpose
Of fumigation. The request was com
piled with. Mr.. Van Week wired DR..
Swearingen that it had gone into oper-
ation this evening.
In reply to telegram from tho Judge
OF Jefferson County, demanding abso
lutte quarantine again nst all trains from
Louisiana, DR.. Swearingen informed
him that the demand for absolute
quarantine against Louisiana would
not be granted, but he could require
all trains to run through the county at
rate of speed between ten and twenty
miles per hour, but that he had no
right to stop mail and passenger trains.
The United States marine hospital
force has established a fumiga.ing
plant at Algiers for heating all mail
coming to Texas. By the establish
ment of the two fumigating plants,
DR.. Swearingen thinks it precludes
any possible danger of the fever reach
ing Texas.
There Is in our midst five men from
Illinois looking for homes in this
Southern country; u bunch of home
seekers come almost every week, and
some are buying, some 20 to other
parts of the coast country and invest.
The man that cant't find home here
that suits him, that is, somew here in
this coast country, is certainly hard to
please and probably couldn t make a
living anywhere.
You fellows back there in Tennessee
that have your grips packed and COM
ing to see south Texas just hold on a
little till white frost runs Yellow Jack
into Cuba and you will enjoy your trip
better. White frost generally comes in
November, but sometimes not till
January. We have nice springlke
weather all winter except when a
norther comes, and they are generally
over in three days, but occasionally
last week, but seldom; they some.
times come very quickly and don t
give fellow time to get his coat on,
and they do pinch so numerically
and penetrate the thickest clothing.
Our President of the B. A. d. s. has
lost his pet wolves; confinement didn' 7
agree with them, they can hardly ever
be tanned.
The member of the society that for
feited his right to membership by
marrying they say is about to come to
grief; he says he owns 800 acres of
land in Connecticut, worth $50 per
acre, and has $4,000 dollars in the
bank, but he has only bought one
knife and fork and he. and his wife
both use them to eat with, and he
won't let her cook a meal, he is afraid
she will waste something; he does all
the cooking himself. ! suppose he
wants to bring her up to suit his own
notion as she is only fifteen. She mar.
ried him for the want of cents; he
married her for the want OF sense; two
fools well met and separation is the
final issue In such cases.
I'm sorry to see my two friends,
Dhale and Uncle Fuller's Brother 81
lent so long. I hope they will soon
appear on the stage Of action again.
Say Uncle Fuller il you will address
a private letter to my postoffice and
name as you see it here think I'll
get It, and give you some news differ.
ent from what l have given and give
you some light on dark subject. /
have given Texas as see it; think it
Is the country above all have visited.
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