The Albany Star. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [24], Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1883 Page: 6 of 7
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On tbe^
of the fairest
widl-dgreloped,
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of
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SUk.
sur-
ls
Hie city is
— the prime nwnnstai ies of lite, such
meat, bread, formjng impletnfcito and
lager beer. Hot p pound of bacon eta
14 75 cento per ]
the
dezvooi of the eitj,.
place to spend sn he
I m iMl* -
evening.
WMk
•aeimttav wi montereyis
uul new swskenirur tl t
that treads just
of time— what
the beautiful
I lodked tapon
ftlti * - color
•rnno
rr!
doabt
fan the most primitive i
They arq hundreds of years behind the
- " r of then, lire about like the
., .. lniAti' for a
state of Beige. They hare no convenien-
ce*, no fireplaces, and only the wealth*-
cooking stoves. They lisve no
* - o< wMa4 and *he. deposit
of s large city for many centuries must
percolate the soil and reach the wells,
_ the drinking water impure
unhealthy. They hare neither
r or gas works and few manufac-
tories of any kind. The duties oc
porta are enormoua and in many
prohibitory and without ereu the poor
' we Americana have of protect-
industij. ;
lowing are some of the duties
addition to Which
also levy arbitrary anaee Doth on im-
ports and exports: On wagons $80
each, buggies $32, coaches 1896, flOur
10 cento per ponnd, meats 14, lard 24
batter 24, nails 12, salt b. 7?-
In the li^it of thsaa facta is it n<rt
astonishing that the last seasion of the
I should refuse to
a treaty with the Mexi
jang the tariff to a nominal
would hare opened™
ket at oar very door for at *
hundred of
chandise.
and t? the eye Ike
this boundless KH
"Go west,
of
takes it way," is the memorable saying
of Bishop Berkley, so following the
•dvice of the sage and pbiloa
the example of
wise men of die east, I have been fol-
Ipwing the star of the empire uvfif I
have traveled *11 around it and taken in
the vist empire of the Lone Star State.
from the Sabine river on
eh divides the State from
to El Paso and Mew Mexi-
co on the west; from the beautiful, In
ilanted them
itting floor for this
diaoTerritory on the north, to Laredo
and Brow*sviUe,along the Bio Grande
.twoabout Texas. As already indicat-
ed, Texas is bounded on the north by
.■■■■Xot a pound
be had at any price hi M
black 15c., and SJTwithout ioe 20o. A
Monterey,
floor 20c.,
boot-
small oook stove, worth In Dallas f!6,
sells at |125. Postage on letters to any
foreign country is 6c., bat to the near-
est town in their own country 25. Yofl
cannot bny postage stamps, but must
take your letter in person to the post-
ofieeand boy one stamp at a tints,
which you are not allowed to place on
your own letter, bat it mast be done by
the post-master to
in
person, and the
jpiffcttptfMU
they aay, to prevent the posteAce
clerks from stealing the stamps off the
letters;* and than the post-office to
closed sboat noon each day to enable
the employes to enjoy their siesta. One
of the Medo-Persian rules of this coun-
try is that every one should take their
siesta in the middle of the day; another
is that every one shoold smoke cigar'
ette —even the ladies, when they visit
each other, the first thing is to hand a
chair, the next s cigarette.
Of coarse I attended the inevfttVto
ball-fights. Tliese take plans every
Sundsv evening, in a large arena,
I ... m .j
ot the age should no longer tolerate.
They should be suppressed by law. As
they have been so often described I will
not attempt it.
And now a word about the famous
Topo, or Bat Springs, near Monterey.
These have beea laasad for sixteen
by the Handle brothers—two
Brenham, Tax.
are now preparing to baild a
the Spring; to aeoom-
*U>
ing sor^e 5,000 persons, and are simply
brutal exhibitions, which the drflizattou
a doabt
to exist
on the sooth, bj Mexico and the Golf,
on the west by Old Mexico and
the New—thas nuking it by far the
largest state in our American Union.
Its greatest length, from the month of
the Bio Grande river to northweOt
corner, is about 825 mile#. Its great-
est breadth, along the 32d parallel
from the Louisiana line to £1 Paso on
fhe west, is about 740 miles. The area
of Texss is 274^56 square miles, and
hat in acreage of 170,587,840 acres.
Texas la emphatically a land of ro-
mance, and has been from its discovery
until the present time, whether we go
bapk to the days of LaSalle and the
establishment oi Jhe early Catholic
missions, and the introduction of civil
utation among the Indians in 1682. or
whether we view the mighty march of
•Tents which erected Texas into an
independent republic in 1887, or made
it a member of the.Ameriean Union in
1845; or
tory of '
and seventeenth centuries,
overran by adventurous Frenchmen,
and in tarn wrested from them by the
canning intrigues of the Spaniards;
whose missionaries were only sue-
-oeasfulin building massive missions,
and which later on Aaron Burr
"dreamed" of .as his empire of the great
..jit!ivft; or when wa read of the
I read puttie* of the Gulf,who made the
islands of Texas their retreat and
stronghold, until after Austin and his
followers threw off the ©f the
Mexic. oJtjrranny, and the suicidal poli
cy of Mexican government; of the time
that its people nourished the small,
but noble band of mighty men who
crashed that haman batcher. Santa
Anna, and placed the names of Travis
Bowie and Crockett upon the roll o:
American heroes, to lie honored by
generations yet unborn, as patriots who
planted their dag and stood by it til
death, and the lone atar of'Texas rose
red from the blood of the Alamo, which
stands to duv the monument of a bat-
tle greater than Thermomoist for while
one Greek lived to tell the story of a
heroic defedlb, not one Texan openet
Ma lips to relate bow his fellows died.
Sash is the brief history of Texas. And
what a glorious day when the centen-
of the Alamo will oomel The)}
will assemble aronnd this ven-
erable pile free men from ' all -
irts of the habitable gl&be to cole- j
ate the heroic virtues of these he-1
roes. Lovers of liberty in the oentm
tries yet unborn, will come from afjj?
r for this temple of the sky
vault and of a tenderer blue
than that which beads above oar oast-
nhills" , *
Nothing can be more ehangefully
ovely, and the whole la a vast pano-
of grandeur. Other states may
have more lofty mountains towering
more wild and majestic
K an to the ocean, more
Jmfkj forests and deeper valleya, bat
>for all that give me the glory of a Tex-
prairie under the vertical son,
heaven
curative
world, and
or Baden Badea.
/• riajw. A.
iMk
% as the
O. ■■■..■, "known to-day to H-
t inoskru IsU? kiiUv fat ikii f on
dements of material progress. Its
is worth seventy cento a bush-
el in Greenville.
—-Thirty-four men in*U valdo oounty.
Texas, own tnd graae ,'AlWfiQQ'
jjdTi **
Oat toyed among tft pdm treaa of
Mexico, and those which kissed the
id brooks of the Paeific coast, as
asthe delicioas winds that toss
the flame-like flowers on'the prairies,
never fanned in all their f^yward wan-
derings, a eoene more fascinating and
beautiful. Manhasno pow« hiT
this glorious work. The jband tint
built the firmament heaved and
smoothed their verdant* swells, Mid
wa
«S >M
gloves—a
Dewberries are seHing ttt Brenbsmi '.
at two bits a backet or six Hrto a "
bushel. ..I* !("«
-A. million feet of Ukck walnut tim
to to be shipped fr6m Guadaloupt'
county, Texas; to England.^- 1 '*« '1
•Two Mexicans got info i flght hea^r,
Salado last week, and ond stttbbed the
other in the heart, leaving the knife
sticking in the wound.
, , .. V SO
grand in the distanoe, which seems
like a vast sdUtude of everlasting rest.
It is not my intention to deal with
dry statistics, or to give a detailed ac-
oount of business and products as they
appear on the surface. I leave such
for those interested, while I skip light-
ly from one place to another and
draw a picture while on wing. But I
can not close without a brief mention
of observations as fo the increase and
growth of Texas sinq? my last visit to
the State. There is no section of the
American continent that has improved
and populated like Texas. Four years
ago I made quite an extended tour
through the State, and places that
then were mere towns and hamlets,
are to-day flourishing oittos and thriv-
ing villages. Begions that were noth-
ing but apparently boundless prairies,
with no signs of civilization, save
herds of cattle, are to-day cul
farms, dotted with pleMant
and a numerous population,
eastern portion has increased more
in proportion, while the west as tor as
the staked plains from the Indian
Territory almost to the Bio Grande,
has a numerous population, chiefly
composed of pastern people.
The approach to Galveaton by land
or seals one of the most eharmihg sights
the southern country affords. By sea
it is extremely so. After being rocked
in the cradle of the deep for- twenty
four hoars or more, and experiencing
a tittle of
Nil
•I
wounded
man grasped the - knife qatokly* and
stabbed the other. Both parties died.
.-A man got drank last week at
Lyon's station, on the Santa Fie road,
lay down 'on the track, a ^
train ran over him and severed his I
from hur body. Another victim of <
whisky. .. <
The semi-annual conference of the
bishops of the Methodist Church it
session at Pittsburgh, May 12, prepar-
ed a list'of conferences to be held next
fall, among which are the following :
Denison, Texas,, November 31; Bren-
ham, Texas, December 5; Paris, Texas
November 28; San Antonio, T^xiis,
December 12. Bishop Andrews will
preside at all these conferences. ' ' '
The Winn colony of Teunesseans,,
living in and near Delta , county, will
have- a reunion, Wednesday, ut Ben
Franklin. One hundred and twenty-
five persons of that name, descendants
s. Jennie Winn—wlio ' is active
and in fair health at flief age of ei^htv-
five---are to enjoy the programme of
celebration exercises. The family are
good citizens, chiefiy farmers.
*■ V , u }/« r'"'i ' *
At Austin, on the evening of the
of May, Fields and Coleman lyepe
crossing cattle on the bridge spanning
Colorado when one oi the
spans gave way precipitating fifty head
of cattle into the river, a distanoe of
about fifty feet. The river was up and
many of ■ the cattle were caught in the
falling timbers and crushed to death,
and several stunned by the fall and
drowned. The bridge was erected six
years ago at a cost qt $80,000. The
superstructure wa* entirely of wood,
and from indications much of h had
rottod, hence the catastrophe. This
loss to the bridge company will reach
several thousand dollars, and it is pos-
sible the county commissioners will
compel the entire wood work standing
to be torn out and rebuilt.
23d i
to kneel on the spot where1
to gather a atone to
chamber where Bowie was
In his bad, and
old Davy Crockett,
fighter of Tonneaae
for the freedom of Texas.
of be
Bowie was slaughtered
to saa4he spot wher*
kett, the heroic bear-
shed his blood
WSS are hardly
those of thZ
%
"Allison Um ___ „
A home os Um mlHsg
with all the business of Pinafore, Billy
Taylor and the Pirates mingling in
your dreams, to awake next morning
and looking out upon the deep, there
to behold a speck in the diatance like
a "mirage," or a "queen upon her
throne of waters;" such is Galveston,
the island town, the gem of the Gulf,
frqm the sea.
The approach by laud is equally as
grand and unique. From Austin to
within a few miles of the city,; the
country is as flat as u pan-cake, and its
Qoeafi-like surface dotted with thou-
sands of cattle. Then we cross the
"i^tig bridge," which spans the upper
end of the bay, and front this we see
the "island city" rising above the blue
waters of the gulf. The shipping in
the liarbor, the towering asta, spars and
smoke stacks, open the scene on the
left, while the numerous church stee-
ples, high buildings and shade trees
complete the picture on the right.
Tkc improvements and construction ot
public, private and business buildings
naa been astonishing, .even to the na-
tivea, and the city may be couaiderod
aa somewhat metropolitan. • • •
An entire volume might be written
and then not exhaust the subject of
Texss flowers. It would require a
a "Fare laar and to daiafl their
brilliant
—Gainesville Reyittleft As the west-
bound train was running at a full rate
■ot speed just out from Whitesboro,
Tuesday, Norma, a little ten-year-old
daughter of E. It. Davis, in company
with her mother, was on the train. It
seems that Norma was sitting next to
the window, and as the car passed thl-
water tank reached out her hand and
took hold of a rope reaching down
from the tank. Her hand became en-
tangled in the rope and she w; h forci-
bly jerked through the window and
onto the ground. The train ran nearly
a half mile be-fore it could I*, ktopped,
as there was no signal rope oii the car.
The mother was frantic, a!id as the
train slowly moved to the scenic of thy
accident, all on bourd expected to see
nothing hut her mangled form.
Their surprise may be Is-tter imagined
than descril>ed, when they returned and
found hvr alive, not a Isrne broken and
not eveu hurt enough to cause her
to cry. . .
ni.,
I
of oar
can 4nf
Tub signal service glvae this
tog: If oangbt fat a
move with all
north, ttnlaaa in ao doing'
to the north,
uji oblitfed U
il.s. t r JLltU
iii«i
Ej™10
' Vlliration.
The lhtston AiJn«rlinei' that M
has been well' known tot many years
that when a body of troo^N crosses A
bridge the step must be broken, other*
wise the regular treall of such a heavy
weight of men will throw Uul structure
into vibrations so violent aa to
ger lie standing. It is also wall known.
ao violent
motion. The
vol
***** the kev-neto of the balld-
ing, and W H to aymi^kl.etto
> - >'.U ■ . Ait
Man sad flail.
"Separated from tha aoi^0 said ^r.
7t ttrtr
«d.and for mamjr i
^jp!
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Son, J. C. The Albany Star. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. [1], No. [24], Ed. 1 Friday, June 8, 1883, newspaper, June 8, 1883; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393358/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.