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TRIP THRO’ GRAYSON CO., TEXAS. Grayson County, the gem of the Lone Star State, is located on Red River, in Central North Texas, and is traversed by the Texas & Pacific, the Mis souri Pacific, the Houston & Texas Central and the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railroads, four of the great trunk lines, and is already working for connec tion with the St. Louis & San Francisco R.R., and Southern Kansas, and has in operation in her bor ders about 325 miles of railroad, and other mileage under contract. The area of the county, 608.173 acres, is two-thirds prairie and one-third timber, well diversified. The richness of the soil has never called for or known a fertilizer, and its varied characters, from the alluvial Red River Valley to the gray and black sandy, black loam, and black waxy, are each super ior to the other, as it pleases the fancy of the culti vator. While cropping is a matter of selection as between small grain, corn, cotton, vegetables, fruits and grasses, this particular section, favored by a tempe rate and mellow climate, with an altitude of about 900 feet, 33 J degrees north latitude, rich and varied soils, can well challenge the world for variety and quality of products, and return thanks for health to produce and enjoy. The timber consists of oak, pecan, elm, bois d’arc, ash, etc , located in a strip two to four miles wide on Red River in the northern part of the county, with the cross timbers in a belt eight to fif teen miles wide, skirting the western border, and in narrow strips on the numerous streams that traverse the county in every part. The timbered lands of larger bodies generally being of sandy character, are the Eden of the fruit and vegetable grower. Water facilities are furnished by numerous small streams, tanks and wells, in abundant quantity and of quality pure and good. Grayson’s advantages are recognized by a citizenship of 65,000 industrious people, who sustain her reputation as superb in cot ton, first ingrain, and unsurpassed in hay, of which she ships of native grasses 1,000 cars of baled hay per year. This season corn has averaged from thirty to six ty bushels per acre, wheat eighteen to twenty-five bushels per acre, oats thirty to sixty bushels per acre ( not so good as usual), barley forty bush els per acre, millet splendid, cotton about three quarters of a bale per acre, native hay good, other crops proportionate, yield varying principally from cultivation, exportation of fruit large and increas ing. In addition to her agricultural interests, which ex ceed all others, the tax rolls of 1887 show 43,969 head of cattle, 17,998 horses and mules, and other livestock in proportion, which, it is well to bear in mind, has in the past few years undergone a a mag ical change in blood and quality, until no one needs to pass the county to find pure records and fine herds of cattle that do credit to the best of families. The total assessment foots up $11,135,796, on a valuation less than half of the real value, and total State and county taxes for 1887 are 87| cents on SIOO. The school interests, both public and private, lead the State, and are the special pride of her people, with good buildings and many very fine ones, and a well organized system of graded schools, and the standard of proficiency high. The county has dur ing the past scholastic year expended on public ed ucation about $120,000, a good portion of this com ing direct from State and county permanent school fund. The public system is supplemented by a goodly number of colleges in private hands, and under the patronage of the different churches. The city of Sherman enjoys the benefit of five of these chartered institutions, four female and one male, which by their merit attract four to six hundred pu pils from abroad, and her business college, not in cluded above, furnishes all the benefits to be secured at such institutions. These speak for the intellec tual and moral character of the citizenship. The profit reaped from haying and graz ug native grasses has kept thousands of acres of rich lands off the market, while population has swept around and passed them, but has served its purpose in pre lands where cheap homes may yet be secured, sur rounded by the advantages and luxuries of advanced civilization, good government and fine society. Close connection by rail with the immense pineries of East and South-east Texas, give double advan tages by supplying a fine quality of lumber cheap, and furnishing a great market for flour, grain and hay The temperate climate, rich soil and varied prod ucts of grain and all the fruits and berries of the temperate zone, with early maturity and long sea sons, and railroad connections to every point, guar antee profit and wealth to the producer and success to all industrial enterprises that are fostered by a prosperous people; while freedom from malaria and a climate tempered in summer and winter by the balmy breezes that ever blow from the Gulf, laden with fragrance from rich fields and virgin prai ries, combine comfort and health with the blessings of abundance. It seems almost unnecessary to say that this populous county is dotted over with flour ishing towns, or to argue the prosperity of Sher man, THE COUNTY-SEAT, RAILROAD AND COMMER civI centre oe Grayson County, through which the Houston & Texas Central and Texas & Pacific railroads pass, and which is the present ter minus of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas R. R. (Cotton Belt Line), giving direct trunk lines in five directions, and close connections with all lines that traverse the State. We have not space to review her interests, which alone would require a lengthy article, but they are commensurate with the wealth of the country from which she draws support, and their magnitude is in dicated by her two banks of $400,000 and $600,000 paid up capital, and authorized capital of $500,000 and $1,000,000. Her wholesale business, manufac turing and milling interests are all unusually large for a city of 12,500, and her schools, already spoken of, are the special pride of all her citizens, and at home and abroad Sherman is more noted for sol idity, solvency and steady growth, than for the dash which characterizes the'new towns of the West. This is well advertised in the substantial character of her improvements, private and public, which embrace all usual to a modern city. THE NEW WESTERN RAILWAY GUIDE. Where Emigrants get their Through TICKETS! Ob your arrival in ATLANTA, GA., you should not purchase RAILROAD TICKETS until you have called at No. 4 KIMBALL HOUSE Where all Emigrant Tickets are sold to all of the Western States, including all points In ARKANSAS AND TEXAS. R. D. MANN & CO., General Ticket Agents, - ATLANTA, GA. T 1 II _ _ | We sell Tickets to all points in I N nil HP I Arkansas and Texas, via Chatta- I Ul\U lIUIIUG ! noona, Memphis. Little Bock, Tex arkana, and Dallas, Texas. This is via The Great through Car Line. For rates and further intormat’on write to us, and don’t fail to call on us when you come to town. P. O. BOX No. 4. Mention this paper. 6 mos. NEWLY FURNISHED and REFITTED. a Kps. V. KWELL, UNION HOUSE, Opposite Union Depot Entrance, A.TIJA.NTA., GBSOHGHA. RATES, per day, $2.00. SINGLE SOEAL, 50 Cents. LODGINGS, 50 Cents each. ROVTE Possesses superior inducements for the Emigrant. The Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway HAS FOB SALS ~ 11,000,000 ACRES! .y - y n - -y—y - y—y—y—-y <y,^,y'Hi’WJ OF THE Finest Grain, Fruit and Cotton Lands To be bad in the West. ARKANSAS Took the First Premium nt the World’s Exposition, at New Orleans for its exhibit of Cotton, Fruit, etc. THE MIS VALLEY ROUTE IS THE Direct Line to the Grain Fields of the West. Through Passenger Trains with Pullman and Monarch Buffet Sleeping Cars, Full information glren on application, in person or by letter, to any of the undersigned officers. Write for maps, pamphlets, etc. to ?lENRY WOOD, Gon’l Manager, Little Rock, Ark. J. A. WOODSON, Traffic Manager, “ “ THOS. M. GIBSON, Land Commissioner/* “ OR TO G. D. ROOT, General Agent, No. 2 KlnbaN Hoose, ' Atlanta, Sa. No 1-12 mo Louisville & Nashville Railroad. SHORTEST snd QuIcKEST ROUTE From Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee to the WEST. IT^WIuTPAY YOU! Arkansas, Texas or any point West, To write to us. We represent the SHORT LINES. “McKenzie Route,” “Daisy Line,” ‘‘Chicago Short Line,” “Atlanta & New Orleans Short Line.” JACKSON SMITH, FRED. D. BUSH, Pass’r Agent, Dist. Pass’r Agent, Knoxville, Teun. Atlanta, Ga Andrew J. Miller & Son. 42 & 44 Peachtree St., ATLANTA, - - - GEORGIA. Furniture, Carpets and Upholstery Goods. An acknowledged fact that we carry the largest , and best selected stock in the South. Our several departments are full : Chamber Sizits, IPftjrlor STzrbs, Sideboajrds, "W eur dr obes, Ob.«.irs, IN EVERY VARIETY OF WOOD and at ALL PRICES. We do not advertise that we carry the cheapest goods, but we do advertise the fact that we sell good goods at prices lower than the cheapest. Our Carpet Department is well se lected, and we are prepared to sell lower than ever. RUPTURE CURED. JI written, Guarantee TO ABSOLUTELY CURE ALL CASES. No Surgical Operation, No Hypodermic Injection, OR ANY Other Dangerous Method Patients can work at any business or labor while under treatment. | Hundreds of Testimonials GIVEN ON APPLICATION. Parties calling on us and not finding things as represented, we will pay all your expenses to and from the city. OFFICE T t SOUTH BROAD STREET, ATLANTA, CA. Reference, GATE CITYNATIONAL BANK. Profs. HOUGHTONItMeCANDLISS. Colored Philosophy. You may notch it on de palin’s, You may mark it on de wall, Dat de higher up a toad frog jump* De hardes he will fall. An’ de crow dat fly de swiftes’ Am de soones’ in de corn, An’ de fly dat am de meanes’ Gits up earliest in de morn. De brook dat am de shallo’es’ Chatters most upon de way, An’ de folks dat am de sillies’ Are de ones hab mos’ ter say. An’ de rooster dat am younges’ Am de one dat crow de mos’; An’ de man who am de coward Always makes de bigges’ boas’. An’ he am not de greates’ man Who totes de bigges* muscle; Nor am she de fines’ gal Who war de bigges’ bustle. You kin not jedge t'e kin’ ob man By de manner ob his walkin’; An’ dey are not de smartes’ folks Who do de loudes’ talkin’. De thoughts dater pusson thinks fur no one but hisse’f air his best an’ his wust. Dem whut come* between he gins ter de public. -smwmm. Sometimes er dozen wise men may git tergeder an’ be foolish; but er dozen fools kain’t neber git tergeder an’ be wise. Why he was Slow. “Hello, Uncle Boggy,” said a young negro, speak ing to an old negro whom he overtook in the street. “W’yn’t yer walk faster, an’ not let me pass yer dis way?” “Hole on er minit,” the old man requested. “Yer’ve seed er man toting er sack o’ co’n, hain’t yer?” “Oh, yas, sab.” ‘An’yers seed er man toting er empty sack, I s’pose?” “I sho has.” “Ah, hah! An’ didn’ yer alius notice dat de man whut ain’ got nothin’ in his sack walks faster den de one dat’s got a full sack?” “Yes, sah.” “Wall, yerse’fs one o’ dem men wider empty sack. Run er long, son, fur yer ain’t got weight ernuff on yer shoulders to hoi’yer on de groun*.” [Arkansaw Traveler. Uncle Dan’s Eulogy to Brudder Watson. “I knowed Brudder Watson. In his death the world has lost a purty fa’s sort o’ man. While he paid his debts to de last cent, no white man could keep chickens widin two miles of him. While you could trust him wid a hoss, he never lost an oppor tunity to pick up a pig. He was skeecely eber ab sent from de Thursday ebenin’ prayer meetin’, but you didn’t want to lebe a bone-handled umbrella whar’ he could pick it up. “Brudder Watson was powerful kind to his family, but at de same time he didn’t lose sight ob de fackt dat his three children were bow-legged an’ his wife cross-eyed. He figuered it down dat some of ’em would be sick about once a week, an’ dat deir shoes w’ar out about so often. “Brudder Watson didn’t expeck too much ob dis cold world. If he traded mules unsight an’ unseen he went out to his stables ir. de mawnin’ prepared’ to see a corpse. If he pnt up a dollar on de string game he wisely figured dat de odder feller had eighty-four chances to his sixteen. He realized dat de winter brought chilblains an’ de summer mos quitoes, an’ he sought to put up wid boas widout complaint. “I shall pronounce no eulogy ober his remains. While he was anxious to lib in order to enjoy water melyons, green co’n,’possums an’odder luxuries ob life, he knowed dat de sooner he died de longer he could rest Sunday mawnin’s, an’ de less wood he’d hev to cut to keep de cabin fiah goin’. It are need less to pass resolushions of sympathy for his wife. She figures on our sympathy, while at the same time she doan’ reckon on gettin’ a cent of our money. It are needless to resolve dat our loss ar’ Brudder Watson’s gains. He took his chances. We doan’ know which way he went, an’ we prob ably never shall.” 19