The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 6, 1885 Page: 5 of 5
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Price, Eaq. 1
Fnibno >—I think the last
you mu from Mon*
there I travelled to Que-
> of about 175 miles,
intry is quite rolling and the
: fir*t-class, consequently
1 are not eo good as in up*
They are more back*
They will do well if
harvesting by the
for it has been
every other day in
for the past three weeks,
> the grain crops have been
very much, especially the
: wheat, which promises fifteen
to the acre but will- not turn
1 bushels, at the outside
much of it has
for hay.
Front Quebec to Newport in Ver-
____, land It quite thin and roll-
ing and but little raised. The tyild-
ings along the road are as poori al-
most, at a Texas shanty. One can
extreme cold
here, end ss
•rs
bly well, but m
in upper danad
ot these lower <
lone to become
the long and
cold weather that they have
say nothing about the
of produce for both
beast, still they look tolera*
but nothing like a* well as
Quite a number
lower Canadians seem aim-
part and parcel of
I believe if 1
as you
let them go. I consider them as
two races of people
I expect to find living
ously. I see nothing in this portion
of Cnnadn worth mentioning, except
the asbestos mines which ere about
too miles south of Quebec. They
are quite eaten ive and many valua-
ble specimens are found in them. It
is in my opinion destined to become
very tradeable as it is almost incom-
into
1
arrived in Newport, Vermont, at
about 9, p. m., on the Lord's day,
aad I told the landlord I was very
baagry, and much driar than hun-
gry. la said that that waa a prohi-
couid only ad-
su. I told
I
no urn to
n
> n wtnfc, wad dark a* it was
and ns poor as my ays sight i-, I fec-
it. Wall sir, that fallow
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took me down two pair of steps and
turned to the left and directed me
to go down oae pair of steps to the
right and turn to the left and give
one and one-half knock at the door
and it would open. I did as direct-
ed and )o and behold it opened, the
door did, and there was any thing
there from old gin, Tom gin, old
rye, bourbon, Jamaica rum, bay
rum, wines and brandies, gin cock-
tails, sherry cobblers and brandy
swashes up, and don’t you forget it,
mil ten years old and over. As I was
the first and only being that bad
seen the inside of that chamber in
all that time, we smiled, discussed
the weather and smiled again. We
then talked about the political con-
dition of the country and settled that
satisfactorily, and -moled. After
this wo spoke of the prohibition
question and the ease with which it
waa avoided and so on, and the
amount of physical exertion necessa-
ry to ascend the stair ways, and
came very naturally to the conclu-
sion that it was necessary to have
another before sapper and we ’ did.
Supper over be burned a Havana
and I inhaled the fumes,as you know
I never smoko. This done I told
him I had a kind of tickling about
tbs root of my tongue, and he said
be bad the very identical stuff tar
that complaint and took me down
thoaa same stairs in the cellar where
the very same sets were repeated as
before supper. We them adjourn-
ed to meet again at 8, a. m., and
we did meet and repeated, too, and
don’t you forget it. This is. a very
pretty little city of about i,x» in-
habitants, 00 a smaU lake thirty
miles long by half a mile or more
wide, which abounds in fish, and 1
wiM bet my existence that it costs
five dollars a pound to catch one of
them. From this place I traveled
to Portland, Maine, which is anoth-
er prohibition state. Here you had
the critter brought up to your room
where you could kelp your-elf, ad
libitum (I believe these are good
words.) This is a very beautiful
little city of 35,000 souls. I sup-
pose they have souls as the seventh
day adventists were holding a pro-
territories as you have, would con*
sider these mountains merely foot
hills, for I believe a few miles of
Pike’s aod Gray’s Peak would make
a perfectly level country of Ver-
mont, New Hampshire, Maine and
Massachusetts. In my travels
through these states I failed to see
that great sight that all travellers
see: *‘In summis montibus tantum
est frigus ut rives nanguain liques-
cant, (how is that for high) All
of that means, snow capped moun-
tains. They may be here but I did
not see them, and a trip without that
is no trip at all.
They have many fine hotels
throughout these mountains where
the opulent go to spend their sum-
mer months, and here it Ta that you
see the bon ton and elite where the
mother takes care erf the pug dog
and the maid nurses the babe, which
caused an elderly gentlemen who -at
in front of me to remark, that is
what (days Gehenna with America.
Lffterwarda learned that he was on
his road to preach a sermon not far
from that place. There is but very
little raised along this route. This
brings me to the hub, commonly
known as Boston, which is quite a
nice clean city, and from the stir
that one sees on the streets he would
infer it was a very busy and popu-
uppose thi
lout city. I suppose this is owing to
the fact that it is quite a compact
city. Right in the heart of this city
known as
there is a very nice park
Boston Commons. I think this is
the nicest thing ot the kind that I
ever saw in the middle of a city ex-
cept the Champs Elysses in Pari-,
France.
From this place I travelled to Sar-
atoga Springs and saw nothing un-
common or unusual except that the
young ladies all seemed to live on
sweet meats. No wonder they look
so sweet. I saw four of them devour
four pounds of pound-cake and two
pouuds of gum candy whilst riding
from one station to another a«d then
wound up on apples, pears, peaches
and such other thingi
kings as you can buy
think it like
on railroads. I think it likely some
poor M. D. waa made happy that
"ft
would like to say something
about the placarded boy that I saw
on the train, hut I have not jgot the
time.- All I can say is that if you
ever see one give him your attention,
as there is more fun in him than one
would suppose.
1 will Wave here lor Palmyra,
Missouri, about the lath of Sept.,
aad hope to be in Denison about
the middle of October. Yours, etc.
there. Any
are sufficiently
a heated term. If I
thought 1 would never die I would
my days here. From Newport to
this place you travel through the
White Mountains that you
ach about aad par-
Washington, which
te only about 6,000 feet above eea
level. A man who has travelled
through Colorado and other western
D Whit*.
P. S. Tell nil of the people in
Denison aad everywhere else, that
they need have no more fears of
his Satanic majesty, as the salvation
army buried him in Bus place a few
nights ago. They actually carried a
cowi of large time up and down the
streets claiming to have Mm in it and
buried it under their barrrack, so
they my. * D. W.
Belchers’ standard granulated su-
gar is coacccd by all to be superior
to any other manufactured. Bur-
gower sells nothing bat this brand.
Jadxe Han’t
Sherman. Sept, a, *85.
Editor Courikr :
From information derived from
credible authority lam led to believe
that m> true views on ’’local op-
tion” are not understood as I meant
and intended they should he; in
this: I learn that it is staged that I
Dave changed my views from anti-
prohibition to prohibition by person-
al malice.
I therefore ask you to publish this
f urtlier explanation of how I view the
question, and I will try and put it
where even malice cannot miscon-
strue or pervert.
When I said I would vote for pro-
hibition, I mea t that those who
dealt in spirituous liquors had all or
nearly all violated the law which
forbid sales to minors, sales to
drunkards, sales to anybody on
Sunday, keeping and exhibiting
gambling establishments, sales to
husband or father after notice by
wife or daughter; that many of those
violations were open, notorious and
continuous; and this being true I
would not endorse such acts by my
vote.
Now, that there may be no mis-
take, I state, if those who are en-
gaged in the traffic will not know-
ingly sell to minors, nor allow it,
nor knowingly peranit them to come
in their places of business, will Dot
sell'to drunkards, nor to husband or
father after being warned in writing,
will not open on Sunday for any
business purpose, will prohibit
all gaming, such as banks and the
like, in or about or in connection
with their business, then, when they
do this, I will vote against prohibi-
tion. To pot the matter beyond
controversy, and to thoroughly test
y sincerity, I further state, if those
who are now engaged in the traffic
in Denison and Shuman, will meet
and in good faith pass resolutions
that they will obey the law, and will
aid in prosecuting those who may
disobey the law, then in the frith of
these resolutions, 1 will vote against
prohibition, and whilst I have no
rea-on to think that any one will be
influenced by the way I shall vote,
yet I do know that hundreds will
vote for prohibition on the grounds
l have stated, and who hut tor these
reasons would vote otherwise. Good
men are not willing to sec their own
and their neighbors’ boys ruined,
when simple observance of law will
go so far to prevent it.
Then for the reasons that for two
or three years the laws restricting the
sales of spirituous liquors have been
in substance defied; that those en-
gaged in the traffic know the charge
m true; that it seems to be growing
more flagrant; that we have no
promise that it shall cease, I will
vote for prohibition, unless it is
honestly shown that the law will be
observed.
In answer to personal enmity, I
will say that I deem the reasons I
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give wi
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Murray, B. C. The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 6, 1885, newspaper, September 6, 1885; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth571239/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.