MAURY COUNTY, TN-NEWSPAPERS- Maury Newspaper Excerpts, 26 Oct 1877
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October 26, 1877

				LETTER FROM TEXAS

SPRING HILL, TEXAS, OCT. 10TH, 1877

To the Editor of the Herald and Mail:

As I have seen nothing in your paper from our little village for a long time, 
I think you can find space in your columns for a few lines from an old 
Tennessean, who followed GEN. HOOD from the valley of Virginia to the ever 
memorable battlefield of Franklin, Tenn., where our much loved Cleburne 
fell on the breast-work, while leading his victorious little band on to 
victory under the galling fire of an overwhelming force of the enemy.

It was said, then, that Texas was nothing but a den of cut-throats and 
robbers, but I have been here for six years, and I never saw a more law 
abiding kind of people anywhere, than I find in Texas.  This portion of 
Texas is almost entirely settled up with Tennesseans, and the majority 
is from Maury county.  Several families take your paper, and are highly 
pleased when they get it from the office and sit down by their quiet 
fire-sides and read the news aloud from their old native home to their 
families, who sit and listen with an attentive ear to hear what has 
happened near their old homes.

Cotton picking is all the go now.  Hands are getting from 80 cent to 
$1 per day and are hard to get at that.  There is a great deal of cotton 
in the field yet, and will be for a long time - till near Christmas.

Mr. Editor, can you not send us a car load of girls, so that the straggling 
Tennessee boys can marry and go to work?  They have to go so far to see 
the girls the grass gets away with their crops.  Please send some girls 
out here, if you can and oblige a true friend to Tennessee.  

N.A. N.