Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — He Thought Cattle Poor Security. [ARTICLE]

He Thought Cattle Poor Security.

New York Bun. ■ “I owned about 8,000 head of cattle! in Texas about three years ago,” said ’ the Texan at another time, “andai my range wa4 very large 1 thought that if I could raise some money on the herd I’d buy more cattle and increase the business. So I came toNew York and was around Wall street for two weeks before I could get any one to listen to me. At last, through the Intervention of a friend, I got Morgan, oTDrexel, Morgan & Co., to hear me talk for half an hour, I put in my best licks,, 1 told him how much the battle wareworth, how they doubled in valtfe every four years, and by figures made an average yearly profit of 88} per cent. 1 described them running wild over the range ami getting fat on the nutritious grasses. He inquired about fences, and I told him we had non*. *No fences?’ he said in- a tone of holy horror. ’Why, good Lord, young man, I’d as soon take a mortgage on a shoal of codfiiri' off the banks of Newfoundland.’ ” • iw 4 ■ — l — to several writers Charlea V. ordered a rhearsal of his own obsequies. His domestlos marched with black tapers. Charles, folded in, his shroud, was laid in his colfiu, and the service for the dead was chap ted, The farce was followed in a few days by the real tragedy. ’ln'Japan, In honor of a deity haying' the head of a dog, the different streets' each town contribute to the ?Kl ce . rt 5 ilx numbe r of dogs; they ' u ha.etbmr lodgings, and persons are',, especially appointed to take care <4 them when sick.