Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-03-15
DALLAS COUNTY.
It's Social and Political Condition.

\ 1t is generally known through
out the United States that north
ern Toxas( the best portion of which
is Dallas county, is one OF the most
fertile and healthy countries in the
world. Men from the North and
from the South-from the East and
from tho West, have travelled over
this country and written "back
home" of the fertility of this soil
and the variety of its productions,
Of cotton of wheat, corn, oats, rye,
barley, millct, sugar.cano and fruits
and vegetables of every descrip-
ton, all growing to perfection on
the same farm, until people have
Justly come to the conclusion that
so far as soil and climate are con-
cerned, that northern Texas Is a
new Utopia, and that Dallas coun-
ty is tho garden spot thereof.
But strange to say the people OF
other States arc almost totally ig-
lnorant of our social condition.
They gaze with wonder upon the
agricultural products of this coun.
try, and hasten to give the world
the benefits of their knowledge,
through the medium of the Press
forgetting, in their enthusiasm on
this subject, to correct the error
which they know exists in the
minds of their countrymen as re-
CARDS the society of this country.
Such men as the
HON. j. W. FoRNEY
grow eloquent over the agricultural
products and mineral resources OF
Texas, but say nothing of the CIV
ilization and refinement that exists
in this country.
Thousands and tens of thousands
of people in the United States can
tell you that Dallas county VIII
produce q bale of cotton and thirty
bushels of wheat per acre, but there
are comparatively few who know
that the Houston & Texas Contra
and the Texas Pacific railroads
run through this county ana
city-that we are in direct COM
munication by rail with Calves
ton and St. Louis, by telegraph
with the rest of the world and all
mankind! How many know any
thing oflour schools, churches, week
ly and daily papers?
We propose in this article to
give some information on this sub
iect, not an exaggerated account,
but q plain unvarnished statement,
for the truthfulncss of which per-
sons in other States arc referred to
their friends, who are, or have been
in this county.
POPULATION.
! Dallas county has about 10000
inhabitants, about ono twentieth Of
whom are colored. In and about
the city of Dallas there are great
number of German, French and
Swiss, who are energetic, peaceful
and prosperous citizens. About
one half of the negroes in the
county live in the city of Dallas
they are very peaceable, though gen.
orally indolont. The negroes on
the farms work very well better
perhaps, than anywhere else in the
South.
| SCuOObS.
There are about forty-fve pub
lie schools in this county, and about
the same number OF private schools
Every child in the county has ar
opportunity to 60 to school, ano
there arc but few, if any, who dc
not avail themselves of the oppor'
tunity. The blacks and whites at
tend different schools.
There are some twenty
cHU RICHES
outside of the city. In the city
the Methodist, Baptist, Christian
Cumberland, Old School Presbytc
rian and Catholic are all repre-
scented.
THE POLITICS
of this county are purely Demo
cratic, but in no country in the
world are politics more thoroughly
discarded in social relations. A
man is respected according to his
merits, and it matters not whether
he comes from the North or the
South, from the East or the
West; indeed, men who como here
soon become thoroughly. Texaniz-
ed. There are but few native
Texans in this country, but the
adopted sons of the I" Lone Star
State, have all the affection for hei
that any people have for their ma.
tive country.
THE CITY OF DALLAS
has a population of 1000, is al
the junction of the III. & T. c. X. X
and the T. P. r. r. 1t has about
200 business houses, six hotels,
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