The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-02
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LOT, ~ ~, WHO was onS VI lilc lVccht
eXcursionists TO Texas, we find the
following;
Texas is the Illinois of the southwest.
II is not rs yet determined which of It's
sprightly towns shall be its Chicago,
among the many aspirants for that
honor but probably Galveston, on the
gulf coast, the largest of its cities, and
already claiming 10000 inhabitants,
will be the successful rival, While New
Orleans, us advantage0usly located is
on the constant and swift decline, Gal
weston Is rising uD us u young giant,
With spirit and power that win the
confidence and praise OF every visitor.
Like causes produce like effects, and
that resistless energy which has made
the northwest 50 great Is IN operation
here under superior circumstances,
with Il milder climate and greater
variety Of crops--for Texas soil pro-
duces the great staples OF both north
and south in great abundance. Cotton
and wheat grow in fields side by side,
and corn and sugar are produced in
near proximity, while fruits of all kind
grow large and luscious, aud abound
everywhere. The unprecedented and
magnificent offer Of the Texas railways
totake the southern Baptistconvention
all over their lines of thirteen hundred
miles free in order to show us the land,
is indicative of the spirit of wise enter
prise in their management, Each
delegate was furnished with free pass
10y which he might ride whittier he
pleased in the state for two weeks. a
special train of six coaches left Jeflcr-
son on Tuesday morning after adjourn
ment of the convention, and took the
party 10y daylight to Dallas, the present
terminus Of the Texas and Pacific road.
1t was u charming ride, through n
splendid country, on one OF thesmooth-
est and straightest of roads. One little
town of thirty or forty houses, called
Miueola, on the way, furnished dim
ner without charge ana gave us short
speech of welcome through one of her
citizens; besides, coming into Dallas
In the evening, we were taken to the
opera house and welcomed to the city's
inequalities, and the doors Of its houses
thrown open free OF expense TO about
three huudred tired and hungry dele
gates. The large-heartedness of the
citizens extended even to the boot
blacks. called into requisition the
services of one of that fraternity, and
was about to pay for the "shine" when
he asked care you one Of the dele
oates? if so, don't charge anything"
The BARRIERS were moved to the same
spirit, and, indeed, it was impossible
to spend any money there, except that
| did contrive to put nickel into the
box of a street car, for my fare, when
the driver was too much engaged to
see and forbid it. Charming place that
for the impeGunious, but he must be Il
delegate of the southern Baptist con-
vention. 1t is not the habit of the
place, for money Is exchanged with
marvellous rapidity in such new towns,
Dallas il one of the Texas mushrooms,
as to sudden growth, though there the
comparison ends, for it is to be, so the
mayor told us, the metropolis of Texas.
A growth of from twenty-five hundred
to fifteen thousand inhabitants in two
years is calculated to make II citizen
talk of hyperboles, especially if he be
one WHO HIS StCu iilS iNul N'A"'N % ep
six prices in as many months.
find that the l3aptists in Texas are
president people, and are building
meeting houses in the new towns, and
Selling upon their advantages. Dallas
has good house and good minister.
So has Sherman, further up on the
Texas Central and near the Indian
territ Dry; while in many OF the Older
towns the churches have outgroWn
their old houses, and are planning for
new ones. Such men as Howard, Healy,
Link, Weaver, Dodge and others, seem
to be awake to the fact that great re-
sponsiblities are upon them in deter
mining the character of our progress
in the state, and the Baptists already
have a strong hold upon the vast COM
monwealth.
Many of the eXcursionists visited
Waco. Austin and other prominent
points, and all are hearty in praise of
the liberal manner in which they were
received,
The action of the Texas railways is,
so far as we know, without parallel,
but it is simply in consonance with u
largeness of view and heart which we
| find throughout the whole domain. The
future of Texas must be magnificent
one. 1t offers the grandest induce
ments to every one who wishes to till
the soil in cheap, fertile lands, Access
sible markets, aud every promise of
prosperity. OF course, sin goes in adj
vance in all these new towns. The
gross vices crop out everywhere, but
the gospel is winning It's way also, and
there is, with intensity in wickedness,
also an intense and active type OF
piety.