The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-05-29
An Exhibition for II Most LaudabIc
Purpose.
HoLFoRD PRAIRIE, May %, 1875.

The admittance fee is fixed at fifteen
cents for adults, ten cents for children
over six and under ten years, and for
all undersix free. The proceeds of this
exhibition are to be expended for Sun
day school and singing books for the
Fryc's school house Sunday school.
We trust that the exhibition will be
literally patronized by the people, rs it
is for the public good. Respectfully,
CO. Chiffon, President.
NJ. w. MINOR, Secretary.
Miss A. b. Fox, Treasurer
A Needed Rain-EducatiOnaI Matters
Valuable Suggestions Port worth
Moving IN the Matter-Thc Fort Has
Her Periodical PrOspectOrs - Rail-
road Mattcrs-IIOpes md Fears, Etc.
Especial Correspondence of the Herald.l
FORT WoR TIL, May 81, 1876.
The effect of the moon change was
as anticipated, and we have had n nice
rainfall. The general appearance of
the county has been greatly improved
thereby. The oat crop, that was before
the rain considered an entire failure,
will now certainly turn out partial
crop. The rain has, indeed, been
great blessing, and our people univer-
sally thankful therefor, and greatly
encouraged.
Our town is terribly deficient in edu-
cational facilities, and II movement is
just now being organized whereby "A
school building, with capacity to ac-
commodate five hundred pupils, shall
be erected, and strictly first-class
school established therein. This is Il
movement in the right direction, and,
if carried out, will add more certainty
to the general prospects of the town
than almost anything else that could
be done.
II Fort Worth will build up and keep
in successful operation good system
of graded schools, it will bring hun
'dred of families here, with the view OF
availing themselves of their education
al privileges that otherwise would not
come. There is no estimating the val
ue of good schools to a town, county or
state. Nothing has tended so much to
keep back the growth of Texas as the
want of schools. Nothing will render |
Texas more desirable Or adti to its rap /
id and certain development than good |
schools. No state in the union has
such liberal landed endowment for
common schools as Texas.
There is no possible valid reason why |
We should not have an educational |
System commensurate with our terri |
turial greatness and become able TO Of |
fer to the outside world superior adj
yantages in educational facilities rs
well as in agricultural and other indus
tries.
Our landed endowment for school |
purposes should be SO managed as to |
yield an annual interest income sufii- |
cient to educate every child of the |
state, present and prospective, in a |
style and degree of perfection une-
qualed byiany other state in this I'M
ion.
The state can endow ten state nor
NAL schools with one million acres of
land each, and make them self-sustain-
ing, and then have left for common
school purposes a bounty greater than
any three other states. The people
should think of these things.
A great number of strangers are now
In the city prospecting for business To-
,alities. The hotels are all doing fair
and generally "things" look
better.
We are all led to believe that there
8 certainly n good time coming, and
he sooner it gets here the better we
hall be pleased.
If the management of the II xas and
Pacific railway could only look
way down into the innerInost re-
,esses Of the hearts of our
,eople, and witness the constant pray
rfUl emotions, expressive of both
lope and fear, touching prospects Of :