The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-06-17
our MARSHALL LETTER,

way, and while II does not put on 40
mnny ambitious frills ns IT. nclghbor,
Jefferson, Of which the Lender ANA
Jhmplecule ARE Nv eEp0nrnia, u II
moving with even stride, slowly but
surely, TO metropolitan future 1t
seems 10 keep In View the motto
"GaiHd hnicn and may yet write on
ilA espulrhcOn, like the housooI Derby,
Huticm hi0mphanm During our visit
II appeared to DO struggling with II
plethora Of Justice, aud tho squares ad'
Joining the court house rcsounded with
the musical voices of the different
nyrmIdons of the law summoning
John Smith, Peter SuoOks and other
rood citizens into the halls of Justice.
Criminal rourt, civil court, county
court. Justices court aud the lord may
0rs court, the last over II livery stable,
were all In session, aud the blind god
dess was kept busy with her sword and
scales. The criminal court, Judge
Camp, meets IN Mahone's new opera
house and the temple Of the muses.,
which has reechoed the tlntlnnabula-
tion of the Swiss Bell Ringers, the
merry laugh of "Nan, the Good for
Nothing the musical vagaries of that
black music box, lIlin9 Tom, and the
lnImltable "Joe Bowers" OF Harry
Mccarthy, now rcsounds with 80, yes!
o, yes "May IL please your honor"
"Gentlemen of the jury" and the other
trimmings with which the pills OF JUS
tice are administered. Since the recent
affirmative answer to the alional
conundrum, cam | not u man
aud II brOtherY and their con-
sequent advancement to all the
rights of the more lucky Caucasian,
Sambo and his Dinah invariably take
an unllaggng interest in the admins
tration Of Justice. In proof OF this as
sertion, IL ~ well known n hanging
will attract ten where II camp-meeting
or circus would catch one. Saturday
seems to be gala day for the darkey
| In Marshall; it Is part of his religion
to work but little ON the last of the
week, and then he mounts his faithful
RosinnntA md HES to town. There he
can crafty his aristocratc tastes
plunge into u mad revel of ginger.
bread, sardines, soda-water, or, may
hap, whisky, while his steed, decorated
with tattered saddle and rope bride, on
perhaps only u blanket, stands with
halGciosad eyes hitched to the rack
around the square, lulled by the hum
of the industrious blue bottle, or the
clarion notes OF some rising young at
torney, who holds u dusky Jury SPELL
bound by his burning eloquence and
legal lore. Dinah, in hemeantime, goes
shopping, and becomes connter-irri-
tant to dry goods clerks, and drives
sharp bargains with the wary Israel
ties, who constitute no small portion
of the merchants OF Marshall. The
smaller fry in the mean time sit
around the store doors, patronize cor
ner cake stands, and discuss the pre-
vailing tashiDns Of Elysian Fields or
Slapfoot. The negro trade in Marshall
is immense, and constitutes no small
portion of its prosperity, as the negroes
seem disposed to remain In the coun-
try and make crops instead of iloeking
to the city, rs is too often the case.
The burnt district is gradually being
rebuilt, Two handsome stores adioin-
| ing Twyman u Womack's building are
nearly completed, and the hri0k work
of several Others on the north and west
sides of the square are nearly finished.
Owners of real estate and builders of
houses IN Dallas might take lesson
from their neiRhbors in Marshall.
Here they do not build stores with
slender wooden columns and lintels to
support towering superintendent
mass of masonry, and walls only sim
gle brick in thickness, buildings simp-
ly put up To rent not to live in,) hut
they build substantial houses with iron
lintels, and sturdy columns OF brick or
iron, high fire walls, and consequently
have reasonable and favorable rates of
insurance. The stores are rented i'm
advance before completion, and IL is
safe to say that the next autumn will
see no traces of the recent contlagra-
ton which destroyed one-half of the
business portion of Marshall, save in
new and HANDSOME brick ediices fill
ed with well assorted stocks of goods.
The crops IN Harrison aud the adjoin-
ing counties, as matter of course, diff
fer from those of Dallas and the sur
rounding country. Planters in East
erp Texas cultivate cotton and corn al
most exclusively, and field of wheat
Is rarity. This country has not
enjoyed those bountiful showers which
recently gave the crops q new impetus
in your section, and corn looks parched
and hungry for rain, II also lacks
that rich, dark green color and sturdy
growth, which the most casual OBJ
server might detect in almost every
field along the line of the Texas and
Pacific from Wills Point westward.
Wheat and corn may divide the
honors of your rich belt with cotton.
but the tleecy monarch is king here.
without rival or peer.
Thursday next will be field day in
The JEFF Davis Homestead
will have grand barbe- |
cue, In beautiful grove near the old
Bonfoey place, for the purpose of Civ
ing practical expression to the feelings
Of the people on the subject of giving
MIR. Davis home In Texas. The
ladies OF Marshall have put their hands
to the good work and we all know
they are the most irresistible pleaders
In the world, In any cause. Your cor
respondent arrived here at an early
hour In the morning and before break
last fair solicitor approached him to !