The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-08
STATE NEWS,

The Marshall Herald says the present
season is the finest ever witnessed IN
that part of the State, and all crops
promise most abundant
The Texarkana Democrat says the
cars will be lupning on the Trans,C on
tincntal from Sherman 10 VoEapk9ng
10y the lst of September,
The oot and corn crops of Collin are
~ good ~ the heart could wish and
cotton promises well, though it has to
wn the chances OF n good season.
This from the Bryan Post From
all sides tho cheering news comes to us
of u llourishing corn crop. The late
rains--we are having little more than
is dcsirablc--hyc frightened things M
wonderfully, and all our farmers have a
smiling, saucy look of independence
about them
The wheat yield in Collin county is
estimated at from six bushels. up Ia
twenty-five bushels per mere. Farmers
are now busy harvesting While the
yield per acre is not equal TO last year,
vet the acreage is much greater than in
1878, and the value of the crop much
greater than eyer before in that county
More than n hundred hands are now
working ON the road .Atwccn ularks
vile and Texarkana. The prospect for
crops ~ the hest since the war; 40 the
farmers say, The May wheat has been
harvested, and the later varieties will
soon be. The wheat is generally very
good the corn and cotton crops are
clean and growing finely
The crops ON the line of the lntcrna-
tionNl and Great Northern Railroad from
Palestine to the Neches, and beyond
for some distance, are looking we'll The
small number of acres planted in cotton
is notable. In the counties around Ne
chesville and Jacksonville many acres
heretofore planted in cotton are now de.
voted to oats, rye, millet etc.
The directors of the Texas and Pa.
cifc have subscribed and paid in 81 500.
GOO 10 push forward the road to Fort
Worth, one hundred and twenty miles
westward of the present terminus. EX
Governor John C. Brown, Of Tennessee
Nice.Prcsidcnt, is in charge at Marshall
and will have the work completed by
the first OF September The road is to
be laid with steel rails, and equipped in
" first class manner, ..........
Austin Statesman The commence.
ment exercises of the eight annual SEES
sion of the Texas Military Institute will
take place in Mlrchison's Opera House.
June s, 1876, at $50 D. m,
The valadictory will be delivered by ca.
Diet A. 4, Rector, ofthe graduating class,
and the response will be made by cadet
Jas. A. Baker, OF Houston The usual
distinctions, medals, etc, will be confer
red upon the following young gentle.
men, who have completed the full course
Of instruction. viz A. f. Rector, of
Austin, Jack Coke, of Waco and John
X. Rose, of McLennan county. 4
~ Calvert (Bwleson county, eagle
The crop prospect Of this county is very
liattering, considering all the disadvan- |
taages the farmers had to labor under In
planting The corn is looking fine, al. |
though itawas bitten by frost two or
thfee times and suffered little from
dr9pth' and Is being "laid by Cotton
ls dong very well in some parts Of The
county-pmts where IL was planted
corly and escaped the frost Millet
oats wheat and rye have not done wall
owing TO the dry weather We had soma
weeks ago. All our farmers need iust
now is n few days of clear weather 60
they can get their crops thorouphlv
worked, and they will be contented and
happy. ulH ....uaa.'. ~.