The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

VI al U, lts appearances, having all along its
. streets handsome and substantial two three
and four story brick and stone business
houses, and in its residence quarters, com.
Portable, elegant, ornate dwelhpu
houses and cottages, with beau,
utui and tasty grounds attached
where flowers and plants and shrubberv
and fountains add their embellishments.
1t has
STREET RAILWAYS
.permeating every portion of the CITY
ior the convenience of its citizens and
thc strangers who may be in its gates,
~ mas gas works furnishing lights
lpr .ne streets, Tor business houses, resi-
uehces ana public places, and water works
with plugs all over the city for use in case
oil ilre and to flush the cutters, with mains
everywhere so that the remotest cottage can
nave, II desired and so that every sewer can
be Kept sweet and clean The city is filled
with church buildings, there being not less
tnan sixteen, of every denomination, and Mi
OF them being handsome and
STYLISH BUILDINGS,
some OF them tasty and most impesinc In
appearG ''c. With two fine college bnild.
lhes,lt a,-'l has free schools in every ward and
spriVate schools in the greatest abundance.
CONVENIENT to every locality so that there is
no lack OF educational facilities for the chill
coiored, OF the city, Being the county site
the courthouse is in Dallas, and there is not n
inner or more imposing building of the kind
IN the state. Its built of rock, a hard splen-
qua, gray limestone, quarricd near the city
IS three stories high, with a cupola on ton
iiully fifty feet high, with an immense clock
IN Its topmost part that strikes the hourona
two-ton bell, giving the sound out for miles
around, and with dial on each Of its four
NVhi pl,
read for fully mile. The principal
building material in Dallas, other than
the pine lumber of east Texas
which is only used for residences, flooring
]olsts, etc, is brick, though there is sof'
whlte limestone rock abundantly plentiful
here which is sometimes used. The hard
gray limestone ledge of rock from which
the court house and several business houses
and residences of the city were built, unfor-
'tuhately gave out, and so far as stone is
concerned only this soft, white rock We have
mentioned, remains. This white rock mal,s
excellent lime, and it is used extensively I'm
It's manufacture. Dallas being the central
city OF north Texas and accessible hy rail
ROAD from all points, has ever been, since
1t became railroad town, an objective
POM, for all visitors to Texas. The
traveller for pleasure, for business, and
who Is prospecting for location comes
10 DALLAS either first or last and
remains here far time, because all of them
find something that is entertaining and
amusing, and the CONSCIENCE is that the
city IS well provided with hotels and board
ing houses.
OUR MARKETS
furnish as fine meats and veg
etables and fruits of home
production as ever found their way intoany
sltchen, and from abroad we get all the
hshes, fresh and salt water, all the fruits,
tropic and elsewhere. Everything indeed
that we cannot produce at home that the
most exacting and fastidious epicure could
demand, and day and night the citizen or
stranger Lucsllus can dino and sup with
Lucullus or his friends and in style, that
not even New York can surpass. The city
while it has its own public buildings, all Of J.
substantial character, comfortable and
convenient, and ample in so far as room Is
concerned for its needs and demands hds
iomc that it can especially boast of for an [
ihitectural style, beauty and finish. The,
'ity has its own fire department, a volun-N
eer department, the chief being selected
md elected by the city council, and it is
most excellent one, SO excellent indeed,
With the water facilities that we have, that
insurance IN Dallas is cheaper than in any
'thor city or town in Texas. There are !
NO steam fire engines, two hook and ladder p
omPahles and two hose companies that 4
use me water works fire plugs, and each y
nj Pug Wnen Doth companies are working &
hu tne TWO steamers using plugs, will throw a
stream of water one hundred feet higb y
nder tuli pressure from the works. Ills !,
ardly NECESSARY for us to say that the city 4
incorporated. With ' r
ITS MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT,
mayor and eight councilmen elected
y, the people for two years. term, :,
alf the councilmen being elected every y
ear, with city marshal appointed by the u
)uncil, and an ample force of policemen, y
ie city and its interests are we'll looked -
ter, cared for and protected. In so far as u
le, professions are concerned, Dallas can "
'uly claim some of the most brilliant and ~ =,
rofound lawyers of the state, and some of u
ne most eminent, learned and skillful ply -
cans and surgeons, while the ministers are n
oted for their standing and their cloquence l.,
nong the divines of the south. The prom W.
tent teachers in the two colleges, and the G,
her schools of the city are of noted stand 90 ..
y among Texas educators, are learned ii
holarss, and have made fame for them M
lives here and elsewhere. Dallas, as an ct
'idcEce Of the intelligence of its people ia
lppo'. four daily papers with the fifth one N,
ntin@ forth its first issue TODAY; eight ~
ecklT papers, one monthly paper, and two Il
three magazines. There are in the city q;
venteen o. o.
HOTELS III
nj sixty boarding houses, and Us an evil
nee OF the importance of Dallas, we men ",
IN the fact that at one of its hotels during sh
@ year past there were q COZ arrivals. \ re
lmtcr OF commercial travellers Represent fo
s large metropolitan houses in other On
ltes make Dallas tiett headquarters as il Nv
q conygYleIt point fer them in the trans iw
ton of their business. The city during Is
G year exported $1,000 bales of pr
ton, all oi. which was sold here DO
ther TO our merchants or TO fif
e cotton buyers, n number Of whom follow SO
at avocation alone either on their OWN ilr
count or for eastern mills The money SO
Us cotton brought was in the main spent pl
re for various kinds Of goods. There was ea
30 exported 5000 pounds of wool; 215i,- Tr
9 pounds ofhides; $50 900 pounds oftalow; BE
O,Uo pounds of pocans $4,000 worth of br
rs and pclts, OF on
TILE GRAIN TRADE w.
Q have TO state that the amount of wheat on
arketed in Dallas during the past year no
as 2sO 900 bushels. The crop of wheat in In
birth Texas In 1850 was light, and of poor on
lality, while that of 1881 was decidedly nm
,tter, but only small acreage was seeded, M
the receipts for this crop year In
ere lighter than usual. With such crops me-
to acreage as we had in former years, 10,
ir receipts would be double what we can AZ
NV rpnOrt Tho coming fill aud ,,.n,to, -