The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-17
SHERMAN.
rorrespondence OF the Herald.

correspondence Of the Herald.
SHERMAN, August s, lSS2-t got here
Sunday morning ut 2 O'Clock q. m from
Dallas and have been here III TINS evening,
and for the information OF the general pub
liz shall proceed to tell in nutshell what
sort of n town Sherman is. It's seventy-five
miles north Of Dallas, has population OF
ahout 900, is located on an elevation sniil-
cient to rive il proper drainage.is in an open
prairie country at the crossing OF the Cen
trail and Texas d Pacific railroads, has gas
| works costing about $iO,GOO owned mere
and at st. Louis. With regard to churches
it has three Methodist, one Baptist, one
Christian, one Episcopal, one Catnoiic, one
| Cumberland Presby terian, one Oid School
Presbyterian. Two Of these churches are
beautiful brick structures, and tour OF them
are elegantly frcscoed and timely tinlshed'
The colored churches consist OF two Method
list and one Baptist. ,....
Its schools are numerous and facilities
| for education good. They consist otAus-
tin college, fine brick edihce three STORIES
high, costing $4,000, DR.. Palmer, presl-
dent: the North Texas Female college, a
fine two-story brick, Professor Nash presl-
dent, costing $1,000; the st. Joseph Gath,
! olic) Female institute (recently built and
| finely finished and equlpped), costing ST.
OOO The Sherman Male academy,
Professor lie TllIier, principal, costing ABOUT
So COO besides many private schools ana
a few colored schools, all well patronlzed.
well supplied, and well managed. -Four OF
these largest are public free schools Tor
whites, and one public colored free school.
The foundation is now being laid for an
other 500 600 free school. There are over
/ 300 resident children over scholastic age,
emitting them to the benefits OF the schooi
fund These excellent institutions OF learn
ing have pupils in attendance from all over
al ar q
of them are old institutions, whose probes,
sors are famous. Sherman has charge OF
her own public schools by vote, OF the peo-
pie, and runs nine months in the year.
Three brick yards are running here (shlp-
ping brick to other points,, one immense
ice factory, one collar factory, one factory
which is turning out cotton and corn plan
tiers, (also u cotton chopper invented oy
negro here), one oil MILL costing $l5,ooO,
one compress costing $4,000. The court
house is OF stone, l0l feet square, is nicely
finished, has good town clock, and cost
$50, 600. The post-ottice here is hnely hXed
up and furnished, at a cost of $4 600, ana Is
leased for ten years. The citizens
of Sherman are under Cd lSa-
tons TO Major A: i. DarheA,
ITormer postmaster and proprietor OF
tLe PATRIOT, for this fine improvements
and convenience. There are also two iron
ioundries, four steam Touring mills, one
steam marble works, one large apfactory,
three planning mills, four lumber yards
one street car line, and about the ilnest OPP
era-house in the state. 1t is two.story
brick, is most elegantly frescoed and hnish-
ed, and cost $35, 600. Its scenery and paint
ings were al lexecuted by ST. Louis firm.
The banking facilities of Sherman are
good-one of its banks being about The
strongest in the state, outside OF Galveston.
Its financial conditions is sound and solid.
1t operate exclusively within its own re,
sources-not only not using any borrowed
capital but actually paying tor its own i'm,
provements-and lending its poorer and
needy neighboring towns money to help
them along. Its only debts are its bonded
debts for railroads, $4,000 for the. Texas
Pacific and $4,000 for the Central rail
road, both bea,ing7 per cent, running ~
wears, and which debts have now been re-
duced TO l6 years. It's taxable property is
50, 100000. The county is also out OF debt
and has $4,000 cash in the treasury;
More could be said of this beautiful and
refined city, but fearing | have already
been too lengthy, will close with the wish
that Sherman may continue to grow and
prosper and subscribe literally for the Dali
las HERALD.