Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-22
ROCkWALL COUNTY.
The County Seat and Normal School-Fer-
tile Farms and Pretty Girls
A Daily Visitor,

DHiiy NisttOr.
Correspondence OF the Gazette
Rockwell, July 19.-This little town
with nice business houses and resi-
dences clustered around its ornate, me-
dium-sized courthouse. was few
weeks ago dreamily basking in the
warm sunshine waiting for the fall
season when cotton opens. AT that
season she ''ruflles up her plumage''
and puts on appearance Of brisk bdsi-
ness. She has been startled from her
slumbers recently by several circum-
stances. The normal institute that
began here on July 2nd has
proved a live affair, aud has exhibited
much vim in its progress. In Rock
VOL vernacular, it is having the eff.
feet OF a starter" in educational mat
ters, and henceforth the marks and
brands ofinferior teachers running on
this range will be more easily deci-
phered, and those teaching according
to antiquated and discarded methods
Will be more easily recognized.
a few days after the normal opened,
Rev. A. Ii. Norris OF Denison, an
earnest and talented Baptist divine,
began "a series of meetings which con-
tlnued ten days. drew large congrega-
tons and aroused much pure and fer
vent religious sentiment. Such meet
ings are powerful factors in Texas So
ciet.y, tending to promote harmony
ana to advance the standard of moral
ity and civilization.
For the sake of variety, some of the
boys with u surplus Of vitality, who
happened III from the country last
week and the week before, got up u
few impromptu old time fghts--fair,
stand un-and-knockdown fights-ccst-
ing thirty dollars apiece, fifteen for
each comoatant, all being duly sober.
Nothing stronger than lemonade in
this county.
The iarnsin Roellwall are not large,
but the land is very rich, The
population intelligent and ener-
getic, and all this beautiful country
is being brought into high state of
cultivation, and is being thickly dotted
with convenient, conlmodious and
handsome improvements.
Farmers estimate TIE present corn
crop at fifty bushels per acre. The
stand OF cotton is good, the land has
been well plowed, and the plant Is
large and thrifty up to date. Wheat
turned out about fourteen and oats
sixty bushels per acre. One fiad of
oats three miles from town tb.eshed
out seventy-three bushels pe acre.
Farmers say they easily max. just all
the mlllet they want, and it is fine
feed for stock.
This is stout, corn-fed population.
The young men are largeboned, tough,
gallant and energetic. fhe display of
young ladies can hardy be beat, with
their splendid physiq,es, happy smiles
and health inspired eauty. Some may
be pretlier than ,thers, but all are
pretty, without single exception.
Doubt. ess they ae Indifferent to the
attentions of gallant beaux, but yester-
day the ladies at the normal very I
aroe en- 0iosSe and notified
the principal hat on the next day thew
would all quietly stampede to a grand /
barbecue, * miles east of town, prom
ising to L back again the day after
ready fr institute work. Such il
life.
The ally GAZETTE reaches here nj
noon n the day Of It's issue, and rivals
the Dallas dailies, though Dallas il
cnI Twenty-Five miles distant.
narrow gauge through this region
Ylllu benefit farmers NOT n li,tla
iJor Douglass and Gov. Hubbard
ny they will put one through from
yer To Gainesville, and they are iust
ne men to do It, 'N''