Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 273 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
and prosperity we should render to the Union!
what blessings we should garner into the
universal harvest of humanity!
As I think of it a vision of surprising
beauty unfolds to my eyes. (Applause.) I see
a South, the home of fifty millions of people,
who rise up every day to call her blessed.
Her cities vast hives of industry and of thrift,
her country hides the treasures from which
their sources are drawn; her streams vocal
with whirring spindles; her valleys tranquil
in the white and gold of harvest; her mountains
showering down the music of bells, as
her slow-moving flocks and herds go forth
from their folds; her rulers honest and her
people loving; her homes happy and their
hearthstones bright; her waters still and her
pastures green; her conscience clear and her
suffrage pure; her prisons and poorhouses
empty; her churches earnest and all creeds
lost in the gospel; peace and sobriety walk
hand in hand through her borders, honor in
her homes, uprightness in her hearts, plenty
in her fields, straight and simple faith in the
hearts of her sons and daughters, her two
races walking together in peace and contentinent;
sunshine everywhere and all the time,
and night falling on her gently, as from the
wings of the unseen dove.
All this, my countrymen, and more can we
do; for as I look the vision grows, the splendor
deepens, the horizon falls back, the skies
open their everlasting gates and the glory of
the Almighty God streams through as he
looks down on this people . who have given
themselves unto him and lead them from one
triumph to another until they have reached a
glory unspeakable, and the whirling stars in
their courses,. though from Arcturus they run
to the milky way, shall not look down on a
better people or a happier land.COUNTY SCH-OOLS.
The schools of Dallas county will coinpare
most favorably with those of any county in
the oldest of the States.
The following are the statistics forwarded
this year by Prof J. K. Palmer, superintendent
of public schools of Dallas county,
to the State Department of Education at
Austin:
Number of white children eight and under
sixteen years of age in Dallas county--males
2,982, females 2,900; total number 5,882.
Number of colored children in Dallas county
--males 500, females 559; total 1,059.
Total number of children in Dallas county
eight and under sixteen years of age, 6,941,
exclusive of the city of Dallas, which has the
management of its own schools.
Number of white children eight and under
sixteen years of age unable to read, 52 males
and 48 females; total 100. Number of colored
children eight and under sixteen years of age
unable to read, 40 males and 39 females;
total 79.
Number of children within the scholastic
age attending public school, 5,000 white and
404 colored.
Number of children within the scholastic
age attending no school, 1,120 white and 243
colored.
POST OFFICES IN THE COUNTY.Calhoun,
Carrollton,
Cedar Hill,Letot,
Lisbon,
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/273/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.