“ DALLAS, a city and county-seat of Dallas co., Tex.; on the Trinity River, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fé, the Houston and Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Texas and Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf, the St. Louis Southwestern, the St. Louis and San Francisco, and other railroads; 32 miles E. of Fort Worth. It is the metropolis of N. Texas, and although comparatively a young city, is well laid out and substantially built. ”