The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-11-25

Our Town seems to be about to take 81
fresh start in the progress Of improvements.
Several fine brick buildings are now going
up on Main street-Dr. Jones' east Of Hale
& Murdock's, and a conjoint row Of three
east of Keeler's, the first to be occupied by
the Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, the second by Mr.. Spears, and the
third by Mr.. Sappington. All these hous-
es have been commenced in superior style,
and will soon be completed. A new i'm
provement in architecture has been for the
first time, introduced among us-that of
iron facings for the doors and windows
These have been manufactured in this place
at the iron foundry of our townsman, Mr..
A. r. Wellington, and are finished off in
very tasty and beautiful style-quite equal
to anything of the kind at the North. Mr..
Wellington is indeed a master workman,
and may challenge comparison with the best
in his line.
Our neighbor Stringer, too, with his hor-
ses Id mules and buggies and all that per-
taips to the livery line, has made fresh
TT and has just compl led an extensive ad-
ltion to his stables, the exact counterpart,
in size and appearance, of his former build
ing, only a little neater and of better finish.
He has made clean sweep from our Office
to Genevieve street, and now presents a
broad, bold front with quite city like ap-
pearance.
Various other works of improvement, we
believe, are in contemplation, and we notice
generally that all the buildings that have
gone up in our midst within the last four OF
five years, are of superior construction
neater in appearance, more substantial, and
every way better adapted for business pur
poses, than those erected previously. This
is one of the best signs of permanent i'm,
provement in our town.
Nor should we, in this connection omit tc
notice the Artesian Well, which was bored
, last year in the middle of Main street, some
f distance west of the market, by Mr.. Cope
, land. The well has been recently cleaned
: out by Mr.. G. and sunk some deeper. Il
now sends up volume of water three OF
four times as large as it at first did. The
: perennial fount of the pure element-cleal
as crystal-gushes up with much force and
passes off in quite large stream through
the cistern, which it keeps constantly full,
ready for any emergency. We learn that
Mr.. Miller, our ingenious and tasty stone
cutter, has been employed to prepare pill
lar and suitable capital of marble for the
we'll The flooring around it is to be Of
hard, firm stone, which has already been
procured for the purpose, and the whole is
to be enclosed with iron railing. When all
the external fixtures are completed, the well
will be at once an ornament to the street
and of incalculable convenience and advan.
tage to the whole town, especially to the bu.
slness part of it. A few neat, ornamental
shade trees around it, would make it place
that Calypso and her nymphs might envy in
hot weather.
We are truly glad to see such spirit Of
: improvement beginning to be rife among
our citizens-it augurs well for our little
+ town. Let it go on and increase; let Us
, have our branch railroad built to the Crane
$ Mobile and Ohio railroad, as in all likeli
hood we shall in few years, and Columbus
! will soon bid defiance to all competition, ant
become, what nature designed her to be, thu
Queen City OF East Mississippi.-Democrat