Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-15

were no flowers about the cottages IN
habited by the women from the pine
hills. When we spoke TO Mary's
mother and praised the child, the eli
dame was true to the instincts of her
sex-she hoped that Mary would soon
be old enough to begin another life.
In fact she anxiOusly looked forward
to Maryis marriage. Put a girl m a
printing Office and she will leave it for
any trihing rascal who pirates about
love. Little Mary of the cotton mill
will spend the brightest years Of her
Young life in acquiring matches skill
az an operative, and when perfection
Is achieved some worthless vagabOnd
will win her young heart and she VIII
sink down, grow yellow and starye a
wanderer among the sand hills. OF a
truth the mill owners were wise when
they would have Gods minister m
the pedagOgue among the operatives
at Stonewall.
The StoneWall sheeting now manu-
factured, is sold at sixteen cents per
ward at the mill. IL Is more than q
ward wide, and two and eighty-hve
one hundredth yards weigh a pound,
the same in width, texture and weight
with the goods of the famous Atlantic
mills marked "a" The Atlantic
mills run their goods through a dress
er, which gives the cloth smOOthness
| Of surface, and certainly lessons its
durability. This fact is already recog-
| nized BY country tFadesmen in Missis-
| sippi, and the cloth of the StOnaWall
| mills is disposed of as rapidly as Il
| can be manufactured. The thread
yarns is sold by the pound at thirty
| eight cents. Four hundred pounds
are made each day, and Distributed
by the roads that interseet one another
| at Meridian.
The whole monthly cost of the mill
is fourteen hundred dollars, including
| fuel. oil, salaries of superintendent
and labOrers-the cost Of the APPEAL.
| establishment for one week. And yet
| the manager of the mill informed me
| that he was paying higher wages than
any other manufacturer in the South.
| when / sought information as to the
! prohiablenes3 Of the establishment, |
was told to make my 0gn s~atc1l@u6ns
We have cotton enough, Ofthe best
quality, which cost Is less than twenty
| cents, to last till DecembFF, { We
were not doing well, we would have
sold three hundred bales at a profit OF
/ ten cents per pound. The clear profits
OF tbs establishment are not less than
from se~ysnty-REf f. one hundred dol
lars per day.
one ex-planter has $4,000, another
81, 900, and three Others 5000 each,
invested in this establishment. When
the Legislature meets the Stonewall
mills viii be ine0rpOEateq aa4 the
capital stock increased. There Is
power enough 10 drive i've times the
number Of looms and splndles nov
running, and the same number Of SD
/ perintendents and OVefseers can super
/ wise the additional machinery and IN
| creased number Of hands. Another
wing Wt4 iEarefore be added to the
building. EiEehmes - HCny looms
and spindles may be pat il Operation
| with an addition Of only fifty per cent.
| 70 the daily expenditures.
Fla machinery and engines Of the
| StOhewai mills are rs cCstlv a. any at
| Lowell. Everything Is PERFECT. Th@
building is a solid as the everlasting
hills. It's roof is Of iron, and its brick
walls viii endure forever. Its owners
are the South's rTus5t heneactOrs, and
their good fortune may eause duilards
of Memphis who employ their wealth
ia s~pecuIatiOns in town lots and dab
BILE in insurance and bank stocks 70
devote gold TO wiser and more bench
cent purposes. He Is the truest patriot
OF the South who gives employment
to the poor; who diverslfies pursuits
and popular industry who attracts
skilled labor and creates an Industrial
house Of refuge for the impoverished
W0meh and -chilaren u our hdplesg
country. s j.