Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-02


and found him q most agreeable enC
polite gentleman. Mr.. Cromey dsali
largely in gun-powder, too, anC
Louisville has always been a good
market for this explosive article
nor should it be forgotten that Mr.
Cromey has for sale all books pub
lished by the Southern Methodist
Publishing House. Let our readers
bear this last point in mind
Jackson and Memphis Railroad.
CEDAR CHAPEL, Feb, 21st '72
AessrS. Editors:
Do your people appreciate the fu-
ture of Jackson? With thinking
men ,.men of perspecuity, your proud
little city, nesting in shrubberry
and reclining on bed of flowers, is
standing on pivot. A false step
will precipatate her into irretrieva-
BILE ruin. A proper appreciation of
her future with prompt and liber-
al action on the part of her citizens
will make her future soft and bright.
Indeed, she will become the queen
inland city of the South. Some per-
sons, with their over wrought ego
tism, who have not taken in the sit
uation, may say we are all ready
safe, our future secure. This is
false, this is not true. Others will
ask what must we do to make our
future and protect our prestige. I
will answer you in brief, for have
matured the question. Vote the
proposition of 1926, 600 now before
you for the benefit of your contem-
plated railroad to Memphis and the
Tennessee River, and then demand
OF your Mayor and Aldermen to SUBJ
NIT another proposition right away
of $200, 900 for the benefit of other
railroads, and be sure they are air
narrow-gauge. Jackson has at this
time a very good railroad connec-
ton, especially is it so when we
compare your present condition to
your condition twenty years ago;
but it il no better than that of
Brownsville, Humboldt, Union City.
If you halt and fail to vote the tax
on the I'd day of March next, you
will oVerwhelm your little city in
utter ruin. Brownsville will take
advantage of your blunder, or stu
pidtty, and send out her narrow |
guage roads to your very door and /
rob you of your trade and your
glory. Look at the insidious charm
The threw out to Denmark a few
lays ago, of extending her narrow
yGage by the way of Denmark to
Bolivar, and how Bolivar applaud
ID, cooed and dallied with Browns
lille. Humboldt will strike out
With line of road towards Som
nerville, for Humboldt is neither
owardly nor too false to her self to
eek trade so valuable as that large
nd magnificent country can fur
ish. Bolivar will pluck courage
nd strike Lexington and Decatur,
hen where will Jackson be? Where ,
be woodbine twineth, and the
7hangdoodle mourneth for her first :
orn-' These are all ready lines of I
Dads proposed and discussed, and {
My held in abeyauce by the little 8
owerised queen city, that has the I
ght and power to throttle the :
hole scheme by voting the little G
I'm OF $l25, 900 for the benefit of her 8
-emphis and Tennessee River rail- 9
Dad. The selfish will ask what else
Jackson to gain by these roads? /
answer, this is enough. Self pres h
walton is the first law of nature. /
Id he who win not provide for his h
'usehold is worse than an infidel. d
ut this is not all, they viii bring c
ade with profit, they win y
npty wealth into your lap. Com n
.lete the road to the Fayette coun-
line, through a country that you >,
w get but very little trade from, t,
any, you win then get from Dem W
ark to the Hatchie river never less II
an ten thousand bales of cotton; o.
pm Cedar Chapel twelve thousand II
les, none of which you get. Jack b,
4 will then be recognized as a te
ton market, the Spectators and ri
lnners will have their agents there al
buy this cotton, the market will Is
as good az Memphis or New bl
leans, and there will be at least W
! dollars from each bale of cotton III
among your merchants at the A
10 of,sale which will be in the ag- be
gate 100000 annually. Just,think A
this for one moment if you please OF
W easy, how nice. The ar
300 bales at $50 per bale will a. "
unit to SLIGO, 900, and one half of
5, $SS0,OOO, will be spent annual sic
lmong your people; now stop and tn
TX again il you please; it is all I FAY
of you. Of course this is too Sa
ch money for your present BUSH on
5 and population, but this will str
uce business TO increase and pop nit
ion to pour in. 1t will also sug- me
manufacturing enterprise, cot POI
COMPRISING presses, cotton \
Is, Touring mills, tobacco press vi,
'oundries for casting of iron Co
ION and carriage making, wood act
willow ware factories, saw one
s, planning wills, etc, 1t viii al ufa
uggest horticultural pursuits in iro,
r immediate vicinity, such as wo,
'e growing, straw berry raising eut
and beans, fruits, cabbage, tur- she,
, MELONS etc. Al Of this and pap