The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-12-02


(already overrun,) to lead a precarlol
"a existence unless possessed of brilliant talen
and adaptabiIity to these professions.
Id success ofkiis admirable institution Of tedrni'
a. IS IN the hands Of the farmers Of Mississippi.
N The services of an accomplished expe
70 has been secured to lay of the groun'
around the College buildings with walk
., and an Avenue to town, the sides to
lie planted with all manner of native tree
d Indigenous to Mississippi. / saw the plaI
it is well designed, and when the work
completed will metamorphose the spac
y compassed into one of the most beautiful
Is College grounds in the South, and lend it
# influence and attractions to make the boy
more resigned to their temporary separa
ton from the attractions of their RESPECTIVE
homes. From StarkviIle | took the trail
= for Artesia, only 9 miles distant, and owini
to the abominable condition of the track o
t the Starkville Branch Railroad three freigh
s cars left the track and were ditched nea
j the College, fortunately no one was hurt
and by taking passage upon freight car
; was enabled to reach Artesia in time tt
l connect with the train that evening for
COLUMBUS,
where safely slowed away under the care O
that genial landlord Major King, of the
stately GILMER HOUSE, | rested for the
night. | spent three days in Columbus.
| business Is not so ROOu there as IL WAS last
year when they received over 81 900
bales of cotton and sold an immense
quantity of goods Columbus, however, is
a business place in addition to her Com
press, her Gas Works, her FIGURING Mill,
her Saddle Blankets Factory, her Carriage
Factory, she boasts now of very fine Cot
ton-seed Oil Mill, which is running night
and day, and is turning out a vast quantity
ofoil oil cake etc. for expectation. Column
| bnS IL finp FIR
poses and must, at no distant day, attract
| attention as SUCH 1t is nice place to re-
| side in, and the handsome residences, cool
| shades and lovely gardens of the place be-
| speak cultivated taste in her Inhabitants
| that never fails to strike every visitor IA
vorably. Just now Columbus, like Macon,
| wants competition with the Mobile and
| Ohio Railroad, and is much concerned
| about securing a railroad connection with
Decatur, Alabama, by the construction
of road to that point, under a charter that
she has and by which the company would
be entitled to 100000 city donation which
was voted several years ago. Col. Hudson,
one of her most prominent citizens, is now
canvassing the country between Columbus
and Birmingham. to ascertain what aid can
be had upon the route for the projected
road. The people of Columbus say they are
going to build this road certain, that they
must hare 1t, that they eCiU hare 1t.
In conversation with several gentlemen I
found much interest felt in Columbus i'll
Gen. Martins road, the NATCHEZ, JACK
SON AND COLUMBUS RAILROAD. All ex-
pressed themselves anxious for its compile |
ton to JACKSON, and its extension up the |
valley of Pearl river, vi0 Carthage and |
Louisville, to Columbus The people of
Columbus and this section want direct con- |
nection with the State Capital, and with the |
Mississippi river, so as to reach New Or |
leans also, and as soon as Gen. Martin can get |
his road to Jackson he will have the solid |
support of Leake and Winston and |
Lowndes to pass through those counties to
Columbus and make it the best paying |
Narrow Gauge Railroad in the Union. My
next point of observation was
oKoLoNA.
found this little city considerably i'm
proved, also, but not improving much at
present. Business was quite dull, SO the
merchants reported. There is nothing of
of her making an effort to build her railroad !
to Grenada. A windmill in the middle of
the principal street, runs pump to draw
water for man and beast in Okolona. Many
other localities in these prairies would do
we'll to initiate OkOlona in this particular.
A citizen of Okolona, j. r. Johnson, | was
told, had just completed a steamboat at Full
|
alone in her glory in steamboat building. s
From Okolona | repaired to
ABERDEEN,
where, though sank several thousand dol
lars several years ago, still delight to visit
the place. There is warmth and cordiality |
in the friendly greeting of the people of Alb ;
erdeen that is truly refreshing. Aberdeen :
is live place. and she is alive to her inter
ests she has built many fine buildings since
was there last, and is now building mag q
lifcent, large hotel upon the site of the old 4,
which was pulled down to make
way for it. She has her mettle up on railroad
ron she is having pr0trGcted meetings upon e
he subject of building a railroad to Bir- /
ningham too it would turn an average Jack
onian almost inside out ifhe were to see how
everybody there is enthused upon the subject;
Ter whole population appears to be in favor 8
If the proposition for the city to subscribe c
800, 900 and the county $150,000, payable 4.
II 20 years, with seven per cent interest
payable in installments only upon the estab- /
ishment of the machine-shOps of the road in v
aberdeen, the construction of an iron rails a
Dad bridge over the Bigbee, and in the COM
,letion of sections of 10 miles each before
he bonds are delivered. All safeguards have P
,een thrown around the proposition so that n
he people cannot be injured if the subscrip- Il
ion is voted.
1 had the pleasure ofhearing j Judge Ackers =
make very lucid and convincing argument =
pon the subject a few evenings since at
berdeen, at one of the most enthusiastic W
abroad meetings l ever attended in my life. :,
lie showed conclusively that Monroe county =
aid that "hoary old monster" as he called a.
he Mobile and Ohio railroad, over 100000 IA
nnually for freights upon cotton and sup m
lies more than the county would pay if she :,
ad a completed road East, by which Bir- =
bingham could be reached in few hours u
nd atlanta few hours later. Just think tt
f it, breakfasting at Aberdeen and eating fl
upper at Atlanta, for it appears that COM
any is actually building an air line railroad 70
rom Atlanta to Birmingham and have sew as
raj miles of it built There is considerable 81
ivalry between Columbus and Aberdeen a
bout roads to Alabama, and both will no OF
Oubt be built. One point is very clear the "
eople of this whole prairie region are down r
pom the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and wish SO
or outside connection, specially with New til
orleans, the next objective point of Aber- S
cen soon as she gets her Birmingham Rail- fir
pad. Success to such live communities, l lse
ay. sc
While in Starkville l was invited by the to
1ventor, Chas. A. Sullivan, Esq, to exam in
he the diagram of his &C
ERvoLANT OR FLYING MACHINE, "a
pom which he has obtained a patent and 50
which he had a model machine nearly be
ompleted when he had the misfortune to
ave it destroyed by fire at Starkville The
lachine or air ship is constructed in the
Orm of double ended boat, from the NJ
xtreme bows extend-both at the front
nd rear ends-a fan-shaped rudder perpen- ea
icularly arranged and held in its places of
y pivotal fastenings and turned from right | a
} left and Uice rersd, by means of cordage Sc