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

: -'1acoh, '7tdIkFlile5 columbus, OkOiOna a.
: Aberdeen, after several years absence. eu
bles me to speak of the great progress viii
all these inland cities of Mississippi ha
f made within the time, a substantial progre
which has been made despite the misru
! and grinding taxation in the past, impos,
upon this prairie region by the carpe
baggers, despite the destruction entailed |
. fires and by storms and despite the failur
Of several years crops first upon the Ii
comes
MACON,
which Phenix-like has risen from the ash,
of her two great CONGREGATIONS and tt
debris of her destructive cyclone, and
now more substantially built and improve
than at any time in her previous history
with her main business thoroughfare levelle
and widened fully twenty-four feet, an
| both sides adorned with handsome bushes
| houses in place of the rickety shanties tina
| formerly were an eye-sore to every visito
| to this fourishing county seat of Noxubee
Macon does a large and prosperous trad
throughout this region, including Winston
county, upon the west, and the counties o
Pickens and Sumpter, in Alabama, upor
the east. That she may have competition
against the Mobile and Ohio r. r. ano
access to New Orleans, the citizens Of
Macon and of the surrounding country have
formed a company called "The Noxubee
County Improvement Association" with a
view not only to opening the Noxubee river
to navigation, but also to procure the con-
struction OF a railroad from Tuscaloosa, via
Carrollton, Pickensville, Ala, to Macon,
thence west to Louisville, Kosciusko, Du-
rant and probably to YazoO City. A grand
project, which will bring a great deal of bust
ness to Macon if they can accomplish it, and
save the citizens of Noxubee county many
thousands ofdollars in the way of freights,
besides placing them in communication with
the coal and iron region of Alabama, on the
East, and upon the West opening to them
the market of New Orleans, the future rival
of New York upon this continent, when her
grain trade shall have been developed
further, and the rich trade of Texas, of the
Pacific, and of the Orient shall have been
secured to her by the compile
lion of her railroads to the Pacific and the
of either the Nicaragua Canal
'r the Railway across the Isthmus of
in Mexico, across the Gulf
rom New Orleans.
Leaving Macon, after spending several
hours among her worthy citizens and re-
lewiug many pleasant acquaintance, L took
he morning train for
sTARKVILLE.
Arrived at this sprightly little city 1 could
ardly believe what | saw for myself A
abroad connecting the place with the outer
TOrld; telegraph line to flash mar ket re-
orts and the news at any moment; large
rick stores and plenty of them, all filled to |
epletion with all descriptions of goods
ricklayers, carpenters and other mechanics
apidly replacing the vestiges of her de- |
-ructive fires with more brick buildings !
ne business six times as large again, and |
ne population treble what it was in 1870, |
hen l was here last. The changes were |
lmost incredible to me.
wn county and from several counties south
nd West of her from the latter the trade |
small, thrifty farmers who make their /
rOp by their own labor and that of their
antilles, so that when their cotton is mar
eted, there is no settling" with the freed,
len for their share of the crop, as is the
ase with large planters who, while cult
ating immense plantations have poor in
ONE at best under the present system for
utlay of their capital, and for the worry
f mind and body which they expert
nee in looking after their hands; hence
ne general desire to encourage the immi-
ration of white people from the West, of
len skilled in the use of la5Or-saving agri-
lltural implements, is gaining ground rap
lily, and no where upon this road is Col. NJ.
Hilliard, immigration agent of the Mobile
nd Ohio Railroad, more welcomed than in
showing the country to his North
n correspondents.
Starkvile has promising future before
er. With the Female College of Rev. I. G..
ellers the excellent school of Mrs. Tate,
Id the State Agricultural College, she Of
rs superior facilities to parents to remove
ire to educate their children under their
yn care and at very moderate cost, and
any families have removed here to avail
emselves of these advantages. Consequent I
real estate is in demand here and much I
creased in value from what it was before |
e location of the State College here. In /
dition to what have stated Starkville is
tied for health, has an intelligent popula- !
On and is supplied with churches of the
aptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and Asso- ]
ate Reformed denominations as we'll as !
asonic and Odd Fellows Lodges. A fine t
)urt House is to be put under contract at 6
arkville the sixth of December. 4
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
in full operation under the Presidency of q
at elegant gentleman, Gen. Stephen d. Lee, {
sisted by very able faculty Inexperienced S
ucators, among whom | recognize the we'll l
lown names of Rev. DIR. Roudebush, for t
erly of Crystal Springs and Natchez Rev. e
r. Sullivan, late of Sardis DR.. Phares, of 7
Toodville; Prof. Bailey, of Columbus Pro a
ssors Gully and Kedzie, late of the Agri- {
Iltural College of Michigan, Professors of I
griculture and Chemistry, in which de- |
Irtments both of these gentlemen are ex- f
,rts and are very valuable acquisitions {
ieut. Bolton of the U. S. Army, a native q
Professor of Mathematics and r
of Cadets also, other gentle S
en- of experience in teaching. General
ee has surrounded himself with a corps i
assistants who will leave nothing undone i
make the College a success, and a source
pride to the State and the farmers L
Mississippi, whose special interests this Q
llege is intended to foster in the education C
their sons, in making of these noble boys b
Jung men who will not be ashamed to be u
lied farnlers-who will not be ashamed of fl
e noble avocation of their fathers before e
EN-, as unfortunately so many youths are a
no return to "the old farm house" with d
e insignia of graduates from our literary b
lleges. t
Gen. Lee is going to have the farm at a
ched to the college cultivated in the most e
orough manner. He is going to fertilize a
tensively with cotton seed; he is going to I
Use various products, and will use i'm $
owed agricultural implements of real $
crit as far as the limited means at his a
mmand will admit. Several fine plows n
We been donated to the college by Nothern A
anufacturers and more will be. A work t,
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