The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-01-13

The demand for these goods is very great
and the facilities for production CONSTANT,
increasing, and no complaints are made.
All checks and plaids are made of strong
sound thread, are very popular, and &C
knowledged to be inferior to none in Amer
lea Their colors are not only bright ant
attractive, but are fast, which is better.
The sheetings, shirtings and brown good
generally are clean and bright, made Of til,
best cotton, and in general heavier to the
ward than the general run of similar goods
and compare favorably with the ''bras
goods" made at higher prices in the East
The sheetings and shirtings are of the same
character as the Indian Heads" and Apple
ton make. In WOODEN goods no ''shoddy OF
extracts" are permitted to be used, so com
mon in the East. These goods were exhib-
tied ut the Centennial and took the pre-.
MUM over all others of the same character
The mills are now
RUNNING DAY AND NIGHT,
using the Brush electric lights, making the
building as bright as day. The night hands
are separate and distinct from those that
work in the day. All hands work harmo-
niously together, and not given to Tipping
| There has never been a strike, nor any
! threats of such thing.
There is no negro labor employed, except
| five men as firemen. This labor cannot be
utilized to manage the looms and spindles.
| The monotonous humming and droning of
| the machinery would invariably soothe the
negro to sleep and let the looms run wild
and the spindles foul. Hence he is not con-
| sidered available as a laborer in cotton fac
| tories. The machinery in No. | is run by
an immense engine of 200 horse. power and
in the second by an engine of 800 horse
power.
Some idea of the great power of the larger
engine may be gathered from the size, which
is twenty three feet i'll diameter, and fifty
six revolutions to the minute. 1t is Cor
les engine, one of Harris, made at Provi-
dence, and produces little cyclone as it
whirls its ponderosity around at the rate of
fifty-siX revolutions to the minute.
From all | could learn from Mr.. VIM.
Oliver, the intelligent manager and treas
urer of the mills, and from many facts gath
cred from my very intellectual and well
posted travelling companion from Manches-
ter, | am fully impressed with the certainty
that these enterprises of manufacturing in
the South are successful beyond the sanguine
expectations of all concerned. 1t is not
probable that shrewd and intelligent gentle>
men like Gel. Ed. Richardson and Capt VIM,
Oliver would risk 5000, 900 on mere SEN
timent or an Elusive hope of success, with
out facts and realities to support their en-
terprise. Capital is as safe in Mississippi
as in Massachusetts,, and realizes larger
profit. As my English friend said, success
is an assured fact, and nc longer a question
of theory or speculation.
Wesson is very thriving town and its
population orderly and temperate. There is
NOT GRoG SHOP IN THE TOWN.
The place is remarkably healthy, and
there has never been an epidemic of any
disease among the factory hands, nor in the
village During the yellow fever epidemic
of 1878 at New Orleans there wasn't case
at Wesson, although the trains were per-
mitted to stop daily at the station.
In this village there are three churches,
three school houses, one public and two
private ones, and at Beauregard, one mile
above, there is a large and fourishing negro
public school.
This little place went almost solidl yDem- |
ocratic at the last election, Garfield receiv- |
ing two votes and Weaver four. Politics |
are not discussed at the mills, and in fact |
not one of the leading men connected with |
them would insult the manhood of their
operatives by an attempt to bride, influence |
or coerce by threat of discharge. Nobody |
here cares what his neighbor does in regard |
to politics.
This firm is Democratic while the late |
superintendent, Mr.. Holbrook, not only |
was a pronounced Republican, but voted |
one of the few votes for Hayes. He could |
have voted as often as he wished. | am
sure that the Mississippi millsmen have
never practiced the Republican method of /
threats 10 ctFS@1tsttsse tnC operatives Tor Vot- |
ing contrary ticket.