The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-19

spooiing, the weaving, all beside tho old
fashioned spinning wheel ara loom
showed how great had been the improve.
ment in the last half century ir this de.
partment. Several suits were made from
the raw cotton in the day. One of the
Old fashioned wheels was said to be q
hundred years old.
Agricultural Hall, Again.
but we cannot close without returning
to the agricultural display. We feel
such lively interest in everything per-
tanning to the advancement of This great
interest of the country, that we must be
pardoncd il we dwell long upon it,
While the various Southern and South
western States were creditably represent
ted In this department, Florida, at one
time, at least, perhaps eclipsed them all
in the perfect display of her capabilities
as an agricultural State. She had pal.
ace garden of tropical fruits and shrub
berry, which, though wilted and faded at
the last, when redolent with verdure and
vitality. mast have been grand. In 3D.
dition to her display Of tropical fruits,
she was equal to her Southern sisters in
her grain crops, corn, oats, rye, barley,
vegetables of every kind, sugar cane,
brick, woods OF various descriptions,
soils, fish, aligators, (stuGed), &C., &c.
The Italy of America had reason to be
proud of her position in the Exposition.
VI course, Georgia, the birthplace of the
Exposition, was equal to the occasion.
Many of our friends were greatly agita-
ted on the question of the Stock law, but
we told them to 60 home and adopt it.
We had tried it long enough to know its
merits.
North Carolina and Tennessee aboun-
ded i'll minerals and woods. One block
OF poplar wood, about three feet in diam
eter, was cut 40 feet from the root
Blocks of oak wood, from 81 to feet in
diameter, we're to be seen on every side.
But of all the exhibits of minerals, the
little Vermont State, from her granite
hills, surpassed all competitors. She cut
pyramid of beautiful granite rock.
weighing ten tons. We examined it
carefully and found it equal to the mar
BILE in appearance and far ahead of it in
durability. For tombs and building
purposes, where durability is the object,
perhaps nothing can surpass the Ver-
mont contribution to the Exposition. A
striking exhibition of Yankee enter.
prise and vim.
The Conclusion OF the Whole Matter.
The Atlanta Exposition will give an
impetus to Southern enterprise and
Southern immigration for the next de-
cade unequalled in the past. From
every quarter the expression was heard ::
What delightful climate you have, and
the agricultural and mineral exhibit
shows that the South is blessed with all
the natural advantages of soil and min
eral resources to make her a great people.
All that she needs is a larger effuson of
yankee capital, thrift and enterprise to
develop her capabilities. Cooperation
has inado the North and East what it is,
the peer of any nationality in mechan-
ical and manufacturing enterprises-and
is now taking hold of the great agricul-
tural interest, and will lift it from the
slough of despond end make it the equal,
if not the superior, of any other addi-
tional pursuit known to man.
One great significant fact has cropped
out in the Atlanta Exposition, and NO
less significant than gratifying to the
philanthropist. Of the immense crowds
assembled there from day to day, from
every part Of the country, there was less
drunkenness than was ever known before
perhaps, on any similar exposition. Not
only was there no apparent drunkenness
but not even the semblance of drinking
so far as we could discover. We think
this silent but powerful testimony tc
the great resolution which is working in
Southern society in the custom of public
and social drinking. This fact is es
pecially gratifying, when it is remem
bered that the large proportion of the
visitors to the Exposition were composed
of the young men of the country-sons
in the exuberance of youth-while the
larger portion were in tho full flush o.
vigorous manhood. No doubt anothel
gratifying fact had much to do in pro
ducing this happy state of things: II
every crowd of visitors the presence o
lovely women formed leading element
hence the gentlemanly department which
30 generally pervaded the other sex
j Oh, woman womanl if ttou knewes
thy power for good, surely thou woulds
then exert that power in behalf of SO
briefly and virtue. So may it ever be
T. 81. R.
FROM BRIDAL CHAMBER TO JAIL
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