Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-10-17
For the smyrna Times
The Southern Exposition at Louis
vile, Kentucky.
For the Smyrna Times.
THE NEW SOUTH.

THE NEW SOUTH.
DEAR Times. There is nc abatement
IN the interest manifested in great exhi-
bltlons out West, or any where else in
the great Republic. Boston has Chin
ed In this year with a magnificent shew
tnat may become an annual, like those
of Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis.
But more interest attaches to the one at
Louisville than any other because it
represents a larger section, the "Ne,y
South" in whose development and
prosperity the entire North feels a
pride and join hands in hearty con-
gratulations in every stage of develop
ment OF their geological and agricultur-
al resources. The plan and manage
ment of the exhibition is not unlike
the Centennial except that no State
has an outside building, but in their
departments is brought together a col
lection most beautiful and an arrange
ment most tasteful and pleasing to the
eye. Some have greater variety of
productions than others, chief of which
was Florida, beating her own record
on ambrosial fruits and flowers. nectar
fit for the Gods" Her most TEMPTING
offering was her we'll known tropical
fruits tempting to the gaze as the fruit
of the tree of knowledge to the
first pair in Eden's historic bowers.
but instead of the serpent policeman
to back up mans moral courage where
in the first case it gave away. A wider
range than any other State in speci-
mems of animal life found in the ever
glades and we wondered that one of
the Seminole Indians a remnant of a
supposed few hundred still live hidden
too far into the impenetrabIe tropics
tor any United States census officer
ever to penetrate, We're not on exhibit
ton. In addition to fine specimens of
timber, corn, cotton and vegetables,
fine display of coral formations, an
island of which is found at Kew West.
The printer had in his fine work in
stocks OF newspapers for gratutious dis
trlbution in which was some beautiful
word painting Of the grandeurs of the
floral land and the grand RECONSTRUCT
ton amounting to boom of progress
in the only State where invalids can
live when they can live no where else.
and where blooming flowers, golden
oranges, steamboat excursions and
fishing parties are enjoyable on Christ
mas day.
THE COTTON STATES.
Alabama has unearthed more hidden
treasures of recent geological discovery
than any State of the Southern section.
She is exceptionally happy in the close
proximity of her beds of coal and rich
hemetlte iron ore. Most beautiful
specimens were on exhibition in which
heavy investments have been made.
Cities have sprung up, FORCES have
been built, furnace fires lighted whose
Tires will never go out; railroads have
been and are being constructed, a
wealth of millions rolling in on the
ground where in ante beLLunt DAYS the
soil was worth only what it would pro-
duce in cotton; to-day Birmingham is
not only manufacturing iron, but run
ming hundreds of spindles in her cotton
mills, and her newspapers read like
those OF New England ON tariff protec-
ton.
But to Georgia is left the task to
bring in the largest bag of gold, assist
ed by few friends of Western North
Carolina and the offerings of Tennessee
are i'll fine specimens of beautiful mar
BILE, bearing the name of the State, and
granite as fine as that of which Webster
was proud to boast as the wealth of the
State he so long and ably represented
in Congress. Virginia has some of all
OF these things and did not forget the
bag OF peanuts nor the rooster to salts
ty the munching multitude of young
hopetuls, while the men of Drawn took
more kindly to the Lynchburg and
Danville plug, venerable in an age
which reaches back to our earliest his
tory, the period in which King Cotton
had no realm nor throne, no CONNER
clal value i'll the worlds markets for
the cotton gin had not been invented
till 1919 before which cotton was cult
waited in the garden and picked and
carded by hand.
Mississippi and Texas are vieing
with each other which shall pile uD
the highest rick of bales of the great
staple, but the latter shows most favor
ably in corn and cattle in which she
has no rival. By far the sweetest State
was Louisiana bringing fine granulated
sugar and specimens of cane that COM
manded admiration and a showing of
the breadth of the cultivation of the
product indicating it to be a command
ing source of wealth capable of future
expansion.
No one came in with diamonds but
Arkansas having in her space lapidarv
machinery and skilled operatives
cutting, mounting and selling jewelry
to the people; and for their health an
ample supply of water from the cele-
brated hot springs free on draft to
drink out of silver cups lined with
gold. She performed another feat
showing the progress of the age by
having picked from the field the first
ripe cotton, sent it to the exhibition.
where it was dyed, carded, spun, woven
and presented to the Governor of the
State in 48 hours from the time of COM
mencing to pick it in the field which
was finished on Arkansas day, present.
by Kentucky congressman with a
spread-eagle speech.
OTHER STATES.
New Mexico did not admit herself into
the Southern family possibly because
she was born or rather renewed her exis-
tence since the late "unpleasantness, /"
but all the States in the Union had in
vitations to occupy space and many.
indeed all of those on the Lakes and
the upper waters of the Mississippi
river were represented, and Massachus-
etts on cotton and hemp machinery !:
Pennsylvania on woOllen machinery !.
Rhode Island on Corliss engines; New
Jersey on Edison's electric light; New
York electric light; Delaware on arti-
fetal teeth, dental supplies, and
DuPOnts thribble Fpowder. And that
but family represents it, for so many
accompanying things go in with the
above, such as all of the machinery and
innumerable appurtenances for the
electric light and the machinery neces-
sary for every branch of cotton and
wooden manufacture cannot be enumer-
ated, but they were in fine operation
for inspection. 1t is simply wonderful
how fast the South is growing in the
manufacture of fabrics for wearing APP