Smyrna times., 1883-02-21

to live without work and have money |
to supply all the liquors he can drink,
and treat all his poor friends that come
along. If such a windfall comes to
him, it won't be long before he gets
into the political arena, and his accu-
mulated friends will see that such a
genuine old liner is deluged with
majority we'll nigh unanimous. So
runs the eternal rounds, bringing back
the political atmosphere of forty years
ago, and an unchangable and unchang-
ing state of things that rivals Egypt.
THE WESTERN MAN.
In our free progressive West, We
cannot see how such state of things
could exist; where grooves are not at
all adapted to the mental condition of
men; where there is no lettering to
the soil that a man would not sell to
60 West, where every man thinks he
has the right to found a town in his
own or his wife's name, 60 lobby bill
through the next legislature for a
charter for railroad to it, send an
agent to Europe for emigrants to help
populate it and get rich himself off of
corner lots and the lucrative profits of
self established land office and real
estate agency.
He soon becomes the King bee of
the town, owns and occupies the largest
, business block, or has graduated up to
, banker, and in the mean time all his
! expectations have been met, five
: thousand inhabitants in five years, and
a profusion of churches and school
e houses, news papers, and from the
: dome of the Town Hall the electric
S light will soon perch like "a comet
j shedding its lurid silver rays down al
d the avenues of the place.
i SOUTHERN CITIES.
The cities in the Cotton States ar,
growing and they are pleasant anC
made attractive by the addition O
numerous improvements since the wal
Most of them are jubilant over the fac
that they have doubled their popula
; ton and increased their facilities 70
= shipping and manufacturing, but tn
= " territory is very large and the wear
!. traveller soon concludes they are fey
= and far between, and that there
= much land yet to be occupied, but tn
rural districts are the burden of OF
- theme. This place is justly celebrate
for its we'll known brand of Tobacco
" which probably stands higher
az Europe than at home. For this con
modify this entire section is now al
~ no has been celebrated from Coloni
" :. times; as early as 17l0 foreign shil
" came to Newport.News where thu
y obtained hundreds of hogsheads of Il
=, plant, and for long portion of o
y" early history it was the only reliah
article of export, and from this fact t
'eu F. F. VS., did not fail to assume a co
~ ~ siderable air of Importance, viii
~ i'n when later, liking Cotton " cal
'''S along, they assumed the unfortuna
,es, o.to &c 1y;uo.;,;o g., 1r;uor;s;o,
lad
I.L PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE.
1t is remarkable that after all Il
of has been said ABOUT the stirrilty of t
rec soil, it has been so managed as to CT
the tinue to produce more than its form
the quota of tobacco, and by increas
red acreage, it is producing a full amol
.ck- of every thing, But Ia the rural {
triots the people live by the m
primitive and inexpensive metho
without storehouse or barns, exc
ern the tobacco dry houses, and like
for dwellings, they are built of hewn 10
of timbered country without fencing {
| of almost without saw mills. Fal
orth described as improved, means in mi
and places clearing and a log cabin,
man In the public mind log cabins
! Of associated with the West, thing
with of date there, but perfectly at home
of the Old Dominion. No wonder [
an one thousand acre tracts can be bou
weet from two to three thousand dollars
es of Some point to the past as the g
by old days of pleasant memory, but
Ious- think the future has much more
lots. store than the past has ever predu
that when the spirit of general enterr
be and education shall have thorou,
ates, permeated the masses, when w
ition communities shall become organ
ston, as in many portions of our copr
Iying where every man considers hims'
colo committee Of one with something t.
1rces Politically the Funders are
blish traders, and the Readjusters for a
/ the tective tariff Capital has flown fir
will into Virginia to erect cotton mills,
but the infant industry needs foste
wool, care.
cause On this subject we recently me
tn of English gentleman who seemed
the posted and also interested in the
were, ness, VINO salu that the Onlteu
more has twenty-five million spihdles, '
yer be Lancanshire alone has twenty
million spindles, SO that showing
not look as though we were ready
open competition yet.
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