Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
From the "SMlGI.y ,s0Wth."

weather reports from the North. While
you are suffering from severe cold wa are
still enjoying, for the most part, wsrm,
sunny days A week ago yesterday We
began making garden. We planted peas,
onions, beets and lettuce. 1t was beau
t'ful day and the air go soft and warm
that it seemed to us more like midsum-
mer, than January. We are, by no
means early gardeners for, as I have
written you before, most Of our neighbors
planted their potatoes and many other
things about Christmas time Last week
on one of my walks, saw peas over 3
inches high looking as green and uncon-
cerned as if they had no thought OF
frost We have now aDd then a frosty
night but not enough to injure any or
binary plant. 1t rarely freezes during
the day. A few days ago friend sent
us bunch of English volets that had
blossomsd, out of doors, in her yard.
Our room has been filled with their odor
ever since. Yesterday was a peculiarly
Southern day. The wind blew gently
from the gulf and it was sweet with the
smell OF the orange and the pine. Mrs
Bedford and Ruth went down town and
came back in ecstacies over the many
beautiful ladies they saw on the streets,
dressed just as if it were summer time.
A shOrs time ago we were made glad by
visit from Prof. Salisbury, for a long
time connected with the Normal School,
at Whitewater, Wis, but now Supern
tendent Of Education at the South.
Twenty-Five years ago ne were in school
together few miles from Whitewater.
We are having delightful times now. An
old friehd and parishion T, when we lived
in Michigan, has come to visit us and
will spend the winter and spring here.
We are planning many rides and visits
to interesting localities. Evenings, as we
sit by our large, open fire place and
the shadows dance lightly about The room,
you can imagine what pleasant times we
nave We value our home papers very
much, the REPUBLICAN not the least
among them. We are very much panied
from slime to time, III noting the death of
old friends. Through your kindness we
| have Just received full accounts of the
the burning of the Newhall House The
appearance Of familiar names in the list
OF dead and injured makes lis feel, even
at this long distance away, the dreadful
nature of the calamity.
On Thursday of this week, / go to
Tuskegee, to speak to the students of the
Normal school located there. In about
two weeks [ expect to visit New Orleans
| and as the Mardi Gras occurs while am
there I shall, OF course, see something of
t. In company with our friend I have
been making another round to the oil
| mills. We found them running even
more vigorously than before. Their sue
cess is very great and, as a consequence,
| their stock 10 so valuable that it cannot
be bought at any price. Cotton seed is
peculiar in that there is no loss in work
ing it up. The seed is all ginned before
it is ground and from fifty to seventy-fve
| dollars worth of cotton obtained each
day. The mills furnish fuel for the large
engine, in the mills. and the ashes make
the best potash in the world. The refuse
matter obtained in refining the crude oil
makes fine quality of soap. Whatever
there may be that cannot be used for
any of these purposes it is excellent as a
fertilizer and finds ready market
The New Year opens very promisingly
with us. We seem to have become well
acclimatsd and are sll enjoying the
best of health. As an indi cation of the
growth of our church and Sunday School
work am able to report nearly double
the attendance We had when we first
came. The prospect at the South for the
colored man, I consider, more hopeful
than ever. Rev DR.. Curry, agent of the
Peabody fund, of $500, 600, fer the pro-
motion of education at the South, recent
ly delivered an address to tie Governor
and both houses of the Legislature in
which he, with great eloquence, urged
the thorough education of the negro, and
SO we'll was it received that, by unani.
nous vote, it was ordered for general dis.
tribution. DR.. Hsygood, President oil
Emory College, Oxford, Georgia, hal
been made Secretary of the State fund Of
100000 for the exclusive benefit Of