Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-19
SOUTHERN SCENES.
Spirit Of Enterprise Manifested in all Do.
partmen,s Of Business, as Well
as Among the Agrieul-
tural Population.
Why THE sASp-pIKe HOG IS BRED.

ATLANTA, Ga, January i6.-All through
Northern Georgia, excepting the heart Of
the Blue Ridge Mountains, where the agri-
cultural lands are exceedingly lean, the
spirit Of improvement Is abroad. Most Of
the farm houses are well built, and many
of them are painted. There are many we'll
built and painted outhouses. The fences
are up and in good order. The fields arc
we'll titled. Young wheat and wiatsr osts
occupy much OF the land that last year was
devoted to cotton. Men are engaged in turn
ing cotton stalks in and manunns their
lands intended for cotton this year. There 10
an AIR Of general prosperity over this SEC
ton of GeorKia. Il 10 hard TO tell whsrs
this prosperity begins and whore Il ends
The white people look ooutsnted and we'll
to-do. The blacks look happy. Al Are at
work. All are cheerful. Unlike the peo-
pie of South Carolina, they have quit talk.
ing abcg. the war, quit damninI the hs,s in; n;
work and are to-day making money. The
farming 10
Rapidly DeesmisG Mixea.
On almost all Of tho farms enough fo,d Is
raised to feed the hands employed. Peach,
apple, plum. and pear trees stand around
almost all Of the farm houses. The farm
stock In in much better condition than that
OF South Carolina. The breed OF hogs IL %
good as In any OF tho Western States.
fowls abound. Standing or scratching In
the barnyards are ilocks Of chickens, geese.
and turkeys. There are good buggics and
we'll harnessed horses on the roads. There
is marked absence Of the crowd OF idle,
lis,less men who stand at the railroad sta.
tions in South Carolina with hands deeply
thrust into their pockets.
When I was in South Carolina ] asked Q
planter met Why they bred the 'andpik
hog. His scornful look expressed contempt
for my ignorance. When he hal gaIed at
me sufficiently, he replied: because they
are the only swine that can outrun . mig
ger" suppose the Georgia nirecrs arc
| not as fleet rs those living In the adjoining
State. At any rate, the hogs are not OF tho
pure stock that have seen standing In the
woods Of South Carolina, standing grunt-
less. looking into the trees, watching for
an acorn to fall, and running of more flesh
| in their esger race 10 secure the nut than
two acorns would produce. Outrun mig
he' ousru. . Biis.arA
and be Just about rs good eating.
In many OF the little railroad towns Of
northern Georgia small manufacturing In.
| dustrtes have lately sprung INTO liie. ihey
are small, Il Is true, but Q start has bcen
made. Plough factories, wagon shops, ms.
chine shops, leather manufacturing estab-
lishments are becoming common. There
is growing industry In wood working. In
almost oil the towns there 10 the hum Of
turning shafts and wheels, the smell Of
oil and leather driving belts, and that bcs-
con OF prosperity, coal smoke, rising In
tiny columns from factory chimnsys.
Men are seen on the streets In the
grey sof the morning who carry din
ner buckets In their hands. Yes.
these people OF northern Georgia are doing
well. All the men are not talking cotton.
cotton, cotton, cotton, niggers, niggers.
niggers. and that exceedingly foolish talk
about before the war, sir, when we werc
surrounded by the accumulated elegancics
| OF life, as is the nauseous case In South
Carolina. There is snap In this people.
There Is outcome In them. The men who
| get on the railroad trains at the country
stations are in hurry. They do not pc.
tientlS>stand delay. They swear at delays,
and that 10 q good sign. IL the dinner OF
the hotel they stop At 10 set for ~ O'Clock,
they want IL at II, and not ut l2h; and u
they don't get II, they raise . row.