The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-28

RAILROADS, coMPREssEs AID COTTON
MILTs-HRAYY LAND PURCHASE


RAILROADS., coAPREssEs AND COTTON
MILHs-HRAvY LAND PURCHASE.
Correspondence Of the Appeal
West Psint, November I3 Beecher
says Mississippi Is standing still but Il
he had come our way we would have
shown him one Of the liyest towns. With
ID the past year this place has undergone
wonderful Improvement. Last week the
desired amount of stock was subscribed
and q cotton compress company was
incorporated. Immediate steps will De
taken to remove compress from Mer-
iiian, Miss, TO this place.
For several months past the energetic
editor Of the Leader has been agItaIlng
the factory question IL the west
Point business men set their hearts on 3
cotton factory it viii surely come, for no
eann nrnnnitv IL blessed with.men OF better
| Judgment and greater daring than ours.
One of our late causes Tor rejoicing =
the reduction of rates on the Mobile ana
Ohio railroad This road heretofore eA-
hibited a retrousse nose to as When We
raised our voices in righteous lndigna-
ton at its hiek-handed extortlon. we
| fought the unreasonable charges manfnl-
| 4. one season hauling our cotton ten
miles to Waverly, and shipping Il 70
Mobile by the Tombigbee river. Il was
very vet winter, and somehow the
boats didn't run BY railroad time, ana We
| returned to our prosecutor, who had been
llau0hino at us during our efforts 20 cir
cnmnavieate her. Nell,p you say, ut
Sras ,,,agSanimous in the Mobile & Ohio
to finally reduce rates" No, indeed: q
railroad without competition Is meaner
than a North Carolina tramp. And All
the world knows that it was Nortn
| Carolina tramp that ate hearty meal
at a certain lady's house, and going out
| the fronanaoor he espied fsot-mat wnleh
he took back to the lady and sold for
| onarter. TWAS the Nashville, Aberdeen
and Canton road that changed the NO
bile and 0hio's ideas. This road VIA pe
| completed from Canton to Aberdeen by
the ist of December. The people mere,
about think it viii never be completed
to Nashville, by the present survey;
/ The opinion prevails that the hills OF
North Alabama will be a stumbling
/ block to railroads for years to come.
| The cotton-yards here are very tull
Most of the fields in this vicinity have
been picked bare; for the long dry au
tumn afforded ample time to the hus
bandman to gather his crop. There seems
/ to be plenty Of corn, but the potato, pes
| and turnipss crops were not as good as
usual. Hog-raising is yearly receiving
more attention, but there. is still muct
trouble by light-fngered colored gentry
In this and adjoining counties there were
more hogs raised this year than since
the surrender.
Sixtv thousand acres of land in Clay
county are about be handed over to th'
English syndicate. All of sudden w
discover that the syndicate IS not I'm
plish. and everybody is disappointed
Southern people are English-struck abou
, az had AZ their Yankee cousins. TIT
! land company was wise. 1t got all tn
real estate it wanted given up most res
pectfully. Had it come out in tru'
| American eolors in the beginning, wha
insinuations, what storm of question
: tbe good people would have hurled at it
i But that magic word, English, was to-
: high and mighty and mysterious for OF
: dinary folks to dream of asking partlc
: ulars. Yes, the land will soon be sold
Then for a change in our agriculture
arrangements.
wander from the fair city of Yves
Point. but it is only natural to seek tn
fields and woodlands in this sweet au
. tumn sunshine.
/; There is little transpiring in social Gil
> cles. Misses Stockard and Fulks hav
lust arrived from CIarksville, Tenn. A
the summer visitors have left. We ca
bear off the blue ribbon for sensibl
! !, young'married couples. Not so long ag
one Of the incest young ladies was wee
|, Eded to promising young business MAJ
! ! The dav after the ceremony she Wa
! cooking in the neatestand contest OF kii
chens, and he was hard at work at b
usual occupation.