The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-05-10
Aberdeen. mississippi.


From Washington American Register.
That the whole country may know
how Mississippi prospers, since local
self gov rnment was Reconstructed, we
give the fncts recited by CORES pondent
who tells of the fortunes"oi til. beauti>
full little capital III Monroe county, Mis-
sissippi, deriving its wealth mpinly from
Just snch prairie region Ms travellers
contemplate in Southern Illinois. Our
correspondent says that there are four
artrsiau wells in the centre of the main
street of this city, about one hundred
and fifty yards apart. They pour ont
their pellucid mineral waters through
iron hydrants in never. ceasing streams.
These hydrants, cap iron pipes, from
three to five hundred feet long, have
been sunk at great expcnse-two OF them
since the war. Over these wells. IN the
centre of the broad avenue, which is
borered by majestic shade trees, are
erected beautiful c'nopirs, that we fond
ly term "pagodns," and under the street,
at each we'll. is IL hinge fire tank, holding
many thousand gallons of water.
You say "the place had been change
less for thirty years" Ali how great a
mistake. Three great coAti gratlons
since the war swept away almost all OF
its business houses, and they have been
rebuilt i'll style worthy of any city in
the country It has built since the wur
snd paid for out of its own pocket II
branch railroad that cost it over $3.50,
900; 1t has err ctcd by general suhscfip.
ton, without reference to individual
profit, one Of the handsomest aud most
complete brick hotels in the STATE; it
established IL inir ground and rae" course
that have 1T each annual meeting been
highly srcessiul; it has established for
the benefit of its own children wo mag
niticent free schools---one for white and
one for colored children. These are
mainly supported 10y town taxation,
EMPLOYING nine or ten Of the best tench-
ers, with curriculum stretching from
A, B. q, to the classics and giving an
annual term of from eight to nine mouths.
For one of the school houses it paid
$4,000, and the other 1t rents at $500 per
anuum, and will soon replace with
building of its own. Since the war, IN
conjunction with the county, it has
spanned the nnvlgabe Tombigbee with
an admirable bridge, with draw span
of over $50 feet, turning on pivot pier
that confirms over million of brick.
J. has built Presbyterian church, that
is model of architecture, and added
extensive improvements to all OF Its
oGher churches, 1t has graded miles Of
stree is; laid miles of brick side. walks
having now twenty. eight miles III all;
set ont thousands of shade trees, built
numerous drains and culverts; boated
gravel down the river il immense guam
Titles, to improve its principal streets,
md at great expense dug a drainage
canal several miles long, that carries off
all waste water to the river. Il has pur-
chased and fitted up an excellent build
ing for city offices, TO replace one burned
some years ago. 1t has purchased a
splendid steam fire engine; built an ex-
cellcnt hook and ladder wagon, and re-
fitted its hand engines 1t worked up
the charters for the Memphis and Selma,
and the Aberdeen and Birmingham rail-
roads, and mainly paid for both surveys
by private subscription; it has erected
in the aSt ten years numerous beautiful
private residences, and has numbtr
now in course of construction; it has
purchased two of the largest church |
organs in the State, mud has spent its |
money like water in the musical culture !
of its daughters. 1t has erected large |
fire proof cotton warehouse and five 9TH
ers of minor cast;it has established cotton |
commission houses that give home con-
troll of crops; it has laborcd early and |
late for forty years, with only the wars |
interim, to secure the completion of the
railroad from Canton, so rs to give us
connection with New Orleans Last
week, Aberdeen donated $40, 900 for the
purchase OF grounds for depot and ma
chine shops.for that road. She pur-
chnses every bale of cotton produced in
this and adjacent counties brought to
her at such prices ns dissuade planters
from shipping TO distant ports. and up
to this date has received "a 600 bales
against 10 $40 to same date in 1872, and
paid out the cash for every bale of it.
She has, utter fifteen years of persistent
Mt the doors of Congress,
succeeded IN having Il new district of the
United States Court for Mississippi
located at Aberdeen, embracing sixteen
of the hest counties in the State, and 1t
is now in session bere, with several hun.
hred lawyers, witnesses, ETC., in attend.
nnce, contributing to her support. She
was also one of the first towns to adopt
the telephone which connects al her
buildings of note. For political reasons
h.r limits were contracted by act of the
Le9isl ture of 1876, and upon the terri
torv embraced in the census Of 1870 she
now has over 5000 people; though the
,tnsus which was taken to cover the new
limits in 1880, will hardly show half
that number.
These iacls have interest for many OF
vour readers, illustrating as they do the
spirit animatiug IL modest southern town,
and showing its progress and the energy
If its people, and how they have toileI
since peace and local self-gover1ment
we're restored. NJ.