The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-10-09


lished at Corinth, by l.. S. Crozier,
who in an article on the development
of this industry says:
In 1881. when left Bayou Sara Louis
lana, Tor Corinth, Miss, had only for>
ty-two correspondents silk growing in
Mississippi. AT this date l count nine
hundred and seventy-six correspondent is
all of whom have already made one or
more experiments in silk culture. In
spite of many failures, brought about by
one reason or another, the success is
general. From Bay st. Lonls, Natchcz,
Vicksburg, Meri iiau, Carrolton, West
Point, lux, and Holly Spring. 1 have
received more than one hundred samples
of cocoons. all first quality and worth the
highest price in the market.
In this county and the adjoining
one of Clay, the growing of pepper
mint and the manufacture of oil has
been commenced on large scale.
The Pioneer in this industry is Judge
Robert Houston, of Aberdeen, who
brought a Car load roots from Michi-
gan. Wild upland rice grows freely,
and could be made profitable, indeed
there are numberless openings where
northern men can delve with great
pecuniary success.
THE TOWN.
| The county seat of Monroe county
is Aberdeen. The town site was
originally the property of Robert
Gordon, Scotchman, Some of the
pioneers of this enterpiisiing city
are still to be seen upon her busy
streets, testifying to vitality born
of her glorious air and pure water,
for they have sons born within the
corporate limits nearly a half CEN
tury ago, and they have sons also,
aud grandsons; 50 four genera
tions of Aberdeenians sometimes sit
down to dinner together in this beau
tiful town. Somewhere in this neigh
borhood old DeSoto landed from his
tedious voyage up the Tombigbee,
and after battle with the red occu>
pants of the country departed to the
northwest through the wilderness to
emerge somewhere near Memphis, on
the banks OF the Mississippi, and go
down to history as the dlscoverer OF
that great river.
TO the founders and those who
caught up with them soon after its
Foundation, the city owes her broad
and regular streets, the long lines Of
water oaks and elms that border her
walks, her miles of fine pavements,
and the h, dranis of cool, delicious
artesian water that flow vertically
some three hundred feet from the
bowels of the earth, at the intersec-
ton of each street with her main bus
mess avenue, each surmounted by a
handsome canopy crowned with elec-
trio lights, and each feed a vast fire
reservoir under the street.
| In old times when the steamboat
was thought to mark the limit Of
mans reach i'll the way of rapid trans.
portation, Aberdeen was almost the
head of navigation on the famous
Tombigbee river, and controlled al
immense trade area of wagon haul
| At her wharves sometimes FIVE OIL
six steamers would lie at the same
time unloading cargoes of merchan
dise-no corn, or -four, or meat were
ever brought to this country before
the war-and taking on cotton bale:
until they were piled SO high as
almost to hide the smoke stacks. Ii
those days Aberdeen shipped nearly
10000 bales, and the purchaser o.
her patrons embraced stocks fol
home use that elsewhere would have
represented the outfits for goot
country stores. Suddenly the raj
road fever broke out, and when il
reached Mississippi,"she took it bad
Aberdeenians secured charter for {
road from Florence, Alabama, to New
! Orleans, and a rival corporation OBJ
tanned charter for a road from Mo
bile to Columbus, Kentucy, and the
people stepped up like little men anc
backed their favorites. When it CANT
to county and corporate aid this cit,
and county voted for the New Or
leans route, and the other road il
, leep disgust obeyed Horace Gree
iey's advice and went west-abou
nine miles. This county poured
half million Of dollars into the lap O
its protege, and she poured it int
the grade below or about Jackson
but all the road was put under con
tract from New Orleans to Aberdeen
and citizens there had the main con
, tracts, Cooke & Bradford being tn,
, leading spirits in the work. To,
impatient to wait the coming of til,
a iron horse to the gates of the city
r the company consented to the putting
of so much of the road as would thsI
connect the city with the M. & Q
, road-then completed through tn
+ county-under contract, and to Undue
e home people to undertake the work
a a bonus of $4,000 was subscribe
!, and paid by the citizens. Just as tn
! grading was nearly done and tn
! cross ties down, the big guns dow
r at Charleston began belching wal
e and there was hurrying to Ne,
e Orleans to bring up the iron purchas
Q ed for what the people had commend
b cd calling the "Aberdeen Branch.
). The iron had arrived on one OF tn
+ last ships that entered prior to tn
h blockade, and was piled up on tn
!; wharves. After considerable della
9 the iron was loaded and the car
s started for delivery at the propose
r junction with the NJ. & o., but alas
: an order came for the transportatio
+ of military supplies that demande
the use of every car and SO the lro
r was dumped off, and after awhil
Q Commodore Farragut deployed hi
II ships in the otfing, and Ben Butle
+ landed his battallons, and New Or
!. leans was lost to the folks who wer