The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-30
Down the Little J.


trip over tho Little j. road To Mar
tin. The country through which We
passed was fine. especially the Bayou
Pierre country. The finest cotton
we have sesn this year was near
Myles. The cotton had been nearly
all:gathsred, but the evidences Of q
good crop were there. Just beyond
Raymond is q beautiful stretch, the
residence Of Uncle George Harper
being about mile from the town,
on a beautiful ominence. AZ We
whirled by, We saw Uncle George
walk out disnifsdly upon the gallery
cont emplating. doubtless, the reali.
cation OF hopes long entertained;
that ia, . railroad by his door. We
hope that he may live long to enjoy
| it.
Arriving at Martin, tho first per.
SIN that greeted us vas the popular
young agent, Will McNir. Brook
haven boy. While making acquain'
| tances. who shonld walk up but Bill
Wells, who we knew in days long
gone. We went 70 school together,
studied ont OF tho Same book, eat
out OF the same watermelon rind,
and fell in love with the same girl,
bat she went back on both OF as and
married another fellow. Bill used
to be a brick, but as he is now older
the supposition is he is o regular
brickbat.
The town is we'll situated, and as
time advances. giving an opportunity
for the growth OF the shade trees. 1t
will be pretty place. II has four
dry goods stores, saloon. drug store
and largo steam gin owned BY Price
4 Barb.r. Last season over three
thousand bales OF cotton were ships
ped and the trade Of the place ia
said to DO increasing. McNair *
Co. arc building large store house
to accommodate their increasing
business.
We left Martin about twelve
O'Clock aud arrived in Uiic. rather
late to make mary new scquaintan-
ccs, but found good many old ones.
In fac, Copiah is well represented in
that basi aesslike town. Dan Woods
holds the fort o, Ross & Keli'ys,sud
il rs lively as n cricket. Mr.. John
Ellis we found at Spence & Cos,
the company being Mr.. Eb. Stack
house. Ell. l.. Martin is depot agent,
and ]. H. Martin. the Mark Twain
Of the South, wields the destipies OF
tho Gomez. The two latter are
Brookhaven boys and we were glad
to fiad them enjoying the confidence
Of the people. John was recently
elected Mayor. which was quite
compliment, considering his age and
short residence in the town. Mr..
Colbert. a gentleman OF the old
school, formerly Of Lesks comfy, is
one OF the largest dealers in the city,
and We were informed sold his goods
very low and pays the highest price
for cottoo.
We made this trip merely as I'M
experiment. in order to become ac-
quainted and to introduce on: paper
to the business mon. Tho SIGNAL
circulates largely in a section OF
country. the trade Of which vibrates
between this railroad and the Match.
ez road, and VIC think ii would be
to the interes! OF the two towns We
have named to make their wants
known through our columns. We
will return again. and endeavor to
get up facts aud figures that will on.
able Us to write up an interesting
sketch. While in Utica we enjoyed
the hospitality Of the Martin broth.
ers, and at whose house We had the
pleasure OF meeting Mr.. Armstrong,
attorney. and an old newspaper man.
Utica seems to have q good deal
OF push and enterprise, and we eI.
pect to note her continual growth
and prosperity.