Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-11
THE sNEW SOUTH WAKING UP,
How YoT Gan live in Charlotte on
NssNN 81 900 a Year.

CHARL oItE,, n. C., Aug. 5.-CalIg the
South a poor m ants paradise, Tor sUoh it
is. No one ever died of hunger here and
no one is destitute who can work. For
tunes are not made quickly, but good live
ing comes easiIs3 sAosalesnaan1h' a dry
goods etora receives $1,000 a year. His
earnings are not likely to be very greatly
INCREASED for years. but he can have a
home and rear a family on such an in
come. With S250 one can rent a
comfortable cottage, having in front
OF it and around it large lawn
covered with oaks, elms, ma pies. poplars,
what you wiki dand shrubs. and flowers
innumerable. having in its rear garden
! large enough to produce vegetables for
home use during half the summer. at
least!o Chickens at ID cents, eggs at 10,
beeEsteak at9a1g, apples 50cents a bushel,
peaches 81; an sorts of vegetables and
fruits in great abundance and luxury to
be had fpr Ipittance. Where is the man
of sound body and firm purpose who
need sut ter in such a re2iOni as thisY 81
ThelnHople In this region are not all
poor. Within the corporate limits OF
the little city OF Charlotte there are many
men who reckon their worldly goods with
six figures or more. Here 10000 inhabi-
tants, 5000 of whom are white, 1000
worth $500 600 apiece. four worth $3.50, 900
each, a dozen worth from $4,000 to $780,
000. This is not a bad show for a small
place. Here are three national banks
with combined capital of nearly $1,000
O00, two building and loan associations,
two splendid hotels that send fOur-horSe
omnihuses. carriages, landaus, cOupes TO
the depots: five different railroads send
ing their freight and passenger trains
oil a fyyn
iron works, a SOAP factory, branch
United States mint to ASSAY the gold from
mines near by, water works, telephones,
opera house and theatre, and now the
electric light.
Who says the old South is not dead and
new South come to life. Who saws it
would not be wise for some of our strong
bodied and strong minded men and women
OF native and foreign birth, ia Boston, in
Louis men and women able to work, will
ing to work, but out OF work, to come
here.
And so it Is throughout the South.
There is not so much wealth as there is
at the North, but there is comfort. There
is not great deal of that
glitter of life which accom-
panies the greatest culture and the
greatest achievement, but there is enough
with the bumdrum of existence.
Charlotte possesses some historic inter-
est. Here. on May 90 1915, the yeomen
OF Mecklenburg county met in solemn
conclave and declared that the American
colonies ought to be free and independent.
Here CORVALLIS had his headquarters a
short time during the revolution. Hither
Gen. Horatio Gates fled after the battle of
Camden, and here, 1t is said, the horse he
had ridden died of too precipitous flight
of the rider. Here many of the principal
actors of the late war. Jefferson Davis,
Joseph E. Johnston, and others passed to
and fro, pausing sometimes TO rest, to
direct with pen the affairs of the great
conflict. This was formerly the home of
Gen. d. II. Hill and of the widow of
Stonewall Jackson. And here, last but
not least, is the home of Zebulon b.
Vance, North CarOlina's old war Gov
ernOr, now United States Senator, a man
of the people, brave, able, witty, long to
be cherished by a commonwealth he has
| faithfully served.