The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-07-07

is unsurpassed as to beauty, quail
ty and variety of colors and doubt
less quantity. 1t is quarried with
little expense and adds much to
the wealth of the state. Our Ten
nessee marble graces the Capitol
building at Washington. Tennes-
see is supplied with building
stones, marble, granite, sandstones
of different colors, and limestones.
Though North Carolina was first
settled and has greater area, yet
the population of Tennessee is
greater and she has outstripped her
sister State, North Carolina. There
is greater number of schools, col
leges and churches, and also a
greater number who attend these,in
Tennessee than in North Carolina;
consequently, society is better. Of
the four leading commercial cities
of the South, two are of Tennessee;
they rank as follows: New Orleans,
Nashville, Atlanta, and Knoxville.
North Carolina has not one to go in
the ranks. AS a railway center,
Chattanooga has the lead not only
in Tennessee but the entire South.
Seven trunk or main lines con-
verge and diverge there. Chatta-
nooga is styled the Pitts burg of the
South, but the day is probably not
far distant when her own title will
convey more potent meaning.
Nashville's capitol has long been
acknowledged the most elegant,
splendid and complete State House
in the Union, its U. S. Custom.hou
and Postoffice declared "the most
beautiful government building in
America" Nashville has the larg-
est banking capital of any city in
the South, strictly speaking, except
New Orleans; and it is the largest
hard wood lumber market in the
United States. AS a hardware
market it outstrips both Louisville
and Cincinnati; and as a meat
market it is second only to Mem
phis, the great metropolis. Nash
vile is also noted for its literary
and educational advantages; the
county in which it is located is said
to have the best school system in
the United States, and on this ac-
count Nashville has been justly
styled the Athens Of the South
west.
Memphis is favorably situated
as commercial center and COM
mands a great trade; its business
in groceries is said to be larger than
that of any city in the Union, with
the single exception of Baltimore.
1t has a good system of city schools
besides a number of important edu-
cational institutions.
Tennessee has many other i'm
portant cities. You are fully aware
that the cities of North Carolina
can in no wise compete with those
of Tennessee, the population of our
largest cities being more than dou-
BILE the population of the largest
cities of North Carolina, and their
advantages far superior.
OF Tennessee's many noble and
distinguished men, three have
graced the Presidential chair, thus
rejecting honor to themselves as
we'll as to their nation.
Tennessee is making grand and
rapid strides toward advancement
and prosperity, and with all these
natural advantages and resources,
the half of which-ns, scarcely any.
thing-has been told, who can fore
shadow her marvellous possibili-
ties?
where's climate so Kind, aad 80 bracing an
air,
And fountains 80 pure and 80 blue?
Where are caves that for beauty and for wealth
can compare,
Or scenes so enchanting to view2
Where's a country encircled by mountains &C
grand,
Where can valleys SO beautiful be?
And rivers that roll by 80 fertile strand,
As the streams Of our dear Tennessee?
Where the vines through the tall tree tops run
And streamlets leap down the wild glens between
J To wander away in the sun;
Where corn-felds are lying ike dark spicy isles
And the waves of the golden grain sea,
And the snow of the cotton-felds glistens and
smiles
Like the foam on the blue Tennessee?
! Dear land where the pine and tho cedar entwin,
Over homes of the generous brave,
No more shall those beaut full acres of thine
Be accursed with the tears of the slave,
: For we feel the present is a glorious time
, When thy sons and thy daughters are free,
As firm as thy rocks, and as kind as thy cline,
And as fair as the blue Tennessee.