The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-03-25
Business, Education, Christian
ity and Temperance.
Impressions Of Prople and Affairs in
the South Land.

we have cut out the queries made
during the conversation and pre-
sent merely the points discussed
and MIR. Harris opinions.
CITIFs VISITED.
These include St. Louis, Mo-,
New Orleans, La. and Memphis,
Tenn. Our people are SO we'll
acquainted with st. Louis that l
need say nothing concerning it.
As to New Orleans, a stranger
being dropped down there in the
grey mist o: the early morning.
hardly knows whether he is in
his native America, or some for
eign country. The houses are
quaint in style of architecture -
Each dwelling has a cislern-in
appearance like a railroad water
tank, not so great in diameter
hitched on to the side corner, ex-
tending from a point on level
will the floor, to the projection
of the roof, and some are very or
namental. Hotels furnish rooms;
the guests take their meals at the
restaurants. There is little man.
ufacturing of any kind done in
the city. Trade and transfer
seem to be the business of the
minority. The U. s Custom
House, built of Massachusetts
granite, is a MAGNIFICENT build
ing. When | walked through lis
grand halls, splendid Offices and
marble chambers, ! felt not a lit
tie proud that l was an Ameri-
can. Hotels, stores. churches
and monuments are all on large
scale. Among the many monu.
ments, those of Jackson, Clay
and Webster are prominent. The
dead are buried in vaults con-
structed above ground. The
are made beautiful
with the magnolia, orange and
live oak.
THE EXPOSITION,
to put it as New Orleans people
did, is failure this year. The
grounds and buildings are very
extensive, but the exhibits few
and far between. The shipping.
where you can, see steam boats,
,reat and small, from every trlb-
,tary to the great father of wa
ers; and ships from almost every
lation on the globe, was to me a ,
scene of untiring interest. New
Orleans is the second cotton
market OF the world. !
Memphis is more modern in its
tyle, and more like a northern
ity in general appearance. The
J. S. Custom House, he Gayosa c
Hotel, the banks, wholesale and l
etai! stores, cotton exchange,
chcol buildings and churches are c
'ui!dings of which no citizen
eed be ashamed. n
Memphis, with its $4,000 inhab-
ANTS, claims to have the best !.
ity government in the United .
tates. And if one is to judge :
y the cleanliness of the streets,
nd the peaceable copduct of its y
ilizens, l should judge it is true. =
[nlike New Orleans, Memphis is
manufacturing city. A bnsi. =
ess has sprung up since the war :"
The manufacturing of cotton +"
led Oils carried on Very large :,
:. There being no less than ten ~ ~
ills in the city. The seed is :
nrchased by the ton. It Is then. a. a.
Y a yankee contrivance, freed :,
ON The fiber attached to it,
illed, the huils burned to an r,
ii and sold for chemical pur-
)ses, the seed crushed, the oil !,
Fessed out and used in COM
erce, and the solid matter made
10 feed for cattle. Hundeds Of
MS are shipped to England
emphis is the third cotton mar n
1t of the world. &
AS TO BUSINESS. "!
ere We need facts, not opinions. ~
nd I am not prepared 10 say g.
'yihing concerning wages, or We
e condition Of the laborers - u,
echanics and cultivatOrs of the oe
il might do well in Tennessee - -
they were not very choice as st,
their social surroundings. II
CONCERNING EDUCATION. Sa
Public common schools have g
cir entire history within The fs
st twenty years. School build sh
rs, for both white and colored, III
e seen everywhere. Great i'm. L.
ovements have been made ,and ~, ~"
e people generally take to the he
W order of things very kindly. 81
,e great hindrance to the com. oi'
IN school system is race preju- Ps
,e, which in some parts Of Mis-. ~ ~
sippi is very strong, as witness. 4il
3 riot in Carrollton, my old MI
me, not two weeks ago, where Sll
a court room. court in session, CIT
rteen negroes were killed, M ,ti
elve others wounded. some Of We,