Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-05-12
OUR SOUTHLAND.
CONDENSED ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
OUR CORRESPONDENTS
Our industrial PrOgrc.--.Ncw Railroads
-.Ncw Furnnces-.New Factorics.-a
New Ern Of Prosperity.
.AI.AH MA.


three dailico and two wecklics published
here.
The big vote pollrd by Decatur in its
recent city election shows the town has Il
population of over 5000. Decatur had
only about 1900 in 1Ss0.
The Admission locomotive works will
occupy their building May lst The
foundry of the United States Ro.ling
Stock Company i nearly complete. The
construction of the stove works is to be
gin carly NEXT month.
y special to Admission, April %. saws:
In making an excavation at the Barbour
Machine Works Saturday. "a remarkably
rich vein of silver, six feet thick, was
discovered.
The New York Water Construction
Company have petitioncd the Council
for franchise to erect water works in
this CITY.
On May 2nd, between and ) Ioclock.
Mr. Montgomery Jones house near Gun
ters:llie. was burned. 1t was situated
on the banks Of the river one mile from
the town. Before assist nee arrived. the
house was cnvclopcd in flames. Every
INN" was lost. The fire Is supposed to
nave caught from match which was ly-
i ing on the floor near some cotton. Mr..
Jones stepped on the match but did not
pay any attention 10 1t and left the
house. lie returned in half an hour and
| found the house on fire. The loss
| s.na -. .r,n
The report of the State Board of phar-
macy, which was created by an act of
the last General Assembly, has been re-
cel 'cd by the Governor from f. p. Gait.
OF Selma, the secretary and treasurer of
the Board. With the report DIR. Gait
| forwarded to the Governor a check for
$3.50, that being tie proportion of the
fees accruing to the State under the law
establishing the Board. The report also
shows that the Board has registered
I without examination, Alb persons; by
examination, 1S persons, and ) persons
were rejected because they failed to come
up to the required standard.
An Age reporter was yesterday inform
ed that company was bein" organized
IN this city to manufacture steel from
Alabama PHOSPHORUS ores by a new
chemical process. The matter was in
vostigated, and while an effort has been
made to keep it from the public, the re-
porter learned that the company had
been formed with such men as $. II. Bar
net, II. NJ. milford, Noble Smithson. f.
L. Taliaferro, J. b. Hill. W. p. Pinkard
and other prominent citizens interested.
An En9iishma:, who has been engaged
II steel and iron making for many wears.
both in this country and England, has
invented a c'tti-nical process which will
convert piiosphorous iron into Bessemer
Pig when 1t comes from the furnace
Birmingham Age.
Work on the Columbus & Western cx-
tension is being rapidly pushed to com
p!etIon. The track has been built up to
both the tunnels, and the track LAYERS are
now waiting until the tunnels are finished. |
Oak Mountain tunnel is now receiving its |
finishing touches. The floor of it is be-
ing surfaced ana properly leveled in
order to begin laying the track through |
1t as soon as possible. There remains |
about 100 feet of rock, ten inches thick. |
to be taken out of the base of this tun- |
mel; this will soon be cleared. Coosa |
Mountain tunnel is being rapidly cleared |
out, and will be finished in a few weeks. |
The track layers are now at work sur
facing up the newly laid track, al d await
ing the completion of one of the tunnels |
so that the track can be built through it |
to the other tunnel.
While there is no overplus oe money |
in the farming belt If Alabama, indeed |
1t Is rather the other way. so much Of it |
having been lost in speculations in the |
mineral region, still Gov. Seay and Com
missioner Kolb are correct in saying the
farmers are nearer out of debt than in |
many years past. They will make fewer
mortgages and for less amounts this
year than last, with the prospect of still. |
less next year. A good crop of com
and fair crop of cotton, with any
thing like living price, would put
middle and south Alabama in broad
smile. Gov. Seay might have well said
that rs a rule the farmers who did their
own work and lived on their own places
were out of debt with something ahead.
II will he the case in the black belt after
while. A good white immigration
would soon change the aspect of affairs.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Gadsden is now making greater head
way than ever before. All her works
are in full blast and crowded TO their
utmost. Her car works. which have
been completed, are now in full blast.
The Christopher Lumber Company, which
is within fifty yards of the car works.
is kept busy day and night saving
lumber for the works. The new FUN
ace is nearing completion, and when
done will be the finest in the South.
1t will he IN blast before few more
weeks roll by. The railroads. which
have been retarded for some time, are
now under full headway, and are being
built rapidly as money and men can do
the work. The Rome & Decatur road
is being pushed for all it is worth. and
soon we will have a through line to
Rome and Atlanta. The Admission &
Cincinnati road is progressing finely.
Work on the tunnel is getting alonp
beautifully, about 100 feet being cut
each week. The Tennessee & Coosa
road, which will be extended from here
to Guntersville and then on to Hunts
Vile, Is being rapidly pushed forward.
When these roads are completed, which
will be at an early date, her railroad
facilities will he unrivaled; no city will
have better than Gadsden
An incandescent light )l9nt is now be-