The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-07
THE SPLENDID SOUTH.
Az English Newspapers Enthusiastic Re-
view-Maryeleus Progress Against OPP
posing Circumstances.
London Telegraph

than in those Southern states of Ameri.
Gu which once seemed so hopelessly
beaten in war and broken in resources
"No such advance in wealth." writes
Mr.. g. W. Curtis, the editor Of Har-
per's Magazine, "has ever been made
in any other part of the American
Union as that recorded by the South
ern states between 1880 and 1885," In
1880 the fifteen years which had inter
vened since 1865, when the great rebel
sclion under Mr.. Jefferson Davis COL
roofs: s:sed, had not sufficed TO restore pros
B fortab ' to one of the most richly en-
be rent countries on the face of the globe.
there be IN that year, however, that the
The cloi tation of ''Secessia" began, we
hlthy ;'now perceive, in earnest, as is
atte;iffs by the remarkable fact that the
syeryathern railroads covered about Ii, 900
S; IN les in 1880, and about $4,000 in 1888.
more notable has been the growth
again an manufactures in Alabama,
with ouSa, Virginia, Tennessee and Ken
the brf'i and of their collective products
we sh-l8S0, in which year they turned
spite 200, 900 tons of pig iron, against
5irsout a million in 1888. Last year there
fSasa a decrease in the total yield of the
z blast furnaces Of the United States, but
that decrease was confined; to the
North, and did-not extend to the South
of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Ala
bana and Tennessee continued to adj
vance, while Pennsylvania fell back;
: and the prosperity of those two iron
producing states of the South now is
wholly outstripping their Northern
sid;feroas rivals. Moreover, the iron of
the "Warrior Fields,' of Alabama is
sid ODE not only the best but the
chespestsEn. the world. TurRing next
to cottons which many prophets of woe
declaredconld only be grown by slave
labor, We find that nearly seven mill
lion bales of that great staple were pro-
dueed in 1888, against $500, 900 in 1880.
The persevering Southerner has dis
covered, moreover, that it is more pro-
to turn his cotton into yarn, and
to export it to Europe, than to send it
raw and packed in bales. The result
is that there arenow 800 cotton mills /
In the Southern states against about
halff thatsnprnber in 1880; and already
she looms of Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia
are threatening the New England
states and lowering prices in Lawrence
and Lowell, Mass, and Providence, r.
I. Fourthly, the lumber trade estab-
lishments of the South at present en-
:ploy about 100000 hands, and turned
out last year blanks and sawn timber
worth nearly e2O,00O,0O0 sterling. Fin
al, the value of Southern live stock
has increased to the extent of s40, ,O00,-
900 in the last eight years, while her
agriculture has made corresponding
advance.
These really astonishing figures, and
rnasy more of the same kind, are sum-
med up by a transatlantic journal, the
New Orleans Timcs-Democrat with the
statement that in eight years the avail
able capital of the Southern states has
increased by e50,000,0oO and their
gross wealth by more than e20O, O,00O, COO
:sx ling. All this has happened in a
country one single state Of which
..Texas-possesses an area larger than
that of France and Spain combineu-a
sst".e which could, if as thickly popu-
lated as Great Britain, support 7o,000,-
;0Ol human beings. Bearing these fig
lures in mind, we can easily estimate
1hc magnificent prospects of the South
er1i states of the American Union when
nis mentioned that on the 1st of July
last there We're fewer than 10000 900
iuaabitants in the whole of Secessia,
th.ee-ffths of whom were whites and
twc=dfths blacks. Moreover, the eli
-Sfs.s shequally delightful and saluori-
,ous especially to those who in July and
August-the oaly two inconveniently
hot months-can>. afford to retire to
-the mountains which overhang the
states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
{ South and North Carolina, Virginia
and Tennessee. Once, indeed, in
twenty years or so, the yellow fever
appears at some little towns where the
laws of sanitation have been outrage
ousiy neglected, and produces fright
altogether out of proportion to the
mortality which lit causes. Last sum-
.mer and autumn, for instance, a vista
.tion overlook Jacksonville, in Florida,
and kilograms were scattered all over
the United States and cabled to Europe,
-proclaiming the ''ravages' of O. pesti-
lence which in five months put four
hundred persons to death-less than
the number of victims killed by con-
sumption in this metropolis every two
months. More than quarter Of
century ago the still living Benjamin
F. Butler, Of Massachusetts,, showed
the inhabitants of New Orleans, whom
he ruled with rod of iron as military
governor, that cleanliness and yellow
fever stand to each other in the rela-
ticn of aIkali and acid. Last winter
the whole area of Northern states was
desolated with a worse scourge than
"yellow jackn-those "blizzards," in
which hundreds of human beings per
ished, and hecatombs of hogs were
frozen to death on their road from the
West to New York. For the greater