The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-10-09
LOUI>BURG BOOMING.
Its Business Moving With Accelerated
seiocity--H That Business is Ere.
quentiy Demoraiized by Pretty Girls.

Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.1
LoUsBURG, n. O., Oct, THE boom
which struck our town last year has been
resumed with accelerated velocity. The
immense amount Of fine tobacco brought
into our market, the very excellent crops
Of cotton, &c, the building of new and
larger tobacco warehouses, stores, &C.,
the number of new residences in process
OF erection, and last but not least, the
increased patronage of the Louisburg
Female College, have all had the effect
to render the boom larger, wider and
more enduring. The establishing of that
institution upon its present basis had
a great deal to do with increasing the
business prospects of the town. Its
President, Prof S. D. Bagley, and his
excellent and efficient corps of teachers
have had all the effect that could be
asked upon the business of the
toWn-and the constant increase
and growth of the school give Us strong
faith in the perpetulty of our unexcelled
educational facilities. Added to this our
farmers have discovered that there is no
land like Franklin county land for the
growth Of tobacco and the very best
quality. We have now three large
warehouses for the sale of the weed"
One Of these, three story brick build
ing, is 1SO by 80 feet; another, frame
house, 10 by 60 feet; another so by $50
feet, and all these houses were SO
crowded last week that number could
ha ho
arrival. There were wagons OF tobacco
from all the adjacent counties.
Our people are also agitatlng the
question Of building a large male acade
my on more modern and improved
plan, the present one being too small to
accommodate the patronage.
Every day strangers are seen on our
streets and arriving on the trains look
ing for lands, and many have
already made purchases. A lot
in town which could have been
bought last year for $4OO, was sold
recently for $3.50 to an old citizen who
had known it from boyhood, and he is
erecting nice residence on it. | learn
that application will be made to the
next Legislature to extend the corporate
limits of the town. We have magnif
cent water power here, sufficient to run
number Of factories. The erection OF
a cotton factory is talked about.
Bill Fife, the evangelist, will hold q
series Of meetings here, beginning on
the 9th day Of November Our people
are making arrangements to have more
restaurants and sleeping places to &C.
commodate the crowd expected. Special
rates on the railroads will be asked, and
no doubt given to all who wish to at
tend.
We have now ten trains a day, morn
ing and afternoon. The efficient super
intendent, Captain Smith, spent a da,
and night in our town last week, and b.
says the road is in first rate condition.
We all feel good over our prospects bu
the prettiest sight Of all is the throng 0
beautiful girls, all in attractive and be
coming uniform, from the Female Col
| lege. When passing through our streets il
charge Of their teachers, there is gen
eral suspension Of business. Clerks, EN-
ployers, all, leave. their business to get
look at this enhancing sight. Th
CHRONICLE is the peoples paper.