The Newtown bee., 1890-03-28
THROUGH THE cARoLINAs.

 coast line, the first town of importance to pass through was Waycross, Ga. This is a bustling railroad center and I count ed as many as p engines waiting with steam up. At one of the small stations, about 20 darkey boys, from 10 to 15 years old, gathered at the side of the train and gave serenade, expecting nickel or a copper for singing. Several of the pas sengers raised the car windows and threw money among them. It was amusing and ! ludicrous to see them pile up over each other in their eager scramble for the pen nies. They seemed displeased when the train moved out and kept calling out, | 'Stop de train, stop de train,'' expecting more pennies.
 Arriving at Charleston, the scene of ! the great earthquake, at sundown, we stayed there all night. There is nothing harbor and barracks and a stranger would never realize that this had so recently been the scene of a devastating earth quake which caused so much misery and desolation. All the ruins have been re- placed by more costly and modern build ings.
 Journeying along, we passed through innumerable cotton plantations, where it was pleasure to see the old Southern homes in their cool, shady retreats, with wide two-story verandas, into which the doors from all the sleeping apartments T ,e l..1I homes and, also, the famous historical log cabins of the negroes, which it is a pleasure to study. Some of the fields were being made ready for Spring crops and it was no unusual sight to see eight or ten blows with mule In front follow ing each other and, in many instances, n colored woman guiding the handles. An OK and mule are often harnessed to a wagon together to bring produce to town, the owner sitting astride the mule in a saddle.
 From Charleston, we branched of by the South Carolina railroad to Columbia, the capitol of the State. Here we spent three pleasant hours viewing the city. It is one of the most beautiful cities i'll the South. Situated on a hill slOping east ward from the depot, it has charming location. Here you find the fascinating old southern homes in all their beauty. | The city has wide streets, several having a row of trees through the center and al- so n row on each side, which makes driv- ing on warm day a double pleasure and 1 IL, ..IA .s, H. ing is good hotel accommodations. The capitol building, which it was our pleas ure to go through, is being finished, hay ing been in an uncompleted condition for several years.
 From here north, you find new life, new energy and wide awake towns and cities. New enterprises have taken hold of many of these places and much north ern capital is located here. New cotton factories are rapidly building and there are many other industries.
 Charlotte, N. C., is busy manufactur- ing town of about 14,000 inhabitants. Three railroads cross here and two more are soon to be completed. Four large cotton mills were built, last year and are now in full operation, besides machir,, shops and shoe factories. The cemetery at Charlotte is worthy of mention. It has a beautiful location on q rounding knoll and each lot is divided by beautifully kept graVelled walks. It is laid out with so much precision and neatness that it is one of the beauties of the place.
 Thomasville is one of the small but by no means unimportont towns of North Carolina on the line of the Richmond and Danville railroad, direct line from Washington to Atlanta. It has beauti- ful street $50 feet wide and mile long in many places having four rows of large oak trees, making four roadways and, at different points in the roadway, small parks or groves beautify the place. The railroad which passes exactly through the center of the street is the only thing to mar the beauty of the village. There are two hotels, the Mack house, (under the management of Captain Mack, which l is celebrated for it's excellent table and the stopping place of the many hunters from the North) and the Sullivan house. Here is also the home of Senator Thom- as, whose father was the founder of Thomasville and after whom the town is named. It Is the center of a rich mining country. The gold and silver ore found in Montgomery county is pronounced by experts the richest ore ever found in the United States.
 The richest, Gold Hill mine, from which over 100000 worth of gold has been taken and with which every one connected became wealthy, is not work ed now, on account of the vast quantities of water which run in faster than can be pumped out. The pumps are now work ing night and day taking out vast vol umes of water, but are unable to make any headway. The next richest mine is the Hoover Hill, gold, purchased, a few years ago, by an English syndicate for $350, ,000 and is now worked by them. They are talk ing out about $12, ,000 month and have 150 to POO hands. The miners get from 75c to $1 25 per day.
 The Silver Valley mine, 12 miles south, owned by the Silver Valley Mining Co. of Baltimore, in connection with which, lo- cated in Thomasville, are the great smelt- ing or reduction works, a new process for working stubborn or sulphural ores. It is the only one of it's kind in the South and there is only one other in the coun- try.
 Adjoining the Silver Valley mine is the Silver Hill, silver and lead mine owned by heirs in New York, not worked for