The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-22
GROWIaG BETTER.
THE SOUTH ADDING TO lis
WEALTH DAILY.

and Bill Arp says II somebody VIII solve
rne Negro Problem Everything VIII 81
All Right.
Was there ever sucE time ano
such ssuntry? Verify, it looks like
the ancient Aladdin had come to life
with his lamp and was just going about
building cities. Two weeks ago was
at Cross Plains, little place fifty
miles from here, and there WASH
anything there much-not very much
Just a wide place in the road and a
range of high hills mile or fwo away
There were some good cotton lands
stretching out in broad, level acres,
and there was q creek not far away.
There was little settlement of un-
pretending cottages and few stores,
where the merchants sat upon boxes
and whittled and talked politics and
watched the trains 60 by, and that was
all. There wasn't blank acre in town
that could not have bought for 5000.
Wei: Aladdin hasn't rubbed his lamp
vet. but he is there going TO rub it
Millionsires have been there since I
was. and they have bought out the
whole concerE-everytting but the
women and children and the grave
yard, and they have stocked the $500
acres at million dollars and have
laid off a city and actually sold three
hundred thousand dollars worth Of
CITY lots in three days, and the cry is
still they come. I am told they HAYS
en't sold hundred acres yet. Three
thousand dollars an acre. Just think
of I wonder what the poor fellow
thinks
WHO SOLD IT FOE FIFTY.
But he got all il was worth and
ought to be satisfied. He couldn't
make it worth any nore-but capital
can. This is the power OF money.
Money is going to put machinery there
and build furnaces and rolling mills
and banks anG mani6cent hotels. Why,
thev have got bank already With q
hundred thousand dollars capital ali
paid in. Had to have great big iron
safes expressed there to keep the mon
ey in until they could build bank.
Some of the Vanderbilts are in the 2ing |
and lots of moneyed men from all over
the North. They say that in twelve
months there will be FIVE millions in
vested st Piedmont. That's the name
they have given the new city. We
used to think that such things were
lust an artful scheme to fleece the
lambs. but it does not look that way
now. The whole South is on boom.
Look at Florence, only two years OLD
snd twelve millions invested. Look
at Sheffield, and Decatur, and Fort
Payne. and Niddleboro. Yes, Middle
boro, only six months old, and ten
millions invested. Look at Blrmlng-
ham, only ten years old and fifty
millions invested-and this thing is
going on. from Virginia to Texas. The
mighty North is moving this way, Mig
ger or no nigger. They send down
their agents to spy out the land, and
before we know it they have squatteo
somewhere and Aladdin goes to rub
bing his lamp. What is to be the out
come of all this thing? Within the
last twelve months one hundred mil
lions in capital has been ad !ed to the
industrial and commercial value OF the
South. They will take wide place
in the road and buy up $500 acres OF
l.nd for twenty-five thousand dollars
and sspresto change" in a week IS
worth million. Well, of course, there
a-e min ereI treasures behind all this.
THE mountains or the hills are close
bv and they are full Of iron, or coal,
or something. Now will these move.
ments make break into tne soilo
South and help US
SOLVE THE RACE PROBLEM
that seems to disturb the country SO
noncbe viii we become yankeehed,
or will they become Dixie6ed, or Will
i result in q harmonious mixture! 4 |
vesror so ago, some Boston yankees
settled 2 little town not far from us
and went to work. For awhile they
we're shy and peculiar, and when one |
OF them was introduced to one OF our
f,lks he reached his hand out at arms
length. but by and by, they got ac-
ousinted and found out we were very |
harmless and clever people and We
fonod out the same abous them, and
wy thew shake hands right up close
u. tell jokes and anecdotes JUST hke
ano They have got newspaper
we 90: tile town and have employed
IN thelr Il :, nth Carolina rebel Tor an
irregular - e enough " hen Jefer-
ed, ea'q5 nsy;s asd sied led lie slapped the olaes as
noatbins rbaH saiS lnS It W was al right and Jus5
ana snes ssS sSit The ~ nane, went to Boston
Auman' ana ea .ne PC I'st and Boston
paper saw it, and row &c oes,s pocus
by what legsrdemain or ~ Repub-
or transncgrifcation Bos', = Wear
Gcan can 90 to Georgia and IL! -sbel
ar s,and Seceme jeff DAVIS .ot
VII that is all right. he Is -;
Jeff Davis rebel, but he Is hlgn,1oSS
1;nara'. hearted gentleman, ana nao |.
SMscr for the feelings of the people ne
d 5ined With. and expects to ole VIII. |
1n +ha frst place if be hadn't oesn
laatIennan - sIe @ he wouldn't have come
go 49, vii. 4 seotleman is not alrslo
~ ~ snvvhere. A true gentleman
can ca a. get along with any people; ..a, h@hs shs
observed M for forty years, taa' I've snv
Northern men who come eou!n W 7 n:s
aresamong essno the very best CITIZENS +oId Td
have Ayoung man OF our 'o"n ,s;a voie
ase; ma the ot5er day that when ne maGe
,,n ue b;s @ mind to come South ms peEists
up I.s -.sntn~e was made the subject OF
Gus Sepsu.v vel .r,yer in the family, for they
hsl;eyed he was risking MS M:e' vas Sne
they felt as much concern ;ands as I; Ae as s'i a
going to the CannioaI ;slanps Us caIoe. 81 :.
ssa1s.;ararv. We are glad ne camJ' w.
e. he ia gentleman, TOO, ana "i0A
~ MORE OF TIE SANE SORT
would co,ne. Right now it ooes 'opA n