Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
A BEAUTIFUL TOWN.
Greensboro, One of Alabama's Inland Towns, a Model in Every Sense
 of the Term.

GREENSBORO, Oct, 3.-[Special Corre- spondence. .l-Ours is quiet village, hence we seldom have occasion to chroni- cle startling events, which thrill the very being of casualty loving readers and cause them to exclaim, "Horriblei" or "Did you read the account of the atrocious crime in Greensboro?' etc., but yet we are as thoroughly alive as any town of eur size iu the state, and as prosperous, even though we are hampered and our growth retarded by poor railroad facilities, being situated as we are on the 'grasshopper branch" of the new Southern.
 Our city's prosperity has attracted and brought to us five or six new mercantile businesses within the past six or eight months. Our firms are, as rule, strong and prosperous, and one peculiarity of our town more noticeable than in others is the fact that three fourths of our merchants are young men under 40, full of the vim and energy of our strong, well balanced young manhood.
 We are superbly located on the border line which divides the frugal, ready money bill farmer from the rich black belt planter of south Hale. Our warehouse stores the cotton coming from miles above and below us. Receipts thus far are 1505 bales. We have two steam ginreries, two grist mills and a saw mill with all the latest improve ments for finishing, turning, etc. Our town is supplied with good, pure water lTOu u SJSlem LII WaleE WOTko uOO bO O0 surpassed by any town of our size in the state.
 Our Southern university, under the new presidency of Rev. John O. Keener, D. D., is now enjoying one of the most prosperous years it has known for quite while. On the day of the opening the matricuation list showed 115 names enrolled, and since then twenty five and thirty more names have been added to the list. This grand old university is the pride alike of Greens 1t A lck~o M4tt icko hoe for a series of twelve years enjoyed great prosperity and done noble work in the field of education, under the efficient man. agement of Rev. A. $. Andrews, D. D., who is one of the grandest old gentlemen southern Methodism has ever known.
 The Greensboro Female college has taken on new impetus under the presidency of Prof. J. E. Cassaday, who is one of the ablest and most thorough educators in the state, and the present state of prosperity great measure to the untiring efforts of Professor Cassaday.. Miss Rebecca Will Hams of Athens, Ala, has charge of the music department. Miss Williams is vo. caiist of true merit, and her talent is known and appreciated throughout the south. The other departments are under the manage ment of efficient teachers.
 The public school and "Oak Grove acad- emy,o under the management respectively of Miss Sallie Pasteur and Miss Mary AV5Ty, arc Dobu Iull anu schools.
 Hon. Thomas B. Knight leaves today on canvassing tour through Blob, Jefferson and Blount counties in behalf of Hon. Os- car w. Underwood. Tom Is, natural born orator and stump speaker and will make the mountains of Blount ring and re-echo with the clarion voice of true democracy. He leaves us because he knows fall we'll that s'good old Hale,'' as we are called, is s'safe beyond the shadow of a scintiila of a skepticisrn," as "Sir Thomas" is prone to saying.
 Dr. A. 8. Andrews is quite ill at his home, suffering from d paralytic affection.
 The AGE- HERALD is the popular daily in our city, for it brings us the latest news we can get, arriving here only few hours after publication.