The Monticellonian., 1895-08-02

III three ways. First, by special enactments prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within radius of from three 10 ten miles of certain churches or school houses. Se- eond, by the majority vote of the citizens of a county. Third, by the petition ot a majority of the adults in county or town; every woman IS permitted to sign the petition and has an equal voice in the final decision in this matter The combined action ofthese three laws has almost banished the sa- loon from the state; whole coun- ties are absolutely free, and 1 am credibly informed that from Little Rock to VanBuren, a distance of l60 miles by railroad, there IS but one open saloon. Perhaps no country has developed more rap idly since 1870 than has the south, and especially in the last five years; since the worlds fair at Chicago where the south saw the | beautiful farm of the north and their mode of conducting them, the south are very anxious to see immigration and they much prefer the northerner to any other class, Gov. Fishback in speech once said, ''when we speak to the north ern audience of the south al- though part of their common country, and strange as it may appear, we speak to terra incog- nita.' Indeed there is scarcely an accurate definition, for the south is not only not known in the north but it is falsely known. One of the most extensive and funda- mental errors in the northern es- tmation of the south, is, that it's climate is both unhealthy and so enervating that it forbids indus trial activity. Nothing could pos sibly be further from the truth The first error is attr butable 10 the fact that our low bottom fer tile lands of the southern states were first settled. Such districts as these furnished the first vital statistics, and have at all times served to bring up the average at- ter the healthy hill districts were settled. And yet the south is un- developed and now is the auspici- ous time in the history of the south for investing in farming lands. They are very low, cheap CT than at any time in the past in this or any other country. Good farming lands can be bought from three to ten dollars per acre. The immi grafton IS great from the north. Homeseekers are coming in by the hundreds while the far seeing speculator is coming and investing his money in thousands of acres of choice lands. The pre- sent prospect for crop is very fiattering. Oats, tame grass and clover will be a full crop-corn- well to me it looks strange; it va ries in height from two to fifteen feet according to the time of plant ing. Some claim the late corn will be best but the earliest fields are caring. 1 was in one field and 1 could not reach one ear in ten, in fact some of the ears were three feet above my reach. Cotton ev- eryone says is good and that the yield will be greater than last years crop, so while the acreage is less, the yield is thought will make up the shortage. The cot ton is beginning to blossom. It is quite warm weather and has been for three days, with showers and hot sun and some say it is just the weather to rust cotton; be that as 1t may it is the kind of weather to rust wheat and oats if they were not all harvested. The thermometer registered from 90 to 92 at two and three D. m. In fact the hottest part of the day is from two to four. The nights and mornings are generally cool with gentle breeze making the nights cool.
 I have made this article more lengthy than l had anticipated but thought best to answer the many questions asked from time to time, some of which I was not prepared to answer.