Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-10-23

TO the address of welcome Gov. Grout
said:
GOV. CIRCUITS RESPONSE.
your kind words of welcome make us
feel quite at home and for them we thank
you.
vermont, in acknowledging your cor
dial greetings and the honor it signifies,
congratuates Tennessee upon the one
hundredth anniversary of her admission to
the Union, that great sisterhood OF states
which since her membership in it has be-
come the leading power of the world, the
acknowledged supremacy of which is SYM
bolized by the proudest flag that floats the
land or rides the sea.
cit is pleasant to know that old glory
waves over the exposition from a staff in
which may be found as token a piece of
wood from each state of the Union, indi-
eating that love of country which knows no
north, no south, no east, no west, but only
devoted people living lovingly together
as united nation under its broad stripes
and bright bars.
''Gour history, your government, your
education, your industries, your improve.
ments, your physical features and climate
are results and conditions Of a wonderful
growth, incident TO remarkable people
dwelling in favored locality.
'.Not least among the jewels of which
your state has reason to be proud are its
men and women, who fostered its welfare
stimulated its progress, advanced its devtl
opment, founded IFS institutions, gave excel
lence to its character. The Green Mountain
state would on this suspicious occasion
JOIN you in IGNORING them, their memory
and their monument-this beautiful state
All honor to Tennessee.
"We would thus join because Vermont
raises men and women and delights te
honor the product wherever found.
Your early settlers were an earnest
fearless people. Your state has the dis
tinguished honor OF furnishing the seventh
eleventh and seventeenth presidents.
"Ihe seventh, while journeying to the
neighboring state of North Carolina OF
horseback among the mountains at YOU
eastern entrance, met the seventeenth OF
foot, poorly clad young man, inquirine
his way to Tennessee. Thus met two
presidents of great republic, one at the
zenith of his popularity, who, as poo
boy, passed over the same road on foot
few years before, also on his way into
Tennessee, and the other at the foothills o
his future.
ANDREW jackson, James X, Polk an(
Andrew johnson are names long to be re
membered. They rose from poverty tt
fame, overcame the adversely of their earl,
lives and are great in history because o
what they did. They were of your peopl,
and of our nation.
"Congratulating you, then, upon wha
you have as state, and the city Of Nash
vile upon its charming attractions, W
would not forget to congratulate the pro
moteis of this most interesting exposition
upon the great success attending thei
efforts.
1--WE shall return to our home please
and instructed by what we have seen, vol
ing unanimously that you have every thin
nice IN tennessee.
BELLE MEADE.
, After the literary exercises which wer
cut short from the lateness of the hour, th
party gathered to fine collation. and s
2,45 o'clock P. NJ. left by special train fc
Belle Meade, ride of about 20 minute
out of the city. Going up the broad er
trance they were met in front of the fn
old colonial residence by Gen. Jackson
who gave an address OF welcome, in whic
he referred i'll pleasant terms as to bein
an unforgiven rebel, and said that no on
in the United States realized the ute
foolishness of disunion and state suprem
acy more than he himself as re b i brigs
der. Why, had the south succeeded
would have been divided against itself
less than decade. He thanked God an
the Yankees that they were not permitte
to go out.
Belle Meade is one Of the largest an
most celebrated stock farms in America
is fenced on the outskirts by faced wa
of 30 miles run and costing 81 per rod
inclosipg over 5000 acres. A fine ravin
for deer contains about 800 of these grace
full animals which were driven about for tn
benefit of the visitors. His studd O
blooded horses is the best in the south,
not in the country, and his Jersey herd O
milk cows of over 100 head afford some in
come from the farm with butter at 3
cents a pound and buttermilk at 10 cents
gallon. Some of the farmers of New
England, where he stopped over night i
tour by carriage over Maine, New Hamr
shire and Vermont, few years age, woul
readily recognize him now even in the set
ting be did not describe to them as hi
own. This section, the garden of th
southland, is seen at a disadvantage a
this time for it is in the greatest drough
known for 80 years. The pasturage
; withered and even the trees have throw
! leaves before their time. 1t is very he
and dusty.
There is yellow fever in the country be
low in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia
but as yet it is perfectly safe to come t
Nashville. Isolated cases may appear her
at any time should this sort OF weather cor
, tinue but frosty weather is due next mont
: if not before.
This section of the south has been eS
tailed as a home for northern people, ceI
tainly it will appeal to them more than an
, other section for the elevation is high an
, the land fairly strong and productive, bu
Vermont tiller OF the soil would be yer
, lonesome on the soil of many of the south
ern states and sigh for the good mellov
soil of New England.
The poorest land in Vermont will CON
pare favorably with large stretches of tel
, Iitory in the south but it needs norther
enterprise to tone up such country. One
, in while northern farmer has locate
and it is easy to pick his property from tn
rest even at 80 miles an hour. His meth
,, DDS are all different. He docs not let hi
corn stand out all winter to be destroye
by stock and he lays down his seedin