The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-09-29

to the high state of health"
ltwas returned with the endorse
ment, "lt is correct. We have 81
right to be one of the healthiest
cities in the Union" Now, I al.
most hear you say, if that is cor
rect, how could three doctors get
on committee of eleven? The.
fact is that in China the people
pay their physician for every day
they are we'll, and not cent for
the days they are sick; and hear,
ing that Lumberton was thinking
of adopting that law, the doctors
are fiocking there from every quar-
ter. 1t has nice iron bridge, and
the sale of intoxicating liquors of
every kind has been forbidden in
1 the town and county for several
years.
The soil in and around Lumber
ton is fine for cotton, potatoes, all
the grains and vegetables, fruits.
and flowers. AS proof of it, we
have brought with us bouquet of
Wild flowers gathered in one even
ing in one mile of Lumberton.
THE FLOWERS THAT GOD HIMSELF
GAVE US.
She has some nice private resi-
dehces, surrounded with beautiful
| flowers. Her streets run directly
North and South, East and West,
and are fifty-two feet wide and
are beautifully shaded.
ut is the loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheer the labor
ing swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visits
| pay,
And parting summers lingering bloom
delay"
Robeson County was formed in
1886, from a part of Bladen Coun-
ty, and was named in honor of
Colonel Robson, revolutionary
t patriot. It is about seventy miles
long and between twenty-five and
+ thirty miles wide, and has about
r eight hundred thousand acres of
= land within it's boundaries. It is
: the largest coilnty in territory in
= the State and nearly, if not quite,
: as large as the State of Rhode
: Island. 1t has a population OF
t about thirty-five or forty thou.
1 sand; the third in population il
d the State, and the largest rura
d population in the State-a popu
e lation that breathes the pure ali
+ from Heaven uncontaminated by
f the acts of man. Cotton, corn
: peas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, su
e gar-cane, tobacco, rice, rye, fruits
S vegetables, teosinte, INFLOW maize
It grow to perfection; and according
J. to the census of 1880, a part O
o Robson County and a part o
II South Carolina adjoining it pro
duced more cotton to the acr
i than any other portion of tn
y United States.
l. Marl is to be found in 'larg
le quantities, and shingles, lumber
id slaves and naval stores are anon
l. its chief productions. There wer
in standing in it's forests about 1873
1e some eight hundred and sixty-fou
Id millions of feet of yellow pin
1T lumber; of short leaf pine, abor
le two million feet. Next in quar-
'e tity after yellow pine comes blac
T. gum, which is now being utilize
OF by the mills; cypress, about or
he hundred and fifty-million feet
n sweet gum about twenty-five mil
We ion feet. There are supposed
tn be coal and iron deposits in tt
ch county. 1t is the land of the a.
rd pie, the peach, the grape, the plur
er- pomegranate, pear, the strawbe
ng ry, the raspberry, the blackbecr
I'd, the dewberry, the cantafoupe, al
ng last, but not least, the lucio
ny NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of your melo
er- with a rind SO thick that you cs
ON ship them three thousand mile
Ia and that will almost take sled
ed. hammer to break them open, al
tn the strings running through the
has as large as the little finger, but
ne melon with beautiful green rll
Id about one fourth of an inch thit
md that you have to be careful
oon turning over to prevent BRUSH
with no strings through its me
be but that will, when you site,
t it knife in it, crack from end to el
,rae and the color of the ruby lips G
f.; it LOVELY TENNESSEE MAIDEN
saw of sweet sixteen; the melon t
ood the old negro preacher was spe
, an ing of i'll Georgia. There Va
IAN, large negro camp meeting i'll
+; a State and they sent for d ne
)y preacher who had great repl
able ton as an exhorter and for bri
vays ing ths negroes to the altar.
dem l..om nenca;I onH described Hen