Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-02-11

love and assuming such n tremendous
financial responsibility. Without the
added attraction of an exposition Nash
Vile is well worthy of visit. 1t is an
admirably laid-out, favorably located
anu eNcellently drained city with many
substantial business blocks and numcr-
Gus handsome residences. a large
amount of northern capital has been in
vested in its Development since the
war; and il is one of the largest, if
not actually the leading manufacturing
ceni.r of the south"
The wilderness of Tennessee reached
the dignity of statehood, June |, l196.
II WAS the third state coming into the
union after the original ID, and in the
century which has passed since its adj
mission, its institutions, many of which
have become famous, have been thor
ou.hll grounded, and ITS greatness and
stability have been FIRMLY established.
tennessee has furnished more than her
quota of men for the highest office in
the gift of the American people, and her
statesmen aud soldiers have won honor
on the battlefield and lame in The halls
of legislation, while others have won
distinction on the bench and mt the
bar, aud in professional, commercial
aud public life Her earlier citizens
won Worldwide fame as volunteers in
the defense of the nation, and there
by earned the distinction for Tcnnes-
see as the "Nulnnteer State"
The characteristics of the early set
tiers of the state, their high sense of
honor, devotion 10 principle. their BRAY
cry and determination, tempered with
hospitality aud intelligence, and I'M
fInching devotion 10 their country,
have descended TO the present genera
ton, aud to-day her best people are
found in the front ranks'in the matter
Of the arts and sciences, while the aver
age intelligence of her citizens is in
ierior to no state in the union. Taere
are within her borders some of the most
iamoCs educational institutions in the
country, which. with her efficient sys-
ten of pubii: schools, provide for the
better education of the rising genera
ton.
Nashville, the capital of the state,
and the most central city, is entitled TO
the proud name of the "Athcns Of the
South" Vanderbilt university is per-
haps the leading educational institu-
tiru, but there are a score of other
Eoied universities. colleges and class
teal schools, aside from the splendid
public schools. Her commercial and
manufacturing interests are CORE
spondiE2iy notable. The 1000 whole
sale, johbing and manufacturing es-
Adjustments of the city are doing
$lCJ,o COO 900 worth of business annually,
the dry goods trade alone amounting to
S9,OjG,0o0, and the grocery trade 10 So
Ou0.c30 yearly. Sixty thousand spindlcs
are al work in her cotton mills, produc-
ing 2OOOO,0O0 yards annually. and five
Touring mills are producing $500 bar
rcis Of Hour daily. Ii is estimated that
the population of Nashville, with her
sal URLS. is 100000, while l0.000.0 900 peo-
pie reside within nights railroad ride
on the place here the great Centennial
cNn bitiun of 1897 is To he held Stu
aicl in he heart of the rich and fertile
blue grass region of Tennessee, where
the lands are generally under a high
state of cultivation. where the people
are e5.dow ed with unusual intelligence,
where the scenery Is picturesque. and
the climate perfect any more suitable
iucaiiOu for Il second worlds fair could
not have been found.
NJ other city IN the state, and no