The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-02
southern Notes.

melancholy uu,y nat led me To the far
south, some noles Of things seen al Selma
aud ON the returning Trip may interest
some Of your read, r.
This good old SOU hern city IL in the heart
Of the cotton belt, sometime called the
black belt" ThIee filIhs Of the pOOula-
ton are cJlored people, but they arr Of but
II tie account in the management Of affairs.
The white people do the ruling aud most of
the business. They are mainly the de-
scendants Of the old planters and are a
genial and hosp table race. There is also a
cOmmeudable spirit If enterprise here; sew
eral cotton mills are runniDg here now
mostly by steam power. The - Ina Cot
ton Mill Co." has "A II ~ set OF buildings u
mile or 40 outtide tho city, built under the
superini. nd ence Of the Late III l.. q Ia.,in,
formerly Of Mid essex. LII gong through
this mill with all it's mode n INT rUvrmt Dts
and methods, situated in the very midst II
vast cot, n fl Ids, and with nice cl' au lot
of operatives " no Can be fed, clothed and
housed so M ch cheaper than at the NJrth,
1 could but thibk nat l. we'll aud Fall
River would soon fiud sharp competitors
III cotton manufactures here III tie South.
Their only lack is capital aud that will
surely come, and with II Yankee skill, in-
genuity and push. The working boss OF The
mill is Il NJ 4ssdchusetts man and told me
that he once ran n mill III NJr'h Pc nal,
VT, owned by that honor-d son OF Vrr-
mont, A. q. Houghton, mayor Of the new
Clly OF NOrtn Adams.
Selma IL he home residences of both of
Alab -ma'- United S atrs senators, Morgan
and Prttus, aud here / find in their hrauti-
ful Gene cry tDt T. NIB Ut Wi liam X King,
WHO was Vice President If the Untrd
States, when # anklin Pierce WAS Pest
Gent. II is n beautiful "ci of the dead, ~
and III its Ctuter, ta>trtullV laid on, In "A
noble granite mOnumt nj inscribed, TO
Our Confederate Dead " o. it, are the
names of j, ff-rsun ID wis, Generals l. -,
Johns N, Btaui'g ri, Smlh ~ many H.
4. OF The legends or seutitnt II \ Ell rtvrd
thereon one struck me ~ peculiar " here
l. Grandeur In Graves, here Is Glory In
Gloom " Verify, but few mortals seek
grandeur or glory hat way.
From the living / have rtceiv, d the kind
est and mort courteous Itea ment. The
Towards, McCar. \, Craigs, Johnsons, La
mars, Junses allorys, and many Others,
have my hearty thanks. Judge p. g
Wood, of the probate court, IN model of
diguihed prasantntss. il very pleasing
20 find that my son " no died he =, October
"a 1897. had 80 many and no good lends.
Many Of the p .ullr here think he did not
die Of yellow lever, but from other diseases.
II matters not; he rle' p beneath The mar
BILE in the lovely Live o Ak C-m-te "" h--
side his wifi, who died May 16 1897,
"As sleep in Jesus, bl' ~ d sleep" Sume
of the finest business blocks and residences
in Selma are thu monuments Of his skill
and industry. His " f., Jennie Putnam
was the daughter Of Coufederat, georgia,
soldi-r, who WAS solely wounded in bat
| tliig for the " lost Cause" aud who wa OF
the same lineage IA the Putnam Of the
"Wull's Den " and Bunker Hi, and the
same as the Putnams OF w ashIngtou county
| VT.
For two SUNDAYS / had the pleasure
of listening 10 The ahle a1d % tent
sermons Of the Rev. DR.. Dlckensuu, OF
the Baptist church. He Is a naive d
] II A. L,,t a.,
Years old, he il quite popular with the POO
| pie, aud has brtu spoken of in the papers
Ms a candidate for Cove ruor. Well, | thiuh
! he will not get there. The best aud bright
est men do not gel the highest flee. Hem
| Clay and James G. Blaine never got to b,
Presidents, n,r did William g. Bradley ol
e. j. Phelps ever gel to be governor Of Yer
mont. And the incumbent Of many higt
| places at this day may we'll sav of his Of
flee, I'VE are bought with a price,"
met one of he loJal cOlored p eacEers
who in the absence of his bish, p, had ate
! ly otficia,ed as bishop at Conference Il
Georgia. When it was suggested to HIN
hat he might some day be II real bishop til,
broad smile that went across his face wen
clear out to bis shoulders. l. was like thu
smile OF the sun over he lace OF nature
OIe of the amusing incidenrs If my sta,
was being mistaken on he streets by one o
the old planters for Col Outlet Of Texas
a wealthy ranchman, VINO, though seve ~
! five years old, Can mount his horse aud OUT
ride AMI lire out the verb st cow " on III,
| plains. Col. Outlet was iat-ly Oh iQed Il
shoot man for Insulting h III. aud IL ii
high honor for so doug. Well. ! vas one,
taken for n noted preacher, aud p 'ssed fret
over Gel t lin railroad in Vermont Now
il ~ mo blamed galoot should lake me- for
member of Congress, my measure If dtgra
| datiOn would he full Rui II | could Onl,
have owned upto h~iug Guilet l could hav,
been fill plumb .fuH ut Tenuessee whiske,
! entirely free ui - p usr.
Being DESTROYS of reaching home in tn,
quickest possible time, / had m route fl :
ured ont for me by an expert fficial of n,
Western Railway Of Alabama. BY fas
ops, he made IL forty even hours auI
Ia Mon 'peirr, W., distance nearly 50
miles. The figuring proved correct anu
could have III ide that time but for the oh
mate sowness of the transfer company il
New York 1t shows most wonderful i'm
prOvement in railway service in the las
few years My sudden dash ON the SNOW
c al hills of nor h-rn New England 10 III,
hpwtry prairits of southern A labama, anI
quick return, seems like "A dream or 70
nance, and rather PHEASANT rem-m branc
withal. 'uihern poop q are not very diff
ferent from northtrn people. They ar
subject to like tssions with ourselves
they sing "Old Hundred" and Corona
ton" with the same old hymns, and will
equal devOu' ness and ftrvor they wo,shiI
the same G d WILLIAM CHAPLIN.
MIDDLEsEx, Jan. "a 1898