The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-08
SOUTHERN NOTES,
Mr.. Williams and the Seaboard-Thc
Negro Soldiers Florida Pneapples.

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Negro Florida Pineapples.
The State newspaper says that IL would
not care 10 bet that John Shelton VIII
hums, the head or the syndicate that
has bought the Seab0ard Air Line has
not some secret understanding with the
Southern. The State may safely bet
that there is no such understanding
Mr.. Williams is Il builder. not wrecker
lie Is a Southern man and all his inter-
ests and sympathies are with the South
His chief ambition is 90 do large part
IN developing and strengthening the
south. Ills method has always been 10
seek his profit in increasing the actual
value ~ actual properties by improving
them substantially and making them att
tractive 10 conservative investors.
Therefore IL may be accepted as fact
that the independence OF the SeabOard
Air Line Will be maintained and that the
system will De steadily improved and de-
ycloped so as to increase its value its
business and IT'S efficiency. It's securities
will not be used as foot balls or for spec
ula-iye purposes. They Will 30 into the
hands OF men who will buy them 10 keep.
That was the experience OF the Georgia
and Alabama and DO is the fact that those
who were associated with Mr. Williams
in the organization and management OF
that road are with him ga the Seab0ard
Air Line purchase.-Greenyille IS. O.
News.
A HAPPY RADIANCE
We congratulate the War Department
on its determination 10 muster out at
once a regiment OF negro volunteers from
Virginia, and another from North Caro-
lima.
u.tb ~ thee ragfr,orfs are etaff0ned
IN Macon. and we do not hesitate 90 say
that more utterly vicious and worth
less set OF rufiians never served under
the flag OF the United states.
4 number OF the soldiers IN these regi-
ments have met richly deserved deaths
by reason Of their assaults upon the per-
son or property Of citizens Of this state.
They have been a nuisance. pest and a
menace ever since they were located in
Macon When they passed the bounds or
liberation the good men OF that commu-
nifty attended 90 them properly. but they
have annoyed and disguised the decency
OF Macon 10 an unprecedented degree
Atlanta Journal
THROUGH FIELDS OBJ PINEAPPLEs.
Tibbals lies in The heart OF tho pine
apple district two miles north or Eden.
u can boast Of dozen or so OF The fin
est residences ia the state. two OF which
cost over 5000 each. a very neat little
Episcopal church. and new Congrega-
uond church IS proposed.
The principal crop is pineapples, there
being o solid stretch Of two miles from
onc.haR to quarters o. a mile wide
along the bank Of the beautiful Indian
river The Florida East Coast Line runs
through the centre or the fields and
nearly am the growers have platforms on
their places from which they ship the
frut and receive freight making ~ very
convenient Some or the larger growers
have sidings from which they ship ia car
loads 10 the Western markets-Florlda
Timcs-Un.Jn.
THE SBABOARD DEAL
Tie sale OF the Seaboard AIR Line
70 tho same syndicate that owns the
Georgia and Alabama naturally suggests
au sorts Of railroad talk as 20 uniting
tho two systems The shortest distance
between the two is perhaps from Atlanta
10 Columbus. and u may be that there
Is whore the missing link will be sup
piled. Macon Telegraph