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01 R NEIGHBORS.
A Short Review of the Tear with all the
Cities and Villages Tributary to.
or Neighboring on. Atlanta.
IN A GOOD CONDITION.
It is seldom such an array of prosperous
towns is brought together as we present in
this morning’s Herald. Each one of “our
neighbors,” as the statistics show, is thriving,
contented and happy. WeH, if they have
scraped through the past year without abso
lute bankruptcy, we may reasonably expect
them to roll in fatness and plenty duriDg the
coming year that opens so prosperously.
To each and all of oar sister cities the
Herald extends the hand of fellowship, and
offers its pens, pencils, scissors and paste pot
to the advancement of the interests of any
and all of them. We are all working together
for the glory of Dixie, and let us make a long
pull and strong pull for the good old land.
MADISON.
MADISON COTTON STATEMENT.
Receipts to 1st September, 1873,10,036 bales.
Receipts to 1st September, 1872,..6,830 bales.
Sold in Madison 1st Sept., 1873,..9,471 bales.
Sold in Madison 1st Sept., 1872,..6,427 bales.
Value cotton sold, 1873, about $750,000
Value cotton sold, 1872, about 500,000
Fertilizers used in Morgan co. 1873,1,491 tons
Fertilizers used in Morgan co. 1872, 691 tons
FIRST BALE NEW COTTON.
1873—September 5th; brought in by James
M. Robertson, and sold to D. P. Evans for 17
cents; classed middlings, and weighed 475 lbs.
1872—August 22th; brought in by John T.
Wood, and sold to Capt. J. S Hogne for 20
cents.
1871—September 7th; brought in by Dr. W.
H. Newton, and to Capt. J. S. Hogne lor 20
cents.
Population of Madison about 2,500. No
white polls, 148; colored 160. Total 308.
Value city property, according to tax re
turns, $343,415. Merchandize $92,GOO. Ma
chinery $6,000, Stock, bonds and banking
stock $35,200. Built and building during
this year, six brick stores and one banking
house, with iron front, two stories high.
The aggregate year’s mercantile business
amounts to about $750,000, which, with the
cotton business, about $750,000, makes the
total business of the city about $1,500,000, an
increase of over 25 per cent, in one year.
We have about fifty store houses, and the
general average is from 20 to 30 feet width,
and coveted with tin and slate. Average rents
from $400 to $600.
The most wonderful growth of the city bus
iness during the year has been in the receipts
and sales of cotton, which has necessarily
greatly increased all branches of trade. There
is annually sold in this market about 500
and 150 wagons.
H. Cox, Mayor.
Kingston is sixty miles north of Atlanta.
the'-jwnction of the Heme Railroad, wffii the. u&badowing interest is our school facilities,
Western and Atlantic Railroad, and : is probaJ
bly the best location.for a summer resort be
tween Atlanta and ®hattanoogaL having a
bracing atmosphere and dehehtflfwftter. The
village contains abSbt 500 inhabitants. It has
three churches, a flourishing high school, and
two good hotel* There are thiee dry good
i jfcpped
and about £.000 buMids
wheat There are two>Rme kilns and^me ce-
med? works in operSfTfrn InTOe vicinity, all
doing good business. ^ Where is abundant wa
ter power within three miles. A coke furnace
is in contemplation in the town limits, and a
charcoal furnace about three miles above.
The business of the town would amount to
about $100,000 per year. The iron interest
bids fair to be the ruling business of this sec
tion^ F.
Union Point.
Union Point is located on the Georgia Rail
road, 95 miles from Atlanta, and 76 from Au
gusta, Ga.
We have a beautiful little village, which has
grown in population about three hundred
since the war. Six years ago there was not a
single store or a business house of any kind
at this place. Now .we have five store houses,
ail of which do a good retail business. There
are about 3,500 bales cotton bought and
shipped from this point annually. Cotton
being the only article of any consequence
raised for the market, but little wheat or corn
are put on the market, though there are gene
rally a plenty of both raised for home con
sumption.
The second grand annual District Fair of
the Greene County Agricultural and Mechani
cal Fair Association will be held here, com
mencing October 8th, 1873, and continuing
four days. It is thought by good many that
Union Point will some day become the second
Gate City of the State. The Georgia Railroad
has already four work shops located here.
From sunup to sunset the voice of the ham
mer can be heard, not only in the work shops,
but builder's hammers erecting dwellings.
Everybody hopeful, and property gone up
in price. E. G. Williams,
Postmaster.
Covington.
About 12,000 bales of cotton are annually
sold iu Covington. It claims to be the best
cotton market on the Georgia Railroad.
Fifty thousand bushels of wheat are raised
in Newton county yearly, and 37,000 bushels
of corn.
Twenty-six business houses are here, the
largest doing a business of about $100,000
annually.
A new guano factory and several steam
ginning establishments have recently been
erected in town, and the country has many
steam establishmeabr/iiTflfk, factories, work
shops, etc., in active operation.
The improvements of this city have been
very limited this year, but, however, quite a
number of wood or frame dwellings have
been erected.
Newton county can boast of two important
educational institutions—the Emory College
at Oxford, and the S. M. F. College in Cov-
ingtou—both of which pruttiit a proaparoo*
appearance.
A street railway is being built from the pub
lic square to the depot, a distance of over
half a mile, wbitb wtll add gteaily to the
already business-like appearance of Coving
ton. • .
The Enterprise, a journal published here,
is a wide-awake, oat-spoken newspaper.
The oat crop has been exceedingly fine.
Barley, rye, buckwheat and oone, have only |
been planted by a few of our farmers, and the *
crop has been quite small.
Clover and other grasses are attracting gen- 1
eral attention, and great eare is now taken in j
their cultivation by a large class of oar peo
ple. —
Decatur.
This beautiful suburban village, appreciated
more for its quiet, healthy location, peaceable,
intelligent citizens, nice accomplished society,
lovely, blushing maidens, than for its com
mercial interest, which we very readily ac
count for, when twenty-five cents will set us
down in the London of our Southern enter
prise, or better known as Atlanta, the fulcrum
upon which rests the gmt wara^rooms of the
cotton Uteres, overflowing &nk eveyy variety
of merchandise, to meet the cravings of man,
and supply the wants of all wbp may come
for succor or sustenance.
We suppose, therefore, that more than one
thousand bales of cotton have exchanged
hands in this place during the last twelve
months. Our merchants do not sell in the sheaf oats, 1,000 bushels dried apples and'
aggregate more than about $411000 worth l peaches, $2,000 worth of chickete, 12,000
. ^Acwortli ships 5,000 bales of cotton
They supply worth ot eggs, S2.000 Wotth of batter, 5,(*0 , Wheat is made into flour here at the Ac-worth
of merchandise per annum, xucj nu^jnj j nvii,u u* ^4,w/v m uuivci, >r,yvv
commercial fertilizer* to the amount of per- lbs. of leather and hides. The merchants
haps $25,000 more, and our variety worksF * M|
manufacture and dispose of perhaps $60,000
more in furniture. Messrs. Swauton «fc Tan
ner have recently put in operation machinery
whereby they turn and polish as fiue wooden
goods as can be obtained in any market in the
United States. J. W. Kirkpatrick & Co., also
S. A. Durand, are manufacturing quite a va
riety of furniture of different grades and styles.
Mason’s fine merchant mills continue a thriv
ing business under Mr. Grantland, in furnish- ,
iug a superior article of flour and meal from [
this point. The business capacity of the
place continues to improve all the while. We
. .. . .. . . /ww* . . Mills, capacity 140 barrels a day. About 100
have sold in the aggregate from $7a,000 to ' tonH of hay shi ed
*100,0(H) worth of goods in each year Ship- xhe Blipti g ti ^Presbyterian and Methodist
ment of cotton has been about forty bales a , each hav<j J>nilt an excellent brick church,
year. Ibis year will reach near 1,000 bales, value S90 non
and it is linvfhgk telling effect itpon the grow- ^
ipg crop.
There arc two merchant mills in the vicin- ;
ity of the village. We have a fine academy ’
and printing office.
J, J. Thrasher.
. . « |
anticipate the day, not far distant, when sev- ; els of grain annually.
year. I Inn j1 in
this being the first year that anything like a
general crop has been planted in this region, T
the present prospect of which is as fine as the {
most sanguine could desire.
Barnesville.
Received last year, 9,400 bales of cotton. i
Received last year, 1,500 bushels of wheat.
MANUFACTORIES.
Has two mills that grind about 35,000 bush-
value $20, <S>
There are nine firms, exclusive of the ootfou
trade, of $250,000. 'The merchants all rank
“A”4n the Eastern markets.
One first-class Hotel, one weekly paper, the
Rant Point,
East Point, six railed from the acute r of our c^mmeuced building.
Capital city, and not word than four miles
from the present terminus of the Atlanta
Street Railroad. This makes it at once.a
glory is ns everlasting as the mountains—
General John B. Gordon—were both taught
Latin and Greek by this gentleman.
The health of the town is not excelled in
Georgia, and th * water is of the best freestone.
Board and tuition can be had at leas than
$200 the year.
The Lutbemes and Universalists have each
Monitor," two livery stables, one variety : place of importance, but when we take into
eral large cotton mills shall be established on
the elegant water-powers near at hand ; also,
when we may be able to supply the Atlanta
trade, to some extent, with fish from our
ponds established for their culture, and not
many years until we shall reap hay by the
cargo from our clover and cultivated grasses,
to supply our sister city.
loteam Variety Works employ from fifteen
to twenty hands-!
One Carriage Factory and Blacksmith Bhop j officer.
shop in course of erection, an excellent acad
emy, now occupied by Professor J. A. B.
Mahaffery, one Masonic lodge, E. L. Litch
field, W. M., one I. O. O. F. lodge, J. R.
Humphries, N. G., one I. £>. (>. T. lodge, B.
M. Mitchell, W. C., one Cold Water Temple,
Master Joe Carter, W. C. t one lodge of the
Patrons of Husbandry, D. Nichols, presiding
doing a business of about $40,000 per annum.
Amount of sales of dry goods, groceries, Ac., i
Population of Acworth. 900.
The municipal government of the Town is
Opelika.
The trade of our thriving city in groceries,
dry goods, boots and shoes, fancy groceries,
drugs and medioines, whiskys, tobacco and
cigars, hardware, millinery, fertilizers, etc.,
will approximate very closely $1,820,000. The
several lines of business indicated are con
ducted mainly by thoroughly competent men.
There were 16,000 bales of cotton sold here,
which brought about $1,280,000—this added
to the sales of country produce—$600,000—
makes an aggregate of $1,880,000. The word
produce used is intended to cover all kinds of
productions, viz.: corn, wheat, oats, rye,
barley, potatoes, peas, poultry, cattle, hogs,
butter, milk, eggs, honey, etc., etc.
We have six warehouses, two livery and sale
stables, six churches—four for whites and two
for colored, two merchant mills, four machine
shops, blacksmith shops, buggy and wagon I
shops, shoe-shops, carriage and wagon repos
itory, etc., etc. One of the mills and machine j
shops, included in the above connection, is a I
very extensive establishment, belonging to L. j
Edwards & Sons. The building is 50x140
feet, and contains a flour and corn grinding
department, with a capacity for grinding 309 >
bushels meal and 50 barrels ot flour per day; |
shingle factory, sash and blind, planing rniil, i 5 iu . a „ c
saw mill, hoc-helves, etc., ete. b I
Our city has grown largely during the past
year. Business houses, residences, machine
shops, and other improvements, amounting
in the aggregate to about $150,000.
Another enterprise, linked with the destiny
of our city, is the Savannah and Memphis
Railroad, now running to a point westward
stores, three millinery stores, one hotel, one
restaurant, two churches—one Methodist, one
Baptist—and two colored churches.
The business of the town has increased
about ten per cent, in the last twelve months.
Increase of business 6ince 1866, about 200 per
consideration the fact that it is situated on
elevation higher than Atlanta itself, in the
midst ot a wide district of good farming land,
all owned by the best class of farmers, with
pure water, a bracing atmosphere aud entirely
free from all local causes of disease, it is nt
once the most desirable place of residence lor
the Atlanta business man that can be found.
Added to all this, we have two railroads run
ning through our village into Atlanta, with an
average of twenty trains daily. We have more
over an energetic, public-Bpirited population,
a splendid school, a flourishing Sunday school
and expect to add within the next month, a
Gfifcnge, a lodge of Good Templars and a
Masonic lodge. We have, also, in prospect
a large public park, a new pas-enger and
! Your circular has been received, in which \ bright depot and a commodious hotel. The
j you ask for a statement of the business of the j business.
(place. Ihere are nine stores lor dry goods, of the place is at present confined iuaioly to
family groceries, Ac., which do an annual . two houses, and the amount of goods sold will
j business of $225,000 or $230,000. W# have i compare favorably with any town in tl)e State
three milliiacry stores, doing a considerable j that has less than twice the number of
$75,000. Has twelve dry goods and eight I undtir good discipline. Capt. B. F. Hammett,
grocery stores, six bar-rooms, three drug , President, and R. M. Mitchell, clerk.
Yours, Ac.,
L. A. Letchfield.
Social Circle
cent
Increase of population since 18GG, 1,200.
Present population, 1,800.
Number of store houses erected since 1866,
dumber of residences erected sine* I860, j basiness. We have four retail liquor hooses.
one hundred. ! W ® hav « oue buggy and carriage shop, doing
Wc«t Point
Is the shipping point for Wedowee, Roanoke, j
a fair business, and two blacksmith shops,
one livery stable and two hotel*, all doing a
good business. There two schools—the Bap-
Lonina, Milltown, Rock Mills, Fredonia, and ! tists ““<» Methodists eacn bate substantia!
other smaller towns in Randolph, Clay and ) bouses of worship, both of which have been
Chambers counties in Alabama, aud Whites- reoentl >' repainted. There are two prist mills
ville in Georgia.
Has a population of 2.090 inhabitants ; is
gradually improving ; good Council ; out of
| debt, and cash in the treasury,
j One bank—W. C. Lanier’s—with ample
means.
! Over half million dollars actively employed
( iu the dry goods, grocery, hardware and drug
I trade. Merchants generally of high standing
and close buyers.
No failures since the close of the war.
: Af. je. t
chanty. Capital Chu 1>» profitably invested
here, and many arc now keeking investments
here. Among those who have within the last
week put chased homes here, are such men as
Mr. Culberson, late ot Troup conntv, Dr. N.
D’Alvigny, of Atlanta, and Dr. Charles D’AI-
vignv, of Atlanta. Others will follow rapidly,
^ as lands are now offered for sale that have
near the place, which supply us with fresh , Been vainly sought before, and At a price that
ground meal, and also furnish the citizens or no one who knows the place will object to.
the adjacent country around, besides a large j Altogether there is not a town in Georgia that
and extensive flouring mill is now in process promises as rapid a growth during the next
of erection. Ihe number ot bales of cotton : five years, or mote periuaU-cnt pvospeiity tuau
shipped from this depot last season was be-1 Fast Point.f
tween 8,000 and 9,000. The amount ofj
wheat and other cereals was small
earnings of the Georgia R. R. at this depot,
! for the year ending March 31, were $91,387-1
i 78. The amount of Fertilizers for the same
*" t) ItlllUlcn Mllv" lUL A LUoL UL Llltj \\ III* _ mi * » • , , , i •
Product ol the adjoining conntv u cotton I P erlod received here was 4,817,2(H) pound*. ! There was sold in and .hipped from (i.uues-
J ^ vilta Livt vp«r nv^r ti minnrwl of
The spirit of improvement is still onward. j rille last year over filteeu hundred
forty Eilesdistant, but will be opened at least
forty miles f urther before the incoming cotton
season have/ closed, j The road completed
eighty mile3 will open ft large fertile aud pro
ductive section of the country to Opelika, the
productions of which have heretofore gone
either to Montgomery, WelnmpJca or Tallade
ga. It is confidently believed that with this
road* opened, Opelika will buy 25,000 bales of
cottpn instead of the 16,000 the past season.
^Airotber road, the East Alabama and Cin-
wagons, from 13,000 to 18,000 bales each I are iu P™cess of construction. The sounds
season since 1883. Last year's receipts, 18,- I of the S;lw “ nd hammer are quite familiar.
120 bales—an increase of ten per cent, ex- j
pected this season.
The Alabama and Georgia Manufacturing !
This pleasant little town has six dry goods
:>f
Receipt's of cotton bore, exclusively from j Man >' “ ew bouses’have been built and others j coitou. Two veers before this only four I
I — ic aai» is .i .. , „I are 111 nrocess of construction. The sounds ! have heard many ol jjur farmers say that
there is plenty of corn 0& la*t years growth
yet in Hall couu y to ao the people f«>r anoth
er year without touching this year's crop.
The business of Gainesville is mostly retail.
There has, however, been done here during
two years paRt a small jobbing btumie.-s. with
the country nufehoats abafro this. There
are here, nearly forty jRore and with the ex
ception of n lew RuppW stove*, th 4 * stocks nro
mixed -a general assortment of Merchandise.
There is here now two sash and blind facto
ries, one propelled by steam and doing a ver^*
large business. A car factory
been built brie and will do
Tile city council is building a ten thousand
Companies are located at this place ; capacity j and grocery houses; one family grocery, shoes,
of 600 looms—only partly filled—at a cost of j boots, etc.; one confectionery; three retail
$350,000, entirely homo capital; working I groceries; one drug store; two boot and shoe
successfully ; consuming now 5 bales of cot- 1 shops; one cabinet,
ton daily ; paying monthly pay-rolls approx- ! shop; one steam
imaling $4,000.
The West Point Foundry Company (build- !
brick yard.
Bales of cotton sold per
and blacksmith
mill and cotton gin: one
annum, 1,750.
ers of the celebrated Bradley Cotton Screw), Amount of wheat and produce unknown
and Jones’ Carriage Manufactory, are enter- | Aggregate business, $167,000.
prises of this place,
male, well attended.
Colleges, male and fe-
horaes and mules, 100 biffjgies and carriages/ cinnati, running north, and completed about j
—:n -.1 i * -i la. a.-*1
twenty miles, will, when pushed about twenty
miles further, open up another very produc*
. live section of country.
Another feature of peculiar and over-
Forsyth.
Receipts of cotton, about 12,000 bales.
Sales of dry goods, clothing, boots, shot
Ac., about $250,000.
The general business of the place has in-
t creased lor the last three years at the rate of
about 25 per cent, per annum. This place is
situated on the A. aud W. P* railroad, nine
Senoia has more children than toy pbtoe in
the world, not excepting London. \V« have
had a perfect shower of cherubs in the last
year.
Warren i on.
Number ot bales of cotton shipped from
this depot from September 72 to September
733,|,300. Therearo four other railroad de
pots in the county, from which have been
shipped about 6,000 more bales. A large
amount of conntry prodtfce i 8 annually soiu
to our merchants and citizens. The grocery
and provision trade has increased since 72:
amount sold during past year to date about
$340,000; amount of dry goods, hardware,
etc., about $200,000: drugs and medicines
$25,000.
Camp meetings and colored excursions have
ruled high for the past two weeks. ThereUre
two good churches and one good school.
Town government excellent under the pres-
ent Board of Councilmen and Marshal.
WuKhlngton.
Eighteen miles from Barnett, on the Geor
gia Railroad, telegraph wires connecting it
with the outside world.
Eleven t Liouiend one hundred sixty
bales of cotton were soM h^re from the first
of September, 1*<2, to the first ot September.
1873. General aggregate ot the year's busi
ness, $600,000.
new buildings.
New brick building, three stories, recently
4 rotnplct d by John C. »Stnmmer, over which
I is a np*f!ou» and wdt ventilated Town Hal!
sixty bv seventy teet: G. i*. Cozart's new brick
< store, ju>t completed, three stories, forty by
• seventy teet. built in the most substantial
• manner by Wm. J. Rutherford, of Augusta.
Messrs. Mahoney & Beeson arc enlarging
1 their s*ore tthirty feet, fronting the square,'
by adding one huudred feet in the rear, of
brick —walls up, aud when completed will add
to the town and give sc ipe for their increasing
business. Messrs Wynn, Suns A Co., three
story brick building.* sixty by one hundred
: feet, is rapidly going up under the efficient
contractor from Atlanta, Mr. 11. H. Dunn.
A cotton warehouse, near the railroad depot.
I h?s jnst b«en completed by General Heard.
It will store 5,1)00 bales. In connection with
j it Are large store-rooms lor fertilizers, corn.
, etc. Merchants’A Planters’ Bank, with a paid
| up capital ot $100,000, occupying brick store
j on square nutil new banking bouse is built
j Five churches in the place. A female semi-
j nary, located in u charming p*rt of thefcowh.
and in a flourishing condition. An academy
fi»r boys, under an able and efficient teacher*
; and doing well. No factories of importance,
has recently I ^ ,lle wires purchase of cotton here has
large business, increased business of every kind. Formerly.
*- little or no cotton whs sold here. Now, nearly
, dollar school house. It is a recoguized fact *b u t is raised in the vicinity. It is in con-
8 j BOW, I wnere, tint OMnesviUe is tiie lending to erect forthemissoided. and err-
!* poultrv market Soutli. Thera is no eountrv W Portly, a new and well ventilated brick
We all rood the Hualo, aud, keuce,
-*-^ e I community is generally pos ed.
any faster than Hall county
which we hope to see developed fully and ex
tensively.
We could extend this notice to a greater
! ulution of about live huudred, aud being 1 ’ ,
Sales of groceries and provisions, about , located on the high sandy ridge which divides ! J* rnc acr08M ^ , . ° e . s ’ l ^ at
300.000. the waters of the Chattahoochee and Flint ! ,ew > eBrs 001,1,1 h “ ve ljoi, 8 ht “ teu
livers, such a thing as sickness is almost
G. Hulsey.
length, but appreciating tfle value of space in j uew bricU stol . es wl a brick Uotei.
▼our- incomparable paper, mid not wishing to xi
h I idly
$500,000.
Bales of guano, Ac., about $100,000.
Sales in other lines of business, about unknown to its citizens.
$100,000. ’ j
There are now in course of erection twelve
The business of the town is increasing rap
idly in r.ll branches of trade, and tli9 popula-
rideff ‘*lree hor*e" too hard, will close with
1, expression of our esteem of the Herald sTtion is growing with the trade of the town,
grbceg- Htoras^twojjtfrg stores, indomitable spirit and enterprise, and the | wh iri> fts'ko* attatfff./ttKibbftibiAts,
■iupia*e flooring ntSl vi- confident belief that it will, at no distant pe-1 new hohfl block is 100 bv in
riod, attain an eminence and influence nnsur-i ••
( about $25,000.
i Three new brick stores, 24by 85 each, are ! pound.s wool; 1,487 bales cotton. 1 academy,
j in process of construction on the north side 1 church, 9 store houses and 25 dwellings
planing 'mnh’ffT which' is acEaiTfictory and
all kinds ot cabinet work is done; one buggy
factory: one notel and cue livery stable.
There has been built here iu the past twelve
months three new store bouses aud two are
under erection; one new ohurch edifice, (Mis
sionary Baptist), and several new dwelling
homes; a large organization of Patrons of
Husbandry and one literary association.
There were shipped from this place last year
about 2,000 bales o‘f cotton, and over 2,000
mote were mannfactnred into goods at Weyn-
maoville and Flint River Factories, distant
eight and eleven miles from town. There are
also one woolen factory in operation in tbe
county; six merchant and six saw mills; five
stores in the county, not inTbomaston; three
large distilleries and a number of smaller
ones.
Thomaston has suffered greatly from fires,
but not recently. The general appearance
and prosperity of the place at present is such
that it bids fair to be one of the most flour
ishing interior towns in tbe State.
The morals of the people are good, it being
generally remarked that but little drinking
and no gambling is done here. Society is
good, and the inhabitants generally are indus
trious.
Rockuiart.
The principal trade of this town consist
in slate and lumber, of which there is a vast
quantity. We have three slate quarries in op
eration and several more opening. The slaters
tarn out per day from 20 to 25 squares and
ship to various markets from two io three car
loads of slate per week, and the same of lum
ber. We have from 10 to 13 business houses,
whicb do a large business—fron seventy-five
to one hundred thousand dollars per annum.
The bales of cotton eoid, from eight hundred
to a thousand per annum. Wheat and other
grain, from four to six thousand bushels per
annum. Thepopulation of the town, from
250 to 500. Within tbe past twelve months
several stores and dwelling houses have been
bnilt, and several more in contemplation. We
also have one saw, grist, flour and planing
mill iu operation, two good hotels, two livery
stables, a printing ofBoe, several churches in
the vicinity, and fine schools.
Very Respectfully,
C. Bbumbt, Asst. P. M.
S roccRs of construction
is square, aad three adjoining, 22 by 80 j built
100 feet;
. . " : , . — . three stories, with basement ; four stores aud
passed by even the most powerful Northern badkfcg office, with hull above; will cost
journals. Such is our hope.
U hnnm.tnn.
Thomastou, the oounty seat of Upson coun
ty, situated at the terminus of a branch of
the M. & W. Railroad, sixteen miles from the
main stem at Barnesville, and seventy-five
from Atlanta, is iu the heart of the cotton
growing section of Middle Georgia. Con
tains a population of 800 to 1,000; has four
churches, (two for the whites and two for the
colored,) Methodist aud Baptist; also, one
Presbyterian congregation; one newspaper,
the Thomaston Herald, published by J. C.
Mchlichael aud edited at present by" C. F.
Turney, and one religious paper about to be
started called the Monitor and Miscellany, to
be edited by Messrs. MoMichaelaud Mathews,
a Primative Baptist organ.
Thomaston contains twenty-eight business
bouses, most of which do a good trade. The
merchants are active and good business men.
One steam saw variety works shop
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Flowery Br
During the fast twelve months there was
sold here: Three hundred tons of cominer-
cents an acre are now worth from ten to oue
hundred dollars per acre.
Cotton is being cultivated successfully here
on ground that had been turned out uud
abandoned years ago as worthless. The pro
j«r>.
Dalton.
Dalton is situated t-n line Western and At
lantic Railroad, 100 miles north ot Atlanta, in
the best poitiou of Cherokee. GeoigiA, and is
the terminus ot the Selma, Rome aud Dalton
and East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroads, now in operutaon; and is also the
blacksmith shops, 1 carriage and
feet each, next to Pye’s Hotel; two elegant | wagon shop, 1 harness and boot and shoe
brick stores have jnst been completed, 24 by i s hop, 1 hotel. One hundred thousand dol-
70 and 20 by 70. Several other residences are ; kirs worth of goods sold,
building, amoog which is the fiue suburban
villa of Mr. Ha thorn.
The Republic Life Insurance Company will
seventy thousand dollars worth of tne stock.
lar cotton factory iu Gainesville is being ugi-L
cial manures; 30 cotton gins; 30 presses. 10,- | here, parties North proposing to take
.000 bushels of corn bought; 3,000 bushels of 1 H
wheat; 3,000 bushels oats J 3,000 bushels peas;
20,000 chickens; 20,000 ,dozen eggs; 15,000
pounds of butter: 10.000 pounds ot rags; 500
pouuds beeswax; 3,000 pounds dry hides; 500
position to build a one hundred thousand dol- j principal terminus ot tbe D. and M.. and D
and S. W. Railroads, .eaoh of wbioh will no
1 doubt be constructed at an early day.
The locality, temperate climate and abund-
If nothing betalls tne crop I have no doubt Rnceofpure water render it exceedingly health
that live bales of cotton will be shipped from i j||j
this place during the next six months where
one was shipped during the year past.
Vewnan.
Tbe following is a statistical statement of
shortly erect a three-story brick building,with j Newuan’s business for the past ye,
iron front, 100 by 70 ‘leet, and it ia claimed i
that it will be the finest specimen of archi-
tecture between Macon aud Atlanta.
Nearly one hundred thousand dollars
have been expended before tbe lapse of six i } )as , uess *55
mnlOfig I J. ’ ’
Wagons and buggies sold, 323.
Dry goods sold, $500,000.
Hardware sold, $15,000.
Steam car and building works—amount of
Tannrll Hill.
Tunnell Hill is a small village of 300 or 400
inhabitants, situated on line of W. & A. li. R.
west of the Blue Ridge, 5 miles from the cel
ebrated watering place Catoosa Springs, and 9
miles from Gordon Springs.
Tunnel Hill is noted for fts good water,
its healthly location, peaceable, industrious
and enterprising citizens, surrounded by an
excellent agricultural country, finely adapted
to tbe raising of grain, grapes, cotton, and
live stock of all kinds. It has two churches,
two small academies, Masonic and Good Tem
plars’ lodges, several recently erec'i-u brick
business houses,built in the modern ^fyl- and
a number of beautiful well.-
months more.
The trade of Forsyth has doubled within
the past twelve months, and extends oven Jas- j
per, Butler, Pike aud Crawford counties.
Monroe Female Colfega is second to no
institution of the kind in the South ; is iu a
•y flourishing condition. Hilliard Male I
Institute U a school of very high grade. \
GramtvIIle.
Churches—1 Methodist, 125 members; 1
Methodist, colored, 300 members.
Wheat sold. 400 bushels.
Cotton sold, 2,000 bales.
Cotton shipped before sold, 500.
Dry goods and grocery houses, fixe.
Drug stores, one.
Barroom, one.
Gross sales, cash and time, $200,000.
Fertilizers, 300 tons.
Merchant mill, cotton gin and saw, combin- i
«1, $10,000 value.
Two new large store houses just completed, |
other improvements going on.
Daily papers, Hebald 13.
Daily Constitution, 12.
Healthy location aud quite respectable citi-1
zens.
Jonesboro.
Jonesboro flourishing. Within the last
twelve months there has been erected in our ■
town, ten new business houses, nil of which i
are filled with goods, and our merchants are 1
doing a lively business. The Central Rail-1
toal Hotel lias just been completed. It is a
handsome edifice, just opposite the depot, and
containing forty rooms. The Jonesboro Hotel,
presided over by Mr. J. 0. A. Hightower, is
also large and commodious. Mr. E. W.
Carnes has now under construction, a large
granite building containing several hand
some stores, and rooms above for hotel. We
havo two large nucl well arranged livery and
sale stables, well finished. The handsome
new Methodist church in this place, was re
cently dedicated by Bishop Pierce. We have
also a very neat and spacious Baptist church.
Clayton High School, under charge of Prof.
J. M. McDonell, is in a flourishing condition,
with a large number of pupils from all sec
tions of the State. The common school sys
tem ia working admirably under the super
vision of Dr. Robert Logan. We have iu our
town one of the best flouring mills in the
State, with a full set of machinery attached
for making all kinds of furniture, together
with a planing mill. This establishment is
owned by our energetic and deserving towns
man, D. P. Ferguson. We shiped from this
place last season 4,000 bales of cotton. 1,800
tons of gnano was sold last year.) Our farmers
^uy promptly for all commercial manures.
The
residences.
Of an average, there
from here about 15,000 bushels of WheM,’‘iO,
090 bushels of corn, 50,090 busht:> < >f oat a, j
100,000 lbs. h..v, 100,009 lbs. fodder, 29.000 |
e arc expecting a largo crop of cotton this
year. Corn and wheat crops better than
usual. The increase of trade in our town for
the past twelve mouths is at least twenty-five
per cent. Agricultural improvements at least
one hunduod per ceift. increase within the
past twefto minths. Our business adopting
all the modern improvements. Our County
Fair the seventh and eighth of August, was a
grand success. Clayton has been entered to
compete for the county prize at Macon, oif
the 27th of October next. We have a mili
tary company of 51 membcis, rank Aral file,
00m man (led by Captain -T. M. Smith, and also
a flourishing brass band. Both have entered
;ed j and expect to compete at the State hVir at
| Mooch. Tfce'tnaVh of onr county was never
annually shipped j ta-fter, and 11 more healthy region is not to be
1 ‘ " found in Georgia.
Chu Hehvld i* fast gaining ascend- ncy in
this comity. O. s. McC.
000.
Yarns manufactured h ere » 50,000 bunches.
Cotton consumed by factory per annum,
480 bales.
Two banks with cash capital, $225,000.
IMPROVEMENTS.
Food now brick stores, each $5,000.
Fitty new private residences, $150,000.
Oue new hotel, $15,000.
One tobacco factory, cash capital $75,000.
One new post office, $1,500.
One new brick church, $8,000.
No. bales of cotton shipped, 14,500 bales.
Guano sold, 12,000 tons.
Excess over last year, 4,000 tons.
Corn sold, 309,210 bushels.
Meat sold, 2,915,600 pouuds.
Oats sold, 24,380 bushels.
Rye sold, 1,278 bushels.
Wheat sold, 17,695 bushels.
Bran sold, 847,578 pounds.
Hay sold, 743,900 pounds.
Flour sold, 46,665 barrels.
Salt sold, 7,664 sacks.
Molasses sold, 149,672 gallons. :
Tobocco manufactured here, # 30,000 pounds, ton to clover.
Tobacco'Uol4* $133,848. fr * 4 1
Furniture manufactured here, $15,480.
Furniture sold, $30,700.
Candy manufactured here, 12,780 pounds.
Candy sold, $13,800.
Horses sold, 215.
Mules sold, 865.
This shows an immense increase over the
year belore, and the promises for next are
brighter than ever.
Cartcrsvllle.
Business houses about 40.
We have in Gainesville two newspapers,
one the Eagle, an old established papt-r, and
the recognized orgiu of Northeast Georgia,
doing a flourishing business, the other the
Advertiser, just started, promises to do well.
We have not had a failure since the
war !
Milner two years ago was composed of bat
five families, and but one busiuess house and
grocery, To-day, Bept. 9th, there is seventy
residences. Buildings are going up every
week, tor residences, aud there is now two
good, subsatutial churches,* Baptist
and Methodist. The Baptist Church is
a model of mechanical skill, which was
built by Mr. James Knight, ofBIacoo, through
the librality of C*pt. A. J. White, who after
wards sold it to the members of that order.
There is a first-class academical literary
school here, taught by Messrs. E. M.JHooten
and Jesse Mass.
The business of this place has grown from
$15,000, total swles, to $100,000 pur year.
The bu.sineai houses uow number ten good,
substantial firms. *
Everything grown by the farmers and
gardners of the North or* the planters of the
South can be profitably raised on this belt,
between the great cotton and grain growing
sections of the United States.
To illustrate: The railroad receipts at Dal
ton alone show the following status of ship
ments for the past season—Cotton 750 bales,
wheat (almost a failure) 5,000 bushels, bay
(all kinds) 600,000 pounds, corn 30,000 bush
els, oats 10,000 bushels, potatoes (Irish) 500
bushels, potatoes (sweet) 250 bushels, besides
numerous small shipments of ether nrticles
of produce in the way of barley, buckwheat,
turnips, garden vegetables, fruit, green and
dried, of all kinds, butter, eggs, poultry, Ac.
The present season will be one of unusual
prosperity lor our section. From the area
planted, we may reasonably expect 2,500bales
of cotton from tLis, Whitfield, county. Had
wheat last season turned out anything like an
ordinary crop, we would have been able to re
port shipments ot at least 25,009 bushels.
In the way of inprovements our city is pro
gressing steadily. Three first-class brick
store houses are now in course of erection on
our principal business street, aud others will
bo commenced soon. About fifteen private
residence* have buen finished within tbe tast
. . 1 r . e ,, < . r year, and six are now “going up
total aggregate sales for the last four , oomD i e tionJ 5
B will amount to $G0,«X>. The bulk ’
[ months)
of the goods are bought in Atlanta, from your
merchants Thebnsmess men of this place
have found out that they <»n dons well in At- [ ( , innK roll ,,„ b ,-„ r th „ u.i.L
But what has added, and will add most to
the material improvement of Dalton, is the
lanta as further North or Westso they are
disposed to patronize our own cities.
cions college buildings—one for tbe Dalton
Female College, and the other lor the Craw
ford Male High School—and the establish-
Thera was ii.DOO balea cotton chipped from j mcot thereiu * f flret ., UsB schools .
six substantial church buildings—three brick
! and three wooden—controlled by tbe follow-
1 ing denominations, Methodist, Baptist, Pres-
| byterian (Old School), Presbyterian, (Cum-
j berland), Episcopal and Catholic, besides
this point last season. We intend to ship
5,000 bales of csttou this season from this
! point.
j The country around is a light gray soil,
j which produces anything you wish, lrorn cot-
There has been, many times,
MV) 1 - 1 three good buildings for the colored people.
* u 8 j t0 our manufacturing establishments
have the
CHEROKEE MANUFACTURING COXirANT,
which puts upon the market a superior
quality ot sashes, doors, blinds and furniture
ot all kinds. The
DALTON MACHINE COMPANY
j of seed cotton nicked to the acre, aud twenty- I
j five bushels of corn, twenty bushels of wheat. ! a ^ ^
Oats, peas, potatoes, and as much ns six or 1
eight tons ot clover aud grasses cut to the {
I acre.
Water ns good as the world can afford. The ,
health of the place aud suirouuding country
Amount sales for last twelve months, csti- j P* ace -
: is exceedingly good. We starved out one doc- | j s engaged in the machine and iron foundry
tor ouce,4ind have now got another ou trial- j ‘ - ...
j As for lawyers, we do not need them.
1 would advise utty capitalist that wishes T
to invest his capital, that Milner is the eon -
mated at $700,000.
Bales cotton sold and shipped, 4,000.
Estimated value of same, $30,000.
Estimated value of wheat sold, $40,000.
The manufacturing establishments are, one
car factory and building association; One
foundry and machine shop; one steam flour-pHHBL
ing mill; two planing machines, which man- {public sale of
ufacture doors, sashes aad various kinds of * *
furniture; which also build houses, (all mu
arriage, buggy and
usiness.
.Any one wishing to build n factory in our
midst can get a suitable site deeded to them
for that purpose as a gift. Water powei is
good iu one mile of th# place.
SrnofH.
Senoiti was laid off in 1860, and tlio first j
its took place in 1879, but
business, manufacturing everything iu that
line.
MESSRS, w. H. PBUDEN A CO.
manufacture a superior quality of boots and
* shoes, which are casod and sold readily to
i merchants in the South and Southwest. The
WHITFIELD FLOURING MILLS
• produce an excellent quality of flour. The
TALC WORKS
‘ are of considerable importance, and a
CHEESE tACTORY,
iu course of construction a short distance
by steam power); oue carriagejouggy
wagon factory, doing a prosperous busin
There is a large quantity of lumber brought
up the Cherokee Railroad and sold at this
place.
Tbe pig iron from three iron furnaces is
delivered here by wagons for shipment
There is a largo quantity of iron oro within
the corporate limits of the city, and an inex
haustible quantity within a few miles of the
place.
The real estate within our corporate limits
was (Dsensed this year at near one million dol
lars.
Very respectfully,
J. P. Wikle, P. M.
nearly its entire growth has been attained from Dalton, will add materially to the geu-
withiu the past four years. Colonel William oral prosperity ot the country.
" * —*• m Our Fair grounds and buildings are iu good
order, and our next annual Fair, 30th inst.,
at which, unmistabable evidence cf a pros
ill be exhibited iu detail.
C, Barnes named the place in honor of a clev
er Indian who formerly resided in that vicini
ty. Much cotton and trade come here which
lormerlv went to Palmetto, Newnan, Graut- 1 perous section,
ville, llogausville, LaGrange, Griffin aud i
Jonesboro.
Many of our merchants are in New York
purchasing heavily, and perfecting arrange
ments for larger shipments of cotton in the
future. So not less probably thau 8,001) bales
LaGrange
Is situated immediately on the line of the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad, seventy-
ono miles from Atlanta; oontains about three
thousand inhabitants; is known throughout
6,000 shipped last season.
We hi.ve about twenty-four stores, all told,
selling iu the aggregate probably $500,000.
We have several merchants with good capital
and who, as business men, would do credit to
| older aud larger places. During the past year
Korcross. , y( 08Hrs< x. A. Barnes, Bro. Jk Co. have been
^ Within the last year our population has doing a private banking busiuess, which has
doubled. We now number about live bun- added mugh to thuccmtfiiitncuioftht bual-
will go forward the present year, instead of j the Southern country for the superior adran-
Jfed. Several large new houses, of a per
manent elmraottr, aro being bnilt.
We have a chair manufacturing establish
ment 1 by steam) and a planing factory.
The e Are hbrea mercantile establishment*,
and sell about $125,060 of dry goods and gro
ceries pqr yw. This business has more than
doubled within a year.
Eight huudred bales of cotton was sold mid
shipped from this place last winter and spring.
We confidently expect this amount to be thrib-
Med the ensuing winter. Two hundred tons
< f guano were sold in this vicinity Inst spring
ness class of our citizens. An act passed J
both hous* s of the last Legislature authorizing j
the establishment ot a bank with a chartered
capital «,f $200,009.
The Benoia High School, under Methodist
patro
Atkinson.
The Exc
of Bap'isti
Ingraham.
We learn
President
upervised by Messrs. Read and
lsior Academy is under patrons«3
, and superintended by Mr. J. S.
that the polished and handsome
I utlPert (W
of the Baptist Female College at j uc
W. 1>. Seals), and that one whose ' a)
I tages offered for female education,the thriving
j condition of its people,tbe unrivalled beauty of
: its gardens and young ladies, and the general
refinement of its citizens.
I There are forty store houses. All built of
brick aud rock with but one exception, all oc
cupied by some of the best merchants iu
! Western Georgia. There are two l>anks of
» undoubted eolveney—one chartered, the other
! a priv ite one.
The completion of the North and South
Railroad will make a superior place for busi
ness of all kinds. Already from twelve to
fourteen thousand bales of cotton are bought
and shipped annually, being brought from
the counties of Meriwether, Harris and
Heard, in Georgia, and Randolph and Cham
bers, in Alabama.
The finances of Troup county and of La
Grange aro both in a splendid condition, de
uotiug the good management of tne officers
1 of whom are Democrats.