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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 ....I-- ...HI l.T .1. i .. . r 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.