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THE SUNNY 80UTH, ATLANTA. GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1887.
TO OUB SOCIETY HEADERS.
Communications containing accounts of am
ateur concerts, theati icai entertainments, so
cial and literary club meetings and society
gatherings and festivities, are solicited for this
Department, and will be promptly published.
Let them be plainly written, bright and crisp.
Donan’s Bevy of Beauties.
They Come to Conquer—The Army
of Invasion of Southern Belles.
Such are the headlines by which the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis papers an
nounce the presence in those cities of the party
of Sou hern tourists, which, under the chap-
ronage of Col. Pat. I)onan, have been travel
ling titiiunv th«» glories of the wonderful North-
M est \ Minneapolis paper, of the 21st, says
taat “lhe Lafayette (at Minnetonka) was
graced last evening by the presence of Col.
Pat. Donan by his party of distinguished
Southern Belles;” and Yenowine’s News (Mil
waukee), of the 31st, says, “Col. Pat. Donan’s
party of Southern Belles and beauties, who
have been on a two weeks’ tour in the North
West, passed through the city last evening
and the party has formally dissolved.”
The Chicago Trihure, of the ILh instant, in
forms us that “From all parts of the North-
West the beautiful belles of the South, com
prising the party organized by Col. P. Donan,
aie flocking into this city. They left the South
together, left Chicago together, rendezvoused
at Minnetouka for ten days, then separated to
go whither fancy led them, to concentrate
again in Chicago, which they admit is a little
the best summer-resort in the world. Some
came several days ago, some have come each
day since, the last of them last night. Some
are flying homeward, some find entertainment
at the K'chelteu, but more with private fami
lies, James VV. Holoson’s, Samuel W. Aller-
ton’s, the clubs, etc. The names of the South
ern girls and their chaperones will be recog
nized as those of the most prominent Southern
families. They comprise:
“Mrs. Clement C. Clay, Huntsville, Ala.;
Mrs. Basil Duke, Miss Carrie Duke, Miss Tom
mie Duke, Louisville, Ky ; Miss Susie Preston
Hart, Versailles, Ky.; Mrs. T. D. Ballard, Lex
ington, Ky.; Mrs. Adolph Dahlgren, Miss
Mary de Mouville, Miss Carita More, Miss
Monne C. Jackson, Miss Mary D. Cheatham,
Miss Fannie Rhea McAllister, Nashville,
Tenn.; Mrs. Virginia Moores, Memphis, Tenu.
“Col. Donan, who is too etherial, under the
circumstances, to feed on anything but dis
tilled mountain dew, calls it a National wed
ding of sections.”
The Tribune then makes special mention of
quite a number of the most distinguished or
otherwise notable members of the party, froui
wbish we select as follows:
meanness P;' ,n - V . Il0 * completely captured
' lu-rjlic most notable yet
triumphantly carried off by the Dakota orator,
the most notable in variety of gifts, graces, in
social distinction of some of its members, in
the personal beauty of others, and the intel
lectual brilliancy of all.
Mrs. Clement C. Clay has been famous as a
leader and queen in Southern society for forty
years. Her name in Washington, during the
many years of official life of Mr. Clay, was the
centre of the most brilliant society in the Na
tion Her husband was a man of eminent
ability, and after the war was a fellow-prisoner
of Jefferson Davis, at Fortress Monroe. It
was really through Mrs. Clay’s exertions that
he and Mr Davis were liberated. * * She
is a woman of magnificent presence, and in
biilliancy of conversation has probably no
equal among her sex. She has been received
at nearly every coutt of Europe. Iltr social
and political reminiscences would make many
volumes.
Mrs. Basil Duke, of Louisville, is a sister of
"ibe famous Kentucky cavalry raider, General
John Morgan, and in her girlhood days, as
Miss Tommie M organ, was a famous belle. She
is a kinswoman by descent of General Morgan,
of Washington’s military family during the
Revolution
Miss Carrie Duke,her youn test daughter, one
of the most be.utifu! girls of the period, has
found exceeding favor everywhere, particular
ly in Chicago. She is a symphony in brown—
brown-eyed, brown-haired, slightly brown in
complexion, though no doubt by the sun, for
which one cannot help admiring her.
Her sister, Miss Tommie Duke, is also a be
witching little beauty, but contents herself
with being Miss Carrie’s sister. However, she
has the reputation of being one of the first of
of society belles, witty entertaining, and love
ly-
In a party of brunettes it is refreshing, par
ticularly to misguided young men of poetic
fancy and temperament, to discover a blonde
whose hair was spun of gold at noonday by
the sun to the envy of the silkworm, whose
form is tall and in whose face there is a com
posite loveliness—that is, the blending of the
most desirable types. Such is Miss Cuita
VIore of Nashville, to whom Nature forgot to
give heavenly blue eyes, but gave her heavenly
gray ones. She was educated for live years in
the convents of France and Italy.
Mrs. Adolph Dahlgren, nee De Monville, of
Nashville is 1 kewise a blonde. Her husband
is a nephew of Admiral Dahlgren. She is one
of the queens of Washington society. When it
is said .hat she has one of the most beautiful
of faces, with a personal character and mind
even more lovely, what more is there to be said?
She is accompiuied by her sister, Miss Mary
de Monviile, one of the brightest intellectual
lights of the party.
Miss Mary I. Dearing is the daughter of
Gen. James D.tariugof Virginia, who was kill
ed in almost the last battle of the war, just as
be had been commissioned Major-General, at
the age of 24. She never saw her father, being
bori ab mt the time be was killed, in 1805. If
a be le of the party of belles were chosen in
maDy respects Miss Dearing would be selected.
She is not only a beautiful brunette, but one of
the wittiest of Southern girls, whose match
New Yook society, where she figures largely,
bas not been able to produce. Her extensive
travel in foreign countries bas enabled her to
add graces to the best of accomplishments of
all nations. While at the Hotel Lafayette a
dispatch was received from Col. P. W. Win
ston, of Minneapolis, a brother-in-law of Gen.
Thomas L. Rosser, of Virginia, sskiDg if she
were the daughter of the Virginia General, ad
ding- “I was standing right beside her father
when be was killed.” Mr. and Mrs. Winston
then spent one day with the party. On the
evening of the Magnolia Club banquet, Mrs.
Winston, who is a Minnesota lady, in some
wav learned what dresses the young ladies
would wear. Just as the party were starting
across the lake to the oanquet in the steam
yacht Rosandtr, a box of superb roses for cor-
* L.n/J/ul ouoh trirl With MTS. Win.
Miss Susie Preston Hart of Versailles, Ky.,
unites in herself the blood of two or three of
the most famous families of the South. The
Prestons have been soldiers, orators, states
men, and diplomats, and have always been
celebrated for their snperb physiques. The
Harts have been celebrated artists and scholarr,
and counties and towns have been named for
them in many Southern States. Henry Clay’s
wife was a Hart, and the Harts have always
been noted for the beanty of their women.
Min Hart is generally known aa one of the
most beautiful women of the world to-day, and
her figure is more surpassing than ever a
sculptor modeled. In every European and
American Capital she has her host of admirers,
not only for these charms, but for her lovely
character, charming manners, and bright at
tractive conversation She is the most famous
belle the Blue Gran region has produced. She
lives when at home on an immense farm, when
she is moat intorestd in her thoroughbred
hones.
Miss Mary D. Cheatham of Nashville is the
daughter of the famous Confederate General.
She is tall, always, conversational, beantifnl,
or, as the little daughter of Moses. P. Handy
of the Philadelphia New* said the other day.
“she would not have been invited by Col.
Donan.” She has stood the competition of
Eastern society beauties and has always tri
umphed.
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23®.
MULBERRY, TENN.
Delightful Ride Through a Grand Coun
try-Boomlng Decatur—Wlneome
Winchester-Merry Mulberry
Editok SiiititT South : Your correspondent
left Early Grove, Miss., a few days since on a
pleasure tour through Tennessee and Alabama,
along the line of the M. & C. railroad to Deca
tur and Stevenson, and we mast say that we
were very highly pleased with the bcoming
prospect all along the line, especially at Deca
tur, which is undoubtedly destined to become
a large city at no distant day. Our trip on to
Stevenson was delightful, with nothing to mar
the pleasure with the exception of experiencing
quite a "dry time” for about two hours on ac
count of the water supply and ice giving out,
which came near causing a panic among some
of the passengers. A young man (a prohibi
tionisi) became so tbit sly that at times be
would appear almost delirious and foam at the
mouth; and as the train crossed the Tenuessee
river at Decatur it was with great difficulty he
w.ts restrained from leaping off into the stream
and some of the passengers were terrified and
became uneasy for fear it was hydrophobia the
young man was afflicted with. But at Steven
son a physician was called, who prescribed ice
water, which soon restored him to his normal
condition. This should be a reminder to the
officials of the route to always keep a supply
of ice water aboard.
After leaving Stevenson, Ala., over tfce L. &
X. railroad, we passed through some beautiful
country with mountain scenery picturesque
and grand beyond our power of description
A sweet young lady, fresh from the hulls of
learning in the city, was traveling and being
chaperoned by us on her tirst trip out from the
parental roof, to visit relatives near Mulberry
Tenn., when suddenly a vast range of moult
tains loomed up in the distance, which caused
her to become frantically excited at the sight of
these natural colossal monuments. Your artist
sketched the profile of her innocent counte
nance as she gazed with admiration at the iirst
mountain (or “big hill,” as she called it), and
will send the sketch to the Sonny Sootii
some time to adorn the art column.
We also passed by that ancient and honored
institution of learning, Winchester Female Col
lege, at Winchester, Tenn., which stands a liv
ing monument to the many intellectual lights
that graced society throughout the United
States many years before the 1 ite war. And
many who adorn the literary circles of today
claim this grand old institution as their alum
mater.
We arrived at Fayetteville at 2 p. m., and
board; d the stage for MulDerry, ten miles dis
tant, over a line smooth pike and through the
finest farming and stock-raising country that
we have seen for many years; hundreds of fine
blooded cattle, horses, mules and sheep are to
be seen ou every side, and prosperity seems to
reign supreme.
Du the stage we had the pleasure of meeting
Miss Agnes Whittaker, an accomplished youns
lady on her way to Mulberry, to take chargl
of a large school which was awaiting her arri-
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stan
sages were banded to each girl with Mrs. Win
ston’s compliments. When the boxes were
opened, it was found that the flowers, m every
instance matched with the dresses t f those to
whom they were addressed. Miss Fanny Jfhea
McAllister, a true WPf, of Irtsh beauty irn-
tin J proved by the suns of Nashv.lle, wore golden
such iP_^ bronze silk and lace; she got rich yellow
be *. ld . e o^s Miss Minnie Jackson, wearing silk and
which J"” in stripes with two shades of pink.
■° ur ® U is Mtuy de Mouville, with pure white, got
forced ttf“ whi £. roses> and 80 0Q through the list.
j ng WhC Mamie Jackson is a daughter of Ilowell
provided u. . o{ Tennessee, who in six months
without chr e , eeted rnited states Senator, made
■when warm,. Minister, and appointed United
stand in a star- , t Jad , e by President Cleveland,
them.—Aflrric' °
The people in this section of country are
wealthy anil happy,—lice at home, attend to
their own business, go to Sunday school and
church regularly, and are Christians and prohi
bitionists up to the handle.
Your correspondent who has been here for
only three weeks, recuperating her health, has
gained ten pounds avoirdupois, which is suffi
cient evidence of this beiug a very healthy lo
cality.
Corn, wbeit and millet crops were never
better in this ferliie locality; ears of corn are
so large and long that they haug away out and
down like a small boy carries a coou.
The earthquake shock which was felt here
iast Saturday did no damage so far as we have
heard. We think our people need an occa
sional shaking up.
James and William Tkoniison will attend
school at Jackson, Tenu , this session.
Mr Bradley Bailey attended the ice-cream
social Saturday evening and devoted his entire
attention to a certain young lady who, rumor
says, is his fair Juliette.
Hundreds of wagons loaded with wheat pass
down the pike for Fay etteville every day to
the granaries.
Miss Irene I’arr, of Memphis, is spending
the heated term with Miss Birdie Bailey, of
east Mulberry.
Mr. W. T. Bailey and wife, of Austin, Tex.,
are expected here on the first inst., to spend
the remainder of the summer at the residence
of the groom’s father, Mr. Cullen Bailey.
Mr. Mat Whittaker, our talented young
lawyer, made a rousing speech here Saturday
in favor of prohibition, in which round after
round of applause went up from the vast
crowd.
Miss Bird Bailey will probably spend the
coming winter in Austin, Texas, visiting her
brother, Mr. W. T. Bailey, an able attorney ol
that city.
Mr. Tommie Bailey was circulating among
his many lady friends at the social gathering
Saturday night. Tommie is quite a favorite
among the fair sex.
Misses Stella and Bird Bailey of Mulberry,
and Miss Irene 1‘arr of Mempnis, very charm
ing and accomplished young ladies were in at
tendance at the ice cream party Saturday
nidit.
Messrs. Tom Bailey, Hardie and Clyde will
start to school the 8lh inst., at Mulberry.
Mr. J. B. Thomason is putting up a steam
power ten thousand dollar roller process flour
mill which will be in operation by August 15.
Mr. Cullen Bailey has the largest agricultu
ral and ttock farm that we have seen any
where in the state, lie rode over this immense
farm with us and showed us three hundred
head of line young mules, one hundred fine
horses, one hundred fiue Durham cattle, and
several hundred bead of flue hogs and sheep—
all of which will be put ou the market this fall.
We will have to bid our friends adieu next
week, and after visiting Monte Sano, Hunts
ville, Decatur, and Birmingham, Ala., and
Little Rock, Ark., wiil return to our delight
ful little town of Early Grove, Miss., where
we will spend the winter. Until you hear
from us again we lid the Slsnt South good
bye. Pauline.
The Pope has sent the “Golden Rose” to
Miss Caldwell, daughter of the late William S.
Caldwell of Louisville, Ky., the lady who made
such a munificent gift to the proposed Catholic
University. The “Golden Rose” is an artis
tically made branch of gold filigree work with
roses upon it, which is blessed by the P >pe on
Ltetare Sunday, and designed to be sent to
those persons of royal blood or to such cities
as have rendered great service to the church.
This is the second time it has been sent outside
the ranks of royalty and to an American. The
first pt rson so honored this side of the Atlan
tic was Mrs. Ellen Ewing Sherman, wife of
General William T. Sherman.
Attorney-General Garland, accompanied by
his son aud daughter, has left Washington for
his home in Arkansas. He will be absent
about six weeks.
Uncle Edom Visits the Electric Shaft
Yes, my frien’s, I done heem tell a heap
’bout dat dar lectertied shaft over in Toliver
county—how it cuored de rhenmatiz mos’
samer dan de pool er Siloam when de angel
tech it. An’ as I bed done ben mighty purely
all summer wid de mis'ry in my jints, I
thought to myse’f I’d run over an’ try it when
I went to de Soshashun at Sparty, which’t aint
fur off, an’ see ef’t wouldn’t git me shet er de
rheumatiz lack it done dat sister what I heerd
tell uf, which she couldn’t straighten her jints
nor have de use of herse’f no mo’n de parrel-
iectic in de Bible when she went in, an’ she
come out a clappiu’ uf her han’s an’ a dancin’
as peart as any young gal.
So, stidder cornin’ straight back home wid
de res’ er de bredereu when de Soiliashun
broke up, I tuk de Washin’ton branch railroad
at Barmtt an’ went on as fur as Hillman’s de
pot, jes’ twelve mile disside er Washin’ton, an’
dar f met a brudder wid a ox kyart, an’ seh
he'd gimme a lif’ as fur as de hotel whar he
was haulin’ wood; so I got in wid him, an’ after
ridin’ ’bout half a mile froo a putty little piL6
grove, we clornb to de top er a hill whar de new
Hillman hotel stan’. flit’s a big tine house,
jes’ finished las’ mont, an’ got titty rooms an’ a
long pyazzer up an’ down two een’s, an’ de way
folks does eat dar is a caution, fur dey batter
pay de head cook a Imnnerd dollars a mont’;
an’ hecr’s me, what’s ben a preachiu’ er de
ttospi 1 dese forty jeer an’ mo’, what can’t
hardly git twenty, an’ hatter wuk lack a
boss fur dat! Hit do perteentiously show
forf de kyarnel miudedness er human
natur’, dat men will pay a Imnnerd
dollars a inont’ to him what feeds dere bellies,
to whar dey woan hardly pay twenty to him
what feeds dere souls.
“Well, as I was a fellin’ you, I got out dar
at de hotel an’ walked down t’other side er de
hill to whar de shaft is. Hit taint nothing but
a big squar hole dug out in de hillside whar
folks goes in an sets or stan’s tell de ’lectras
serty pass outer de vearf into dere bodies an’
drive out de rheumatiz, or de parrelleclics, or
dn narvous ability, or wbatsomdever else dey’s
afflicted wid. DaPs a house built over it to
perteck pussons agin de weather, so it look jes’
er same er a common cellar in dar, ’ceppin’
only cellars aint inginerly 'lectertied tc cuore
diseases, ati’ dar’s a well in one cornder whar
you kin git de ’lectertied water, which’n dey
seh bit do help de ’fects er de shaf’ powerful.
Dem what goes in fur dere health has to pay a
dollar, but dem what goes jes’ only fur de
cur’osity, doan pay nothin’, so I ’lowed I nuver
had do rheumatiz, I jes’ had de cur’osity, an’
so I got in fur nothin’. I seed a whole lot er
folks in dar, all stannin’ or settiu’ roun’ de
wall wid dere han’s a tetchin’ uf it—dey seh
you mu s’ tetch de wall to draw de ’lectrasscrty
ottten hit, so I put bofe my ban’s up agin if,
an’ bedn’t hilt 'em dar hardly a minnit when I
begin to feel a tinglin’ in my lingers an’ up my
arms, lack when yo’ foot done go to to sleep,
an’ rtey tell me (l it was de 'lectrasserty cornin’
in, so I kep’ a stannin’ dar, an’ fast er de ’leo
trasserty come in at my fingers, I felt de rheu
matiz a gwine out at my toes. Some folks
lowed dey couldn’t feel de lectrasserty when
dey fetched de wall, an’ so dey was tole
dey mils’ jine hail’s wid somebody what
could, an’ dat would ’stablish a currenk which
dey’d be slio’ to feel. Don a passel er young
white gals what had come in wid dere sweet
hearts fur da curo sitv, soon ez dey beer dat,
all begin to declar dey couldn’t feel nothin’,
an’ so de young fell; rs coteh ’em by de han’s,
an’ lowed dey’d mek ’em feel it, an’ one uf
'em what was stannin’ jes’ in fronter me, hilt
his gal’s ban’, an’ squz an’ squz, an’ squz it
tell I thought de juice ’ud squirt out, an’ when
he axed her:
“Does you feel it now. Annuity Jane?”
she'd tuck her head down o’ one side, an' seh:
Not yit, Thad; try it a little longer,” tell
her itia, which lied ben a watchin’ uf' ’em fuiu
de do,’ look lack she couldn’t stan’ it no longer
’dout she’d bust, an’ so she hollered out:
‘‘You Armioty Jane, Thad Felder’s ben a
foolin’ wid yo’ ban’s long enough—you come
right straight outer dar ” An’ den dat gal
answer:
‘Ma, I ain’t feel de ’lectrasserty yit—Thad’s
jes’ only trying’ to ’stablish de currenk fur
Anniston, Alabama.
Delightful Climate and Health
fulness.
Her Greet Resources — Marvelous
Growth in Manufactures.
Two decades ago Mr. Samuel Noble, then of
Rome, Ga., while on a prospecting tour came
to a large farm in Caiboun county, Alabama,
surrounded by the Blae mountains. Struck
with the beauty of the place, he tarried for sev
eral days. While wandering about the farm
he came upon extensive deposits of iron ore.
In this he taw visions of a future manufactur
ing city, with its furnaces and factories. He
purchased the property, which has since grown
to a vast estate of 40,000 acres of coal, iron and
timber lands. Fourteen years ago the fires
were built in the first furnace, and they have
not been extinguished since, except for neces
sary repairs.
What takes generations to develop else
where bas, in this favored spot, been accom
plished in less than a decade and a half. The
industries inaugurated and successfully work
ing in this wonderful little city of 7,500 inhab
itants are:
Capital
Woodstock Iron Co., 4 furnaces, $3 000,000
Car Wheel Works,
Cotton Mills,
»rl* Forge,
Water-works,
Coal Storage and lee Factory,
Street Ballway,
Steel Bioomery,
Uai Works,
Brick Yards, (3)
Cotton C impress.
Carriage Factory,
Foundry,
Chain Works,
Fire, Brick and Terra-Cotta Works, 25 oi o
Planing Mills, (2) 15 ooo
Engine Works, to.ooo
Ice Factory. io.i oo
Boiler Works, 10,000
Hands
2 000
200 000
200.000 285
100.000 50
100 000 8
KIOTO 8
50 ooo (org’n’d)
50 000 40
50.000 1 0
50.000 150
50 000 20
25.000 (org’n’m
25 000 31
25 ooo (bulla’s)
50
50
500 0110
1 00 <K>0
1,wo.nou (bulld’g)
Total, $4 055,000 2 992
Owned and controlled by Anniston citizens
are the following named properties:
O.i iilm!
Bt rtkton Coa 1 Fields, §1 500,000
Co”.m Iron Furnace:.,
A. & a. K K. ( o BioeKtoi)
A. ft C. It. K* (.oGadsden, Ala )
The Anniston City Lind Company owns $3,-
000,000 worth of property, including the per
fection of a hotel, the Anniston Inn.
There are 150 buildings in process of con
struction, and parties are waiting for their com
pletion to occupy them.
There are Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist,
l’resbyterian, Christian aud Catholic churches.
There are three banks with $300,000 of capi
tal and surplus.
There is no pises offering greater induce
ments to capital to open manufactories than
does Anniston. Correspondence is solicited
from parties desiring to establish any one of
the following named industries:
Tool Handle Factory,
Furniture “
Horse Sioe *•
Nall ainf Tack “
Cotton Tie “
'’agon & Cart “
Shoe “
dpi ke and Hub **
Hollow Ware “
M illeable Casting Works,
Cutlery “
Ag’culi’l Implem’t “
Bolt aud Tap “
C ;tton S^ed Oil “
Cotton Rope “
Tottery and Granite “
Tannery “
Stove . “
Den i*ole ’oman answer:
“Well, ef dat/8 all, I reckon I kin ’stablish a
currenk as good as Thad Felder,” an’ she
knock dat white boy outen de way lack a las’
yeer’s cotton stalk, an’ tuk dat gal by de arm
an’ shook it tell t’look lack it ’ud come to
p ece.s, an’ she low
“Thar now—does you feel dat, Arminty
Jane?”
An 1 dat gal sorter laugh to herse’f, an sell:
“Yes, ina, I feels it now, strong; doan you
wan ter git in de currenk too, Thad?” an’ she
retch cut hi r t’other ban’ to him, an’ he cotch
bolter it an’ squz it agin lack he was a gwinter
mek fMflpr Diitun in an* ho Mnnr-
The best salary in the world according to the
age, is King Alfonso, of Spain. The yonng
monarch is fourteen months old, and is paid
$1,500,000 a year.
Col Oat< s is writing a history of the Fifteenth
Alabama Regiment, in which will appear the
name of every private, and what became of hiir.
It will be a volume of 200 pages when com
pleted, and will probably be given to the press
text year.
mek cider outen in, an’ he ’low:
“Yes, Arminty Jine; yo’ wa’s de blessest
mejmn er us all; I ain't nuver felt so ’lectrified
as I does dis minnit,” an’ dey bofe jes’ laugh
to deyselves, an’ t’ole ’oman stan’ dar
look lack her dunno what to do next. Laws a
me, gals, gals, gals, what critters dey is!
could a sot .far watffiin’ er dal.’n all day, but. I
hedn’t ben iu dar rnor’n half a hour when de
man what stan’ at de do’ put his head iu an’
boiler at me:
“Hello, ole nigger, you inns’ have a power
fill sight er cur’osity ef ’taint, satisfied yiil You
better git along outer hec-r, or you’ll hatter pay
fur vo’ cur’ositj.”
Well, I nuver bed no dollv to spar, so I got.
outer dar as he said, an’ bress yo’ soul, I jes’
went up dem steps outer de shat’ as peart as
any yearliu’ boy, an’ I ain’t felt a tetch er dat
rheumatiz seuce; de lec rasserty done drew it
all outer me.
Dar's er well er mighty fine miner’l water
jes’ t’other, side er de shaft, which dey
seh hit’s as good to cure de colic
de ’spepsy. an’ other mis’ries er
de digressive applemattox, as de ’lectertied
shaft air fur de rheumatiz an’ narvous defec
tions. Dey calls it Cally Bate water, an’ it
have got iron an’ alum an’ sulphur in it so
strong dat yon kin sme 1 it soon ez de bucket
is drawed up outer de well. Dar’s a cool
shady grove wi 1 a creek runnin’ froo it, at de
foot er de bill, an’ a spring er clar, fresh water
fur sech ez doan lack de Cally Bate water.
De healin’ vartueser de place was diskivered
las’ winter by a cullud man what was diggin’ a
ditch fur Misstr Hillman ’long de side er de
bill now called de Tec ted mound, an’ atter be
had done ben wukin’ dar a day or two, he no.
ticed dat his fingers, which hed ben all drawed
up wid de rheumatiz, got limber all uf a sud-
dent. When it become norated roun’ de
country how he was cuored, folks begun to
come in fum everwhar to git shet er dere mis-
ries, an’ dey was cuored in de mos’ maraclujus
manner. Den Mlaser Hillman an’ some rich
men fum Washin’ton mek asinneicate an’ dug
de shaft, an’ built a fine hotel, an’ now folks is
jes a flockin’ dar fum all quarters, lack rabbits
to a blackberry patch I heerd Cap’n Ant’nv,
de cornducter on de Washin’tou road, seh he
tuk in over seven hunderd tickets fur Hill
man’s in one day las’ mont’. Hit’s a wunnsr-
ful place, an’ I egvises all dem what have ihen-
matiz to go dar, ef dey wants to git shet er
dere mis’ry.
In Algeria there is a small stream which the
chemistry of nature has converted iuto true
ink. It is formed by the union of two rivulets,
one of which is very strongly impregnated with
iron, while the other, meandering through a
peat marsh, imbibes gallic acid, another ingre
dient in the formation of ink. Letters and
otht r manuscript matters are satisfactorily
written with the singular natural compound of
iron and gallic acid.
Here is a city, of but a few years growth,
with enterprises owned by citizens of the place
to the value of over $10,000,000.
Anniston is not “booming”—the growth is
healthy, rapid and permanent. There is no
gambling in lots. No fictitious sales are made
to encourage speculation.
We wish we could dwell upon the subject of
Anniston’s schools, public and pay, and her
new male college being erected through the
philanthropy of Mr. Samuel Noble. The res : -
dences are attractive, some of them elegant aud
surrounded by ornamented ground. The busi
ness blocks are of stone and brick with iron
fronts.
Then the people. They are energetic, culti
vated, hospitable, and proud of their city.
There is an unanimity of action, which augurs
the future prosperity of the town. Iu less than
au hour three citizens raised $10,000 to aid in
the erection of a Methodist coilego in the city.
There is a daily morning paper edited by the
talented writer Coi. 3. R. Randall, the author
of the not forgotten war soug, “Maryland, My
Maryland.” The Watchman is the evening
paper. Both are well supported bv the people.
Col. Randall’s paper, the lint Ulast, is well
named, and its power is felt whm wrong is to
be censured.
As the writer intends devoting this to a dis
cission of the climate and heaithfulness of the
region in and about Anniston, the fascinating
subject of the growth and prosperity of Annis
ton can receive no further consideration.
A few words as to the location and charac
teristics oi the city, in their relation to new
comers, whether the lowlacder coming North
to escape malarial influences, or the Northern
er fiteing from the cold blasts of seven months
of the year to luxuriate in a region where over
three hundred of the three hundred and s.xty-
five days are days of comfort to the mist sen
sitive invalid.
Anniston is a regularly laid out city, with
wide streets, avtnues and sidewalks (some of
the latter being seventeen feet in width.) Tree
planting is so prevalent a custom that, in a few
years, the ci .y will be remarkable for its nu
merous shade trees.
“God made the country and man made the
town.” Man cho3e well of the Creator's gifts.
The city is in an amphitheatre, the floor of
which is an elevated table land (over 800 feet
above sea level) while i is walls are the Blue
Mountains rising to altitudes varying from
1000 to 1500 feet. Their sides are covered by-
trees of various species,—the whole forming a
lovely picture. From the observatory of the
Anniston Inn one may spend hours iu study
ing this soft, picturesque landscape, its lights
and shades changing with kaleidcscopic sud
denness. As sin and misery creep even into
the recesses of the heart, so they must into
this prosperous town. Still, with i s phenom
enally successful business enterprises, church
and school advautages it would seem as though
only happiness and contentment should dwell
there.
But, to a direct consideration of the climate
and how it is affected by local conditions. Col
L. Anderson, of Cincinnati, O , who is sum
mering ill Anniston, during the recent heated
term made daily observations of the reading
of a thermometer at between 2 and 3 o’clock,
n. in. At no time did the mercury mark over
ffl degrees F. The writer questioned the reli
ability of the thermometer used. Bu 1 on
placing two others by it the three read alike.
Torre are local conditions to account for a
temperate summer ciimate at Anniston viz:
The soil is generally a light sandy loam, with
such au excess of sand as to forbd its use in
making brick. Such a soil does not absorb
the heat rays of the sun to as marked a degree
as a heavier one does, and readily parts with
what it does absorb, after sunset. Another:
The surrounding mountains are near enough
to send down from their tree covered sides
grateful baths of cool air, to fill the partial
vacuu n on the plain below, made by the i Us
ing of the air, heated aud expanded by the ra
diation of heat from the exposed surface of the
plain.
There is being constructed a system of thor
ough drainage which will tend to reduce the
relative humidity of the atmosphere (uow
about sixty-five one hundredths,) thereby
making the system less susceptible to the beat.
During the recent heated term not one day was
lost in the numerous foundries, forges or fur
naces. Not one case of heat prostration was
known. The atmosphere is dry enough to ab
sorb the nerspiration, thereby extracting heat
from the body so rapidly as to prevent its ac
cumulating to a degree dangerous to health.
ClimatologiBts assert that, for every three
hundred feet of ascent there is a lowering of
the average temperature of 1 degree F., and
for each degree of latitude one goes north there
is experienced 2 degrees F. lower temperature.
Anniston, where it is lowest, should be 0
degrees cooler during the summer months than
is Mobile. United States weather maps show
such to be the case. To the sensations, there
is a greater difference than that. The com
paraiive dryness of the atmosphere and the
constant local current of cool air from the
neighboring mountains modifying the temper
ature.
The United States signal service maps show
that, during the winter months, the atmos
phere is no more saturated with moisture, Leld
in suspension, than is that about San Antonio,
Texas.
The winter rainfall is about 13 inches. But
it is characteristic of the raitis in the latitude
of Anniston that fifty per cent, falls between
six o’clock p m., and eight o’clock a m. It
is scarcely probable that, there would be three
consecutive days during a winter when a lady
could not go out of the house without discom
fort, and the character of the soil is of such a
nature, as described, that it quickly dries off
after a heavy shower.
It is seldom that there is a whole day when
the sun is obscured by clouds.
Snow is a curiosity—so seldom does it fall.
High winds are unusual. Although there is
an almost constant broi ze from some quarter.
The nights are always cool enough to make
sleep pleasant and restful.
The mountains afford opportunities for
climbing, which is now recommended for va
rious diseases by European physicians, which,
to the writer’s knowledge, was recommended
by a prominet American physician thirty
years ago in pulmonary troubles, with brill
iant results, aud may be recommended. An
niston combines as many of the advantages of
a sanitarium as any place within the writer’s
knowledge, which extends over all regions
east of and including the Rocky Mountain re
sorts.
The air is dry and pare; the water is from
Potsdam Sandstone, driven through water
mains at a pressure of one hundred pounds to
the aqnare inch; the soil is porous and readily
drained; the town is protected on the North by
mountains and highland and opens to the
Sooth, giving a clear sweep for the sun’s health
restoring rays.
Immunity from Disease.
There is no one prevailing disease. In a
residence of eighteen years in Caiboun county,
a man of intelligence never heard of a case of
consumption having originated in the connty.
The United States census of 1880 shows that
the death rate from that disease in the district
of Alabama, in which Calhoun county is sit
uated, had a low death rate from consumption.
The following table shows the States’ compar
ative immunity from that disease:
Ratio of deaths from consumption in sev
eral States in 100,000 of total population, un
less otherwise specified—
Alabama, 87 (wtaue) K nsas, ill
Minnesota,
Illinois, 150
Missouri, 152
Oslo, 171
Indiana, 193
New Jersey, 231
Cost ot Cal la, 249
Pentsyl’nla, 150
Michigan, 159
Maryland, 177 (white)
New YorK, 207
N. B’shlre, 2.
Maesacbu’s, 277
The bete noir of persons coming from the
North tj the South is malaria. Within a ra
dius of twenty miles around Anniston there is
not a pond, lake or swamp to breed malaria.
The ceucus of 1880 shows that Alabama has
fewer deaths from malarial fever than either
Missouri or Kansas. Persons from the North
ern States would unhesitatingly visit the ele
vated region of Santa Fe, Taos and San Mag-
uiel counties, New Mexico,—at an altitude
varying from 4,000 to over 7,000 feet, and yet
that elevated, arid regiou has more deaths
from malarial fever than has Alabama.
Persons from the low country resorting to
Anniston for the cure of malarial affections,
are certain of rebel, if the case is a curable
one anywhere. The pure water aud air quick
ly rid the system of me poison.
Persons broken down by overwork or who
are convalescing from disease, will here find a
restorative. Sleeplessness or insomnia is
quickly relieved by a stay at this elevated
point.
In the “Introductory and Explanatory Re
marks” to the volume of motahty aud vital
statistics, census of 1880, the Editor says:
“Probably one olthe best methods of compar
ing the relative heaithfulness of the States aud
territories, which the census figures wiil per
mil us to use, is by a comparison of the pro
portion of deaths reported as occurring among
those infants born during the census year.”
Let us apply this test to Alabama, in compari
son with several other States aud the District
of Columbia. Infants dying, under one year
of age, per l,00t» white children born during
the census year.
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The question arising in the mind of one go
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if has ever been his fortune to see when he be
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Anniston Inn.
Words, engravings, nothing but the eye can
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In its exterior, of lateen Anne order of archi
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ing thirty feet above the street, with stone
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a sweeping glance, so in keeping are the rich
Wilton carpet, the Turcoman curtains and the
furniture. Taking the elevator, one is carried
to the chamber floors. The chambers are
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all carpeted with the finest Brussels or’Wtl
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character of the house, elegant. What strikes
the visitor is that the linen is not marked with
tiie name of the hotel as though every guest
were a thief, it gives the visitor a sense of
ownership not to be remiued by the bed linen,
heavy toweis, napkins and doylies that all the
elegance is only lined, as it were, by the day.
Up to the observatory, and one has an ex
tended view ot the country for miles ’o the
east, west and south. The view is cut off on
the ltorLh by the Blue Mountains, which serve
to make a winter residence at tho Inn delight
ful to tye invalid.
When the hour comes for a meal one halts
on the threshold of the dining-room, in satis
faction that bis steps have been directed to
such a resort as the Anniston Inn. This din-
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its walls are of oak, carved it rich designs.
Words are idle. The pencil halts at the vain
attempt to give a description of this one room,
which cost $27,000. The entire cost of the
hotel has beeu $200,000.
Under the trained management of Mr. Harry
If trdell, late of the Girard House, .Philadel
phia, the Inn is daily becoming more popular.
Lighted with the Brush electric system
throughout; hot and cold water on every floor
aud heated by steam, it is the perfection of a
winter home for those from the North who, on
their way to and from Florida, desire a mid.
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home. In leaving the the Anniston Inn we
left with regret, but with the hope that our
steps iright be directed to enjoy its comforts
and elegance again.
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