NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI 
 
 On Tor Na inder^The Hill" 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY 
 
 And the Neighboring Territory. 
 
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 tieiinal Life, AccidoiU, Fire, Tornado, Ylariiie, Inlaiul m{\ Hull 
 
 INSURANCE AGENTS 
 
 XC). 9! M \1^ ^'^ ■'■" ^■^" MRS) 
 
 Natchez, - - - Miss. 
 
 Represent the follow in*^ named Companies, which stand at the very 
 head and front of Insurance Companies in the world, viz : 
 
 Liverpool & London <S: ( dohe. Capital and assets. $35,000,000.00 
 
 Home, of New York - SI, 000, 000.00 
 
 Pha-ni.\, of New \'ork, ^,383.000.00 
 
 (iermania, of New York, 2,750,000.00 
 
 Hanover, of Nt^w ^'ork. 2,750,000.00 
 
 Phfi-nix, of Hartford, 4,700,000.00 
 
 New Orleans Insurance Association. 500,000.00 
 
 lu|uitable, (tire) of Meridian. - 1 00,000.00 
 
 Total Tire Assets, - 1 iS;n(w-^.no 
 
 LIL1-: AND 1)1-:N T COMPANH. 
 
 rhe i^cjuitable Life Assurance Society, Assets $75,500,000.00 
 
 The Travelers Accident Insun'- '^" i ].....< '',000, 000. o« 
 
 J'oial .\ssets, P ire and Lih . . . . ;;^ 1 42,683,000.00 
 
 These Comjjanies are Time Tried and Fire Tested: have stood 
 the sht)ck of the Chicai^o and Boston tires and the plaijues and epidemics 
 i){ disease that have swept over the earth from time to time and are readv 
 to-day to furnish the most reliable indemnit)- for the lowest j^remium com- 
 patable with correct under-writini^. Losses will be promptly and fairl\- 
 adjusteil and paid in accordance with the terms of the contract. vSpecial 
 attention i^ivcn to country risks. Stores, Dwellinirs. Clins and Cotton. 
 
 Trointrty ownei:s will find it to their interest to call on or write to us 
 before placin^i^ their insurance. It will ])ay. and pay biic- Ii" Rkli.\bi,i 
 Indkm.mtv is w^at )-ou want, come to us. If you are after Cheaj) insur- 
 ance becaus(/!t is Ch(;ap(?) _n<) somewh <• do not keep that kind. 
 
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 Respecttuiiv 
 
 E.G. DeLap&Co. 
 
©HE gUBBN (qWY op ^HB SoUTH. 
 
 
 VT) 
 
 On Top, not "Under the Hill." 
 
 Its Beautiful and Healthy Location, the Superior Facilities 
 FOR Manufactories AND the Low Cost of Living"Justify 
 the Assertion that Health, Happiness and 
 I f.) Wealth Awaits All Good Citizens. 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY 
 
 And the Neighboring Territory, 
 
 With Fertile Soil, Suitable for the Cultivation of any Crop 
 
 Known to the North, and Many Unknown There 
 
 Contribute to Natchez' Prosperity. 
 
 NATCHEZ: 
 DAILY DEMOCRAT STEAM PRINT. 
 
J^I^GFfKge. 
 
 Knowledge of the idea which prevails in the North. East and 
 West that the Southern people do not welcome strangers in their midst 
 has prompted this work. It has been the aim of the editor to present 
 unvarnished facts for the consideration of those into whose hands this 
 pamphlet may fall, and we send it forth dedicating it to the welfare of the 
 merchants who have so generously aided its publication, and of the whole 
 country it represents. 
 
 An incident in connection with this publication will suffice to 
 illustrate the feeling of our people: The editor is an Ohioan, who, after 
 a residence of almost two years here, conceived the idea of telling the 
 "up-country" people something of this portion of the Sunny South and 
 thought to attract attention by the tide " Points to the Yankees." It did 
 attract attention, but at the wronor end of the line. A number of most 
 prominent citizens at once objected saying : " We like your idea, but your 
 title, never ! The epithet ' Yankee ' was applied in time of war, with all 
 hatred, and was intended as a mortal insult to our invading enemies. But 
 that time has long since passed, and, sir, we are all Yankees now.' 
 This same feeling pervades the whole community in and around Natchez 
 to an extent that is almost universally observed by strangers, and that 
 makes a residence here, from the very first, a pleasant one There is no 
 section of the South or North where the stranger is sooner or more 
 pleasantly made to feel at home. 
 
 Many of the articles are contributions of genuine Southerners 
 who are well known for their integrity, their familiarity with the history 
 and growth of Natchez and the country tributary thereto, the customs 
 and feelings of the people; and what they have to say may be relied on. 
 We return thanks to the contributors for their kind assistance, and hope 
 they may live to see our beautiful city reap the harvest they have sown. 
 
 The Natchez Daily Democrat and corps have placed us 
 under obligations for innumerable and valuable favors, for which we are 
 gratified to thus publicly thank them. 
 
 The illustrations are all good for which due credit should be 
 given to Mr. H. C. Norman, photographer, of this city, and Messrs. A. 
 Zeese & Co., engravers, Chicago. 
 
 G. N. M'GOr^MIGI^. 
 
"ESTABLISHED 1865. 
 
 HE Natchez Democrat 
 
 -[Daily and Weekly.]- 
 
 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY AND COUNTY. 
 
 JAMES \V. LAMBERT, Proprietor. 
 
 ''v77'eels:l3r, ^3_SO ^er '2'ea,r, ixi .A.d.'vaxice. 
 
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 IS SUPPLIED WITH 
 
 Everything Necessary for First-Class Work. 
 
 BILL HEADS. CIRCULARS, POSTERS. 
 
 NOTE HEADS, PROGRAMMES, DODGERS, 
 
 LETTER HEADS, INVITATIONS, Etc., Etc , Etc. 
 
 ORDERS BY MAIL WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. 
 
 H^^This Pamphlet is a Specimen of Our Work.^^^i^ 
 
NATCHEZ: 
 
 toS ^ASm, ^I^ESENT AND RUTUI^E. 
 By MAJ. THOMAS GRAFTON, 
 
 EDITOR NATCHEZ DE MOV EAT. 
 
 i?77' 
 
 fHE City of Natchez is 272 miles above New Orleans, on the Mississippi river, and is 
 one of the oldest towns in the Southwest, The site for the town was selected by 
 Bienville in 1700, and the fortress of Fort Rosalie was erected and settlers brought to 
 ^' the place in 17 12, two years before the same indomitable chieftain located the City of 
 New Orleans. The magnificent beauty of the location attracted the attention of the adven- 
 turous explorer after encountering the gloomy monotony of three hundred miles of travel on 
 the muddy river, through swamps covered with a dense growth of timber hung with the 
 sombre and funereal Spanish moss, and dense jungles of cane, palmetto and thickets of 
 undergrowth. 
 
 Bienville at once located a site for a town on the romantic hills which here at an eleva- 
 tion of nearly two hundred feet overlook the channel of the mightiest river in the world. 
 
 He doubtless designed it as 
 government of the French 
 of d'Iberville, but the lat- 
 his government at New 
 garrisoned and held as an 
 settlement. The fort was 
 the beautiful countess of 
 derived its name from the 
 habited the country in the 
 Tradition points to this 
 intelligent of all the abo- 
 has painted them in colors 
 with our ideas of the mod- 
 de Chateaubriand, who. at 
 this section of the country, 
 mantic traditions of the 
 gether with the beautiful 
 scenery of the country 
 
 the place for the seat of 
 
 colony under the control 
 
 ter, a few years later, fixed 
 
 Orleans and Natchez was 
 
 outpost of the new French 
 
 called Rosahe in honor of 
 
 Ponchartrain, am I Natchez: 
 
 tribe of Indians which in- 
 
 vicinity of the fortress. 
 
 tribe as one of the most 
 
 riginal tribes and romance 
 
 that scarcely correspond 
 
 ern Indian savage. Count 
 
 sw^i a later period, traveled irt 
 
 -.Hiir^ doubtless heard these ro- 
 ll" 
 
 N^Z/\ '^^^^ \"^"'^^'*^^~~~;?«^'''' ''" Natchez, and these to- 
 K/iAi^n -rii^iiiA.- /^r-. A I— i-^ki landscapes and the grand 
 MAJOR THOMAS GRAFTON, around Natchez doubtless. 
 
 inspired the lovely episode of "Attala," inserted in his wonderful work Genie du C/iristianis/ne,. 
 and the characteristic descriptions in "The Natchez" and "Rene." 
 
 The French garrison soon alienated the good opinions of the Natchez and it was not 
 long before they conspired with other tribes for its destruction. Tradition says a daughter 
 of the "Sun," the chief of the Natchez, who loved one of the officers of the garrison, en- 
 deavored to save the French from their fate, but in vain. She succeeded, however, in so 
 deranging the plans of the Indians that only her own tribe, the Natchez, were present on 
 the day fixed for the massacre. These, under the pretense of having a grand ball play, as- 
 sembled around the Fort, the large entrance to which was left open that the garrison might 
 witness the sports of the Indians. In the midst of the play one of the Indians sent the 
 ball flying through the open gate, and there was a general rush of the dusky players through 
 the gate as if to recover the ball. Having thus gained entrance to the Fort, and the French 
 suspecting no danger, an attack was made on the defenceless soldiers and soon most of 
 them fell victims to the revenge of the Indians. 
 
 This massacre, which occurred in 1729, was soon after avenged by the French and the 
 Indian tribes who had now become the enemies of their former allies, the Natchez, and this 
 most interesting of all the Southern Indian tribes, was exterminated. The name of the 
 lost tribe was, however retained as that of the new settlement, and the "Natchez country'* 
 soon became noted for its beauty and fertility, and it was soon one of the most flourishing 
 of the French-American settlements. It continued to be a French military and trading 
 post until 1763 when it passed by treaty into the hands of the English. The name of the 
 
NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future. 
 
 Fort was changed to Panmure. Scarcely a vestige of its history remains during its posses- 
 sion by England, but a number of English settlers came to the place, the descendants of a 
 few ot whom still remain among the population. 
 
 In the year 1779 it was taken possession of by Spain as a part of Florida, and contin- 
 ued under Spanish control until 1797, when a rectification of the lines between the United 
 States and the Spanish colonies threw it into the United States. 
 
 The occupation of Natchez by the Spanish government is probably the most interesting 
 period of its early history. Large numbers of enterprising Americans, attracted by the 
 fame of the fertility and beauty of the country, and encouraged by the generous manner in 
 which they were treated by the Spanish regime, flocked to Natchez and its vicinity, and long 
 before it was known to be Aaierican territory the anglicised population were prepared for 
 the advent of a Republican form of government. 
 
 The residence of the Spanish Governor was at Natchez, and for the greater part of the 
 time of the Si)anish administration the position was held by Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, 
 ably assisted by Don Stephen Minor, an American who had taken service with Spain. Gov- 
 ernor Gayoso was a man of liberal views and encouraged the immigration of settlers from 
 
 NATCHEZ CITY HOSPITAL 
 every country, to whom he willingly made grants of land for settlement and lots in the city 
 for building. He anticipated a brilliant future tor the seat of his government. The resi- 
 dence lots of the various classes of settlers in the town were kept pretty strictly separated, 
 and that portion near the bluffs on the river was known to the settlers as " Spanish Town," 
 while that portion east of the present Commerce street was designated " Irish Town." It 
 is related that a rather well to-do man, not of Spanish origin, approached the Governor with 
 a request for a building lot near the bluffs. "No, sir," was the Governor's reply; ''No, sir. 
 This part of the City is reserved for the residences of Spanish Grandees." 
 
 A Church was erected in what was intended to be the centre of the town and from the 
 door of this Church the town was laid off in rectangular squares embracing within tl?e city 
 one mile in each direction. All the lands in this boundary were donated in lots to settlers, 
 except the space "reserved for the residences of Spanish Grandees," which fell into the 
 hands of the United States government and afterwards became the source of bitter litigation 
 between the City and Jefferson College. 
 
 The buildings in the town were of an humble and rather primitive character, and few 
 traces of them are now in existence. 
 
 At length the United States took active steps to settle the question of the limits of the 
 
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 ^.i:GI^O(gei^Sk.. 
 
 UMBLE & Wensel 0). UeiYjXJSeU 
 
 COTTON FACTORS. 
 
 (9onF€(9©ionei^y! 
 
 Fine Bandies and ^ai^es 
 
 poi^ Beddings ^ ^ai^ties 
 
 81 0)AIN STI^EET. 
 
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 AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Produce Sl Provisions 
 
 GEO. T, EISLE 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 Harflware aiifl Hoise-FiirnistoE Goofls 
 
 LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, HAIR- 
 
 no. 12 union s&. 
 
 WM. GRIFFIN 
 
 BAR AND POOL ROOM 
 
 COR. MAIN & COMMERCE. 
 
 Fine Wines & Liquors 
 15 ball pool- 
 
V^.H.BROV^N SONS 
 
 WHOLESALE AND KETAIL 
 
 mt!iL 
 
 II I 
 
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 CHILDIiSN'S & BOYS' SUITS 
 
 O O -A. Hi Gents Furnishing &ood$ 
 
 liikti d Mm 
 
 II HeliaUe Goods 
 
 at Lowest Prices, 
 
 PRINCIPAL OFFICE, loo MAIN ST. 
 YARD FOOT OF MAIN ST. 
 
 J. M. BOWEN, MANAGER 
 
 L. A. BENOIST, 
 
 91 MAIN STREET, 
 
 o^c-ai^SSX-ic 
 
 I 
 
 M. F. BUNNING & CO. 
 
 TEMPLE OF PHARMACY 
 
 111 l^^Ta-irj. St. 
 
 Perscriptions a Specialty 
 
 NATCHEZ 
 
 MISS- 
 
 ©EF^PLIMEI^Y AND SOILET fJl^liIGLiES 
 BAIPBNT fflEDIGINES, CTG. 
 
 Cona-pliirxexits of 
 
 — Dealer in — 
 
 General Merchandise 
 
 (Qadison St. and (Semetei^y FJoad 
 NATCHEZ, MISS- 
 
NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future, 
 
 two countries, as it was evident that the claim of Spain was made to territory far north of 
 its true boundary. A detachment of troops under command of Capt. Guion was sent to 
 demand possession of Natchez in 1797. The detachment consisted of two companies of 
 infantry selected from the command of General (Mad Anthony) Wayne and were com- 
 manded by Lieuts. Pope and McCleary. After considerable delay, during which a good' 
 deal of excitement existed among the American inhabitants, negotiations were brought to 
 an end by the silent withdrawal, at night, of the Spanish troops, and the United States flag 
 was peacefully hoisted over the ramjmrts of Fort Panmure, and Natchez was recognized as 
 an American town. In 1798 Mississippi was organized as a Territory, and Natchez was 
 made the Capital. Hon. AVinthrop Sargent, the first Governor, had his residence here, and 
 with his Executive Council framed the laws for the Territory. 
 
 As in the present day, the printing press followed the footsteps of American pioneers, 
 and i^robably the first newspaper ever printed in the Southwest was issued in Natchez by 
 Col. Andrew Murschalk, in 1798. The first laws for the regulation of the Territory were 
 printed by him the same year. 
 
 After the transfer of the Territory, immigration to Natchez and its vicinity became 
 rapid and the town soon assumed a prosperous and thriving appearance ; soon the log and 
 picket houses were replaced by brick and frame tenements. The trade of the place in- 
 
 PROTESTANT ORPHAN ASYLUM. 
 
 creased rapidly, and the foundations of large fortunes were laid by commercial men in 
 Natchez. Millaudom, of New Orleans, MuUanphy, of St. Louis, Ralston, of Philadelphia, 
 Washington Jackson, of Liverpool, and many other ])romincnt merchants of the United 
 States and other countries began their mercantile career in Natchez. Probably in no part 
 o£ the L^nited States was wealth more rapidly accumulated than it was by the hardy and ad- 
 venturous men who were the pioneers in the American settlement of Natchez. 
 
 The soil of the country contiguous to the City was of an extremely fertile character and 
 the cultivation of cotton by slave labor was exceedingly profitable, and the planter who gave 
 proper attention to his business soon became wealthy, and the merchants of the town found 
 a large sale for their goods at very remunerative profits. The first forty years of the present 
 century was the most prosperous period in the history of Natchez, and the wealth and en- 
 terprise of its peoi)le were at least equal to that of any community in the United States. 
 
 Early in this century a branch of the L'nited States Bank was established in Natchez, 
 and a State bank, the Bank of Mississippi, was also established in 1809. With these the 
 business of the merchants and others of the town and surrounding country was conducted, 
 and they were the only banking institutions in the State until 1830, when the Planters' Bank, 
 was chartered to take the place of the Mississippi Bank whose charter was about to expire. 
 
NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future. 
 
 About this time a sjieculative mania began in the States and it was found that the 
 banking faciUties of the City were not sufficient for its business demands. The Agricultu- 
 ral Bank was chartered and not long after another, the Commercial Bank, was added to the 
 number, and at the same time banking privileges were conferred upon a Railroad Company 
 incorporated for the construction of a road from Natchez to Jackson, and the Natchez Ship- 
 ping Company, organized for direct shipping between the port of Natchez and the ports of 
 the world. 
 
 A cotton compress was built, and in 1838 as many as six sailing vessels of good size 
 were lying at one time at the wharf near the compress loading with cotton for the East and 
 for England. About the same time probably the first cotton seed oil mill ever built was 
 constructed in this city. The process of linting and hulling the seed, and of purifying the oil 
 was unknown to these adventurous oil men and a market for their crude oil could not be 
 found, and financial troubles prevented them from realizing the benefits of their enterprise. 
 
 A cotton mill was also erected about the same time, and thus Natchez had at that early 
 date, three of the enterprises which fifty years after have been found to be so profitable, and 
 one, a direct shipping enterprise, which has not yet been revived. 
 
 In 1836 or '37 the people of Natchez began the construction of a railroad, of a 5-feet 
 
 ROSALIE COTTON MILL. 
 
 gauge, to Jackson, and finished it some forty miles on a perfectly level grade, it being tho't 
 at that time that a locomotive could not overcome any serious grade. It, too, was stopped 
 by the financial troubles which followed a period of inflation. 
 
 It has already been said that during the decade from 1830 to 1840 Natchez had five 
 banks of issue and deposit. During the same period some twenty-five banks were chartered 
 and put in operation in other jjlaces in the State. These all discounted largely wnile very 
 few of them had any considerable line of deposits. A speculative mania had seized upon 
 the people of Mississippi in which those of Natchez largely shared. A personal endorse- 
 ment, generally not of a gilt-edged character, was all that was necessary to secure loans at 
 easy rates from the banks. A redundency of currency naturally produced inflation in value 
 of real estate, and plantations and slaves were bought and sold at extravagant prices. This 
 continued until the country was filled with irredeemable currency, and finally the bubble 
 burst bringing ruin upon those who bought at inflated prices. 
 
 It may be imagined that the business of the City received a severe check from the re- 
 duction of values to one-tenth of what they had before been. Wide spread ruin was the 
 result and a blow had been given to all kinds of business from which under the most favor- 
 able circumstances it would have been hard to recover. 
 
 To add to the depression: in May, 1840, Natchez was visited by one of the most de- 
 
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 WATC H M A KER 
 
 Diamonds, 
 
 Fine ^eweli^y, 
 
 Batches, €t6. 
 
 SILVER WATCHES, FROM $10 UP 
 **" GOLD WATCHES, FROM $ 5 UP 
 
 REAL DIAMOND RINGS FROM $10 UP 
 REAL DIAMOND EAR RINGS FROM $10 UP 
 
 Cor. Main and Pearl Sts— Democrat Biiildin$r 
 
 NAIPGHEZ, MISS. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AGENTS, 
 
 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS, 
 
 Pure Drugs, Paints, Oils, 
 
 :^\ 
 
 '^ F. A. DIGITS, 
 
 I 5, 17. 19, Commerce St 
 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 -0 * 
 
 GLASS, LAMPS, SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS 
 
 druggists sundries. 
 
 AND GENERAL STORE SUNDRIES. 
 
 Salvo & Berdon, 
 
 MANIFACTLUKUS OF TllK 
 
 
 UnXlD 
 
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 STICK AND FANCY CANDISS 
 
 MINERAL Water bottlers. 
 
 Also VVliolesale Deuleis in 
 
 Cigars, Crackers, and Fruits. 
 
 N. B. — Our Stick Candy is absolutely- 
 pure and highly flavored. Packed full weight 
 All sizes made to order. 
 
 Price List sent on application. 
 
 SALVO &BERDON 
 
 Nos. 104-6-8 Main Street. 
 P. O. Box 97. NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 W.B.BRIELJR. 
 
 NO. 83 MAIN S^r^EBiF 
 
 Books, 
 
 Stationery, 
 
 Fancy Goods, 
 Notions, Toys 
 Etc., £tc., £tc. 
 
 25 M Wlite Epeloiies for 5 CcdIs 
 18 Ms M Note Paper for 5 Cents 
 
 AND OTHER GOODS 
 
 Proportionately Low ! 
 
M. BURKE : ^OHN RAWLE 
 
 LADIES', "MISSES', GENTLEMEN'S, YOUTHS' 
 AND CHILDREN'S 
 
 Fire and Life 
 
 Fine Boots and Shoes! i^eal Estate Agent 
 
 Children's from 5octs to $i.oo 
 Misses from 7 sets to $2.00 
 Ladies from $1,00 to $4.00 
 Gents Lace. Button and Gaiters from 
 $1.50 to $5.00. 
 
 TRUNKS AND VALiSES 
 
 No. 95 MAIN STREET. 
 
 National Bani^ Building, 
 Represents 
 
 Western Asi^iuANCE Co.. of Toronto, Can. 
 Crescent Insurance Co.. of New Orleans, 
 CoLiMHLS Ins. As Banking Co.. of iMiss . 
 Ger.man American; Ins. Co . of New York, 
 Manhattan Life Ins. Co., of New York. 
 
 Buys and Sells all Descriptions of 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 
 1 Vila 
 
 B. B. DflUIS, 
 
 llj j Builder, 
 FAMILY AND FANXY Carpenter, 
 
 G R O C E RI E S I Contractor. 
 
 Cigars 6^ Tobacco, ^^^Estimates and Designs fur- 
 
 n k MnirC^ rn IIITC TTA "'s^"*^*^ promptly, and all work gruar- 
 
 uANUlcSi rRUITSi ETU anteed in accordance widi specifica 
 
 ' ' tions, every time. 
 
 156 FRANKLIN ST. 
 
NATCHEZ— Its Past, Present and Future 
 
 stnictive tornados that has ever occurred in this country. Its business houses were leveled 
 with the ground and the whole city was a wreck. From this blow, under the depressed 
 condition of financial matters, the City was very slow in recovering. 
 
 X . The planters, in the meanwhile, had formed business connections in distant cities and 
 the plantation business of the City was reduced to a minimum. Planting was found to be 
 the most profitable business, and investments were made almost entirely in cotton planting, 
 the planters making their purchases almost entirely in New Orleans, Cincinnati, St. Louis 
 and other distant cities. All the banks failed, the compress, the oil mill, the cotton factory, 
 and even the railroad had to succumb to the stringency of the financial condition. 
 
 Thus Natchez, from being one of the leading towns in the South, became secondary 
 in importance, and although it was always valued as a ])lace of residence, on account of its 
 beautiful location, its healthy climate, the excellence of its public school system, and the 
 high morality that characterized its people; it lost much of its prestige and tlie war coming 
 on gave a final blow to its old time prosperity. 
 
 When the war closed it was for a while thought the City could never recover from the 
 ruin which had been brought upon the i)eople of Natchez and its vicinity. The wealth of 
 the planters was gone, and those who had lived a life of lu.xury and elegance found them- 
 selves reduced to poverty. 
 
 But the war which had spread ruin and desolation over the land, had left to Natchez a 
 
 Residence of R. F. Learned, President Natchez Cotton Mills Company, 
 class of earnest, enterprising young men who went to work vigorously to recruit their for- 
 tunes. Their service in the army had accustomed them to work anil hardened their sinews 
 and prepared their hearts for the struggle in a more peaceful field, for an object not less dear 
 to them, the comfort and support of themselves and their families. With brave hearts they 
 worked at the task of building a new prosperity on the ruins which they found left to them 
 by the unfortunate contest through which they had just passed. The results have been such 
 as the most sanguine among them could scarcely have hoped for. 
 
 As the South has been rehabilitated under the changed condition of our labor system, 
 so Natchez too has j^ut on a new phase, and one which promises to make of it a more pros- 
 perous and important City than it has ever been before. Probably no locality in the South 
 ])assed through the era of reconstruction more quietly and more j)rudently than Natchez. 
 By the tact of its people the City and County government was restored to its inteUigent 
 people without a single act of violence or one drop of blood shed. Quietly and peacefully 
 the control of public aflairs was regained and the class of population from whom danger 
 was feared acquiesced in the action of our i)rudent citizens with apparent pleasure. 
 
 With the restoration of the City and County governments to intelligent and honest 
 hands, one of the first things was the construction of a railroad from Natchez to Jackson, 
 a point where connection was formed with the system of railroads extending in every direc- 
 
NATCHEZ— Its Fast, Present and Future. 
 
 tion over the Union. This work was done by home capital alone, the County issuing^ its 
 bonds which were taken by citizens of the County, for the construction of this road ,_ "^ 
 
 This gave the first impulse to a spirit of enterprise which speedily resulted in the 
 erection of two large cotton mills, two mills for the manufacture of cotton seed oil, two iron 
 foundries, a cotton compress, an elevator from the river to the top of the high bluff on which 
 the City stands, a street railway and a large number of minor manufacturing establishments. 
 
 It is the proud boast of the people of Natchez that it has depended for its improve- 
 ments solely on the enterprise of its own people. Its isolated position had prevented it 
 from attracting the attention of the capitalists of the world, and in self defense it was com- 
 pelled to be self dependent. 
 
 The spirited action of its people has now however, drawn attention to it, and enter- 
 prises are being projected which will add very largely to its commercial importance. One 
 of the most important of these is a railroad on which work will be begun early in the fall, 
 the New Orleans, Natchez & Fort Scott railroad, which connects Natchez directly with the 
 Great West and makes it a distributing point for Northern products to a very large portion 
 of the Southwest. 
 
 The extension of the Natchez, Jackson & Columbus railroad to Columbus and Decatur, 
 which is a probability of the near future, will make one of the most direct outlets to the 
 Mississippi river for the rich mineral productions of Alabama and Tennessee. 
 
 
 FIRST NATIONAL BANK • .: 
 
 A road has also been built with Natchez capital from Vidalia, La., to Trinity, on Black 
 river, which will doubtless develope into a western road through Texas and give to Natchez 
 the benefit of one of the best trades in the South. In addition to these roads, a railroad is 
 contemplated due east from Natchez through the finest forests of pine timber in the United 
 States, which, when built would bring here for shipment immense quantities of lumber for 
 the North and West. 
 
 These and other railroad enterprises that are in contemplation, will make of this City 
 a centre of trade that will be surpassed by no other city in the South. The manufacturing 
 spirit of the peoj^le of Natchez, together with its facilities for carrying on industries of all 
 kinds, points to the conclusion that it will become one of the most important of Southern 
 manufacturing cities. 
 
 These all indicate a future for Natchez that will be brilliant and useful. Its beautiful 
 location, its delightful climate, its phenomenal healthfulness, the fertility of the country which 
 surrounds it, the generosity and hospitality of its people all point to Natchez and its vicinity 
 at the present time as it did in the years long ago, as the garden of the South, the favorite 
 land of the emigrant hunting a home, of the invalid in search of health, and of the denizen 
 of the bleak, cold North seeking a genial winter home in a land of sunny homes and gen- 
 erous hearts. 
 
ESTATE L D. ALDRICH 
 
 Wholesale and Rt'trtil dealer iu 
 
 CUTLERY, CHINA, SILVER 
 
 ANDGLASS WARE, 
 
 CHANDELIERS, BRACKET LAMPS, 
 
 LAMP TRIMMINGS. OILS, AND 
 
 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS 
 
 ., A, Benoist 
 
 91 Main St., 
 
 Natchez, Miss. 
 
 Keeps always on hand full lines 
 
 GENERALLY. 
 
 Xlo. 81, 
 
 0)AiN St. 
 
 LOUIS BOTTO 
 
 SlICCESSOK TO JOHN BOTTO, 
 
 WINES, 
 LIQUORS. 
 CORDIALS 
 
 FAMILY aBOCEBIES 
 
 COR. MAIN AND WALL STS., 
 
 Natchez, - - Miss. 
 
 GentsTuriiishingGoods 
 
 ©ATi^ONAGB Solicited. 
 
 WM. STEITENROTH 
 
 CQODEI^N fll^GHI'PEGI' AND BULIDEP^ 
 
 Plans for Residences, Stores and Buildings 
 
 of All Descriptions, furnished at 
 
 Very Reasonable Prices 
 
 OFFICE :— Room 5, Democrat Building. 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
ABE MOSES. 
 
 MAURICE MOSES. 
 
 f{. Si CQ. GQoses, 
 
 COTTON & COTTON SEED BUYERS 
 
 -AND- 
 
 Dealers in all Kinds of Merchandise, 
 
 NO. 2 2 COMMERCE ST. 
 
 C. T. CHAMBERLAIN. 
 
 J. \V. H. PATTERSON. 
 
 PROPRIETORS 
 
 -- :OF:-- 
 
 THE JEFFERSON 
 
 Liyery, Feed & Sale 
 
 Stables. 
 
 Where we buy and 
 sell Horses, Mules, 
 Cattle, Carriajjes, 
 Buggies & Wagons. 
 
 PROFRIETORS 
 
 -. :OF:- 
 
 Ceiitral Wood Yard 
 
 — IN — 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 — AND — 
 
 Mof.es' Sfeambnat 
 Wood Yard. 12 miles 
 above >{utchez. 
 
 NEW STORE ! NEW STOCK ! 
 
 FERD. D. MANNOCCI, 
 
 FANCY GROCERIES, 
 
 FRUITS, 
 
 JTOBAGGO ^ GIGAI^S. 
 
 PURITY 
 
 BF GOODS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT 
 GUARANTEED. 
 
 FRANKLIN STREET 
 
 CORNER RANKIN. 
 
 Chamberlain & Patterson, 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Notions 
 
 84 MAIN STREET, 
 NATCHEZ, - - - MISS. 
 
 This well-known house was established 
 in 1869, since which time it has done the 
 leading Dry Goods business of the city. 
 
 They keep constantly on hand the larg- 
 est and handsomest assortment of Goods in 
 their line, and give close personal attention 
 to their business. 
 
 AGENTS FOR 
 
 THE PIONEER HOUSE: 
 
 WHOLESALE 
 
 HARDWARE, STOVES, METALS, 
 
 BUILDERS', MACHINISTS' AND WAG- 
 ON MAKERS' SUPPLIES. 
 
 IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL IMPLE- 
 MENTS. 
 
 FACTOR OF THE LEADING 
 
 PLOWS, PLANTERS, 
 
 MOWERS AND CULTIVATORS. 
 
 SPECIAL AGENT FOR 
 
 STEAM ENGINES, COTTON GINS, 
 
 PRESSES AND GRIST MILLS. 
 
 LARGEST STOCK AND LOWEST PRICES 
 
 J. C SCHV7ARTZ. 
 
NATCHEZ — Its Government and Politics — Schools. 
 
 G0VER3MENT A^O POLITICS. 
 
 &■:? . , - .-: 
 
 f^HE Municipal Government of Natchez 
 '^ is simple and inexpensive. The Exec- 
 [ utive and Legislative government is 
 "?!;-}' vested in a Mayor and Board of eight 
 Aldermen. Two aldermen represent the 
 people of each ward, and they are elected on 
 alternate years for a term of two years each. 
 
 
 
 HON. WM. H. MALLERY, Mayor. 
 
 The working force of the Board is consti- 
 tuted by committees, appointed by the May- 
 or. 
 
 The Board elect all the subordinate of- 
 ficers, city clerk, assessor, treasurer, solicitor, 
 marshal and police force. 
 
 The Mayor is ex-officio Recorder and 
 judge of the Police court, and has jurisdic- 
 tion in all cases coming under the city ordi- 
 nances. 
 
 JOHN GRADY, Alderman, 1st Ward. 
 City monies are closely looked after by 
 the Finance committee of the Board, and the 
 streets, Fires, Lights, Water, Health, and 
 other committees, keeps the corporation in 
 a healthy state financially and physically. 
 
 Annually, in August, the committees 
 make up their budget of probable expenses 
 for the ensuing year, and make the tax levy 
 just cover it. 
 
 The city debt is small only $18,000 in 
 warrants which are receivable at par for city 
 taxes, so there is no necessity for a sinking 
 
 L. G. ALDRICH, Alderman, 1st Ward. 
 fund, consequently taxes are low. 
 
 Politics might be said to be unknown 
 here, the tickets rarely if ever contain the 
 name of a party, or, if they do, it is not read. 
 The people, white and black, look out for 
 the interest "of the city and vote for the indi- 
 vidual they will best fill the position to which 
 he aspires. 
 
 OUR SCHOOLS. 
 
 BY PROF. J. W. HENDERSON, SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 fin HE public schools of Natchez are one 
 HJ;!. of its interesting features; and the liber- 
 ^ll al scale upon which they are conducted 
 ^(^ is a striking evidence of the hold which 
 they have upon the hearts of her citizens. 
 Enrolled in these schools are 1195 P'^" 
 pils, distributed as follows : White, males, 
 269; white females, 286 ; colored males, 276; 
 colored females, 367. Twenty-three teach- 
 ers are employed at salaries ranging from 
 $40 to $100 per month. The school session 
 commences October i, and continues nine 
 months, leaving a vacation during the 
 months of July, August and September. 
 Separate buildings are provided for the two 
 races; these are large, well ventilated, well 
 lighted and are located in different quarters 
 of the city. Play-grounds, maps, black- 
 boards, abundance of fuel in winter, and 
 
8 
 
 NATCHEZ— Her Industries. 
 
 everything that can conduce to the moral, 
 intellectual and physical welfare of the chil- 
 dren, are liberally provided. The school for 
 whites is divided into twelve departments; 
 that for blacks into eleven departments. 
 Each school has its principal and both are 
 under the supervision of a general superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 The school for whites has been in exis- 
 tence more than torty years. Many of our 
 
 GEO- T. PAYNE, Alderman, 2d Ward, 
 most substantial citizens are indebted to it 
 alone for the education which has made 
 them influential men in our community, and 
 to-day it is as thorough and systematic as it 
 has ever been in the past. 
 
 There are also a number of private schools 
 
 P. W. MULVIHILL, Alderman, 2d Ward. 
 
 in the city for small children, and one or two 
 normal institutions where the higher branch- 
 es are taught. 
 
 Natchez college, an advanced institution. 
 
 for colored people, is located in the suburbs 
 of the city, and is successfully managed. 
 I ' At Washington six miles away is old Jef- 
 ferson College, one of the oldest institutions 
 of its kind in the United States. Jefferson 
 Davis, the famous president of the Confed- 
 eracy was a student there, and associated 
 with him were some of the greatest statesmen 
 Mississippi has produced. The college is 
 Hberally endowed and gives a very thorough 
 course. 
 
 
 ^"^ 
 
 
 iiffe 
 
 OUR INDUSTRIES. 
 
 ^i;^HEN you begin to talk of manufactor- 
 ies, the South takes a seat several rows 
 from the front. Nevertheless she is 
 an interested spectator and is fast 
 
 J. B. O'BRIEN, Alderman, 3d Ward, 
 working forward. In the olden times, from 
 sheer force of habit, she looked northward 
 for every manufactured article ; even send- 
 ing all her great cotton product to the east- 
 ern mills to be worked up into cloth, think- 
 ing, doubtless, that the number of mills in. 
 that part of the country was sufficient to 
 supply all demands likely ever to be made 
 upon them, and that to put money into a 
 mill in the South was next thing to throw- 
 ing it into the fire; then, too, they were a 
 fastidious people, and did not like the idea 
 of having the jmvacy of their beautiful 
 homes invaded by the smoke and dust and 
 noise which are attendant upon great manu- 
 factories. Years, and increasing population 
 and demands, proved their error however, 
 and they were not slow to see that if the 
 
M 
 
 FOUR MILES OF ROAD BUILT AND 
 UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 
 
 PROPRIETORS OF THE 
 
 CASINO AND PARK 
 
 LIGHTED BY 
 
 ELECTRICITY 
 
 IN THE STATE, 
 Auditorium seating 2,000 Persons. 
 THOS. REBER, Pres. 
 
 1. SHLENKEU. 
 
 Trovville. !>:<. 
 
 SHLEXKER & HIRSCU, 
 
 NMtcliez. Miss. 
 
 Shlenker&Hirsch 
 
 NO. 16 COMMERCE ST. 
 
 DRY GOODS, 
 CLOTHINXx, 
 
 HATS & CAPS 
 
 BOOTS & SHOES 
 
 FURNITURE. 
 GROCERIES, 
 TOBACCOS, 
 
 BAGGING&TIES 
 
 MEATS. 
 
 TRUNKS & VALISES, 
 
 PLANTATION SUPPLIES, 
 
 Liberal Advances 
 
 Made on Growing Crops and Consignments. 
 
 H 
 
 J. B. O BRI£N, Agt. 
 
 Wholesale and Eetail Dealeis in 
 
 riinEDiisH m 
 
 Orders for Coal along the line 
 of the N.J. & C. R. R. will receive 
 prompt attention. 
 
 Orders left at branch office, in 
 Democrat building, will receive 
 prompt attention. 
 
 EST, OF P, WALSH 
 
 Natchez M:ss. 
 2S Corr:Lrr:Lerce St. 
 
 CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS and 
 
 MATTINGS EXCLUSIVELY. 
 
 2-^ OoanrLrrtLerce St- 
 
 FINE DRESS GOODS, DOMESTICS, 
 
 WOOLENS, HOSIERY. SHOES, 
 FANCY SOAPS, PERFUMERY, ETC., 
 
 2G OorrzLXiirrLerce St. 
 
 (COR. OF STATE.) 
 
 FAMILY GROCERIES AND HOUSE. 
 
 FURNISHING GOODS OF 
 
 ALL KINDS. 
 
W. B. DICKS & CO., 
 
 Boots and Shoes 
 
 The Celebrated 
 
 'en's File Mi 
 
 A SPECIALTY. 
 LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S 
 
 SHOES 
 
 89 MAIN STREET. 
 
 DM Vilf Sti 
 
 Everything hrst-class and the 
 -lowest priced house in the city. 
 
 <;HIN AWARE, 
 
 CROCK K It Y, 
 WOODEN WARE, 
 
 TOYS, 
 FANCY" VASES. 
 
 GLXS^WARE, 
 TINWARE. 
 WIIJ.OW WARE 
 DOEI.S. 
 LAMPS, 
 
 SPECIALTY OF CUTLERY. 
 
 HOLLIDAY GOODS IN SEASON, AND 
 LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY. 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY GRO- 
 CERIES. 
 
 Accommodating clerks. No trouble to 
 ■chow goods. 
 
 HENRY DAVIS, 
 
 134 6 FRANKLIN ST. 
 
 MARX & SCHARFF 
 
 AVHOLESALE 
 
 "ACME" 
 " BAKER RYE" 
 
 And all promiment 
 brands 
 
 I A full stock of the best 
 brands constantly kept 
 
 HAZLEKIRKE," 
 Grand Havana" 
 HENO' 
 
 And other brands 
 
 S 
 
 All the Leading 
 .. Brands constantly 
 iJ in stock 
 
 II Depot for the old oricrinal 
 " BUDWEISER." 
 
 Having just opened in the New Polkdnghorne 
 Building, 
 
 NO. 152 FRANKLIN STREET, 
 
 I have on hand a new and complete stock of 
 
 GROC ERIES 
 
 PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 
 
 From my long acquaintance with the 
 business, I am pre[)ared to give perfect sat- 
 isfaction to my cubtomers. 
 
 MR, CHAS. WHITCOMB, 
 
 Of late firm of Grover &: Whilcomb, will 
 be found at above stand with me. 
 
 Geo. L. Whitcomb, 
 
NATCHEZ— Her Industries. 
 
 South would prosper she must subordinate 
 pride to necessity and industry. 
 
 With the balance Natchez sized up the 
 situation and went to work. As a result we 
 show. 
 
 The Natchez Cotton Mill, which occupies 
 nearly a whole block in the city, with hand- 
 some buildings, where over three hundred 
 persons are employed, running three hundred 
 looms and ten thousand spindles, where over 
 
 A. L. HOWE, Alderman, 3d Ward. 
 $4,000 per month are paid out in wages, 
 where about 4,000 bales of cotton are con 
 sumed annually in making about 5,000,000 
 yards of cloth. 
 
 The Rosalie Mills another industry in the 
 same line, where over 3,000 bales of cotton 
 are annually manufactured into towels, blue 
 
 R. S. DIXON, Alderman, 4th Ward, 
 cloth and a variety of other grades of goods, 
 where $3,000 are monthly paid to employ- 
 es. 
 
 Two large Cotton .Seed Oil Mills, em- 
 ploying about seventy-five men each The 
 works of these institutions occupy nearly two 
 blocks, and are a portion of the greatest in 
 dustrial enterprise ever started in the South. 
 
 A Cotton Compress, where bales of the 
 great staple are placed in the most compact 
 form for foreign shipment. This new enter- 
 prises has probably done the city more good 
 than the same investment ever did any 
 town. It has brought this year over 15,000 
 bales of cotton to this market more than> 
 usual. It has made this a ])oint where buy- 
 ers congregate, and the prices paid during 
 
 GEO. T. REHN, Alderman, 4th Ward, 
 the past season have compared most favora- 
 bly with New Oi leans. 
 
 Two Brass and Iron Foundries, one of 
 them an extensive institution, employing a_ 
 large number of skilled mechanics and ea- 
 
 THOS. R. QUARTERMAN, City Clerk, 
 tering extensively into the manufacture of 
 steam boilers and engines. 
 
 Two Cotton Gins of large capacity, using: 
 steam power, and employing many hands 
 each. 
 
 A Batting Mill where the lint from the 
 cotton seed is manufactured into neat rolls, 
 of cotton batting which are shii)ped North to 
 
NATCHEZ— Her Industries. 
 
 be used in making comforts to protect the 
 people from King Frost on cold nights. 
 
 Two Extensive Lumber Mills, supplying 
 the demand for building material, in native 
 woods. 
 
 An Ice Factory, witl? a capacity of eighteen 
 tons every twenty-four hours. 
 
 The Bluff City Railway company with 
 wharf and incline to the hill tops and tracks 
 through the city for the distribution of freight, 
 
 F. J. Arrighi, City Assessor. 
 is a convenient and paying institution and 
 employs usually about forty men. 
 
 A Stained Glass Works is about ready to 
 ■open business, and is the first of its kind in 
 the South. It is started by two of our most 
 ^energetic young men associated with a gen- 
 
 W. T. MARTIN, Pres. N. J. & C. Ry. 
 tleman from the North, and its prospects are 
 of the finest. 
 
 A Street Railway traverses the city from 
 the steamboat landing to a park two and a 
 half miles away in the eastern suburbs of the 
 
 city, and gives employment to ten or twelve 
 men. 
 
 The manner of receiving our coal supply 
 makes this a great industry. The coal comes 
 here from the upper Ohio in barges and has 
 to be wheeled out onto the bank in barrows 
 which gives employment to three hundred 
 men at least six months in the year. 
 
 Two Brick Yards, each owning extensive 
 
 S. E. RUMBLE, Pres. Bluff City Ry. 
 
 grounds and manufacturing first-class goods 
 at reasonable i)rices, are among the great 
 wage-paying industries of our city. 
 
 Two mineral water bottling establishments 
 with a capacity each of i8o dozen bottles. 
 
 Three manufacturing confectioners, two 
 of whom make 1200 pounds of candy per 
 
 THOS. REBER, Pres. Natchez Street Ry. 
 day each, and give employment to eight or 
 ten men. 
 
 A meal mill in connection with one of the 
 gins does the local grinding. 
 
 A beer bottling institution of large capaci- 
 ty- 
 
TIIOS. MASON. 
 
 GEO. T. REIIN. 
 
 M 
 
 ASON 
 
 &R 
 
 EHN, 
 
 THE OLDEST WHOLESALE AND RE- 
 TAIL HOUSE IN NATCHEZ. 
 
 This tiim ranks up iimon>j the leadiiie: 
 ones of tlie South. An evidence that their 
 <.'xten.«ive business is known generally, is in 
 the fact that nianufactniers of farm imple- 
 ments of all kinds, are continually seeking to 
 place an agency with iheui. Their main line 
 is 
 
 Groceries and Plantation Supplies 
 
 But they sliow a variety of 
 
 Cotton Gins! Wagons! 
 
 AND OTHER IMPLEMENTS. 
 
 All goods delivered to depots, steamboat 
 landings, or any part of the city free. 
 
 J. R. KIRKPATUICK. 
 
 H. L. PURNELL. 
 
 THE GKEAT 8H0K MAX OF NATCHEZ. 
 
 Wlio inauffurated low retail |irices in slioes, liuB as- 
 toni!flic(l liis competitors and I lie iiulilic with his sue- 
 (•CC8. lU'KNs sells Shoes in all lines the be<it ana 
 cheapest — at wlxdesale prices freijrht added. He has 
 the lar>rest retail trade base 1 <«n spot cash ^ales. Or- 
 ders from the c-oiintry will have special attention 
 
 In I'onuection with shoes, Hums is known as the 
 great IJaker and Klonr de iler of .Natchez. 
 
 Address, 1* BIKXS, 43 & 4.'. Pine Street, Satchez 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1887. 
 
 KIRKPATRICK I PURNELL 
 
 DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS 
 
 NO 85 MAIN STREET, 
 
 NATCHEZ, 
 
 MISS. 
 
 Our establishment is second to 
 none in the State in point of Ele- 
 o^ance and Completeness. J. R. 
 Kirkpatrick, the senior partner of 
 the firm, has charge of the Pre- 
 scription Department with an ex- 
 perience of 15 years. 
 
 TS^^Our Homoepathic Depart- 
 ment is now the most complete in 
 the State. Give us a call when you 
 visit Natchez. 
 
 E. L MIDDLETON, 
 
 PROPRIETOR 
 
 ELITE SALOON, 
 53 Main St. 
 
 OPERA SALOON, 
 Democrat Building. 
 
Coi3apliiaa.eii.ts Of 
 
 V^. H. MALLERY, 
 
 THE LEADING GROCER 
 
 OF NATCHEZ. 
 
 OoisiplimLents of 
 
 JULIUS W. ROOS, 
 
 DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF 
 
 Plantation Supplies 
 
 Over Three Hundred and Fifty 
 People Advanced Every Year 
 
 FaiutliLariestCdtloEHaDiriiitleCHj 
 
 A man whom his neighbors and 
 competitors will recommend. 
 
 COR. PINE AND JEFFERSON STS., 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 MARTIN & LANNEAU, 
 
 pTTOI^NEYS AT liAW, 
 
 Practice in the Courts of Adams 
 and adjoining Counties, and be- 
 fore the Supreme Court. 
 
 R. G. Musgrove & Co., 
 
 COTTON BUYERS 
 
 Office in Democrat Building, 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS, 
 
 Planters will find it to their in- 
 terest to call upon us before selling 
 their cotton. All communications 
 addressed to us will receive prompt 
 attention. 
 
 We buy cotton along the river 
 and railroad. Do not consign your 
 cotton to New Orleans or Memphis 
 whe you can sell it to us and save 
 commission and niimerous charges. 
 
 The Natchez market is the 
 place to dispose of your crop at fan- 
 cy prices. Cotton consigned to us 
 will be held subject to instructions. 
 
NATCHEZ— Her Churches. 
 
 There are also in course of construction a 
 fine system of water works which will give 
 employment to a great many hands this year, 
 and put about $75,000 in circulation in our 
 city. 
 
 The Gas Works is an old established con- 
 cern, and affords an illumination superior to 
 that of many larger cities. 
 
 The Daily Democrat justly comes under 
 the head ot our industries. It is a member 
 
 H. R STEELE, Pres. N., R. R. &. T. Ry. 
 
 of the associated press and gives the latest 
 telegraphic news in time for breakfast every 
 morning except Monday. It gives employ- 
 ment to about fifteen men. 
 
 The Tri- Weekly Banner is another !o ;al 
 industry and while only a yearling, is a 
 
 R. F. LEARNED, Pres. Natchez Cotton MiH. 
 sprightly child. It furnishes employment for 
 eight or ten people. 
 
 That our people favor industrial ventures 
 is evident from the fact that every dollar in- 
 vested in those just enumerated is the money 
 of Natchez people. But there are still many 
 things needed which our people have not the 
 
 money at present to proceed with. To the 
 people of the North therefore is this mvita- 
 tion extended "Come over into Macedonia 
 and help us !" 
 
 QUR CHURCHES. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAN. 
 
 HE Presbyterian congregation at Natchez- 
 is a large and vigorous body. They have 
 a spacious and elegant house of wor- 
 ship at the corner of Pearl and State 
 
 J. C. SCHWARTZ, Pres. Rosalie Cotton MilL 
 streets, a chapel at the corner of Pearl and 
 Washington streets, and a mission station oi> 
 St. Catherine street. A Presbyterian ele- 
 ment existed in this community prior to the 
 
 LOUIS BOTTO. Pres. Compress Co. 
 establishment of the Mississii)pi Territory irr 
 1797, consisting of colonists of Scotch origin 
 a>.d from New England. They were formalljr' 
 organized mto a church in 1S17. The pur- 
 
12 
 
 NATCHEZ— Her Churches. 
 
 pose to erect a place of worship had been 
 formed as early as iSio. and was completed 
 in 1815. The original structure was replaced 
 in 1829 by a more im])Osing one, and this, in 
 turn, was enlarged in 1H51 into the dimen- 
 sions and form in which the present stately 
 edifice appears. 
 
 The number of enrolled communicants in 
 this church is about 360. The pastor is the 
 Rev. Joseph B. Stratton D. D., who com- 
 menced his ministry at this point and has 
 been in office since December 31, 1843. As- 
 sociated with him is a Bench of 9 Elders and 
 a Board of 5 Deacons. 
 
 The constituency of the Presbyterian 
 
 THE METHODIST CHURCH. 
 
 >^H E introduction of Methodism in Natchez 
 ^ occurred in 1798, the same year in which 
 United States authority was established here. 
 Tobias Gibson, a South Carolinian, was the 
 first minister, and Natchez was one of a large 
 circuit of ajjpointments which it became his 
 duty to fill. He traveled on horseback or 
 on foot and endured all the hardships in- 
 cident to a new country, and succeeded 
 in establishing in a few years such congrega- 
 tions that assistances was re(piired to attend 
 the work. This was furnished by volunteers 
 from the army of willing workers educated 
 
 ST. MARY S CATHEDRAL, NATCHEZ. 
 
 church has always included in it some ot the 
 best members ot this community, and has 
 furnished a succession of })ublic spirited work- 
 ers in every cause connected with the edu- 
 cational philanthropic and moral interests of 
 the city. Its policy has been uniformly con- 
 servative, and its relation with other religious 
 bodies have been maintained in a generous 
 and fraternal spirit. The congregation is in 
 all respects in a healthy and prosperous con- 
 dition at the present time. 
 
 in the faith, and the results have been satis- 
 factory in the extreme. Their system of 
 changing ministers and the many excellent 
 men who have been stationed here in conse- 
 quence, render it impossible to go into de- 
 tails in this work, but that the church has 
 has kei)t apace with others in the matter of 
 successful work is evident in the splendid 
 structure occupied by a large congregation, 
 on the corner of Jefferson and Union streets, 
 Wesley chapel, a less pretentious, but not 
 less zealous church for the benefit of the 
 factory operatives and citizens of the north- 
 
[ESTABLISHED 1881.] 
 
 J, R, KIRKPATRICK, 
 Dl^UGGIST AND (ShBMIST 
 
 NO. 102 PI^ANI^LiIN ST. 
 
 NATCHEZ. . - - - MISS. 
 
 The Prescription Department is presided 
 over by Mr. W. E. Irwin, with ample expe- 
 rience, assistcvl by Mr. Leon L. Geisenber- 
 GER. I manufacture a full Hne of 
 
 PROPRIETARY REMEDIES! 
 
 Among them the Justly Celebrated 
 
 Mi] Cliark Cure 
 
 Which cures the Ver)- Worst case in from 
 two to three days. If you doubt the merits 
 of this Remedy, write for testimonials from 
 some of the largest stock owners in this vi- 
 cinity. This remedy is for sale by all Drug- 
 gists in Natchez. 
 
 Geo. S. I^ayne, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 Clothing, 
 Dry Goods, 
 Boots & Shoes, 
 
 China, Glassware 
 
 Anfl toeral Plantalioii Siippfe Hoise 
 
 169 and 171 Franklin St., Cor. Pine. 
 
 H 
 
 CashPr 
 
 IGHESTOASH JT RICE 
 
 PAID KOR 
 
 DONALDSO]N^ 
 
 BOOK, STATIONERY 
 
 AND MUSIC HOUSE 
 
 Music 
 Books, 
 
 _^ Flutes, 
 
 GUILD, CHURCH & CO., 
 
 btnngs Manufacturers, Boston, Mass. Etc., 
 
 of all kinds. Accordions, Harmonicas, 
 and everything else in the music line. 
 
 Sold on time and easy payments. Old 
 pianos taken in part payment. 
 
 Also a full stock of Blank Books, School 
 Books in paper, Novels and Bound Books, 
 and everything else in the Book and Station- 
 ery line. NEWS DEPOT— Subscriptions 
 taken for all Magazines and papers published 
 at publishers rates. Remember the place, 
 
 109 MAIN STREET. 
 
 COTTOInT 
 
 1663 ESTABLISHED 24 TEAKS. 1SS7 
 
 HENI^Y FI^ANI^ 
 Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes and Hats 
 
 The only exclusive jobbing house 
 in the State in its line. 
 
 For clear, business perception and strict- 
 ly upright dealing, no merchant in the State 
 enjoys a more enviable reputation than this 
 mammoth dealer. His spacious establish- 
 ment, eligibly located on the corner of Main 
 and Pearl streets, consists of three stories — 
 six large rooms — filled with the choicest goods 
 to be found in the markets of the world. A 
 visit through Mr. Frank's establishment re- 
 veals a thoroughly systematic arrangement of 
 his large stocks that will enable buyers to se- 
 lect their purchases in the shortest order and 
 with the most satisfactory results. An im- 
 mense warehouse in close ])roximity to the 
 main building, enables Mr. Frank to keep in 
 stock full lines of goods suited to his large 
 trade. In quality of goods, low prices, strict 
 attention and upright dealing, Mr. Frank is 
 sec nd to none. 
 
JO. F. FOARD, 
 
 F.isident. 
 
 ISAAC LOWEXBHRG, 
 
 Vice President. 
 
 B. \V. <)\V.»LKV, 
 
 Aes't Cashier. 
 
 A. G. CAMPBELL, 
 
 Cashier. 
 
 Ths First National Bank 
 
 OF NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 [Organized April, 1887.] 
 
 Capital, - - - - $100,000 
 
 A General Banking Business Transacted. 
 
 Particular attention paid to collections 
 throughout this section, and proceeds Prompt- 
 ly Remitted on day of payment, at lowest rate 
 of exchange. 
 
 Accounts of Banks, Bankers, Corpora- 
 tions, and Individuals received on favorable 
 terms. 
 
 DII^EGTGI^S: 
 
 JO. F. FOARD, Nashville eiin , Sccreiarv and Treas- 
 urer llcda Ciial Ci^nipiUiv. 
 
 A. G < AMI'BkLI,. 
 
 L'l'iS UoTi'i', Pres't Na'chez Compress Companj-. 
 
 I. LO\\>.M;UI{(i of I. !.(. Weill urg & Co., Wholesale 
 Grocers and i 'oinuii-i ion Merchants. 
 
 riENItV KR'NK, Whol(!-ale i\ Good- and Notions. 
 
 H. L. 15 \KKH, 01 15aKer& McDowell, Wholesale Hard 
 Wiire. 
 
 T K. GUfcEN, Sheriff of Concordia Parish, La. 
 
 I. LoWENBURG & Co 
 
 EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE 
 
 Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars 
 
 Only Positively Exclusive Whole- 
 sale Grocery in the City. 
 
 COTTON FACTOES! 
 
 I. LOWENBURG & CO. are the 
 Largest Handlers of Cotton in the 
 City. They pay the Highest 
 Prices going, and try to please all 
 persons dealing with them. 
 
 JNO. J. O'FERRALL , H. C. NORMAN 
 
 Fublic Bin d Mill 
 
 DunrnPDiiDurD 
 
 ARTISTIC 
 
 I iiu I umini riLii 
 
 Pine &Jor^i^ aif 
 
 I^EASONABIiE gl^IGES 
 The Photographs for this work were 
 
 IGHEST PRICE FOR COTTON SEED '-><- ^y 
 
 ^ , ,„^ , ,^, ^ ^„ NORMAN 
 
 Works at Forks-of-thG-Road" | 
 
 St. Catherine Street. OVER 11 1 MAIN ST. 
 
 DOES A REGULAR GINNING BUSI- 
 NESS AND GRINDS CORN. 
 
 Money Advanoed 
 
 on Seed Cotton. 
 
NATCHEZ-Her Churches. 
 
 em portion of this city, and a commodious 
 brick structure on Pine^street, occupied by 
 the colored Methodists. The membership 
 of these churches is composed of some of 
 our best people, both white and black and 
 alWisitors are cordially welcomed. 
 
 TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
 yplHE conception of old Trinity dates back 
 ^^ to a dining at the hospitable board of the 
 late Dr. Stephen Duncan, during the year 
 1 82 1. Before many days the seed germinated 
 and the organization was accomplished. The 
 Rev. James Pilmore was the first rector, and 
 began his ministry here on Sunday evening. 
 May, 10, 1 82 2, in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 WALL STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. 
 
 /^HR Wall Street Baptist Church is situ- 
 ^-^ ated on the corner of State and Wall 
 streets. This organization in Natchez is a 
 naif century old, the church being organized 
 on the nth of January 1837. Rev. Ashley 
 Vaughan, a clergyman from one of the North- 
 ern States who came South in search of 
 health, was its first Pastor. Their commodi- 
 ous church house was erected in 185 1, and 
 enlarged in 1857 to give seating capacity to 
 the growing congregation. This church has 
 at i)resent about two hundred members, and 
 is in a growing and encouraging condition. 
 Within the last two years their house of 
 worship has been beautified and furnished 
 
 L'J:VE^EUX HALL 
 Soon after a subscription paper was started, 
 for the purpose of securing aid to erect a 
 church building, which was liberally .signed, 
 and early in May 1823 the edifice was ready 
 for occupation. Alterations and improve- 
 ments were made in 1838 and more recenlty, 
 until now they have an elegant house of 
 worsiiip, at a cost of about $35,000. The 
 Sunday-School Guild recently purchased a 
 lot adjoining the one on which the church 
 stands, and through the munificent liberahty 
 of one of the parishoners, a Sunday-School 
 and Parish Building is to be erected this sea- 
 son, at a cost of over $10,000. 
 
 ORPHAN ASYLUM. 
 
 with modern appointments to make it attrac- 
 tive and to inspire devotion. Neither pains 
 nor means have been spared by the congre- 
 gation to put it in a condition to be at once 
 abreast with the present demands of the 
 church-going public and a Sabbath home 
 where the humble may feel easy and the 
 stranger find a welcome. Though the recent 
 improvements have cost about $2500 the 
 organization is out of debt, and the member- 
 ship united for aggressive work in our grow- 
 ing city. The church has a live Sunday- 
 School with one hundred and fifty scholars 
 enrolled. For the last three years Rev. Z. 
 T. Leavell has presided over the congrega- 
 tion as Pastor, and enjoins the full confi- 
 dence and the hearty and united support of 
 his people. 
 
14 
 
 NATCHEZ— Cotton Exchange. 
 
 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 
 
 >^HE history of Catholicism in this section 
 ^^ dates back to 1682. The notes of the 
 progress of the church have been carefully 
 kei)t and handed down to the people of the 
 present day, and are very interesting. Natchez 
 is the See of Mississippi, and Rt. Rev. F. 
 Janssens is the present Bishop. He is a 
 gentleman who rules his people by love, and 
 he has won the esteem of members of all 
 denominations, by his goodness. 
 
 The church has the most beautiful and 
 commodious building in the city, and we be- 
 lieve in the entire South. 
 
 Saint Marj^'s Ori)han Asylum, for girls, 
 D'Evereux Hall an Orphan Asylum for boys, 
 the Cathedral school, and St. Joseph's school 
 are all under the auspices of the church and 
 are most successful institutions. 
 
 There is no ill feeling between them and 
 the Protestants such as unfortunately exists 
 in some places, but all work hand in hand 
 to accomphsh good. 
 
 COTTON AND MERCHANTS EXCHANGE. 
 
 N May 26, 1886. our businessmen, real- 
 izing the benefits to be derived from co- 
 operative organization, secured a char- 
 ^ ter from the State of Mississippi and es- 
 tablished "The Natchez Cotton and Mer- 
 
 J. N. CARPENTER, Pres. Cotton Exchange, 
 chants Exchange," ofiicered by the following 
 leading business men: Joseph N. Carpen- 
 ter, President ; A. G. Campbell, Vice-Presi- 
 dent ; Simon Mayer, Secretary; Theo. V. 
 Wensel, Treasurer. The Board of Directors 
 are, Chas. T. Chamberlain, Geo. T. Payne, 
 
 F. A. Dicks, Henry Frank and Isaac Low- 
 enburg. 
 
 Their headquarters are fitted up in modest 
 but comfortable style at the corner of Main 
 and Commerce streets, the heart of the city, 
 and there they receive daily every half hour 
 the market reports of the world, which are 
 posted on the board for the edification of 
 members. 
 
 Their organization and the building of our 
 
 MAJ. JOHN RAWLE. 
 
 large cotton compress last year brought a 
 flood of cotton buyers, who competed suc- 
 cessfully with New Orleans, and induced an 
 increase in cotton receipts of over 20.000 
 bales. 
 
 The expenses of the institution are light 
 and the benefits have proven so great, with 
 such prospects of even a better future, that 
 it is no longer an experiment but is one of 
 the solidest organization in the ctty. 
 
 THE NATCHEZ CLUB. 
 
 HIS social organization, was permanent- 
 ly instituted on March 5th 1883, by 
 . ^ election of L. G. Aldrich, President; 
 .^ John Rawle, Vice-President; Richard 
 Holmes, Secretary anil Treasurer, who have 
 continued to fill same position by annual 
 election. 
 
 The club embraces in its membership about 
 seventy-five citizens from the leading repre- 
 sentatives of its various trades and profes- 
 sions. 
 
 Their rooms are centrally located with 
 ]ileasing inner and outer surroundings, and 
 aftbrd agreeable relaxation from the cares and 
 toils of business, by presenting to its mem- 
 bers, innocent amusement as well as an ex- 
 tensive collection of daily weekly and month- 
 
At 77 Main Street, corner of Main and 
 Pearl, will be found the vast establishment 
 of A. Bahin. The store is i6o feet deep, 
 two stories high, and is well stocked with 
 Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Notions and Milli- 
 nery Goods, both wholesale and retail. 
 
 This establishment is a sample of what 
 uprightness and application to business will 
 do. Mr. Bahin came to Natchez at the age 
 of eight years, in 1850. After the war he 
 found himself an orphan, without a cent. 
 
 After clerking a few years he started in 
 business with eight hundred dollars, and now 
 finds himself one of the leading merchants, 
 doing a large business. 
 
 Though surprising to some, the head- 
 way he made in business is the natural con- 
 sequence of being surrounded by a fine coun- 
 try both in Mississippi and Louisiana — lands 
 that are capable of smiling abundant success 
 to farmer and merchant alike. 
 
 We commend the public at home and 
 abroad to this wide-awake firm for goods in 
 his line. And for good, honest goods, and 
 good value for price, he cannot be excelled. 
 
 F. W. BOGER, 
 
 nil nnii 
 
 PHOENIX 
 
 uniuun. 
 
 COMMERCE ST. 
 
 Compliments of 
 
 -DEALER IN 
 
 THOMPSON S PARTRIDOE HaMwarB,HoiiSBFmlsMi(jOO[Is 
 
 PUMPS, STOVES^ 
 
 Pbaeer Cotton Buyers. StOO^Ri aad (j^S FlttlUgS 
 
 BUY OVER HALF THE COTTON 
 THAT COMES TO THE CITY. 
 
 §^._ 
 
 BUILDERS' MATERIALS, 
 
 Doors, Sash & Blinds 
 
 T|^^ In 'connection with my bus- 
 iness tiie Largest Tin Shop in the 
 in the City. 
 
O'Brien Sz Co. 
 
 BEICK mim AND BUILDERS I 
 
 i 
 Work of every description solicited. 
 
 ESTIilAATES FURNISHED for BUILDINGS 
 
 and other work on application. 
 
 BRICKS 
 
 Sold and Delivered at Our 
 
 Establislisd Reduced Rates. 
 
 LOUIS KASTOR, 
 
 1 17 Franklin St., 
 
 B. SALVO, 
 
 Club Caloon ^ Restaurant 
 
 Fines'? Italian ANoflMEr^iGAN 
 
 Dishes Sep^yed in Sipyle. 
 
 lost ElBpt Bar 111 ttiB City 
 
 ^!^=^Only the Very Best Liquors 
 and Cigars kept in stock. 
 
 MANUFACTL KKK OF AN1> DKAI.KK IN 
 
 SADDLES AND BRIDLES 
 
 Repairing Neatly and Promptly 
 Done. 
 
 C. WEIR 
 
 Wholesale and Retail 
 BUTCHEES 
 
 StMlls 4. G itnd 9, Natcliez Market. 
 
 BOATS FUBKISHEB 
 
 WITH BEEF, PORK AND 
 MUTTON 
 
 AT LOWEST PRICES. 
 
 B^"Orders may be sent by telegraph at 
 our expense., 
 
NATCHEZ — Real Estate and Rents — Adams County. 
 
 i5 
 
 ly publication, from the leading journals of 
 this country and Kngland. 
 
 Its hospitality to visiting strangers is in 
 keeping with the world renowned reputation 
 of the city whose name it bears. 
 
 REAL ESTATEJND RENTS. 
 
 fATCHEZ is on a boom, and has been 
 for several years — not a fictitious boom 
 gotten up by big mineral excitements, 
 but a steady natural improvement, 
 caused by the outside world discovering that 
 on the bluffs overlooking the great Mississippi, 
 stands a beautiful city just far enough south for 
 a pleasant home, just high enough to insure 
 health, and surroumled by a fertile country ; 
 
 Dixon Brothers' Store and Glass Works, 
 which insures good living. There are a (ew 
 people here, who, in a spirit of love and ven- 
 tion for the old homestead have placed a 
 fictitious price on their land, but there is 
 plenty of land to be had at a convenient dis- 
 tance from the city at from $3 to $20 per 
 acre, and improved land at that. Town lots 
 can be purchased on good terms at reasonable 
 prices. 
 
 Rents for dwellings in Natchez, are like 
 they are in other growing cities, rather high ; 
 houses of four to five rooms near the center 
 of the city rent for about $20 per month with 
 a proportionate increase in houses with more 
 rooms. The general expenses of living, fuel 
 etc., are not so great as in the north and east, 
 which I think more than makes up the differ- 
 ence in rents. 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY. 
 
 BY ALLISON H. FOSTER. 
 
 fjpO write of Adams county, its history of 
 
 ^jj. the past, its present activity and worth 
 
 v'M and its future prospects of greater wealth 
 
 and grandeur, is a pleasant duty. 
 
 In the distant past, when the stillness of 
 
 nature was only broken by the weird chant. 
 
 Allison H. Foster, Chancery Clerk of County. 
 or echoing, resounding whoop of the red man, 
 as he roamed at will over the hills and val- 
 leys of our country ; or when a softer spirit 
 moved him, to woo, win and wed, the dusky 
 maiden of the forest, under the shade of the 
 majestic oak, in whose enfolding branches 
 nestled the mistletoe, an allwise Deity, and 
 
 James W. Lambert, Sheriff, 
 bounteous nature, had generously endowed 
 this favored spot, with many choice gifts. 
 
 Advancing civilization, in its many and 
 just conquests, long since forced the Indian 
 with his untutored mind, to seek shelter, and 
 erect his wigwam to the far west, and nearer 
 the setting sun. "White Apple Village," 
 in this county ; the once cherished home of 
 
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 ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources, Etc. 
 
 mighty chiefs and tribes ; is now traced and 
 recognized only, by the peaceful pursuits of the 
 sturdy yeoman, as he follows the plow, and 
 in due season gathers in the fruits, the natural 
 reward of his honest labor. 
 
 Adams county, fronts nearly one hundred 
 miles, on the Mississippi river. The soil is 
 alluvial, and, where not permitted, with con- 
 stant tillage and without return to the soil 
 to become worn and thin, is exceedingly 
 
 Hon. O. N. Wilds, Pres. Poard of Supervisors 
 rich and productive. The famous valley of 
 Nile is no richer in soil, than the bot- 
 
 the 
 
 torn lands of Adams county. 
 
 The topography of our country is varied 
 and in places rolling, while in others we find 
 plateaus, and rising or hilly ground. The 
 chief product of our county is cotton ; but 
 
 J. C. Stowers, Member Board of Supervisors 
 four other crops can be raised annually on 
 the same ground. There is not an acre of 
 land in the county, if properly cultivated, 
 that will not return annuallv a cash value of 
 
 fifty dollars ; and this land can now be pur- 
 chased from $2 GO to $20 per acre. 
 
 The climate here is delightful, trees in 
 foliage and flowers blooming in profusion in 
 the months of February and March. Think 
 of it. oh, denizens of the congealed north 
 and east, and envy must for a time en- 
 throne itself within your breasts. We, con- 
 tem])late you, as snowed in. ice bound, cold 
 and freezing, while we, with doors and win- 
 
 H. B. Vaughan, Member Board of Supervisors 
 dows open are inhaling the perfume of bud- 
 ding flowers, and listening to the songs of the 
 mocking bird. 
 
 Adams county invites you to join, in the 
 triumphal march of the emancipated New 
 South. Her people are intelligant, courteous, 
 industrious and refined, and all who come to 
 
 J. H. Rowan, Member Board of Supervisors 
 partake of her fortunes will be met with 
 cordial greetings and neither asked or in- 
 fluenced concerning their political or religious 
 fealty or allegiance. Good men, and good 
 
Residence of J. R. Kirkpatrick, Natchez. 
 
 "Montaigne," Residence of Gen. W. T. Martin, Natchez Suburbs. 
 
D'Evereux," Property of Miss M. S. Martin, Natchez Suburbs. 
 
 Residence of Alderman Geo T. Rehn, Natchez. 
 
ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources. Etc. 
 
 17 
 
 citizens alone, are wanted, and to such, we 
 have abundant room, and a hearty, generous, 
 and honest welcome. 
 
 The early boyhood days of the writer hav- 
 ing been spent in the place of his nativity, 
 the old "Granite " State, and therefore be- 
 ing somewhat familiar with the mode of 
 farming and customs of the people both 
 North and South, is constrained to assert 
 that the intelligent, frugal, industrious North- 
 
 C. L. Tillman, Treasurer. 
 
 em farmer, if transplanted to this portion of 
 the South, and exercising here like habits of 
 thrift, industry and economy as at the North, 
 would, in the brief period of ten years, or less, 
 awake to the pleasing fact that his posses- 
 sions were abundantlv sufficient to enable 
 
 Walter McCrea, Deputy Clerk. 
 
 him to enjoy the rest of his days independ- 
 ent of manual labor for a support. 
 
 No better field presents itself for the es- 
 tablishment of manufactories, and especially 
 of wood-work, than Natchez and Adams 
 
 county, as timber of the best quahty and of 
 many species abounds in almost endless 
 quantity, right at our doors. 
 
 The future of Natchez and Adams county- 
 is assured and bright, and chief among the 
 jewels that adorn and crown them is the love 
 of country, confidence and determination 
 within the hearts of the good people to bend 
 every energy to the advancement and weal 
 of both. Southward the "Star of Empire" 
 
 John Harper, Deputy Sheriff, 
 is at last seen ; it is making rapid progress in 
 this direction, and is received by the New 
 South with open arms, brave, honest and 
 manly hearts, and welcome, thrice welcome 
 to our shores. 
 
 Lands here are now cheap, but are fast 
 becoming equalized in value, with that in 
 other portions of our common country. 
 
 Adams county invites a fair, yes, critical 
 
 Salvo & Berdon's Block, Natchez, 
 inspection of the many advantages she pre- 
 sents to those seeking homes in the South, 
 or safe and profitable investments ; and con- 
 scious she is that the verdict of "the stranger 
 
t8 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources, Etc.— Board of Supervisors. 
 
 within our gates" will not be adverse to her 
 present worth or future greatness. 
 
 Far be it from me to misrepresent ; conse- 
 quently 1 affirm that "milk and honey" are 
 only obtained here, as the certain, just, and 
 merited reward, for manly enterprise devo- 
 tion to duty, and honest industry. Human 
 mature, here, is compassed with foibles and 
 frailties, common to mankind, and is no nearer 
 Divine than at the North. If one here, were 
 to revile, malign or traduce the names or 
 memory of Generals Lee or Jackson, the of- 
 fender would instantly regret that he were 
 not possessed of the strength of Sampson and 
 science of Sullivan, with which to defend his 
 unsavory person. I imagine, the spirit of 
 human nature and justice would obtain in the 
 
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 COUNTr BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. 
 
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 -T is very gratifying to us, to write of the 
 conservative, wide, and intelligent man- 
 agement of county affairs, by our Board 
 of Supervisors. 
 
 For some years after the war, things ob- 
 tained, under the chaotic condition of our 
 county then existing, that were neither equita- 
 ble; just, or complimentary to our ability, and 
 inalienable right, of self government. Hap- 
 pily, those things are of the past. In 1875 
 the good citizens of our county, irrespective 
 of party or color, united, and placed in 
 power, men of well known ability and integ- 
 rity, and men who regarded the county's in- 
 
 i^i^iii^ 
 
 Bluff City Railway Inc 
 
 North, were contumely or malevolence s|joken 
 against the honored names or memory of 
 President Lincoln or General Grant. Sec- 
 tionalism here, is buried in the dark gloom 
 of the past, and its phantom, is not permitted 
 to cross or shadow our pathway. May the 
 day soon come when deriding allusions to 
 the Nations honored dead, whether of the 
 blue or gray and wheresoever in our blessed 
 and united country made, shall be quickly. 
 spontaneously and patiiotically denounced 
 and resented. Such, I believe, is now, the 
 honest sentiment, and patriotism, that, un- 
 bidden, wells up from the hearts of a brave, 
 united and devoted people. 
 
 line to the Hill Tops. 
 
 terests as their own. Results plainly demon- 
 strate the wisdom of the people's choice. 
 From the legacy of debt, profligacy, and bur- 
 densome taxation handed down, our Board of 
 Supervisors, have so eminently managed the 
 people's trust, confided to their care, that 
 long years ago, order from chaos, economy 
 from profligacy, and minimum taxation from 
 that bordering upon absolute confiscation, 
 has pre-eminently marked their faithful, and 
 oft-times self-sacrificing labors. 
 
 Some changes in the Board that first en- 
 tered official life in January 1876, have, by 
 death, resignation and retirement been made ; 
 but the i)eople teel justly proud of the good 
 work of all that have been connected with it 
 
E. J. BYRNE. 
 
 F. J. BYRNE. 
 
 E, J, BYRNE & BRO 
 
 DEALERS IN 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY 
 
 GROCERIES 
 
 Plantation Supplies, 
 
 Fine V/ines, Liquors, 
 Tobacoo, Cigars, Etc. 
 
 i6o Franklin St., NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 E. DREVFUS, 
 
 JOBBFF IN 
 
 Provisions, Grain, 
 
 SUGAI^, (©OPPEES, 
 fflOLASSES, I^IGE, 
 
 ©I^OPIGAL Fl^aiTS ^ ^I^ODUGB 
 33^ 35' 37» 40 & 42 Pine Street, 
 
 NRTCHEZ, - - - MISS. 
 
 RECOGNIZED FACT. 
 
 By the people that we are Leading in As- 
 sortment^ Attraction and Loivest Prices. 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, 
 
 NOTIONS. LADIES' & GENTS' 
 
 FURNISHING GOODS 
 
 SHOES, ETC. 
 
 M. &S. DREYFUS 
 
 116 Franklin Street. 
 
 Baker \ llcOowdl 
 
 wholesale and retail 
 
 HARDWARE 
 
 Stoves, Tinware 
 
 Farming Implements. 
 
 AGENTS FOR 
 
 Buckeye Mowers 
 
 and Pratt Gins 
 
 COR. FRANKLIN & COMMERCE STS 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 F. Toilet Articles, 3 
 
 A- Colognes, K 
 
 D Extracts. Q 
 
 I Powders, \ 
 
 C Sponges. D 
 
 K Soaps. A. 
 
 Natchez, S. Combs, F. Natchez, 
 Miss. Brushes, Miss. 
 
 Etc,, Etc., 
 CQlNEI^AL COATEI^S. PANGY GOODS, 
 
 Salurian, 
 Excelsior, 
 Coopers Wells, 
 Blue Lick, 
 Hunyadi, 
 Appolonaris, 
 Etc., Etc. 
 
 Puff Boxes, 
 Toilet Setts, 
 Lamp Goods, 
 Bisque Ware, 
 Vases & Figures 
 Bronze Goods, 
 Etc., Etc. 
 
 AGENTS 
 
 Hawke's Crystalized 
 
 Spectacle & Eye Lenses 
 
 15 and 
 Commerce 
 
 -RA. 
 
 76 
 Miiii St. 
 
 Retail Prescription Departments. 
 
FopnlatioB of ITatchez, 11,000. FopobUon of Adams Coaaty 25,000 
 
 Fine Farms ior E::change 
 
 Kentucky farms, the finest in the 
 State, will be exchanged for Mis- 
 sissippi and Louisiana farms, or will 
 be sold at close figures. 
 
 a. C. BLACKBURN 
 
 Livest Real Estate Agent in Mis- 
 sissippi. 
 
 P. O. BOX 134. 
 
 LUMBER 
 
 of all kinds 
 
 FOR BUILDING PURPOSES 
 
 Constantly in stock at 
 
 to 
 
 Mail Orders Prompdy Attended to 
 and Satisfaction Guaranteed 
 
 R. F. LEARNED 
 
 Natchez, Miss. 
 
 6 Cols. Folio- 
 
 LEON C. DUCHESNE. Prop. & Pub. 
 
 Fearless and independent. Fa- 
 vors tariff protection and reform in 
 the liquor trafific. Although only 
 established March 1886, it has the 
 largest circulation of any paper here. 
 The best medium in this State for 
 advertising. 
 
 RATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. 
 
 SUBSCRIPTION— Three Months, $1.00; 
 Six Months, $2.00; One Year, $4.00. 
 
 ■ For Sale or Mango 1 
 
 TemessBB Coal M \m Lais 
 
 Blackburn has the best list in Mis- 
 sissippi. All titles made perfect 
 without any work by the purchaser. 
 
 EASY TERMS 
 
 G. U 
 
 REAL ESTATE AGENT 
 
 NATCHEZ- 
 
ADAMS COUNTY— Its Resources. Etc.— Hack Rates. 
 
 during that period. With good roads, bridges, 
 and low taxation, our people are contented 
 and happy. 
 
 The gentlemen composing our Board of 
 Supervisors, are the Hon. Oliver N. Wilds, 
 President J Jas. H. Rowan, H. B. Vaughan 
 Jno. C. Stowers and A. P. Williams. Mr. 
 Wilds has been on the Board twelve, Mr. 
 Rowan ten, and the others a lesser number 
 of years. Mr. Williams is a colored man. 
 
 The names of other members during said 
 period, and not now connected with the Board, 
 
 vehicle drawn by two horses or other animals, 
 with one or more passengers, $8 oo. 
 
 For the use of any Hack or vehicle, with 
 one or more passengers, with the privilege 
 of going from place to place, and stopping as 
 often as may be requested, for the first hour, 
 $2 oo. 
 
 For each succeeding hour, $i oo. 
 
 For attending funerals, $3 00. 
 
 The following rates shall be charged byjthe 
 owner or driver of any wagon for the trans- 
 portation of baggage, as follows, viz • 
 
 School, (Colored), Natchez, 
 
 are the Hon. T. C. Pollock (deceased) late 
 President, and Geo. M. Marshall, Daniel F. 
 Ashford, and Alex Smart, (also a colored 
 man.) To the names, memory and work of 
 all and to our present Board, the welcome 
 plaudit goes out : "Well done thou good and 
 faithful servants." 
 
 HACK RATES. 
 
 CITV ORDINANCE. 
 
 For conveying a passenger not exceeding 
 one mile, 50 cts. 
 
 For conveying a passenger over one mile, 
 75 cts. 
 
 After loo'lock at night, double rates. 
 
 For use by the day of any Hack or other 
 
 For transporting each and every trunk, not 
 exceeding one mile, 25 cts. 
 
 For transporting each and every trunk any 
 distance over one mile, 50 cts. 
 
 B®"Hack owners or drivers are required 
 to keep these rules posted in a conspicuous 
 place within their vehicles. 
 
 All hotels and boarding houses are within 
 a mile of steamboat landings and depots. 
 
20 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY— Truck Farming and Gardening. 
 
 TRUCK FARMING AND GARDENING. 
 
 ^HE possibilities in this branch of agri- 
 culture are without limit ; the local mar- 
 ket is good and the shipping facilities by 
 river and rail are excellent. The follow- 
 ing extract from a local paper will best illus- 
 trate the advantages offered by our climate 
 
 Rose potatoes on a piece of land near town, 
 about one hundred and fifty feet square, from 
 which he gathered twenty- five barrels of as 
 fine potatoes as can be produced anywhere. 
 The barrels used by him held three bushels, 
 and putting the price at one dollar per bushel 
 which can readily be realized, the yield bnngs 
 him seventy-five dollars. The cost of pro- 
 
 Presbyterian Church, Natchez. 
 
 and soil. 
 
 " An instance of the profitable returns trom 
 truck farming and rotation of crops has been 
 brought to our notice recently. Mr. Isaac 
 Friedler made a planting in January of Early 
 
 ducing, including the price of the potatoes 
 planted, did not exceed five dollars, and since 
 taking off the crop in April, he has planted 
 the same ground in cotton, and will, with 
 favorable seasons, make a full crop." — Con- 
 

 
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 Residence of John A. Dicks, Natchez. 
 
 -i A. C. Britten, Banker, fx 
 
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 " Dunleith," Suburban Residence of J. N. Carpenter. 
 
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 Chamberlain & Paterson's Block. 
 
 M. Neihysel's Confectionery. 
 
ADAMS COUNTY — Truck Farming and Gardening — Farnns and Farming. 21 
 
 cordia, (La.) Sentinel, May 7. 
 
 The above is not a rare case of production 
 but was the result of only moderate atten- 
 tion; and the same conditions will apply to 
 any other crop planted in the garden or truck 
 patch. 
 
 A friend, who lives in the southern part of 
 this county, brougnt the writer a basket of 
 strawberries on the first of May, which had 
 been hurriedly picked, just before starting to 
 the city, without sorting for large ones, and 
 nine of them filled a pint measure. The 
 gentleman informed us that he had paid no 
 special attention to his plants farther than to 
 get good ones and protect them from weeds 
 and grass. 
 
 Blackberries and dew berries grow wild in 
 
 FARMS AND jARMING. 
 
 HE variety of opportunities and advan- 
 tages offered by this country is so great 
 that it is almost impossible to give a 
 coherent idea of them in a work like 
 this, but if, by enumerating a few, an inves- 
 tigation of the claims of the South can be 
 secured, we have nothing to fear for our fu- 
 ture. 
 
 The topography of the country is very simi- 
 lar to that in Northern Indiana and Central 
 Ohio. It is well drained, well watered and 
 and the soil is a rich alluvial deposit of won- 
 derful depth and strength, and is well adapt- 
 ed for any crops raised in the North, East or 
 West. The warm winters are not good for 
 
 almost inexhaustible quantities, 
 
 been selling on the streets during the ])ast 
 
 two months at ten cents per gallon. 
 
 Sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peas, beans, etc-, 
 are in their natural element here, and from 
 two to four finely matured crops ars produced 
 on the same ground every season. 
 
 Help is cheap and general expenses are 
 light, while the gardener has the fixing of his 
 own prices for his products, for, if he cannot 
 get his prices here, he can conveniently ship 
 to greater markets. 
 
 Residence Alderman L. G. Aldrlch, Natchez 
 and have 
 
 fall wheat, but aside from that any crop can 
 be profitably cultivated. Mississippi produced 
 last year 25,765,000 bushels of corn 3,962,- 
 000 bushels ofoats, i 73,000 bushels of wheat, 
 hundreds of thousands of tons of timothy, 
 clover and other grasses, all grasses thrive 
 well here, and the main question with the 
 farmers has been to discover which contains 
 the greatest nutriment. The following com- 
 parative analysis is by Prof Phares of one of 
 Mississippi's agricultural colleges: 
 Japan Clover (Lespedeza Striata) Hay 
 
 71.85 per cent nutriment. 
 Red Clover Hay 57. " " " 
 
 Orchard Grass 52. " " "■ 
 
ADAMS COUNTY— Farms and Farming— Fruit Culture. 
 
 Pea 56. " " 
 
 Vetches 49. " " " 
 
 Timothy 48.50. " " " 
 
 Blue Grass 48. 
 
 In addition to being the most nutritious, 
 the LespeJeza is considered the strongest fer- 
 tilzer known, and a vigorous, hearty plant, 
 which yields well in either wet or dry seasons. 
 
 The system of farming, as followed by the 
 darkies, has gotton this country into bad re- 
 pute as far as agriculture goes, but a visit 
 and personal inspection by the average North- 
 ern farmer will convince him of the great er 
 ror. Take, for instance, our short winters, 
 instead of havinc to feed stock seven or eight 
 
 FRUIT CULTURE. 
 
 '^f N days gone by no country was more justly 
 ^ ■ celebrated for its fine fruit than South- 
 f\ West Mississippi. During the war the 
 i!c orchards were neglected and many were 
 totally obliterated from the face of the earth, 
 and when peace once more reigned the peo- 
 ple had to plant something that promised 
 quicker returns than fruit trees. After a few 
 years however, they began to set out young 
 trees, and now there are to be found many 
 nice orchards of apples, peaches, pears, plums, 
 quinces, apricots, pumegranates, olives, figs, 
 pecans, grapes, etc., but there is room for 
 
 Opera House, Natchez. 
 
 months on grain aud hay, we feed one month 
 on hay, and many do not feed at all. Our 
 summers are long but not excessively hot, 
 there is a pleasant gulf breeze at times and the 
 nights are almost invariably cool and delight- 
 ful. Our altitude is such that malaria is un 
 known. The price of our land is low, from 
 three to twenty dollars per acre and good 
 roads all the year round by. which to reach it. 
 Our educational and religious facilities are 
 old established. Our people are not only 
 willing, but anxious for thrifty farmers to come 
 among them, and by these presents do guar- 
 antee them as good treatment and as good a 
 living, easier made than in the much boomed 
 West. 
 
 many more and a profitable return to their 
 owners for the trouble of planting. All fruit 
 ripens early and there is a fortune in a very 
 few years to the man who ships to the North. 
 It is a mistaken idea that the majority of 
 the Northern people have about this as a 
 fruit country. Fresh figs are the only fruit 
 which can not be shipped as they come from 
 the tree, in that regard they are like a per- 
 simmon and must be dried before shipment. 
 The fig is considered the most w^holesome of 
 fruits, one can eat all he wants without the 
 slightest danger, and as they grow so abund- 
 antly here, we guarantee any and all who come 
 here in June and July all they can eat fresh 
 from the trees, or with cream and sugar, for 
 breakfast, they cannot fail to give even a dys- 
 peptic an appetite, and aid in restoring his 
 health and consequently his good nature. 
 
R, F. LEARNED 
 
 L 
 
 SAWED LUMBER, 
 
 SHINGLES, 
 LATHS, ETC., 
 
 NATCHEZ. 
 
 S. C. BLACKBURN, 
 
 REAL ESTATE AGENT 
 
 NATCHEZ. 
 
 CITY ANDSUBURBAN LOTS 
 FROM $150 UP. 
 
 Fine residences, with all modern 
 improvements, for sale and rent. 
 To those who wish a home in the 
 South during the winter, Blackburn 
 ofieFs inducements, liaving some of 
 the finest mansions for rent. 
 
 STEPHEN R I^OWEI^ 
 
 c 
 
 OMMERCIAL 
 
 Br 
 
 OKER 
 
 186S 
 
 1878 
 
 I88Z 
 
 NATCHEZ, MISS. 
 
 Representing old established firnns of un- 
 doubted character and sterling integrity. 
 
 Flour Manufacturers, Grain, Feed, and Com- 
 mission Merchants, Native Wines Company, 
 the very best in the United States. 
 
 CORRESPONDENTS : 
 
 Kehlor Bros., St. Louis, Flour Manufac- 
 turers, capacity, 5000 barrels per day. 
 
 WiNFREE, Adams & Loyd, Lynchburg, Va., 
 Tobacco Manufacturers, "Arkansas Trav- 
 eler." 
 
 fifeT'Corn Meal, Grain, Hay and Feed or- 
 dered daily by wire. 
 
 I can be found daily from 12 to 6 o'clock at 
 the Insurance office of Oren Metcalfe, 
 Esq., 65 Main street, opposite Brit- 
 ton & Koontz Bank. 
 
 FRANK P, BEATTY 
 
 RANGY ^ STAPLE 
 
 G-ROGERIES 
 
 ©01^. Union and p^eppef^son Sts, 
 Goods Delivered Free. 
 
H. F. WEST, 
 
 WHOLESAL'; AND RETAIL 
 
 DRUGGIST 
 
 AND MANUFACTURING 
 
 A WEEKLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO HOME IN- 
 TERESTS PUBLISHED THURSDAYS. 
 
 THE TRINITY HERALD 
 
 Circulates in the Parishes of Catahoula, Cc 
 cordia, Franklin, Tensas, Caldwell, 
 Winn and Ouachita. 
 
 PHARMACIST, 
 
 Cor. Main and Commerce Sts., 
 NATCHEZ, ... MISS. 
 
 STATIONERY, CIGARS, TOBACCO, 
 
 S E E ID S. 
 
 Toilet and Fancy articles of all kinds. 
 
 a®"Prescriptions a specialty, and great at- 
 tention IS paid to the purity of our drugs and 
 chemicals. 
 
 Valueable house-hold remedies manufactured I 
 in our own laboratory. 
 
 [ESTABLISHED 1867.] 
 
 JOS. RE ALE, 
 
 Nos. 123 & 125 Franklin. 
 
 Dealer in Western Produce, Fancy Gro- 
 ceries, Liquors and Wines of all kinds, and 
 Sole Agent for the celebrated 
 
 WM. J. LEMP'S BBSr^ 
 
 (The Best in the Market) 
 
 Mr. Reale is permanently estabHshed at 
 the above numbers, where you will always 
 find him in attendance and with his polite 
 assistants, who are reavly at all times to serve 
 h s customers and friends whomay favor him 
 with their business, promising at all times, 
 good treatment, honest weight and prices as 
 low as the lowest. His stock is alway-: fresh 
 and complete, and consists of Hay, Corn, 
 Oats, Bran, Flour, Meal, Meats, Sugar Cured 
 Hams, Sugar, CotTee, Tea and Fancy Gro- 
 ceries of all kinds, Wines, Liquors, etc., in 
 fact everything that is to be found in a first- 
 class grocery store. Try him, vou will be 
 well pleased with prices and goods. 
 
 J. N. CARPENTER. 
 
 G. G. KLAPP. 
 
 J. N, CARPENTER & CO. 
 
 Cotton Factors and 
 Commission Morohants 
 
 0PPI6IAL joui^NAL \"'.^'c:^::r^^';:^^-:f-^^ 
 
 I OMI V U/^TTOl-. ^., . „ 
 
 Of the Parish of Catahoula. 
 YjUGH &5AJITS0N 
 
 Business G}anagei^ 
 trinity, catahoula parish, la. 
 
 ONLY HOUSE OF ITS KIND IN 
 NATCHEZ. 
 
 . Consignments of cotton will receive full 
 justice as the members of this firm a e ex 
 
 Snfoirr^""' ^"'^'^^ ^h^'^ -hole at- 
 tention to the interests of their patrons. 
 
 Tv\n7^^L^^''f ""^^"^led facilities for car- 
 rying on their business. 
 
ADAMS COUNTY— Health. 
 
 23 
 
 Fruit begins to ripen about the first of April, 
 and continues until late in the fall, and with 
 anything like proper care the little enemies, 
 so commonly known in the North are entirely 
 avoided here. 
 
 Melons, we need not mention for the rea- 
 son that the darkie, the mule and the melon 
 are so thoroughly associated in the mind of 
 the Northern people that where one exists 
 they know the others certainly do, and also 
 for the reason that if we were to tell the 
 whole truth you wouldn't believe it ; so we 
 send you this invitation to come and see for 
 yourselves. 
 
 OUR HEALTH. 
 
 BY J. C. FRENCH, M. D. 
 
 year. 
 
 HE object of this article is to set forth 
 the advantages of the City of Natchez 
 and County of Adams as health and 
 pleasure resorts at all seasons of the 
 It is written at the request of the pub- 
 
 DR. J. C. FRENCH. 
 
 lisher of this work, and in answer to many 
 letters received by the writer from friends and 
 acquaintances in Southeastern Indiana and 
 Ohio. 
 
 My personal experience in this country is 
 as follows: On November lo, 1885, I, 
 with my family, landed in Natchez, leaving 
 our old home, (Greensburg, Ind.,) contrary 
 to the advice of our relatives and friends, 
 who told us that we Northern people would 
 not be welcome here, that we would be os- 
 tracised from society, that no one would 
 want my professional services, that we would 
 have malaria and yellow fever and die ; that 
 Northern people could not live in this cli- 
 mate, etc. During my residence of about 
 
 three years in Natchez, I have found my 
 friends were mistaken. In the first place we 
 were welcomed by a people than whom there 
 are no more sociable, hospitable, sympathiz- 
 ing and generous anywhere ; they ever have 
 a hearty welcome for all good citizens. 
 
 Now about our health: The day we left 
 Indiana my wife weighed 116 pounds; to-day 
 she weighs 140 pounds. During the cold, 
 damp winter season in Indiana, she had a 
 continuous, distressing cough; she now has 
 no cough either winter or summer, and en- 
 joys perfect health. My weight was 135 
 pounds; to-day I "knock the beam" at 170 
 pounds. My two children, as well as Mrs. 
 French and myself, have never been sick a 
 day. We are Hving monuments to the virtue 
 of the climate of Natchez. The foregoing is 
 a true statement of facts, and I hope will 
 convince some of their mistaken opinion of 
 this country. 
 
 Natchez, destined to be the metropolis of 
 this section of the country, is a live city of 
 magnificent expectations and over 11,000 in- 
 habitants. It is a well-known settled principle 
 
 CAPT. J. M. BOWEN, Coal Dealer, 
 of economy, that in order to secure the per- 
 manent growth of a city, every citizen and 
 every department of the city's government 
 should work together in perfect harmony 
 and union. This principle has been enforced 
 here, and the existing circumstances are all 
 favorable to a growing and substantial boom. 
 
 Natchez is recorded the second healthiest 
 city in the United States — New Haven, Con- 
 necticut, taking first honors. 
 
 What makes it so healthy? First, its 
 high elevation ; second, its natural drainage ; 
 third, its spring-like climate ; fourth, its pure 
 drinking water. These four advantages we 
 will consider separately and leave you to 
 compare with other places. 
 
 Its High Elevation — Many people in the 
 North and Northwest have the opinion that 
 
24 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY— Health— Live Stock. 
 
 all the territory south of Mason & Dixon's 
 line is a breeder and feeder of malaria. This 
 is as true of a portion of the South as it is of 
 the Wabash section of Indiana. The swamp 
 country of Mississippi and Louisiana is lull 
 of malaria at certain seasons of the year, 
 and it is very hazardous for a person not ac- 
 climated, to even visit that section during 
 such periods. The only malarial deseases 
 Natchez physicians have to contend with are 
 in people from the swamp, who come over 
 to the hills annually for medical treatment, 
 and such cases are almost invariably success- 
 fully coped with. The germs of malarial 
 poison travel to a hight of about 60 feet and 
 
 WM. STEITENROTH, Architect, 
 are then dissij^ated. The country on the 
 North, East and South sides of the City of 
 Natchez is hilly, and Natchez is justly called 
 the "Bluff City.,' Our altitude is such that 
 we constantly enjoy cool, refreshing breezes 
 from the Culf, making the evenings and 
 nights very pleasant even in midsummer. 
 
 Natural Drainage — The centre and side- 
 walks of each street are about two feet high- 
 er than the flutters on either side, with a 
 natural decline toward the river, and all wa- 
 ter is carried at once to that stream. Stag- 
 nant water jionds are as much unknown to 
 Natchez as are ice and snow in winter. Af- 
 ter the heaviest rainfall twenty-four hours, 
 the streets are dry. No artificial means 
 could improve our natural drainage. 
 
 Its Spring like Climate— Here the sunshine 
 is an every day occurrence. It is neither 
 too hot nor too cold, the thermometer rarely 
 going above 90 degrees in Summer and nev- 
 er below zero in winter, making the dry, non- 
 poisonous atmosphere so essentially necessa- 
 ry to the relief and cure of those suffering 
 with pulmonary and bronchial diseases. Con- 
 
 sumptives, from the cold Northwestern cli- 
 mate, can, in many instances, be cured, and 
 always have life prolonged by a residence in 
 this climate. Consumption seldom originates 
 here, except among the negro population, 
 and then the cause can invariably be traced 
 to neglect and improper care. 
 
 Our Pure Drinking water — Itiswellknown 
 that cholera and kindred diseases are invari- 
 ably traced to impure well wa'^er. Rain- 
 water, the purest of all waters, is used by 
 every family in this city. Large and care- 
 fully constructed cisterns are built, and are 
 filled during our rainy or winter season with 
 a supply sufficient to last through the sum- 
 mer. 
 
 A visit to our city and an investigation of 
 its claims cannot fail to satisfy the most skep- 
 tical. 
 
 LIVE STOCK. 
 
 O the stock farmer this country offers 
 extraordinary inducements over any oth- 
 er. First, the cHmate ; second, the lux- 
 uriant pasture ; third, the fine water ; 
 fourth, the market ; fifth, ^the slight cost of 
 raising an animal. 
 
 The even temperature of Southwest Mis- 
 sissippi is destined to be her crowning glory, 
 for with it come all the other blessings: health, 
 wealth and happiness. A few days in each 
 winter the temperature falls to about 15 de- 
 grees above zero, and a very few in summer 
 it is above 90. 
 
 Our land is splendidly adapted to meadow 
 and pasture grasses, which grow with such 
 rapidity that close-cropping animals, like 
 sheep, cannot keep them down. 
 
 Fine water, one of the great essentials for 
 stock raising, is here in abundance, in wells, 
 cisterns and running streams. 
 
 The market facilities are of the very best, 
 with plenty of rail and river facilities to in- 
 sure low freight rates. 
 
 With all the above points settled, the gen- 
 eral cost of raising stock is reduced to the 
 minimum. In the North and West I beHeve 
 the cost for grain to feed each head of cat- 
 tle through a winter is about $25. Here no 
 grain is fed at all. There are two or three 
 breeders of fine cattle and horses near this 
 city, and in February this year I visited their 
 farms and found every animal sleek and fat, 
 and was informed they had never seen any 
 grain in their troughs in their lives— nothing 
 but the rich, juicy hay, produced right on 
 the farms. 
 
 For hogs there is no better place in the 
 
" Elmscourt," Residence of the Merrills, Natchez Suburbs. 
 
 Residence of Henry Frank, Natchez. 
 
Natchez Cotton Mills, Main Building. 
 
 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Natchez. 
 
ADAMS COUNTY— Our Militij 
 
 25 
 
 world. All the ground crops that are raised 
 anywhere grow abundantly here, and the 
 mast includes acorns, beech-nuts and other 
 fattening tree fruits. 
 
 Sheep are a remarkable success here. The 
 writer spent the greater part of his life in the 
 North, and knows the anxiety with which 
 the farmer cares for his sheep ; and to be a 
 successful sheep farmer there requires capi- 
 tal with which to house them properly, for, 
 when a sheep makes up his mind that he is 
 tired of bad weather, he is going to die. and 
 it is useless to try to save him Here, the 
 climate is especially suited to them ; all the 
 shelter they care for is given by a rick of corn 
 fodder for them to pass under and browse at 
 until a cold rain is over. Only once in about 
 seven years do we have snow, and there nev- 
 ' er has been more than one snow storm dur- 
 ing a winter, and that does not last two days. 
 Considerable attention is now being de- 
 voted to fine breeds of cattle, and in every 
 instance those brought from the North have 
 been improved. The natives here read with 
 astonishment last winter, the telegrams from 
 the West telling of cattle perishing in the 
 storms. They cannot conceive how the 
 weather can be severe enough to kill stock, 
 and yet stockmen be induced to remain in 
 that country. 
 
 Fine horses are, and always have been the 
 pride of Southern people, and although they 
 are pretty severe in their usage sometimes, 
 it is a common thing to see a span of high- 
 headed twenty-year-olds dashing along the 
 streets like colts. 
 
 Everything about this country is conducive 
 to long life to both man and beast, and the 
 only reason it has not been filled up long ago 
 is that the people of the North have not 
 known its value. 
 
 OUR MILITIA. 
 
 I'ATCHEZ has always been justly proud 
 of her soldiers. She encourages mili- 
 tary organization, not for warlike pur- 
 (=;;f^ poses, but because it brings the young 
 men together socially and the drills develope 
 their muscles and make them better men 
 physically. We will not attempt the early 
 history of the companies here, but will speak 
 briefly of each to-day. 
 
 Adams Light infantry was organized in 1 876 
 and is composed mainly of veterans of the 
 recent war. Captain T. Otis Baker, an old 
 veteran and thoroughly accomplished drill- 
 master, is annually re-elected chief officer; 
 
 the company have a nicely furnished armory, 
 and are among the fixtures of the city. 
 
 The Natchez I'encibles claim the honorof 
 being the oldest military company in the 
 city. The present company is composed of 
 
 Capt. F. J. V. LeCand. 
 young men whose fathers made its name fa- 
 mous in years gone by. Ca|)t. Fred. J. V.- 
 LcCand, a gentleman of well known military 
 ability, and also a veteran, has command. 
 
 The memory of the valiant deeds of their 
 ancestors inspired the organization of the 
 Natchez Rifles about a year ago, and through 
 the persistent drilling of their enthusiastic cap- 
 tain, Brinton B Davis, thev have become sc^ 
 
 Capt. Brinton B. Davis, 
 perfect in the tactics that they will soon chal- 
 lenge the Mobile company, who won the first 
 prize at the national drill in May last, and 
 they undoubtedly have a fair jirospect of a 
 successful competition. 
 
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26 
 
 ADAMS COUNTY— Don t— Secret Societies. 
 
 SECRET SOCIETIES. 
 
 ?P 
 
 fUR city has a representative organiza- 
 tion of almost every fraternity in exist- 
 ence: Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of 
 _ Pythias, Knights of Honor, Knights of 
 Xabor, Catholic societies, Jewish societies^ 
 
 DON'T. 
 
 ON'T judge the South by merely viewing 
 it from a flying railroad train. If you 
 do you will form a poor opinion every 
 '^)i time. Remember that Mississippi pass- 
 ed through a war which left few houses and 
 
 Grand Master Mason E. G. DeLap. 
 <Colored societies, all in a flourishing condi- 
 tion. Some of our citizens have been honor- 
 «ed by their brethren of the Grand Lodges of 
 ^he State: the present Grand Master Mason 
 :and the Grand High Priest of Royal Arch 
 Masons, are Natchez business men. In the 
 
 J. C. Schwartz' Block. 
 
 no fences standing ; that Mississippi is 6,000 
 I square miles larger than Ohio, and has only 
 i one-third as many inhabitants, half of whom 
 I Are shiftless negroes, who do not aspire to 
 
 own land, and who are ignorant of all proper 
 \ means of cultivating it if they did own it. 
 
 Grand High Priest C. T. Chamberlain. 
 Jewish and Catholic circles man}- of our cit- 
 izens are honored with high positions. 
 "^ A sketch of each of the lodges here would 
 Ix interesting to fraternities generally but 
 limited space forbids it in this work. 
 
 Rumble & Wensei's Block. 
 
 Stop at our towns; talk to our people; drive 
 out and examine the land; ask how long it 
 has been used without fertilizer, and what it 
 is now producing. Observe the way it is 
 tilled, and you will as surely come to the 
 conclusion that you can find no better place 
 to cast vour lot. 
 
Southern Farms. A. BEER & CO., 
 
 Cotton Factors and Commis- 
 Blackburn makes a'specialty of ' SION MERCHANTS- 
 
 buying, rentino;- and selling farms. 
 
 Cotton plantations and stock farms, 
 with all improvements and well wa- 
 tered for sale and rent. 
 
 flour, grain, 
 
 mp:al, mkats, 
 
 western produce. 
 
 Northerners who desire a home in : 
 the "Sunny South" should address CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 
 
 S. C. BLACKBURN, 
 
 REAL ESTATE AGENT 
 
 NATCHEZ. 
 
 Agents for Armour & Co. 
 
 HealMrters for BaM& Ties 
 
 D. S. MKRRILI 
 
 W. C. MARTIH. 
 
 FOUNDRY 
 
 AND MACHINE SHOP; merrill& martin 
 
 LAW, REAL ESTATE & LOAN OFFICE 
 
 STEAM ENGINES. 
 
 COTTOR PRESSES, 
 SHAFTINGS, 
 
 PULLEYS. 
 PIPE AND FITTINGS 
 BRASS GOODS. ETC. 
 
 hm\ lEepair Mi 
 
 IPBI^MS GASH. 
 
 OFFICE: — No. 17^ S. Commerce St. 
 NATCHEZ. MISS. 
 
BANKERS 
 
 IbTatclLez, . _ - - Itvdiiss. 
 [established 1867] 
 
 Do a General Banking Business 
 and deal in Foreign and Domestic 
 Exchange. 
 
 Collections made on all accessible 
 points and remitted for on day of 
 payment. 
 
 Accounts of Banks, Bankers Cor- 
 porations and Individuals solicited, 
 
 TIPERBAULT 
 
 [established 1 871] 
 
 Mens' Youths' and Boys' 
 
 CLOTHI^^G- 
 
 FURNISHING GOODS 
 
 CORNER MAIN COMMERCE STS. 
 
 Drs. Geo. W. and I. B. Rem- 
 bert have one of the largest and 
 most select dental practices almost, 
 that is to be found anywhere in the 
 South. They are widely known as 
 thorough and skillful dentists and 
 gentlemen of the strictest integrity. 
 Their dental parlors are located at 
 
 87 MAIN STREET, 
 
 and they embrace elegance, com- 
 fort and business convenience. 
 
 Their terms are reasonable and 
 to have their services insures you 
 the full worth of your money. Give 
 them a call. 
 
 THE PERFECT NUMBER 
 
 AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE 
 
 Best In the World I 
 
 Office — Opposite Britton & Koontz Bank. 
 
ADAMS COUNTY— Hunting and Fishihg. 
 
 27 
 
 HUNTING AND FISHING. 
 
 BY JOHN F. JENKINS. 
 
 'HILE the energies of our people are 
 bent toward the advancement of their 
 manufacturing and agricultural iater- 
 ests; and while the rewards which have 
 accrued to those who first launched the man- 
 facturing enterprises are exciting further em- 
 ulation m these directions, still there are mo- 
 ments spared from the press of business by 
 many of our citizens to indulge in the health- 
 ful and manly exercise of field sports, which 
 the near country around furnishes in attract- 
 ive abundance and variety. 
 
 Within a radius of twenty miles around 
 Natchez the sportsman can find deer, bear, 
 wild turkeys and quail in abundance ; and in 
 their proper season, ducks, snipe and wood- 
 cock. 
 
 Deer — The popular mode of hunting deer 
 in this section is to drive them with hounds, 
 and take stands for them in the runways. 
 Good deer-hunting of this sort can be had 
 in St. Catherine's swamps, six miles from 
 Natchez; also near Fairchild's Island, thir- 
 teen miles distant, and in the Homochitto 
 swamps, twenty miles away; but the best 
 deer-hunting, perhaps, in America, is to be 
 found on Ben's Lake, in the edge of Cata- 
 houla Parish, Louisiana, midway between 
 the Tensas and Ouachita rivers, and the dis- 
 tance from Natchez is only twenty-eight miles. 
 It is easy of access by wagon, or by rail and 
 steamer. The species of deer in this sec- 
 tion are the common Virginia deer. The 
 buck with four or five points on his horns 
 often nets 200 to 250 pounds, and have been 
 known to reach 300 pounds. 
 
 Bear — The species of bear is the con^mon 
 black fellow. He is found in great abun- 
 dance on Turtle lake, about thirteen miles 
 from Natchez, and is plentiful all over Con- 
 cordia parish. Our bear generally net about 
 250 to 300 pounds, when full grown. They 
 are always hunted with dogs. 
 
 Wild Turkeys — Are found in almost ev- 
 ery direction from Natchez. Their favorite 
 resorts are Big Oak Ridge, in St. Catherine 
 Swamp, and in the Homochitto swamp. 
 They are most commonly hunted in the 
 months of March and April, when they are 
 mating. Wild turkey gobblers often attain 
 a weight of 20 pounds. Hunting turkeys is 
 exciting sport, and many sportsmen, among 
 them the writer, derive greater satisfaction 
 from the capture of a twenty-pound gobbler 
 with his eighteen-inch beard, than from kill- 
 
 ing a two-hundred-pound buck with six points 
 on his antlers. 
 
 Quail or Partridge. — Of all the field 
 sports in this vicinity quail shooting is the 
 pursuit that has the most devotees. It is 
 the one that is easiest to reach and is certain 
 to put game in the bag in the shortest time. 
 The very best localities near Natchez for this 
 game are Stanton Station, on the " Little J." 
 railroad, " Beverly " plantation in Second 
 Creek bottom and others, all within twelve 
 miles of the city. 
 
 Ducks. — In the middle of November the 
 ducks begin to arrive and afford fine sport 
 until January. We have the Mallard and 
 Teal in great abundance. There are many 
 fine resorts for this bird, but the favorite one 
 is Homochitto swamp, because of the growth 
 of wild celery, which has a great attraction for 
 them and gives their flesh a most deHcious 
 flavor. 
 
 Snipe — Good shipe hunting can be had in 
 the months of February and March at (riles* 
 swamp, at "Beverly" and "Frogmore" plant- 
 ations. On the latter place they are in great 
 abundance. 
 
 Fish. — There are many fine fish in our 
 neighboring lakes. Our great game fish are 
 the green trout and the bar fish or striped 
 bass. The best bait for the trout is a small 
 minnow, while the bar fish is readily taken 
 with shrimp. The trout weighs from one to 
 eight pounds, and the bar fish from one to 
 four pounds. 
 
 A Few Bags That Have Been Made. — 
 Near Ben's lake, a party of hunters killed 
 1200 pounds of vension on a single hunt. 
 
 In quail shooting the average hunter bags 
 about twenty birds ])er day; but a bag of 75 
 birds was made in one day on " Beverly " 
 plantation. 
 
 The biggest bags of birds have been made 
 on Sicily Island, where 90 birds per diem to 
 the man is not considered extraordinary. 
 
 At Oaillard's lake a party of four hunters 
 killed in one day two hundred and three Mal- 
 lard ducks. One of the party, the president 
 of the (raillard Sporting Club, scoring sixty- 
 five Mallards in three hours snooting. 
 
 Bags of two hundred snipe to two hunters 
 have been made in one day. 
 
 One of the best bags known to the writer 
 was made by a jiarty of three sportsmen in 
 the vicinity of Gaillord's lake, when, in two 
 days they had 21 (juail, 15 snipe, 5 wood- 
 cock, 35 green-winged Teal, 10 Mallards 
 and I deer. 
 
 One of the recorded fish frys took place 
 at Old River cut off. when 475 bar fish were 
 
ADAMS COUNTY — Hunting and Fishing — Laws of Mississippi. 
 
 taken with rod and line from 5 to 9 o'clock 
 a. m., by eight fishermen. 
 
 GAME LAWS. ETC. 
 
 The game laws of this county have recent- 
 ly been amended so as to prohibit all hunt- 
 ing of every species of game from March 15 
 to November i, of each year. This is a 
 strict law and no doubt should be modified 
 as to some varieties of game. But the idea 
 is that if there are different dates for differ- 
 ent game, pot hunters will take advantage of 
 it to destroy some game whose period for 
 being hunted had expired. 
 
 Our farmers and planters as a rule make 
 no objection to sportsmen hunting on their 
 lands, and where there is an exceptional case 
 of ''posting" the lands, a personal appHca- 
 tion readily obtains the desired permission. 
 
 One of the chief recommendations that 
 Natchez and vicinity offer to the zealous 
 sportsman is its magnificent chmate. Dur- 
 ing the shooting season, from November to 
 March, there are only a few days when the 
 weather is at all bitter, say from January i 
 to 15, the average temperature for the bal- 
 ance of the shooting season ranging from 40 
 to 64 degrees Fahrenheit, so the sportsman 
 can utilize almost the whole of the shooting 
 season without that strain upon the health 
 which extremes of temperature in many oth- 
 er places so often exerts. 
 
 The object in sending out this book is to 
 let the world know what we have here, and 
 I would say to visitors after you have exam- 
 ined our agricultural and industrial resources 
 come and take a hunt with us, and we will 
 show you that in addition to the other things 
 we have hunting and fishing second to no 
 place in America. 
 
 LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI. 
 
 HERE is exempt from seizure and sale, 
 under execution or attachment, in favor 
 of each head of a family or housekeeper 
 in this State, the following property, to- 
 wit : Two work-horses or mules or one yoke 
 oxen, two cows and calves, five head of stock 
 hogs and five sheep, one hundred and fifty 
 bushels of corn, ten bushels of wheat or rice, 
 two hundred pounds of pork or bacon or 
 other meat, one cart or wagon net to exceed 
 one hundred dollars in value, household and 
 kitchen funiture to be selected by the debtor 
 not to exceed one hundred dollars in value, 
 three hundred bundles of fodder, one sewing 
 
 machine, and all colts under three years old 
 raised in this State by the debtor, and the 
 wages of every laborer or mechanic to the 
 amount of one hundred dollars. The fol- 
 lowing property is likewise exempt in the 
 hands of the persons, named, viz : The tools 
 of a mechanic necessary in carrying on his 
 trade, the agricultural implements of a farm- 
 er necessary for two male laborers, the im- 
 plements of a laborer necessary in his usual 
 employment, the books of a student required 
 for the completion of his education, the wear- 
 ing apparel of every person, the Hbraries of 
 licen.sed attorneys at law, practicing physi- 
 cians and ministers of the gospel not exceed- 
 ing two hundred and fifty dollars in value; also 
 the instruments of surgeons and dentists used 
 in their profession not exceeding two hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars in value, the arms and 
 accoutrements of each person of the militia 
 of the State, and all globes, books and maps 
 used by teachers of schools, academies and 
 colleges. That every citizen of this State, 
 male or female, being a householder and 
 having a family, shall be entitled to hold, 
 exempt from seizure or sale under execution 
 or attachment, the land and buildings owned 
 and occupied as a residence by such debtor, 
 provided the quantity of land shall not ex- 
 ceed one hundred and sixty acres nor the 
 value thereof, inclusive of improvements, the 
 sum of two thousand dollars. The Legisla- 
 ture of the State has passed a law "exempting 
 from taxation for ten years the machinery 
 used for the manufacture of cotton and woolen 
 goods, yarns and fabrics composed of these 
 or other materials, or for the manufacture of 
 agricultural implements and machinery. 
 
Meteodist Episcopal Church, Natchez. 
 
 Residence of Dr. S. Kelly, Natchez. 
 
R. F. Learned's Saw Mill. 
 
 Natchez College, (Colored.) 
 
R. M. DIXON. 
 
 J. F. DIXON. 
 
 DIXON BROTHERS 
 
 W Mm l>.\l.l. AM> KI.IAll KKAI.IKS IN 
 
 PAINTS, OILS and GLASS 
 
 ^'INDOW SHADh^b, 
 
 ^IGTUI^S CQOULDING. 
 G^PicTUREs Framed to Order in First-Class Style. =^d 
 
 FINEST T.ALHNT IN THE CITY on Ornamental Sijjn and 
 House Paintini^, Papering;. Kalsomiming, L-tc. 
 
 DIXON BROTHERS. 
 
 1 10 MAIN STREET. 
 
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 STr,.,...uRNAMEN .GLASSWORKS 
 
 ORNAMl':X i AL <.....-,., . v;.x .k;w.v . .v..i:i.S. IRAXSOMS, 
 PKRSCRIPTION CASKS. DRUGGISTS' SIGNS. 
 RAILROAD CARS, STKAMIUWT OI-FICKS. 
 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. KTC. CiROUND IN. ANY 
 QUANTITY. SA riSFACTION GUARANT1':HI). 
 
 SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND PRICE LISTS 
 
 1 ) I \ ( )X BJiOTTIEI ^vS k CO., 
 
 p. 0. Box 192. isr^tcli.ez:, IL^iss. 
 
LIBRfiRY OF CONGRESS 
 
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 014 542 042 8 % 
 
 56 PLANTATIONS FOR SALE 56 
 
 From $2.50 per Acre up. Far below the real value. Many with 
 improv•em♦•llt^ on them worth the price of the property. • , 
 
 Healthy, Fertile and Productive 
 
 F^armers and Capitahsts who wish to (^et in on 
 
 THE GROUND FLOOR 
 
 OP T-HE 
 
 SHOULD CONSULT 
 
 The Real Estate Man 
 
 of Natchez, Mississippi 
 
 rPWARO OT' 
 
 200 LOTS FOR S A [T: 200 
 
 Both cciurai and Suinii luu^, in thv. i,v..iui.K.< v_it>- ol Natchez, lor 
 Business, or Residence purposes, Improved and Unimproved, by 
 
 C. R. Byrnes, Jr., 
 
 Room 3, Democrat Building 
 
 Natchez, Miss. 
 
 p. O. I^ox 26S. 
 
 11^==^ Correspondence Solicited. All property shown in person.