How The New South Is Growing

Decatuii, Ala., Fob. 15, 1888. Ld. CouniER:- In my first letter I had somcthlng to ay about the climate of North Alabama, ml the contrast t has presented to the ilizzard stricken región of the north. have seen no reuon to ehange my views n tliat score as thcre is now every evience that spring is here in earnest. One eads with alniost ncrediility that snow nd ice still hold the balance of power in ie north and west. It might be supposed tliat the summers n this southern latltude would be excessvely warm, but I ain infonned by the orthern people who passed the last year t this place, tliat the heat was not as reat as in Oblo; tliat sunstrokes were BknoWB that none of the northern carenters and laborers slopped work for a ay hcre during the suinmer; and that ie nights alniost without exce ption were ol and pleasant, it is the rule I ani In ormed, to sleep ander woolen blankets ; night. I ton told that during the terbly heated term in ühio, and other orthern states last slimmer, public rayers were offered in the Episcopal ïurclies of this section for the heattricken sufferers ot' the north. I am frt'([iiently asked by northern )eopl: as to the healthfulness of this seciou. Thisquestion can now be answered ecurately, as the healtli offleer has Just sued hls report for the past year. He iowd that the death rute in this town mong whites was only eleven per thouand trom all causes, as low a death. rate s the healthiest city in the country can oast. It must be borne in mind too, ïat the population wa9 largely made up f imaccliinited settlers froin the north. H The truth is the idea that the south is less healthy McUon than the north is nfounded. The deatlis from conaumpon alone, every year in the north is reater than trom all the epidémica that ver passed through the south. I ain surprised to " meet up," as the outherners s iy, with so inany Michigan )eople in this place. I have to-day alked with scveral, and I iind they are all lighly pleased with their southern home. Two ex-Union solUiers, Major Steveson and Captain Taylor, of Ionia, Michigan, have boughta coiitrollin}; interest in one of the daily papen here, The Free Lance. The other daily is cdited by a nortluru man. A Mr. Lorenzo Corey, of Michigan is building six large stores and starting a lumber yard here, and Mr. Harmon, of Ionia, in the same state, is starting a large wholesale and retail dry goods business, in short the Michigan coloiiy is forgiiig to the front. But Michigan is uot the only state represented here, aa every state in the Union bas its colonies. Ground was broken to-day for the works of the U. 8. Rolling 8tock Co., that aro to remove their Immense plant from Urbana, O., to this plai'e. Thelr buildings and tracks will cover tifty acres, and are located on the bank of the Tennesee river , above the city, and will be au immense enterprUe. 'l'his place will soon be the largest car building city in tbeeoathand west, as the Louisville & Nashville 1'. i. are now ereeting their shops at this place, and there is a rumor that the Pullman l'alace Car Co. will locate the southern branch of their works at this place. The contracta were closed to-day for the erectiou of another large furnitnre faotory. I visited the immense waiehouse of the Cotton Compress Co., where I saw a pressure of twenty-flve thousand tons put on a bale of cotton to reduce its bulk, for shipnient to Europe. The Iron Bridge Co., the Chemical Charcoal works and dozens of other enternrises