Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — Progress in the South. [ARTICLE]

Progress in the South.

It is wonderful how the Soujh is picking up. The boom was slow in coming, but it has spread over all the South, and is visible in every route of travel. Farmers are clearing, refencing and putting up new buildings, villages are spreading out, and towns and cities are pushing enterprises involving large sums and rushing all kinds of business. Every day—and they cheerfully admit it —the sons of the South are becoming more and more imbued with Yankee push and rush, and everyday that same enterprise is showing beneficial results. —Hf. Quad. Four pounds of gold, worth about SI,OOO, were collected from the soot adhering to the inner linings of the chimney of the royal mint in Berlin. The reigning beauty of Ireland is a Belfast mill girl. Crowds surround the mill daily to see her as she takes her departure.