Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — All desiring to move South are invited to investigate FLORENCE, ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

All desiring to move South are invited to investigate FLORENCE, ALABAMA.

In the selection of a business location, a pleasant home is also desirable, and in no place will the intending, settler meet with a more cordial welcome than is offered by the enterprising citizens of Florence, Alabama, and Lauderdaie county. The soil is diversified and yields readily, as is shown by the variety and quick growth of crops, consisting of cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, oafs, sugar cane, dso apples, peaches and grapes. Florence excels in beauty of k-eoilon, being situated on the gently lulling plateau banks cf tire, kk Fiiver — navigable for the la. *est class of steamboats. xlm records show singular exemption A » kJaJX Mid larial. diseases, and thomda temperature, pure air and water make it a desirable resort, both summer and winter, from the extreme beat of the South and the rigorous cold of theNoith. Aside from this it is on the basal line of the new non and copl discoveries, and with abundant water-power supply, fa - vorable transportation facilities, ky rail and pa; kot, and by virtue of close eiuximity to valuable ores not round mother localities, Florence is destined to become the metropo 1 k o? the State, and will necessarily concentrate the bulk of industries in this region. The count.y iiuitii of Florence ia covered with a primeval gro vth of imm rose poplar, whitooaks, maple, hickory, pme, and walnut trees, and within a few miles large quarries of beautiful marble °re found. Building stone and limestone abound all over the county. The erection of the finest college building in the South was commenced May 13tli, and at this time tnere are over 250 houses ia course of erection. For excursion rates and full particulars address,

E. C. McCORMICK,

Gen’l Fass’r Ag’t Monon Itoute, 185 Dearborn St.. Chic .g, 111.