Show THE HEW NEW SOUTH bridgeport alabama ia is another product of tha the protective system A few years afro ago it was a email small place and oi of very little importance to the outside world to day it is quite aa important place with a population of 2000 or more people engaged in the industrial pursuit of mining and iron manufacturing two fears tears ago the bridgeport land and improvement company was organized in new york city with the object in view ol 01 purchasing land and developing the iron mines in ia the neighborhood of bridgeport the company has m met at with remarkable success is 13 now furnishing employment to a small army of miners and other laborers aril brid bridgeport aport bids fair to become a second birmingham la in size and importance por tanco following the the new york capit capitalists alista the chicago steel oar car company hae have commenced operations at t bridgeport and have established a plant for the manufacture of steel freight cars they claim that cars constructed of steel ara are a great improvement over the old style of cars and that tho the ores found in in the neighborhood of the works are well adapted to the manufacture of fuch cars A cotton and woolen mill and end an iron ppe pipe manu factor lava also established nem ta em balvoa at bridgeport and the outlook for the future is 13 indeed bright one of the projectors of tha original company which has caused the little to K x a ot of bridgeport to awaken from ita its eacy aad take on tho the attributes of I 1 lita fo and business activity being asked J f thia this was the protective system a setd dd yes if it bad not baen won tor for tho the tariff we never would have nude mide steel in this country THE tue do democrats are loudly p ing heir their purpose to reduce appropriations and retrench expenditures at the next of Con congress greas A washington telegram says saya that representative cites of alabina Ala bima who is a rigid economists as well as a strict constructionist of the constitution declares against all future appropriations tor for the relief of sufferers sauer ers by flooder flood or drouth saying there aro ire many democrats I 1 am sorry to siy who are ready to vote for grapul tiei and bonuses and unconstitutional charities when in addition to this I 1 find democrats Damoc rats calling themselves each such who are willing to advocate such paternal ideas as the bub sub treas ury scheme I 1 find it bard hard to distinguish between democrats and republicans pu public bl I 1 c an ans there is is one important in measure however in in etto to which colonel oates joes does not betray so deep an anxiety for retrenchment and it is a measure which if it should become a law and be beclar declared 6 d constitutional tut ional would take from the national trea treasury sory it ia Is the bill for the refunding of tha cotton tax collected during and after the war of the rebellion this is a measure which colonel oaks oates and nearly all the other southern democrats have warmly championed ever since the tile naj war ANENT what the st louis globe democrat characterizes aa as the tin mate humbug it is is a source of grat to every lover of his country to know that the new industry is making rapid progress la in the united states and that is cheaper than before the passage of the mckinley bill that was an interesting item which appeared in in TUB STANDARD on the instant concerning ex Cb congressman gressman stlouis St Louia tin plate industry saying that the iron now used in the manufacture of plates comes from tennessee bat but it is proposed to establish eita blish a mammoth steel mill and iron foundry jast just north of madison ill to turn out all tha sheets used in the maulfa c lure of tia tin plate employment will be given to 2000 men THEY ARE still trying to solve tha the smoke problem in batto butte thep the propst 10 por solution is to komove the shelters smelters sm elters ra to 0 ogden where the altitude is not up among the clouds and where there is to room enough above to etow stow away the smoke without injury to tile P 0 pill laco lace do not forget hat that each lady who calls today to day will bo be presented with a nice easter card 1 afat asit druggists in beed reed hotel |