The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton MillsJohn Trotwood Moore
The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
John Trotwood Moore
Novel
Book language: English
466 pages
The Bishop of Cottontown is a 1906 novel by John Trotwood Moore set in a Southern cotton-mill community. It portrays the lives, faith, and social struggles of people tied to the mills, blending local color with moral concern. It offers a vivid historical window into the industrial South and its enduring human questions.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
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“Take care of Lily”
THE
Bishop of Cottontown
A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS
BY
JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE
AUTHOR OF
“A Summer Hymnal,” “Ole Mistis,” “Songs and Stories from Tennessee,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY THE KINNEYS
“And each in his separate star,
Shall paint the thing as he sees it
For the God of Things As They
Are.”
Kipling
PHILADELPHIA
THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
1906
Copyright, 1906,
By John Trotwood Moore
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, 1906
All Rights Reserved In Memory Of My Mother, EMILY BILLINGSLEA MOORE, Who Died December 14th, 1903, The Faith Of This Book Being Hers. CONTENTS PART FIRST—THE BLOOM. Prologue—the Cotton Blossom 7 PART SECOND—THE BOLL. I. Cotton 13 II. Richard Travis 18 III. Jud Carpenter 27 IV. Food for the Factory 39 V. The Fly Catcher Caught 50 VI. The Flint and the Coal 64 VII. Hillard Watts 84 VIII. Westmoreland 92 IX. A Mutual Understanding 103 X. A Star and a Satellite 108
XI. A Midnight Burial 117 XII. Jack Bracken 127 PART THIRD—THE GIN. I. Alice Westmore 143 II. The Real Heroes 151 III. Franklin 154 PART FOURTH—THE LINT. I. Cottontown 179 II. Ben Butler 187 III. An Answer to Prayer 199 IV. How the Bishop Froze 205 V. The Flock 209 VI. A Bishop Militant 213 VII. Margaret Adams 219 VIII. Hard-shell Sunday 226 IX. The Return 232 X. The Swan Song of the Crepe Myrtle 239 XI. The Casket and the Ghost 248 XII. A Midnight Guard 254 XIII. The Theft of a Childhood 258 XIV. Uncle Dave's Will 275 XV. Edward Conway 287 XVI. Helen's Despair 296 XVII. The Whipper-in 305 XVIII. Samantha Carewe 312 XIX. A Quick Conversion 317
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