Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

TO the Editors Of The Chronicle
Itold you IN my last, you recolIect,
about getting To Greenevflle, sc, ana
a few things about that place itself
Greeneville seems 10 be summer rec
sort for the rich SOuthrOns, and Is the
home of hundreds OF wealthy pan
tiers. There Is much of solid aristoc-
racy about The place, and it is said to
be "A fast place. A more sociabe PEG.
pie / never saw. When first started
out to look at the city, met splendid
looking young man, who, with an
afiable bow and clear frank voice
said, good morning." Thinks-I.
to-myself," who knows me over here
Ipulled up, and he drove right on.
met dozen others in minute or
two, and they all said, good morn.
ing" Everybody speaks to everybody
else, aud yet Greenville is place of
several thousand inhabitants. Tele-
graph operators, express agents, pos
tai clerks, and knights of the tooth
pick " are not Grabbed and formal, az
theya accused of being in other parts
OF the world, but annoy a man with
explanations, and with suggestions in
regard TO his wants, and do all they
can to prevent the extravaganza use Of
his pocket money for the benefit of
soulless corporations
People talk about poor tax-ridden
South Carolina but l don't see it in
that light. They all seem to have
money, and plenty of it. If Blouut
county could have South Cardinals
taxes for one or two years she would
breathe more freely. But, be that as
it may, l left Greeneville anxious to
see Warm Springs, Point Rock, and
Mt. Mitchell, which is the highest
land east of the Rocky Mountains. |
left on foot, bound for Wolf Creek,
via Ashville, but soon found that a
hurt on the knee, received some days
before, positively forbade indulgence
in my favorite mode of travel. 1t was
now necessary to invest all avail able
funds in railroad tickets, and " britch~
es," as the old brown pair bought of
Eddington were threadbare. So did.
The railroad from Greeneville to At
lanta Is part of the Atlanta and Rich
mohd air line, and is a new, insolvent
road, through a poor sandy country.
L noticed only one old town on the
route-Gainesville, Ga.-and the new
ones were, for the larger part, built of
unshaven pine boards, ten feet long,
one end being placed on or near the
ground, and altogether innocent of
whitewash.
You know all about Atlanta, of.
course; how it is four miles in dame
ter, being laid out after the model of
an enlarged y-wheel-having the
depot for the hub; how it is pushing
place; how it has no grand wholesale
houses, and palatial residences, like
Knoxville; how its produce brokers'
wonderful creatures sitting high up in
carpeted Offices-make fortunes by
trading in East Tennessee produce
how Atlanta puts on a New Yorkish
air, and all that.
BY the way, | CHANGED to hear two
distinguished railroad officials striving
to convince another that Coal Creek
coal was infinitely the best crate coal
he could buy
In consequence Of being asleep on
the train, further, deponeth saith
not" until he found himself at Lee
noir's, strapped and starting to
walk through To MaryvilIe, nineteen
miles, which feat was easily accom-
plished.
Unitia was the principal town on
this road. Unitia is not a large place.
Unitia has several stores. \ Unitia
store-keeper sold your correspondent
two Dickels' worth of the best cheese
he has sampled" recently. Yours,
truly, $. j. NORTON, II. NJ.
Maryville, Feb. -, 1875.
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