The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-04
GEORGIA SCENES,
A Trip to the I" Empire state ~ the
South " Macon and its Many
Attractions

A Trip to the " Empire state oS the
Attractions
MACON, Dec. 26, 1876.
Leaving Milan with the jolly Jones
in command of the train, We arrived
| safely at Mckenzie on time. Stopped
over night at the Mckenzie HOtel, ,one
of the largest and best in West Ten
nessee, where we were treated as well
as princes. Took the train next
morning for Nashville, on the Nash-
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis rail
way, which, under the present man
agement, is now one of the safest and
sest managed roads in the South.
Elegant day coaches run through from
Chattanooga to Hickman daily with>
out change. The Western and Allan
tic road, from Chattanooga to Atlanta,
is run in close connection with this
road, and partly under the same mans
agement. Both roads are in excel
lent condition, are well oficered and
well managed, and trains make fast
and sure time. Elegant sleepers run
through from Atlanta to Nashville,
and passengers do not suffer for any
attention or comfort on the whole line.
This is the best and quickest route al
so to Florida, which has now become
the great winter resort Of America.
After stopping half day in Nash
vile, we took a night train and arriv
ed in Atlanta next day for dinner,
We stopped at the renowned Kimball
House half a day. This is certainly
the most over-rated hotei We ever
we're cheated with in our life. A
large, spacious, well furnished house;
but the poorest attention, scantieSt
meals and highest prices. Unless
great changes for the better are made,
the house will fast lose custom. At
lanta has more get.up" abOutit than
any Southern city we know of. Many
new buildings have gone up, and the
people are pushing things with great
energy and determination.
At night We ran down to Macon,
one hundred miles. This is decidedly
one of the handsome>t little cities in
the country, having population of
some fifteen or twenty thousand, and
covering enough grounl for a city of
one hundred thousand inhabitants.
The streets are all very Wholesome
of them about two hundred feet, and
none, we believe, less than fifty or
sixty feet. Shade trees are on both |
sides, and two lows in the middle of |
many of them. y large and hand
some park adorns the lower part of
the city. The court house is one of
the finest in the country. Mercer
University (Baptist) is located here
also, Wesleyan Female College, said
to be the oldest female college in
America. Pho Mono College (CathO' !
lic) is located here. Rose Hill Gems
etery is a beautiful city of the dead,
and is admired by all visiting strang-
ers. Macon is one of the healthiest
cities in the country, the death rate
being about two to four a week. No
kinds OF epidemic disease ever prevail
here. The climate is mild, ice hard
" ever forming over half an inch
thick. Figs and other semi-tropical
fruits grow in abundance in the open
air. Macon has received this season
about $4,000 bales of cotton, which
will give some idea of her trade. She
has cotton mill which works up
large quantity annually.
Since the Democracy have been in
power in this State, Georgia has been
one of the most prosperous in the
South. All the towns along the rail-
roads seem to be thriving, and the
people appear to be happy.
Notwithstanding the rainy weather
which prevailed here on Christmas,
the day was celebrated with the usual
noisy gunpowder enthusiasm by the
boys. The older people were more
quiet, and were satisfied with the
usual turkey and trimmings and other
delicacies incidental to the universal
day of rejoicing. And we are pre-
pared to assert, without fear of con-
tradiction, that Georgia housekeep>
ers know as we'll (or a little better |
how to tickle ones appetite as any
people on the continent
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