The Russellville Democrat., 1879-07-31
A GRAND EXCURSION
To Mount Nebo.---The Beautiful
 Scenery.

JULY 24, 1879.
 On yesterday morning, July 23d, many couches of balmy rest were de- serted earlier than usual; young gen. tlcmen were seen walking rapidly up and down the sidewalk; light hacks and superb carriages rolled swiftly o'er the graded streets; the sun, that majes- ic monark that walks the skies, threw his golden mantle OCT our city, and all things bespoke day of uncommon in- ] terest and Importance.
 At half past seven o'clock our party, consisting of Misses Alice Harkey, Florence Pruitt, Ina Mckenzie and Jennie Moseley, accompanied by Messrs. A. Bernard, II. k. Erwin, Ed gar Shinn, and your reporter,- was safely seated in the provided vehicles and hied away for the famous Mt. Nebo which is about ten miles from this place, south of the Ark. river, in the county of Yell. Our party was full of smiles, especially the male portion, for the ladies were dressed in their virgin robes of white, while their sable ringlets ''the heavens bespangled with disheve'd light" and soft carnations showered their balmy dews upon us all. Whispering zephyrs played about our heads, and the Yernal wood lay in stilly silence, save when the clarion voice of some morning warbler came stealing on the air. After most pleas ant drive of nine miles we arrived at the foot of the mountain. Now the ascension was in order. We pressed 1 onward, higher and still higher, until We concluded that we were, indeed, climbing the everlasting "heights." After travelling for mile or more on our heavenward way, and just as old 1ime, in his golden chariot and with his ponderous wheel, rolled up the hour of II 80 we arrived safe at our Journeys end. The first object (save some beautiful young ladies) that at tracted our attention were the springs. three in number. Here we slaked our burning thirst with their healing wa ters. These springs contain some iron; but not so much as the McKeeyer springs near our town. Next we proceeded to dinner, and we must say that this was by far the most successful part of the whole trip. The bountiful and deli cious rcpast was nicely spread by fair l han1e win tNa1 syifI, ct,,fli,,r. soon part of it was voraciously con- 'sumed. When we had feasted sumptu- ,ously for One-half or three-quarters of .an hour, some of the party, your re- porter among the number, were assist cd from the table, The ladies follow ling the command of our Savior, gather led up several fragments, which we, again dined upon coming home. The young ladies certainly deserve much credit for their services upon that occa- sion; and we can truthfully say that 'their kindness was only exceeded by their good looks"
 In the afternoon from Nebo's heights we viewed the landscape o'er. And we wonder if the old patriarch Moses beheld Q more lovely valley, or witness ed fgrandor scenery when he viewed from ancient "Ncbo's" summit. for the first, last and only time the smiling land of Canaan, where Jordan her sll- very water rolls.
 When we stood upon IIarkey's noun tain in our own county, and viewed 1 Russellville with it's sparkling spires, lovely valley. and neighboring hills; when from the A. l. U. college towers, that lift their artistic domes in cloud less magisty to Heaven, we beheld the sunny wales, and blue peaks of Wash ington county; and when upon the craggy heights of the Boston Mountain, that stupenduous bulwark of the "North west" where we could gaze up- on deep chasms, look far into the "etherial plain," and behold otheg mountains lcssning as they rise, Lose the low valus, and steal into the skies," we thought we were beholding scenery beautiful in the extreme but here from Nebo's night we witnessed lovelier scene; a grander sight. Had we the tongue of 8 Cicero; the pen of q Spen- cer, or the powers of Milton, and were our "words threaded with light" we might give you some idea of the thrilling grandeur of the scene. The amaranthiae groves wNh thelr shady bow er5, the distant orchards with their