The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-30
From the South.
Mt. P1EAaAxr, TENN, May 10, 1888.

MT. PLEASANT, TENN, May ~, 1888.
To the Editor Of the ExrxxPzIsE.
Taking q sleeper at 0 O'Clock p. m. at Wei
lington, on Tuesday last, woke in Gin
cinnati the following morning, feeling
grateful and refreshed; grateful to the in
ventor Of those nearly perfect palaces on
wheels, which seem to almost annihilate
both time and distance. -e
q At $40 our train LEFT the fine and CON-
modious Little Miami depot for the Sum-
ny South. In crossing the Ohio River I
noticed the high-water mark as is indicated
by the dirty color line on numerous build
ings. Our route through Kentucky until
near Bowling Green seemed to lay in a
thinly settled, poorly cultivated, half civil
lied portion Of the great tobacco growing
State of Kentucky. But around that city
fine farms, good buildings and all the us
ual external indications ofwealth and pros
perity abound, and give evidence that that
section is favored with desirable soil, IA
vorable climate and industrious citizens;
yery essential elements and creators Of all
that Is desirable in any commonwealth.
We arrived at Nashville at 8 p. m, stop
ped 20 minutes for supper, then continued
our Journey south until 1890 p. m, and
was again grateful this time that my jour-
ney was at an end.
Inoticed the following morning mark
ed difference in the growth OF vegetation
between this point and at Wellington.
Wheat, rye and barley are in full head,
red and white clover in full bloom, corn
from one to two feet high, peaches nearly
fun grown, while new potatoes and green
peas, with the rare and much esteemed
corn pone form the daily bill Of fare for
the citizens here. The rows OF the
young cotton plants can be seen across the
extensive fields as the "darkey and his
mule" are plowing out the rows, while the
rest of his family are hoeing the tender
plants. .f,5a e.l
The weather is hot and vegetation is suf
ferine for want Of rain. fail to see the
Consistency in calling this town Mt Pleas
ant. Its location is in valley and the
pleasant part of the town or location would
require more fertile imagination than
mine to ever imagine anything very desir
able about its surroundings. 1t appears
to be two or three centuries old. If anti
-quated buildings with tumble-down chin
neys and mosscoyered roofs count anything
for age, swsy back befo the wah," and
awhen we all owned niggers," was nc
doubt the halcYon days for Mt Pleasant
But now it is retrograding, and viii not
require many decades to retrograde out OF
existence Politically it is not dead, but
unanimously Democratic, and unequivo-
cally in favor of "a tarifffor revenue only"
Col W. B. Polk, the former State Treas
urer, who, few months ago, was in jail
in Nashville for absconding with all the
States funds he could readily secure after
appropriating and loosing, by idle specu-
lation, some four hundred thousand dol
lars Of public money. is now out and at
liberty on thirty-ive thousand dollars
bonds
At Nashville next week will be held a
grand tournament and acompetitiye prize
drill of military companies who have &C
cepted invitations from various parts of the
Union, and will be there to take part in the
festivities. RoLF.