The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1885-08-29
AS OTHERS SEE Us.
n LADY,S SKETCH or ASHEHILLl
And IT'S SURROUNDINGS.
Correspondents Of the coying,on (Ky.) Cor

And us SURROUNDINGS.
[correspondence Of the coyingson (Ky.l Com
monwealth.
Under date Of July 18th, Miss Mary
Lynch, a visitor from CoTington, KY,
writesa very pleasant letter 10 herh home
paper Of Ashevilie. The whole letter is
very happily written, and we regret we
have not space to reproduce all she says.
We make few extracts:
i AsHEvILLE, N. c., July 49,,
Our party Left Covington on the 7th
inst, just as the suns rays began to pour
down on us with feryent heat. Reached
Asheville (an altitude of $500 feet) on
| the 9th, and drawing up to the Swan !
4 nanoa about 8 o'clock in. the evening, we
found the rest we SO much needed; a
good hotel, which we can recommend to
fellow-travelers. Next morning got list
of the boarding houses and drove around
the village in search of house. We
were disappointed in the appearance of
the place. Instead of a little hamlet
emboWered IN shade it presented quite a
Icity-like appearance; good, substantial
brick business houses and dwellings,
with small grounds and very little shade.
Il It seemed to us that tho beams of the
Southern sun were more piercing and
i penetrating than ours. We had heard
that GOODNESS prevailed here in this Land
OF the Sky" at all seasons. We rode on
signing "for a lodge in some vast wilder
ness, some boundless contiguity of
shade" Finally we located at a pleas
ant, homelike villa, with ample grounds,
on the hills opposite the town proper,
separated by rayine spanneA by rustic
] bridge; but the greatest attraction is the
| M yopsfir iV,f Of
the valley and gentle slopes of the sur
rounding hills and, above all, the grand
mountain ranges in the distance-fac-
simile of those that first met my youth
full eyes and surrounded my childhood's
happy home-represent the Blue
/ Ridge and Peaks of Otter. q q +.
| The chief amusement here is riding on
horseback, going ON some occasions to
distant mountains to get a more delight !
full view; spending Sometimes several
days climbing mountains, camping out
or sleeping three and four in bed at
the foot. Tastes change according to
circumstances; here, they are primitiye
and rural. We depend on mountain
breezes and exercise to cure our infrmi-
ties. We have taken several rides, pass
ing handsome villas; one owned by Mr..
Connolly, a Richmond millionaire, a few
miles from town, the road rough, wild,
romantic, leading up q bill ,of little noun
tain, / should say, on the summit of
which is the elegant house and grounds.
hedged with the laurel and adorned with
all the beauty that nature combined with
art can bestow. We stopped to gaze. !
The lovely valley, grand mountain
scenery IN the distance, and through the
green meadows below the Swannanoa
| after rollicking and tumbling above comes
sneaking along in ambush, turns sgd
denly and empties itself into the French |
Broad; and they flow on together where
the sun retires to rest.
|. Altogether this presented the most |
magnificent panorama I ever beheld. |
The organs of sublimity, Ideally and |
veneration were satiated, and we were
awed into perfect silence before the |
majesty of Nature and Natures God. II
We were losth to leave this Elysium, |
but began opr descent along the rugged, /
rather dangerous way, crossing the riverl
and passing through skirts of forests,
hailing with enthusiasm old acquain5
tazg >os in the chestnut burr, laurel, |
chinquepin, whortleberry, notes OF ia
miliar birds reviving sweet memories Of |
childhood, - - ''--
Making thoughts that long have slept,
Kindhng former smiles again
In faded eyes that long have wept.'
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Miss Lynch then gives graphic descrip- |
ton of Richmond Hill, Beaucatcher. Bat
terry Porter, Tahkeostee and other attractive |
scenes. She concludes: -. Il
1.-THE young people OF this house will
leave tomorrow for trip up "Craggy," i
5000 feet) some in carriages others on
horseback. My youthful spirits would
enjoy the excursion but age torbids, These
rooms of the fashionable resorts I
and their aceompaniments, cards and
The chief traffic of ,Asheville is the
aceed. 1 hear the old familiar sound of
the tobacco horn every morning. The |
farmers bring it in IN small quantities |
and lay it in piles on the floors of the large
warehouses. When a sufficient quantity |
is collected it is pressed into a hogshead |
for other markets.
Strange that man should be SO ea1fhlyI
when all these surroundings point Heayen- |
ward !.foe 81 liA+ si4i. $50
The donkey which we often meet here
is curiosity to US Northerners; they are
hitched to little carts, but like the mule will |
not be driven Sai -! aifl
There are water cures, faith cures, 7
mind cures and this is the air cure, fast /
in daily from the North, East, South and |
West, none for pleasure except what |
the riding affords and the grand scenery
we enjoy at every step. Some traveller
has said that there is none finer in
America than in North Carolina6 The
society that congregate here aresof the
intellectual class, reading and conversing
when not out iinhaIing the pure, fresh,
health-giving air. In a few days the effect
is a ravenous appetite. clear. complexion,
vivaclty of spirit, the medicine (air) is so /
stimulating. Some of the boarding houses
take more serious invalids, and are pre-
pared with all necessaries for the sick, and
are called sanitariums. Some of the delicate
ones think they cannot live out of this
atmosphere, and make this place perma-
nent abode oreyisit it yearly. Pleasant /
boarding houses may be found in almost
every family both in town and the vicinity,
which make it so homelike and agreeable |
free and easy, especially for children, who
have the sakeys of the grounds" which
they enjoy to perfection, without fear of
accident or diet, and they can cry as loud
as they please.
Our hospitable host and hostess, Mr..
and Mrs. II. c. Hunt. make their boarders
feel at home, and take an interest IN their
recreations. We are so accessible to town
we can walk over to church, on business,
or to pay a visit. Of evenings we are re- |
galed with delightful vocal music some /
times little social dancing which makes |
us keep too late hoursP
C. H. Miller and "a Adolbhus Smith. |
oaiaamaY1 for nsaiu11 oner< q I'd ,ffoysrf, !, !