The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-02-19
LYNN visits New orleans.

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, the past two weeks. So for once
will give your readers something @
my observation and experience on 8
trip to the Great Cotton -Centennia
N. o. Armed with commission
from Gov. Bate as delegate to tn,
Cotton Planters Association q
America !, with j. B. Bray, 90
aboard 8 train at Lynnville at 1875
p, M, the 9th. The thermometel
stood at 10. Got to Mobile at SUI
up next morning and found ice anC
a cutting gale. Saw the sun rise ovel
the bay, grand scene at which m,
travelling companion went into ex
stacies, declaring it was more than
worth the trip to see. Imagine $
diamond wall 80 feet high, spark.
ling and glittering in every direc-
ton. Mobile to New Orleans, I2I
miles, is a dead level, more water
and norass than land, covered of
ten with heavy swamp grass four
feet high. One place a fire with
pillows of fiery flame rolling up and
onward terribly grand. Crossed
Bay St. Louis, miles of salt wa
ter, on trestles, the waves run
ming high and lashing our frail
supports with fury. First oranges
seen we're at Bay st. Louis from
which place to New Orleans they
hung in great abundance and beau
ty amid the dark foliage. They
were the sour kind and are very
hardy and used for ornamental
trees of which they have no supe-
rior. Arrived at N. 0. IL a. m.
distance 496 miles in % hours-3
hours late. Fell in with Capt. E..
G. B. Lee of Brick Church. We
were all desperately hungry and
fell into the hands of hack driy-
er who proposed without any
charge to drive US to choice place
for meals at 25cts. We found 1t a
villainous place unworthy patron
age and the hack driver demanded
75cts. each Tor driving US. I
threatened to call tue police at
which he left us the wiser. We,
hungry, set out to find the bureau
of information for strangers, wor-
thy institution. They recommend
ed US to No. l19 Royal ST., board
ing house, which we in turn recon-
mend as royal place to board. We
paid only $3.50 for bed and board.
Fare excellent, rooms large and
airy, mistress French, generous and
hospitable. Now in describing the
exposition,I am like Artemus Ward
lit is the muchness of the thing /
fear. The same of N. Orleans. 1t
contains 156 square miles, more
than London. In fact it is the big
gest city on earth and this is the
biggest exposition as regards area
and in many features. Some fe at
ures are yet deficient. Yet it is
grand and does honor to its direc-
tors. In the state department Cal
afornia is wonder, her displays of
ores, gold and silver is grand. She
has section of a tree cut 100 feet
from ground Is feet across,a pump
kin weighing 222 pounds, beet
weighing "a pounds and an i'm
mense display of sage honey white
as castor oil.
Even poor North Carolina comes
in with display of minerals that
astonishes the world. She has q
lump of coal weighing IA tons.
Gold bearing rocks and ores in
great quantities-some of which
are fac SMILES of dinty rock I
have often seen here. This rock
yields from $40 to 5000 per ton and
is called free milling rock. 1 feel
sure we have this rock on some of
our ridges.
New Mexico has many wonder
full things-an old pIow used
by the natives, which is a forked
limb with an iron point. Arizona
has q solid block of copper weigh
ing 1900 pounds. Nevada has
tracks of prehistoric animals in
stone 81 inches across and human
tracks in sand stone Is inches long.
Nebraska has great figure of an
Indian 80 feet high of grasses and
grains. A beet weighing % pounds
is an exact resemblance of a hog.
Dakota has pyramid of grasses
and grains 60 feet high, surmount
with huge stuffed eagle. The
taxadermist display is the finest
the world ever saw. A setter dog
setting a covey of birds should be
seen by every visitor. Every ami
NAL known TO man is there as nat
ural as life.
To come to our own state the i'm
mensity of her grain display, es-
pecially corn is second to none.
Much of it is due to our enterpris-
ing farm paper, The Spirit of the
Farm. Giles county has an indi-
vidual department that attracts
much attention which owes nearly
everything to Mrs. Spofford. But
Matt. HarweA and other Giles
county names occur on many ex-
hibits. l did not at all feel
ashamed of my county. Our dis
play is good and being added to
every day. Our Commissioner,
Col. Now hirter, is a h ero and de-
serves unlimited praise. He has
cars of products and displays at de-
pot which he is getting into place
as speedily as possible. The wo-
mans department of Tennessee is
splendid, many of the finest contri-
buttons coming from Pulaski. Mrs
Porter is commissioner and Miss
Sallie B. Morgan of Nashville as
sistant, whom I found q woman of
rare culture and an indefatigable
worker. Our cause is in excellent
hands there. I fonnd that in the
display of marble, corn and hay,
Tennessee stands near tho top if
not absolutely. l found very few
Tennesseeans Ethere. Our county
had Nick Townsend and Mr.. White
from Pulaski, R. A. Farmer and
Geo. Witt of Lynnville, besides
those mentioned in this article be-
fore. The music halls seating ca
Dacitv il 600 Uhera there vas a