The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-08
A Jacksonian North.
DuBuQUK, Iowa, Dec. Sd, 1856.

DUBUQUE, IOWA, Lee oo3 1000
EprroR CLARION Your correspondent
| LETT the beautiful city of Jackson on Mon
4 day night, November 29th, for a trip
| North IN the interest of Immigration, and
70 take some observations in the great
N9rthwest. Arriving at Chicago in due
/ time on Wednesday following, | was soon
1 comfortably quartered at the Clifton House.
! Here ! met Capt II. I. Coffee, formerly OF
/ Memphis, and two Messrs. Marks, of Nat
chez, which fact made me feel quite al
4 home, having been accompanied from
4 Jackson by Mr. Sidney McLaurin, who
I came via Chicago en- route TO Washington
| CITY. On Wednesday the mercury began
to fall and By shutdown it registered 10'
below zero, making il decidedly the coolest
weather ! ever saw. Men, women and
| children ran instead Of walking, while the
| police, and others whose duties required
them 10 remain at one poini, constantly
beat their hands against tLeir breasts and
stamped their feet on the ground in order
TO keep their blood agoing.
After remaining in Chicago for two days,
I concluded that / could not find a much
colder place, and 80 boarded the Illinois
Central bound Tor
SIOUX CITY, IOWA
Reaching this place about 10 O'Clock
this, Friday morning, We stopped of 10
take breakfast and in my attempt to see
something Of the city, got left, and am
compelled to await the next train North.
Fhis Is a place OF 10000 people, who seem
to be prosperous and happy. ! visited four
banks, two Of which were \ 1tiOnal banks I;
also two different lines of telegraph com
panies, the Western Union and North
american. / al~o made a most interesting
visit to pork packing house here, with
all the latest achinery-claiming to
slaughter 1909 hogs daily, and [ suppose
IL is true, for / saw several hundred put
through the Bt0das opeTandi in very short
space Of time.
The Mississippi River at this point is
frozen entirely across from bank to bank,
and teamster in driving his wagon across
this evening, had the misfortune to break
through hole in the ice and lost one Of
the animals, and narrowly escaped with
his own life
1t may be OF interest to the theatre-going
people Of Jackson to say that tonight "A
Pair Of Kids" by the Kendall Company il
played here
Having nothing more pleasant to occupy
myself to-day, l made a canvass of the
city, talking up
MISSISSIPPI AND ITS POSSIBILITIES,
And in my rounds, came across Mr..
Dreyfus, who at one time was a merchant
at Mayersville and Vicksburg, and who
took delight in speaking good of Missis-
sippi although prosperous and comfort
ably located here. In my route TO Sioux
City, will try to stop of and see Mr.. n.
I. Burroughs, at Cherokee, Iowa, who has
invested largely in Mississippi lands.
/ would attempt description of the
country between this place and Chicago,
had | not come over almost the entire
route in the night time. This is not fat
prairie country as many imagine, or sup
pose, but undulsting or hilly with very
rich and alluvial bottom lands Every
where you can see farms filed to overflow
ing with grain and hay and large ricks or
shocks exposed to the snow. This morning
after daylight the train stopped at beau.
uful town by the name OF Galena, H., and
here ! was pointed out
GEN. GRANTS OLD HOMESTEAD,
a magnificent brick mansion on the top of
great hill overlooking the surrounding
country for miles around. This house is
still kept in the best of repair. Knowing
full well that | am falling far below what
your readers expect of one attempting a
letter Of this kind, l beg pardon and stop
here. G. W. CARLISLE,