The Russellville Democrat., 1886-07-14
FROM THE OLD WORLD.
InterestingC0rrespondence from
 Dr. A. H. Scott.

CUNARD ROYAL MAIL STEAM SHIP ErRuRIAl
 I2 HOURS OFF FROM QUEENsT0ws IRE-
 LAND, ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN,
 May 2s, 1886. , Correspondence ofthe Democrat.
 You will perhaps feel little as tonished at receiving thls epistle bearing date, place and locality as indicated in the caption.
 You and other friends will huwev- CT doubtless recollect, that l have had in contemplation for several years visit to the "Old World' to which spot am now vending my way. Andsknowing that you and a number of my friends ill Pope coun ty where l was born and raised would occasionally like to hear from me while on my tour of I or , months abroad beyond the Atlantic Ocean, l now open up T correspondence with you which if deemed of sufficient in terest and worthy of space in your journal you are at liberty to publish.
 I left my home in Little Rock, Ark, on Saturday the 10th of May inst, via Louisville, Ky, where l re- mained over 24 hours, thence via Cincinnati. where l was again com pulsoIy detained another a4 hours in consequence of $ wrecked freight train across the track which had to be cleared off before l could proceed further on my journey. l reached New York on the 20tb, and sailed from that place at o'clock on Sat urdaJ the 22d out upon a boandless sea, on board the Steam Ship Etreria of the Cunard Line, and as you now see from the caption of this letter l am within l2 hours Of reaching Queenstown in Ireland, and which place we will reach this evening { Friday the 28th) at 1 o'clock, mak ing the trip across from N. Y. in a little less than seven days. Most splendid tune. 1 am now in my state room and have been for the last 36 hours the sickest mortal you ever saw. 1 am writing this with my head upon my pillow, lying fiat upon my back unable to raise my head which causes great dizziness and sickness of stomach. We have on board 483 passengers and only about some seventy of that number are able to go to the table for their meals. 50 you will say this IS not very expensive to the vessel in furn- ishing ratIons, and ought to be some cheaper board for the passengers, yet no deductions are made for miss ing meals. I have just taken one cracker and glass of crushed ice, the only thing which l have been able to retain in my stomach within the last 36 hours. I am writing this to mali this evening Friday 18th, at Queenstown, SO that the steamer leaving Liverpool tomorrow Satur- day, for the United States and touch ing at this place, will carry it to you, have concluded 1 would brave the consequences and get up from thls apparently lazy position, and go aloft and get some fresh air and face the rough pillows, perhaps 1 may feel better, and get over this most terrible sea sickness the sooner. So here l go for the change. It has been so cold that 1 have had to put on extra clothing, two pair Of draw CTS, two undershirts, and my over coat, and then 1 cannot keep warm. l would not write you with thIs pen cil. but I could get no ink, as 1t was al, fastened np ln the desks. oc cupy a state room with MT. l. T. ! McCnrdy of Dansville, New York, he is travellng for his health, but has not been half as sick IS have been. He has been very kind to me, and so has also Capt. Byrnes of Houston, Texas, T fellow passenger, and most pleasant gentleman.
 Well | have at last found pen and 1 ink, and will give you tho benefit ol it's indelibility, and which will not be so readily erased as penciling in it's homewafd bound passage.
 I forgot to mention, that we pass ed the wreck of the i'll fated Stean | Ship Oregon on the first day VI were cut from N. Y. Two ot hel masts were still sticking out Of th' I water. Oh what terrible though 1 to be shipwreckcd upon boundles' 1 sea of water, with no help at hand < 1 snccor. or land in view. To De swal flowed up in the great briny deel with nothing but the blue sky abeF'