Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-05-24
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

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Leaving McMinnville at 5:45 on
the morning of the 10Th, an hour be-
fore midnight found us quartered in
the spacious hotel at Hot Springs,
six miles over the North Carolina
line, and rain was falling over every
mile of the distance traversed be-
tween the two points.
There is quite a noticeable inn
provement in the f. T. V. & G. Rail-
way since our last trip over it some
three years ago. The road bed is
smoother, the coaches handsomer and
more comfortable, and the time made
by passenger trains is better.
One cannot pass through Chatta-
nooga and fail to notice the rapid
strides that city is making. New
houses are going up in all directions,
and the buildings are of such a char
acter as denote permanent growth
and prosperity. Chattanooga seems
to have safely passed over the quick
sands of the boom craze in which so
many Southern towns are founder
ing.
AT Cleveland, Athens, Morristown
and other points along the East Ten
nessee road, new manufactures of
various kinds are going up, and can
be seen from the Car windows. There
is great industrial development
throughout all East Tennessee. The
smoke of new furnaces, fOundries and
factories can be seen in many places
which were but fields and forests a
few years ago.
Between Chattanooga and Morris.
town we fell in with 2 number of
delegates to the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church, enroute
to Asheville. Half a dozen or more
of the party stopped over at Hot
Springs, the others proceeding to
Asheville, which point they reached
about one O'Clock Thursday morning.
Those Of us who remained at the
Springs had no cause to regret it, as
we got eight hours rest in a good no.
tel, with a nice breakfast, and had
the advantage of a daylight run M
the French Broad river to Asheville
The valley which this bounding,
roaring, little river cuts through the
Allegheny Mountains forms a com,
paratively easy route for modern
railroad construction. At no poin
between Hot Springs and AshevillC
is the railroad track further than twC
hundred yards from the river, ant
the greater part of the distance thu
width of the valley is measured by
the bed of the river, the mountain
being benched off a few feet above
the water to receive the railroad
track. In its serpentine winding
through the mountains the train il
{ the course of a few miles moves il
almost every direction of the compass
: and the traveller gets many prett!
views of wild mountain scenery.
After a run of something NOR
= than hour up this beautiful vale.
and river, at nine O'Clock on tn
morning of the 18th inst, we reacl
q ASHEVILLE.
:. Over in our part of Tennessee have
come TO regard Asheville, from vari
Gus accounts in newspapers and othe
sources, as a city of rare beauty, sit
n uated in the midst of a wonderland
u Our own preconceived ideas of Ashe
vile were not altogether sustaine
: by a personal visit. The place doe
IS not impress us as possessing any {
: the characteristics of a city, but o
: the other hand it presents more tn
k appearance of several mOuntai
IS towns and pleasure resorts bunche
l. together without regard to order c
d any recognized system of laying OF
|. towns. To the rugged aspect of tn