Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-01-16
IN THE SUNNY SOUTH.
The Ledger's Martinsburg Cor.
respondent off on q Pleas
ure Trip-A Wonder
full Change.

full Change.
Correspondents efttelfd er.
COLUMBUS, Miss. Jan. 2-We
lett ST. Louis on January 8th-also
left her characteristic, muddy,
sloshy, sleety, icy, dirty streets be-
hind--and slowly, very slowly,
wended our way to the sunny South
over the Mobile 4 Ohio railroad,
and right here let US state, with
brevity and much feeling. if the
people Of the North and West want
to take real pleasure lrip-one In
which they want lots of time for
exploration and adventure through
the beautiful swarnps OF Tennessee
and Krntucky-ju-t take advantage
of the accommodations (and they
are many OF the NJ & o R. K.
Our flight was uneventful after
leaving ST Louis until we reached
Cairo, where we were aroused from
our close aud compact slumbers by
the deafening echoes and re-echoes
of the steamboat and railroad whis.
ties. Mr. Editor. did you ever try
the realities of sitting up in a lower
berth of sleeper from Eve to six
hours? Ifnot you have lost one
sensation that comes only once in
the life time of a human being; we
say once, because we know. it will
never be tried on but once. Well,
we-two long trains of southern
bound passengers-were ''toted"
over The "Fa.her of Waters" on
an enormous steamboat, safely
landed on terra frma and there We
sat, or rather crouched, until $50 IA.
m. when, to our exceeding delight,
our courteous porter offered to ar
range the berth in more dignif-d
attitude. Ne neeki. (some m .kly,
some MOI J ,ss ented ,and promptly ()
at somewhere about 1920 break
fast was served. An Old gentleman
of 81. and from the polar regions of
the North, kept the good peo-
pie aU axe the rest of the day with
his continued but cheerful j ,cula-
tions of the "cheer-y green fields"
while to our diagonal sat a much
younger man decidedly abstruse in
his remarks in regard to swamps,
railroad conductors, porters and
f1i. ht of time. AS we draw nearer
the South we gradually note these
changes: Depot platforms and
freight trains loaded down with
bales of cotton; lumber yards and
lumber piled up high ON every side
aud slaves for barrels, ETC., to be
shipped to foreign Countries by
the millions; gradually the houses
grow smaller and lower, negro
huts and the men more spindling
(now this is ttur), the grass and
foliage greener, until YOU land in a
bed of evergreens ahd magnificent
flowers Gradually The c.,lor OF
the people change, until when W.
-each.d Artesia. Miss, everything
10 our innocent eyes seemed evil,
whether it was from lack of lights
there or really Composed IF ,h-
- A Simore Pure" we know not.
Gradually the horses changed into
mules and oxrn-nx-n, and We
| think the most amusing sight We
ever saw were the harmonious
combinations of mules, oxen, ne-
groes and their maketings, cotton.
pumpkins and pine knots, (but OF
his in our nex,)
We reached Artesia at last at 6
o'clock, with promise from our
portly conductor to move out tn
the beauti lul city of Col mhus in
twenty minutes. 1t Is distance
of IA miles, and to our Missouri
friends " no have sometimes travel
ell ON that romantic route from
| Mexico to Fulton, No., it will b-
no surprise when We state that VT
| reached this bower of mareschal
neil and magnolia fragrance at 8
o'clock, sharp.
We will take gre,t pleasure in
| ,ur next To .lescribe-if possible to
'ln it ju >tlce--the city ofCnlumbus
| Miss. OBSERVER