Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-08-28
MISSISSIPPI LETTER.


letter from little girl like me. Al
though l can't expect to write any
thing of much interest to the DEMO
Graf, it will be pleasure to tell you
of the good times Girtie and | are
having.
We left Texarkana on Friday, the
18th of july, and reached Memphis
Saturday. AS we had only a few
hours to wait there, we could only get
but hurried view of the city. 1t is
beautiful place, what we saw of it,
and | was particularly impressed by
the finely paved streets. | could not
help wishing that Texarkans had such
smooth, clean pavements.
1t was late in the evening when we
arrived in Aberdeen, which is only
few hours run from Memphis. We
were tired, and hot and dusty, so
that the sight of cool, shady, quiet
place, like this, was refreshment to
us. Aberdeen is one of the Oldest
towns in Mississippi, and also one of
the prettiest. Most of the houses are
built on the old Southern style, and
are large and stately looking, with
galleries all around. The streets are
shaded with beautiful trees, and near
ly every home is surrounded with
quantities of flowers. The water is
very abundant and fine here, and that
from the different bored wells, which
are to be found on every street, is
recommended by the doctors as fine
tonic.
We spent the first ten days of this
month in Alabama, where we had
most delightful visit. Our friends
who lived at a little place called Pride
Station, about II miles from the
thriving city Of Florence, made every
thing charminJ for us. We went out
on the mountains to view the scenery,
and [ shall never forget that lovely
landscape, with the bright summer
sunshine lighting it up. Although
we were only in the foothills of the
Cumberland Range, it seemed very
grand to people accustomed to fiat
country like ours. When we were at
the highest point we could distinctly
see Florence and several other small
or places. The Tennessee river is
beautiful stream, SO bright and clear.
In that respect it differs much from
the Tombigbee here, which is
muddy looking current, and so low
at this season, that the Iron Bridge
seems too big for it; but in winter
the river gets so deep and broad that
large steamboats, come up from Mo-
bile and take out cotton from the
landing here. While we were IN AL
ALBANIA we went into large cave in
the mountains. 1t looked so black
aud gloomy in there, after we had
left the sunshine outside, and were
groping our way with candles, that |
began to feel little queer and shaky
but that soon wore off in the pleas
ure of seeing a curious place. About
block from the entrance there is a
beautiful little room called "The
Chapel" because it looks like regu-
lar church; it even had natural pull
pit, with blocks that look like carved
statutes on each side. A little fur
ther on, we had to squeeze through
narrow openining called the "Fat
Mans Misery" AS none of us be-
longed to the fat kind, it wasn't SO
bad to get through.
AS we were on our way back to
Aberdeen, we had to stay in Corinth
% hours, owing to the bad connection
of trains at that point. We drove
out to see the famous battle grounds,
where so many of our brave soldiers
were killed. The National Cemetery
at Corinth is beautiful. 1t is kept IN
perfect order, and that makes it look
less sad. because it seems such peace
full spot to rest in, after the hard bat
ties of the war.
Sinceour return to Aberdeen, we
have done nothing but have good
time. We have made many acquain-
tances, and everybody has been so
kind and friendly to US, that we feel
as If we had lived here always. 1t
would take too long TO tell you all the
ways we find to amuse ourselves
but we dance and play, and 60 to all
sorts of things, besides driving and
fishing, and going all the time. We
receive the DEMOCRAT regularly, and
it is welcome message from home.
In few weeks we expect to turn our
faces homeward again, but we can
never forget our lovely time in Mis-
sissippi.
Kindest regards to the DEMOCRAT.
Pearl, SpLARMAN,