Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-03-27
Two Notable Colleges Located
at Macon.
How Local Option is Working
i'm Georgia.

Before left Mississippi scores of
good friends were kind enough to ask
me to write them now and then. To
comply with such requests singly.
would require very much more time
than can give to even so pleasant a
task. Hence l will, with your permits
sion. speak to these valued friends
through the columns of the paper
whose success | have long earnestly
coveted.
Our route from Brookhaven to this
point was via Jackson. Meridian. Bir-
mingham. Ala. Atlanta and Macon.
Georgia. At the latter point, which is
a city of some 10000 inhabitants, and
the seat of the noted Mercer Universe
ty, we stopped a few days with my
brother J. B. and his family.
Coming from Birmingham to Allan
ia we passed over the Georgia Pacific
railroad If there is anywhere a moro
crooked road | do not care to have any
experience with it. The schedule time,
| was told. is 40 miles per hour. Think
of a train running curves at the rate
of 10 miles per hour and then
wonder. if you will, that all of us, from
the least to the greatest, were sick.
sick!! sick!,i | travelled almost CON
stantly for more than 10 years, but the
motion of train never sickened me
before. | am fixed on one thing. viz:
If | ever return to Mississippi and
must either walk or ride over the Geor
gia Pacific railroad, | shall walk. This
can be said of that road, however, it is
very smooth and its employees are
very obliging, courteous gentlemen.
In many places along the G. p. r. r.
the scenery is remarkably beautiful,
and we would have enjoyed it no little
but for the complete upheaval of our
systems Now and then the train would
dash into a valley, from which could
be seen in the distance mountain
ranges whose sides and SUBMITS were
entirely wrapped in mantle of snow.
The scenes change almost as rapidly as
those of kaleidoscope, and many of
them are as enhancing. Those who
are fond of swinging would immensely
enjoy trip over the great G.. p. r. r.,
leaving Birmingham about d. m. and
reaching Atlanta at 40 a. m.
We made close connection with the
waiting room at Atlanta, where we
spent weary hours. Our tickets read
over the East Tennessee and Virginia
Air Line" from Atlanta to Macon. The
train over that route had just been
gone II minutes when we arrived, and
there was no other train until . a. m.
next day. This was an unpleasant sit
uation for sick travellers. On enquiry
l learned that the Central of Georgia
r. r." sent out train at p. m, which
reaches Macon at 7:3o same date.
hunted up the Office of Mr.. Towns
worth, q would say General, but he is
too young) General Passenger Agent of
the G.. p. railroad, who is one of the
most courteous gentlemen | ever met,
to whom | stated my woes, and asked
him to take up our tickets and send us
to Macon over the Central of Geor-
gia." AS if it offered him special pleas
ure to oblige me, he at once said, Ser
tainly, sir; will do that for you" Mr..
Townsworth looks to be not more than
% years of age. 1t interested me to
note with what readiness and kindly
emphasis he disposed of sundry ques-
tons during the short while l was in
his office. If his road bed were as
straight as himself | would like it bet
ter.
At Macon | met my old time Prohi-
bition yoke fellows, Hon. J. II. l.. Ger
dine, formerly of West Point, Miss,
and brother-i n-law to President Muir
rah of Millsaps College, who is yet in
the practice of law; and Ed. l.. Martin,
who, with his gifted and lamented
brother, John H., used to make the
New Mississippian such a power for
good and such terror to evil-doers in
Mississippi. Ed. is at the head of the
Georgia Commercial College and l was
told by others is doing real well for
his patrons and himself. 1t was real
delight to me to look into his manly
face again. In Mississippi he and l
worked and hoped for the same cause
and together we wept over our fallen
braves in Jackson. These experiences
make me feel close akin to him. 1t
made me sad to note some grey hairs
in Eds hair and beard. These tell that
sorrows sea has swept over, and left
its sediment on him.
Many of your readers remember
with pleasure Lou j. Beauchamp, who,
with Col. r. S. Chevis, toured Missis-
sippi several years since in the inter
est of temperance and Prohibition.
found him with his co-laborer, Col. j.
w. Demoree, at his old business, fight
ing the liquor traffic in Macon, where
he spent week trying to crush the
deadly work of the more than 100 sa-
looms which Macon voters had put in