The Portland daily press., 1895-04-01

Frankfort, indianapolis is also visitor in
Thomasi vile. His duties require aim to
visit frequently different sections of his
state, and although he is Democrat,
he candld!y expressed the opinion that
the Democracy of Indiana are much on
posed to President Cleveland and think
ex-President Harrison will make Il strong
showing in the Republican National
Convention of the next year. He also
admires ex-Speaker Reed and believes
Gov. Mckinley is at present in the south
looking after his political fences.
There are many delightful drives
| through the pine woods in this vicinity,
and the light and sandy soil absorbs
water so readily that even after the
heaviest rain there is no mud. A system
of boulevards, recently laid out, encir-
cles the city and the street running out
from its centre intersect these like the
| spokes of a wheel.
There are few peach orchards about
| the town and it is little out of the
orange belt, but there are hundreds OF
acres devoted to the cultivation of pears.
The tall symmetrical trees of the lie
Conte" pear-the variety raised here al
most exclusively stretch out in parallel
| rows on every hand.
| In almost all southern towns of any
considerable size there is a monument
erected to the Confederate dead of the
late rebellion aud Thoniasyille is no eX-
ception. In one of the principal public
squares rises a tall marble shaft in
memory Of the soldiers of Thomas
County who died in the war from 1861
to 1865" It hears also this quotation,
that appears in many Of our National
cemeteries, from the now we'll known
poem by Father O'Hara. "On Fame's
eternal camping ground their silent
tents are spread, while glory guards with
solemn round, the hivouacs of the dead"
In coming here the attention of the
northern visitor is attracted to the cabins
or huts in which the negroes live, that
are scattered all along the railway either
single or in groups throughout the states
| of North and South Carolina and
Georgia. They are all of one ssyle-some
| 10 by IL feet in size on the gronnd-one
story high, bulls of boards or slahs,
sometimes of logs and chinked with mud
--Ho windows but usually two hoies III
the walls open by day and closed by
shutters at night-with chimney buIlt
OF sticks and mud outside the hut and
containing one room, sometimes Two.
These buildings would not be considered
decent wood-shed for any tenement
house in any town in New England OF
six or eight thousand inhapltants. ana
yet a ma ority of the colored people along
the line of the Atlantic coast railway
live In them. NO OBe "onuei0 ol'ei
visiting this section that the average
southern congressman cannot under
stand the thrift and intelligence Of our
northern manufacturing villages, yet, he
comes from the midst of this evident
saualor and wretcheduess and attempts
to make laws for our busy and thriving
towns of the north which are entirely
be yond his comprehension: 1hree large
boteIs and several smaller ones with
numerous boarding houses accommodate
the strangers within the gates OF Ihom-
asviIle. OF all the towns in this portion
of the south, and we have visited several
in Georgia and Florida, that we nave
seen. this has the most attractions for
those seeking rest and health.