The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-25
From Dixie Land.
NEW ORLEANS. La.


paragraphs from the sunny chimes OF
Dixie Land may prove interesting. En-
route over the old reliable L. & n. r K
to the Mardi Gras carnival at New
Orleans spent pleasant day in the
Tennessee capital with my kinswomen.
Mrs. Lizzie Champ and Miss Mary
Champ. The former is the esteemed
matron of DR.. Prices Nashville College
for Young Ladies and the latter is an
apt art pupil at the same institution.
The school, which enjoys merited
reputation as one of the best Ia the
South, has home in splendid four-stOry
buildings Cd Broad street and Vauxhall
Place. The buildings have every con-
venience, and the college faculty is an
able one in every respect. The thriving
CITY of Nashville is probably the leading
educational center of the South. having
within it's limits the famous Vanderbilt
University and its various departments,
Belmont College, BoscObel College, DR..
Prices, Wards Seminary the last four
female schools-St. Cecilin and st. Ber-
nard (Catholicy, and Fisk University
and Roger Williams College for colored
students. Among the interesting fea-
lures of Nashville may be mentioned
the magnificent capital building, and
the Jackson equestrian statue, the tomb
of President James K. Polk and wife
which are on the capital grounds. The
old Polk mansion, near the capital is an
object of great interest and veneraticn
alike to Nashville and strangers. The
grand old house is now fast decayiDg
and is untenanted except by the care
taker Among the pleasant acquaint-
ances l made In Nashville are Hon. M.
T. Bryan, an ex-Bourbon, who is one of
the leading lawyers IN the city, and Mr..
and Mrs w. F. Champe, whose beauti
full home is an attractive place to the
elite of the Tennessee capital. A visit
to the centennial grounds showed that |
the beautiful buildings are rapidly being
torn away The splendid ParthenOD |
will be reserved for a permanent art
gallery, and the centennial ground will
be converted into public park.
From the window of the "Alamitos,"
one of the five sleepers speeding South
ward on the L. & N. special, had my
first view of a cotton field just after. en-
tering Alabama. while writing these
paragraphs. At this season it looks but |
little like the landscape and magazine
pictures of the cotton fields or the jubI-
lee scenes depicted in Down In Dixie"
and other Southern dramas. The
bushes are about fifteen inches tall and
only here and there could be seen a turf
of cotton which careless pickers had
overlooked. Scores of bales of cotton
were noticed at several stations.
The Mardi Gras specials We're viewed
by crowds of villagers at every station
which goes to prove that Cyuthiana
isn't the only curious town on the l.. &
n. Those little Alabama coOns made
famous in song-and visible every
where-are but prototypes of the Ken
lucky pickaninnies. They all look most
alike to me. By the way, the absence
of colored persons at the station at Gull
man, ELECTED the news that not a col
ored person lives in that village.
The l.. & N seems to be the popular
line to the Mardi Gras, and right we'll
does it deserve the preference. The SER
vice is good and the trains make quick
time and through traffic ia enormous
every train being crowded. The Ray
mond & Whitcomb Mardi Gras special
from New York, which passed over the
L. & N. was composed of twelve
sleepers. Thus the public shows conf
1ence in the L. & N
Since Sunday many thousands of
visitors from the North, East and West
have arrived In New Orleans, attracted
thither by the fame of the MarLi Gras
carnival, and royalty has the Crescent
City entertained her guests. To-day
which was a double holiday, being
Shrove Tuesday ('fat" Tuesday, and
George Washington's birthday-wa the
merriest, maddest day of the whole
year, for it was given entirely over to
enjoyment, and on every building were
the royal colors-purple, green and pur-
ple-in flags and banners. The carnival
really began Monday afternoon with the
arrival of his majesty Rex, King of the
Carnival, who came up the Mississippi
in his royal vessel accompanied by his {
feet and the q. S. cutter Galveston. /
Mid the booming of the guns of the U.
5. battleship Marblehead, a French
and an Austrian corvette.
and the whistles of countless steamers.
tugs and locomotives, King Rex and his !
courtiers disembarked at the foot of
Canal street, and the parade immediate