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Day
5
Month
March
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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Correüpondence of the ArgUB. Jacksonville, Feb. 20, 1875. Our little party, consisting only of Mr. Scott, myself and our better halves, reaohed this place on Wednesday the 17th in good condition, and without having encountered any disagreeables during our long jouruey hither. We spent one day and two nights in Chicago, stayed over night at Louisville, at Nashville two nights, one day at Atlanta, one night at Macon, and the other night being between Macon and Jacksonville. Although quite as hostile to that way of doing things as Sir John Pallstaff, we spent it upon the cars by compulsión. Our route f rom Louisville did not pass through a specially interesting región, as regards either agriculture or soenery. The absence, however, of snow and frost, so strongly in contrast witb. the región we had left, made up for all else, and we would have been thoroughly joyous but for the thought of our nuuierous and good friends at Ann Arbor who were left out in the cold. At Atlanta we met Mr. Robert A. Widenmann, who has become a denizen of that flourishing town within the past year, and to whose courteous and polite attentions we are largely indebted for what we saw and learned of the enterprise and thrift, and the " worthseeing" sights of the Georgia capital. We visited both branches of the State Legislature, now in gession, and several other places of interest. Neither here or at any other point on our journey have we encountered the Ku Klux or White Leaguers, or seen any body in favor of the Civil ïtights Bill, now pending m the U . S. ísenate. Very likely thore may be some, but so far as we know, we have not Been either. Of course it is an old story, simply aggravating, to teil of the sitting-room without fire, the open windows, etc. Therefore on that point I hold my peace. But pardon me for juBt hinting that blooming roses and luscious ripe fruits hanging froni limbs of trees that are clothed in green verdure, is not a vory disagreeable sight.

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Old News
Michigan Argus