Here And There In Our Own Country Author:Various Carolina, on the first day of January, 1882. If l were not there on or before that date, important interests might suffer therefore taking time by the forelock, I set out several days in advance of the appoined period. I had only a hundred and forty miles to go, but I was somewhat experienced in Souchern travel, and knew it was well enough to al... more »lon- a liberal margin of time, even for short distances. You will find Jordan a hard road to travel, sir, said the conductor to me, as -- Asheville. horth from morristown, Tennessee. The trestle at Uecp Water is swept away and the one at Ivy is hanging by only the coupling but youll get through somehow, if youre one of the saints and believe in perseverance. I was in the wake of a severe storm, which I knew had done some damage to the roads, but I was not aware that it had swept away bridges and raised high havoc generally, However, I had no alternative, so I pushed on trudging to luck and perseverance. At Wolf Creek the train halted in adriving snow storm....« less