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I left Columbus by & bye-; for I had to go to work --
I left on Saturday -- the 5th of July-; and went down the
River again with Capt. John Morton-; I arrived at Chattahoochee
on Monday morning after breakfast-; took passage for Quincy in
a hack of old Tommy D. Wilson's; that made tri-weekly trips
between the two places -- I had for fellow passengers a Col.
Yoville, a cousin of Dr. F. Y. Henry of Quincy-; and a young
gentleman of Q. -- Col. Y. was a jolly Virginia gentleman,
full of joke & chat & fun-; the two horses that drew us were
as emaciated animals as I ever saw in harness -- Col. Y.
laughed at the "grand entre" we would make on entering
Quincy -- We were to have changed horses at Davis' -- the
half way place, near Mount Pleasant-; but we did not -- the
poor animals were driven on-, and as we neared Quincy late in
the afternoon, one of them was fast giving out, and was only
kept up on its feet by the incessant use of the driver's whip-;
it had the heaves most fearfully -- & it was cruelly dis-
tressing to be sitting behind it -- Just as we reached the
Livery Stable in town, it fell flat on its side, and in a
few moments breathed its last.

Dr. Keyes had moved to Quincy; and was boarding at Mrs.
Westcott's-; on the lot subsequently bought by Mr. N. H.
Stewart, the teacher; and improved by him by the addition of
a neat dwelling house in front of the older one-; and in late
years, bought by Mr. Jas. Browne & farther improved --
July 1893 -- Mrs. Corry, one of the syndicate -- Tobacco --
is now building another handsome residence on the same lot