Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-07-23
FLYING LEAVES.
South Bristol. Wilmot--Ric all
rOad--CrOps, Gencva--Rloomer BeIoi

pects' &C. &C. The rain OF Monday night, July
18th, had very much refreshed the parched fields
and laid the dust for our comfort along the roads
The spring crops, Oats, Spring Wheat, Potatoes
and Corn in this county, especially in the OPEN
ings, have suffered exceedingly from drought !;
yet we are confident that the crop of Corn will
be fair, and on the prairies the grain will not suf
fer so mneh as has been apprehended, from the
fact that the praires stand the drought better
than the openings.
In South Bristol we made an excellent dinner
at the hosptable home of our friend S. and his
amiabe wife, whose hearth stone is frightened
by the presence Of an angel stranger sent to cheer
their lonely hours, and smile away in poetry and
love the tolls and cares of life ofprose. Along
the route to
WILMOT,
Which place we next reached, we found the farm
ers busy in sowing turnips, buckwheat, or hoe
ing potatoes and corn. Wilmot has been thirty
ing little village in the southwest corner of the
town of Salem, and hopes soon to see better
days, when the Plank Road from Racine and
this city shall terminate there There is Saw
Mill at ills place, which is busy throwing out
plank for this new thoroughtare as also Grst
Mill which has the reputation of making excel
lent -four Free sellers abound here as in all
parts of Salem and Bristol who are only waiting
for an opportunity TO give a good account of
themselves.
A few miles drive through the openings and
across the north end Of English Prairie brought
us to the village OF
RICHMOND, ILL.
This place is not growing as rapidly as hereto
fore; yet it is quite thriving place, considering
lis location and facilities for business. There
are two stores here-a Grist Mill, owned by our
friend c. G. Getting, and Plough and Tool fac
tory, carried on by Messrs. Mason & Sampson
whose enterprise is doing considerable for the
place. The inhabitants are quite energetic in
their endeavors to secure the completion Of
Rail Road from Elgin through their place to
Waukesha or Milwaukee, and are quite conf
dent Of success. Our old friends Lay and Trade
well are doing good business with the farmers
in that neighborhood who are getting good bar
gains in dealing with them. We don't believe,
however, that the Richmond folks can get the
same stranger to stop twice in that place over
night. Certainly not, unless their experience
differs from ours In dirty hole ncknamed the
Richmond House, we were obliged to stop over
night. Here we were shown q little seven
by nine room without carpet. chair glass or
washstand, we hunted around the door of lodg-
er, at the other end of large hall, where we
found stray chair which we appropriated with
out ceremony or apology, under tho rule that
necessity knows no law. From the appear
ances of blood upon the piowcases, our sus-
pcions were aroused and we looked among the
crevices of a ricketty bedstead for proofs of ev-
il designs, and after having burned the bodies
of the red birds which were too big to hide in
the erevices OF the bedstead we laid down with
the martyr consolation of knowing that before
morning the best of our blood would be STEALTH
ly appropriated for the manufacture of another
race of beings. Horace, we think it was
who said we shall not all die-no. other ami
mails no more glorious than these, shall yet
thrive and fatten on human blood. Alas the
end of mortals! The FOLLY Of assuming or aping
greatness We need no mentor as Philip did,
to tell that we are mortal and must die, after
such experience at the only Tavern in Richmond.
Verify, if they had had Railroad we should not
have been obliged to stop there. Waking with
the gray of the morning, we picked ourselves,
and slaughtered the rctreaing foe by scores
We almost envy the poor wight who will next
have the luxury of sleeping in that almost un,en
anted bed. Taking our breakfast with ali COM
mendable dispatch, we started in the cool of the
morning, over the praries and openings for
GENEVA
In this State. Calling upon few of our old
friends, and hearing glorious things spoken of the
free and un,errifed democracy which will not
down at the hunkers call we started around the
beautiful lake which mirrors a thousand luxuri-
ant fields of waving grain, aid whose billy banks
echo the music of the lowing herds as they gath
err about the rude log shelter for their nights re-
pose. Around this lake we pursued our way to
the prairies of Big Foot and the villages west.
These prairies are loaded with a crop of winter
wheat that never looked better, and although the
straw of the Spring crop is not as large usu-
al, yet we are confident that the grain Of their
crops will be more than an average yield.
THE BOOMERS
Are still fashionable all through this country
from the Fox 20 the Rock Rivers, we have no
doubt but that the thing would 60 if our city
girls had half the pluck the girls on the prairies
ishow. Success and good husbands to the indie
pendent girls of Walworth and Ro ck-you may
be sure the fathers and brothers and husbands of
such girls will know how to vote without wait
ng for the man to come along who tells them
how.
BELOIT
Is the last place west that we visited, and our
surprise can hardly be guessed as we"gazed up
on the Improvements and growth Of this beauti-
full inland village-Without exapperaon il is the |