Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-09-01
CORRESPONDENCE.


Dear CkrOnicle:-As we are spending
the month of August, rusticating among
the hills after hard summers toll, We
thought it might not prove wholly uniT-
teresting TO some of your readers 10 pc
ruse few hurried extracts from the di-
airy of a Trumbull County bog. So with
out further comment we shall proceed.
Monday night took the 12 o'clock. on
might Express" at W, from New
York distant about 26O miles. Tuesday
morn at seven, reached Port Jervis,
where we remain for short time. This
is very important station, distant from
n. Y, about so miles.
1t was within FIVE miles of this place,
that the late horrible accident on the n.
Y. & f. r. r. occurred. Hele the
wounded were brought, and be it said,
(much to the credit of the citizens) they
were kindly received, and the best of
care was lavished upon them, owing to
which the most have sufficiently recov
cred to return to their homes. We did
not see enough Of this place TO venture
a description, for at two O'Clock, P. NJ,
we started for Milford the county seat of
old Pike, just eight miles from Port
After starting we Immediately crossed
the Relaware, which is here spanned by
one of the most substantial bridges that
can be created This brought US into
state of Pennsylvania. The road be-
tween these two places, though never
worked, is ore of the finest have ever
saw, and winds along the western shore
of the Delaware, while to the right there
seems TO rise a high range of hills. on
the whole making delightful drive
We noticed nothing worthy of particu.
uiar notice, if we may accept "Butter
Milk" falls. Here small stream of wa
ter falls down a perpendicular declivitY
of forty or fifty feet l should think, but
few rods from the road. From what it
derived its name l have been unable to
learn. Without adventure We arrived at
Milford early in the afternoon. This is
a small ancient town on the Delaware,
almost hidden among the hills, remark
able for nothing save dullness and the
beautiful scenery which surrounds il, of
which it can boast as much as nearly any
place in the States. But 1 forget, for
here lived and died the great Tin size, }
Lewis Cornelius of such huge dimen-
sions. 1t is recorded here with the coun
ty records, that at his death, though he
had been sick some time, that he weigh
ed 645 pounds, which 1 believe has nev-
er been exceeded but once in the United
States. 1t is related of him, that he had
great antipathy to being weighed, and it
was only by stratagem that it could be
done. Once when in n. Y. City, large
arm chair was placed upon platform
scales, which had been sunk into the
floor, upon which he was induced to sit
and his exact weight was thus ascertain
ed. What it was l do not remember,
though nearly seven hundred pounds
He was possessed Of strength in compar-
ison to his size, and l might give many
anecdotes still related of him, but space
will not permit.
To describe the town would be no diff
cult matter, for it consists of or 4 sma Il
stores, harness shop, shoe shop, three
taverns, DC. Herein lies the business
of the place. Its great summer rem
devious for city people, who are attrast-
ed by the means of access, as well as the
opportunity to while away the 'hot days
among the crags and glens, for in case
anything unusual transpires, five hours
will take them to the city. Wednesday
morn, we in the company of some of the
ladies, started out for foot excursion to
'Sawkill Falls about a mile distant
The falls are formed by the Sawkill
creek, which here pours over ledge of
rocks nearly 80 feet in height. At pres
ent there is not very large amount of
water in the channel, the season has
been so dry, yet it presents a spectacle
of much grandeur, and coming from a
country as level as the Reserve, | was
open to impression certainly. We spent
the whole of the morning here. rambling
far above and below. We were SO ro
mantle that we must needs have our din |
ners within hearing distance, in fact in |
view of the falls. But it will only be te-
dious if we enter into minute descrip |
ton, so 1 will not indulge in one.
THURsDAY-This good little town is
excited to the highest pitch to day, but
then it does not take a great deal to do
this. for we have since learned that we
ourselves, as humble and unpretending
as we are, are making quite sensation.
The curiosity of all (the young ladies
is raised. so much so, that
it has been suggested that we placard
our hat in imposing letters as follows /:
VIM. May, Esq, {the last is merely i'm
aginary,) Ohio. We have notacted up
on this suggestion as yet, but shall soon
if walking with our lovely coz from time
to time continues to attract the same at
tention. }