The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-06-30
In The Country.


A jamt into the country in the month of June
is delightful. unless performed on foot, with the
Thermometer at 80 in the shade, and the only
shace, your own lonely shadow stalking silent
y along beside you, which latter case was ours
by necessity, for few miles on Tuesday last.
4 week spent in the county, in the month of
June, is a week of unalloyed pleasure anless
yon are on n collecting tour. But notwithstand-
ing these two formidable obstacles to enjoyment
We have just returned happier wiser and browner
from tour of sevon days in the country than we
We're at our setting out. Ga Tuesday of last week,
we we're set down at the terminus of the Kcnosha
Rockford II. r., in the midst of an ocean-prairie
of waving grass and grain-heds. A ride of
about three miles conducted US to the enterprisng
village of Richmond H., through a country Of sur
passing beauty, and by some of the finest farms in
the county. Among which, we may mention those
Of Mr.. +. Gibbs in the south west corner of the
county, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr.. George Vinton.-
The wool clip of these three farmers the present
year, we understand, is absut 800 lbs Their
farms are in the highest state Of cultivation and
contain from 400 to geo acres of the best farming
land in the county.
RICHMOND
Isa town of about 900 inhabitants. and for a
place Of its rize, i5 doing good business. 1t has
three-story brick school honse, Methodist
Church and Congregational Church--the latter
has been just completed, and was dedicated on
Sabbath last Mr. c. G. Caldwell, well known to
| nfo o;4 aof. IL, ~
Ministry of this State, has been its pastor for about
5 years.
| GENOA,
Situated about l-2 miles north of Richmond,
is fourshing village in the southeast corner OF
Walworth Co. 1t has doubled in population with
in the last years, and there are now number OF
new buildings going up, among which we notice a
larg store, fine dwelling house. owned by Mr.
Thos Mitchell. formerly of this city, and two or
three other dwellings, the owners of which we did
not learn. Messrs. Covell and Pierce have one Of
the best -four mills in the State, and are Just now
making some valuable improvements in it. MrA
Freeman is establishing lumber yard in tho vii
lage. Genoa is fortunate in being settled by class
ofpeople who fully appreciate all the advantages,
pecuniary and social, which are derived from true
education, and great share of its prosperity and
advancement of late, is, no doubt, attributable &c
its educational advantages. The Kenosha Rock
ford r. R. should be extended to this point as SCOT
as possible. We are quits sure good business in
freightng grain and lumber would then be done OF
| this road; Genoa, Richmond and Northern Illinois
can be supplied with lumber from Kenosha, cheaper
than by way of Chicago, as soon as our road i,
in condition to carry it.
WILNoT,
On the Fox River, near the South Line Of the
comfy, is thriving place of about four hundred
inhabitants, containin an extensive dry good
Store kept by R. Anderson, grocery, three black
smith shops, whose anvls ring from morning til
night. mill long known as Behham's Mill, and
which supplies more than half of the county on
side of Kenosha, with -four, fine Church, where
all denominations meet for worship, and beauti-
full and commodous School House. Miss McIn
tyre, the teacher, enjoys the reputation of frs
class teacher. We were intending to visit the
school, but our stay in the village was necessarily
limited to period which would not fdmit oft
The patrons of the school, speak in thu highest
manner of its excellence. There are other places o.
business deserving notice, but we must defer them
for this week.
| Mr. Kirk, the keeper of the Wmot Hotel, is ma
king every preparation to receive bounteously and
in the Uost style the visitors expected on Monday
next. We predict for all who shall visit Wilmot
on the f ourth, good time. The handbills about
Wilmot advertise the celebration of the Fights
Second anniversary Of our independence; but we
presume our neighbors celebrated with the rest OF
the yankee nation, that anniversary about a year
ago. the printer of the handbill appears to have
been just 965 IA days behind the rest of mankind
! 1t was perhaps, the same one who informed hi
readers few weeks since, that "Some OF the bes
farmers in the county, lie adjacent to Wimot."
we had almsst forgot to say, that Mr.. A. w.
Benham has just laid the foundation for an extern
sivs store which he intends to be completed so as
to receive stock of goods for the fall trade.