The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-05-20
A WEEK AMONG TIE FROSTY SONS"

Somerset county has ever been our Mecca.
Whether near to us, or atar off, the revlsltation |
OF It's hills and valleys, has always been TO US
pleasant pilgrimage. Were it otherwise, we
would have good reason TO be ashamed OF our
nature we would deserve TO be pointed at as
living affirmative to the indignant questioning
of the poet,
Lives there a man with soul so dead,
Who never 10 himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land
But it is not our purpose, at present, to give
our readers a homily on patriotism we intend
fmerely 10 write few commendatory lines con-
cerning the good old town Of SssS, srs$''' "a 70
!, crescent architectural aspect. Fine 9F'cN
hn,id;r0sand neat white cottages have taken
tho nlacs of the djngy old fabrics and gloomy
sbads that few years ago made up@'he 0'''y
orbs town. The old stores 1--WE had aliloS'
s.;d cold sores") are being dressed UPS ano
,at,ored off with signs that ''he who runs may
read.o Stately churches occupy places Ina
bpt lately were vacant ground and a conl'i'00'
o,s ITrion School House rears ITS broad proper
,;ons where ere while stood the old one-story
nrcb;n-carved and coal-besmutted 0urroWine
nlace Of itinerant pedagogues. Even the 'ol
Academy has been rejuvenated and WIN
;,s snnu apartments a High School is taught
. learned and able teacher. Billiard taoI
and ten-pin alleys, we believe cannot be clasSe
OF strictly speaking, under the head OF aFcnne
Pr ture nevertheless we cannot re'ralh III
lat observing in this connexion, that Somerset
re, recently been supplied with lis full share
in tbssa pseful constitutions" The hotel OF
S Fl. Picking, Esq, contains TWO very L
1t billiard tables, as we can testify, having IN
ack met in fierce encounter, at sundry and DIV
few tunes. the Somerset Knights of the Cue. q
not chivalrous set they are - never =
'ar- ling" your ball unless they find it "stra'
lack for the pocket .'') Speaking OF hotels the
rats ms, named. MIR. Picking's ''Glade House.,
TIA an excellent kostelry. Commend US 10 II
ind. ,ohIa anv time. Then, there is the new
ion, lust opened by our clever FRIEND James
De- Benford, Esq, and soon to be known
S are extolIed wherever good entertainment
e IN apnreciated, as eTnE Ross House, ma
time, after that most exemplary OF young seXege
at ans General George Ross, of Franklin COZ
being We can safely recommend this house as
,bont ,be hest in all Western Pennsylvania
news had intended TO say something OF the
can MANY clever people it was our good fort III
onsti- meet during our visit 10 Somerset, but are
pelled TO forcgo the pleasure OF doing so' i
reason that it would crowd out all other
F's intended for this weeks issue, ,wereweto m
the names of all the good fellows we mel
coprse of our weeks sojourn. But we
''u - NOT excuse ourselves, did we omit making
=" ,;o, ot our editorial brethren, Col. I. f.
'O'''! I'll Of the Democrat, and W. "A. ogle'
Il WI" tho Herald s. Wing, TO the former OF WI
', '''' arc indebted for many lavo?s and to the
'' ~ c,r rs much kindnsss as could reasona
1t" =" expected from an Opposition candid
p"' -, @ .sa Prosecuting Attorney. Long may the
''1' wave, and long may Somerset remain
now. one of the prettiest and most
drovers country towns in Pennsylvania.
G city OF "Frosty sons OF lhuhder
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