The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-02-23
For THE KENosHA TELEGRAPH
Winter Travelling in the North
west.

west.
MeSsrS. Editors
1 left home on the 9th ult., for a tour in the
on the 9th, 1 found the thermometer 18 below
zero; from thence faced the west wind twenty.
five miles on runners and brought up at the
county seat ofHouston, Minnesota. On the 10th
faced the wind again with the Thermometer 20
below @ travelling to Riceford, paying one dol.
lar for my ride and suffering ten with cold. Next
day still cold; hitched to blind horse, went up
to Black Harmon, and took dinner with my old
acquaintance, P. w. Tried, three miles ride
after "back and jury" and to compensate for the
hardness of the journey, saw plenty of speckled
trout in the unfrozen spring runs.
Afterwards walked three miles, and br ought up
at the village of Shelden stopped at the only tav-
ern the place affords, the reception room bar
room eight by ten tucked up place. occupied in
part by cobler and his kit: the balance of the
room crammed with many fellows filed with grog.
Evening came, and with it the news of the arrival
of the new parson, who to lecture in the school
room, out a step distant.
Friday, l3th,-a pleasant day Went to Gale
donia; a few familiar faces, and stopped with
my old landlady, Mrs. Gardner.
Saturday called on my old friend VIM. Burns
the County Treasurer to take sleigh ride into the
country; found him busy heating water to kill a
pig-a job he had been dreading a month agreed
to turn in and pull bristles, provided he in turn
would give the ride. The animal weighed after
being dress ed.three hundred and eighty odd pounds
Started to look at piece of land had owned four
years without seeing it-missed our way but after
travelling over hill and dale, and starting drove
of a dozen DEER getting our sleigh runner fast in
| the crack Of rock, and having break down
found the sought for land turned away from it in
disgust. An hour later my return to the village
by another route, changed my mind and believed
| the land valuable
Sabbath morning no bells ringing. Sunday
hardly gets out far yet listened in the afternoon
to good discourse from Baptist brother. Mon
day, every appearance of general thaw: busines,
in the streets brisk Evening, GOOD Templ.r,
met; announcement of one of tn cir members ha ~
ing been drunk, was made. Tuesday morning. the
thaw had caught cold and transactions were most
| y within doors. p. NJ, carpenters shop take,
fire and burns up. Wednesday the 18th news
comes that the groggery over the way has lost ff
teen barr els of its poson-the barrels full last eve
ming, but now empty. Some insinuate it was used
putting out the fire but the boring OF the barrels
looks suspicious also lady's track through the
back yard is seen. Was intending to take the
stage for La Crosse, distance of twenty FIVE mile.
where citizen who had an ungovernabIe horse
heard of my Craftsmanship and must have me drive
him to La Crosse; hiiched to cutter and took him
and his owner through-drove the last twelve miles
on the river in forty eight minutes. Wheat is co.
ming into La Crosse briskly-perhaps one hundred
loads day it is chiefly club; price 8S to 30 cents
Took the stage and went up to WinoRa on the ice.
thirty-fVe miles in three and half hours Nature
has done much for Winona: but Chamberlin and
other great railroads are trying to do as much
against it-with what success, time alone can tell.
The Transit road here commences, and is graded
and bridged into the country back good distance
opening into the very cream of Minnesota. This
road, when completed, together with the uu6pi.b
ed link tapping La Crosse, must make the road a
valuable one Wheat is now arriving at wipons,