Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-23
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10 A Pennsylvania Home.

| it tBEEoRE ANDAFTER THEIo Oil EXCITEMENT IS
dB. ElHTaylor,lin a lctter from the! penhsyii
vania Oil Regions, thus pictures the happiness
of a tiirmers ihomelm that country, and, the
chanscttlIat came with tlfeirule Of Petroleum,
Turning in "a large lane, through a belt Of
woods, we came into n Basin Of creation, in
the bottom of which stood a house; small
morsel in largelish.J Twas to see gen
uine PennsyIvania German S homn, where all
his household say,sstliy will be ddnc!as II is
in Faderland" Nothing butia pin could be
ueater than that house. Theo bfoad kitchen
floor was as spatess as a quarterback; ahe
broad old LADY, broke English for ME, and !
broke bread hjSle had n Young flock around
her, as numerous and as shy as quails.v--
Wherever you glanced, there wohld'be q head
looking like n distaf, only no distalf' S 7tpwy
crown was ever, lighted by such eyes, and in
an instant the head would dodge out Of sight
and be gone. The eldest,o the brood, a well
grown girl of sixteen had novef seem n vii
Iage Z never been bui 'three miles from home;
knew no more off the world thanif her birth
dry had been postponedto theIyear 6WNE
| 4 Beside the, ,.logf spring,house wasa great
woodenrtrough brinnning'awith crystalIGaad
theresthe family y'made their toilet, and iflfdlt
lowedRtlie fhshionpp The rock of Horeb could
not haSc made jpurar antisweeter answer to
the sttoke, ofiold MosesIps iG hs gaia'TE ,liwe
erThen, ,rbaek 10. the.heusaabyn nthepp path as
hard and as smooth as an earthen panpmy
friend altll myself were shown into tthe other
room. 9,3gAn area i'm theAcenter wis covered
with asrag carpet, and a fowSof rush bettonhed
chairs tstpod respectfully ON dtlc bare iwhite
| n tnu old In IfolY
clockc olong bodied, marrow WASTED, qmoen
ced,slikeicthe collin for the haHGenthry of
dead years ithatits wasa .A.,lazy, pendulum
passed slowly to aud dro bebird haiittle; VIM
dow a cuckoo came out and whstled0 when
thelbell rang twelveS and they wound sup the
clock with q stringL ,Ionder stood a drum,
the stick. revently crossed upohstit, that. the
old mans son had beat at Yorktown, the
seeend, and swelled :..'thel long roll jim the
Wilderness On "a stand sreposed a. black
covered book, gponderous, smoky brazen
clasped and hundred years pldt, lt,was the
Bible. in the tounse Of sDeRuyter, Tromp and
Dewitt sse .sol..n t!g;s yaa janqI3GGl.
| ,,i haeA pUTcH BED AND, ''BuHDElNGP5- ID H!ia
! But the grand article of furniture iseyet un-i
named tbs grcats fat bed. sq,late as to its
sides, broad as to Its back, and two stories
| high covered with spread gorgeous as pop
pies, adorned with birds of pre1Adamite iueu,
baton, and hllediwith the feathers coEa whole,
generation, OF the creatures that saved Rome,
[Sancho Panza, at sight of it, would have,
dropped off to sleep in, the midst of his, bless
| ing and Rip Van Winkle have .slumberedl
another year. for i'm the, midst ofothat bed rs
the SLEEPY Hollow" uof eFaderland, sl0ld,
stories of Duteh souFtshPs and, ttbundling"
came bach, TONG, and lIrecalled Washington
Irving Van Gorlear, who 1a.stopped.o oeeasioui
ally, ,m the villages to eat pumpkin piess
dapcc, at country frolics, and undIe;with the
Yankee lssses,,5r But like, many, other.tash-
ion, possibly "more honored in the breach
than the, obseryapce,pY y il, has grown, obsolete,
and There is nov, no ssbundleni oats-alL in, the
whole course Of true, love- saYe,Yhen that little
bundle ihi white dimity with pink nose and
pink toes, that throws the world into disorder,
and sets people " loving it,oysrs stbsi heads Of
girl %h9 be magic magic Of M ia tqsch Issemss
d rS$S S6Sasr fSspd e ~sss sos sess
st05ks III gpoq The ra9g Of fatbe ad Dutch hspse
sa.s. s.al.as a. as q ansa "a .z.
snowy, and for the butter ate, it was golden,
ahd, dssldsysasti Il was, So swsst Shaiafhil i
half fapeica the hospitabfs frSWs hSIfsss n.
Che ola, pgyttsibgg, plft 1ssw, aps
wha brought dcross the sesuspseM spring Ia
heys ehuTHaleh tHodties fiW ,grsss, esis ssS isis
But the,elnlpbf tlleb drill iiiai broken tie
quiet of this sceAek HAe soil hunters had
found it out : As,ib stood IN the door, q
thread Of smoliet and bird sbfeaiif iishg