Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-15
LETTER FROM LEBANON.
The Town and Country around tt--The
Normal school--Political Matters.

Normal School--Po1ttica1 Matters.
LEBANON, o., Aug. 7, 1867.
Thinking that few items from this
section ofour State might not be uninter-
esting to the readers of the CHRONICLE,
l will give you few jottings.
This is q place ofsome 3, ,5O0inhabitants,
and the County seat of Warren County,
situated i'm fertile and picturesque coun-
try, lying between the two main railroads
running south to Cincinnati; it being
five miles to S. Lebanon, on the l.. NJ. II. II.
and ten miles to Carlisle, on the G.. III. &
ID. II. II. Beside these two means of
communication with the outside world
there are omnibusses running daily to
Cincinnati and Dayton; to the former 1t
Is 20 miles, and to the latter % miles.
BY taking either route you can see
section of country, which for beauty, inn
provements, and wealth, can scarcely be
excelled i'm the State.
The country is dotted with fine, COM
Portable farm houses, surrounded with
good out-buildings; and everything has
the appearance of thrift and enterprise.
The farmer so situated, has certainly as
fine an opportunity to enjoy as much of
the unalloyed happiness oflife as usually
falls to the lot of mortals.
The crops in this section, both those
which have already been harvested and
those coming on, were scarcely ever bet
ter.
The people down here go in for good
roads, and you will find well paved roads
leading in almost every direction.
Lebanon is very quiet and pleasant
is not troubled with many of those trav-
elling "bummers," or "hard cases.,
which some railroad towns have so much
trouble with; SO that there are advanta-
ges as well as disadvantages, in town
not being located on railroad.
There are eight or nine churches here,
of different denominations, which speaks
well for the morality of the place. l do
not think that there is a "doggery" in
the place. 1t were hoped all of our towns
might say the same.
For intelligence and refinement, the
society of Lebanon will not suffer from
comparison with that of any of her sister
towns or cities: they pride themselves
somewhat upon their musical attain
ments.
As is well known, this is the seat of the
Southwestern Normal School, which has
been In successful operation for the last
ten or twelve years, under the superin-
tendency of Prof. Holbrook. He is un-
doubtedly one of the best thoroughly
practical educators in the country. His
school is well prtronized from all parts of
our own as well as other States. The
Short Session, which is held for six
weeks and is intended as kind ofTeach-
er's Institute, will close next week.
There are i'm attendance at it about 250
"Marms" and Masters, n-about 100 of
| former and $50 of the latter. According
to their method of teaching here, they
| propose to accomplish about as much in
! two years rs is done in our colleges in
three and four years.
"Old Warren ~ as usual, expects to
sendup asweeping majority; supporting
! Congress, Sec. Stanton and Phil. Sheri-
dan. Poor Andy is having trouble now.
Sheridan do MT suit him, Stanton wont
resign and Judge Holt, adding insult to
! injury, cornered him in that little "fb"
he told about Mrs. Surratt's execution.
ZENAS.