The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-07-04
For the Kenosha Telegraph,
On his Travels.

! KENOsHA, June "a, 1867.
Mr. EDITOR :-Ben a CRATE traveller in this
country and form parts and other places, and
havin come here on ackount of my helth which
! is poor, for the purpose of Incorporation, and
awlso to see "our mutual friendn Sammy,and
bein requested by said mutual to procoor a
piece of foolscap and indite thereupon it my
views Of this city, compared with other cities
threw which have been q jurnyman-all Of
which Sammy sed h. wood send to the editor
of the Kenosha TELEGRAPH and Peoples Own
| for publication, so that the people who own
Telegraph Good see how their city in which
| they lived, compared with forrin places like
Racine, Oshkosh, Toledo and other places thro'
which I have lately passed some of the hap
piest ours of my life, or wood have, only OWN
to my health which is more or less diseased.
l arrived here on the last mites train, early
this mornin, direct from Chicago by express.
Sammy met me at the depot and conducted
me to his place of residence, where he lives;
in fine house on a gentle eminence, where
there is a fine view of the Jail, which is empty
most of the time, nobody liyin i'll it but the
sheriff, who lives out little to / side. After
breakfast, Sammy shode me around the city
and introduced me to numerous of his friends.
l was lilly gratitude to be informed that there
was more Good Templars in Kenosha than in
eny other place of its signs, anywhere. Sam
my is ! OF EN-. Sammy SEE he is l of com
nifty of Good Templars, whose dooty it is,
when they see another Good Templar about
to take horn, to give him the Good Temp
lars grpp-as a reminder
see him do it once to Teller that we met
in saloon where we went to git sum lem
onaid. The Teller was just about to swal!cr
something that had pecooliar smell, when
Sammy slept up to him, and putin his thums
on the back of the sed fellers neck, be brawt
his fingers forad as if feelin for his neck-tie-
in which condition he gave him the grpp. He
let go Of the glass rapidly, the Teller did, and
didn't drink that time. Sammy says they new
er do.
don't no as I oughtcr have described the
gripp-but then I amt Good Templar. I
don't drink from principle usually drink
from dipper when I'm to home. ] never
drink any hing very often, stronger than lem
onaid, OWN O my liver and other things. It
is great mlslOrt0on TO nave trouble in the
liver. They say heart disease is fashionable,
but have liver disease-so has Sammy I
meen to try the water-cure in this city and see
| if it will convalesce me. l was took sick last
yere in the fall. I bawt a melon-a water
melon-and when / cum to git it home it was
green, I pade 2 shilings forit, and l coodn't
afford to waist my mummy, so I had to eat it.
/ gave me panes in the stummick, &C. The
doctor sed he'd the collie, caused by too much
melon. [ believed him, for I never felt so
meloneholic before. Ever sence, hev been
subject to melancholy It has hurt my liver.
Sammy says I must quit or you wont print
it. So will have to let you waite for the per-
tickalers till next week, by which time viii
see the Sites Yours truly,
REV. E. NUESTAMPS.