The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-08-03

Editors Journal:
1t is true that there has been and is
yet some warm weather north of
Evansville. The heat was very OPP
pressive as we came up to %Indianapo-
lis. On our arrival thers we found
the temperature very much improved
by a rain that had fallen but an hour
or so before we reached there. Not
w~ithstanding this great rain, such as
had not been ksown in many years,
there was not such improvement in
the temperature as to prevent sun
stroke. A man was sun-struck before
eight o'clock the next morning On
Washington Street, and died in a few
hours.
| think the best route East from
Indianapolis is by the old Bellefon-
tame Line. now the Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Cincinnati and indianapolis
Line. The sleeping ears on the Lake
Shore Road are all that n could
desire, elegantly furnished, cool, and
free from dust.
There is a great rush for places of
Summer resort this season; not SO
much [ apprehend from the plenty of
money as the excessive heat. Shoddy
seems TO be pretty well played" this
season.
On my arrival at Niagara Falls |
found the thermometer, at noon, as
high as So or 900, but at night, in one
instance at least, sinking to 70', and
making a blanket indispensable to
comfort at night. You can never
know until you try it, what a blessing
it is, or rather what a comfort it is, to
suffer just a little from cold after
having the terrible weather that was
at Evansville when we left there.
There has been some improvements
at the Falls since last season. The
only one visible to the naked eye was
a large card at the entrance to
the bridge leading to Goat Island,
which announces that In consid-
Grafton Of the expenditure of some
nine or ten thousand dollars in the
Improvement of the island. the rates
of admission have been slightly adj
yanced, that is to say. that whereas it
worth twenty five cents for q
single peep formerly, it is worth fifty
cents now, a very immaterial advance
of one hundred per cent.
Like every one else, we were very
DESTROYS of seeing their ten thou
sand dollars" and we called round, |
but were low in our estimates and
could not figure it out. There is not
on this continent a cooler and more
comfortable place of Summer resort
than Niagara. And yet there is not a |
place where one is more liable to be
plundered and imposed upon by or
ganized thieves who claim to be the
only honest haekmen, &C., at the
Falls. The Canada side is the place
where the American m to grief
the oftenest, as he is apt to think that
a greenback is a legal tender on both
sides, In which he finds him
self badly mistaken, aud that
gold is not thirty-nine or about
that, but that it stands regularly on
that side at two hundred, unless Won
make a contract beforehand in Amer
lean money, IF ever you cross the
river at the Falls, you cannot be too
careful in making your contracts be-
forehand, and naming the kind of
money.
The new suspension bridge being
built opposite the Clifton House,
makes slow progress. The abutments
are being built of wood. 1t is to be a
foot bridge only.
l came down to New York three
days since. L found the streets
crammed with all sorts of wheel in
of t~oteage" aad convey
ance, the sidewalks crowded, and was
told that everybody was out of town.
Had read about a certain chicken
without a head ON exhibition here;
went to see it, and pronounced it a
humbug. There is a good imitation