The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-08-11
CORRESPONDENCE.
MILWAUKEE, August Sd, 1870.

| idly becoming the leading school IN the
| West. The last year has been one of un
usual success. The new President, DIR.
E. o. Haven, has gradually RAISED the
standing.until now the requirements for
admission are the same as at Y ale or Har-
ward.
| Commencement passed off pleasantly,
| the graduating class numbering thirteen.
The next class will be very much larger.
The University has during the past
year added to its course a Law and Medi-
cal departments, and negotiations are
being made with the Garret Biblical In
stitute located here, to unite with them,
and thus become religious University,
in fact, as well as name.
We left Onion Town (Chicago) about
one month ago, and passed through the
interior Of Kenosha and Racine counties;
the farmers in this section are very de-
sponGent. They have had no rain and
the grass and crops are all drying up
| A farmer in Kenosha county told me he
had to turn his stock into the meadows to
keep them from starvation.
| A short stay at Racine with our old
friend, Squire Hamilton, gas duly APP
preciated; the Squire is doing well and
seems to be growing younger every year.
He says when the Railroad is completed
| he is coming up to NlanitoWoc to make
| his old friends visit.
A few days in Milwaukee suficed to
give US an appetite for the country
| Seated in one of the splendid palace
coaches of the Mil & St. Paul Railroad,
we were hurried through one of the fin
| est farming countries in Wisconsin. A
week at Burnett, was one of the most
| pleasant we ever spent among the farm
ers, and gave US the rare opportunity Of
visiting some of the model farms Of the
Northwest. Among them ''Spring
Brook Farm will rank among the first,
and the time we spent in the parks where
poultry of every variety can be seen, in
Guiding some rare specimens of Swans,
Geese and Ducks imported from Holland
and France. The breeding stock is the
best ever saw, and commands the high
est price in the market, was worth the
while.
During our stay here, one Of the most
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oyer this section of the country.
Sabbath morning July l7th) broke
upon us with slow dribbling rain, that
had been falling all night As the sun
came up the wind began to blow from the
south west the lightning flashed grandly
and the thunder seemed to remind one
Of the power and authority of the Al
mighty.
Neptune seemed to have pierced the
| side of the mountain with his trident,
and let the king of terrors loose The
wind kept increasing in violence Trees
were thrown down, fences were flying
through the air, the fields seemed one
vast lake of fire and the thunder was
bound to battle down the very walls of
| Heaven. After about an hour of one of
the most terribly grand sights I ever
Witnessed, the sun came out warm and
pleasant. Much damage was sustained
in the loss of apple trees and fruit
But an end must come to all things
here below, and so the time come when
we must leave Burnett and the pleasant
memories of evening drives and strolls
through the fields and meadows. From
Burnett we went to Fox Lake, then north
over Grand and Rolling prairies to the
Fox River. A carriage drive over these
prairie fields must be enjoyed to be ap-
preciated. The farmers in this section
are doing well wheat will average thir-
teen bushels to the acre; barley thirty,
and Norway oats, which by the way are a
| perfect success, will yield one hundred
bushels-so [ am informed by competent
| Judges. Kingston is an old dilapidated
| inland town, which like Rome has lived
and fourished but is fast going to decay
Intact [ do not think it would be missed
from Green Lake county if it were to be
thrown into Grand River and sunk in the
mill pond.
Marquette is beautifully situated on
Lake Puckaway, and was once the county
scat of this county. Gen. Wells, with
his corps of engineers, lately passed up
the river making surveys for the propos
ed improvements of the river, and the
people here are very much elated over
the prospects. IF Vermonter would
happen to drop down in one ofthe streets
he would stop whiting long enough to
thrust his hands into the farthermost
depths of his breeches and calculate
well meow, if they ain t up to suthin'.'
The improvements which will undoubted-
ly be speedily made will greatly improve
this section of the State This town has
been the scene of another fearful storm.
The hail fell ankle deep and of mon
strous size, entirely threshing the grain
not yet cut and beating the corn and DO
tatoes into the ground, killing chickens
and knocking all the fruit from the
trees. The appearance of the clouds
during the storm was very singular, being