Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-03-03
LETTER FROM KANSAS.


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February ID, 1870.
EDIroRs HERALD;
BY your permission I will say a
few words to your many readers
about this Bleeding Kansas" and
will begin with the weather. Dur
ing the early part Of the Winter it
was rather changable. 1t would be
cold some two, three or four days,
then warm day or two with rain
or snow from one to two days out
CT each week, but more snow than
is common for this country. We
had one snow about the first Of De-
cember which laid two days, and
that is common occurrence here
in the winter season, but we had
another not long after the first that
stayed with lis some three weeks,
which is q very unusual occurrence
here. The past five weeks has
been a regular old fashioned In
dian summer; roads dry and dusty
and farming land in the very best
condition for plowng, and the farm.
ers have been making use of the
time, and not a few are sowing
oats, while a great many are en-
ploying the time in hauling rails,
lumber, etc, and enlarging their
fields, or enclosing new ones, as
the case may be, and building here
and there a small house, with the
promise of a larger one after awhile.
There is a vast amount of wheat
sown in this country, and where it
was properly put in and in good
season, it looks promising. We
also have a fine prospect for fruit |
at present, but l fear the peaches |
are too forward, for the buds are
considerably swollen, but as that
crop rarely ever fails, | hope my
fears are gromdless.
The railroad has passed Fort
Scott and is now within few miles
of Girrard, making glad the hearts
Of all who hear the welcome sound
of the whistle, and Ft Scott has
oUtgrown her city limits until there
are more lots for sale in the addi-
tions than in the "city proper, =
Girrard, l am told, is improving
beyond what is reasonable to tell.
The Sedalia and TT. Scott r. r. is
also driving ahead lively, and be
fore another twelve months, will |
most likely have its iron belt across
Bourbon county 1t is wonderful
to note the changes here in the last
two or three years, and yet the
work of improvement has but just
begun. Some three or four years
ago there was plenty of vacant land
here, and the same land now is
rapidly changing hands at from ten
to fifteen dollars per acre, and land r
that sold here two years ago attwo {
to four dollars per acre is now J
worth ten to fifteen. There is a :
large tide of emigration going !.
South and West to the newer coun-
tries, and not a few are settling in l.
the Indian Territory; but not few i
appreciate the blessing Of good /
school house and well organized !
district with schools regulated after I
the modern fashion of things il
Stop in the older counties and with
a competent man as Superintend- d
ent of public instruction in the per 1
son of Mr., Weaver, we stand on E
good footing in that particular. !,
Perhaps some would like to know s
the prices Of some of the leading g
of produce, DC. Wheatis :
worth one dollar per busllel; oats
50 cts, corn 80 cts, potatoes, ex- = :
ira nice, so cts. Flour $3 to "a a
per hundred VT, dry goods and C
groceries shade higher than in t
Washington, and lumber as fol K
lows: Flooring, 81 to $3.50 per y =
hundred feet; siding, S2.75; fenc- g
ing, $3 to 1925; shingles, pine, v
$3.50 to $575 per thousand, and O
other things In proportion.
Yours, A. " 0.
The following circumstance b
which racnntIv occurrpd i'm BostOn. dl