The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19


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Ride from FIemingsburg 10
MaysViIle-Beaufiful Country.
MAYsvILLE, KT., May z, 1870.
Mr.. ED1ToR;-The principal hotel
in Flemingsburg is the "Fiemlng
House. the main feature of which
appeared to be the "bar," which, un-
like the bars of Hillsboro hotels, is
the most public room about the house.
No pains is taken to hide it from the
public. When the bell rings for
meals, the boarders and guests assem-
bic en- masse in front of the bar to
get their "wee drap before atin."-I
Notwithstanding the almost univer-
sal custom of whisky drinking, which
seems to prevail in Flemingsburg, and
all Kentucky towns, 1 saw but one
drunk man during my stay in the
place. The tipsy individual was a
lawyer, who looked like monument
erected to misery-like man turned
ont of Office, like anything and every
thing which told of hopes blasted,
and permanently withered, by the
storms of adversely. When l first
saw the poor fellow he was begging
'just another drink" which the bar
keeper persisted in refusing, actuated
no doubt by the condition Of the
learned gentleman's finances.
I saw nothing in FIemingsburg in
the shape of School House, except
an old, dilapidated frame building,
capable of accommodating about thir-
ty scholors. There are two churches
in the town. One, the Episeopalian,
is a very creGitable house, consider
ing the size of the place. The streets
are graded and graVeled, and for the
most part furnished with good side
walks. Many private residences in
the town and vicinity are models of
taste and beauty, and taken in con-
nection with the large lots and the
profusion of flowers, ornamental trees
and shrubbery by which they are
surrounded, present picture that
the eye of the traveller will not fail to
notice.
Four good pixies centre there, rem
dering access to the place easy at all
Seasons of the year. Pixies are being
built in Kentucky pretty much upon
the Ohio plan. The citizens along
the line are required to subscribe 20
per cent. of the cost of the road, after
which the County Judge issues coun-
ty bonds for the balance.
At 2 o'clock P. NJ. yesterday, we
took seat in one of the coaches which
ply between Flemingsburg and Mays
vile, and were soon rolling along the
splendid pike that leads to this place.
For several miles after leaving FIem-
ingsburg the surface of the country
resembles a great lawn, not level, but
with elevations and depressions grad
ual and regular. AS we viewed it
from the windows of the coach, pass
ing as it were, like a grand panorama
before US, it presented beautiful and
attractive scene. In places it resem-
bles the "great plains" west of the
Missouri, rolling away toward the no.
rizon, the green assuming varied de-
grees OF intensity according to dis
tance or position in relation to the
rays of the sun, until changing in the
far distance to blue. Upon every
hand our eyes wero saIutod with
scenes calculated to suggest the idea
of realized ARCADIA"
The farms are generally very large,
containing from three 10 FIVE hundred
acres, consequently houses are 'few
and far between" AS stock raising
is the chief business here, the greater
portion of the land is given up to
meadow and blue grass pastures
Fleming county is famous for its fine
cattle and horses. We saw many
large herds of the very best cattle,
and large drovos of mules and horses
grazing in the adjacent fields. The
farm houses are large, substantial
buildings, and are in almost every in
stance furnished with an ice house
for storing away ice for family use,
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walled up with stone, to hold water
for their stock. The houses are gen
orally surrounded by beautiful sugar
groves, ornamental trees and shrub
berry. Stone appears to be a common
fencing material. We saw several
lines of stone fence along the pike,
from one to two miles long.
About two miles from FIemings-
burg we passed a large distiIlery, the
"smOke of whose torment had ceased
to ascend" Ten miles brought Us to
the crossing of the North Fork Of
Licking river, upon the north side Of
which is the little city of Louisburg,
where we saw another large di5tillery,
Those institutions are more numerous
in Kentucky than mills. We saw
but two Of the latter in cur route, and