Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-07-27

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fair maid might keep the flies off me while
l write this, for they will not permit me
to read or write with the least comfort.
This is peculiar to the coustry.
am in the Valley of the Republican,
about 20 miles from the Nebraska line, in
Republican Co., Kas. seated behind the
counter of store 16 x "a feet with eight
feet posts, and by window facing west
and looking into the river which at this
point is about 80 rods wide and border
of timber on one side of it about the same
width, the other side having no timber.
This is the way the country is wooded,
viz: on the rivers and creeks-or, as we
should say, brooks-there is a belt Of
timber, sometimes on both sides and again
only on one side, varying from one to five
rods in width, and occasionally where the
river or creek crooks very abruptly you
can find more timber; but let a "green
Yankee" as they say sometimes, come
here and his verdict would be-no tim
Der. But you scarcely ever hear any
fault found about woodland here. There
ale large quantities of pine shipped here
from Chicago.
But | was going to tell you where l
am. | am on what we term the frontier,
near the outskirts Of civilization, where
the principal topic of conversation is ''lo !
the poor Irdian!" and they all feel like
making him lay low if he comes within
range of their Spencer carbines or Colts
repeaters, both of which the people here
abonts are provided with and do not pre-
tend to go to their fields without. AS |
write hear the bugle Of the company OF
Mounted Artillery of the U. S. A sta
toned on the bluffs about 200 yards from
here. They are going to White Rock
distant | lCRmiles surprise and put to
fight band of Indians, if it so be that
they can find them, that tried to murder
and stole a horse or two on the Solomon
River day-before- yesterday--distant from
here about 80 miles.
1t is authentically reported that the
, Indians have taken their squaws and pa
pooses to the Rocky Mountains, and are
now on the war-path, and it is feared
that some of the frontiersmen will fine
themselves wanting scalp some Of these
mornings.
Spotted Tail and his band, who went tC
Washington in June, came back very
, much dissatisfied with the great father
, (the President and present rumors go tc
show his determination to resent it.
There is a very large emigration int
f! the State this year, and | think It is in
creasing. Twelve wagons came in herr
!. to-day; the occupants were seeking home
. on the prairies. There are large mum
ber of immigrants coming from Iowa ant
Illinois.
Our little town, named Scandinavia, ha
had its name or existence (as tosn
about year. and now guess there arr
rs names that could be called as residents
The main population in town are Swede
and Norwegians, but we had an addition
to our town few days since of numbe
of Americans from Iowa, and they sa,
there are ] 5 or 20 more on the way herr
with their families, teams, farming tools
household furniture, (Which are meagre
l assure you,) stock, etc. This is th'
way most of the immigrants come from
what you call the Western States.
The Swedes are great in the observanc
of the Sabbath Yesterday there wa
shooting-matches, visiting squads, trading
and | heard occasionally the squeak Of
fiddle. Their religion is nominally Luthe
rian--practically something else.
Scme portions of the State have sufere
very materially from drouth; Riley. BE
publican and Cloud counties are anon
those that have felt it most. | have see
many field Of spring wheat plowed u
and then planted to corn, and in some II
stances the corn would not sprout it beln
:, so dry. The way they done this was t
plow furrow, then drop the corn into
s. and then let the next furrow cover th
corn, and keep plowing until they ha
gone far enough for another row then d
likewise and so on till the who,e field wa
changed from field OF wheat to one {
y corn. Winter wheat in the dryest POI
It tions Of the State is scarcely worth hal
| ve:ting, and some are not in fact. .
10 friend of mine had an field Of 20 acre
: of winter wheat that he sold for S25 an
it was considered as good price as an
lc in the immediate vicinity. In anotht
,r county saw some very fine fields of sprir
le wheat, one man had rs acres in one fiel
= ! 4 ~ a /
ps that looked splendid he told me he shouI
al get only about half crop owing to Il