Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-30

o'clock at night, on the 18th inst, at the
mouth Of Fox Hollow, as the roads at that
place appeared, in the darkness of tho
night 10 have given out and stopped for
the night 50 thought ! would not 60
on ahead of the roads, and this was my
excuse for stopping.
| found on entering the dwelling Of my
host that they had the Bible lying upon
the table, and seats spread out for meet
inr. This gave me much encouragement,
and sat down behind the stove to reflect
on the coincidence when John the Baptist
preached in the wilderness, and lived on
caneps hair and wild honey. When |
was fast approaching, in my solemn medi-
tations. state of sublime mental elo-
ouence the expected minister appeared
before me at the fire, and great portion
of the subliInity Of my thoughts was left
nnsnblimed. He was a very tall gentle
man, and appeared to have belonged to
the tribe Of Anek until he out-measured
the chief, and he then set up for himself.
The first square look | took at him only
reached little above the knees then
braced my feet against the stove and took
another look, and this time my eyes struck
him about the midrifF; I rallied again,
and with my feet stdl braced, | reached
my hands back over my head and seized
hold of peg that had grown out of the
wall, and throwing my head back in a
horizontal position to be sure there could
nothing possibly intervene my vision and
the heavens but the remaining portion Of
this extraordinary minister, / succeeded
in getting glance at the base Of his nose
and the lower verge Of his eyes. His
sharp eyes caught my glance at once, and
in a mild, persuasive tone, he said, Good
evening, sir" was in no position,.at this
moment for returning the salutation. but
after bringing myself back to natural po-
sition, | responded by saying, "Good
evening"" to his knees! How much Of
the man was above my gaze have never
asccrtainod. but have conjectured the min
lister portion extended on upward.
He soon opened tie services and began
his discourse. discovered that he was
an advocate of the Second Advent doctrine,
and had himself SO far succeeded in his
advent as to get his feet on the earth.-
His discourse was very interesting, for
the reason that he explained the nature of
many things that never TRANSFERRED nor
were ever prophesied Of, and for this bit
of premature history was very thankful.
After the services closed went to
bed and slept soundly and sweetly, and
on arising in the morning, found that the
road had gone on ahead Of me, and so |
got on behind and rode on.
The road UP Mill Greek from the mouth
of Fox Hollow is splendid road for pig
cons to fly over or to travel on in a bal
worse than failure-it is fraud
There are many fine farms on The side
of the valley opposite the road, but there
are none on the same side, for the reason
they didn't want to spoil the road For
several miles Of the way there are beauti-
full springs gushing out from the middle
of the road every few rods, and in almost
every instance of a spring high, towering
mountain gushes out, and some of them
spout up two thousand feet into the air.
There are many fine "sugar camps" on
the slopes, but the people experience a
great deal of difficulty in finding out the
trees that contain the sugar; for the tim
Der grows so densely that it has become
seriously amalgamated. They sometimes
'tap" tree and it produces nothing but
vinegar. this they afterward call an "oak'
tree; they then perhaps plunge their au-
ger into tree and get mucilage, this they
call a SLIPPERY elm" tree; then again
they bore into one and a great swarm OF
bees fly out, and this they call "oee''
tree.
There are a couple Of gentlemen by the
name of Ever, who have gone int, trout
raising; they already have one field of
them containing about one hundred. -
They feed their trout on wild game such
as pigeons and squirrels. They take the
trout out every day to hunt squirrels and
pigeons. A few of the most active of the
trout will chase squirrel up tree while
all the balance stand around the tree be-
low and catch it when it jumps off. They
don't often catch pigeons, as they can fly
faster than most Of the trout can.
But, as yet, am only half way through
Richland county, and if succeed in get
ting entirely through may write again.
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