The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-14
LETTER FROM MINNESOTA.
ST. PAUL, MINI, July 2, 1870.

Editor Of heraeshG I6t6gr0pb
It has been some time since | have
written line for the TELEGRAPH, and
simply because / had not time to write,
A trip of hundred miles into the
country leads me to write that, after you
leave st. Paul dozen miles behind,
Vegetation looks comparatively slim,
Near this city there have been several
little showers through the month OF
juno, which has kept crops from drying
up, and, in fact, from burning up from
the excessive heat that has prevailed
rluring the month, the thermometer indi-
eating ninety-fve and ninety-seven
degrees in the shade most of the time.
| saw fields of oats nearly dried up look
inc ripe enough to cut that were not six
inches high, many fields or parts of fields
of wheat in the same condition. Every
thing suffering for rain. Corn very small,
grass light, potatoes small, and much
damaged by the bugs. But this condi.
tion of things is not general through the
State. Along the larger streams OF
water, and in the vicinity of the Lakes,
the same as in St. Paul, there has been
frequent little showers, and occasionally
a severe storm of hail, rain and wind,
one of which broke nearly all the glass
in the city of Mankato To say the best,
the crops are materially injured by the
dry weather all over the State.
There have been many cases of sun
stroke, two or three occurred in Mime
apolis last week, one fatal, the others re-
covered, One was a clerk and was struck
down while in the store, indicating that
one is not safe even in the shade. Less
wheat is sown this ear than usual, yet it
is the staple of the State, and must be,
till there is sufficient capital in n cans of
transportation. manufactures, &c., ST.,
to enable the producer to dispose of the
fruits of his labor at remunerative
profit Nearly the whole farming inter
est is carried on, on the credit system.
when the farmers crop is ready for mar
ket, he owes it all tor reapers, threshers,
wagons, plows, &C., and for groceries and
merchandise This compells him to sell
at disadvantage, and if he realizes enough
to pay his interest money, and part of
the obligations of the year, with nothing
left to live on the following year, he
does better than many do, that haul
wheat to market eighty miles in winter,
with oxen, in two and half feet Of snow,
and the thermometer thirty below zero.
The farmers, like most pioneers, are
careless of their best interest Take a
trip by rail in the spring just as the
snow is leaving, and you will see threshers
that cost in the fall before eight hun
dred dollars sta nding in the field where
last used without any covering, and so
with reapers, plows. and everything else
The immigration has been very large
this summer, many going to the frontier
with large droves of cattle and sheep
Business in st. Paul during the spring
and summer has been very good, with
the usual number of fires to make things
lively. Much building and Improvement
City full of visitors, Health and pleasure
seekers, there is no mistake but the fine
air is just the thing for invalids-come
and try it Mr.. Editor
The fourth will be duly, and I trust
properly, celebrated here. Excursions are
planned by Rail Roads and Steamboats, TO
the most romantic scenery on the CONT
nent. Laura Keene and troope are de-
lighting the theatre loving with some of
the best playing that has ever been in
st. Paul. The places of amusement and
resort are largely attended. The large
reading room of the Chamber of Com
merce gratuitously opened to the public
by the generous business citizens is daily
thronged. A little more courtesy and
less bruskness of manner on the part of
the presiding Genius of the room, would
make it favorite place of resort for all
the levers of newspaper literature of the
Union, and Europe, that are here repre-
sented by visitors from all civilized
countries, and it is hardly the place for
one to vent sickly spleen, or snobbish
odiciousness G. LIS.
An enterprising phrenologist once wrote
nnlite note To the late Charlaa Dickens