Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-05

t5-4s e.zs2s< kas tive. I do not suppose there is any part of our United States where farmeraa are more. uniformly well paid for their labor than in central New York. Every farmer there with whom was acquainted 90 yeara agoI ] is wealthy now. if living. and if dead has lsft competency behind for his family,
 One. dying, left a vidov but 10 children. It ~as dscided tkas the sviidox, he leaving no will. was entitled to half his estate. I know widow in your county who is left
 under the same circumstances, and only expects to have the use of one third of the small property her good husband left
 He was too charitable to have accumulated
 much property. I wish you would pub l fish in your paper just what widows right is, for she reads your paper, and it will do her good to know. Now to return to my subiect-whIch is what I observe that interestsm me on my western trip, and
 which may interest some of your readers.
 As we came from Syracuse to Detroit mostly in the night there was little to ] make 8 note of. When enjoying my berth on the sleeping car thought of Dr. Fow-
 ler's oft repeafed quotatlon from Sancho Panza, "blessed be the man that invented sleep. and. I mentally added, sleeping cars. ~1s #
 DETROIT. a%s
 Somewhere on the road we waited for the Erie train-at Suspension Bridge prob ably-but we all slept and did not know that that lost hour would protraet our journey A hours; yet 50 it was. We had plenty of leisure. to see the lions of De- troit It's noble river is the most note worthy. The water is that peculiar shade that you are undecided whether to call blue or green, and which is said to be fashionable in ladies' dress goods, under the name of paon. The depot of the Mich. Central R. R. is the first point at which the ferry boat t--on which we take our break fast makes z stop. We not only have plenty of time to eat, but had time to vesch the smaller ferry boats, and see what great busy city is stretched out before us. While they are unloading the passengers and baggage, we stand 'on
 deck and notice the peculiar roof that covers the immense depot It looks like folding paper fan without rivet, being like succession of little troughs all cemented together. I asked if it was zinc roof Was told it was of galvanized
 sheet iron. It looks to be fire proof and very substantial. Just as we are slipping our cable to depart, an official orders us to stop. A large chest srith c check on it has been left He calls some porters to
 ''ehuek it on some way. I don't care d-n, If it don't get into the river, ," and evidently they care no more than le, for it comes on with crash that would have annihilated 8 less strongly built box. Finally we are landed at the Detroit and
 Grand Haven depot to find that our train has been gone nearly an hour. At the
 Riddle House we find good entertainment till night. when VIC again have the eom- fort of Aeeping car, and at eight this morning we reach this pleasant city, of which, more next time x s@*I J. Ess E. a.s ----4eas s3sg
 MnwAUKRH, Wis, Aug 18th.
 My last letter was dated, I think, at sa >aRAND HAVEN. M1cH Esa
 That city, like all thriving western places, has made great. strides in the march of improvement. When last saw it, in 1860, it was but . small village, and to me seemed most remarkable for its hills of sand, which looked as barren as the desert of Sahara is said to be. Now hay ing spent day there at one of the best hotels ever saw, and having been escort ed round the city by . resident, my im- pressions are very different. True, the sand hills remain, and they look barren, but the streets of the place are bordered with as thrifty rows of young naples as I ever saw, and the most symmetrical in form. and peach and apple trees in gar dens are bending beneath their loads of fruit, evincing fertility in spite of sand. Broad plank sidewalks allow pedestrians to walk six abreast if they choose, and not particle of dust arises from the streets, which are covered to the depth of six inches with sawduat. oyer which ve- hicles of all description move noiselessly along. It is probably not. as easy for teams as harder roads would be, but they say sawdust is preferable to the sand, and the surplus sawdust from the innumerable saw-mills of Mich. may as well be used on the roads as allowed to rot in heaps. Michigan fruit and Michigan lumber seem almost inexhaustable. I saw the last hard winter had been q the death. of" some peach trees, but the most I noticed were thrifty and loaded with fruit
 I A little village near Grand Haven is
 named Fruit Point, and another is called Spring Lake. As. they are in sight of Cutler Hotel, they seem to me to be but suburbs. but marsh separates Spring
 Lake from the Haven. Just opposite the
 hotel IS & new mineral-spring bathing
 house, the waters of which are supposed
 to be an ehectual remedy for Gall the ills that flesh areheir to. :" The water sparkles
 in the. tumbler which is very soon dis
 colored by the iron which forms 2 part of
 it's constituents and is as distastefu1 to
 me as epsom salts. but to the sister who
 was with me. and whose taste for mineral
 waters had been cultivated by . years
 soiourn at Clifton 6prings, the water was
 very palatable. As there isl always re-
 freshing Shreeae from Lake Michigan, I
 think it might be, 3. very desirable place
 for one to recuperate. The hotel is strict