Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-01-11
ALONG THE LINE.
No. V.

Having a few hours before train
time, we called on the editors of the
Davenport Gazette, and spent a half
hour or so in general conversation.
This Office is well fitted up and the
proprietors are meeting with great
success financially and politically.
The paper is good one.
Passing along towards Chicago
and a short distance from Rock Is
land, is the town of Moline, one of
the heaviest manufacturing towns
in the West.
At 10 20 P. II. we left Davenport
for Chicago, at which city we arrived
the next morning. The weather
was cold and stormy with a slight
fall of snow.
In consequence of being detained
at the hotel we missed the train and
were obliged to wait till evening,
when we started for
PLYMOUTH, IND,
At which place we arrived at S:45
P. NJ, and put up at the Empire
House, kept by j. E. Fleming d Son,
formerly proprietors of the Empire
House, Millersburg, and are well
known to citizens Of this county.
This house, being located near the
depot, on the main street, and kept
as it is in first-class style, makes it,
as it should be, the headquarters for
all travellers. The Messrs. Fleming,
assisted by their accomplished la
dies, spare no pains in their efforts
to render their house all that may
be desired by a stranger. The house
is doing large business.
Mr.. Fleming and son have our
thanks for showing US around the
town as well as for other favors ex-
tended. We visited the new court
house, now being built, which, for
cheapness, convenience, comfort, as
well as beauty, will have few equals
in the Western or Middle States.
1t is built Of brick and Joliet stone,
containing offices for the county Of
ficers and court room. The build.
ing is fire-proof, has two stories and
a basement, and is located on high
ground, overlooking a vast scope of
country. 1t is credit to the county.
Plymouth also has some very fine
store-rooms for a Western town and
supports two very respectable county
papers, has population of about
$500, has two railroads with pros
pect of a third. This county has
one drawback, it is slightly Demo
cratic, but will, like many others,
see the error Of its ways and come
out clean handed some day.
Friday noon we started for home,
well pleased with our visit at Plym-
outh and our stay at Mr.. Fleming's.
WARSAW
Is another of the growing towns of
Indiana, has a good conntry sur
rounding it, is good business point,
with fair railroad facilities. At
MoNRoEvILLE
We met with the only mishap during
onr trip West. AS the train was 60
ing along at pretty rapid speed, a
two-horse team was run into, which
was in the act of crossing the track,
instantly killing one horse and so
Gripping the other that he had to
be killed instantly. Thus in less
than three minutes two horses were
killed and some man out of pocket
several hundred dollars. The pas
sengers did not know anything of
the occurrence, the shock not being
| felt, until the train stopped and the
conductor and others started back
to see what damage had been done.
Whether the team was in the act of
running away or the driver attempt
ing to cross the track before the
engine, was the cause Of the acci-
dent, we did not learn.
All light again, and away we glide
to the east as though nothing had
happened. The old "iron horse" is
a very stubborn fellow and generally
has his own way, defying everything
that it comes in contact with.
AS you proceed eastward, on the
p, F. W. & C. R. R., you see here
and there some poor land, but, as a
whole, the road runs through a good
country and penetrates some Of the
richest and best portions of Ohio.
Night brought US to our home.
We have thus given a running de-
scription of our flying trip to the
West, and only wish to say some
thing as to the
CLASS OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE WEST.
We have heard it said and init
mated that, generally, it was the
ignorant, shiftless people that gen.
orally emigrated west. While we
admit that in the west as in the east
can be found people of all nations,
conditions and colors, we believe
there are less of the shifting. mouth
to mouth class, in proportion to pop
ulation, in the west than in the east.
A man or family that think they will
go west and live there without work
ing or doing much, miss their calcu-
lations very much. 1t is work, en-
terprise and energy that has made
and is making the west what it is,
and that is the kind of people sought
after and desired there. A loafer
has few friends. Go into any of the
western towns and you see every
body busy, and a more cheerful,
pleasant and accommodating people
cannot be found anywhere.
Winter is of course rather an un-
pleasant time to visit the western
prairies, but sitting by a warm stove
and having good company there is
no occasion to be lonesome.
The west politically, as a general
thing, is Republican, which, of
course, accounts for its prosperity,
for never was our Government on