The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-07-18
ON THE GO IN KENTUCKY
Incidents and Events ana News.

Eds. Magictta Jownat--Thinking
that word from old Kentucky
might prove of some little interest to
your readers, | herewith send you
| few notes and ite rs OF travel and
observation. Ia the first place, the
cholera ia here We had been fear
ing that it woald make its advent
among US for some time, and 10!
here it is. Four colorcd people died
yesterday and and many are sick,
and many more of both colors are
"scarcd" some, but the the disease,
as yet, seems confined to crowded
and filthy localities.
Kentucky is looking up" in some
respects, and is truly marvel
among the States for undeveloped
weaIth-she needs more population
to push her noble enterprises and
unearth her boundless treasures
Salt, bituminous coal, canal coal,
various kinds Of iron ore, limestone
in vast and endless quantity and
good quality, fine timber. rich lands,
and excellent water power, and doz>
ems of other blessings are hers, and
some progress is being made in de-
veloping these and other sources OF
wealth, but like Georgia, this grand
old State needs human muscle III
greater quantity and toll in greater
variety also, like dear old Georgia
| she needs to have her large farms
subdivided and worked by q thriv'
ing and hopeful oscncr Of a home
Al Ashland, KY, on the Ohio river
they are putting up the largest iror
works in the u. S. 1t is to turr
out one hundred tons of iron and one
thousand kegs of nails per day =
SLOWS that for high ~ And yet
you viii find that man is man the
world over, and many are "pulling
MP stakes here and in Virginia, N.
Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia,
and moving West--many no doubt
; to regret it greatly, while only a
very few viii be benefited by the
move But as the saying goes sit
is all right" and man will be man
and go on moving and growing till
he sleeps lilIc--Adam. | recently
saw a party of emigrants moving
along over the hot, dusty pixies of
Kentucky, bound from Lee county,
| Va, to Nebraska! uGn! Won't
those poor fellows be ''fooled ~
And won't The wind play with their
hats and the frost with their noses
and .'toSeS.n One Of the party, in
his great poverty and yet eagerness
to go, had actually sawed off the end
of huge oak log and made four
wooden wheels, upon whose creak-
ing, grooming, squealing ''gudgeonsD
he was pulling his little all TO the
land Of" Bealah y They made
him "shell out" and pay toll Mt the
gates, though he demurred and said
that the "drattcd pike was a cutting
Of his wheels all to smash !"
In my ramblos in this State |
CHANGED TO meet Mr.. Stewart, a
brother to The one who captured Muir
rell, the celebrated highwayman ;
also a Mr.. Hite who was once cap
tive among the Murrell gang of out
laws and kept in cave in West
Tennessee. Mr.. Hite finally, one
very dark night, made his exit from
the prison-cave and escaped after
many thrilling scenes and narrow
misses of being recaptured.
| have "come across" one old
blacksmith, eighty.four years OF
age, who is yet daily engaged in his
shop, hammering away on his anvil,
shoeing horses and telling how weak
and '.good for nothing" the young
men are in these, our degenerate
days, when kid gloves and lavender
colored pants shine GU, among huge
humps and bumps, irills, ribbons and
flounces, high .heeled bootees, smirk
ing, simpering, useless, weakly lily
handed misses. who are, in the eyes
and opinion Of this hoary old oe,oge.
marian, just an insult to trae humans
ity and good sense. Well, | wish
You could only hear the old man
"a g,eiae on about it y But, alas |!
his voice cannot stay the tide, and
over the green grass of bis grave
these kidded bucks and high-back-
ed "sissies" will drive their ph@tons,
while the Jehus wlll cast a foolish
( yet derisive smile at the wisdom and
fashions of by gone age-''so pass
es the glory of the world !"
| An old countrymen who was sell
ing apples on the streets the other