The daily gazette., 1874-09-02
From Central NeaC York.

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FAREWELL. GLIMPsEs OF SARATOGA
THE COMING AGRICULTURAL FAIR
ARTEsIAN wELLs-THE SPRINGS
PHASES OF SARATOGA CHAR
ACTER--AN AWKWARD
JERsEYAIAN--HoMI-
CIDEs AND SUI
CIDES NO
MAwKyAL-
LEY, &C.
From the Gasette's Travelling Correspondent
LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, Aug, 81, 1874.
1t would be impossible for me to tell
the readers of your valuable paper all
! have seen during my travels. Not
wishing, therefore, to bore my friends
too much, and not being so selfish rs
to take up more than column in
your paper, and, since l invoke the
muse, just once a week, can only
give note here and sketch there.
To tell the wonders that meet my eye,
the many waterfalls, the many hills
and mountains, the fossils bedded In
In the rocks, the many gay parties
met, the many chats, would take
column every day.
Saratoga grew more and more lively
all last week, Notwithstanding the
cold that drove all around the fires in
the morning and evening.
To see as much of the country as
possible we-could not stay for the In
ternational Regatta. We have no
great hankering after these big affairs
but our delight is to enter every cave,
visit every glen, every hillside, and
study New York's rich geological
fields concerning which we hope to
| give q few notes, in the future. While
stopping at Saratoga, among our many
side trips we went to Ballston, Spa,
and attended murder case conducted
by Hon Lyman Tremain, Congressman
for the State, and Hon. Henry Smith,
for the defendant. Tremain is the
best criminal lawyer in this State and
with the shrewdness and eloquence
with which he cleared Stokes, he SEN
fenced the criminal at Ballston. BY
the way, we fell in with cousin of
Tremain's, on of the Tremain brothers,
the great singers, and we have very
pleasant time. Large crowds I'll the
parlors at the hotels to listen To his
most beautiful and popular songs and
playing, which equals any we have
ever heard, Blind Tom not excepted,
as there Is 80 much expression in W. B.
Tremain's playing.
!, In our further search for the attrac-
tions at Saratoga we are still of the
same opinion as last week. After the
, races are over there is to be an i'm.
mense agricultural fair there, the
greatest ever held in the State. We
were telling the authorities at Sara
D toga of the great Fourth of July al
, Dover, and they laughed heartily
! One of them, jestingly, proposed that
they have long-nosed creased pig
race on the Saratoga, and it seemed SC
ridiculous that it created such laugl
= that the crowd came rushing around
to see what was the fun. The ide,
O and picture were funny enough, but il
. they had been at the Dover pig-rac'
|, the laugh would have been ON The
] other side.
: The whole of Saratoga county il
b filed with artesian wells, and ther,
|. are not two alike. The water is ricl
more or less with minerals. 1t con
- tains cloride of Sodium cloride o
Potassium chromide of Sodium bi
carbonate of Lithia, Soda, Magnesia
g Iron, Lime and Baryte, and q grea
quantity of Carbonic Acid and Gas
To obtain the water it is necessary t,
bore from three to four hundred feet
and the water is forced up in contin
ued stream. There are few who lik
the water from the start but those WHIT
o educate themselves to like it, Will
e there are thousands that visit ther
Is who cannot bear it. We were curiou
= to see one gentleman drinking glas
!. after glass we stepped up to him an
inquired how many glasses he ha
drank. He said II usually drink jus
before breakfast from five to 81
glasses" We spoke of our surpris
Is when he said There is man owe
d there who drinks half gallon at
,e time and it don't hurt him particle.
"a "Why," said he, "there are som
ladies here who can hide at least
~ quart" Hundreds crowd around I'll
u springs every morning and take the
n fill before breakfast.
n In our travels we met great man
,e folks, and each one has his or he
hobby-her hobby is generally the ol,
:, old story, but the men are the aueere
~ set of mortals you ever saw. W
OccaSlOndlly strlke one Oh lolS Sly
OF who has great long story committt
s. to memory, what he did, what h
tn father did, who he married, how mar
W. children he has, how smart they wert
- then he would branch off about h
" pretty daughter Sallle or Mary, as
may be, and tell how many beaux 81
an had and how she used to have "feller
he running after her.
ef They we would meet an old gent
ed man that had come for his health wi
~ would tell us how his rheumatis
~ troubled him, the thousand differe
~ remedies he had applied, giving lol
ny sigh and Strengthening himself o
n says that none of them ever did hi
st. any good and thought that he wou
come to Saratoga to see if the wat
to would not help him,