The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-11

.F-.e SCmcsara.i Saturday NtDEll
We dispatched reporter 'f<e have so
many reporters we can dispatch one every
flay or two and not Miss thens to Iceland
to write a.p the thG1sa8dsh ,antiVersary of
the settlement of that interesting country. A
letter from kcelsr,d occasionally during the
heated terEi cauaet faN to haze cooling
effect upoa cur readers. Below is the first
instaIment Of his correspondence
a. REH1ATlS, EM.xsD, Judy L., 1874.
Denr Saturday .Elgbt: arriTed here by
balloon to-day safe and SQUAD; spoke to the
comet on our. way and exchanged the latest
newspapers. Every body will tie on board
the comet. Comet fokS.asa.Aan del, the i'm.
preston that the earth has get 81 .'.peek" at
them becau.e they didn't cab.
Reikiayik is the capital OF dee land. am
stopping at the principal bote!, e alled the Ice
House, l. Ciele,z proprietor. AS soon as he
found cut whoH Was he assigned me very
comfortable apartments in bis own private
refrigerator. I shall :jaS freeze to this house
AS long as stay here.
I 90 out sailing every day in an ice boat.
This afternoon l went to gee. baseball
match, although at home ] lig'ht my fires
with ba<e-b,ll matches. They use snow
ball to play with, their champion pitcher is an
ice pitcher, the catcher eniy clutches cold,
and they ron the bases on hand iedS. Skates
are worn by every body. It IL SO icy here
you skateaIy ever see any body wi thout them.
This Is y nice Rurgh, and there is an ice
berg in sight alfthe tine. There amt much
building going On, but it is a great place for
GLACIERS.
"Have ye,l seen anything sef Cal about
hereT' | asked frigM olE citizen thi:
morning.
Said he, ."What Calg7
Said IT,: Cal.eric,7 and he aotye ry choleriG
about it. Notwithstanding the tn ermometel
was down to zero gettng:a an Ice drink.
Iceland WIS THROWN Gp by'a submarine
volcano one day, wheE the Tolcsaio was sics
from shipping too heaqy a sea III IS SUP
iect TO CONF ulsions occasionally do"' IL IL
also subject to Denmark, which, rdlng to
ShakespeaEe. there is something rotten in
Although temperate people, yet Ihe noun
tains in Iceland are high" aH the time.
The highest Is Rerafa Jokull 'bsing G,4l
feet. Yoa would hardly get G7erta-fa' from
the top Of that Hountains Sok,uH' you're
mind to- about it. II yea were ou buying
mountains there are several others dkat dome
come al1i,e so high. Meunt Hecla Is good
chunk of, a ,1oeuntain, named .afsec Hecla
Furnace, in Westnsaneland, New Merk. .
The country abounds in hot springs,
which is the areasoa you newer :Sse an Ice
lander at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Tea ket-
Ties are almost uakaoTn here, as 'there are
Dlent, OF fountains that throw up hot water
continually. This makes me think that Pro-
baseo might utilize his fountain by boiling
the water before throwing it np. 1t
wouldn't cost toe city much TO supply tea,
so that cup of that cheering beverage
might be furnished to any ope desiring At
Imerely throw in the suggestion, if the city
will throw in the tea.
Icelaud was discovered In $50 by Ma dod,
a sea roTer. Ora H- Dodd is descendant
of Mad -dod. The country was colonizee by
Insoif, Norwegian chief, S74, just one tha1-
sand years ago, and it is to help celebrate
that event that am here-Iaud Halstead.
Visitors are arriving daily from all partssf
the world. The beds in my hotel are all ee-
cupied, and the landlord is sleeping guests in
the lava-beGs which surround the town. a
gentleman from Ireland complains that it is
q little hard TO "layIa bed oHt in the eeSld
in that way, shure," aud be threatens to give
the landlord punch in bis ioe-chest il he
serves him that way again.
When the celebration comes of will
write to you all about it.
10 Yours truly, l. fa l. G.