The Republican journal., 1874-08-27
Beeeher's Country Home at Peak
skill.

lhc country home Of the greatest pulpit
orator OF America is an unpretentiOnS
farmhouse about two miles from Pceksl.ill
village. Mr.. Bcecher's place is farm,
not fancy landscape garden. OF siNty-ilva
acres. such as = man with q salary OF S21
900 year, and no telling how large an
income besides could have it he desired
1t is real old fashioned farm. such rs our
grandtathers would have rejoiced in, with
a straight maple shaded lane, not curved
and winding carriage way, leading TO the
low doorstep and vine shaded piazzas that
/ encircles the low. large rooted. brown
wooden house on three sides For twenty
years that house with its quaint little
! rooms and old fashioned tircplaceS, with
1 tall mantelpieces reaching almost TO the
| low ceilings, has been the summer retreat
/ Of the Beecher family. 1t is a historic and
I an ancient house-Over Il hundred years
| old There, in the course of the first war
Of the American colonies with the mother
| country, Gen. Israel Putnam once made
| his headquarters, and Mr.. Turner, Mr.
Beechcrs farm manager, the general
| oyersecr OF the place, says that his plough
hands in Years past, and sometimes even
now, lind bullets and military buttons
while turning up the iallow lands He
points ont spot in front of the honae
where six pound cannon ball was thus
nnearthed, and there ii is seen now in the
lnxuriant grass that clothes the well titled
| sloplng meadow land that extends from
the house 10 the roadside. Gloriously did
the sunlight fall last Saturday paOrning on
that meadow and hillside, and pierce with
shafts OF gold the interlacinm bou"h1 Of
the rock naples which form m arbor-liE
screen above the lane thai runs oi enc
side o1 that noble pasture ~ the CORE
spOndent OF the Sun. riding by th. low
stone wall which runs along lhc roadside
| and supports the only terrace OF Tic long
slope, turned h5 vehicle INTO the lane that
leads to Rest Hill, Mi Eaechar' iarn
There is a stone wall OF both sdc- 0t the
lane, md about hall w1v up set If draw
barr The bar arr NOT painted GheY
are gray with acc. 1nd notlled With
mould and li5han The emerald green
loavaG OF the low bending and tntarlaciur
maple boughz ept1he top ri the carriage
4 GOVT wa IN Aldfrncy-- tJthered
IN tho meadow and C0nfantedly grazing
One man Wa IaEing hay n@ar the lane
smother was throwing II with i I1rA IN 4
wagon partly loaded standing ar one -ide
pi tho lane. \ woke ol iino oxen al-
tachad q tho wagon. their LONG taper
horns proving their Devon blood iarilv
cropped the grass hy the roadside ll01n
the avenue al napla1 The carriage road
diVidr. thu W1y up the hill 20 The barn. the
other weeping III 4 curve hy tha hole cf
4 grant elm. under whose dropping huuohs
!llshe~ livery fountain, tnv iaf, Iha
source ~ which il higher dp th1 hll
whence It conducted IL tic house,
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