The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-06-26
Letter from Nebraska.
TABLE Rock, NEB., June 18th, 1874.

Dear Old 1EyiS: As the school boy would say.
again take my scat with pen in hand, to write
you few, or rather many lines concerning
things in general. Well, now about our town.
Table Rock Is situated on the Atchison and
Nebraska R. X. in the South Eastern part of the
State. 1t was first located by colony of Metho-
dists, fifteen years ago. but meyer became any
thing more than feeble village until three
years ago, when the A. & N. X. H. was finished,
Since that time it has increased rapidly: has
two first class hotels, two restaurants, three ey
celent stores, besides several smaller ones LARGE
ware and grain houses, stock yards, two large
lumber yards, express and telegraph Offices
blacksmith and wagon shops; almost every
trade in ordinary mechanism is represented, =
Millinery and dress making, an excellent. we'll
conducted, graded free school, large merchant
grain mill, Two churches, M. E. and Christian,
Oddfellows, Free masons, and Good Templars
societies; large furniture store, and tin store.
four daily mails to and from the town. n large
livery stable, with splendid teams how MANY
buildings do not know, but the town has
about 800 inhabitants. In short we have every
convenience and comfort that the old towns Of
the east possess. | omitted to say, we have a
green grocery and meat store, where YOU can
get, ut all times, choice meats and fish, fresh
and saltcd, anything you want, from mutton
chops up to "butialo jerk" You can buy a
pound OF excellent, firm yellow butter on ice,
and two dozen fresh eggs for twenty-five cents
other things in accordance.
Table Rock is surely live wide awake place.
NO chulcc Vi SeItllS nome SICK; something al
ways going on, a lecture and exhibition, or some
public demonstration. The people living here
are from various places; Ohio, Indiana, Virgin.
ia, Iowa, Illinois, but mostly from Wisconsin.
New York and Pennsylvania; but l meet no one
from old Maryland, or little Delaware There
are several features about society here somewhat
different from Maryland society. The people
are very agreeable, easily approached, but vet,
withal, they seem to do everything with n rush.
They, both ladies and gentlemen are quite free
To discuss nuhlip uupstipn
themselves, and they seem determined to learn
and know all they can Hence we find freuuent-
~ in regular attendance at school, married ladies'
and gentlemen. Go into almost any house Won
please and you find books, choice literature of
all kinds, musical instruments, pianos, melo-
deems, parlor organs, etc.
The Sunday'Schools, instead of being places
where children are sent to read few We ses of
Scripture, are seasons of pleasure and profit
Questions are propounded, criticism, are freely
INDUCED, all take an active part from gray. haired
sres down to the little child. The people man
age to ask you in substance, by some means,
when , iIst they meet you, Where are you from,
seem to be to annoy you, but il you know any,
thing that they don't know, they want to know
it too.
Table Rock is not pretty town. 1t is diyid-
ed by 'Linn's Creek III its centre. We have
"oldtown" and "new town." Old town is very
pretty. You have grand view Of the beautiful
green rolling prairie; but old town only con.
luins one store, the school building and about
twenty dwelling houses. New town lies east of
the creek, has nearly all the business of every
Kind, but Is low, and the streets are crooked and
narrow.
In the whole town there are but two premises
fenced or paled in, but most generally well shad-
cd and adorned with flowers. There is really no
great need for fencing, for no stock of any sort
| Is allowed to go loose. If you want green grass
for your horse or COW, you can go out on the
prairie and NOW all you want gratis, and feed
1T at the stable, or "ariatcn your horse or COW on
some vacant lot in or near town.
| The business of Table Rock is immense for its
size Large warehouses, good-siZed store build
inSs, comfortable residences, an active popula-
! ton. And business is brisk in town, (havc no
grangcrs' store hcre.) suppose not less than
| three hundred thousand bushels Of grain are
shipped from here annually whilst lumber farm
! ing implements of all kinds, together with gene
raj merchandise is constantly pouring into our
depot in protusion. Tuesday Of every week is
"Hog Day" with U.S. They are ON that day
driven in from the country by hundreds, and the
next day leave for eastern markets. Cattle like
| wise.
In one of my letters l said l expected to pay
/ visit to all Indian agency soon, and would write
| up for you what l saw. | have not yet taken
the trip, and as Indians have become such COM
mon-place people with us, by seeing them so of.
ten, don't know that l shall take any special
| pains to so twenty-seven miles to see more OF
| them. may call at their Reservation in Octo.
| Der as | go out WeSt with the buffalo hunting
party. Ahem! and if | observe anything worth
narraling will inform you. In my next l will
| inform you concerning our beautiful little coun.
ty-seat, Pawnee city, city of pretty cottages
noisy birds, green trees, blushing flowers, and
graced with refined intelligent ladies and gentle
men. Until then good bye.
LATE OF FALISTON.