Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-07-22
Chicago was reached Thursday morning

sive roof OF the Grand Union Depot W
or missing. though the walls of the structu
N are still doing service. Theysare seamt
ID and Scared, and some idea Of the terrib
!. heat can be formed by witnessing the mel
D. ed stones and bricks lying around. Fot
J, roads have their termini in this depot. .
d large and efficient force Of police is st;
D., toned here, and owing to their preseuc
! doubtless, everything moves like clock
, work. 1t is probable that as many as fiv
thousand people arrive at and depart fior
this depot each weekday. Possibly thi
estimate is too low. On street perhap
half mile south of the depot, force o
at least two hundred masous we're al worl
on mass of granite large enough to builc
a small city. Passing the ock-yards a
some distance, we saw large drove o.
cattle, but failed to discover Mrs. q 'Lesry's
COW among them. We wonder what has
become Of her! No matter! With the
name of him who fred the Alcxanlrian
file has been lost for ages, the fame of
Mrs. O'Learys kline will never be bIotted
from existence SO long as this mundane
sphere of ours remains unscathed BY the
Coggian or any other comet. Dust, yes,
the busiest kind of dust, prevailed all the
way through Illinois. The Pacific Ex.
press stirred it up fearfully. Farmers
we're busy cutting their wheat, and the
mapy-acred fields of corn looked splendid.
More attention is paid this year to corn
in Illinois than to wheat, while the reverse
Is the case in Iowa. At Mendoza juno
lion an incoming train on the Ill. Central
ran oil the track in plain sight from our
car window, splintering up the platform Of
the depot in good shape, and causing
few little "Oh, mys!" from the ladies,
and great many stronger explosives from
the sterner sex. The iron bridge over the
Mississippi at Burlington is a grand mas
terpiece of human skill and ingenuity 1t
rests on seven piers, and We believe is
modelled after the Howe truss pattern.
Burlington, Iowa, is located on high,
sandy bluffs from the railroad grounds,
ioes not present very prepossessing APP
oearance. The country roundabout is
very fertile, and the farms laugh with fat
less. Several extensive and thrifty vine
'ards were noted
The Burlington & Missouri r. r. runs
o Council Bluffs, aud then continues on to
Aearney junction, Nebraska where it
mites with the Central Pacific. 1t is an
EXCELLENT road, and by the judicious as
'ell as generous management of its officers
the matter of lands granted to the cor
Grafton, 1t has aided greatly IN the dcve-
pment of one of the fairest portions of the
tate, Switching off at Ottumwa on the I
Valley y. r. we travelled I'm. a
i A. NJ, July I'd, when we arrived at C
ne city of DesMoines, the capital of the a
tate. Three hours ofsleep were obtained u
nd relished at the Given House. This s.
ty is growing fast, and large business a
being carried on. A new capital build "
g Is ID process Of erection. However. II
he little we saw Of the place did not par. fl
cularly impress US. AT town some ten
fifteen miles northwest of DesMoines b
party oftwo hundred and seventy excur. +
onists, Sabbath.school children and their "
lends accompanied by very good brass Fl
md, got on board the train and went as m
r as Grand Junction, where they picuiced G
grove in front of a hotel. AT the lat. tc
r place delay ofseven hours took place. al
hlch was vexatious, but in part made up fir
getting two square meals and refresh. W
6 pap Once more under way we sped II
ong' at rather slow speed, and finally nj
'rt Dodge was reached at midnight, ii
lis city Is one Of the oldest settlements tt
northern Iowa, it being U. S. military IL
st many years ago. 1t now has popu. m
'lon OF about 1000, is the home of Hon. re
Irus Carpenter, Governor of the State. Ell
d extensive coal mining operations are nj
progress just out of the city. Half al
gifts rest at the Duncombc House, named to
honor Of Hon. Jno. f. Duncombc, who az
o years ago was a prominent candidate W
Congress, and again we were routed yt
the sonorious voice Of the porter y
-Four O'Clock; most train time; hack 5 IN
'dy and waitin! =" Rising, We soon be. Ii
me aware that it is the Fourth of July, al
ever-glorious Fourth, and that John be
Iams' suggestions and prophecy as to its an
servance has not been forgotten, though II
lety.eight years have elapsed since be trl
Ike and many miles intervene between lin
icpenderce-hall and the prairie arbor stl
'tched with hay who're to-day the SONS Of
daughters, native and adopted, Of to
va meet to celebrate the nations birth as
help perpetuate its existence. Ak be
M. the express on the Iowa Division of frc