The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-04-16
FROM CHILL, SOUTH AMERICA.

years ago was well known to the people
of Stroudskurg as medical student, un.
der DR.. Sydenham Walton, aud grad
uate of the Pennsylvania University, son
OF the late Baiser Featherman, of Bamil
ton, aud Brother of our much respected
fellow citizen, Charles Fetherman, OF
Hamilton, is living in Sauta Cruz, in the
Providence of Curico, Chill. He left
hosts of friends here who will read the
sutjoined letter to his brother Charles,
with great pleasure The Dr. is doing
well and we are glad to know he intends
again to visit the scenes Of his early days,
to revive his recollections of what hap
pened 30 to 40 years ago when Abraham
with his happy face, was among US,
PROVENCE OF CURICo,
SANTA CRUZ, January 81, 1874
DEAR BROTHER Il am at the loss to
know when | wrote last to you, or you to
! me but it Is certain that it is several
years since the last correspondence l
had been expecting to hear from some Of
you, but have not heard anything from
any Of you, since, | believe, when Jacob
wrote me, which however, must be hard
on two years, if not more. The nearest
| came having any notice from your place
was the other day, in reading the New
York Weekly Times, where it is stated
| about some man having been lodged in
! Stroudsburg Jail for murder. have tax
en the New York Weekly Times for sew
eral years, and for one year past have
also taken the WochenbIatt, der n
Y ,SFnOfc IisfUpO rhaco
cost me $40, that is S5 each these papers
keep rle somewhat posted as to what is
going on generally in the States. As for
instance the Imprisonment of Tweed the
eat thief of New York, the Virginius's
Passengers, in Cuban Ports, and prospects
of settlement with T. s. Government.
This would 30 doubt be an elegant test to
give reasons why Cuba should belong to
the L. 5. Government. But | think our
government has territory enough to get
along peaceably with.
Our weather is very warm now, grain
is about all harvested, aud the wheat crop
is very good, or at any rate it is not a bad
crop. Wheat right here where live is
worth about one dollar bushe or 60
pounds, faDego 81, SO, which is about
TWO bushels and half They still keep
up the old mode Of reapiDg with the Sick
ie. a poor Instrument it is, such as they
use here. However, they are improving
some, in respect to them Such a thing
as grading grain is unknown in Chilli.
Threshers are now quite common. the orc
they believe n is Pitts old fashionable
Thresher, they use oxen instead OF horses
few days ago Il priest was threshiDg
With machine, they had four yeke of
oxen hitehed to the machiue, they walked
very slowly and The straw came through
with great deal OF wheat in the heads
He asked me If could tell him where
the fault lay, told him to drive his oxen
faster to get up the proper speed, when
instantly great improvement followed.
| asked him how much was the most he
ever threshed in one day. He said his
machine was not of the best, bat had
threshed two hundred Fauegoes $500 |
bushols) and be knew one that threshed
300 Franegoes, had made bet, and the
300 were threshed out by sun. He thought |
he said, might consider it big story,
but it was true. | did not tell him what
good machine, with plenty of hands |
sometimes did in the United States Tor
fear OF getting an answer | once received |
from rich farmer here few years ogo, |
when he told NE he had the best machine
in Chill, that he had threshed $50 fame
COS in one day, that is 625 bushels, | told |
him | had myself helped to thresh double |
that 10 one day. He instantly stared me
in the face, turned red, and said, "Em
bustero." All right, | said, some day il
| should write history of myself might
meution this very circumstance, but GER
tainIy to the credit of your grand child
ren would carefully suppress your name.
10 some parts here the black smut in very
hurtful, they will not use preventives,
they reap what they sow
Corn looks we'll, ate some the other day,
roasted and aloug with water melons and
plums, the real old blue kind, such as We
used to have at home, between the mill and
old dwelling house. We have also Just
now very good pears certainly it appears
strange to see people harvest wheat, eat
green corn, water melons, pears, plums,
and finally, grapes beginning to ripen
To see all this | say, and in the midst OF
great, almost insupportable heat with
long days, aud short nights, the sun in
the north, and all this in January is in-
deed quite contrary to ny experience in
early life. To this day, when occasionally
my miud has leisure to travel back to the
days of 1880, up to 1910, when you and
| were more than once summoned to cut
and remoye ice from the water wheel of
the mill, when the weather was cold, bit
ter cold, or to start for Tricebaugh's saw
mill to bring boards for the new mill, new
house, &c, coming over the cold, tleak,
and barren Pocono, oh, those times, say
to this day, there comes over me kind
of chill Then think of these better
days of chiIls and snow, it seems to me
would not now have the proper constitu
ton to pass winter there, yet feel an