The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-11
Letter From Bristol.

IOkAOt I t0kVt1
"Gentle spring" has come marching alons
but as sentimentally and POLITICALLY as W.
have tried to take the matter We have thus
far failed to discover It's "ethereal mildness.
Te get good ready to 60 into raptures, ant
write s. composition" on "the woven sounG
of breeze and bird and stream" and then tt
treated In this way, is as discouragelng tt
ONES poetical ardor as to WOO the light O.
his eyes in serenacs Of kis own compost
tion, and for his pains. to be treated by hsl
from the chamber window, with duckine
from the washbowl. Your genuine poet
however, is not the thin-skinned man to be
90 easily talked, written, or clustered down
He sometimes also has been known to have
along with his poetic whirns streak of hard
common sense, and so we hope if March has
spoiled all our poelly that we may be able
to get medium article Of prose out of it.
Poetry and prose you are aware are like
sugar and salt. Sugar ruay be more dele
ious but am inclined to think we should
miss the salt the most. The frosting on
our cake could be easier dispensed with
than the seasoning Of our common diet.
Times have bsen rather proxy with us Of
late, except an occasional stir up, Of which
You may have been advised through the col
umns of your contemporary.
We have been visited again by quite a
heavy fall of snow. which, with high driv-
ing wind, drifted our roads nearly full from
fence to fence. The auction sale of Mr..
Ebenezer Mead, March 2nd furnished us In
this community with an easy solution of the
d ifficulty. Every man seemed anxious 80
be out at the sale; and so turned out with
team and shove1s, and with the throng that
followed our roads were beaten hard before
the day was over. With the severe winter,
the scarcity of fodder is beg ming to be Sc
yerely felt. Fabulously high prices are ask
ed and paid more perhaps from fear Of what
is to be than what is actually experienced.
There never was a more proptious time to
dig wells, if it be true that "dry wells send
US to the Fountain
The office of some Of our wind mills where
they have been employed to pump water for
stock is sinecure. But this has served to
develop some wells In Our midst which can
scarcely fail Deep borang is becoming the
order of the day We may mention the in
stances Of Mr.. John Lane, Edward Mead aLG
Ransom shotliffe who by boring short of one
,undred feet have found eXhaustless supplies
# water. Farther South just across the
State line there are foWinglwells whose foun
aims have been discovered in the same way
The wolf business has become so serious
natter among the farmers that earnest ef-
orts are being made for their determination
n this town. In addition to the largc boun-
les offered by town and county NEST sheep
owners are pledging liberal bonus tor ev-
,ry wolf killed. If their dspredations con
inue the risk to owners of sheep will be too
creatto warrant continuance Of the bust
ness.
We are much gratitied at the efforts of the
Z. r. Co.. to keep our road open. Let 1t
lr 1T up as badly as 1t may they are sure to
liz out some time unless thaw comes first.
We do not wish them to lose the stimulus OF
knowing that their efforts are appreciated by
is. We understand that our branch is large
y used for the training of engineers. The
rood people who ride on the train are will
ne TO suffer some with sore shns and dis
ointed necks, fer the advancement of scien-
ific engineering. It has been whispered
4bout that there has occasionally been an
engineer over the road who has run an en-
sine before The good people beg leave to
assure the r. r. Co., that they consider
neh sacrifice in their behalf entirely un-
necessary. We regret to learn the old
" oodstock, whose shrill whistle has SO oft
walked the echoes of Se5astopol, has at last
stained the pride of her glory and laid her
lonor in the dust She has been degraded
to the place of mere switch engine at Har-
yard.
She has found her last ditch. She has
lraw her last cattle No sound shall ever
wake her to glory again.
The people of Sebastopol, and J. doubt
aot of Kenosha, extend to Harvard their
Tarmest syn4pathies.
If at any time 1t shall be my luck to light
lpon the genesis of this remarkable place Of
with the permission of the Ed
Tor I shall hasten to lay it before the read
ars of the TELEGRAM.
Until then requiescot an pace.
SEBASrAPooL.
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