Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-08-19
INDIANAPOLIS.


silence / venture to write again lest
you should think [ am shaking t.
death with the Ague; or have been
swept out Of existence by the big swells
that White river has been putting on
lately. L still continue to exist and
have been trying for several days past
to get my ideas and myself just brought
square up to that prim line of precis-
sion which you know | don't like and
can't stick to in letter writing, so if L
well there: came near using ''slang"
by saying if stopped over" OCCASION
ally you and everybody else would
have to excuse me. TO keep cool SEEM
ed to be the object and aim of every
one during the first part of the sum-
mer. Every man, woman and child
was in search of cool place. Many
left the city going northward. A
squad of the high-toned have sought
and, [ presume, found the much covet-
ed pleasure in that pleasant retreat over
in the Buckeye State, known as Little
Mountains. Madam Rumor did also
whisper in my ear-confidentially of
course, and l am only telling you, Mr..
Editor-that Mrs. Flabygascons, Mrs.
Frizzle, Mrs. Bumfuzzle, Mrs. Pryinto,
Mrs. KnoWall and q host of others of
the Petroleum caste did actually turn
upside down, all the dry goods, mil
linery and matchmaking establish
ments in the city, preparatory to ta-
king by storm several different FASH
ionable resorts.
For some weeks back rain and high
water has been the order of the day,
which has cast quite gloomy feeling
of disappointment over the farmers
who were looking forward to an
abundant yield when they should
come to harvest the broad acres OF
grain almost ready for the reaper when
the rain began to fall. Unless you had
looked upon the vast sea of water and
could pass over the track of the recent
flood in this locality; it is Hot possible;
from any thing that L might tell you,
TOR you to form an adquate idea of the
distinction, and of the amount of vegeta
BILE decay that must neceSS lrly be the
result. If you were here, Mr.. Editor
and could takes a drive out into the
country, along some road where the
water mas sunken away and left the
bottom land exposed in some places
while in numerous depressiuns of diff
ferent lengths and breadths there has
settled down "for keeps" still water
over which there has already accumu
lated thick, green scum which makes
one think of malaria and of chills anG
fever. You might imagine that ole
skeleton; Ague: stalking about al
around you, and that you heard his
old bones rattle as he skipped by try
ing to get his bony fingers on you
Could you, at the first of June have
passed along by those long and broaC
fields, full of beautiful and promising
crops of corn; then few weeks later
after the June flood, have passed by
those fields again and beheld there
nothing but vast sandy desert, anG
could you to-day look upon those same
fields you could see what those familiar
with the sight compare to lava beds
then you might form some idea of wha
the floods here have done for this low
fiat land this summer. In looking owe
this mornings papers | notice one sac
item, which tells of the dead, being
washed out and away from one of thu
cemeteries.
The whooping-cough and measles
gracefully combined in some instance:
seem to be the prevailing style among
the juvenile part of this community
notwithstanding all the ailments pow
er, the juveniles, who are old enough
to feel it, have been very sadly disap
pointed in the last week, in the failing
to put in an appearance of big show
and circus which was billed for thi
| MI ht1t hx,'
the big flood. Every thing good to Ell
is in the market just now; yet the
abundance thereof has no tendency tt
make things cheap. Going into veg
etable and fruit market this morning
approached a salesman who wa:
measuring some fine, delicious look
ing peaches. Sir 4? said l, how do you
sell these? "Five cents apiece" But
said hOwrmuch by measure? Where
upon he began taking the peaches from
the half peck measure and to count
them. After which he said "two dol
lars aud sixty cents for the half Peck d
| concluded L would not eat peaches
ard cream for dinner to-day. Seeing
coop full of unripe chickens chirping
lonely for the maternal-cluck, the
idea struck me that might invest in
poultry, so l Investigated again. How
do you sell chickens? "Thirty-five
cents for the smallest and forty cents
for the largest ones" After looking at
them | could not tell which were the
smallest ones, but thought it would
take pretty nearly all in the coop to
make dinner if they did not die be.
fore they were killed, and measuring
the contents of my pock book l found
it would not cover the contents of the
coop; consequently we did not have
spring chicken for dinner.
] now think some OF remaining in
this city until after the fall Exposition.
If | do shall see little more of hOos-
iordom and be able to tell you of the
sights and wonders. S. A. G.