The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-14

'OlleG Will all TIC CJnVen1cnceS OF draw.
ling room. Come nto the next part.
ment and such breakfast as awaits yor
might lead AnacreoD 70 tune his harr
anew, or To wish his neck as long as til,
gastronomic Reman Emperor did his, aad
that it might DO scrcw-augured and have
tasters all the way. Ne hurry or bus,ld
hare, with five minutes for boiling 81
You sip your aromatic coffee. dispose OF
your savory surloln, fish, game and all
the dellcacies of a first class 'hots as
leisurely and with as ample time 40 i
seated at your own table, while wGlrl>d
over the praries thirty miles per hour, o.
smocthlY that none of your cup Of cnffee
tinds its way iato your saucer unless y.,u
help 1t there We never saw the oue
yet who did not declare thai such break
fast in such place at seventy five cents
was "chesp enough"
We are nearing Pacific Junction where
you may keep the train if you wish IT,
see Omaha ana the MAJ nificent Bridge
the cause of so much contention and iit;-
gatien. or you may change cars and ga
straight th1Lugh by Plattsmouth A
train on the West side Of the River again
connects with the straight line at Oreap-
oils. We are nearing Missouri River,
we can see the bluffs beyond on Nebras-
ka soil. The River is ,lways as muddy
as the etymolog cal Specification of the
word. One would suppose that there
was o perpetual shower above washing
It's muddy banks. Our cars are backed
upon the Ferry and we are afoat betweep
Iowa and Nebraska soil A Nebraska
engine draws ua from the Ferry, and We
are in Plattsmouth, situate at the mouth
of Platte River, from whence the name
What bright and beautiful mor1ng,
How exhilerating snd bracing ,he atmos-
phere. The blood tingles with new life,
The feelings are buoyant. AS you climb
the bluff natures panorama is before YOU.
To the westward stretch away she bound.
less PLANES Of Nebraska; below you the
Missouri winds It's muddy way, beyond
is spread cut the landscape of low.
The feeling begins to steal aver us that
We are really getting West. But we are
not yet at our Journeys end. We have
yet the fairest part Of creation to behold.
We are again aboard the train and EN-.
crying from the bluffs that lire the Mis-
souri,. Our way lies along the southern
banks of Platte River. an outcrop Of
sano, its sluggish waters scarcely moving
in places, ia others running with quite d
current, and in still others entirely
bridged by sand, so that one may 60 10
dry shod. It's banks are fringed by cot
ton WOOD, box elder, elm end willow.
Millions of ducks ana geese line its
banks or sail about in it's waters At
Ashland we leave the Platte Valley
bearing more southwark towards Lincoln,
the capital of the young State. situated
at the intersection of the road a d Salt
Greek. This is a thriving young town
of eight or ten thousand inhabitants, sew
eral first class hotels, two or three live
newspapers, and other paraphernalia of
q fouriShlng town. The character of the
surrounding country is strongly saline.
Salt basins in the vicinity seem to have
an ebb and flow, being filled one part of
of the day and dry another. When the
question of fuel or some evaporation is
settled, exhaustless quantities of salt will
be manufactured here. A strong rivalry
has lately sprang up between Lincoln d
kearney Junction in regard to location
of the State Capital. Kearney is no
match in population at present., but pros
pectivsly, as the Junction of The Burling
ton g. Missouri River Railroad with the
Union Pacific, and on account of its cen.
trail position it is likely at no distant Gay
to supersede Lincoln as Capital.
We are now fairly in the midst Of the
prairies, completely at sea, as it were,
surrounded not by plain as level as the
nlotionless sea, but swelling in gentle
undulations, as Che landscape stretches
away on every hand to meet the sky.
Never does the idea of vastness so over
whelm you. We are pigmies, mere in
sects crawling over this mighty sphere