Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-03
FROM WASHINGTON TO INDIANA.
Correspondence Of The Stdr.l
NINCFSNFS. lNDIANA lime 10 1S7

/ saw the steeples and towers of the car .
ital as they seemed TO recede and grow dim
through crepuscular glimmers on Monday
evening last, until the latter deepening into
darkness, those objects disappeared. TIE
evening air was delightful, but when we
were crossing the nOrthernmOst spur of the
Appalachian range next morning. when Au-
rora was stTeaking the eastern horizon with
light, fires were kindled in the cars to X ep
the passenger warm. Between and O'Clock
a. m. PittSburg, the smoky city, was reached.
QUICK riding. Six O'Clock y. m, a little past.
and we landed in Cincinnati. Tom Scott is
endeavoring 10 make longer heat and still.
make time with John w. Garrett.
The traveller going west, reaching Cincin-
natl, sees no more New York dallies.
THE CROPS.
have passed again--aS did last spring
through great wheat region. 1t seems ID
me that the indications tren so applre It of
short wheat crop, are more than realized
as the harvest approaches. In truth, the
yield will be co lSIierably less, | Judge, than
the early spring promised, as bad as that
was. a great many fields all through the
country VIII not pay harvesting there. / did
not see in my whole route one firSt-rate
field. Winter killed the plants. That tells
the story of the sorry wheat fields.
Corn has been planted, largely in excess OF
former years, and what / have never seen
before, the corn is planted from the Miami
Bottoms westward in drills. the stalks
standing about one foot apart in the row.
The cultivation is more arduous, but the
yield, undoubtedly. will be greater. The
largest corn on the route was on the Miami
(O.) Bottoms. But corn is backward, small
and very often yellow. a great deal OF corn
does not stand more than from four to six
inches high. The cold, and in many local.
ties the rather wet spring, did il. But this
is the weather for oats and potatoes. and
both look remarkably fine. However, July
and August make the corn crop, July rearS
the stalk, and August forms aud fills the ear.
shall be greatly disappointed if the mex
corn crop is not the largest that ever has
been.
yI,SCFNSFS
is one Ofthe Oldest towns in the west II is,
i understand, a little older than ST. Louis,
and calendars in its period of being at
least one hundred anniversaries. Its pOpU-
latiOn is estimated at between seven and
eight thousand. 1t is situated ON the east
bank Oftthe wabash river, and in the m,Ist
of one of the most productive agricultural
regions OF the productive west. Its streets
cross each ather at right angles, and the
squares are OF uniform dimensions. That
portion OF the town devoted to residences *
ta>tcIuily and elegantly set with ORNAMENTAL
shrubs and Nhade-treeS, aad challenges the
notice Oi the StraI ger and commands his al
miratiOn. The Old brick residence erect II
by Gen. Harrison ON the bank of tie Wa
bash, and occupied by him as a residence
when governor OF the Northwestern terrific
ry, is stu standing, and is now occupied by
one of the successful business men OF Vim
ccnnes as a residence.
\ GRANGER STORE.
/ was in a granger agricultural implement
store here. At this store wagons That re-
Gently sold at S125 are sold now at SIS; a
reaper that sold at 500 is now sold at 10:
another that sold at Sl,j is now sold at ~1lO,
and other articles in the same proportion.
This town has three journals. two American
and one German. Malachi Krebs, esq. pub
liSht s the NiHcennes 7HteS, a lively, neatly
printed republican paper.
CoUITESIES AND LIVER PILLS
By the courtesy of J. {. ChancellO. ESQ,
was enabled to take view or the country
enviIoning NIncennes, and il is indeed a
beautiful country. II does one good ID look
upon country so rich in agricultural re-
sources as 10 rival in productiveness-an
perhaps excel it-that Scriptural land whose
fertility was expressed by the fgurative
phrase, Glowing with milk and honey
Mr.. {. is native of Virginia, and his iamiI Y
name gave the nOmencIatUral distinction II
that locality on which was written in pa
ternal blood "ChancellOrSville.' AT Wash =
1ngtOn, twenty miles west of this place,
found a former resident of Washington, ID.
e, DIR. Geo. \. Dyer. With the very many
desirable conditions and circumstances con
nected with Nincennes, il seems to me that
there is one bad condition there-that the
lacards thickly plaStered on the fences all
about the town, advertising ''Ague Cure
and Mineral Liver Pills." speaks a Ian
guage more emphatic and strong than oral
utterance can equal, of the unfriendlineSs II
tie human kind Of its atmospheric indu-
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