Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-08-23
From our regular correspondent
Watering Place Gossip.

Watering Place Gossip.
WYTHEvrEE. VIRGINIA, Aug 10.
The many health resorts in the south
western section of the Old Dominion ma,
be reached, most easily. via. the " Wash
ington city, Virginia Midland and Grea
Southern II. r." From Washington t,
GardonsviIle, the traveller passes through
localities replcte with historic interest
As the train "slows up ut differen
points, the brakeman opens the car doc
and shouts such once thrilling names Il
Manassas, Bristol, Catlctts, Brandy Sta
ton, Rapidan and Orange Court Ionse
near which last place he battle of the VII
dernesS was taught; but the traveller look
in vain for monuments strikingly suggest
i've Of the sad heroic times, when thc>
names meant something more thtn rail
way stations. Kind nature has covere,
with thick verdurc the bloody vcstigeS 0
the war, and the battlciields that wcr,
once plowed the by cannon of contend
ING armies, are now plowcd 10y the Yam
kce husbandmcn who bought these land
soon after Appo":;,ttox, under the mis-
taken impression that they would be val
liable from their historic associate ions, at
tracing tour SITS from all parts Of the toun
nv. 1t is intcres inc. of course, t. see III,
fields that were Sc recently the theatre O
tragic, terrible energy, but with the eXccp
ton of worn earthworks on the hill tops
and here aud there line Of breast works
or halfdccayed Slockadc, there is moth
ing to tell of the armies that Brauregard
johnson. Mcdowell. Mcclellan, Grant
Lee, Jackson. Pope. Long>trcet, Shcri'la,
and Wade IIamuton marched and counter
marched through this part Of the state, Oh
hurled against each other in Il way thai
WAS not amiahlc. on these fields.
The town from which | am WI ting has
IN elevation of 300 feet above the St;
level and is near the sources of the Ten
ne>src river on the one hand and the West
kanawha on the other. twenty-five hun
drcd feet is no "rcal altitude but it is >utli
clcnt to make Il very appreciablc and in
V gorating difference in the temperature
rs compared with Washington or Piill-
delphia. Wythevillc is Il town of two
Thousand inhabitants. that has bccon,
without an effort or advertising, a place OF
summer resort. Visitors from Southern
cities come here every year t. enjoy Tho
pure mountain air, country living. and
magnificent SC merry. al twenty-five dollars
4 month, in good hotels, This price fol
board SIS Strange bat true, and what l.
more remarkable to the unhappy dwell
ers of cities, the board eonsis S of chick
ems not older than the >plny Of 1876;
mountain mutton, and beet thai las not
suffered II III The dcterioratlng effects OF
trln>p tttiun halt ACROSS the continent,
fresh butter, and milk unploiined 10y
he pump.
The principal pl>time here is riding on
horseback the horses are good, and may
he Oh aimed II the livery st ,hlc> for a dol
ar ana fifty GEMS per day. The distance
from the village 10 the top of an over
hanging mountain, called Chimney Rocn.
i about three miles. | have climbed il
on foot. on hor> cback and driven to i spot
within two hundred wards OF the summit
with Il patty in a WAGON. Since the last
feat | have ceased to entertain 4 Wi. ar
admiration for the petty marches of llstlnl-
b Il and Nupol, on across the Alps We
never know what We may Ourselves :c-
cumllish until we have tried Once upon
the tol'nU~t rocks OF the rlti that croNn>
In" h"unt.tln, 4 pan"rAnli OF SURPRISING
beauty and extent l. spread beneath. Field
and tel rock and river, one Of the widest
md most highly improved portions Of
Virginia i seen IL from Il balloon.
i train of ru-. like a clumsy snake. i
creeping mp til" valley, three distinct
pulls Of white smoke issue from the wills
Tie valve, ami after waiting Il full lI.It q,
minute. three distinct whistles are heard.
HIS is more cheerful than the Nhoup OF
/ he ~:tvayr, though the latter music W"uld
seem more yon~"ir,nt wiki the wild sur
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