Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-20
Letter from the Red Sulphur.

ICorrespondencc of the AexaDdrls Gazette
RED SULPHUR SPRINGS, July l9.-l left
Alex ludria on what is called the II o'clock,
midnight, train, but owing to the delay beyond
Westinghouse did not arrive at Alexandria till
about p. o.. II Col. Foracre Tor Pushacre,
as he has been suruamed by the employees OF
his road) had control from New York to Wash
inptou the schedule would mean what it said.
and it would not be almost the rule instead OF
the exception to be behind time at Wash
ington.
We arrived at Gordousvle about sunrise aud
found the G. u y. train waiting Tor Us. We
stopped at StauntoD about o'clock for break
fast Our numbers began to diminish as the
different stations for he springs were reached.
Goshen, for Rockbridge Alum, Jordan Alum
and Cold Sulphur. There are between fifty and
six,y guests at each place. MiborouSh is the
station for the Warm Sulphur. There are
eighty five guests there, and at the Hot Springs
abou, 100. This station was tor number OF
years the terminus OF the road. and reckon
the bondholders who furnished the money to
complete it to the Ohio wish it bad conlloued
to be the terminus, as the road Is now III the
hands of receiver, and there is no telling when
or how its books will be settled.
As we passed the Greenbrer White We learn.
ed they have only about two hundred and htty
visitors; very few Tor this late in the season.
| When We passed here IN August last year lnere
were one thousand.
From Gordousvlle up We pass through some
of the grandes and mnsl beautiful mountain
scenery of the State. Mountains seemed piled
on mouptaius, with 20 eud to them aud We can
not but woucer that the pr'j OF OF englueerlpg
raiIioad through and over such obstacles was
ever entertained for moment. We pass
| through twenty tunnels, some OF them mile
long, aud nearly all very long; numberless cuts
through solid7rock, often over 100 feet deep,
| and embellishments of immense height No idea
C. uld b. conveyed of the scenery, or of this
work without extending this letter far beyond
what should be It's limits We reached Talcot,
the station for the Red Sulphur, at 10 o'clock,
aud took a very comfortable and roomy carriage,
teight persons and some baggage 10 it, evidence
of rs being the latter,) but tound the road most
uncomfortable, as you may judge, when.lt took
US five hours steady driving 10 make the twelve
miles TO the springs; 1t Was made though with
out accident or incident, except meeting wagon
soon after we started to descend the mountain
at the springs, the road being only about II
| feet wide and almost perpendicular above on
|
hundred eet below Cd the other. 1t seemed to
us who were not used to such roads, that it was
| impossible to pass, and when one of the passing
teams began 10 10 over the side of the noun
tain, We thought we were about to have first
ella. 8 item, but the harness, with the efforts OF
the horse, lost US the item. We arrived at the
Red Sulpher 10 good time to get ready for
supper. Coming over from the station We en-
joycd the company Of a most Intelligent ply
sician frou Connecticut, aud We hope be- Is a
representative man on the presidential question.
| While he is republican and an out and out
| Blaine man, he says he shall vote for Tllde0 on
| the ground that :hc country needs REFORM and
a srong luau at its head, and while Hays is q
good, honest man, yet he had passed through
two terms 10 Congress without distinguishing
himself, or even making himself known out
side of his owu State, and that We want now
not Only honesty, but greatness and statesman
ship, which he lhipks is combined in Iilden,
and that be will carry Connecticut BY good
round majority. We found about 80 guests
here, almost all of them seeking cure Tor some
pulmonary disease, or accompanying such.
Eight or ten States are represented here, from
connecticut to Texas, showing the tame OF the
Red Sui phur is wide spread. Col. Bennett II.
Young is here, one of the most prominent
members of the Louisville bar, and Speaker
Kerr is expected, rooms having been engaged
Tor him.
A law suit OF most colossal proportions, that
is as to costs aud legal ability employed, is now
the suhjcc' of gossip here the amount involved
being IS. 81. aud the Court costs alone being
about 81 900, with seven lawyers at work on It,
and not done fighting yet. | will try aud learn
more Of the particulars for another letter, as
| this is long enough already.
The only Aexapdrians here are Mr.. Ohm A.
Dixon, wife aud daughter, Mr.. 100. NJ. Douglass
aud your correspondent, all Of US feeling bene-
fitted already, and If there is any virtue in the
water for us we are bound to get it, as We
driok from fourteen to sixteen glasses day.
GUY.