The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-24
PITrsFRoD. VI.

the Centennial. But what you will eXclaim as
YOU read my present date is That the way TO the
Centennial? It is true that this Vermont town
whence now write is not exactly in the air line
ira ok from enoshato the Centennial city. And
vet the route I have taken may be the most direct
after all, provided one wishes both to go G'ldt
come dqaia. Especially If it be true, as return
ing visitor reported here the other day, that the
mercury is almost boiling this week at Philadel-
phia and that sun stroke is telling people there
in large numbers; in that Gaze the longer and
slower path to that point may be The safer and
more desirable The informant to whom refer
saws that he himself saw in single day four per
son Frustrated with sun-slroke in the Exhibition
Grounds and that two of she m died. He adds
that he looked in vain for any notice of these
occurrences in the tapers of that city.
So. while patriotic pilgrims sweter and faint
amid the marble rows Of the uaker city, am
easily recoIciled to few days pause among these
green hills, where trouting brooks leap and
shout their way over wild rocks and down
through cooling glens. For purposes otgenulne
rest for a thoroughly tiIed-out minister give me
after II this beautiful township Of Pittsford. Ii
you are not ESPECIALLY fond Of Professionalism, then
the back OF a good horse or the soft cushion OF a
buggy will Of course make the charming land
scapes Il the more charming to youreye. Hyou
are as fortu nate as am. some generous uncle
will supply you with everything needlul in this
line These little etceteras being counted in, one
w ould say that a few weeks here ought to cure
the most confirm ed clerical dyspeptic that ever
came hither with two volumes of Calvin's
po4 revolving
in ais stomach.
have tried the virtues Of this neighborhood be-
fore [ have lot forgotten the time when once
came up here broken down student romAndoy-
err, and how six weeks OF fishing, with regular
rations of brook trout and johnny-ca keand mllk
transformed The pale and cadaverous calvnist into
a Jolly Arminan, so stout ard solid that on mis-
return to the Seminary the boys actually laTghed
at him till he fairly ashamed OF hlmsell1of
being go fat. All 1 have to say is, that should
like to repeat that experience, at least the yer
mont end of it. But fear the stern fates Will
rot allow me six weeks now for the purpose.
Other drawbacks also there may be. Ii, for
example, necessity be laid upon you OF visiting,
dining, and tea-ing with about forty eleven
unces auEts and cousins, besides Dl eaching first
in the Methodist ''chapel'' where two or three
pncIes attend and then in the 'Brick Church" !
at the village where score OF other uncles and
cousins wors hip. and finally in the old school
bouse on "Chittenden HILL" near which grand
mothers neice resides-if you find it impossible
to dodge such doubtful diversions as these your
chances for increasing the stock of adipose
tissue will not be so good. So break away from
the haunts of man. Keep to the fields and the
Try wind and muscle Dy a long
scout among the wild rocks OF these Mountains
Take to the ''ice gorge for example, as party
of us did yesterday Here you will see sight
that will photograph itrelf on your eye ana
Here two mountains have been
literally split asunderb by some ancient volcanic
upheaYal, and now you walk through the deep
chasm made between them. The chasm
is perhaps twenty feet wide. You look up
the perpendicular sides and see where rock fitted
to rock when the two mountains were one. Eere
at last is a spot where the mercury at 30 never
comes Here is GOODNESS enough for you even in
August Here you may cool your lips with ice
which no summer ever melts. Very likely you
will even think Of your overcoat before you finish
the difficult passage and emerge into warm day.
light on the other side. In this chasm you will
This is something quite wonderful. Here you drop
stone into dark rent in the rocks, and placing
your ear close to it's mouth, you hear it click,
click, click, bounding from rock to rock, till
faint splash announces that at some unknown
depth it has found water;-possibly the veritabe
"River Styx'' of the ancient table, where, as
a roguish newspaper said the other
day, j. j. Astor and Jim Fisk are still
lying ina state of impecuniosity, waiting for
Vanderbilt to come and start a cheaper line to
ferry them over.
The political campaign here il Vermont is
more adyaE ced Than with with you, as the state
election comes in September. Bristow is giving
series of addresses. He is good man for the
Vermonters. For find that some of tie old
Republic ans here have been inclined to make a
distinction between tGrantism'' and Republican
ism, AS for Tilden the two-faced, these Yer
monters do not take to hin. Democratic ratifca-
ticn meetings have to be run with money,
speakers, flags, ard music, all imported from
New York; as at Rutland the other day, where
the SO Liberty St. funds had TO foot the bills.
MY letters from home bring the sad news of the
death fMr. McDougall. more genuine man
never lived than David McDougall He was one
OF the rare men who regard tie substance, rather
than the show of virtue. He gave his regular
annual gifts of money to good causes that ne
loved, and never needed an agent or solicitor 10
remind him OF that duty He gave from real
love ofusefulness, an6 not to be seen OF men. He
uniformly declined offices In the church to-
which he belonged, and yet was one Gifts most
helpful members. When he heard of neighbor
in distress, he said little, but simply went and
helped him. He had the happy art Of doing
great deal of good and making very little 'fuss
alb out it." A stern and lifelong hater of those
monster evils that have afflicted humanity, slavery,
intemperance and war, he was yet man OF
gentle spirit anG the tenderest sympathies, and
many families of the poor rejoieed in his kindly
but unobtrusive ministries. All who knew Mr.
Mellon il, husiness relatnns. Will testilY to