Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-01
NATIONAL HOME LErTER
NATIONAL MILITARY HOME MoNr.
eoMERY Co. O., October 2S ~ 7

eoMERy Co, O., October 2s, rs.
Mr.. EDTroR Some time has gone bv
since your old correspondent has greeted
your intelligent readers through the col
umns Of your excellent and interesting
JouRNAL. A fond remembrance of The
enteprising and generous people of the
Maumee Valley actuates me TO give few
items OF the Home, reserving for and her
and more proper period its full history,
which promise you Is both rich, raey and
rare, and is sweeter than Jersey cream,
Yesterday, 200 blooming, sweet, rosy.
checked girls, fresh from the rural districts.
accompanied by half MS many pedagogues
who were attending the Teachers Assoeia-
tion, paid us visit. Their pointing red
lips, frizzled hair and symmetrical forms,
with side glances from dancing eyes, eaus.
ell many an old buck here to heave long
sigh, while his gizzard went phi a. pat, as
he thought of "The girl he left behind
him
Our beautiful new Opera House is en-.
ished. 1t is gem of building, finished
in magnificent style, galleried, ami is one
Of the most magnificent structures in Ohio,
seated with chairs, and were it not that it
stands side by side by our grand church it
! would look much better; but as we have
the Lord on one side and the Devil on the
other, the old buck soldiers are delighted,
aud while heavenly anthems vibrate in
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Hall rings out its echoes OF mirth and
laughter from fun, frolic and gayety. The
interior of the Opera House is the most
grandly furnished and finished of any
in the State, and is living temple Of
beauty, save the exterior of the building,
which reminds one Of brewery or malt
house.
They are still making vast Improvements
here. Two more new barracks are going
up, both brick. II splendid residence for
our farmer, and beside this, they are builG-
ing a large brick addition to the bakery,
piking, paving and draining, and II acres
more land have been purchased, where
over $50 men are at work making another
lovely lake, which will be the fourth
Since that ground has been cleared off, we
look from our high elevated and delight
ful Home upon tull view Of DAYTON. No
more beautiful spot than this location-the
sunrise in the morning and the sun set in
the evening are two OF the grandest. most
magnificent, and most romantic, pictur-
esque scenes that human vision ever beheld.
When the morning fog rises from the
smoothly gliding, meandering waters of
the Miami River, with the gliding sun of
the morning shining thereon, when the
eye glances for miles over the tops OF the
forest trees, it looks like islands in the
Ocean, and fancy and Imagination carries
you beyond the expression of your humble
correspondent. There are now here 1000
soldiers, aud every day Iriugs fresh afrl-
walls, and this Central Branch of the four
Homes appears to be the attractive spot for
all the soldiers in the country - Germany
included. The reason of this is, because
all the Germans were Dukes, Kings Pri-
vate Secretaries, all having been born in
Castles and they alone having fought all the
battles and saved the country, together
with being provided with excellent grub
and plenty of it-as we all have-causes a
simultaneous rush on this Central Branch.
Apparently no man living could manage
the rollicking crew, on this Central Boat
of Government charity, save Colonel f. L.
Brown. lie understands every man, and
were it not that he is a gentleman of ex.
ceeding great charity, kind and sensitive
heart, with the patience of job, he either
would have been dead long ago, or gone de-
ranged, as he can scarcely emerge from his
Office before n score of old bucks have be-
sieged him for some favor, which is most
generally granted to get rid Of them. For
specimens OF the godly and ungodly this
Home presents to the close observer the
finest specimens from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific, or from Maine to Georgia. Your
old friend, Mr.. WIN. Fury, is still Colonel
Browns head clerk, and is a fine scholar,
gentleman, and an ardent and devoted
temperance man. We have one Of the
largest greenhouses in the country, filed |
with the choicest plants, fruits and flowers
of nearly every specimen i'll the world, and
can boast of the best gardener and land
scaper in America, Mr.. Beck, who is a gen.
tleman who has devoted lifetime to lhi,
business in Europe and this country. Our
beautiful trees and shrubbery are fading
from the effects of the Autumn blasts, yet
we are al happy, having plenty to eat
and wear, and are simply ensconsed in or
good warm barracks, feeling rs gay and
festive as a new bride, and as innocent as
babe lin horn.)
Pardon my lengthy article, and wishing
your generous and intelligent readers a
long, happy life to read the JOURNAL, and
never forgetting to go down in their un-
mentonables to get the gIittering SINNERS
to pay for it, and hoping the good old
JOURNAL, which has rode the storms and
waves for so many years, may have pros
porous, pleasant voyage adown the rough
decIeviles beset with thorns, through
which the newspaper man must tread,
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WIN. THos. MCDOWELL.