The daily gazette., 1878-08-28
Letter from Kent County. Md.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
SAssAFRAs, Kent Co., Nd, }

SAssAFRAs, Kent Co., Md,
August "a, 1878.
We have just arrived at this place. Ex-
Gov. GroOme is also on his way to visit
his properties in this neighborhood. The
Senator elect to Congress has some bean
tlflll farm lands in this county. We
should IN vain attempt to find words in
which to describe the beauties of this
county, The superiority of its lands, its
broad acres, its picturesque water situa-
lions on the Chester and Sassafras rivers,
and the wide Chesapeake Bay, its inland
farms from this to Galena and Massey's
and thence to Chestertown, the backbone
OF the county threaded by railroads. 1t
IS sald there is not farm in the county
That is more than four miles from water.
1t is claimed that this county is superior
to any other on the Eastern Shore or
Peninsula. Its access to Baltimore. is
favorable, having great facilities of
wharves and steamboats,, and only twen-
ty-five miles to that live city. On my wav
ifom Ealena to camp meeting at Milling
TON, passed by a very superior farm OF
five hundred acres of most beautiful and
productive land said to have been lately
purchased by eX-Gov. Ponder, of your
city, for thirty-three thousand dollars, it
is said to be cheap. Its yield of wheat
was over five thousand bushels, you will
perceive it will pay fine interest. 1t
was formerly the property of the late
VIM. Welsh, Esq. / wrote you in one of
my last letters of my visit to COLCHESTER,
on the Chesapeake, springing up to be a
great watering place for this county, Cecil,
Queen Anne's, Hartford opposite, and
Baltimore only twenty five miles away.
1t is said two or three miles added to the
Kent County railroad will make its ter
minus with this place and connect it with
Baltimore. 1t would also connect 1t with
Wilmington, and add the facility of an
other watering place to your city. This
head of Sassafras river leads direct to
Rochester. l ought not to forget to men,
ton Fredericktown five or seven miles
below this, by water, celebrated by Miss
Kitty Knights withstanding the British,
OF which there is much more truth than
in the poem of Longfellow about Barbara
Freitchie maintaining the flag at Frederick
city against Stonewall Jackson.
Fredericktown is more recently distin-
guished, not only for the beauty of its
situations, but its business, especially as
conducted by Capt. Andrew Woodall e.
Sons and Captain John Fletcher Wilson.
Its mercantile lumber, coal, grain and
boat business, the latter plying to Balti-
more and Port Deposit, and excursions
on the tributaries of the Chesapeake.
Capt. Woodall is adding to the stock of
his steamboats,, by steamboat now being
built in your city by Mr.. Enoch Moore.
This head of Sassafras has added drug
store to its curative and business qualities
since was here. Its owner, Mr.. j. f.
Hartley, is one of your subscribers from
whom have just borrowed the g GAZETTE
which l am pleased to see. Your en-
ployees promised to send me the GAZETTE
to enliven my travels, but have only re-
ceived one daily during my weeks of
absence, if had had it could have
written an article or two on the political
status nominations, foundry temperance,
&c, but without news from
The city, it would be requiring me to
make bricks without straw. To return
TO this place, Mr.. j. Ernest, is live mer-
chant here and does prosperous busi-
ness. Sassafras has two Methodist
one called the old side the
other the new, in the one we hope to
tomorrow morning and in the
other in the evening. | am happy that
they are fraternal and worship alternately
in these hills of Zion. TRAVELLER.