Connecticut western news., 1878-06-20
Thursday Norn'g. Jun. 20. 1878.
Summer Jeurneyings.

concocting some plan for an extended tour \ this summer, which will enable you to dis ! pose of some of the surplus revenues of the CoNN. WRsTERN NEWS, take the liberty of \ suggesting an objective point to be reached \ and the route to travel to accomplish 1t. Step into Housatonic car near your office door. and don't 20 to sleep over the fine scenery of Old Berkshire, Columbia and Rensalier,even though they be little hack ! neyed, but reserve that indulgence until you reach Albany. or course you will then take bed at the Stanwix, as the Delavan is too aristocratic. The clerk condescende 10 respond occaaonally to queries of GUS toners. Next morning take palace car which I suppose Is the pleasantest-and ii the scenery of the Mohawk valley does not meet your taste perhaps that of the country from Uuca to Niagara Falls, 30 finely cultl- vated and 60 burdened with fruit trees will. If there is any portion of the United States more thoroughly covered with apple, peach and pear trees than Western New York in its whole breadth west of Utica, have not seen It. There are hundreds of acres and miles on miles of orchards, both of apple and peach trees, which. when matured will, h favorable seasons, supply the entire na- ton.
 Rochester and Buffalo will attract your attention the former by its fine waterfalls and park, the latter by it's name and splen- did Pierce Hotel, its very extensive and rapidly improving parks, but especially by its most beautiful cemetery. Some of your numerous friends thore will also be desirous of showing you what they esteem the finest county and city hall Gin one build- ing) to be found in the State. It IS indeed . magnificent structure, admirably adapted to its purpose, but would have been just as valuable for every essential purpose with fifteen or twenty thousand dollars cost of interior decoration omitted. It Is this tend ency to extrayagance in the construction ot public buildings that causes our people all over the country to cry out against the tax @, especially when, as in some notable in- stances, commissioners and contractors or namens their own pockets with liberal ''drawbacks" from the appropriations. Ii you should visit the great cattle yards and freight houses of the gigantic railroad com. pAnies supplying them, you would begin to realize something of the productive capaci- ties of that country which we call the s'Great West" No nation richer in lands exists on the klobe. We'll, you know all about that, and you will pass on to Niagara : Falls, and will naturally make your head. quarters at the ssInternational." did noi but the great gathering of doctors dld. and that must stamp it's sanitary qualities be- yond dispute, for 1t is certainly great sOG. sery place. People who think they have ''done" Niagara when they have looked up on he falls have seen only half of it's won- ders and beauties. There are scenes in the river below which have recently been made approachable by facilities for descendinl e the rocky bank. that are in some respects more wonderful than the falls themselves when you come down close to the wate, side.
 Leaving that wonderful waterfall, you win descend to Lewiston by the railway cu ont of the rocks sometimes mere gallery cut out of the perpendicular wall, when from your seat you could drop stone from the side of the car into the foaming f1oot 16o feet below. Sometimes the road is GU through leaving a perpendicular wall or both ssdes. At Lewiston . large and vel appointed steamer will take you through the remainder of the river flowing gently tc the lake. peaceful as though 1t had beer wearied with it's rough and foaming passage of some eight miles. all this through histor ic ground. The blood of many men ot many lands has crimsoned the soil on eithel side of the river. On the Canada side, or the high ridge, stands the beautiful monu ment to General Brock, 485 feet high, al reported.
 From the town of Niagara on the Canad, side the steamer will carry you 36 miles fur ther on to the city of Toronto, once th capital of Upper Canada, now one of th most thriving cities of the Province, an, really beautiful city, except that 1t occu pies and Is surrounded by dead level plain Not the country to my taste. Here leav you to discharge your Christian duties ol the Sabbath iu . manner that shall satisf, your conscience, and if you happen to hea sermon from the able and accomplishe Doctor McDonald of the Presbyteria church, you will close week of journey ing pso6tAbly. By the way, I was never i . city in my life where the Sal bath was 90 strictly observed and was quiet. H
 Aweman's Idea of the Labor Move
 m0mts
 Mrs. Jane Gray Swisshelm regards th labor movement as the 'sboiled-down, dot ble-distilled. highly concentrated extract ( sll meanness." She maintains that no n gro. on any Southern plantation was ev' more thoroughly enslaved than the ma who is eoerced by trades-union to give . hia employment and see his family suffe as the bidding of . society secretary on
 fat salary. ''I begun work" she writes