Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-04

Correspondence Of The Euenifag Stdr.l
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, August 26, 1878.

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Correspondence of The Ereni,ag Stdrl
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, August g. 1878
In this age of fast travel we retire to rest in
a comfortable palace-car berth in Washing
ton. wake to find ourselves descending the
mountains of West Virginia, and after break
fast lazily settle ourselves for a day of pano-
ramic views. After crossing the Ohio, which
in its present low stage of water hardly merits
the old name OF ''the beautiful" we skim
swiftly across fertile Ohio farms, past comfort
able farm houses, and reflect upon the host of
illustriOus men who have called this state
home. We cross Indiana at night, and awake
the second morning out whirling over the
prairies of Illinois, and by the signs OF ele-
gance visible in the residences, are rapidly
nearing
CHICAGO.
We devote one day and night in Chicago to
rest and sightseeing, mainly to rest, however.
ChicagO1s beautiful city, more beautiful than
before the great fire but it's beauty is around
and wooden sidewalks, everywhere rotten and
broken! There is no city, it is presumed, that
enjoys better supply Of good, pure water
out into the lake, and twenty four feet below
the surface, through which is drawn water,
more than sufficient to meet an extraordinary
We were told that west of Chicago the &C
commOdatiOns in travelling would be much
better than east Of that place, and though
secretly doubling it, afterwards found the as
sertion true. The cars were cleaner and sleep
ing berths and dressing rooms larger, and last,
but not least, by any means, the fare which
we found at the eating houses on the way was
more palatabIe.
may fade from Ou. memory, with its shady
streets and beautiful cream colored houses,
but the dinlng-rOOm's shining neatneSs, the
dinner cooked as mother used to cook" and
the quiet prompt attendance with which the
dinner was served, will make it green spot
in memory long after things more worthy of
remembrance have faded. It is Impossible to
convey an idea. with the pen, of the wonderful
cleaIness OF the air.. Objects against the hori
house or tree is pointed out as being eight or
ten miles away, we doubt it, and think it only
three or four. The day spent in
CROSSING WISCONSIN
was one long pleasure. Sitting in the doorway
OF the rear Car, watching the track recede,
whirling by numberleSS lakes, covered with
fragrant Water-lilieS in bloom, until, firing of
these, we turn to our fellow passengers aud
make new acquaintances, one or two of which
we hope will not terminate with the journey.
just in front of us Is a teacher from New
Hampshire, who, broken in health and so
weak that he is unable to sit up, is going to
Minnesota to recover; but We gravely shake
our heads and fear he will never make the
journey back. 1t would seem from the num-
Der of invalids going to Minnesota that the
state is one vast hospital.
MINNEAPOLIS.
Arrived at Minneapolis, our destination, we
sought quiet family in want of boarders, and
succeeded In finding one exactly Suting our
needs. II were compelled to express in one
word the CHARACTERISTIC trait of the Minneap-
oils people, that word would be Hospitality.
The chief charm to the stranger, first seeing
Minneapolis, lies in the beauty of its homes.
There are few elegant residences, but mostly
cottages, which, with their beautiful lawns,
many without fences, gives the place all air of
home like freedom which is very agreeable.
The devastation caused by the mill explosion
OF last May is being rapidly covered: Six mills
ready rebuilt, and will soon be in running Or
der. The chief manufactures of the city are
flour and lumber The new patent process en-
good flour, remarkable for its nutrment. and
by this "middlings purifier" has given
double value to its milling interests and has
raised Minneapolis to the rank of the largest
flour cities on the continent. There are twenty
saw and shingle mills, with capacity for
manufacturing over 100000, coo feet of lumber,
and an equal quantity of shingles and laths in
the season of six months.
THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY
are nearly or quite in the center of the city,
ana with fall OF eighty feet, equal to 10000 horse
posed of soft limestone, and it is said the falls
were once at Fort Smelling, six miles below
and and have worn away to their present, position
falls is now faced with boards to protect if
from further wearing The suburbs of this
city city are r; NJ unsurpassed - The two charming
within two miles of its center: the Falls of
Minnehaha, about four miles to the southeast
with its 3 @ r0mantic "a scenery: and two miles be
nish food to alf lovers Of the beautiful-and,
indeed they are constantly resorted to by all
The old residents have a saying that one
must 60 out of the state of Minnesota to die"
So with this comforting assurance, and the de-
air. we are already encouraged that our
search for health will not be in vain. M.
A, ,TwELvE-YEAR.OLDF FRArRIcIDE-Futal
End o. quarrel Betlceen Brothers. "A
special dispatch to the New York Times, from
from. from Boston, September mi ID, says: A lad, y
In quarrel this afternoon over rabbit box,
the ownership of which both claimed. The
culprit fed after the deed. and was arrested
only after four hours search by the police.
The boys quarreled in an alley in the rear of
their parents house, No. 9 Short street, East
Cambridge. From hard words they came to
box and endeavoring. to push his younger
brother away, was stabbed by the latter with
common jackknife, in the breast, directly
over the heart, and died almost instantly. The
running toward the city. Details of police.
men were soon out securing the neighborhood,
a aea ef s Wddes ws ss boy M Tas % Sen hid Nd
Wall street. in this city. When told what he
had done, the aunt Immediately surrendered
him, and he was lodged in the lookup in East
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gravity OF his situation or the magnitude of
his crime. He says he was determined to
make his brother take his hands off the box,
and refusing to do so he made pass with his
jackknife at his fingers, but not being able to
reach them he struck his brothers. breast
The father of the lads is an industrious me.
chanic, and feels keenly his position, with one
son dead and the other in jail as his brothers
murderer. The affair created intense excite.
ment In the neighbOrhOOd.
WAS IT YELLOW FEvER?-The report of the
illness of Mrs. j. P. Jordan at Hay Market, as
mentioned in yesterdays Gazette, was con
hrmed and supplemented last night by the
news OF her death, which occurred yesterday
morning. 1t Is further reported that Mr.. JOr-
dan Is sick, and that the physicians have given
certificate that Mrs. J.'s death was caused by
typhO. .malarial fever and not by yellow fever,
and that Mr.. Jordan's brother, who came to
this city for coffin, had that certificate in his
possession and exhibited it to some friends
The body of Mrs. Jordan has been inferred at
Haymarket.-(A Aler. Gazette, Sd.
The RESCUE OF A CHILD.-On Thursday
morning, five miles below Chester on the Hlf-
nOis shore of the Mississippi, sixty miles below
st. Louis, boy about years of age was found
floating on the trunk Of cottonwood tree.
Two farm hands, who were crossing the river
in skif, noticed the trunk of tree float
ing and something lying on the top of it.
They pulled up to the tree, which was
about 100 feet long, and found young boy.