Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-08-15
COUNTY NEWS.
FROM oUR owx CORRESPONDENTS.
KINGSVILLE.

49,
Eds. Tel-Letters from the Fickinger-
Rice party, while at Leadville, give some
idea of the character of the place. We
quote-"This is a fearfully wicked town.
Human life is not held very sacred, and
murders and shOOtings occur about every
night. Every one is talking about mines,
lodes and leads. Every one for himself.
Cheating, gambling and drinking, is large
" the business of the place. Every other
door is a drinking saloon OF gambling
house. These institutions run night and
day, without regard to Sunday, the places
Of business are open. Dance houses in
full blast, and everything high. The
place we stop at is kept by the concert
Hutchinsons, and is a good one" As to
the climate-weather- -"This is the mean
est ever saw. In Denver the air is dry
and heaIthful, but here the rainy season
begins about the first of July, and con-
tinues until September l. During that
time a shower falls nearly every day. Every
thing, therefore, is mud and water.
Dampness, of course, prevails. The Incl
dents of journey from Denver to Leadville
are given thus: 1 arrived at this place on
Sunday morning, August Sd, at 1211
O'Clock, a NJ, after a ride Of over so
miles of the toughest road thatI ever saw.
There were eight grown persons and four
children in hack no larger than Char
Iey's small one, and six or eight on top.
These all started in the hack from Como
the terminus of the Denver & South Park
Ry., but after about ten miles, Rice and
Pierce were placed in a coach that was to
take a different route-some twenty miles
nearer, but more dangerous than ours.
They got through by 8 O'Clock and had re
tired when we arrived. 1 was IN the old
coach ten hours, and was never more
nearly used up The dust was foot deep,
composed of nearly everything imagina-
BILE, and the road bed all the way was like
a pile of stones. We scaled the noun
tains, and at one point were above the
clouds and in the region of perpetual
snow.
The railroad is about as fine piece of
engineering as can be seen. tits so miles
in length, and in direct line 40. In one
case it reaches an altitude Of 10000 feet.
Mr.. Rice was not well on Saturday, and
on Sunday he exhausted himself by a
walk of about three miles from town to
see an acquaintance.
He did not observe the requirement OBJ
served here of moderate exercises, and
breathing through the nostrils instead of
the mouth, and as a consequence he be-
came congested.
With regard to himself, Mr.. Fickinger
says: was taken sick within two hours
after my arrival, and up to this time have
not been able to attend to my own bust
ness, on account of my own, and the sick
ness of Mr.. Rice, who requires the atten-
tion of some one all the time. He seemed
conscious only when aroused. He had
the attention of three doctors, nd one of
them was within ready call.
should judge that over half the people
are sick, but so TIL at they can be around
1 walked a short distance up the Carbon
ate Hill, and once or twice became so ex-
hausted that everything looked black.
They tell me that all "tender FOOLS" have
to go through the same experience.
From a bill of fare accompanying the
letter it may be inferred that it costs
something to live out there.
Our old pastor, Rev. D. L. Hickok, it
seems has purchased the interest of Mr..
Henry Fickinger, in the firm of A R.
Thurber & Co, of your place. He with
his son, will cooperate with Mr.. Thurber,
on the first Of October. Mr.. Hickok re-
turned from Mobile, to Painesville sick
with bilious fever. The malaria of that
locality was too much for him.
Our Park Meeting last Sabbath was
very well attended Mr. Dudley of the
Baptist Church gave the sermon-an able
and practical one. Prof. Ransom, of
Grand River Institute will fill the place
next Sabbath.
The marriage of Rev. Mr.. Bickford
took place at Oberlin on the evening of
the 9th, and with his lady is now at
Chautauqua, for a couple Of weeks. G. ]
Au0 10 1870