Litchfield enquirer., 1880-06-17
Y EsrERN CORRESPONDENCE.
ALEXANDRIA HANSON Go, DAKOTA, ,

June lSt. 1SSU.
 EDITOR ENQUlDER Noticing an article from the pen of Mr. J. G. Preston of West Cornwall, Conn. I thought you might like to hear from South Eastern Dakota.
 TheJames River valley is not as general thing as large as many people suppose, being only from three quarters of mile to a mile in width and mostly bare of timber except some few scattering ash trees. Grass grows quite large in this valley but one ton of up- land hay is worth two tons of this rlver hay, as the latter is very large and coarse. This bottom land, however, is very rich, and if one wishes to go into the sun-fower business here is just the country for the purpose.
 The bluffs on either side of the valley are some fifty or sixty feet high and the country back, for mile or two, is generally rough. After this, You strike nice rolling prairie for many soil of the upland is from sixteen inches tC two feet deep, of black sandy loam beneath this is. a yellow clay intermixed with mari.
  five days after planting, it was coming out of the ground, and the corn was planted dry. No fencing is necessary, as each person must take care of his own stock. This country as far as l have seen, is covered more or less with hard heads'' or 'nigger heads" but as a general thing one wants all there are on each quarter section for stenlng wells and for foun. datons for buildings.
 Another curious feature of this country is it's indenta or saucer-shpped places with no outlet We call them Lake Beds They are ali over the country and are dry unless we have long heavy rains. Nice hay grows in these lake beds There are some glavelly knolIs, but most of them can il: plnved through. Cool water can he had by digging from twenty to fifty feet. Our fuel in Win ter is coal, costing for soft, s6 for other kinds, $12. In summer, We burn hay. which is good enough whcn one can't do better.
 We carie here little over one year ago and only thre houses were then in sight. Now we can cou t twenty five. We Lave a school ulSIl VI oCIlOcl for forty chi lre:,, and school running In good order. Oar teacher. Il Miss :i.,rv Ran da, has tai;:n a 160 acis; tract SIX :;t,s north of us She is no exception for we have many young ladies among ns that hay" taken land.
 Whnn Ec took our !an|, t%o ;, 70, there was ;ip talk of any railroad ont this way. Now the Ctiragn Milwaukee and St. Plnl -llroad runs three n,'es :lrrth of us, an; twenty five miles west, or to Mitchell in Davidson O., three miles vest of the Jamns river If any one wisl-us to correspond Hii..i goul square Lal ..gc:,'s. let tlem write cittrr to J. D. Flick of {rckprrt ;r Ja ,es Baynes of \ ex- andria, Hanson G" n. Y. ll M B. Texa' eiitnr told unweco na truths they iaere- ly sh | him, They have ia:provad oa that plan, however. by giving a verdict of S7. 300 against inc Galveston News for telling the truth about the land-frauls recently proved before a legislative committee.
 1hur0w Ward says that two men confessed tO lli.I lLiut tilCV ildu DCEil COCtTIiCl III murder of Morgan, the man who had been exposing t,e secrets of Masonry. He says the", and two others, caught Morgan. tied him hanl and foot, laid him in a boat, carried him where it was two miles to either shore, and there tying weighs to his head and heels, they flung i!in ovarboard
 Mir. Jewell was at Chicago taking scientif- ic interest in the working of convention ma chinery ou ;s large scale, and will, no doubt, employ es' the latest Improvements" in his anti -Hawiey operations, next winter, He was the Connecticut nominee for the vice rrcsden- cy, and received the full vote of Maryland in addition, Si,h enough from other states to mal z l. d total of fl.
 We feel under greater obligation to Raue the Tribune, and the rest of the set whose stout pushing of the former, even in Grants own state, has certainly brought about tEe ex- Presidents defeat in the convention It is now very cvi lent that but for the Blaine ''boom" the machine would have forced Grant n1.niuation on tie pa ty, and llade a Republican defeat in November sure thing.
 LYONS, Iowa, June 10th, .1SS0
 Eo. ENa. -I:Ie West sends greeting, with her ''rOasiuscsL' cheers Tor Garteil-No more "hcsi" rue, no more ''unit" rule, no more third ternl" rule-everybody happy but the democrats. The third term stood up marfGl,y anl fought fcrcely, succumbed grandly, and surrendered gracefully The concession to them in allowing them to name the second President may or may not have been polite, most of us would have preferred Woodward of New York but Arthur is a strong man, true to his convictions, as we saw when he gave up position of power and emolument rather than surrender his manhood to an order, the execution of which the origi. nators have pretty much abandoned, or backed down and out of. In fact men who refuse to be gagged, seem to be coming to the front Nothing so helped Garfield in Chicago as lis manly defense of the three wise men from West Virginia who stood by their convictions, till a row was imminent, and Garfield came to their defence, and by his strong. wise, and concillatory course, turned the whole tide of the convention back upon itself and caus ,d Conkling to crawl out through very small hole. The trio refused to be gagged even by so large majority as 75O against three-and by Gartield's aid, came off victorious. It was grand battle for principle, grandly won True, it is expected that when men go into convention, they are to abide by the result, but it docs not follow that they are bound to support a bad man, fo:sied on them by unfair means, and this 1 understand was the princi- pie they fought for, and, ia tLe main, is what has given the machine" lis bad odor
 As tAe campaign progresses, the candidates will loom up grandlY, or 1 lose my guess rfjnl,t