The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-01-25
KINGsvILLE ON LAKE ERIE

As it Was and as it Is--ItS Citizens
as they Are and as they expect to
Be--A Paradise restored, with
sOme trifiing exceptions.
| Come and see it for yourself. From
Woodsield over to the depot is only .
rising impulse-from there to Bellaire,
a reflection. Reaching Cleveland is get
ting ready to decide, and flying east.
ward on that model railroad, the Lake
lShore and Michigan Southern, is the
Iunspoken volition to accept the invita-
ltion. A fast age this-fast thinking,
fast acting, and fast horses as WE'LL,
They are all embodied and personated
in that perfectly "mettled" Charger
the van OF our swinging coaches.
| Here to our right is the uupretentious
farm and residence of the President
elect. Now hold your breath! We are
passing over the gorge that engulfed the
unprecedented horror of the Ashtabula
catastrophe. Down seventy-6ve feet
and more plunged that fated train Of un-
suspecting victims. Were they seated
as we sit3 Were they thinking as we
think2 But we are past now. A new
bridge spans that dismal chasm of mu-
tilation aud death, which bears with un-
trembling slnews the iron hoofs Of trade.
| And Kissing. steam and screeching
breaks, our moral and otherwise specu-
lative thoughts are dismissed by the
bang Of the opened door at the front
"wooden oath" it would be termed
by one of your scholars at home), and
the voice of the breakman announcing
twice on c sharp, (if that means an un-
nerving key of horrid sound) "North
Kingsville! North Kingsville!"
Here we are, before we have gathered
up our mental energies to determine
whether we would start or not. But we
are not there yet. The railroad and the
village proper, from some unfortunate
mishap, missed connection by about q
mile, and thus they have stood coldly
averse each to other since that first es-
arrangement The abroad will not track
over this little reach of difference, and
the proud village will not extend the
and of it's business enterprise in COM
promise.
'They stand alosf the scars remaining
Ho wever, this much of reconcilia-
ton has been secured: Beautiful private
residences along the line of separation
and hotel conveyances, have established
bonds Of constant intercourse between
the two.
r. -Fhe cutter OF atfriedd Is IN waiting.
SO we have leisure and opportunity to
see, an indispensable privilege to the
happiness Of every true Yankee. At
our back, and toward the North, for we
are moving Southwark now, lies Lake
Erie full in view-a vast, ice.girt, inland
sea. From the waters edge the land
rises and falls in gentle undulations, as
though the waves, one day, in this new
Empire, had rebelled from the scepter
of neptune, and in solidified form de I
fed their tyrant with those old words of
limitation, "Hitherto shalt thou come,
but no farther" The treason was
success, and hence not treason, for the
fields are rich and productive.
Loo k al the roads-hard packed ani
level. A horse and cutter here stand
second only to bread and steak rs sub
stantial "creature comforts"
"How came the village by its present
nsmeP" W. ask our elderly companion.
"Years on years ago." be answers, s'du-
rim the early settlement here bouts, they
war bent on havin' town up thar. and
givin' on it = name. Wal, thar war a
mass meetin' Of purity much all the
neighbors held on the park, (it war
nothin' more nor common then J and
without one contrawise vote, it war al
lowed that the man that ID furnish the
most straight whiskey for the Gro wd.
mought hev the christenin' Of the place.
A man name of King hauled EN- all in,
by yankin' out two gallon jug, chuck
up to the very cob. He said the town
should be. called "Kingsville" and go
It's"
With such municipal conservation
We shuddered for what now might be-
but it was an unnecessary apprehension,
and we were almost bankrupt by the
loss (of apprehension, you understand J
Ascending gradual knoll, We reach
the summit Of ridge, upon which mes
ties this cosiest village. At first sigh,
you pronounce it seaside GUNNER re-
sort. The delusion is not marred by
closer inspection. Airy, restful, uudis-
turbed content is the magic spell tha,
reigns unchallenged. Its very atmos-
phere has the charm of the river Lethe
|
Had sense of beauty been the genius
that sighted the theodolite at its location
q modern artists eve could not have
bcen better arbiter in securing attract
iveness Of situation. Midway it rests
lentbroned upon this unpretentious emf
nence, between the ports of Ashtabuls
aud Conneaut. We enter its streets
But it seems too harsh and bustling like
to call them such. They are avenues
graveled with pebbles from the lake, sod
ded on either side with the care of me-
tropolitan lawn, and fanked in mathe
matical precision with two rows of sturdy
naples. The houses, mostly white
. stand in digni6ed seclusion each from
other, having roomy stretch Of swart
hot voon divareifipd and modnlatod h,