The Republican journal., 1882-12-28
Notes by the Way.

| DUTCH COUNTY. LUNENBURG. EDUCATION.
| RUMSELLER'S PARADISE. A PLEASANT
DRIVE LIVERPOOL. ACROSS THE PROVINCE.
| HOMEWARD BOUND.
| Correspondence of the Journal
Think our last was written at Malone Bay,
where we had just come into Dutch county,
and We're interested in many habits and customs
new to Yankee. From there we went to Lun-
enburg town. This is smart place. Business
is lively in the streets and in the stores. An odd
feature in the streets is the fact that nearly all
| the trucking is done by oxen. During our three
days stay here we saw but tro pairs of horses.
The oxen are yoked and driven as described in
our last, and it is treat to see team after team
| pass, tackled up in true Dutch style, with the
drivers swapping their whips as our stage driv-
ers do in Maine, and crying out to the oxen in
Il hard place something that sounds like hoaie.
| There is one advantage in yoking cattle in this
way. Being fastened bgNe head they are exceed
ingly docie. and are controlled easier han when
yoked by the neck Their young cattle that they
| consider well broken will run away Immediate
| ly if put into neck yoke. Here in Lunenburg
we find Geo. f. Ross. a rising young lawyer and
member of the Provincial Council, who is Il
brother OF Rev. J. A. Ross, of Belfast, and we
| took especial pains TO call and see the old lady.
their mother in token of our respect and esteem
Tor the reverend gentleman who is so deserved
| ly popular with US in Maine. They have fine
churches, talented ministers and good society
here, yet in some respects public sentiment is
| in dormant condition upon some of the prom
| inent questions of the day. and the masses are
| inferior in general intelligence to the average
New Englander. The educational advantages
here in Lunenburg county have been very poor
until within few years and many of the older
people can neither read OF write and in the rt-
raj sections can be found many who can not
fully understand fair plain lecture or sermon
in English. We find that nearly every teacher
and minister is from outside. 1t must be the
rum-seer's paradise, however, for the number
of men who left the fools pence ut the bar of
! Kings Hotel during one Saturday afternoon
| was surprising to Il novice. 1t is a dr'Hk first,
| and dread or clotdHtq afterwards. Rum is the
Que thing that loosens their purse strings. They
now have here. however. as in the rest of
the province, Il good school system, and the
| eristics, it is to be hoped
From Lunenburg we drove to Bridgewater
where we formed pleasant acquaintance and
we shall long remember with pleasure the ride
of seventeen miles from there to Mills Village.
1t was lovely winter morning. the trees We're
covered with beautiful white frost that spark
led like jewels in the bright light of the morn
ing sun, the roads Were excellent, the team a
nice one, and our companion an agreeable
gentleman, who gave us much information in
regard to this Province and Lunenburg Coun-
ty in particular. From Mills Village we drag
through with beated Stager TO Liverpool,
which we find to be busy town. This place
is a noted shipping port and large business is
done here. From here we have drive of
something over seventy miles directly across
the Province. The first thirty are made in the
evening after some fast stepping horses to
Caledonia, which we find to be AN Irish settle
ment about as large as Unity. The remaining
forty miles are made the next morning behind
three different pairs Of fine stagers as we
ever rode after. The pair that took us into
Annapolis at noon were perfect beauties and
easily made ten miles an hour They We're
valued at four hundred dollars there, but would
bring a third more in the States They have
some very fine horses here.
Well, here we are in Annapolis Valley, and
in Annapolis town. and As We descend the hill
we see the Annapolis River below Us. We see
little to interest us, however, for we are now
bound for lone and the time seems long to us
that we are obliged to spend here, so business
completed We post our letters and step on
board the little steamer IliaWatha that is to
take us to st. John We are to have the priyi-
lege of saUtnq down this valley after all. but
little good il does us. The wind is blowing
| tiercely the air is full of snow and we cannot
| remain on deck. So we take Il view of the
| mountains either hand with the valley be
tween, note the farm houses on the shore, the
| villages in the distance. and then make ourself
comfortable in the cabin. At Digby there is Il
long delay occasioned by the delivery of freight,
but at a little after ten o'clock in the evening we
start across the Bay Of Fundy, although most of
| the passengers had supposed we should remain
| where we We're till morning on account of the
| rough weather. Thus far it had been pleasant
| sailing and we all anticipated comfortable
trip. But once out on the bay Il change came
Ger the spirit of our dreams. All at once there
is Il pause, Il lurch, plunge. and then again we
| are borne upon the crest of wave, and as u
| dizzy sensation comes over us, and our boat is
| tossed like shell upon the water. and we are
pitched from our seats, and every loose article
is tossed from one side of the boat to the other.
we realize we are on the swell of the sea and
m m lyp he, hest pf In ,lJrl limited pND
rence on the water we have usually been OK
empt from seasckneSs, and thus We're some
what surprised at being so completely taken
down as we We're this time. The steamer was
small and the bay very rough, so all we could
do was to get Il grip on something and hold on.
In this way alone could we keep our places.
| There was, however no one to laugh at the others
for all We're i'll the same predcament, and so
although ridiculous things will happen ON every
such occasion our pencil will not note them for
this time at least. At four o'clock in the morn
ing we come to the wharf at St. John and in
the dim light of day break crawl on shore and
make our way to Il hotel for breakfast. The
| beautiful snow of the night before has covered
all traces of the muddy streets and everything
looks clean and white. but we have lis hard luck
with our breakfast rs when WE We're here be-
fore We think the trouble was with us this
time, however, and it was with feeling of re-
lief that we found our>elf in the cars and fairly
started for Belfast This route has been so
often described that it is useless to write it up.
At Nanceboro we find decided change in the
general appearance of things. The Yankee
conductor with the NJ. G. uniform takes the
place of the bluff John Bull and we realize that
we are at home again. In the custom house Of
ticer who inspects our baggage we recognize
our genial friend Col, G.. v Crossman of Ban
gor, who has lately been appointed to that po-
stion. The railroad people are making great
improvement in the depot and other buildings
here. One of the best X. X. restaurants in
Maine is located here. Plenty to eat and time
enough to eat it in. As we pass along towards
Bangor we familiar faces at nearly every