West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-08-08
Where We Went and What We
Saw.
We Rise TO Report.

item in last weeks issue, that the
editor had departed, vacated the
tripod, "vamo8ed the ranch" as it
were, decent regard for the opin-
ions of mankind in particular, and
the FREEMAN readers in general,
would seem to require that we give
an account Of ourSelt
A week ago last Saturday we set
out on little tour of obser walton,
SO to speak, to inspect prohibition
fences and take in a recruit where
ever we might find one; the OBJ
iective points Of our raid being
Winfield, Huntington, and Charles
ton.
A pleasant three hours ride over
the G. w. & B. brought us to Nc
Arthur junction, where we ran
into a big crowd Of veteran Skin
mishers, returning from the
GRAND SOLDIERS REUNION
at Columbus, Ohio. The "Boys in
Blue" were chock full and all gush-
ing over with the big doings they
had enjoyed up there. One gray
haired old "boy" was especially en-
thusiastic. Said he wouldn't have
missed it if it had cost him ten
times what it did. Another COM
rade told us that everything went
off grandly except that the big
Generals failed to come to time as
usual, giving the clouds of Brig
adiers chance and making them
happy.
Down the Hooking Valley to the
Ohio river, a hack ride of two
miles, crossing the Ohio at Point
Pleasant in the middle of the ride,
and we alight on two-dollar-and-
a-half outdoor depot in the midst
of big field mile back of the old
Point City. This is the terminus
and depot of the Ohio Central Rail
road, pro tenn, till the long bridge
is completed and connection made
with the kingdom of Ohio. Here
we had another proof Of the wis
dom of the old adage,
"MAKE HASTE SLOWLY"
Our good Brother Powell, of the
Journal and Messenger, with Prof.
Reynolds, of Clarksburg, left Par
kersburg for Winfield, on Friday,
by steamboat, refusing our ma
tured advice to wait till morning
and come with us. They couldn't
wait-they were in a hurry to get
to Winfield. Well, as we entered
the O. C. car, there they were, hav-
ing been waiting all day at Point
Pleasant, having a pleasant time
as they insisted with suspicious We
hemence.
But away we go on our first trip
over this division of the.
OHIO CENTRAL RAILWAY.
The train is not a very "big
thing on Wheels" consisting of
engine, baggage car and one coach,
but the people all along the line
find it very convenient when they
want to 60 some place.
The ride was at once novel and
most pleasant on this beautiful
day, as we ratified leisurely along
enjoying the splendid Kanawha
bottoms, and talking with the
farmers as we rode by, stopping
betimes in the fields, orchards and
at the garden gates to "take on
and "let off, passengers. The
nearest approach to depot from
Charleston to the Point, is an i'm
provised horse block or dry goods
box by which ladies can reach the
cars. But this will not always be
so. Depots and speed will come in
due course; meantime, passengers,
conductor, train men and the farm
err folk along the Kanawha Valley
are having nice, leisurely, social
time of it,
We may not fail to mention a
most
SHAMEFUL PUTNAM TABLEAUX,
that greeted US as the train pulled
up at one of the Fence Corner
Depots in Putnam county. A
group of five colored children, black
as Egypt itself, ranging in size
from the babe up to the Il year
old girl that held it, with not
enough rags dangling about the
whole group TO cover the naked