Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-29
A SPRING RAM BILE.
Tho Beautiful spot on the susquenAnns
that wss st.ined by - Tragedy.

The Beautiful spot on the susquenanna
that wss -t.ined by - Tragedy.
For the lSTELLIGEsCER
IL was the pleasant privilege Of the
writer, o short time ago, to spend q few
days at Marietta, commercial town of
about thirty five hundred inhabitants
beautifully situated along the Susque
hanna. This place, number of years
ago, before our railroads we're bsilt so ex
tensively over the country, was very
enterprsiDg especially during tho spring
of the year, when the Taitsmtn would
come down on the river with their lumber.
There the lumbcrmeb woald stop, and sell
their RATS TO the merchants, who would
take them down To the southern markets
This caused hosts of families to flock TO
Marietta with an eager desire to realizs
fortune p very short time. The town
was rapidly improving, and many people
got rich but rafting, like good many
other things in our times of high pressure,
is coming TO a decline, and with 1t the
growth Of the place Is somewhat Curtailed.
But still there are number of resources
left Offering ample employment to those
who may feel Inclined to utilize them.
While to the student Of nature, this
vicinity can proudly boast Of one Of the
graudest sights in tie state Of Pennsylvs-
uia-Chickies Rock, IT is not appreciated
by our own people as it should be. While
standing on the edge Of those rocks, lead
ing almost perpoUdiculariy upward from the
raICad till you are at a height far above
the church steeQles, having the cleaning
rays OF warm afternoon sun reflected
upon the stream below, a bridge over d
mile III length joining hands of cOmmuui
cation between Columbia aud Wrig tsvlilt
to- your left, steep ascending hill densel!
covered with trees, across the river II
ilont of you, the busy town Of Mariett
20 your night, with fertile fields aud beau
iltul farms towards the setting sun. 4
You stand iheIe upon that prccipice, will
open eyes and a meditative miud, ne cal
not help but be lifted above the menia
drudEeTies of our common every day Hie
You cross the river to the York count,
side aud about a mile ny the stream yOl
enter one Of the pretticst little raYlue
that nature can picture. The slope OF
either side is steep and quite high, COW
cred with oaks shooting up straight anC
tall. BetweeD these two hills, which are
perhaps, a quarter OF a mile long, little
10 the left. Is a broad path, very likely a
neglected road leading out TO the cultivated
fields. Alongside Of this passage, a little
stream comes down hurriedly and gaming
over the rocks, and appears like milk, as
IL leaps down from one little precipce TO
another. Ia some of tho rocks
which are now several feet above
the water, beautiful cavities are
washed out, showing that the bed
OF the stream is continually sinking, while
others are now forming, aud IN years T.
come will be completed. The scene Il
dGNghttuii aud IN Summer when the eartt
IL covered with her carpet OF green, anC
the trees are clothed IN their rich dirI
l... l. a.
course the Alps are mucA higher thar
ChiCkies rock, and the Yosemite far NOR
extensive thad this little ravine, which ha
perhaps hardly name !; but no one with
healthy mind can visit these places, an
much less live within sight OF them, with
out feeling their romantic influence.
may perhaps not come forth in words o
admiration, or expressions OF wonder
yet their teachings, although almost sIleu
are impressive and its results often heTui,
IL heightens the intellect, sharpens tn
sensIbllities and strengthens the will ethe
for good or Tor evil
IL was AZ the foot of this beautiful littl
ravine, within the sounding yo,u, OF tn
Susquehauna, once known AZ Anderson
Ferry, that Ons of the saddest tragedie
took place that has blotted the criminl
a-uais OF our state for a numbcl Of year
AS leihurely walking along the IlveT, iui
opposite Marietta, we came TO q large tvs
story dwelling built OF stone, in the styl
OF common cOuntry farm house. III
stable was only short distance ava
from the house with au open yard be
tween. The stable door opening towarC
the house leads into the apartment whei
were kept the COWS. II was here, on ii
3Oth OF May, nov nearly three years az,
early in the morning, an extremely prett
and lovely young girl, Emily Myers, WI
assassinatcd by her lover, John Coyl
An old lady pointed ou. to us the spc
where they found the girlish victim Iyin
upon the crimson colOred straw with Iii
extinct, and narrated the short but pa
thetio history connected with the TRACED,
NEsTUR