The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-01
Letter From G. VI. Kimball.

OF the Orient, | take few hours from
sightseeing to fulfill it. Manchester,
New Hampshire, is decidedly cosmo-
politan. Yon meet French to the
right of you, Irish to the left of you,
Yankees in front of youS Germans be-
hind you and other nationalities occa-
sionallY The writer having been IN
the society of the French SO much
he is learning to speak the Fren ch
language quite Ruently. Honi soft
qui NAL y pense Don't you see, | am
learning it rapidly. Comme il faut.
If should stay here another week I
might become quite Frenchy and seri-
ously contemplate an attempt to get q
French girl for wife-they are full of
music, and jovial and oh ! SO nice. If
it were not for our girls at home ]
might be entrapped. Possibly some
millionaire's daughter may elope with
me yet as they have a mania co. it
East.
Manchester is large manufactur-
ing city, having population of about
10000. It is well laid out, having
broad streets lined with shade trees.
1t is most noted for its fine cotton
mills on the Merrimac river which
runs through the west side of the city.
The cotton fabrics manufactured i'll
these mills are of very superior quail
ty and are found in all parts Of the
country Also, thefe are large foun-
dries and machine shops, where are
made sons OF the finest railroad
and fire steam engines that are lii
use on this continent. The cotton fac
tories this year have paid about sixteen
per cent on The capital invested in
| them, although this has been year Of
depression in all business over the
country. I 4hinlc the mill owners
have aone well and there is no cause
| for alarm. Ifit were not for the manr-
| featuring interests this country would
not amount to much. 1t then would
be good country to emigrato. from.
The operatives in these great mills are
in fear that the mills will be shut down
for season, which makes them econ
omical, and in consequence business is
dull and unsettled There is great
competition in all business which pre-
vents the business men from rcaping a
golden harvest.
In this city [ passed my childhood
days in innocent glee. walk the
the streets where once played hide
and-seek, but now no familiar face
greets mine-all are so strange. Per
haps many that I pass on the streets
were once my school mstes, but now
are unknown to me. [ am lonely
here and long to get back to Roseburs
I next visited Weare, ixteen miles
from this city, where most of my rela-
tives live The surface of the country
is hiily with s9s.all bottoms along tn,
streams, and the ground is so ston,
that after getting off sufficient stone t.
fence the fields ycu could hardly se
5 that any stone had been remove,
therefrom. Hence you can imagin
: what our farmers would do with sucl
land. OF course, high state of cuiti-
vation makes this land produce well
, A very little wheat is raised here
$ Farms are sold cheap. Tt is seldom
D that one will average more than SIC
per Acre The winters are very Sc
we're. Farmers are compelled to fee
their stock about six months in yea1
IF our farmers had to do this Orege
would be a poor country. Our farm
t ers truly have a Paradise If Orego
$ farmers would travel through TIL
! country they would know how to ap
= preciate their farms, and would sa
that Oregon is the best county on TIL
continent.
. From here [ went to Boston an
g visited some places of great interest t
Z tourists. There are two cemeteries /
J. the heart of this city, where are burie
. some of the most illustrious men {
h revolutionary times, signers of IL
y Declaration of Independence, govern
ors of colonial times and noted divine
e are objects of much interest and re
e hection. An air of antiquity pervadt
them both, although they front on OF
n of the principal streets.
d I walked through Bosten commo
e where the British soldiers ordered, Il
IS Boston boy off the common when
;" their sports, and then their defiant ar
!; swer. AZ | walked I mused upon tt
~ bold. out.snoken words of those bra,