The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-28
QUIZ LOUISVILLE LETTER
WEATHER, BASE BALL AND IN
DIANS, AS SEEN IN THE
FALLS CITY.

In accordance with my general
promise to CLEAN for you some mat
ters that might keep your readers
cool during the heat of summer and
of politics, begin with the city of
Louisville, which resembles New
York in the fact that it is never
dull nor stagnant, and later in the
season, say November, l will possi-
bly, try New Orleans. Having lived
80 long in the Atlantic ports. where
q sea breeze can always be depend
ed upon, find q Kentucky July q
little trying. This, however, is the
hot month, and the torrid conditions
usually abate by the first of August.
Directly opposite where I an writ
Ing is the place known as Corn
Island in the old surveys, where on
the 9th of May, 177S, General
George Rogers Clarke, heading an
expedition of one hundred and fifty
volunteers, landed his fat-boats on
the FIRST island below Beargrass
Creek, and left the twenty families
that accompanied him, while his
fighting men went on against the
Indians of the Illinois territory.
But the soil of the island went
away when the roots of the trees
and canes ceased to bind it together,
and where cycamore tree ten feet
in diameter was once cut, and
where pioneer anglers cut canes for
fishing.rods fifteen and twenty feet
in length. there is now only shoal
of rocks, bare at low water, and very
bare just now that the river is so
low. Like some of the people who
love the fine old Bourbon product
of this State, the river, after getting
ION high old bender IL February
last that surpassed all former efforts,
has been inclined to be low.spirited
aud down in the mouth ever since.
Will S. Hayes, the wit and poet of
the falls, predicts that the tadpo.es
will soon be hard to see from the
dust in the river, while another as
serts that it is about to get ''entire.
| " out of bed," from the resemblance
of the same to those Of boarding
houses, while q third thinks that
some autocrat voice has said to the
late flooded stream "Oh, you dry
up" which command there is dis
tressing prospect that it will obey.
There have been good showers, but
none to do 80 much good as the
water.carts.
The population who little time
ago sang "Shan't we, my love, and
shanted," have mostly been washed
out by the all.cleansing food or
moved out before the march Of i'm
provement, and as there is now no
more healthy city than this, there
will soon be none more safe. The
diphtheria and low summer fevers
that were once considered inevita
bic have so entirely ceased that
doctors are about the only absolute
paupers in this comfortable land OF
plenty.
There Is, however, an epidemic OF
some prevalence, and I do not now
speak of the base.bawl Of the news
paper vendor beneath my windows
but of the base ball clubs for which
this city is deservedly famous.
In boating races the strain of the
final squirt for victory is often the
beginning ola chest disease and an
early grave for the champion oars
man, and in foot races the list OF
swift-footed mercnries "gone stale,
as they say of one broken down fol-
life, is larger than any save the ini'
tiatea know. But so far IS 7 know,
o base ball expert has all the
chances OF b strong man fos d coed