The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-08-09

Editor Collar Chronicle:
Away mp into and beyond the noun
tain ranges nf Tennessee, through the
luxuriant meadows of timothy and red
clover, through fields of golden wheat,
oats aud rye, following and crossing
streams and rivers made busy with
the march Of progress and industry,
past the beautiful cities that spread out
over the sloping hills or lie costly
within the verdant Valleys, where
twenty odd gears ago the armies OF a
now peaceful. and prosperous nation
sought its own destruction. Franklin
and Nashville, pre- eminent among
them all, stand forth living monuments
of wealth, beauty and refinement,
where the sword was quickly turned
into the plowshare and did earnest
battle for the support of their imPov-
erislied thousands, who have since
made the ealt tn to groan under their
productions. On to Louisville, the
pride of Kentucky, and the home of a
noble ancestry, over the Ohio, grnmbl-
/ ing and muttering because of it OBJ
structed mouth, away over the 'sllorn
forests and rolling prairies of Indiana,
to pretty, cheerful and hospitable In
dianapolis, westward across the Wa
BASH, among the deep decliyities, and
out on the rich broad black prairies Of
Illinois, to the great city of the west.
Chicago, the grand centre OF western
commerce, with soil and manufactures
adapted to her wealth, an intervening
country everywhere presenting signs
of peace, comfort and pleasure, every
few miles of the distance exhibiting
beautiful towns full of life, energy and
prosperity, each vicing with the other
to put on It's best appearance, and all
receiving a good reward of merit.
From Chicago to Cleveland, Toledo
and Buffalo to Niagara, over plains
teemiDg with rich fields and fruits,
over rivers surging and impatient to
transport the stores of valuable freight
that line their borders, and glad with
the hum of machinery that resounds
through the smoky valleys, emitting
startling jets of steam in Thousand
directions, the atmosphere made odor-
Gus almost to suffocation, noise aud
hustle everywhere. To a stranger il
looks like confusion, but it means bus
mess and prosperity. The soil about
Cleveland, aud from there 70 Buffalo
lis not naturally rich. 1t is . light,
Reddish, sandy loan, with poor foun.
dation, but Yankee perseverance, and
ingenuity have made it all more than
could be expected. The dairy and
truck farms, the orchards aud vine
yards, speak volumes Of praise for al
industrious population. Bnt, Niagara
how shall speak of itf mean thu
Falls. Everybody has heard or feat
the story of its magni6cence and grand
eur, thousands have seen 1t, and thou
sands more have written and sung 1T
praise. I cannot describe it. Other
whose trade is journalism have faile'
|. 70 do it Justice. 1t is beautifully pc
etic, elegant in conception, awe-insp'r
ling in contemplation, grand IN sym
metry, immense in proportions, brlm
full and running over with majesty
clothed IN every form of imagery ti'
II mind can picture. The river divide
: labout half mile above and rushes an
bounds here and there in it's wild I'm
petuosity to overlap the roskey bar
rier. Goat Island stands betecn tn
two divisions OF this angry element
! aud extends to the very verge Of tn
precipice. as If in defiance Of time an
: the raging waters. And there %