Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-22
LETTER FROM LYNCHBURG.

Correspondence Of the alexandria GAZErrKJ
LYScHBURG, Va, October give do
not think Mr. Bryant's beautiful poem on
autumn ut all applicable TO the present
weather. There's nc "wailing winds"
IT'S true, the flowers, the fair young
flowers. and the rosy one, too, for that
matter, are faded and gone, but not by
"Winter's chilling blast" but that fearful,
that dreadful drought, which has SO sud
denly come upon us, equal almost 10 one OF
the aucent plaques Of Egypt. The cry has
met us on all sides, "Oh, what warm
weatherr' Its nearly TOO hot TO live" sc.
But, then, your correspondent likes hot
weather, and could bask in IL forever with
out one murmur. Yes the weather for the
last few weeks has been very, very warm,
but. oh what lovely nights have succeeded
the heat CT the day; III fact, they have been
so beautiful that they have aroused all the
poetr.. in oar nature, which we thought had
lcnr since been buried in tn" grave Of our
oirhood. Lunar, before saying goodbye
TO It's iur Il season, has shown her prettiest
and brightest. In fact, she was 80 bright that
our city lamps were scarcely used ut all.
But we Gear we have worn the subject
of weather thread bare. TO change il alb
ruptly. our citizens; or the majority Of
them, not long since, were deeply interest
cd in little marvel of machinery,
termed The "Automatic City" It is
considered by eminent judges, one Of the
wonders Of the world, being invented by a
poor mechanic Joseph Bergman by name)
after seventeen long years Of constant labor.
Mr. Bergman, was born in Baden Baden,
and emerated to this country some years
ago, where he made his home in New York
State. There his famous invention was
completed. He is new after this, the great
invention Of his life, an old man. The Au-
tomato city represents q Swiss town. pco'
pied with numerous objects, which repre-
sent life as near - man can possibly, and
move every few moments, as il in life. But
we will not attempt any full description for
doubtless, your readers will soon see it with
their own eyes, 70. very probably it will be
exhibited in Alexandria soon.
Our agricultural fair closed on the even
ing OF the eighteenth, and though dust en-
shrouGed--yea nearly buried us, after stiff
ling, si;Iinking and blowing OH Us from the
North, South, East and West, there was an
unusual good attendance, especially by
strangers. OF course there was tho usual
exhibit uf stock and horses,' which
we hoped pleased the gentlemen. but cam
didly we don't think the ladies' exhibits Of
needle work, art, and etc, was ever sur
passed by any previous fair, at least not in
our recollection. But the chief feature
of the fair TO many u mother was the
baby show, the prize offered TO the pref
test baby consisting Of a handsome infants
carriage. It's a great thing, possibly, that
all do not agree en- certain subjects We
congratulate the happy mother, whose little
darling now-doubt!ess to hers the great
est of all gifts. But we cannot refrain from
saying, though many mothers will not agree
with us, that did we possess perfect little
Venus, we could not exhibit it in such
way. AS we walked through the fair and
noticed the little masters and misses arrayed
in all the inery, . fond mothers eye could
select, aud dainty fingers could fashion, aud
heard the criticisms passed by them, we
could not but think did the poor little in
nccenls know what was going on, would
they have submitted and we thought of
our youngest little darling safely at home,
which several had insisted on our placing
alneng the number, and as we thought of
him we could not but say to ourselves men
tally:
Baby my baby you are lovely to me.
Irelter far than anotler's could be.
To me- your mother, your beauty'S too rare,
TO he .azc,l mt 10y critics eyes in October fair
As to politics, all we have to say is, if all
the cities in our great Union, are as solid for
Cleveland rs Lynchburg he will surely in
habit the White House soon. His photo
graph is not only to be found in the great
public galleries, our daily newspapers, but
we actually find him engraven on the pen
nv cakes in the confectionery stores. To-
day, on first making our discovery, we were
about to exclaim mentally, Happy Mr..
Cleveland" but on looking down we saw
..an. IL. Rlain1.,S sod anl ,uae- he -nnne face