Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-10-15
NOTES OF TRAVEL EAST.
A Ledger Reporter Sight.Seeing-OYer
the Alleghanies and Down the Valley
Of the Potomac to the Sea-At the
National Capitol.

Editorial Correspondence. t
BALTIMORE, Oct. ll.-When L left e.
home. Just a week ago to-day, l :
promised to write from the National 8
Capitol, but concluded to spend the
Sabbath in the "Monumental City"
We made the run from Washington
40 miles) in As minutes-somewhat
faster time than our Western roads
make.
We stopped in St. Louis q couple
of days to visit the great exposition
and fair, and see the Yelled Prophet
on his annual bum, leaving there
Wednesday morning over the popular
and far-famed Ohio & Mississippi
Railway for Cincinnati. Our ''better
half" intended to make the entire
trip with me, but returned to st.
Louis from Cincinnati, thinking the
Tourney would be q little too much
for her, as she was not feeling in the
best of health. After remaining in
the "Queen City, owe night, and
the next day taking in the Latonia
races at Covington, Ky, [ left at
l6:2O over the Baltimore & Ohio for
Washington, reaching there at 1:15
the next afternoon. At daylight,
on awakening from our slumber, We
found that we were On the crest of
the Alleghanies, some distance this
: side of Parkersburg, Va. The pic
turesque scenery all along the route,
T clear to Harper's Ferry, is grand
: beyond description. No land, l do
I not think, can boast of a country SO
replete with scenic and memorable
features. The grandeur of these
O mountains, 5000 feet above the leve,
d of the sea. far exceeded my expecta
C ltions. From the car window ear bt
t. seen q number Of famous summeI
N resorts, among them Oakland anC
n Deer Park, and also the club hous'
,e where the president visited on hi
il fishing excursion the past summer
It, The elegant house belongs to som
lie famous New. York sporting club
er We came directly through the larges
n coal regions of the United States
n The fires from the coke ovens CAV
w forth their lurid lights, which mad
b. everything around appear even NOR
beautiful. Coming over Laur'
mountain a large bear was sighte
not a great distance from the trac.
cola number of deer were also cen flu
all Their on down the valley. l was to.
ne that these species Of game were plel
'se tiful in those mountainous region
20, We came through at least ten tn
me nels, one of them-under Laur
md mountain-fully a mile long. .
Parkersburg, an old resident got
the train who knew Capt. Frost We
ny He said the Capt. sold land there
'ne $500 per acre that would now Co
'ne mand most any price, though wi
o"' it would be good fer I do not kno
Near Cumberland we struck t
chesapeake & Ohio canal and t
,,o ..l Ilo& ,ol %hn po{oroan ~ II,
res within a short distance of Harpe
md Ferry. At the latter point, as
lite, passed, could be had a plain view
cas- old John Browns fort. Hundr
lope and hundreds of feet high alb
nan- stand the Maryland, London {
Bob Bolivar heights, with great bould
und- projecting far enough to almost to
ility each other. Near here is So
ostle Mountain, where a noted eng'
t is ment took place during the war,
top of which could be plainly 81
We were also near enough to
battle ground Of Antletam to Ct
tha a faint glimpse of that spot. I
~. more interested in the scenes arc
> e.. Harper's Ferry than at any o
I point, and as long as I could
~ out of the window l kept my eye
- ~ the memorable and historic
=. - house, now labeled with large lei
- "John Browns Fort" l could
E the ,o"
1ua;. fancies of the journey through
mountains, but 1 %apprehend
Ledger will, as usual, be croN
with advertising patronage, SO I
ietect desist. 1t is only a short dist
full from Harper's Ferry in to Wasl
tlgna- ton, and only one stop was mad
hts on tween the two places.
c RUE Washington City is the incest
d. d cleanest place, with the bro
streets, of any large city l have
gnaht been in. There are no manufs
e WIG ing interests, consequently no
S'oeh' All points of note-we visited
Capitol building, the new State,
and Navy building, the U. S. 7
k with ury department, the Navy
Z, anu Washington monument (the hi
..an51 IN the world), and last, but /
$ GLAD means least, the White House,
will one mile from the Capitol bui
hepor- down Pennsylvania Ave, VIII
had the pleasure Of taking b
oo" hand the President. of the I
VIC States. I called at the mansion
day afternoon, but was a littl
late to gain admission. A
zen 10 Cleveland does not publicly I
Demo visitors on Saturday, l began tt
'rine OF l would have to wait until n
'rea'est Having a letter of introduction
I'M q valued friend in st. Louis to
sedaiia ney General Garland, I made {