Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
LEBANON, Pa. Oct. 40. 1889.

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In my last | described German inn of
the new dispensation; today | was a
guest at one of the old. The inn at Au-
rora represented those Germans who
themselves emigrated from Germany, but
whose families have been born here and
are thoroughly American. The inn was
at today represents German civilization
a good deal more than a hundred years
old. The outs of it are that it has bar.
but there were no outs about the dinner.
had dinner yesterday, also, at another
German inn. The two were alike i'm the
diversity of dishes and general character.
The German language abounds every
where. All talk it, and, though nearly
all speak American, notice that CONVEX
sation is carried on with each other in
German.
Aurora to Lawrenceburg by cars; Law
renceburgh to HARRISON o., by livery. Our
livery consisted of choice Morgan mare
and Texas pony. | noticed the mare
as she was led out on the stable floor and
knew she was a Morgan, or of the Danse-
reau breed. By inquiry | learned she
was got by Doctor Mclaughlin, 2 80, son
of Morgan Messenger by Fulton, son of
Black Hawk; her dam, the boy claimed,
was by a descendant of Blackburns
Whip 1t is fine country that we passed
through; indeed all this interior country
of America is fine. Harrison is small
Western village. There is little to call
one here and less to keep one, except that
1t has been the home of some of the most
renowned American horses, including the
old original Snively Blue Bull or Ohio
Farmer. TO trace the pedigree of this
horse and his progeny more accurately
than it has been done was our errand. Mr..
Bliss secured the country in one direc-
ton and | in another with the best livery
that could be obtained. We had done the
same before at Aurora on the same err
rand. The success at both places was
fiattering, helping to clear up much that
had been obscure. Saturday morning was
spent at Cincinnati by me in the city IL
brary examining the old files of papers. 1t
was too rainy to see the city and suffi-
GENTLY so i'm the afternoon, when we
started by train through the great State
of Ohio. At Warren. near the Pennsyl-
vania line, stopped off for the Sunday.
leaving Mr.. Bliss to go on. Warren has
quite comfortable drummers' hotel and
is place of some 5000 people, with, as
everywhere in America, many pleasant
homes. Wherever we 90. in Texas. in
California, in Canada, in Maine, we meet
these homes everywhere, beautifully
kept Monday passed into Pennsvlva-
mia to Lancaster. In this eastern part of
Ohio or in Pennsylvania one does not see
the same fertile country as further
south and west. Agriculture gives way
to mining. Smoke stacks abound. The
rivers are all busy. The mountains look
down grim upon the scene, whilst the
smoke rises up, obscuring. At spots are
fine villages and excellent farming lands.
Lancaster county is the garden of the
State, and said to be the wealthiest agri-
cultural county in the United States.
1t is here that the COnestoga horse
flOurished; here was the central horse re-
gion of Pennsylvania. as Orange county
has been of New York, Addison county
of Vermont, or Lexington of Kentucky.
From here went Pennsylvania Farmer,
afterwards called Ohio Farmer and Blue
Bull, ancestor of the greatest sire of
trotters that the world has yet known.
But this prestige of horses. so far rs she
had it, Pennsylvania has not retained.
Lancaster county now imports nearly all
her driving horses from the West.
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