The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-07
DOWN IN KENTUCKY.

Wallingford, is by Captain M. D. Mum
 son, of that town, who is known to
 many in this part Of the state, he hav-
 ing long been an esteemed citizen of
 Walllngford, and having been a cap-
 tain in the old Fifteenth c. V. in the
 war-captain of company K. Captain Munson is now and has been for many
 years prominent and very successful
 travelling salesman for the William
 Rodgers Manufacturing Co.,, of Hart
 ford:
 Maysville, Ky, May 2, 1885,
 Thinking people at home might be in-
 terested as to matters in this latitude and longitude respecting the season here in contrast with home, will ven ture to state that the temperature for the week past has been uniformly of a summer character, and fruit trees of all sorts have been in blossom for seve- raj days. Maple trees in some instan ces are very nearly in full leaf, and shade trees generally are rapidly de- veloping foliage, and the lilac blossoms are fully developed. In fact the gene ral bloom is profuse, never more so in all my observation, and promising a large fruit crop. But the contingencies are many between this and the fruiting season; yet we can hope for bounteous harvests whether realized or not. The sight is beautiful and grand as one glances at the fields along the way, and especially so when in sight of the Ohio river with It's high bluffs on either side and lined more or less with fruit trees of all sorts and vineyards as well.
 There Is a tree here which the na- tives call ''Red Bud" but the blossoms of which are more of pink or purple color. It is a, profuse bloomer and grows in some cases to be quite large tree, about equal to Q good sized peach tree, and when it stands among apple trees having a pure white blossom the contrast is very beautiful. Humanity delights and justly so in the spring time, this season of natures resurrec- ton and the donning of her beautiful garments in obedience to the laws es- tablished by the God of nature and who has said to us in His Word that "seed time and harvest, heat and cold, sum mer and winter shall not cease" until His purposes concerning this world have been fully accomplished. And surely we can all bear testimony that He is mot slack concerning His prom ises," for the seasons come and go, proving His faithfulness and infinite power, wisdom and goodness to the children of men whom He would have in equal harmony with nature fulfilling His will. I presume our dear old Wal lingford Is daily preparing, so to speak, to eclipse all other places with her beautiful spring dress. including Main street, for instance, from end to end, and old time Elm street with the grand old elms and the dear old town in gen eral There are very many beautiful places all along the way, but we may justly claim for Wallingford that 1t Is a place of unusual beauty, and may in- deed say that ours Is a goodly herl- tage."
 Business is not brisk by long way The city of Hunting, w. Va, in my opinion is a place of much promise, but at present it's industries are flat, and | their hope is in the stepping down and out of the present administration at Washington in the fulness of time and that their successors will be men who will prove to be patriots who will work for our country's welfare rather than a foreign country; and who will prefer our exaItation rather than the humilia- ton entaiIed upon the land by this mls- erably managed administration Sure ly the doings of those in power, or their not doing, is very hard to be reconciled | to, but we must possess your souls in patience"
 I met an old acquaintance the other day who formerly owned and ran a steamboat on the Ohio river and with whom I made many trips to certain points.
 He retired from boating a few years ago. going back to a farm he owned at New Haven, O.. a place named after New Haven. Conn, and by Connectl- gut parties, who still live there and | own large salt works, as ann informed. l The captain told me som ething concern | ng his large farm One feature was he planting this season of eighty-five | bushels of seed potatoes, and it struck | ne as a large amount, as it will you, I | presume, and yet he planted only five | 5 acres,
 Another friend in Indiana owns a arge farm which less than five years lgo was swamp, but through his litching it at an expense of fourteen hundred dollars it is now a fine one and le gathered last year from it six thou jand bushels of corn, which brought Jim forty cents per bushel. A good | ,ield, was 1t not?
 His intention is to plant it every year o come, and as the soil is black to a lepth of six feet, it is practically mex laustible as to the power of producing good crops.
 Well, Friend Lane, I expect an apol- ,gy is in order, and if so here it is:
 P. S.--I saw a beautiful sight this a. Il. which want torecord.
 We left Huntington at 8:30, and not 'ar from the station is very large ap- 1le orchard, and evidently planted pre- yious to the building of the Chesapeake md Ohio railroad from the fact that he railway runs directly through it. hus dividing the orchard, and as tated it is very large one. It stands III level plateau or locality as level IS house floor. The trees were of lln- form height, symmetrical in shape and low for the beautiful part. Every one # the trees was literally white with ,loceorns and surh .ai sipht I yun d 1,avnr