The Newtown bee., 1902-08-08

moment: "Take care! take care! Thunder and lightning hit me an it will hit you if you ain't keerful"' At another time one of his co.ored men knocked pitcher of on to the floor, shattering it to pieces. Simon Couch he said: 'I no knock it off, it just fell off itself" Henry Couch's great grandfather, Simon Couch, was taken prisoner by the British when they were marching toward Danbury, but later he either escaped or was re- leased. There are a number of inter- esting old pieces of furniture in the Couch homestead on Church Hill, one of which is a looking glass made in 1911. Benjamin Couch also has some interesting old papers and de eds.
 HOMEWARD BOUND.
 Soon after our visit to the Natural Bridge of Virginia, a trip to the Peaks of Otter" had been decided upon and we were only waiting for a propitious day to start. We left Lynchburg one day at 2.3O p. m. (the people here call it evening" on the N. x w. R. R. and arrived at Bedford. After an hour of travel, we alighted from the cars at one of the prettiest depots you can imagine. Bedford is
 Il&AU SludIU lUUlc UOWu, WlUu d lldS- niticent hotel built by the R. R. Co.,. and we'll laid out grounds. Stately school houses are seen here and the Randolph Macon academy near the hotel is one of a system of five eStab lished by the Methodist Church South, the charter having been obtained in 1850. Three of these institutions are for young men and boys and two for young women and girls. These are now closed for the summer months. Bedford is an old and very ariStOcratic town and before the Civil War was known as Liberty. There are five large tobacco factories here, wOOlen mill, Towering mills, canning factories, machine works, etc. The pure air here is attracting many summer visit OrS to the place. The SOciaf side of life is quite prominent here, very en- tertaining and never to be forgotten. We took light top carriage and start ed for the Peaks, some l3 miles away and, after a mile of travel, severe thunder storm came upon us from out a clear sky and our top carriage served ward W. Buckingham of Lynchburg formerly of Washington, Conn.,, anc the writer. The road had been re ported to us as very rough indeed, but the ball and chain gang of the country had been at work upon it for two months and it was so much improved that we arrived at the foot of the mountain with the sun two hours higf and, after tedious climb, the top wa! reached in time to witness the mos gorgeous sunset of which we coul( conceive. We partook of bountifu supper in the little stone house be tween two huge bOulderS at 9.3O even ing and then viewed the moon Sinl beneath the horizon. The Peaks o1 Otter are remarkable for the tops be large as q house, was blown off, som, years ago, by some students and Cal now be seen, with a glass, some tw' miles away. As we were the only wis itors there; that night, we were wei attended to and we had our choice O two rooms. We chose the ladies' side and we had three beds apiece. Tht wind was bowling as we retired at l: o'clock. We were awakened at al early hour to see the sun rise and w felt paid for the sore feet and tiret legs. The Balanced Rock, the ROc| Wedge and Cavern were visited am then we began our descent, happy il
 being told that we had seen the bes day there for two months past: As w came upon the Chain Gang of l5 per vOlvers in their belts and double bar rel shot guns in hand, we had pleas ant chat with them and were allowed to talk with the prisoners all we de sired. We found that the desire tt live on your neighbours chickens wa: making good roads for Virginia.
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