The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1911-02-17

ntng-this is done by the country
people, who are paid by the cut.
Hartford is more compactly built than Middle
town and contains more souls the computed num-
Der CT which amount to about double. The number
of houses in Middetown are said to be so or GO.
These, reckoning eight to the house, would make
1000 at least The depth of water which vessels
can make to the last place, is about ten feet, and
Is as much as there Is over Saybrook bar
AT Middetown there is one Episcopal church
and two Congregational churches. In Hartford
there is none of the first and two Of the latter.
Dined and drank tea at Colonel Wadsworth's, and
about o'clock received from and answered ad.
dress of the town of Hartford.
There is great equality in the people Of this
state. Few or no opuent men and no poor, and
great similitude in their buildings-the general
fashion Of which is a chimney always of brick or
stone and door in the middle, with staircase
running up by the side Of the latter, two flush sto-
ries, with very good show of sash and glass win
dows-the size generally is from 80 to 50 feet in
length and from 20 to 80 in width-exclusive of
back shed. which seems to be added as the family
increases. The farms, by the contiguity of the
houses, are small, not averaging more than 100
acres They are worked chiefly by oxen, which
have no other feed than hay, with a horse and
sometimes two before them, both in pillow and
cart In their light lands and in their seighs they
work horses. but find them much more expensive
than oxen. Springfield is on the east side of Con-
nectlcut river; before you come to which large
branch, called Agawam, is crossed by a bridge
1t stands under the hill on the interval land and
has only one meeting house, % miles from Hart
ford
Set out at and for the first eight miles ride
over an almost uninhabitable plain, much mixed
with sand"
Saturday, 24th--Dressed by and set out by s.
at 10 arrived at Cambridge, according to appoint
ment. But most of the militia living little out
Of town, were not in line till after H. Washing
tons modest description of the civic honors fol.
lows: I'VE passed through the citizens cassed in
their different professions and under their own
banners till came to the state house from
which across the street an arch was thrown, in
front Of which was this description:
ITO the Man Who Unites All Hearts," and on the
other, ITO Columbias Favorite Son." and on the
other side thereof, next the state house. in panel
decorated with trophy composed of the arms of
the United States of the commonwealth OF Mas
sachusetts and our French allies, crowned with a
wreath of laurel, was this inscription: Boston Re-
lieved, March 18th, 177e" This arch was hand
somely decorated and over the center of it a can
opy erected 20 feet high with the American
eagle perched on the top. After passing through
the arch and entering the state house at the south
end and ascending to the upper floor and return.
ing to balcony at the north end three cheers
were given by vast concourse of people who by
this time had assembled at the arch-then fol.
lowed by an ode composed in honor of the presi
dent and we'll sung by band of selected singers
after this three cheers-folowed by the different
professions and mechanics, in the order they were
drawn up with their colors, through a lane of the
people, which had thronged about the arch under
Whlcn they passed The procession being
was cd IN lode
ngersoll's (Which is very decent and good house,
by the lieutenant governor council accsanpanied
by the vice president, where they took leave of
me-"
Next day, being Sunday, Washington went 10
the Episcopal church in the morning and listened
to Dr. Parker, and In the afternoon he visited the
Congregational church. :"
The darst also INDUCES that dignity with
which the name Of Washington is ever surronn deds
The day before he expected the governor to well
come him at the public reception had engaged to
take dinner with him, but as Governor Hancock
did not appear at the arch Washington did not
care to dine with him.
On Sunday the disconnected magistrate came
to Washington's lodgings and pleaded indsposi.
ton as an excuse for absence at the arch Wash
ngton adds, But as 1t was expected that he the
governor, expected to receive a visit from the
president'-and Washington in fine sarcasm under
scores the word 'receive"-"he was resolved at
all hazards, to pay his compliments TODAY" adds
the president. The perplexed governor next sent a
committee to Washington. II informed them in
explicit terms" records the president chat 7
would not see the governor unless it was at nv
own lodgings"
Governor Hancock's conduct was severely cen
sured by public opinion. 1t was generally held that
nordinate dignity, as chief magistrate of Massa.
chusetts and not bodily illness, was the secret
cause of his failure to call on the president. The
rebuke Of official pride administered by Washing
ton, who refused to see Governor Hancock except
at the presidents lodgings decided the question Of
superior dignity