Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — On Sea-side. [ARTICLE]

On Sea-side.

Pike Point House) Me. ) , August 3, 1875. / Editor Republican : Will give you a brief description of our (Bro. D. J. aud self.) journey and observations from Rensselaer to this place, which, if you think worthy of place in your paper, you you may publish. We arrived at Francesville at 12 M., on the 28th ultimo, took train for Wanatah at 2 ; 16 P. M. —fare $1.20, and at Wanatah purchased tickets at $1.60 for Chicago, at which place we arrived at 6; 10 p. m. The agricultural interests on the route from Rensselaer to Chicago are much damaged by the rains and storms. .Much of the corn is small, and the* ground is covered with water. Met John Wambaugh on the cars. He is a pleasant, companionable young man, and reports doing a healthy business at San Pierre,[selling lumber and farming. In Chicago we purchased tickets for Portland, Me., via. M. C. & G. T. Ry., for $19.00, good for three days distance—--1,145 miles. The little time we had here we occupied in walking the streets of the city, which seemed unusually quiet. Got supper at the Adams House. Paid five dollars for a birth in a Pullman sleeping-car to Montreal, and left the city at 9 P. M. on Express. Daylight brought us to the stirring town of Jackson, Mich. In this State we passed through Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, ■and other "pleasant looking, thrifty places. Stopped at Sarnia, situated on the Canada side of St. Clair River, at 10 A. si.

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fox breakfast. Here the cars are conveyed over the river on a steam ferry. And here the Government officers examined baggage in search of contraband articles. The crops, i-s far as we have seen, look well in J/ichigan. They appear to be in the order of wheat, oats, hay, potatoes and corn. The average of com is small. In places we saw where large pine forests had been destroyed by the fires of the past dry seasons. Arrived in Jfoutreal at 9 A. M. on the 30th. Passed through Stratford, Toronto and other places of interest. Toronto is pleasantly located on the shore of Lake Ontario, and has a population of abont 60,000. J/ontreal, the principal city and commercial port of British America, is situated on the Island ./Montreal in the St. Lawrence River. The G. T. Ry. herb passes over the St. Lawrence River through . Victoria bridge, a tubular structure three miles long and said to have cost $2,000,000. We had six hours here which we occupied in visiting the Notre Dame Cathedral,' which is open to visitors, and perhaps is as grand, if not the grandest, structure of the kind on the continent; Victoria Park, which is graced with a full sized bronze statue of Queen Victoria; and some other places of interest. Left this place for Portland at 3 P. M. and arrived in the City of Elms at 8 A. M. on the 31st. In a few minutes thereafter we took the Boston and .Maine cars for Blue Point station—nine miles distant —and walked a half mile to Pine Point House, on the beach, where I foiind my dear wife and children, all well except Lossie, who is slowly recovering from a very severe attack of the scarlet lever. He has had a hard time, and it will be sometime before we can safely start home with him. This is a new, quiet place, nicely situated hard by the sea-side, two and a half miles from Old Orchard Beach.

The Canadians appear obliging, cheerful and happy. A portion of their country is very fine. The chief agricultural products appear to be wheat, hay, oats, barley, potatoes and peas, all of which look well. The farm houses in many localities are in close proximity, and the fields extend far back. J/uch of their hauling is done by one horse, and their grain and hay are handled in the same manner. The railroad employees are very obliging—■stop three times a day for meals, and give plenty of time to enjoy them. Get good meals for fifty cents —their money, or sixty cents —U. S. money.— Purchased a paper of a newsboy for five cents ; off ered ten cents in U. S. fractional Currency for payment, and he replied, “Two cents off for Yankee money.” When will our politicians and law-mak-ers combine wisdom enough to grapple with the two great questions of the day— Finance and Labor —andj at least adopt some finanancial measure that will give us a more stable monetary basis? In J/ontreal I sent a telegram to Mrs. T. for which I paid sixtv-one cents in coin. Afterwards, the operator hunted me up and. handed me thirteen cents, stating that he had over-charged me that much. If such honesty governed all societies, how much better it would be for

ALFRED THOMPSON.

We learn from several of the daily papers that at about 8 o’clock on last Monday night, Mrs. Hicks, a Bible agent, shot and fatally wounded Moses Kinney at Kentland.— Young Kinney was intoxicated, and was passing her housequietly when she shot him. As yet no cause for the shooting has been learned. It is reported that Mrs. Hicks shot a ycung man named Sutton in the leg for some imagiuitry cause three weeks ago. Public sentiment is strongly against the woman. Kinney, the victim of her fury, is spoken of as an inoffensive and quiet person.