Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — Another Letter from C. R. Benjamin. [ARTICLE]

Another Letter from C. R. Benjamin.

Editor Republican:— l will try again to pen u few lines to the roade. s of your valuable paper; coining to us in a strange land and among strangers, it is one of the most welcome ot guests J Asheville is a~'treantifnl Titti e city of 70u0 inhabitants, situated on a succession or hills, surrounded by chains <>! mountains, witn tlieir lofty peaks to . ©ring towards the s!cy~Troin —2000 ■6OOO feet. Asheville’s eievation is 240 feet above tide water. Yesterday we . drove to the summit of one of jtSse mounts, where one could get a la r view of the town and country. Far >clow one could see the little city with its five churches, five large hotels, nea: j 200 boarding houses, seven livery s a bles, eight dry goods stores and piretdrug stores. ' 1 don’t Irnoiv how man\ groceries, probably twenty. There arc a great many fine residences; but with no manufactures that amounts to any-' thing. This would be a tiao place for enter J prising northern men with capital, t,.; Open up some Of their jfucries atui im i me use poplar forests. Thu water p >w-j er to be found here is one of the tines: ] in the world. Think of a stream ggj large as the Tippecanoe vyith ld.iO feet, fail in 40 miles. I feel confident that | by proper care this is the place lor ai t pile with throat or lung disease. I!e i' much better since I ea ae down h re. although 1 have taken cold. This i- n«. place for any one with tim riyyiuuaUsi.. But other c ! ironic du-eas-s 1 think h * ciima’e will benefit I , ii.:vo c, w ith so manyiporthern people that liatv come hwe, and - gj»t, well or on a fair road to it that 1 am gre ttiy encouraged. There is some c\ Id weather here, but the air is very pure all the tithe Liw week one morning the m nutans w. r covered with .snow. That was a sigh beautiful to brtroi’4. 'The snr sbTatK j on the snow covered pine and cedarand bare crags. There are to be found in the woods bears amt deer. A nuniing party came in the other day with two bears and three deers

C. R. BENJAMIN.

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla works direct lyi and promptly, to purify and enrich the blood .improve the appetite, strengthen ' the nerves, and brace np the system, it is, in the trtest sense, an alternative medicine. Every invalid should eive it a trial. i -- j >' :: < •