Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — Letter from Hou. R. S. Dwiggins, [ARTICLE]

Letter from Hou. R. S. Dwiggins,

San Felipe, Mexico, Nov. 21,1887. Editor Republican. Please change the address, of my REPUBLican, from Silao, Mexico to San Felipe, Estado Guanajuato, Mexico. We arrived here Friday last, all in good health, the trip was long and a little tedious, but all our party stood it very well. The weather here is very nice indeed, it is very much like our June weather. Farmers are both sowing and harvesting wheat and barley. The crop is good. They pull the wheat’and bar ley up by the roots and lay it in piles containing about as much as three dozen of our wheat [sheaves J would be, and cover it with, grass, weeds or anything of the kind most easily obtained. There has been an unusual amount of rain here this

autumn, as a consequence the grass and other vegetation is very green and luxuriant. We bateau even dozen of Americans with us; we had religious services yesterday: all seemed to enjoy the services equally well or rather better than we would have done at home. Isolation makes one feel wonderonsly kind. Very Truly Yours. R. 8. Dwigginb.