Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1868 — Weston’s Great Walk. [ARTICLE]

Weston’s Great Walk.

[From tho Troy Budget.) .. One week from to-day, November L Weston is to commence his walk of five thousand miicH. Mr. Weston pledges himself to do his best to walk five thousand miles m one hundred days exelusive of Hnudayn, wmeli reduces the actual time grunted to complete (he march into eighty-six days. In ease lie accomplishes tho task, ho is pledged a purse of $20,000. The march of 5000 miles will carry Mr. Westell from Bangor, Marne to St. Fau), and tlteuee hack, by a different route, to the city of New York; turd it is well calculated to arouse tho enthuhiaftto bfour Romewhnt mercurial people. On tho walk from Portland to Chicago, the dislunco and the Unto to accomplish it is required that tho pedestrian should make an average' of 47 f miles pel- day, aud that walk umde in a more propitious Reason of the year, called forth tho wildest applause from the thousands who, night and daj'. thronged tho line of march. In the five thousand miles marcfY WeatoiS will lie required to make a daily sveragp 0f.58 1-7 nides, or more than 11 miles ip excsss of the average on tho road to Chicago, and this at a season of tho year when rain falls and snow impedes tho progress of .eyen railroad trains. If the past may be taken as an rialejtof the future, considering tlio groak difficulty of the leal, the hero ofthe wondorlul walk at White Plains will rally orouitft hips nmsibered lltousauds to shout his name and cheer him tiu his weary inarch. As Cjimattcr of courr.c, Young and Old Amerioii will pray for his success, for it is an dement of American character to credit a native born hero with extraordinary prowess and to flatter thom’sclves with tho boliel that the woild does not contain his equal. The pride is pardonable, even if judg • raent is warped by sanguine hopo. Tho march is for a purse of $20,000, nnd- starting oft the Ist of December, concludes the 100 days on the lltli of March. -Weston will pass through seventeen diflorent states; ono hundred and eighty-eight counties ami seven hundred and twenty-eight cities and towns. When he reaches St. Paul, Minnesota, he will have, Walked 3,033: ipiles. He returns'—by "f ff route . that Will briftg him to the City Hall, New Y’oik city, at the end of 5021 miles, be thus performing more tbau ho contracts lo da As. will be seen from the tono of his h ttor, \e ‘ feels confident of succeeding, and wo trust that he is not over sanguine, though wei must admit, under the circumstances, the. futnro'seems to faintly whisper failure. — We havo faith in the pedestrian's honesty,, and be the end what it may, wo pray that this abiding-faith may uot'be destroyed. —— 1 —The machinery in the Springfield iMass.) Watch Factory coat $300,090, ami ia so like ami tntrisete that the finss't skfC and two years' time-was required for its constritctioD. There are uo less than 300 machines of sevontv different kinds, all adapted to their work- There 'are in a watch fwfiiedetr'of 100 kinds, requiring about 1,500. proeessf-s in their manu'-st-Tc —The Sunatt easo canio up iu tho SupremeCourt of the District of Columbia St Washington on tint oth, on motion to djsmiati (lip appeal at ithe District Attorney | ro t» Ibp deeißion 6f -Ttnlse Wylie, discharging the prisoner on the pica of Iho statute of limitMion. The appeal was dismissed and the decision dtsciWTgtiig tlio prisoner waß affirmed. Thusonds the Burrutt case-