Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — Letter from Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Letter from Kansas.

Mr. J. W. Duvall hands us a letter from his brother-in-law. Mr. C. H. Cannon, who resides at Burling, ton, Coffee connty, Kansas, from which we are permitted to publish the following extracts. Mr. Cannon’s letter is dated March 15th, 1870. He says: “We have had our coldest winter weather within the last three days, when tho thermometer went down to zero. * * Plowing is about half done in this county. Nearly all the spring wheat and oats are sown, and some have commenced plowing for corn. * * * * “There is plenty of land in this county yet to be taken under the homestead act, and some of it is as good as any there is in the State—well watered, plenty of limestone, but no timber. However there is plenty of good timber on the railroad lands within 1$ miles which is being taken by the settlers and no harm thought of it. “You may think we are too enthusiastic about our State, but if you could see our soil, breathe the pure air, experience our mild climate ana drive over our splendid natural roads, you would think as we do. While you are having lowering skies, rih, snow, thawing, freezing and mud knee deep, we have a bright sun, dry roads, with an occasional shower which soon runs off the gently undulating surface of our country. When you in Indiana are shivering around fires and feeding stock six months in the year, we are plowing and our prairies are green with grass. When you are building bridges across sloughs with the frogs keeping music to the time of your axes and spades, we candrivc sixty miles a day during the month of March or any other winter month and never see a slough. While you are feeding stock with extra care to get them through tho winter, we can show you cattle in this county that have not been fed a bite during the winter, that look better than yours. “Hay and grain are cheap, and ponies that are tough and will stand hard usage can be bought for about the prices of common horses with you.” - ■ ••• 1 The Crown Point postoffice was broken into week ago Monday night and everything overhauled. About S3O was the booty taken. In 1868, 336 vessels arrived and departed from the port of Michigan City. In 1869 the number was 645. This does not include the number of those which Bought protection from storms. The Hebron correspondent of the Crown Point Register says that “Mr. J. Cliisler lost a child about one year old, on the 17th, and two others are not expected to live. They had been using red precipitate and took cold.” The Laporte Herald, says that a fair quality of water, colored with a poor quality of milk, costs seven cents a quart in that city. Two townships in Marshall connty voted an appropriation of thirtynine thousand dollars in aid of the Plymouth, Kankakee A Pacific Railroad. A large majority in favor of the appropriation was given in each township.