Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — Extraordinary Pedestrianism. [ARTICLE]

Extraordinary Pedestrianism.

Yesterday afternoon we were visited by Mr. George W. Dietz, of New Albany, Indiana, who had resided in that State sixty-nine years, and is itt the seventyninth year'of his age. He left New Albany, Indiana, on the Ist day of May, and walked the entire distance of 800 miles to this city, resting five Sundays and stopping two days—one at Cincinnati and one at Zanesville. He reached Philadelphia atone o’clock yesterday afternoon. He is in excellent health. Although browned by the sfon, he ik ' bright add cheerful. One,-fpair of shoes lasted him the whole way, and 650 miles was on a hard turnpike. He was not interfered with by rain, having fine weather during all his journey. He seems to be in good circumstances, having paid his way at all the hotels where he stopped, except in two or three cases, where the landlords would receive no money. Wherever he stayed over people Hocked to welcome him. The best walk was thirty-one miles in one day, and his shortest ten miles. He kept an accurate account of each day’s walk, from which it appears that he walked 800 miles, from New Albany to Philadelphia, in 298 hours. The average is a little over two and one-third miles an hour. He left the Green Tree yesterday morning at seven, and reached Philadelphia at twelve, nineteen miles in five hours. A more agreeable, intelligent and worthy man we have never met. Mr. Dietz comes highly recommended, with letters from Gov. Hendricks and the Mayor of New Albany. —Philadelphia Tress, June 8.