Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — Bally for Cox. [ARTICLE]

Bally for Cox.

Knooli Cox, editor of Hw La]pl)i Journal, nitendod the.barbecue iH, Kotrsiteliir', week, before lint,’ ami "-.rrota tin” the incident# Air Ilf* paper. I!is nriici in u n'lil.iMa 6ne, Abouridlhg with oomplitPejU* nftd gritphfq description; Wit it ia tan Yt >* luminous for reproduction ?n these C'lijnn* emire. The fbWowing extracts are at! wo have room for: The first, six miles [of »!io road out frAiw Bradford] were made in llility-twonunuKt I wo tilujiA'iM-iii;; nude in the time to take on passengers. The lire! station alone ill# lino is Bhnrpsburg, doubtless no named because the ehnrjieat eye cannot detect the exact locution of the station. Lee, we were . told) was the next station. This is a charm-, ifig country retreat, beautifully laid out in. ideal streets, lawns twrd parks. From the. fine lakes In ttfe vliinDy weshonld imagine Its people given to leisure afrd, tyvfrtirtg, Near the suburbs a beautiful stream pities, underneath ttio track, and vre are not positive but it is tlio Identical one to which the |K>et referred when he wrote something about The I Kills of Abandon Mound more (fni mi on * The (densaul waters of the river fxte. ; We understand, however, the village was named In honor of the president of she railroad. The next station was Hanging Grove, which, as may be readily imagined, ia very picturesque. Indeed, so fur os we could observe, pioturesqueness ia the sole element of its greatness. Z*rd, a city of. purely ideal dimension, is laid out for business and designed as a great manufacturing point. At 12:1*0 the Alf. McCoy brought) up and liitchod ir. front of ltcnsselaer and the process of unloading and getting into town begin. The exhobortraefc of the mud, was wonderful. As the crowd surged through the semi-liquid earth our reporter recalled the charge of the immortal six hundred at, Bnlahlsva, and at once being overwhelmed, with poetic afflatus sat down in ft soft mud. holo and wrote on the margin of his pass : Mild to right of them. Mud to left of them, Muil in front of them— At It they wondered! Kight into Kenseelucr, After the fatted steer, Not for the mud a sneer, Over the Narrow Cange liode the eight hundred! Forward, the mtul brigade! No man the least dismayed When off the Narrow Gauge All of ’em lumbered; Then toward the city bore, , Kight through the mild they tore. And by their boots they swore, McCoy could iteer no more That tramping eight hundred!