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Show "I'lJS-. .stopping b the Ry nt Niagara Fulls and h , 1 1 KVJ Alban''".vonh' bo 6 take. There (he Fitchhrn- hitch".! siptits by the ,vy, all, to a f mi est hrom-h the walls of Hoo o , nel , lifted l,y electricity, laving 'he dust on the road with i K -n1 'r'l aVJ.1 1,,,:est With green, hut this is no fruit year Apple orchards from the Missouri to the. Atlantic arc, as a general thine fclr uiuauls. lulitonua must supply the northern portion of tho union; and her tiuit raiscis are alive to this fact, as thu rise 111 canned fruits testify But here we am this, Saturday, afternoon after-noon 111 Boston, hiiviiiff traveled in this moving home since last Monday morning, morn-ing, U.;.0u miles without accident or Jar inside or outside of our maguiliuent car. Our pleasant Uah truvclinp; party of ladies and gentlemen, with mutual kindly regards re-gards for each other, wish through the columns of The Times to express their grateful recognition of courtesies and favors received from officials and employes em-ployes of every railway over whose hues they Jiave traveled, but especially and emphatically from C. E. Ingalls Esq of the Union Pacific raiiroad. aud M. J. Greevey of the Chicago & Northwestern North-western railroad, each traveling passenger passen-ger agents of their respective roads. The overland traveler over these two roads may rely upon good cars, good management and courteous treatment, judging from our experience. With this assurance, Utah may invite to her homolike and fertile valleys and to her grand mountain treasure-houses, the stalwart laborer and mechanic, and the energetic manufacturer and investor, together with the weary invalid whose appreciation of' kindly consideration is keen in proportion to his need of it. 3 TRIP TO -BEANDOM. ibuktions and Pleasures of Utah's Eepresentatives While Journeying to r j tlie G, A. B. Enoampment, A IN BE6AL PASHION. an hat Wa Eeen' Heard and Don8 in bric the Various States Traversed ; by the Party. t - " Boios. Aug. 0. Correspondent lc. TfiB Times--Last Monday niorn-loa niorn-loa August 4th, at 8 o'clock, after 10c. y)piug our votes and good wishes for '-It , Ub'ril t'e'iet' ftnc for tn0 vor" voffof "liossisra" in both parlies, we r nrdod tho Pullman sleeper "Yellow. nc," hound for Boston and a cargo a u'kwl beans. i : Tho wnl "Utah," in largo letters and iny colors, and trimmed with the ed, white and blue," was painted on nv'as on each side of the car, and at- tjo: acted miifli attention and many in-iiries. in-iiries. One especially loud questioner Iowa was answered that "we were 5 to nts going east to teach a higher eivi- thaj atioa to effete Nw England." Gliding alonf? green lields and n irough the bending orchards of Davis i cor anty, the blue lake on tho one hand, o now-fleckod mountains on the her, and inhaling the invigorating orningairwo felt at peace with "all ,e world and the rest of mankind." lopping for a half hour at Ogden, hero one or two comrades joined us, was learned upon anxious enquiry utitwas election time, and "no beor" or j as the order of the day. Consequent-a Consequent-a good portion of Ogden was seen nder favorable circumstances. Our n0, lagniticent car, the "Yellowstone," nit- rlonging to the C. & N. W. Railway impany, was attached to the "over- n tt(l flyer" train and her paper wheels ,w almost noiselessly over tho steel ids up Weber canyon. The canyons f the Wasatch are always beautiful or Boston is sprinkling her narrow streets from the kindly clouds this August Aug-ust afternoon, and will give the gathering gather-ing veteran clans a most generous welcome, wel-come, the details of which vour readers will undoubtedly learn through vour columns. J. F.'B. Irand as they are seen at different sea- fas. Personal experience in a snow jorm at an altitude of 10,000 feet justi-3ofc justi-3ofc Jus the assertion that their beauty and jrandeur merges into the terrible at lines. But here and now the cozy, jultivated nooks by the upward lay, -the rushing trout . streams, lugged by the sinuous track, the Jurying hues of mountain flowers, jj' lie blue sky and the stimulating air of l.e mountains were sources of exquisite lelight. 10: j The coal lands are reached. Forbid-ling Forbid-ling on the surface, the black diamonds leneath are rich with blessings for the limestic fireside, for roaring furnaces Ind rushing locomotives. Flourishing ' Iowds like Evanston and Bock Springs 11 i trow up around and above them, and In army of grim, subterranean workers lorever fight the elements to snatch the jewels from nature's treasure house, 1 ind always come off victorious. Day merges into night, while, with 1 tireless energy, the powerful engine kith panting puffs pulls ten heavy cars l-perchance some heavy hearts within, Ip the steep ravines. Who that has leen a gorgeous sunset in the Rockies, 'm rill ever forget it? Some shade of Inxiety mingles with its going down j lliis evening, for the principles, (not the placemen), of the Liberal Lib-eral party are sacred, and they are at Itake today in Zion. Shadows creeps lownthe ravines, darkness veils tho liountain peaks and tired sightseers leek their berths. But the roar and tumble of the rushing train goes on, Ihile with philosophic Sancho we all Bless the man who "invented sleep," Ind take advantage of his inventive kenius. I Suddenly a great silence falls on hissing hiss-ing steam and whirling wheel, and (reamers, shod with 6even league boots Is suddenly awake to learn of a freight Ipset a few miles ahead and a conse-fciient conse-fciient delay of from six to seven hours, lie drew in to the little mining town of Pana, where the explorations of the J'- P. R. R. on their productive mine psextended to a depth of 1100 feet, pa the steps taken for permanent improvement im-provement in building up a town prom-Iws prom-Iws a successful enterprise. I Twelve double-decked cars loaded pith sheep halted behind us, and while PS sheep stealers, visions of famine disappear, dis-appear, the heat and thirst of the poor Poimals make ns hope for their sakes 1'iat our enforced halt will be brief. We fn released from blockade by 10 o'clock f ni., mount to the Shermar summit Pod with a railroad speed of sixty miles Pji hour take our way to the great flams of the Platte. We leave behind l?e comfortable heat and tonic of our f 'an atmosphere and take perforce the Pultry stickiness and depressing air of file Atlantic slope. I .At Cheyenne we hear that the entire p'oeral ticket' in Salt Lake county is famed, and a ratifying mass-meeting, f rested over bv Mi's. S. O. Cumraings a Lake-is held in tho car. I, At Omaha a dispatch came that all Fe liberal ticket with the exception of recorder and sheriff was carried. This pas a damper, for Comrade Page especially espe-cially hadour votes and best wishes. Mr. Jnoughton telegraphed to learn tho facts looping to receive an answer at Chica-K", Chica-K", which place was reached about 10 o clock Wednesday evening. But no lanswer came and we are in suspense FOday in Boston as in Omaha. I But the welcome rain is falling and Pe pass swiftly over the 30 miles inter-rening inter-rening to wide awake Omiha where FPetul life is in the air and material jProwth is seen on every side. The ryreat Muddy is crossed and through interminable cornfields and by fine F d of bloded atock, the rich, rolling l-anas of Iowa and Illinois are crossed. K-very water power is utilized with fe?m-as a handmaid while shops and I actones are multiplying on every hand, louring the last decade, hamlets have frown into towns, these into cities and v-meago has become the second city in hr!U?lon- Driven out by tbe great re of 1871, 1 came back to inquire my ,ay over ground traversed a wousand times in ancient days t,L tw;enty . years ago. Some for of,tnousands of Odd Fellows, uni-' uni-' ed and wisely otherwise, were fnsnt on one of their gala days mak-'"g mak-'"g but a drop in the bucket of multi-;,,.llnus multi-;,,.llnus people. Our continental . ." inscribed car, attracted much "mention from the hurrying crowd of c'ty, and the quiet dwellers in the Untry, and as Mr. Gillespie, of tbe camber of commerce, had furnished "with enveloped Utah literature, it "a scattered liberallv by the way to J'ung recipients. One half-drunken .j".0'- however, as we were passing at a 10-night through an electric-lifinted |