| Show lym mul in r fj i j i i di ri birginia watering places 1 L virginia august 1876 1870 ic P 11 rh many health resorts in the southwestern south bouth western sec see 1 iton of the old dominion may be reached most easily casily avia vea wea via the washington city virginia midland and great southern rall kail road from lV washington ashington to gor ido dons ville the traveler passes through localities replete with his interest AB As the train triin siow slow bp at different points the brakesman nidai opens the car door and shouts budh once thrilling names as manassas bristoe cutletts Cat letts brandy tion naion Rap idail and orange court house near which last place the battle of the wilderness was fought but the traveler looks in vain for monuments strikingly suggestive of the sad heroic times when these llames liames names meant than railway stations kind nature has covered with thick verdure the bloody of the tho war and the battle battie fields that were once ploughed sloughed hed by the cannon of contending armies are now ploughed sloughed hed by tilo the yankee husbandmen who bought these lands soon aften after ap po maLox under the mis mistaken impression ples pies glon gion that they would be valuable from their historic associations attracting tourists from all parts of the country it is interesting of course to see the fields that were BO so recently the theatre of terrible tragic energy but with the exception of bf worn earthworks earthworms earth works on the hilltops and here and there a line of breastworks or a half decayed stockade there is nothing to tellof tell teli of the armies that beauregard john mcclellan grant 4 lee jackson pope longstreet sheridan and wade hampton ni marched arched and countermarched counter marched through this thia part of the state or hurled against each other in a way that was not amicable on these fields u the town from which I 1 am writing ingham has an elevation of 2500 fee feet t above sea level jevel and is near the sources of the ten Ton tenessee essee river on one hand and the great hanaw K anaw ah on the other twenty five hundred feet is no great altitude but it is buff lelent sufficient to make a very apar ap appreciable pr e clab leand and invigorating daffler ence in the temperature as com pared with that of washington jor for philadelphia wytheville Wyth eville is an old town of two thousand inhabitants that has become without any effort or advert izing a place of summer resort visitors from southern cities come here every year to enjoy I 1 the pure mountain air country countr y living and magnificent scenery at twenty five dollars a month in good hotels this price for board ia Is strange but true and what is more remarkable to the unhappy dwellers in cities the board consists of chicken not bot older f han than ban the spring of 1876 mountain mutton beef that has not buffered suffered ered from the deteriorating effects of transportation half across the e continent fresh butt butter erand and milk up profaned by the pump the principal pastime here heie is ls is 15 riding riding horseback the horses are good and may be obtained at the javery very stables for a dollar and fifty f cents per day the distance the village to the top of an over hanging mountain called chimney rock bock is about three miles I 1 have climbed it iton foot on horseback and driven to aspot ascot a spot within two hundred yards of the summit wit with h a sparty party in in a wagon since the last feat I 1 have ceased to entertain a vulgar admiration for the pretty marches of hannibal and napole napoleon on abrass across the alps we wis never know what we ourselves may accomplish until we have tried once upon f the topmost rocks of the oliff cliff that crowns the mountain 3 a 06 panorama of sur bur surpassing 9 beauty 1 and ana extent is spread beneath bield field leid and fell rock and river one of the wildest and most moat highly improved portions of or virginia is seen as from a bal bali 1 loon A train of cars like a clumsy snake e is creeping up the valley three distinct punna puffs of white smoke issue from the whistle valve and after waiting walting a full half minute mft e three distinct whistles are heard this is more cheerful than the whoop of the savage though the latter music would seem more con sonant with the wild surroundings but it is not indispensable to climb to chimney hocks rocks to enjoy inspire ing moun mountain tahi tAbi scenery from my w n dow I 1 see twenty miles in indifferent dlf dif directions and at every turn of the mountain roads there bu bursts rats upon the vision iv wondrous ondrous land of endless variety eoy coy cosy homes lui iri bithe the valleys and on the bill sides bides white wooden houses shining through their green bower ment of native forest and arid fruit trees this south western portion 4 of the state has wonder wonderfully roly fOly recuperated kindo since tre the war as may be seen in the almost universal agricultural thrift new houses or newly painted and modernized old houses are seen everywhere new sowers reapers apers re threshers thre etc have taken the place of tho once indispensable darkie fine cattle of imported breeds and enormous weight graze upon these rich pastures or stand in in the creeks and lazily fight the busy fly C a A REMEDY FOR SM SMALLPOX ALL aln edward hine a correspondent of the liverpool mercury in a communication to that paper speaks as follows I 1 an am willing to risk my reputation ab a public man if the worst case of smallpox small pox cannot be effe effectually etu eth cured in three days simply cream of tartar this ia is the sure and never failing remedy one ounie ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in a pint of boiling water to be dr drunk u when cold at short intervals it can betaken betoken be taken at any time and is a preventive as well ds as a curative it is known to have cured in a hundred thousand cases without a failure 1 I have myself restored hundreds by this moans means it never leaves a mar knever causes blindness and always prevents tedious lingering if the people would only try it and report all the cures to you you would require to employ many columns if you gave them publicity |
