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horses, $50,000 ; sheep about $10,000, and his farms some $350,000. 

 Besides, he is said to be a property-holder in Chicago, from $200,- 

 000 to $300,000 : and he has invested over half a million dollars in 

 Iron works on Green river, where he has employed quite a colony 

 of Scotchmen, "imported" by him from the land of his ancestry. 

 On the third instant his annual sale of fine stock takes place at the 

 farm, after which — about the middle of the month probably — he 

 takes his annual trip to Scotland. Although a bachelor of about 

 thirty-five, he evidently takes much enjoyment, but intimated to me 

 that after his arrangements and improvements should be completed, 

 a better mansion built, a park and horticultural garden reared, he 

 might have a cage prepared for his bird of paradise. 



FRANKFORT, ETC. 



The farmers generally in Woodford county are wealthy, and are 

 turning more attention than ever to scientific farming. At the 

 capitol, I made the acquaintance of the Auditor of State, T. S. Page, 

 Esq., Rev. J. N. Norton, and Prof Fall, of the Female High 

 School. The latter gentleman has a beautiful green-house on his 

 premises, greatly admired by every one, and estimated the best in 

 the State. These gentlemen take a decided interest in the promo- 

 tion of science, connected with field operations. Frankfort itself 

 appears like a dull, insipid town ; it has, however, one of the hand- 

 somest and most delightful spots, as a cemetery for the dead, to be 

 found in the western country. It is situated on the highest grounds 

 in the vicinity, and overlooks the Kentucky river, which is some two 

 hundred feet below. The landscape scenery is enchantingly pictur- 

 esque. There are many very fine monuments erected, one by the 

 State in memory of the champions whose remains were brought 

 from Palo Alto, and Beuna Vista — sons of Kentucky as they were — 

 to rest with their fathers. Another fine piece of work memorizing 

 Richard Johnson and the death of Tecumseh, is here depicted 

 on the stone. The citizens are about erecting another fine one 

 to the memory of Daniel Boone. A rough enclosure, composed 

 of rocks and a noble twin Elm tree, now mark the spot where this 

 intrepid hunter and his wife lay side by side. 



LEXINGTON. 



This city, once the business emporium of the west, long since lost 

 its charm ; but of late, since the completion of the Covington & 

 Lexington Railroad, has seemed very much to revive. Farmers, too, 



