. The life of James W. Grimes : governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; a senator of the United States, 1859-1869 . llprobability the better and larger portion of my life is past. Butsuch isthe fate of all. This is a world of change, and it is foolishto wish it otherwise. My health has been excellent since I returned,though there has been much sickness here, and many deaths. OurCongregational clergj-man * was buried yesterday. He was a tal-ented and quite promising young man from Massachusetts, and hasleft a young widow to whom he had been married only twelvemonths. She too came from Massachusetts, and i
. The life of James W. Grimes : governor of Iowa, 1854-1858; a senator of the United States, 1859-1869 . llprobability the better and larger portion of my life is past. Butsuch isthe fate of all. This is a world of change, and it is foolishto wish it otherwise. My health has been excellent since I returned,though there has been much sickness here, and many deaths. OurCongregational clergj-man * was buried yesterday. He was a tal-ented and quite promising young man from Massachusetts, and hasleft a young widow to whom he had been married only twelvemonths. She too came from Massachusetts, and is now left entirelydestitute among strangers. Our winter has been remarkably mild and pleasant. We havehad no sleighing, and only two snow-storms. The snow at neithertime remained upon the ground more than forty-height hours. Theweather is now so mild that we have for the^ast week or ten daysdispensed with stoves and fires. Our town has been very activethis winter, and our merchants have done a good business. I am 1 Rev. Horace Hutchinson (Amherst College, 1839, Andover Theological Semi-nary, 1843).. LIFE AT BUKLINGTON. 25 told by some of them that there are ten thousand barrels of flour,one hundred thousand bushels of wheat, fifteen thousand barrels ofpork, and one hundred thousand bushels of corn, and other articlesof produce in proportion, ready to be shipped from this wheat is now worth fifty cents, spring wheat thirty-fivecents, corn ten cents, oats twelve and a half cents per bushel. I know not whether I told you about a speculation that I wastrying to make while I was East, in the purchase of lands. I donot like to talk about myself so much, nor to brag, but I know youwant to hear all about me, and I will therefore say that I was for-tunate in the operation and succeeded, beyond my hopes even, inmaking money by it. Our law business is still good, much the any lawyers in the Territory. Mr. Grimes was married to Miss Elizabeth Sarah Nealley atBurlingto
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