The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-01-13

oft-repeated tale of piety for pretence.
In 1868 there was On old settlers meet
ing at Niles, at which several prominent
men made speeches Some of them ex-
pressed great sympathy for the self
sacrificing" missionary who moved there
fifty years ago on ponies, with his wife
and one child though they did not
mention the endearing name he left be-
hind him, that of Land Pirate
1t was in the year 1899 that Mr..
Rich, Mr.. Gard and Mr.. Goble, planted
fifteen acres of corn in this new country.
Gard and Rich went back to Union Co.
Indiana, with their families and Goble
moved to Little Prairie Ronde, Oct. %,
where he bought quarter section when
it came into market, at one dollar and a
quarter per acre. IN November of that
year there came heavy fall of snow,
and rain enough on it to make thick
crust, 50 that travelling was an impossi-
bility. The new settlers were out of
flour and meal and nothing to make
bread of, and Gard and Goble shelled q
half bushel at grist, and pounded it
with an iron wedge fixed into u piece of
wood for pestle. 1t being long dis
tance to mill, they lived in this way
eight months, with six in the family
Samuel Rich grated his corn with Il
piece of perforated tin fastened to a
board, made following for a receptacle.
The ears of corn were first soaked fifteen
or twenty minutes in hot water, so that
it would not shell off while passing over
the crater.
About the middle of May, 1881, their
quiet settlement was thrown into con-
sternation by the arrival of an express
rider with orders to march forthwith to
Niles thence to Illinois, provided with
ten days rations, to fight the Sauk In
dians The great Black Hawk had
come over from Iowa to Rock River
with his band, to repOssess himself of
his lands in that section They divided
themselves into small squads and trav-
eled all along the frontier Of Illinois,
killing and robbing whenever opportu-
nifty presented. One party visited a
settlement on Fox River, where a mill
was being built, and killed the entire
party, consisting of men, women and
children, except one boy who escaped on
horseback. They also took two other
women prisoners.
The next morning after the Prairie
Ronde settlers were ordered out, they
marched to Niles, arriving there at five
P. NJ, and fell in with the regiment, ex-
pecting to 90 to Chicago but were dis
missed and returned home, as their ser
vices were not then needed. Twice af.
ter that they were ordered out as far as
Niles and returned, each time being
about ten days between. About the
time of the third march of the Prairie
Ronde whites to Niles, Black Hawk was
taken prisoner and his band cut to
pieces, and our heroes were honorably
discharged, wearing home the laurels of
a bloodless victory on their part. In
one Of the companies belonging to IN
Illinois regiment of this Indian war, the
unpretending and unconscious of future
greatness ABRAHAM LINCOLN was lieu
tenant. Even then the warp and woof
of his destiny was being woven by an
unseen hand, that reached out over years
Of the most thrilling and important
period of our national history. His
own life was sacrificed in time of his
countrys most imminent peril, and he
rests from his labors in the same State
where he served as an officer in the
early Indian war.
This brief Indian war caused more
uneasiness to the women of the Prairie
Ronde settlement than to those who
buckled on their armor and marched to
the fray During their absence the first
time, Mrs Charles, Mrs. John Goble,
and Eliza Title (now Mrs. Elijah Goble)
being left alone were frightened, and
took the precaution to secrete themselves
in fort of their own construction.
They went to straw stack in field
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