The Lincoln County herald., 1871-06-29
Frsn esr LsuisIasa Csrrespenlsis.
LOUISIANA, No., Juos -.

Dear Herold. Ny best bow after .
silence 90 long to you aud your many
readers. I an pleased that leisure hour
permits me 10 renew the pleasant associs
tons of the past with the good people Of
your rising city-for learn that you are
on the advance, and i. delights me TO greet
yoa As tho rising Troy aud not as the
fallen Pergsma. My recollection Of Troy
goes back to infant years, say thirty i've
years ago, when the Bessers, Paddocks,
Cot.les, Slmonds, TO-, held sway; when
the town was pretty much confined to the
square around the spout spring"; when
hoop. poles, and pumpkins, and maple.
sugar constituted the staple products Of
the county; when every Saturday was q
"high old day" in town; when . certain
corner log room, now either passed away
or covered with plank and paint, wss the
scene Of many mad revel. How few Of
the men of that day sie now left Let
me think Horace B. Wing and Walter
Perkins, Allen Glore and-who else yet
lluger on the shores Of time! Alas !
how many noble spirits have "psssed
over tho river and rest now, We hope, in
the shade u Peace to their ashes.
shap. Voolfolk aud Fred. Wing were
then boys. Now, l learn, they are both
men, and considerable men. too, high in
the public trust one ex-sherif and pres.
ident of tho st. Louis and Keokuk rail
road, the other acting sheriff, en- pdssdnt.
1 would appeal to Shap. BY the memory
of those school.boy days, and BY tho bat
and ball which We have used 10 common
% often. TO lepye. off his wild theory Of q
Pike county, aud build his road upon the
chartered line, where it belongs and where
il will ultimately come, and stop forever
the fierce strife which is rending the
vitals Of Lincoln and Pike both. There
is but one legal route, and if the St. Louis
and Keokuk railroad is constructed upon
it, it is all right; if upon any other sur.
vey, it is not tho St. Louis aud Keokut
road at al, and none Of the chartered
privileges will inure to il. Will you tell
me what authority you have to build that
road and leave Louisiana eleven miles
cast Of your road2 None whatever. If
you build road upon the existing rail.
road law you can get no grant Of money
from the county except by two-third
vote, which you know you can never
command hence the whole concern is
wrong, and the quicker you right about
face and build where you can legally do
so, the better it will be. favor the
proposition to build directly to Troy, and
to bury the strife:
Please excuse this mention of railroads.
I was never in "ring," and hope never
to be F.; but speaking Of guns always re-
minded me Of shooting, and thinking of
my quondam friend Shap., railroads pop.
ped into my head, and out of the fulness
Of the heart the mouth speaketh, and so
1t went off. Peccavi!
We have many blessings hero to com.
plain Of. Health plenty and the ample
promise Of more. What set Of grum.
blers the human family are, and how they
must try the patience Of the "Powers
that be-" Not content with enough
with garners overAowing with the "yellow
harvest seed" many Of them would com.
plain and fuss, even though their grain
were cut, threshed, bsgged, carried to
mill, ground and brought home to thom,
because it was not sifted and baked. We
are fully three weeks in advance Of the
season. OR market is we'll supplied
with vegetables and fruits, and the prom.
Use of both, especially the latter, is fine,
The wheat harvest is about over; the
yield will be fine. Corn is unusually
good. Oats and meadow light. To.
bacco backward; much will depend upon
the next ten days. The dry earth pant.
ing for rain got good soaking last night,
and now the heavens are hung in black
portending little more of the same Sort
We have no special news in our city.
We have now in addition to former attrac
tions the iron horse speeding rapidly
for the waters of the Missouri, and along
the line of his track where his iron hoof
has beaten down the prairie grass, new
houses, and new enclosures, and new
towns rise, as frow the wand of an en-
chsnter. Curryville, Vandalia and Lad.
donia just inside of Audrain county are
the products. 1t is supposed the track
layers will reach Mexico by the 10th Of
July. The Quincy and st. Louis rail
road approaching from the north will be
with US by winter. When shall We have
the St. Louis and keokuk road from the
south2 Echo says whenl
Pike county sympathizes deeply with
Lincoln in her bereavement over the
death OF Gen. Stewart He was nat.
ural born nobleman-fully and in every
respect up to tho statue Of . full grown
man mentallv morally and phvsicallv
The good and pure die FIRST.
Wehave no politics here the old ring l
believe is broken up. Henderson and Geo.
Anderson have both moved to st. Louis,
the later an out and out Democrat. Col.
Dyer is turning an honest penny in his
profession, Maj. Campbell gone railroad
ing, and the boys generally attending to
their own business. Reid of the Jour
nal and Welch of the Sentinel are both
on the housctop watching the "new de-
parture."
One word, one tear, upon the tomb Of