The Lincoln County herald., 1871-05-25
(For the Liacoia County Hsraldl
The Railroad Picnic 10 Hurricane
Township Last Saturday. 4

Township Last saturday.
For the laudable advancemsnt aHd i'm |
provement Of Ciarksville and Pike county
generally, OF At ieast the eastern portion
Of that delightful garden spot, Robert
Campbell, Esq, of Louisiana and Capt.
John Roberts of Clarksvillo, advertised
in hand bill form that there would be .
"grand picnic" at Philip Fink's spring,
in Hurricane township, whore they in.
tended to abuse the good people Of Troy
aud talk Clarksville and Western railroad
to tho delight Of all who attended. But,
thought they, tell this not in Bedford, let
not those 'senseless" people of Troy hear
Of our grand scheme to get seventy five
thousand dollars out Of Hurricane to
build up the Aeeting interests Of Clarks
vile, they might be offended at our re-
marks; how shalLwe manage il? Oh,
easy enough; date the bills Is 20, and
If the ignorant Trojans should accident.
ally see one of the bills, their thoughtless
brain will think it is a joy of the past
but to guard against even this, we will
only print limited number and post
them up in tho darkness Of the night (it
time for our dcceitful schene), only a
day before the affair. The plan was con.
summated and Troy heard not of tho
''grand" affair. rH...
Now it came to pass that the good peo.
plc Of Hurricane so misunderstood this
hospitable invitation, that they thought
it was the Capt. Johns and the Honora
Bile Bohs "treat;" that they had char.
tered the Mollie McPike, or some other
steamer, on which the milk and honey of
Pike would be transported to the glorious
scene of action or that train of the
Clarksvillc and Western railroad, with a
snort, and dash, and tremendous crash
would unload at tho grounds all the deli
cacies Of the land. The people gathered,
with Honorable Bob, and Capt. John, and
MIR. Reed Of the Louisiana Journal, all
riding astridc their chargers, looking
like they wero use to "being on the fence"
ready to fall off on whichever side they
beheld the most people. They mounted
the stump, and they praised Hurricane
township, and said there was but one man
in Troy (Bonfils) who had any sense, and
that he wrote all the railroad addresses
purporting to como from the President
of the st. Louis and Keokuk road that
Mr.. Voolfolk was "clever sort of q
fellow, but be didn't have sense enough
to run railroad" But the crowd knew
Mr.. Voolfolk better than the speaker,
and wouldn't swallow the idlotic assser-
ton. The Pike countians comcpetely >
. climbed, skinned and jayhawked," Troy
, hoping to arouse the prejudices Of thei'
e hearers.
The people having their minds gorged
, by these honorable haranguers, soon be
] gan to look for the anticipated "treat.
. But the Mollie didn't steam up, and nc
. distant rumbling IF the coming train was
I heard.
The people waited hungrily.
Now there was gentleman present
Mr.. Elijah Myers, who doesn't like to Sc.
his friends imposed upon by a set of spec
ulators, who are looking after their owl
and Clarksvillo's interest at the expense
, Of Hurricane township. He understood
their dodge, and bravely exposed it to the
, people assembled. Captain John looked
wild, and the Honorable Bob had forebo
, dings that Hurricane township had nc
more confidence in what he said than die
the directors of the Louisiana and Mex
: leo road 10 his railroad abilities wher
f they refused to have him reign over then
as president longer. Defeated in that
Q he aspiros to this
. And the people waited hungrily.
2 The Molie didn't steam up; still nc
r rumbling Of the distant very distant
train was heard. Now 1t happened tina
. few had no confidence in Captain John
= and tho Honorable Bob's advertised din
ner, and were cautious enough to take
few basketfuls with them, which wer'
generously distributed, but they didn'
hold out like the loaves and fishes.
And still some Of tho people wai,et
hungrily.
Mr.. Reeds aud Honorable Bob sue
cceded 10 procuring corn for their steeds
Perhaps they may talk of the inhospi
tality Of Hurricane, but if they hadn'
linfimatad that Il waa fLaf. LLf.aat y an,