The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-10-11
Earliest Authentic History Of
I.Ouis,ilic.

Esir.t frru L.Sinron, NJ, Ciuels.laa.
just hundred year. ago to-day, at
10 inmate. past Q O'Clock \. ~, by n POT
metal tin bull.cyo frying-pan with Seth
Thomas brass etcrnals aud a cylinder cs-
opponent. lone house might have been
seen standing, like a solitary advance
guard ofcivilization, upon the site of the
now proud anil beautiful Fall. City. 1t
was one-story sinslc-room, brownstone
front, frame eiiIicc, built of logs, bought
realy.made ia Chicago. and so located
as to command a wide and picturesque
view Of the prospective Jeiiersonville
ferry-landng aud penitentiary. It, fur
niture consisted Of barrel of Bourbon
county benzine- first cousin 10 Blantons
B,urbuns) "a fiftecn-fuot rifle with a
grndstone for n flint, stub-handled
gourd, u buckskin hpnting-'hirt, an as
sortment of newly-dfr.se scllps, a dozen
lop-eared hound,, a three-legged stool,
and Mr.. ID. Boone-the name being a
contraction of tha original kickapoo
"boohouin'," u weakness to which its
owner was much addicted when he first
set himself up in business, so far from
home. Shortly after ID. b. not b.
D-n) hung out hia shingle at the ro-
maltic Fall of the Ohio, one bright Fall
morning, he espied one Of. G.. p. RJames'
SOLITARY hor.amen," wedding his way
down the river on foot. This youth, who
from Vermeount, had kun reound deown
to Kaintuck in the carpct-bagging trade.
lie rounded to ju>t above the humble
dwelling of the great pioneer, hualed up
hi. dug-out on the leycr at the foot of 3d
street, and entered the employ of Mr..
Roone. a. hi, boon compinion, aud ir-i
prentice ut the ,calpiug biz. \ few days
reconnaissance in gie regisn there and
thereabouts, convinced thi. shrewd Prem
tice boy, wlo.ena ne vas Gr0rge ID. that
the i'm Mortal interests, for time and eter'
ntv aud several other things, ofthe peo
ple. whom, in imagination, he alread,
saw nocking thither like sheep to the
shcaring, required great accuracy in keep
ing hi, records and accounts with ol,
ID. Boone. lie therefore began the pub
lication of the Louisville Only JcurHa'
having borrowed peck of long-primel
-5rid shart-spellins-booS type ham In
,JefTersonville De iccrdt office. This en-
terpri.e of the young. Nermeounter start
led the slumbering echoe' OF the WeSterr
wilderness, in the wales and caverni
where they had rested ever since the DE
luge. 1t stimulated other newsPaperia
adventures, among whom most note
worthy, came drifting down the Ohio
that literary piscator, Shad Penn, arme,
with a quire of ily-Paper. lemon-squee
zer, three jugs, and Il bell-crown hat tnl
of ancient burgeois, with long "f' : iol
"s"-es. This~shad-fronied kinsman o
the venerable humbug. that earned th'
reputation oi philauthropist by palaver
ing and swindling the Pennsylvania In
dians out uf their lands, instead oftakini
them like hero, by highwayman torc'
and arms, Immediately launched upoI
the tide of the Louisvillian ink-slingery
tha Daay Adcriiser. Both these primi
tive journals were printed in the back
parlor, of Mr.. Buone's dogeriy
They soon opened newspaperial war
ia of such rancorous vehemence, thu
the gentle rel man, who loved not nois!
and angy words, but whose hearts wa
bent on more peaceful avocation of doinI
up his neighh IRIS hair la mode, in di'
gust inefiable. moved over the river t
Jefiarsonville. The sudden departure q
so many of Prentice's patrons inilicte'
serious loss upon his rising shebang
Penn eXulted with pen and tounge; bu
short was his triumph. Prentice, fired t
desperate effort, SCARED tn an immortalit.
of ludicrous nastiness, which left hi hap
less contemporary, painting with baffie'
hopes and seething envy, immeasurabl
behind and beneath. 4 \