Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-01-18


The case. The same year a young Viz
glnian was elected the first delegate to
Congress the Northwest ever had, and
AZ years after we sang of him 15
''Tippecanoe and Tyler too,,
and elected him the "log-cabin and
hard cider President of these United
States.
We next took "'bus'' 16 miles up
the river, to visit the last link of four
whicl! made up the 500 years and IL
months. This you had better believe
was an "old settlers meeting" or, if
you like it better, q meeting of old
folks, where the ''doughnuts and chick
en- fixin's" were discussed with a rel
ish which would have done credit to
the best appetites in she country
Leaving enough, however, for anoth.
e. visit (for Polly is great on poultFy)
we returned to the city; but as the
smallpox was almost epidemic, We
rather slighted some of our nieces and
cousins, and brought up with other
kindred near Glendale, II miles out
Here the mercury had business about
zero, so we held ON a few days. Near
our stopping place, Y years ago, q
log meeting house, in which the par
son, on sprinkling my forehead, ad-
monished my parents that to Hspare
the rod would spoil the chilG'' an aC1-
monition they took care to re.
member, for they frequently quickened
the sensibillty of us young folks by
the use of hickory. Near by also stood,
20 years ago, a log school-house, in
which first learned to pronounce s'A.."
cable" Abraham" and "Aminadab, {"
besides learning to read some of the
"easy lessons in Dillworth's spelling
book. Our teacher was an Irishman,
who had been driven from his country
for ''the wearing of the green" and he
began the first letter he wrote home
with
ftFor the West where savage hordes reside
Smooth mississippi rolls her copio1s tide.
And fair Ohio weds her silver side"
Pretty good that for an Irishman buG
he would often talk hazel to his schol-
ars, and every time one offended he
would lay up a we'll proportionsd ha-
eel rod, ''to have it ready against the
day of final reckoning" That day,
however, did not arrive till the last
day of school, when he delivered one
of the most appropriate lectures to
young folks / ever heard, and closed
with prayer, he gathered in his hazol
brush, remarking that the very sight
of them had effected all he had intend
ed, and with our consent he would
throw them on the fire. AS nary one
said no, the school closed amid the
cracking of hazel brush, and such a
hugging and kissing of the master as
made him look as cheerful as bolt of
red flannel. In sight of the same spot,
too, 60 years ago, first did mans
work in a harvest field. Six of us,
with our sickles, cut and put in shock,
in one week, 40 acres of good wheat,
to which the owner said "bully for you"
Here, too. 5S years and months be-
fore, q splice of the masculine and
feminine took place, and we again ate
and drank and made merry in the same
room.
But the most interesting part of my
visit was a day spent in the Spring
Grove Cemetery. This place was con-
secrated as burial place in August
1864, and the footing up of the asso-
cations affairs, in October last, shows
an area of 476 acres, 5,572 lot holders,
and %, $40 burials. Some 200 of these
lots are finished up in the most be-
coming style that the art of landscape
gardening is capable of Indeed by
many it is held to be the model eeme-
terry in the United States. The asso-
citation have expended over $3.50, ,00O
in improving and embelishing their
grounds, yet have so managed theiI
affairs as to have a surplus fund OF
Sl00,oo6 on hand They grade and
sod al lots, and Charge SO cents the
square foot for all frontingOn an ave
nue., 40 cents for the second tier, end
80 cents for the remainder. One cause
of their success is found in rule 4, or
interments
''All interments will he subject to the
following charges, which are reasona
bic. and must be paid to the secretary
on obtaining the permit; but no inter
ment will be allowed in any lot unit
the lot has been paid for g. ...-
Reasonable charges for all they do
and pay in advance, is their motto, and
an enlightened and generous public
says amen. Moreover. when the grasp
ing miser comes complaining of th'
charge Of so cents or 81 per annum fol
keeping lot in order, they admonist
him to ''go elsewhere and seek holC
in the ground The pens, hedges
and brush which had accumulated Il
the first ten years use of these ground
have nearly all disappeared, as well a
many of the uncouth headstone
and monumental futures of the past
and their place supplied by a clear
sod, with here and there an arpropri
ate evergreen or decidious plant, inter
spersed with many of the finest spec
linens of monumental architecture tina
the art is capable of-giving tn
whole an air of beauty, light and shad
that one is almost ready to exclaim
"What 4 luxury to rest in such 1
place"
The known liability to decay in al
stratified stone, is admonishing al
who can, to use granite for monu
ments. 1t seems to be a we'll settle
opinion among geologists that gran
ite alone will endure our changeabl
; climate Therefore" saws Ri
Strauch, ''it is the best and eheapes
in the end" 'Even the best Italian
marble" says another of high authori
ty, "will soon lose its glossy surfac
in this changeable climate" We hav
but to go to our own burial places O
; a few years standing, for the evidences
OF the GRANTEES, the red, blue, and gray
, of Scotland, and the Quincy Of ou
own country, are the best, and are i
high favor both in Spring Grove an,
= Crewn Hill. Nor in Spring Grov