The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-09-04


two drug stores, onS fruit and grocery
store, one agricultural implement store,
one blacksmith rhof, two real estate Of.
fees, one printing dice, two hotels and
professional men asinumerous as we gen
orally find them d western towns
The growth of the town has been re-
markable. This is pur conclusion when
We remember that shout three years ago
"a man wss killed b. the Indians very
near the town sile-then q bowling
waste. We were pkased to meet several
former residents Of Salina: Capt. ID. W.
Henderson, Capt. ". S. Wait. Jim Trav-
is, II. J. Wisncr AMI lady, T. l.. Web
stcr and E. C. Fisher. We formed the
acquaintance of several gentlemen whose
names we would mention if we could re-
member them. We called upon Barn.
hardt & Buzick, editors and proprietors
OF the Neus. Their paper is weli-con-
Quoted and very popular. They are
making money, and will soon add anoth-
or column to their paper. These gen.
tlemen are intelligent and weli-posted as
to the wants of their county. We al,
most forgot to mention the grist mill at
the Center, which is good structure,
filed with first-class machinery, and is
manufacturing splendid -four. People
from Lincoln, Ellsworth and Ottawa
counties haul their grain to this mill.
Lincoln Center has q good future in
prospect and i, quite likely to be the
chief city Of the upper Saline.
Among many thrifty farmers Of the
county, We met our old friend, W. T.
Eubank, who has secured half section
of beautiful land three miles south ofthe
Center. He has one Of the most com.
modious and comfortable houses in the
county. Ills hospitable family gave oui
conrad choice food, and a pleasant room
for the night-the thought Of which
made US envious, after night of patient
suffering on q couch bushwhacked by
the " insidcous foes" of the skin.
We babe adieu TO Center at an early
hour in the morning, an! soon made our
way to ancient Abram, whose palaces
and aquaducts and splendor have long
since gone to decay. Over its ruined
walls sacrilegous Ccntorites ride their
stecds, while strangers gr6pc about for
inscriI tons among her ruined pillars
and columns. We founi only the caba-
listic words on fly Leaf: AGO TO Obsr
& Bombs for clothing, boots aud shoes
and gents furnishing goods We saw
the spot of ground upon which rested
the building in which Mr.. Hubbard
was killed. The building is now used rs
grocery store at the Center. Wepassed
on to Rocky Hill psstofiice. Here is To-
Gated the mill built and run by 7. ID.
Bennett, once resident of Saline coun,
ty. lie has a good mill, good water
power and has been doing good bust
ness. His dam broke away during Il
late freshct, causing him considerable
damage. The dam is constructed OF
stone and he is now making every Ell
fort to make it more durable. Teams
can cross the river upon the dam. There
is also saw -mill at this place. Mike
Stearns, whom everybody knows, owns
aud runs drug store there. He is do
ing well. Rocky Hill will make very
good trading point.
All things considered Lincoln county
is just as good as any of her neishbors
Politics up there is absorbing. and can
didates are pleasant. Investigation is IL
order. Several politicians arc writing
up their antobiographies, after having
exhausted tho dictionary in search o
endearing words to grace their funcra
orations over several politically dead &c
sars. As most of the people of Lincolr
county are ,iIlers Of the soil they may
all become grangers, if they like, ant
they "like."
The distance between Rocky Hill ar,
Salina, on our homeward march, wa
Quickly annihilatcd by.our charger. bu
no,before the animal had introduced hiri
self to all wayside objects, really picasur
ableto him but not TO US, unless enjoy
mcnti is found in shipwrecks, railroad &C
cidents and boiler explosions. lie may
have been a Chesterfield in horse Ell
quettc and prsciseness, bat we very muci
doubt it.
We stole on down the pleasant valley
by pleasant hooks and river bends, by
coy farm houses and waving grain
by all these We stole and our compan
ion stole a melon Such was our conclus
ion from strong circumstan,ia! evidence
the makeup which was as follows: lst
We had no melon when VIC started from
Salina. 81, We had no money when W
reached the Center. Sd, The Doctor
y, CO. Sn-aral bnurs