Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-01

,.membered with pleasing emotion,
~bilst to others its recoliections
IN cause feelings Of the
..ddest nature. On Sunday
s,s an event occurred which babe
air to be a joyful one, but ended with
a accident so sud az to cast a gloom
of.orrow over this community. 1t
was this;
old Mr. Hughes had invited his sons
and daughters with n few others to be
crescent at the old honest ,ad on that
d.v to witness the marriage Of his son,
ur John Hughes, to Miss Nancy Ev-
srman. The ceremony took place at S
m, Rev. John Potter officiating.
soon after the wedding the guests
we're invited by their host to partake
Of a goodly supper, at which half
hour was spent in eating, testing and
lstening to the stories of old times.
In fact they were having a general
good time.
A few minutes before sig Frank
Hughes, a youth of eighteen, son of
the host, lin company with a son of
Mr.. Andy Long, left the house with
the remark that they would go and
water the horses. They had been gone
out few moments when word was
brought that Frank had been thrown
from his horse and badly hurt-this
turned the scene Of joy to one of the
greatest sorrow. Frank was brought
to the house and physician immedi-
ately sent for, who, on examination,
pronounced the accident fatal. The
friends did all that could be done; but
after lingering. with the most terrible
suffering, for forty-eight hours, Frank
was kindly released from his pain by
death.
As near as | can learn, this painful
accident was caused by the horse Mr..
Long rode trying to kick the one hat
Dir. Hughes was on. The horse, i'm
trying to dodge the kicking, slipped
and fell on its knees, and i'm struggling
to regain it's feet slipped I'm such a
manner as to fall on the young mans
chest and head. His chest was brok-
en- in and his skull crushed bat, sin
gular as it may appear, the skin was
not broken on his body in any place.
Frank was o good, moral young
man, and his untimely death has
caused a feeling of sadness to prevade
the whole community. His funeral
took place on Tuesday, at one o'clock,
at the M. E. Church, and was attedn.
ed by a large number of friends and
sympathizers with the family. Rev.
Potter delivered very affecting and
judicious sermon.
On Christmas eve the NJ. E. Church
was scene Of festive joy, occasioned
by festival for the purpose of raising
funds to purchase books for the Sab
bath School of this place. The chief
attraction was wide-spreading
Christmas tree grooming under
Its load of presents, which were des.
tined to make the hearts of the little
ones overflow with gladness. The tree
was an ash, trimmed in such manner
that 1t was impossible, without close
observation, to not mistake 1t for an
evergreen, and when lighted up with
numerous tapers, and loaded with
presents of all descriptions, it present.
beautiful aprearance.
The success of the tree, am inform
ed, Was principally due to the fair and
skillful fingers of one of Knoxville's
former citizens, Miss Clara Rrodrick
One feature that caused few objec-
tons and much merriment, was lot
terry, on young scale, called grab
bag. You paid one dime for the priv
i,ege OF trying your fortune with this
magic bag. know one young man
who drew the worth Of his dime. He
grabbed and brought forth horrible
looking old woman. Oysters and
peaches We're sold at the festival for
the small sum of fifteen cents dish
and from the way that some of our
staid old brothers flew around and i'm
piored you to come up and for the
small sum of Is cents satisfy hungry
nature, person would have supposed
that they had i'm the past sold the BIZ
valves for living. About eleven
O'clock old st. Me. made his appear
ance, dressed in furs, sporting m i'm
mense grey beard; and like the old
woman. he had rings on his fingers
and bells on his toes.n He acted his
part 80 well that have an idea that
most Of the people thought it was old
Santa Claus himaelf. He was greeted
with shouts Of laughter wherever he
went. The y. S. realized profit OF
S2o AZ in money and many times that
AMOUNT in rtleasilra