The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-09-10
Posting an Old Couple on Historic
Spots.

Posting an Old Couple ON Histori,
Spots.
From the Detroit Free Press.
On the train the other day were very
confiding old man and very innocent
old lady. They had passed away five
sixths of their lives hidden away behind
the hills of Vermont, and were going t.
Western Michigan, on visit to theil
son. After a little skirmishing round
the old gentleman pitched into me about
the "crOps," "sile," and the weather
and when found how innocent he was
/ gave him all the information could
All at once, us we rode along, the wife
caught his arm and exclaimed:
"Look out, Samuel, or you'll be fer
getting that place where they fit"
The old man explained. He said that
young man who came down from Can
ada with them told him to look out fol
the battlefield of Braddock's defeat az
soon as he left Detroit.
/ was going to reply that the young
man was an internal liar, but the old
lady seemed to have set her heart on
seeing the spot, and the old man was SO
anxious that l could not bear to disap-
point them. / pointed out the battle.
field" and they put their heads out OF
the windows and took in the scene.
"Think of it, Hammer" exclaimed
the old man, as he drew in his head
"think of them Injuns creeping through
them woods and shooting Mr.. Braddock
down dead!"
"My soul!" replied the old lady, SEEM
ingly overcome at the idea, and she kept
her eyes on the woods until l thought
she would twist her neck off.
We got along all right for about five
miles more, and then the old man wanted
to know if we were not down pretty
near to the spot where Tecumseh fell.
"Where whatw l yelled, and he said
that the same young man had informed
him that the railroad ran close to the
identical spot where the great Indian
warrior fell and slept.
"It'll be a powerful favor to me an
Samuel if yell point out the spot" said
the old lady, placing her hand on my
arm.
How could / 60 back on what that
brazen young man had said? The old
folks had made up their minds to see the
spot, and if / didn't show it to them they
might worry for weeks, and they might
think the young man had lied, or that l
wasn't posted in the historic spots of my
own State. Lord forgive me, but about
mile further on / pointed out hill,
and said:
"Behold the last resting-place of the
great Tecumsehw
"Think of it, Hanner-just think of
itw exclaimed the old man, Fright there
is where they got himv'
"Mercy! but it don't seem pessiblew
she calculated, and she had to get out her
snuff-box before she could recover from
the shock.
The old gentleman said he had par
ticular interest in seeing the spot, be-
cause he knew the man who killed Te-
cumseh-used to live right by him.
"He must have been an awful Injun ~
broke in the old lady, "for the young
man said he didn't die till they had cut
off his head, and feet, and hands, and
blowed the body up with a barrel of
POWDER!
l wanted to get away after that, fear
ing that something worse was coming;
she insisted on my taking pinch of
snuff, and so ! kept my seat. We were
just beyond Brighton, when the old man
came at me like steamboat, with:
"Now, then, how fur is it to the spot
where they found the babes in the
woodsw
l wanted to get out of it, but how
could I? That young man had deliber-
ately lied to those nice old folks, and /
hadn't the moral courage to tell them so,
and thus had to make liar Of myself.
It's awful to deceive any one, especially
good old man, and a fat mOtherly old
lady, on their way to the tomb.
Thats-yes-that's the spot" ! said,
as we came to dark piece of woods.
"Think O that, Hanner!" he said, his
head out of the window, "think of them
babies being found in there"
"Yes, it was fearful ~ she replied
"seems as if could almost see them
stubbing about in there noww
There was another historic spot of
which the young man had told them, but
they had forgotten it, and l was never
more thankful.
They kept quiet until the brakesman
yelled out, Lansing" and then the old
man bobbed up and exclaimed:
"Lansing-Lansing-why here's where
they hung Tom Collins, amt it?
He explained that Tom Collins, a Chi
cago desperate, had murdered eleven old
women, and drank their blood for his
liver complaint, and after being hunted
for miles and miles, had at length been
captured at Lansing, cut to pieces by an
iniuriated populace, and then left hang
ing to tree.
I had to point out the tree. 1t was a
tree near the depot, and the tail of
kite had lodged in its branches.
"There's where they hung him, Han
ner!" said the old man, stretching his
neck.
"And there's some O. his shirt left
yeti" exclaimed the old lady, and as
backed cut Of the car the good old man
was remarking that he was going to ask
the train boy if he didn't have the PAM
phlct life of Tom Collins, so that they
could get further particulars.