The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-13
APPLE GROVE FARM, Ind,
January Isl 1876

January Isl, 1910.
Editor Anti uonopol.st:
Here | am in the land OF nv child
hood, on this the first day of the year,
sitting writing in the old farm house,
NIT air enough to make it comfortable.
The atmosphere is warm and balmy, the
winter wheat and grass are growing
nicely. 1t is really warm and pleasant
as May morning. | left Oakdale
Farm, Mimi, on Monday, Dec. 2Sth, Tor
this UOosier land, and came to Chicago,
His. during the afternoon and night.
On Tuesday morning, while waiting in
the depot in Chicago for Il train to La
tayette, Ind, and while l stepped out oil
the sitting room to see if the train was
about ready to stat, some light-fingered
gentleman walked Oft with my buffalo
overcoat and lunch box. My advice to
people living in Minnesota, the land of
'honest habits" is to look out for their
baggage when passing through the city
of fires. On Tue sday night, a, ) 80,
arrived at Thorntown, now flourish
ing village OF fifteen hundred white in-
hapltants, but formerly the site OF an In.
dian village OF the Miami tribe, noted for
the beauty of its scenery and the tenaci-
,y with which the savages clung to it.
On Wednesday morning. when looked
out upon the village and its surround
ings. the eye rested upon many old
frontier objects that brou.ht up fresh in
the memory scenes of the past. among
them my first visit to the Indian city tor
ty-nine years ago, when. with my parents
and family, We passed through this In-
dian village on our Way t. Putnam
county, in this State. AT the time the
Indians. save the guards. were absent.
attending treaty with the whites at
some point. \ few days before we
passed through, two leading chiefs had
got into quarrel and fought duel with
butcher knives, and both Tell victims to
savage revenge and were buried in the
village depository for their dead. Well
do recollect leaving the wagons, and
in company with others going few
steps from the road to look upon these
quietly sleeping savages as they sat
wrapped in the nantes of death in their
open graves with their implements of
war around them, whilst white flag
was " 0N ia Iu VIC oASCZC IIOu t4Ll
pole above them.
But in order to get to this place NV
| final DIES my. must make trip Of eight
miles in buggy drawn by two horses.
which in Minnesota would be a light
Job, but n this land of mud it proved to
be no child's play. but took large share
of the day. and resulted in thu exhaus-
ton OF the team and the fatiguing of the
pass, gers. And now l would rather
start from Rochester, Minnesota, and .
forty miles with team. than to 90 from
this farm eight miles in any direction
save one. and that is along piked road.
Mud. clay. slosh and nire, and the same
thing repeated. The wheat crop in this
part of Indiana was almost an entire fail
ure Some did not cut spear-wh (
the dy leff the wet drowned out, and
what was raised would not be ct to feed
Minnesota pigs on. The bread it makes
would make Al the women ii Minnesota
cross. It win nos sell In the market. If
| il does + only brings as cents per bunh-
lei Corn W. III abC9t kalf cruo.
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