New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-02-13
Tho Pngrim's Proxress.

| up for himself.
l6al-Keeps Thanksgiving-;n no dan GEL
| OF over-eating.
l622-Bulds meeting house.
| l623-Proclaims fast day.
| l62S-Cuts down . May pole at Merry
Mount, a. rebuke to vain recreations.
l635-Is crowded for accommodations
and stakes out nav farm at Connsoticnr'
l637-Makes war on the AntinOnians and
the Pequot lndians-aud whips both.
| 1O35-S.arts college.
164O-Sets up printing press.
!643-Goes into confederacy-the first
| colonial Congress.
l64s-Lays dow n tho Cambridge platform,
hangs witch.
| custom of wearing long hair, "a thing un-
civil and uncomely."
165l-Is rebuked for "intolerab!e excess
| and bravery of apparel, and lie forbidden to
wear gold and silver lace or other such gew-
gaws.
l657-Coins pine tree shulings, and makes
| the business profitable.
l663-Prints Bible Tor the Indians.
16aO-Buys "haugup' clock, and coca
him guess the time of day. About this pc.
Rod learns to use forks at table; q new
fashion.
l632-Is scared by witches again at Salem
but gets the better Of them.
I7Ol-Fouuds another college, which.
after q while, settles down at New Haven.
1704-Prints his first newspaper. in Bos-
ton,
I7O5-Taates coffee, as . luxury, and at
his own table.
HOs-Constructs another platform-this
time at Say brook.
l7lO-Begins to sip tea-very sparingly.
r. does not come into family use till i've
and twenty years later.
7ll-Pa4s letter into his first postofice
I72O-Eats potato-and takes one homo
to plant in his garden as curiosity.
l72l-Is inoculated for the smallpox
not without grave remembrance from his
conservative neighbors. Begins 20 sing by
note. on Sundays, thereby encountering
much opposition and opening ton years
quarrel.
l74O-Manofactures tin ware, and starts
the first tin peddler on his travels
742-Sees Faneuil Hall built. The cradle
of liberty is ready to be rocked.
l745-Bu.lds an organ, but does not yet
permit it to be played in the meeting house.
1750-Buys bushel of potatoes tor win
ter's use-ali his friends wondering what he
will do with 80 many.
l755-Puts up Franklin stove IN his best
room, and tries one of the newly inEented
lightning rods.
176o-About this time begins to wear a
collar to his shirt When he can afford it,
takes his wife to meeting in chaise, instead
Of on plllion, as heretofore.
1765-SnOws his dislike to stamped paper
and Joins the SONS Of Liberty"
176S-Tries his hand at type founding
not vet succsssful-in Connecticut.
l770-Buys home made wooden clock.
1773-Wa.srs his tea in Boston harbor
~ q
soil.
1774-Lights Boston streets with oil
lamps: novelty though New Lights had
been plenty, some years before.
1775-Shows Lord Percy how to march to
Yankee Doodle. Calls at Ticonderogs. to
take lodgings for the season. Sends Gen.
eral Putnam under the command OF sew.
eral coioneisl with small party, to ssiecta
sight for Bunker Hill monument.
1776-Brother Jonsthan-as he begins to
be called in the famlly-declares himself
free and independent.
l7SO-Buys an .'um0 rilio" for SUNDAYS;
and whenever he shows it ia laughed at for
his etfeminacy.
l79I-Starts cotton spinning factory
1792-Has bean raising silk worms, in
Connecticut; and now gives his minister
mot h. WIFE home. made silk gown.
Buys carpet for the middle Of the parlor
floor.
l779-Inveuts cotton gin, and thereby
t-eoles the value Of Southern plantations.
l795-lSoO-Wears pantaloons occasion.
to use plates on the breakfast and tea table
lSo2-Hss the boys and girls vacoinated
1S06-Tries to burn piece Of hard coal
from Philadelphia; failure.
lS07-Saes boat 60 by steam on the
Hudson.
lsl5-Ho,ds little Convention at Hart
ford but doesn't propose 70 Dissolve the
Union, Buys one of Terry's patent "shelf
clocks to- $36, and regulates his watch
BY it.
lsl7-Ssts up atove in meeting house
and builds tse in it on SUNDAY; an limo
va-ion which ia stously resisted by many.
lSl7-Begins to run a steamboat on Long
Island southland takes passage on 1t to
New York after making his will.
lS19-Grown holder, he crosses the At
lantic in steamship.
lS22-L!ghts gas in Boston (5ut doesn't
light Boston with gas till 1922. At last
sets CRATE in his parlor. Buys q steel pen.
Has his every day shirts made without
rut1es.
lS25-About this time, puts percussion
lock on his old musket.
1S26-Buys his wife q PAL. of queer
shaped India rubber oversaoes. Pu.s on
his first false collar. Tries an ''expsri-
mental railroad by horse power
lS23-Tastas his fret tOmato-do1bt:uglv
is told that it is Questionable to feed him
self with his knite-and buys silver forks
for great occasions.
1S33-R1bs his FIRST friction match-sheu
called "Lucifer,' and afterward Loco
Fooo." Throws away the old finder box
with its flint and steel.
l335-1nveuts the revolver and sets about
supplying the world with it, as q peace
good one yet-nOc till 1874 Bulbs d real
railroad, and rides on it,
ls31-Gecs in . panic-and out again
after free use Of 'shinplas.ers
1S3S-Adopts the new fashion of putting
his letter in envelopes q fashion which does
not fairly prevail. till seven years later.
lSiO-Sits for his daguerreotype. and gets
picture fearfully and wonderfully made.
Begins to blow himself up with ''camphene"
and burning duid;" and continues the
process for years, with changes OF name of
the active agent, down to and including
non explosive kerosene"
lSil-Sends his first message by the cleo
trio telegraph.
ls47-Buys his wife a sewing machine
in the vain hope that somehow it will keep
the buttons on his shirts. Begins to receive
advices from the Spirit World.
lS55-Begins to bore and be bored by the
Hoosac tunnel.
ls5s-Celebratee the laying Of the Ocean
cable, aud sends friendly message so John
Bull. Next week, begins t. doubt whether
the cable has been laid at all.
lS6l-Goes South to help compose
family quarrel. Takes to using paper
money.
1861 -65-Climcs the Hill Diaiculty-re-
lieved of his pack after January l, 1864; bat
loses G.ea. Heart. April ii, 1865.
ISh5-Ga-s the Atlantic cahIa IN work'ny