The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-08-21
Incidents, &c.

reached Waverly. At that place Mr..
Purcell and Hon. Mills Gardner, of
Washington c. H., got on the train
They had been at Waverly to see Mr..
Emmitt about the railroad matter.
They said Mr.. Emmitt had not, so
far, succeeded in scaling the debt, and
the road will probably have to sell.
They also Informed us that Mr. Ew-
ing's speech at Washington was a
damper upon the Democracy, and the
Democrats felt discouraged.
We took on a few passengers at
Harris Station, away up on the hill,
in the wild woods. There are great
piles of slaves stacked up along the
road at this point. This place is cele-
brated for having colored man for
Postmaster, and in fact he is the only
man of ordinary intelligence that you
will see between waverly and Balm
bridge. A young man got off at Sum-
mitt Station. next east of Harris, as
we came home. There were two girls
with him, nearly as green as he was.
He was over six feet high, and his
hair was nearly white. All along the
road from Greenfield he tickled his
gals dreadfully, by mimicking the
whistle of the locomotive. The last
we saw Of him he was on the platform
at Summit, dancing, and the girls
were just dying with laughter, be-
cause he was so funny.
Just after we reached Paint Greek
bottom, an old man got on the train.
Mr.. Purcell was acquainted with
him, and they soon got into CONVEX
sation. The old man was garrulous.
He said he would be 80 years of age
in October. He came to the Paint
Valley in 1802-before the State was
admitted into the Union. We asked
him if he could not remember the in
cidents of his boyhood much better
than he could recent events. He said
he could most distinctly remember
things that occurred when he was ten
years of age, while he would entirely
forget the occurrences of last week.
He said he could tell deer and bear
stories that none Of us would probably
believe. He said he was one OF the
first men who went into the army
from that part of the country in 1912.
The old man was stout, moved with
activity, had an abundance of hair, Of
a yellowish white color, and his teeth
were sound.
At Bainbridge great crowd of per-
sons got ON the train, and every foot
of sitting and standing room in all
the cars was occupied.
Long before car time in the even
ing, a great crowd of Bainbridgers
filled the fine depot. Some Of them
were drunk, and two of the drunk
men wanted to fight. The wife of
one of them took her husband away,
but they kept up the talk, and finally
they got together Several young
women came surging into the depot,
and said they were fighting, We saw
them in the door, with their arms
around each others necks. They
went down upon the hard floor, and
pounded and gouged each other for a
long time. We have heard witnesses
testify of fights that lasted from five
to ten minutas. They were mistaken.
This fight was very long one, but
two minutes was its extent. Two
minutes seems a dreadful length Of
time to see two human beings trying to
murder each other, and we suppose no
two men ever fought but that they
tried to kill each other. We have
seen many fights, and we always
thought that to see men fight is the
most barbarous sight we ever saw
Animals fight for some cause, men
who are drunk do not know why they
fight. When these men got up, one
of them had the side of his face
scratched, and it was bleeding, the
other was so drunk that he could not
stand still, but he kept stepping back
wards and forwards, and his head
swung around like the needle of a
compass, only more slowly. His face
presented horrible appearance.
There was a great purple knot on his
temple, near the left eye, and his eye
was rapidly turning black, and clos
ing. 1t was all whisky. No doubt
these men were good friends when So
Der. We talked to the one least hurt,
and he informed us that the other
man tried to get fuss with him up
in town, and that he got away from
him, and that he followed him up,
and he could not avoid him. An Irish
man who was acquainted with both of
them told us that this would not pro-
bably be the last of it, as the man who
was hurt had some nephews who were
very stout men, and they would prob
ably not let the matter rest as it is.
When the train arrived the people
rushed in like they were frantic, and
the conductor tried to tell them to
wait until the train stopped, when he
would switch on two more cars. But
they paid no attention to him. The