Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-08

peacefully, only Freeman's wife used
TO say she saw 'em in hot, dry wealth
er q waterin' the roots of the willer /
sot out, with their tears, and that
would set all the children in Shanty
village carryin' water to it from the
brook, and the tree grew and ilourisbed
till We see it's q beauty.
"Wal, one summer time there come
up through here a great company OF
Mormons from England on their way
to Utah. The agents shipped 'em about
rs II they were cattle, and took 'em on
extra trains SOS to connect with the
Grand Trunk. The engines was TO be
changed here at this station, and lot
OF folks had gathered TO look at the
Mormons, as IL they was wild animals
instead of pack Of poor, deluded hu-
man bein's.
"Just as the train whistled, Free
mans wife sidled up TO me, and says
she, 'Somethin's up with them unfort-
inits. They was out on the track all
last night. every time there was whis-
tie, with their hands up over their eyes
a lookin' down the road into the dark
ness There they be, nowr said she,
under the shade of the big hemlock,
over on the edge of the glen there,
watchin' for the train But looked
and couldn't see nothin' 'cept them two
white birch saplin's. Just then the ex-
ira came putin and blowin' along, and
as soon as it stopped the poor Mormons
begun to swarm out like so many sheep,
with no more Of an idea than sheep of
the great ways they had yet to go afore
they got to the promised land.
"Among the rest that got out was u
poor, old, tremblin', white-haired man
that tottered about little and said to
me as was passin' him, do you know,
good sir, of town called Brackenboro',
in AmerikyP' Brackcnboro' is ten
miles north of here said l, it's the
next station you'll stop to- At that he
threw up his white, withered hands,
opened his mouth as if to speak and
dropped dead at my feet.
"'Old Hugh Leigh is dead said the
sharp-voioed woman at my elbow; he's
dead and Pm glad enow. He's been
nought but a trouble ever since we
started. But he would come when he
found 1t was to Ameriky we was bound,
If it took. his last farthing. Now hope
he's satisfied
"'He thought he should be findin'
John and Alice and the baby said an
other, but they have been still now
They never writ one blessed word
they didn't want the trouble of him.
But the old man was always sayin'
Alice needed him to help take care of
baby Mary He's dead and I'm glad
on it. His old heart was well nigh
broke with waitin' for a letter. said the
shrill voiced woman, snatchin' the hat
off the dead mans head and disappear
ing in the car jest as the whistle sound
ed. and they were off once more. We
laid the old man out in the freight
house in his turn"
"An it was there the three ghosts
kept watch by the body, and Freeman's
wife, she seed 'em," put in the square
little girl, enthusiastically.
"And the vcrdick was give this
time" went on the old station agent,
Unknown Mormon dropped dead from
heat at South Verony.' We buried him
beside the others, and there's never
been shadder of doubt in my mind
but what he was the grandfather. d.
"An' l heard Uncle Sammy pray
this time," said Brislin's girl, quickly,
"an' l niver shall forgit how he towld
about it they was all togither now, and
that God was always good"
"Of course L did my dooty, there
bein' no minister" reiterated Uncle
Sammy; "and l also made it my dooty
to plant that willer fence all round
their graves. And Freeman's wife sees
'em all there as happy as can be under
about since the grandfather come.
Sometimes l think they was unfortinits,
and then agin think they was fortinits.
Any way, it's clear to my mind that the
good Lord had special charge over
'em."
And we three then wiped our eyes in
company-Uncle Sammy and | and the
square little girl.-Springfed Repub-
LiCHn