The Cecil Whig., 1881-01-01
"REMINISCENCES.
MEN AND THINGS OF LONG AGO.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Dec. %, 1880.

NEW ALBANY, Ind, Dec. 20, 1880.
! ! have been glancins over your pages
| and they bring back to memory former days.
when | knew every spot in Elkton: hut now
| | look at the names in business, and scarcely
Il familiar one is printed. | knew Edmund
| Brown, but the lady now doing business
there is not his widow. He was a carpen-
ter and lived near ,Iere Cosden, on the bank
| of the river. She may be connection.
| The Cosdens, where are they! There We're
bat few of them. The old people are dead,
doubtless, long ago.
| see allusion made TO the Hollow"
! which is very familiar to me- When first
knew it, Boyle & Mackey kept store there.
| The last | remem Der of il, an lrishman kept
a porter house there, and over the way WAS
Bellcan Young, and up towards Peac"ck'S
tavern was a frame house, where the widow
Scott and three daughters lived. John b.
| Scott, her son, was one of my intimate
friends. The girls We're Eliza, Mary Ann.
and Jane. They all went To Baltimore.
A DR.. Parker, who WAS Il surgeon in the
army of 1872 paid attention to Eliza. Ii
was thou9ht they would marry, but did
not. Then, on the hill north of the Hol-
low" there lived DIR. G. w. Armstrong
and three sisters Ellen, Rachel, and Lydia.
They lived in Mr.. Dukes house and We're all
old maids. Then. there were two Misses
Miller, sisters Of Harry, and two or three
Misses HolingSworih, also ancient maid
ems, but all ladies' of excellent character.
! looked at the list of attorneys, and fiud
thai they are all strangers to me. In my
days there We're old Billy Alexander, Jere
CeStien, Tobias Rudulpl, Vim. II. Ward,
Jack Partridge, and Geo. B. CoSden. Then
Ezekiel f. Chambers came from, | think,
Kent county, and perhaps others, whose
names | have forgotten. James Sewall was
clerk, and Il. c. Lu>by WAS sheriff.
a street fight between Philip Harding
and Gilbert Smith took place StAth of the
court house. which created much excite
ment at the time, because of the reSpecta-
hility of the parties concerned. Perhaps
some of their descendants may yet be living.
| will not speak of the circumstances. One
or more was badly hurt and dirkrd. There
was an open draw WELL worked with
win,llass, across the street, right west of
Mr.. Miller'S house, and near George Rem
ington's slaughter house 1t was open to
the street. There was II diSSolure sea cap
tain named Darragh, called, familiarity, old
Captain Darragh, who came, very often, to
town on Il drunken spree. One night, when
on one of his SpreeS, having been put out of
Il saloon rather la1e and in wandering about
taking it for fence, climbed over the wind
lass, let himself down. as he supposed, over
fence, and dropped to the bottom. There
he remained until morning, not hurt much,
but pretty well sobrretl.
] doubt if there be many persons now liv-
ing in Elkton who remember Blind Mat
thias," n man who used to live north of
the academy, who was totally blind. He
had a white dog and a little wagon which
he drove He was a terribly wirlpl man
and would curse and swear at his dog and
whip him terribly.
Look on map of Indiana, and you will
find the "Falls of Ohio" On the Indiana
side of the river you will See New Albany
and JefferSonvile, and on the kentucky
side Louisville, the com binrd population of
which is nearly 200, coo, and on either side
of the river there are immense manufacture
ing establishments, which are run both by
water and steam. There are at least ten
thousand men employed in these factories
| suppose that the plate ard other glass
works are as large as any in the world.
They are simply immense In the plate
glass works there are 80 men. ! have ut
my hand here Il specimen of the plate glass,
which is Il, inches thick, and they make
it of any dimensions. ] saw them making
plates s by 10 feet. There is any number of
iron works, which are owned by one man,
W. &. Drpauw-and that man Is in the
prime of life and the most pious and be-
nevolent man on earth. He is the leader of
4 holiness meeting, which meets every Fri +
day. He distributes in charities, both pub
lie and private, thousands of dollars yearly. .
The two sides of the Ohio are connected
bv I train of ears, which cross and recrosS
on n bridge over Il mile long a steam
ferry also carries passengers and freight.
In course of time this will be the greatest
manufacturing center on the continent. /
The hest of stove coal is brought here by
river from PttSburg
Yours, r. J. SAMPLE.