The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-04-30
"REMINISCENCES.
MEN AND THINGS Or LONG AGO
Incidents of Early Days IN the State OF
Indiana.
NEW ALRANY, Ind, April ol, 1881

"" -Aif-i->i' ti't'F I'M! -, AN'St'
H. L. TuKHEEr- Deur >ii:-Your kind
favor OF the I.th instant have the honor
toacknowlelse this morning You are very
kind in abiding IT, my card OF Il few day
sine. aboHt The missing mum ber Of The Wing.
L. was hvcat.se value it very highly tlll'
lis absence calls my attention to il. It's col
umnS tend 50 strongly to bring to mint
Aud Lang Syne, that its receipt here
makes an impression the more noticeable.
am now an old man, having come 10 rhi>
+ world Nov I, 1900. and left EIkron in the
Autumn of' 1919. | was there once since
think in lSt1.
am now in New Albany, living very
pleasantly with Il married daughter, the
wife of Rev. +. \. Frirdly, President Of the
Depanw Female College, i very tinufi,hin@:
institution for the education of young Ladies.
, am not here. for want OF means, hui for
comfort and ouietueS>, and have with me Il
single daughters Miss Ada T. Sample. These
constitute all who remain on earth of my
family. | am resting very pleasantly here
for marching orders, which | hope soon to
This is Il very pleasant city OF some seven
teen Thousand inhabitants. They are an in
,ll>trious and energetic people. The only
drawback with it, III my opinion, is that it
is wrong side up, politically. But it will,
| believe, come ali right. There is, think,
IL mighty revolution going on in this coun-
try politically and morally. The Sci.a"l
movement will, i'll the end, do much for the
politics Of this country. God hasten it, J
pray.
THE M>>UFACriRE OF GLASS.
Going ont upon the second-Storv balcony,
which commands view up and down the
Ohio (for live at the Falls of the Ohio,
and almost rs tar as the eye can reach is the
/ smoke, and can hear the clatter and clang
of the many manufactures. | wish could
send you 4 specimen of glass which is being
made within view of this point. | have ON
my table Il specimen of their manufacture,
which is SKI inches and u thick. l saw
them taking "A plate out, which appeared TO
be SXl0 feet and six or eight inches thick.
! What they do with such plates, | do not
know. But they will, | suppose, build
houses with glass in a few years. 1t is i'm
peri>habt and there is an abundance Of
the material-sand.
\ The Intelligence of this age is great and
progre. sive, and | think it will not much
longer tolerate Democracy. do thank God
that ] am IN American, and feel very GER
tain, from all the signs, that .Americ.. will,
ere long. he ali Republican. In a short time
we will see all of our present territory filled
up. Aud then what" Why, we will add
more. Canada is coming, and seem 10 see
all Europe >training their eyes to see where
they will locate.
| have heretofore written you an account
of my interview with President Lincoln in
! August, 1862. He WAS one of Gods men:
in my opinion second only to Washington.
] Well, God raised him up for a great work,
! as He did Washington. l was much struck,
/ when Il boy i'll reading Weems' life of Wash
ington, at Il remark said to have been made.
( by an Indian chief, after one of the battles
! with the Indians. He remarked that he did
/ not think Washington was made 10 he killed
( bv "A bullet. for he had nine fair shots at him
! and could not bring him down.
! MY EARLY RECoLLECTIoNs OF ELKToN.
! now want to talk to you abont Elkt"n.
4 I lived there during the war OF 1917. III ere
/ is a large square twu-Story brick house stand
/ ing not far from the court house. There
arr. four rooms on each floor. Attached Ia
/ that, standing back from the street, is Il
! brick store room. There is Il cellar door on
the west side. near the corner; also door
going into the southwest room ON the first
floor 1T is said that during the retreat ct
our army from the Chesapeake tn the Della
! ware through Eikton. some of our men were
in that cellar filling their canteens with
wine. The British, however, soon appeared
! in "A bend Of the street west, and cur boys
had to get We'll, in tina: store room, which
| have named. clerked during the sum
mcr of 1919 for Levi II. Evans. Levin Gale
lived in that house AT that time. He was a
| LAWYER | remember no-arm Prince, a col
ored boy belonging to old Billy Alexander.
! He went to school when L did. Arainin'h
and Bell Alexander, Hannah Howard, Kitty
Sample Eliza Gr"ome, Grace Thompson
Mary and Ann BeaSion, and other girl,
went to school at that time.
When TIE Wing speaks of the different
localities of Elkton, ! wonder where they
are, | am unable to locate I Methodist
Church on East Main street. The last hause
on tht. north side of East Main street, which
can call up, is where old Robert Johns
shop was, which was next east OF John trat
tiers store, and the last ON the south sid,
was Mrs. Hewitts, where Mike and Eel
Hewitt used to live. | remember very dis
1inrtlv the road that turned south from
Main street to Whann'S mill, thence out II
to the Rudolph farm, where we used to live
Scenes OF my boyhood, ye are vanished ant
gone.
WHOM I KNEW.
! wonder what became Of Ieb Hewitt
When | left Elkton in the Fall of 1919, h'
WAS living III Baltimore. What became y
George Cos.len, the Barnes women, Gilber
Smith, and Lushy (who used to be sheriff,
Lambert Hyland, John Ford, doe Miller
William Welsh, and Lewis Miller tarr,
Miller was il man. and | think one "f prln
ciple as we'll rs intelligence; but Joe was :
bird of different plumage would like t,
know What became of Isaac Wilson. sup
pose Jake Anderson. the yellow barber, l.
dead.
don't think know Methodist In Elk
ton John Taylor was. but became on
after left, aud suppose Martha lsudolpl
dill also How about Tobias and Ieh Ru
doph and Mrs. Ann Sewall" Did any .
them herume Christ ians' Isaac Wilson
. was serious before left; did he profess
1t was thought he would be preacher
Nv father and mother were PreshyteriituS
but all their SONS became MethudiSts.
TIE EAM.l SETTLERS OF INDIANA.
4 word as to the State am now Twin.
/ in. Indiana was settled. us most new COIN
tries are, by men, women, and children
with a few dogs thrown in. These settlers
as Il general thing, were hard workers AM
needed au,ll>ement>, etc. aud amongst thes
) dancing was indulgai in. In one OF the>
early settlements, years ago, Il hard day q
!. log rolling was terminated by what they Ill
participated in-a "hoe,lOwn, or. i'll othe
language Il dance. There lived in the SET
tlement very useful body, Il fiddler, WHOM
1 they called by the way OF distinction, Tan
O'Shanter Some OF Them, perhaps, ht'
read Burns. Having INDUCED i'll the agree
able pastime until late at Iisht. or rathe
t better say the wee Sma' hours, Tam starte
for home with his fiddle under his arm, no
thinking OF danger being near The dis
/ lance home WAS about half Il mile. As h
/ trudg-d along, not once thinking of harm
, there suddenly fell on his the howlu
of Il pack of wolves. At once he knew tina
; danger was near, and he was all alarm
| rnt- question came 10 his mind, what can
V | do, He had not even dog TO help him
! He, however, rerneln bered that there WI,
| IN empty log cabin Ie:lr and made for that
Now many readers don't kpow what
F., log cabin is. 1t is Il dwelling OF one rupn
{. bIilt of rough unl,ewn logs Of one sr"Fy-
| built by the primitive settlers as IL dwelling
until they can build Il better one. The log
u are notched roger her 1T the corners, an
ii then the spaces between the logs are file
k with what they cal! cijnking-sh"rt piece
-, of wood driven in and then dauhed tempo
i srily with clay, iutrrmix-d with stra"