The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-04

painting and exhausted, asked for shelter, saying
he had killed Thomas Halliday. The Doctor
took him to room up stairs, whlcn MI.
johnson kept until the next aay, wnen
the news of the affair spread, and it was learned
that Thomas Halliday, as well as Lewis ana
John, were uninjured He then learned Of MI: 4
Thornton Johnsons injury. The publicity 81
the affair did much to injure the scnool az
Millersburg, and in the year 1850 it succumbed,
and vanished, as the many schemes 81 lts
energetic protector. The faculty broke up, Miss
Sarah Stanwood marrying Mr.. Mckim, man
of prominence socially and hnanclally: MISS
Harriet and Miss Caroline left for their nome IN
Maine. The faculty of the military school also
separated, Thornton johnson and Blame GONG
to Drennon Springs and founding another nln-
tary school. Drennon Springs is situated II
Henry county, not very far from Eminence, ana
was considered good place for the school
branch establishment was founded IN the ad-
joining county of Franklin, and still survives
under the name of the Kentucky Military lnstl-
tute After the school had been In progress Tor
some time. Mr.. Blaine took short vacation, and
went to Maine where he married Miss Harriet
at her home Mrs McKim, her sister, going
there also to be present at the ceremony. Mr.
Blaine then returned to Drennon Springs and
taught out the term of school In 1852, the
last year of the school, the tailor named Wlnn
and mentioned In the first of my letter, came on
the scene, to get some bills due him either from
the students or from Mr. johnson. His mali
Mr.. Blaine was compelled to marry Miss Stan
wood, something up to that time unheard of.
There was no one to force Mr. Blaine to do any
thing he did not wish to do, as Miss Stanwoods
father was dead some years before she came to
Kentucky. Her brother resided in Maine, and
never came to this State, and the forcing is as
false as the rest Of the story. Before Miss
Stanwood leftfor home, she visited at her sisters,
Mrs. McKim's, and also at the residence Of Dr..
Moore. Mrs. Moore was one of her few friends
n and Sha oil etq
to her own departure. On the day before she
left, Mrs Moore went out with her to do some
shopping, and that evening bade the small circle
of her friends good bye. The stage left at night,
and Miss Stanwood left by that medium. The
stage driver, Jack Hook, who still lives in Paris,
has been cited as proof of Miss Stanwood's
interesting appearance" and Mr.. Hook EN-
phatically denies everything of the kind Miss
Stanwood went directly home, where, as stated
above, Mr.. Blaine followed and married her.
The year 1852 saw the last of the school Dur
ing the prior year Mr. johnson, worried and
harassed by debts and the pain of the wound re-
ceived in the fight with the Hallidays at Blue
Licks, laid down the unequal burden with his
life, and partook of the first rest he ever knew,
in the dark, narrow chamber allotted him after
death. Major Blaine then returned to the East,
where his honorable, manly course and rapid ad-
vancement are too we'll known to need repe-
tition.
1t seems hard that Mrs Blaine's fair name
needs defense from the army of dirt throwers so
numerous IN this country, but the charge mas
been made, and needs to be refuted in the courts
as well as elsewhere DR. Moore and his wife
are well known throughout this section, and
their intimacy with Mr. and Mrs Blaine would
enable them to know them better than any one
else The Doctor emphatically denounces the
SANDER story as lie, and says that we'll
known lady of Millersburg congratulated his
wife and herself once that they were about the
only ones of that time who resided in Millers-
burg that the tongue of SANDER did not reach
Some of the reports say the SANDER originated
IN Georgetown, but have the letter at hand Of
Judge Milton Stevenson, of that place, asking of
DR.. Moore for information of the matter, stating
that he never heard of it until within the past
month so. Judge Stevenson is prominent
man. of sterling integrity, and lived at George
town during the time Mr.. Blaine and Miss Stan
wood taught there.
The several correspondents who came to ask
information of DIR, Moore were told he would
willingly give them the truth, but he knew they
did not want it The same correspondents met
with many rebuffs at Carlisle and Millersburg,