The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-12-24
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lied WATERS SALT RIVER,
December 9Th, 1884.
EDIToRs HIGHLAND Muse IL hav bin
lookin fur you to arrive here every day
since we got here, but as you hav not come
I hav concluded that maybe you baint goin
to come, and as my friends wants to let
their wimin at home know how they are
gittin along here I told 'em I wood write
to you an git you TO publish it in the paper.
They could write letters to EN- but we hsv
no male carrier from Hillsboro, cept White
Oak, and no Express Company cept Sam
Sawyer, and sometimes he forgits to put
the mail of. Well as I was goin to tell the
friends about the time we had after We left
home must begin We all met at Tay-
lorsville the mite the Demokrats had their
big hangd- or whatever you call It, to
make some preperashuns to 90 to he'd
quarters Csalt River). We come to the
conklusun at last bein as it was so fur to 20
by railroad (and some Of us had no money
since we can't git at the treasury that we
would git a wagon fur the old men as J.
w. Kibler VIM. Ridings, B. F. Cox, John
Funk, &C., to 60 in, and the yuDg fellus
could walk. Alfred Roberts (the miller)
let us hav his log wagon as he woulden't
need it fur four years, and then we would
hav it to come back in. Mr.. Roberts and
Jack Osborn didn't go with Us that mite.
Mr.. Roberts had to sell his hogs and Jack
wanted to dray a few plank over from the
depot They arrived here on foot yester-
day lookin a little weary from the effects Of
the journey. They say that the price for
hogs is very low since the tariff was taken
of, and free trade is tuf on man that
wurks by the day.
We went from Taylorsville to Cleveland
and Hendricksville (Which are close to-
gether) via Blainvile and Logansport.
Bainville and LOgansport are nice towns
for the boys couldn't git anything to tie up
on. We are gitten a little tired Of cookin
for ourselves, but some Of the old fellers
that wuz in the war aint forgot how to
cook yet, and the wimin will come as soon
as we git things cleaned up a little. We'd
a bin little bad off if we hadn't bruug
5omethin with us to eat fur the Dimokrats
didn't leave anything but a good many
things with gray 5acbs, and whisky bottles
with nothing in them. Pork is low tho and
| thank fortune we can make our own salt
I would hav liked TO hav told you about the
| big time the Dimekrats had that mite at
| Taylorsville but we started before they
commenced. I may hear some time and
then 1 will let you know. Yours truly,
J. a.
P. S. gist got letter from my --.
Well she knows all about the mite at Tay-
| lorsville for she is a Dimokrat and you
couldn't hav tied her at home. As am
| tired of writing will send you the letter
and you can see for yourself what she says.
/ She may Kick about havin her letter pub
! lished but she can't reach me, and she will
/ be so glad TO see me again git back that
she wont think of kickin.
MowRYTOwE, Nov. 14th.
DEAR II promised to let you know
how every thing is going here. We had
the best time at TaylOrsville you ever
heard Of There was two wagons come
| from Mowrytown and they had three or
four torchlights aud two drums. Jim
Viewer beat the tenor drum. They had a
musket and Oh, the biggest cannon. They
pulled the cannon around with a little rope
or twine string 1 don't know which, but I
know you couldn't hardly tell it from the
musket when it went of. They marched
up and down through town three or four
times and they had seven torches. Chris
D. was 80 happy that he handed paper
with the picture Of q rooster on it, aud she
said, thank you, am not a chicken of
that kind" This is all this time.
Yours