The Press., 1884-03-20

six days, I remained in Ohio, in the pro-
 vision business, until the winter of 1S33-4,
 and then went to Chicago which had about
 300 inhabitants besides eighty soldiers and
 their officers at Fort Dearborn. There
 was no business done there in the winter
 then. Provisions were all taken from Ohio for them to live on. I had heard of the
 place, and looked at it, and saw that it
 was a good point. I had faith in the
 growth of the country, and went there to
 open market. There was no slaughter house there, no place to kill beef, and for sixty days led the cattle out to an old
 elm tree that stood on Monroe-st., about
 where the courthouse is and there took
 tackle and swung them up on the elm af-
 ter killing them.
 In 1888 I paid $6 per 100 pounds for
 pork in Chicago. In 1841, with the view
 of finishing the canal next summer, l
 bought pork for $2, that is to say, paid
 S2 for all pork that weighed 200. For all
 hogs that did not weigh 200 I paid $1. 50
 per 100 pounds I bought beef there for
 barreling in 1843 and 1S44 fer $2 hun
 d.ed for the fore-q quarters of the beef if
 t!:e OK weighed 600 pounds, and $1. 50 per
 100 pounds if he fell under it. That is
 the lowest price ever heard of its being
 sold for Then there was more of this
 stuff raised than was needed up to about
 1846 or 1847, when the famine in Ireland
 cleaned out the west almost entirely.
 Wheat was worth twenty-five cents bush-
 el in 1844 in Chicago. Produce commenced
 rising from that time, and you might Say,
 has kept on rising since Cattle and pork
 rose good deal from small price until
 in 1850, cattle were worth $4 to S5 huu-
 dred pounds, and hogs were worth the
 same, There has been steady increase
 each year. I made money for the reason
 that rything was going up. l staid in
 that provision business until killed 1855
 head of large cattle and 500 hogs for a days work, and that is not, comparatively speaking, more than teasponnful to what they have come to since left the business. ] There was but one mail week in Chi cago when I first went there, and that was , by stage from the East do not know of
 more than two men alive now that were iii Chicago at the time I went thera One of } them is J. K. Botsford, hardware mer- chant, and the other Philo Carpenter, quite a wealthy man on the west side. There may have been other men around the country there, but those are the only } men that I know of that are living there who were there at the time I went ther-. great many came ill the summer of 1884. The railroad from Albany to Rochester } was completed in 1832-the cholera season. l I remember that the engine had no smoke } stack at all, and the water for the engine was carried in barrels Cars hung on F leather thorough braces, with seats facing , each other. We made the trip in one t hour, and 1t was sixteen miles. There l were three cars in the train in which < rode, and about sixteen passengers in each
 car, making forty-elght in all We paid : half half dollar fare for the trip-abou' t the same as the stage fare. In those days, l they charged twenty five cents a meal at l the hotel along the route. When was 6 ) boy the working people had but very little , money. It would be singular to find g l man then with dollar or two in his pock l ct. Very few men would have as much as g $2 in their pocket. A mau that had 2
 was considered "A No. l." Colone Holmes, the richest man in Campton, was worth some $4, ,0OO or $5, 900. He had fiv. l barns, and 500 acres of land. Families were much more numerous then than now l The first eighty six families that settled 1T Campton had, on an average, eight anc one half children to the family. That is < worth remembering. In the largest fami l ly there were seventeen children. Oul : family had eleven, and an uncle of mine
 had nine, and they are all gone but me ] The old stock is all gone. The people tha l remain are mostly people that have nov, t m. All the enterprlsing and wealthy fam 8 lilies have died out or gone away none O s them are left. That is the case with mos 3 of the New England people. All the olt l families have either died out or gone away g A great many of them have emigrated t, g the west. You will find New Hampshir, 3 people wherever you go.
 ) It was a common thing for 8 man tha !, worked for farmer to marry the farmer. l daughter, or, on the other hand, the gir ] that worked for a man was just as likely to marry his son as anybody else. A man' = credit then depended on whether he was ' lazy or not. When I was boy, lazy . fellow did net have much credit or charac , ter in place. Whenever any man spoke l of 8 young fellow who was likely to marry his daughter, he spoke of him as being al ) industrious, good fellow for work, or, o1 a the other hand, of being lazy fellow who t did not want to work. Of course he die . not want his girl to marry lazy man l The girls had as hard time as the boys, t for they had large families and had to dc : the spinning and weaving for the family. I think there was as much enjoyment il - those days, throughout the country, an6 = perhaps more, than there is now. We arc 2 more intelligent now, however-hetter ed ] ucated. I do not think that we have near = ly as high state of morals. I think the ! conscience has been lowered very mucl | since my boyish days. The religious be Q lief of the people has become much more iberal-less stringent and bigoted. There ! may be an improvement in that way, but the rigidness with which our forefathers - held to what they did believe is that whicl | has brought us where we are have of l. ten thought it was the old Congregations faith that achieved our independence il . the Revolutionary war, and think so now | THE QUICKEST WAY.-Tell Mary the yer, 5 quickest way to make light bread is to ust