The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-02-25
TRAMP PRINTER
Through Missouri and on the
Kansas Prairies.
GRANT'S OLD HOME-THE LOVEJOY
MOB At ALTON-QUINCY-A
WORD ABOUITHE JAMES
GANG-ST. JOSEPH,
AtChisOn and LeaYenWorth Kan.
san Capital-Kansas City-Old
John Browns Cabin
EmpOrln and Else
where.
Special Correspondence to tLo News.


Special Correspondence to the NEWS.
Usage CITY, KAN, Feb. 16, 1885.
EDrroBs NEWS - Partly to fulfill my
promise aud partly in order to be Oblivion,
to the state Of weather out Of doors again
sharpen my pencil aud proceed to business.
From Dubuque we went to Galona, Ills,
crossing the Mississippi river at the former
place. Gaena is built on the sides Of tw,
hills and in the narrow valley they enclose
In summer, when the trees are in leaf aud
vines are in blossom, it looks not unlike !
would imagine the cities Of the Rhine look
Neat cottages, picturesque churches, an,
castle-like residences of the weather. peu
pie, half concealed by the trees give it
beautiful and semi-foreign appearance. A
narrow river, uavigated by small watercraft.
flows through the valley. To reach the up
per portions stairway sidewalks have been
constructed, and when you walk square
thereon you have a feeling of weakness in
the knees that will cause you to sit down Oh
the top step and muse awhile. Galena is
celebrated as having once been
THE HOME OF GEN. GRANT,
Whose former residence, now occupied by
a minister aud family, can be plainly seen
from the depot. It is a very plain, two.
story brick, aud was presented to the Gen
eral shortly after the close of the rebellion
he was so instrumental in suppressing.
Freeport, Dixon and Amboy are live-look-
ing towns. Bloomington is quite city,
and a very pretty one. Petersburg is a
growing place, where met DR.. Fred G..
Stueber, formerly of Lima, o., now a very
prominent physician in his new home.
Belleville, eighteen miles east of St. Louis,
is q hourisLing place. (Chat sounds as il
clipped from my first green-backed Geog
raphy.)
ALTON,
pretty good-sized town on the Mississippi
was looked on by me with distrust, and ye
its people Of to-day, compared with its peo
pie of ani-belum days, are a living mouu
ment to the growth of knowledge and tn,
triumph of justice. Here it was that Rev
Lovejoy's anti-slavery printing Office wal
twice demolished and thrown into the river
and here he was killed while defending hi
rights aud his property from a third uttacl
of the cOwardly mob. Brave Deacon Love
JOY fell at the post Of duty, one of the ear
liest martyrs in the cause Of freedom, ant
his death left a blot on the name of Altol
that centuries will not erase
Then we go over into Missouri, not yer,
euphOuiously known as
THE PUKE STATE.
Louisiana is the first place visited. It i
on the great river aud numbers among he
industries large earthenware works-pot
teries I should have said Mexico once
very. enterprisiug place, and the seat o
Hardin College, seems to be suffering iron
business depression. Columbia, Clinton
Warrensburg and Moberly are all seeming
ly prosperous. Bonneville is also a livel
place here was the scene of an engage
ment between the federal troops and Quau
trelrs band Of bloody cut,rhroats
By-and-by we get into Illinois again
stopping at Quincy, very prosperous cit
of about 80, 900 souls Then we retreat in
to Missouri again, going first to Hannibal
an elegant city, with palatial union depot
aud other nice public buildings. Indeed
1 mention it incidentally, y in all my travel
% have yet to see a depot that will compar
d with the old shed that is hattered with tn
! name depot at Hillsboro; but for gooduel
( sake don't say told you. Sedalia is a
E. euterprising city, and is keeping JeFerso
~ city on needles by crying for the capita
Now we sail through the gloomy ravir
known as Blue Cut-where the james gau
killed Conductor Weslfnll and robbed o trai
, some. years ago-and are fairly in Il
stamping grounds" of that
TERRIBLE OUTLAW DAND.
Blue Cut is a few miles east Of Indepen
enoe, and in the average "James Gang
dime novel is represented as deep and tern
BILE, running with blood and haunted /
y ghosts, while in fact it is only such a lit
s. wooded hollow as may be seen almost an
where. However, it is a place to be gaz
at timidy by the tourist, and told about
home with the proper embellishments
n his return to the land Of the rising sun.
Ia Independence may be seen the bank I
at gang robbed some years ago, after shooti
- the cashier OF has been so long sine,
II read the thrilling work entitled THE Ban
IT. its Bride; or, the Mystery Of Bloody H
low" that do not remember whether th
secured any funds by that raid or not a
though gazed on the bank building vi
mingled reference and horror, forgot
- inquire in regard to the matter)
ID. Frank James resides one mile and a b
he east of Independence, and was in
ND town the day / was there, but I did
rid get to see him Admiring citizens descr
iicot him as a kind-hearted gentleman, wit
re- ministerial appearance and a bad couI
IIvSss He is a prominent Democratic poliioi
aud / was told by reliable Democrat