The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-09-26

There is a fine railroad bridge over
the Ohio river above the Falls connect
Ing Louisville and Jacksonville and
there is another, below the Falls, over
the same river. connecting Louisville
and New Albany.
These are enough for all practical
uses for 50 years TO come. but some
enterprising men thought a bridge over
the Ohio connecting J~effersonville with
the upper limits of Louisville would
be a useful work, and SO they under
took to construct one. The pillars
are built. and the approach. tor a
mile on the Indiana side is construct
ed. The result is an unfinished bridge.
two broken banks and a goodly num-
Der Of stockholders wearing Grape on
their hats, sorrow in their hearts and a
vacuesm in their pockets.
At noon. at sunrise, and at sunset,
the old war veterans within ten miles
of Louisville, are reminded of tie gay
times OF 20 to q years ago when they
were awakened by the sounds Of the
cannot il artillery duels. The
Government IS blasting ont a deep
Larbor for coal and other boats at the
head of the canal that passes around
the rapids in the Ohio River.
From 80 to 100 dynamite blasts are
let off which r~everberate and echo
among the surrounding hills very
similar to the music that was fanli-
liar to the soldier of 1876.
The harbor ABOVE the Falls is DANCE
GUS and unsafe, hence the Govern
ment is constructing a secure place Of
refuge for water craft that may be put
into harbor at that Port.
saw an annual gathering of the old
settlers of Clark County Indiana-one
Of the most pleasant and agreeable re-
unions / have ever witnessed. The
people came from all parts of the
country to see one another, to talk
over old times, to recall memories Of
events that t%ranspired years ago, and
to shake the hand of friendship, ce.
mented by the trials. dangers and ex-
perieDces of the early settlement of
that part of the State.
There were men there who had
fought the Indian in bis native forests
there were women who could tell how
they had sought refuge in the block
houses, or forts whilst their husbands
We're pursuing the willy savage, there
were men and women there who re-
membered how they used to be obliged
to cover their fires at night to keep it
alive until the morning, or else be
compelled to 60 to their neighbors for
Goals to renew it. Friction matches
were unknown then. There were men
there who could tell how they used to
break their lands with a wooden
mould board pillow, how they cut down
the great trees in the forest, rolled
them together and burnt them, how
they called in the aid of their neigh
bors to roll their logs into heaps, to
sbuck their corr, to raise their log
buildings, and the women could tell
how. on such occasions, they prepared
a big dinner for the men,, and what
times the young people had, at
after the days work was finish |
ed. There were on the ground three
persons, SO years old and octogena-
rlans in abundance. Eack family
brought its well filed baskets, making
the reunion II grand Picnic at which
they passed II day of enjoyment and
and as the evening shades
lowered over the earth they bill tare-
we'll, many of them for the last time
and departed for their homes.
1saw new article eff agriculture
as orchard grass, that is cult
for its seed, and for pasturage. |
This is something new, and only pro-
duces seed in that portion of Kentucky |
between the vicinity of Louisville. and
Lexington, along the Ohio River, and
IN U or two COUNTIES on the Indiana
side of that same stream. 1t requires
about two years 70 produce merchant
able seed, and from six to eight crops
are harvested from one seeding. The