The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-03-17
Compiled for the Sunday Morning BaEoo.
FUGITIVE FACTS
Concerning Odd Affairs and
Characters in Early Ameri-
can History.

-Ardrew Jaekson's parents were
Protestant Irish. They came over
from Carrickfergus in 1865, and made
clearing and built cabin at Twelve
Mile Greek, a branch of the river
Catawbs, whose valley has since be-
come nowned for lis wine-producing
grapes. Waxhaw, the nearest settle
ment, lay partly in North and Iartly
in South Carolina, and some doubt
therefore exists as to which was his
native state. To the end Of his lie,
Andrew jackson seems 10 have be-
lieved it was in South Carolina. But
his biographers have corrected the
error and decided that it was not.
However this may be, Jackson grew
up to manhood at Waxh4w, and car.
ried through life a deep scar ON his
band and another on his head as evil
dence IF the brutality of Tarleton's
men. Before jackson was twenty
five years old, two thirds Of the law
business of western Tennessee was in
his hands.
When the Revolution opened,
nothing of a banking system such as
we now have, was known. The num-
Der of banks at present is more than
seven thousand four hundred. Their
capital exceeds seven hundred and
seventy mill Gus of dollars. Their
deposits are far above twenty-nine
hundred millions; their notts are
freely taken in every city in The
union. In 1871, in most of the states,
a bank bill had never been seen. Be-
yond the mountains, in the d stricts
of Kentucky and Tennessee. military
warrants and guard certificates, horses
and cows, oxen, cow-bells and acres
of land, constituted the money with
which the people paid their debts and
in which they expressed their wealth.
In Western Pennsylvania whisky was
the circulating medium. In truth, in
1871, but four great cities in the
country could boast of bank. The
oldest and most opulent of them was
the bank of North America, at Phila.
delphia. Then there were the Massa.
chusetts Bank at Boston the Bank of
New York and the Maryland Bank,
Baltimore.
As late as 1892 the slave laws in
the southern states were most rigorous
and cruel and finally led to the for.
nation Of abolition societies even in
these states themselves. Lsshes were
prescribed for every black who kept a
dog. who owned gun, who hired a
horse, who went to merry making,
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along highway, who bought, or sold,
or traded without his owners consent
Slaves were forbidden to learn to write
or read writing, to give evidence
against a white man, to travel In
bands of more than seven unless a
white man went with them or to quit
the plantation without leave. Should
they do so, the first freeman they fell
in with might give them twenty lashes
on the bare back. II one returned a
blow. it became lawful to kill him.
For wondering alb ut at night or rid
ing horses without PERMISSION, the
punishment was whipping, cropping
or branding on the cheek. When bis
crime was murder or housed Irning,
the justices might, fit seemed best,
command bis right hand to be cut off,
his head to be severed from the trunk,
the body quartered, aid the pieces
hung up to public view. Next to
murder, the worst offense q slave
could commit was to run awav..
Six years before the Revolution,
but two paper-mills could be found
in New England. One was at Nor.
witch, Connecticut the other was al
Milton, whence a bell-cart went out
each month to collect rags at Marble
head and Salem, at Providence and
Newberry, at Charlestown and Bos.
ton. When the war opened. the
supply of paper from England ceased
and the forty mills in the United
States were unable 10 supply the de-
mand. Rags could not be gathered.
Again and again the newspapers were
forced to suspend. The printer Of
the Connecticut CouraHt established 8
paper-mill of his own. The Massa
chuse,ts Spy besought "the fail
daughters of Liberty" to save every
scrap of rag and send it to some paper
mill. Indeed, to the close OF the cen
fury, and even later, it is hardly pos
sible to look over the four stiff, blue
pages of a country newspaper without
meeting with an offer from the printe
to buy old rags. Under this stimu
lus the mills increased rapidly il
number. In 1897 there were sixteeI
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