The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-07-11

N''~N~' N'@-' ~ l''A'N9'
was a glen of fearful portent to b
looked into from afar, but not to b
explored, DIR. Culver took his guest
the historian, to this spot, and il
"Ilildreths Notes"are found graph
description of the place, making it a
once famous through the great north
west. Last week, nearly centur,
since DR.. Culver held council will
the historian, his preceptor, nearl.
forty years since DR.. Culver's death
and after all his kith and kin have
departed from the old home where
he lived and labored, and honorably
and honestly acquired competence
long after his good works and hare
labors are forgotten to this generation
at the Rock House, company O
men, the oldest of whom was not borr
when DIR, Culver died, meet together
met and contend in cold calcula
ton over the distribution of his prop
erty. 1t is wierd commentary OIL
human dispensations, strange coinci
dences that Time brings together il
his circleing train.
The Attorneys in the case were
Vickers and McGilvery for the plain
tiff, Bright and Friesner, defense
Each a character, "Sic nur SelbeI
Selb."
Vickers, untiring and unterrifed,
dealt mainly with cold facts and the
merciless law, finging these missiles
with the impetuosity of a Gracchi in
theTribune and as reckless of grace in
manner and melody of voice as Ajax
defying the lightnings of the gods.
McGilvery had for his work the
adjustment Of accounts, disciplining
figures, marshaling his columns like
military martinez and compiling
additions and deductions with the
care and GOODNESS and precision of
Herschel counting the stars or calcu-
lating an eclipse.
Judge Friesner, Broughm in
mental and physical power, tore
down and built up in magnificent
Anglo Saxon abandon, sweeping
away all the underbrush at a stroke
and attacking from the start with in
cisive and smashing logic the tall trees
and big rocks, so to speak, which the
case presented, cycloning a wide
swath, an Odin riding on the whirl-
wind and treading on the storm.
Judge Bright, amiable and earn
est, adroitly skillful in directing an
Or parrying a provocation,
discussed in broad terms the char
acteristics of the case which possess
the kindlier elements and genter
graces in the well being and right do
ing between man and man. Elo-
quent in his earnestness, with good
out Of door voice, gesticulation in ac-
cord with the sentiment expressed, he
made it to be felt that while goodness
lbounds, there is lightning in the ar
and thunder on the hills. Our Dryad,
and Naiads, denizens Of grove and
pool, might we'll have thought, if
hey think, that old Peter Cartwright
was resurrected and had come to
second judgment.
Col. Rempel, Proprietor of the
Rock House hostlery, was Mine Host,
md dispended hospitality with ac-
,ustomed lavish. The Table did not
rave the conventional groan, but
Oiled in profusion of all the sub
;tantials of the season, all the richest
lelicacies in latitudes between oranges
md ice.
Col. Alex Sands, the goodly Arch
bishop on all such state and stately |
occasions, benignly acted as master of
ceremonies, while our once aoquaint
nee, Col. Pursell whose gifted pen is
ipped with ETHEREAL fire and STEPPED in
weetest mama, acted as Recording
Angel, and will furnish us whv were !
lot of the elect, with baskets of frag
nents of cake and rolls upon rolls Of !
manuscript copy for some future
dition.