Griggs courier., 1898-06-24
the tree under which Penn made his
treaty. With every relic he has its his

The entire museum was unlabeled,
unclassifed.
Newly things he has classified or in
stone relics. He has turned one side of
the wall over for stone department.
Here are 61 boards. Thirty-one Of them
show 72O arrow and spearheads of
white, gray, pink and jasper stones.
The other 30 boards show antiquarian
stone relics, such as pestles, toma-
hawks. rubbing stones, stone skinning
knives, axes of unusual size, pieces of
pottery, one double-edged ax, very rare
ly found and the other curiously con-
structed relics of Indian life.
A conspicuous relic here is an Indian
mortar that was the property of Parson
Heckenwelder. Mrs. Heckenwelder
was the first white child born east of
the Allegheny mountains. Above this
in value is the powder horn presented
to Tecumseh, by Gen. Howe, in 1899.
scalping knives, wampum and beads
are rich and valuable.
He has another department made up
from balls, shells and hand grenades
found on different battlefelds during
the civil war. Capt. Reeder has given
him huge knife, found on the battle
field of Pittsburg Landing. and Capt.
Yard, of the v. P. T., gave him bugle
of the rebel army, captured in Florida.
His great souvenir of the civil war
is Gen. Robert E. Lees silver-mounted
hunting horn, taken from Arlington
during the rebellion. Next to this is the
first confederate flag captured by the
union forces, June 26, 1861, by Sergt.
Joseph Oliver, of the V. P. T. He has
also the handouts used upon Merry
man, who set fire to Gunpowder Creek
bridge in '61; the chasing of ten-inch
shell, fred by the Monitor at the Merri-
mac; gun carriage and casing made
from part of the old ship Cumberland,
which was destroyed by the Merrimac.
"But this is another piece of the con-
federate flag," 1 asked, what was
that?"
"Col. Ellsworth tore that down from
staff erected on the Marshall house." !"
he said. 'and near it have put piece
of brick from Libby prison, portion of
the scaffold on which John Brown stood
when Lees men shot him, and spear
used by one of John Browns men when
they were hunted down in the round
house."
A piece of Paul Jones' ship, Reliance,
is alongside sword with pistol attach
ed at the hilt, used by Maj. Gen. Ma
thaniel Green at the battle of Trenton.
This is indeed a curiosity, for it is prob
ably the only one of that make in
America.
Surgeon Barttle's scales that he used
at the battle of Trenton are keeping
company with large pair of cotton
epaulets worn by Peter Clayman in the
war of 1912, and near two such impor-
tant relics is knife presented to the
ugliest man in Easton.
It would be unfair to publish his
name.
"In the matter of knives, here is the
one owned by the famous Daniel
Boone" Youells said, land another
from Andersonviile prison."
An Eskimo harpoon nine inches
| 1OuB, Drought 1TOM tuc &ATCIlC IeSlOuS
by DR.. Kane, and piece of whale bone
taken from the shrouds of the British
ship Resolute, constitute the Arctic
souvenirs.
Two pieces of wire attached to a
frame did not look significant. but one
was piece of the wire over which went
the first telegraphic message, used By
Prof. Morse in 1887, and pieces of the
first and second Atlantic cable.
His Pennsylvauia relics, which the
Historical society would delight in, are
a piece of shingle from the roof OF
PENIS house. a lock from the front door
of the same house and one of the keys
Of the old Walnut street prison in Phila-
delphia.
Certainly in all the search for that
historic dial of the clock in the state.
house, no one proved himself so delight
fully interesting a parsonage as Nen
Youells. barber, with his record, his
relics. his years and his luck in the lit
tie barber shop down on the Delaware
in Easton.-Harrydele Hallmark, in
Philadelphia Press.
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