The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-07-07

the tree under which Penn made his
treaty. With every relic ne has its his
tory.
The entire museum was unlabeled,
unclassified.
Newly things he has classified or ia
regular relation to each other are the
stone relics. He has turned one side of
! the wall over for a stone department.
Here are 81 boards. Thirty-one of them
show 700 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 AK, Fery 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.
The pouches, moccasins, scalp locks,
scalping knives, wampum and beads
are rich and valuable.
He has another department made up
from baHs, shells and hand grenades
| found on different battlefields 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 +. Lees silver-mounted
| hunting horn, taken from Arlington
| during the rebellion. Next 10 this is the
first confederate flag captured by the
| union forces, June &c, 1861, by Sergt.
Joseph Oliver, of the V. P. r. He has
also the handouts used upon Merry
man, who set fire to Gunpowder Creek
bridge in '61; the chasing of ten-inch
| shell, fired by the Monitor at the Merri-
mac; a 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
a staff erected on the Marshall house."
he said, and near it l 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 a large pair of cotton
epaulets worn by Peter Clayman in the
war of 1912, and near two such impor-
tart relics is knife presented to the
| ugliest man in Easton.
1t 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
long, brought from the Arctic regions
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 Pennsylvania relics, which the
Historical society would delight in, are
a piece of shingle from the roof of
Penn's 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 Zen
| 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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