Maquoketa Sentinel (Newspaper) - November 23, 1854, Maquoketa, Iowa DEVOTED TO MORALITY LITERATURE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS MANUFACTURES AGRICULTURE MECHANIC ARTS VOL I MAQUOKETA CO IOWA 23 1854 Sentinel SELECTED POETRY I EVERT THURSDAY BY GART 8t BROTHER tan Office oh Main street in New Block TERMS OSE TEAK If paid in advance single subscribers thrue months 175 If naid after the expiration of three j six 25u it twelve O One month will be given to enable bers io a vail themselves of the advance after which the above terms wil be strictly ad hered to insure a discontinuance at the end of the time subscribed for all arrearages must be and positive directions given to that effect The paper of subscriber will be discontinued while arrearages are due unless same are settled for bv note or cept at the option of the publishers TERMS CIM 12 lines or less 1 week Every subsequent insertion One three months 400 One square six 600 One square one year 1000 Onefourth column per 2000 Onehalf column 2500 One per 4000 Professional caida of 10 lines or less inserted in the Business oneyear for WHEN there a DO contract made and the number of insertions is onthe ad handed in for willbe continued in until or dered outi and charged hy r BUSINESS DIRECTORY neighboring thicket which bordered a small from what dii action ha they From Ae Knickerbockers A PARODY The subjoined revised edition of Old Oat en strikes us a parody but we may be mistaken At any rate its revelation will remind many a country barn metropolitan of what he saw and experienced in lifes young dear to my heart are the scenes of my child hood When fond recollection presents them The ihe the pigs in the And every old stump that my infancy Knew The with wide spreading BALDWIN WM I E ifc SON Wholesale fc I J At Heavy Goods Stores TTin Sheet Iron and Copper Ware Chain lion JacKson No 24 JOHN E GOODENOW O in Drj Goods Bouts Shoes Gro Clothing and all kinds of Staple Store in DR C C permanently located in tender professional services to all who may favor him with a coll at his res idence Main Maquoketa Sept 2Ui The horses that grazed where iny grandmother The sheep on the mountain in the And all the we drowned jn the The meek little kittens the milk loving The poor liitle we well I remember with pleasure my gog Which rode so majestic And the mended toe strings and That belonged to old Dolly now free her woes And fresh in my heart is the lung woodpile Where often 1 have worked with beetle and wedge Striving to hack up enough to good while And swearing because had no edge the kitchen and pump it Where we up drink through a quill And iho booki where hung up the pumpkin to And doing without The old brown earthen pitcher the ed The without And there waa the schoolhouse away from each would govern with abso lute sway Who tan ght mo my i creek flowing iota The men con the quick as possible while ihe Indian crawl ed to a hat more himself behind the fal len tree He had enjoined oni not to fire or make any until Ibey should re from him a certain For from the place where he lay the woods were tolerably clear of un derwood and a kind of path which skirted Cba bank of the tad he creek near its mouth about ten rods from the place soldiers were concealed From the position the Indian occupied thia pass waa in full view In order to the stream anyone going along that path had to descend about ten feat almost perpendicular ly BO he waa id the bed of the brook be could cot eep by who should happen to be any distance behind The had not been in long when quick sign the scout gave them to that Boma one approaching They saw an coming along ats rapid though silent pace towards the cross had juat got view when at of two carhe other and ao on to the Dumber of They were all in war paint and with rifles and The were all attentive to the their guide expecting at every moment to receive the signal to fire To their surprise however him laydown gun and draw from beneath the log a long bow die of finally beat a retreat and drew o IT into til a woods Tbe check was all that could have been desired That force waa dot engaged ia the battle of Plattsburgh and after the disastrous of the day it ma da a tate northward into the It was that as soon 83 the seven Hur ona were Hunk look DO further interest in the fray Shortly after the firing commenced ha disappeared and did tlie soldiers back to the army The next day however he appear ed before the officer again as at the time of hU arrival io camp hut with the addition of seven bloody scalps attached to his belt and the from hie himself upon the tumbled down wards rul ing aa if wounded In this way he escaped unhurt At the closn of the war he moved to New where he resided until his aome years after He lived in aud died in Chronicle a Hoy ANOTHER CHAPTER FnOM P T While I was clerk in tha store in Bethel Connecticut my father kept village tavern I usually slept with my brother Eder but when our filled with ed be accomplish Hewas fpr his services promises of a liberal reward To all that was said he a silent listen er and only to the trophies he to signify that they were sufficient In truth the Hu ron was his hereditary foe and he had been instinctively fighting for the tradition of his fath After second viait he was never again seen in the army But the story of his ax the talk and the wonder of ihe ca m p Ja ALIEN u w ALLEN DURANT of 11ady Made Cloth ing and Dealers in Gentlemens Sept 21st 1854 no IS T CO GEN ESI A I Dealers in Foreign tad Domestic Dry and Capt Groceries Clotting Cullery jcc May t nie like erery day 1 remember the ladder that in my passage i Which led to the loft in the peak of the house Where my grandmother hung up her OR O Y SCHRAPER ind Surgeon Office front over Store 1 GEO D LYON NOTARY public will attend to in that line making and of all dour promptly with May 1 V JONAS CLARK Land Office in the Air Line Store Southwest corner of Mainand Plane Iowa May 25th 1854 JOHN POPE NOT ABY PUBLIC will attend promptly to an y business entrusted to him as Notary Public with fidelity and dispatch the Court Iowa 7 and To Keep them away rat and the mouse But now far removed that of creation Emotions of grief big as swell When fancy rides bacK habitation And thinK of the Kittens we drowned in the well The meeK little mils loving The poor little we drowned in the well Old 1 M IS GEL LANE O US J W JENKINS ATTORNEY AT LAW Maquoketa county Iowa HEFERS TO PLATT SMITH I E Brs T S Particular attention will ba given to pro Warrants to which applicants may be entitled under the lite Bounty land law Of fice in Mitchells Brick Block up Miy 1 and at Law naid to collecting Maquoketa 85thIBM 1 Par P snd Retail Dealer in Dry Goods Groceries Boots ind hoes Ready made Clothing Books Stationery Maquoketa Iowa Mav 26th aol FELLOWS WHOLESALE and Retail Dialer in Drugs and Medicines Faints Oils ind Books Stationery and Mais Street Maquoketa lowi May 25 1 V GEO WHOLESALE Groceries north west Mi Iowa Hay 25th I THOMAS CO Goods 1 1 GOODENOW BY C E SHATTUCK CORNER of Main and O 1 w JONAS CLARK HOLES ALE and Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods and all kinds of Merchandise Maquoketa lows May 25th 11 E S PIPERS LIVERY Good Hotel lows May 2551ino I J B Shoo Store OB Wwa fHt Ma 2Sth185 nal RiB E ALER in Stores Tin Sheet Iron low wae Main AN IN THE WAR OF 18t2 At the battle of in 1812 during the din and the heavy cannonade on lake and on land there appeared before the commanding an unknown Indian clad in the wildest savage costume covered with paint and armed to the teeth who gave information of the approach through the woods on the of a considerable body of the British accom bja small band of or Cana liian Indians who acted ai guides and It is wall known that one column of the army under command of General Brisbane bad from the west along the road to the north of the Saranac The American army was now entrenched on the south bank in the angle of the river and the It will therefore bo readily understood that the approach of this new force would place the Americans in a position sufficiently cal to lay nothing of the to which hey were already The information brought by the garage was too important to be wholly overlooked and yet came in too suspicious a manner to be wholly trusted The officer therefore interrogated the Who are you my he Mohican was the reply your name Hank did you come from and why tre you beret come from Dutch merf Bat why are you here inquired the cer are the in the the captain tell me replied the his flashing fire V Doea anybody know this asked the officer turning to the bystanders but no one knew him What do you want me to do then asid the officer still looking upon him with fonr soldier replied the savage holding up both hit hands and spread inj his fingers lake em and wait for Min the wood right by Jove the officer the men ire too few to hue an laid for them and we need a picket of that kind The redskin mast be friendly after sll Let nine picked men headed by a go with hire bat let them be watchful be OB their guard and let roe be informed of the first approach of an enemy io that lion He until he faced the pass IB The SDJ The foremost otie coming to the pass drop ped at once to cross it At this moment the guide was observed to pu his bow with a quick and powerful effort ao rapidly as almost to sight an arrow wae sped up on its mission of death The stranger was seen to drop into the middle of the brook but not aery issued from his mouth Quick lightning the Mohican aa arrow to hia bow so that aa soon ss the second Huron dropped down to cross the pass he too observed to rael and fall without B groan In the same mariner was the third and the fourth and the fifth Huron pierced as he leaped into the ditch They so close to each other and the wholo passed off with such snd neither of them bad observed the fate of hia comrades until bis had met his own sixth Indian being a little more behind than the others seemed a little prised that he not see them in view on the other bank For this reason he descend ed with more hesitation into the He was immediately aware of the horrible fete that had arrested their footsteps and silenced their tongues He endeavored to recoil but is already too late A fatal missile was on the for him was struck like the rest but not with immediate death and be had time to raise into the depth of the forest one of those appalling yells of warning and of which ed among the people of his the presence of mortal danger The soldiers still looked upon this fearful scene in silence entranced by the murderous magic which took place before them When the stillness and the spell was broken by the warning cry they expected to sea the woods hostile sav however appeared end when the echo died looked in vain for the seventh and last of tho Hurons He had vanished as if swallowed up in the earth Tbe Inventor of Railroads Some few Howitt of the geie a sketch of the inventor who up to May 1846 had been neglected in England had been enriched hy hia brilliant echeme he had remained farced by pov erty to sell glass on for a living How many of the railway projectors agita tors stockholders hae heard the sub ject of lha remarks About half year is not was born at Leeds man named Thomas cely anything is known of his early history He was we believe R poor collier and being very ingenious he conceived the idea of fa the of coal fro No him was sound of retreating wss audible The Mo thf colliery of Leeda a distance of three miles by means of a which he constructed of wood Upon this hia cars moved at the rate of three miles an hour to he great merriment of a wise and public who at the idea of a railway as very and a8 the mera Poor Gray thought otherwise Magnificent visions of future railways such ae are now realities loomed up before him and ha be fian to talk in of iron railroads He laughed at es a via fool But the mort Gray contemplated Ilia little railway for coal the more firmly did ho the his He saw in It all that is now realized and he in spite ofthe the sneers Slid that upon him to prosecute his undertaking He petitioned to the British parliament and Bought inter with all the great men of the kingdom butall this had no effect except to bring down upon hiin wherever he wept the loud sneers and of all classes Still he persevered and at length engaged the of moo of intelligence and influ ence who embraced his views arid his plane and the result ia now before the world the inventor of rail roads who not longer ago than 1820 was laughed at for even mentioning the idea still lives England in the full real ization of his grand and noble railroad for which he was declared insane How much has the world been benefited by his insanity we were in a bed by taking in our furmer Edmund aa partner A Her the store was closed at night 1 frequently join ed some of our village boys in a the houses of their parents and what with alory various kinds of childs piny n of Hours would glide away and at 11 oclock night which was later than my parents permitted I would creep up stairs and bed with the greatest caution lest I should wake my brother who would be sure to report my late hours to my parents BIy brother contrived all sorls of plans to catch meou home but sleep would overtake him and I would elude his vigilance Sometimes he would pile trunks and the door eo that I could hardly opun it without the barri cade ard him by the noise 1 would generally manage however to opao the door by degrees and to get with out disturbing his slumbers One night I found the door fastened on the inside by a nail firmly driven over Ihe latch Determined that he should not outwit descended a short ladder whice I ascended aud entered pur bod room window without being discovered These continual contrivance of rhy brother some on my and I generally approached my dormitory with some degree of jOne night I returned ss about 11 o clock and opening the door a with great care I rim in my in order to dis cover any obstructions that might lie in wait forme My hand soon touched a amall which I found was attached to the door latch by one end other was faa Would Oo Anyhow A moat ludicrous affair st one of the county in a State been nn traia placed the the village situated near to the fair thn rules of fare upon which rind been induced to onehalf the price ori the regular train This left at 8 A M euch dny Aa WRS on thy evening of Ihe lust day of tlie fair a very crowd collected on tho near the depot tlie of the regular train expecting In be able to gel passage to their different places of At length n whistle heard in the and amid fire and the long train in viaw 1f the crowd wailing for at that iale seventeen high perpendicularly from centre of euch track The arching will fent leu thin two miles in length The descending grades tunnel Hither end will be only eighty feet ona line From head of grade on one side to ihe head of the on the of river will be two milna and a hnf Tbe tunnel will bo COB in by a channel or pit in tha rock and arching over without the of he best quality The work baa been sur and the cost estimated at one million two hundred dollars It is pro posed to the sum by e no purt of which is payable until the sum is subscribed period were almost n with J B and Wm V S ADDLER cod Hub door F B officer men were detailed and by the Indian they took their silent way he op Iho of the down which the new force re tobe They moTed forward for about barf boar when tlie ID dwa to proceed more can tioo aot to eVery sound dis IRON Turner anil 1864 nol the forest eai Croie to the ground he listened for aad rising quickly made I sign for the soldiers to betake themselves to still kept his place behind the log im now ss the log itself but with his bent fn quick and searching glan ces in almost every direction st once He was obviously at well as the No one dared to move or speak above his breath There was something awful in this sudd en and mysterious disappearance The silence continued for some fifteen minutes when crack of a rifle was heard aod the Mohican sprang to bis feet with the blood streaming down one side of his face His only exclamation was the guttural Ugh In instant the fatal bow and arrow wern again iu requisition aod his nee toward the Indian he sent another ar on its fatal The heard a and on look they saw Heron falling through he limbs tree near by Up this be bad he address to swing himself b his enemies during the momentary confusion oc by the war cry of his companion Trom that perch be had discover the ng place of be Mohican and bent upon vengeance bad immediately him without without caring per baps whether or not his enemies near The imprudence coat him bis life and withal he had ony succeeded in inflicting upon the Mohican a alight wound in the now rapidly changed of Uw rifle the dis tant heavy treed of a of troops was beard approaching through lbs too into the fatal pMf aod met with a like though more bloody soldiers in ambush This time the rifle that did the business The advancing column however waa of who seemed for a few momenta to rush into where their comrades guides were lying wounded and dead bnt aa they were ignorant of the strength of their The Man Who Fired the First Shot The first who discharged bis gunon the day of tha battle of Lexington was Ebenezer who died at Daering N H about fifty years ago He reside 1775 The regulars at the order of having upon the few rebels on thn green in front of the meetinghouse killing some and wounding others it a signal lor citizens writes one might be seen from nil in tbo roads over the fields and through the with his rids in his hand his powder horn slung to his side and his pockets supplied with bullets Among the number was Ebenezer Lock The British had posted a reserve of infantry a mile in rear in tha direction of Boston This was in the immediate of Mr L who instead of join the parly on the greon placed himself io so old cellar at a eot distan ce for doing A thn reserve were standing on a bridge and Mr Lock commenced firing ot them though there was no other American jn He worked valiantly for some bringing one of the at nearly every shot Up to this time not a gun had been fired elsewhere by the rebels Tbe disturbed at loosing an man men by the random firing of an unseen eno my were pot in discovering the man in the cellar and discharged a volley of bullets which lodged on the wall opposite Mr Lock to load cud fire with ibo precision of a fin ished marksman He was driven to such close quarters however by the British on his right and left that he was compelled at last to retreat He had just one bullet left and there was DOW but one way to escape and that was en orchard Nota mo ment was to be lost Pbe leveled bis gun at near the gun and the man was shot through the Tbe bullets whistled about him Lock rsa tened not imagine and the would not enable me to discover I drew a knife from my pocket and cutting the cord very cautiously I opened the got into bed without discovery On awaking the next morning the end of the cord attached to my brothers big toel This very ingenious contrivance lie thought would wako him up nnd it undoubtedly have done so timely discovery Another night he sat himself up in the mid dle of the bod and bolstered himself up with pillows determined to keep until I returned But sleep at last overcame him and when I arrived and found him in position I snugged myself in cosily across the foot of the bed and went to sleep In the morning ho found himself Bitting bolt upright juet as he went to sleep tlie nigh before Giving me a kick to wake me he worked it pretty well last night but Ill catch you yet You are welcome to do it if you cnn replied but you will have to get up early in the a asleep The next night he fastened a spur upon hia naked heel and went to sleep thinking that when I got into bad I should hit the spur and perhaps rake the pain of which would cause me to cry out end thus awake him I with my usual caution that night end discovering no contrivance I concluded had abandoned the chaee and turning my back to him I was soon wrapped in the arms It chanced that night that a number of tin peddlers abd other travelers arrived at a lute hour and every bed being engaged our was obliged to sleep with us Per me stowed away on the bick aide of Ihe bed my brother lying as usual plump in the middle be quietly let himself down on the front pert of the bed and went to sleep At about 2 oclock I was awakened by a The full moon WBB streaming in at making our bedroom us light HS dny ye Io go to bed wid a spur on ye little us held my brother high in ihe air ono linnd grasping his and the other holding offending leg with the epur on just over my head is the matter Edmund I exclaim ed in surprise a thing is the matter except this broth er uf youra has run his spur into me groin n of three inches replied indignant Irishman who was suffering under tbo smart of his wound did not mean it for meant it for Taylor whined out my brother only half awake a thing do I care who you meant ii for so that I got it replied Edmund at ihp lime giving my brother several which made him yell like it young Indian Edmund the spur arid nr ranging us all inbed ha turned tn go ness but at the welcome sound they roused themselves nnd upon Ihe platform like LOBS The nys of he Conductor he having imd somo difficulty with alike crowd the took in a single view the whole dilemma in which ha was placed He c must atop aad he knew that in an instant the entire train would be by applicants for The cars ware already crowded Io capacity and ss to receive any bo knew to bo It was just as he expected the hardly ceased revolving before pell mol came thn whole crowd scrambling tearing upon the anxious to get and secure n good seat the doors locked however nnd well by tho conductor and his assis lanta It waa in vain explained to them that the cars were already crowded they would listen they wanted to go nnd gn they would crowded the platforms they clung to the steps nnd hung on the windows His time was up and he had no space to it mattered not to the crowd they had got and wore bound to go It mattered not how insecure their position if their limbs wero damaged or the company was to pay nnd they hung on The bell wna rung and tho Boun ded but bore no warning to them Trie poor conductor looked puzzled scarce knew what to do If the train moved some lives must certainly be bat and to remain longer where he was he not He entreated lold them another train would soon be along but the crowd him not they determined to go on At length an idea broke upon him Upon the switch him three empty to train said he if I must I aup 1 m list Ho then went nnd the Wheels of the train nnd found in good order lie all who want It go get into tho two front cars of this Awny went the crowd tumbling over each screaming nnd hooting and io less than minute the two cars were fill ed to extent by the homeward hound secured a good seat nnd were congratulating each as to what their had for them snd solacing themselves with the prospect of n homo Those nearest the had them in order Io a free of air and carpet were last evening by Mr Henry Jr of Dayton of tha following particulars of a distressing occur mace which took place a few mites from on the between Dayton and Springfield on Thursday evening last It appears about three years since afar mer named William Ricketts left bis family to seek hia fortune in the gold mines of Calf forma months since K received information fiom R person himself as coming direct from San Francisco that her husband had died of chronic Tlie wife behaved the much distress upon pf the intelligence Her informant whose name is WmT Gaylord much Mrs R ia olid frequently visited her to in her Ji The of Gaylord him of her house Gaylord fr with an apparent offer but finally accept on conditions of marriage M to sleep merely remarking to my bn iher time ye try to ride rue fur a ye will find 1 am kicking one ye young varmint bags and wnre stowed snugly away under the Perhaps a better contented company had nover got into Bn small n com pass for were bound home nod here was n fair prospect so In a few minutes they would bn in motion it was but a rod ahead to tho switch they would soon hitch then Tho Conductor hnd mounted his train the Engineer was ai hcs post Are you all aboard J the Conductor air cried n hundred I you good night nnd a home The whistle Ilia bell rang and went the train at the rate of about twenty an A dead silence reigned he two cara for a when n burly man straightened him self op and in my opinion we all very cheaply suld He lisa gona ft us So he had and a Horror crowd of men waa io repion before They nnd and tore and cursed all railroads that were built It was well Conductor did not go over that road that he would most found if n one to At with oo baiter before them the to an I the rf the night away UNDER THK OHIO Louisville an apnn thV prospects and rjf the construction of n under river at Kentucky and A chatter fur work grunted by the Kentucky March 6 Ifiai nnd ihe right of wny by the city of Louis ville and the from taxation for city purposes CD the 29th day of May 1854 The Fort Wayne nnd South ern Railway Company have accepted the charter and the f she right if wny and muting up the stock nnd il possible to put the work under contract concealed enemy and could hardly tell tho brisk of a sleep hill aad throwing in specie Pacific Bailee from New York on Saturday week took oat fall or early io the spring The tunnel will be exclusively for railway purposes with a double track adapted to the use of all the roads of the different gauges it will be twentyeight feet wide in the clear and ra R at first agreed to let the matter stand open until should call again In the interim Gaylord abstracted from the all letters di to Mrs and one from her husband be opened then de The letter stated hat be to return home for three years but was very anxious to his wife Gaylord again called upon Mrs Rickets and insisted upon an answer to his proposition after a few moments reflection consented to the union and the time for their was set The day came they e married and by Mr Gaylord came to possession ofa farm valued at dollars Soon after their Mr Gaylord proposed to his wife to sell out und move to there locate for lifo The wife the farm was advertised for sale at a sacrifice The adver appeared in tho Dayton aod Cin papers and much was said in regard to tha sale of tbs The advertisement as it appeared m one of our Dollar Weeklies was seen by Mr Rickatts in San Francisco Enraged and chagrined Air R took the first steamer snd arrived IB on evening last Mr R made diligent inquiries and learned the above staled Aiming himself witb a and a brace of pistols he went to bis house about ten oclock at night All was quiet Ricketta rapped at the door several times It waa final opened Gay lord aod Ricketts entered Mrs Q threw on her dress and lighting the candle turned to look upon the stranger who had come at such an the night A shriek and the expression of Great God Ricketls ia that and the as affrighted wife fell insensible to the floor Gaylord who was in bed in an adjoining room out to see what had happened immediately seized V him by the throat and plunged the knife into his side and thon went to where his nate wife was laying cut her on the should der and neck then left the promises and since been heard from The wife recovering informed the neighbors of what bad immediate search was made for Gaylord was lying very low when loat heard from him and the probability ha must Ricketts bus a successful Cin Enquirer T Beer FS Bear A ludicrous scene occurred a abort time since on one of our moat It some humor had captured B huge grizzly bear up among the mountains some where and intent upon realizing some of him had duly caged him brought him to the city and placed him on exhibition in a room opening we will say upon wharf Over tlie door he posted io Large largest ever 60 cts An ted raw boned long legged lank Pike coun ty nibu fresh from the mines excessively of dent withal ID down the street rend the sign and thought hed like to took ut tho critter So be paii the fee his curiosity and went his way The day aflei one of our German fellow opened the exhibition and posted over his door on was painted in capitals Larger Beer Onr Pike county friend sauntered down the street soon after ward and was thunder struck when be read sign Beer said be Larger bear why dog dern that other fellers said was the Ive been swindled aod BB wrathful as he mde one rush for bruins ex room swept in like a thunderbolt regardless of admission fee without one word pummeled our friend the hunter al most to death and utterly cleaned him Monthly Magazine
