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j iiau juiujj uul cinu IluiuIt,” said Moore. “As soon as 1 did the young lady got scared and jumped out on me and knocked me down in the water. I had to hold onto the wagon and the horse and the girl too.” Moore put the girl back in the wagon and told her if she jumped out again he would lei her go down stream. “She cut up high, was scared almost to death.” Settlers on the bank came and saved them.CAPT. HIRAM Henshawescaped danger when he cameby stagecoach from Virginia to Kentucky in 1830. His diary was published in Gardiner’s “Chronicles of Old Berkley.”He found 16 houses at New Concord and 50 homes at Norwich. “Thence to Zanesville and put up at Sign of the Western Inn, Young’s.”His description of Zanesville was statistical: “This town on the east bank of the Muskingum has about 1,000 houses, good buildings principally of brick,two glass houses, two merchant mills, five churches,“On the opposite side is a small town called West Zanesville containing nearly 40bouses. Immediately below themouth of Licking River stands the town of Putnam, about 50 houses on the west side, some good buildings of brick, twoKftLicking River. It is the onlypicture we have of that pioneer industry.ABOUT SIX WEEKS later, in June. 1832, Virtu!on Rich arrived at Zanesville by stagecoach. Here he mounted a horse and continued to Cincinnati. His diary, “Western Life in the Stirrups,” was published by the Caxton Club in 1965.Rich left Wheeling by stagecoach in the evening. They crossed the Ohio River by ferry. Westward they traveled “one of the finest roads in the world. We reeled along in the stage at the rate of nine miles an hour,and upwards oi 50 dry goods stones, beside numerous grocery stores. Two book stores (poor apologies.)”Then he commented on the people. “The population at this place is composed of people from almost all countries. Industry prevails all departments, except the higher class of females“They think more about adorning the person than the mind, and as a genera] rule, spend more time in idle chitchat than what one will commonly find in N. England.”Rich got out of town on horseback before the “higherhtlS’PwpThe AlmanaczyS]JTSISinnsinfrIfs!irToday is Sunday, July 31, the 212th day of 1966 with 153 to follow.The moon is between its first quarter and full phase.The morning stars are Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter.There are no evening stars.American writer James Kent was born on this day in 1763.On this day in history:In 1943, the French Committee of National Liberation appointed Gen. Charles de Gaulle permanent chairman oftile Committee of National Defense.In 1948, some 900 planes took part in dedication ceremonies of Idlewild as New York’s International Airport. The name was later changed to Kennedy International Airport, In 1953, Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, majority leader, died.In 1964. the Ranger 7 television space craft, launched from Cape Kennedy, took the first American close-up pictures of the moon.Pfrsi»elt;siZU;liSiHdiBPlt;
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Zanesville Times Recorder
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sun, Jul 31, 1966
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