Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — A City Moving Off on Wheels. [ARTICLE]

A City Moving Off on Wheels.

I arrived at Bartlett, D. T., about the middle of the afternoon of a beautiful day. I found seme stir and activity among the people of the city, but it seemed to be the excitement incident to the emigration of a city on wheels. The people generally had abandoned all hope of the city, and were moving their houses bodily to Devil’s Lake and other places. The houses were first lifted oil to large timbers of sufficient size and strength to bear the weight of the house. These timbers were then suspended under two monstrous freight wagons on either side of the building; four large horses or oxen were then hitched to the wagons on each side, and the road to Devil’s Lake being across a smooth prairie, the teams were able to move along easily with a fair-sized building. Some of them, with the teams attached, presented to my mind sights most magnificent. It was the first time that I had ever seen a city moving on wheels. I had seen people moving on a large scale in their socalled “prairie schooners,” but the sight was tame compared with this. I thought of a remark I once heard to the effect that “the approach of a train of cars drawn by a powerful engine was a magnificent sight to behold,” and I thought to myself a road lined with two-story houses, moving to the music of the steady tread of teams of eight powerful oxen, was a sight equally magnificent. And such was the fate of the once proud city of Bartlett.— B. Noble, in McGregor Times.

A servant girl fell on a bracket, Her skull, she did nearly crack it, St. Jacobs Oil applying, Saved her from dying— It proved to be “just the racket.” A steamboat Captain from Goshen. Was hurt by a boiler explosion; On the pains in his hip, St. Jacobs Oil got the grip, He calls it the all-healing lotion. Binghamton (N. Y. 1 draymen, when ever an alarm of fire is sounded, are hired by the different hose companies, and receive $1 for drawing the carts to and from the fire. Six thousand women, according to Mr. Dyke, a member of the Divorce Reform League, die yearly in the United States from attempts to destroy unborn children. Iredell County, N. C.—The ex-Sheriff, Mr. W. F. Wasson says: “Brown's Iron Bitters has improved my digestion and general health.”

When Swedenborg died in 1772 he had twenty-five followers. These have increased till they now number 12,000. Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation. —Addison.