Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1885 — Page 8

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RECOLLECTIONS OF A PIONEER. tadianapolis in the Early Days, When Wild Fruits Grew Where Factories Now Stand. '*lllo death of VArnold Williams,” says a fioneer citizen, “carries the memory of old residents back to the time when his father's farm was on the south line of the 'donation—the feu* sections assigned by Congress for the site of a capital—and cut out of a solid block of dense woods. The jiver ‘bottom’ and the ‘creek bottom’ on this side of the donation were thickets of iron weeds, nettles and underbrush, pawpaw patches and scattering ‘black haw’ and hazel bushes, through which the bare footed boy, who idly followed the tinkle of a missing tow’s bell that he was sent to fetch home, made his way with much deviation for big elms and sycamores, and frequent stopping to scratch the red marks left by the nettles. In the fall, after the first frost or two, paw-paws Bix to eight or ten inches long, and bigger than ft big man’s wrist, could be found J heaps under the clustering groups of bigleaved saplings, golden, soft and luscious as any es the costly tropical fruits we get now, and despised by half the Nation as ‘the only thing that a hog won't eat.’ Nobody brought them to town to sell in those days. Wild grapes were more than abundant all through these same bottoms, and when frosted a little were better worth eating than half of the cultivated grapes We get now. They had no tough pulp, and their seeds were sos;, like the European wine grapes, and they made the very best of pies and preserves. ‘Black haws’ were as black as the wild grapes, and grew in clusters something after the same fashion, but smaller. They were the most thoroughly sugared fruit that ever grew wild in snv country, fit only to be eaten from the bush, as useless for cooking or ordinary table use as watermelons. Big apple-haws, twice the size of the little, tough, hard ‘hog-haw'—the fruit of the common haw bush —were common, also. They mellowed in the fall, like an apple—hence the name—and were a very nice fruit, except that they were too inviting for worms. “In these same bottoms,” says the same old resident, “just along the Williams farm, and the lower line of the donation, ginseng grew thickly —as it did over a large .part of the county—and was frequently made an article of country trade with drug stores and groceries. There was always a market for it, for the Chinese used it then, as now, as a most precious drug, as well as indispensable condiment of food, and a large trade in it was carried on at Philadelphia. The earliest manufacture in our city, except horsepower ‘grinding machines,’ was a ‘sang factory,’ as it was called, near the present corner of Alaoama and South streets, established by Nicholas McCarty and James Blake to ‘clarify,’ as the country boys called it, or prepare for the Philadelphia market the ginseng dug outof the woods and traded about in the village. So important was this trade thought, that little hoes made purposely to dig the tender, easily broken roots, were made by the home blacksmiths, and, possibly, imported from the East, called ‘sang hoes.’ Some of our old time blacksmiths, ex-Alderman JSibert, or his brother Samuel, or Dan Noe, have probably made ‘sang hoes’ in their time. They had a little cutting edge, like an ordinary hoe, but hardly half as large, with a two pronged fork, about three inches long, on the upper side cf the socket. The hoe aud the ‘sang’ and the trade on it have all have disappeared as wholly as ‘Johnny cakes’ and ‘lie hominy.’ Another queer growth of the ‘bottoms’ in those days, now gone, was the ‘lndian turnip.’ It had some suggestion of tropical growth about it. The leaves gathered in quear clusters, and the forked stalk bore a standing raceme or stem, thickly covered with little round berries, a hundred or more, as big as ‘poke berries,’ and as red as blood. The biting, burning sensation left by the onion-looking bulb of this turnip is an unfragrant memory in many a bald head that recalls the experiences of its Bchool days. “Something like forty years ago James P. Drake got thu Williams farm, and built the brick house that still stands among the trees at the southwest corner of Morris and Meridian streets. William J. Brown afterwards lived there, and lome dozen or fifteen years ago Mr. Gimbar, a councilman, lived there. It was during his residence that his daughter and another girl wero killed and thrown into the ditch that emptied the canal into the river, just below Pogue’s creek — a very mysterious crime, to which no clew was ever discovered. The old maxim that ‘murder will out’ has been falsified by this tragedy. This ditch lay directly west of the old Williams farm, and ran through what was then called ‘Palmer's Glade’ or ‘swamp,’ a wet prairie patch between South Meridian street bluff and the woods along the river, through which the canal ran to Pleasant run, the farthest limit to which the water • in that costly work ever extended. "West of the "Williams residence, on the barnyard, was a mound, since plowed down and effaced, which stood very near the present site of the crossing of Morris and Maple streets. A little further west was another mound, through which the canal was cut, unearthing a considerable quantity of human bones and specimens of pre historic pottery. Dr. John L. Richmond, pastor of the Baptist Church, got these and kept them.”

WORK OF THE ST NOD. An Adjournment in Honor of Gen. GrantOpposed to Beecher's Views. At the session of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, yesterday morning, Rev. H. Sauer, of Ft. Wayne, opened up the services with the Ninetieth Psalm, after which he reviewed tho life work and characteristics of General Grant. said no simpler or greater man than General Grant was known to American history. Ilis life was pure, clean and wholesome, worthy of the illustrious praise that he is now receiving from tho world. To say that he saved the Union is a great thing, but to say that his character was such as to inspire his countrymen to live tetter and nobler lives is the best tribute that can be paid to his memory. Invincible as a soldier, stanch and honest as a statesman, yet unostentatious in his daily life—these are tho qualities that have endeared him to the people, and which assure that his memory san never be obliterated. Alter the speaker had concluded his address, it was decided to adjourn until Monday at noon, out of respect to the memory of Grant. The religious discussion, however, was continued, and the synod gave it as an expression of their belief that the devil and his angels were condemned to eternal damnation, in opposition to the views recently expressed by Beecher. Rev. Henry Schwan, of Cleveland, president pf the synod, is a noted personage in the church, lie was educated in Germany, lived afterward in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, whence ho vent to Cleveland, and took charge of a church. Ho was successively elected vieopresident and president of the district. Six years since he was elected president of the synod, and has held the position ever since that time. Recently he has received a call to go to fianovr r. Germany, and take tho highest official position in the church there. “Power of Money” at the Zoo. The attraction at tho Zoo Theater for the ensuing week will bo Mr. Frederick Bock's “Power of Money" company, in tho strong melo drama of that namo. The principal scenic pictures ihown are the burning train on the bend; the French markets, New Orleans; the great inuudatiou scone; the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and the Horseshoe Bend Tho company includes ten well known professional people, headed by Mr. Frederick Bock. The Creditors To If© Paid. Judge Woods yesterday ordered tho receiver of tho Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railway to pay a number of claims against the road upon which judgment has been given. The creditors named in the Older are W. L. Arnold, August Novelette, Timothy Greathouse, W. Jtf.. Trohe,

Peter Stolz, James Mounts, W. C. Lowe, J. H. Kramer, George Woods, G. W. Bradford, E, C. Kramer, G. W. Saeger, John Cunningham and Carolina Sermon. ARREST OF PHYSICIANS. Action Against Them for Failing to Procure Licenses to Practice. The first of the week County Clerk McLain contemplated taking legal proceedings against physicians who had not procured licenses to practice under the law passed by the last Legislature. He was uncertain as to the length of grace that should be allowed the doctors, who were slow in acting as legally required. The law has been in force thirty days, and out of nearly three hundred doctors in the city, but one-half of them, up to yesterday, have applied for licenses. No time within which they are to fulfill this requirement was specified in the act, and the question with the clerk has been what number of days after the law went into force constituted a reasonable time. Upon this point it is likely the clerk and the doctors will have a warm time of it, since suit has been brought against fifty eight of them in Squire Pease’s court, because they neglected to procure licenses within a reasonable time. Warrants were issued yesterday, on the affidavit of John A. McKinney, for J. L. Waters, William M. Ballard, John Bryant, John Burch, William C. Thompson, Frank A. Smith, A. J. Selrnan, Darius M. Purman, S. M. White, Lewis M. Rowe, Joseph Robinson, H. C. Medlin, Charles N. Porter, James A. Houser. Shelton G. Woodard, A. W. Whitey, Henry H. Finney, George A, L. Carey, Edward Bacon, William J. C. Robinson, William H. Clarke, Emil T. Cherry, A. F. Wright, A. B. Wyland, E. L. Houser, J. W. Patton, S. D. Jones, A. Maxwell, G. C. Mayhugh, James A. Minick, J. O. Lawrence, H. U. White, D. H, Oliver, John M. Lucas, Jacob V. Hoss, John Chambers, James M. Carvin, Rola Bula, Edwin J. Brennan. Only a few of them were served during the day, among them being those for the arrest of Drs. John Chambers, Rola Bula, and Edwin J. Brennan, who paid their fines and costs in full. Dr. Chambers at first thought he would stand trial and take an appeal, but, upon reflection, concluded to settle. Other physicians made partial payments, while there were some who asked for a continuance until to-morrow, which was granted. Esquire Pease fixed the lowest fine under the law—slo, and this he will do in every case, as he does not think the circumstances of the doctors' neglect of an aggravated character. The proceedings have caused great indignation among physicians, many of those who have already procured licenses denouncing the action as one not warranted at this early day of the law’s existence. It is statod that the clerk had no intention to enforce the law at this time, but he told a reporter of the Journal some days ago that he would do so after a reasonable time had expired. Yesterday licenses were granted to Frank C. Ferguson, Hiram A. S. Park, Henry J. Browne, Edward J. Brennan, David Wall, Charles N. Parker, Andrew G. Selman, James A. Minick, N. Eldridge Field, David Funkhouser.

THE CHURCHES TO-DAY. Rev. Dr. Alabaster will preach this morning on “The Attractive Power of the Church.” Rev. H. B. Hyde, of Greeneburg, will preach this evening at Roberts Park M. E. Church. Rev. E. J. Gantz will preach at Central Christian Church this morning. No night service. Rev. Edward C, Sickeis, of Dixon, 111., will preach this forenoon at the First Presbyterian Church.” Rev. R. V. Hunter’s subject at the Seventh Presbyterian Church this evening, is “Cords and Cast Robes. ” , At Plymouth Church Rev. O. C. McCulloch’s morning subject is “The Development of Christian Thought;” evening subject, “Resources.” “A Root Out of Dry Ground, or the Effects of Forest Upon Climate” will be the subject of Rev. J. R. Mitchell’s sermon at the Fifth Presbyterian Church this morning. No evening services. Release of Poor Convicts. Thomas Warthen, of Francisville, and John Wilson, of Carlisle, each of whom has just served a term of two years in the Northern Prison, the former for robbing a postoffice, and the latter for counterfeiting, wero released yesterday under the “poor convict act,” both being unable to pay the fine which was added to the sentence of imprisonment. Sidkboakds at King <fc Elder's. Again in the Field with a Cheap Excursion. DAYTON, SOLDIERS’ HOME AND RETURN, $2. The C., H. & I. Railroad Company, ever mindful of the wants of the people of Indianapolis and vicinity, have arranged to run a cheap excursion to Dayton Soldiers’ Home and return. Special train leaves Indianapolis Union Depot at 6a. m. Aug. 13, reaching Dayton at 10 a. m. Returning, leave Soldiers’ Home at 5:30 p. m., Dayton, 6 p. m., arriving at Indianapolis at 10:30 p. m same day. This, possibly, will be the last cheap excursion to Dayton Soldiers’ Home, and it is the wish of the management of the C., H. &I. to make it a grand success. Fare for the round trip, only $2. Tickets will be on sale Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Grand Union Ticket Offices, corner Kentucky avenue and Illinois streets, and 114 South Illinois street. W. M. Shaw, General Agent. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETT, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS. Telephone 561. FREE AMBULANCE. ADAMS & WESTLAKE OIL AND GASOLINE STOVES. Early Breakfast Stoves and Ranges (best in the world); Osgood Refrigerators; Mantles, Grates and Tile Hearths. A. W.MeOUAT, 01 aiul 63 West Washington St. ("IHU A Advertising in the country PiO J >s among the Wants, For Sales, etc., of the INDIANAPOLIS DAILY JOURNAL, at only FIVE CENTS PER LINE each insertion. If yon have any farms or property to dispose of this will afford you a very easy and cheap agency. Try it. CITY UNDERTAKUIG ROOMS CC North Pennsylvania Street, OPPOSITE GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. H. W. TUTEWILER, Man’gr. First-class throughout, treasonable Prices. IFOPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Telephone—Rooms, 411. Tttiepuvup~lbe&ideuce l 41L

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, AUGUST y, 1883—TWELVE PAGES.

THE COAL TRADE Os Indianapolis is quite extensive, and for the information of Coal Consumers that we are unable to personally see, we quote our Coal and Coke prices that we have been and are still selling at. Come and see us. A. B. MEYER & CO. RETAIL CASH PRICES. Per Ton. Brazil Block Coal $2.25 I. & St. L. (Carbon) Block 2.10 Genuine Raymond City..., 3.25 Genuine Winifrede 3.25 Genuine Youghiogheny.... 3.25 Genuine Pittsburg 3.25 Jackson Cos. Lump 2.75 Jackson Cos. Nut 2.50 Pyrah Lump 2 00 Pyrah Nut 1.75 SUPERIOR GRADE SCRANTON ANTHRACITE. Per Ton. Chestnut $5.50 No. 4 5.50 Stove 5.50 Egg 5.25 Grate . 5.25 No. 2 Chestnut 4.50 Gas Coke, 7c per bu., or $1.75 per 25 bu. Crushed Coke, 8c per bu., or $2 per 25 bu. HPThe above prices on Coal are per ton of 2,000 pounds, forked, double-screened, and delivered promptly to any part of the city. OUR COAL OFFICES. 11 North Pennsylvania Street. 57 West Washington Street. 201 South Delaware Street. 450 North Mississippi Street. 298 Christian Avenue. Telephone calls, 516 and 594. Largest and best arranged Coal Yards in the city. A. B. MEYER & CO., Leading Coal Dealers.

A. DICKSON & CO., TRADE PALACE. MID PEICES AGAIN MOD! TO-MORROW Dress Lawns, Satines, Batistes, AVTiite Dress Groocls, Gftngliams, Parasols, Hosiery and Gfloves S MARKED DOWN - To prices that will close them out THIS WEEK. A. DICKSON & CO., TEADE PALACE. BRANHAM & CO. SELL THE CITY GAS COKE Always dry and well screened. Lump Coke, 7c per bushel, or $1.75 per load. Crushed Coke, 8c per bushel, or $2 per load — for cash only. GOAL OF ALL KINDS AS LOW AS THE LOWEST! Principal Office—BO North Delaware St. Yards —140 South Alabama St. and 458 E. Ohio St. Telephone 444. ( fSLATEANDIRON. MAIN 1 LLo a JOHNSTON & BENNETT’S, V _ J V • 62 EAST WASHINGTON STREET.

FOR SALE! A modern well-built two-story frame house of 10 rooms on North Alabama street, near Seventh street, for $3,000. JOHN S. SPANN & CO., 11 Bates Block. INDIANA TRUST AND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, No. 49 East Washington St Indianapolis, Ind. COLLECTIONS mad'! at all accessible points. FOREIGN EXCHANGE tor sale on all parts of the world. INTEREST allowed on deposits according to special agreement. BOXES FOR RENT at prices ranging from $5 to $25 per annum, ha our Fire and Burglar-proof Vault*. JOS. A. MOORE, Pres’t.

BARGAIN WEEK IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. 1 • This week will undoubtedly be the banner week of the GREAT CUT-PRICE SALE at the MODEL. Every department is full of bargains. This week you can obtain a complete outfit at the MODEL for LESS THAN ONE-HALF THE REGULAR PRICE. We propose to clear the house completely of all broken lots, whether in Suits, Pants, Shirts, Underwear, Hats or Boys’ Clothing. We had a big demand all week for our $8 All-wool Suits. There are still a few on hand, jenough to last a few days, perhaps this week. If you want a sls Suit for SB, NOW is your chance to get it. Equally great bargains are our $lO, sl2, sls and $lB Fine Dress Suits, in Cassimere, Worsted and Corkscrew. They are all custom-made Suits, and worth from $lO to $25. BARGAINS IN PANTS! * We have taken all our broken lots of $3.50, $4 and $5 Pants, many of them out of sls' and $lB Suits, O and will close them out at - -- -- -- - t All of our broken lines of $6, $6.50 and $7 Pants x \ * : >s3efco will be closed out at - -- -- -- -- / £ During this week Dusters and White Vests go at ONE-HALF THE ORIGINAL MARKED PRICE. Our $1 Vests and Dusters go for 80 cents. Our $2 Vests and Dusters go for sl. Fancy-bordered Linen Handkerchiefs, worth 30 cents, only 18 cents. Regular 50 and 75-cent Silk Scarfs, only 25 cents. Broken lines of Underwear reduced from $1.25 to 78c, il zoo\ jzozK :□□□ p XxW 3 uzcii? Ends? Etn Ena CLOTHING COMPANY.

C. F. SAYLES, Insurance, Loans, Real Estate, Rental Agent, 75 and 77 East Market Street. BONDS lam prepared to buy, at the highest market rates, all legal and desirable issues of County, City and School bonds. Correspondence invited. W North Peansylv&m* Strict.

CHARLES MAYER & CO. HAVE ALWAYS IN STOCK A FULL LINE OF Fancy Jewelry, Fans, Silk Umbrellas, Satchels and Purses, Perfumes, Fine Soaps, Odor and Comb Cases, Fine Brass, Bronze and China Ornaments, Fancy Table Ware in Glass and China. 29 AND 31 V/EST WASHINGTON ST. THE COFFEE HOUSE We carry the Largest Stock and Greatest Variety of GREEN AND ROASTED COFFEE In the State. We supply dealers with any quality and kind wanted at BOTTOM PRICES. A_. B. GHATES & CO., Nos. 31 and S3 East Maryland Street IN ADDITION TO A FULL LINE Os Howard, Elgin, Waltham, Hampden, Columbus, Illinois Watch Cos., and other American Watches, we also handle the finer productions of the following celebrated Swiss makers: JPatek, [Philippe & Cos., Vaclierou & Constaniin, YAgassiz, Longines, Etc. Railroad men and others wanting Fine Watches at MODERATE PRICES are invited to call and inspect our stock. JAS. N. MAYHEW, JEWELER, No. 23 West Washington Street. '““oldest, largest,"cheapest LUMBER YAPtD And PLANING MILL in the City. Sole manufacturers in this city of Byrket’s Combined Lath and Sheeting. A great invention. Is warmer, stronger and cheaper than lath, and will drive them out of use. Yard and Mill—Both sides Georgia street, between Tennessoo and Mississippi streets, one square west of Union JL)eot. COBURN & JOISTES. ©t. V olin 9 s Academy, CONDUCTED BY THE SISTERS OE PROVIDENCE, INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA This new and elegant building is ntted up with all the modern improvements. It is spacious and complete in all its parts, affording ample accommodations for boarders and day scholars. The apartments devoted respectively to Music, Drawing and Painting are constructed with special regard to the end for which they are destined. Every attention is given to secure the advancement of the pupils in the various branches, and to train their hearts to the love of virtue. For further particulars, address SISTER SUPERIOR, St. Johivs Academy, Indianapolis, Ind. THE INDIANA BICYCLE COMPANY, . A 108 N. Penn. St., Indianapolis, Ind. i Have in stock full assortment of the j 4- * RODGE AND "XPERT COLUMBIA BICYCLES. IBiJulf Agents for the 3 , FACILE, KANGAROO CLUB, SANS- jtTflß. P ARIEL and THE L .AL, the only first-class boys' wheel made. V gr jjnf * y Didicult repairing and nickeling a specialty. Old wheels bought, soldo? J WyL, - taken in exchange for new. Send two-eent stamp for catalogue. ——B—■ ■! MB—Ml M—■MB——————H———l ■■ WWMWMWBBMBI o los ‘- OC) vp ggoa £E 'SYf •jsoa aqj SI 31 XN3D HA Id JOI P O ou HHIA\ AO A CLMV •■O 'N 3HI HOH NSV s'lSew’auk' { AL IXKD PALNT’S { ‘& c <££I a JEFFERS’ PAINT STORE, No. 30 South Meridian Street. No, 30 South Meridian Street*,