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INDIANAPOLIS RECALLED AS VILLAGE OF LOG-HOUSES.

Trails Blazed From House To House, Instead of Roskla—Prominent Early Set tiers — Old Landmarks and Favorite Swimming Hole*.

lands in central Lem w Indiana were ceded to , / t^tha United State* by ^ / 1 treaty at St. Mary’s, / \ O., October 2, 1818, by 1 the Delaware Indiana, who agreed to give possession in 1821. Willliam Connor, having received permiaaion from the Dela* ' war* chief a number of year* before thia date, settled in one of their villages in 1806, four miles south of NoblesviUe, on White river. Hia settlement attracted other*, who visited this region before and after the treaty, in the spring of 1819 Jacob and Cyrua Whitzell, it is recorded, obtained permission of the old Delaware chief and blazed a trail from Whitewater river to th# blafla of White river, a her* they moved their families in October, 1819. Indian traders were also living here by permission. The congressional act of April 19, 1816, authorizing a State government for Indiana, had set aside (with the privilege of selection) four sections of unsold lands for a permanent capital.

Blakt that M tbey would make a fine fourmil# driveway around tb* town, a half mil* from th* center.” The State government was formally and permanent!v situated here in th* year 1826. The General Assembly bad declined to move to the new capital. The southern countiea delayed action. When the members of the new purchase bad taken their •eat* the subject waa preseed, and ia January, 1824, an act was passed making Indianapolis the permanent seat of government, directing the State offices and arciiivea to be moved here by January 10, 1825, and the Assembly to meet In the court-house here that day. SAMUEL MKBBILL MOVES THK OFFICES. Samuel Merrill, Treasurer of State, waa charged with the removal and effected it the following November in ten day*, a distance of 126 miles, over rough roads. It ia said that Mr. Merrill soundly whipped “Dave Burkhardt,” a notoriona bully and head of a chain gang, the same one whom preacher Havens, coming down from bis pulpit, thrashed the year before at a camp meeting held in Military Park. The populatioa in 1822 was estimated at 500. At the election held in April. 1822, there were 386 votes cast, of which 224 were cast at the Indianapolis precinct, 100 belonging to the land grant. This would indicate that the arrivals in 1819-1,1820-30, 1821-28, 1822-4, making sixty-three families, numbered S39, leaving 161 voters, of whom there is no record. The Gazette of February, 1822, pcblished aixty-tbree various pursuits represented, and said this list cave perhaps one-half the aduitpopulation. It appears from the record that 317 votes were" cast August, 1822, for Governor, William Hendricks securing 315 of them. In the legislative election, held in August, 1823; the total county vote was only 270. The population of the town in 1823 was estimated to be 600. A census taken April, 1623, showed 100 families on the grant,

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The Government surveys in this section were made in 1819 and 1820. The General Assembly, January 11, 1820, appointed ten commissioners 10 make the selection. They were directed to meet at Connor’s house on White river early in the spring. They met as directed and selected “the mouth of Fall creek.” The Bluffs lacked only one vote of the requisite number. The discussion was warm. They reported, June 7, 1820, the choice of sections—one, eleven and twelve, east fractional section two and enough of west fractional section three to make up the grant The location gave the plant almost instant reputation. During the summer and fall of .1820 and the spring of 1821 the arrivals were ns follows: Morris Morris, Dr. 8. G. Mitchell, John and James Given, James M. Kay. Mathias Nowland, Isaac Coe. James B. Hall, Andrew Byne, Nat Cox, Michael Ingalls, Thomas Anderson. Kinnetb A. Scudder, John Hawkins, Conrad Bronselle, Douglas McGuiYe, Milo R. Davis, John McCormick, John Cowan, Harry and 8am Davis, Isaac Wilson, John Maxwell, Samuel Morrow,

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comprising 172 voters, and forty-five single women (children not reported.) The statement was made that "there has been but little increase since November, 1821.” It is evident that many persons previously here had moved to the country. The total vote cast August, 1824. was 430. The November following (national election) showed only 332 votes. The country increased and the town barely held its own. The population was only slightly increased. Sickness, deaths and removals decreased it. The growth was scarcely apparent. The’ population in 1825 was about 600; in 1835

it was 3,000.

The improvements at this time consisted

of a new State House, new court-house, Governor’s residence (never occupied). Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches, the county seminary and State offices. At the close of 1827 there were 25

brick, 60 frame and 80 log houses. In January, 1825, twenty outlets (four

acres each) sold for $25 an acre; May, 1825, twenty outlets (four acres each) sold for $18 an acre; May, 1825, reserved lota in Wash-

l t esvraiu xva a* a w: a * , s-"** s** v« -w * cats * s* f m.vs**s* * a > x. - — - . - - J. Mcllvain (associate judge). Cor- ington street (thiee squares), seventeen lots baley and Barnhill, Van Blaricum, FJiakim in all, sold at $134 lowest, $360 highest; Harding (associate judge), and Elizabeth May, 1827, reserved lots in Washington Nowland, who kept the first boarding-honse. street, 100 sold lor $45 each; May, 1827. This made a total number of thirty /am- thirty-eight outlets (four acres each) sold ilies. There were also Calvin Fletcher, Ca- for $23 au acre—$92 a lot Sickness, lack of leb Scudder, Daniel Ynndes, Nathaniel Bol- trade and money prevented buyers from ton, Obed Foote, James Blake, Nich- meeting deferred payments, and their lots

olat McCarty, Beniamin I. Blythe, Alexander W. Ralston, John MeClung (a “New Light” preacher), Resin Hammond (preacner), James Scott (preacher), O. P. Gaines (Praabyterian preacher), Daniel Shatter, Isaac Lynch, Wilkes Reagan, John Shunk, Amos Hanway, George Myers, James Linton, George Smith, Joseph C. Reed, S. 8. Hooker,* James Paxton (militia colonel), David Mallory (negro), Alexander .W. Russell (major), John T. Osborn (county commissioner), and

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came Judge W r . »>. ». ,v», George Norwood and Uar«ev Bates (sheriff). George Pogue came in 1819. Tfiere w*tre a few others, whose names can not be recalled. These formed the first settlement. All these pioneers are dead, but their names

were subject to forfeiture. The General Assembly January 20, 1826, passed the “Lot Relief Act,” followed by similar ones at subseqnent dates, greatly relieving embarrassed buyers. In the year 1832 the Legislature leased square 2o for thirty years to the trustees of the Marion County Seminary, who built'on the aouthwest corner and opened the school September 1, 1834. Ebenezer Dumont was principal in 1834; W. I. Hill, 1835; Thomas D. Gregg, 1836; William Sullivan, 1836-37; William A. Holliday, 1837-38; James S. Kemper, 1838-45; James P. Safford, 1845-47, amff Benjamin L. Lang from 1847 to 1853.

A LEADING SCHOOL.

The seminary was long the leading school in Indiana, and under Mr. Holliday, the father of John H. and F. T. Holliday, Mr.

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are like household words. Descendants of Kemper, Mr. Safford and Mr. Lang, had a some of them are yet living. high reputation. Many of the business and NAMED INDIANAPOLIS. ; professional men of the city were wholly or On January 6, 1821. the General As- portly educated there. * -* **-

sembly confirmed the choice of site, named the town Indianapolis, and appointed three commissioners to lay it off'. The commissioners were directed to be on the site the first Monday in April to appoint surveyors and clerk, make plats and maps, and to advertise and sell the alternate lots, the money received to constitute a public building fund. At the appointed time the commissioners, having organized a surveying party, mad# th# plats and began the survey. The four section*, with the fraction on the west bank of White river, com-

pleted the acres granted.

Near the middle of the “grant" a town plat one mile squam was laid off in squares of lour acres each, fR.tier*. ten each way, with streets ninety feet wide, crossing at right angles. Wasfiingtoft street was made 120 feet wide (R occupied the old National road), and was further divided by two alievs crossing each square at right ancles. The numbering of the squere# beean at the northeast corner of the plat. No. 1 was at

street. The canal when bnilt received its flood. Croeaing at th* intersection of Market and Mississippi streets, it passed the northwest corner of the State House grounds. Its width here was two hnndred feet. The aource of thia bayou waa in the swamps north and northeast of the land grant. The head of the main ctiannel was back of “Tom” Johnston’s farm. His house was in the Fall Creek road (now Central avenue) near Tenth street The row of cedars in the front yard of Col. James R. Roas’s home were planted by him and marked the entrance to hia home. The bayou crossed the Fall Creek road, east of Ninth street a short distance, at an angle of 45 degrees. When flush it was about 150 feet wide. A large elm for many years marked tha crossing. It stood on the west bank of the stream. New Jersey street waa partly absorbed at Eighth atreet, Alabama midway between Seventh and Eighth, and Delaware became a part at Seventh street Pennsylvania street was crossed almost at right angles near Filth, where now stands in the east sidewalk the largest elm tree within the city limits. It was directly on the south bank. Ten feet to the north of it the water at times was ten feet deep. Crossing Pennsylvania street it took a more southerly course, first making a double curve between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets. In this curve lived Mrs. Lupton. Bearing to the west Meridian atreet waa crossed at Second atreet Thence the course was between Meridian and Illinois to within 100 feet of Walnut street At this point it crossed Illinois street almost at right angles, and immediately took a southwesterly course to the south aide of Vermont street, fifty feet east of Tennessee street, and with a curve of 450 fee^, it crossed Tennessee street fifty feet south of Vermont and continued southwesterly to the intersection of Market and

Mississippi streets.

The General Assembly in the year 1831 (three-fourths of the town site and donation remaining unsold), by putting a minimum price of $10 upon the lots, managed to sell the most of them. When the sales were closed in 1842, it was found that the whole of Indianapolis had brought only $125,000. Out oi this fund the State House, court-house and Governor’s residence, costing $6,500 and never used, clerk’s office, treasurer’s house and office, were paid for. The city was yet a forest except for a few clearings. It was a fact, but almost imperceptible one, in the dense and limitless woods into which it was “dropped.” Washington street was the onlv opening. No other street was visible. Neighbors went from bouse to bouse by trails, as hard to follow as were the coon tracks in the White river bottom, and crowded with stumps and heaps of logs and limbs, which, in places, the close undergrowth of hazel, spice bushes and paw-paw, made penetration almost impossible. In the same year, 1831. the General Assembly chartered six railroad companies to center in Indianapolis, which led the way to the system of internal improvement four years after. At the same session it was resolved to build a

new State House.

THE NATIONAL ROAD. The United States Government was constructing a great highway (the national road) across the continent, beginning at Cumberland, Md., and extending to St. Louis. lu some places it was good; in many execrable. The road was fair over the mountains; preftty good through Ohio; bad in Indiana. The spring time was unfavorable for emigrants. From Richmond, Ind., to Indianapolis, six days and nights, at times, were required to transport the mails, with an outfit consisting of four wheels, to which four horses were attached, hauling the United States mail in a queenswure crate resting upon the rear axle. Every emigrant can recall the “black swamp," through which twenty-four hours were required to make one mile. There were no postal facilities end no postmaster until 1822. Bresident Monroe appointed in February, 1882, the first post-master—-Samuel Henderson. John Cain served from 1831 to 1841, with the office at the west end of “Union Row," in the north side of Washington street, between Meridian and Illinois streets. I recall this block, a line of two-story brick buildings, with dormer-windows on the roof. They were very pretentious for that day. Cant. John Cain used the first one,for the postoffice; J. J. Jennison rented the second, Abner Pope the third, Seibert & Beuler the fourth (saddlery and hardware), and Bullard & Mothershead, druggists, the fifth. To the rear of the third (about qrhere Sloan’s drug store is now) there was attached k two-story frame. The lessee lived here ten years. The lot across the alley, in the rear of the Methodist church, was also leased, and upon it was erected a double woodshed, with a capacity of twenty-five cqyds of wood, and a stable attached, holding two horses, two cows and a corn crib, with a capacity of fifty bushels. The hay-mow was over both woodshed and stable. In it was stored ten tons of hay, with sheaf oats in season. One feature of life iu this new country was soon discovered—there were no drones. The boys who were “do-nothings , ' before emigration became active participants in all the multifarious duties of home. The Governor’s children were active in the performance of allotted tasks. On occasion each helped the other out. Provisions were abundant; eggs were 1 cent a dozen, butter from ‘2% to 5 cents a pound, venison 25 cents a saddle, pork l 4 cent a pound, fresh beef, a quarter $1.25. Families put up their own lard, pork, bacon, hams, venison and sausage. The smoke-house and large tierces were filled. I recall the manufacture of candles, first “dips” then the “molds" and the making of soap, hard and soft, annually by the barrel. The boys cared for both horses and cows, sawed and split the wood, and with all this daily work, attended school from 8 to 12 and from 1 to4:30, summer and winter, with seldom a vacation. Once each year they held a public examination. The new feature of hard work was accepted; it was

retreat •* a hot, summer day. The exact •pot ia bow under th* Uaion station, 100 feet from the east entrance. Btt superior to all was the “old snag” in Whit* riyer, about two hundred yards below the present water-works. The long branch of a sunken tree extended fifty feet or more above th# water, close to the surface. It was th* “divin* log." Forty men and boys could often be seen on it at one time. Every rock within the apaoe of a thousand feet was nthered from the bottom and put under that limb, and a rock foundation waa built to stand on, with a depth of from four to five feet There ie no pleasure without alloy—without sorrow. 1 can recall the drowning of Dr. Brown, with one hnndred swimmers abont—also of another man and of the two bright Bratnmell boy*. “Oh! the old swimming bole! When I last saw the place. The seen*# were all changed, like tha changa in my face;

used to be, Bnt never again will their abade shelter me! And I wish in my sorrow I could atrip to th* soul. And dive off in my grav* like the old swimmin’ hole.” Indianapolis, from 1825 to 1835. developed and crew rapidly—the many incidents and detcila of thia period are set forth by Nowland, Oliver H. Smith. Ignatins Brown and by Berry R. Sulgrove in their several works. Joseph P. Pop*. SENATOR HILL’S SPEECH.

NOVELTIES m CHILDREN’S CLOTHING Our assortment of Juvenile Clothing is better this season than ever before, and at prices particularly pleasing.

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If the tariff bill is now defeated through the mauipulations of such as he the Democrats of the country will remember the treason for all time.—[Milwaukee Journal

(Dem.).

When a soldier throws down his arms just as the order is given to advance upon the enemy’s works merely because he hates the officer in command, there is but one name by which he can be known in the ranks of those among whom he has been

enrolled.—[Boston Globe (Dem.)

Senator Hill has pointed out the mistakes of the administration almost as clearly as could a Republican. The only trouble with Senator Hill’s exposition is that he makes his party the victim of a man, when the country knows that the party is as responsible for the mistakes and as untrustworthy as is its leader.—[Chicago Inter Ocean

(Rep.).

• Senators Brice, Hill, Murphy, McPherson, Smith, Gorman, Gibson, Camden, Cattery, Morgan and Pugh and Justice White are the worst enemies the Democracy has had to contend against in this year of grace. They have attempted to stab the Democratic party in the back at the behest of plutocratic interests.—[St Louis Post-

Dispatch (Dem.).

“Before entering upon the tariff” Mr. Hill gave President Cleveland a roasting for his blundering foreign policy. It is clear that the taritt bill can not receive the support of Mr. Hill with the income-tax feature retained therein, and that there are very grave objections to other provisions which may cause him to antagonize its passage.[Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette (Rep. I. The speech of Senator Hill of NevwYork on the Democratic revenue policy has been awaited with very general interest. Mr. Hill is not hostile to tariff' reform, but he believes that the revenues of the Government should be derived mainly from tariff duties. Tnere are portions of his speech that treat of other matters, and these disclose the fact that Senator Hill is not an admirer of the administration.—[Omaha

Bee (Rep.).

In his exposition of tariff principles and taxation the Senator is at variance witty some of the party, but in this the party is to be congratulated. For so long as its members are honest in their convictions they can be relied upon to resolve their differences and in the end give the country such legislation as is inspired by something better than a selfish desire to rule in the interest of class or section.—[Detroit Free

Press (Dem.).

Biyt for the fact that the Democrats have only a narrow majority in the United States Senate the speech of Senator Hill would

not possess any t

significance. He is a man of positive views on some questions, but his acquaintance with economic subjects is limited. The chief interest attached to his utterances was as to whether he intended to support the policy of his party on tariff reform.-

[Boston Herald (Ind. Dem.).

The country will receive by Hill’s speech no accession to its stock of information whether the Senator will or will not vote for the Wilson tariff bill, even with the Senate amendments. Senator Hill marred his speech by a savage and uncalled-for attack on the Cleveland administration, but that was to be expected and will carry no weight, as all politics of a personal character is sure to be discounted by an inquiry into its motives.—[Pittsburg Post (Dem.). David B. Hill has denounced President Cleveland, assailed the tariff principle of the Democratic party, condemned income taxes and objected to free raw materials. While there will be some surprise that a New York Senator, elected aa a Democrat, took the floor to antagonize everything in the policy and leadership of the party, it is a relief to be certain that Hill, Murphy and the other traitors are on the Republican j Bide. Cleveland is coming back. Hill’s speech will restore Cleveland’s hold upon multitudes of men.—[St. Louis Republic

(Dem.).

David Bennett Hill is a Democrat. There can be no doubt about that, for he has upon more than one occasion declared in public that he was. The doctrine which he enunciated in the Senate yesterday waa not Democratic doctrine, however. It was the doctrine of Daiia, and the senior Senator of the Empire State spoke simply as the mouthpiedfe oi the New York Sun. David Bennett Hill may be a protectionist at heart, but it was not principle that prompted nim to

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students tilled national, State, county and city offices. The town improved slowly from 1827 to 1835. Settlements confined

mainly to Washington street.

The timber bad been cut down on most of the plat, yet many large trees were standing, and there were stumps and log-heaps every-

where.

The outlets were all in the woods. The Ninth w ard was a forest until 1845. All the territory south of Maryland and east of Meridian street was unimproved. Squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, deer and bear were killed iu sections now densely peopled. No grading of any kind had been done and no sidewalks existed. The ponds along the bayous afforded skating in winter; in summer were covered with green scum and ten-* anted by countless frogs. Albert G. Porter well remembers this on coming here, even in later years. The General Assembly and the Governor, Mr. Noble, believed that White river was an important commercial highway. Surveys were made, favorable reports returned and Government aid solic-

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the intersection of North and Last streets; spring floods, for a season or two only, waed,

No. 10 at the intersection of North and however, all its value.

West streeU. This fotmed the first tier. , The two main bayous running through No. 11 was in the second tier under 10. and Hie town were veritable rivers at times. 20 was on th# east liae under 1, every alter- The eastern one crossed Washington street nste tier running east or west beginning ; near New Jersey street. Foulke’s pottery with an odd number. At the intersection was on the west side of It. The ravine was of the four blocks 45 and 46 in the fifth tier thirty leet deep. A two-story brick west of and 55 and M of the sixth tier, a» a center, > the pottery was the home of Nicholas a circle lot of nearly four acres, surrounded | McCarthy. Benjamin I. Blythe lived op•by a atreet eighty feet wide, was laid off, posit#, in a pleasant, one-story cottage. The taken equally from these four squares, from Lyou crossed the southeast corner of his whose extreme corners diagonal avenues i ot an< i emptied into Pogue’s run. Its

source was id the northeast part of the plat. It received the overflow of Pogue’s run.

after year. Yet, it was not “all work and no play.” The boys had plenty of time, for hunting, fishing, swimming and visiting

sugar-camps.

PLENTY OF GAME.

The woods abounded in squirrels, rabbits, quail, pheasants (partridges), turkeys, deer and bear. The streams were full of fish, large and small. One is recalled that with a rail through its gills resting upon the shoulders of men six feet tail, had its tail dragging on the ground. Then the swim-

ming holes—the loved spots of the long, hot concerned he m summers. I recall the “otter-slide” in Gov- h,m /“A 1

ernor Noble’s pasture, near where the Market-street bridge crosses Pogue’s run. It was a great favorite on account of the blue clay bank that formed the slide, in which the boy could bedaub himself to his heart’s desire. Here my swimming be^an. The creek was flush. Not observing It, I plunged in, and when Washington street

was reached 1 could swim.

Below Morris Morris’s house on a bluff overlooking Pogue’s run, the Morris swimming hole, shaded by willows, was a choice

to meet the wishes of the trusts and the sugar planters.—fCleveland Leader (Rep. ).

This man Hill, who arraigned the Presi-

dent for dsring to be honest and true to the principles which elected him, is the direct representative of the influence which nominated Maynard, which made Gravesend methods possible, which started riot and murder in Troy, and which excited a wave of indignation that ha* swept the DeZuocracy from power in every section of the Union where elections were held last fall and this spring. As far as Mr. Cleveland is

d he needs no champion to Uefend

Murphy or Gorman, or

any of that select party of platform repudiators and party smashers.—| Kansas City

Star (Ind^

A Good Koader.

(Judge.;

Purchaser—See here! you aaid this nag went a mile, last month, in two-twenty-five, but I can’t get a four-minute clip out of

him.

Dealer—Well, sir, to be candid with you, he made that time coming through from

Canada on a cattle train.

©OLD (BY ALL DRUGGISTS GEO. W. SLOAN, 22 W. Washington Street, F. W. PANTZER, 54 W. Washington Street; East, corner Lincoln. H. C. POMEROY, 58^ N. Pennsylvania Street, J. A. HAAG, Denison House Drug Store, 87 N. Pennsylvania Street.

Temple of Beauty, 146 State St., Chicago, 111.

AtAiS- At- YAUE,

H ugipoly loquous.

ninety feet wide were extended northeast, northwest, southeast snd southwest, bisecting equally the four squares crossed. North, South, East and West streets were not included in the original flesten, but were added at the suggektion of James

COURSE OF THE WEST BAYOU. The west beyou (the principal one) erossed Washington street at Missouri

This is a dead word, and is omitted in the modern dictionary. It means saying a great deal about nothing, and that is why we have no

use for it.

HAM and BACON The mere mention of these things is to say a great deal about something. It is only necessary to add that you should see to it that your butcher or grocer givls you K I N G A N > S Don’t be pffit off with something else said to be “just as good as.” It is not—get Kingan’s and you’ll be happy.

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