The Butcher-Knife, Volume 2, Number 12, Danville, Hendricks County, 17 October 1857 — Page 5

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'Xcath a' tree by tho uirta cf t!:3 vcodland, Whasa fprcading fc:fy tracks sweep t!.2 ground, With a path leading thither o'er tha prairie, Whsn silence hunj her iiMit g erb around, Ttiere, often I have wandered in the evening When summer winds are fragrant oa the lea; There 1 saw the little beauty, Bell Brandon,. And we went 'neidh the Old Arbor Tree. Bell Brandon was a birdltnj of the mountain, In frtcdoea, she sported o the wing, And they the life current of the red man Tinged her veins from a far distant spring;

She loved her humble home on Lie prairie, And her guileless happy heart chmg to me, And I loved the little beauty Cell Brandon, And we both loved the Old Arbor Tree. On the trunk of the aged tree I carved there Our names on th sturdy form remain, But 1 now h j air in sorrow to its shelter And murmur to tin- wild winds my pain ; Oft I Kit there in voiitude repiuiug For the bt ant v drtain that night bro't to rcse Death, has wtd the little beauty Bell Brandon, And fche sleeps 'neath the Old Arbor Tree.

L j . :ry to go L:low tk cckla . . ill .3 C i - ' J.j 1 j "- s -t j i . 4t0 Ltotuj tauvvu C0C til 0 CG4i! tiCi t'.caycJ, but no taitii In, I LilLii in v.r ca it, r nd everything apncr.ro 1 to Ij r. : when tii o eCl n . c o -i c J the rc, c the cc.'ki lid eliktly cutcf pi.:: j, allowing a partial vicv? of the interior.As there were 'no fastenings to prevent, the part of the lid covering tho superior portion' of the body, tras raised,- and the

The Grave of James Hudison penes!. The Richmond South gives an interesting account of the opening of the grave of James Madison, lor the purpose of laying the leundation of a monument to his memory. Here is a description of the monument: "The monument is of James river granite, in form of an obelisk, and as graceful and appropriate as anything could be. It U composed of. seven pieces of etone,two of which measure five feet seven inches, and weigh over nine thousand pounds two others four feet by two feet, weigh over six .thousand pounds, and another thirteen feet long, twenty five inches at its base and thirteen inches at the top weighs one thousand pounds. The gross weight of the entire . monument is about thirty two thousand pounds. It rises just twenty-four feet above the level cl the burying ground. The height of the monument proper is just twenty-two feet sis inches, but the foundation on which it rests being raised seme eighteen inches above the r::rf..?e, add? that much to the apparent height of the monument. , About nine feet frcm the base is chiseled the following krremtioa: MADIS01J, . Bonn March 10, 1751

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if, 1; t ' wa s r. :t r '.a: ! tr" ?, f ;rg!j t! : "Fraid wht i; t!:;tV 1 nr;;: "Well, never nind- yet: will ces ess 0210 cf the: 3 rj"hl'j if vc:: c!a net ret the cor, trp lf?r: c!:!?:,' r the cap That night the boy played until dush

before lie rrent after the cm:st an usual.

The' captain took 'a sheet xii followed

several gentlemen present looked in open j him.' Nor, the captain had r, tarae menthe remains of the great Virginian. The - hey who saw all the performances, and, The coffin itself, of black walnut, was m monkey-like, took a table-cloth and folperfect preservation, and the interior was 'lowed at a respectable distance. The nearly filled with a species of moss, which captain went into the woods, where there adhered pertinaciously to the wood. ; was a big log by the nde of the path. Beneath this, and partially hidden by Going to the further end of it, he wound it, were a (ew of the harder and larger lcst around him and got upon it and bones. The lower jaw had fallen away, ! 8tood ti, The monkey wound the tathe bones of the breast and ribs wore hle-cloth around himself and got on the gone, and the only part of the skeleton h'rst end. In this position the parties rewhich remained were the skull and por- muinecl hen the boys cams along with lions of the cheek bones, the vertebrco of cows, ' The cows shyed a little upon the neck, the spine, and the large bones of sing the ghosts, which caused the boj the arm. All else of the upper part of to 1 n,ie:l the body had returned to the dust from "Hello, what is that?" he shouted. whence it was taken, and in a few years Soi,J 1 gcs3 it?s a fraid V And more every trace of the bod) will disan- lhcn spying the monkey, he hollowed out, pear, until the trumpet of the resurrec- By Jerusalem, if here ain't two fraids,

tion shall re-unite the scattered particles. big 'raid nd a little fraid."

Thru yt?..l flu-o fn tr nsJ

when he' saw, for the first time his pho:t-

The body had been interred just twentyone years. . .

On reaching sufficiently firm ground, companion. He thought it was a fraid the foundation was commenced and built Eure encah- Thc oU c-pta streaked up as two walls, one on either side of . the U for homQ tbc mmk -ftcr K and coGin, until a proper height was gained, lhe wick:d cePheT7 c1aPPi:ig his hands when it was arched over the coffin,, and Rnd Ellotin MRun biS c Ktth then built up solidly to the surface thus ; a catcb on' forming a vault, within which rests tho (r An eld lady in Ohio had a great remains of Madison, and precisely be-! aversien to rye, and never-could eat it in neath the centre of the monument. The , any .formJ foundation was made of haf-;7 surface "Till of late," caid tk? "they have "ti stone,' gathered cn the Montpelier faro,! to making it into whi:!::y, and I find that

from within a short dktacse of the rrave-yard.

I can, nov; a:: I t!::n, wcrry down a litt!:."

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the man with just wealth enough to keep him in spirits, and just children encaffh to

Ono cf Clio comic papers revives an eld .keep him industrious.

story that is better than it was before. I

It seems that an old -sea captain, who1 tarsal vrf 1 r"r? f rr- coMrlnn r! tt liiMnt

it'i " t tnocaic(i cioifn. tiis c ..... r 3 ran up to en alarm, had a harum-scarum nephew , , . , 1

ftir TwoIri:kn:cn h'rncd to ret into an affray, in which c3 cf tkera w: ;

with him. lie could never drive on frighten said nephew to do anything in its proper time. Among the rest ho could never get him to drive tho cows up to milk untjl after dark he had to drive them up from a pasture undergrowa with sugar-

is thus described :

In digging for a zzllzlh f::;r.'lat::n, it, busk. Finally, the captain asked lhe lad kit them a well-directed hbx; ca tha hztd.

"Arrah Denni:, if p k: dead, can't yo

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