Beverly

The Marietta Intelligencer, April 9, 1857

Mr. Barton, who spent a few days in Beverly last week canvassing for the Intelligencer, collected a few "items" concerning that enterprising burgh, which we are fain to make room for. He is enthusiastic in praise of the hospitality and good cheer with which he was received, and the manner in which he speaks of the ladies shows that the young man has a heart very susceptible to feminine influences. It is to be hoped for our sake that no fair one will be captivated by his "handsome countenance" until he has accomplished our work.

Notwithstanding the "hard times" and the "tightness of the money market," the merchants and other businessmen of Beverly are in good spirits in anticipation of a fair business season. The flouring mills and other manufacturing establishments are in active operation, and these give an impulse to all other branches of industry.

Among the dry goods merchants who are worthily mentioned are S. F. Seeley, whose store was found crowded with merchandize and customers too, and who was rapidly disposing of his large stock of fashionable and staple goods. S. G. Hoge, an active, enterprising young man, who is building up a fine business, was in daily expectation of a large addition to his already extensive assortment of goods, which he is determined to sell as cheap as the cheapest. W. A. Hawley, occupying the large and commodious room formerly occupied by Mr. McCullom, is doing a large business. His stock is selected with much care and with reference to the special wants and tastes of his customers. He sells a great many goods at small profits.

A few doors above Mr. Hawley's is the grocery store of R. Williams, who is prepared to accommodate the public with everything in his line cheap for cash. His clerk, S. F. Young, is so obliging and attentive that this establishment cannot fail to become popular with the people.

Dr. C. W. Glines, brother of C. E. Glines of Marietta, is located at Beverly in the practice of his profession of dentistry. He is represented as a mild spoken man but a great jawer. However both the theory and practice of his may be, he understands his profession and is bound to succeed.

Messrs. Dodge, Bain & Co., owners of the large flouring mill known as the "Upper Mill," erected a year or so ago, are extensively engaged in the manufacture of flour. They purchase wheat at the highest and sell flour at the lowest market price, being content with small profits. The Beverly flour has always sustained a high reputation and there is no fear that it will be damaged in the hands of such men as Dodge, Bain & Brook.

H. A. Staley of the Woolen Factory contemplates a change of business soon. We hope his experience in woolen manufactures has not been as sad as that of the company in Marietta. May success attend him in whatever enterprise he engages.

The extensive tannery of P. O. Dodge is still carried on and is doing a fine business under the management of the enterprising proprietor.

The industrious and skillful mechanics of the town find plenty of employment even in these complaining times - among whom we may mention Mr. Clogston, I. W. Fouts, I. L. W. Newton, William Eakin, and L. D. McGwigan, good workmen in their several occupations and worthy of support.

The principal hotels of Beverly are Craig's and McCadden's, both well-spoken of by Mr. B. Mr. McCadden is the proprietor of the daily mail line between this city and Zanesville. He is prompt, energetic and always up to time. 

We are constrainted to believe that Beverly is, indeed, considerable of a town, and we offer our testimony most willingly to the worth and enterprise of its citizens. We hope the time is not far distant when we may make the personal acquaintance of our subscribers there and have occular proof of the growth and prosperity of the town.

Messrs. W. V. Z. Wheeler, C. R. Barclay, S. F. Young, and others in Beverly, and C. Willard Bowen of Waterford, rendered very efficient service to Mr. B. in prosecuting his work, for which we offer our grateful acknowledgments.

 

The Old Folks at Beverly

 The Marietta Register, November 4, 1875

Editor Register: Did you know what a grand, good time we have been having here? But then we are always having so many "good times" you could hardly expect to keep posted.

This, however, was something quite out of the usual way, therefore, all the more enjoyable. We called it a relic gathering, or more pretentiously, a centennial dinner. I am sure if you had been within the boundaries of our comely town on last Tuesday morning, you would have sniffed excitement with the very atmosphere, for everybody was in qui vive, and on the street. All the country round about came to town in holiday attire. If anybody stayed at home to "mind the children" or "tend the fires," it was not the old folks, as usual. At eleven o'clock, A.M., the lecture room of the Presbyterian church was filled with happy faces "and still they came."

Five large tables stood in the south side of the audience room, loaded with articles of every conceivable kind which had belonged to former generations. What the tables would not hold was hung upon the wall and in other ways displayed, provision not having been made for so extensive an exhibition. Most of the articles were over a hundred, and many several hundred, years old.

On the other side of the room were three long tables loaded with the fatness of the land - an appetizing array, indeed a substantial old fashioned dinner such as our great-grandmothers loved to spread for their friends. Chicken pies, baked beans and pork, immense puddings and pones, potatoes with their jackets on, boiled cabbage, doughnuts, pound cakes, pies, gingerbread after the good old way, and indeed almost everything that goes to make up a good dinner.

We think you would have enjoyed most of all the sight of the ladies on table committee. They were in old style costumes, veritable belles and matrons of ye ancient times. They were a never ending source of interest and amusement to all the guests. The ladies in costume were Mrs. Thurza Stull, Mrs. Eva Reynolds, Mrs. Mollie Parker, Mrs. Mary Blondin, Misses Ella Fowler, Tillie Glass, Flora Parker, Rose Davis, Lottie Buck, Jessie McIntosh, Mary Cooney, Emma Robertson, Josie Davis, Flora Fowler, and Mary Robinson. 

The hour for dinner having arrived, the audience was called to order by our friend, Boylston Shaw, and that good old song, Auld Lang Syne was "lined out" by Prof. Smith and sung by the audience after the manner of ye olden time. Prayer was then offered by Prof. Smith in an earnest and fervent manner and appropriate to the occasion. The guests were then seated, the old folks first quite filling up the tables.

After dinner Mr. Shaw again called the audience to order and short addresses were made recalling events of the past by Col. Enoch McIntosh, Ezekiel Emerson, Joseph Nickerson of Morgan County, Gen. H. F. Devol, and Prof. Smith of the Beverly Academy. Col. McIntosh read a list of all the first settlers of this community and gave a brief biographical sketch of the life of each one.

Taking a look among the tables containing the relics, we were greatly surprised at the large number and variety. We can mention but a few of the most interesting and valuable. A sun dial 125 years old, wooden plates over 100 years old, beautiful butter dish 100 years old, an iron kettle brought from Massachusetts by Mrs. Owens, grandmother of Elijah Sprague, the first white woman who landed on the Ohio Company's purchase. In this old kettle she cooked the first meal ever cooked by a white woman in Marietta. This valuable relic is now in the possession of Elijah Sprague.

A cradle belonging to the Devol Family, in which was rocked the children of that family twenty-five in number, from Alpha Devol, 1789, down to 1873. What squalls it must have witnessed in its eventful life. Two salt dishes 420 years old, a china mustard cup 175 years old, a horn drinking cup, carried by Benjamin Shaw in the Revolutionary War, a silver teaspoon over 300 years old, brought from England by Miss Judd of Morgan County.

Sword and bayonet from Bunker Hill battlefield, the Ulster County Gazette of January 1800 containing account of Washington's funeral and battle of Zurick, The Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser, August 20, 1773; The American Friend, Marietta, Friday, December 4, 1812, printed and published by Royal Prentiss. Episcopal Prayer Book 1725, examples of catechising upon the Assembly's Shorter Catechism for instructing the young and ignorant, &c., 1737. The above are but a few of the valuable relics found upon the tables. Everyone was surprised at this display of relics, for it far exceeded the most sanguine expectation.

What added most to the enjoyment of the occasion was the deep interest manifested by the old men and women, and the intense pleasure it seemed to afford them to be allowed this opportunity of meeting together in such a way that they could recall to mind once more the days of old, when they were boys and girls, upon whose brows old time had not dared to strike a furrow.

In the evening a mush and milk supper was served at the same place and was well attended by the younger people. This event will long be remembered as one of the most pleasant episodes of 1875 in our village. All feel grateful to the kind ladies who gave the entertainment, and we can assure them that all, with one accord, pronounce it an honor to the fair ones who gave it.

Trio

Fire at Beverly

The Marietta Times, November 23, 1882

Early Friday morning news was received here that our neighboring city of Beverly was in flames, the entire business portion of the town being reduced to ashes. The Defiance engine was at once placed on the Cassell and sent up the river to aid in mastering the fiery element. 

Everybody was in a state of excitement, anxious for news from the scene of devastation and ruin. Reports of the most exaggerated character were told and retold, and it was not until after dinner Friday that the real nature of the calamity was ascertained. The fire, which was bad enough, was not near so extensive as reported. We copy from the Beverly Dispatch the following account of it:

Thursday night we worked rather late in the office, and as is our usual custom before retiring, we went out to see that everything was all right. As soon as we got into the open air we knew there was a smothering fire some place in close proximity, the air being blue with thick smoke caused by burning pine. 

We ran up and down the street and examined the interior of the buildings thoroughly. Not finding the fiery fiend, we ran to Fifth Street, when to our horror we saw great volumes of smoke issuing from D. C. Staley's shoe store. At this moment W. R. Parker's wife gave the alarm which was reechoed by others as they were awakened by the yelling and thumping of the Dispatch men.

The whole interior of the building was enveloped in flames, and it was impossible to enter. Men ran wild and it looked as though a vast conflagration was inevitable. Through the calmness and engineering of some, a line was formed to the river and the water was passed along, assisted by men, women and children alike.

But the destroyer was not going to be smothered in a minute, but swept on and ignited J. T. Palmer's residence and business block and hissed and crackled as though laughing in derision at the heroic efforts of the people to save their property. For awhile it was believed the stores of Oliver Tucker, William Glass, Dr. Parker, Johnston & Shoemaker's marble works and the Star Foundry would go, but thank God, through his goodness the rain began to pour from the skies and the people's property was saved. The property of Mrs. Raredon, which joined Mr. Palmer's, was saved in a damaged state.

The fire is supposed by some to have been incendiarism and was done for plunder, as no lamp or fire in the stove had been left burning when the clerk closed for the night. Mr. Staley's building and stock of boots and shoes was fully covered by insurance. Mr. Palmer was less fortunate and his loss is his all, which is indeed a hard blow to him in his declining years, but he managed to save his household goods. F. Preston, merchant tailor, occupied one of the store rooms, but saved his entire stock. The entire loss will reach about $7,000, partially covered by insurance.

 
  

Beverly

Marietta Register, January 14, 1890

As every reader knows, Beverly was known as "Plainfield," the 2nd association of pioneers settling here from Marietta.  It consisted of 39 members.  The first outside one was at Belpre.  The settlement here was east of the river.  The old fort (Frye) stood on the bank of the river about a half mile below.  I saw a rough drawing in an old family here.  The front rested on the bank of the river and was 200 feet in length.  It was triangular and had a blockhouse at each corner and, I have often thought, with due respect to my grandfather, who was an inmate thereof through the Indian war, that it was filled with block-heads, though brave.  There was no necessity for rigging out ox teams and with women and children, leaving eastern farms and happy homes to climb over mountains of snow to settle among savages, to build mills in the Wolf Creek wilds and suffer and die and be buried on lonely knobs away up the valley of Wolf Creek, as I saw to-day.  

Here are three inscriptions on stones three miles from the river.  Two were of the 48 original settlers at Marietta:  "Peleg Springer, who endured many privations, encountered many hazards and hardships during five years Indian blockade in the first settlement at Marietta, died Sept. 28, 1828, aged 63 years."

"Maj. Haffield White served in the Continental Army," etc., born at Wenham, Mass., 1739, died Dec. 13, 1818, aged 80 years."

"Pelatiah White - " (about same inscription) died Feb'y 17, 1832, aged 63, from Rhode Island.

These burials, with Asa Convers, are near the old mill, on a bluff.  A huge cedar eight feet in circumference stands mournfully by the graves of all three.  These men were part of the "Plainfield" force detached to build the mills under the protection of the fort and commanded by Maj. Dean Tyler and which supplied food for even the Belpre settlement by prorogue and canoe.

But what of the Indian? Who sheds tears for Pontiac or Tecumseh.  What of the "six nations" which fought for their native heath.  Who mourns for Logan and Black Hawk?  No Beverly man!  The custom of these later days is to weep only over the greenest grave, and pass along into the great jostling crowd.  Nobody cares who settled London, whether Saxon or Norseman, Goth or Vandal.

The world is getting so infernal wicked that the people will once more be swept away, and the new race of people will wonder, not at the mound-builders, but at water-works, dikes, railways, telephones, &c., which some strange people had built and left to rot!

Beverly, O., Jan. 13.

Two Old Captains.

Marietta Register, May 5, 1892

They Commanded Boats in the Halcyon Days of the Muskingum.

Now Living at Beverly, Ohio.

There are two old steamboat officers yet living in the town of Beverly, Ohio, men who were prominent boatmen forty years ago, and who were abreast of the most able officers in the Zanesville and Pittsburgh trade.  Captains D. T. Brown and Calvin Stull were well-known and they always held responsible positions in the river trade.

At that time many of the brightest adventurous young men in the Muskingum valley were willing to take responsible places on the fine steamboats afloat on the Western rivers.

D. T. Brown's boating career began with his brother John, in the engine room of the May Queen, at the age of nineteen years.  He and David Hann were the engineers at the time the boat was burned at the Marietta wharf in February, 1847.  David T. Brown and William Davis are the only two men that ever held government papers for the offices of captain, pilot, and engineer on the Muskingum river.

Many persons may not understand what is meant by a license for captain, pilot, or engineer, and for their benefit this information is given.  The above named officers have to be examined by the U. S. government officials for captain, pilot, and engineer, as the U. S. laws have charge of the steamboat interest in our government, and no one occupying these official stations can continue on duty without passing such ordered examination except in defiance of the law.

A Signal reporter visited Captains Brown and Stull at their homes in Beverly, and from them information was obtained as follows:

Captain D. T. Brown

After the destruction of the May Queen, D. T. Brown was one of the engineers on the following named boats:  Mingo Chief, Julia Dean, Ludlow, Comet, Del Norte, Newark, Helen Mar, Chevoit, Lizzie Martin, and Zanesville Packet.  He was captain of the Lizzie Martin and Chevoit.

When D. T. Brown was engineer of the Ludlow, on entering the Marietta lock the guard on one side of the boat was all torn off by striking the end of the lock wall.  From bow to stern there was no protection.  Brown procured a rope and fastened it to the stanchions, preventing any person from attempting to pass our on the damaged side of the boat.  The boat landed at Windsor to take on freight.  As Brown was tired he lay on a bench to rest while the men were engaged at their work.  He was suddenly awakened when their work was completed.  He passed forward along the guard, half asleep, to examine the water in the boilers by the water gauge, then in front of them to examine the fire.  In returning to the engine room he ran against the rope.  He exclaimed, "What is this put here for?"  He raised it, passed under and . . .

Fell Into the River.

He swam round the boat and again got on board more wet than wise, but he was thoroughly awake.  In relating the incident, he said, "As soon as I struck the water, I remembered all about the cause of the presence of the rope."

He and Edward Tignore were the engineers of the Helen Mar.  On a trip to Pittsburgh in passing up Horse Tail ripple at the head of Seven Mile Island he had . . .

A Swim For Life.

The current at the head of the ripple is very swift.  He was a cautious, careful engineer.  He went along the guard to try the water gauges, then passing in front of the fire to see that the fireman was doing his part of the work, he passed on down the guard for the engine room.  A truck had been left on the guard.  In the dark his knee struck it and he fell overboard in the swift current, barely missing the wheel of the boat as he was going down the river and the boat up.  He called to John Cox, who was on deck, to waken the other engineer, as he was going in another direction much against his will.

The captain was in bed with rheumatism.  He was unable to turn himself and a sheet had to be used in turning him.  When he heard the cry, "The engineer is overboard," he was excited.  He arose from his bed, his rheumatism was forgotten and he ran out on deck and ordered a boat sent out to save the engineer.

The boat went rapidly through the water.  The engineer was a good swimmer.  He saw lights on Seven Mile island and he went for them.  It was swim or drown with him.

He landed on the island about the same time as the boat did.  There was great rejoicing on the small boat that the engineer was saved.  Soon they were all ready to return to the steamer and there was rejoicing on the steamboat when they were informed "Brown is safe."

During the excitement, the captain forgot his rheumatism.  As soon as the excitement ceased and the engineer was on the steamboat, the captain was again writhing in his rheumatic pains.  It was with difficulty that he was carried to his room.  The anxiety and excitement caused him to forget his aches, but the pains were worse than ever as soon as he saw the engineer was on the boat.

Brown said, "I had lately been married.  As I passed the wheel when the heavy planks were striking the water near my head, I thought there will be another widow."

Captain Stull

was found at his home.  When informed of the business of the Signal reporter, he freely gave him the following:  I was a pilot on the St. Cloud, Ludlow, Loyal Hanna, Viroqua, Robert Wightman, Buckeye Belle, James Watts, R. H. Lindsey, Kate Cassell, Dan Convers, John Bissel, Chevoit, Adelia, Brown Dick, Emma Graham, John Buck, Charley Bowen, Lizzie Cassell, J. H. Best, Prairie City, Ohio, Emma Graham No. 2, Freighter, Falcon, Tom Patten, Silver Bells and Two Sisters."  He also piloted a number of Ohio river boats that were too large for the Muskingum locks.  He was captain of the Falcon, Emma Graham No. 2, and Vega.  He said, "I made 201 trips on the Emma Graham, often carrying 3,000 barrels of flour to Pittsburgh.  We never broke a timber of the boat."  Captain Stull was the pilot at the wheel when the ill-fated steamer Buckeye Belle blew up in the Beverly canal.  He was blown some distance and had a leg broken, which, at time, causes much pain.

Joseph Daniels

The engineer on duty when the Buckeye Belle caused the death of more people than were accidentally killed on all the boats ever on the Muskingum river, was in Beverly last Tuesday. 

The following incidents are related by old people at Beverly about the accident of the . . .

Buckeye Belle

One man said, "I saw a brick that was thrown from the boat to the top of the hill where it fell and killed a rabbit."

Another said, "Dillon was going up when Munsey was coming down, and Munsey spoke.  Dillon replied, "I don't speak to mechanics."

Liquor Sellers of Beverly

The Marietta Register, June 1, 1865

The ladies of Beverly are "after" the liquor sellers of that place, a large committee of them having recently visited all the "doggeries," and warned the proprietors to quit selling intoxicating liquors, or the provisions of the law would be enforced against them.  So says the Advertiser, which adds:

"The ladies deserve the thanks of all lovers of peace and good order for their earnestness in this matter, and we sincerely hope that the final result may be the entire banishment of this infernal traffic from our village."

Beverly and Waterford Awake!

Marietta Intelligencer, May 1, 1861

Ed. Intelligencer:

The fire is up in Old Waterford!  Saturday evening a call was made to form a company of Home Guards, and 104 enrolled their names immediately, and to-day the number has been increased to nearly 200.  Our town is literally covered with flags.  Yesterday (Sunday) it was suggested that a pole and flag be put up near the locks before the boat came up with Captain Buell's company.  The plan was immediately put into operation, and this morning at 9 o'cl'k, we raised a pole 150 feet high, and run up the stars and stripes, amid the shouts of the assembled multitude.

The ladies volunteered to make the flag, and they did it in double quick time.  The flag is 17 by 56 feet, and was carried down to the pole by a number of ladies, headed by the fife and drum.  All honor the patriotic ladies of Beverly.

About 600 people assembled at the lock to-day to give Captain Buell's company a reception.  As the boat entered the lock the Home Guards, under command of Captain C. R. Barclay, fired a salute, and the Beverly Brass Band struck up Hail Columbia.  As soon as the band ceased playing, the Beverly Vocal Band sung that patriotic and soul stirring son, "My Native Land," in a style that was loudly applauded by the crowd.  After this C. R. Barclay, Esq., made a brief, pertinent, and patriotic address to the company, which was briefly responded to by George P. Buell, Esq., in behalf of the company.  Four young men from Beverly, volunteered to go with Captain Buell's company.  Our old fellow citizen, Col. E. S. McIntosh, bought up all the undershirts and drawers in town, for the use of those who went from here, and Captain Buell's company.  The purse strings of all are open.  There is no party feeling here, but all feel alike for the Union and Liberty.

Old Waterford is waked up, and will do her duty.

P.

Beverly, April 22d, 1861.

The Old Folks at Beverly

The Marietta Register, October 28, 1875

Beverly, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1875.

Editor Register:

Did you know what a grand, good time we have been having here?  But then we are always having so many "good times," you could hardly expect to keep posted.

This, however, was something quite out of the usual way, therefore, all the more enjoyable.  We called it a relic gathering, or more pretentiously, a centennial dinner.  I am sure if you had been within the boundaries of our comely town on last Tuesday morning, you would have sniffed excitement with the very atmosphere, for every body was in qui vive, and on the street.  All the country round about came to town on holiday attire.  If anybody stayed at home to "mind the children" or "tend the fires" it was not the old folks, as usual.

At eleven o'clock. a.m., the lecture room of the Presbyterian church was filled with happy faces "and still they came."

Five large tables stood in the south side of the audience room, loaded with articles of every conceivable kind, which had belonged to former generations.  What the tables would not hold was hung upon the wall and in other ways displayed, provision not having been made for so extensive an exhibition.  Most of the articles were over a hundred, and many several hundred years old.

On the other side of the room were three long tables loaded with the fatness of the land -- an appetizing array, indeed -- a substantial old fashioned dinner, such as our great-grandmothers loved to spread for their friends.  Chicken pies, baked beans and pork, immense puddings and pones, potatoes with their jackets on, boiled cabbage, doughnuts, pound cakes, pies, ginger bread after the good old way, and indeed almost everything that goes to make up a good dinner.

We think you would have enjoyed most of all the sight of the ladies on table committee.  They were in old style costumes, veritable belles and matrons of ye ancient times.  They were a never ending source of interest and amusement to all the guests.  The ladies in costume were, Mrs. Thurza Stull, Mrs. Eva Reynolds, Mrs. Mollie Parker, Mrs. Mary Blondin, Misses Ella Flowler, Tillie Glass, Flora Parker, Rose Davis, Lottie Buck, Jessie McIntosh, Mary Cooney, Emma Robertson, Josie Davis, Flora Flowler, and Mary Robinson.  Who looked quaintest and queerest, "deponent saith not," but who looked prettiest we know very well but will not tell.

The hour for dinner having arrived, the audience was called to order by our friend, Boylston Shaw, and that good old song, Auld Lang Syne was "lined out" by Prof. Smith, and sung by the audience, after the manner of ye olden time.  Prayer was then offered by Prof. Smith, in an earnest and fervent manner, and appropriate to the occasion.  The guests were then seated, the old folks first quite filling up the tables.  Mr. Jonathan Sprague returned thanks to the Giver of all mercies for the bounteous repast.  Oh! how the good old folks enjoyed the dinner, we will not attempt to say.  To say the dinner did honor to the occasion is but doing justice to those who gave it. 

After dinner Mr. Shaw again called the audience to order, and short addresses were made recalling events of the past, by Col. Enoch McIntosh, Ezekiel Emerson, Joseph Nickerson, of Morgan Co., Gen. H. F. Devol, and Prof. Smith of the Beverly Academy.  Space will not admit of particular mention of the addresses; they were good and appropriate.  Col. McIntosh read a list of all the first settlers of this community, and gave a brief biographical sketch of the life of each one, which was not, by any means, the least interesting feature of the occasion.

Taking a look among the tables containing the relics, we were greatly surprised at the large number and variety.  We can mention but a few of the most interesting and valuable.  A sun dial 125 years old, wooden plates over 100 years old, beautiful butter dish 100 years old, an iron kettle brought from Massachusetts by Mrs. Owens, grandmother of Elijah Sprague, the first white woman who landed on the Ohio Company's purchase.  In this old kettle she cooked the first meal ever cooked by a white  woman in Marietta.  This valuable relic is now in the possession of Elijah Sprague.  A cradle belonging to the Devol family, in which was rocked the children of that family twenty-five in number, from Alpha Devol, 1789, down to 1873.  What squalls it must have witnessed in its eventful life.  Two salt dishes 420 years old, a china mustard cup 175 years old, a horn drinking cup, carried by Benjamin Shaw in the Revolutionary war, a silver teaspoon over 300 years old, brought from England by Miss Judd of Morgan county; sword and bayonet from Bunker Hill battlefield, the Ulster County Gazette, January 1800, containing account of Washington's funeral, and battle of Zurick, The Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser, August 20, 1773; The American Friend, Marietta, Friday, December 4, 1812, printed and published by Royal Prentiss.  Episcopal Prayer Book 1725, examples of catechising upon the Assembly's Shorter Catechism for instructing the young and ignorant, &c., 1737.  The above are but a few of the valuable relics found upon the tables.  Every one was surprised at this display of relics, for it far exceeded the most sanguine expectation.

What added most to the enjoyment of the occasion was the deep interest manifested by the old men and women, and the intense pleasure it seemed to afford them to be allowed this opportunity of meeting together in such a way that they could recall to mind once more the days of old, when they were boys and girls, upon whose brows old time had not dared to strike a furrow.

In the evening a mush and milk supper was served at the same place, and was well attended by the younger people.  This event will long be remembered as one of the most pleasant episodes of 1875 in our village.  All feel grateful to the kind ladies who gave the entertainment, and we can assure them that all, with one accord, pronounce it an honor to the fair ones who gave it.

Trio.