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FIRST SETTLEPR. - INDI'-TRIE *.
The very best white settlers in the county must have been ther who trude their hos es about thief thulfros & trading-post. before referred to laved ind were poprzed in pur-uits incident to the usiness corre-l on al that prace
In February, 1525, John McGregor -mail on the site of Menu-port, and was, perhaps, the Brat auster of those who came to broke permanent inque. He was shortly after posted by others, tout the slate and aler of their com-
Har ass. Almer Inennon Zepamich Wale /. W Portion, Woher Di -
by for us ant hizetown, who are equally entitled to share whatever faine
I soph Ies was fault a colon on the banks of the river, below Mineine
n . Ience of $ . S linkes Soulrow More,mus hro .Tosteal the times and it Man .port, t. W Holinan- who owant Air original Tilett Lighty. arul Evet is it-looming das saremeer
for there was a township called lake, lyman !! ! stemper of the
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Sapostel Poker, what the notes write beste safe bested to the West of the
Cash of the dotagent
slight -*** * the long - month
whwh being chesintegrate 1 un leonard with the diet, hive formed sarei ble que 's, not ewellel in | ro lyeltsears. I any la th "tile
The first term of the Piren't Poort in Mutui Party war lor' 1 in Septem- bre, 15:1, at Mommışart, the best is Mai's, IlTakım! " Tasera.
corner of l'iss niel Spennd Jfver%.
Gostaria Everts, of Le Poste, was Corent Ju lee. nul Sammelt Sample, who aherw ind tepresente I the Ninth Congress stil Bestrigt in Congress Pense,yting Antoniny. Henry topper, I build Loans and Devat H. C'oleok, of Fort Wayne, John B. ani Williamson Bright, Beary Ihre and Ben Hurst. of Logansport, were attorney. We had none of our own und i Inter .tuy.
The pants in which the trem of the court last hamed was held was not wer c ghiren tert square, The hole, Prosrenten, Hlerk an t aturupy, et Brute-1 i lable near the north will on l junttes L.hagitt and storethay glund wherever they found convenient places in the roman in I dat the door out- sole. The in hetments were generally For amill . afpieltans at the law, stich as betting on -hunting there's, selling winsky without longer, and amlule- Ing in the innocent aruusetuent uf euchte or oll sledge at twenty hve cents a corner.
PRESIDENT AND ANYH'IATES,
The Circuit Judge of the time were elected by the Legislature, and two Assor ies, in early county, by the people, which give the Court three Juilgr. At the same time.
Une almost regrets the nbaence from the beach of the As- mejores. It is truc they were not listingit-'.el. in a gemeint way, for their : rofandny in les tore, but they gave to the tribune, equerdie when in consultation, a Inok of mapient dignity, atul *++ julienil rulings the moril force of panelu- sions reached by three tore ne without devispite of opinion. Whether the fornily with the President, n- they aute in the hour of tuing or whether their cotinrrence n ss inestrahle from an independent unders Joling of the law, is one of those mentiroso questions of fut al ut want it might be unjust in expres an option It was her uncommon ling. however, for the trreverent fits! sentjer bo afa ik of theis us esphery and of string expense by supplying ti rir phares hy wirlen sen.
REMINISCENCES AND INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY COURTS.
It is not to be inferred from what has been saft about the Associates that th per individualus was - appel in that of the President, for they some- times nesretel themselves . I when they had they were a julien power But by any means to be rantemined, as Afumes B. Fulwilee, uf this ruy. learn+ I at ffuntenston long sonty agu
He hola cie in that is irt. ne phisnittf-one of thise vers pilain cases, that Le thenight wieght to go to holevent on presentation. The President Judge theirden, of Fort Wayne thought so, ton, and rulet in his favor on several points present, That Judge slack, of Hunt ngon, il en & young autor- ney for the defendant, did not think ss, and mlopted the producent poi ing the cart on points of law, with the result, every time, of . spruling the Press lent Judge The plateof's attorney une amezed and speechless is the as cual pracypling of the Ascent, and the pontif lamp your sel
the taget paliel on that meno" And the Past was gaded and the I've. ant ust loulti - tours parle 1. The result was tlust the plaintiff, with late Very . ruineque a note of to mol-weer rat of court with a polecaret count Sint, it is entirely matiche , that You Sooncite Dopagee caul lesereise the higher kirol of judicial tosse . when properly invo, in that .rection
Court, in changing the second dury, solo their attention samling eller things des saints das of the Law he Just to the last h . Fire the test distare mesto I aus the reminds, atall the way she in to - to the at that
The links, lang porate, scared the water much faster than was ne-
Hp -Since the ative wne written, ve were inf ruuel that the parket lent Indican tape tetund & bul series I at the best of the book, about ligin in consequence of the sites not having been sufficiently fland with water to bany her up ' ". The In light wings the
freighter I with mesengera oh no, shin lett the canal hour at the back almer. and . une downinto adla depriming when das ange must . nelly
The treaty of Th, 1 wus tra ratifie 1 by Int Jær kinh hot airmint of the Martin Van Bur a "Thiste alt runny Jamie mailon the comm' tane | limite.
I Just a toussiger. these tools were rais I ne I looked, preparatory in the
Je V Bi, thick of the land Office at Fort Wayne, was engaged in selecting ahol mastig the land in the spring of jeju wel in the summer the
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STEAMBOAT . AT PERL'.
In the early part of lune, JeIs, Pero bal its first seraitun. fr . . J'en- sathe ceremony, Her unemente wore governed by remaxim fait me corons loving to at the link a irment to m'ow the war lor Isent Missionens, stopped there is short time, referee l. h . flereseront -14, and then passed down the river out of sight, nel sa- game le - er Spring, another steamboat, called " Technisch. arris. .. Inging . men It our merchants, from l'anciname "The exposta & gouter die Dero of ise of Louiseile It was sud that Chief waltrop hal where we hus " and Lote to any strandund that would come up to bis piace which of went there, but which of them out the unity cannot exited. . ... nosy be wife': sind : the thief wnabl tre it each visitar wuh prits . . 1 -1 t. tality The time of the " Tecnosti' wiehangelt Indep she imule several trip to that place, afterward, undes -up n. v. hal
With these fatte in view it will not apprir or want .p . fbt . .. ' rat navigatpin t . P'eru was one of the important factors in .deulating ... of our county.
LOST CHILD.
In Mat. i, 18 17, an prent ocenrre , that qwan 't ' exeter was the disappearance of a club telutizing sa Ther Mik Spring lefue foul settled on the Coun sote arsen mais ter. where he ru sty del The clubi was a boy, aber' ten years when bist sera by its nudler, was one ing thelf near ii = p . un Somly Stad Whenweing the child shirts aber. nul - ling mi. . with was made by the ner neighbors A ir ery opet that the people, I muito neogil, forme mu'te av stin & wirth aler today to the most diligent search lett if ere gomes you accepted apain at the time vue, der the Full
lecture, au learning with then to the West, where the wire abon ar uniler irrat; requirements,
BACKWOODS COMMERCE, MILES, ETC.
the Luthier was called and precisions where bosted, is that has , the wunte of the first settlers
hy the Government to grind for the Minute inder tre y -top-is nots- [200; one on the south side of Het hover, below Me , hall | | | Wagoner in 150, and after sand mand by link & p. one . ]
fray a la's varan Tel River why bien tom's mo har shi 7
Varly aa the first : tw-mills run " nigger-he vl" m.li-strines for grit .'ng
STORES-WHAT THEY KEPT; PROF.
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factory explanation, and he remained h. ist
Ny Pd citizens, migraf what was prataitent amane us until the time
With apasmal mlpe em- the Short he mud kopp adler
Tin Tourt toly
that el mel near the most Im west of truth, ss . mmlong af a clon wier
juil wood w mming for the unhy nha perint I by sheraf Lầnsee is a mijnery, frir there wuw ny juil until anino years after.
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Ar the time pris prospectus was issued, \ A. the war au reaver on
Istog an hylian troler, and It. D. Past a trung however, at Ingasport. They were al on the threela aast their future. Mr l'ele returned to Peru, this facialative thetries wewere termes Willums llerod a ir elected in l'on- State I'm Going wie chose Sector from the secret of t'es, Vimos and Faltan . but i must promise : p Stica facture, but with drew fi on theline. in (Sit in the demands of a sommes in which he required a large fortune. DI Prall nelueved emjustice in lawyer ; wis gler tot in the Sinte Legis- Inture, to Congress, for the United States Senate, But appointed [ nite! wittes Commissioner of internal Revenue wonder firm tirant & winatits-
Is given point to the newve . " Large streams from lutte fontaine thaw.' in thinks that the supress of a ese mien was peelings due to the suly rerng- miton of their abilities by 1 . elstor in appointing them agents to receive subscriptions to the Named ad ane Por incenter, mal existe, he the facts of history, his pamoving in severing the right man for the right pher.
The first muaber of the art paper ever publisert in Minou County ap. peace I on the "Il day of Jo's, I~ 17, not under the hierphaloud enchomen announcer in the prospectus, but as the Peru Forester. "The editor. no doubr, concludedi. upon retter ton,
"That one small bread could carry all be know,"
or at least that want of the mungere spice in the paper for the " double leader mondial de neuf the Bulletine
The paper ;Heute In hombreime spor irture and fir e-lituri il manage- ment. 1. W. Bioker, province's e liter of the then A ver, Cos iling, Falls, was associate cil tor with I'm who als het been on the tripal before no editor of the Highland tia /Bem cent. As would be very natural, the hirst number of the first paper Innl something to way ghent
TIIT TILIT\ 4\h PLENTY,
and, seeor lingly. the elitar noi.le forto ne billows; " This pinve, which i. the seat of nature of Miami County, was hed out on a must be modal eile, on the north Inek of the river Wabash, in the month of Inly. 14'4, about which time improvements were rummenced. The princird street- ire ont hutpireil, and all the others seventy fiet wille, crossing pourle uther nt right nagles. The plat all the town occuspurs a delightful elev det from the river, nocher too high nor to lon The Helath & Le Canal pour4 l theon the town and river ar , the first! Central Canal will grubey's ter- imihai# # #hn+ phare. "The iermitation of this ennal. 4" the militar sunporți). www. us wer of the Legislature, made of the month of the Var. trwa; hut churtiy nter the aluje isernal improvevient hohlde burs, al what- ever hapes wore baseil an thi- wark were ilonmel to an eurly ht geld ] " The rivers and streams of the whole montre aloand with fish of the ranet rinlightful Haver Vi tourter concur in the ngan on the the county of them embraces the best sely of land to be found in the Suite, or, per- hope, in the world. A large portion of the total is best to timlipol. ind. when cultivated, sielle ulous: secre perie of grun and other productions In the quedest nondance. Multitudes of spring of the paper water break; forth in various parts of the county, and particularly along the une- ging to the river. The counts of Whati can' une what four Shallowford inhal ants exclusive of the Miami indiane, who number between eight
WABASH & ERIF CANAL ..
From the listing in 14.14, the work line progressed stoulily, and it was ccsal that the dieron Is in Fort Wayne to Pera s and the open for the nirimolho of leite by the t . of Juls. is ....
te lo sill nad + au ther trip to the place best wisch "
por thos 1. wadens cherry, mah, Jak and where is thenghe . ich
The merchant+ give a voir arre hit att the tus gner link a .
the news " The First we be serving out the latter primer were nokis I firted
chaos at supted willie, and it the parmes wh get it & had fallen in the San le of the reputed settlers sheep hotels they were stimmprin, to " the maler the c for od las, it would hace tired beds will then. The mes al
prose from this district, and are for many years as prosent anche in the 1 lt that was time maler is, was rega led is framtidens und encru , de 1
The Loni toThe committed bare what the passing , the Batle - 1. . .
launter soll trupper to base a ban leed dollars worth it skins real fuss to ------- From twente have to hity cents win the price of a silly of robin, and
With anges wir l. a mul the prices at many il the necessaries of late au Ich, the question naturaly miles,
HOW MID THE PEOPLE OF THAT PAS LIVE .
WIN tea parte, ature ters sprall tours n- the theme maples consistvis
mấy serce lo show low cho thing - wna done They die ( not bookd har lyuns. Log in the of might . wirsung s mal the style of their clothes, or spend
bouts, and the sammen well repressed in loopy, cases and substantial leather shoe4.
When the fender kes l-geur git in booking slings und werther-besten, the old Leghorn bonnet that ind Fare service for je , was cus tos sothe onlinery dey doch for require, whence it emerge.l, ih dino time, linking na pretty as n freshly printed canal-lust
When the new went down into their trunks in dressed up in their store clothes, they were elad in the - one Istuittuents they but sera for years. and would be recognized as tar as they could be even ay reslily as the w wwlen tigutes that serve as signe at sigir apps.
Aad these people, in their ignorier of winst is called elegance and re- Quequent, non-sslss, rested under the delavion that they were Imppy Poor souls: they dulo't know any bener and should not be blamed
NEWSPAPERS.
The Pien Forcate was the first paper, the press on conterial for the pub- Tientom of which were brought from Wayne County by samuel Pike. Com. the shitor and proprietor. The next number appeared July 29, 18H. He- ing governed " by the eternal principles of truth and justice," it was neutral in politics, It conseil to kaist in January, Ina !!
The Pra tircette was commenced daly 20, 1412, by Inimes & Solt and Augustus Banks. It was a White paper, and why continued by Vir Statt until April to, 1942, when the brothers, James B. a John 11. Soll arranged to run the paper une-haklı sheet Wing, and the ntuer half Dewscrabe, under the names of
Ara Qusett -Ben Democrat. This arrangement was intended tu donl with all recording " to the etrenal principles of truth atpl justice," anel the brothers, to show that no effort was aparel on their part, belastend carl orher must fraternally for the public goal, to such an ixtent, in fact, that the Siaworse monstrosity cheil an abr Jith of Beinher, 1-42.
The Cork Serre afsnit this time while it's st peurance, and was a hutnur- ous paper of considerable went It was patched anonymously by " Ne- bemish. Hezekiah and thepolish " It rin ning; for a few months with which success these " Sebiennale ' alansat longlast got a fines eagrival head for the paper and noenmed its paternity. "h met the fite ot its predecessor", and suspented for wint of the . Heury support.
T'> Bir Ofmor , was started June N. 1.44 ad " Whig campaign paper, by Jones B. Sent. an I enlest ats career June 24, 1415.
The Peru theult, Peropermite, was next started by John II. Sent, No- vecuher 24, 1446, nul Jeparie4 May 20. 1-48
Nome County Senza shortly ther the demise of the Herald, the press and material which had given existence to all the papers thus far publishert in the county, were purchased by John A. Grilintui, who emtamenced the publication of the Sixfeet June 1. to ph It was ablished without inter- Onssion until 1out, 4 peri uf ol ufpr thirteen years.
The Dog Vom County Sender, commencal June 11, 15L nul cantin- del until July th of the aune year w is the first ibaly quiser ever push- habed in the esinty. "The daily was sinried without any expectation that it would be ana unal, and nudindy was surprised when it quit coming. It wit a tory new battle buly, and answered the purpose of calling attention, fir the time being, to the county.
W. B. Loughraise 'we une owner and eliter of the Sentinel after Graham's retirement. He gold is f J Melowell, and in 1965 Language ngon he- come the owner In 1871, it was entplaced by Longhruige & Pole", after o year under this management, by Farley, Jane in a Donner Then J. A. M Her come in, miel it w44 ron for a few werk. Fy Foley & Miller, whon Foley soll to J. r', Miges and the first wie Wii'er \ Maxey
The Body and Week's Times, which had been started by T. J. McDowell & Sons, in Sogember, 1×76, was cuandolater with the Sinbad, smiler the Danie of Timereuters, by Musey A. Velawell, and run the way the shoot a year when the hem di-sulsel, rach party ret uning has paper and its name. The Name li only sobreel pasoel ante the hand of Living & Mary at a weekly lienversic paper, and, of the latest writing they are succeeded by Samuel Buder ..
Fere ['rear TI . peper was started in 1-12 ans lug paper by J. H Smith, and was priquet na the second press ever brought to flas place
Habush the followed the Free fores in This, by E. & E. IL. Trask, on
Republican Iegue necesidad the Olen in 151. J Hf Shock & Co., propres
The Pron Novos is the next wortel, by H & I. Halderman, their paper being the surememor nf tie + ... /'r ...
bien, as the master recline, sol is the path of the present paper of that I' Chapth, tebien repet is up to durch. Jones, when it was weight by
half interest to V. ES Pinas Real & Stuks up now the prophetars, nel G.
and is pon by -troms It meapare ats own im bling, a hensome, twomary heard, mener of Man tat twart meets, hadd rapreally by Me Need for the lallf *** ,
Duely would Workly Times in November, I'll the best number of the
bulto surrounds Stier a short constipation with the Semaine! under the
Sentinel is still pihl shel asn sweaty aml printed on a matter press, and the oftwo bar all the material of a bret-rines printing meanblis itent
Vincent il Fall, fither st Vincent ft thins d the present "heritt, First Laru.
pany's huntury U but participated in the citizens ralehrerin of the tua nf
the church. in the Fa.' af Is ., multe File of I won the w . ersilva boy the Box A-& Johnsen who hold la prue Jury Ist. Theearth lors loves maintained regularly, with several , ings of inuters, up . the
clar property interests frank plane several years ago.
was built in 1817, In Georges S. P. namore and John tinroll, builders, co the northeast corner of Dove tail Third street. it was a Crime structure. the north bank of the W Prwelt, west of Whommistpart, in Intuber, . 4;1, and 11. A. Tarkington who kepl the tasren, eurner of Matu and Miami streets, were incal Vadominst preachers Cim brul circuit preseliety wer Annie Johnson mil Males Huffaler un 14, 1, Followed by Jan. A. Because, in 14.15. The best Presiding Eller was Alen Wiley,
The church, in alter years, grove large enough i phone inte ren charger obe cust and the ather west of liroadway, but after remaining separate for several years, they have ngman uoned and cunmiilated the property which they held separately.
Simuliunemidly with the organization of the churches and the hu.bling of elibees an Pero. entierequinos were formung, and the big short bones were being nand all over the county, for purquees of public worship by the dufeecut denounostions wlune ministers cate dlung.
THE FPESTOPAL . III BCH
land a respectable membership at an early duy, but no church orginization amil about 1- 4, or 1- 1f. At that time & Puding was fatte I up, ayer De. read' drug store F.ist Brand way, north of the Broadway House, aud atterwart the room were Kilgore & Park's store wutil the church e hifire corner of Mun the church, having a watsonel clergytunn, use it regularly for religious ser- Vices.
THE HAITINT PUPRCH
bas find a large and influential membership in the county from an early Arriort in its history The church in l'eru is well established, um us bouse of worship is one of the best humblings in the city. It was erected some yours ago has regular services and a resulent pastor.
THE LUTHERSY I'HE ACH
(St. John's, Germani wns oprinized alt 1-01, and in 1402 n neut brick church was created on second street, out of Hond Time the congregation occupie l until Ja;0, be which tror they ha I erected out of 'ar hurst church eldices in the city, on the without corner of Man val Freunt asprets. Lalike most of the church handling of the prosent lay it is camp piely hushed. The binunerd af ur af the church are safis, irtory, and the e march is progrewing stendaly. The ubl church chibre on second street is use I for the selwol of the church. A rendent parter is in charge.
EDUCATION
was not overlooked any more than spiritual affairs, by the first wrttiere Almost the first surlertaking of a public planeter was the handling of the regle log school house, in which a scloud for the primary branches was kept, during the winter months, real in when all kinds of meetings were bell when not ver upp I fur erhoui pirmspe
Attung the earliest fost.Junionsut learning in the county wien bor houve that stoel on the thing but we got the sambaest corner of there and Most streets, where our restecial Follow even Within anth, Cambiaris known In the bird settlers ny . he oldl " curnplaynr. ' taught " the faithy nim how Is shenot " among the lower branches of the reve of kan wieder, and lun "the ting " in the most angryel manter to make the lag i wmart. Ifany nequinty-the Prest leney-it was owing to some other raus than a defect in the curriculum of their .Just Water,
TTER L KRET PALLPATATE ISATITI TE was Shutmedel by the lowlinz citizens and runtrolle I hy a Board of Tristors
Ini Stocker A. M . a l'pesheteroan thing-top was l'onequal and witht arramphoheit holy, ba! charge of the fronte an l trimary The P'riwhy- teria i buret www no | for the tommie, and a big bad boy on open I et ret. west of this for the bude detartment.
"Tor In-imate is reformulated in all citizens no a origen that lige oever SheKept Principal Ber & Seaberry, Was \ Howel Renard I. Brotten, were allicere and members of the bard ( Toutes.
MILITARY PUMPANY.
" In time of prare prefuire for war" in & mintno to which the hrot motlops gave the biel by arrimizing a military company the name of which is best Prmalung line of the antlumi they etprimi in went bht which, "using to circumstances, ete tiry vern neppe une des practice
Su wan \ treeif, l'anal street, are nios manufacturer- in the air time" Filizegy Tuer bumnem in prrhanemi,
Since the sleuth of F . Harkly, has ablished the . per his brother, tamirgw, the business has been continued ty 1,- . 4, I, harkly
followed by the deasy at her rank seguirtion, lowb I chresten dores with or siste, and wrote the ming nor of the sublimer evente a last . Fm my to the first settler "or any other man' Hence, a woul b wr he writly areu- Pite to - sy that the ruuntry, a long time ago, wie main a mills
fleet iry got to leven thuis and emme to minister to dla allhisel of the requin quite early. De. Bellen is the name of ore al . can ale at the tasse the dawn was ist ant ; for J. T lation wird De Wheel he wes shortly after. Dr. b. Il Bruce arrived in Is ; and ler. Benyamin Hent of in 11; Drs. Liston and Konge are still trong. the others are Jen'
The ilvetur's calling at that day was in sinceare, Ho serl . I labir ex- tenteil nter a great deal of territory The couple were at hitele wetter than some of our turnpikes, amit the toll Fatherer was not there but Purer Lin ou his lonely way. His pas, at how, but not pente a story 1 Cup , Aps when a patient went under, no he sometimes det, with all his the sisters land up where they could aut he made asmilable to pay de te, He mourned with with a great griet over the natural cash lose be bod vatteret it mirdieses furiusbel the deir departed, under n views prolesvannl chomn of the timey.
MANUF.V.TCRES
Our people know well the vleantage of manfactories and have been. liberal in -pouring their rotablishment business funing, and, having passed the ervis following the promise, will, slouhele-4, increase their prisluctuun' in the future.
H. E & C. F Sterne, who for years hef ve had been mange) in niet- chandising. buying erain an & parking ,mor ., talt as wadon-mal - free -to raps high in t'and drive: near Resulwie in fon: 11 & # 39 % nos ,-hva ' con- dat. in, when, in January, Ink. it and destroyedby tee with arms of u. she's, rastufuture g wole und michenery, the des benz , und -tot het Www . truely nhier d'un misfortune, the energeter profile > ooh Oppenheimer ar a new member of the firm, et post tabs. Thing
bundanga, put in machinery ut the most ap poser | added, andde pleted. i. all resp *** , comofen-mile which are not und wer immer The firm has the soundest financial stan ning, low pass 1 droit the Bar! timmy successfully, and their manfuture- rink a of the ast 1 the country. The firm has changed snow within the hurt , var, but he Meeste Sterne, Oppenheimer andI Mergentheim zuill remain,
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