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In 1876 George Newhall erected a steam saw and planing mill south of the railroad, in the west part of town. It run two or three years, when it met with the common fate of such mills, and was never rebuilt.
Charles Cammack established a heading factory in 18So, run by steam-power furnished by Puterbaugh's engine, which did an extensive business till the summer of 1881, when it was stealthily removed between two days by parties from Anderson claiming ownership thereto. Prall & Puterbaugh, in the summer of 1881, attached a second heading machine, which is doing a lively business.
In 1868 a woolen factory was built by Morris Pierson. and located south of the railroad, opposite the old depot, and was successfully operated for a time by Craig & Min- ick, and then by Scofield, when it met the common fate and succumbed to the flames ; and, unfortunately for the farmers and wool-growers of the county, was never rebuilt.
Roads .- Center township, in her early history, had no roads, but what were used as such were mere paths. The first road in the county was the old State road; the next was the National road, which was laid out prior to the location of the town of Greenfield. But the first good road, as an improvement over the dirt and corduroy, was the National plank road, built by a company in 1852. Prior to the " late unpleasantness " there was not a single gravel road in the township ; but since that time Greenfield has been made the focal point from which radiate finished gravel pikes to all the cardinal, and even sub-cardinal. points of the compass. She has at this date twenty and one-half miles of toll pike and fourteen miles of non-toll- able. ten and one-half miles of which were once corpora- tion roads, but have recently surrendered their charters. For a few years after the war a wonderful stride was taken in the improvement of roads. Under the recent free pike
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law two gravel pikes are now being built in the township, viz. : the Fortville pike and the Frost pike.
Railroads. - Center township has two railroads crossing her territory. The P., C. and St. L. has a line seven miles within and along her borders, valued at $51.310, and pays a tax of $677.66 in the township and $180.91 in Greenfield. The I., B. and W. has a line of seven and one-half miles, not vet taxed, now completed. Each road has a station in the township. Greenfield is on the former. and the Junction on the latter.
Educational .- Close on the heels of the first settlers of the territory were the industrious, stern pedagogues charac- teristic of the times. Though our forefathers often suffered for the essentials of life, and had few of the luxuries, never- theless they fain would have at least some of the rudiments of an English education. Perhaps the first school taught in the township was in a diminutive pole cabin, which stood on a knoll south of the railroad, between the two cemeter- ies. The second stood on the spot now occupied by the Vanwie house, owned by Thomas Carr: the third on or near the Rardin vacant lots, and north of Tindall's livery stable. The first frame school-house in the town was built contemporary with the plank road in 1852. It was finally sold to the Catholic church. and now, enlarged and repaired, and located on the old grounds, it forms their place of worship. From this time on small frames began to take the place of the rude, floorless " make shifts " here- tofore occupied for school purposes. The writer once heard the late Milton B. Hopkins speak of receiving his first lessons in the English rudiments in one of those primi- tive floorless school-houses in this township during an exceedingly cold winter.
Among the first "masters" and " school-marms " of the town were Mrs. L. S. Church, Caroline Depu, Mr. Coy, Mr. McCoy and a Mr. Fisher. The first teacher in the north part of the township (then Harrison township) was Joseph Anderson, who held forth in an old deserted residence on William Martin's farm. His terms were rather
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high for the times, being $1.50 per term or quarter, owing to his boarding himself, being a married man. His pay he took in money, trade and promises, and on the latter he failed to realize encouragingly.
Number and Name of Houses and Teachers .- The fol- lowing table will show the names of the public school- houses and their present occupants as instructors :
District No. 1. . Shepherd John HI. White. Sr.
District No. 2. . Macedonia. William Kiger.
District No. 3. . College Hill Emma Parnell.
District No. 4. . Nebraska. Oliver Stoner.
Distriet No. 5. . Ash Grove .. .Cassius M. Curry.
District No. 6. . Independent O. H. Tibbett.
District No. 7. . Boyd's. O. P. Eastes.
District No. S. . College Corner
Mrs. R. H. Craig.
District No. 9. . Judkins A. N. Rhuc.
District No. 10. . Frazier William Elsberry.
District No. 11. . Danners Maud Everett.
District No. 12. . White Haven V. H. Finnell.
District No. 13. . Junction W. H. Craig.
District No. 14. . Woodbine E. W. Felt.
District No. 15. . Slabtown
Iduna M. Smith.
District No. 16. . Benevolence Newton Goble.
The city of Greenfield has two schools, one for the col- ored and one for the white children. The former use a rented room. The teachers for the public school (for a cut and account of the building see page 38) for the present year are as follows, to-wit :
Superintendent. Prof. J. W. Stout.
Principal high school. Miss Mary Sparks.
Room No. 7 Miss Ida Anderson.
Room No. 6. Mrs. Kate Applegate.
Room No. 5. Miss Mattie Sparks.
Room No. 4. Miss Ida Geary.
Room No. 3. Miss Laura Pope.
Room No. 2. Miss Eva Williams.
Room No. 1 . Miss Anna Harris.
Teacher colored school. C. B. Gillim.
JAMES K. KING.
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Value of School Houses and Apparatus .- Center town- ship has sixteen school-houses, five brick and eleven frame, valued at $9,600, including grounds, furniture and out- buildings. Her maps, charts, globes and other apparatus are valued at $400. Total value of school property in the township. exclusive of the city, $10,000. In Greenfield, the school realty is valued at $20.000 and the apparatus at $200 : total, $20,200.
Scholastic Population .- The scholastic population of Center, for 1853, was 498 : for 1860. 752 : in 1870, 754; in 1880, 753. For Greenfield, for the last three decades, the figures were respectively 351. 417, 653.
Township Trustecs .- The following are the names of the trustees, with the time of their appointment, since 1859, at which time the office assumed some dignity and impor- tance :
John Foster 1859
William F. Pratt IS68
John H. White 1861
S. T. Dickerson IS70
William Frost 1862
James McClarnon 1874
Robert Barr
IS63
William Potts. 187S
J. W. Walker 1864
Robert D. Cooper. ISSO
Remarks : John Foster, a portrait and sketch of whom appear elsewhere, had the honor of being not only the first sheriff of the county. but the first trustee also under the new regime. He was re-elected, and consequently held the office for two years, the term of office for a number of years being but one year. White, Frost and Barr each ruled right royally for one year. J. W. Walker, S. T. Dicker- son and James McClarnon each looked after the poor and pedagogues for four years. Robert D. Cooper holds the purse strings at this date.
Churches .- Center township and the city of Greenfield are reasonably well supplied with churches, the former having six, viz. : four Methodist and two Baptist, and the latter one Methodist Episcopal, one Presbyterian. one Christian, one Catholic, one Missionary Baptist, and one African Methodist Episcopal- six in all. Most of the build-
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ings are good frames, a few are substantial bricks ; a more specific account of which will appear further on.
Population .- An examination of the census reports of this township for a few decades shows a steady, rapid growth. Only thirty years ago, or in 1850, she had a population of So5, and nine of which were colored : ten years later she reports 2.529, and seventeen colored, an increase of over 200 per cent. In 1870 she had a popula- tion of 3.464, and thirty-one colored. The last census gave her a total, including Greenfield, of 4.284, a remarkable increase of 5313 per cent. in thirty years. Greenfield. in 1860. just before the civil war, had within her corporate limits 738 souls : in 1870, 1,173 : in 1880, 2,012.
Polls and Votc .- For 1881, Center township has 395 polls and Greenfield 372. Last year Center reported 373 taxable polls and Greenfield 321, a handsome increase at both points, and especially in Greenfield.
Center township, for voting purposes in general elec- tions, is divided into two precincts. At the first precinct. the court-house. all those citizens being legal voters of the city and township residing east of State street and the road extending through the township north and south cast their ballots : and at the second precinct, a small building across the street west from the court-house, those vote living west of the above points. The total vote of Center township for 1860 was 485 : for 1870. 717 ; for 1880. 1.034, with a demo- cratic majority of 152 for 1880, the vote standing : Demo- cratic. 581 ; republican. 429 ; independent, 24.
Value of Real and Personal Property .- Center township being the largest in the county, reports 32,290 acres of land, valued at $784.465. and improvements on the same same valued at $120,080, being an average of about $28.00 per acre. The personal property in Center, exclu- sive of Greenfield, is valued at $270,250. Value of tele- graph lines in Center, $1,320. Total value of taxables in Center township, $1,167.900.
Taxes .- Center township paid taxes to the amount of
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$867.83 for 1842, and $6.945.66 for 1860 : for ISSI she pays the sum of $13,666.64. The levy on each $100 is $1.12. Of this amount, levied in 1881, to be paid in 1882, the fol- lowing men pay fifty dollars and upwards :
Addison, Wesley $ 82 30
Hagen, J. H., heirs 54 26
Amack, T., heirs
57 30
Hackleman, A
55 13
Banks, A. J.
54 71
Hart & Thaver 115 92
Barnett, R. E
65 35
James, Sylvester 70 90
Black, Jerome. 67 87
Longinaker, Letta 67 31
Bussell, William 66 44
Lineback. J. T.
50 12
Braddock, Henry
79 33
Martin, William.
79 96
Boyd, P. K
137 00
Martin, Sampson. So 98
Baldwin, Evaline.
72 29
Ryon, J. W.
52 47
Boyd. P. H.
195 78
Roberts, Thomas
147 14
Barr, H., heirs
55 44
Rardin, I. C
63 28
Bradley, Nelson
66 5S
Sebastian, W. O.
106 19
Bradley, William
109 69
Swope, Mary E. 74 60
Catt, Jacob 109 87
Slifer, Jacob. 161 96
Citizens' Bank
90 S2
Steel, Marion 98 02
Duncan, M. T.
77 70
Sparks, F. M
115 IL
Duncan, J. M
5,3 66
Smith, Abner
264 72
Elsberry. Jackson.
141 16
Sears, William
73.96
Ellis, Charlotte A 74 42
Simmons, J. B 62 72
Forgy, Marion
52 50
Tague, G. G 71 29
Finnell, J. S
99 17
Wright, E. N 107 72
Foster, J. R
58 23
Willett, M. T
Sı 30
Frazier, William
135 57
Walker, W. C. $4 56
Gooding, D. S.
117 60
White, John II. 79 13
Holland, Thomas 62 76
Wiggins, Charles A 52 62
Hunt, Nathan .
114 27
Walsh, Ellen.
51 52
Hamilton & Williams. 58 97
Wilson, J. T. 105 OS
Heffernan, John ..
61 S5 Zike, William 72 35
Greenfield has in her corporate limits, other than lots. 251 acres of land, valued at $10,645 ; the improvements on the same are estimated at $13,775 ; value of lots, $177,5So : value of improvements, $227,655 ; value of personal prop- erty, $355,690 ; value of railroad property in the city, $12,- SIo : value of telegraph lines in the corporate limits, $270.
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Total taxables of Greenfield are assessed at $785.355 : the levy is $1.49 on each $100. Greenfield was assessed for 1860, and paid in 1861, the first year that she had a sepa- rate duplicate, $2,071.46, and in 1870 she paid $7,979.24, a comparison of which with the present taxes shows a rapid stride in this direction. The total taxes assessed against her for 1881, payable in 1882, are $13.039.04. Of this amount the following persons, partnerships, and corpora- tions pay fifty dollars and upwards, viz. :
Adams, M. M. $ 51 91
Hamilton, M. W
62 95
Boots. . .. 152 65
Bradley, Nelson
S5 00
Baldwin & Pratt
79 86
Mitchell, William. 147 90
Banks, A. J.
121 65
Marsh, W. & P. A. S6 39
Boyd, Simmons
Moore, H. L
111 90
Boyd, P. H
443 05
Morgan, J. M.
90 40
Crawford, F. H
107 58
New, J. A.
70 07
Chandler, Morgan 60 38
New, A. J. & J. A
119 95
Citizens Bank .
474 74
Offutt, C. G.
64 94
Duncan, George W.
86 So
Paullus, M. L
59 86
Edwards, Catharine .. 66 02
Poulson, I. P. 76 63
Furry, Sanford.
60 09
Randall, G. T
227 82
Gant, Thomas A 97 38
Rardin, John, heirs
58 56
Grose, E. B ..
57 34 Slifer, Jacob, Sr.
IIO 86
Gooding, D. S ..
74 35
Gooding. Matilda
57 SS
Glidden, F. E.
73 16
Thayer, E. P 66 66
Greenfield Banking Co 226 25
Thayer, Lee C.
115 96
Hughes, J. A
104 94
Williams Bros. & Ham- ilton .. 103 42
Hart, A. T.
144 98
Hart & Thayer 106 24
Walsh, Ellen. 50 96
Hough, W. R
273 98
Walker, J. Ward SS So
Howard, N. P., Sr 121 29
Wood, Frances J 69 50
Heffernan, John. 67 05
Walker & Co., J. Ward 76 29
Hinchman & Swope .. 50 52
Hamilton & Williams. 74 95
Hauck, J. J. 71 36
Jackson & Bro
59 60
Boyd. 56 62
Mason, J. L.
103 15
Burdett, W. C.
234 16 Marsh, Ephraim.
204 40
Swaim, Reuben
77 18
Thayer, H. B. 50 66
Remarks .- The reader will observe that in Center and
Alexander, New
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Greenfield we have given in the list of heavy tax-payers only the names of those paying fifty dollars and upwards, while in most of the townships we record those paying forty dollars and upwards. We make this difference on account of the difference in the levy. A man paying fifty dollars taxes in Greenfield is not assessed on as much prop- erty as one paying forty dollars in Buck-creek.
Law and Esquires .- Older than the history of the county is the provision for the convenient adjustment of petty difficulties and grievances among the citizens of a township at a trifling expense to the erring parties. The township system for promoting justice include two officers only-a justice and constable ; the former acts as judge and clerk. and the latter is the executive officer, and corresponds to the sheriff in his duties.
The first justices acting in the territory now under consid- eration were Benjamin Spillman, Lucius Brown and O. H. Neff, all of whom served some time between the organiza- tion of Brandywine township and the formation of the original Center township, and hence were really justices of the peace in and for Brandywine township. The first justice of the peace for Center township proper after her organization was Joseph Chapman. W. O. Neff was elected in 1831. followed by Jonathan Dunbar, elected in 1834.
George Tague. IS34
G. Y. Atkison ISIS
William Justice 1836
Erastus Church.
W. A. Franklin
IS41
John Rardin ISIS.
William Sebastian IS.42
Joseph Anderson 1849
William Cushman IS42
Jonathan Tague 1 850
Harry Pierson IS46 Leonard Hines or Kines. I 850
Thomas H. Fry IS47
Joseph Matthews. 1851
The above, it must be borne in mind, were the justices in Center proper during her twenty-two years' existence in her original diminutive size, as shown on page S9. During this same time the following persons served in
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Harrison township, which now forms the northern part of ·Center, viz. :
Isaiah Curry IS31
John Martin 1845
William Martindale. I831
J. D. Conway ISAS
John Martin 1835
William Martindale 1835
John Martin
1840
E. B. Chittenden IS51
From 1853, the date of the organization of Center town- ship into her present size, the following esquires have served the people :
John Rardin . I854, IS5S
James B. Rawlins 1854
Joseph Matthews 1856
William J. Foster I 860 John W. Walker. 1874, 1878 W. P. Cragan 1860 James H. Thompson. 1878
George Barnett. IS62, 1870
James W. Wilson ISSO
John Rardin IS62, 1866
Isaac Mullen. . IS70, 1874
W. C. Walker IS70. 1874
George Barnett IS74, ISSO
Remarks: It will be observed that John Rardin served one term in the original Center township, being elected in 1848, and went out of office in 1870. John Martin served continuously for eighteen years, dating from 1835 to the termination of Harrison, in which he served. Mr. Martin was also elected in Center after her accession, but declined to serve. George Barnett, Esq., served one term in Sugar- creek township ; afterwards, in 1852, was elected in Cen- ter, and is still holding forth. The present acting justices of the township are Esquires John W. Walker, George Barnett and James W. Wilson, all residents of the city. James H. Thompson served about half his term, when trouble from shortcomings in office overtook him, and he married a respectable lady of the city, obtained her ready cash, and skipped the county, and is now paying the pen- alty of a wasted life in a poor-house in Southern Indiana. The amount of business done by some of the early justices was very limited indeed. The first justice in Harrison
John Martin 1850
W. C. Walker. 1850
J. D. Conway 1843
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township, Isaiah Curry, served one year and died : the only business coming before him during that term was the advertising of an estray.
It is authoritatively said of another pioneer justice of this township, that in rendering judgment in a case of assault and battery, in the absence of definite instructions and a knowledge of the law, he assessed a fine of so much for " assault" and so much for " battery."
ANDREW T. HART.
First Settlers of Harrison Township .- William Curry. for a time county commissioner, built the first grist-mill in the township. Joseph Anderson was the first school- teacher. William Martindale, the second justice in the township, became eccentric on religious matters, and took the name of " Buck Martindale." Among the other first settlers were John and David Kingen, Richard Frost. John
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Carr, John Johnson, Jeremiah Hagan, John L. Garwood, Richard Guymon, John Martin, William Anderson. Elijah Leary and Isaiah Curry. John L. Garwood was one of the jurymen who tried the Whites for the Indian murders on Fall Creek, near Pendleton, in 1824. The first burials in the Curry cemetery were Allen Curry and Lucinda Sim- mons, son and daughter of William Curry.
First Business .- The first business of this section was with Elijah Tyner, of Blue-river township, who bought the venison hams, furs and ginseng of the pioneers, and sold them a few of the staple articles in exchange. Some of the trading of this section was done at Indianapolis, Pen- dleton and Raysville about this time. The first store in Center township was in Greenfield, about the year 1826. a fuller account of which will appear further on. We have no knowledge of any store in Center township, outside of Greenfield, during her entire history, other than the one now kept by Dr. George Tague, in the north-east part of the township, where the new post-office, Binwood. is kept by the proprietor of the store.
Ex-County Officers .- Center township, and especially that part of it incorporated as Greenfield, like Virginia, the ·· Mother of Presidents." has been truly liberal and patri- otic in furnishing her quota of county officers to serve the people.
This was the home of Lewis Tyner, a pioneer merchant of Greenfield, and the first county clerk, being elected in 1828. Here resided John Foster, the first sheriff, and after- ward representative for three terms and county treasurer. Greenfield was the home of Joshua Meek, the first recorder. who filled the office for twenty-one years. Henry Watts. the first treasurer, elected in 1828, was from Brandywine township. This was the home of Elisha Chapman, one of the three original commissioners who divided the county into townships.
In the little town of Greenfield resided Dr. Leonard Bardwell, the second physician and the first representative from this county.
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In Greenfield lived John Templin, a merchant, and the first auditor, being elected in 1841, the first date at which the State laws required that officer.
Here also lived Meredith Gosney, the first county sur- veyor and also school commissioner. He died in Green township.
Here lived in their day Thomas D. Walpole, senator and representative ; Joseph Chapman, representative and clerk of the court ; Joseph Matthews and John Alley, repre- sentatives ; William Sebastian, John T. Sebastian, John Hager and Henry A. Swope, county clerks ; Nathan Craw- ford and Samuel C. Duncan, treasurers ; Jonathan Dunbar, Joseph Anderson, John Osborn and William H. Curry, sheriff's ; John Milroy, Levi Leary, Frances O. Sears and N. H. Roberts, recorders ; Isaac Willett, Nathaniel Henry, Abram Rhue, William Curry, Benjamin Spillman, Jacob Tague and Hiram Tyner, county commissioners ; George Y'. Atkison, joint representative, representative, and county clerk : James Rutherford, county clerk and school exam- iner : and Morrison Pearson, county treasurer and surveyor.
Still living and residing among us in the territory under consideration are the following well-known, honorable citizens, ex-officers : David S. Gooding, probate judge. senator, representative, and prosecuting attorney ; James L. Mason, senator, joint representative, and school exam- iner ; William R. Hough, senator, district attorney, and school examiner ; Reuben A. Riley, representative, prose- cuting attorney, and school examiner ; John H. White, rep- resentative ; Charles G. Offutt, representative ; Morgan Chandler, sheriff, clerk, and representative ; Jonathan Tague, auditor ; A. C. Handy, auditor and representative : A. T. Hart, treasurer ; L. W. Gooding, recorder and pros- ecuting attorney ; William Mitchell, recorder by appoint- ment : Jacob Slifer, commissioner ; William Fries, school examiner and surveyor ; James A. New, school examiner.
Ilere, also, lived William R. West, recorder and pro- bate judge, now living in Anderson, and John Hinchman, county commissioner, who now resides in Rush county.
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Murders, Suicides and Remarkable Deaths .- In 1833 John Hays, an ex-sheriff of Rush county, was burned to death at the burning of the first log jail in the county. located on the south part of the public square. Hays kept a boarding-house on the corner now occupied by Doctor Boot's residence. He drank immoderately ; became jeal- ous of one of his male boarders ; reason and judgment were dethroned ; and he determined to wreak out his ven- geance on somebody. Being indiscriminate in his selec- tions, he entered the Milroy family and committed an assault and battery, for which he was confined in jail. In his account of the matter, he said he dirked and clubbed them as frogs, and they turned to "Milroys." Hays was the only one at the time incarcerated in the jail, which he set on fire, and was smothered and partially burned to death before the fire was discovered. From the " Illustrated Historical Atlas of Rush County, Indiana," by J. H. Beers & Co., we copy the following : " The second session of the circuit court met on the 3rd day of October, 1822. The sheriff, John Hays, did not appear this term, nor does his name hereafter appear on the record as officiating as sheriff. From other sources it is known that the unfortu- nate man became insane, wandered out to Hancock county. was placed in jail in Greenfield, set fire to the jail, and was consumed with it ere he could be rescued. An awful death to die !" But few people remain to recall the sad occurrence.
Mrs. Harris, wife of George Harris, hung herself. in March, 1845, with a skein of yarn attached to one of the joists. She was a woman in middle life, and nothing definite is known as to the cause of the act. Strange as it may seem, this was done while Mr. H. was asleep in the same bed from which she arose; and he knew nothing about it till morning, when he awoke to find the lifeless form of his wife cold in death. He did not delay to inform the coroner, but cut her down at once. when Mr. Thomas B. Miller, acting coroner, was informed, and proceeded to hold an inquest, and rendered a verdict : » Came to her
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death by hanging. Cause unknown." This occurred on Brandywine Creek, on the land now owned by Thomas B. Miller, in Center township, about six miles north-east of Greenfield.
Isaac Stuart was born in Guilford county, North Caro- lina, April 23, 1796. He married Miss Sarah Johnson, who was seven years his junior, in his native county, December 8, 1822. In 1829 they immigrated to Indiana, and stopped one year in Wayne county and a similar time in Henry county, then removed to Rush county, six miles south of Knightstown, where they remained until July 14, 1835, when they made a permanent settlement in Harrison township, Hancock county, Indiana, where he remained until his death. Here, in the green woods, he carved out a home and reared his family, earning his bread by the sweat
of his brow, never owing any man a cent. He accumu- lated some property, and on the night of December 28, 1846, at eleven o'clock, he was awakened by hearing some one walking across the room. Supposing it to be his son, Dr. John G. Stuart, who was practicing medicine at Char- lottesville, and frequently stopped there when belated, he told him that the hired girl, Charlotte Reeves, was in the bed. On hearing the old gentleman speak, James Wise, a robber, turned, and rushing upon Mr. Stuart, struck him over the head with a large club (which is still in possession of the family), felling him to the floor. Mr. Stuart attempted to grapple with him, when he was struck again, and pushed out of the door, to receive another blow, this time from another robber, named Bodkins, which knocked him senseless. The two then entered the house, and demanded of Mrs. Stuart the money. She gave them all in the house at the time, about $125-eleven in paper, the rest in silver, twenty-eight dollars being in quarters. After Wise received the $128 he called for $1,000 more, in reply to which Mrs. Stuart told him that was all that they had about the house : that Isaac had just loaned out $1,000 ; and that if he wanted to kill her he would have to do so, as they had no more. Whereupon he knocked her down
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