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Owing to the destruction of the records of the town by fire, in 1867,-upon the occasion of the burning of the Corkins store, at Mooers Forks, O. D. Corkins being clerk, -it is impossible to give many facts of interest relating to the organization of the town and the regulation of town affairs. The following list of town officers is also neces- sarily incomplete :
SUPERVISORS.
William Boaumont, 1804-5; David Frost, 1806; George Perry, 1807- 10; Jonathan Berry, 1811; John Sheddon, 1812; Jeromiah Churchill, 1813; John Shedden, 1814; Georgo Perry, 1815 ; John Shoddon, 1816; Jaboz Fitch, 1817-21; Jacob T. Androws, 1822; Jabez Fitch, 1823-24; John Shedden, 1825-26 ; Jabez Fitch, 1827 -37; James Fitch, 1838-39 ; Robert R. Bateman, 1810-43; James Fitch, 1844-45; Edwin P. Francis, 1846; John Shedden, Jr., 1847-49; Jamos Fitch, 1850 ; John II. Phinney, 1851-53; Judo F. Blackman, 1851; John H. Phinney, 1857 ; Edwin P. Francis, 1858-59 ; Amasa B. Wood, 1860-61 ; Robert Sherlock, 1862; John H. Phinney, 1863; Amasa B. Wood, 1864; John H. Phinney,
1865-66; O. D. Corkins, 1867-68; William C. Randall, 1869-70; Amasa B. Wood, 1871 ; Horatio F. Knapp, 1872-73; Emmett M. Fitch, 1874; John K. Whitney, 1875-76; Amasa B. Wood, 1877 ; Joel Chandler, 1878 ; James A. Hagar, 1879.
TOWN CLERKS.
1867-71, Horatio F. Knapp ; 1872, Joubert M. Corkins; 1873-74, John K. Whitney ; 1875-77, Washington King; 1878-79, George H. Hall.
The officers chosen for the year 1879 are : Supervisor, James A. Hagar; Town Clerk, George H. Hall; Justice of the Peace, William H. Waugh ; Colleetor, Alexander Amlaw ; Commissioner of Highways, Samuel Kirk ; As- sessor, Henry Ploof; Overseers of the Poor, District No. 1, John W. Thorn ; District No. 2, David Davidson; In- spcctors of Election, District No. 1, Rollin Dixon, Thomas Heffernan, Andrew J. Steinbarge ; District No. 2, James Monty, William L. Armstrong, Franklin P. Allen; Con- stables, Sylvester S. Churchill, Jacob K. Brewster, Lin- neus Belden, Thomas Crawford, George Farr; Auditors, William Carter, Orlando D. Corkins, Samuel Cannon ; Ex- cise Commissioner, Clitus P. Shedden.
STATISTICAL.
According to the census of 1875 there are 898 dwelling- houses in the town ; the number of aeres of improved land is 23,964, and of unimproved, 24,473; the cash value of farms is $1,097,114, and of farm buildings, $129,412.
CHAPTER LX.
MOOERS-(Continued).
Villages and Hamlets-Schools-Churches-Presbyterian, Mooers --- Methodist Episcopal, Mooers-Baptist, Mooers Forks-St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Mooers Forks-Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, Mooers Junction-Roman Catholic Church, Mooers and Altona-Burial-Places-Notes and Incidents-Conflagrations-In- dustrial-Military.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
THE principal village in the town is MOOERS, located on the Great Chazy River, in the east part of the town. The first settlements were made at this point. It contains a Methodist and a Presbyterian ehureh, a fine school build- ing, cemetery, sash- and blind-factory, two grist-mills, a shingle-mill, a number of stores, and about sixty dwelling- houses. Mooers Juuction is less than a mile north, at the junction of the Ogdensburgh and Lake Champlain and the Mooers branch of the New York and Canada Railroads. Here is a well-appointed and popular hotel, known as the Junction House, a Wesleyan Methodist church, two rail- road-stations, a barrel-stave factory, and a number of dwell- ings
The first post-office at Mooers village was established Dec. 6, 1822, and Robert R. Rood was appointed the first postmaster. He held the office a great many years.
Other incumbents of the office have been Joseph Church- ill, James Fitch, 'Zetus Newell, Sarah Fitch, Clitus P. Shedden, Mary Churchill, F. Shedden, and Horatio F. Knapp, the present postmaster.
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In 1829 what is now the rear end of Abel Knapp's resi- dence was a dwelling occupied by Thomas Richardson, a blacksmith, whose shop stood directly across the road. A frame house stood near Shedden's brick block, which was used as a public-house by Zetus Newell some time after. John Shedden occupied an old house near where James Shedden now resides. He built a new stone residence soon after, that stood where F. Shedden now lives. An old grist- mill and a saw-mill stood at the east end of the village, and were operated by John Shedden and his sons, Bushrod W. and Shepherd. Opposite the mill was a mill-house, which was afterwards occupied by Bushrod W. Shedden, who then lived in a little house across the river, near the present mill.
MOOERS FORKS is situated on the north branch of the Great Chazy River, and is a village of enterprise and impor- tance. It contains Methodist, Episcopal, and Roman Cath- olic churches, a hotel, number of stores, saw-mill and grist-mill, and about forty dwelling-houses.
The post-office at Mooers Forks was established in 1840 or 1841. The first postmaster was Prentice P. Douglass. He was followed by Asa Corkins, who held the office for a good many years, E. P. Francis, F. P. Allen, and John K. Whitney, the present incumbent.
WOOD's FALLS is a hamlet in the south part of the town, on the south branch of the Great Chazy River, and is the site of an iron-forge, saw-, shingle-, lath-, and starch-mills, and of the other manufacturing enterprises of Wood Brothers. The water-power here is very fine. The post- office at this point was established about 1862. W. W. Wood has been the only postmaster.
At the west end of the village lived Joseph Churchill, in a house that stood where A. W. Plumley now resides. The Congregational parsonage was built that year.
Isaac Fitch lived where Dr. Chandler lives now, and had a store near by. Farther west was a saw-mill owned by Fitch & Knapp. A dense forest covered what is now the village. Some four or five clearings alone existed.
Robert R. Rood built a new house that stood where Robert Rood now lives. He operated a saw-mill down the river, where the starch-factory now is, and built one soon after on the opposite side of the river. A log house stood near by.
Abel Knapp occupied the house where Stephen Williams lives now. In one end of the house he had a store.
Silas Brooks came from Whitehall in 1829, and occu- pied a log house where Robert R. Rood had just vacated. Here he established the business of making chairs, bed- steads, etc. In 1832 he built his present residence and shop, and has carried on the business of furniture-making ever since.
THORN'S CORNERS is a small settlement about a mile west of Mooers, on the Great Chazy River, where Fitch & Whitney's starch-factory is located.
WHITNEY's and CANNON'S CORNERS are hamlets west of Mooers Forks, on the English River, and the site of fine water-privileges. There is a neat Methodist church at the latter point.
BLACKMUN'S CORNERS are to the northwest of Mooers Forks.
SCHOOLS.
The town was originally comprised in a single school dis- trict, and the first school-house was the old building now used as a wood-shed by the widow of Asa Corbin. The Congregational Church occupied this building for some time, when first organized. The seats were raised one above the other. The pulpit stood opposite the door. The stove consisted of a potash-kettle turned upside down, having a tin door, and a hole knocked in the top to accom- modate the pipe. The whole apparatus rested on a brick foundation. If the old inhabitants are to be believed, this device was a valuable auxiliary to the orthodox preaching of those days, and conveyed to the mind, without the aid of the imagination, a vivid realization of the horrors and torments of Tophet.
Cariarty Huntley was an early teacher in this building ; also Martha Bosworth (afterwards Mrs. Samuel Churchill), Asa Freeman, and Jabez Fitch.
The next school-house at Mooers village was built in 1824 or 1825. It was occupied by troops during the Patriot war, and burned.
The next was built in 1839, and was used until the erec- tion of the present brick house.
Among the early teachers at Mooers village have been Nancy Ransom, three Mr. Kealers, Rev. H. B. Taylor, Luther Pike, Dr. Jewell, David Douglass, Messrs. Merrill and Smith, Dr. Norman Chandler, James A. Shedden, Jane Chandler, Dr. Joel Chandler, Oscar Barber, Cloe Allin, Julius Scriver, Rev. Peter Myers, and Douglass B. Grant.
The following items are taken from an old school record of District No. 3, commencing 1831 :
" Voted, That we have a man's school four months, to Commence on the 15 of November next.
" Voted, That } load of wood be furnished for each scholar, cut fit for the stove, and if said parents dos not furnish the wood hy having 2 days' notice, they ar to pay $100 ($1.00 ?) per load.
" Oct. 1, 1832 .- Voted, That we have a woman's school for 2 Months this fall; also, that the school-house he repaired by the Trustees, and a Tax raisd to defray the Expenses.
" Voted, The Trustees build a nessary hous for the school-children. " Oct. 4, 1842 .- Voted, That the upper room of the school-House he given up for the purpose of a select school."
The school at Blackmun's Corners was established at a very early day.
A frame school-house was erected in District No. 7 nearly fifty years ago.
The stone school-house in the same district was built thirty- one or thirty-two years ago.
The school-house at Mooers Forks was built in 1851.
The new brick school-house at Mooers village was erected in 1872, at an expense of about $4000. The lots upon which it was erected were purchased from the Presbyterian society for $250. The school is a graded one, and under the charge of G. S. Baskerville, principal. The school re- port of Oct. 8, 1878, showed that there were in attendance upon the school 180 children over five and under twenty- one years of age, and the average attendance for the year was 86.42. 1'9"7.
CHURCHES.
PRESBYTERIAN, MOOERS.
This church was the first in the town, and was organized as a Congregational Church, on March 20, 1807, by Rev.
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Benjamin Wooster and Rev. Amos Pettingill. In 1828 it united with the Champlain Presbytery, and in 1876 per- fected its organization as a Presbyterian Church.
The church at first consisted of 13 members : Dcaeon Andrew Blackmun, David and Daniel Southwick, David Studley, Joshua C. Bosworth, Deliverance Blackmun, Sally Blackmun, Ruth Morse, Polly Smedley, Betsey Southwick, Betsey Whitemore, Felinda Huntley, Sally Bosworth.
Some of the other early members were Jacob and Sarah Crossett, Ichabod T. Bosworth, Lydia Bosworth, Samuel Smith, Margaret Smith, John Hollembeck, Jemima Hollem- beck, Ephraim Brown, Polly Southwick, Daniel Southwick, Josiah Whitemore, Samuel Churchill, Andrew Blackmun, Jr., Luke S. Blackmun, Ruth Studley, Thankful Patterson, Robert R. Rood, Sarah Churchill, and Daniel Perry.
The first services of the Congregational Church were held in an old school-house that stood about a mile west of Mooers village. Meetings were held there until 1827 or 1828, during the pastorship of Rev. Mr. Marsh, when the present edifice was ereetcd. During the pastorship of Rev. Mr. Bradshaw it underwent much modification, and was materially improved in size and appearance. The session- room was built during the pastorship of Rev. Mr. Everest. The church parsonage was built about the same time as the church. A new one is nearly ready for occupation.
The pastors and supplies of the church, from its organi- zation down, have been : 1807-12, Martin Powell, pastor ; 1812-27, Stephen Kinsley, stated supply several times in this period; 1827-31, Samuel Marsh, pastor; 1832-35, Charles Doolittle, pastor ; 1836-37, Eli Mecker, stated sup- ply ; 1837-52, Charles M. Seaton, pastor; 1852, Moses Chasc, stated supply ; 1859-64, Asa E. Everest, stated sup- ply ; 1865-67, A. Hemmenway, stated supply ; 1869, T. B. Hascall, stated supply ; 1869-71, John Bradshaw, stated supply ; 1871-72, John Perkins, stated supply ; 1873-75, Willard Child, D.D , stated supply ; 1875-76, Theodore B. Williams, stated supply ; 1877, H. A. Russell, stated sup- ply, still acting.
The deacons of the church have been Andrew Blackmun, Daniel Southwick, David Anderson, Samuel Churchill, A. J. C. Blackmun, Jabez Fitch, M.D., Theodore Churchill, Isaac Parker, H. S. Haff. The elders have been A. J. C. Blackmun, John Dailey, S. H. Churchill, C. L. Knapp.
The present membership of the church is 78; size of Sabbath-school, 110; superintendent, G. S. Baskerville.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
There are three church edifices belonging to this denomi- nation in the town. The first church-that at Moocrs --- was built in 1839, of brick, and was enlarged in 1866. It is finished with audience-room 32 by 56 feet, and seats 300. There is a lecture- and class-room in the basement. The value of the building is $3500.
The second church is located in Mooers Forks. The edifice was originally built by the Baptist society, but in 1871 was purchased by the members of the Methodist Church in that vicinity, and thoroughly repaired by them. It is finished with lecture-room in the basement, has an audience-room 24 by 38 feet, capable of scating 200, and is valued at $3000.
A third church edifice was located at Cannon's Corners. It was commenced in July, 1874, and the lecture-room was opened for service in January, 1875 ; but it was destroyed by fire in May, 1877. It has since been rebuilt.
The first Methodist class in the town was formed about 1816. Prior to this date, however, preaching had occurred, the serviecs being administered by Methodist itinerants. Andrew Mckean is remembered as preaching in the house of John Shedden.
This gentleman was one of the earliest members of the church in town. The first quarterly mectings were held in his barn. He was the father of Bushrod and James S. Shedden, now deceased, who became prominent and useful members of the church. A daughter married Rev. An- drew Witherspoon, D.D., a native of Scotland, who took up his residence in the town in his boyhood, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He joined the Troy Conferenec in 1833.
Associated with John Shedden was a worthy and intelli- gent local preacher, named William Lewis, living near Perry's Mills, who by his strong and influential character contributed largely to develop the infant society, tilling the soil during the week, and working in the vineyard of the Lord on the Sabbath.
The Methodist society first met in the old block school- house, and, after that was burned, in the tannery, and until the church was built.
In the year 1825 or 1826 Chazy circuit was formed, in- cluding Champlain and Mooers. Rev. S. Langdon was on the circuit at the time, and lived in Mooers village. In 1834 Champlain circuit was organized, including Mooers.
The following are the names of the circuit preachers who have officiated since that date, together with the time of their service : 1834, C. R. Morris, J. D. White ; 1835, C. R. Morris, Wm. Frazer ; 1836, J. Graves, H. Dunn ; 1837, J. Graves, O. Gregg; 1838, J. D. Burnham, O. Gregg ; 1839, J. D. Burnham, M. Townsend ; 1840-41, J. D. White ; 1842, B. Murvin, E. Lyons, John Chase; 1843, W. F. Hurd, B. Cox ; 1844, O. E. Spicer, G. H. Townsend ; 1845, O. E. Spicer, H. B. Taylor.
In 1846 Mooers was separated from Champlain. The following is a list of the pastors of Mooers from that time to the present : 1846-47, Wm. H. Hull ; 1848-49, D. Osgood ; 1850-51, E. Watson ; 1852-53, O. J. Squiers ; 1854, W. N. Tiffany ; 1855, J. M. Kernan; 1856, A. Lyon ; 1857-58, J. C. Fenton ; 1859-60, A. S. Bigelow ; 1861-62, N. B. Wood ; 1863-64, J. B. Sylvester; 1865- 67, O. Gregg; 1868-69, D. N. Lewis; 1870-72, II. N. Munger; 1873-74, S. Kelly ; 1875-76, J. J. Noe; 1877- 79, Wm. L. Smith.
The present membership of the church is 293; size of .Sabbath-school, 175; number of volumes in the library, several hundred ; superintendent, Lucien Shedden.
The following are the present church officers : C. P. Shedden, L. Forbes, J. A. Walker, I. L. Rock, E. M. Fitch, F. H. Bosworth, L. L. Shedden, F. P. Allen, Dr. J. Chandler, W. H. Fitch, A. J. Steanbarge, Junius J. Frances, James Hagar, Wm. H. Storey ; Rev. H. B. Tay- lor, superannated member of Quarterly Conference.
At Armstrong Bush, in Mooers, near Covey Hill, a new
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Methodist church is in course of erection, and will be con- nected with the Altona charge.
BAPTIST.
A Baptist Church was organized on April 19, 1851, at Mooers Forks, under the pastoral oversight and charge of Rev. M. L. Fuller. The name chosen was the " First Baptist Church in Mooers." Five trustccs were chosen, viz., Cyrus Smith, Erastus Hull, N. W. Pratt, John Bos- worth, and E. P. Francis.
At the same meeting it was "voted that immediate measures be taken for the erection of a meeting-house on said land, provided funds can be obtained ;" and a building committee, consisting of B. Hall, Cyrus Smith, John H. Phinney, John Bosworth, and M. L. Fuller, was chosen. The house was completed in the spring of 1852.
The land referred to, and that on which the church was built, was deeded to the society by Lepha Allen, mother of Franklin P. Allen.
The society flourished for a few years only. Meetings were held at irregular times. Rev. Mr. Fuller was the only regular pastor the society ever had.
The house was used for a good many years after the sus- pension of the Baptist society by the Methodist Church. In 1871 the surviving trustees of the Baptist society, Asa Corkins and John Bosworth, by the authority of a special act of the Legislature passed for the purpose, conveyed the property to the Methodist society.
ST. PAUL'S (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH, MOOERS FORKS.
This parish was organized Feb. 19, 1855, and the church edifice was erected in 1855, under Rev. H. A. Coit as rector. On July 7, 1856, Rev. Joshua L. Harrison was chosen rector, and on September 5, 1856, the church was conseerated by Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, bishop of New York.
The first church wardens and vestrymen were : Wardens, John .H. Phinney, Wm. Tomlinson ; Vestrymen, George Buchanan, John Emerson, Asa Corkins, Horace B. Sim- mons, Wm. G. Mooney, George Lamberton, Benj. Fitch, and O. P. Favre.
Rev. Mr. Harrison died in 1867, soon after leaving the rectorship. Services were continucd by Rev. George L. Mide, rector of St. John's Church, Champlain, until Rev. G. C. Pennell's appointment as priest in charge of Clinton County Associate Mission, in February, 1870. Rev. R. S. Locke, assistant, officiated until June, 1870, when Rev. J. N. T. Goss succeeded him.
Bishop Doane made his first visitation to the church on July 24, 1869. Rev. Dr. Pennell was formally called as rector Oct. 15, 1870. On Feb. 12, 1873, measures were taken to dissolve the corporation, and all books and records were closed. On Dec. 18, 1873, the property passed into the hands of the Diocesan Board of Missions. The church languished along for a time; but on Dec. 31, 1877, Rev. Dr. Pennell resigned, since which time no regular organiza- tion has been maintained.
The church parsonage was erected in 1862, and is now the property of E. W. Stcele. The present rector is Rev. Irving McElroy, M.A.
WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Mooers was organ- ized in connection with West Plattsburgh, West Chazy, and Ellenburgh. In the spring of the year of 1858, Mooers and Ellenburgh were set off and became a separate pastoral charge. Shortly after this the connection of Ellen- burgh was broken off, and Mooers became a separate charge. The first quarterly conference after Mooers church alone became a pastoral charge was held June 12, 1858; Rev. Harvey Miller was then pastor. The following clergymen served the church as pastors : Rev. Cyrus G. Prindle, Rev. John Croker, Rev. Noah E. Jenkens, Rev. Robert E. John- son, Rev. George W. Ellis, Rev. Enoch E. Curtis, Rev. Isaac W. Rist, Rev. Sanford A. Warner, present pastor.
The society has a good meeting-house and parsonage, both located at Mooers Junction; both were built in 1872. The church has a present membership of about 90, and is in a prosperous condition.
CATHOLIC.
Catholic worship was first held in the town twenty years ago, in the house of Mitchell Moira. Father Francis, of the Champlain charge, officiated. He continued to hold meetings in the same place for some time, assisted by Fathers Lesave, Jenaut, and others.
The church at Mooers Forks was erected nineteen years ago, by Father Francis, who became the pastor of the church. The first resident priest was Father Longoir, who assumed charge about six years ago, and died in office after about two years and a half. Fathers Delphos, King, and Scanlon followed next. Father John J. Brennan has been in charge of the parish several years. The latter includes the church at Altona, where a house of worship was erected about seven years ago. The membership at Mooers and Altona is about 2000, the number at each place being about equal.
The church property at Mooers Forks comprises two acres of land devoted to the use of a cemetery and a church, parsonage, house, and barn. The latter are worth about $7000. The church and cemetery at Altona are valued at about $5000.
BURIAL-PLACES.
The principal cemeteries in the town are at Mooers village and Mooers Forks, and both were in use at an early day. The latter is neatly laid out, and contains a large number of stones, the inscriptions on some of which reach back to the opening of the century.
The cemetery at Mooers village is the largest in the town, and occupies several acres of land on the corner of Main and Mill Streets. It is well fenced, in good condi- tion, and contains many fine monuments. In the long rows of silent dead are the remains of many of the first settlers of the town. A number of the oldest graves have sunk nearly out of sight. On a small, rough stone, in the ex- treme south end of the cemetery, is rudely carved the fol- lowing oldest inscription which the yard contains :
"Mary, w. of R. Tripp, 1804."
The following are among the remaining inscriptions in the yard :
" In memory of Lieut. Jeremiah Churchill, who died August 8th, 1817, aged 32 years."
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" Robert R. Rood, died July 13, 1866, aged 86 years."
"Joshua C. Bosworth, died Feb. 14, 1860, Ae. 84 ys., & 8 mo."
" Luke S. Blackmun, died Oct. 4, 1855, Ae. 80 yrs. & 9 mo."
" Andrew Blackmun, died Oct. 2, 1821, Ae, 81 years."
"Ichabod Bosworth, died Dec. 8, 1818, aged 70."
" Asa Angell, died Aug. 15, 1857, Ae. 78 yr's."
"John Shedden, a native of Scotland, died Feb. 2, 1850, Aged 83; Polly L., his 1 wife, died Sept. 6, 1806, aged 19."
"Ichabod Fitch, died Feb. 9, 1861, Ac. 79 yrs."
"Isaac Fitch, died Oct. 1, 1851, Ae. 65 yrs. & 2 mo."
NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
The first child born in the town was William Hollenbeck, in 1801. The first marriage was that of David Anderson and Rhoda Perry, on Dec. 5, 1805. The first death of an adult was that of Mrs. Joshua C. Bosworth, on Sept. 26, 1802. The first preacher was Andrew Blackmun, in 1800. The first settled minister was Rev. Martin Powell, over the Congregational Church, in 1807. The first physician was Jabez Fitch, and the first regular lawyer Edward Fitch.
The oldest house standing in 1879 is the John Churchill house, between Mooers village and the depot. The former residence of Samuel Churchill, occupied by Harvey H. Churchill, is also very ancient.
CONFLAGRATIONS.
The year 1877 was prolific of forest and fallow fires, which raged with great fury in the town and caused great destruction.
In May, 1877, a fire originated in a fallow on the John- son Gore, about two and a half miles west of Cannon's Corners. It raged hotly in the woods for a day, and then extended to three small dwellings about a mile above Can- non's, on the south side of the river, owned by C. L. Knapp & Co., and occupied by the Ploof and Seymour families. These were destroyed.
Next, J. W. Dudley's saw- and shingle-mill, and two ten- ement-houses, one occupied by John Abare, were burned. Next, five houses owned by Mr. Cannon, and occupied by Collin Baker, Syrenus Menor, Bruce Dominy, Mr. Burlow, and Paul Menor.
The fire then erossed the road leading south to Fitch's Corners, into Cannon & Co.'s wood-yard, containing about 3000 cords, which was consumed. It next burned about 20,000 bushels of coal belonging to Wood Brothers. Four kilns full of coal, adjacent, were not extensively injured.
The bridge leading to the north side of the river was next burned, communicating with Cannon & Co.'s mills, which were burned, together with about 85,000 pieces of seasoned lumber, two years' sawing, and 2000 standard of logs. The wind blew fearfully, and the air was filled with burning fragments, which were carried great distanees, and served as innumerable torches, lighting fires in all direc- tions. The fire swept onward at the rate of a mile an hour in the direction of Mooers Forks. Mr. Cannon's ex- tensive barns, containing all his sleighs, wagons, harness, farming machinery, five tons of hay, and four large fat hogs, were next burned. Then his residence. Very little furniture was saved. His store went next, and little was saved. Barrels of pork were burned after being rolled out in the street. Four barrels of kerosene rolled into the street, making a terrifie explosion. Cannon & Co.'s loss
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