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' Si Pergama dextra · Defendi possent, etiam hâc defensa fuissent.'
"But he was of all men the most devoted and earnest lover of truth for its own sake. When sub- sequent reflection convinced him that he had been wrong, he took the first opportunity to acknowl- edge it. He was often the earliest to discover his own mistakes, as well as the foremost to correct them.
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"He was inflexibly honest. The judicial ermine was as unspotted when he laid it aside for the habiliments of the grave, as it was when he first assumed it. I do not mean to award him merely that commonplace integrity which it is no honor to have, but simply a disgrace to want. He was not only incorruptible, but scrupulously, delicately, conscientiously free from all willful wrong, either in thought, word or deed.
"Next, after his wonderful intellectual endow- ments, the benevolence of his heart was the most marked feature of his character. His was a most genial spirit; affectionate and kind to his friends, and magnanimous to his enemies. Benefits received by him were engraved on his memory as on a tab- let of brass ; injuries were written in sand. He never let the sun go down on his wrath. A little dash of bitterness in his nature would, perhaps, have given a more consistent tone to his character, and greater activity to his mind. He lacked the quality which Dr. Johnson admired. He was not a good hater.
"His accomplishments were very extraordinary. He was born a musician, and the natural talent was highly cultivated. He was a connoisseur in paint- ing and sculpture. The whole round of English literature was familiar to him. He was at home among the ancient classics. He had a perfectly clear conception of all the great truths of natural science. He had studied medicine carefully in his youth and understood it well. His mind absorbed all kinds of knowledge with scarcely an effort.
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" Judge Gibson was well appreciated by his fellow- citizens; not so highly as he deserved, for that was scarcely possible. But admiration of his tal- ents and respect for his honesty were universal sentiments. This was strikingly manifested when he was elected in 1851, notwithstanding his ad- vanced age, without partisan connections, with no emphatic political standing, and without manners, habits or associations calculated to make him popular beyond the circles that knew him intimate- ly. With all these disadvantages, it is said, he narrowly escaped what might have been a danger- ous distinction-a nomination on both of the op- posing tickets. Abroad he has, for very many years, been thought the great glory of his native State. Doubtless the whole Commonwealth will mourn his death ; we all have good reasons to do so. The profession of the law has lost the ablest of its teachers, this Court the brightest of its orna- ments, and the people a steadfast defender of their rights, so far as they were capable of being pro- tected by judicial authority. For myself I know no form of words to express my deep sense of the loss we have suffered. I can most truly say of him what was said long ago concerning one of the few mortals who were yet greater than he: I did love the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any."
As a token of respect for the deceased, Court adjourned its session.
John Banister Gibson's birth-place has been given in another place, and it yet remains for the public
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to be informed of his death, which occurred at the United States Hotel, at 2 o'clock, May 3, 1853, in the 73d year of his age. He was the son of Col. George Gibson of the Revolutionary war, who fell at St. Clair's defeat in 1791. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1800. He then studied law under Thomas Duncan, Esq. He was twice sent to the Legislature-in 1810 and 1811-giving his support to Gov. Snyder and President Madison. In 1818 he was elected to the Supreme bench.
Judge Gibson's remains were taken to Carlisle for interment, on the 4th of May, 1853.
Oil portraits of Judge Gibson and Col. George Gibson are still retained in the old " Gibson house" in Spring township, Perry county, Pennsylvania.
Funiata, spelled C and Ch-oniata and Juneauta, is an Iroquois word, the meaning of which is un- known. The Indians esteemed this river their best hunting ground for deer, elk and beaver.
Liverpool Mercury and People's Advertiser, the title of a weekly newspaper owned and edited at Liverpool, Perry county, by John Huggins. The Mercury was a five-column, 12x16, four-paged paper, devoted to politics, literature, local news and advertising. It was started July 1, 1831, and finally became merged into the Perry County Dem- ocrat in June, 1826. The subscription price was $2.00 per annum.
Landisburg Sunday-school, in 1821, collected the following fines for absences : From the superinten- dent, 6 cents ; from directors, 6 cents each, and from each teacher 3 cents.
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Linn, Rev. John, D. D., for more than forty years pastor of Center meeting-house, died August 29, 1830, aged 70 years.
Lewis, David, a bold robber who frequented the mountains and mountain gaps of Perry county, died from wounds which he received in the suc- cessful attempt to capture him, in Bellefonte jail, 1820. He made no confession.
Mitchell, George, Esq., for many years a justice of the peace for Liverpool, died in that place, in his 39th year, on the 23d of April, 1833. A lengthy obituary recited his many virtues. We find the following lines in the middle of four other stanzas printed in the Liverpool Mercury of September 13, 1833 :
With boundless thought thy manly spirit knew
To cool the fires that seared another's breast ; The balm that soothed from reason's fountain drew To ease the anguish of the mind distressed.
Miller township was formed out of parts of Oliver and Center townships by act of Legislature in 1852. Mills .- There were thirteen flour mills in Perry county in 1792.
Miller, Hon. Stephen, an ex-Governor of Minne- sota, was born and raised to manhood in Carroll township.
Mt. Vernon Forge, noticed in chapter I of the in- troduction as Lewis' Forge, was erected by Gen. James Lewis in 1807 or 1808. It was operated in connection with Hope Furnace, west of Lewistown, Mifflin county, of which Lewis was one of the pro- prietors.
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Mr. James Blain, marrying one of Lewis' daugh- ters, continued the forge after Lewis quit.
He sold out to a Mr. M'Gara, who failed, and the property came into the possession of Purcell & Woods, of whom, in 1815, William P. Elliott (my informant) and William Power bought the forge and property pertaining. At this time the forge was nearly in ruins, having been so long idle. Messrs. Elliott and Power spent a large sum of money in repairing it. They operated it from the time it was got in order until 1817, when they failed, and the property reverting to its former own- ers, Purcell & Woods, the fires went out never to be rekindled.
This forge had two fires and two large hammers which were supplied with charcoal from the Forge Hill, and with pig metal from Hope furnace, in Mifflin county, and from Juniata furnace, in Center township, Perry county.
The Forge Hill tract of land contained several hundred acres west of the Juniata river, in Tusca- rora township.
Millerstown Gazette, a five-column, 12x18, four- paged weekly, was started at Millerstown by Levi Klauser, Jan, 1, 1857, and continued until April 22, 1858, when the press was removed to Newport, and the paper took the name of Newport Gazette. At the latter place it was continued by Klauser & Bowman, from April 29, 1858, until September 20, 1859. Subscription price was $1.50 per annum.
Mitchell, Robert, Esq., is still living on the farm where he was raised from a child of three years
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old. He was one of the first board of county com- missioners. He is now in his goth year, and is able to walk about. He related, when visited in July, 1872, the driving of 37 deer into the Juniata, below the Rope Ferry, in one season, from Septem- ber to January.
M' Clure, Hon. A. K., was born and raised to man- hood near Center, in Madison township.
Newport School Board passed a resolution to pay their teachers regular wages while attending the Teachers' Institute, held at that place in December, 1855.
Newport Standard was started at Newport, Sep- tember 1, 1841, by Samuel Schrack. It was a five- column, 12x18, weekly. The press was removed to Bloomfield, and continued from August 22, 1844, as Perry County Standard, by J. D. Crilly.
Newport News, a weekly newspaper, started by Hervey Smith and E. T. Williams, January 1, 1869. It is independent in politics and specially devoted to general literature, local news, agriculture and advertising. It has been greatly improved by its present editor and proprietor, George Shrom, and is a seven-column, 15x21, single sheet, mailed to subscribers at $1.50 per annum in advance.
Nails .- In 1821 a pound of nails was sold at 10 cents cash, or II cents for produce.
Oak Grove Furnace, now in ruins, in Spring township, was erected by Dr. William Hayes & Brother.
Perry Forester, the title of the oldest newspaper published in the county.
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It was started in Landisburg, July 12, 1820, by H. W. Peterson and Alexander Magee. It was a five-column, 12x17, single sheet weekly, devoted to politics, foreign and home news, literature and advertising.
H. W. Peterson was an associate editor of the Forester from July 12, 1820, until January 13, 1821. He wielded a ready pen and for erudition stood A No. I in his profession. After he left Perry, Peter- son edited a paper in Lebanon county, which he quitted to remove to Gault, Upper Canada, where he became probate judge under His Majesty George IV. He died at the latter place.
In the first issue of the Forester we are informed that but one mail reached Landisburg weekly. The Perry Forester was continued by Alexander Magee at Landisburg until April 9, 1829, when the first issue was sent from the office on Main street, Bloomfield. The subscription price of the Forester was $1.75 a year in advance.
Perry County Democrat is the title of the Demo- cratic paper continued in the office of the Perry Forester at Bloomfield by Major John A. Magee. It is devoted to literature, politics, general and local news, and agriculture. It is the oldest of the weekly papers now published, dating its Vol. No. I June, 1826. It is an eight-column, 19x26, four- paged weekly, mailed to subscribers at $2.00 per annum in advance.
Perry County Freeman is the name of a Republi- can seven-column weekly, of which Hon. John A. Baker is editor and proprietor. It was started 12*
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June 20, 1839. Subscription price, $1.50 per an- num in advance.
Perry County Railroads .- Charters have been ob- tained for three routes: one starting at Marysville and extending westward through Shermansdale to Bixler's ; another beginning at Duncannon and ex- tending westward to Bixler's, through Bloomfield, and the third to start at Bailey's and extend through Bloomfield to Bixler's.
The distance of the former two we find set forth as follows:
SHERMANSDALE ROUTE.
New York to Harrisburg by Allentown
Miles. and Reading (made) 182
Harrisburg to Marysville (made) 7
Marysville to Bixler's (to make) 30
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BLOOMFIELD ROUTE.
New York to Dauphin by Allentown, Tipton and Auburn (made except 17 miles). 180
Northern Central, Dauphin to Peter's Mountain (made). 414
Bridge to Duncannon (to make). 3/4
Duncannon to Bixler's (to make) 22
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From No. VII. of the same series of articles we learn that $24,000 were subscribed in two days at
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Bloomfield and Duncannon, and $2,000 at Loys- ville and Blain toward the Bloomfield route, in I866.
Patent Medicine .- D. W. Judkin's Patent Speci- fic Ointment for the various diseases was the first advertisement of the kind that appeared in a Perry county paper-January 15, 1829.
Poor-house .- Perry County Poor-house is situ- ated a half-mile south-east of Loysville, on a farm owned by the county. The original buildings were of brick, two stories and a half high, and on ac- count of the arrangement of the rooms not well adapted for the purpose. The new buildings, just about completed, are the best and most expensive public buildings in the county, costing upward of $30,000.
Porter, John B., Esq., spent several years of his life at Liverpool in the capacity of a scrivener ; he afterward taught school for a number of terms at Millerstown, and finally removed to Juniata county, where he was elected county superintendent of schools in 1860. Mr. Porter served in this capacity until 1863, when, soon after his term of office ex- pired, he removed with his family to Louise county, Iowa, where he had been but a short time until he was again placed in the educational lead as county superintendent.
Robert Clark & Co.'s Mail Stage between Har- risburg and Bellefonte will leave Buffington's Inn every Friday at noon, and arrive at Bellefonte every Sunday afternoon ; returning, leave Bellefonte every
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Wednesday morning and arrive at Harrisburg every Friday morning.
Fare from Harrisburg to Clark's Ferry, $1.00; Clark's Ferry to Millerstown, $1.00; Millerstown to Lewistown, $2.00; Lewistown to Bellefonte, $2.00, or from Harrisburg to Bellefonte, $6.00 .- Advertisement, August, 1820.
Religious .- The following are the religious so- cieties and congregations of Perry county : Pres- byterian-Old and New School united-and the Seceder, Lutheran, Reformed Church, Methodist, Evangelical Association, Winebrenner Church, es- tablished by Rev. John Winebrenner, of Harris- burg, now called the Church of God, Dunker Society, United Brethren, and a few followers of Andrew J. Smolnicker, who established "Peace Union" on Tuscarora Mountain; also a few Free Lovers.
Sherman's Valley, at an early day, included all of Perry county except Pfoutz's Valley. It received its name from the creek, which was called Sher- man's after an Indian trader who was drowned at Gibson's while attempting to cross it with his horse and furs. In this valley, says the author of Wat- son's Annals, I saw a real "leather stocking" in the person of a Mr. Stewart ; twenty-five years ago he had killedas many as sixty deer in one season ; he goes out in snow-time in preference, and lays out all night. It was in this valley that I heard of William Penn's iron spur, left on his visit to the Susquehanna, near Columbia, and now in posses- sion of Lewis Pennock, in London Grove, Cheste)
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county. Many aged persons, still alive in Carlisle remember very well when all the carriage of goods and stores westward from Carlisle was done wholly on pack-horses, coming and going in whole com- panies ; only as late as twelve years ago there were not more than three wagons in all Sherman's Val- ley-all the hauling was done on sleds, in summer as well as winter. A Mrs. Murphy, who died in that valley in 1830, aged nearly one hundred years -having lived a long life there among the Indians -remembered seeing the first wagon arrive at Carlisle, and the indignation it excited among the packers, as likely to ruin their trade! Even the wid- ening of the roads, when first ordered, offended them ! The pack-horses used to carry bars of iron on their back, crooked over and around their bodies ; barrels were hung on them, one on each side. She remembered that the first Indian track (or path) to go westward, was to cross at Simpson's, four miles below John Harris'; then across Cono- doguinet, at Middlesex; thence up the mountain across Crogan's Gap (now Sterret's); thence down the mountain and across Sherman's creek at Gib- son's ; then by Dick's Gap (the gap between Dick's and Quaker hills, through which the Landisburg road passes); then through Sherman's Valley by Concord to the Burnt Cabins ; then to the waters of the Alleghany and down the river.
Shumaker, J. H., Ph. D., was born near Sandy Hill, Madison township. He received his prepara- tory education at Academia Academy, Juniata Co., Pa., of which he was the efficient principal after he
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graduated at Princeton College, until 1868, when he assumed charge of Chambersburg Academy, his present position.
Smiley, Rev. Geo. W., D. D., a son of Mrs. Hu- ling's by her marriage to Mr. Smiley, was born in Carroll township. He was a clerk in Hoff- enstein's store, Carlisle, when but a boy ; from this he went to Indiana, where he became clerk and book-keeper in a store, and from the latter place he went to Kentucky, where he was converted to re- ligion in Rev. Dr. Bascom's church, under whose tutorship he studied theology. He is widely known as an effective public speaker, and is now engaged by the First Presbyterian Church of Pottsville, Pa.
Store Advertisement, July 19, 1820 .- " Dry Goods, including Straw Bonnets, Hardware, Glass and Queensware, Brandy, Spirits and Wine."
Sypher .- The family of whom J. R. Sypher, author of histories of Pennsylvania Reserves, and of the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, "American Popular Speakers " and " Art of Teach- ing," and Hon. J. H. Sypher, M. C. from Louisiana, lived in Pfoutz's Valley, Greenwood township, where they were born.
Hon. Jay Hale Sypher was born July 22, 1837. He received a collegiate education, studied law and was admitted to the bar ; he entered the Union army as a private and rose through all the grades to that of brigadier-general, which he held when mustered out of service at the close of the war, Nov. 25, 1865. Having located in Louisiana in
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January, 1866, he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in Chicago which nomi- nated Grant and Colfax. He was elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, and was re- elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Republi- can by a majority of 5,500 over Walker, Democrat.
Superstitions .- Among the methods of relieving the ills to which suffering humanity is heir, none is more universally practiced or more firmly believed than the pow-wow. It cures the various forms of erysipelas, the bite of a snake, burns, rheumatism, chills and fevers, and stops the flow of blood by the power of words and the scarlet silk thread or a panful of coals of fire, applied three times, provided the patient is possessed of the scriptural full measure of faith in these means.
A few persons will not plant seeds when the moon "points up," believing if they do so the plants will grow to tops or go to seed. Shingles must not be driven on a roof at this time or their edges will turn upward. These persons believe Friday to be an "unlucky day," and that the howl- ing of a dog or the crowing of a hen portends evil, a death, or a reverse of fortune.
The belief in such notions, strengthened by the early training of parents who were believers, is so tenacious that nothing but a more liberal education can ever change it.
Teachers' Gun .- HARRISBURG, March 20, 1862 .- Received from Lewis B. Kerr, County Superin- tendent of Perry county, $26, contributed by
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teachers of Perry county toward the purchase of the " Teachers' Gun."
THOMAS H. BURROWES.
Some months previous to this a inovement was started in the State, by the teachers, to procure a gun by contribution, to be presented to the govern- ment. This gun was to be christened the " Teach- ers' Gun."
Tailoring in 1825 .- Making fashionable coat, $3.50; next quality, $3.00; home-made cloth, $1.50; fashionable pants, $1.00
Traveling Show .- The first traveling show that ever visited Perry county, exhibited in Landisburg, September 7th, 1826.
Turkeys .- David Snyder, an early resident of Jackson township, related that, when a boy, while a blacksmith was doing some work for him, he went to the fence of a neighboring field with a shot gun, when he made a noise which caused the wild turkeys feeding in it to raise their heads and run together, when he fired and killed five at one shot. He is said to have frequently killed two at one shot with a rifle.
The Farmers' Bank of Millerstown was organized December 21st, 1872, by electing Perry Kreamer President, William Rickabaugh, Cashier, Jacob Yohn, Jonathan Weiser, Lewis Gilfilen, Philip Kep- ner, James Patterson and J. E. Singer, Directors. The capital stock was fixed at $50,000.
White, Thomas y., was born in Perry county, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1827. At the age of five years he removed with his parents to Ohio, set-
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tling in Crawford county, where he has resided since 1832.
On December 1, 1869, he was elected superin- tendent of the Crawford County Infirmary, which position he held up to the time of his election to a seat in the House of Representatives of the Six- teenth General Assembly of Ohio.
He is an earnest worker and careful representa- tive of his county, well deserving the place he holds.
Warm Springs .- The tract of land which con- tains the celebrated Perry County Warm Springs was patented by one Dently, who was its original owner.
It came into possession of James and John Ken- nedy next after Dently. They lived in a stone house about forty rods west of the springs, on the road leading to Landisburg.
John Hipple, Esq., leased the property of the Kennedys for a term of years and erected the first building, which was 40x45 feet, with kitchen at- tached, opened for the entertainment of the public. Previous to this the farm-houses for miles around were crowded with persons who came from a dis- tance to drink of and bathe in the waters of the springs. After the expiration of Mr. Hipple's lease, William Updegraffe, who had come by mar- riage to be one of the heirs to the property, kept open the buildings during the summer for the en- tertainment of strangers, and employed his leisure time in farming and working in the pottery which he had erected.
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After Updegraffe, the property was sold to Mr. H. H. Etter, who erected the houses over the springs, remodeled the bath-house built by Mr. Hipple, so that all the tubs could be supplied with water at the same time, and built a new bath-house. He improved the grounds, erected the summer- house on the island of about one acre in Sherman's creek. He made gravel and tan walks about the premises, and built to the main building an east wing seventy-five feet long, in which he had a ball- room in the basement. He built the house on the hill with a bowling-alley and the billiard-rooms in it. Mr. Etter is said to have had two hundred boarders at the springs at one time, beside transient visitors, of whom there were not a few.
With an eye single to the ornamental, no doubt, Mr. Etter had a hydraulic ram placed below the first spring, which forced the water to a reservoir above the road, whence it was conveyed to the park below the road in pipes, and jetted upward from the center of a large basin. No other use was made of the water of the reservoir, although its position and capacity might have been made to supply the buildings with water with a small, if any, additional expenditure.
After Etter, the property passed into the hands of R. M. Henderson and John Hays, Esqrs., who leased it to John Early, who kept it but a single season. Mr. Wm. T. Dewalt next leased and kept open the buildings for two years. He was succeeded by William Vansdalen, who con- tinued two years.
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He removed in the forenoon of April 4th, 1865, and in the evening about II o'clock the buildings were discovered to be on fire. Mr. John Louch was to occupy the property in a few days after Vansdalen left it, but did not come on account of the buildings being destroyed. After the fire the springs ceased to be a resort, and the property was allowed to become impaired by neglect. In 1867, Mr. Christian Thudium bought the property, and soon afterward sold it to Mr. Abraham Bower, its present proprietor. Mr. Bower has begun in earn- est to repair, build and fit the property for what it seems so well, naturally, designed-a resort for the invalid or pleasure-seeker, during the hot weather of summer. Indeed we doubt whether a better place could be found for those who are in feeble health at any season of the year.
Mr. Bower has erected, under roof and partly finished (1872), a main building, 60x30, with large kitchen attached, three stories high, which he de- signs opening for the accommodation of visitors next summer. His building will have more spa- cious and in every way pleasanter appointments than the old one, and we are assured other things will be in keeping. We like the plan of having small cottages for private families, as is contem- plated here.
The Springs .- The water of these springs con- tains " carbonate of iron held in suspension by an excess of carbonic acid gas ; it is strongly impreg- nated, and a highly salubrious chalybeate water." The water of these springs have a wide celebrity
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among those who know them for their medicinal properties and healing virtues. The temperature, as their name indicates, is warm, but not so much so as to produce nausea; on the contrary,invigora- tion and health.
No. I, the warmest and largest spring, dis- charges ninety-three gallons per minute. The water rises from a sandstone rocky bottom of thirty- six square feet, and is confined within these limits by a stone wall .. The appearance of the water is clear, with an occasional bubble, or if disturbed, bubbles, rising to the surface.
No. 2 probably discharges thirty-six gallons per minute, and is situated two hundred feet from No. I, at the root of a large poplar tree.
No. 3 discharges about forty-five gallons of water per minute, and has a surface of seventy-two square feet. The water of this spring bubbles from the bottom as in No. I, and has the appear- ance of being more highly impregnated with iron.
No. 4 is an uncovered spring which rises at the root of an ash, and has a capacity of fifty gallons per minute. There are two other springs, of an average capacity of fifty gallons per minute. These springs all issue from the earth in a due south-west and north-east line, along the foot of Quaker Hill, which here runs parallel with Sherman's creek, into which their waters are discharged.
The location of the springs could not be more propitious for rest and recuperation from the cares of business. With Mount Pisgah in front, Quaker Hill, from which they issue, in the rear, and
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Sherman's creek rolling between, which a mile and a half below breaks over the rocks into gentle rapids, and the near proximity of the celebrated Falling (or Dropping) Springs, what more romantic spot could be chosen ?
Vancamp .- The Vancamps came originally from Holland, from whence they immigrated to Esopus, (now Kingston), New York, which they left hastily in terror of an Indian massacre, bringing away all their household effects on the backs of two horses.
They journeyed, driving before them their cows and hogs, until they came to Bald Eagle Valley, Clinton county, Pennsylvania, where they so- journed, probably with or near their friends or country folks, until after the French and Indian war, when they left the Bald Eagle and came to Perry county and settled on and above the site of the present railroad station, at Bailey's, in 1763, where their descendants of the third and fourth generation still reside.
Water .- There is not a farm of 100 acres in Perry county but has a stream of running water on it. The streams are Sherman's creek, which rises in Round Top Mountain, in Franklin county, and empties into the Susquehanna below Duncan- non; Little Juniata creek, which rises between Mahonoy and Dick's hills, in Carroll township, and empties into the Susquehanna at Duncannon ; Little Buffalo creek, which rises in Saville town- ship, and empties into the Juniata at Newport ; Big Buffalo creek, which rises in Liberty Valley,
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Madison township, and discharges its waters into the Juniata above Newport, in Oliver township ; and Raccoon creek, which rises in Tuscarora township and empties into the Juniata on the opposite side of the river below Millerstown. All these streams have an eastward course. Of the streams that flow westward, Cocalamus creek rises in the Shade Mountains, Juniata county, and discharges its waters into the Juniata one mile below Millers- town, and Wildcat creek rises in Forge Hills and Buffalo Mountains, in Greenwood township, and empties into the Juniata about two miles from the mouth of the Cocalamus.
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