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A VANISHED TOWN.
Former Seat of Jnckaon County, III.,
Marked by a Few Heaps
of Stones.
—
Down In “Egypt,” on the right bank
of Big Muddy river, about four miles
southwest of the flourishing city of
Murphysboro, are a few heaps of stones
—all that is left of old Brownsville,
once the county seat of Jackson county,
Illinois, says the Chicago Inter Ocean.
In the early part of last century, or, to
be exact, In 1816, this village was laid
out by the pioneers. Then they heard
the howl of wolves and on many occa- j
sions they stood by their own fires and
shot deer at night. They bartered, too, i
with the Piunkshaw, or the Kinkaid,
or the Kaskaskia for a choice piece of
venison. For 27 years this place en
joyed the distinction of being the only
village in the county.
There is scarcely one of the old set-!
tiers left to tell the story and, unfor
tunately, the ravages of Are destroyed
many of the most valuable records.
Much interesting information has been
entirely lost, but the best records and
tradition tell a great deal. It is there i
that once each month every man in the
county used to meet to “muster,” and j
there, too, the men used to gather and
discuss matters which were of mutual j
interest and to vote viva voce on all j
questions. Conrad Will used to make!
salt for the settlers at Brownsville, and !
they would, on muster hnd election days, j
gather around his camp and “swap
yarns.” Lieut. Gov. Jenkins learned
the carpenter trade there and the later
distinguisher jurist, Sidney Breese, lost
his first lawsuit in the village. The old
courthouse was a two-story frame, used
both as a temple of justice and as a
! schoolhouse. Gov. Dougherty taught
j in this building.
On the night of January 1^, 1843, the
j courthouse was burned. Everything
! was destroyed except a few records
j which D. H. Brush, later a colonel, saved
j at the peril of his own life. Everybody
! knew this was the funeral pyre of old
: Brownsville. The people had long
| wanted the county seat nearer the cen
ter of the county, and after a short, but
| bitter, contest it was located on a 20
; acre tract donated by Dr. John Logan,
father of Gen. John A. Logan. This was
! the beginning of Murphysboro, or, as
it was then called, Shieldsboro. The
stores were all soon moved and old j
Brownsville soon became a deaerted j
village.
FOOTBALL MISHAPS.
They Are Fewer In Number Than In
Several Other Sports of
the Day.
The Boston Advertiser has been look
ing into the matter of football accidents
for ten years past and is inclined to
think that .more fuss has been made
over the matter than the facts warrant,
! says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In
; that time 22,766 students have played
in regular matches. Of this number, !
| 654 were so badly hurt as to cause them
j to lose time from their work, eight were
} permanently injured and three died j
from their injuries, though it is pointed j
i out that of the latter two went into the j
j game after being warned by physicians j
| that they were physically unequal to it.
To further strengthen its case the
Boston paper quotes some statistics on
j the subject collected by an accident in
surance company. It gives the number
of claims paid as a result of football
injuries and compares them with claims
for injuries in other sports, some of
which cannot be mentioned in the same
breath with football for strenuousness.
Here is the story:
Horseback riding.261 Football ..43
Baseball .216 Golf .2:
Swimming .97 Tennis . 19
Bowling .71
This is surprising, if not conclusive.
If the new rules reduce the number of
j football accidents, so much the better,
: but it would seem to be only fair to
! withhold censure of football and its
devotees until other sports, which have
; never been considered especially haz
ardous, shall have been made less dan
gerous. The insurance company quoted
apparently considers a football player
a better “risk” than a bowler.
Sadden Weatlh Costs Old Friends, j
In a general way the man who comes j
into sudden wealth may count upon j
losing most of his old friends save those :
who are willing to come in as they can
to make “touches.” Some of these can
not be turned down because of the
claims which they hold upon the mil
lionaire, antedating any of his possible
ideas of ever being rich. Favors that
have been volunteered in this manner
and at such times appeal to the wealthy
man as having been unquestionably
without hope of reward, and when in
after years the opportunity comes for
him to do something in the nature of a
return of the kindness he has not the
heart to refuse. And these men will get
in. The real old friend discovers that
his friend's newly acquired wealth
makes exactions upon the friend’s time.
He is "busy” beyond all recollections
of the time when they were conrades.
Thus time comes between them and
weans them both from the friendship
that once was theirs. They are awk
ward when they meet and the first thing
they know they are estranged. The
old friend is the least insistent of those
upon the time and money of the mil
lionaire. It is the stranger with the ax
to grind who is never done.—Boston
Glofce.
Took the Only Clew.
“And have you no clew?” asked the
| chief.
“No,” replied the new detective. “I
! thought at first that I had, but it wasn’t
one at all.”
“What was it?”
“A mask that I picked up at the seem
of the crime. % But while I was exam
ining it a tough*looking fellow in the
, crowd said it was his and took it away
from me.”—Catholic Standard and
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