404	HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

a late hour, just before the close of the polls in the evening, when there
were but few electors upon the ground, he again appeared, with folded
ballot in hand, walked hurriedly up to the window, deposited it, unmolested
by his censors, who had gone to their homes.
	It will be remembered by the older class of readers that the Lincoln
ballots were printed on white paper and the McClellan ballots on tinted
paper. The one presented to the inspector by this elector was in white.
In privacy he had folded a tinted (McClellan) ticket within the white
(Lincoln) ticket, first erasing with pencil all the print on the outside
sheet.
	When this ballot was drawn from the box and opened by the inspector
the question was raised as to whether it should be counted. The board
of judges decided it valid, with no dissenting voice, on the ground that
there was nothing in the statutes of Indiana prohibiting an elector from
folding or enclosing his ballot inside of a blank sheet of paper, the erasures
on the outside slip having made it practically a blank.
	At the spring election of 1884, in Harrison township, the inspector
drew from the ballot-box, while making the count, a grocery bill, or state-
ment of account, which a voter had deposited by mistake, having, doubt-
less, had it in his vest pocket along with his ticket on going to the polls.
These three incidents occurred at intervals of just twenty years.

Fast Time on the Vandalia Railroad.
	The Indianapolis Journal, at some time in the month of May, 1869,
made note of the fact that there was then running on the Terre Haute &
Indianapolis Railroad one passenger train which made the trip between
the Capital City and the Prairie City in two hours and five minutes, mak-
ing four stops on the way, adding that this was the fastest time made by
any regularly scheduled train in the state of Indiana. Nine years later,
Monday, November 17, 1878, William Morgan, a passenger engineer on
the Vandalia Railroad, took his train through from Indianapolis to Terre
Haute in one hour and thirty minutes, including eight stops of three
minutes each, which consumed twenty-four minutes of the time, covering
the intervening seventy-three miles in sixty-six minutes. This was the
fastest run ever made on this road up to that time. The run made in
1869, counting out twelve minutes for the four stops, was at the rate of a
mile in a minute and a half, while that of 1878 was at the rate of more
than a mile per minute. All former records were again broken February
1, 1907, when the St. Louis Limited ran from Indianapolis to Terre Haute
in seventy-five minutes, observing five slow orders and counting the time
for getting under way and slowing up at the respective terminals. The
distance being seventy-three miles, the speed on this run equalled a mile
and a quarter per minute.

	On Wednesday, March 5, 1879, in charge of his train, Engineer Mor-
gan was caught and killed in a wreck near St. Louis. William Morgan
was a native of Clay county, son of John T. Morgan, now a resident of
Harmony, formerly of Morgan’s Crossing.

A Grewsome and Startling Find.
	On Wednesday morning, September 9, 1896, Daniel Gerber, then re-
siding in what is known as the Duncan Corner, in the extreme southeast
part of Harrison township, in passing along on the private road leading
south from the public highway to the residence of his son, William Gerber,
now the residence of William Morris, came upon a horse and buggy in