INDEX Abduction of Richmond Byers, 580 Bee Ridge Church, 389 Ackelmire, John G., 118, 246 Bee Ridge Settlement, 173 Adamson, Elisha, 313 Beech Church, 389 Aftermath of a Draft of the Civil War, 460 Beech Grove Church, 389 Age & Avoirdupois of a Grand Jury, 529 Bellaire, 42, 80 Agricultural Societies, 104 Bellaire Church, 389 Altitudes of County, 4 Bell-maker, 27 Alum Cave, The, 617 Bemis, Henry, 36, 289 American Sewer Pipe Co., 128 Bence, George W., 295 Analecta, The, 97 Bench & Bar, 116, 196, 412, 450 (See Attorneys) Anderson, Samuel, 272 Benwood History, 164 Andrew, John, 295 Belt Railroad for Middlebury, A, 590 Angling on Main Street, 531 Berea Church, 389 Anguilla, Town, 41 Bessemer, 617 Antipatris & Bessemer, 617 Big Creek, 70 Argus-Magnet, 93 Big Four Railroad, 54 Arnett, James B., 256 Big Yield of Timothy from Cheat, 425 As It Should Be Between Man & Man, 603 Birch Creek, 71 Asbury Church, 389 Blevins, Mrs. Debby, 193 Ash, O.H.P., 226 Block Coal, 115 Ashboro, 22, History of, 161 Bobtown & Jimtown, 540 Asherville, History, 170 Bohannon, Abner, 250 Associate Judges, 182 Bolick, Henry, 253 "Athens of Clay County," The, 503 Bond Issues of Brazill, 132 Attempted Murder & Suicide, 484 Books & Literary Productions, 99 Attorneys, 198, 200, 201, 206, 207, Boomerang, 97 210, 214, 217, 218, 219, 222, , 223, Boomlet of a Past-time Hamlet, 539 236, 257, 271, 277, 297, 298, 306 Boulder for an Anvil, A, 491 Attorneys, Ashboro, 162 Boundaries, 1 Attorneys, Bowling Green 148 Bowles, Martin 6, 242 Brazil, 116; Clay City, 142; Harmony, 155; Bowling Green, 16, 19, 83, 104; History, 147; Knightsville, 157; Middlebury, 167 Incorporation, 149 Attorney Fees for Writing a Will, 450 Bowling Green Constitution, 92 Auditors, 180 Bowling Green Institute, 85 Aurora Borealis, 92, 94 Bowling Green & the Canal, 40 Authors, 100 Bowling Green Stores Robbed, 496 Averaging Logs for a Cabin, 437 Brant, J. E., 309 Ayer-McCarel Block, 126 Brazil, 15, 53; Churches, 130; Churches & Schools, 115 ; County Seat, 23; Babbitt, Samuel, 101 City Officials, 136; First Clay Plant, 34; First Baber, A. J., 99, 106, 254 Mechanical Industry, 248; Public Schools of, 87; Bachelor Trustee of Harrison Township, 454 Schools, 85; School Superintendents, 88; Bailey, Charles W., 240 Town & City, 117; Town Officials, 136; Baker, Jacob J., 310 Township Trustees, 188 Bank, First at Clay City, 145 Brazil Academy, 86 Banks, 213, 306 Brazil as a village, 113 Barber, Mrs. Sarah (Gilbert), 193 Brazil Brick & Pipe Co., 127 Barr, Robert C., 249 Brazil Burglarized in 1860, 463 Bean Planting Party by Moonlight, 450 Brazil City Hall, 126 Brazil Clay Co., 129 Carrithers Township, 7 Brazil Daily News, 94 Carter, W.W., 148 Brazil Daily Times Case at Law3 Without a Precedent, 412 Brazil Fence Co., 126 Case of Expert Horseshoeing, 438 Brazil Intelligencer, 92 Case of Goaded Conscience, 505 Brazil Register, 93 Case of Tenacity in Hog Life, 421 Brazil Township, 8 Cass Township, 7; Trustees, 189 Brazil Voters in 1866, 117 Catching Fish in a Well, 442 Brazil Weekly News, 91 Catholic Church of Annunciation, 131 Brewery, First, 27 C. & E. I., Railroad, 56 Brief Story of Two Rural Pedagogues, 603 Centennial Mill, 13 Bridges, 68 Center Point, 14, 105; History, 150 Bridges, A. F., 100, 113 Center Point Branch, Vandalia, 54 Bridges, Dillon W., 118, 270 Center Point Press, 97 Bridge Contract Let on the Tossing of a Center Point Schools, 85 Coin, 450 Central Indiana Railroad, 56 Bright, William F., 246 Central Iron & Steel Co., 130 Brighton, Alexander, 102, 306 C. I. & L. R. R., 57 Brighton, Mark R., 224 Circuit Judge, Special Election of, 521 Briley, Absalom, 11, 474 Circuit Judges, 183 Briley Chapel, 390 Citizen's Bank Building, 126 Brown, Watkins B., 258 City Library Association, 124 Buckallew, Joel H., 200 Civil Lists, Brazil, 137 Burial Places of Soldiers, 376 Civil Lists, County & Townships, 178 Burned to Death in His Cabin, 488 Civil War, First Company, 351 Burned to Death at One Hundred & Chair Manufactures, 28 Five Years of Age, 523 Champion Deer Slayer, 469 Business, Bowling Green, 149; Carbon, 157; Chance, Daniel, 19 Clay City, 143 Changes Wrought by Time, 560 But One of Twenty-four Survive, 569 Cheese Factories, 32 Buffalo Mills, 163 Chicago Sewer Pipe Co., 128 Burglars & Freaks, 607 Child's Premonition of Death, 510 Burns, John, 259 Christian Church , Brazil, 131 Byrd, George A., 297 Christie, William, 14 Chronologically Twins, 471 Cailor, Otto T., 219 Churches, 175, 534; Ashboro, 162; Caley, Jeremiah, 103 Asherville, 171; Bee Ridge, 173; Bowling Campaign of 1888,Phenomenal Fatalities, 400 Bowling Green, 148; Brazil, 115, 130; Campaign Poles, 443 Carbon, 158; Cardonia 163; Center Point, 150 Campbell, Milo A., 302 Clay City, 142; Coalmont, 165; Canaan Church, 390 Cory, 172; Harmony, 155; Howesville, 169; Carbon Chronicle, 96 Knightsville, 156; Middlebury, 167; Carbon Globe, 96 Poland, 168; Prairie City, 170; Carbon History, 157 Rural, 389; Saline City, 160; Staunton, 153 Carding Machinery, Pioneer, 25 Church, Oldest in County, 616 Cardonia, History, 163 Church Rejoicing over Release from Carpenter, W. E., 131 Indebtedness, 448 Carpenter's Mill, 78 Clark, Andrew J., 250 Carried Her Shoes to & from Church, 437 Clay City, 109; Election of 1896, 315; History of, Carrithers, Alexander, 7 140; Incorporated, 148; Settlers Clay City Brick & Clay Co., 144 Compton, Isaac M., 225 Clay City Democrat, 96 Conder, Miss Mollie, 194 Clay City Independent, 95 Congleton, James F., 214 Clay City Packing Co., 145 Congressmen from Clay County, 185 Clay City Reporter, 95 Congressmen's Salary Flowing from Oil Clay City Truth, 96 Wells, A, 540 Clay Countians Abroad, 197 Connely Chapel, 390 Clay Countians Elected to State Offices,537 Connely Ditch, 75 Clay County Advocate, 90 Continental Clay & Mining Co., 129 Clay County Agricultural Society, 107 Contractor of More Than Fifty Years Clay County Bank, 145 Ago, A, 495 Clay County Boundaries, 1 Conveyance of Title on Peculiar Expressed Clay County Citizen, 90 Conditions, 564 Clay County Enterprise, 94 Cooperage, Pioneer, 28 Clay County Experiment Station, 503 Cooprider, Elias, 24, 166, 228 Clay County, Father of ,435 Cooprider, John, 13 Clay County in the General Assembly, 590 Coroners, 181 Clay County Plank Road Co., 469 Corporation with a Soul, 536 Clay County Precedent, Adopted Throughout Cory, History, 171 the State, 458 County Appraiser Treed on a Gate Post, 580 Clay County Products Shipped to the County Campaign in an Off Year, 560 Old World, 548 County Officials, 178 Clay County Regulators' Association, 624 County Seat Commissioners, 2, 19 Clay County Review, 94 County Seat, History of, 19; Removal to Brazil, 28 Clay County Soldier Executed for Desertion, 597 County Seminary, 20, 83 Clay County Volunteers in Civil War, 351 County Seminary Days, Old, 595 Clay County Weekly Herald, 92 Court House, at Bowling Green, 149; Clay Count's Premium Turnip Crop, 442 Burning of, 20, 398; History of, 19 Clay Industry, 424; First at Brazil, 34; Clay Courts, Judges of, 182 at City, 144; of Brazil, 126 Cowan, Robert, 157 Clay Prairie Church, 390 Cox, Matthew's Experience, 494 Clear Branch, 74 Creameries, 33 Clerks of Court, 179 Crist, Henry W., 279 Cloth-making, Pioneer, 25 Crist, Joseph Cary, 218 Cloverland, History, 162 Crist, Marvin B., 204 Coal, 424; Wealth of Clay County's, 499 Cromwell Family, 15 Coal Mines, Clay City, 143; Coalmont, 165; Cromwell, Oliver, 22, 53, 313 Center Point, 151; Saline City, 160 Cromwell, Oliver, Sr., 69 Coalmont, History, 165 Cromwell, William L., 104 Coal Production in 1871, 623 Crouse, Cornelius, 208 Coffey, Silas D., 148 Croy's Creek, 71 Coincidence in Fatalities, 516 Crusader, The, 97 Coincidence in Land Entries, 402 Coleman, C. C., 124 Dalgarn-Osborn Farm Trade, The, 587 Combs, Michael, 153, 298 Daily Miner, 95 Coming of the Musical Instrument, 564 Davis, A. D., 102 Commissioners, County, 181 Davis, David J., 222 Comparative Areas & Population, 585 Davis Garden, The, 585 Competition in Price of Coal Oil, 584 Davis Hotel, 126 Day Of Coincidences, A, 519 Eaglesfield, Miss Elizabeth, 196 Days of the Panther, Catamount & Wolf, 452 Early Carpentry at Brazil, 440 Death from Eating Wild Parsnips, 486 Early Emigration to Iowa, 621 Deaths of Citizens, 315 Early Mail Facilities at Middlebury, 460 Decker, Jesse A., 626 Early Settlements of County, 13 Deer Park, 508 Earyl Times in History of Clay County, 514 Deeter's Church, 390 E. & I. Railroad, 54 Democratic Archives, 92 Ebenezer & Shiloh, 534 Denby, Charles, 49 Eccentric Uncle Bobby Baber, 417 Denny, Zachariah, 14 Eckels, Delana R., 298 Desart, Thomas, 118 Ecret, John W., 262 Dick Chew's Conundrum, 452 Edmonson, Samuel A., 24, 515 Dick Johnson Township, 7; Trustees, 186 Education, 20, 82; (See Schools) Didn't Sleep with a Justice of the Peace,543Education of Forty Years Ago, 426 Died at Camp Meeting, 492 Eel River, 65 Died of Broken Heart at Seventy Years, 552 Eel River Church, 390 Died Sitting in the Stable, 505 Eel River Improvement Co., 76 Difference in the Make-up of Men, 444 Eel River Propeller, 90 Dillon, Thomas, 238 Eel River Sailing Craft, 496 Ditches & Drainage, 75 Eel River Valley Church, 391 Disinfecting Township Records, 576 Eight Feet Nine Inches of Inventory, 413 Distillery, Pioneer, 26 Eighty-fifth Regiment, 368 Doings of a Primitive Party Convention, 439 Elected but Deprived of Office, 502 Donaldsonville, History, 171 Election Contests Filed in 1860, 472 Done at Staunton Thirty-eigtht Years Ago,596Election Incidents at Intervening Scores Donham, George., 22, 472 of Years, 403 Donham, John S., 299 Election of Justice of Peace by Lot, 576 Double Drowning, 510 Electric Lighting, 125 Double Fatality at Balloon Ascension, 485 Electric Transportation, 57 Double Life & Its Sequence, 456 Eleventh Regiment, 358 Downey, James H., 14 Eldorado Mill, 68 Drafted Men from Clay County, 379 Elkin, Fred M., 218 Drainage, 70 Elkin, Walter C., 257 Dr. Brilley's Poultry Prodigy, 573 Ellenberger, George W., 212 Drifts in Eel River 67, Ellenberger, J. Orley, 212 Drove a Bear into Terre Haute, 443 Enrollment & Exemptions, 378 Drowned Herself in a Stock Well, 518 Eppert, Commodore P., 268 Dry Town in the Founding, A, 517 Epworth Church, 391 Dual Homicide at Middlebury, 504 Evasive Witness, The, 616 Duncan, Mrs. Lovina, 194 Eventful Two Days in Career of Brazilian, 577 Duncan Settlement, The, 619 Excursion of American Science Association, 415 Failure of a Pioneer Merchant, 445 First Frame Houses in Central Part Fair, Alpheus S., 247 of County, 532 Fairview Church, 391 First Hickory - Poplar Campaign Pole, 527 Fairs, 104 First Homicide at Brazil, 486 Faker's Experience on Show Day, A, 469 First Homicide in North End of County, 414 Family Reunion & Reception, 574 First Homicide in Perry Township, 561 Farm for a Seth Thomas Clock, A, 596 First Interurban Railroad in the United States, 57 Farm for Wedding Dress Pattern, 419 First Iron Bridge, 68 Farm Worth Talking About, A, 522 First Legal Suit of Its Kind, 436 Farmers' Institute, 109 First Military in the South End, 592 Farmers' & Merchants' Bank, 146 First National Bank, Center Point, 151 Farmers' Societies, 104 First Political Speech, 492 Fast Time on Vandalia Railroad, 404 First Prize Spelling Match, 453 Fate of an Original Telephone Line, 482 First Record After the Fire, 505 Fate of a New Schoolhouse, 510 First Sermon Preached in South End of Fate of the Bushwhacker, 538 County, 463 Fatalities in Old Canal Days, 471 First Stray Horse in the County, 421 Fatality from Blowing into a Rifle, 589 First Sunday School in Perry Township, 563 Fatch Chapel, 391 First Teachers & Schools in South End of Father-in-law Shot & Killed by County, 409 Son-in-law in Open Court, 504 First Wagons in the County, 406 Ferguson, Charles G., 241 First Wedding, 492 Ferguson, James, 279, 478 First Wreck & Accident on the Branch Ferguson, Mrs. Mary (Cooprider), 196 Railroad, 410 Ferries, First on Eel River, 67 Five Cents Reward for Missing Boy, 434 Fifteen Changes of Venue in One Day, 437 Five Points, The, 512 Fifty-first Regiment, 365 Fletcher, G. A., 123 Fifty-ninth Regiment 365 Floods, 74, 78 Fifty-second Regiment, 365 Forerunner of Civilization Who Wielded Fifty-seventh Regiment, 365 an Unerring Rifle, 438 Find of Fifty Dollars in Silver Change Forgotten Bank Deposit, 528 in War Times, 416 Fortieth Wedding Anniversary, 408 Fires, Amos J., 207 Fortune Telling Sixty Years Ago, 556 First Blacksmith at Center Point, 446 Forty Acres of Roses, 486 First Brick Chimney & Glass Window, 414 Forty-first Regiment, 362 First Brick House, 506 Forty-second Regiment, 363 First Burial at Ashboro Cemetery, 551 Forty-seventh Regiment, 365 First Burial in Brazil Cemetery, 423 Forty-third Regiment, 363 First Cases of Bigamy & Breach of Promise, 419 Four Saloons Preferable to One Church, 407 First Colored Barber, 584 Fraternities, 167; Asherville, 171; Bowling First Conviction for Murder, 492 Green, 149; Brazil, 132; Carbon, 158 First Court House, 20 Clay City, 146; Cory, 172; Harmony, 155 First Election in Carrithers Township, 591 Free Methodist Church, 142 First English U. B. Preacher, 507 Fretz, Nathan, 102 First Entry & First Sheriff's Sale of Land, 512 Friedley Knoll, 29 First Flour from the Peerless Mills, 535 Friendly Grove Church, 391 First Flour Made by Steam Power, 453 Frump, John, Sr., 15 Gay, Robert, 597 Hoop-pole Industry, 30 Geography of County, 3 Horner, Frank A., 100, 306 Gibbons, Nathan A., 268 Horse Thief's Attempt at Suicide, 449 Gilfillan, Dennis C., 273 Hoskins, James M., 270 Gillaspie, Thomas G., 14 Hoskins, Miss Alice, 193 Goatsville, 615 Hoskins, Gayle, 101 Going to Mill in Pioneer Days, 438 How a Client's Twenty Thousand Dollars Golden Wedding Anniversaries, 553 Was Divided, 590 Gooden, John, 102 How Clay Countians Excursed Fifty Gourd 175 Years Old, 436 Years Ago, 579 Grain Cradles, Making of, 32 How Coincidence Aids the Memory, 437 Grand Jury Indictments Resented, 454 How Report of the Battle of Bull Run Was Grant-Greeley Election of 1872, 581 Received at Brazil, 481 Gray, James S., 250 How the Scent of Dogs Relieved a Greene, J. N., 131 Bread Famine, 420 Gruesome & Startling Find, 404 How Some Things Are Done in Campaign Grimes, George W., 302 Time, 480 Grimes, Oliver P., 221 Howesville, History, 168 Guirl Ditch, 75 Hubbard, George E., 292 Hudson, Jacob, 301 Huntersville Postoffice, 141 Hadley, Joshua A., 101 Hunting on the Quiet, 445 Handiwork of the Pioneer, 586 Hurricanes & Cyclones, 385 Hanging in the County Jail, 440 Hurricane & Pike's Peak, 537 Hanna, James M., 22, 148, 236 Hussey, Mrs. Mary B., 100 Harmony 25, 53, 113; History, 154 Hyland, Charles E., 254 Harrison Trail, 10 Hyland, Thomas, 242 Harrison Township Trustees, 187 Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., 127 Hat Relieved of Its Contents, 457 Hatton, James, 221 In the Eleventh Moon of a Leap Year, 546 Hawkins, Mrs. A. D., 100 In the Path of the Cyclone, 462 Hazelton, or Knightsville, 156 In the Track of a Storm, 494 Hedge, Amos W., 266 Incident in Campaign of 1892, 497 Hendrix Chapel, 131, 249 Incident in Railroad Freight Rates, An, 541 Hendrix, Eli, 248 Incident of the Campaign of 1908, 584 Hendrix, John, Sr., 113, 248 Income Tax, 582 Her Eighty-second Anniversary, 543 Independent, The, 92 Heroic Venture to Relieve & Rescue Indiana Coal Railroad, 56 a Wounded Soldier, 511 Indiana Globe, 90 Hicks, Homer, 308 Indiana Legion, 376 Hickory Island, 558 Indiana Territory, Counties, of, 1 Highland, or Staunton, 152 Indiana Paving Brick Co., 128 Hill, Miss Bennie, 194 Indian Population of 1850, 587 Hinshaw, Zeno, 302 Indians, Last Party of, 506 Historic Landmark, An, 513 Indians of County, 10 Hog Thief County, 446 Inducement to the Cultivation of Flax, 564 Hog Creek, 73 Industries, Pioneer, 24 Home-Grown Pine Timber, 423 Interesting Marriage Statistics, 418 Home Weekly, 93 Interesting Old Time Election Incident, 400 Interment of a Celestial, 403 Lewis Township, 7, 16 Interurban Railways, 57 Lewis Township Improvement Company, 76 Inventions, 101, 205 Lewis Township, Statistics for 1861, 565 Lewis Township Trustees, 187 Jackson Township, 7, 16; Trustees, 187 Liberty Church, 392 Jailbird Mated, A -Escape of Prisoners,529 Lichty's Church, 392 Jail, Brick, 22; First, 20 Life Saved By an Heroic Act, 517 Jail Sentence Doubled to Accommodate Liston, Gilbert, 289 the Prisoner, 528 Liston, Joseph T., 17, 117, 289 James, Mrs. Melissa D., 194 Liston, Joseph, Sr., 290 Jamestown, 558 Literary Productions, 99 Jeffers, Mrs. Sarah (Knight), 193 Literature of the County, 99 Jett, Matthew L., 252 Little Flock Church, 392 Jasonville, 466 Living in Two Townships, 530 Jonesboro, 21 Loafers' Glory, 484 Jordan Creek, 69 Local Geography Suggestive of National Judges, List of, 182 Biography & History, 455 Julian, Allen R., 216 Lodi or Prattville, 170 Long & Short Ton, The, 490 Kauble, Silas, 251 Longest Train of Cars, 536 Kayser, George J., 274 Long Loy's Silver Mine, 424 Keg of Whiskey Spilled in Jordan, 461 Long, William H., 251 Keith, Ernest R., 223 Lost Money Recovered After Twenty Keith, Robert L., 100, 101 Years, 449 Kelsey, Sherman H., 287 Lowdermilk, Ananias W., 294 Kennedy, William, 99 Lucas, James M., 240 Kidd, Charles, 211 Lucky Find in a Big Drift, 407 Killed Fifty-two Snakes Before Luther Family, 14 Breakfast, 479 Luther, Peter T., 271 Kilmer, Elias C., 227 Lybyer, Albert H., 215 Knight, Edward, 223 Lybyer, Salem H., 291 Knights of Pythias, Brazil, 134 Knightsville Magnet, 96 McAnelly, Jefferson, 206 Knob Creek, 74 McBeth, Robert A., 291 Koehler, Christian, 300 McClure Library, 124 Koehler, John P., 223 McGregor, John C., 258 Koehler, Peter, 301 McIntyre Creek, 73 Kossuth Road Bridge, 68 McKinley Fined for Assault & Krytzer, Israel, 206 Battery, 604 McMillan, H. B., 128 Lafferty Ditch, 75 McRoy Clay Works, 127 Lankford, Larkin, 254 Macdonald, John Z., 273 Lankford, Mrs. Polly, 196 Mail Routes on National Road, 37 Lansing, Voorhees T., 304 Mail Service, 38, 110 (See Postoffice) Largest Land Owner Died a Pauper, 461 Major, John C., 201 Laselle Covered Drain Tile Ditch, 76 Man Shot by a Woman, 593 Latest Enumeration of Our Voting Manufacturers, Brazil, 126; Early, 24 Population, 568 Manufacturer & Miner, 93 Lawyers (See Attorneys & Bench & Bar) Manufacturing, Clay City, 144; Leberer, George, 103 Saline City, 160 Legislature, Members, 183 Maple Grove Church, 392 Levees, 75 Marketing Produce in Pioneer Times, 561 Marriage Ceremonies, 459 Mosstown, 161 Married in Lodge Room, 564 Mother & Four Sons in County Jail, 480 Martin, Nathan C., 214 Moyer, Henry, 300 Martz Eaglet, 94 Muehler, Ernst, 259 Martz Postoffice, 166 (See Middlebury) Muir's Lake, 81 Maryville, History, 168 Muir, William, 247 Masonic Organizations, Brazil, 132 Murphy, Isaiah, 277 Masonic Temple, Brazil, 126 Mutual Agreement to Locate in Matson, Charles E., 297 Clay County, 441 Maurer, Daniel S., 310 Mt. Calvary Church, 392 Maxwell, William, 14 Mt. Carmel Church, 392 Mechanicsburg, 615 Mt. Lebanon Church, 392 Medicine, Profession of (See Physicians) Mt. Olivet, 558 Memoirs, 225 Mt. Zion Church, 393 Merchandising at Eaglesfield's, 552 Mysterious Disappearances, 545 Methodist Church, 130 Mystery Still Unsolved, A, 592 Methodist Episcopal Church Which Did Not Materialize, 459 Narrows, The, 558 Methodist Church, Clay City, 142 National Index, 94 Mexican War Company, 350 National Road, 35, 110 Mexican War Soldiers, 350 Necrology, 315 Middlebury, 17, 550; History, 166 Nees, James B., 237 Middlebury Draped in Crape, 482 Nees, John B., 104 Middlebury Sensation, 425 Nees, Willis M., 222 Mid-winter Fishing Season, 498 New Amsterdam, 21, 41 Miles, Clarence, 224 New Hope Church, 393 Miles, Enos, 200 New Era, 95 Miles, La Motte, 215 Newburg, History, 164 Miles, Robert C., 216 Newspapers of County, 90 Mills, Center Point, 151; First, 24; Nicoson, Marion J., 223 First on Eel River, 14;on Eel River,69,77 Nimrod & Astor of Clay County, 467 Military Company at Brazil, Early, 470 Ninety-seventh Regiment, 370 Military History, 350 Ninth Regiment, 358 Mintage of Spurious Coins, 412 Normal Institutes, 86 Misapprehension About the Local Novel Game of Chess, A, 530 Newspaper, 595 Novel Marriage License Fee, A, 550 Modesitt, Charles B., 15 Novel Thanksgiving Innovation, 572 Moon, Adam B., 252 Novel Way of Clearing Ground, 416 Moon's Influence, The, 541 Novel Way of Making Bank Deposits, 423 Mooney, Patrick J., 102 Moore, David, 260 Oak Grove Church, 393 Morgan, George W., 222 Occurrence Peculiar & Pathetic, An, 412 Morgan, Preston, 274 Odd Fellows, Brazil, 133 Morgan, Thomas A., 221 Office & Wife on Same Day, An, 407 Mormon Church, 396 Officers, in Civil War, 353 Moss, Charles W., 22, 161, 261 Officials, County & Townships, 178 Moss, George, 14 Oliver, Catherine, 201 Moss, Ernest Q., 224 Oliver, Montgomery, 200 Moss, Lewis, 224 Oil Field, 388 Moss, Miss Zora, 224 Old Buildings, 126 Moss, Mrs. Lydia, 195 Old Hill, 65 Old Hill Levee, 76 Phenomenal Death of Thomas Drake, 577 Old Men's Thanksgiving Dinner Phenomenal Experience, A, 449 Party, 525 Phenomenal Fatality from Lightning, 486 Old Reservoir, The, 569 Phenomenal Growth in Vegetation, 405 Old Settlers' Day at Cory, 472 Phenomenal Phases of Weather, 490 Old Soldiers' Meeting, 563 Phillips, Thomas, 272 Old Time & Discontinued Postoffices, 556 Phipps' Ferry, 68 Old Time Wolf Hunt, An, 422 Photographing a Horse, 456 One Cent Boy, A, 593 Physicians, 148, 193, 195, 218, 258, 295, 313; One Hundred & Twenty-fourth Regiment, 371 Ashboro, 162; Asherville, 171; Brazil, 116; One Hundred & Twenty-eighth Regiment, 372 Carbon, 158; Cardonia 163; Center Point, 150; One Hundred & Thirty-third Regiment, 372 Clay City, 142; Cloverland, 163; Coalmont, 165; One Hundred & Fortieth Regiment, 373 Cory, 172; First at Middlebury, 622; One Hundred & Forty-ninth Regiment, 373 Harmony, 154; Knightsville, 156; Middlebury, 167; One Hundred & Fifty-sixth Regiment, 375 Newburg, 164; Poland, 168; Prairie City, 169; Opening of the Campaign of 1860, 442 Saline City, 159; Staunton, 152; Whittington, 170 Opening of the Kossuth Road, 451 Picard, John, 275 Opening of Traffic on the E.& I.R.R.,462 Pioneer Convicts, 402 Opening of Traffic the Cincinnati & Pioneer Frozen to Death, 411 Terre Haute R. R., 462 Pioneer Life, 231, 242, 472, 473, 514 Organic Act of County, 2 Pioneer Manufacturers of Lumber, 483 Organization of County, 2 Pioneer Merchandising, 570 Origination of Some Official Usages,The,593 Pioneer of Remarkable Qualities, 586 Orphans' Home, 189 Pioneers, Passing of Trusted, 493 Orthonomic Era, 95 Pioneer Production of Sulphur & Copper, 452 Osborn, John, 21, 263 Pioneer Teachers, A Triplet of, 538 Otterbein Church, 393 Pioneer Interpreter of Dreams, 418 Otter Creek, 74 Pioneer's Prophecy Being Fulfilled, 563 Ovations to General Lewis Cass, 451 Pioneer Women, 193 Oxford Church, 393 Planet Furnace, 155 Playfully Shot His Cousin, 516 Paper Railroads, 58 Pleasant Run Church, 393 Parker's Ferry, 67 Pogues Run, 71 Passing of Boon's Island, 470 Poland, 15, 503; History, 168; School at, 82 Passing of Game, Wild Meat & Politics, 243, 400, 403, 442, 472, 497, 500, Furs, 549 515, 581, 584 Passing of the Log Schoolhouse, 567 Pond Creek, 73 Pathetic Fatality from Falling Slate, 512 Pontiac, History, 172 Pathetic Fatality of Young Mother & Poor Farm, 189 Infant Child, 407 Population Statistics, 190 Peavine Railroad, 56 Posey Township, 6, 15; Trustees, 186 Peniel Church, 393 Postal Service, 110 Pell, Mrs. Eliza, 195 Postoffices, 556; A Quintette of Used-to-Be, Permanent Business Established on 554; First on National Road, 243; Capital of $1.60, 402 of Clay City, 141; of County, 110; One of Perth, History, 172 the First, 17; The Naming of, 491 Perry Township, 16; Trustees, 188 Postmaster Elect Who Did Not Serve, 462 Peyton, Elisha B., 201 Postmasters, Ashboro, 161; Asherville, 171; Phenomenal Accidental Death, 413 Bowling Green, 149; Carbon, 157; Phenomenal Death, A, 588 Cardonia, 163; Cloverland 163; Postmasters, (cont) Middlebury,166; Newburg, 164; Coalmont,165 Relics of Pioneer Mill Days, 551 Cory, 171; Harmony, 154; Howesville, 169; Relocation of County Seat, 19, 21 Knightsville, 156; of Brazil, 131; Remarkable Array of Sevens, 422 Poland, 168;Prairie City, 169; Remarkable Business Record, 445 Saline City, 159; Staunton, 152; Remarkable Case of Blindness, 487 Whittington, 170 Potteries, 33 Remarkable Case of Fasting, 533 Powder & Boiler Excplasions, 381 Reminiscences, 398 Prairie City, History, 169 Reminiscence of Strike of 1889, 494 Prather, Miss Sarah, 193 Representatives, 183 Prattville, History, 170 Republican Leader, 96 Prediction Fulfilled, A, 623 Reservoir War, 39 Premonition of the Suicide of a Son, 444 Resident & Officer of Three Counties Presbyterian Church, 131; Clay City, 142 Living on Same Farm, 462 President Van Buren's Introduction to Restorationists, 396 Clay County, 510 Restrospect of Forty Years Age, 426 Presnell, Esau, 36, 264 Returned After Twenty Years to Care for Press, The, 90 His Mother, 536 Priitive Family Quarters, 403 Reverses of a Pioneer Family, 470 Privite Schools, 85 Revocation of Teacher's License, 448 Probate Courts, 182 Revolutionary Relic, An Old, 438 Proposed Organized Resistance of Revolutionary Soldiers, 350 the Draft, 457 Revolutionary Soldiers, In Memory of, 447 Proprieties of the School Room, 522 Reward of Five Hundred Dollars for Public Library, Brazil, 124 Gov. Wright, 419 Public School System, Brazil, 124 Riddle, Job, 308 Publicity of Campaign Expenditures, 574 Ridpath, William M., 209 Pump-stocks, Manufacture, 32 Ringo, George, 294 Ringo, Morgan B., 36, 266 Quaint Advertising Jingles, 465 Rizley, John E., 214 Rizley, Samuel, 13 Railroads, 53, 4088, 409,410,462,530,541 Rivers, 65 531, 541 Road Making in Pioneer Times, 591 Railroad Bridges, 69 Robertson, Thomas B., 269 Railroad Era, 53 Robertson, T. M., 161 Railroad Statistics, 58 Rock Run Church, 394 Rails Shipped By Express, 444 Row, Lewis, 245 Rawley's Mill, 77 Rural Churches, 389 Rays of Sun Fire a Building, 490 Rural Free Delivery, 111 Recollections of Allen T. Rose, 542 Russell, James M., 217 Recollections of Canal Days, 533 Recorders, County, 179 Saline City Branch, Vandalia, 54 Recorder & Clerk of Court, Youngest, 594 Saline City, History, 159 Recorders, Deaths of Incumbent, 485 Saloonkeeper, A, Who Obeyed Recorder's Office Kept in a Barrel, 460 the Law, 529 Reeder, Thomas B., 102 Saloons, Passing of, 177 Reformed by Lynching, 536 Sand Hill, 17, 166 Regulators' Association, 235 Saturday Evening Echo, 93 Reinstated Marriage Licenses, 519 Saved by An Apple Tree, 555 Rejected Bill for $39 Schoolhouse, 562 Scammahorn Brothers, The, 417 Relay Stations on National Road, 37 Scammahorn Creek, 73 Schaefer, George, 102 Slaughter of the Crows, 459 Schiele, Michael, 299 Slept Out & Lost his Gun, 421 School City of Brazil, 123 Small-pox Epidemic, 147 School in Which Pupils Smoked Their Smith, Ebenzer C., 506 Pipes at Will, 589 Smith, John T., 101, 244, 476 School Examiners, 83 Smith, Robert, 276 School Population, 191 Smydth, Samuel H., 21 Schools, 82, 220, 414, 420, 448, 522, 567; Sold a Barrel of Water for Whiskey, 608 Ashboro, 162; Brazil, 115; Center Point, Soldier Boy's Experience, 609 150; Clay City, 141; Cloverland, 163; Soldiers Families, Aid to, 380 Coalmont, 166; Cory, 172; Harmony, 154; Soldiers Remembered by the Folks at Home, 479 Howesville, 169; Knightsville, 156; Solving a Big Problem in Pioneer Times, 548 Middlebury, 167; Poland, 168; Saline Some Big Things Built on Paper, 489 City, 159; Staunton, 153; Whittington, 170 Some Land Values of Forty Years Ago, 565 Schools of Forty Years Ago, 426 Some Things Peculiarly Coincidental, 552 Schools, Original Graded, 85 Some Old Landmarks in the History & Schoolhouse on Wheels, 451 Geography of the County, 557 Season of Dissasters from Lightning, A,594 Some Old-time Road Designations, 496 Seaton, James H., 224 Some Real Estate Transfers, 582 Secrist, Henry, 148 Sourwine, John D., 57 Selling Goods at a Profit of One Sourwine Opera House, 126 Percent, 452 Southern Railroad, 57 Senators, State, 184 Spanish-American Circus, 579 Settlement, Early, 13 Split 35,000 Rails on Contract, 592 Seventy-first Regiment, 352, 366 Splunge Creek, 72 "Seventy-six", 583 Splunge Creek Reservoir, 39 Seybold, Dempsey, 309 St. John's Church, 394 Shaffer, John E., 103 St. Peter's Church, 394 Sharon Church, 394 Staggs, Athel, 301 Sheepskin Land Titles, 535 Staid Old Town, A, 550 Shepperd, Susan, 523 Standard Pottery Co., 128 Sherfey, J. E., 125 Star Routes, 110 Sheridan Brick Works, 129 Stark, Owen T., 259 Sheriffs, List of, 178 Strange Request Made by the Dying, 547 Sheriff Loving's Hobby, 423 Strauch, John, 272 Sherman Postoffice, 164 Staunton, History, 152 Shideler, Henry, 210 Staunton Sentinel, 97 Shingle Making, 30 Staunton Star, 97 Shooting of Truman S. White by Steam Flour Mill, Second in County, 162 Samuel Jackson, 573 Stearley, George, 253 Shot & Killed While Talking Over Stearleyville, 253; History, 170 the Telephone, 448 Steuernagel, Louis, 305 Shubell C. York & His Mill, 604 Stewart, John, 212 Siegel, Louis, 223 Stewart, William Y., 253 Silver Mining in Clay County, 526 Stray Cannon Ball, A, 466 Single Men Elected to County Offices, 626 "Stream of Knowledge," 71 Singular Case of Drowning, 519 Street Improvements, Brazil, 118 Six Mile Creek, 70 Street Paving, 125 Sixteenth Regimehnt, 358 Stuckwisch, Rudolph, 102 Sixty-eight Cents for a Public Service, 421 Stunkard, David., 115, 311 Slack, John E., 269 Stwalley's Chapel, 394 Subdivisions of County, 6 Three Dollar Redback, 489 Submission of Constitutional Amendment, 606 Three Thousand Squirrels in One Day, 454 Success of a Supposed Unprofitable Tibbetts, Jonathan, 102 Venture, 594 Tilghman Creek, 73 Sugar Ridge Township, 8, 17; Trustees, 188 Time & Tide Wait for No One, 531 Suicide of Dr. John T. Price, 517 Tipton, Josiah, 220 Suicide of Jacob S. Shafer, 509 Tipton, Robert, 220 Sunbeam, The 97 Tipton, William S., 219 Sunday School Celebration, The Banner, 508 Town Finances of Brazil, 119 Supposed Sub-Soil Deposit of $500, 435 Townsend, Alfred I., 198 Surveyors, 181 Townsend, James M., 197 Townsend, James R., 198 Tailor-Made Wedding Suit for One Dollar,513 Townships, 6; Area, 8 Tannery, Pioneer, 26 Township Libraries, 88 Tavern on National Road, 36 Township Salaries Sixty Years Ago, 447 Teacher's Exit Through Back Window, A, 420 Township Trustees, 186 Teachers, 538; Pioneer, 86 Towns & Villages of Clay County, 140 Telephone, Clay City, 146 Traditional Hidden Treasure, 418 Temperance, 177, 555 Traffic on C. & T. H. R. R. Thirty-six Tenantless House, The, 618 years Ago, 530 Tenantless Prison for Two Years, A, 480 Train Load of Tea, 438 Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R., Why Was Traveling Store, A, 491 Paralleled, 541 Travis, John, 239 Terre Haute & Indianapolis & Evansville & Travis, Steve, 221 Indianapolis R. R., 408 Travis, William, 97, 100, 426, 473 Terre Haute & Richmond R. R., 53, 115 Treasurers, County, 180 Terrill, Samuel, 222 Trial of Strength at the Handspike, 579 Teter, George D., 277 Treating a School With Turnips, 414 Teter, Lucius, 213 Triple Casualty in Lewis Township, 468 The Forerunner of the Coal&Clay Field, 424 Triple Fatality from Campaign Pole Raising, 572 The Lost Copper Cent, 424 Trip to Iowa More Than Half a Century Ago, 588 Theological Discussions, 175 Trout, John A., 287 ""The Symposium," 168 True Rat Story, A, 466 "The Y," 140 Trustees, Township, 186 Thief Who Returned Half His Stealings,606 Tuition Fund Apportionment, 89 Things That Were Not Done, The, 548 Turkey Creek, 74 Third Party Campaign of 1878, 585 Turner Postoffice, 164 Thirteenth Regiment, 358 Twelfth Regiment, 358 Thirty-first Regiment, 361 Twelve Dollars a Week for Boarding, 582 Thirty-third Regiment, 362 Twentieth Regiment, 359 Thirty-fifth Regiment, 362 Twenty-first Regiment, 359 Thirty-eighth Regiment, 362 Twenty-sixth Regiment, 361 Thomas, David, 6, 13, 19, 67 Twenty-ninth Regiment, 361 Thomas, Jacob, 118 Twenty Years in Chains, 401 Thomas, Nathan A., 217 Two Atrocious Uxoricides, 408 Thompson, Clinton M., 260 Two Clay County Boys of Fifty Years Ago, 544 Thorlton, Mrs. Sally, 193 Two Lost Boys, 605 Thorpe, Owen, 113 Two Soldiers of the Indian Wars, 575 Three Children of Remarkable Two Spring Weddings on the Highway, 578 Avoirdupois,577 Three Conventions in One Campaign, 500 Underground Pipe Line, 588 Union Church, 394 Unique Family Relic, An, 485 Unique Public Discussion, 445 United Brethren Church, 142 Urban, Fred, 103 Van Buren Township, 7, 15; Trustees, 187 Vandalia Railroad, 53 Veach, Adam C., 225 Violent Death of Conductor A. E. May, 615 Wabash & Erie Canal, 39 Wabash & Erie Canal Lands, 509 Wagner, John L., 102 Wagon Making Half a Century Ago, 578 Wagstaff, Jasper O., 276 Walker, John D., 293 Walking Bible & Whispering Gallery, White, John W., 305 The, 483 White Oak Creek, 73 Walk of Sixty Miles for Doctor, 464 Whittington, History, 170 Walters, H. A., 127 Wilkinson, Miss Hallie, 224 Wanted, a Five-Cent Fare Between Brazil & Wilkinson, Maston S., 304 Harmony, 544 Willen, Abraham, 251 Washington Township, 8, 16; Election of Williams, John, 313 1860, 583; Trustees, 188 Williams, Nathan, 36 Williamson, Delaney E., 148 Water Power Mills, 71, 72 Wiltse, George W., 303 Water Supply Controlled by the Wind, 509 Wilson's Church, 394 Water Works System of Brazil, 121 Winding Bridge, The, 497 Weaver Clay & Coal Co., 129 Wolfe, Luther, 94 Weaver Tile & Pump Works, 127 Wolfe, Warren D., 311 Weber, John, 300 Women of Clay County, 193 Weekly Hoosier Patriot, 91 Won by the Flip of a Silver Dollar, 453 Weekly Labor Reform Newspaper, A, 606 Wyatt, Nelson H., 222 Week of Phenomenal Weather, A, 458 Western Iron Co., 155 Yearly Salary of 87-1/2 Cents, 559 Western Mirror, 93 Yocum, Francis B., 245 What Comes from Eating Apples, 518 Yocum, Jesse, 36 What Might Have Been, 458 Yocum, William F., 250 What Occurred on the Thirteenth Day York's Mill, 71 of the Month, 528 Young Woman Killed Panther With What Soldiers Did With Their Money, 566 a Ginseng Hoe, 439 Wheeler, Absalom B., 257 Zenor, Howard H., 211 Wheeler, Hezekiah, 255 Zenor, Winfield Scott, 99 Whiskey Crusade of Fifty-five Years Zion Church, 394 Ago, 555