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Show Af llllTWtll'a IIIIUISTI'AI). Wk find In ninrol Ksstern ars allusion to the sate of the old home, alead where It Is said the l'rophet Joseph rjmltu waa born. As It will be of Intercut to some of cur readers 'at least, we clip the following from the lloston (Vo4l South Hotaitoi, l,Sept. 1 Tho nil fdrm iion whk.li JothNiiiltli, tho founder oMbsoinll(Hl Mormon Church, was born has boon sold to J, II, Kent, a wartihy Sow Yorker, who Is to more Iriun till city homo to the firm at once. "Tboro aro ninny historical reinlnla-comes reinlnla-comes clinging to tho old farm, which Is xtrj pksssntly located among somo of the prettiest of Now rngland scenery Old 'Unile' Solomon !.fick, grandfitlier of tho Mormon 1'rnpliet, nss the earliest settler upon tint pait of the fsrm where stood tho lioitso In which Joseph Hiiitth was born. Ho was liked by all his neighbors, but was a man whu bad oil 1 ways ''There were only brldlo paths through tho forest in tho early dajs,and Mr Mack used to make hU Journoyl about the town uKin an old Jogging mare, uilugasldo sad lie loiloiul of sitting astri le the mare. Ihli was a necessity, hla ligs having bwn Injured hya tree falllngatross them Itiaihlng a nulghlHir'a house ho would Blngoiit.U'liokiipstlio housot' II ho acicptod an Inrlt itlnn to alight and enter the liouso ho wru always gUoua hearty wslcomo by the In mates. "In tho early daja tho lino separating this town from Mharon woi not mirkiHl, and for somo time holomou Mar' was bii pood to lire In and puld laxa hi tho town of Hliaron, and hence the staloinent ttiul Joseph rlinlth was lorn In Shsron The line, when established, was found to bo aeeral rods aouth of tho ack homestead, home-stead, which bordorod upon a roll run nlng north from Hharon oer tlio lillla of Itoj slton to Tunbrldge and tho towns bo yond. This was tho principal thorotigli-fnro thorotigli-fnro of this vicinity in the oarlydsys, but n largo jurt of tho roal has been absu-dotted absu-dotted for many j oars." |