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Show d;; ft - - ' tui-vvi:::;kL- iir jir ! Iil lit f miii'ML , P Sketches of the Career of Andrew Jackson His Sturdy Americanism and His Picturesque Will Answer i Personality. Any Question It Ask $ , PRIGE Standard American Annual. (Ft Ready Jan. , On All News Stands, J j J J j j J 0 0 J J Larger, Better, More Complete 'ThanEver. Andy was sent to an "old field Bchool," which was kept by an itiner?nt schoolmaster in a crazy log shanty of one room, with stick and clay chimney and plank fireplace, in a corner of an abandoned field covered with second growth Miles. Here ho is supposed to have acquired the rudiments of an education, by forming a slight acquaintance with the "three BY reading, riting and Author of The Empress Josephine; rithmetio but his studies did not dis,7Ao Life of George Washing- -, tress him much. He liked play much ion, Etc., Etc. better than study, and it is not at all surprising that ho has left behind him Copyright, 1308, by the Author.) , . in the Waxhaws a reputation os a frol"The 8th of January, 1815 the Amer icsome, reckless, fun loving boy, but at lean bosom will forever throb with tho same time ambitious to excel, couraemotion and exaltation when the deeds geous and persevering. "Reckless Andy" his companions of that day shall he recounted. This was the toast offered at n pnblio called him. "I conld throw him threo dinner to General Andrew Jackson four times out of four," said an old schoolrecounting his reminiscences in years after his great victory over the mate, ho never would stay after years, British at New Orleans. The tido of his throwed. He"but was dead gamo every time, . popularity was then at its flow, hut he and never would give up 1, That was lived a quarter cf a century later to witJackson all through his life, from ness it nt its full, and today it has not Andy tbo day ho first set foot inside the old reached its ebb. field school to the day of his death. Ho - "No man living," declared a contemnever would stay throwed I The Indians, porary, "ever did, so much to humble tho British at New Orleans, his political England as Andrew Jackson. There enemies, found out at last that be was may havo been men who have shown "dead every time.". That is the courage fortitude, perseverance and reason game sought him, 6taid by popularity resolution equal to those shown by him, outlived him, him, and explains why but I declare most explicitly I have wo are reading his biography today. This "slender, sandy haired, freckled fared, barefooted toy," clad in a coarse and scanty butternut suit of homespun, was from the first a leader among his fellows. The otherboya at school some- times made hinrtherbuttrof their coarse jokes, but they feared him, nevertheless,. When he was about 10 years old, one day at school, some of tho largo boys loaded on old "queens arm" to the muzzle and "stumped Andy to fire it off. He never could, neverjwopld "take a dud," and so) of course, he held it to his shoulder bravely and pulled the trigger. It kicked him flat, as they expected, but they didnt laugh at him, as they expected to, for ho leaped up in a freagybf rage and y c lied By 7 If any one of you laughs. Ill kill him!" Even at that time, yonug as ho was, Andrew Jackson was capable of" fulfilling a threat, but he was always able to control his rage and was even susAMDEEW JACXSOX IN 1813. a greater passion pected of never read of, heard of, and I have than he feltsimulating when it suited his purpose, never soon any man equal to him in like the great Napoleon, who was bom these prime and admirable qualities." two years later than himself and whoso Thi3.i3 superlative. quality of praise, mere brilliant tut comparatively brief and from o foreigner. The life story career he admired. always of such an individual, even wore he native of another hemisphere, would" bo IL worthy attentive pcrnal; how much EE SMKIJ-- S POWDER. more instructive to Americans, knowThe boy was 9 years old when the ing that his bercie deeds were performDeclaration of Independence was signed during the formative period of our ed and 13 when first brought into accountry's history ! tual contact with the horrors of war. Isolated and sparsely settled as it was, yet the little Waxhaw settlement wa3 "xnscHinvocs axdy. " destined to sad experience several times The father of Andrew Jackson, bearduring the Revolution. Young Andy ing the same name as our hero, came first saw the spilling cf human blood in from ancient Carrickfergus, on the north May, 1780, after, the British Tarleton coast of Ireland, loug known as the had swept like a thunderbolt through home of brave and bellicose Irishmen. the scctioq, leaving behind & crimson In the year 1765, with his wife and two trail. Morotban 100 of the patriot milisons, he sailed for America (even then tia were killed or wounded, and the becoming known as a land of promise little log church of tho settlement was for the poor and oppressed), landed at converted into a hospital, where Mrs. Charleston and Immediately sought a Jackson, accompaniod by her youngest homo in the Waxhaw settlement, about son, nursed the mangled soldiers. 160 miles in the interior. Though d Young as he Vras and impressionable, it to fatiguing outdoor labor, yet An- is believed that this sight of his friends drew Jackson the elder came of sturdy and neighbors lying dead and wounded stock and without delay procured an ax through British agency filled him with and attacked the virgin forest boldly, rage and gave rise to that implacable cleared land for a farm and built a log hostility which hurst its bounds in cabin. .Florida and at New Orleans.. That' lonely forest farm rbnT Twelve Three times during that terrible sum Mile meek was not destined, however, mer of 1780 the Jacksons and their to yield to its owner more than one neighbors were compelled to flee before years fruitage, for early in' 1767 the the British soldiers first from Tarlefather died, and his remains were con- ton, then Lord Rawdon,. then Cornwal their farms were ravaged by veyed in a rough cart to the lonely cemetery near to .Waxhaw. church. Near the enemy. - The third and last time church arul cemetery lived Mrs. Jack they sought refuge at Charlotte, N. CL, sons sister, Mrs. George McKemey, to where an olcl. lady, who died. not jnany whoso' house-- 1 bo bereaved widow took yekrS ago, saw young Andrew and re her little family immediately after the tained all her life picture, of. his ap funeral and where a few days - later, on pearanca at that time. She was a small tbo 15th of March, 1707, a sou was girl when Andrews apparition crossed born, to whom was given the name of her path. Iler father was in the army, his father. down section from which the Jack-son- s , No vestige remains today eithor of bad fled, and she was sent by her the log hut built by the cider Jacksou mother out to the highway to watch for or of that in which Andrew the younger returning soldiers who might bring was bom. Both were situated near the them news from the front. She saw apboundary lino between North and South proaching a "tall, slender, gangling Carolina,. the original Jackson farm in fellow, with long legs and awkward the latter and the birthplace in the figure, mounted on a little gross pony, former, though perhaps all his life An- both of them very tired and covered drew Jacksou cherished the mistaken With dust She hailed him with: . belief that ho was a native of the Pal"Where are from?" . metto Stata Thi was pardonable and , "From below.you . natural, because hf mother, after reH "Where are you going?" maining three weeks with the McKe By F. A. 0BEK, You may no y I Eisiewipwia January the I order line and Briada Lerhofsie ti jiuivuctiitr brother-in-ladistant: Mr. Cravrtorftr two-mi- le Crawford-wuforint r, and young Ah-dgrew up as a farmers boy, practically running wild, with little training and lees restraint. Let, than 40 years ago there was still living, near tbo Crawford farm, an old Degress, who retained a distinct recollection of "mischievous Andys" wild pranks and a vivid remembrance cf having cured him of a troublesome comAs plaint known as the "great itch. soon as he was old enough, which was not long after he was able to walk, rn eye, npnin -- an; vi n v, jouiir Y - - '-t most widely told Annual and Political Manual published. Refer-fuce-Bi- HIE WORLD, oh . Pu ildi n 7, I r evv York Pi Send orders to The Journal, Loan, Utah. THE THATCHER BROS BANKING CO. k04a Utalb Cltyf CimsU153,C00. . r- ' SURPLUS, $!0,C0C . DIBECTOKI. THATCHER, tu 3 ILLS. President) iff. 8. H.t m David H. Peery, James Mack, Tins? iharp, W W. Alter, Wm. D. Hendrick L. R. Martinets) R.J. i'ay'or, , H.X, Batch. j, . r tar. per cent Internet on aanngadepo subject to withdrawal on thirty days notlo la least compounded quarterly. Bnr and tell foreign and domettle ezchaog Colleettont Made Promptly. 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No. 16 Preston, 2:15p.m. 9:45p.m. 9:15a.m. Franklin, 2:35p.m. 10:0op.m 9:55a.m. Richmond, 2 :53p.m. 10 :2lip.m.J0 :25a.m. " Smithfleld,3 :10p.m. 10: 40p.in.ll :00a.m. 3 :30p.m.' 11 :00p.m. LI 40a.m. Logan, Mendon, 8:50p.m. 11 :20p.m. IS :15a.m. Cached. 4:15p.m. 11:43p.m. l:0t)p.in. ARRIVES. Ogden, , 5:55p.m. Salt Lake, 7 :15p.m. 2 :55a.m. Pocatello, X7For tickets to, or from all North or South, points East, West, , calloa . a in-th- , - ; - W. W. - nd ; Nos. 10 and 12 leaves daily and No. 16 , rtr egress." are i'i r " WooDsrr-E- , , rAsmt. ' f - ""What they doing down I dow?" were popping em still 1" "Oh, "What your name? " Andrew Jackson." They staid at Charlotte through the winter of 1780, Andy living with a farmer and "doing chores for his keep." lie delighted in taking the fanners tools to the blacksmiths to be mended, and he never returned from bucIi a trip without some rude weapon he himself had made. One day he came hack with a rusty old scythe fastened pike fashion to the end of a pole, with which as he reached bomb he slashed the weeds, muttering, "Oh, how I wish these were the heads of the bloody British 1" It was indeed A "war charged atmosphere" ho was breathing then, for not only was his native settlement in peril from the foreign foe, but harried to distraction by the relentless Tories. It was their aim to kill off the fighting men of tho - patriot families, ' and there was hardly a household that had not lost father, son or brother. The patriot Whigs used to unite in defending thoso families thna deprivcdof their men and act as gunrds at night. It was on one ol these benevolent enterprises, after he and his mother had returned to the Waxhaws, that the boy first smelt the powder of the enemy. While the party inside tho house were wrapped in slumber tho neighborhood Tories stealthily crept upen them, intending to surround tnd kill them' all." Andy was wide awake and nt tho first alarm rushed out and discharged his musket at the advancing. figures, dimly visible in the. darkness, thus precipitating a conflict, during which two of the guard were shot. time, but not long after, while similarly "engaged, was driven into a swamp by a party of British dragoons, evading them with difficulty, only to bo captured the very next lie escaped that night as he and his brother crept up to a house . for .foocLJofc..ouly were the two boys captured through Tory treachery, but they had the grief of witnessing their cousin, Mrs. Crawford, the r3 5 kcrflf LIT a to v tut p fever and 1. after a H.ort . Thus we find AnJy Jackson deprived of father, mother and brothers the last four deaths directly traceable ta British barbarities before ha was 15 years of nga ' "I'll warrant," said ons of his relatives long years after, Andk thought of this at New Orleans," Farmers and Canyon Me n Can get horses neatly shod am! vehicles substantially repaired Shoeire interferes and horses with deformed feet, a specialty. AT 6E0HGE NAYLOR'S EMsnltli Slop,. 6. Foundry. One block South of Old U. Main Street, Logan. LOGAN MAIL 0AED ctosnra- or mails. N East and. North...... 9p.ni, H :2Q a.m. Providence, Millville, Ilyrum and Paradise 12 :59 m, Beuhon, Wednesday and at 1'it-eto- branch. . ; -- urdava IS Salt Lake, Ogden and South College, Wednesday and Sat- unlay p.m, p.m. 3 L -- 1CV V AEBIVAL OF MAILS. and Wett.. ,H;50 a.xa. North and East.. 7a.m, PreBl on branch 3 :40 p.m. Providence, Millville, Hyrum and Paradise........ ......12:30 m. lieueon, Wednesday and Sat- urday;; ..,..6 p.m. College, Wednesday and Sat10 a.m. urday... General delivery window open from S - a.m; until 6 p;nr. Sunday, general delivery window open from 12 p.nu Money order window open from 9 a.m, to 5 p.m. . mtal Jed M. Blaie. P. M. COUNTY DIRECTORY. tally maltreated and her children abused. Not content with destroying the pitiful furnishings of this humble cabin the DiftrictCACHE COUNTT OFFICERS!' ' Judge CharleH.Ert. brutal soldiery tore tho clothing from Commissioner Hvrnm Hartal!, WiUlaa Mrs. Crawford and even from a helpless Sparks, and Mania wool! Clerk BcpklnJ Matkews. infant in her arms. - - Conntj Recorder Betale Mon head. Aueasor Slmpaon M. Molen Andy was ordered- by his captor "to Treasnrer A aron F. Farr, Jr. clean the mud from his boots, and on County Surveyor Fdwanl Hansen. Attorney Freak K. Xebekee, spiritedly refusing was struck to tho Proretntiiia Sheriff-Fr- ed Tomer. earth by a blow from hi4 sword. He reol Dll tr let Bckoola Samoal Superintendent ceived a deep gash in his head, and, as Oldham. ifh irdOama Commlraioner Fred TuraM, hejiad raised his hand ta ward Beee Bullock. -- off-the Lntpectorof Henry Sheep Inipector. Jamea Lolhooae. OFFICERS.- - LOSAK FXKCIirCT. Justice of tbo Peace W. H. TLomaa - . Constable Gcciar &oed 8npervlJor- - Job W, Rowland. !- MtOTTDXHCI mcirct. Justice of tire Peace H, A. Campbell Constable George II. Pickett. Road Supervisor Boren Poulsen. kill vilui yxxaxcrj Jastlce of the Peace-do- b. 7. Smith Crnstable F.T. Ye tee. . Road. Buperrlaor John Ring. f AXADiai PXSCX5CT. Jmtlctiof tba Peace J. L.p,r:e uonstsbla Lewie Bonsler. Eoed Superriaor w . H Thomas. HTXnJt PX10IXCT. Justice e! tb Peace-- 1. C. Thoresen, Cmatahle Andrew O. Neleon, Road Super? 101 Wm. A. McBridtJ WELLSTIfil rXECIJTCT. lattice of the PeeceDtrld Murray. Constable Joseph B. Wood !. Road Supervisor-Char- les a. Bniiey. Jxekdo rasciscr. Justice of the Petce rorsa jack sox refuses to clean BRITISH ConstAble Road Sopervicor OFFICE r:8 BOOTS. blow, another in the hand, of "the marks both which he carried to his dying day." nia younger brother, Robert, ' ue jonngjvifeofawouudci.soldierjt)ru -- Caihltr Hatch, Havings Departments - Who are you far?" . - Vloe-Preaida- matcher, -- iso. 22 Andrew Soreuseu PXTEKSB030 rxicntcr Justice of the Peace Chu. W. Maughta fonsUble Jchn H Barker Jr. Road Supervisor Sdwerd IJwtidv BIKIO MtxcijrcT. Justice of the Peace Wo. Catmtu having refused to obey a similar comConsteble Jcne T. Reese. mand, was terribly cut by the troopers Road Superviso- r- Paul Or Son. sword, and in this wounded condition srmrosrticisicT. the two youths were taken to the Camerd Justice of the Ballard Constable Ifssc Benson. den prison pen, 40 miles away. Rood Supervisor Wo. F. Rigby Jr. Deprived of food and water during CLAXIITO FEE CISCT. the journey and receiving only half raJustice of the Peeco John Thompson tions of moldy bread after they were ConetsbJe John B. Godfrey. Road Super visor ChA. Stum wsy. ' cast into the pen, they soon became the FEXCUfCT- -., v prey of disease, and . both,. fell. sick . of Justice Of the Peace Joseph wood the smallpox, then' raging among the Constable A. H. Henderson prisoners. At last, however, after weary Rosd Supervisor Wm. Biagbsm. LEvrilTO FEIC3SCT, weeks of waiting, an exchange of prisPeece A. D. BalUt 0! the Justice oners was arranged, and the boys were Constable George HoUMat. cheered by, the . appcarancoof., their - Rood Supervisor Moroni Stork?; COTXVIUJi FEXCIFCT. mother, who had come for them. RobPeace Jos. 8. Allta Jostles of ha ert, whose wound had never been dressCoosuble X. 8. Larsen. ed and had not healed, was then at Road Supervisor flyium Bair., ..B1CXX0X9 FEXmcs. deaths door, but the heroic ; mother mounted him before her on the saddle, jnstlce of the Peace S. R. TeLfcnd Constable and, supporting his drooping form, with . Road Supervisor Francis Lewis, trio the XITHnXLS FESCI5CT . . Andy wearily trudging on foot, Justice of the Y. Bm performed the terrible journey back to Constable r W. Pill Lngton. their ravaged home. Robert died two Road Supervisor- Wm. F. Harper, . days after from his wounds and exposure, HIDE FAEX FXXCiaCT while Andy was bereft of his reason. fustics ef the Peace J. W. D. Hums Heartbroken and alone, . this noble Constable Geo. D. Reeder ' Supervisor Henry X. Hancey. , woman had seen her eldest son, Hugh, ; Road COLL 81 FEECIRCT, f depart for tho wars, never to return, Justice of the Peace John H. Tho: pi and her second son die in her arms. Constable Hyrum Olsen. But, though nearly overwhelmed with Road S uperTlaor Lara Sorenson.' ATOE FEiasCT. anguish, she devoted herself to her last i Road Bupervlsoi Jas. n : J. Facet, remaining child with such assiduity Constable X. FTedficksex ' that ho was at last brought back tc Justice Jas. C. Orr, ' HI. STXRtJfUjFEXCSCT, comparative health. ' Then, before he Road r- N. J. Hartvixseu Buparvlsowas fully recovered, she made a jourJustice of Peace Joa H. Parker. ney to Charleston, a distance of 160 ' Conslable Thomas W. Lloyd. 1 a eo to corofort ad Exxxvtu and cheer to the ntr miles, carry Peaeo-WlH- ! -- - -- Feace-Geo- rge ! , - ,- Road Suptrrljor- - Carl M, Naoa . t - |