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Show BELL A ROADSIDE FOUNTAIN Onet Hung In a Ch-rah Tower Cracked In Ringing Celebration of Union Victory. A moat iiiilipie roait-'rie fountain for hnr-e ami cattle la 1'ie Inverted church hell, - t In niioninry, which la located on the highway that Icaria from Northliorn 1.1 Vt'r-tnnro and near the center villnice o the former town, any- the llimton niibe. Tin. bell wan orlKlnal'y pliicail In the tower of the Klrat lluitlnt church In the yenr IKitO, and on the wen-Ion of aome iiotnlile union victory durliiK Ihn civil war, pnn-lnly t'-e aiiriemler nf Lie In April. ISllo, lt,n vlxoroua patriotic rlnxliiK hy the church aei-ton aei-ton cracked the metal, and thla puhlic crier for rellnlnua aervliea on the Uird'a day ceaaed to he tuneful In Ita weekly auiiiiixiiiluii In the house of wnr-hlp. "it waa not until 1KC1, however," fiiya an old re-lil. nt of the town, "that tin. HiiptlHia h. cured a new aud perfect per-fect hell. Then tho aoclnty gave ita old relic to th.i town, and aoma re-aourreful re-aourreful town father aumeatiid turn I'm the Rift up-lde iio.i. fixing It firmly In Ita nreaent rent'" place aa a receptHcle for tho wat-r of a near by aprlng and utlllting It aa a nieana of liquid retre-hnienl for thlraty hornea and cattle" |
