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"Wanted to name the baby after me, 'n' I call it a pretty time to come namin' a baby when a woman has got one leg on a ladder 'n' her head tied up for bats. I thought he was the tin-peddler from Meadville, 'n' I run f'r my rag-bag, 'n' then there it was only the minister after all! Well, I was n't pleased a tall, 'n' I did n't ask him in, neither.
Fuselli walked past them towards the town. "Say, Fuselli," shouted Meadville. "Corporal says hell's broke loose out there. We may smell gunpowder yet." Fuselli stopped and joined them. "I guess poor old Bill Grey's smelt plenty of gunpowder by this time," he said. "I wish I had gone with him," said Meadville.
In 1858, the Meadville Railroad Company changed their name to the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company of Pennsylvania. In 1859, a company was organized in the State of New York, under the name of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad in New York, and purchased in 1860 of the New York and Erie Railroad Company thirty eight miles of their road, from Salamanca to near Ashville.
Duruy said 's she was thinkin' o' goin' over to Meadville to visit her cousin, now 's she had somebody to keep her house for her, I jus' remarked as I hoped she'd get her house back when she come back 'n' let it go at that. Mrs.
"Private 1st-class Daniel Fuselli, fall out and report to headquarters company!" Fuselli saw a look of surprise come over men's faces. He smiled wanly at Meadville. "Sergeant, take the men down to the station." "Squads, right," cried the sergeant. "March!" The company tramped off into the streaming rain.
Between Corry and Titusville were four washouts, tying up the Pennsylvania Railroad. In Meadville the situation was even worse. Once again Mill Run and Neason's Run, combined with the floods of French and Cussewago Creeks, overflowed the city. With the exception of a few of the high sections, the entire city was under water, which in some sections reached to the second story of homes.
"Well; what d'ye reckon's goin' on at the front now?" said Meadville. "Damned of I know. The goddam hospital at Orleans was so full up there was guys in stretchers waiting all day on the pavement outside. I know that.... Fellers there said hell'd broke loose for fair. Looks to me like the Fritzies was advancin'." Meadville looked at him incredulously. "Those skunks?" said Fuselli.
It's when the paper gets to Meadville an' Meadville begins to write him back what they think about what he thinks of them, that that scrap-basket will be interestin'! I guess I'll go home now an' make biscuits for supper. He was comin' back on the five-o'clock train. Poor Elijah, he'll have a hard day to-morrow but it'll do him good.
So he took himself off an' he was hardly out of the way when Mrs. Macy come to tell me about Judy Lupey's divorce." "Is " cried Mrs. Lathrop. "Not yet, but she soon will be," said Miss Clegg. "Mrs. Macy's just back from Meadville an' she says all Meadville is churned up over it.
In 1857 Miss Mitchell made a tour in the South, having under her charge the young daughter of a Western banker. "March 2, 1857. I left Meadville this morning at six o'clock, in a stage-coach for Erie. I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
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