On The Early Trains

ON THE EARLY TRAINS.

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Patrick Kearney Rode on the Michigan Central 59 Years Ago.

Patrick Kearney, of Webster, was in the city Saturday and in a conversation with an Argus reporter said he was a passenger on one of the first trains that ran over the Michigan Central to Ann Arbor in 1840. He was then about nine years old. In 1852 he went to California by way of Cape Horn. While at Rio Janeiro said he saw negro slaves harnessed to loaded carts and worked as beasts of burden Some of them had rings around their necks by which they were chained at night. Mr. Kearney is 70 years old but is vigorous beyond his years. The world has evidently gone well with him. He sees the bright side of things and still thoroughly enjoys life.