Note - Historical. 443
Adieu to the roads which for many a year
I traveled each Sabbath the gospel to
hear,
The news was so joyful and pleased me
so,
From hence where I heard it, it grieves
me to go.
Farewell my white friends who first
taught me to pray
And worship my Savior and Maker each
day.
Pray for the poor native whose eyes
overflow,
With tears at our parting, Alas! I must
go.
NOTE.- HISTORICAL.
In the excellent article "On the
Origin of Ohio Place Names,"
printed in the July issue of the
Quarterly, there were a few slips
which should be noted for correction.
On page 277, "Loramie's store was a
noted landmark and
appeared in all the treaties after
1769." The store was burned
in 1782 by General Clark's men, and was
never replaced. Subse-
quent to 1769, three general treaties
were made with the Indians;
one at Fort McIntosh, in Western
Pennsylvania, January 21st,
1785; one at Fort Harmar, near Marietta,
January 9th, 1789; one
at Greenville, August 3, 1795. Only the last treaty mentions
"Loramie's." The following is
a part of the boundary named
in that treaty: "Thence westerly to
a fork of that branch of the
Great Miami river running into the Ohio
at or near which fork
stood Loramie's store." The store
"was fifteen miles up Lora-
mie's Creek, a branch of the Big Miami.
The stream, the post-
office at the mouth, and the Reservoir
Shelby County, still bear
his name" - so the article
continues. There is no post-office
within several miles of the mouth of the
stream. The post-office
"Loramie" is about 15 miles
from the mouth of the stream, and
is at the village of New Berlin, in the
northwest corner of Shelby
County. The position of Fort Laramie was
fully discussed in
this Quarterly about five years ago. It
follows that the passage
on page 279, wherein it is stated that
the line from the Tuscar-
awas runs "west to Loramie's
Store," is wholly wrong.
444 Ohio Arch. and Hist.
Society Publications.
Again, page 279. The French
settlers did not locate at the
mouth of the Scioto, but at Gallipolis.
See Laws of the U. S.,
Vol. 2, page 503.
On page 276 it is stated that Mount
Logan is on Paint Creek.
Mount Logan is on the east side of the
Scioto, nearly two miles
northeast of the Court House in
Chillicothe, and is miles away
from Paint Creek, which is west of the
Scioto.
Page 286. "College Hill is named
from two colleges. Col-
lege Corner with similar educational
advantages has one Indiana
and two Ohio counties cornering in
it." College Corner has no
college at all, and it was given its
name because it was located
in the corner of the township which was
given for the founding
of Miami University. No Indiana county
has a corner at this
village.
R. W. McFARLAND.
ORIGIN OF THE
PHRASE, "KEEP THE BALL
ROLLING."
THOMAS J. BROWN, WAYNESVILLE.
[I had the following article in
contemplation for a year or more,
but it was crowded aside by other
matters until midsummer last, some
time before the January (1905) number of
the Archaeological and His-
torical Quarterly was printed when I
wrote it down with a pencil in my
note book, and herewith give it with
very slight change or correction.
Some allusion is made in the latest
issue of the Quarterly to the ball fad,
but I had no knowledge of the article or
inspiration of Mr. C. B. Gal-
breath until I saw it there.-T. J. B.]
Many words and phrases have come into
common use whose
origin has been forgotten. In many
cases, perhaps the origin
never was generally known, or has not
been passed on from one
generation to another, as others have
been.
The phrase, "Keep the ball rolling,"
was years ago more
generally used than it is now, but it is
still used; if a man has
an enterprise on hand which he wishes to
carry to a successful
termination and has no intention of
dropping or neglecting it,