Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-05-08
B. R. COWEN, EDITOR l. PROPRIETOR.]
NEW SERIES, VOL. VIII, NO. 3l] s.

Mariar.
Miss Stilman,' saws Miss Birsley, 81 se
that you and Polly Mariar don't hold up We
hands. Don't you approve of appropr.atin
the money for that purpose,
; "Well, can't say as | disapprove on
says Miss Stillman, but | should think we'
better not be in a hurry about maxim
; up our minds what we'll dew with tn,
money"
"What's the use o. waitin'l says Mis-:
Birsley. For my part, I think we should gc
ahead with more sperrit if we had an objc
fixed on 10 work for"
81 think so tew," says Miss Stillman
but, you know, we'd right 10 be unanimous
"Then why don't you agree with usr'
says Miss Birsley: that's the way to be
unan imous.
81 mean," SAYS Miss Stillman, says she
that we ought to wait till theirs a full meet
in afore we vote.
"The land alive." says Miss Birsley.
don't know what YOU call full meetin' if
this ain one.
The facts is.', says Polly Mariar stretch
in her great mouth from ear to ear, and dis.
playin' all her big teeth-Geff says her
mouth looks like an open sepulcher full O.
dead mems bones)-the facts is, says she
mar and mes OF opinion that we hadent
ought to vote till Miss Samson Savage is
consulted.
"Miss Samson Savage amt member o.
the society,"" says Miss Birsley, and she don't
60 to meetn' once in six months. dent
know what we should want to consult her
for, I'm sure.
"But you know" says Miss Stillman, her
means is such that she's able to contrib.
bit great deal to any object she approves
Of
"And we ought to be careful about of.
fensin' her." saws Polly Mariar, for, you
know, she withdrawal herself from the Bap-
tist because their sewin' society diGent
dc W as she wanted to have 'em.
"Did the Baptists break down after it,'
says Miss Birsley.
Just then the door opened. and in march
ed Miss Sampson Savage. But before go
on, I'd ought tell you somethin' about her
She's one o: the big bugs here-that is, she's
got more than almost anybody else IN town
She was tailoress when she was a gal, and
they say she used to make dredful sight o
mischief among he folks where she sewed
But that was when she lived in Varmont-
When Mr.. Savage married her, he was one
o. these ERE spectators. Wonderful lellers
to make money, them Varmoun:ers. Hus-
band says ttey come over the Green Noun
tains with a spellin'- in one hand and
halter in t'other, and if they can't git, a
school TO teach, they can steal a hoss.--
When they first cum to our place, he was a
fOllerin' the tin peddiin' bisnesS. ne use to
go rumblin' round in his cart from house to
house, and the rich folks ruther turned up
their noses at him. or he consated they did,
and, it made him awful wrathy: SO he deter
mined he'd be ricfer'n any on 'em and pay
'em off in their own coin. Old Smith says
he's heerd him time and agin made his boast
that he'd ride ever all their heads sJme Cay
-dident seem to have no higher eend in
view than to be the richest man in Scrabble
Hill. He sot his heart and soul and body
ont and knowin' how to turn every cent to
tie best advantage, and be:n' wonder ul
sharp at a bargain ,he succeeded; everything
he took hold o. prospered, and without ac-
tiily bein' what you could call dishonest,
afore many years every body allowed he was
the richest man in the place So he built a
great hig stun house and furp shed it Won
derlul grand: his wife woulGent have bit O.
furnitewer made here-nothin' would dew
but she must send away to Philadelphia fort
And such furntewer was never seen in
The town afore! Such elegant soys and
cheers and cGrtins, and ever SO many Gurus
consarns that don't know the name of, and
| guess she don't neither. So she sot up Tor
a lady. She was always coarse bolster
Gus, high tempered critter, and when her
husband crowd rich, she crowd pompous
and overbearin'. She made up her mind
she'd rule the roost, no matter what it cost
shed be the first in Scrabble Hill. She
know'd she want lady by nature nor by
eddcation, but she thought nanny other
folks would be fools enough to think she was
if she made great parade. So she begun
by dressin' more, and givin' bigger parties
than anybody else. OF course, them that
thinks moneys the main thing (and ther's
plenty such here and everywhere0 is ready
to fatter her and make fuss over her, and
approve of all her dewin's. If ther's any
body that won't knuckle tew her l tell ye
they have to take it about cast. She abuses
'em to their faces and SANDERS ZEN to their
backs. Such conduct woulden' be put up
with in poor woman; but them that would
be for drummin' p1e out o. town if | should
act so, is ready to uphold Miss Samson
Savage, and call it independence and frank
ness in her. She's got so she prides herself
on it. She says she amt afeard to tell folks
what she thinks of EMF she don't like
anybody, they know it purity soon. Hush
and says she woudent think it no harm to
set her neighbor's house fire if she dune
it in the daytime. She shows her indepen-
denLe in another way sometimes, by riggin'
out in old duds that would disgrace a wash
er woman, and train in round town, maxim
calls and so forth sometimes in an old wagin
and sometimes f OF. II tickles her wond-
erfully to hear folks whisper as she goes
along-"Jest see Miss Savage! that'll dew
for her, but 'twouldent dew for every body"
When she goes out in company, she' mop
olizes the hull % the conversation. She's
determined that everybody in the room shall
have the benefit of all she has to say. 81
she talks up so awful loud that she drownds
every body else's voice, and they have to lis
ten tew her whether or no. | was to party
a spell ago where she was; and from the
mnnit she come in-(lhank forlin' she
never comes early-always keeps the tea a
watin' for her)-I say, from the minnit she
come till it broke up, she talked without
cessation. 1t did seem to me as if should
60 distracted. In the course O. the even
somebody axed Parson Pcttibone's wife (she
was Katy Carey) to p ay on the pianner ant
sing; she's beautiful player, and I'm very
, fond O. hearin' her. When she sot down t.
the music, thinks me, Miss Savage will holt
| her tongue now, I'm sure. But was mis-