Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-10-08
OCTOBER 9Th, 1857

himself would be out Of patience, if he were
in my place. Why, your types make me
say some of the siiliest things that pen
could write. "Foul iend of hsppinessI"
Our gaze Of the by dra headed monster."
My name amt ."Muggor." What does A.
B. mean! A friend suggests that it is an
abrev; a ion for" Abolition Brethern" There
are other mistakes, but I'll say no more,
now. OF them. But oh, if in the future there
is more cause for complaint, charge you
io-Bewars!
Well, the Fair has been, SO has the
crowd, and SO has the heather But notwi;h-
standing the rain, mud, wind and cold, we
did have q good Fair, didn't we! Even if
Edith didn't come. But, you know, Hasty
and Rustic did. Was Quill there! But we
didn't tuke notes on the Fair grounds. Left
that 10 the others. But took few notes
outside Oh the question OF the dry-Intem-
perance. We felt more INTEREST," d in that
subject than any other, and look hopefu lily
forward to lime when a drunken man will
be curiosity in any part OF our country, or
even in the rorH. A curiosity, we mean.
on account of the scarcity OF the commodity
Was it raght for the company to allow Ale
and Beer Saloons and wagons on the
grounds! Did it "L,ok Ter' lor doageries to
be scattered so yrstuSely outside? One pour
man | noticed on the last night, who was
ton drunk TO stand up comfortably. brt was
rot so Tar gone but Wlat ie didn't Ike tu
lie down unless he had d sof bed. lie stag
gered along, hunting mudhole, until he
saw, cleaning in the moonlight, u pile oil
stones Surprising this to be Tie object OF
his search, he laid down. ., such groan
The hasre with which he evacuated his bed,
was so exceedingly ludicrous-said evacua-
lion being performed on call fonrs"-that Ii
found any attempt to control my isibiliiies
more than useless, SO laughed, most en-
phalicaily. He crepl into an alley, and laid
his poor bruised body in the mud, and there
he reposed in happy oblivion OF the weeping
clouds above him, until he was routed out
not BY some friendly hand, not by the police,
but by hog. Young man, you who are in
the habit OF olindulging in an occasional glass,
you who are too weak to refuse an invita-
iion to join friend y N ''a single glass of
ale," behold in that man a picture Of your
self at some future day, unless you pause
no,o. Stop al once. Every step you take
down makes the way back harder, the way
forward easier. Every glass gives you
fresh impetus, and like man running dow n
hill, get fairly started sud you CART stop
until you are at the bottom, hen-tLink OF
then. Imagine yourself lying in an alley
with the hogs roofing round you! Amt the
picture inviting! Girls, IRE can do something
in this, can't we! There are but few girls
in ST. c., knop, but what can influence
one person, who is liable to fall, aye who is
falling. Say to them, "go, and return not
until you have enlisted for life in the ranks
i,i Better die now, from disappointed hopes,
than 60 through life by the side of sot, tied
to moral corpse. tell you, girls, we can
and we must do something. Won't we!
Who'll begin! Who'll draw the first one
out of the fret Every body try!
We understand an old gentlemon who re-
sides near town, was attacked few nights
since on his way home, by some persons
concealed in the woods. His house had
been broken open, and his hOusekeeper hurt.
But, suppose, Imagination had marshalled
whole army of iefendents, and the rogues
"vamosed the rancho That's nice work
for civilized community. Of course, the
whole plot grew and ripehed in whisky
bottle.
There was fght in front of one of our
most important doggeries night or 60 ago.
One of tie parties, We understand, had his
skull fractured. Oughtn't We to feel proud
of our city?
( But we amt in talking humer, to-day,
and have felt all the time as though we were
writing "fzze-fzzle." So guess it's time
to stop. Good Bye, all.
Yours, decidedly,
FAN TAz MAeoR, l. A.