Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-11-27
TILE ANTI-SLAVERY RUGLE.

language Of Ruth "Whcre thou goest | will 20:
where thou stayest l will stay thy God shall be
my God. and thy people, my people"
Both parties willing, nothing was wanting to
crown their happiness but the ~solcmnity Of the
marriage ceremony But there was the difficulty
the Western Reserve had not yet been organized
into n county. TO Justice Of the Peace had been
elected or appointed, and no one authorized to sol
emnizc marriages so that the young widow and
her lover were in q "fx'. But where there is
a will there is always a way. Moses Parks, living
in the Marsh settlement, six miles west Of Fair.
port, in what is what is now Mentor, had once been
n Baptist preacher. and it was concluded that he
would answer. IL was agreed that Hamilton and
his 6etrothed should call on him on their way to
Newburg and legalise, as far as circumstances
would permit, their contract. Accordingly on the
following morning at early dawn they mounted
their horses.- Hamilton taking the widows child
in his lap, she riding on her feather bed, which was
Ia.bed on the horse, and answered in place Of a side.
saddlo.-And sat out 10 search of the q~uondsm
preacher. On arriving at his cabin and making
their wants known. he ut first declined putting on
the sacredotal robes. az he had not preached a ser
mon for many years; and had totally abjured his
former creed but on reflection. and at the urgent
solicitation OF the parties, he finally consented to
act the priest. and, with the usual ceremonies, be
pronounced t%hemimau and wife. Money being out
of the question in those days, they paid the priest
in heartfelt thanks, and went on their way rejoicing
This was undoubtedly the first marriage on the
Reserve and the courtship and marriage, though
not conducted in the most approved fashionable
modern style, was equally, il not more conducive
TO domestic happiness. The girl, or widow, thai
would thus forsake all others, and. on horseback
without a saddle, follow her beloved through thu
~trackless forest, to a log house home, was worthy
of the name of a wife. Some of their descendants
| believe, are now living in the neighborhood o
Newburgh, but James and Parthenia have loni
been at rest.
THE FIRST NEWSPAPERS OF OHIO.
"ue removed to Martinsburg in 1890, and com
menced the Potomak Guardian, upon which pape
l was kept at work until April, 1896. He then r.
moved to Chilllcothe, and set up the Scotia Gazette
the first paper in Ohio, and l returned to Boston
and commenced On apprenticeship in Court stree
in which my father had worked, and where Benz
min Franklin had worked before him. Wills
"reminiscences.
The above paragraph appeared in the Gazette
the 9th ult. The error of Mr.. Willis has alread
been corrected by a correspondent. But
h. may be wella to refer to some other partic
s. lars. The first paper published in Ohio was tt
X "Centinel of the North. West Territory" of whi(
a the first number was published 9th of Novembe
IN 1898. The entire copy of the 'Centinep' for ia
IS. usry l1th 1894. was re- unpublished in the Cincinna
H. Gazette ON the Sd of December, 1885, occupyir
about one seventh Of the Gazette.
OF The first daily paper was the Cincinnati Cor
re mercial Register, but was followed in a few weel
II by the Daily Gazette. The first German paper VI
d. the Ohio Chronicle, issued in 1896. The statisti
er' of Newspaper progress in Ohio, is as follows, vi