Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-02-11

called at one of the taverns for whisky on
Sunday, and was refused, they swore they
would have it, about ~one-hunired and h'fy
Irish attacked the house. they were armed
with clubs. brick-bats and stones. but the
Buckeyes, Dutch and Yankees gathered to
the number of about forty, and drove off the
Irish. We expected to see a bloody time
but there was much damage done. We
could relate many such incidents bu: space
will not permit. Late in July we had very
hot weather with heavy fogs. but we all had
good health till about the first of Aug, we
all took the fever. A gentleman took NE
to his house, | was carried in an arm chair,
and for nine long week, burning with fever,
was ! confined t. my bed, and my friends
Jared but little better except Does sister
a girl of fifteen. she had a sight attack Mr..
B., who turk me- home. his wife and mother
aere very kind and did all they could far
me. We shall remember HIM a. long a
~ live Thsr old lady, we brlieva one 81
=, bcs' a. Womrn. As soon a. Ne we've
Ey.- W. : sr;sd Lar home. Dor and his sister
IN IA. W. vru' d ,wn tie. river il a
P-ra.ua death and sckus-> on tvey -Fd5.
mEcn q an "a vet sand n, rnt well ones
II uEI p" cut u. a hick Srum OF M rye.
aud W could rnt get auv water ~ dri"k
I al G Con d swallow When we got home
III. fc k Lar !, k"ew me-, vas almost a
Ike. ton. WaRr. | LETT hama in she -2ring.
| tIrk some money with me. bu. now | had
but eighteen cents 1T, and ! had worked
ha d, and received q cd wares i'll ! was
taken 81 L. bot | va glad 10 get back once
more o lha p~a'erual roof.
We n4d bsen home but twl DAYS ard the
fever came On lis again, and we were ccn-
fined 10 our bed nine weeks, and got a little
better but was taken down again. and did
not get IF nv bed for seven lGng. long
weeks, then we got tet'cr so Ee rou,d walk
d little. but The ague came on US. and ""
had It m ST Of the time fur two years, and
our health has never been as good as il vas
before we took a trip west; and when hear
young men talking about making a fortune
by going west, we think, all is not gold that
g~litters, and we cannot but think of our
western trip. Doe tells some hard yarns
about the Western country, which We DO
not vouch for the truth of. unless he is
present. We were troubled with muske
toes, some very "big Ones" here is II Of
Does yarns. we have often heard him tell.
.'As Uriah and | were tramping one day in
the woods, we heard a sound Ike distant
thunder, the muskatoes said Uriah as they
came laundering through the timber, each
of US got behind a tree; | was behind a red
oak ovrI four feet through; but a musketoe
made a, me. struck his bill through the oak,
and ! hammered the end of his bill with a
stone till it was clinched, thinks |, now |
have you, but to our utter establishment, II
raised its wings and flew away. taking the
tree, roots, branches and all. Wasn't it a
xhopper!'' NV eastward no, is the watch
word" New territories are settled, new
States are made, and still the tide moves on.
Many % West and make III, ir fortunes.
while others spend their all, lose their
health and return home dis i'eartened, yet
in Western Virginia there are thousands OF
acres of well-watered, good farming land.
can be had at a very low price, and would
make good homes wi,houtrisking The uncer-
tainty OF 4 western ,climate, or the prira-
tons and Inconvenience of western lie
U. Wilson.