Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-01-31

tlon and premature death. With plain
diet, plenty of exercise in the open air,
clothing to suit the season of the year,
and temperature at sixty indoors, there
is no valid reason why children should
not live, grow, and be as healthy as the
lower animals. ~ X
The Printers of this city celebrated
the anniversary of the birth of Frank
lin, by grand festival and ball given at
the Burnet House on the night of the
18th inst. A large number of the craft,
with their lasses, were present on the oc-
casion-say one hundred and fifty coup
les. The music and other arrangements
were superb, and the banquet ss'above re
proach.' Ffrst Regular T1ast--BENJA-
MIN FRANKLIN-The modern PRONE
theus-He stole the lightning from
Heaven to benefit mankind, and by the
press diifused divine light througha a dark
ened world. End. FAUsP-The first
Printer, and the greatest benefactor of
his race. He copied thought, and by
the press made man and language uni
versal. ..... --.. f.--...
The other day availed myself of an
invitation, and went into the press-room
of the Enquirer office, and there saw one
hundred and sixty weekly papers; printed
per minute, The, proprietors of this
Democratic establishment purchased two
months ago, one of Col. Hoes four cyl
inder power presses, for fourteen thou
sand dollars. Some of the advantages
of this literary engine of thought over
the hand press consist in it's accuracy of
execution, i'll its enabling publishers to
hold open their columns for the recep-
tion of news up to 3 o'clock at night,
and then have their papers ready for
city distribution and the mails before
daylight in the morning. The proprie-
tors of the Commercial introduced the
first four cylinder press into this, city
few years ago, and then the Editors of
the Enquirer got one, and now their
neighbors of the Gazette: are having u
sic cylinder power press made to order,
which will be the largest and the only one
of the kind west of the mountains.
Eternal happiness ought to be the por-
ton OF Col Hoe, who invented, that
mighty vehicle of knowledge.
An election case, of negress from
city railroad car, by conductor, has just
been tried and decided adverselyto the
Company. But the cause will be car
ried up to higher Court for its action,
and there is no doubt but the decision
of Judge Loe will be reversed. Ifcom-
mon carriers have not the right teepSe-
scribe who and what they shall transport,
they have not control of their business
and property. Negroes are not only er-
cliteled from riding in the cars, but dis
orderly white persons are refused adnis-
sion in them, and smoking is strictly pro-
hibited.
The daily papers are placed in these
rolling palaces, for the benefit of.pas-
with a printed notice pasted on
them, ic-s;:Not take this paIerp3nt OF;
car
Business generally is dull-ewing to
the scarcity of money, over stocks OF all
kinds, and to thousands focking here
from this and other States for employ
ment, which makes surplus population
of consumers. Hundreds of mechanics
and other laborers arc out of employ
ment, others are working for small wages
and scores for their board. A majority
of clerks in stores are only getting six
dollars a week for their services, and OH
thatsum they dress fine, pay from three
to four dollars per week for board, go
nightly to theaters or other places Of
have oyster suppers, smoke
fine cigars, and are otherwise decidedly
''fast young men, How such extrava-
gances are supported on small salaries,
no human computation can tell, unless
the frequent bankruptcies of their en-
ployers can solve the mystery. The
way fast young men live here, it costs
them from FIVE to fifteen hundred dollars
a year-according as they can get money
to spend. :......
You must excuse short paragraphs in
this letter, for prescribed limits only al
low the writer to suggest ideas and out
line subjects, without giving their de
tails. .....-. r. BISSELL.
New Patents. ,. s..s-
Patents were issued to the following
Western inventors, during the week
ending Jan. 18th: .......