Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-12-19

Dect; for the white snow covered with n cold
mantle scores of monnds ;r MANY ora vovards
where Law their dead. And thew sat This
day and Thought of MI their kindred who
had perished untimely. save one
Whether he lived, or whether he had
died,-where he Law buried. II buried he
were, or where he rioted. If still In the
land of the living. thew had no notion And
why should they care?
He had been a strong. .willed and wild lad
He had disobeyed the iniupctiops of his
parents while vet boy. He had not loved
the stiff, sad Sabbatbs. nor the gloomy
Saturday nights. He had rebelled against
the austerities of Fastand Thankspiyine.
Days. lie had learned to play at cards and
to roll tenpins with the village bows, He
had smoked in the tavern bar. room of even
ings. In vain had his father tried TO coerce
,hisa into better ways: II, nj ~ IN iIis moth.
er used all the persussions 6f1& pls,crnal
pride and fondness that showed Themselves
only, Of all her children, TO this brave.
handsome, and reckless boy. He had gone
from worse to worse, after the first outbreak.
ing from the strict home rules unt;I he had
become at length by.word In the village.
and anxious mothers warned their sons
against companionshin with wicked Samson
Newell, and this when he was only seven
teen years Of age.
Perhaps milduess might have worked we'll
with the selfwilled how. but his father knew
nothing but stern command md nromn, o
obedience in family MANAGEMENT. and so
the son daily fell away. until came the in. %
eyitable day when his wrong. doing reached
a climax and he left his fathers roof forever
1t was on Thankseiyino.D Dav. fifteen
years ago, that the bow Samson. then seven.
teen years old. was brought home drunk and
bleeding. He had nassed tbe nrev;ons night
at a bali at the tavern. ayainst the exnress
command of his father who would boyo
gone to fetch him sw.v bnt that ho could
not bear IN enter mon a scana be tbonrh,
so wicked. and esnec;,,llv ns,,,sa s,,cb nm ar
rand. When the dance WAS over tho how
had fingered AT tho bar dr;nL;nn nl.ss ,f,cr y
glass. until he oot into a Gaht VT ,he hnIIv
of the village. whom he thrashed within an
inch of his life and then ba had sat down
in n small side room with , fsw choice .n;r;ts
with the avowed nurnose of eating drnnI
over his victorv He had got drnnI
Nploriouslv drnnk" his friends ,t The 70 vern
STYLED IL and had been carr;ed in that stat,
home.
IN tho h;,,or,os. NJ .h. ,,;.or,, &c ,h,,
Tbanisgiving.Dav 70 Jacoh Neyolii 'Ia We
NAV live a hundred wears and never know
such anotber
The next dav Samson ,voke from
wretcbed stunor IN 6nd L;msoIf waoL nor-
vous and sutfar;no from n hl;nd;na haad.
ache In This oona;t;on I;s Ea,has fnrood
him IN the harm and thsre with ba.vu
raw. biaa aooasd hin, ,,;thn,, ,,aro, nv:
n;nbt Samaos N.nalI ,,;,.nno.raJ ..d ,na.
thencntorwsrd seen No mnSa ;n H. "I ,;il,n
The soa,a n;abt nna nf ,Sa ,,;iIono nnso. s.ao.
was ti,fsfssl - n.,e;sr.
wrenched omen. und sone,h,ng over h bnn.
dred dollars in snecie taken therefrom So
that on Samson NewelPs head rested tho
crime offilial disobed;enca and tbe snsnic;on
amounting with nearly nlI IN n certa;ntv
that he had adled bnrrlarv to his other
wrong doing.
His name was publsbed in the naners
throughout the county. together with n mar.
s0nal description and the offer of n rewnrd
for his arrest and return. But as he was
never brought back nor heard of more. the
matter gradually died away and was forgot.
ten by most in the village: the more r % So sUs as
from respect and pity for Jacob Naval i
was scarce ever mentioned ercsnt nr;.
yately.
Ei.bt wears elapsed from the rimo of his
flight and supposed crime. when tbe fallnw
he had .brashed at the tavern was arrested
tried, convicted, and sentenced 70 death far
a murder committed in =, idnigbt tavern.
hrawl. In a confession that he made he
exonerated Samson Newell from anv norti.
cipation in or knowledps Of the burglary far
which his reputation had "a long Suffered
stating in what manner he had himself com,
mitted the deed, So the memory of the
erring son of Jacob Newell was relieved from
the great shadow that had darkened it
Stiff he was never mentioned bv father or
mother and seven wears more rolled weari-
ly on. till they sit. TODAY, alone and child.
less, by the fickcring November FIRE.
Sore trouble had fallen on them since
their Youngest son had disappeared. One
by one, the elder children had passed away.
each winters snow for five years covered n
fresh grave, till the new affections that were
in store for them scarcely seemed TO affect
them otherwise than by cutting vet deener
into the suuken cheeks the deeI lines of sor.
row and regret.
jacob Newell had been known for wears
as 'forehanded man" in the rural neigh.
borhood. His lands were extensive. and
he had pursued liberal system of cultiya.
| ton, putting into the soil in rich manures
more IN strength than he took fiom Il. unt;l his
farm became the model one of the county,
and his nrofits we're large and ever increas,
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