Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-11-26
ONE rHIse Ar A TINE.


who said sit is fine thing that a person
can't 60 crazy on but one thing at g
tine.n There is great tendency among
the people in this country to insanity;
not that kind, however, which requires
them to be locked up in Asylums, but
that kiad that runs everything TO ex-
tremes: that ruins the pleasure and profit
ofeverything it undertakes by oHerdoing
liz. We have not commenced this rticle
with an intention to write a lecture on
the excess of liquor drinking, tobacco
I, chewing, profane swearing, card play
ing.or any of tie other hundred-and-one
: moral evils that effect society, but to
call attention to an error practiced, TO TOO
great an extent. by the producing eie-
ment of society, inthe management OF
its business. There is too much going
crazy on one thing at time; too much
OF disposition to overdo everything
that, for the time, promises to be profit
able, and as a necessary result the de-
struction of the business, or at least, the
profits of it. The oil business might have
been profitable If entered into and man
aged in judicious way, but the pros
poets offs speedy fortune set everybody
crazy, and in a crazy manner they went
into the business and by rscklessly do
ing or OVERRIDING they lost in most cases
what they invested. The Gil business is,
perhaps, an extreme example of over
doing, vet it is not the only business that
! has suffered by the crazy theory of exces-
sive production. A few years ago the
farming element in a great portion OF
the country concluded that the surest
and best way to get rich was to go into
the sheep business, and, instead of add
ing it as producing interest to the cat
tie, hog, grain, and vegetetable interests
they were already engaged in, they sold
their cattle and hogs, and sowed in grass
the fields that before had produced wheat,
corn, rye and oats, and turned their
whole attention to producing sheep. AS
\ natursl-we might say inevitable-re-
suit Of orer production, The prices ol
s-heep and wool are so low that the busi-
ness has become Improbable, and, crazy
in the other direction, the sheep hecks
are being slaughtered at fearful Fate
So anxious are farmers to get rid Of ali
oyerdone business, that large flOcks OF
sheen are sold as low as 65 cents per
head. TO be slaughtered for the pelts and
iailow. We think the last folly is equal
TO the first one, and those who are now
selling ate5 cents, will in all probability,
nc buying again, within a yearortwo, at
three or four tunes that price. The Hop
business in Wisconsin and elsewhere
has been served just the same as the wool
business has been here, destroyed by be-
I ing overdone. and we might mention
other interests that have suffered IN the
same way, but we have already referred
10 enough to illustrate the eyilAof over
doing. The price of every commodity Is
governed by che law of supply and de-
mand. The market may be eoverstocked
with any one of the numerous products
of the farm and its price be SO low rs to
destroy the profit of its production, but
it is safe to presume that there never will
be time when the market will be, so
everstocked with all of such products.-I
The safe rule,- then,l would be to so
manage as to have a variety of products,
SO that the low price OF any one OF them
would not prove ruinous, but might be
aeutralized by the fair price received for
the others. .i-'''f''l B.
-a-1--- .---s .---- --7
THE destruction of the Ohio Central
Lunatic Asylum, at Columbus last week,
was a heart-rendering calamity, since
it was attended with loss of life to six of
the already subordinate inmates, and
with very serious detriment TO the CON
dition of the hundreds of survivors,
However comfortably temporary ar
rangements may be made TO shelter the
rescued patients, the peculiar effects OF
the extraordinary excitement Occasicn-
ed by this coniiagration, will be likely
to embarrass medical treatment for
mouths to come. .,,
Ohio had three Asylums, the Central,
at Columbus, now destroyed, and the
Northern, at Newburgh, near Cleveland,
and the Southern, at Longview, near
Cincinnati And all of these very ca
pacious institutions were already crowd
ed to their fullest capacity. Suitable
and immediate provision for the care OF
the hundreds who were so suddenly
made houseless, will doubtless be made,
bat will severely tax the resources ofthe
State.
New MAILING PREss.--We have pur-
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as we can get it in operation, we will
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