Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-02

County Jail.-There seems 20 be a misun-
dprsianding about the purposes of the County
Commissioners on this subject, and certain par
ties are attempting to mislead the public in or
der to make capital on the question of a reno
val of the County Seat During the past three
or four years the county has paid for watching
prisoners, repairing damages done to Jail by
prisoners breaking out, and rewards for the re-
turn of escaped prisoners, very nearly as much
money as would build a new Jail. The Grand
Jury has. at two or three different sessions with
in the past three years. condemned the present
Jail as unsafe, unhealthy and utterly unfit for
the purpose for which it is used. The Commis-
sioners satisfied of fthe truth of this finding of
the Grand Jury, have appointed committee TO
prepare plan ofiron cells to be put up in the
present Jail building, and to report what it will
cost to put in such cells. This is all that has
been done in the premises. nthe Commission
ers shall conclude to put in the iron cells, and
we think they WILL it cannot materially effect
the question of the removal ofthe County Seat,
because these iron cells, which are put inside OF
the walls of the present Jail and independent
of them can be taken down and removed at
very small cost. In fact the removal party
ought TO be in favor of the iron cells for very
much mistake the temper and character of the
people of this County if they will ever agree to
vote on the question of removal until those Pc
cuniarily interested shall guarantee the erec-
tion of new County buildings without cost TO
the taxpayers, and in that event, the gentle
men for whose benefit the removals. made and
who have to raise the money to pay the piper,
will save the expense of buying these iron cells
if they are now put in. In any event, the de-
mand made by the GAINESVILLE Enterprise that
the putting in of these cells shall be deferred
until after the question of removal is settled, is
q very unreasonable one. That question has
been agitated for ten years. and is no nearer a
solution now than it was then, SO far as any de-
terminate action is concerned. To Indefinitely
defer all measures for the care and safety of
prisoners, and permit a constant expense and
annoyance tor want of such measures, because
certain parties are in favor of building Jail
somewhere else. if they can get the people to
agree to let them, would be about as sensible as
the action of the editor of the Enterprise would
be if he should refuse to buy new type for his
paper when the old was so badly worn that his
subscribers could not read the impressions, be-
cause he expected when his rich uncle in Ire
land died he would provide in his will for the
purchase of new material for his paper. The
Jail needs repair now, and the removal of the
County Seat cannot change that fact 1t is not
the duty of the Commissioners to determine
removed or not. The County buildings are now
here, and the Jail, it is admitted by everybody,
needs repair. The only question is, shall it be
repaired temporarily or permanently. 1t will
cost more to temporarily repair it than it would
cost to remove the permanent Improvement in
the shape of iron cells. if the people should ever
decide in favor Of removal, and a matter of
economy the thorough repair will be cheaper
and certainly much better than the temporary.
The editor of the Gazette is getting ashamed
of his own editorials and is now writing over
the noa de plume of Moses Kline" The unso-
phisticated whisky pc dler was in town last
week and the editor 10 please him published
a very silly article over Moses name, and took
occasion TO say that the writer of that article
was lion who stands in the path of the editor
of the CHRONICLE. Nose had boasted that when
the Gazette appeared the editor ofthe CHRoN-
ICLE would be annihilated, and afterwards
wrote the article and it was declared to be the
work of Jim. --, Nose became incensed
and declared that "he didn't write it, for Johnny
Heaton wrote it himself" Whether Nose, or
Heaton, or Jim. wrote it-and every
man in town knows that Nose did not-the
author OF it is such consummate ass that he
did not know that QL0nddIn means former"
or "having been formerly" and styles us a
QuonddH Congressman.
The author of this fluent pen" composition,
defends Nose from the charge of being whisky
peddler, and asserts that he never sold a drop
in his life. Then he is a meaner skunk than we
thought he was, for we gave him the benefit of
the poor plea that he was induced TO traffic in
liquor because it was profitable, but, it seems,
he furnishes the accursed poison to destroy the
peace of society, and the character of our young
men, OF for profit, but for the pure love he has
Tor creating misery and destroying character.
LocaIs.-We have now pretty full corps of
Local Reporters" !" and this weeks CHRONICLE
VIII have something of interest for every sec