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

FLUSHING, Nov. ., 1862.
Mr. EDITOR: AS you still call for locals we
thought to submit few from our village,
hoping they might prove sufficiently interest
ing to find place in the columns of your paper.
Wheeling Township boasts of good land, plen-
ty of coal, &c. So do We, though perhaps we
cannot in all farm products, compete with our
neighbor. Our farmers turn their attention
very much to raising stock, and with their
large bins well filed with corn worth sixty
cents per bushel, a great many cattle and sheep
will be fattened for the winter and spring mar
ket. Our well-known stock buyers, Shoemaker
& Horner, left here last week with a large drove
of hogs, averaging over three hundred pounds
each, bought principally at nine cents. We
hope to see them come again.
A history of the rise and progress of the town
of Flushing might be interesting to many, but
as none ofits present citizens have any knowl-
edge of it further back than forty years, we
have no data from which to begin our story
We are sure, however, that four new houses
have been added to its number within the last
twenty years. We can boast of a school house,
but as it wants some repairing the directors
have concluded to suspend school for the COM
ing winter. We have four Dry Goods stores, two
Drug stores. a Shoe Store, Grocery. Blacksmith
o see us we can fit you out from tip to toe with
a new suit of clothes, shoe your horse, shave
you, and if you want it you can get your dram
and go on your journey.
Readers, can you see why with all these ad-
vantages we may not live in the full enjoyment
of life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Our population is made up of three classes OF
citizens: The first are honest and upright, bold
apd foo rIaSS defenders of frue DriOcinleS unOn
every subject; the second are neither cold nor
warm, kind of bitter-sweet class of men, who,
while they stroke the cat apply lighted torch
to its tail; the third as bold in defending the
wrong as the first are in supporting the right,
and openly throw their influence with every
scheme tending to disturb he good order of So
ciety.
1t is no uncommon thing to see young man
reeling about the streets under the influence OF
Intoxicating liquors, and yet nobody sells whis-
kyin violation of law or at least SO We were told
by our Grand Jury last week. Now we are sure
that they had il in their power to put them
selves in possession of testimony which would
have indicted parties in our village for this very
act. We have lung seen upon what side the st.
ClairSville Gazette stands in regard to this in
creasng evil amongst us, which is running so
many of our young men, and when we remem-
ber that the editor of that journal of rowdyism,
whose career, of laIe, has been so iniquitous and
dishonorable to the County, acted as foreman
OF the Jury, we do not wonder at the result
The CHRONICLE has been an earnest defender OF
the cause of temperance, and while we see for it
success and prosperity in the future, the history
of its neighbor shall go down by its side, inglo-
riously enrolled on the records of shame.
And now ye followers of Backus, youwho are
helping 10 ruin our land and ridge it over with
premature graves, do not forget that you are
acting under the all-seeing eye of rewarding
God. That he is just. and though full of mercy
will not be Knocked.
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