The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-19
FROM KENTUCKY.
GREENUPsBURG, KY, March 10.

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has been ushered in. This State, you
know, is sound, but CIR eenup county i
slightly Radical, and so is this town
where they attempted to hail the new
era" with bonfres and belching cannon
but the effort was fizzle."
The Circuit Court has been in session
since Monday, March 1, Judge Stanton
presiding, who, by the way, is quite ;
gentleman, and a good Democrat, an(
~ho had the courage during the lat,
war to express his principles Of man
hood, for which he had taste of wha
was familiarly known as "CamI
Chase" The Commonwealth Attor
ney, Mr.. Halbert, also belongs to the
same school of politics, and has recently
removed to this place.
The county officers, so far as we have
known them, are all perfect gentlemeo
and more efficient and accommodating
Sheriff and deputy could not be found
anywhere. The following is the list Of
comfy officers: County Judge, D. j.
Mccoy; County Attorney, S. J. Filson
Sheriff, j. E. Brooks; D. s., Thomas E
Myers; Clerk of Court, Geo. A. Corum,
who will please accept thanks for fav.
ors rendered.
l believe l promised to give you a
brief sketch of this place, its business
prospects, &C., aud will, in my poor
way, proceed to do so.
Greenupsburg, tho seat of govern.
meut of Greeaup county, is situate on
the banks of the Ohio river, two hun
dred and sixty-nine miles below Wheel,
lag. The location is good one, sur.
rounded by the scenery peculiar to the
course Of the beautiful Ohio" Among
the many points of historical recollec-
tions, one was pointed out to us as the
spot where Kentucky's first pioneer
cabin stood for a few weeks. Through
the politeness of the Clerk of the Court,
we were permitted to examine some
relics on record in the Clerks office, one
of which was a deposition Of Thomas
Jefferson, of Virginia, taken in the case
of Fry rs. Bell, in which, speaking of
the plaintiffs father, who was Colonel
u u lCElulNuI VI NOluhhCClS, dul W uO
had died in the service, Jefferson
says he was succeeded in command by
"the late lamented President Washing.
ton" Mr.. Jefferson must have been at
that time quite an aged man (152l), YET
the deposition was written in his own
firm hand at his home in Monticello
The deposition was acknowledged be-
fore John Watson aud Thomas Ran
dOlph, Justices of the Peace. The
records show that this town has been in
existence about sixty-thBe years, al
though the only plat of the town on
record was drawn by Lewis Craig, Jr.,
and was admitted to record June 2,
1915, but there is on record the report
of three commissioners appointed by
the Legislature Kentucky, Ito survey
the public square, which bears date of
June =, 1906.
The cOmmissionerswere John Colwin,
Lewis Bullock and Thomas SloO. The
Improvement of the town has not been
rapid until the lastshree years, and now
the amount of trade carried on will COM
pare very faverably with The business
of larger towns.
The population is only about five or
six hundred, but the different kinds of
business are pretty well represented.
There are some half dozen dry goods
and grocery stores, one drug store, i've
hotels and one bank, three tipping
houses, two wholesale liqGor houses,
two tailOrs, two wagon makers, two
blacksmiths, one watch maker, one tin
ner, one Touring mill, one cabinet MAX
er, two shoe stores, one saddler, three
physicians and elecen la1Cyers.
There is a very substantial Court
House and Jail here; also Lodge OF
Free Masons and Good Templars, three
hurches-Presbyteri Methodist and
Christian, also church for the "colOred
people" (of what persuasion we cannot
say.)
The principal trade is derived from the
adjacent country, and the iron furnaces
near town. The country surrounding
this place is full of rich ore and good
veins of both bituminOus and camel
coal. The principal iron furnaces are
reached by the Kentucky Improve.
ment Company's Railroad.
This road is owned mostly by Eastern
capitalists, among whom are Belmont(ef
Tammany notOriety), the Wrights, Van
Renssalears and other prominent rail-
road men of the East. The company
own large tract of land in Kentucky,
and are at present improving the road,
erecting machine shops, &c, and pre-
pairing to develop the vast resources at
their command, which consist, as VIC
mentioned above, of rich mines of iron
ore, and an abundance of coal We
once thought that the coal found in our
West Virginia hills was the best in the
world, but the camel coal found here
produces more heat aud makes a more
cheerful fire than our bituminous coal.
Apparently, the bituminous coal of
Kentucky is inferior to OErs, but it has
been said that for manufacturing pur-
poses it is far superior, aud /
have been credibly informed that some
of this coal has been shipped from Ken
tucky to the furnaces near Wheeling
for that purpose. The day is not far
distant when Greeupsburg will rank
among the first manufacturing towns on
the Ohio river. All that is required at
present is men of capital and the neces-
sary "gOaheadstiveness" or energy to
push JuluSs.
These prophesies may be deemed fool
ish, but we venture to say that ere ten
years the citizens of Greenupsburg will
witness the fultillment of our predic.
tiOns. General G. T. BeauregarG came
in on the train yesterday evening and
took passage on the steamer Fleetwood
for Cincinnati. heard an old citizen
remark, that 1.-THE presence of the
General in the town or vicinity did not
create as much excitement as it would
about five years ago"
| l see by the Cincinnati papers, q
don't have the pleasure of seeing the
REGISTER) that the West Virginia Leg
islature has finally located the Capita
at Charleston. Why did not the Legis
lature accept the proposition of til,
citizens of Wheeling, to furnish, free o
expense to the State, the necessary
buildings for public purposes, until /;
time when the people could better af
ford to incur the expense of erecting tn,
public buildingsi This question shoulC
be asked by every citizen of West Nir
ginia who ut present bears his share o
! the heavy taxes.
/ acpenfal rhi