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FROM REV. JOSEPH q, kEksARD, D, D.

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from de Gbsrs eaHsss TSgrs, rsry respectfully,
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BRIDGE FUND
Amount paid building Bridges Ss i7ls
-.s.-5.lszzs1s RELIEF FUND
Township Families soldiers
BOUNTY FUND.
Township Volunteers So55ss io55(
TEACHERS FUND,
Paid 45s1-s oS
POOR FUND.
+. Robech wagon-bed &C., Infrmars .~~....~ ahOl
Vim. PorteneId OF 1nfrmary ry.---
Township outdoor Paupers..-----...-
j. W Frazier, burial expenses Moses fer'en asSe 5Ss =
y. l. 1 1ookeI 70 SEM T. a ssains 10 Na''-"'."
Jacob Hicks shoeInaking for infrnary 9S.S
McIlary, Infrnary. -. Zl,bo
j. o ioO0
Vim. Purter1eid, of Infrrnary 2NtS
t4step q Foster. PI ysicians Tor Innrmar. 2h@
j. quinn, medical attendance Pauper-..-. 21s3
Charles WlLians, threshng grain lilo
Dr. A. g. Walcf IA attendance on John Ward...---. $500
joel Elliott, Thomas Goldsmith. 1e
wln inexanler use OF John fhoFn6erry---~-- jS Ss
po srhs Ms6olIin sef.......... ... .-...--. SO
1yan Lucinda Evans. lGl0 iss
DR.. ". ii Dnnhan, medical attend pauper-- 800
j.
L. Is. Desenis nursing susan nd Moore
Robinson, Sturgeon 4 Co. hour for Infrmary. 1000
no taldWe u Wheat @ m and appes les for infmary 500
John Warnock nursing Mary Spencer 759
famnel n t Talbot use OF Eb Eiza Garnet SS
Thomas Tho Rice, g, eohins 70 for psu psupers z55S 5SS
same part salary superintendent
II West & Son, medicines Tor Infrmary = 81
G Hubbard yarn for infrniary M$5
John & VIM Caldwell corn for for infrmary-----. Io@ oS
Wf1 Goese iSs' -: i"' i-@i' .s-....-. i47S
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Bank Stock for Sale.

rTHE SUBSCRIBER BEING ABOUT TO
L Remove West, offers for sale SlxtY-Seven
dr7l Shares of Stock in the First National Bank
of Rridgeport Ohio For particulars and price,
INQUIRE OF me or w. w. Holloway.
GEORGE KEELINE.
Bridgeport Ohio
Januarv u IS6a-:}W
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Infor1nation Wanted.

usHE UNDERSIGNED is anxious to learn
the Whereabouts of his father, thornton
Wright who moved from Culpeper County. Va,
40 Belmont County, Ohio. about the year isoZ-
He mad with him his three sons, Jamest Peter
and Charles Also, three daughters, Martha,
Emily and Laura. Having had no udings from
airher of them since the war. although have
tbs eve ~ any one who can give me any infor-
mation. they will please communicate with me
"s ie'sei' JOHN T. WRIGHT,
ran-av Fredericksburg, Va
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'aIUS
Loy GlladeId HAoL aIavnlUA

IN RANFlRUPTCY.-7'he SosthesTi DtsbTet ef
| Ohio SS. At BeiiGire The 2ldof January, 1850.
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his
nppointnent as assignee OF Dewitt c. Bolon OF
Hunter in the County Of Belmont and
state of Ohio and within said District, and who
has been adjudged bankrupt on his own peti-
tion by the district Court OF said District,
JAMES +. ANDERSON,
Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio.
Jan. It-2t Assignee Of Dewitt c. Bolon.
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alsw advertisements.
Ito THE WoRKING CLAss.

FIR ON Cooley & Dauchy, Advertising
Agents Of New York.
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BIACsKMITHING
and
HORSE SHOEsMC.

"AVING leased the shop of Mr.. Samuel Still
II well. in the Fast end OF St Clairsville. am
prepared 10 do all Kinds OF Blaeksnlithing and
HORSE SI{OEING promptly and TO the satis-
faction of my customers. Give me q call and
trv me. Prices reasonable.
SSc95.tf GEORGE SAECK.
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Misfellansnns.

Nineteenth Quarterly Report of the
! First National Bank of st. Clairsville, D.
lSho,cg lis condition The ro11lil,g Of tbs. first
/ Monday Of January, 1889.
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Annual Election.

ry1HE annual meeting OF the Stockholders OF
the BelIaire Nail Works, and election OF
Directors will be held at the Company's Office
D. ). SMITH, Sec'y.
Dec. q, 1865.
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n B.-For the benefit of our Agents we have
arranged with parties who have Goods suitable
for sewing Machine Agents TO sell. We VIII
send BOOK OF SAMPLES and iuli partlcuiars
On receipt of one red stamp. Address q. V. N.
ANDREWS, General Agent, Detroit, Mich'
Jan2r69-ly
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AGENTS..

We wish to arrange with Agents, male or fe-
male to represent the American Shuttle sew
ing Machine in each State, County, and Town
i'm the United states and Ontario. Extra IN
ducements To Experinced Agents. For full par
ticulars as to Salary or Commission, address
G " y. ANDREWS,
General Ag't, Detroit, Mich.
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= > Rhodes block, opposite the depot OF the L.
81. r. R., is so nearly completed that the lower
s,o7- < now occupied as business rooms The
upper stories are TO be used as dwelling houses,
an ARE said 10 be well arranged for that purpose.
Messrs Howell & Nugent have removed into
one of the rooms in the Rhodes block, opposite
the depot, and have opened up fine, large stock
of Hardware Window Glass, &C., and are pre-
pared TO I'LL orders as low as any estab ishment
in this neiehborhood- Giye them call
The Tin and Sheet-Iron manufacturing estab-
lishment of Arkle Greer has also been reInov-
ed to the Rhodes block, at the sign of the big
Red Coffee Boiler. where the gentlemanly pro-
prietors are always on hand to take andsfili
orders for anything in their line. See adver-
tisement.
The roads are in a terrible condition in and
about the town. The National Road is so badly
used-upas to be almost impossible for heavy
teams Something should be done for them.
There is a pretty general complaint of dull
times among the business men,
Messrs Rhodes and Son have purchased the
lot north of their new building. on wafer street
and talk of extending their block fifty feef in
that direction. We would like to have a few
such men in the town of 81. Clairsville, where
we need houses badly, but seem to nave no mon
led men with enterprise enough 10 build them.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR FEBRUARY
Has a wide range of Articles mostly by we'll
known writers, as follows: Malbone. an Old
port Romance, by I. w Higginson; The Door
step, poem by Edmund e. Stedmani Our Pos
tai Deficiencies, ~ Z. Haskell Derby; Co-opera-
tive Housekeeping: Charles Baudelaire, Poet OF
the Malign, by Eugene Benson; Consumption
in America, by Henry /. Bowditch, NJ. ID; The
Bee and the Rose, a Poem; Ritualism in En-
gland, by Arther Pember; Proud Musee OF the
Sea storm, A poem, by Walt Whitman; The
New Education, by Charles w. Eliot; Birth OF
the Solar System, by James d. Whelpley; Love
in Mount Lebanon, by ]. w. DeForest; Tribute
of a Loving Friend to the memory of a Noble
Woman fThe Duchess of Sutherland.) By Mrs.
H b. stowe: Our Four Servants; Reviews and
Literary Notices. Fields, Osgood, q Co., Puo-
fishers, Boston.
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xror-,, Toor,xc AFrER-There are in the
at. Clairsville School tstrist over 1or'y coioreu
cbi,dren regularly enun ,eral ed and reported, ior
whom school funds ase d, avn from 1ne S'ioe :,
The law requires the Direo tors OF speelai scnooi
districts to provide school hou ses ior scnoois
when the enumeration ofy outhA exceeds thir'y'
In this district the coIored people. with money
raised by subscription, pure hased a puiioine ioi
:. church and have used it as school house' anu
80 far have saved the taxpayers of Tue oistric'
the expense of building one for them ihey are
now taxed with the rest of us to aid in e'ne puiiu
pg a very fine school house for the WIN te cnli-
tren and as there will be tn rec houses, nj wv oc-
eupie by the white schools, at the disposal OF the
directors of the district the colored people nave
= right to expect, yea more, they have r1gh 70
demand that one of thesel iouses be set apart 10
their use. 80
AT the time the propos ltion to build new
school house was made, it was generally under
stood. in fact it was sugge sted by of the d.
rectors. that when the ne " house was built one
Of the old ones would be apart for the colored
school
1t is now expected, not only by the colored
people but by many Others, that one OF these
houses will be thus Appropriated and If it is not.
it lis more than probable that measures will be
taken. such as the law provides, te, compel the
erection Of new one. 3.
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asv advertisements.
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OUTFIT Small capital required. Circulars free
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FgOH HOS. GEO. W. WOODWARD.
CSsf Jzssies of ;he suprens Court OF PsnRsyi EszA
PEILADELrAIA, March IS iS67-
sad Hssfazd's Gss1=tsa Bii.srs nst sH fissoz-
orisg lsverGsr sus good losse, sssE! IN diseraI
I n, sgs@fes sEszsss end 81 great bsnsSs ~ sfses q
1tzssaY Ssa x.,st ef HsTrs0s Gcsior ta fe systeHa
$40 W. WooDwA.D.
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AUDITORS EXHJBIT
Receipts and Expenditures

OF Belmont County for year ending sc
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Bleed Purisers

BIsod Pari6ers
s..sa ,SS .gilI eE diseases TssHiias JSon
81 I,oos Ess,' s0er sst18 blood Ps;Ts; keep yeir
Lirs. "a ss,ier; asea - rear dises,iee orys:ss
= ssa1 tetsJs e ESsEsiioa, by the is,
4 .se rsre-Is-s ..SzzkzzuzunzeGns E9 9ssscss VIZ
i~z IhzteSr tas eol,Lry TscsHzseHa
h-as r gzG-s q hsRest reprsasa 60 for eslyei.sss
gsg n'-7 srs fhess rrsgsrsti0ss-
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11
The Book Business.

But few persons have any
proper comprehension of how
vast is the book business in
this country. Take one 'item,'
for instance, as lllustrative'
Matthew Hale Smiths "Sun.
shine and Shadow in New
York." which is the exciting
work of the day, has already
reached the enormorous sale
Of $4,000 copies within thirty
days. The publishers (J. b.
Burr & Co.. of Hartford, Conn, J
use two tons of paper a day
and run six large roller presses
constantly to supply the cur
rent demand. This is doing a
Wholesale business with one
book alone. This is q large
work too, il must be rendered,
between seven and eight hun.
dred pages royal octave, and
yet it is said to rival in rapid.
ty Of sale Uncle Toms Cabin"
of old Think Of the count.
lesssness of the small ones
published. Surely ours is a
reading country.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

TaE Enquirer is anxious tc
discuss the public record Of The
Democratic Auditor elect
The Enquirer's party leaders
had sense enough TO keep that
paper quiet about this subject
during the campaign. when il
was a proper jeci TO be dis
eussed. Now, its discussion
can do no good, and We have
heretofore reirained from say
ing anything about it; but il
the Enquirer persists in having
it before the public We ale
ready and willing. We have
the written statement Of q
prominent Democrat OF this
county a personal and poli:.
ical friend of the Auditor elect
--spbstantialing every word
We have said, and will publish
1t il the Enquirer wants to see
how it will look in print.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

HERE is an interesting ex
tract from Prot. Briggs's Geo
logical Report OF Ohio in 1888
The iron region from tho Ohio
river. near Franklin Furnace
northward by Jackson, to the
Hooking river, occupies an area
equal to an unbroken stratum
fifty miles long, and ak miles
wide, capable Of yielding three
millions of tons of good iron
ore to each square mile, and
that tia quantity Of ore is so
great that Jackson, Lawrence,
and Scioto counties, are capa.
bic Of producing 100000 tons
OF iron annually for 2,700
vear'e." This statement 10 fully
confirmed by more recent sur
veys.
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The VINToN RECORD.
--soe---
THURSDAY, FEB. II, 1859.


{ Coal in Cincinnati, more
than a hundred miles from the
mines, is SELLING at seven cents
per bushel; in McArthur, one
fourth ofa mile from ineIhaust.
BILE mines, it is ceiling at ten
cents per bushel. That is just
one little item Of extravaeant
prices our citizens are com
pellsd to pay because Of our
miserable mud roads. We
have not a word Of complaint
TO make against coal dealers in
this connection. If they can
only haul one load of coal a
day, Of course the conaulney
will have to pay for the Extra
time and trouble. But re do say
our own people are 10 blame
for quietly Submitting to this
state Of affairs year after. year.
We have plenty of money, and
plenty Of stone that can be had
without price, to build pixies.
yet We suffer the Inconvenience
and loas of trade. and bigh pri'
ces for country produce, with
out moving q hand tc better
our condition. Won't come OF
our enterprising citizens move
in this mattsrf Haven't we
stood in our own light long
snough9 We know that the
old excuse Of no gravel and no
limestone will be offered, but
We have an endless quantity OF
good sandstone, to be had lit
orally cheaper than dirt,
which Will build a pike fully
as good, if not 30 durable as
Limestone.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11
An Incredible Wheat Story.

SAu 1uCEcuiOtO NhoSO cOoIJ'
The California papers report crop
In Los Angeles county. that yielded
eighty bushels 10 the acre. How eau
eighty bushels stand on an aere?--
Hearth and Home.
In 1852, the editor Of the
Dayton Journal was editor o.
the San Francisco Journal. A
farmer in Napa Valley brought
TO our sGnctun, a bunch @,
wheat containing two hundred
and twenty-five stalks, eacf
with a we'll developed head
which he demonstrated were
grown from one seed. He
there and then ayerred, thai
upon five acres of ground thai
year, from one planting he hat
harvested 800 bushels Of whea
from Australian seed-or, on,
hundred and twenty bushels
per acre. Other farmers il
California, of good reputation
and sound mind, made simila
statements. and produced cor
roborative testimony.-DGy
ton Journal.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

LAST week q little daughter
of d. II. Varian of our town
complained OF a pain in her
side. She became worse, and
physicians we're called in. It
was difficult TO account for her
symptoms, but finally DR.. Mil
Ter performed an operation,
and took from her side a piece
of a knitting.needle between
three and four inches in length.
She is now getting we'll. How
the knitting.needle came there
Is not known, but it 10 sup.
posed that it was In her pocket,
aud was forced into her side q
few nights previous, when she
fell out of bed. Jackson Stan.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

The correspondent of the
Detroit Advertiser writes; -
Mrs. Grant wishes the Gsler'
al to retain the house they are
living in now, through his
term, making it his private
residence, and using the White
House onlyior business and re.
'eeptions. This is not q bad
idea, as it is we'll known that
our Presidents have beer
dreadfully harrassed by con.
stant business calls. Earfison
and Taylor were killed out.
right by it. MIS-. Grants plan
is for the General to receive
business calls from 10 A. N.
toS P, NJ, and spend the rest
of his time with hia family,
and out OF business hours to
persistentlyand peremtorily re-
fuse anybody. Reception eve.
nings, of course, he would with
his ladies repair 10 the Execu-
live mansion.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

Miss SUSAN CAROLINE GcpsEY
aged twenty.seveu years, who
Iives six miles south Of Hick,
man, Kentucky, has slept nine
teen years, with the exception
of ten or twenty minutes each
ten or twelve times each day.
There IS nothing repulsivo in
the expression Of her features;
she has a mild, sorrowful, yet
sprightly looking countenance
and converses on common top.
ics with q correctness and in.
tslligence which, considering
her condition IS surprising.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11
Proceedings Of the Long Leg.
islature.

The Ohio Legislature is
drawing its par dim, and at.
tending excursions and sup
pers. Msmb.rs who can't
mako arrangements with the
lobbyists for their board bills
are at home attending to their
private business.
The amount Of corruption in
y public body may be judged
by the number of Lobbyists
hanging to its skirts. The
Long Legislature takes the
lead. Why don't they trans.
sct their business and 60 home7
Six weeks have passed and
nothing accomplished.
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The National Life insurance
Company.

The National Life lnsurrnct
Company.
The National Life InsuraAct
Company, chartered at the las
session, and starting in bust
ness with a paid. up cash capi
tai Of one million of dollars
will do much to change the
whole system Of Life Insurance
In America. Hitherto, with 9
few exceptions, our companies
have been organized on the
mutual plan, by which the in
sured is obliged to pay o pre-
MUM much greater than the
cost Of insurance, in the ex'
peetation of receiving an nm
certain dividend at some fu.
ture time. High premiums
makes it difficult for the pooI
man to obtain the benefits OF
life insurance, which he, of all
others, should have in easy
reach. It should Ee In the
power of every man to protect
his family by the payment of a
low annual premium, with the
knowledge that he has made a
perfectly secure investment.
This result the establishment
Of the National Life Insurance
Company will obtain. In tho
first place, is the security OF
It's vast cash capital, and in
the second that of the charac.
Ter Of its managers, many Of
whom are men who stand fore
most in American finances. 1t
is a stock company, paying its
lividends in advance by charg:
ing rates far below those of
the mutual companies. II
gives every insured person the
largest possible amount of in.
surance for the smallest posi-.
BILE premium; and every policy
holder knows precisely what
he is to pay, what he is to re.
ceive, and no margin whatever
is left for doubt or misunder-
standing. Doing business in
this way the National Life In.
snrance Company must be.
come popular throughout the
country, and it is only necessa.
ry that it should lie understood
to command the confidence Of
the people.
The esl ablishment of such
"ystem as we have indicated,
upon such a broad and secure
basis as that of the National
Life Insurance Company, must
be the means OF doing meal.
culable good. Life Insurance
is the privilege of the rich; it
is the duty Of the poor, and
these new and great principles
introduced into the American
system, deserve the thoughtful
consideration Of every one Of
our readers.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11


DURING the month, Of De-
csm5er, January, and Febru
ary of last year the weather
remained cold, the mud
was frozen up, and tbs roads
were passable. This winter
has been open, and the roads
thawed out We ask the mer
chants of this town to examine
their books and compare the
sales then with the same
months this year, and see the
trade Macarthur is losing by
reason of bad roads. 1t may
arouse you to the importance
of good turnpikep, which are
solid the year ronnd.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

AN exchange says new conn.
terfeit $50 bills are oat. The
enly defect noticeable in the
counterfeit ls. that in the Wig.
nette, Mr.. Hamilton's coat lacks
the fuN number Of buttons al.
lowed him by the government
None Of these bills have been
offered US. II there had been
ws would hardly have stopped
20 notice whether or net Nj
Hamilton had o coat, much less
to count the buttons.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

AN Ironton woman gave her
baby away, on board of the
steamer Telegraph, to a young
lady from Big Sandy. Both
parties were sick of the bar.
gain in less than twenty.four
hours and the baby was return
cd. The Ironton Journal saya
both women were happier
when it was returned to its
.,nother-"one because she had,
snd the other because she
hadn't a baby"
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

MANY persons are at a loss to
know the meaning of the sig.
nature ID. p" the correspon'
dent of the Cincinnati Com.
mercial, who occupies the dirty
position left vacant By 4Mack.
Some say it means Darn Pious;
some Dirty Puppy. You takes
the Commercial and has your
! choice.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

TIE editor Of the Enquirer
IS respectfully informed that
We d. not consider FIVE dollars
per day too much to pay mem
bers of tho Legislature. i
they are fit for Legislators
their time is worth that sum
either to themselves or the
State. but from the length oI
time it has taken the present
Legislature to do nothing We
believe that their services are
scoT!h.less.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

A negro by the name of fEpimonda'
Squash haa been elected member ot
the Legislature Of Arsausas.-Nsu
Tort Day Book.
Precisely the kind of a nigger that
onr little Vintnn Record would take
pleasure IN supporting for member ni
the Ohio Legislature from Vintou
Comfy! All that class of Radical
papers have more respect for squashei
than brains Dem. Eaqairer.
Not 80, or the editor of the
Enquirer would have been q
candidate for the Legislature
on The Radical ticket long
since.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

Ar a meeting of the Senate
Committee on the Pacific Rail.
road yesterday, they decided,
by a vote Of 8 against 3, to ex.
tend the Union Pacific Rail.
road Eastern Division) from
it's present terminus IN Kansas
southwark, to q junction with
the Atlantic and Pacific roads,
on the 35th parallel in New
Mexico, the Trunk Line west
of the junction toward the
Pacific. to be built and con
trollsd jointly by the two com.
panies.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

A young man who will mar.
ry and settle down in life
without subscribing for his
county paper, gives unmistak.
able evidepce OF the fact that
he Is certainly commencing
life backwards.
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-02-11

JAags ARMSTRONG, Semme's
lieutenant on the Alabama, is
q resident of Halifax. He has
become a British citizen and
why shouldn't he9 Didn'. he
serve in one of Her Msjesty's
vessels during our slate IN.
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