The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-03
BIT A CONTRIBUTOR.
An Old Document.

Court House, in McConnclsville, on
The 25Lh day Of December, 1929,
for The purpose of electlrg three
Trustees aud a Treasurer to man
age the Affairs of School Section 16
OF the original surveyed Town 10,
and Range II. The township of
Nor IAN, then including what is
now called Malta township, was
the election district. Samuel Ba-
ker; Sen, John Jack and Grey
Benjamin were the Judges, and
James L Gage, and Edward Dawes
were the clerks of the election.
Tho number ct voters at that
election was certified TO be sixty
SIX. viz:
Richard G~ilderslleve, Grey Ben
jumin, John Seaman, John Christy,
Jacob johnson, John Arthur, Sam.
f Baker, John W. Johnson, Will
liam Hawkins, Richard McKibben,
Michael Wiseman, ". C.. Shugert,
Joseph Kirk, John E. Hanna, Jno.
Kelsey, Zohn r. Robertson, VIM,
Petit, Joseph Price, David New
man, W. r. Allen, James l.. Gage,
Alex. Simpson. Samuel Baker, VIM.
Dawes, Neri Shugert, Joseph Skim
ner, Samuel WEIGH, Benz. Mott,
Timothy Gaylord, NJ. Dcvin, Lew
G. Wells. Benz. Beckwith, james
Baker, A. Mckee, Sam. T. Clymer,
R1bert Mcconnell, Edwin Corner,
A. D. Hanson, Jacob Adams, P.
Mailer, John Jack, David Evans,
s. +. Gates, J. R. Price, Thomas
Dawn, F. A. Barker, Charles Roo
e-tson, r. A. Pinkerton, Edward
Dawes, John Bell. Luther D. Bark
er, E. Ogden, John Lansley, t.
Baker, John B. Stone, David
Young, IsaSc Williams, Jesse Con-
away, P. B. Johnson, ZarraI Sher-
wood, Robert Robinson, N. Mitchell,
William Durbi, John PettIt, JON
athan Porter, James Mutton.
For Trustees, Michael Wiseman
received 81 votes, VIM. Durbin 50,
John f. Hanna 81, James Baker 81,
Jno. W. Johnson 81. William Ball
28, Elijah Ball 1. For Treasurer,
James E. Marquis got 80 votes.
Henry Dawes 81, john Seaman /.
WIseman, DurbIn and Hanna
were duly elected Trusters, and
MaAquis Treasurer. There was
much excitement and interest taken
In this election, and nearly every
voter in the township responded
The vote, it will be seen, was very
close. Aside from the local party
ee.ignations of "Brlmstones" and
"Juntos," which, at that day, was
violent and bitter, there was a ques-
ton Of reform that agitated the
public mind of the Township in re-
gard 10 the loose and unsatisfactory
in winch The affairs of the School
Section had been conducted. Wise
man, Durl,in and Hanna were the
reform candidates, and they sIc-
ceeded by a small majority over
the old foggies who bad had, for
some Years, the control ofthe rents,
profits and issues Of the Section
The affairs of the Section, about
this time, were in doplorable cons
dition, and called loudly for a re-
firm, and seemed to need the vigi-
lence of some energetic men 10 IN
navel the tangled skei2, and bring
order cut If chaos. At that day,
all that fertile and productive Sec
ton 16, in Malta township, and IN
the Immediate vicinity of the thri>
wing village of Malta, would only
bring into the Treasury of The Section
for School purposes, a few gallons of
MoxahaIa Whisky from each of the
laaseh lders. The leaseholders die
tated to the Trustees the amount of
the annual rent, and when and in
what manner it should be paid. The
annual rent was at a very low rate, to
be paid when the several lessees
pleased, and that in whisky, or corn
at twenty-five cents a bushel, and that
by the Trustees exchanged for sto e
goods.
II will be observed by those acquaIn-
ted with the LIST of voters at that cleo
ton, that death has baen among them.
Of the whole number, only about IA
are KIN vn to survive. Seven, only,
oe the survivors now reside in the
Township. 1t appears, then, that in a
voting population of sixty-six persons,
after the lapse of forty years, only "a
of that number survive and half of
survivors only are res dents of the
Township that then knew them. Let
those who may be studying the vital
statistics of the country, reflect and
speculate upon the probable duration
of the lives of men as exposed by the
list of adults upon this poll-book.
The New York EIectiOH-An
Overwhelming Democratic
Victory.
Do you hear that men and brethren7
Take courage friends and countrymen
for the day is not far distant, when the
corruptionists, who now hold power,