The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-01

Gg TOvS Talk Miller Asphalt
lis going on q trip to Ohio next week.
MIR Chalfant is at Morgantown,
attending a meeting of the Regents Of
the University The new section oil
tho Asylum is going up rapidly.
Mr.. Hutton, Of Newcastle, Pa, was
in town last week. No thinks Of 10.
eating here.-T, p. Reay & Co will
receive in a few days a large and com.
plete assortment Of hardware and gro.
cories, which they intend 10 sell cheap.
DIR. Clifton has received letters
lately from several citizens Of the
Keystone State, who contemplate mo-
ing to this cOunty.--Dr. Jolon is
about 10 leave US for his new home in
ohio.-About Eve thousand bushels
ofcOrn would end ready market in
this place just noR.-Mr, Hale,
with his characteristic energy, Is push
ing to completion the largo building
in tho roar Of tho Asylum.-Rey. Mr.. |
Simpson, formerly Of clarksburg, but
now OfPennsylvania, was in town last
week. IIe isjus. married, but looks
well, considering.-Mr. W, 3. Arr
mold has returned from Berkeley
Srrings,-Hatdware, notions and
groceries for sale cheap at T. P. Reay |
4 Cos Rev. ]. II. Mccartney Is
absent, attending tho National Camp
Meeting at Mouadsville. Two bran
new babies on our street last week.
John Ryan and others arc organizing
a Catholic Temperance Society in
town.-It is said that the new Bank
is to DO erected on tho vacant lot OPP
posito The Bail, y TIo.cl.-Wood and
Cole, Two indispensable articles 10
winter, aro to DO found in paying
quantities on Main Street. Ono keeps
q tin shop and tho other q livery sta
BE. patent applied for "A new
cemetery is a necessity, and our towas-
people should SEQ at once that q suita-
bio parcel Of ground DO secured for
hat purpose. DIR, Dargan carried
tho Band around, on bis stage. on ov-
cry street, on their return from tho
Jane Low pic.nic, and tho music dis
coarsca by tho boys was olegant.-,.
Farmers, il you want to buy goods in
the hardware limo cheap, call at T. r.
Reay & Co's.-An effort is now DO.
ing made to establish q Lodge Of Odd
Fellows in this place.-Judgo Ed
wards Is on q visit to friends In Wheel
ing.-It is said that several Of our
town folks arc preparing to take o big
hunt in Webster county sOno timo du-
ring this month. m
re- UpsuuR-"A sTlAson Pho
cRgDrss."-We had occasion to mon
ton, o few weeks ago, tho pcculiari.
ties Of tho Commissioners who lot out
tho work of repairing tho Court House
at BuckhannOn. in giyingt to citizen
Of that place tho contract for painting,
when a Weston painter had put in q
bid for tho same work at nearly $3.50
less than tho Buckhannon man We
simply referred to tho matter as 80
strange proceeding - bu. remarked
that iii was satisfactory to tho tax
payers, wo had nothing moro to say.
| Last week came tho Della, with words
to tho effect that tho act Of tho Com
missioners was erroneous, to say the
least, aud that they would DO held ac-
countablo therefor by tho Taxpayers.
But now comes tho Delta Of Monday
last, containing a card from Mr.. A.
G.. Osborne, one Of the Commissioners
Aforesaid, which reals in this wise:
nEprroR DEtTA For the benefit oftllc
editor Of the Weston DgaocRAT, and few
other croakcrs, wish 10 say that tho Com
mtssioners for the repair the Court House
Of Upshur County, had good reasons for
awarding tho contract rs they did; andany
one wishing to know the reasons can be en-
lightcned by calling on the undersigned.
IA. G., OSBORNE
Now In behalfo Brother Clarke
Of the Della, aud several other
"croakers," among whom wo may
name Valentine strader, old Mr.. Sex
ton, Watson Wcstfall. Valentine Hin
Ike, and a score others, good citizens
aud largo taxpayers 10 Upshur coun-
Ity, who have talked to US on this sub
liec!, We want friend Osborne to un-
burthsn himself Of tho reasons for this
"ssraugc proceeding" We can't
very we'll como over to his tin shop
and 500 him privately; but wc suggest
that DO commit lis reasons TO writing,
hand them to Brother Clarke for pub
location, and that gentleman, We feel
assured, will communicate the same 70
the brethren in duo form: Privacy in
these matters savors too much Of q
"Ripg y and where the peoples
money is concerned, they are opposed
to such thugs. Out with 1t, Mr.. 0s-
borne-we pause for your reply!
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