The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-11-16
County Correspondence.
Written for The Spirit of Democracy.
From Malaga Township.
MALAGA, o Nov. IL, rs,


Mr.. EDITOR: Business here is mode.
rately brisk No excessive depression
is evident The tobacco crop is still un-
sold, and this makes money scarcer than
usual but goods, groceries and living
generally, is as cheap as for some years
past, and prices for iabor remain about
the same.
Notwithstanding the damage by food
the past season, corn can be bought for
Soc per bushel, hay at 60 to 70 cents
per hundred, and most other things in
proportion, except potatoes, which are
so plenty that there is not much home
market for them, and apples which are a
total failure, We can get from Bellaire
for about S. per barrel.
We have three dry goods stores here;
plenty of and cent calico, and other
things in proportion. Butter and eggs
rule high.
ANlittle improvement has been made
since last wrote. A good stone walk
has been laid from the school house to
the end of the CrambIett board walk
1t stopped" too soon. The worst road
the children have to travel over, on their
way to school, is from the Bishop House
down to the board walk, and this should
be repaired. H Crook has built shop,
DR. Foster a good front fence, and H. c.
Kotzebue has completed his ware room
and the repairs to his house.
The Supervisor commenced to repair
the south end Of Monroe street, but quit
before it was ''done," and if it is as long
before the work is taken up again, as 1t
has been since any other work was done
ION that bad piece Of road, we will have
to wait some years for that much needed
repair. e.
| j. B. Matchett, John P. and George
Fogel returned from the west this week.
The latter, two were in Kansas and Ne
bresla, and report favorahly; they want
to sci. and go west, as also does MIR.
Matchett. Several persons in this vi
cinity have Western fever" Quaker
Ridge is said to be infected, and now
would be a good time to buy there
VIM Elicit has sold to Eaton.
Isaac Hatcher has traded his farm to MIR.
Dunlap. Of Missouri, (near Sedalia,
and expects to move there next Spring
Epizootic prevailing-mild.
Mr. Wilson Goodwin, who "took'' fe-
yer in September, is still confined to the
house.
That "mud hole" in the road between
here and the Bush meeting house, is just
as promising this fall as it was last.
The gill over the culvert west of town
is bad. 1t ought to be drained and
rounded up. The small culvert between
that and town is good one, but needs
filing in above it very badly.
We have no Post-offlce letter.box
here.
Protracted meeting begins in the NJ
| E Church here, Sunday, the l4th inst
The alleys leading thereto are in their
usual condition.
The wood piles are replenished for
winter, and sle,is, wagons, DC, are in
their accustomed places.
During the Quarterly Meeting held
here recently, the aisles were much
crowded, and the Elder complained. It
is to beshoped that waiting persons will
gather in the pews and leave the aisles
free during the coming meeting.
Noting the weather is not ''news,
but I'll merely say, by way of exclama-
ton, that October was grand "Summer' s
second sober thought" The mellow,
hazy Indian Summer has come and gone.
Field and forest are changed, and chang,
ed so gently No storm, and but little
frost They were trapsformed by inev.
litable law of nature, and were gorgeous
in their decline. ITEMlzER