Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-07
GAINESVILLE.

Our community was very much sur
prised Saturday afternoon to learn that
Chalkley Dawson, proprietor of the
coal works of this place, had made an
ASSIGNMENT
to J. F. Davis and s. l.. James. II
was known that Mr.. Dawson had al.
ways been cramped for want of suffi.
cient capital to run successfully the
very valuable business in which he
was engaged, but few were aware that
his financial straits would compel an
assignment. Since he commenced op-
erations at the shaft twice has he met
with serious calamities, once when a
flood filled the shaft with water, mud
and various kinds of debris, causing a
great outlay OF time and money, to get
the works clear, and in running order
again, then disastrous fire destroyed
all the wood work and buildings con-
nected with the shaft, entailing a loss
of several thousand dollars. Out of all
these disasters, PheniX-li like, the works
revived, by the aid of some friends,
and the prospect was fair for q pros
porous business in the near future. The
present mild winter, however, that
has been such blessing to the poor,
mas operated materially against the in
terest of the coal shaft, in light de,
mand for coal. All these things com
bined have made the pressure too great
to be longer endured, and Mr.. Dawson
reluctantly is compelled to follow in
the road recently so frequently travel
ed by others. His liabilities are esti-
mated at $4,000, with assets about
81, 900. 1t is to be hoped that he will
be able to so arrange his affairs that he
will be permitted to resume his bust
ness at a period not far in the future.
Since he commenced operations, the
citizens of Barnesville have had an an
nual saving of thousands of dollars, by
the reduced price of coal ,and the great
er facilities of obtaining it, and it will
be for their own interests to come
quickly to the aid of Mr.. Dawson, and
give him such support as will put him
on his feet again. We cannot afford
to do without the coal shaft.
The decision in the
CONTESTED ELECTION
case of Barnes and Wright has been re-
ceived with much pleasure by nearly
all our citizens. The fact of its being
given by Democratic Judge disarms
criticism from that quarter, while all
the friends of Mr.. Barnes are gratified
at the fact that he had just ground
of contest, and won his case after pro-
tracted and earnest battle. If the re-
suit in this case will teach township
officers to exercise more care in making
up election returns, and show all our
people the importance of a single vote,
then the present contest will have
done good work for the entire county.
The appointments of
R. NJ. BISHOP & CO., GOVERNOR,
in reference to penitentiary directors,
have given very general satisfaction
here to men of all parties, not espe
cially because he appointed the men
he did, tut, because he did not appoint
others who " ere seeking it. The day
before the appointments were made
Columbus correspondence asserted that
"Mr. Kennon, of Belmont" would be
one of the happy chosen, which was
generally accepted as referring to the
Hon. John W., and was acquiesced in
with smile of incredulity by the ma
jority of our citizens. Hon. John has
not generally baen very successful in
obtaining emoluments of his party,
though often seeking for them, and his
recent connexion with the giant fraud
of the century, the Changers, has done
nothing to make him popular with
the laboring men of his party. His
appointment, however, would have
been received with much more OF ia
vor than the one really proposed, for
it so turns out that the applicant this
time for the position, was not the Hon.
J. W., but relative OF his, the blond
David G. Kennon, the most voluble
granger our county his produced, and
whose zeal for the cause has generally
been in inverse ratio to his estima.
ted modleum of brains. By his per-
In urging the claims (?) Of this
most arrant hutnbuG, and ruinous mo-
nopoly, he was picked up by them u