Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

about the muddy roads, l was walking
back and forth TO the school house on
perfectly hard frozen ground, and wasn't
bothered with mud. The ground was
frozen about three feet deep-the conse
Quence was. nearly every one had his po-
tatoes frozen to greater of less extent
some losing al We had number OF
bushels of potatoes and all our turnips
and stock beets frozen. 1t frOze the hard
est here it has ever been kno wn to freeze
before.
The farmers are now busy putting in
their wheat and preparing the soil for
the reception of the oats crop.
We have got a prohibitory law in this
State, which is the same in effect that the
prohibition amendment was. The saloon
men and liquor dealers. as well as the
manufacturers of the ardent, have form
ed an association, and are now engaged
in raising money for the purpose of test
| ing the conStitutionality of the law, and
| tremble for its life. The same tribunal
which declared the amendment not valid,
| will of course decide the law not conSti
| tutional The decision of the State court
making the amendment not valid, Will
make it pretty hard for court hereafter
in this great State to decide that law
embracing the same principles could be
constitutional. But if it must die, like
its predecessor, (the amendment) hope
the next legislature will give us law
similar to the Scott and Smith laws in
Ohio, but with more severe penalties at
tached for violation of the law. My
idea for the suppression of such free
use Of liquor in our State, is to make the
business an Improbable one to the man
who deals in liquors, and to make it fur
nish large amount of school funds to
the county in which the dealer resides;
and you may call it high license, or high
taxes, or by any other name you wish -
but the money paid by the liquor dealer
for his authority to deal in the deadly
stuff, should go to the use of the common
schools of the county in which the dealer
does business.
The market value of all commodities
is about the same here as they are in
Ohio. with the exception of cattle and
horses, and at public sales, they run per-
fectly wild here.
You may Tell the boys in old Belmont,
who think they have tough time of it,
in teaching winter school there, TO
! NOIhO liAOO lhC w CoC7 III Pol - VI viva, c'AAN
try the blizzardS OF one Ainter, and see
how they like them. The winter wind
here is dry and cutting, and not so chi ly
rs it is in Ohio, as d general lining. i
mad my nose frozen one morning goin-
10 the school house; after that | gave 4 y
nose good bathing with strong spirit,
D.. ,,,,4Ap 1g U,:or start .ag n the .n0rl
| IL, md | ,.ad tu- .lI.le .rOub 1t .tI'
| proDOS'lS t Z balance o the winter.
| ~ afd "a ,.-f n -. Md nt ~r.
ing r r 8, 3rA dd, > az. Iar ifl"ndo b
| ia" - rouaed nv. AID had gem,
good lIm-. and = spl-aaii i'm ,r. aft
t,artaklna ol whicu. tir crowd Hen.
0iir # Tie brides bruthers. and th-I
hey met ne Squire, and the coup
we're married, anu the crowd dispersed
| How is that for high ?-eating the we'd
ding meal before the cOunle were mar
ried? The couple were of proper age,
the groom being 4 and the bride SO.
was sorry to hear of the death of
my much esteemed friend, Alex. Arm
strong. He will be sadly missed by the
community in which he lived--but AS
he hau provided his children with good
education, they are amply fitted and
qualified TO carry on the business OF the
place.
was somewhat surprised to learn,
through THE CHRONICLE. that my rela-
tive and friend, T. B. Hammond. had
left old Belmont. and moved to Nilsson
ri. The probability is that Tom car
live with half the physical labor wflert
! be is, and it is much better place for
stock raising than where he used to live
| IN CrahaDnla SnccesS to Tom and fam
| ilv. BELMONTER.