Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-27
An ANCIENT RECORD
Of the Mover ents of Old St. Clairs-
vile People,
Most of Whom Have Been Carried to Their
Long Homes and Crumbled
To Dust.

Most Of Whom Have Been Carried to Theil
Long Homes and Crumbled
To Dust.
a very interesting relic has been hand
ed US in the shape of copy of THE
February, 1899. The time-stained paper
has four seven-column pages, and was
edited by John 4. Hutchison. OF those
items of gossip and news which THE
CHRONICLE to-day prints as being of in
terest to its readers, this old paper has
not a line. In this respect it shows with
great distinctness the difference between
the country journalism of the 30's and
that of to-day. Almost every article in
the old sheet might have been scissored
out, and while the poetry and stories and
speeches are good, a modern reader would
pass them by as not being in place, and
would turn to letter from POdunk Bot
tom, with its hastily written and badly
phrased items about the movements of
unimportant individuals.
The price of the paper was two dollars
in advance, three dollars if payment was
delayed to the end of the year. The ad-
vertisements furnish some lines in pic
ture of the local life of the time e. G.
Hubbard, Grocer, tells the ''publick" very
respectfully" that he has just got "20
Boxes Brown & Hadden's Candles, ,CObb's
Spoilers, United States Primers, Ger
that he sells French Brandy, wine, old
rye wbiskey, candle wick, opedildock,
and EPSON salts" J. H. Williams states
that he wants Immediately 10000 lbs.
pork and 500 lbs. roll butter" and that
he has hardware, hats, Whitney blankets,
shoes, large & small looking glasses,
variety of fashionable shawls, which he
will sell lower than anybody else "west
of the mountains" These advertise
ments seem distinguished by simplici-
ty, and RGicete. VIM. Maxwell, as agent,
advertises for sale the property which
Charlie Miller will soon turn into sa-
loon, and it seems to have differed little
from its present condition. "The sub
scriber," says Lewis FL. Green, in an ad
vertisement badly disfigured by two cuts
of trees, "offers for sale 1900 white Ital
ian mulberry trees" That must have
been the time when it was thought that
silk worms could be successfully cult
waited in this country. Craft & Spencer
enumerate great number of things for
sale, and say that they have variety of
others "too tedious to mention" Benz.
Thomas, just beginning business, assures
buyers that he has "Blachs and Connords
segars, dye-stuffs, essences, spunges, and
bears oil, elegant skitooms, steelyards
and balances, brass and polished snuff
ers and trays, stay bells, Britannia coffee
potts and mugs" The interior of one of
those old emporiums would be veritable
old curiosity shop to a youth of this gen.
Grafton. VIM. L. Ramsey had just open
ed huge store for retail and wholesale
trade in drugs, while the sellers of patent
medicines took up whole page of the
paper in detailing their wonderful wares.
John Frint, whose name is one of the
few familiar to younger readers, is an
nounced to have effected partnership
with Benjamin Thomas in the tailoring
business. Pickering & Carley were con-
Quoting trade in winter goods, and had
a stand at Loydsville, opposite Surgeons
tavern Our sedate ancestors must have
been good patrons of lotteries, for no
less than six at different places, are ad-
vertised.
A meeting of the Belmont Agricultur-
al Society is called-C. Welsh being Pres |
ident A meeting, too, of the Belmont
County Temperance Society is mention
ed, at which B. S. Cowen, Esq, was to
deliver an address, Another notice calls |
for meeting of the New Athens Colo
nization Society. to be addressed by VIM.
7. Finley, Jr., c. c. Carroll, DR.. Kelley
and Mr. Cope. Jesse Pennington, Jesse
Magee and Parker Askew as directors of
the "Poor House, ask for bids for super
intendent. A marriage notice tells of
the marriage of Rev. Peter TallmaD to
Miss Elizabeth Ann Booker, the ceremo
ny being performed by Rev. Jas. Drum
mond. Market reports from Cincinnati,
Wheeling and Baltimore show great vari
alton in prices. Flour sells in Wheeling
at $3.50, in Cincinnati at $500. and in
Baltimore at SS3715. Wheat brings 81
in Wheeling and S1S0 at Baltimore,
while pork in Wheeling is $3.50 and in
Cincinnati SlS to $40.
The Legislature was then in session,
Though it has not, as many may suppose,
been sitting ever since), and had passed a
bill allowing ten cents pound for silk
worm cocoons raised in the State, one
sin relation to fugitives from other
States,' and one fixing the rate of interest
at ten per cent. and providing punish
ment for usury.
The Office of the paper was then located
i'll the house now occupied by Mr.. Giffen
and family, and it seems that the bulk
of the towns business was done at that
end.
THE official board of the NJ E. church
met Tuesday night and discussed the
the free seat plan, collecting the money
now raised by pew rent by contribution
and assessment. This plan has been
found to work well at the Uuited Pres
byterian church for the past year.
Attention, Horsemen and FarmersI
The celebrated pacing Horse, Joe Hook
er, Jr., will make the coming season on
the st. Clairsville Fair grounds, at rea-