Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-29
INTERESTING RELIC.
A Copy of The Chronicle of 54 Years
Ago, and a Brief Resume
of It's Contents.


of It's Contents.
An interesting relic has been sent +
this office by Lizzie C. Welsh, of Arm
strong's Mills, in the shape of copy o
THE CHRONICLE, printed at st. Clairs
vile in 1910. The paper was edited b,
John A Hutchinson. Its date-OctobeI
20-was between the State and NatiOna
elections, and it is accordingly loaded t.
the muzzle with politics. The Whig
had just gained memorable victor.
over the LOeofocos COrwin had defeat
ed Shannon for Governor by $4,000. Tht
county had given nearly 400 Whig major
ity for b. s. Cowen for Congress, Vail fol
Sheriff and Hoge for Auditor. The Wings
were jubilant. They predicted the elec
tion Of Harrison, and were conducting
belligerent campaign. Indeed so inter
ested was the paper in political affairs
that it seemed to have lost sight of the
happenings in the town, for the news Of
this old sheet is meager. Some names oi
interest to the towns present population
occur.
A "new line of stages is advertised
by way of st. Clairsville and Maysville
Ky. The stages left Wheeling each day
at 3 in the afternoon and reached Zanes
ville-a distance of about IS miles AT
~ the next morning. A three-months'
advertisement calls for "a woman of in
dustrious habits, eleanly, of general good
character, and free from all incum
brances," to do house work. That man
ought to have advertised for an angel at
once The places named in this "nOtice,
which tastes so strongly of the Olden
time, will be easily recalled: The sub
scriber having determined to make st.
ClairsviIle his permanent residence, begs
leave to inform the public that he has
taken the lower room in the west end of
Mrs. Ayers three story brick building,
one door west of Mr.. Brooks Female
Seminary and nearly opposite Mr.Grove's
LIN, WhOtC ITO ihtChuo Cotigi VII thO
Watch and Clock repairing business in
all its various branches. Call at the sign
of the Watch" The notice is subscribed
to by Jesse Brown.
Lewis III. Green, Druggist, from th
amount of his advertising, evidently
drove a thriving trade. He respectfully
calls attention to the fact that he is do
ing business at the old stand His
store room," he says, twill be kept light
ed up every night until 10 o'clock" DR..
Alexander announces that he has opened
an office here and is ready for work
Heaton Il Gressinger-well known names
had lately opened a" Job office in How
ards Building" and want the public to
know it. Monroe county was then at the
front in educational uIattcrs, u, Is shown
by large advertisement of Monroe
Acadamy, pleasantly situated adjoining
the town of Woodsfield," and where Lat
In and Greek Classicks, Antiquities and
Mythology, Mathematics" ETC.. were
taught. Note the icks.'' A most NOV
ing advertisement is that made " To the
Bald Headed and Others" The adver-
tiser pathetically asks, does any know
a neighbor or a friend who has been
Bald, and whose head is now covered with
fresh hair? One whose coat collar was
covered with dandruff though brushed
every hour; which has now vanished en-
tirely?" And he ends recital of the
the virtues of his medicines by these tell
ing words, at is your duty as moralists
to preserve the beauties of nature, with
which a bountiful Creator has endowed
you" If that did not induce a trial,
surely nothing could.
Benjamin s. Cowen had started an in
surance agency, and the people are asked
to protect themselves against the raw
ages of this destructive element, which
often, in single hour, sweeps away the
earnings of many years." Stray animals
are frequently mentioned and particular
ly described. There were few fences in
this sparsely settled region in those days,
and horses and cattle seem to have
been continually wandering from their
owners.
The ladies of st. Clairsville of a half
century ago seem to have had the same
character which they have maintained
until to day, for long editorial tells of
an address to these ladies printed the
preceding week, and owing to the
carelessness of sleepy compOsitor, con-
tanning many ludicrous typographical er-
rors. ITO the ladies of this town." says
the editor, ain our humble opinion, may
justly be awarded as much intelligence
and as much good sense as to those of
any other town in the Union"
The origin of the "hard cider and
"log cabin features of the Harrison
campaign is explained as follows: An
Eastern writer having a contempt for
the rusticity and simplicity of the West
land Indiana was then the Vest, sneer-
ingly wrote of General Harrison: "Give
him barrel of Hard Cider, and settle on
him pension of two thousand year
and our word for it, he will sit the re-
maind er of his days contented in a Log
Cabin" This remark was deftly turned
by the Wings. Emblems and slogans
were made of these two features
HoOsier life, and they cut no little figure
in the old hero's election.
SINCE palmistry became social amuse-
ment people have reason to be careful OF
the inside of their hands, written over