Bank disputes echo in Ohio Jefferson county politics
In a sequence of letters and notices from the 1843 Ohio scene, D. Carre and others dispute claims about bank surplus revenue and interest payments. They challenge editorials in the Herald and defend residents against fiscal misstatements while arguing over stock value, taxation, and the push for specie payments amid political rivalries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auditor's Office
D. Carre
Alexander Conn
A. J
Messrs Epitors
Cassil
Trur
David Moody's
Herald
Jefferson County
The
Ohio
Dave
Solomon
FP. & M. Bank
the Herald
Universal Whig Party
Letter from Col. Benton on currency reform in Missouri
Col. Benton writes from St. Louis on September 16, 1842 to Clay county leaders. He argues hard-money restores constitutional currency, criticizes Hamilton and paper money, praises Jackson and Van Buren reforms, and warns Missouri against banking expansion and depreciated notes. He urges self executing laws to curb banks, endorses gold as national currency, and cites French and English practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay County
Congress
Hamilton
Jackson
Mr. van Buren
Treasury
van Buren
IS11
First National Bank
Sherrod Williams
Bank of France
Directory
France
State of
Missouri
Memory and Reminiscence on Life's Quiet Gravity
The passage contemplates memory as a lasting gift of pain and pleasure, recalling countless personal incidents as life wanes. It reflects on love, aging, and the solitude of old age, noting how memories of friends, wisdom, and beauty shape future conduct and prepare the soul for another state.
Intellectual curiosity ends in egg theory joke
A nine year old student, studying Bacon Locke and Stewart, explains to his grandmother the process of sucking eggs with a philosophical twist. He instructs on making an incision at the apex and insertion at the base, prompting the grandmother to recall older methods of piercing both ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcu
Locke
Stewart
Grandmama
A View on Death and Moral Duty From Avren Tuovents
Avren Tuovents highlights how death sharpens memory of kindness and unkindness, urging carefulness in official duties and repentance. Doctor Cannine notes a man from a modest trade may discern motives and weigh evidence more wisely than a widely traveled scholar with vast knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avren Tuovents
Rare land sale invitation in Ottawa County Ohio
A Port Clinton agent offers 0 47 quarter sections and eighty acre tracts in Ottawa County. Described as heavy timbered, entered 17 years ago by a top land judge, now for sale at low prices with time for settlers. Portage river navigable, markets in Canada and New York, inquiries to James Dougherty in Port Clinton. Nov. 114at¢ Agent for Proprietors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ohio
Portage
Canada
New York
Port Clinton
Ottawa County
James Dougherty
Executors Sale of Mansfield Property in Wayne Township Ohio
Public sale of real estate from the estate of Thomas Mansfield deceased on Saturday December 2, 1943 at his late residence. The property includes multiple tracts totaling about 78 acres plus 108 acres and a 60 acre adjoining tract in Wayne township Jefferson County Ohio. Sale may combine or separate tracts. terms announced day of sale. lands sold free from widow’s dower by John Mansfield executor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Mansfield
Seid
Caleb Dean
Jemima
S. E
N. E
Wim. Sherrow & Eunice
Wayne Township
Jefferson County
Ohio
John Mansfield
Sheriff Sale Notice in Jefferson County 1843
By virtue of a writ of vendi exep.. issued from the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson County I will offer for sale on the Mth day of November 1843 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the door of the Court case in Steubenville the property described as two sorrel horses taken in execution and to be sold. Hunter Sam D. Sh'ry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Common Pleas
Jefferson County
Steubenville
Sorre
Sam
D. Hunter
William Lyons
Jefferson Co
Court House House
Short Creek
Isaac
M'Donald
I. McDonald
Schiff
John ‘Tiller
Isaac Miller
N. B
Sale of seized horses and wagons under writ in Jefferson County
By virtue of a fi fa writ, the sheriff offers at the Steubenville courthouse door on Tuesday November 14 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. several seized animals and gear: two gray mares, two bay horses, two sorrel mares, one bay mare, one bay horse, two sets of harness, and two four horse wagons. Bidding under H Hunter. November 4, 1848.
Sheriff Sale Notices in Jefferson County Court
In Chancery Alexander Lowry sheriff announces a sale by public outcry at the Stephenville courthouse. On October 23 a forty acre tract in Jefferson county west of Steubenville is offered between 10am and 4pm by master commissioner Isaac McDonald, with adjournment to November 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Oswalt
Alexander Graden
Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson Co
Stephenville
Steubenville
Isaac McDonald
SIV
Chancery
I. McDonald
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the American Union
Steubenville, Ohio
Martin van Buren
Col
William R. King
David Tod
Union
Messrs Borrors
James Means
Jefferson
Col. Benton
St. Louis
Thomas H. Benton
Messrs
J. M. Hughes
Henry D. Routt
Benjamin Hughes
J. M. Letchworth
Afred Whitsell
Calvin Smith
Henry Colman
James T. V. Thompson
S. McGaughy
G. L. Hughes
BE. Murray
T. W. W. Decorey
T. V.R. Hicks
Dr. Morton
R. Gartin
Liberty
Amslick
England
Noy
Frazer
Almaniacs
Tee
Farmers’ Do
Loomis
Pitt
Do Magazine
A. L. Frazer
Webster
Frazer's
Gen. Jackson
Amos Kendall
Sheriff Sale
Court of Common Pleas of
Market St
John 8. Scott & Co
Mellor’s
Andrew Jackson
Pri’vate
L. Mellor
P. O
Hrandes
Mellor's Periodical Agency
Marble Yard
Deer Creek
Allegheny Co. Pa
Paris
Market Street
Louden Borland
L. Borland
N. Dike
Joan Andrews
James Wilson
Bank Alley
Joseph Hickman
Wm. H. Burk
Hickman & Burk
Washington and
Fourth Sts
N.B. L
Duck Township
James Lee
Island Creek
Thomp Son Smith
3D Street
Market & Adams
H. ER. Bates
J. H Bristor
Sheriff's Sale
Thomas Lawrence
Alexander Lowry
Cheap Cash
Thomas
York
3D St
Court House
WM. Dougherty
N. & J.S. Dike
Jim Steubenville
ierThey
Nathaniel Dike
S. Dike
W. Dougherty
Men & Boys
C.n. L. & JS. Dike
New York Cash Store
Jarametta Cloths
N. York
W.dougherty
Leslie
S S Magazine
Mellor
New Cash
Universal Song
Prazer
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