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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1885
Page
4
The CosHocton Age announces office at 228 West Main Street and city post office. Subscriptions outside the county require advance payment. Obituary notices under one line are free, additional lines cost five cents each. Obituary poetry is charged in all cases.
A lengthy April 1885 open letter condemns high taxes in Coshocton due to treasury theft and bank failures. It targets incompetence in township management, calls for honest assessor returns, and criticizes G H Barger over canal and railroad disputes. The piece accuses the Democratic party of McLeanism and urges cleansing the Legislature amid bribery talk surrounding Myers and Payne.
Community notices recount board drama and testimonies while reporting deaths, hires, and church events. Yields updates on repairs at Beaveratun Chapel, a painter from Warsaw, and the Walhending canal discussion. Also covers union band formation, local school assignments, a fatal rail accident near Barnard, and election results with a one sided mayoral outcome.
Plainfield reports ongoing winter delays with no plowing yet this spring. Mrs Molly Trueman Springer and her two children from Wellsville are visiting at her father's house. The term of R L Baker Esqr expires this spring and G L Williams of Plainfield will be initiated into the statute books. Our assessor began his township tour this morning. We will learn how a man stands financially in this world soon.
A reader presents figures from Linton township Coshocton county on receipts and expenditures for 1550 and compares vote totals, supervisors, and road costs across eras. He argues expenses rose with population and warns of national drift toward economic excess while urging economy and continuity with early local conditions.
A correspondent defends New Orleans against winter grumblers. He argues travelers should observe local character, noting Mardi Gras costs, French influence, muddy streets, and the leisurely Southern pace explained by climate and declimate. He mocks complaints and urges embracing local customs and experiences.
A reader recalls New Orleans sights from the French Quarter to Jackson Square and the French Market, praising cuisine, operatic performances, and street life while noting sanitation issues and urban contrasts. The letter also includes a historically styled Grant-era note praising the Union and discussing Virginia's secession and northern resolve.
The Zanesville Courier reports the Connotton Valley Railway will extend to Zanesville next summer, citing two years of bondholder concerns and a belief the line could thrive by linking to the local coal fields and Muskingum region.
A New York Sun correspondence explains England guards India from Russia by controlling Afghanistan and Herat. The dispute centers on the Penjdeh corridor between the Murghab and Heri Rud rivers and the debatable ground along the Afghan frontier. England seeks to hold the line while Russia presses forward, risking a wider war.
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