Meigs County Telegraph in Pomeroy, Ohio

Fragmented Odds and Ends From a 19th Century Page

A garbled column notes curiosities and anecdotes including questions about travelers gold, a fence surrounding a fountain, a painting of oxen sold for 200, and deaths from unsafe scaffolds nationwide. It mentions Madame Sontag sailing from Liverpool to New York, a joke about a boy and a mad puddy, several steamers under construction for Wheeling and Louisburg, and July fires in Heston totaling 204,922 dollars, with seven months’ fire loss near 850,000 dollars.