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LLE, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1875.OUR CANADIAN LETTER.Quebec, July 8, 1875. Editors Heraed and News:On reading my last I do not like it so well as I thought I should. The device of assuming a present time for a long past period, makes it difficult to compare it with succeeding periods, as it requires the style of prediction to tell of things that are really long in the past. Thus, I wanted to say that since the time I went to school to Rev. John Finley in the little old school house that stood where the gas reservoir is, the Academy had been built, and gone into disuse, the Female school of Rev. Beatty had been established, all about on the same squaie. I had to make a constrained declaration that such would be; and altogether there is too much depending upon the suggestion, which might call up a recollection vividly enough to one who had seen it all; it is a rather barren story to the younger readers, unless I were to make it too long. Therefore I will trouble you to keep awake, rub your eyes and accompany me around town, while I point out old landmarks, and may tell you some story as we ramble about, I had brought you up to the corner of Market and Water streets on the 4th of July, 1817. That’s a good while ago, but it remains pretty fresh in my memory. I remember very well that the fourth was a great occasion in those days;, and this that I now speak of was a special effort to do up the patriotic, when they roasted an ox whole—“barb etcuc, ’ or taking in beard and tail, which is not an economical wav of cooking oxen, as they found out when, after all their labor, the beef was raw; and there came upon it a tremendous shower, and marred the whole affair. A 3*fear 01two later, I remember that the celebration of the day was marred by a horrible accident, of a kind too far from rare»-A mr-r r . * « -t 1I1___At the landings just above Market street there stood two or three small frame houses, in one of which there was a tavern, with the sign of “The Bull/’ They were owned by James McKeiiney. Above them was a two-story hewed log house, in which Enos Lucas, afterward a steamboat captain, lived and kept the ferry. His father's house, on the same lot, fronted on High street; and much Jamestown-weed anddog-fennel grew all along High street.Above Captain Lucas’ house there may have been one 01* two below Washington street; and above that street there was a group of buildings about Martin Phillips’ foundry; and another j group was near the paper-mill. Coming down Third street from the paper-mill you passed the place of Mr. Carman, who peddled paper and collected rags for the paper-mill. He was a character,jis some of the old settlers will remember, and his son William was still more so,—presenting, at one time, an example of the most unusual j practice of counting out and paying over money to persons with whom he had previously dealt, with too much profit on his own side. This was done under a religious impulse to literally obey the injunctions of Scripture.We have been along upper Third street before; suppose we drop down to the market-house, which was in ISIS just what I saw it in 1873: the west half of it having been built the yearbefore, with the second. story on it lor a Council Chamber. Here, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, there were regular markets, to which were brought all kinds of country produce, and sold at very low prices,—flour and eornmeal being regular articles. If you asked the price of flour and j were told so much a hundred,—say $1.50 which was common the old Quaker Market master stood by to see that you got 112 pounds. In time farmers were careful to sav a cent andm*pa half a pound, and then they had the Quaker at a disadvantage. The market master was a power in his way, and had his full lists of friends andTf Tip fnnnrl the butter of 1
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Steubenville Daily Herald and News
Steubenville, Ohio, US
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