Knox County, Ohio - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 7 of those read), 1862 (part 2 of 2)

Business Views And Inconveniences

John Erank & Co., July ITtli, offer " iron, castings and salt, being botli chartered and casJi articles in this place, and solicit their friends to v^honi they gave a short credit last winter to come forward and discharge their resj)ective accounts. * « * * They are informed that the paj)er of the Owl CreeJc Bank of Mount Vernon, and that of Canton, and the Farmers & MecJianics' BanJc of Steuben\ille will be taken," &c.

Luke Walpole brings to Mount Yernon a quantity of salt, leather, and castings to exchange for beef and pork, delivered in Zanesville the coming winter.

Oct. 16th, [Frederick Ealley, proprietor of Yenice, has 1,000 lots for sale, and invites all classes of mechanics and business men to locate there. About this time it was the supposition that Yenice would become the future shipping point for Knox county, and Norton & Banning established a storage, commission and mercantile house at Yenice, on the Sandusky bay. As evidence that this belief was general, we may cite the act of the Legislature of 1817, declaring that the road to be made by the Knox, E-ichland & Huron Turnpike Company shall terminate at the town of Yenice, on Sandusky bay. Robert D. Moore, as agent for the Mary Ann Furnace, situate on the Eocky Eork of Licking, brings to the notice of our citizens a large assortment of castings of superior beauty and quality, and asks them to encourage manufactories.

Anthony Banning advertises a large lot of leatJier, which he will sell for hides or chartered money - or chartered money will be given for hides.

Jesse B. Thomas cautions " all persons (indiscriminately) against cutting, destroying, or removing timber from or otherwise trespassing upon his lands on the Hamtramck section, as I have given my agents (Messrs. John Boherts and John Warden) positive instructions to prosecute all."

The First Combinations Of Mechanics, Who They Were And Their Bills Of Prices

"Taylors Prices. - "We, the subscribers, of Mount Vernon, have agreed to establish the following prices for Tayloring, viz : Great coats, $4.50; hroad cloth coats, $4.00; common homespun, $3.50; common pantaloons, $1.25] vest, $1.25 ; pantaloons icith buttons on the legs, $1.75 ; ditto welted, $1.50 ; cherrivallies laced, $3 ; plain ditto, $2.25 ; ladies^ coats, $3.50. Any extra work on the above articles shall be priced according to the work.

Wm. W. Alexander Wm. Crouch

William Giffin and Peter Zarly got up a meeting of Millwrights, at Zimmerman's inn, on the 26th of August, for establishing a bill of prices for their work. At this meeting John Williamson, Samuel Pyle, Peter Zarly, James King and William Giffin were present. Among the items we find - "Eor a double geered grist-mill, f 300 ; for a double geered saw-mill, $200 ; for a meal spout, $2 ; meal trough, $3 ; hopper, %l, &c."

son, Samuel Hoppers, Samuel Yance, John Byan, John Cottle, John Kinsey and David Poter, agree, upon lionor, to support the said bill of prices.

Petty Thieving And Other Rascality

" The person who took away a Mattock from my building, without leave, is requested to return the same immediately, or his name will be given to the public (besides prosecuting), as it is well known who purloined it."

"Take care. - The person who was so kind as to take away without leave, a pair of stretchers and a broken singletree, on the 29th of August ; they were laying on the green between Messrs. Bryant Sf Burr's and Mr. J. Frank Sf Co.'s stores, are requested to return the same immediately to the subscriber, and save themselves trouble, they had better return them before they are troubled with a call from Mr. Constable.

At the District Court of the United States, held at Chillicothe on the 9th of September, Samuel Bunting was indicted on a charge of robbing the mail between Kewark and Zanesville, and was sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year.

Horse thieves about this time became so bold tli^t Joseph Berry had, on the morning of the 19th of September, a mare, saddle and bridle stolen fi'om the door of James Thompson in Mount Yernon, just after he had hitched her, and gone into the house.

At the October term of Knox Common Pleas, John McEarland was tried for feloniously stealing a five and two one dollar notes on the Owl Creek Bank of Mount Vernon. The jury found him guilty of stealing the five dollar note ; as to the other counts in the indictments, not guilty. The court sentenced him to one year imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor, but no part of said term to be kept in solitaiy cells of the prison. The prisoner was a boy, 14 to 15 years of age, the son of a poor man, who, from want of restraint and of care in his tuition, had been led to crime.

" On the petition of sundry inhabitants of Mount Vernon for incorporation of said town, the sherifiF made proclamation thereof according to law. Store license was issued to Daniel S. Norton and P. M. Weddle. Tavern license issued to Wm. Ayres, Seth Knowles, Richardson &. Vore. S. W. Culberson was allowed $10 for defending Jacob Kyser, a criminal now in court."

Patrick Moore had 81 cases at this tenn upon the docket vs. John Green. Thus many bank cases make their appearance, and add greatly to law business in this county. Among others were the noted Owl Creek ones ; Patrick Moore vs. James Smith, John Hawn, jr., Jonathan Miller et al.; the famous Luke Walpole case shows its head, and tVe "Granville Alexandrian Society" brings suit vs. Enos, Farquhar et al. The first money made by process of law, for military purposes, was in the noted cases of C. Langworthy for use of George Downs vs. Alex. Enos and Samuel Kratzer. In which it was " ordered that in both these cases the

The State case ys. Alex. McKee was disposed of by fining bim $5 and costs ; vs. Wm. Henry by fine of $3 and costs ; John Watt f 3 and costs ; George Lybarger f 10 and costs. Assault and battery was coming to be regarded in a more serious light.

Another Town On Paper

A new competitor for public favor springs into notice in September bearing the name of Eloeida. It is a town laid out by Samuel Hardenbrok, Geo. Vennemon and Plum Sutliff, on the ><j roads from Mansfield to Columbus, and from Mount Yernon to Upper Sandusky - on a handsome eminence surrounded with springs of elegant water and rich soil, convenient mill seats on the waters of Owl Creek and Whetstone. Of this as of another city it may truthfully be said - " Ilium fuit"

Joseph Brown starts a distillery near Mount Yernon, and gives sixty -two and a half cents for every 56 lbs. of good clean rye delivered at the distillery, or at Capt. Douglas' mill ; he also gives one gallon of whisky for every five pecks of good clean rye. Thus in October, 1817, did the second large manufactory of fire water go into operation.

The Marriages Registered

" On Saturday evening, 22d February, by Wm. Douglass, Esq., Mr. Elijah Webster to Miss Elizabeth, disconsolate widow of - Mr.- - AsJc, alias alias Simpkins.