about 40 years of age, near 6 feet high, very full in the breast, his
right leg about two inches shorter that the other. It is supposed he
will make for Canada. The above reward will be given for said negro if
delivered to me.
_EARLY SCOTT_
Nov. 20, 1817. 52,3t
D. WOLFF,
TAILOR AND HABITMAKER,
RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of Dayton and its vicinity that he has
lately removed from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to this place, and has
opened a shop on Market-street, opposite Squire Curtner’s store, where
he will execute all work in his line, with neatness and despatch, and
after the latest and newest fashions in the city of Philadelphia. He
hopes from his long experience in the above business to merit a share of
the public patronage.
_November 1st, 1817._ _50,3m_
I HAVE received of the Indians two stray sorrel mares of the following
descriptions, viz.
One has a bald face, both hind feet white, some saddle marks, and is 14
hands high, and 10 years old.
The other has a small star in her face, is much marked with the saddle,
fourteen hands high, and 11 years old.
The owners may receive their property by proving it in the usual manner
on application to
JOHN JOHNSTON,
_Indian Agent_.
_Upper Piqua, 22d, 1817._ _50,6t_
NO. 1,
LOWER MARKET-STREET,
CINCINNATI.
THE subscribers having received the balance of their FALL GOODS, now
offer for sale one of the best assortments in Cincinnati, consisting of
every description of
DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE & GROCERIES.
_We are still supplied with_
CHOICE TEAS,
(OF ALL KINDS)
Of the celebrated _North Point’s cargo_, which have been universally
admired.
JOHN BUFFUM, & CO.
_Oct. 17, 1817._ _51,6t_
_From the Western Spy._
EMIGRATION.
As this subject seems at present to occupy much of the public mind on
both sides of the mountains, and has given rise to some
misrepresentation there, I send you the results of some of my
observations, with a hope that by means of your paper, they may find
their way into some of the eastern prints.
Before bringing my family to this country, I came here and explored
it.—I came noddle filled with ideas of roasted pigs running about ready
at every one’s call, of pumpions growing wild, of orchards of best fruit
in the woods, and that every acre was sure to produce at least 100
bushels of corn; while on the other hand, I thought the people a of half
savages, and in fact a _nation of drunkards_. But I found on
examination, that my tavern bills were actually higher than at the
eastward, that property was not to be acquired without industry and good
management, here as well as there; that though the land was rich it
required to be cleared, fenced, and tilled, before a crop could be
expected, and that though a few acres might be found, producing 100
bushels, yet 75 was considered great, and in fact 40 to 50, a tolerable
yield.
I found too that any industrious and prudent man might get rich, that by
working a little, a man might live, and a shifty fellow not working at
all, might stay and keep drunk half his time, which you know to some in
the ‘land of steady habits,’ affords the greatest imaginable felicity. A
man might for one days work in the fall, get two bushels of corn, and
often more, or one of wheat, or from 5 to 10 & 15 pounds or more of
bacon or other wholesome meat, and a little work will feed a family at
that rate. But I found also that two many of those who come here, bring
with them the same ideas I brought, and are of course disappointed;—that
too many of them were instigated to remove to this country by reasons no
way connected with building churches. The disappointed who have not
sufficient fortitude, sink down in despair, having spent their little
all to get here, and betake themselves to trifling in idleness and other
bad practices. Many came here to get rid of so much hard work and pursue
their determination so that they do no work, or very little and thus
between the weak and the wicked we may easily convince how a nation of
drunkards may be formed, and happy if no worse from such materials.
But one fact more I will venture to assert—that the same work will
produce the means of subsistence for more people here then in New
England, of which the following is a proof:—I hired men to till about
five acres of land in corn, the whole expense of plowing, planting,
hoeing, harvesting and board, did not exceed $15, and I had considerably
more than 200 bushels, which were worth at the lowest calculations $50
when it was dry and cribbed, or $40 at the heap. I let 12 acres to a
very lazy kind of fellow, who from the best observation I could make,
did not expend more than twenty days work on it of this own. His wife
did assist him in planting it, sometimes set up the corn after the
plough, and pulled a few of the large weeds out of the hills; but there
never was a hoe in the field after the planting. This brought in to
harvest, which is....
[Illustration: The Pioneer Home as it appeared in October, 1898. The
couple shown in the yard are Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Elva Brunk and the
man holding the team of horses is Andrew Beltz. This picture was
borrowed from Mrs. Cora Brunk of Springboro, Ohio, who once lived in
the stone house.]
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