Chenango Union, Norwich, NY, March 27, 1879
Some Old Newspapers - Part 4
Chenango Patriot, Oxford, NY, January 28th, 1812
It contains a speech in Congress by Mr. Sheffey on the bill raising 25,000 additional troops.
Foreign news, as usual, fills the columns.
The Army Bill was approved and signed by the President on the 11th.
Particulars of the burning of the theatre in Richmond, by which seventy-one persons lost their lives, are given.
Bowen, Whiting & Co. of Pharsalia [Chenango Co. NY] had dissolved co-partnership.
Clothiers were informed that they could procure press papers at the store of Asa Norton, in Norwich [Chenango Co. NY] and of E. Miller in Oxford [Chenango Co. NY] at wholesale price ($1 per dozen).
Abijah Lobdell, Jr. had taken his brother, John L. Lobdell into partnership and they advertise goods of all kinds.
Price & Clapp advertise for sale Lot No. 49, in the town of Oxford, containing 726 acres, lying around Livingston's Pound, near Cable's tavern.
Joseph B. Nutter "Barber and Boot and Ladies' Shoemaker, late from Philadelphia," informs the people of Oxford and adjacent towns, that he has established himself next door west of the dwelling of Mr. Runyan, at the sign of the barber's pole. As Mr. Nutter had formerly been a disciple of the Huggins' school, he proposes to continue the barbering branch of his profession, where "Hair Dressing and Perfuming, Perriwigging and Whiskering, Shaving and Puffing, Tailing and Clubbing, Frizzing and Scenting, Braiding and Cleansing, Cueing and Craping, Noseing and Scraping, will be executed a La Mode, according to the latest Parisian System, as exemplified in the Huggonian Models."
James Birdsall, Surrogate, publishes notices.
Theodore Burr and Phineas Davenport advertises the clothing business in Oxford.
W.& R. Randall, of Brookfield, Madison Co. [NY] advertise for an experienced distiller to work in their distillery in that town.
Robert Monell of Greene [Chenango Co. NY] as attorney, advertise mortgage sales.
The "conditions of the Patriot" were, "to village subscribers and to those who receive papers by Post, Two Dollars per annum. Those who take their papers at the office $1-1/2 per ann. Subscribers who reside more than half a mile from the road on the route rode by John Cooley Johnson, One Dollar and Fifty Cents per annum. Wheat, Corn, Rye, Oats and Flax received in payment." Subscribers receiving their paper by Post are informed that while the favorable season of sleighing continues, the papers will be delivered by sleigh, and those who prefer to pay with grain will have an opportunity to do so. Grain will also be received at the stores of the following gentlemen, on account of the paper: Tilly Lynde and Ashar P. Hamlin(?) Sherburne; Levi Blakeslee, New Berlin; R.C. Fenton, Norwich; at the mill of Benjamin Prentiss, in Plymouth and at the house of Joshua Talcott in Smyrna.
Those persons who have engaged to do teaming for the printer, are informed that the work must be done while the sleighing holds.
In conclusion, we copy verbatim the following advertisement, which shows how the editors of "ye olden time" rolled in wealth"
For Sale: On reasonable terms, a smart, active healthy NEGRO MAN, 22 years of age, well versed in all branches of Cookery and Farming. Said negro is not sold for any fault, but simply for want of employ. any person desirous of purchasing a black of the above description, will do well to apply to the Printer. January 10th.
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