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The total amount of tax assessed on the du- plicate of Stark County was as follows :
18 6
$1.994 19 182% 5.823 96
1821.
1,181 85 1824 : 5,199 98
18.2 .. 4, 125 17 1825. not found
In 1826, separate township lists were made, akl the amount assessed upon Lexington Town- ship was as follows :
1826. 132 61 1850 .. 3.096 01
1827
.not found 1851.
2,832 00
1828
287 64: 1852.
3,561 St
1829.
264 26 1853.
5,133 88
1830 284 23 185-1 5,446 06
1831.
313 02
1855.
7.230 90
1832.
439 19|1836
7,06: 5t
1833.
144 87 1859
9.050 39
1831
394 06 1838
9,800 50
1835.
375 35 1859.
10,615 92
1836.
565 68 1860.
10,065 97
1832.
898 8: 1861 ..
9.940 76
1838
850 13 1862
9.023 28
1839
.estimated
908 95 1863.
10,221 16
18.10.
1,020 26 1864 ..
24,219 7
1841.
1,251 00 1865.
19.758 50
1812
1,271 88 1866.
21,051 91
1843.
1.351 46,1867.
27.924 92
18444.
1.284 93 1868.
39,000 82
18 15.
1.326 96 1869.
35,852 85
1846
1.511 96 1870.
35,311 36
1817
1.843 90 1871
40,518 89
1848. .
1.908 58 1872.
49.258 67
1819.
1.852 15
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Making a grand total since 1826 until 1872 of $415.781.07. These amounts of course in- dlade Alliance, as well as the other portions of the township No tax duploat bis bon mar> for Alliance separately. except that of 1972. when it was made in a separate lis , and for the sake of convenience, has since bem nade so.
The municipal giverin ut of Limaville was organized on April 3.1.11. by the clec ion of Haar Withus is Mayor The following is a list of Mayor- elected by the citizens of the corporation since that time until isto :
AApel 1.14 ..
Noah Eps No late.
Northrup ... April 1 .. 1~46.
Arba K dney April 1, 18. 1.
Arba Kilney. April 6; 1851.
JJohn Gi, M rse
April Io, IN ...
John G. Morse.
April 16. 185 i.
John G. Morse.
April 1, 1 - 7.
April 1. 18 9
Stephen Logue. April 12, 1s6 4.
Mason [1. Day
April 1, Iso1.
E. B. Mor e ...
April 6, 1863.
John G. Morse April 5 1565.
John G. Morse. April 2, 1856.
1. .. (-born.
April 6, 1567.
1 Ewan ..
W. E. Paxson.
April 6, 156 ..
W E. P4X On
.April 9, 1870.
For the following list of Justices of ille Peace the readers of the history of Lexington Township are indebted to Ed Page. Esg., the efficient and courteous Vierk of the Connnon Pleas of Stark County
Nathan Gaskill
May 10. 1-17.
Witam Beeson ...
April 27, 1820.
Thomas Woo 1
April 27. 1820
Thenas Wood Much 1, 182 3.
John Wimmer Varen 1. 1823.
John Grver. Avril 26. 1826.
Levi Burilen. Apırıl 23, 1827.
James Akey. May 21, 182 .
Levi Burden
april 24. 1830.
Thomas Wool April 17. 18.2.
Levi Birden. April 15, 1%.
C. A .Johnson AApril 15, 1853.
Thouet Won I April 23, 1855,
Thomas Wright Apr.1 19, 1% ,'
Joseph Johnson
April 25, 1847.
Mahlon Allison ...
April 17. 1-38.
John D Ellent
November 11. 1859.
Abraham Gaskill. April 20, 1840.
John G. Morse .November 25. 1810
John G. Morse October 23. 1 1 ...
Robert R. Barr April 18, IN1
Thomas J. Wood.
October 20 1816.
WHEN COMMISSIONED
Talmadge W. Leck ... 0 Apti 22, 1×17.
Robert R. Barr. .April 18, 819.
Abrahari Gaskil
July 28, 1549.
Thomas 1. Wood
Robert M. Bocs
De: der 19, 1552.
1. 1 .. Jon >>
.October 10, 1556.
John kmson
Detober 1 x, 1858.
October 15, 1898.
V nvember 15, 1860.
Malin ti. Horst. October 12, 18h1.
Joseph Barnaby November 2, 1861.
Joseph barna y. October 11, 1xb].
October 11, 1804.
Joseph Birn . October Is, 1 67.
October IS. 18. 7.
February 18, 1870.
Jacob 1. Zaizer
October 2×, ISTV.
seph Barnaby
Maren 20, 1873.
. Tis ducation that forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
The first school evet opened in Lexington Township was in the town of Lexington, in the your 1509. The first school teacher in that school was Daniel Votaw. It was a subscrip- tion school, and under the management of the Society of Friends. A few years therealter. a subscription school was opened in the viemty of Limaville. The first school held in the Al- nance section of the townsmp was held in a varated caom on the land now owned by ( lem- ent Rockhill, just west of the fair grounds. It was taught by Andy Murray in the year 1820. It will be remembered that the present common- school system of tin State was not instituted or organized until after 124. consequently. all schools, prior to this date. were temporary, springing up in this or that rocahty, and hving two or three months, as the school necessities of a neighborhood seemed to give them birtu. They were held in vacated cabins, and the teachers paid by subscription. fo Stark County belongs the credit of having sent a representa tive to the State Legislature m 1-22, who intro- duced the first bill which was ever introduced into the Legislature for the establishing and regulating of common-schools in Ohio. The experience of almost half a century has ren- dered changes in the law necessary : it to the Stark County representative be the credit of having introduced a system of common schools that has, with its amendments, been found suf- ficiently comprehensive to educate all the chil- dren in the State. Every man who has lived
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in Stark County long enough to remember, and has noticed the current of events, can call to mind the opposition that burst upon Mr. La- throp on his return to his constituency. A howl went up against taxation and against Mr. La- throp ; but he was not to be driven from his pur- poses.
The School Board has wisely adopted the distributive system of schools; locating one Primary Department in Webb's Addition to the northeast section of the town ; one on Market street, in the southwest section : one in Lam- born's Addition, in the southern section. The School Board asked the voters to grant funds in the way of self-imposed tax to erect a fourth building to meet a growing want in the south- east section of the town. The three Primary Departments are clever. substantial, two-story brick structures, which have been built at a cost of about $2,000 each to the people.
The following official census report of the city of the number of youths between the age of five and twenty-one years, for the years 1867-72, inelusive ; also the number of children under five years of age for the year 1872 :
1867-Number of children between five and twenty-one years of age. 610; 1868, 1.002; 1869, 1,128; 1870, 1,255; 1871, 1,393; 1872, number of children under five years of age. 698.
The history of Lexington Township would be incomplete, should it fail to speak of an insti- tution, which more than any other in the county, was humble and unpromising in its origin ; yet, with objects based on the wants of the people, has overcome almost insurmountable obstacles. and stands to-day a source of usefulness high in the confidence of the people. A six-room schoolhouse was erected in 1856. A system of graded schools, under the State laws of 1849. was organized, in March. 1857. Under this or- ganization, schools were opened in four rooms, in charge of a Superintendent, with the total number of youth of school age in the district amounting to 360. The number of youth of school age in September, 1880. was 1,152. The number of rooms occupied in 1880. and each in charge of a separate teacher, was 19, and the number of schoolhouses at that date, each con- taining from two to six rooms, was 5. The buiklings are located to snit the convenience of younger pupils. The following gentlemen have served as Superintendents during the term speci- fied : J. K. Pickett. George Hester. Jesse Mark-
ham, D. M. Miller, W. H. Dressler, C. Y. Kay. J. F. Richards, and at present Mr. Dressler is again in charge, and discharging the responsi- ble duties acceptably to the people. The pub- lic schools of Alliance have attained a high degree of etliciency in organization. course of study, discipline, method of instruction and pro- ticiency in the substantial studies, justly plac- ing them in the front rank of the better class of schools in the State.
As nearly as can now be ascertained. the first Methodist society of Lexington Township was formed in the village of Lexington in 1819. It consisted of a class of six members. of whom Thomas Wood was appointed leader. It was perhaps in the autumn of the same year that Lexington became a regular preaching-place in connection with what was called Mahoning Cir- enit. with Calvin Ruttor and John Stewart preachers. The society first worshiped in private dwellings, then in an old schoolhouse. In 1827, they erected the first Methodist Episcopal Church built in the township. It was a rude affair. constructed of white oak logs, puncheon seats, minus backs. In this homely structure, they worshiped with slow but steady growth, until their present neat and comfortable building was erected. Some members of the first society still survive. In 1840. a class was formed. and preaching established in what was then called Williamsport, in connection with Salem C'irenit, Brother M. L. Weekly preacher in charge. The society worshiped in private dwellings for a year or two. when they fitted up an old wheelwright- shop for the purpose. In this extemporized church, a series of meetings were held. under the superintendence of the Rev. S. D. Kinear. which resulted in the conversion and addition to the church of about ninety persons. Among them was Henry Chance, the popular temperance lecturer, known as the " Buckeye Broadaxe." Mr. Chance is still living. and doing effective work in the cause of temperance. This large addition to the society encouraged the hitherto little band to inaugurate a movement to secure, if possible, a house of their own in which to wor- ship. The result was the erection of the frame buikling in which the Friends now hold service, located in what was called Freedom. Here the society worshiped with constant growth until 1865. when the house, becoming too small for the congregation, it was sold about the Ist of May to the Society of Friends, who repaired it,
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and still occupy it as a place of worship. The congregation. then under the superintendence of Brother A. B. Leonard. engaged in a new church enterprise, which culminated in the erection of the brick building in which they worship. This society has a membership of about 400. which is constantly increasing.
The Sabbath School connected with the charge is one of the largest in Eastern Ohio. It is under the supervision of an able body of officers and teachers, and is in a flourishing condition. The Society is contemplating a radical improvement of their church building, which is greatly needed. The truth is, Alliance ought to have better church accomodations and we have no doubt if the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church will undertake the erection of a first-class church. they will have the earnest co-operation of the citizens gener- ally, and will deserve the everlasting gratitude of every one ambitious for the improvement of the growing young city of Alliance. In 1841. a society was formed and preaching established in Mt. Union, by Rev. M. L. Weekly. This congregation has steadily prospered and is now in a flourishing condition. Mount Union, it is well known. is the seat of Mount I'nion Col- lege.
A Methodist society has existed for years at Limaville. From a feeble start it has grown into a vigorous band of Christian workers, numbering some fifty communicants, have a fine sabbath school and a neat church. There are now. in Lexington Township. about ton hundred members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ! Over twelve hundred Sabbath school scholars, and over $300.000 worth of church and college property. Besides all this, a large number of the members of the church here, from time to time moved to other sections of the country. while many have gone to that better land. This is but a brief and imperfect sketch of the history of the Methodist Episco- pal Church in Lexington Township. It is the best we can do with our present limited data. The following is a list of Methodist ministers who have served charges in Lexington Town- ship and Alliance station since the church was
organized. in the fall of 1839, with the dates of their respective appointments :
July 17. 1839- Simon Elliot (deceased). MI. L. Weekly.
July 15. 1810 -Joseph Montgomery (trans- fered), Thomas Thompson (deceased).
July 13, 1842- G. D. Kinnear. J. Tribby.
July 12, 1843-J. Murry.
July 10, 1844-JJ. Murry (located), Hosea McCall.
July 2. 1815 -Robert Wilkins (superannu- ated). Hosea MeCall. Henry Ambler (expelled). July 1. 1846-David Hess. N. Gilmore (lo- cated).
June 30. 1817- Hiram Gilmore (transferred). James IJ. White (transferred).
July 5, 1817-John Huston. IL Rogers.
June. 1819 %. H. Gastin (superannuated).
June, 1850 Joshua Monroe (superannu- ated), Richard Jordan.
June 28. 1852- Aaron Il Thomas (deceased). John Ainsley.
June 23 -- Hugh D. Fisher (transferred).
June 20. 1851 Samuel Wakefield (superan- muated).
June 13, 1855 John Wright. Samuel Crow.
June. 1856 J. C. Iligh. S. Burt.
April 29. 1857-Lewis J. Dales, F. D. Fast.
April 28. 1858 -David B. Campbell.
April 27, 1859 MI. S. Kendig. R. Morrow.
March 20, 1861 --- A. E. Ward.
March 19. 1862-T. Storer.
March 18, 1863 -- Wesley Smith. T. S. Hodg- son.
March 10. 1864 -A. B. Leonard.
March 15, 1865 -John Williams.
March 7. 1866 - William Cox.
March 18, 1868 -W. K. Brown.
March 17. 1869 George W. Johnson.
March 15. 1871-S. P. Woolf.
March 15. 1872 -- W. Hl Locke.
March, 1876 -S. L. Binkley. March. 1881 - L. W. Day.
Of the above list, five have died. five are superannuated. three have located, six have been transferred to another conference, one ex- pelled. Thus, out of forty-seven ministers. twenty-six only are in the work.
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CHAPTER XVII.
THE TOWN OF ALLIANCE-GROWTH AND ADVANCEMENT-BUSINESS INDUSTRIES-SCHOOLS AND COLLEOFS-THE PRESS-CHURCHES, SUNDAY SCHOOLS, ETC .- BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS.
A' LELANCE is built at the crossing of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago and the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroads : the for- mer is a continuation of the great Pennsylva- nia Central, through Ohio, Indiana and Hlinois, to the city of Chicago; the latter connecting the " Forest" with the " Tron city, and with its branches associating in business relations with those two greit inland marts a wide firm- ing and grazing district in the Buckeye State. The etimology of the term de note- it. origin and though it has resulted that these two routes were not really allied at the time the town was named, yet it was supposed thes would be. Alliance was need Ly Gen. Rob inson, decrased. of Pit shurgl . The lot .. : round the crossing were surveyed chicly by the County Surveyor. Mr. Whitacre. ir 1-51. and the proprietors of the adjoining land were Sim- on Jennings, Joseph JI. Brooks, I. N. Wclb and Elisha Teeters.
And now that the town was batal. it ' came necessary to improve it. Accor Poch. a house was built by Mr. Hester. the fint le . s. ever created in Alliance and which is sos standing, and occupied By Mr. Olli co. The same year. Mr. Hester starred a store. . hoply being the first to establish mereandl. pursuits in the town. Mr. Hester save the town the name of Fre dom, by which it ve known mill ten or twelve years after its orion ci until the completion of the C. & P. and P .. F. W. & C. Railroad, when the r. ilroad companies gove it the name of Alliance. Mr. Hester in de # public sale of lots, the same year in which the town was laid out. and di jesed cf . overal, upon which buildings were soon erected. in 1841, or abont three years later. Mr. & Shaffer came here from Pennsylvania and opened another store. Here was the first competition in trade in Alliance. And from these two in- significant establishments have spri ig over 100 odd business houses of to-day. Verily. their progeny has been prolific. For the first ten or . Contributed by Dr. L L Icante in.
twelve years, the growth of the town was very slow : the accessories were few and infrequent. Another store was added, a small brick school- house, a church and a few dwellings comprised the principal improvements. There was nothing here at this early day to attract immigration. The country was almost a wilderness ; there was no milling privilege. there were few comfort of any kind to be obtain 1. and many annoy ances and inconveniences were submitted to The pos office was two or three miles distant. There were no markets for surplus products bearer than Massillon. 20 miles away, and to that point fun rs would houl their grain, re- giving for it ther 50 cents per bushel. Our we chen & supplies were purchased at Pil- børglo Bidl Philadelphie. and transported by camil ana fiver co W.I villes and frem there I valois to this place In those days it is- noite lirent to six works for our merebarr- in ink the trip to Philadelphia, purchase cool :Ften. Now with our present rail- mal facile , the same trip may be easily ac- compli ed in the space of one week. The mid ofch. which the city now stands was. attl. Unie of the location of thedown. owred !\ t ... 10lovin . themen: Matthias Heter.
Mr. Food and M. Cassidy. These som11 min made me moyens ediliyor to the town and public artesprices in il way of land for the purpose of stimulating and encourm'in die improvement of the town, but its progress was very Handy, mo twelve years after its ori vin, or in the year 1550, the place contained only about 200 inhabitants.
Much the Same as Altoona is on the east, Alliance is on the west of Pittsburgh. on off- spring of the locomotive, a legitimate child of steam. In the history of the last few years. a great chapter of which is occupied by rail- way events, an episode injected into the stale memoranda of former centuries which are con- tinued in this estereotypes of diplomatic strate- gy. wars, marches, battles and sieges- this
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word Alhance ix repeatedly agreed in the daily and we ah billeter tildes it has * 0; la. the sensiinform nate fatality, at others a- the theme en' social or poltical demonstration could thegap The passage of this optik di ter asu I person
enloirity to the town. The fool phe : the id litions to and comparing the city of W
Mathias Hester anl Jolin Mitter bail out the town of Freedoro July 21. 12- ompost of sixty lots Willam Altman Bed ont an addition to Freedom Sept.oh 17 1811 composed of cleverbot, Mathias Host & hi! ont in addition to Fre don Sig mo it 1511. composel of twelve lo s. Aciane wis laid out by Mathia Heap September 10 1-51
out an vidition to Miage > Septembre 1-1. m addition .. Aus dem 10 15 Brooks laid con ax addition to Worry Maar
Webl laid out at a ldition to Allaver Mox 10 1-52 composed of sixteen lots trys laid out on . Miton to Whom . A .-
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Composed of sin ive les Samuel Slater lid out an addition to Alliance Apri 15 :552. M th'as Hester 1953 compose lof thir you lots E. Tras bil out an ad li ion to Allian Auri' 1. 1> 5 composed of thirty seven lot . John Miller Huid out an addition to Fre dom Jily 9. 1-50 composed of seven lots. E. Teners laid out an addition to Alliance Jene 1: 1-56 com. posed of one bu ire land our! oh lots. I \. Webblaid out an addition to ANjene May 27. 1956. composed of thirty lots L. \ Webb End ont an addition to Af: nee Jupe9 1556. cool- posed of nine lets M. Hester lidl oal an ad dition to Alliance Folypary 27 1-5 com. pred of five lots E. A. & C W laid out an addition to ABanee Joh 7. ! sca compose l of lote. Outlets sixteen. !. \ Webb laid out an addition to Alliance April 26. 1501. composed of min . lots Lee's outlots. laid out August 5, 1863 composed of twenty-four lots.
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It will be seen that the city has 2.638 re corded lots. In addition to these are very many pieces of land but little larger than a lot, not numbered, upon which residences are built. There are 390 pieces of land npon the tax du- plicate of the township outside of the ineorpo- rate limits of Alliance, Mount Union and Lima- ville. The average amount of land to each land owner in the township is thirty-seven acres.
The following are the additions and lots com- posing the town of Limaville : David Holloway first laid out Limaville June 18, 1830, the same being composed of twenty two lots. David Holloway laid out an addition to Limaville De- cember 8, 1830, composed of ten lots. Peter Akey, Isaac Winans and Alva Proutz laid out an addition to Limaville October 3, composed of fifty-nine lots. Peter Akey and A. Proutz laid out an addition to Limaville July 24, 1836. composed of forty-one lots. Thus Limaville has 132 recorded lots.
The following are the additions and lots com- posing the town of Mount Union, to wit : Rich- ard Fawcett laid out Mount Union August 22, 1833, the same at that date being composed of forty lots. John Hinds, E. N. Johnson. N. loiles. J. Watson, Rachel Hoiles and Daniel Reeves laid out additions to Mount Union com- posed of thirty lots. Ellis N. Johnson laid out an addition to Mount Union May 22, 1851, composed of four lots. J. B. York laid out an addition to Mount Union September 30, 1863. composed of forty-five lots. Ellis N. Jolinson laid out an addition to Mount Union November 29, 1858, composed of four lots. Pettit & Park laid out an addition to Mount Union March 29, 1859, composed of twenty-four lots. J. B. Milner laid out an addition to Mount Union July 20, 1867, composed of 142 lots. E. N. Johnson and J. P. Gould laid out an addition to Mount Union November 10, 1871, composed of ten lots. This number added to the 390 pieces of land, makes 3,437 distinct and separate pieces of real estate in Lexington Township. A number of the lots are yet in the hands of the first owners, but probably not more than would be equaled by the pieces of land in the three incorporations which are not estimated in the above aggregate. At a publie sale of lots on Main street in 1851, made by Mr. E. Teeters, the lots barely aver- aged $40 apiece. The lots known as the Rey- nolds corner were purchased by Mr. Jacob Os-
walt, of Washington Township. at $37. Ile thought he had paid dear for his whistle, and got Mr. William Teeters to take it off his hands. During the year 1873. the same lot, with but !
little improvements on it, sold for $13,500.
It is to W. C. Wilcox. Esq., the Recorder of Stark County, we are indebted for a transcript, owners and dates of the various additions to the township mentioned in this chapter.
The reputation of " Coates Lock-Lever Hay & Grain Rake," is so thoroughly established that it finds a sale in all parts of the United States, and large numbers of it have been shipped to Europe. The factory has a perma- nent investment in grounds, buildings and machinery, of about $75,000. Employs about seventy-five men, and turns out from $100.000 to §200,000 worth of work annually, while the gross sales of this rake alone have exceed- ed $1.000,000. At the Paris Exposition, in 1878, the " Coates " Loek-Lever Rake received the only silver medal awarded to any horse- rake separate from other farm implements. The business is now conducted under the firm name of A. W. Coates & Co., and is one of the most substantial manufacturing enterprises of the State, having withstood the terrible press- ure of hard times and financial ruin of the past five years, and stands forth to-day with strong reputation and largely increasing patronage.
On Thursday, June 8, 1854. the first news- paper was published in Lexington Township, at Alliance. It was printed at Salem, Colum- umbiana County, at the office of J. K. Ruk- enbrod, the present able and popular editor of the Salem Republican. L. L. Lamborn, a prac- ticing physician of Mt. Union, was the editor. A few weeks after this period, a Washington press and a tolerable printing office outfit was purchased of Lyman W. Hall, the present etti- cient editor and proprietor of the Portage County Democrat, and brought to Alliance and an office opened in Merchant's Block. After this the paper was printed and published in Alliance. The paper was christened the Alli. ance Ledger. By reference to the editorials of the Ledger recently reviewed, the fact was clearly elicited that the paper was strongly op- posed to the Democratie party. The readers of this article might infer this would be an astonishing disclosure to the author of the his- tory of Lexington Township. The Ledger was also virulently anti-slavery and wonderfully
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Maine-lawish. After about one year's time A. H. Lewis bought the entire interest in the Ledger, and ran the paper for two years. James Estell, Esq., then bought the office and ran a paper in the interest of the Democracy, under the name of the Times. Mr. Estell removed from Alli ance to Holmes County, Ohio, and published the Holmes County Farmer, and was elected Probate Judge of Holmes County, and received other evidenees of the people's confidence and ability. In 1856. S. G. McKee removed to Alli- ance from Carrollton, Carroll County, and pur- chased of Mr. Estell the Times oflice, and owned and published the paper under the name of the Times up to 1861. Barlow & Morgan, Webb & Co., Elinslie & Co. successively owned the office after this. Gotchell Bros, bought the office and moved it to Canton, and published a paper there for a few months. The Local was a party organ, giving its influence exclusively to the tenets and policy of the Republican organiza- tion. The Monitor was a hybrid ; it tried the circus feat of riding two horses named Pro- hibition and Republicanism. The True Press belonged to the neuter gender hermaphrodite ; some think it faced toward Democracy. The Monitor was chiefly edited by Mrs. Brown. a clever lady, fine writer and excellent itemizer. The Local was done up by Joe Gillespie. Few local items passed unchronicled in his paper ; he was brief and decisive in his retorts and criticisms. The Local eut, the Monitor tore and the True Press pouttieed ; the Local pilled. the Monitor griped and the True Presssoothed. All of these papers were ambitious ; the Local for party dominaney, the Monitor for money, and the True Press for that quiet which came to the waves of Gallilee. Out of the sanctum. the Local was affectionate, the Monitor courteous and the True Press placid. The Local was pointed, the Monitor general, and the True Press neither. The Local shot at the heart, the Moni- for at the whole body, and the True Press shud- dered. The editor of the Local was obese and childless. the editor of the True Press was gaunt and wifeless, and the editress of the Monitor was lithe and guileless.
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