In 1850 several notable events in the history of the village occurred. CARMICHEL's addition was laid out and consists of that part of town on Cross street north of Main. The road leading to Summerfield was changed from where it turned to the northward west of the town and run directly east, making a right angle north of the town, thus joining on the road from the sourth and forming the Cross street. Lots were laid out on this street and several of them built on. The Wesleyan Methodists built the church next to G. W. ROBINSON's store that is now falling into decay. The same year thirty-six colored people from Rockingham county, Va., on their way to a more hospitable country fuarther north found themselves so well treated here that they permanently located. Some of the older of these had been slaves. These formed the nucleus of the considerable colored population in the neighborhood. Many of them are in comfortable circumstances and are good citizens. Several of them served with credit in the army during the war of the rebellion. About this time came J.W. BARNETT who was to occupy a prominent place in the history of the town for some years. He was born at Smyrna, Harrison county, Ohio, and came to near Stafford with his father John BARNETT. As a young man he clerked for James SHANKLAND at Lexington, now Novle county, afterward for John M. ROWND and also for Charles HARE at Summerfield. From the store of Mr. HARE at Summerfield he went to Lebanon, this county, where he did business a short time. Comint to Stafford he was at first associated with HAWKINS. In 1852 he built a part of the storeroom occupiec by G. W. ROBINSON, and also the two story dwelling next west of it. He also built the tobacco house. He was very successful in business, accumulating a fortune. In 1863 he built the large brick north of town now owned and occupied as a residence by Thos. B. DAY. He died January 10th, 1864, worth $40,000, before he had removed to his new residence. His widow and some of the children are still in the village. In 1850 Steel built the brick building now occupied by ULLMAN & Son and occupied it as a store room. these cover the principal improvements up to 1854. In 1854 the school house was built. It used to stand in the eastern suburbs amid a grove of oaks near the cemetery. During the years following this time the population of the village received considerable additions. Among these was Benj. HUGHES: Mr. HUGHES was anative of Washington county, Pa., who came to Monroe county, O., near Woodsfield, in 1837; came to near Stafford in 1848 and lived here aboutthis time. Died near Stafford in 1879 at some 70years of age. Mr. Hughes was noted for his strong intelligence, unfaltering integrity and for his unrelenting hostility to slavery. For many years, both while at Woodsfield and afterwards near Stafford his house was headquarters for runaway slaves. He and Steel were co-laborers in the same political vineyard and took active interest and strong action in the heated political discussions that preceded the war, doing much to shape public opinion and sowing seeds in that field that still continues to reproduce men oflike habits of thought. Mr. STEEL became involved and retired from business, going to Pittsburg, and leaving some bitterness behind him as a matter of course, butthis should not obscure his unquestioned merits, or prove his want of honest intentions. >From Pittsburg he went west, finally dying in Portland, Oregon about 1884. he was succeeded in the brick store by HAWKINS, who soon retired and went west in 1863. W. S. WAYthen occupied the same room in 1857 and for two years had with him Mr. Fred ULLMAN now occupying the same property. Capt. J.W. M. BROCK was employed with WAY for some years, entering the army in 1861 as Lieut. of Company "D" 27th Ohio Infantry, where he distinguished himself, returning at the close of the war a Captain to resume his old place which he held for many years with WAY and his successors. He still remains a much respected citizen of the village. The gathering storm of 1861 raged in Stafford in common with other Ohio villages and she was not wanting in patriotism when the tug of war came. Joseph BALL was at the beginning of the war running a harness and saddler shop just south of ROBINSON's store in the building for some time occupied by Charles WELLS as a dwelling and grocery, afterwards occupied by Lewis SHIPLEY, formerly of Woodsfield, as postmaster. WELLS was the third husband of STEEL's mother-in-law. WELLS & BALL were contemporaries. Ball was among the first to enlist, a considerable number going with him into the 25th Ohio Infantry. He held a commission as Lieutenant. Three companies were organized in the town. Milton WELLS being Captain of the one assigned to the 27th Ohio Infantry. Wm WHEELER who had been the second teacher in the new school-house was Captain of Co. D, 92nd, and A. G. HUGHES entering the army as a Private was in a short time promoted to a Lieutenancy. The neighborhood was represented in various other organizations the enlistments making in the aggregate all that was asked of them. Capt. Thos. WILSON still living near town also distinguished himself. The mention of the officers as an index to the number ofenlisted men who went forth from the neighborhood and on all occasions the men of Stafford were equal to the demands made on them. During the war the patriotism of the village never faltered but backed the most radical measures for the suppression of the rebellion with enthusiasm. After the death of J.W. BARNETT, C. W. HARE occupied his place and continued the business for some time, when he was succeeded by Hare and Hughes, the members of the firm being Charles HARE, of Summerfield, and Capt. A. G. HUGHES. A. G. HUGHES is a son of Benjamin HUGHES. Born in Jefferson county, Ohio, he came to Monroe county with his father. Before the war he was a farmer. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted as a private in Co. K, 92d, Ohio Infantry and a short time afterward was promoted to a Lieutenancy, coming out of it a Captain. He managed the affairs of the firm of Hare & Hughes successuflly until about 1871, when he quit the dry goods business and has since been a successful farmer and dealer in stock and wool. He has accumulated a competence and is still identified with the interests of the village. The town has long had a Masonic Lodge. In 1872 they built the building at the southeast corner of the cross streets, and occupy the second floor as a lodge room, renting the ground floor for business purposes. The lower rooms were for many years occupied by HOGUE & TANNER, the present occupant being a son of the senior member of the firm he succeeds. The old school house was burned in October, 1871 and for some time school was taught in the churches. In 1873 the village was made an independent school district, and a new school-house erected that year. It is a building about 60 by 24 feet, tow stories high and stands sough of Main street, just at the bink of the hill where it begins to drop off to the east. In 1872 the Christians built a handsome church in the south part of the town, east side of the street, close to the beautiful grove that adorns the southern suburb. It is a frame building and has seating capacity of about 400. The town has steadily though not rapidly improved. Carmichel's addition has been pretty well built up in the years since it was laid out. T.G. HOLLAND's wagon shop has disappeard, or rather buisness as done by him, and HOLLAND farms in West Virginia. The tan yard has fallen into disuse, which is to be regretted. The shophas been replaced by a larger one, but there is not consolation for the loss of the smell from the tan yard. The planin mill was started about 1872, and has been removed from the south part oftown to the eastern suburb. In 1884 the M.E. Church replaced their old sturcture in which they had worshiped so many years by a more handsome and costly structure. And so the conservative little village goes on improving year after year slowly, but with sufficient manifestation of interest in their town to give the assurance of a determination to stay with it till its future ripens the furit of its glory still in the bud or the bloom. The town has never been incorporated because there is no need ofit so far as preserving order is concerned, but a nervy administration that would build pavements, would add much to the appearance of the place and to the value of its property at a small cost. Looking south from the most elevated protion of the town the hills fall off somewhat in height and are crowned here and there with farm or tobacco houses, while the cultivated lands are fringed with blets of timber making a very attractive landscape in summer. East across the Little Muskingum the less elevated hills gradually rise above one another in swells that increas in height in the distance, and are nearly all in cultiviaation dotted with farm houses and laid off in fields by the old fashioned "worm fence." Nearer on the gentle slope that leads down to the creek east of the town is the oak grove where stood the old school-house whose associations come back to me and many others perhaps, awakening thoughts and the echos of feelings long dormant and thought to be dead, while through the intervals among the trees gleams the marble stones that mark the spot where lies buried golden jhopes unnumbered gone down with the dead of the generations who have on succession inhabited this peaceful village. North are the same sort of hills that lie east taken from a different point of view. Here the view is a leteral one of the divide between Duck Creek and Little Muskinum. You cannot look down on them for they are as high or a little higher than your standpoint. Sothe finges of timber to a great extnet hide the improved land but you can distinguish to the north west the beautiful grove in which the people were wont to hold camp meetings and enjoy a good social time. West the view is down the valley of Road Fork of Duck Creek which finds its way toward the west between hills aburpt and high. Steep as they are they are cultivated to the top, and the white houses of prosperous farmers are to be blundered upon amidst its fastnesses at the most unexpected points. Looking over rather to the north-west the hills about Mt. Tabor church are in plain view, and houses five miles away are easily recognizable. It was not always so. When Stafford was young neither Mt. Tabor nor any of its surroundings could be seen for the forests that hid them. Now the hills are bare of trees except orchards, and the destestable hound no more hunts after the fox amid the hills along Flag. Taking the whole landscape in at a glance one is lead to reflect that this must be the home of liberty for "the mountains are always free." Approaching the town from any direction the most conspicous object is the landscape is the symmetrical church on the highest gound in the place. The houses are generally bright and fresh looking and give evidence that the town is alive and active. Part #3 to follow