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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-12-13
OssraUcr.ozs ExraAono.xAEr-iRAn-

OsSTRCCr.OSs ENTGAORD.EAET.- RAIL
ROAD TRAIS TIED Up' BY THE SHERIFF!-
The express train oE the Central Ohio
Ra.r5ad due at Z Hare On Thursday ater-
noon, on its arrival at Newark, o., was
waited upon by ths Sheriff with an attach
meat issued in virtue OF a just and lawful
debt dl9 III, bliliers 0 sIndfy locomotives
FOR the &. 0 R. r. Company-such a
conrse b.in. apparently the only possible
chlnce o. collecting ths debt. Two or three
Of the cars were filed with passengers
bound east, among whom was Judge Me-
Lane, o . 10, aui a number Of members
o: Congress on their Wy - Washington.
Tn. m il and bsgg g. ca: contained tae
U. S. maj. and ne b gg4-s of the passen-
gers. The Sheriff deem ny it his npera-
tive duty to execute the attachment, was
not convinced By earnest rsmonstrances
that he should let the train proceed; but
doubling hi right 10 arrest the mail or
the baggage ot tn passengers, he detached
Rnf retained III pass nyer cars. the pas
senge5s then, making the best they could
Of very bad joo, slowed themselves into
The mai AMI baggage ca's--nsther ladies',
gentlemen, Congressman or JUICES having
very choice sedts--and were clrred TO
ZanesTils, Here other cars were procured,
but tire exciting event Of ths rip did not
terli ate with 4 6 She fl alta men. Al
Glen oe, mics tromjB Il ir, tn nsn- ran
vver a COW, was precipitdted down an en-
barkmen, and completely demolished, The
mai car was partially thrown from the
track, and ;he passenger car Immediately
behind it was considerably smashed. Fortu.
nately. none of the passengers were ser.
ously injured, but the engineer was very
badly cut and brusel. At this point tie
train was detained until the other train.
due at Belair at ten o.cloCk came up, and
the passengers os both trains. unable either
to make a connection or find accommoda-
tion at Bellair, managed to &c, into Wheel
ing at half past one O'clock in the morning,
in very sad plight.-Whee!ins Iatsqigea-
Ger.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-12-13
p O e T r Y Z.
For The Belmont Chronicle.
LINES WRITTEN BY REQUEST,
On the Death of Mrs Mary A. Nc
Connaughy.
BY LILY MAY.

From his high Judgment scat
The Lord of Hosts in thrilling whisper spakc
To me it is but meet,
AndI another soul from Earth will take.
No aged weary one,
Who from this Earth was longing to be free,
Whose timely race was run
Fen to the portals of Eternity,
Was call'd by this decree,
But Il fond wife & mother, DER whose brow
Times tide was rolling frees
At this command was humbly forced TO bow.
And yet she murmur'd not,
Though the strong tics that bound her here
on Earth
Were necr by her forgot,
She meekly bowed to claim second birth.
Well may the Husband mourn,
Where chldhoods grief the stearncst hearts
can move,
This blow so sadly borne
Deprived them of trusting mothers love.
Now aged Parents weep,
That one from their well cherished band
has fled;
And sisters fondly keep
Their mournlul vigils for the loved one dead;
And brothers who were near,
To share their sorrows with that stricken
band,
May kindly drop tear
For those who sojouru in distant land.
May peace to him be giv'n
Whose heart with anguish has been sadly
rcnt,
Earth's fondest tics are riv'n,
To strengthen feelings that lre almostspent.
Thus are life's lessons sent,
We love, and hope and trust, but scarcely
know
Till the last shaft is spent,
Tha we must bow submissive to the blow.
But then we're plainly shown
This blessed truth, through Christ who died
to save,
That to US shall be known
An Immortality beyond the grave.
Pleasant Valley, o. Dec. Sd 1855.
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WHB AGED Lover No longer a lover!
exclaimed an aged patriarch; 'ah! yon ms
taSe me il You think age mas bot.cd out
my heart. Though silver hairs fall over Il
brow all wriukcd, and cheek an furroa-
ed, yet | am u lover still. love tue
beauty OF the maiden's blush, the soft tint
OF flow erat the singing OF birds, and, above
all, the.sllgcry laugh of a child, 1--we
the stur-likc medows, where the butter cups
grow, with almost this same enthusiasm as
when, with the ringlets flying loose in the
wind, and my cap in Land, years ago, |
chasad the painted butterfly. | love yon
aged dame. Look at her. Her face is care
worn, but it has ever hid a smile for me,
Often have | shared the same bitter cup
with her-and SO shared, it seemed almost
sweet Years of sickness have stolen the
freshness OF life: but like the faded rose.
the perfume Of her love, is richer than when
in the tuIl bloom of youth and maturity -
Together we hove placed flowers in the
easements, and folded hands OF the deadi
together wept over little graves. Through
sunshine and storm we Iayo ciung tog ether;
and now she sits with her knitting, her cap
quantity frilled, the Old style kerchief
crossed, white and prim, above the heart
that he's beat SO long and truly for me, the
dim blue eyes that shrnkingly fronts the
glad day, the sunlight, throwing her
parting farewell, kisses her brow, and leaves
upon its faint trPcery of wrinkles, angelic
radiance. | see, though no one else can,
the bright glad young lace that won me
first, and the glowing love OF forty years
thrills my heart TIL the tears come. Say
not again | can no longer be a lover
Thouge his torn be bestowed. God i'm
planted eternal love within Let the ear
| be dea, the eyer bind, the hand psIsrd
the limbs withered, the brain ciouted-yet
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-12-13

From NlckaY's "HHi-a 1riHary Popular Do.usi11-..
Il was about the close Of the ast CEN
tury that Benjamin ID. Perkins, American
surgeon practicing in London, announced
the sanatiye yiruc5 Of what he called 4" Ne
talIic Tractors" They were couple of
all tapering pieces Of metal--one zinc
and the other cOPPer-whch t'c practitioner
drew along in refe4tcd passes near the
patti ent affected with disease, giving out
that thus the disease was somehow drawn
or magDetzed away. For time persons
afflicted with gout, rheumatism, and other
disorders, came in vast numbers to Mr..
Perkins to be healed. His tractors, for
which he had taken out patent, Terc
sold at five guineas a pair. The Society
OF Friends, to which he belonged, benevo-
lently raised a hospital in which he might
practice on the poor. At length DR.. Hay
garth, of Bath, hit upon method Of ex-
posing the iallacy of the tractors.
He suggested to DR.. Falconer that they
should make wooden tractors, paint them
to resemble the steel j ones, and see it
the very same effects would not be pro-
duced. Five patients were, chosen from
the hospital IN Bath upon whom 10 opara.e
20 of them suffered from rheumatism in
The ankle, knee. wrist, and hip, and the
iith had been afflicted for several months
with the gout On the d'y appointed ior
the experiments DR.. Haygarlh and his
friends assembled at the hospital, and with
much solemnity brought forth the fictitious
tractors. Four out OF the five patients said
their pains were Immediately relieved: and
three of them said they were not only re-
lieved, but very much benefited. One felt
his knee warmer, and said he could walk
across the room. He tried and succeeded
although on the previous day he had not
been ubl5 to stir. The ~outy man felt his
pains diminish rapidly, and was quite easy
tor nine hours, until he went to bed when
the twicthing began again. On the FOL
lowing day the tractors were applied 10 all
the patienls, when ;hey described their
symptoms in nearly the same terms.
"IO make stIl more sure, the expert
ment was tried in the Bristol lnfirmary,
few weeks afterwards, on a man Nho i:ad
Il rheumatic affection in the shoulder so
severe as to incapaCitate him from lifting
his hand from his knee. fictitious tractors
were Brought and applied to the afflicted
part-one Of the physicians, to add soiem.
nifty to the scene, drawing stop watch
from his pocket to calculate the time eX-
actIy, while another, with a pen in his
hand, sat down to write the change of sym
ptoIas from minute 70 minute as they
occurred. In less than four minutes the
man icIt 50 much relieved that he lifted
his hand scyera. inches without pain in
the shoulder"
There are cases iu which the medicine
or treatment nay really have affected
cure, more Or less thorough and permanent,
but in Il wcolly indirect manner. Its effect
in these cases is owing to the intervention OF
mental affection on the part Of the patient
Majadies in which this principle applies are
chiefly ol a nervous character.
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The Benefits Of Faith in the Doctor.

Gin. Columbian.
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the heart, the true heart. may hold such
wealth Of love, thot all the power Of death,
and the victorious crave shal not be -Ele
TO pnt out its quonchIess flame"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-12-13

The Indianapolis Journal says: sour di.
vorce Laws have made the State sort of
refuge for dslresssd @arri-d f,lks and every
term we nv, more o. ,ess y. cases brought
BY people from other States"
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
DIR. j. II. DULIN

"OULD respectfully inform the citizens of Ell Dorado
w and the adjoning counties that he still resides in
Union city, at his old stand where he will be happy to ad
minister prescribe to for any who wish his
vices He nothing of mercuria corrosive nature
internal remedy he pursues the old German method
of discriminating judging diseases by the Urine, in
which he has not failed to give definite description of the
disease. He also proposes to describe all
INTERNAL DISEASES
by the pulse In all external diseases he wishes to the
patient. If those who may have tried their family Phys-
cians and they have failed to relieve hem will call him.
that in they would receive entire satisfaction
the following diseases he has had unparalleled
in nervous affections, affections of the liver, dyspepsia
febr diseases in their various types pleurlsy, asthma,
coughs, colds, etc.
INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION,
rheumatism fits, dropsy, white swengs ulcers
of all kinds 6stula piles, diseases of the spleen, ntesnes
and kidneys DISTINCTIONS of the organs all kinds
of Female Diseases if certificates We're Of any account
he could obtain those of hundreds who has realized such
UNPARALLELED benefit and relief by taking his Medicine not
only acute attacks but diseases of long standing which
has perhaps been lingering and preyng upon the vas
months and perhaps years All those who may have occa-
sion to seek the aid of Physician would do well give
him call and and test the matter for themselves He
tied down to old notion fine spun theories but the
ories principles and remedies which he has found by dill
gent study and close adherance to the laws of human
nature expeance and practice to be ecacous and na
ble when in the power of medicine and all he asks is for
his practice to be appreciated in accordance it merits as
he knows the systems whether of medicine or any other
science must stand fall by the effects they produce
Call and see for yourselves.
l6 Sm Unop City, Feb. %, 1854.
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13

DIRECTORS.
HENRY WELLS, WILLIAM G.. FARGO
JOHNSTON LIviSasros, JAMES Mckay,
Eh,sAH Ehn,H 2 Mn.a,x Wh1,Ans' A. krIsoEDs ssr
HENRY d. RICE.
EDWIN B. MORGAN, President.
JAMES MCKAY, Secretary.
" San Francisco on the st and l6h and from N. York
the 9TH and Goth of each month"; by the mail steamers
in charge of messenger through to destination
Treasure and small parcels received for shipment to
the latest moment before the departure of the steamers
Treasure insured under open polces in of the New
York companies at Loyds in London at the option of
shippers.
Our regular semimonhy Express for Oregon despatch
ed by the steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
INLAND RoUTEsAn Express for Sacramento and Marys-
vile is despatched daily (Sundays excepted) a o'clock p
M, in charge of careful and usty messengers connecting
at Sacramento with Rhodes Lusk's Daily Express to
Shasta and Yreka, and with Hunter & Co.'s Daily Express
to Placervilc and all parts of Ell Dorado county.
daily Express sent from our office in Sacramento to
Rough and Ready Grass Valley and Nevada. Also daily
Express to Auburn, Ophr, Yankee Jms and all parts
Placer county.
Todd's Express for Stockton Sonora Mokelumne Hill
Marposa and all the principal camps in the southern Mines
is despatched daily from office in San Francisco Our
messengers supplied with iron safes for the security
Atlantic side equa not superior to any other Cafor-
mia Express We connect New York with the following
running via Buffalo and Dukrk to Cleveland, Sandusky
Toledo Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit Chicago Gelena
etc. The Harden Express to Boston, Philadelphia Ba-
more, Washington, etc Pullen, Virgil Il Co.'S Vermont
and Canada Express. Davenport, Mason IL Co.'S New
Bedford Express, and Livingston, Wells Co.'s European
Express In connection with their express business they
will also transact general Banking Exchange and coec
ton business General and special deposits Teeevedco
lections and remtances made in all parts of California Or
egon the Atlantic States and Europe with and
despatch.
Drafts also drawn payable at the following places, Wis
- NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA
Albany, Troy, Utica, Syra Philadelphia Erie, Potsvlle
cuse, Oswego, Auburn, Ge- Reading.
ncva, Canandagua, Lock- MICHIGAN.
port Rochester, Buffalo, Sill Detroit Monroe Adrian Ann
yer Creek, Dunkrk, West Arbor, Niles, Battle Greek.
field. INDIANA.
MASSACHUSETTS. South Bend, Michigan City.
Boston. ILLINOIS.
RHODE ISLAND. Chicago, Galena, Springfield
Providence. Peoria
CONNECTICUT. WISCONSIN
Stonington Milwaukee, Racine.
OHIO. MISSOURI
Ashtabula, Xenia, Cleveland st. Louis
Newark, Mansfield, Colum- CANADA WEST
bus, Springfield, Sandusky, Toronto, Hamilton.
Toledo, Painsville, Dayton, CANADA EAST.
GAINESVILLE, Cincinnati Tin Montreal, Quebec.
Mt. Vernon. WELLS FARGO dN co
KENTUCKY. MCCONNELL & Co.. Agents.
Louisville. November 19-ltf
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
DR.. HUNGERFORD'S
Priv tie NJ d C al Office

site the Hall Records and the Lafayette Restaurant San
Francisco.
The Doctor having taken all the rooms has so arranged
them that he be consulted in privacy by his patients
either male female, without being by any
except himself.
In the treatment Diseases entrusted to his del
etcrious drugs medicines administered.
Rooms and board for persons who may wish remain
private a few days under his treatment.
To THE LADlEs.-The Doctor has a Private Hospital
under the charge of excellent Matron expressly for the
reception of Females
n B. All letters of advice, enclosing Ten Dollars (and
no other,) will be promptly attended to.
aS- Remember DIR. HUNGERFORD, No. 226b Du-
pont street, between Jackson and Washington ss San
Francisco.
Office hours from O'Clock A. M. to 9 p. NJ.
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
SIERRA NEVADA HOUSE,

MAIN STREET, CoLoMA
TUNHIS Hotel elegantly fitted up for the reception of
IL Families and Travellers we'll aso for the accom-
modaton of regular Boarders Every luxury the County
affords will always be found on the table.
BEDS AND BEDDING
Not surpassed by any Hotel in the mountains.
WAGON AND HAY YARD
Connected with this Hotel is extensive Stable and
Hay Yard and Hay and Grain always hand. The pat
of this House may be assured of polite attention. and
charges moderate any similar establishment in the
country.
Thankful for past favors the undersigned socts con-
tinuance of the public patronage.
Sept. 7.'1S54 A R. CHALMERS.
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
Miners Exchange and Savings Bank
CORNER OF MONTGOMERY AND SACRAMENTO STREETS,
BAN FRANCISCO.

LII menies deposited in this Bank in exceed
IA ing One Thousand Dollars, payable on demand
and deposits of One Thousand Dollars days sight
Said deposits made and after Sept ls 1854, Sept
LIST, 1855, will draw interest at the of half
per cent. per month.
All specie deposits of not less than hundred dollars
made for six months and over will draw interest at the
rate of two per cent per month.
On the st of September of each year dpositors will be
ing year.
GOLD DUST consigned for assay coinage at the Uni
ted States Branch Mint will receive immediate attention
and the results from will be returned
eight hours and the charge in all will only be one
and half per cent, including all charges for assay and
coinage half per cent for assay alone, when the
amount is fifty and upwards all amounts under f
ity ounces, the price will be five dollars.
Miners and Merchants leaving Gold Dust this Bank
ing House to be assaycd have immediate advance
on their gold without any charge for advancing
from date sixty days from sight, will be drawn
Sight Drafts will be drawn at three per cent the usual
rates at the time of drawing.
Mint Certificates purchased at reasonable discount
Gold dust and gold bars purchased at the highest market
price.
Rich Quartz Specimens valued free of CHARGE and the
highest prices paid for them when offered for SALE
The usual Banking facilities extended to Merchants and
Traders and the Bank will be kept open for the accommo
dation of Depostors until 81 M, and until 10 NJ
Saturdays.
N. B-Miners can remit their Moneys or Gold Dust in
sealed packages through Wells Fargo & Co.'s and Adams
q Co.'s Expresses, labelled and directed to me- with such
instructions they may deem proper, with the full
anee that attention will be paid to their instructions
relative to the same. A. S. WRIGHT,
.gl AZ 5m Banker
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
From the ".Southeyn Medical Jotunal"l
PROFESSOR HUNGERFORD.
FROM DIR. HUNGERFORD'S

PRIVATE MEDICAL Rooms, corner of Washington street
and Washington place. opposite the Hall Records and the
Lafayette Restaurant, San Francisco Cal
Where all diseases of private character receive the
treatment necessary to affect speedy and eectua of
those annoying and distressfu complaints The envable
reputation DR.. Hungerord has earned for himself by his
extraordinary in all diseases of private nature
renders it but to state his address, he therefore
avoids the long advertisements of bombasc promises Of
the empires of the day, lavishy held out but seldom
fulfilled Medicines sent to all parts of the country
with directions for their
Nocturnal Emissions Ulcers in the Throat, Syphilis
Gonorhea Structures, Geet and those dreadful symptoms
of the head throat and skin, under Dr. Hungerford
treatment, healed in incredibly short time without
mercury Young who have become victims of solitary
vice. that dreadful and destructive habit which ruins both
body and mind, call Immediately DIR. Hungerford, and
you depend upon being restored to health that great
est of Gods blessings.
STONE GRAVEL, &c.-The efficacy of DR.. Hunger
fords Lhron Tptc has proved beyond doubt to be the
most certain in the above named amos painful
that the human frame is most subject to. diff
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
McCONNEIJ CO.'S EXPRESS

McCONNELL & CO.'S EXPRESS,
Exchange and Banking Office Main street, Cooma
Mcconnell Il Co. run daily Express to Sacramento
connecting with Wells, Fargo IL Co.'S Express to San
Francisco, Oregon, Atlantic States Canadas Europe
Treasure packages parcels etc, forwarded with safety
and despatch Special attention given to the collection Of
notes and accounts.
Sight bills fexchange drawn all parts of the Atlantic
States Canadas and Europe Checks at Sight all parts
of California
Deposits received, special or otherwise GOLD DUST
bought. MCCONNELL IL co
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
Henry M. Fiske,
DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY

"OULD inform the citizens of Ell Dorado County in
w general and MUD SPRNGsi in particular that he has
on hand large assortment of DRUGS, MEDICINES,
PAINTS and OILS, well a full supply of the best
Patent Remedies usually found in Drug Establishments
Also, large assortment of the LATEST PUBLICA-
ITONS which he is receiving by every steamer direct
from the publishers and which he will dispose of at the
lowest rates.
-Store-Postoffce Buildings, Main ST. Mud Springs.
January 4th, 1854. [l2tf1
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Ell Dorado.
In the District Court llth Judicial District.
Cornelius Coolidge Willard Snow, F. R. Ford John
Henwood and - Collier.
The People of the State Of California to Willard Snow
greeting:
are hereby summoned to be and appear before the
Honorable District Court in and for said County and an
swer the complaint Of Cornelius Coolidge plaintiff filed
herein against the above named defendants within forty
days after service hereof upon you Exclusive of the day Of
service) Said action is brought recover the sum of
1884 Oh with interest and costs of suit for goods mining
tools liquors &c., furnished said defendants and for hoard
of defendants laborers And if you fail appear and an
swer the said complaint above required judgment will
be rendered by default in accordance with the PRAYER
thereof.
s(~~~) Witness my hand with the seal of said Court
Is. affixed, at Office in Cooma, this the 10Th day of
{ ~ October, A. ID. 1854.
t'fa A. StC DENVER, Clerk.
By A. ID. WALDRoN, Deputy Clerk.
On reading the affidavit of said plaintiff and the
plant herein it is ordered that service of upon
said defendant. Willard Snow be made by publishing the
same in the Empire County Argus week for three
months. s JAMES JOHNSON, County Judge.
Attest: A. Ste. DENVER, Clerk.
~ 3s By 4. d. WALpRoS, Deputy Cerk
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
Wells, Fargo 4 co.'s Express.

A JOINT STOCK COMPANY-CAPITAL $500, 900
DIRECTORS.
HENRY WELLS, WILLIAM G.. FARGO,
JOHNSTON LIVINGSTON, JAMES Mckay,
ELIJAH p WILLIAMS, A. REYNOLDS,
EDWIN B. MORGAN, A. M. G. SMITH,
HENRY D. RICE.
EDWIN B. MORGAN President
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
AMERICAN H0NgE.

SITUATED ON PIETY HILL, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE,
CoLoMA.
2Rr THE Proprietors take great pleasure in return
XXI ing thanks to the public for the increased patronage
i extended to their house, and promise that it shall
na1114A not go unrewarded.
The table, which is under the personal management of
one of the proprieors will always be supplied with the
best the county affords.
The House has bedrooms and parlors well furnished
with everything necessary for convenience and comfort
There is good stable and Wagon yard attached
MARCHANT IL CROCKER,
feblSH .--.. PRoPRIEToRS.
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
Important to Miners, Travellers
AND MEN OF BUSINESS.


STRANGERS visiting San Francisco from the interior,
- frequently wish to consult physician. Not knowing
whom to trust they sometimes fall into the hands of mere
pretendes void of conscience of knowledge. That
they may escape those dangers DR.. WHELPLEY takes
this occasion to inform them that his office is now
At the corner of Sansome and Commercial Sts
Opposite the ST. NIcHoLs,
NIANTIC, and
The Empire County argus., 1855-01-13
Testimonials from the Press.
[From the Echo du Pacifgue.'l

Testimonials from the Press.
From the Echo du Pacifgue.'1
DOCTOR NGERFORD.
We wsh to call the attention of our readers to the ad-
vertseat of this gentleman, whose extensive practice
and great sufficient induce all those afflicted to
give him call The Doctor is not only regularly educa-
ted Physician but he has the principles of honesty and
feel for his fellow beings He has undoubtedly prac-
tice than any other Physician in San Francisco, and it is
fast increasing To those acquainted with the Doctor,
say nothing to skill and integrity, as they are well
known but to strangers, do say call No 226a Du-
pont street, and you will find that friend in need is
friend indeed.
From the Southern Medical Jounal."]
PROFESSOR HUNGERFORD
Although opposed to the system of advertising yet
deem it but just to this gentleman to admit that his system
approved in throughout the civilized world