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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
What an Editor Night Have
Been.

Holland, ofthe Springfield Mass Repub-
lican, has been up in Vermont, TO where
he come FROM" and he thus sketches what
he should have been had he not left
home and become an editor:
Your correspondent would have grown
stalwart and strong with horny hands, and
face as black as the ace ofspades. He would
have taught school winters, work al or farm
summers, and gone out haying fifteen days
in July, and taken tor Fay therunnng gear
OF wagon. At twenty-five, or thereabouts.
he would have begun to pay attentions to a
girl with father worth two thousand dol
lars, and spit-curl on her rchead-a girl
who always went to singing school and set
in the seats" and without opening her
mouth-a pretty girl, anyway. Well, after
seeing her home from singing school two or
three years, taking her to Fourth of July,
and getting about hundred dollars tog ether
he would have married and settle dswn.-
Years would pass away, and that girl with
the spit-curl would have eleven children Just
as sure as you live--seyen boys and four
girls. We should have had hard time
bringing them up, hut they would be soon
able enough to do the milking aud help
their mother on wash days, and |, getting
independent at last, and feeling little sitter
in the joints, should be elected member of
the Legislature, having been an assessor and
school committee man for years. In the
evening of my days, with my pipe in my
mouth, thirteen barrels ofcider in the cellar,
and a newspaper in highlands, should sit
and look ever the markets, through pair
of gold mounted spectaeles, and wonder az
such a strange, silly piece as this being
published
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
Encounter with A Shark

A gentleman writes from Macao on the
18th OF April: T.
was witness to an extraordinary scene
in the outward harbSr ca Saturday last. =
Several boys from the French Messagsries
imperial ship were bathing when shark
was observed making for them. They heard
the cries of their shiPmatos and attempted
to regain their vessel, distant half mile
They wouldihave been too late, but for an
officer belonging to the celebrated Liverpool
clipper, Black Seneca, Mr.. Lamb, who,
srming himself with sheath knife, sprang
from the rail and attacked the monster in his
own clement. The shark Immediately
turned upon his antagonist; when occurred
scene more easily imag aginsd than described.
Mr.. Lamb dived again and again, each time
coming up beneath the monster. and
succeeded In inficting severalwo unds. =
The sea was literally dyed with the blood Of
the shark. Several beats having been put
off, he was dispatched With harpoon and
hauled ashore on the beach. He proved to
be blue shark, fully fifteen feet long.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
bftDaTy.

Iron the Buresu cosu,y CillsJ Rspubliesn1
Died ut hi. residence, in this town on TIE
morning Of the 4th inst, Robert Thompson
Jempleton, in the 54tb year. Of his age
He was born at Cbambsrsburk; Pennsyl.
vania, Oct. 2l, 1911.
The death OF Mr.. Templeton will excite
emotions. of profound reerettbroushout this
entire community. He filed no insignificant
or ordinary plsce before the public. Few
among the citizens Of this county have been
moro distinguished for their public spirit
and intelligence, and none commanded
more universal esteem and admiration for
all the qualities which sdorn the fnafi and
the citizen.
tsHo was a model of truth, and probity,
and honor kind, amible and benevolent,
yet full of decision and frmness. With a
sound Judgment, and high sense of duty,
be was never false to friend or iaithess to
any confidence reposed in him. He held
various Offices Of honor and trust, in the
county, which were, il may be said. almost
thrust upon him, for in his quiet and
unostentatious life he neither sourht nor
desired the distinction Of Office. And, while
he was man of strong convictions, and of.a
decided political bias, he never permitted
personal ties or party obligations to contra
vens the dictates of an enlightened consci-
entiousness and honor.
We knew him long and we'll and ever
found him truthful earnest and sincere. A
benevolent man, with "a hand open as day
for melting charity" he delighted to en-
courage and aid the deserving, TO strengthen
the weak, and TO relieve the suffering. No
needy man ever went from his door empty
handed. He never oppressed his poor
debtor. He never foreclosed q poor mans
mortgage, nor sold out poor mans goods
on execution. These are virtues whose
sweet SAVIOR like incense will rise to heaven.
But he has gone from among us in ell his
gentle, unpreteBding. unobtrusive goodness,
and his form so long familiar on our streets,
will DO more he seen, but will be laid away
with those of the generation that here first
knew and appreciated him. His work is
now done, ,'and in his grave TRANQUILITY rest
ing. latter life's fitful fever" and his mem
ory green in the hearts Of our citizens, he
will sleep we'll"
Into the secret places of their sorrow, to
whom this stroke comes nearest home. it
were profane to enter. 1t was a pleasing
dream of the old theology that the bolt
makes sacred where ii strikes. ard in the
Christian revelation we are told that the
most endearinF names to the Divine Father
are those Of widow and orphen. "He is a
father Of the fatheiless. and defendeth the
cause Of the. widows; even God, in His
holy habitatioh." w.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
The Country Press.

Notwithstanding the high prices of ma.
terials, and the moderate price charged for
newspapers, i. is surprising that so few sue
cumb, and that SO many are so well snstain-
ed. The only way we can account for this
is, that our country people have an honor
able pride in keeping up their local journals.
This they do by liberal advertising pa
tronage, and partly by subscriptions Nor
would it be desirable to permit the me.
tropolitan newspapers to displacc the local
journals. Every we'll conducted local pa
per serves to call the worlds attention to
the interests and productions Of the section
which it represents, be those interests
agricultural, mechanical or commercial -
Thus the coal aud oil regions need theiI
journals so Of the gold, iron, copper and
lead interests So of other productions
aud it is through the local press that the
world comes to know Of these things. :
Therefore we rejoice to open every vel
filed and ll-patronized country newspa
per. 1t lis an evidence of the enterprise
and intelligence Of the people. -tPhreno
logical Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

HARD TAcH.--In an article in the Uni
ted States Magazine, the following hard
tack story is told. 1t appears the boxes in
which the tack" is packed, always bear the
brand of the baker or maker, and a lot
which arrived in camp of the 9Th New York
Excelsiors, with the mark "B. O. 603,"
caused much speculation among tho "boys,,'
as to what it meant. 1t was finally agreed
unanimously that it must be the date when
the crackers were made-six hundred aud
three years before Christ h l'''' 7e
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

EptroRs are provefbially temperate as
well as virtuous. We believe one Of the
craft did get tightly slight" sw days
ago, and the following is . ~Sps OF his
paper the next day:
yesterday morning at <o'elc~t, ?; y. q
small man ns med Jones or Bros = er smith,
with q knee in'the whole Of his. tsssssrs,
committed arsenic by swsllowirs sdoss Of
suicide. The verdict OF the ihquea 70,
turned jury that the deces:ss s ssms TO fas ne
facts in accordance with his death. hs
leaves child and six small wiyss 70 lament
The end OF his uatimely loss.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
The Most Beautiful Hand.

day what it is which constitutes beauty in
the hand. They differed in opinion as much
as the shape of the beautiful member they
we're discussing. A gentleman friend drop
ping in. the question was referred 20 him.
Ii was delicate matter. Glancing from
one to the other ofthe beautiful white hands
presented for his examination, he replied at
last, II give it up--the question is too hard
for me !; but ask the poor, and they will tell
y,u that the most beautiful hand in the
world is the hand that gives,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

A YOUNG lady in Philadelphia strapped
her skates so tight as to almost cheek cir
culation. The result wasvery serious. On
leaving the ice she could not use her feet,
and has since been confined to her bed. IL
is feared that the amputaticn Of beth her
feet will be necessary.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

LIFg-Jenkins says that 'Lifei is country
dance; down outside and back; tread on the
corn Of your neighbor; poke your nose svery-
where; all hands around; right and left.
Bob your eocosnut-the figure is ended.
Time hangs up the fidls and death puts
out the light.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

TEE Chattanooga Gazette says that nins
Of our soldiers who b ad been captured by
the rebels and put iu Gaylesville Ala. jail,
were recently taken out by Gatewood's
suerrillas, shot and their bodies thrown into
the river
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

A LETTER has been received at the pot
Office in Pennington, from soidier ga tho
Potomac, addressed to The Prettiest Girl
in Farminstoa--the Postmaster to be tie
Judge" A pretty scraps for him; if he ac-
cents the oiiicei
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

Col. r. B. HAYES, of the 23d Ohio, and
member of Congress elect from the Second
District of this State, was yesterday con-
frmed Br,gadier General of Volunteers.
The Presidents son. Robert I. Lincoln, was
also confirmed Assistant Adjutant General,
with the rank Of Captain In the Regular
army g..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

The Secretary of the Treasury has, with
the approval of the President, designated
the port of Fernandina, Fla, as q place fer
tie pTrchass of the products Of the insur-.
rec,ionary States on Government secounts
in accordance with the provisions q the sls
section of the act Of Congress approved
July, 1864.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

$50 you are keeping house, are you"
queried lady of bushing bride, whom
she chanced to visit few mornings since.
Yes" was the reply. Going to have a
girl, suppose?" The new wife colsrsd,
whether 1t will be girl or boyr''
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

A CLERGYMAN, catechising the youth of
Of his church, put the first question from a
catechsm to a girl: What is your consola-
ton in life aud death?" The girl smiled,
but did not answer. The clergyman insist,
ed. "Well then" said she, since must
tell, tits q young printer named P, in
Spruce street.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

WHAT'S IN NAME?-The wife Of ono
Of our distinguished citizens yesterday gave
birth to fine. hearty boy, and the father
has determined to name him "Constita tom
al Amendmen"- Boston Traveller.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

VERY Misunderstanding of the imag-
NATIVE nature Of woman, certain writer
says: ''The only time woman does not
exaggerate is when she's talking Of her ewn
aoen
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

A SINGULAR lSvESTIoN has just ap-
pearcd in the shape of paper as mstsriel
for building ships Of war. 1t is said that
slab one inch thick possesses power of re-
sistance equal to ten inches Of solid oak.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

ARTEMUs WARD, says of the Mornons,
that in consequence of their peculiar hab.
its more Of their people are in arms than
can be found among the same amount of
population any where else in the country
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

FANNY FERN, who ought to know, says,
speaking Of cetton: "The ladies, as we all
know, owe something OF their angelic sym.
mstry to the pure Southern staple. OF all
the products Of the earth, il is nearest to
their hearts" y f'P @'i'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

LATEST FROM THE INSANE RETREAT
Why is Sherman the most gallant general
in the army? He rushed across the coAti-
nsnt to saue Aaaa. Savannah. .
WAR. did Gov. Brown do whom he heard
Of it? He swore he'd destroy him with
proclamation, aud rushed of to make 'un.
Macon.
WHERE did JEFF the next time he tesk
snuff, say he would stop him? o geo ehco.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

"Do you know Mr.. ---F asked one
friend Of another, referring to an old gen
tleman, who was famous for his fondness for
the extract OF hop.
eyes Sir, know him WELL.
ssWhat kind of a man is hef''
"Why in the morning. when he gets up
he is a beer barrel, aud in the evening, when
be goes to bed, he is . barrel Of beer. I"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

TnEaE il sacredness in tears--thsy are
not the mark Of weakness bat Of power
they are the messengers of overwhelming
grief, Of deep centrition, and of unspesk-
ahla love.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

The "Old Tycoon" Corporal" ''Te-
cumseh," and Uncle Bill" are am ong the
many names by which General Sherman is
known By bis soldiers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

An old widower advises uninitiated
youths to pop the question with laugh,
"for," says he, ''if you be accepted wall and
good; if not, you can say yeu are only joking"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

THE best dowry to advance the marriage
Of young lady is to have in her counts-
nance mldness, in her spsech wisdom, and
in her behavior modesty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

a SOLDIER writes home that be gets along
With the hard tack pretty well, except When
they put the shortening into it lengthyise.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

An editor, in absence of misd, lately
quoted from rival papsf one Of bis own
articles aud headed it, "Wrctchsd attempt
at wit"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

PUFcB says that tho other day . lady
stoeplng over her sewing machine, got .
most psinful stitch in her side"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

NEVER attempt to stop woman 8 tongue;
talk is as necessary to female vitality ss the
air she breathes. ''-0 - : = : :
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
Various Isoms.

WHEN did Isaac Newton cut up shine,2
When be divided the rays Of lisht.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

1T may be Of interest to our lady readers
to know that General Terry, tho here of Fort
Fisher, is unmarried, young aud handsome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

FANNY FERH says: 81 sm getting sick
Of people. am falling in love with things.
They hold their tongues aud can't bother"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

;, WHr do hens always lay in the day time?
Because at night they become rosst. ers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

.Jocosr. "a petroleum aristocrst,n,mipa
his daughter Carrie scene -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

A MAN who lives alnost exclusively ur-
on tick. The telegraph operator.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23

WHAr was the next sound Sherman
heatdf Ossabsw. (Lunatic secured. -
Hartford Press. fs-A
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-02-23
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Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09
DIED OF TOO MUCH RUFFLING.

This is the epitaph which might truth
fully be written on many good wOman's
tombstone Mrs Stowe, in her last Chin
ney Corner paper in the Atlantic treats Of
this evil in connection with the domestic
fault of exactingness-tha impatient quail
ity which stimulates IA certain class of per-
sons to he ever striving to reach a high
standard of excellence which they can
never attain, and which results in an over
doing of domestic work destructive to all
happiness in the family H'r remarks On
the subject are so pertinent, and so well
worthy of the serious consideration of the
mothers OF our land that we cannot refrain
from reprinting them here
What if the whole care Of expensive
table luxuries, like cake and preserves, be
thrown out of housckeeper's budget, in
order that the essential articles of cooking
may be better prepared? What if rutliing,
embroidery, and the entire department OF
kindred fine arts be thrown out OF her cal
culations, in providing for the clothing of a
family? Many a feeble woman has died Of
too much rutflmg, as she patiently sat up
night after night sewing the thread of a
precious, invaluable life into elaborate ar
ticles which her children were none the
healthier or more virtucus, for wearing.
Ideality is constantly ramifying and
extending the department Of the toilette
and the needle into a wo!ld of work and
worry, wherein distracted women wander
up and down, seeing no end anywhere. The
sewing-machine was announced as a relief
to these tolls but has it proved 50? We
trow not. 1t only amounts to this, that
now there can be seventy-tw" tucks on
each little petticoat, instead of fifteen, as
before and that twice as many garments
are made and held 10 be necessary as for
merly The women still sew to the limit Of
human endurance and still the old pro-
verb holds good, that womau's work is
never done
In the matter of dress, much wear and
tear Of spirit and nerves may be saved by
not beginning to go IN certain directions,
we'll knowing that they will take lis beyond
our resource of time, strength, and money.
There is one word of fear in the vocab-
ulary of the women of our time winch must
be pondered advisedly- TRIMMING. IN old
times good garment was enough nova
davs a garment is nothing without trim
ming. Everything, from the first article
that the baby wears up To the elaborate
dress OF the BRIDE, must be trimmed az Il
rate that makes the trimming more than
the original article. \ dress can be made
in day but it cannot be trimmed under
two ar three days Let faithful, consci-
entious woman make mp her mind how
much of all this burden of life she will as
sumo, remembering wisely that there is no
end to ideality in anything and that the
only way to deal with many perplexing
parts of life is TO leave them out altogeth-
err
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09

WAGER OF BATTLE This method of de-
termining the guilt or innocence Of an &C
cused person was recognized by the COM
mon law of England for many centuries
When legal tribunal failed to convict the
accused, the nearest of kin was allowed to
challenge him to wager of battle, upon the
belief that God would there defend the
right. If the accused We're killed, it was
held to be proof Of his guilt !; if other
wise, it was proof that he was innocent.
a case of this kind occurred in 1871, which
caused the Parliament to put an end to it.
A young woman was murdered by man
in wood. He was tried at the Old Bailey
and acquitted. Her brother challenged the
murderer to battle with swords They
were to fight until the first star appeared,
and he who should first "craven" was held
to be execrable. The man was kept In
Newgate until Parliament altered the law.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09

PoIsoNERs.--The notorious Tofana confes-
sed to the murder of more than 400 by
poison administered by herself directly. La
Spara and Bruilliers were destructive hard
ly in a minor degree. But the number of
victims who succumbed to the immediate
operations of those female monsters were
but of small account, after all, in the grand
aggregate of those who withered, stricken
by poisions supplied and given at second
hand. There was a time when married
Italian lady's dressing-case was hardly
complete without small vial of aqua To-
fana. What the fair ones did with it many
a murdered husband or faithless lover, if
brought to life could tell. Poisoning has
ever been the favored scheme of woman's
murder practice, and for some obvious rea-
son. 1t needs no strength of hand, no un-
wavering presence of mind, face to face
with your victim ; it makes no noise, spills
no blood, is quiet, undemonstrative and as
far as murder can be, is elegant.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09

CONVERsATION.-Ihe power of cOnversa-
ton consists in the habit of not thinking
of what is in your mind, Of not cropping and
terreting about in the dull dank vacuities
OF your own soul for any notions which
chance to be found straying there. He
alone can converse with any effect who
cares only to see that which hovers before
the mental eye of his opponent Convcr-
sation is incompatible with vanity 1t is
also the best cure for vanity. For the only
way to get rid of selflovc is not to think of
ones self, but to contemplate what is ex-
ternal to ones self Enter into the minds
Of others, and you will gradually get out
Of yourself The secret of light conversa-
tion is to speak Of that only in which your
partner is Interested to twist about the
thought in his mind. To say that which is
already known is rude. Such conduct will
be resented You will be branded as dull
and insipid. 1t is not rude, on the other
hand, to remain silent Paradoxes are
good because they are not commonplace
generalitieS. Never d, sccnd to common
place, but force persons out of their Ordi-
nary grooves. If any man is talking of a
high subject, and you let slip a common
place, he will not say another word to you
A look, without word, is sufficient to show
that you have entered into his meaning
But if You say what does not require to be
said, it proves that you have not been fol-
lowing him. In sum. the whole art Of con-
versation consists in not travelling out of
your partners thought, but in receiving and
applying it; and he alone naturally con-
verses well who has got rid of vanity and
self-love.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-09

liza land beneath the cerule sky,
claims not gentle blood nor heraldry,
Lords huge sledges in their hard hand
swing
every roiing farmer is a King.
.,,a.rs,v in castes divides,
.. ta-rieh and poo- distinctive sides
.~,,r men. through working soon and late,
,..r,- without estates.
...f-.lt cline a Queen each housewife is,
.- 4 .,r daughters fair are Princesses,
n-.L Lr,, she to whom the young are brought
- r-y,ented at her court and taught.
Developing IN artists skill,
Emperor by the peoples will
.v4opLl., ,4e wondrous engine car,
.., Ja, homage Of a reigning Gar.
". the land tn gives to merit praise?
-r mechanic high as just will raise?
E.. Columbia. ever may 1t be,
... of tie poor, home Of the laboring free!
W. Il. S.