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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
Gems Of Thought,

DIR. johnson used to say "he who
waits to do a great deal of good at once
will never do any," -5 -...
If industry is no more than habit, it is
at least an excellent one.
! Riches got by fraud are dug out Of
ones own heart, and desIr9y the mind.
Riches got by deceit cheat no man SO
much as the getter.
] Let our repentance be a lively will, a
firm resolution. Complaints and mourn
ing over past errors avail nothing.
/ Introduce changes in your reading and
4 studies, Who reads but little at time
retains that little better,
/ When the heart is pure there Is hardly
anything which can mislead she under
standing In matters of immediate per-
isonal cencernment. 84 aa 7,1
1 Unjust riches curse the owner In get
ting, In keeping and in Transmitting
They curse his children in their fathers
memory.
There is q certain softness OF manuer
which, In either man or woman, adds a
charm that almost entirely oompensates
! for lack of beauty. ii -. -
There are a thousand pretty, engaging
! little ways which every person may put
on without being deemed either affected
or foppish. s,,
=. Guard against reading too much or
too rapidly. Read rather with attention.;
lay the book often down; impress on
your mind what you have read and
reflect upon it. -alas fri
Weigh every step that you are about
to take, whenever passions become in
volved. How often do things assume a
different aspect when they are fairly
considered.
How often do we sigh for opportuni-
tiesof doing good, while we neglect the
openings of Providence in little things,
which would frequently lead to the ac-
accomplishment of most important useful
ness.
1t is much easier TO think right with
out doing right, than to do right with
out thinking right. just thoughts
may, and often do, fail of producing
just deeds; buc just deeds are sure
TO beget just thoughts. f.r r
We should be careful to practice, and
treat the humble menial with conftesy
as delicate as we would show the chill
dren OF affluence and honor. SO shall
we transfuse in them corresponding
refinement, which will tend eventually,
perhaps, to make them purer in morals
and more elevated in mind. si
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
Luxuries for Cattle.

Every spring the COW and horse doetors
in the country have plenty of business
but as soon as the grass starts so that the
cattle can get Il good bite, their occupa-
ton is gone; and why: Simply because
green food is natural medicine, and more
effective than the cattle doctors drugs.
Perhaps you have neglected to raise root
crops; if so, try and exchange with your
neighbors, or purchase a supply, and do
not say that your cattle have dnne well
without them, and will do so again, be-
cause there is a chance of their failing,
and the fault will be your own.
Would you like to be kept OH bread
and butter aud . little cold water for
six months? If not, please remember
that your animals have keen taste for
good things as well as yourself; and if
you do not believe this, try the old gray
horse or brindle COW with peck of
sweet apples some cold morning next
winter, and if they do not thank you for
the luxury, then it is because you are
two dumb to understand animal ien-
guage,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

An intelligent and thrift; farmer says:
"But for the co-operation of my boys |
should have failed. worked hard, and
so did they. The eldest is near twenty
one, and other boys in the neighborhood.
younger, have left their parents; mine
have stuck to ME when / most meeded
their services. / attributed this result
to the fact that L have tried to make
home pleasant for them. 1 have fur
nished them with attractive and useful
reading; and. when night comes, and
the days labor is ended, instead of run-
ming with other boys torthe railway sta
tion and adjoining towns, they gather
around the great lamp, and become alb
sorbed in their books aud papers" Such
is substantially the testimony of farm
er who has known how hard the strug-
gle for a footing of free soil without a
capital Is, and how valuable and COM
paratively cheap are the aids which good
reading brings to him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
.farm aud AonsefloId.



| The Hon. Henry A. Randall, haying
addressed a note to Joseph Walworth,
Esq, of Lawrence, Mass, asking him to
define the kind of Delane Wool, the
dearth of which he complained of, re-
ceived the following reply:
At present / can only say that for De-
laines We want staple three to five
inches in length, sound and evenly
grown; We do not want necessarily a
fine wool. Some fine Delaines are made
frsm three-fourth blood wOols, cblli not
many. The woods mostly wanted are
one-fourth and one-haif blood, and the
tendency of the worstedr. business is. to
call still smore strongly for one fourth
blood wuols-both ofsthe -GonfbiRgs and
Delaine classes. 4 common coarse ma
tive sheep in the hills of Pennsylvania
and New York, crossed with Leicester
buck, would very soon produce good
common wool that would do for COmbing
and Delaines. It would not be fancy
wool, but we could use il and mix it with
Canada wool, and could at very little ex-
pense, and no risk to the farmer, soon
get large quantity of these woods rom
the sheep already in the country. L want
the farmer to run no risk bY doing as [
suggest. He lays ou: but little extra on
Leicester buck, and at once improves
his coarse sheep and produces more of
of the woods so absolutely required.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
Registered Letter Fees,

1t has long been complaint among
merchants and business men that the
fees charged by the Post Office Depart
ment, for registering letters within the
United States, were too high. The prop
osition was accordingly made to reduce
the fees one half, and after meeting with
considerable opposition from the Wash
ington Department, the matter was
finally adjusted by establishing the fees
at fifteen cents. After the first of jan
uary the new regulation will take effect,
and fifteen cents will be charged for reg
istering letters within the United States.
Considering the trouble taken by the
Department to transmit these letters
safely, and the difficulties attendent
upon searching for them from office to
Office along their intended route, in case
they are lost, this fee is not too large
1t il claimed that IL they are Atill further
reduced the receipts Of the DEPARTING
would not pay the actual expense of re
istration.-[N. Y. Bulletin.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

GRUBS AND BoRERs. Now is the time
to examinepeach trees for fatal grub
worms under the bark near the surface
os the ground. They hatch i'll the spring
of the year, and live three years, eating
away the life of the trees. They should
be followed with the knife or piece of
wire till found and destroyed. They can
be traced by the excrements which they
leave in their path. The Wood should
be covered with composition, made of
one part sifted lime, one part wood ashes
and two parts of fresh cow-manure,
mixed with water to the cOnsistence of
mortar. This is the very best remedy
for wounds or bruises upon all kinds of
trees, and should be generally known.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
Tariff Sentiment In the West.

The Dayton, Ohio Journal spoke for
vast interests in the West, when it said
the other day: "The>fact is understood
by all intelligent people, that the best
way to build up manufactures in this
country is to put stiff duty on the for
eign articles which compete with those
made at home. Ifluxuries and such ar
ticles as we cannot produce in this cOun-
try could be made to bear the whole
which we could produce or manufacture
would be the better for it. The clamor
against tariff which protects domestic
industry is simply an assault upon the
prosperity of the country and upon the
wages Of the working men" p"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
Philosophical Plan.

In this Seminary We haN e been led TO adopt
the Philosophic plan of each Professor and his
class devoting their whole time and energies u
asingie study until completed. We have been
lied TO this by seeing so many students
disheartened, or rendered superficial, by being
required to carry forward three or Iour studies
at the same time. Then each Professor was re-
quired TO hear SO many recltationS andthe time
was 50 broken up tHaI IL was ont OF the question
to give each. subject and each pupil the required
attention. In introducing this method, we ex-
pected 10 be able to make our classes much more
thorough and practical, but not only are We
succeeding beyond our expectations IN this par
t1eular, but we are accomplishing "a great deal
more i'll the same time, well as doing it much
better. In graduating, one-third of the time
andexpense is saved, matter of great consider
alton toevery ene.After thoroughly mastering
the Common Branches, students complete the
scientific Course in two, instead OF three Years,
as heretofore required; devoting three months
10 Algebra, two 10 Geometry, and Two TO Chem
istry, and one month each To all the other stud
les. Our course is full and practical, and the
time allotted TO each study enable US to do vast
ly more with ii than is usually done. We eX-
plain this on the principle. that men show the
greatest results in given time, when they de-
vote their whole energies to one thing. Ii has
been claimed that students devoting their whole
time TO one study would become weary, but we
Hnu instead OF this being true that the student
having an opportunity to concentrate his whole
energies upon one subject, succeeds, and as a
result OF his success. AN enthusiasm is awaken
Ell, before unknown in schools; the student be-
CONFESS a genuine Philosopher in search OF truth.
New Studies are commenced monthly, at which
Cme students can enter and remain as long as
desired. Classes for Fall and early Winter will
be formed September lith, October 18th, and
Novem Der 9th. 4 class will commence Algebra,
November 9Th, and go regularly through with
Mathematics. By our plan we propose TO make
this more thorough class than any ever con-
Quoted on the Old system. Those wishing to
enter IL, would do well 10 engage rooms soon.-I
the department of Music and Painting are
now offering the very best advantages.
The Ladies' Ornamental Course is short, but the
most practical and useful. All is left out that
will not De practiced in woman's appropriate
sphere. And they are made so thorough, and
such a love OF science is induced that they will
carry il into and adorn every department oflife
and not, as is too frequently DONE lay it all aside
az soon they graduate f.a.5. i -..--.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
Indian A6afrs,

The st. Louis Republican has the fol.
lowing on In6.ian matters:
A letter received from Gen. Hazen
contains 3 report of transactions at Fort
Cobb up to November 3Oth, three days
after the fight on the Washita. He re.
ports that on the Goth of November
seven days before the battle, Black Ket,
tie was at Fort Cobb, and he had a talk
with him that lie Gen. Hazen) distinct
ly told Black Kettle that he and his
people were considered to be at war,
and that he Gen. II, would give him
no protection or advantage from his es-
tablishment at Fort Cobb. until he
| BLACK Kettle) had made terms with
Gen. Sheridan, then in the field. II
would, therefore, appear that Black Ket-
tie knew he was not under the protec-
| ton of the United States. This circum-
stance is deemed important TO be ex-
planned by the military authorities, in
order to a proper understanding of the
matter, as it is in this particular that
| Custar's attack differs essentially from
Chivington's at Sand Creek. the Indians
in the latter case being at the time un
der the protection of the United States
military authorities.
Gen. Sherman's instructions are to
Strlke all 0OSIllt 1nOlaIiS, ana CLUSTER
those that are friendly about Fort Cobb,
under Gen Hazen. BY the state of war
now existing and commenced by the In
dians, the treaty made at Medicine
Lodge Creek is not considered binding,
and no Indians are permitted to hunt
on grounds outside the reservations
where they were entitled to roam by the
treaty. Their rights in this respect are
declared forfeited. Information has been
received of the death of Roman Nose, a
bad Indian who refused to come in at
Medicine Lodge Creek. He was prin-
ciple chief of the Dog soldiers. He was
killed by the troops under Gen. +. A.
Carr, near the headwaters of the Repub-
lican, some six weeks ago.
With regard to the Peace Commission
ers there is a mistaken idea, obtained
from occasional telegraph specials, that
they are about to assemble again in
Washington. This is not the case, as at
their last meeting in Chicago the propo-
sition to adjourn at the call of the Presi-
dent was defeated, and the motion to
adjourn sine die was carried to /, Com
missioner Taylor voting in the negative.
The proposition providing for the trans
fer of the Indian Bureau to the War
Department was also carried, with the
exception of Taylor's vote. Col. Tappan
even voting In the affirmative,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
2raspfftuses.
Announcement for 1869.
TlG Cincinnati Gazette.
The Weekly Gazette.

l IN ANNOUNCING The WEEKLY GAZETTE
for the ensuing year, the proprietors take
pleasure in being able to offer It in full size inn
proved in quality, and at reduced rates. We
| have also arranged, at a heavy expense, to dis
of the GAZETTE ANNUAL REGISTER AND
| HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION. This work
viii contain complete history ofcurrent events
for the year lnt'S comparative election returns
for all the states, the vote of Ohio and Inriiana
| by Townships, the organization of National and
Estate Governments, names OF members of the
| Legislatures of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
time for holding district circuit courts, SAL
aries of officers. and other general and valuable
statistics This part of the work will be edited
| by EDWARD ID. MANSFIELD, ESQ, whose name
Will be accepted as a guaranty OF fullness and
accuracy. 1t will also contain n HoKTICULTUR-
AL DEPARTMENT, which VIII be edited by DIR.
JOHN A. WARDER, well known as a practical
and scientific Horticulturist. This will contain
directions for the selection and management of
fruit trees, vines, &c, and will prove perman-
entity valuable.
The Register will he issued ON or about the
first OF January, and will be sent free to all sub
scriberS to the Weekly Gazette, whether sub
seribing previous or subsequent to the first Of
january. Those renewing their subscriptions
will be treated As new subscribers, the intention
being to makea present OF this valuable work
to every subscriber.
THE LITERARY DEPHRMzNT will also receive
extra attention A reasonable space Will be
given to the publication of first-class stories,
original and selected.
T4IE LARGEST AND THE BEsr-The Weekly
Gazette contains more readingnatter than any
other newspaper publishedi in the United States
with the free gift of the Register ii is also the
cheapest. Our aim is to maintain the full size
OF the Gazette and improve il in quality five
should reduce its size one-half we could afford
70 sell IL at half price, but this would be no in
ducement to subscribers. ..
AN ENTIRELY NEW FEATURE.-Having no
great political battles to tight during the year,
we shall have more space for general and mis-
cellaneous reading, This will be occupied in
part by articles under the head of Personal Re-
collections, one of which will be published week.
ly. These Will be written by eminent men in
various parts of the West, who have already
been engaged TOR that purpose. Our authors
nave been selected from the various professions,
including Ministers, Lawyers Politicians, FARM
ers. Merchants and Editors. Each article will
have attached to it the name of the writer,-
Suffice 20 say now that the gentlemen whose SER
vices ve'been secured, occupy high positions,
ana have made for themselves national reputa-
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OTHER DEPARrMENrs, including Editorial,
News, Commercial, Correspondence, Agricul-
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standard OF excellence. Important news trans
plnng at home or abroad will be published in
The Gazette from three to six days In advance of
Eastern publications.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

Don't Freeze the Little Girls.

A newspaper correspondent writes
very sensibly as follows, to Chicago
paper: In these cold, blowy, snowy days,
I am panied at the efforts OF. foolish par
ents to freeze their little girls. 1t is an
outrage. Girls should be dressed just as
comfortable as boys. On the contrary,
the poor little shi yering things are sent
out in the streets, with their heads COM
fortaoly protected, thick shawls around
the shoulders, which comparatively
need no protection, their skirts standing
out at an angle of forty-five degrees, and
their poor little drumstick legs as un-
protected from the blasts as the legs of a
turkey hanging in meet stall. And
thus We pack off the little girls to school,
with their big heads to be crammed full
of learning, at the expense of their legs,
which, at tender age, are of more inn
portance than their heads. AS gener-
al rule parents should devote their
entire attention to their little girls legs
and let their hea1s alone. The heads
will take care of themselves in due time.
The legs are helpless and need looking
after. BY taking care of the heads, lit
tie girls acquire knowledge, such as it
is, of music, drawing, all the modern
languages, botany, the use of the globe,
embroidery, poetry and in general lit
tie Of nothing, and by negleoting at the
same time their legs, they acquire colds,
coughs, headaches, weak backs, pipe
stem legs, hollow chests, neuralgias, and
other complaints which either send them
to Heaven before they ought to go, to
be made into premature angels, or if
they live to grow up, makes them drag
througha miserable, unhappy and un-
haaIthu life
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

To DRIVE OFF RATs.-Take a bunch
of matches and soak them over night in
teacupful of water, then take out the
matches, thicken the water with Indian
meal to stiff dough, adding Il spoonful
of sugar and littlelard, and lay it about
the premises where the rats and nothing
else will get it. l have tried different
kinds ,f ,exterminators, with poor sue
cess until / tried this. Rats are now
strangers about the premises, and make
short stops when they call, and go away
with terrible squeak and a terrible
gripping in the stomach.-[ Exchange.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

THERE is said to be carried off from
the soil nine pounds of lime in twenty
Ave bushels of wheat, nine pounds in
fifty bushels of oats, and fifteen pounds
in thirty-eight bushels Of barley. There
are thirty-five pounds of lime in two tons
of rye grass, one hundred and twenty
six pounds in two tons Of clover, one
hundred and forty pounds in twenty-five
tons of turnips, and two hundred and
seventy pounds in nine tons of potatoes.
Some soils contain an abundance of lime
for thousand years, while other soils
require an occasional application of lime
as a fertilizer
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31
NOTICE ITO LADIES.
s...v.r .
TUE NEW AND GREAT DISCOVERY FOR fuB CURE
OF FEMALE WEAKNESS.
Mrs. I'll Frazier's

Mrs. TT F'razier's
Compound Extra st of Fruit Leaves,
s NOW offered for sale by Druggists of St
Clairsville, MartipSville, Bridgeport, and
Logan, List Co., Bridge Corner, and s. l.. Brice
Corner 5th and Vine Sts, South Wheeling W.
Send 10 cents for descriptive circular which
also contains a valuable recipe for tonic for
general health.
Druggists who may desire an agency, will
please send their address, and the medicine will
be promptly furnished Address
I. FRAZIER & CO..
Martins Ferry, Bel. Co., o.
Read the following certificates:
This is to certify that Mrs, 4. FRAZIER was q
sufferer for some years. from "Prolapsus Uteri"
in its worst form, attended with great debility
&c., &C. She had been under the treatment OF
several Physicians, myself incluledl with but
little benefit, almost despairing of ever getting
well. She cured herself CoMPLETELY, by the
use of the compound Extract OF Fruit Leaves {"
above directed, discovered, and prepared by
herself which she now offers to the public
|. WERLICH, Physician,
Martins Ferry, o., Jan. 9th, 1868.
The Undersigned concurs in the above state
ment made by DR.. 1. Werlich. The statements
made by Mrs. Frazier may be depended ON as
strictly true. :. b. WEST. NJ. ID.
Martins Ferry. O.
The certificates refer to statements which will
be found In the circular accompanying each
bottle.
CARROLL & MITCHELL,
Druggists, sole agents for 1T, Clairsville, o.
apo lSBS-ly@ .,r...r.sr ...
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oelaine woods.

The Hon. Henry A. Randall, having
addressed note to Joseph Walworth,
ESQ.,, of Lawrence, Mass, asking him to
define the kind of Delaine Wool, the
dearth of which he complained of, re-
ceived the following reply:
At present L can only say that for De
laines we want staple three TO nve
inches in length, sound and evenly
grown: we do not want necessarilya nne
wool. Some fine Delaines are made
from three-fourth blood woods, but not
MANY. The woods mostly wanted are
one-fourth and one-half blood, and the
tendecncy of the worsted business is to
call still more strongly for one-fourth
blood wools-both of the Combing and
Delaine classes. A common coarse ma
tive sheep in the hills OF pennsylvania
and New York, crossed with Leicester
buck. would very soon produce good
common wool that would 90 Tor Como
ing and Delaines. 1t would not be a
fancy wool, but we could use it and mix
it with Canada wool, and could at very
little expense, and no risk to the farmer'
soon get a large quantity of these wools
from the sheep already in the country
I want the farmer to run no risk oy
doing as suggest. He lays out but III
tIe extra on a Leicester buck, and al
once improves his coarse sheep and pro-
duces more of the woods SO absolutely
required.
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expenses.

Notwithstanding the high order OF all the de-
partments the expenses all taken together are
very low. Sixteen dollars per month pays for
boarding, furnished, warmed and carpeted
rooms, washing of bedding and lights, in the
Presldents family in the seminary building
The building is in two separate apartments, one
for ladies and one for gentlemen: all dine at
the same table The building contains T2roomS,
and Is heated throughout by steam radiators
No coal SCOT or dirt in the rooms. Few Semi
narleS furnish so many home comforts Tuition
inthe several departments abouttheusual rates.
Rooms in the village for self boarding. OTIS
furnished on the seminary grounds free of
charge for the accommodation of those wishing
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-31

With most of us, idleness is the parent
not merely of uneasiness, but withal OF
fretfulness, maleovlence and the whole
host of evil passions. The phrase ZACH
ing void" may be ridiculous to those
who criticise dramatically, but is true
to those who feel humanity. To supply
this void is an object, and moreover a
certain effect, Of regular and sustained
and judieious method Of sci f-insurrec-
ton. The used key is bright. II the
steel we wrought up and refined TO a
high temper, the cloudiness of the vapor
will perish from it almost at the instant
that is breathed upon it,.