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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
Rebel .JuSftce.

| From the Baltimore American, March 3.
On Christmas Eve last, at Cumber-
| land, Maryland, gang OF ruffians broke
| into the Colored Methodist Church in
! that city, where a fair was being held
| by the members of the congregation,
and, without any provocatiOn, murdered
a colored man named Wesley Ross, who
was attending the Fair with his wife
and child. The assassins and their ac-
completes, ultra "nigger haters" and
active Democratic partisans, were ar
rested, taken before magistrate, and
during their examination deliberately
walked out of the magistrates Office.
The States Attorney had them again
taken into custody, and George w. Sills
and John McGirr were indicted by the
Grand Jury of Allegany county for
murder, and another of the gang, Thorn
as Sammons, was tried there OH the
charge of assault with intent to kill, but
was acquitted. With this fact before
him, aud it being evident that justice
would not be awarded the alleged muir
derers, and fair trial had in Allegany,
the States Attorney had the cases of
McGirr and Sills removed to the Circuit
Court of Washington county, where the
trial, if such it can be called, took place
last week. The witnesses for the prose-
cution were nearly all colored persons,
but they had been eye-witnesses to the
tragedy. One testified to having seen
Sills and McGirr enter the church on
the night of the murder-Sills with
knife in his hand, and McGirr with a
razor. This testimony was cOrroborated
by several persons. Three witnesses,
who were standing in the immediate
vicinity of the murdered man, testified
to having seen "Sills cut Ross" and to
McGirr striking him Immediately after
ward, and jumping upon and trampling
his body when he fell to the floor from
loss of blood. Upon this indisputable
testimony the State rested it's case. The
evidence for the prisoners was that
principally of the parties who were en-
gagged in the outrage. They testified
that "a strange man" entered the church
with them, and they saw him leave
after the murder was accomplished. OF
course, they did not know who the
'strange man" was. 1t will hardly be
believed, in the fact of positive testimony
as to the guilt of the prisoners, that
Washington county jury, after thirty
deliberation, rendered YER
dict of mot guilty." and let these ruff
fans again loose upon society. .H-atFil
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

BRIGHAM YOUNG lately lectured the
ladies of Mormondom on education, and
aneng others remarks, made these
pertinent ones; "See, in the fashiona-
Bile world, the education given to a
young lady! It consists mainly of how
70 bow and curtsey, how to meet a gen.
tleman, how to be graceful in ball
room, how to get into and cut of car
riage, how to walk OH the streets, how
high her clothes should be lifted, or
how many feet they should drag behind
her; and, in addition to this, to thrum
on the piano and have a smattering Of
French or Italian. These are what
should be called female loafers; they are
no good to themselves or any body else.
They cannot knit their stockings, make
their dresses or underclothing, or do
anything useful" i .-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
Disease Cured by Diet.

Chronic diseases in many cases can be
cured by diet. DIR. Bellows gives in
stances which are of exceeding interest.
A gentleman of sixty-iour, who wore a
truss twenty-five years for inguinal her
mia, was advised to discontinue extra
'carbonaceous food, and has recovered in
two years time SO as to dispense with
the use of the truss By taking less car
ibOnaceous or heating or relaxing food,
and eating more nitrogenous or muscle
and Strengthening food, tone was re-
stored, and the tendOns were drawn taut
and the bowels. retained. A Boston
physician, whose father and brother
died of heart disease. few years since,
became so affected also that he was un-
able to attend to his practice, and went
from city to city consulting physicians,
but found no relief DIR. Bellows ascer-
tanned that he was an excessive cheese
eater, as were his father and brothers.
On reducing the daily quantity of cheese
about one-half, he began to recover and
is now well. This was, of course, not
case of organic disease. DIR. Bellows;
diagnosis was this: Cheese being princi-
pally nitrogenous, the excessive guam
tity eaten daily produced excessive tone
and tension of the muscular system, and
the heart being a muscular organ the
excess of tone and tension was most
clearly manifested upon, it. A gentle
man of scrofulous tendency, who had an
open abcess for eight or ten years, abb
stained from extra carbon and partook
of food rich in nitrogen and PHOSPHORUS,
and the abcess began to heal immedi-
ately and in a few weeks ceased to dis
charge. A gentleman of gouty enlarge
ment of the great toe joints, which
required boots of extra width to enable
him to walk, adopted natural food ex-
clusiyely, and in a few months could
wear boots of a natural size. a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

A THOUGHT FOR You've MEN.-Ne
wreck is so shocking to behold as that
of dissolute young man. On the per-
son of the debauched or inebriate, in
fanny is written. How nature hangs
labels ever him, to testify her disgust at
his example! How she loosens all his
and bends forward his frame! The
wretch whose lifelong pleasure it has
been to aebauch others, whose heart has
been spotted with sin SO that it Is an Of
fense TO the heart of the unblemished
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

''No Room FOR LoAFERs. .n-Those
few werdssiinay be seen posted up in
q number of business houses in this ard
other places. mo room for loafers. {"
Sure enough, there is no room for loafers
anywhere in this working world. They
are not wanted in the busy workshop
nor the printing office; they are nuis-
ance in a country store, splitting about
the stove,u and at the post office aud
street corners are in everybody's way
They are forever out of plaee-except
when in the almshouse or Jail. A dead
weight upon society, they are a hindrance
aud bore. They form no part of ma
ture's plan lit abhors them as it does a
Vacuum. While all the world around
them is going forward, they are stand
ing still, lor gliding imperceptibly back
wark into seedyvagaboudism. A loafer
soon'grows rusty ltisonly use which
keeps lour Afsculties bright, and the
idle man gets dull, stupid, andmuddy-
headed.htuyr- .flUa-. sH1 ul ..tt Do
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

So You MIGHT HAVE BEEN.-An
eminent divine, remarkable for the de-
voted piety and spotless purity Of his
character, was heard to say that he
never read or heard of a crime in his
life, no matter how heinous, without
feeling an inward consciousness that
under certain conditions of education,
training or association, he might. have
committed the same crime himself
The same feeling must have been ex-
perienced more or less by all rejecting,
enlightened men and yet-and yet,
how little charity there is in the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

Sixinches Of snow fell at st. Paul
Mimi, on the first inst.
Fanny Fern having said that "the
men of the present day are fast" Prem
tice replies that "they have to be, to
catch the women" ctll a .t.-
ACCORDING to an English astronomer,
the temperature of the moon varies al
Tentatively from that of molten lead, to
thatof frozen mercury. Nice climate.
New ORLEANS has been enjoying q
liberal dispensation of measles. Nearly
every family in that city has had one or
more members afflicted with the epi-
demic complaint.
THE ELexington Statesman says: 1--WE
learn that the friends of John G. Breck-
inridge are raising fund for the purpose
Of purchasing and presenting to him .
residence in this city" ~. r.,I-.
"MoNTICELLo," the former residence
of Thomas Jefferson, in Albermarle
county, Va, is to be sold at auction on
the 18th day of May next. The sale is
by virtue OF decree of the Circuit Court
Of Richmond.
A Southern paper is opposed to the
education of women as surgeons. 1t says
that: Suppose one were put under the
influence Of chloroform by such q doc
tor, what is to prevent the woman from
kissing your" l
In Smith county, Miss, Josiah Black
we'll, seventy-two years old, was lately
married to Miss Nancy Albritton, who
is in her fifty-first year. About the same
time, in the same county, Mr.. White
NELL Croft, aged seventy-five years, was
married to Miss Frances Freshowers,
aged eighteen. fl w .H--..
q THE Senate of Michigan has just en-
acted that, IL any person shall hereafter
willfully insult, or willfully and indie
Gently annoy any female, by obscene or
indecent word or words, act or acts, such
person shall, upon conviction, be pun
ished by imprisonment not more than
six months, or by fine not exceeding
500. ',f. sor' 10. 0rff-.l isGo
A "DOUBLE-ENpERn locomotive is the
last invention in the railroad line. 1t
has no tender, but carriers water in q
tank over the boiler, and coal in box
In the rear OF the furnace. 1t has trucks
and cowcatchers at either end, and it
runs with equal facility when either end
Is foremost. ...
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

APPEARANCEs.-A coat that has
marks of use upon it is recommends
tion to people of sense, and a hat with
too smooth nap and too high a lustre,
is derogatOry circumstance. The best
coats are on the backs of penniless,
broken down merchants, clerks with
pitiful salaries, and men who don't pay
up The heaviest gold chains dangls
from the fobs of gamblers and gentle
men of very limited means. Costly or
naments on ladies indicate, to eyes that
are well opened, a silly lover or a hus-
band cramped for funds. And when 8
pretty woman goes by il plain and
neat apparel, it is a sign that she has
fair expectations, or husband that can
show balance in his favor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
The Wind.

Inc tVIAos
From an article in the Lendon Specta-
tor, we take the following:
Nothing is more curious than the effect
produced upon the mind by the wash of
the waves and the blowing of the wind
in hollow places. 1t cannot be associa-
ton which gives both sounds their air of
mystic dreariness, of vain Iamentation,
or of melancholy desire. Both sea and
wind are potent enough and practical
enough to make the men whe specially
devote themselves to using and breast
ing their power hard, keen, daring, rug
ged. Yet the sound Of the sea on the
shore and the wine roaring through the
house, suggests anything but daring and
enterprise. 1t suggests danger and ship
wreck-that is, by association, and be
cause we know that shipwrecks come of
suggest danger or struggle, but rather
Old unhappy far off things,
And trials long ago,
and this can only be because there are
certain sounds adapted 70 themselves to
recall certain moods of thought, and
which have not gained their power to do
SO by association. This is true of all
music. But the special expressive pew
er of a high moaning wind seems to be
to blend an immense variety of subdued
notes-notes melancholy in themselves
into volume of sound so great as to
seem like the voice of a great past-away
world complaining of its fate or its OBJ
livion. If it is strange enough-as it is
that solid food growing out of the
earth should supply human organization
with nervous power to perceive and feel,
it is at least as strange that few gases
ranged round the earth, the more i'm
mediate object ofwhich seems to oxidize
our food in the lungs, and to provide
currents which ventilate our planets
surface, should in addition have the ex-
traordinary power.of supplying us with
a medium for speech, natural music,
and an articulate language of emo
tiOn p.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

A NEW monthly paper, to be called
the Golden Rule, aud to be devoted to
the suppression of intemperanee and
the exposition and advocacy OF Good
Templarism whatever that isl, VIII soon
he ESTABLISHED at Oiean, n. Y, Mrs.. NJ.
d. Dickinson editor and proprietor. o. Z
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
Charming Ignorance.

The New Orleans Picayune relates the
following incident as having occurred
on a Mississippi steamer:
A few days since there was wedding
on Barroune street, celebrated with
great eclat. and the newly welded
couple set out at once on a bridal tour.
The ceremony took place at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, and at 5 o'clock they
were on board splendid steamer bound
for the Upper Mississippi. AS soon as
the vessel was under way, the passen-
gers crowded the saloon, and mirth and
reveiry began to hold festival A dance
was improvised, and joy and merriment
was protracted into the "wee sma'
hOurs.n d
Now it SO happened that the berth
next to eur newly married friends was
occupied by lively little matron and
her infant. Wishing to enjoy as much
her babe to servant, with instructions
to put it to bed as soon as it went to
Sleep while she herself Joined in the
may dance. g.'il 80, Af 5li" .''
By a strange mistake the servant mis-
took the state room and deposited the
rosy infant in the bridal couch. Now,
when the hour of retiring came, the
groom led his blushing bride to the
door, and modestly waited outside for
her to disrobe and retire. One can read
lily imagine his astonishment, there
fore, when the next instant he heard
his name called frantically, and in ac-
cent of surprise and distress.
Opening the door, he looked in du-
biously, and said:
'What is the matter, my love?"
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&REMOXE ED.

M ISS NANCY-B. FAIRS, would inform her
IM old customefs and thepeblicgenerally. and
ladies particularly, that she has femoveu 70 the
room -ferfnerIy Occupied byrWatson & 6ressfn-
ger. west of the St Clair Hotel, where she viii
Keen = full supply of MItLENERI, FANCY.
GOODS. and TRIMMINGS, fresh from the East
each season TO which she Invites the attention
of buyers Thankful for past favors, she would @
invite those wanting HATS or BONNEfS
NJ DE er TRIMMED to call where theys may
be expeditiously and neatly supplied =-E5-
mar1b 1S6S
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
REMoVED.

a USS PRIsCILLAiP ALEX2NDER, would
N infrom her old customers and the PuDlc
generally. that she has removed her M1EhEN-
Fry STORE. to the room formerly occupied by
MT. Bickham in Campbelrs Room on the cor,
ner and West end of New Block where she .eHe WI
keep full supply, OF fMILI!ENEE I S5SSD5 -,
TRIMMINGS, and ready made sBONNETS, al
ways ON hand at reduced prices 81 sos lsiEf.li
an1-lS6S .es9-r. .rEr=sa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

Errors, to be dangerous, must have
great deal of truth mingled with them;
it is only, from this alliance that they
can ever obtain an extensive circulation;
from pure extravaganza and genuine,
unmingled falsehood, the world never
can sustain any mischief.-[Sidney
Smith. a -.,,i.- q.t.is....
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9fntiTrg.

nR. J. w. FISHER, DENTIST, 81. Ciairs-
~ rile, Ohio. s,a ,.
set Vucanite Teeth, Sis; full sets on gold, SSote
81 Terms cash.
a1-Office and residence on South side Main
Street. in building formerly known as Union
House. E&-=%.
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Just q Tride Too Cool

have read of people who where too
calm and complacent. OF such char
acter, think was the conductor, who,
when he ran over man, said he never
liked to do it, because it mussed the
track so,n And speaking of saws, and
following this train of thought, L may
mention a young may from the country
who went into a hardware store, and,
rapping great buzz saw with his
knuckles, remarked, ~ had and old
dad ripped to pieces with one of them
fellers last week" l think that young
man exhibited too little emotion for the
occasion. 1t showed lack of filial af-
fection only comparable to that of a boy
belonging to primary school in Man
chester, New Hampshire, who assured
his schoolmaster that he would soon be
able to indulge in his favorite sport on
the river with the best of them. Faith
err said he, "has gone to the war, and
when he gets killed am going to have
his fish-line. --.'
As cool person, under the circum-
stances, as / ever heard of, was young
nobleman, who, in frightful railway
accident, missed his valet. One of the
guards came up to him and said: "My
lord, we have found your servant, but
he is CUT IN GWO. AW, Is ne r. SAID
the young man, with a Dundreary
drawl, but still with some anxiety de-
picted on his countenance. "Will you
be good enough to see which half he has
got the key of my carpet-bag in ?" To
8 sensitive mind his anxiety seems to
have been misplaced. The same un-
to the awful aspects of
death was exhibited by man in New
Jersey in 1859, who was employed to
convey to his friends the body of Mr..
Wilson, who had died about fifty miles
from home, of the cholera. On finding
the house, he knocked at the door, and
the wife of the deceased opened it,
Does Mr.. Wilson live here?" "Yes,"
said the lady, "but he is not at home to-
day. NO, know he ain't," said the
young man, with soothing voice think
ing to break the news gently, "but he
will be in minute, cause I've got him
here dead in my wagon" There was
still more reprehensible moral obtuse-
ness in the remark of a man who in
4uired of a sheriff the night before the
appointed day. II say, Mr. Sheriff, at
what hour does this little affair of mine
come off?'-[Galaxy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
Millinkru.

MIS-. r. A. MARTIN
TT As REMOVED TO NJ. KELLIER'S ROOMS
II where she isAow openinga new stock OF
GOODS and Is ready to accom-.
mosiafe m her old friends and many new ones
cali and examine her goods and prices, before
purchasing elsewhere. The latest styl lesalways
on hand andwork done toorders apz5-u
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The Luckiest Man in America.

New York correspondence Cincinnati Times.
At the Metropolitan Hotel are nine
teen citizens of Montana, the most dis
tant of our possessions. They came 5000
miles, across mountains, deserts, prairies
and rivers, in ten days, to purchase
goods and supplies for Helena, now the
capital of Montana. With them is the
famous Quartz King" James w. Whit
latch, whose history is romance tran
scending the widest vagaries of fiction
in interest and incident. AS a repre-
sentative man he illustrates the power
of energy and perseverance in conquer
ing obstacles jnterpOsed to pioneer life,
and moulding fate to human purposes
Jim Whitlatch, as he is called, was
born in Pennsylvania, of INDECENT par
ents, aud the death of his father left him
to shift for himself at the age of eight
years. In 1850 he accompanied an ac-
quaintance on the way to California as
far as Kansas, where his friend, awed
by the perils of the journey, deserted
him and returned to the States.
Whitlatch hired as cattle driver,
pushed on to Colorado, and, after the
season of hay making, commenced
mining on his own account. By dilli-
gence and perseverance he accumulated
some S. 900, which he lost by wild cat
opcCuldliOHS ne opcHb IuTtc years III
this region, with variable fortune, and
moved on to Nevada, where he was
more successful, and again lost all by
imprudent ventures. With nothing
but his rifle and mining kit, in 1865, he
wandered across Idaho to the placer
diggings of Montana, whose productive
ness had just attracted attention. Here
he was SO delighted with the picturesque
beauty and fertility of the country that
he decided, for the first time, during his
adventurous wanderings, to settle and
begin anew. With only twenty-five
cents in his pocket, he commenced pros
pecting for gold. Concluding that where
so much gold abounded on the surface
it must come from somewhere. he set
about finding the origin. For weeks he
wandered up and down the canons,
built himselfa cabin, and pursued his
labors amid thejeers of old miners, who
had been discouraged in the search be-
fore. After months of labor and trials
enough to discourage any less deter
eye discovered, in lucky
GOPHER HOLE,
an unusual quantity of specimens of gold
bearing quartz. Inspired with renewed
hope the young man piled his pick and
shovel, and at a distance of three feet
below the surface uncovered the long
sought vein, now known as the Union
Nine" whence he derived the founda-
tion of his fortune, and from which his
successors, the New York Mining Com
pany to whom he sold-to enable him
to prospect further-will continue to OBJ |
tain untold millions. 1t is said that this |
mine alone contains ore enough to en-
ploy Thousand men in digging for a
years. Whitlatch, however,
continued his investigations, and open
ed other mines equally rich, procured |
stamping mills and batteries, enlisted |
ton of miners husband to-day at the |
age of twenty-six, is worth million of |
dollars. n..
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Belmout Gp. 8usinfss girtftury.
COUNTY OFFICERS,


Probate J,Idoe-CHANDLER ". CARROLL once
upstairs in public buildings, first door TO r1ght
Shertr-wiLLIAMH-H H. HAYS Oftice IN pubic
r1~I ii disfs- =. B. cAnpsEiL. lofieein pub
lie buildings adjoining the Court House
AtsdktoTSR NJ CLARK. Office up stairs In pup
lie Building entrance at left door. :.
1eeaarer-JAAEs IRwIN Once On A IN
street. nrsf doorWest OF the Bank:
Aecorder-WM. III. BARSEs- eOmce IN puDhc
building, first floor, second door to lett
ProsecuIfnQ Ano11sey-J. w. SHANNON. Once
upstairs oyer PatteEsen,s Drug store. III
'ObgzrRt tseiosssrs u JAMES Alexander, Beilaire;
Henry Frssher, III Hendrysburgh; lWilliam4 A.
f&srpevorEJoHN KENNos, Beflaire, Belmont
County. ......
OoroneT-GEoRGE CRIsswELL, Bellaire. .
Commissioners meet at ST. CIairsvflle on the
first Mondays OF March, June, September, and
December-and as Board Of Equalization on
the third wednesday Of May. In each year.
The Probate Court meets on the first Tuesdays
of January March, May, July, September, and
November, as a criminal court, and is always
open (in business hours for the transaction OF
other business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

Three hundred and sixteen thousand
two hundred and thirty-three Union
soldiers, nearly third of million, lie
buried in the eseventy-two national eeme-
teries under th- charge of the Govern
ment This is, let it not be forgotten,
but a portion ofour great sacrifice. Thous-
ands of bodies were never recovered,
and every village in the North guards
one or more, frequently its scores, in its
country graveyard. Of mere than one
half of these three hundred thousand
we have the names, but full one hun
dred aud forty thousand rest. under
mounds legended with that simple word
of sadest force, unknown OF the
whole Eumber less than one-fifth now
sleep in their original beds. The hun
dred and fifty-seven thousand have been
removed, from the rude trenches of the
battlefield, their shallow graves by the
roadside, the bare unsightly fields of the
hospitals, the Gehennas of the rebel
prison pen, to orderly enclosures and re-
-spectful graves, over whose still and
solemn rows the national flag floats day
and nigtt.f PEessii0 IL
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08

There is q healthful hardness about
real dignity that never breads contact
and communion with others, however
humble. tits only spurious pride that is
morbid and sensitiysp and ,shrinks from
every ytouch,-[Irving. Aft.