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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23

IF men were wise in little things,
Affecting less in all their dealings;
If hearts had fewer usted strings
TO isolate their kindly feelings;
If men, when wrong beats down their right,
Would strike together and restore it
If right made might
In every fight,
The world would be the better for it.
Happiness consists in being perfectly
satisfied with what we have got and
with what we. .haven'tgot.
Conscience is a judge placed in the
interior of our being.
One reason that the wourld is not re-
formed is, because every boiy would
have Others make a beginning, and
thinks not of himself
No person ever got stung by hornets,
who kept away from where they were.
1t is SO with habits.
The greatest thoughts, it has been
said, spring from the heart. but the
maxim is far more true with respect 10
the noblest actions.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by rstand :
ing in our own light.
Deliberate with caution, but act with
decision; and yield with graciousness or
oppose with firmness.
Value no man for his opinion, but es-
TEEN him according as his life cores
ponds with the rules of piety aud Justice.
A mans actions, not his conceptions,
render him valuable.
Time borders upon eternity. It re-
qnires but an instant to make the pass
age from the one to the other.
Philip Sidney said: 81 am no herald
to inquire of men,s pedigree; it is enough
for me to know their virtue"
1t is nota good plan, after yon have
driven a nail in Il sure place, instead of
just clinch:ng and leaving it, to keep
hammering away till you break the
head Off OF split The board.
In prosperity, the graces of saint too
often lie hid. In adversely, they shine
forth with light aud heat, like flint
in collision with steel.
The highest dignity in this lower
world is the" dignity of labor" Those
who look down on the laboring classes
as the mudsill of society, are themselves
so deeply imbedded in the mad that it
would take more than one laboring
man to extricate them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
Great Improvement in
Washing Machines.
TIL. Old Wooden WaSh-BOard
again Turned-Up.

- 4 A SIMPLE COMblNAIlON- OF the lever
ID power and the old wash-board, in the con-
struction of the
Keystone Washing Machine,
the best machine ever introduced, has been
brought into use.
The cry of "humbug'' is completely silenced,
and the prejudice against Washing Machines
overcome wherever this machine has been tried
and its good qualities and capacity tested. 1t is
universally pronounced just what was needed
as a labor wing Washing Machine.
For reference as to the superiority of this ma
chine over all others now in use, we give the
following names:
George Dilworth, Mt. Pleasant,o.
Isaac Guyton,
Wm. Hall, Harrisvile, Ohio.
Stephen Hobson, Flushing, Ohio.
Joseph Walker,
Jacob Holloway,
Isreal Lewis. St. Clairsville, Ohio.
Jesse Bewley, {" a"
H. C. Welday, " -"
Elijah Pickering, East Richland.
Enoch Carman,
and all others who are using the machine.
For Information, address.
ma20-tf Flushing, Ohio
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
:fns the 1luuig :folas.
HAVE COURAGE TO SAY NO.

You're starting to-day on lfe's journey,
Alone on the highway of life:
You'll IL meet with a thousand telnptati ons;
Each city with evil is rife.
This world is a stage of excitement,
There's danger wherever you go;
But if you are tempted in weakness,
Have courage, my boy, to say No.
The sprens song may allure you;
Beware OF her cunning and art.
Whenever you see her approaching,
Be guarded and haste to depart.
The billiard saloons are inviting.
Deeked out in their tinsel and show;
You may he invited to enter;
Have courage, my boy TO say No..
The bright ruby wine may be offered
No omatter how tempting it be.
From poison that stings like an adder,
NY boy, have courage to flee
The gambling halls are below you.
Their lights how they dance to and fro
If YOU should be tempted to enter,
Think twice, even thrice, ere you go.
In courage alone lies your safety,
When you the long journey begin,
And trust in Il Heavenly Father,
Who will keep you unspotted from sin.
Temptations will go on increasing,
As streams from rivuiet How;
But II you are true to your manhood,
Have courage, my boy, to say No.
IMpoLITENEssI INTHE YoUNG.-Young
people often render themseive imrolite
by the following practices, to wit: Read
ing Wnen OJUtiS are taihiiSi tuttluE
your finger nails in company; leaving
before it is closed; whispering
gazing ut strangers; leaving
a stranger without seat; want of rev.
erence for n superior; reading aloud in
without being asked; receiving
a present without some manitations of
gratitude; making yourself the topic of
laughing at the mistakes
Of others; correcting older persons than
yourself, especially parents; commenc-
ing to eat as soon rs you sit down at the
table; commencing to talk before Others
are through, and not listening to what
others are saying.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
TO the Public.

The undersigned announces that he has pur-
chased the entire interest and good will of
Messrs. Campbell & Downing, in.their line of
Wheeling, leaving Morristown in the morning
and Wheeling III the afternoon. He will now
be prepared to accommodate all travellers with
comfortable Omnibusses, under the charge OF
careful and sober employees. Fair Fifty cents
between Morristown and st. Clairsville and
Wheeling and St.. Clairsville-way passengers
In proportion.
Mr.. Isaac ii. Patterson will act as his and the
Express Agent, In st. Clairsville. Ali orders
and packages left with him will be promptly
and carefully attended to
JOSEPH B. BUTLER.
November l2-tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
THE NATIONAL HOTEL.
Home Again.

IIOIiIS ASd1II.
THE JOHNSONS ARE AGAIN IN EHE
after a few months absence have resumed con-
troll of the House. and shall be pleased to have
their old friends call ON them. The House will
be refurnished, and the Table, as of old times
shall not be eXcelled by any in Eastern Ohio =
All our efforts shall he to accom- mmodate and
make our guests comfortable.
ED. & WHEELER JOHNSON.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
aslaral 6em s.

IF men were wise in little things,
Affecting less in all their dea iings;
If hearts had fewer usted strings
To isolate their kindly feelings;
If men, when wrong beats down their right
Would strike together and restore it
If right made might
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
Pittsburgh Market.


from the PlttSDurgh papers OF tuesday.
! APPLEs-In steady demand with regular sales
| at 500 to S30Og350 per barrel.
BUTTER-IS a shade easier, and we now ouote
prime Roll at 33@355.
CHEESE-Is steady with regular jobbing sales
at l5@lS ctS-the outside figure for prime New
York Goshen.
DRIED FRUIT-Apples are quoted at 9aIO cts
per pound, and Peaches al 10 cts. ior bright
quarters, and lie for bright halves.
EGGS-In steady demand and light supply.
fresh packed at 25@26
FEATHERS-DulI; quoted at S06S5 cents to the
trade, and the usual advance for small lots in
store.
FLoUR-Is quiet and dull. with a lively COM
petition for local trade, while prices remain un-
changed. We continue to quote Western Win
ter Wheat flours, S6,5O96,75.
GRAIN-Wheat, although not offering very
freely, is quiet and unchanged; 81, % for prime
red, and 81, 30 tor white. Barley also is Scarce
to Sl.33. Oats dull, though unchanged-46t947 on
wharf and track, and 80 in store. Rye is un-
changed at Sl@l,05. Corn is still quoted at IS
for mixed and 81 for prime yellow on track
with the uSua akadvance in store.
HAY-Sales from country wagons at S15@23-
mostly at Sl592O.
ONIONS Sales at s., 2,5O@3,OO per bbl, the outside
figure Tor choice.
PoTAToEs-Sales Peach Blows at 80 cents per
bushel. Sweets $3.50 for Baltmors, and 81, 90 Tor
prime Jerseys.
PRovIsIoNs-Marllet steady with continued
fair jObbing demand but prices unchanged. We
now quote shoulders at l7@l7L{; Clear Ribbed
Sides, 2012; Clear do, 81 Ribbed, 90 plain Sugar
Cured Hams, %. Lard, in tierceS, 20; in halt
bblS, 2O12 in kegs2l. Mess Pork, $3.50.
PoULTRY-SaleS of chickens at % to G5 cents
per pair, according to size.
SEEDS-TimOthy seed is dull and we now
quote at S4,00@4,25. FlaXseed is quoted at 81 So
@24O. No movement in Glover Seed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
some queer Calculations.

Have yOu not often heard or read a
statement like this? The earth has
been dug over many times, to bury the
millions who have lived on its surface"
DO you believe this? If you do. just fol-
low me III a calculation. L e present
population of the earth Is one thousand
millions. Now, supposing that at the
creation, there were one thousand mil
lions Instead Of one paif-aud that al
the end of thirty years, they died anu
were buried. and their places taken 10y
another one Thousand millions, and So
on through the six thousand years.
This would-give Us Il grand total OF two
hundred Thousand 600, ,0J0, ,OOJ ,G00j mill
lious. Where can this imIaense and
almost incouceivable number Toe buried?
Let us see. The earth's surface is 200
OJJ, ,0lO Of square miles. This multiplied
by - SO, 400 (the number OF square feet
10 a mile,) and the product divided by
two hundred million, gives 30, F5G square
feet for each and every one of this vast
number. This brought into square
gives the very respectable sized lot OF
25G feet each way, or nearly 10 feet
square.
Not very much crowding or digging
over and over again, is there? Decidedly
DetLeF lOtS IUdi CSu4T Illll Or sCpElIS
Grove affords. Ifyou think | am wrong,
go over with the calculation and con-
vince yourself. Another little calcula-
ton if you please. How much room,
think you, would the thousand millions
now on the earth require to stand upon
were they all brought together! Figures
will tell. Draw circle ten miles in
diameter on some smooth plain, and
place church bell in. the centre, and
every one of the 900, 900, 600 could hear
it when struck. Such circle would
give to each of this immense number
two square feet-or Il space about seven
teen inches square. Rather more crowd
ed than the burying-ground, l admit,
but still more than enough for the small
ones, rather scaut, perhaps, for the
Lamberts-yet, on the whole, a very
good average. Don't you think such a
gathering would beat the Hub Jubilee :?
Perhaps Gilmore will try it. lie can DO
it if anybody can. The only trouble is,
Boston does not afford level spot large
enough, and Of course it could never be
done anywhere else.-[ Hartford Cour-
ant.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
The Elections of Last week.

The news published in last week
CHRONICLE, about the Ohio and Penn.
sylvania elections, we are glad to say
has been fully sustained by the later re-
! ports. Pennsylvania gives Geary over
1900 majority. and Ohio elects Hays by
about 1000 majority. The Legislature
in Pennsylvania is largely Republican,
and by the returns published elsewhere
it will be seen that the Ohio Legislature
is also Republican in both branches
This secures to US the re-districting OF
the State for Congressional purposes,
and, if thought advisable. the power to
pass the XVIII Amendment.
Iowa has given a Republican majority
of over $1,000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

THE Richmond Enquirer and Exam
iner, in discussing the free labor ques-
ton, says: zone fact is demonstrated
Free labor can make cotton! 1t is esti
mated that the yield his year will be
3 100000 of bales, or 1,200000,000 ot
pounds. Cotton is quoted at from thirty
to thirty-five cents the pound. Let us
put it at thirtytwo, and the crop is
worth 1884, 600, or, in round figuers
S40O, 100000. The effect OF this, and the
prospect of repeating the operation next
year and the next year after, will put 4
new face on the affairs of the South.n
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
Wool IN New York

We note a continued fair demand for Domes-
tic at about previous prices, with very little
pressure on the part of holders to press sales.-
Foreign remains quiet, and prices are largely
nominal. The sales of State and Western are
100000 lbs at 11d5Sc for Fleece and Sl0I5c for
Pulled, including l2,5O0 lbs tub washed at 57I5a
Fleece at 21G55c; 1000 lbs extra and above extra
at sic; 10000 lbs low and No. do at I9G65Oc: s.
900 lbs No. do at iSc; $1,000 lbs fine unwashed
Missouri at S3l &c; 2.000 lbs No. / Indiana. Ohio
and Illinois AT 45@i9c; 600 lbs low Michigan
and Ohio at 45@Fc; 10000 lbs Ohio within our
range.-Commercial and shipping List
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
EDUCATIONAL
TEACHERS Examination at Barnes
vile, on Saturday, Oct. 30th.

| TEACHERS Examination at Barnes
vile, on Saturday, Oct. 30th.
The following is the list of questions that were
before the Teachers Examination Saturday,
Oct 16:
ENGLISH GRAMMAR
l. Parse the italicized words in the following
sentence:
..Jforsouer it written that my race
Hewed Ammon. hip and thigh, from, Aroer
On 4rn0n unto Minneth." Here her face
Glowed as looked at her.
2. What is an ellipsis, q syncosse, a simile, a
metaphor9
:. What are defective verbs, auxiliaries and
redundant verbs?
Correct the following sentences and give rea-
sons for corrections:
4. The cloth was weaved beautiful.
). The boys nit most an hour.
G. Who learned you how to spelle
:, Where were they at?
s. laid down and ris much refreshed.
9. The steamboat come putting along.
10. AnalyZe the following sentence, Talk to
the point, and stop when you have reached IT,
ii. What is an adjective element?
Il. What is an adverbial clause?
Is. How are sentences contracted?
H. What is modifier?
10. What are subordinate elements?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
/. What areliquids? Name them.
2. What are vowels? Name them.
8. How is the English alphabet divided?
4. What is meant by the power" of a letter?
3. What is an articulate sounde
G. What is Speechs
:. Name the principal sources from which our
language is derived.
S. Form a derivative from each of the follow
ing primitives: limit, dbet delirer bar; and give
reasons for doubling or not doubling the final
consonant.
g. state generally what you understand by
''orthogTdphy,' and what Importance You attach
to it as a study.
GEOGRAPHY.
l. Describe the different zones and how stu
ated
. How are latitude and longitude calculated?
3. What are the latitude and longitude of
Wheeling, Columbus, ST. Louis, New Orleans
4. Bound the State of Ohio and Belmont Co.
s. Name the principal bays and gulfs on the
coast of the United States.
6. Name the principal rivers in the State OF
Maine.
Z. Name the principal towns on the Hudson
river.
s. Name the principal ranges of mountains of
North America
ARITHMETIC.
l. What is a complex decimal? Give an ex-
ample.
and divisor have the same number of decimal
places?
3. Write in full the table of cloth measure.
4. Define proportion.
5. What is compound proportion?
G. Analyze the following:
A boat makes 10 miles an hour down stream
and 10 miles an hour up stream, how far can
she go and return in nine hours?
Z. sell at per cent gain and invest the pro-
ceeds and sell at an advance of l21@ per cent,
invest the proceeds again and sell at per cent
loss, and quit with ll66.i0, what did start with?
s. The time since noon is III of the time
O'Clock P. NJ. What is the time?
Q. What is discount?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
l. To what measures do you resort TO secure
regular attendance?
.. Why should teachersreject partial answers?
3. What do you regard as the highest motives
hat an be successfully used as Incentives to
Judy?
4. What course do you take tocultivate truth
fulness in your pupils?
>. What educational works have you read?
6. Are you a member of a teachers institute :?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

THE storms at the East during the
present season have been uncommonly
frequent, and of almost unprecedented
violence. The West, during the same
period, has been virtuVlly exempt from
such visitations. The latest in the series
broke out at Albany, on Tuesday, Octo-
ber 18th, at noon, and continued until
late on Wednesday night. 1t was ac-
companied by terrific thunder and light
ming. The fall of rain from Tuesday
noon TO IL o'clock Wednesday morning
was fourteen inches and nine one-hun-
dredths. The Albany Express says that
the mean rainfall for twenty-four years
preceding 1850 was forty inches and
forty-two one-hundredths per year, and
this may be taken as fair average for
the succeeding years. So that it will be
seen that the rainfall duriug the past
sixteen days has been equal to one-third
OF the total rainfall for year.
The damage has been immense, as
might be-expected from the facts above
mentioned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
DIED.

GREEN.-On the 18th ult., at his residence in
York Township, Belmont County Ohio. Robt.
B. Green, aged 81 years.
Col. Green was resident of Belmont County
FOR 10 years, mas hlled offices of truSt;was man
of sterling worth and integrity, and has died as
he has lived. respected by all who knew him.
Re9aeScaf in pace.
Galliopolis papers please copy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
Romnnce in Real Lie j..

The New York Mail relates that about
twenty-five years ago Il Northern gen
tIeman and a young lady of New York
were married evidently very happy
About year later a fine boy was born
to them, and seemed to be an additional
bond OF affection. At the end of ten
years the gentleman met with reverse
in business and became quite poor. By
mutual agreement a divorce was obtain
ed in one of the Western States, and the
gentlemen went South. The lady was
fine looking and in few years married
again, the husband being.well-to-do in
the world. 1t was q happy marriage
throughout, and lasted till little more
than year ago, when the second hus-
band died, leaving his widow Il fortune
OF $50, ,000. At this time the son had
reached the age of twenty years. I'm
happy at the separation of his father and
mother, he induced the return of his
father from Costa Rica, where he was
unavailingly seeking to mend his bro
ken fortunes; and brought about an in
terview with his widowed mother. They
talked matters over, and the result was
that on Wednesday the son had the
happiness TO celebrate the university of
his twenty-first birthday by witnessing
the extraordinary scene of the marriage
of his own father and mother.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
M "A r r IED ID.

CALLENDINE-GILM the Iith inst,
by Rev. Joseph Woodroffe. at the residence OF
the Rev. f. Hengelery, Steubenviile Ohio
Mr.. William V. Galandine to Miss Anne +.
Gilmore, both of Steubenville, Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

ment. tHe Southern negro will give them
that balance o. power which was lost by
his master in the reGelliOn.-L New
York Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21
financial and Commercial.
Prices of Government sc,ur,,ies

Corrected every Tuesday for the CHRONICLE
by James I. Brady & Co., bankers, Corner Fourth
and Wood Streets, Pittsburgh, agents for Union
and Central Pacific Railroad st mortgage bonds
Ruv SaIl
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

From the Bucyrus Journal.
Comparison.
Comparisons are odious-so says the
apothegm.
Here is comparison that will prove
very odious to our greenbacll Democrats:
Hayes majority over Pendleton, 10000 A.;
Hayes majority over Thurman, 2,9S3 /;
Hayes Increased majority, 7,0l7.
Dynamics 1--WE believe that is the
term) of Pcndleton's popularity, 7,0l7
less than the popularity of Thurman.
Sneers from the Vallandighammers
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

GOOD FAITH IN TENNEssEE.-The
Tennessee Senate on Monday adopted
the following:
WHEREAS, Past legislation in the
pledge of the public faith by the issue of
bonds, has tended to shake the founda-
tions Of our public credit, and created in
the minds Of many distrust as to the ul-
innate payment of our public debt, and
whereas, Il people who in all their his
tory have shown scrupulous fidelity to
their private obligations commercially
and otherwise, must consider justice TO
all public creditors as essential to the
States honor and dignity, therefore,
ResOJUed, That the people of Tennes-
see willnever signalize their restoration
to the control of public affairs by coun-
tenancing in any manner a disregard of
their public obligations.
ResOiued, That under strict retrench-
ment and rigid economy in all other re-
spects, all available revenues and re-
sources of the State should be faithf fully
appropriated to the payment of the in
terest on our bonded debt, and the secu-
rity of the principal at maturity, for
which they are in honor bound.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

The Richmond Whig is of opinion
that the effect of the October eletions
will be "the temporary dissolution of
the Democratic party as national
organization" But why only temporal
nv? Shall these dry bones ever live
again? - - -. -.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-21

4 vein of excellent coal has been
struck on the line of the Kansas Pacific
road, seventy-five miles from Denver.