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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
what the Women VIII Do.
From the Revolution. ...


Women have been listening, think
ing, studying Philosophy, Hebrew,
Greek, first principles, and when they
translate the Bible for themselves we
shall have q new evangel of womanF
hood, wifehood and motherhood. When
woman understands the science of life,
she will see the wisdom of the command,
.'Be ye not unequally yoked," and of
the solemn warning, given mid the
thunder of Mount Sinai, 1.-The sins of
the fathers shall be visited upon the
Children. If the Bible teaches one
lesson, it is pure and holy marriage,
in which weakness aud vice, rum, to-
bacc0, disease and lsut can have no part
whatsoever. -.....,.. ...4
But we see dawnings of u better day
in the church. Many of its most pro-
found thinkers are giving to the inspired
pages a higher and holier Interpretation
of woman's mission. The Methodist
church, among the first in every step of
progress, has already dropped the word
"obey" from its marriage service, and
the orthodox clergy, more generally
than those called liberal, are now taking
part, with pen and tongue, in the grand
discussion for the enfranchisement of
women and everywhere crowding the
platforms in our conventions. Henry
Ward Beecher, who since the war, has
steadily demanded the recognition of
woman in the reconstruction, begun
long ago to treat her as an equal in the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
Statistics of Inebrfety.

Dr. Mckinley, of St. Louis, says the
Medical Reporter of that city, has COM
piled, after very careful research, some
very interesting and startling statistics
OF lnebriation in the United States. Bv
him the following statements are made:
Taking the population OF this country
at 4O, 900, 600, OF 800 men, 122 never drink
spirits at all; 100 drink moderately. but
not to intoxication; so are ephemeral
drinkers; 25 drink periodically, called
"spreeing;;" and 8 are habitual inebri-
ates.. To every 17S who drink, are
confirmed inebriates; 25 are periodical
drinkers; so are ephemeraI drinkers
One confirmed inebriate to every SO of
men. Of 700 women, 600 never taste
alcoholics of any kind; 80 taste wine oe-
caslonally; IL taste ardent ardent spirits;
80 drink ale or beer constantly; IA drink
ardent spirits periodically, and 8 are
habitual inebriates.
Predominance in confirmed inebriates
OF the sexes; 3 men in every IFS; wo-
men in every 100; confirmed inebriate
to every SO 1-3 of women. Fewer wo-
men drink than men; butsa larger pro-
portion of them become habitual drink
ers. Debauch drinkers rarely become
habltual, but periodical drinkers; the
latter rarely become habitual inebriates,
as the violence of their drinking is too
great, and leads to disgusting salty, and
hence to intervals of sobriety.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

THINK of twelve innocent looking
gentlemen in a box in Smith county
Texas, listening with wide-open eyes tc
the following charge: "If the jury be
lieve in the evidence, that the plaintiff
and the defendant were partners in the
grocery business, and that the plaintiff
bought out the defendant, and gave his
note for the interest, and the defendant
paid for the note by delivering to the
plaintiff a COW, which he warranted not
breachy. and the warrant was broken by
reason of the breachiness of the cow,
and he drove her back and rendered her
to the defendant, but he refused to re-
ceive her, and the plaintiff took her
home again and put a heavy yoke on her
to toprevent her from jumping fences, and
by means of the yoke she broke her neck
and died; and if the jury further believe
that the defendants interest i'm the
grocery was worth anything, the plain
tiff's note was worthless, and the COW
good for nothing, either for beef or milk,
then the jury must find out themselves
how they will decide the case, for the
Court, if she understands herself and
she thinks she does-don't know how
such case should be decided" The
verdict was "yes," and both parties ap-
pealed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
Etymology of Words.

'hnave" meant once no more than
lad. william" signified a peasant. "A
boor" was only a farmer, and ''churl"
a strong fellow. "Time-servern was
used two hundred years ago quite as
often for one in an honorable as in dis
honorable sense, serving the time."-
There was day when "conceits" had
nothing conceited in them. "Officious"
had reference to offices of kindness, not
of busy meddling. Moody" was that
which pertained to mans mood. with
out any gloom or sullenness implied
''Demure, from des n9urs, conveyed
no hint as it does now of overdone DEM
onstrations of mOdesty. In "erafty and
cunning" there was nothing of crooked
wisdom implied, but only knowledge
and skill. ',Cyng" and "cyning" were
the earlier forms of our word king"
and they were derived from 'seann or
ken," meaning to be able to know. Our
Anglo Saxon forefathe.s, when they
originated the idea of such ruler, made
their selections from the most 'kenning'
and canning" among those who were
most knowing in council and daring in
war.
The word ''maudlin" is a degradation
of Magdalen, and from the proud name
of Cicero the Italians have given US
''cicerone." "Plaguen primarily meant
a blow or stroke; hence used to express
the visitation of pestilence upon mems
sins. To requit benefit was to resent
it, and to speak Of suffering" man
conveyed the impression of passion
aten man.
The origin of the word ''pagan" is ex-
eeedingly curious. 1t is derived from
"pagus," a village signifying properly
the dwellers in hamlets and villages in
contradistinction to cities and towns
But how came it to be employed as
equivalent to "heathen," to be applied
to those alien to the Christian faith? Its
was thus: Christianity first fixed itself
in the cities and centers of intelligence.
The outlying villages, being the last 10
receive il, were designated heathens,
and pagans became convertible terms.
Some further interesting examples
may be cited: Anglia was formed from
the Angles, and Angleland. The ebay
Onet" tells us it was first made ut Bay
onne; "cambriesn came from Cambray;
"damaskn from Damascus; "arrasr from
the city of that name; ''cordwain' from
Corsica; "currents" from Corinth. The
guinea" was originally coined out of
gold braught from the African coast so
called. Although calicoes and muslins
are now sent to India and the East, the
Wcrus give staHeniiS eNlueuces that tneN
were once imported from thence, for
'calico" is from Calicut, and muslin"
from Mussoul.
Among the curiosities of language, is
the desynonyming process by which
two words are formed out of one by
merely shifting the accent. For in
stance, divers and diverse, antic and
antique, human and humane, gentle
and 9enteel. Again, by giving full or
short sound of the syllable, as in spirit
Or spright; courtesy and eurtesy; person.
llity and personally; also by dropping
|. syllable, as in history and story; eti-
,uette and ticket; ermite and hermit;
state and state. So by laying more
tress on the close, as in regiment and
'egimen; bite and bit; berne and born.
yases like these might be multiplied
viti. out end.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
Let us Have Peace.

A Southern journalist thus writes con-
cerning the good points secured TO South,
| ern society by the elevation OF General
Grant to the Presidency:
But what change has the last few
months witnessed General Grants s
election buried the "lost cause" beyond
hope of resurrection and established re-
construction on a firm and lasting basis;
and now that the madness of the hour
is passing away, we do not believe that
there are a dozen men in the South
outside of disappointed political aspir
ants-who would have it otherwise
The traveller who stops at the st.
Charles Hotel, New Orleans, must now
look in vain for the pictures of Lee and
Jackson which but recently hung in the
office. The New Orleans Republican is
on the newsboy's stand in the rotunda
every morning, and fully half of the
guests at the hotel are from the North (;
maEy of them are capitalists in search
of investments. We are to have new
steamboat on the lower Mississippi this
fall; not named in honor of some Gen
eral of the "lost cause" but fifty named
after the beautiful city, ''Natchez."
The newspapers have dropped the $50
called" in speaking of the public officials
of our State, and no longer lard their
leaders with "Radical tyranny" and we
have articles encouraging immigration,
developing railroad projects, compliment
tary of grain movements via New Or
leans, urging the planter to become self
supporting, and SO on; while that sterl-
ing newspaper. the New Orleans Re
publican, is being literally .patronized
by business men of all classes, and the
newsboys are no longer threatened with
discharge by rival papers if they hawk
it on the street; and Republican news
papers are springing up all over the
South, and there is no one to "molest or
make them afraid" i.F
God speed the day when the last ves-
tige of the old INTERCHANGEABLE have dis
appeared from the South, and in its
stead let us have the intolerance which
industry, honesty and thrift have for
idleness, thieving and shift1essness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

LAZY Boys.-An exchange says, a
lazy boy makes lazy man as sure as a
crooked sapling makes a crooked tree
Who ever saw boy grow up in idIeness
that did not make shiftless. vagabond
when he became man, unless he had
a fortune to keep up appearances? The
great mass of thieves, criminals and
paupers have come to what they are by
being brought up in idleness. Those
who constitute the business part of the
community-those who make our great
and useful men-were taught in their
boyhood to be industrious. Boy, take
that pipe out of your mouth and think
of this. ~. ....-.....
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How Pins are Made.

| The pin machine is one of the closest
approaches that the mechanics have
made to the deXterity of the human
hand. A small machine, about the
height and size of lady's sewing ma
chine, only much stronger, stands be-
fore you. On the back side a light belt
descends from the long shaft at the cell.
ing that drives all the machines, ranged
in rows Oh the floor. On the left side
our machine hangs, on a peg, a small
reel OF wire, that has been straighted by
running throguh compound system OF
small rollers. The wire descends and
the end of it enters the machine. This
is the food consumed by this snappish,
voracious little dwarf. He pulls it in
and bites 1t oil by inches incessantly,
one hundred and forty bites to the min
ute. Just as he seizes each bite, saucy
little hammer with concave face. hits
the end of the wire three taps and 'sup-
sets" it to "a head, while he grips it in
counter-sunk hole between his teeth
With an outward thrust of his tongue
he then lays the pin sidewise in a little
groove across the rim of small wheel
that slowly revolves just under his nose
BY the external pressure of a stationary
hoop these pins rolls in their places, as
they are carried under two series Of
small files, three in each. These files
grow finer toward the end of the series.
They lie at slight inclination on the
pins, and by series of cams, levers and
springs, are made to play like light
ming. Thus the pins are dropped in
little shower in a box. Twenty-eight
pounds are days work for one of these
little automatons. Forty machines on
this floor make five hundred and sixty
pounds of pins daily. These are then
polished. Two very intelligent ma
chimes reject every crooked pin, even
the slightest irregularity of form being
detected. Another automaton assert
half dozen lengths in as many boxes,
all at once, and unerringly, when a
careless operator has mixed the contents
of d box from various machines. LASTLY,
perfect genius of a machine hangs the
pins by the head in an inclined platform
through as many slots as there are pins
in row on the papers. These slots
converge into the exact space spanning
the length of row. Under them runs
the strip of paper. A barb-like part of
the machine catches one pin from each
of the slots as it falls, and by one move
ment; sticks them all through the cor
rugated ridges in the paper, from which
they are to be picked by taper fingers
in boudoirs AID all sorts of human cir
cumstances.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
See What Can be Done,

| Why, see here, now, what the little
city OF Columbus, Georgia, is doing. Ii
has now three manufactures in opera
tlon-the Eagle and the Phoenix, the
Columbus and the Steam Cotton Mills.
The flrst 5000 spindles in operation, ex-
elusive OF the woolen the second 1000,
and the last 2, 2,000-total 13, 900 spindIes.
The finest kind of cassimeres, all kind
OF thread, sheeting, shirting, etc., and
beautiful blankets are being made. The
Eagle and Phoenix and the Columbus
both contemplate doubling their ma
chinery during the present year. When
this is done, there will be $4,000 spindles
in operation. Climate, and being in
the heart of the cotton region, greatly
favor the Southern manufacturer. Cot
ton goods can be made in the eSouth con-
siderable cheaper than at the North
Acting on. this knowledge the Eagle
and Phoenix Company are contempla-
ting the building of another mill as
large as their present one, and filling it
with machinery. ti' it'
The city of Columbia, South Carolina.
almost destroyed in Sherman's marcb
to the sea, has risen from her ashes, and
is in the field to keep pace with the pro-
gressive spirit of Georgia. Columbia,
in order to induce him to go to manu-
featuring there, sold Senator Sprague,
OF Rhode Island, for mere nominal
sum, an immense water-power canal, on
which he will commence a large cotton
mill.
Besides this enterprise of Mr.. Sprague's
there are several other large cotton
factories being built in South Carolina,
several in Georgia three or four in Ala
bama, as many in Mississippi, and even
Florida and Texas are moving in the
same direction. These people are be-
ginning to appreciate that every factory
built stops leak and keeps the money
at nome among our own people, Charles
ton s. c. News So
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

PUNGENT REToRT.-Said a purse
proud man just getting into his carriage,
with his wife and daughter, Haunting
in velvet and furs, to poor laborer,
who was shoveling coal into his vault:
Joe, if you had not drunk rum, you
might now have been riding in my car
riage-for nothing else could have pre-
vented man of your talents and educa-
tlon from making money"
True enough ~ was the reply of the
poor man, land if you had not sold rum
and induced me and others to become
drunkards, you might have been my
driver, for rum-selhng was the only
business by which you ever made a dol
lar in YOUR life"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
Chr as'urkstup aud Alannfaeturu
EDGE Tools.

All cutting and piercing edge tools op-
crate on the principle of the weged. A
brad awl furnishes an example which
all can readily understand. The cut
ting edge of the awl covers the fibres OF
wood as the instrument enters, and the
particles are compressed into a smaller
compass, in the same manner as when
piece of wood is separated by a wedge.
A chisel is wedge in one sense; and
an axe, drawing knife, or jaek-knife is
also wedge. When keen-edged razor
is made to clip hair or to remove a
mans beard, it operateson the principle
of wedge.
Every intelligent mechanic understands
thatwhen wedge is dressed out smooth
ly, it may be driven in with much less
force than if the surface was left Jagged
and rough. The same idea hold. good
with respect to edge. tools. If the cut
ting edge be ground and whet to as fine
an edge as may be practicable with a
fine-gritted whet stone, and if the sur
face back of the cutting edge be ground
smooth and true, and polished neatly,
SO that one can discern the color of his
eyes by means of the polished surface,
the TOOL will enter whatever is to be cut
by the application of much less force
than If the surface were left as rough as
they usually are when the tools leave
the grindstone. All edged tools, such
as axes, chisels and planes, that
are operated with a crushing instead OF
a drawing stroke, should be polished
neatly clear to the cutting edge, to Ia
cllitate their entrance into the substance
to be cut Manufacturer and Builder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
I, fur the IJouns folks.
MY TRUNDLE-BED.

AS rummaged through the attic,
Listening to the falling rain,
As it pattered on the shingles 81 -
And against the window pane;
Peeping over chests and boxes, ......r
Which with dust were thickly spread;
Saw in the farthestcorner, l'.-lfl
What was once my trundle' bed g..
So drew it from the recess, 5.i
Where it had remained SO long, ti..
Hearing all the while the music ......s
OF my mothers voice in song, g.
As she sang in sweetest accents,
What since have often read,
Hush, my baby, lie still and slumber. ID
Holy angels guard thy bed"
As listened, recollections. +-f-
That thought had been forgot,
Came with all the gush OF memory,
Rushing, thronging to the spot;
And wandered back to childhood,
To those m erry days of yore,
When knelt beside my mother,
By this bed upon the floor. .t
Then it was with hands SO gently -,
Placed upon my infant head, s.G ~
That she taught my lips to utter, .-
Carefully the words she said.
Never can they be forgotten, 81
Deep are they in memory riven- rrH
"Hallowed be Thy name, o Father!
l Father! Thou who art in heaven"
This she taught me, then she told me
its import great and deep -.... .
After which learned to utter,
"Now lay me down to Sleep" f
Then it was with hands uplifted,
And in accents soft and mild,
That my mother asked, "Our Father,
Father! wilt thou bless my child"
Years have passed, and that dear mother
Long has moulded meath the sod;
And trust her sained spirit
Reyels in the home of God;
But that scene at summer twilight,
Never has from mem'ry fled,
And it comes in all it's freshness,
When see my trundle-bed. F..
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animal But starch, sugar, lard, or but
ter will not make good teeth. You tried
them all with your child's first teeth,
and failed; and your neighbors have
tried them, and indeed all Christendom
has tried them, and the result is that
man or woman at forty with good, sound
teeth is very rare exception. [-Dr. A.
J. Bellows, D. Ef1L i'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
RFMOVF,D5

AFISS NANCY B. FARIS, would inform her
I1 old customers and the public generally. and
ladies particularly, that she has removed to the
room formerly occupied by Watson Gressin-
ger West of the st. Clair Hotel, where she Will
keep a full supply of MILLINERY, 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 BONNETS
MADE or TRIMMED, to call where they may
be expeditiously and neatly supplied.
rnar2b 1853.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

During the execution Of Dowep, who
was convicted of murder are Charlotte
town, Prince Edwards Island, on Fri
day, the rope broke twice. The third
time he was hauled up by the sheriff
and assistants, He had previously spoken
for three quarters of an hour with great
feeling and composure. The horrible
scene was witnessed by two thousand
persons. Hst #aE! .di
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
REMOVED.

EISS 0(fSCILLA P. ALEXANDER, would
1l in [6m her old customers and the pubic
generally, that she has removed her MILLEN-
ERY STORE to the room formerly occupied by
Mr. Bickham, in CampbeIl's Room on the cor.
ner and West end of New Block where she VIII
keep full supply of MILLINERY GOODS,
TRIMMINGS, and ready made BONNETS, al
ways on hand at reduced prices.
ap2-lS6S.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

marriage service. In Plymouth church
women are deaconesses, have voice in
its business matters, speak, and pray in
the weekly meetings. .
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

A GENTLEMAN travelling ON n steamer,
one day at dinner was making way with
a large pudding close by, when he was
told by servant that it was desert
ut matters not to me, said he, "I would
eat it If it was q wilderness"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22
Soldiers of ISI2.

At meeting of u portion of the sur
viving soldiers of the war of 1872, held
at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, on the 10th day OF
March, 1859, to take into consideration
the subject of pensions due such soldiers,
the following resolutions were adopted :
lst. Resolved, That it is just that the
few soldiers of the war of 1872, still liv-
ing, should receive from the Govern
ment in the shape of pensions such pro-
per recognitions of their services as they
deserve.
2d. Resolved, That our ellow-soldiers
residing in he several counties of the
several States of the Union be requested
to call public meetings to be held on the
10th day Of June next, or on such other
day as they may fix, to procure such
action as they may deem proper to fur
ther our claims before Congress-, and to
adopt such other means as they see fit to
procure action by Congress.
Sd. Resolved, That all the papers of
the United States be requested to pub
lish these proceedings and to call atten-
ton editorially, and to favor so much as
possible full attendance at such meet
ings.
4th. ResoLued, That we recommend
that the proceedings of the several meet
ings to be held i'll the U. S. be signed
hTttie members of such meetings, and
that the ages of the signers be attached
to to their signatures.
President-John Gray, age 70.
Secrctary-Ebenezer Chandler, age 76.
James Mael, age 70 years.
James s. Hannah, age S5.
Horace w. Phelps, age 70.
Peter Fisher, age "A.
, j. L. Gillis, age 76. ..iai"
Abraham Mehaffey, age S5.
Ford Barnes, age SO.
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Milliuery.
Millinery and Dress Making
MISS e. A. BUMGARNER,

RESPECTFULLY announces to the public
II that she has purchased the establishment
of Miss AIban and Miss Mitchell, nearly oppo-
site Welday's Hail. where she proposes carrying
on the above business in its various branches.
Tha Ladies' are respectfully invited to eixe her Q
call. All work in her line will be neatly ana
executed. 5--
Feb 4 lS6A-tf ---
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-22

The Twelfth United States Infantry
passed through Baltimore Saturday
afternoon, en- route for California, via
Harrisburg and Pittsburg.
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Business Cards.

DOBERT PRATT q SON,
Il Dealers in
PAINTS, OILS, AND VARNISHES,
BRUSHES, ARTISTS MATERIALS.
FRENCH GERMAN & AMERICAN GLASS,
SASH, DOORS, FRAMES, SHUTTERS,
And Agents for
FRENCH PLATE GLASS,
No. los Market ST.. doors below Mcclure House
WHEELING. WEST VA.