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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-11

nkIs~ AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY, 8. X. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT
Streets.
Atthe Annual Election by the Stockholders held ON
MONDAY, January 0, 1870 the following named gen.
temen were elected
Alexander Whildin, Hon. Alex. G Cattell,
George Nugent, Z Isaac Hazlehurst
Hon. James Pollock, James L. Claghorn
j. Edgar Thomson Henry X. Bennett
Albert q. Roberts, IL. M Whilldin
Philip Is. Mingle, George w. Hill,
John W9namaker.
And at meeting of the said Trustees held January 8,
the following officers were elected -
ALEXANDER WHILlD1N, President
GEORGE NUGENT, Nioe-Presd0nt; and -
Ill ST. JOHN y. WILSON, Sec and Treas
HfSF" THE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE
'.a COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA. Office. No.
400 Walnut street.
January IL, 1870
AT the annual meeting of the stockholders OF the Com
pany held on the 10th day OF January the following
temen elected Directors for the ensuing year -
II Ratchtord Starr John III. Brown,
Nalbro Frazier, lJ H. Erringer
John M. Atwood William G Boulton,
BENJAMIN Il. Tredick, Charles Wheeler,
James i. ClaRhorn Thomas ii. Montgomery,
George a. stuart James M. Aertsen.
Az meeting of the Board of Directors, held this day,
Ratohford Starr was elected President and Thomas
n. Montgomery reelected Vice President
lltutbs6ta AIhA. w. wlSrHR, Secretary.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-11

QUEEN VICTORIA, we are told, has sixteen
grand children. There have been times when
heirs to the throne of England have been 80
scarce that an importation from the CONT
nent has been found necessary to keep the
farce of royalty in motion. But, thanks to
the maternal propensities of Victoria, there is
no such scarcity of kingly material felt in
this generation. Yet the glut in the market
has had the same effect that follows the ac-
cumulation of surplus stock in markets Of
other descriptions, and English royalty is as
cheap as it is abundant. The two eldest sons
of her Majesty are about as sorry specimens
of manhood as the English people could well
be afflicted with in the way of possible rulers,
and if their immediate SUCCESSORS are destined
to psrtake of the same character, they are
entitled to the sympathies of the whole
world When, in the early part of the last
century, the home stock of kingly material
was completely exhausted, and the importa-
ton of the Georges from Hanover was rem
dered necessary, our cousins found them
selves in a predicament similar to that now
threatening them. George the First was
reckoned vile; viler George the Second; and
what mortal ever heard any good of George
the Third 1t would seem that English king
craft is about as undesirable when the legiti-
mate raw material is scarce as when it is
plentiful. The disestablishment and disen-
dowment of the house of Guelph would be
quite as profitable as the disestablishment
and disendowment of the Irish Church is
destined to be, and we doubt if it would not
prove equally acceptable to a majority of the
people of Great Britain if they could but be
persuaded to try the experiment.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-11
WANTS.
OOPARTNERSHIPs,

MIR. GEORGE 8. STEWART Is ADMITTED
NI 10 an interest in my business from this data
OHARLES WILLIAMS.
Manufacturers of Heaters. Ranges. fts
Philadelphia, Jan L. 1917. Ilis
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
Modes OF Walking.

Observing persons move slow; theiI
heads move alternately from side to side
while they occasionally stop and look
around.
Careful persons lift their feet high and
place them down, pick up some little OBJ
struction ad place it down quickly, by
the side of the way.
Calculating persons generally walk
with their hands IN their pockets and
their heads slightly inclined.
Modest persons generally step softly
for fear of being observed.
Timid persons often step off from the
sidewalk on meeting another and always
go around a stone instead of stepping
over it. s..-.-
Wide-a-wake persons ''toe out" and
have long swing of their arms while
their hands move about miscellaneous
ly. q, ..I -,.
Careless persons are forever stubbing
their toes. -.... .......-....
Lazy persons scrape about loosely with
their heels, and are first on one side of
the walk and then on the other.
Very strong minded persons place
their toes directly in front of them, and
have kind of stamp movement.
Venturesome persons try all roads, fire.
quently climb the fences instead of
going through the gate, and never let
down bar.
One idea persons, and very selfish ones,
"toe in" -.. .-- ...t r.=
Cross persons are very apt to hit their
knees together.
Good natured persons snap their finger
and thumb every few steps.
Fun loving persons have a kind of jig
movement.-[E Exchange.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13

anything more beautiful. The center
portion, which is never dry, forms q
small horseshoe or re-sntering angle,
and the water in this part preserves its
consistency for q short distance from the
ledge. But everywhere else, and here
also, at a few feet from the top all semb-
lance of water disappears; it breaks up
or blossoms into fine foam or spray,
which descends in the we'll known
rocket-like forms of the Staubbach aud
similar waterfalls, but multiplied a
thousand times, into small dark pool,
over a semi circular curtain OF precipice
deeply followed by the action of the
spray. The cavern behind the fall is
the house of thousands of swallows,
which issue it in the morning, and may
be seen returning in their multitudes at
night. The fall itself is one vast de-
scending column of fine, dryr looking,
snow white substance, bearing re-
semblanee in color and consistency, to
Dspow of an avalanche, but SURPRISING all
n lanches have seen in size, and in
beauty of the forms taken by the
lty of the fall. Rainbows Of great
{endor were observed, one from the
front of the fall in the morning, and one
from the summit in the afternoon; but
this last reverted, forming a eolored loop
or ring, into which the whole mass
seemed to precipitate itself and disap-
pear. and dart out underneath, black
and foaming, at the gorge and outlet of
the pool.n
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
A Breakfast and Its Cost.

In Strasbourg hotel some Algerian
tirailleurs, officers and privates were all
at breakfast, the first they had eaten in
peace for week. An intruder came in
with many bows and begged permission
to place himself at the table, offering to
pay his share. "You don't know me,
but am not stranger to the great
army family. Capt. Brunei, twenty-one
of the line, is known to some of you, /
dare say. He is my dearest friend, al
most my brother" Nobody knew Capt.
Brunei, but his name was q passport
among soldiers. The stranger took his
cotelette, and was chatting easily with
his companions when an officer of the
twenty-first. .came in. "ParbIeu!" here is
the very man to tell you all about your
friend. Lieutenant, allow us TO present
frie1d of one of yours; you know Cap
tain Brunet?" "What Brunet ?"-
''Brunet of the twenty-first." No such
man in our regiment since 1 Joined it
ten years ago. The stranger is con-
fused. His lively tone is changed. Some
Turcos asked the Lieutenant: "Are
you sure there was no such man as Cap
tain Brunet?" "Just as sure as that
you are standing there" "Why, then,
he must be" and they began to close
round the stranger. "Monsieur is in my
company" said the captain of tirailleurs,
a solid man. "Go on with your break
fast, sir; shall 1 hand you the cheese ?&
Take some of this conserve" Coffee and
chasse-breakfas was over. The big@
tirailleur called for the bill and paid.
Taking the strangers arm, he walked
outside on the sidewalk. drew his re-
volver and blew out the spy's brains.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
History oil a DrinkturcIub.

Some years ago, in large town in the
west of Scotland, there existed drink
ing club of upwards of twenty members,
all of whom belonged to the middle
classes of society. This club had a great
influence in municipal affairs, and sew
'eral ofits members were elected to fill
posts in the town council. The drink
ing was carried on to fearful extent in
the tavern where they met. The menu
bers to be found, often in the club at all
hours of night or day. Their drinking
was connected with such noisy mirth as
to attract the attention of the passers-
by. The club was broken up. Two of
its members were sent to lunatic asy-
lum. One jumped from window and
killed himself; one walked or fell into
the water and was drowned; one was
found dead in a public house; one died of
delirium tremens; upward often became
bankrupt; four died ere they had lived
half their days.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
Belmont County, Court of
Common Pleas.
NOTICE IN PARTITION.

.IEORGE w. BARNES, Petitioner VS.. Hester
I Ann Probaseo and John Probasco, her hus-
band of Marshall County, West Virginia, Sally
NJ Barnes, Adaline Hatcher, Louisa Rinker.
James A. Rinker, her husband, of Belmont
County, Ohio (aduits) and Henry Close. George
A. Close. Annabel Close, Mary Close, Emma
Close Coraine T. Close, John Close, Addison t.
Rinker George w. Rinker and Anna Rinker,
OF Belmont County, Ohio, (minorsl defendants.
The above named defendants, arc hereby no.
titled that on the 18th day of Sept Ter, A. d.
1870, the above named petitioner y petition
in the Clerks Office of the ca Pleas
Court of Belmont County, Ohio! praying for
partition of the following descrcribed real
estate, situated in Richland Township, Bel
mont County, Ohio, being part of Sections 81 and
9: Township Z, Range 4, containing 9l15 acres
more or less: being the tract of land of which
Ann Barnes late of said County, died seized,
and now in the occupancy of the defendant,
James A. Rinker, particularly deScrj bed IN said
petition. Said petition alleges that said par
Said George w. Barnes, Hester Ann Probasco,
Sally NJ Barnes Adaline Hatcher and Louisa
Rinker each one undivided seventh part.
Said Henry Close, George a. Close, Annabel
Close, Mary Close, Emma Close. Lorraine Il.
Close and John Close, each one undiy1dedf forty
ninth part.
Said AddisonT, Rinker, George w. Rinker
and Anna Rinker, each one undivided twenty
first part.
term OF said Court, commencing November l,
GEORGE W. BARNES, Petitioner.
By d. ID. r. CowEN. his Atty.
Sep Is, IS70-6w
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
RATES OF ADvERTIsING
sings, and yells, and dances, making all

SINGS ana ye!ls, and dances, making all
sorts OF grimaces, and cutting up all
sorts OF monkey shines" to excite the
laughter of his fellow. Terrible silly in
the drunken clown.
The second is tiger drunk. He breaks
the bottles, breaks the chairs, the heads
ofhis fellow earousers, and is full of
blood and thunder. His eyes are fired
with vengeance, and his soul raves with
murderous fury. Of.this. sort are those
who abuse their families. t..-.....-
The third is hog-arunken. He rolls
In the dirt on the floor, slobbers and
grunts, and going into the streets makes
bis bed in the first ditch or filthy corner
he may happen to fall into. He is heavy
lumpish and sleepy, ,and cries in grunt-
ing way for more to drink. .-
The fourth is puppy drunk. He win
weep from kindness, and whine his love
and hug you in his arms, and li.s You
with his siobbery lips, and proclaim how
much lie loves you. You are the best
man he ever saw, and he will lay down
his money or his life for you.
The fifth isowl drunk, He is wise in
his own coneeit. No man must differ
for his word is law. He is true In poll
tics, and all matter must be taken as
His arm is the strongest, his
voice the sweetest, his horse the fleet
est, his turnips the largest, his town
the finest of all in the room or land.
The sixth and last animal in the
menagerie is the fox drunk man. He
Is crafty, ready to trade horses and cheat
If he can, keen to strike:.a bargin, ceerp-
ing around with low cunning, peeping
through cracks, listening under the
caves, watching for some suspicious
thing, sly as fox, and sneaking as a
wolf. He is the meanest drunkard of
IL
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
starching Muslin.

This recipe for clear starching iss
good one:
Collars, undersleeves and 'handker-
chiefs of very fine muslin or lace will
not bear much squeezing orrub-
bing when stsrched. They can be
made perfectly white and clear With
out either. Rinse them carefully
through clear water. then soap them
we'll with white soap; place fiat in q
dish or saucer, and then cover with
water; place them in the sun. Les
them remain two or three days, chang
ing them frequently and tarning them.
Once every day take them out, raise
carefully, soap and place them in'fresh
water. When they are white, rinse and
starch in the usual way. Searched lscss,
etc., look best pressed between towels
in large book. and not ironsd, Em-
broideries, daisy edglngs, Marseiiles
goods,i etc., look much better when
|ironed upon the wrong side.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
THE RIVAL OF NIAGARA.
The Great Cataract In South America
Nearly Eight Hundred Feet Fall-A
Column of snow White Foam,

Sir George Young, British official in
South America, gives the following de-
scription of the newly discovered catar-
act in British Guiana. 1t is in the Po-
taro river:
The fall has a clear descent, according
to barometrical observations taken sim
ultaneously by Mr.. Brown at the bot
tom, and by my colleague, Mr.. Mitchell,
at the top of 100 feet. Above, the Pota-
ro glides smoothly in slight depres-
sion of the table of conglomerate sand
stone, and disappears over the edge in a
body which we estimated at 80 yards in
width, and of depth uncertain in the
centre, but Swallowing rapidly toward
either bank. When Nj. Brown discov-
ered the Fall in April. the rocky chan
mel was completely covered, and the
stream must have had width Of least
100 yards. At present it is diminishing
in volume, and, as the Indians assured
US, will continue TO do so till October,
when only the central and deeper por-
ton. about One-third of the whole. will
remain. The best time. therefore, for q
visit is in the spring, at the end Of
what appears to be the rainy season oi
this elevated tract.
"As we saw the fall cannot imagine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A PICKED NINE'-Ine muses..
Nothing valuable is lost by civility.
A non est man is generally rogue.
The sweetest of strains Trying to lift
pretty girl on horse.
Why does the sun set? "To hatch
out another day."
The most difficult thing to remember
the poor.
Results of silver stock: The dream is
ore. Never mined. '. -...
The conundrum Of the period-Who
goes to England? ,e
Queen Vic must look sharp or she will
be Queen Victim.-[ Boston Post. '..i
The woman question-"Where can
get a good girl?'' H' 80
Many an acquaintance is scraped on
the door-steps.
1t doesn't require much brain to run
a sculI race. - 500 -F a
Why talk of fireside circles any longer
when they are all stove? -.''iif .--. .
If capital and labor were united wo'd
it not still be capital thing?
Never refuse choice when you can
get it.
Think nothing insignificant which
has bearing upon your success.
Of two Investments, choose that
which will best promote your regular
business.
Reality makes no allowances for wish
es or bad plans.
Keep accurate accounts, and know
the exact condition of your affairs.
WRITING.-Tke mouth piece of every
profession, trade, calling or vocation.
Why is Scotland a hi of place?-
Because it is the land OF. Immortal
Burns. .t.. -r- ..-.. .l.
An old bachelor says ships are called
"she" because they always keep a man
On the lookout.
Finding. that his better halves will
have their own wney, Brigham Young
has engaged Swiss cheese-maker.
The latest literary inquiry is, "Was
Edgar A. Poe mad?" Aye Raven
mad. $50 ~ -. a.
The gas of Paris being cut off, Victor
Hungo has contracted to supply the
city. e-s.s-.'4 es... t-...-.,.
Although our markets are full of
stall, they do not in the least resemble
stables. ...s...- .... -.... r.-...a
Give a smart child pack of cards
and spellin book, and he will learn to
play good game ov hi 10 jack long be-
fore can spell word ov two sillables.-
billings. |
The Charleston Qll.) Courier says
Young lady of that place has just cele-
brated her wooden wedding by marry
ing blockhead. ......
There is lots ov folks who are like
pump, not ov emmy use to themselves,
but simply a handle and suckshun for
others.
Two men in Vienn.. recently passed
an Austrian officer, who strutted up and
down the street in his golden embroid-
cred uniform as majestically as pea
cock. "Why," said one to the other,
''that officer looks as proud as if he had
lost the battle of Sadowa all alone"
An old bachelor says that giving the
ballot to women would not amount to
anything practically, because they wo'd
keep denying they were old enough to
vote until they got to be too old to take
any interest in politics.
The New Haven Police Court. recent
" tried to settle the novel question how
much a man ought to be fined for chok-
ing a colored woman till she was "black
in the face" but finally gave Up the
oopnpdrup, and discharged the Offend
er on payment of costs.
In the Idaho Penitentiary the prison.
ers occupy their time with Bible classes,
whereupon local newspaper says that
the "mOral atmosphere inside the walls
is of far higher tone than that H the
rest of the territory"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
The Chinese at North Adams

Mr.. Chase, of Sampson & Co., writes
as follows concerning the employment
of Chinese in their factory:
To-day the Cinnamon are earning us
more money on the same amount Of
work than the Crispins would do at the
reduced prices. We are not getting as
much work from them as we should dc
from the same number of other expert.
enced workmen; but taking all things
into consideration they are doing quite
as we'll as the same number of new
hands (Yankees) would do. We are not
doing as much work as we would like to
do, but we foresaw all this, and did not
.take orders or make calculations on
doing as much work. What we aimed
to do we have done, and are doing to-
day. We are running our own roost,
and are making the best work we ever
made. To give you an illustration :
When the men commenced work we
labored under the disadvantage of get
ting some very poor instructors to teach
them, and consequently we had most all
the men to learn over, and also we had
made some shoes as poor as could be-
These shoes had to be disposed of. so We
sent them around among our customers.
Some grumbled hard about it, and 9th
ers said nothing. One of our best Gus
toners wrote US that the first shipment
were too poor for any one, the next lot
not send any more. We wrote to him
to let up little on his countermand
until he had received few more goods.
A few days ago we received a letter
from him, saying that the goods he was
now getting were good enough. They
were better than some sample cases he
had received from some of our neigh
bors, and that be would like to duplicate
his order. When we take orders for
next seasons work we will put our
Cinnamon against the same number of
men in any shop in the-.eountry. They
are beginning to get quite Yankeefied.
They go out shopping every day. Last
week seme of them bought complete
outfits Of clething-fine white shirts,
collars, cuffs, neckties, full black suits.
fine calf boots, &c. They are rather vain
about boots, buying none but fine calf
boots. They rather improve, too in the
quality of their food. They eat hardly
4ny pork now, but every day they have
beef, veal or muttap,"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
k FjDn Farm f0P Sale.

THE undersigned will offer at private sale,
L the Farm, formerly the residence of Lewis
Wood, lying Southeast OF, and adjoining the
town OF FLUSHING, BELMONT Co, OHIO.
Said farm contains I25 Acres of well i'm
proved land of which about One Hundred
Acres are under cultivation. There is a good
FRAME HOUSE, containing eight rooms. a
large and well planned barn, in short, almost
every convenience necessary to a good, and
comfortable home. Amy person wishing such
a situation would do well TO call on
L. BRANSON & BROS,
ae25-tf Flushing, Ohio.
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A Sad Remembrance.

4 poor dying inebriate was once visit
ed by the man who had supplied him
with the means of Intoxication. The
dealer stopped and whispered in the
dying mans ear, do you remember
me?' The dying man, forgetting his
struggle with the kind of terrors, ex-
claimed: "Yes, 1 remember you, and I
remember your store, where I formed
the habit which has ruined me for this
world and the next. And when / am
dead and gone, and you come to take
from my wife and children the shattered
remains of my property to pay my rum
debts, they will remember you; yes and
we shall remember you to all eternity"
The rumseller is man who, for paltry
sum Of money, becomes the author of an
amount of ruin which all eternity can
not repair. E sr-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13

JUDICIAL TESTIMoNY.-Thel late Row
land Burr, Esq, was for nearly twenty
years Justice of the Peace and Jail Com
missioner at Toron TO, in a statement to
the Canadian Parliament, said that nine
out of ten of the male prisoners, and
nineteen out of twenty Of the female
are sent to Jail by intoxicating liquors.
He examined nearly tvo thousand
prisoners, in the jails Of Canada, two
thirds of whom were males, and nearly
all signed petition for Maine Liquor
Law, many of them stating that it vas
their only hope ofbeing saved from rain
was to go where Intoxicating liquors
iuld not be obtained. In four years
there were %, 900 of prisoners in Canadi-
an jaiis, % 200 of whom were brought
there by intoxicating liquors. He kept
a record of the liquor dealers Of single
street IN Toronto, 100 in number. for fifty
four years past. In these families there
have been PA drunkards As widows,and
235 orphans left, Al sudden deaths, 81
suicides, EOS permature deaths by drunk
enness, murders, 8 executions, 1915
year of human life estimated to have
been lost by drunkenness, and loss Of
property, once owned in real estate,
amounting to sos, 800. -tt
Some of the domestic evils of drunk
enness are houses without windows,
gardens without fences, fields without
tillage, barns without roofs, children
without clothing, principles, morals or
manners.
All excess is ill, but drunkenness Is Of
the worst sort. 1t spoiis health, dis
mounts the mind, unmans men. 1t re-
veals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious,
impudent, dangerous, and mad. He
that is drunk is not man, because he is
for so long void of reason that distin-
guishes a man from a beast.
Reader. Heaven and Hell are reali-
ties. .s 1-e---...-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13

the history ofoae of the most dramatic
and least understood episodes in the an
nails of our time. Prince Felix claimed
to have been named by the Enneror
Maximilian the executor of his tharac-
ter and his correspondence. This claim
he pressed, but pressed in vain, on the
Emperor Francis Joseph, who declined
to surrender to him the letters of his
murdered brother. The Princess sur
wives her husband, and resides with
the family of his brother at Anhalt, in
the Prussian States.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-13
Tempfranff.
The six Degree. Of Drunken,,n

The SIX Degrees of Drunkenness.
There are six kinds of drunkards, and
if you will go into city drinking place
where there are dozen men under the
influence ofliquor, you will be sure to
find these six different animals.
The first is ape-drunk. Heleaps, and