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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-05
temperance.
For the Belmont Chronicle.

TOT lue belElOnJ CnrOnlcle.
Temperance In Hendrysburg.
Whatever may be the destiny of King
Alcohol in other sections of the county,
Hendrysburg is rOusing to a sense of her
situation. a few such tragedies as the
Gaus shooting affair, and of Bethel and
Hains, will bring the citizens of this
community to a sense of their RESPONSE
bilities. But recently there has been
an awakening to the dire necessity of
having something done. Temperance
men who can be temperance men and
indulge little in good old rye or spark
ling hard cider are yielding the point.
Men who have sons just on the verge of
manhood land see them staggering un-
der the influence OF hard cider or even
something stronger, are willing TO knock
the head out of their cider barrels or
shut down on the beverage. AS long as
the evil comes not near our own doors /;
while our neighbors sons, only, get
drunk, we sit idly by and console our
selves that it is none of our business; !;
but when the evil comes home 10 US, We
cry out for prompt action. Now the
question arises, who who will take the
responsibility of leading in the matter?
We would barely make the suggestion
that to obtain the desired result all that
is necessary is to become identified with
some organized temperance body. But
the objection-there isn't anything of
the kind in Hendrysburg that has any
influence. Mister writer, says enquirer,
you hayn't any body of any influence
in your Lodge of Good Tempiars that
amount to anything. Sorry to admit
it, but l have heard just such excuses,
not from drunkards nor tiplers but from
members of church, men-shall l say
thigh in official positions and tenn
perance men too, deploring the sad state
of things at Hendrysburg, and their
own sons and brothers under the sway
of the fell dest roger.
We offer in the order and asy-
lum for the inebriate as well as the
primary steps TO secure legislative en-
actmemt on the subject. Why whine
about drunkenness, debauehery and
murder, when we lend our influence in
favor of just the state of things we de-
plore? Why not be consistant? Why
not organize ellac.ually and stop the
monster evil? Let every schoelhouse
in our townshipb be dedicated to the cause;
teach our children as faithfully the ne
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white bread and golden butter. and fried
chickens, and je!lies, and behind her
chair stood servant ready to do her
bidding. This is something like living.
thought Gerty. But hardly ha she
tasted the first morsel, when a he
black mastiff bounded into the opeI,
doorway, his eyeballs shining like Goals
of 6re, and the white froth drippiDr
from his open mouth.
He Is mad" shrieked the servant.
sprlnging through an open window.
- wish L was in China" screamed
Gerty, and at bound and a whirl, she
was nigh IN the air, and in an instant
she landed in the midst of a dark-skin-
ned, black-eyed crowd. who stared at
her and talked in language She conId
not understand.
~, wish was at my fathers house. },
said Gerty, and with another whirI She
was again in the air, and she found
herself at her fathers gate. Her mother
was at the door.
- mother" cried Gerty, II ann
Who are you," asked her mother.
why, am your Gerty; do you not
know me, mother ?"
But the woman only laughed. and
said: anu
You my Gerty? Why, Gerty is only
little girl, and you are woman. No,
you are not my child" and she entered
the house and shut the door.
~, what shall don sobbed Gertv
even my own mother does not know
me-" And she darted through the gate
Just as runaway horse dashed along.
she tried TO get out of of the way, but
IL was TWO late. She slipped and fell
directly in front of the horse, and would
doubtless have been crushed had she
not thought of the neclace.
| Il wish | was a rabbit" she shIiek-
ed ana in all instant she bounded from
unuer the horses feet in the form of a
rabbit. She did not pause till she reached
the forest Wnen: looking up, she beheld
| her.
20, wish L was bird" she gasped
anu, 10 there she was flying through
the air in the shape of beautiful bird
pauslng now and then among the leafy
branches of the trees, and singing n few
notes of joy.
Il shall be perfectly happy now, u
thought Gerty, ut glancing up she be-
heid hawk about to seize her.
-, l wish [ was little girl again. j
wish the fairy would take back the hate
f1l necklace. And she flung the trink-
ct from her with such force that she
awoke.
Gerty started to her feet.
II am so glad it was dream,n she
SAID; Il am sure will never grumble
ABOUT brown bread again, nor want any
thing more to do with faries." And she
Kept her word, for wheE she found her.
sell wishing for things she could not
nave; she thought of the enchanted
necklace, and was contented.-[Ballou'
Monthly Magazine.
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SIur on Woman.

Ofall the evils prevalent among young
men, we know of none more blighting
in its moral effects than to speak slight
ly of the virtue of women. Nor is there
anything in which young men are so
thoroughly mistaken, as the low esti-
mate they form of the integrity of
wOman-not OF their own mothers and
sisters, but of others, who, they forget,
are somebody eise's mothers and sisters.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point for the evil is a general one, and
deep rooted. If young men are some
TIMES thrown into the society of thought
less or lewd women they have no more
right to measure other women by these
than they would have to estimate the
character of honest and respectable cit
izens by the departments ofcrime in our
police courts.
Let our young men remember that
the chief happiness depends upon their
utter faith in women. No worldly wis
dom, no misanthropic philosophy, no
generalization can cover or weaken this
truth. 1t stands like record of God
itself-and should put an everlasting
seal upon lips that are. wont to speak
slightly of women.- Boston Investi-
gator.
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2ulitlfal.
Good for the Soul.

From the n. Y. Tribune.
When the Assembly, on Saturday,
came to vote upon the bill VIII CHI re-
moves all restrictions on the Right of
Suffrage for Blacks but those which
hear equally on Whites, Mr.. William D.
Murphy (Dem.) of Albany saw fit to
deliver himself as follows:
az shall vote for this bill, not in de-
ference to the XVIII Amendment, but
because the State Of New York has the
constitutional right to regulate the sub
iect of suffrage for herself. The Con-
stitution of the United States does not
conferupon Congress the power to reg
ulate this question, and hence the adop-
ton of the XVIII Amendment is a usur-
patton of authority for which there is ne
constitutional warrant, The regulation
of the question of suffrage has always
been conceded to the States, and, until
the agitation of the question involved
in the XVIII Amendment, the right to
so regulate the question was never ques-
toned either by Congress or thepeople.
| am willing, howevt +, to take from the
Black mon the $3.50 qualification under
which he new struggles, placing him
upon an equal footing with the white
man at the ballot-boX; and | do this
because slavery no longer exists in this
land. The Property qualification is a
great wrong, and should never be im-
posed in free country. [ shall there
fore vote Aye"
When slavery did exist in our State.
whites and blacks were allowed to vote
on equal terms. The Democratic party
imposed the great wrong" on the blacks
in 1921, when slavery in New YORK was
dying out. 1t renewed that '.great
wrong, in 1916. and persisted in it at
the election of 1860. When our late
Constitutional Convention met lin 1867,
slavery was stone dead; yet the Sham
Democracy fought desperately for the
perpetuation of the great wrong"
heaping insult and obloquy on the blacks
by all manner of epithetSand imputa-
tions. Beaten in the Convention. they
appealed to the people, and again voted
down Impartial Suffrage at our very
last election. The votes against Equal
Suffrage We're 2S2, ,403, whereof not so
many as the odd 403 were cast by Re
ppbIicans. And this very Legislature
tried in December to defeat Impartial
Suffrage by withdrawing the assent of
New York to the XVIII Amendment
Such being the recorded facts, we sub
NIT that Mr. Murphy has been and is
acting and voting with party which
he ought to be ashamed of-nay, which
ought 10 be ashamed of itself.
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The Jewish Passover and the Fifteenth
a IN eng ID meul-Histo ical Para tlels.

The Jewish Passover and the Fifteenth
Amen, Dent-Histo, leaI Parallels.
The occasion of the jubilee of our
rewly enfranchised citizens was seized
upon by an eminent Jewish Rabbi, Rev.
DR.. L. Kleeberg, of Louisville, KY, and
lately made the subject of two-elequent
sermons. He said that passing events
were but repetitions of scenes through h
hich the children of Israel had already
passed.; that history had pointed out its
warming, long unheetled, and finally en-
forced with Il plague of blood; that
Jews, of whatever political affinity,
must bow down with cheerful suhmis-
81 IN to the inevitable logic of the hour,
and throw no barrier in the way Of the
elevation of the fallen. II would be of
no use for the Hebrew people to cele-
brate the approaching festival of the
Passover by ceremony unless they were
willing practically to agree to join heart
and soul in the jubilee that sang halle
lujahs at the great American breaking
of shackles. The eating of un- -eavened
bread without this would be idle, the
typical Paschal Lamb, the bitter herb,
the saline draught and the bricks with
out straw were all only put upon the
Seder table to bring to mind the Egyp-
tian bondage and to lead the partici-
pants to dwell with humility on the
wondrous deliverance of their ancestors
from the burdens of their taskmasters.
In our day history repeated itself, and
the granting of righUs, long unjustly
withheld. to a large number of human
beings was an event that rose far above
a political question, far beyond the
schemings or counter-plots of adven-
turers or factionists; it was moral of
fering on the altar of humanity-accept-
able alike to man and God. By such
Acknowledgements individuals and ma
tions become elevated, purified, and the
mission of man to his fellow was fulfill
ed. 1t would be astonishing, then, if
the heart of every Jew did not beat with
joy and pleasure when he saw the chains
fall that had fettered the limbs of his
fellow man; if they did not rejoice they
were untrue to their tradition and their
history, and unworthy of their position
by the side OF freemen. The eloquent
remarks of the preacher attracted con-
siderable attention, and did not escape
criticism, as he had quite a number of
Southerners among his audience, who
are not yet quite awake to the living
issue; but as his remarks were purely
historical, and had special reference to
the holiday which will be inaugurated
this week, all had to acknowledge the
pertinency of the discourse. 1t is
worthy of record, too, that this was in
the chief city of Kentucky lex.
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Moral 6ems.

"Nothing to dor in this world of ours,
Whereweeds spring up with the fairest.flowers
Where smiles have only htful play,
Where hearts are breaking every day
"Nothing to do." thou Christian soul,
Wrapping thee round in thy selfish stole;
OFF with the garments Of SlOth and SIN,
Christ thy Lord, hath Kingdom TO Wln
Nothing to do" Therear prayers to lay
ON the altar of incense, day by day;
There are foes TO meet within and.wlthout;
There is error to conquer, strong and stout.
.Notbiug to dor There are minds to teach
The simplest form OF Christian speech;
There are hearts to lure. with loving vile,
From the grimmest haunts of sins denle-
"Nothing to dor There are lambs to feed,
The precious hope of the Church's need;
Strength to be borne to the weak and iaint,
VigilS to keep with the doubling saint.
Nothing to dol! and thy Savior said
Follow thou Me, in the path tread,
Lord, lend Try help thejourney through,
Lest, faint, we cry, $50 much TO do.'
Cheerfulness is medicine for the mind.
Be slow to choose friend, but slow
er in changing.
Remember, He that keepeth his
mouth keepeth his life"
To be truly and really independe mt
is to support ourselves by our own ex-
ertioDs.
BE not ashamed to ask if you doubt;
hut be ashamed to be reproved for the
same fault twice.
If YOU do not know my sorrows, how
can YOU afford ME relief from their
pressure:
The man who loves truth with all his
heart likewise loves those who suffer
for the sake of truth.
II is the water outside the ship that
tosses il about, but it is the water that
rets into the ship that sinks it.
Love. in all its shapes, implies sacri-
firps. Much must be conceded, much
endured, if we would love.
If the principles of contentment are
NOT within us, the height of station and
worldly grandeur will as soon add cubit
to n mans stature as to his happiness.
Two paths are before US all. A rough
one has the finger post, S<S- To DUTY;
the other one is smooth and tiowery
with the finger post, To PLEASURE -SSa
THOSE who take the rough one will find
II grow smoother and broader and pleas
AZ Ter. till it reaches the very gate of the
celestial city.
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Wine More Deadly Than Cann ON.

Wendell Phillips, in an address in
Music Hall, Boston, once said:
II know a soldier in the army of the
Potomac, who was picked up in the
streets of Philadelphia, one year ago,
complete wreck-a confirmed inebriate
but who was, by the love of a sister
charity of Boston home, placed once
more on his feet. He was at Balls Bluff,
and three times with unlOaded musket,
charged upon the enemy. He was one
of the six who heroically defended and
brought away the body of the fallen
leader of that bloody fight. The captain
of the company to which he belonged
died in his arms, receiving the last
words of consolation from his lips. He
was afterwards conspicuous in the con-
fiicG, until the orders were given for
each one o seek his own safety. Re-
moving some of his apparel, he plunged
into the inhOspitable river, and after
great exertion landed on the opposite
bank, seven miles below the eneamp-
ment. Nearly exhausted, half clad, half
starved, he finally reached the camp.
The captain of the next company TO
which he belonged kindly said to him,
pouring out glass of wine, Let me
give you this ; you will perish without
it, L thank you, SIR said the soldier,
but would sooner face all the cannon
of the enemy than that glass of wine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-05

If intemperance leads to poverty,
crime, and premature death, then is not
intemperance great evil. That it does
thus lead, no sane man will honestly
attempt to deny. The confirmed drunk
ard Is not made SO in few months,
prehaps not for many years but con-
tlnued tampering with alcoholic bever-
ges, in time accomplished his ruin. The
appetite for stimulating drink is almost
universally formed in early life, grow
ing with life's growth and strengthen
ing with its weakness. From twelve to
twenty-one, the nine years wherein the
boy developes into the man, is the criti-
Cal time. Safely past this period with
out having tasted stimulating drink,
after that, temptation will readily be
resisted. Few drunkards will be found
who never tasted the beverage that led
to 1T until after they attained their ma
jority. Then it is manifestly the dictate
OF sound policy, an imperative duty,
that experienced age secure all possible
safe guards for the benefit of inexperi-
enced youth. Then is the legislation
wise, that has for its object the suppress
sion of places where ale, beer, porter,
&C., are sold, thereby tempting the for
NATION of ruinous habits in boys, who
in few years will be the men on whom
Will rest the management of great
nation. Then with no vindictive or
unkind feeling toward vendor or drink
er, let all right feeling people resolve,
and firmly hold that resolve to its work
by their moral religious sentiment,
that all laws and ordinances, having for
their object the suppression of these de-
moralizing places will be rigidly enforc-
ed. There has always has been a con-
flict between right and wrong. There Of
necessity will be until vice is eradicated,
unless we become so corrupt,so besotted,
as no longer to perceive where moral
principal leads, so confused as no lon
ger to be able to distinguish right from
wrong. The history of our past is al
most a guarantee that such will not
be OuI future. A moral and religious
sentiment that fought to its death such
an institution as United states human
chattleism, will not rest satisfied until
minor wrongs are corrected. Will pa
rents and guardians refiect.-[B Buckley
State.
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warning 10 the Intemperate.

Chas. Lamb tells his sad experience,
as warning to young men, in the fol-
lowing language:
"The waters have gone over me. But
out of the black depths could be heard
l would cry out TO all those who have
set foot in the perilous flood Could
the youth, to whom the flavor of the
first cup is delicious, look into my desc
lation and be made to understand what
a dreary thing it is to see his destruction,
and have no power to stop it to see all
godliness emptied out of him, and ye;
not able to forget time when he was
otherwise; could he see my fevered eye.
feverish with last nights drinking, and
feverishly look for to-night's repetition
of the folly could he but feel the body
of the death cut of which / cry hourly
a feebler cutlery to be delivered, it were
enough, to make him dash the sparkling
beverage 20 the earth, in all the pride of
its mantling temptation"
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A FINEFARM for SALE,

Adjoining st. ClairSville. o.
T OFFER FOR SALE the farm on which re-
L side, adjoining the town of st. Clairsville,
Ohio, containing I16 A creS of very choice
land about so acres of which is heavy timber,
and the balance under good state OF cultiva-
ton. The Farm is well fenced, has on it about
200 panels of new paling fence. Has on it a
good Brick Dwelling House, large Barn, Wagon
House. Granary, Carriage House, &c.
The Farm House is situated about u OF a mile
from the Union School Building, the finest in
this part of Ohio. The Schools Churches and
Society of st. Clairsville are unsurpassed.
The st. Clairsville and Cadiz Pike runs
through it.
There are two Orchards of good fruit on the
premises.
on or correspond with me.
P NJ WILKINS
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Farm for Sale.

I WILL SELL AT private sale, on reasonable
terms, seSenty-ifre Acres OF hrst quail s
CIairsville on the new pike leading from st.
Clairsyille to New Athens. There is on the
lands young orchard, of
40 Choice Fruit Trees,
with moderate improvements. The farm is
well calculated for grain or grazing.
For further particulars enquire of George or
Joseph Iddings, or the subscriber, adjoining the
and described, or by mail at st. Clairsville, o.
Mar3-2m ID. NJ. BURDETT.
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For Sale,

T NFFER at private sale my property in New
L Castle. Belmont County, Milo, consisting of
a large and commodiouS Store Room and lot
with good stable on it; dwelling house and
two lots and lso my stock of Dry Goods, No
tions Groceries, &C. This is excellent op
portunity for any one wishing good business
location The neighborhood is good. School
and Church in town. For further particulars
call on II. VI. SHIPMAN.
iaI7-tf New Castle, Milo
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-05

The Republican State Central Com
mittee of West Virginia has called the
State Convention to meet at Parkers-
burg, on June ODD, to nominate candi-
dates for State offices. The Democracy
hold their State Convention at Charles.
ton, June Sth.
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A FINE OPPORTUNITY

NOR INVESTMENT IN COAL PROPERTY
L is now offered, in 16 A cres OF Coal,
Mile from Bellaire; Immediately on the Wegee
Turnpike; an outlet to tine Ohio River; easily
drained; accessible by drifting, and every
bushel available. 1t is in rapidly advancing
neighborhood. Will be sold on reasonable
Terms. For particulars enquire of
LYCURGUS AUSTIN,
augI9-lm*-tf South Bellaire, Ohio.
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atlmnnt on. 8asiness 2ireftorg
coUNTY OFFICERS.

t,,o,ote Judge-A. W. ASDEEs0Nit aoTt to ripht, Gtre
upstairs in public Pqiidings' nfiee in public
buildings. first noor, ,,,,pppI1 Office IN pub
Cler9 C6'rtsmJ,; Il; inr "a the Court House;
iiN i,sIijt1rER NJ. CLARK. OInce
,;fDIiidina entrance at leit doof. 9.;a nv, Main
~ EJ'S1ssasI,reToJAMEs IRWIN Oi-i0e 'n
s,ae. fiTst door West OF the BsiIA; IN ,nblic
teeeordef-Lmn ~ " ;1oor 10 second door to left.
Proceeding 4ssG,sJ % Trus shAoroN' Store
upstairs lanes Alexander, BellalIe'
ueDrZ eDT'iteS,Sh FrSsher, Hendrysburgh; Wliilam M
Camper, Cap,o'a1,oJogN KESNoS, Bellaire, Belmont
County. . Cr,SswEII Bellaire.
C"U c,n,;ssioners meet at st. Clairsville on the
81 March. June, September, anu
rss Beard Ma% OF in eaeh yeaP
the third "Wednesday OF MaS On the first tuesdays
of March MAY e0Ig eoGrt sPd IS always
~, business hours for the
other business. -=
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-05

At the fifteenth amendment celebra-
tion at Louisville, KY, few days since,
the procession carried a transparency
in which the 'train of progress" was
depicted-a locomotive labeled 1.-The
Fifteenth Amendment" with train OF
twenty-nine cars attached, representing
the ratifying States, and n number OF
jackasses harnessed to the rear car, en-
blematic of the States refusing to ratify
and vainly trying to pull the train back
ward.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-05

Every man has in his own life follies
enough-in his on mind troubles enough,
in the performance of his duties defici-
encies enough, h,-withou being over curl
GUS about the affairs of others.
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Look Here.

I HAVE still number oflots for sale on rea-
i sonable terms in my additions to South
Bellaire will also sell my Brick House adj
-oining my orchard, cheap. Any one wishing
to make profitable Investment would do well
10 come soon. For further particulars and in
formation call on l.. Austin, in south Beilaire,
or the subscriber. JOHN FINK.
Nov 4 80 If
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The Cincinnati Enquirer Dem ,cratic)
has made the important discovery that
nothing is more certain in the political
future than Grants denomination by
the Republican party in 1872"
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Notice.

CHARLES W. WATSON and John Ferguson,
" who are non residents of the State of Ohio,
are hereby notified that on the 2Sth day of
February, 1870, William ". Miller, William ].
Bates, Jr., John Scott, Thomas Morehead and
Samuel NJ. Darrah, partners as w. w. Miller &
Co., plaintiffs, fled in the Court of Common
Pleas of Belmont County, Ohio, their petition
against the said Charles w. Watson and John
Ferguson and one John Smith, defendants,
asking Judgment against said defendants for
the sum of Sl660 81, and that an order of attach
ment. issued upon the filing of said petition
Said defendants, Watson d Ferguson are re-
quired to answer said petition on or before
Saturday May 9TH. 1870, or judgment will be
taken against them by default,
DANFORD & KENNON,
marl0-6w Atrys for plaintiffs.