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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
What has he Made!

The Albany Post thus sensibly replies
to statement made in the New York
Herald that during the last twenty
years William B. Astor has so managed
fortune of twenty millions as to roll it
into sixty millions:
Suppose he has, what then? What
has he made by the operation, except
increased worriment to keep the run of
his increased weleth ? Astor, with sixty
millions, eats no more oysters, quail,
wOodcock and boned turkey, than he
did when he was worth ten Millions
He dresses no better and has a thousand
times less fun. We beat him on the
sleep, and have no law suits with ten
ants and trespassers. Robbers lay for
Astor every time he goes outdoor after
dark. They don't think of Ills. Astor,
with sixty millions of dollars, has sixty
millions of troubles. To keep thu run
of his rents, bonds and real estates keeps
Astor in work fourteen hours q day,
and yet Astor gets three square meals
q day, which is just what we obtain
without any millions, any tenants, any
real estate, and only work eight hours
per day.
If mems happiness increased with
their money, every body should be JUS
titled in worshiping the Golden Calf
The happiness increases with their
earnings up to a certain point-the
point necessary to secure them the
comforts of life, say $1,000 year All
beyond this is supertiuous. Being
superfluous, it is productive of no good
whatever. The richer the man, the
greater is the probability that his sons
will live on billiards and die in this ine-
briate asylum. With contentment and
$1,000 year a man may be as happy as
q prince. Without contentment you
will be miserable, even if your wealth
equal the rent rolls of Croesu-."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Appalling Facts.

There is a sufficient quantity of fer
mented and distilled liquor used in the
United States, in one year, to fill canal
4 feet deep IA feet wide, and 120 miles in
length. The places where Intoxicating
drinks are made and sold in this coun-
try, if placed in direct lines, would
make a Street 100 miles in length. If
the victims of the rum traffic were
there also, we should see a suicide at
every mile, and 1000 funerals day. If
the drunkards of America could be
placed in procession, five abreast, they
would make an army 100 miles in
length. What an army ofvictims =
Every hour in the night the heavens
are lighted by the incendiary torch of
the drunkard. Every hour in the day
the earth is stained with the blood shed
by drunken assassins. See the great
army of inebriates, more than half .
million strong, marching on to sure and
swift destruction,-filing off rapidly
into the poor-house and prisons and up
to the scafold, and yet the ranks are
constantly filed by the moderate drink
ers. Who can compute the fortunes
squandered, the hopes crushed, the
hearts broken, the homes made DESC
late, by drunkards
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Eloquent.

At q temperance meeting in Concord,
Y. Y, poor drunkard by the name of
Bachelor, made his way into the hall,
and in broken accents gave vent to the
IoVerfowing of his soul: azdf.l
who made me a drunkaId? Not
God! He never made q man a drunk
ard. He makes them husbands, and
fathers, and brothers, but not drunk
ards. No! but did it; I made myself
a drunkard. And not alone but you,
yeur influence, custom and the rum
Iseller-you made me a drunkard;-yes
the rumseller-he did it! - i- r-i $50 e
went into his shop-his house--the
Eagle Coffee House. to-day; yes to-day,
Sunday, my appetite drove me there. 1
didn't want to go in. don't want to
drink. My very soul, my whole soul is
against it; but this body, this appetite
drove me iu. When I was moderate
drinker, used to go there and drink
Then / was respectable, I was not
drunkard; but moderate drinking made
me drunkard, They made me what
you see me now! and now, to-day, I
went in and called for gin, and the pro-
pristor refused me-yes, refused me; he
didn't sell anything! because Pm
drunkard." -. .... ..... .--.
"What would you have him do?"
asked one.
81 would have them sell to me, or not
at all. To me, whom am lost-not to
those who may become drunkards. But
no; they have made drunkard of me,
and now they're ashamed of their own
work" -tl-
There was a pause here, and then
Bachelor resumed: ....... -
"Who was Michael Martin. He was
a robber-a notorious robber! What
was he hung for? For taking money;
yes their money; that was all-all. He
never took life. He never took a mans
character-neyer. Nor broke the heart
OF wife; nor beat nor bruised her chill
dren; nor injured her reputation-no
never. And he was hung! Yes, Michael
Martin was hung for taking mems mon
ey. His words were your money or
your life!' not your reputation. your
character. the peace of your family, and
your life" . ..-.-1
i.a poor creatures brain seemed
,t1ggerlng; but every one could see that
ais object was to contrast the business
of the rumseller with that of Michael
Martin; and every one felt awed with
the idea, and with the tremendous
force which, so far, it had been hurled
out; rough and unhewn from the work
shop of his scattered BRAIN The Gold
en- Rule.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

cent. bonds be changed to be 5 per cents.
Rejected. Mr.. Sherman moved to
amend the 5th section so that the cou-
pons of the per cents. may be paid
abroad-adopted, yeas, 80; nays, 10. Mr..
Morton said that having foreign agents
in would save in the interest. Mr..
Cameron gave notice of an amendment
recurring the redemption of all the
fractional currency by July 1st. The
amendment striking out the section au-
thorizing foreign agencies was adopted
yeas %, nays IL. The amendment re-
auiring the negotiation of the bonds by
Treasury officers alone, was rejected.
Howard offered an amendment, pending
which the Senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-In the House, resolutions OF
inquiry were adopted as to what public
buildings, not yet commenced, are nee.
essary to be commenced the next fiscal
year, and what buildings, in process Of
construction, require work to be con-
tinued; of asking a detailed statement OF
the payments of the public debt and
interest from 1889 to 1886, we're adopted;
as to the expediency of adding q postal
express to the mail service, in order that
small packages may be sent. A resolu-
tion was introduced for the advance
services. The bill for the Washington
& New York Bailroad came up, and was
discussed till the close of the morning
hour. A petition from Mt. Vernon,
Ohio, was presented, asking the abol-
ishment of National Banks and the
substitution of greenbacks for their
bills, and that S34 ,000, 900 5-20s be paid
in greenbacks at par. The resolution as
to printing patent specifications was
amended so that copies may be prepared
for sale and then passed. Bills were in
troduced to provide for celebrating the
Tooth Anniversary of American lnde-
pendence by holding a National Expo
sitIon in Philadelphia in 1876; bill for
the auditing and payment OF claims OF
loyal citizens in the late rebel States; to
provide bonesteads for colored people
in the Southern States. A bill was re-
ported reducing mileage from twenty
cents to ten cents mile, by the nearest
route. Logan gave notice he would call
up the Army bill on Thursday, and
Schenok said as soon ss is was out Of
the way he would call up the Tariff bill.
Adjourned.
SENATE Thursday, March l0.-In the
Senate Mr.. Pratt offered q resolution
calling for information in regard to
the public lands in Indiana. The fund
ing bill was discussed during the day
and an evening session held at whi,h
several bills of minor Importance were
passed. The Vice President submitted
the proceedings of the Texas Legislature
in the election of U. S. Senators.
HOUsE.-In the House the bill to re-
duce the number of army officers was
passed. Several members were permit
ted to file speeches for publication in
the Globe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Meri ted Rebuke Of tho Rash and: San
culinary Phil. Sher idan.

Merited Rebuke sf tho Rash and: San
culinary Phil Sheridan.
From the Ohis State Journal.
One of the objections made to Sheri-
dan as warrior is, that he kills people.
Another is, that he kills the Indian
father at time when his family needs
him as provider of food, and the in
nocent squaws and children suffer from
this cruelty. We always did think Sher-
idan killed the enemy too much. Why
can't you just shoot them little, Phil,
SO as to not hurt them? Why do you
want to go around making a graveyard
of everybody that murders American
citizens? Don't you know any way to
carry on war without killing people
in this way? Suppose the poor Piegans
have taken scalp or two, and dug
the bowels out of few live babies, and
subjected few women to the embrace
of half tribe of the most hellish ruff
fans that ever..wore:thc human form,
what has that to do with it? You ought
not to blame the poor fellows. Indians
always do that way. You should send
missionaries to them. Send them Peace
Commissioner-send them the Cincin-
natl Gazette-send them bald-hsaded
Quaker that can't be scalped-send them
-confound it-send them Mungen and
his fidle. We can spare him. 1t would
do him good to go. 1t would do us good
to have him go. The Indians would be
glad to see him. Let him take Mrs.
Cobb along Let him take the whole
female lobby from Washington. If they
can't bring the Piegan to repentance
and to thinking of their latter end no.
body can.
And don't be so rash with yourshoot-
ing any more. Don't you remember
how you used Rosser in the Valley? He
only wanted to come along down in the
rear. He wasn't hurting you any. Yet
what did you do to that young man :?
You went out with Custer and shot at
him, and charged into him with your
inferal cavalry, and made him git and
git till his artillery wagons went so fast
only one wheel touched the ground, and
his horses were nearly tired to death.
That's no way TO treat man. You
should be polite and friendly to these
Indians. Give themblankets and Spen-
Ger rifles and seal ping knives give them
tobsc co and meerschaum pipes, or Par
taga cigars; give them the Agricultur-
al Report, and the Congressional Globe,
and Greeley's "Recollections of Busy
Life" and other civilizing documents.
Give them Lydia Thompson. Give them
Lydia. Yes, by all means give them l..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

Stop grumbling, get up two hours
earlier in the morning, and begin to do
someth ing ont of your regular profess
sion. Mind your own business, and
with all your might let other peoples
alone. Live within your means. Sell
your horses. Give away or sell your
dog. Smoke your cigars through an
air stove. Eat with moderation, and go
to bed early. Talk less of your own
peculiar gifts and virtues, and more of
those of your friends and neighbors. Be
cheerful. Fulfil your promises. Pay
your debts. Be yourself all you would
see in Others
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
New Series-Vol. 10, No. 8

mons, Charley Grey is now a prosper
Gus business man in great city, and
his mercantile friends say of him that
"his word is as good as bond.n We
asked him once how he acqu;. eti
such a reputation.
~ never broke my word when boy,
no matter how great the temptation, and
the habit formed then has c1ung to me
through life."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

Representative Dawes made CEN
ter shot in his speech at Nashau, N. II,
when he said Gen. Grant is the head
of party thank God that can criticise
itself; party that can probe, not cover
its sores; that can grow healthy and
strong by self-probing. What has it
done this last week, but take one Of its
own members, found to be corrupt, and
drive him by unanimous vote from
find the Democratic party in pursuit of
any corruption within its own ranks,
except to fatten on it? Did you ever
find them hunting up those who lived
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

undergone with the cook, the minutiae
Of the chambermaid's slovenliness, the
fact that the second girl is more than
mistrusted of taking things" it not
being fashionable yet to speak of defal.
eating with the spoons. though we will
doubtless soon reach even that point of
white-washed sepulchreism. The en-
ormities generally of what has been
dubbed "servant-galism" disturb not
the peace of poverty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

upon the plunder of the public treas
ury within their own ranks and bring
ing them to condign punishment L
am proud to belong to party so con-
scious of the rectitude of its intentions
and the strength Of its position that II
can bear to have the plain truth told 1t
by its own friends.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Temperance,
THE TWO WORKERS
'wo workers in one field

Two workers in one field -..
rolled on from day to day,
B1tn mad the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay,
With the same blue sky above:
The same green grass below,
One soul was full of love,
The other full of woe.
One leaped, and with the light.
With the soaring OF the lark:
One felt 1t ever night. .f. ..
For his soul was ever dark.
One heart was hard as stone'
One heart was ever CAV: Ga '.-l
one worked with many a groan.
one Whlstled all the day.
One had a fiower-elad cot .-.....
Beside a merry mill.
Wife and children near the spos
Made it sweeter, fairer still:
One wretched hovel had.
Full of discord, dirt and sin ---- .--a
No wonder he seemed mad.
Wife and children starved within.
Still they worked In the same field
Toiled on from day to day. Ell.
Both had the same hard labor,
Both had the same small pay; va e.
But they worked not with one Will.
The reason let me tell
Lo! the one drank at the still,
And the other at the well.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
REMOVED.

MISS NANCY B. FARIS, would inform her
WI old customers and the public generally, and
ladies particularly, that she has removed 10 the
room formerly occupied by Watson & Gressin-
ger, West of the St. Clair Hotel. where she will
keep a full supply of MILLENERY, 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. - -
mar2b 1858. .r-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
To.MOrrOw.


Ah, there is matter of mighty i'm
port hanging upon the echo of that lit
tie trisyllable sound.
If it is precrastination's watch word
Hope-eager, restless Hope-has heart
ry wayfarer on life's high road, inscrib-
ed upon her own banner the half-ap-
propriated motto, and gone on her way
rejoicing.
"To-mOrrow"-we have from infant
lips as the little joy-wearied pleasure
seeker sinks to sleep, sure ofawakening
but to turn another brightly illuminated
leaf of the unscanned life volume be-
fore him. Careful hands will direct his
baby fingers; he cannot know or care
that many q one Of the mistic pages yet
to come bears no tracing of gold and
purple and rose, but only rough pen
and-ink sketches. Ah, time enough for
homely truths in black and white. Let
tomorrow be Jubilate's synonym while
it may!
Tomorrow" Iheard beggar boy
say, who from his weary wanderings
returned without one crust to stay their
strength--the disease stricken mother
and her imbecile younger child
wealth walks the earth in silk and
Jewels" inwardly said bitterly, while
these, Gods creatures, lack bread, but
the conviction was called tito life
again
Nothing is that is not right"
when 1 heard, "To-morrow-this can
not last--times will be better" And the
idiot boy took up his mothers re-
frain, start vacantly around, then
closed his sexpressionless eyes, muttering
Tomorrow, Tomorrow"
morrow, says the merchant when
stock falls and notes in hand are at a
heavy discount. See he casts his eye
around the dingy counting house walls,
but he is thinking of the intermediate
hours to be spent with the loving home
group, where all is neat new, refreshing.
The town clock strikes his hour of re-
spite; he huddles day-boOk, ledger an
musty papers away into temporary OBJ
livion, closes doors and murmurs, "Times
will be better tomorrow"
Tomorrow" says the Christian,
"Sorrow and signing endure for night
but joy comes Gin the morning."
There is a vast aLd trackless ocean
swelling between usand the land whith,
er we are going; yet rs its billows rise
higher, higher, even waiting us from
the shore whereon we stand, the last
word to be erased from its sands is To-
morrow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Milliaerg,
DRESS MAKING.
MISS It .JHESS

TAKES this method of informing the Ladies
Il Of ST. CLAIRSVILLE, and Vicinity, that
she is engaged in the Dress Making BUSINESS,
and is prepared to do all kinds of work in that
line on reasonable terms. She may be found
at the East end of Town in the House owned by
Thomas Parker. So .z. noll-3m 4.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Millinery and Dress Making
MISS e. A. BUMGARNER..

ID ESPECTFULLY announces to the pubic
II that she has purchased the establishment
of Miss Alban and Miss Mitchell, nearly oppo-
site Weekdays Hall, where she proposes carrying
on the above business in its various branches.
The Ladies are respectfully invited to give her a
call. All work in her line will be neatly and
expeditiously executed.
Feb 4 lS69-tf .. -.- -7-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
MisfelIanfons.
CHARITY.

Woman, with scorn on your beautiful face,
Radiant with velvet, and satins and lace;
Dainty lifting the snow of your skirt
Clear from the noxious, throng-trampled dirt;
lily enough it becomes you to sneer
Thus at the outcast that passes SO near.
Shrink as you may from the touch of her shawl,
She is your sister-your sister for all.
Look at her br ow tits fair a your own,
Nor has her cheek its bright bushes outgrown.
Ere you shall fasten disgrace on her name,
Wait till you know the temptation that came.
If it were Weakness, orif it were crime,
Or some light romance to girlhood sublime.
Maybe she loved, as we women do love,
Perfling soul-aye, our birthright above
Periling all for one low-spoken word.
Seraphs themselves never trembling heard.
Maybe she Ioved-the old story again,
Woven with transport and passion and pain;
And the bright gold that she clasp'd turn'd to
Till but handful of dead-lying dust.
Mistness lies in the blue of her eyes;
All, do you see, tits a tear in disguise.
Who knows-when twilight impurples the
world,
And through the lattice the stars seems so cold
Who knows the sobs that the night-breezes
sobs strangely like the wall of despair.
See the iron bars hedging her track,
And, though her heart bleed, she may not go
back.
Nothing but scorn at society's door
Nothing but thongsf for the life bruised and sore.
So the poor feet goaded on with a curse
Plunge into paths where the dark ness gets
verse.
So the spurned soul. cropping down mid the
gloom
Falters and falls into fnfamy s tomb.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

There are no less than sixty-four per-
sons confined in the Ohio Penitentiary
and sentenced to life servitude. Sixty
two of them committed murder, and
two committed rape on their daughters.
Two of the convicts are women. Two
are man and wife, aged 2S and % when
admitted, now SO and SS years old. The
youngest person when admitted was
eighteen, in July, 1868. ,r,
The two oldest are sixty years of age,
one of whom was received in 1851.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Love at First Sight-A Shoe m kerr
Daughter Captiyates u Foreign Official

Love At First Sight-A Shoe ma aker's
Daugh Captivates a Foreign Official
Pierre Bonaparte has become famous
for marrying saddler's daughter and
shooting an offensive editor. The first
act was regarded as a noble piece OF
heroism on his part. A certain young
foreign gentleman, residing in Wash
ington, has furnished almost parallel
TO Pierre Bonaprte's honorable conduct
toward saddler's daughter. The story
is this, according to the Washington
correspondence of the New York
Herald
The young gentleman was walking
down Pennsylvania avenue about three
or four weeks ago, enjoying pleasant
promenade along our Washing ton
Broadway, when his attention was
suddenly attracted by very pretty girl
standing in the doorway of shoe store.
Our hero was fascinated dinstantaneously.
1t was literally love at first sight. On
the prerence of making some purchases
in the leather line he entered the store,
engaged in conversation with the mai
den and discovered she was the daughter
of the proprietor. Our hero found ex-
cuses for making many subsequent
visits, ,to,the store, land finally the pas-
ents OF the girl, noticing this marked
attention to their daughter, and think
ing the disparity in rank was too great
to admit of proper addresses, politely
informed him that, they would prefer
him to discontinue his calls. The
young gentleman, with an unexpected
manliness and evident sincerity, told
the parents that his attention were
honorable to the last degree; that he
loved the daughter devotedly, and that
though their respective stations differed
widely, an arrangement could be made
which, he hoped void prove satisfactory
to both sides. He told the father that
his child was yet young enough to be
Thoroughly educated and fitted for any
station in life, and that if he would
consent he, the young gentleman, would
have the girl sent to one of the best
academies in the country, there to be
instructed in all the accomplishment
and acquirments desirable. The young
gentleman also offered to give a solemn
pledge that he would never visit the
young lady at the academy, and that at
the end Of the eductional course, if she
still entertained a feeling of affection
for him, he would lay at her feet his
hand and heart, am Informed that
the generous proposal has been accepted,
and that the young lady is now at a
female academy i'm a nefghboring city
The whole thing is looked upon here as
highly creditable to all the parties con-
cerned. The young man occupies a very
high official position.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17

"A simple and very effectual remedy for
sore back in horses. is plaster made Of
the yolk of an egg and a spoonful Of tur-
pentine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-03-17
Yelmuut Go. 8msiness 9irsftpry
COUNTY OFFICERS.


Probate Judce-A. w. ANDERSON. once
upstairs in public buildings, rstdoor 70 llgnt.
She1I6-WILLIAMH ii. HAYS. Once In pupne
buildings, 6rst floor. o.z..o,rn n,,h-
CleTkoJ Cbrrls-J. B. CAMPBELL Omcein pup
lie buildings, adjoining the Court housei ,t
AudisorLR. M.CLARk. once upstairs Ia pun
lie building, entrance at left door.
T1reds,rreT-JA AMES IRWIN. O1nce on NJ Al
street. first door West OF the Bank:
Recorder-WM. II. BARNES once IN pupiic
building first fioor, second door to left.
Prosectitislg Anorrey-J. W. SHANNON. omce
up-stairs over Patterson's Drug store.
O1yamissienezs James Alexander, Bellalre;
Henry Frashef, Hendrysburgh; William M.
fslrpeserSJoHN KENSoN, Bellaire, Belmont
County. g.
O5roi.er-GEoRGE CRIsswELL, Bellaire.
Commissioners meet at st. Clairsyills on the
first MONDAYS of March, June, September, and
December-anda as a Board of Equalization on
the third Wednesday Of May. in each year.
The Probate Court meets on the frst Tuesdays
of Januarys-March, May, July, Septemoei, ano
Noyemfer as q criminal court, and Is always
open (in business hours) for the transacuon Oh
other business. iHth- ~ 49, 8.
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inQljg5s

One square (Ten lines Nonpariel. or less. .rous
or .nree insertions, 81. Each subsequent Ia
per year. -
neFcnants advertising, not exceeding one
Ioqrtn OF column at any time $50 per year
So1,l SSTring tne year, ss5. A column, not over
SPecsdt Notsces and Double Column Advertisements
once and half the rates of ordinary adyer.
tisements,