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Maderafa Drinking.

Rev. VIM. Goodell thus declares in
reference to the various shades of drink
ing: (Which is most destructive OF
health and life, drunkenness or knoder-
ate drinking? But what are the facts
A man may get as drunk as some do once
a month, vomit out the poison, sleep off
the effects and be sober all the rest of
of the month, drinking moth
ing till the fit comes on again. Such
man may do more business, do it better,
sreserve better health and live longer
than the moderate drinker, who never
gets drunk, never vomits outth poison
keeps it within him, ,addinga little to
it daily till it undermines his constitu-
tion, so that he readily falls a prey TO all
manner of diseases without vitality
enough to recover from them. He dies
moderate drinker, never suspected
of intemperance, much less ranked
among the drunkards, yet loosing his
life in consequence of his moderate
drinking. Scientific and experienced
physicians entertain these views, and
are of opinion that more than half of
those who die in consequence OF drink
ing alcoholic liquors die before they be-
come confirmed and downright drunk
ards.n
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
OenpfranEe.
Senator Wilson on Drunkenness and
Temperance.

1.-The Next Step" is the title of Sena
tor Wilson'S article in the last Indepen-
dent-tbe Aforesaid step being thorough
and comprehensive Temperance organ
ization... quote the following passage
extremely well calculated to arrest the
attention of the most Indifferent:
sThe evil still RACES, and the foe is
still destroying its thousands and scores
of thousands every year, and millions
upon millions till figures fail to convey
any adequate conception, are squander-
ed upon this accursed love of strong
drink. There is to-day a larger army
under its control than Went to the war,
while those mourning over the vassal-
age and fall of loveds ones exceed in
numbers and in the bitterness of their
woe the millions who were made child
less and widows by the casualties of
that fierce and sanguinary strife. And
the terrible disease, like a cancer is eat
ting into the very vitals of the nation,
destroying the mental and moral as
we'll as the phyical fiber of the people.
Tie liquor interest controls the cities
and largely influences State legislation
and the local politics of the country"
Senator Wilson then suggests the
mode of proceeding as follows:
And now, in the presence of these facts
the Congressional Temperance Society
asks the people to shake off this apathy,
and buckle on the old-fashioned armor
with which such execution was wrought
thirty years ago, expressing the belief
that proper and persistent efforts would
secure the enrolment of "one-feurth," ;"
perhaps "one-third," of the American
people on the pledge oftotal abstinance.
Can it be done? If so, hoaO? In my
Judgement, there is but one way in which
this great result can be reached THE
CHURCH MUST TAKE UP THE MATTER. Ii
must become one of the living issues of
the moral warfare in which it is engage
ed. In no spirit of antagonism, but of
hearty cooperation with temperance
societies, it must welcome their aid and
supplement with its own what they fail
to render. Lending numbers and work
the prestige of individual worth and
social influence and the sacredness of a
profession which makes temperance "A
religious duty, they will cause the pow
ers of the world to come to add their
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
puddin~s and How to Make rnen

apple Custdrd-Peel, quarter anc
bake rich tart apples, or stew then
slowly in a very little water; ill pud
ding-dish two-thirds full. When cold
pour over a custard made by stirring
into quart of boiling milk table
spoonful of flour wet up with little
milk, two spoonfuls of white sugar and
two eggs. Flavor with lemon. Bake in
a quick oven.
10 be eaten cold.
TdpiOca Pudding.- tea-cup tapioca
in three and half cups of boiling water
and two spoonfuls of white sugar. Keen
it in warm place for three hours. Fill
two-quart pudding-dish three fourths
full of rich ripe tart apples, peeled and
quartered. Pour the tapioca over the
apples and add half tea-cup of cold
milk to brown the tapioca. Bake one
hour.
Sage Pudding.--Pick over and wash a
tea-cup-fuli of sago; pour on nearly a
quart of boiling water; add half-tea-
cup of sugar, and little milk, if pre-
ferred, to brown. When cold, pour it
over the apples, or mix the two together
in a pudding-dish and bake an hour.
Cover the dish the last half hour.
Fdriad Pudding.-Sprinkle two
thirds of tea-cupfull of farina slowly,
into quart of boiling water; add half a
cup of white sugar, and cup of milk.
Mix Thoroughly, and pour into pudding
dish, in which quart and half of nice
tart apples, peeled and quartered, have
been put.
Or, mix the apples and farina together.
Two tea-cupfulls of pitted raisins,
previously stewed, may be substituted
for the apples. Bake one hour.
Rice and apple Pudding Pick over
and wash a tea cupfull of best rice.
Steam it until tender, in two cups of
cold water; spread it over quart or
three pints of good ripe apples, quarter.
ed; pour over one or two cups of milk,
preferred, or omit the milk and add a
little water to the apples. Half cup
of white sugar may be sprinkled over
the apples or sugar may be added at the
table, if preferred.
To an unperverted appetite, this and
several of these puddings will relish
without the sugar, or indeed the milk,
if carefully baked, and if rich apples are
used.
A good rice pudding is made by stir
ring two cups of pitted and stewed
raisins into the steamed rice, milk and
sugar, and baked an hour.
Bydnce Mango and Fruit Pudding.-
Boil for few moments six spoonfulls
of dissolved corn-starch in q quart of
boiling water. Pour it Immediately
over quart of ripe peaches, previously
peeled and quartered and placed in a
dish with sugar sprinkled over them.
TO be eaten cold.
Instead of peaches, mellow pears or
apples, or stewed ounces, ripe plums or
cherries, or marmalade or jam may be
used.
Instead of the corn-starch, five spoon
fulls of fine flour, or, still better, graham
flour. with or without an egg, may be
substituted.
Rice PUdding.-Wash Thoroughly a
teaHhpfull of best rice, add half cup of
white sugar, quart of water. and the
same ofmillI. Bake slowly four hours,
sterring occasionally, except the last
hour. A cup of raisins is an improve
ment.-]Herald ofHealth,
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Notice in Partition

George w. Hendershot, petitioner( Belmo n t
VS.. County, o.,
Jonas Perkins (adulD and Court of
Joshua NJ. Jarrett and Alley j. Com m
Jarrett, (rninors) defendants. Pleas.
OlHE above named defendants are hereby no.
l. titled that, on the md day OF March, 1870
the above named petitioner filed in the Clerks
Office of the Common Pleas Court of said Coun-
ty of Belmont u petition, claiming that ho is
the owner of one undivided fourth part of the
Southwest quarter of Section % Township g,
Range in said County, and of one-half acre
adjoining said quarter Section on the West
and known as the school house lot; that said
Perkins owns one undivided half thereof and
said Jarretts each one undivided eighth thereof,
and praying for partition ,&c.of said premises.
Said petition will be for hearing at the next
term of said Court.
ID. ID. T. COWEN, Atty for petitioner.
March 3, lS70-6w
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Wool Growers Encouraged.

The Bulletin of the National Associ-
alton of Wool Manufacturers" is in
formed that Mr.. George Campbell, of
Vermont is regularly exporting his
Merir os to Australia and New Zealand,
and that the stock is in great favor as
means Of improving the size and yield
of wool in the flock, which have q ten
dency to degenerate in those countries.
But what is of more interest at the pres
ent time, Mr.. Campbell feels no discour-
agements at the prospects of American
merino sheep hus5andry. He is pursu-
ing with greater activity than ever the
culture of his merinos. His view is that
the depression in the wool market has
had the effect to drive out the mere
fancy wool-growers; that the culling
will greatly improve the stock of sheep
and character of wool for the future; and
that the recent low prices of grain are
convincing the farmers ofthe West that
no agricultural product is, on the whole,
more reliable than the wool crop. If
the present status can be maintained he
thinks that wool growing, in this coun-
try, has seen its darkest days.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07

weight to the claims of this. Instead
ofstanding idly by, as if the temperance
cause was the speciality of temperance
societies, protesting Christians, whether
belonging.to the ministry or to the.mem-
bership of the church, should become,
if not leaders, active helpers, ever and
everywhere ready to do their part.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
Garm aud aypmssllnld.
I Too Much Land.

The following paragraph from an ex-
change is worth more than corner in
a news column:
sit is said when mechanics have land
they generally give it better cultivation
than farmers, and consequently have
more grapes, pears, strawberries and
water-melons and earlier potatoes and
cucumbers. They devote more care and
labor TO small space, and reap larger
profit from it."
If any one will look at the immense
crops very small garden will produce
for family, and compare it with the
little crops from very large farms, they
should need no better inducement 10 en-
rich their soil highly.
The great point to remember is this,
that labor is the great item in farming;
but that it takes more labor to farm rich
ground than poor ground. We have, as
it were, double crops with the same
single labor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
8eal Gstatf.
KANAWHA RIVER FARM
FOR SALE,
At StS 90 per Acre!

I OFFER for sale, valuable mineral and
! timbered farm, containing 1S5 acres. This
property is on the North side of the kanawha
River, Is miles from the mouth, in Mason coun-
ty, w. Va. and y miles from Charleston, the
Capital of the State. 1t has frontage of q of a
mile on the river-l20 acres of improved river
bottom, and 50 acres improved creek bottom
land, the balance heavily tim mbered with white
oak, hickory, ash and poplar As stock farm
ii cannot be surpassed, as it is well watered by
creeks and springs. There is now open on the
adjoining property 4-foot vein of spiint coal.
OF a superior quality. Also, on the same pro
perty at the depth of 90 feet a vein of salt
water was struck. Any one wishing to engage
in the numbering business could not find a bet
ter location. will sell a part or the whole at
SIS 10 per acre.
Can be divided so as TO make two excellent
stock farms.
Terms of payment: One-third cash in hand,
balance in one and Two years, secured by the
property.
Address, or enquire of
T. a. GUTHRIE,
mar4-lm Gallipolis, Ohio.
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Farm for Sale.

+ WILL SELL AT private sale, on reasonable
l. terms Seventy-Eivc Acres of first quail
ty of land, situated about two miles from ST.
on the new pike leading from S.
Clairsville to New Athens. There is on the
lands young orchard, OF
I@to 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. CIairsville o.
Mar3-2m d. NJ. BURDETT.
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a FTNE OppORTUNT'rY

NOR INVESTMENT IN COAL PROPERTY
L is now offered, in I6 y cres OF Coal,
Mile from Bellaire; Immediately on the Wegee
Turnpike; an outlet TO the Ohio River; easily
drained; accessible by drifting, and every
bushel available. 1t is in a rapidly advancing
Win be sold on reasonable
Terms. For particulars enquire of
LICURGUS AUSTIN,
augl9-lm*-tfl South Bellaire, Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
Guardians Sale of Real Estate

A the Guardian of George ", Samuel NJ,
"A Mary j. and Christopher Hinkle, | Will sell
at public sale, on the premises in Richland
Township, Belmont County, o., on
SATURDAY, APRIL 9th, 1870,
The undivided four-siXths of the following des-
cribed real estate, situate in the County OF Bel
mont and State of Ohio, and being the West
half of Section fwenty-three, Township five,
Range three, excepting IS acres and siXty-four
poles, more or less, already sold and decided to
William Boyd, the amount for sale being sixty
acres more or less.
TERMS OF SALE: One-third in hand on day
of sale, one-third IN one year. and one-third in
two years. Deferred payments to bear interest
from day of sale aid be secured by mortgage on
said premises. -
JOSEPH HUFFMAN.
mar2i-SW Guardian.
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A AFINEFARM for SALE,

Adjoining st. Clairsville. o.
I OFFER FOR SALE the farm on which re-
i side, adjoining the town OF ST. Clairsville,
Ohio, containing Iz6 Acres of very choice
land, about 80 acres of which is heavy timber,
and the balance under good state OF cultiya-
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, DC.
The Farm House is situated about Il of mile
from the Union School Building the finest in
this part of Ohio. The Schools, Churches and
Society of St. Clairsville are unsurpassed.
through it.
There are two Orchards of good fruit on the
premises.
Parties wishing to purchase areinvited to call
on or correspond with me.
r. NJ. WILKINS.
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For Sale NJ, Rent.

7 WILL SELL OR RENT my residence mile
L West of Bridgeport, on the National Road.
The House contains rooms, with all the mod
ern improvements. Thre is one acre of ground,
with ali kinds OF fruit and shrubery. Apply to
a. J. OSBORNE, on the premises.
Eeb15-tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
EOr Sale.

7 NFFER at private sale my propertyin New
Castle, Belmont County, Nhio consisting OF
q large and commodious Store Room and lot
with good stable on it; dwelling house and
two lots, and also my stock OF Dry Goods, No.
tionS, Groceries, &c. This is an 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. SHlPMAN.
ia27-tf New Castle, Milo.
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Look Here.

T HAVE still number oflots for sale, on rea-
L sonable terms in my additions to South
BelIaire. will also sell my Brick House adj
-oining my orchard, cheap. Any one wishing
to make q profitable Investment would do well
to come soon. For further particulars and in
formation call on l.. Austin, in South Bellaire,
or the subscriber. JOHN FINK.
Nov. /, '69, If.
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Valuable Property for Sale

T OFFER my Farm at prive sale, containing
/ Ga Acres,
FRAME DWELLING HOUSE,
good barn, wagon-shed, and all necessary out
buildings. y good Orchard of grated fIuiis;
also, small fruits in abunCance. The farm is
undergood fence and well watered with never
failing springs.
Theabove described property is situated 3
miles from St. Clairsville and = mile from the
National Pike.
Parties wishing to purchase Will please call
on or address -
Mrs. MARY GOSNEY,
East Richland, Belmont County, ..
March 3, lS70-tf
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A Splendid Chance to get
i11tn the Linn her BllsinaS

I AN authorized to sell the undivided one
I fourth OF O6O Acres OF fine laying land.
the most OF it covered with a superb growth of
timber, together with the same interest in a
Portable Saw Mill, established thereon. Sever
al Fine Teams, Wagons and every appurtenance
This property is offered at very low figures the
owners being engaged i'll other business. For
LYCURGUS AUSTIN.
Bellaire, Ohio.
have several fine properties in and about
Bellaire, that am authorized to sell cheap: or
acres, mile from Bellaire, suitable for a Black
Smith or Huckster. Small pieces of land from
10 to 80 Acres, Town property, New Town Lots,
&c. 1t will pay all wishing to buy to call and
see me. LYCURGUS AUSTIN.
Nov. IL, S69-tf
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Valuable Twn Propert y
For Sale.

THE subscriber offers for sale two lots in the
L TOWN OF BELMONT, on which there is
q new cottage house, containing siX.roomS and
cellar, with good well of water and ciStern at
the door. There is n new stable and carriage
house and cistern. For further particulars call
and examine the premises or address the un-
dersigned at Belmont. Ohio.
ja20-Ilw J. B. .HOLLINGSWORTH.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07

ESSixty thousand die drunkards, 100, 900
men and women go to prison, and 200,-
600 children to the alms-house, annually.
The amount spent in this country. The
amount spent in this country for liquor,
wholesale and retail, is Sl,000,000, 900.
The proceeds of thetraffic would pay the
whole National Debtin esghteen mouths.
What fact in the history of our civili
ZationI In New York city alone there
is three times as much money expended
for liquor as there is for bread.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07

Here is the record that the Honorable
Thomas II. Benton left behind him of
mothers influence My mother
asked me never to use tobacco. I have
never touched it from that time to the
the present day. She asked me not TO
game, and have never gambled; and
cannot tell who is winning and who is
losing in games that can be played. She
admonished me too, against hard drink
ing; and whatever capacity for endur-
ance l have at present, and whatever
usefulness may attain in life, have
attributed to her pious and correct
she asked me not to drink; and then l
that have adhered to through all my
life. What do not owe tony neither
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-07
Great Improvement in
Washing Machines.
The Old Wooden Wash Beard
again Turned-Up.

pY A SIMPLE C BINATION of the lever
ID power and theol dashboard, in the con-
Struction of the
Keystone Wa ing Machine,
the best machine even introduced, has been
brought into use.
The cry of "humbug' is completely silenced,
and the prejudice against Washing Machines
overcome wherever this machine has been tried
and its good qualities and capacity tested. 1t is
universally pronounced just what was needed
as labor-saving Washing Machine.
For reference as to the superiority of this ma
chine over all others now In use, we give the
following names:
George Dilworth, Mt. Pleasant, O.
Isaac Guyton, /"
VIM. Hall, Harrisyille, Ohio.
Stephen Hobson, Flushing, Ohio.
Joseph Walker, "
Jacob Holloway, "
IsreaI Lewis, st. Clairsville, Ohio.
Jesse Bewley, -
II. c. Welday,
Elijah Pickering, East iichland,
Enoch Carman, &"
and all others who are using the machine.
For information, address,
A. BRANSON & CO.,
ma2J-tf Flushing, Ohio
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Notice to Builders,

PROPOSALS will be received for building n
school House in the Town of West Wheel
ing Pultiley Township, Belmont County, Ohio,
by the Board of Education of said Township at
their regular session on the Third Monday in
April, IN Bellare, Ohio.
The building is TO be Il feet by %, two stories,
of Brick, with Slate Roof, &c.
The nlans and specifications of same can be
seen on and after Monday, March 2Sth, at the
Office of James Kelsey, or at Samuel Clemen,
West Wheeling.
Proposnls will be received for the Brick Work
stone work andcarpentcr work separate or alto
gether. The lowest and best bidder, 10 get the
work.
The right to reject all bids is reserved to the
Board The proposals to be made out plainly
sealed up and TO address of
LYCURGUS AUSTIN, Cr,
THEOBOLD KLEE. "oiii'
mar24-td BeIlaire, Ohio
Smyrna times., 1870-12-14
Periodicals, &c,

The second number of Scrbners Monthly for Dscet ber
presents Sti more attractive appearance than the Initial
number The illustrations pOfuse
SteetNenders New York, bY f. 4. Sterns Young and
graphic writer connected with OF the New York daes
Anothsr article OF popular class II by j. T. Thompson,
Jail Birds aud their Flights with trtren
spirited Illustrations The always genial and entertaining
Washington GLADDEN. contributes valuable illus account
of the Ho0sac Tunnel There besides, timely en-
terainng articles bearing the European War
Kinney tells OF memorable Day with the BrOwninge and
Ritter We notice that and permanent
have been added namely some familiar editorial talk The
Old Cabinet and illustrated
EtchingS.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY The December number contains Con-
tessons of Pate Madeleine Man, by ph Keppr: The
S"eker by John g. Whittier Otown FeSi Stories,
hist and the Roman Catholic Religions, by L. Maria Child
Joseph and h!s Friend XITby Bayari Taylor: Strip
ing mpani0nsIIby Henry James. Jr Plea Silence
by H. l. Tuckerman AInOt Colorado Desert hy Stephen
Powers Father Blumhardts Praytrfu Hotel Rudolph
Mon3graph b Barnet Phillips: Indian summer by Frances
Ice Pratt: The Miracle Play sI Bethlehem, %ew
hampshire; Fitting by ". d. Howeis; rirgnian New
ENGLAND Thirty five Years AsoIY. John Bull feed by
Mass SI00 per
ORA Y0rNG FoLKs.In the December number we have :
Chapter MI OF We Girls two illustrations Freed Child
Tsn % ~ virginia BY Elizabeth Kihamfu page illustration
VISIT To- PompeiPart Lbv y T. Trowbridgefour iustra
n3nS; How to Draw Part Why Charles A. Barry: Pantry
dsrtn Secret and Who Told It, bT Chesterwth illus
tsti"n Letter from Santa Claus the Children. by Mrs
& W. Daz The L"dgers IN Small Boy Pocket, by Annie
MoOrewlh illustrations Our Young Contributors Prize Es
sayS etc Fields, OseOOd 4 Co., Boston. 50 per
The United States Patent instructions how to OBJ
tsn Is the tile of work pages
Num- Co y Park Row, New York. Ii also contains the
oca rules icrns for patent deeds hints selling
10y uagraps OF mechanical movements, and large variety
other useful Information 1t book really worth having and
can Dc hSd ree by all who will send their Messrs
Il o.
Smyrna times., 1870-12-14

THE CHINESE. 1t is stated that the great
majority of the Chinese laborels DOW in the
United States were not brought from China
under contracts signed in that country, but
entered into their engagements in San Fran
cisco. Thus, there are about one thousand
cOolle plantation hands ia the South at work
in the States OF Arkansas Louisiana and Texas
aud OF these only three hundred signed their
contracts in China, the remainder having been
brought from San Francisco. In Tennessee.
Alabama and Texas, there are about two thou
sand hive hundred coolies at work on railroads
all OF whom signed their contracts in San Fran
CISCO In addition there are in the South
about four hundred Chinese who Fave escap
ed from cooe servitude in the island of Cupa
A contract for one thousand Chinese to be
sent to Kansas is now being filled by despatch
ing coolies living in San Francisco From
these figures it appears that there are, or seon
will be, hve thousand Chinese working east of
the Rocky Mountains only three hundred of
whom came direct from China, the remainder
having been hired in California, as any ether
class OF operatives might have been. Mr..
koepmanschap, who has been engaged in the
present Chinese emigration movement, was
born in Amsterdam, but went to California in
1850, where he entered largely into business
relations with the Chinese, by establishing a
ware house for the storage of rice, tea, oil, and
the general merchandise Of China.