Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-01-19

Journal after Journal that hitherto
greedily seized Oh every rumOr that was
n raised against the President, is crawling
away from its former abuse, and making
the unqualified assertion that, with ref
erence to the removal of Mr.. Motley,
the President has again been traduced,
1 when full disclosure of the facts prove
conclusively that he was right The
Motley correspondence, SO earnestly de-
manded by the opponents of the Presi-
dent, has, when produced, rebuked the
traducers. Is it not time for our people
to understand that nine tenths, if not all
of the malignantabuse that has been
heape on the head of the president,
arises from personal malice aud anger?
In every instance thus far full discl0s-
ure of all the facts has exonerated the
President from these malicious charges
and the proof of it is, that not one of
them remains in existence to-day. If
we look back oveI the time of the pres
ent administration, while we can recall
effort after effort made to injure the
President by unqualified assertions con-
juled up from hearts reeking with VEN
ON, there is not one that has any exist
ence in the present, save in me mory.
Had they been true, they would have
lived, but being untrue, and concluslviy
proven so to be, they have faded almost
even from recollection. AS it was with
the others, so will it be with the remov-
al of Mr.. Motley. 1t will pass away
from the minds ofour people, or If 1t Is
remembered. be recalled to the discredit
of the late Minister Pittsburgh Ga
zette.
After March Ist the Bucyrus Journal
will.adopt the advance pay system.
Cincinnati used last year is, 600 gallons
of water.to each person.
Andrew johnson has arrived at the
conclusion (he says) that this country
has gone to the devil. Andrew.l labors
under a slight mistake in this as he does
in many of his deductions while sitting
in his shirt sleeves in his grocery store.
This country has no more sympat by for
him thin it has shown for the past two
years, and he need not fiatter himself
that he has got it under his rule.
A Portsmouth firm has contracted to
deliver two hundred thousand pump
kins to house in Portland. The pump
be used to make fresh pumpkin pies the
year round.
A Pennsylvania school.teach-r has
been indicted for feruling girl, fifteen
years old, until she went into convul-
sions. Her offence was refusing to lend
her new Geography to another girl, at
the teachers request.
The SuprsGe Court of Illinois has just
decided that it is not slanderous, in that
State, for one man TO say to another,
"You have cheated everybody" in or
der to make it slander the person cheat
ed must be named in the charge.
A Year ago an Indianian was sent to
the enitentiary. White he was in prls-
on, his wife got divorce from him.
When he got ont OF prison, he made
love to her again, and she remarried
him on his paying.the costs of procuri' g
the divorce. ie5
Maurice Strakosc has returned 10
Brussels. He will pass the winter with
his family at Rome. /
Nilsson is to give three concerts in
Cincinnati commencing on tie 18th.
A Woman one hundred and eight
years old recent. died in Grafton, Ny,
who never drank anything but water
during her whole life.
Dom Piatt and George Alfred Town
send have bought out tile Washington
Sunday Herald.
The Ohio Legislature is thus classified:
Senate 10; Democrats, Is.
House of Representatives-Re epublicans,
81; Democrats, 55. @
The consolidation of the Richland and
Lorain county (Ohio) Senatorial Dis
trict, displeases the Democrats, as it
makes strong Republican di trict'
Thursday morning brought intelli-
gence of the sudden death of Hon. John
Covode at Harrisburgh. He had retired
to rest Tuesday nightin ppaiently U.s.
ual health. but died early next morning
from heart disease. The deceased had
made his mark Oh the politics of his
State and of the nation. A far.t!er boy
of old Westmoreland county, and with
out any special advantages for improve
ment in early years, he had worked his
way up, by the force of an indomitable
will, to eminent places in the govern
ment. He was elected six times to rep
resent his district in the National Con-
gress. He has also been actively con-
nected with many kinds of public i'm
provement IN Western Pennsylvania
An earnest and strong man has fallen.