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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
and how 1t Terminated.

/ On Friday last, a young man by the
name OF Joseph GrOoms was requested
by Mr.. Samuel Cochran, a farmer Iiy.
ing three miles south IOf Cadix, to call
at the Post Office and bring out his let.
ters and papers. By mistake the Post
master gave him a letter directed to
Reed Cochran, brother to Samuel.
Grooms concluded that he would see
what was in this, and on opening il
found that it was letter from Robert
Wilkin, of this place, stating to Mr..
Reed Cochran that he would pay him a
hundred dollars which he was owing
him If he would call for it; so after wri-
ting out an order and signing Reed
C0chran's name to it he took it to Mr..
Wilkin, who after some hesitation paid
him the money. aei aslA .i - 3
The fellow then visited the jewelry
stores of this place, purchased a fiddle,
a watch, and two or three gold rings.
amounting in all to some sixty or sew.
ty dollars. He then hired q team at a
livery stable and left town. s i-i I
The next morning Mr.. Wilkin met
Mr.. Cochran and the forgery was dis
covered. The proper officers were in
formed of the facts and the fellow was
captured at Moorefield on Saturday
night. He is now in Jail, but as Court
is in session his case will soon be be dis
posed of. There are several gentlemen
in Harrison County who would lihe to
be as sure of a term at COlumbus'as he
is-to serve the State ina different de-
partment though. 81 - vsl'5 i. / - "a
GrOOms is from Belmont County,
but has been lOafing around, and work.
ing q little occasionally, in this neigh.
borhood, for some months past.-[ Cad-
u hep'sotaodn. .mid 4aHii4 tlliIFia
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
Why a Democratic Editor Left
The Democratic Party. rei

Colonel T. r.. Manlove, an ex
Confederate soldier and Democratic
editor in Texas, thus gives his reason
for abandoning the Democratic and
Joining the Republican party:
} Time and experience have forced the
conviction upon my mind that Democ-
racy has ceased to be any longer ami
mated by those patriotic impulses,
which in other and happier days,
achieved so much in liberty's behalf,
its seff-constituted leaders have prose-
cuted the cardinal principles of Repub-
lican government in a mad scramble
for place and power, and, ,ObliviOus to
the solemn truth, that the appeal to
arms has been made and lost, still
strive to evoke from dead nations
tomb the shadowy phantoms of an ir-
revokable past. ~ :.
Republicanfsm, on the other hand,
meet the living issues of the time in
which we live. Though not free from
blemish in its long lease of power, it
binds itself indissolubiy to truth and
duty, espousesas its own the interests
of suffering humanity everywhere, and
bids defiance to all the powers of the
universe to sever it from civil and re-
ligious liberty. Permitting the "dead
past to bury its dead" it looks with
unfaItering trust to the future, where
in its grand mission is to be accom-
plished and peace and liberty become
| the portion Of all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
Paving Small Bills.

There is far too much Negligence
everywhere about the payment Of small
amounts of money. If not unfrequent-
ly happens that men will have small
account charged and have money suffi-
cient in their pockets to pay it, and
subject the creditor to the trouble of
sending it for collection when he needs
it, taking the chance of learning that
the debtor is away from his place of
business or from home, and perhaps
subjecting him to the imputation of
being in q needless hurry for payment.
More attention to this point, and espe-
cially by those to whom the time of
payment is immaterial, who can pay
Just as we'll at one time as another,
would be vast improvement upon the
present mode of doing business.
a matter of much more importance than
is generally attached to it. There are
not a few, who, in times when busi-
ness has been a little depressed, and
prospects of the future seem more than
usually unusually unsettled, will hold
on to their cash in hand, and tell all
the collectors who call upon them with
over due bills to ''call again." while
the payment would not give them any
series convenience, and would greatly
accommodate a large and deserving
class of creditors. Indeed, we know Of
nothing that in quiet way would go
so far to give animation to the markets
throughout the country as the universal
payment of these obligations at the first
opportunity.
fall the little debts, for the discharge
of which the debtors now have the
cash in hand were paid at once, the
wheels of business would be fabricated,
and a general jollity" soon prevail
throughout the land. The first series
effect from any publicexcitement comes
from the sudden check of these little
streams. 1t is true that large transac-
tions are arrested, but if everybody
went to paying these little debts the
check would be mOmentary, as business
would be forced along by the current
thus continually renewed. Let every
one whose eyes fall on these lines pay
out his ready money for bills he knows
to be due, and stop not till his pocket
be emptied. Probably before this is
realized the return current will reach
his pocket too, and ne be able to
fulfill all his obligations; there is as
much money. as ever. Who stops its
flow? Let if move on by a prompt
payment of bills now due, and new
business will catch the inspiration and
start upon fresh gallOpi
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
Pendleton in a Decline.

The Honorable Greenbacks III. Pen.
dleton writes the editor of the Wayne
County Democrat, tour majestic Eshel-
men, that he thinks it is time the
Democracy tried to elect some other
man Governor. . He reminds Eshel-
man (Which is the Democrat of Wayne
County aforesaid) that he tried 1t on
several times already, and failed, and
he prefers this time to be high private.
He says, with grim sense of honor, of
which the Young Eagle of the West
has never before been suspected, that
"He believes that some other Demo.
crat should enjoy the honor of nomi-
nation at this tiIne!'
That is excellent. 90 ~,
He also says that his family is in
Europe, he shall have to go over to
meet them about the time he ought to
be making the canvass, if nominated;
but says, very singularly, that he pil
return in time to- do his fill duty to the
nominee of the Convention! We have
seen nothing equal to this, except the
story of the fellow who shot. so as to
miss the object fred at if it was calf,
and hit if it was deer State Jour.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
LOOK AT THIS.
Iowa gives 10000 Republican MAORI.

Iowa gives 10000 Republican majori-
ty. 1 -ctifl .elslt1H .gH.77Eis5 ,t7
Iowa % out of debt. atnsG ie
|. Iowa, has money to loan. ~ eai Itl'g.
Iowa's tax is less than two mills on
the dollar. .' j 10 .fl;i- i,s tt ia.
Iowa has been for many successive
years thorough going Republican
State. She may well be proud of her
material prosperity and her financial
accomplishments. They are an expe-
nent of the honest uprightness and
patriotism of the power she has so long
sustained by an overwhelming majori-
ty of heryotes. 5.s i-gi -ZHt Tj1f
Now look on this and see what boast
ed Democracy can show as the result of
her long reign in her chosen stronghold
the Empire Gty-New York. 1~arf1
She is in debt to an amount greater
than many of the States. -fl.
Her City Tax per capita is $25.2S.
Her citizens offered to build her q
Court House for 500, 900. Her Demo
cratic City officials estimated it to cost
$250, GOO. Her same officials haveal-
ready squandered $10,000'O00 on the
same Court House. 2i4 3 31ef ila-.} :.
! Her City officials took as remunera-
tien of their valuable services of last
year no less asum than $6,42O, 800: and
Grant and his whole cabinet received
only $4,000. 81.
Her city Judiciary cost 1915, 900 /:
while that of the United State Supreme
Court was only $36, 600.
Her debt is constantly increasing, as
/ is also her rate of taxation. Actions
speak louder than words. -.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
.-~- European War.
LETTER FROM vERsAfLLEs.

NEW YORK, May IA.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
a letter from Versatile, April 9th,
says: 'sAt least one hundred and fifty
thousand soldiers of the French army
are now in position for the operations
around Paris, and these operations
begin to assume character that would
be formidable even if it were proposed
to reduce a city held by strong hostile
army. Fire is now maintained by the
guns of Versailles principally from six
different points-part of it directed
against the walls and gates of the city
and part of 1t against the forts. Issy's
fire is slackened, and her ramparts
knocked to pieces, and it is even now
doubtful If she could resist an assault.
"Issy will be taken by storm, no
doubt, in few days, and then a few
heavy guns mounted there will knock
the wall to pieces at the Pont du Jour
in as many hours. Two points in the
wall will then be ready for the Storm
I ing parties. The point at the Porte
Maillot, and that at the Pcnt du Jour.
| Storming parties entering at these
points would open for the troops two
! routes, one by the avenue and the
I OskACh ~ tA1C SSAayy tilnt tACCS az luC
| Place de la Conc0rde, and by holding
the avenue the soldiery would isolate
from the insurrectiOn all that quarter
! of the city between the Seine and the
avenue Champs Elysees. This appears
( to be the operation that the military
authorities propose, and do not doubt
that II they once carry out such pro-
/ graInme the insurrection will fall to
pieces" rt-L
/ NEW YORK, MAY Is.
| A special dated Paris Sunday night
says on Saturday BoInbrowski issued
orders that all officers refusing to obey
the commands of their superiOrs should
I be shot. He reviewed 5000 men this
| morning at Neuilly. He was received
with great enthusiasm. After break
| fast he rode to the front of Porte Mail
lot, and while sitting on his horse the
Versailles soldiers fired their rifles and
two shells at the General without hit
ting him. Dombrowski Immediately
took OF his hat and bowed politely to
them. All the Communists soldiers
| who witnessed it cheered Justify.
/ Yesterday grand procession of wo-
men marched through the streets of the
| city, headed by buglers, drummers and
| flags, to the Hotel de Vile, where they
demanded arms. H -t .'its- 3s.
-~ PARIS, May 15,-P.M
The Versailles forces are under the
walls of Paris, exchanging shots with
the insurgents who line the ramparts
from Porte de La Muettre, in the arron-
dissement of Passy, to Porte D'Issy.-
The Parisians have been expelled from
the trenches between forts Vanvres and
Issy. A battery is erecting in the gar
den of the Tuilleries, to pour flank
fire into the Champs Elysees. !" re'. .
There is indubitable evidence that q
wide spread conspiracy exists in Paris,
for the overthrow of the Commune
The gardens of Luxembourg, are closed
to the public, and are occupied by the
military forces, in anticipation of q
rising on the part of the populace.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
Bots in Tar Can't Bite.

When a horse shows symptoms of
bots, drench him with one pint of tar,
heated as hot as possible, but not to
burn. 1t will inclose the bots instantly,
and stop the biting in about half an
hour after administering the tar. Give
some purgative; prefer castor oil,
given warm; this will bring off the bots
and tar mixed in one mass. Bots and
collie in horses in many instances, can
not be distinguished; and If within
twenty or thirty minutes after giving
the tar you find the animal is not re-
lieved, give two ounces of laudanum
and two ounces sweet spirits nitre, mix.
ed. The remedies may be relied on,
the writer having never, in a single
instance, failed to relieve and cure.-
[Erchd,sge. --...-.. a...t ....--
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
State Republican Convention.
"Wednesday, June 21st 1871,
STATE REPUBLICAN CENTRAL
AND Ex. Con-. Rooms,

STATE REPUBLICAN CENTRAL
AND EX. Com. Rooms,
COLUMBUS, May 2, 1871.
To the Republican Voters of Ohio:
Your annual State Convention will be
held 1T Columbus, Oh Wednesday,, the
21st day of June, 1871, for the NUM-
iIation OF caudIuat-s iOr the folio = ing
offices, viz: Governor, Lieu. Governor.
Judge of the Supreme Court, Treasurer
of State, Auditor of State, Attorney
General, State Commissioner of Schools,
Clerk of Suprem Court, Member OF
Board of Public Works.
The undersigned Committee recon-
mend that The meetings in the several
Counties for the selection of delegates
be held on Saturday, June 10th. 1871.
The tssis Of representation in the
Convention will be nme delegate for
every five hundred votes cast for Gen
eral Sherwood, for Secretary of State,
in 1870, aud une additional delegate for
any fraction of two hundred and fifty
votes aud upward, in each County.
belmont County will be entitled to
seven delegates.-ED. CHRoNIcLE.)
The Committee respectfully suggests
the Importance of a full delegation from
each County to the Convention. The
paign are of vital interest TO the couD-
try
The importance of thorough local Or
gauization cannot be too strongly urged;
nor can this great auxiliary to final sue
cess be too early 'attenad Ito. In This
connection. the Committee would earn
estly recommend that. where County
Committees have not already heen Sc
lected. in the call for County COnven-
tiOns. on the 10th of June. notice re
given that the County Central Com
mi,tees for the committees for the rom
ing campaign will b" selec'sd at the
time.
l. il important that each delegation
to the State Convention bring with
them correct list of the officers and
members; with post Office address, ofthe
Committees OF their County, and de
liver the same to this Committee.
Very Respectfully.
3 r. d HARRISON,
Chairman State Executive Committee.
RODNEY Foos, Secretary.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
The Trials of. Public Life.

FROM an article contributed to the Indepen-
dent by Hon. Schuyler Colfax. .H-t
There are but few who haveever test
ed public life, with all its excitements,
to its full Who have not realized that
truer happiness is to be found in pri-
vate or business life. With all its
destinations and opportunities for use
fitness, it is always a pathway filled
with thOrns, even to t e most success
full. Envy, and malice, and all unchar-
itableness are always around the m
Injustice is the daily draught they
drink, and the bitter herbs of misrep-
resentation their daily food. do not
allude now to the malignant falsehoods
of paid libelers, who mistake scurrilty
for wit, and invective for argument;
for their malice is so transparent they
deceive but few whose good opinions
are of any worth. But I refer to the
general fact that the millions of our
citizens are apt to look with the eyes of
prejudice and aversion on those who,
/ in conspicuous positions, differ ever so
honestly from their convictions. It is
only when the "last of earth" has come
that public men can hope for the just
ice to their memories which is denied
them in life. To those who remember
how the storm of Obioquy spent itself
on Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson
while living, great chieftains as they
were OF great parties; and now, less
than half century after, all parties ac-
knowledge their honest purposes and
patriotic endeavOrs, / need no argu.
ment to attest the correctness of this
| statement. - lf-sIs iily .E ii-..l a .
But, apart from Misrepresentation
injustice and invective-the alienation
of friends whose desires you may have
disappointed, or the mslice of those
| whose schemes you have thwarted--
whoever is in public life feels that he
must inevitably be misconstrued and
misunderstood by numbers whose good
opinions he does value. If he fails,
from lack of ability, to contribute to all
benevolent, church-building, missiona-
ry enterprises, ct G., etc., whose appeais
/ reach him daily, he is regarded as un-
charitable and ungenerOus; but if he
does he is suspected by many as doing
it only from political or personal con
sideratiOns. If he suffers to pass unnO-
ticed all kinds of untruths, he finds
them at last treated as facts, which be-
ing undenied are held to be undenia.
BILE; but if he takes occasion to expose
their falsity publicly, he is sneered at
for having been at SO much pains to
contradict them. Ifhe declines to leave
post of duty to speak at all kinds OF
public meetings throughout the coun-
try he is suspected of a lack of sympa-
thy with them; but if he goes he is
charged with abandoning official duty
for the purpose of appearing promi,
nently before the public. g, might ex.
pand this record Of the experience OF
hundreds of men in public life; but
| this is sufficient to illustrate my posi-
ton that, whatever, they, do or refuse
to do, they are sure tObe misunderstood
by thousands and Of course on purely
political questions this prejudice ex-
tends to millions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
The Legislature.

The Ohio State Journal says of our
late lamented Legislature:
1t is just as well to understand that
the Republican party does not propose
to be held responsible for all the legis-
iation of the present Legislature.
The Republican party has not quo
rum in either House, and it has never
been able to pass a bill without the
help of Democratic votes since the
XVIII Amendment was adopted.
Erie county has had a marplot in the
Senate and malingerer out of the
House ever since that time. Root has
immense capacity for disagreeing, and
generally counts against his party. He
is like the rail that was so crooked it
brought the pig out on the same side of
the fence every time it crept through
The Democratic pig and the Republi-
can pig have both crept through Root,
with never-dying hope of getting some
where, but they always came out on
the same side they went in at. Hill is
the smallest hill that ever deluded the
hopes of small potatoes. He will
neither die nor resign, although his
constituents have implored him to take
his choice Of the two, and have agreed
" DS O1ud11y SdtlSu6u tktl1cI way.
The Republicans lacked the necessary
votes to organize the House at the out
set, and they have never had safe
working majority in either House.
1t is but fair to say that there are some
as good members In both Houses (and
both parties for the matter of thaf) as
have ever been sent to the Legislature.
There are Others who legislate as if the
world were coming to an end on the
day of adjournment-as it probably
will, for them and their political lives.
They seem to be helplessly imbecile
in every way. They neither read, so
as to keep up to the level of ordinarily
Intelligent men, not attend to business
We appeal to any common sense
working member, to say whether it is
not true, that many of the Senators
and Representative spend the bulk of
their time alternating in their holes at
boarding houses, or namely hanging
by their heels to desk in front of them.
1t will be found that the Democratic
party is mainly if not wholly response
bic for the piddling, feeble-minded
way in which the business has been
got through with. There is little order
or system in the ramshOckle, loose
geared running of the House of Repre-
lsentatives, for the organization OF
(which the Democracy are wholly re-
sponsible. 1t is noticeable to any
stranger conversnnt with the move
ment of parliamentary bodies the mo-
ment he takes his seat as spectator,
that the business is going on in feeble,
hesitating sort of way, as though it had
hardly made up its mind to go on OF
lie down and rest. 1t requires an i'm
mense allowance for windage, even
when it has its object within point
blank range.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18

The Cincinnati Commercial saws
there is movement on foot for new
and real:departure of the Democracy Of
Ohio, which will be developed in a
Few days, and in quarter where it
would least be expected. 1t is propos-
ea, says the Commercial, to ssaccept the
situation" fully and frankly, including
the Fourteenth and Fifteen Amend.
ments, and to bring out for Governor a
gentleman whose conservatism Is q
guarantee that so far as he is concerned.
and his influence goes with the party.
there will be noreactionary movement.
and no encouragement Of the reyolu.
tionary spirit which Crank Blair and a
parcel Of hot-headed Democrats have
inflamed. - 4l4''..'i h''i
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18

The Attorney General decides that
interest and coupon dividends accur
ing, and salaries Of United State officers
earned for the last five months of 1870.
are all subject to revenue and income
taxation, and corporations and persons
interested must be held to the payment
of the tax, t-1-il'f IN /
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
Republican C0QltyC0lVGltioD
AT
GAINESVILLE, OHIO,
WEDNESDAY,, JUNE Ii, 1871.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE Ii, ISL.
The Republicans of Belmont County,
are requested to meet in Mass Conven-
ton at GAINESVILLE, on Wednesday, the
14th day of June, 1871, for the purpose
ofselecting delegates to the State Repub-
lican Convention to be held at Colum-
bus on June q, and also for the purpose
of placing in nomination a County
ticket to be supported by them at the
October Election, and the transaction
oil such other business as may be
brought before the Convention.
In the Convention assembled pur-
suant to this call each Township will
be entitled to four members Of the
nominating Convention, to be selected
on or before the day of the Convention.
The Republicans of each Township
are requested to select their most ener-
getic, active and reliable Republican,
and report his name to the Convention
as member of the County Central
Committee.
The members of the Central Com
mittee thus selected are notified that a
meeting thereof will be held on the
day the Convention meets, at such
hour and place as may hereafter be de-
termined upon.
BY order of the Central Committee.
C. W. CARROLL, Chairman.
ALEXIS COPE, Sec'y.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18

They have some curious names out
in MI. Vernon. There were So people
married there during last month, and
among them were the owners of such
names as John Krowpapple, Isaac Tee
garden, Samuel Trick1e, Christopher
Swingle, Mary Ann Waddell and Bose
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-05-18
cONNECTYcUT ELECTION.

The election in Connecticut has been
decided at last. The investigating
Committee proved conclusively fraud
ulent vote of 100 in the 4th Ward OF
Hartford and this deducted from Eng
lish's vote leaves Jewell popular ma
jority of Sc. There, again have they
been defeated at the old game. The
Legislature has met and decided upon
the report of the investigating COM
mittee and declared Jewell the Gov
ernor elect. Those Democratic journals
which have been so loudly proclaiming
Democratic victory can now take in
their chickens. .as5.f.... .f1 sf gsn r.