Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
FRAMES OF FADEERFIsFNa.
two hundred pecks Of siikworms that

sheep out on any account. Political
matters kept my mind so occupied for
several daysthat forgot all about the
sheep, until yesterday, when what I
had done flashed across my mind
Imounted my horse and spuredr him
like the wind to my farm, but I was
too late. WhenI got there theIcupboard
was bare. Pil be d-d, if the sheen
hadn't all died and the worms had kept
them company and Twas, 81, ,OOOon the
transaction. H-l of lot the venerable
murderer knows about farming! Farm
the DEVILS grandmotherir
Here Mr.. Wentworth paused, over
come by his emotions, and il was some
time ere he could proceed, in q broken
voice, as follows:
"Misfortunes, d-n it, never come
singly. He had
BLIGHrED MY MUTTON CROP,
now he went for my unofending root
crops. iIhad field of potatoes Hog
eyed Early Rusetts; there were nine
hundred acres of them, producing $50
bushels to the acre, worth s117 200.
Said that pensiye old horsethief to me,
John, we do not give our Growing
Crops enough Sunshine. Sunshine and
Air will be more effectual and less ex-
pensive than Manure. Take my
advice, and dig up all your potatoes
and plant them with the tops down.
That's what's what we call Top-dressing
Now, the Potatoes being exposed to the
beneficial influences of Sun and Wind,
will fatten earle FthaH by the old way.
Besides, you can gather them mare
easily than if You had to dig them out
of the ground, always remembering to
leave q potato IN each hill as a nest
egg. Well, sir, followed his Savjce
implicitly Ofcourse, the crop is rmn-
ed; but never mind, never mind.n n,
"ThOse were, indeed, unpleasant ex-
perienees, Mr.. Wentworth, butApsd
90 But the half of it has not been told,
my dear sir. do not wish to inAict
my grievances upon you"
= THE FIENDfsH MIsCREANT
induced me, ,under fraudulent pretenses
to buy a steam plew, and the throttle
velve got out of order. and although
and to haw, the id thing ran, end on,
thorough the conservation, went in the
bay-window, plowed afdrroW two feet
deep through the fipDr, and issued
through the wall at the roar. The
driver was killed and the horse knock
ed down. and the Internal thing ran
into the school house at Summit, and
exploded there. The sexton has been
at work night and day getting up
stock of pony graves; but never mind,
never mind. The end of it all to make
la long story short, Is, that am q ruin
| ed mar. .SLJ LJsIsss 9hf 48dj zbnEOTS ed
sBat, Mr.. Wentworth, the great and
good Greeley is a man of warm heart
and charitable impulses. Knowing
himself to be the innocent cause Of
your misfOrtunes, he will doubtless
come to your assistance, and You may
be happy YETI risl.y fl.s-a 4is-.s---
Mr.. Wentworth smiled bitter smile
and handed oIlr reporter an opened
telegram, which read as follows:
5i3 ''0HsKOsH, Wis, Sept. "A. 1eT1.1
Long John Wentworth. Chicago:
i. "D-n yon, take an eight cylinder
press and go west. You don't pIow deep
enough. Get few more wives. sIsd-
lsma(Sig) faa.H0RAGEG GREELY-n
20 collect 190. ..s
! !. Our reporter read and copied the tele-
gram; then amiabIy punching Mr.. Went
worth ha iia efJ ID sElbry ( ~
! l3i ugag IN THE RIBS Gods. Siss
/ with his pencil. said :.s,s5.ll ,. i-sr.s..
i = What do you think of Mr.. Greeley's
i chances for the presidency?'e 'i7.-'i
i Mr. Wentworth burst into atorrent Of
j pFofsnity of such violence that in three
minutes the room was flooded, and the
bell boys and reporter had TO climb up
lon chairs and window seats to avoid be-
ing swept awav.f9 ~ 20 IottsnT 81
"Greeley for the presidency The
devil for the presidency Greeley Pres
rlident; that tow headed, chuekle pated,
incoming, free loving. profectionist son
of pig iron foundry; that bland, mue <
minded. sloyenly cross between q yam
and a cylinder pressl Never, by the
great jumping ten toed Jehosaphat, IL I
, have to - L4sl -HHf Pre- F47F
/. f.= KILL HIM MYSELF. asa
lIin bolt and run on the independent
ticket if they do.r Greeley-Oh, by all
the angle-worms in compost heap, this
lis too mnch. Here he rang the bell
:! yiolentIv. Greeley, that muIching
muddle-head of Chappaqua, piI-{here
1.-THE bell boy entered.) Pistols, pistols,
at once, and hot; do you hear?''~ q
The boy answered, "Pisto's, sir7 Yes,
sin, :" and withdrew. .IBsE
: Our reporter, gathering from Mr.
: Wentworth's casual hints that he had
} nothing to communicate, politely but
firmly got out of the window, and went
down an awning post. He wishes some
, one would bring him out his hat, which
he Inadvertently left behind him.5
THE Fleet conveying the Russian
7 Grade Duke Alexis to America will
leave Plymouth, England, for New
! York about the 23d or 24th of Septem-
q Der. and should be in the eneighb bOrhood
flof Sandy Hook by the 18th of October
at the farthest. The Grand Duke, inn
Emediately upon his arrival, viii come
!, to Washington, where he win be pres
|, ented to the President by the Russian
Minister, and after having received
the hospitalities of the government the
+ Imperial party, consisting fth9 Grand
: Duke and avery iarg e. numbered dis
: ltinguished Russians, both young and
loid, will return to New York and carry
|, out the programme Of festivities ar.
ranged in that eitysc leaving New
Il York, after q sojourn OF three or fouI
days, the Grand Duke and suite 60
West, visiting ga rotste all the prtncf
!, lpal cities of the country as for as San
n Francisco. The principal feature O
I the Western trip will be the grand buf
z fslo hunt on the plains near For
}. laramie, which has been already no
t ticed, viii be given under the auspices
2 of Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan and tht
2 United States officers Of cavalry sta
r itioned in the Far West. u
l. si01f sa-t
Q Miss Laura Ream and George c
9 Harding are 20 be the leading eaftoria
< team of the Evening journal, . new
Is paper soon to be Matched in Indiana
q polls. George Is little addicted b
p plsentimentalism, as romantic boys o
to his age are apt to be; and this peculiar
t-i;t,- 80, hoor, efsfnavrhaf aOgrRyHfad b.