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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
A crack corps-The burglars.

A crack corps-The burglars.
Old age should be respected almost
everywhere, except in poultry.
Philadelphia is about one hundred
and forty thousand enrolled voters-an
increase from last year of six thousand
ResoEstted, That Faith wins the bat
ties of life, Hope beautifys them, and
Charity makes them mmortal.-[ Josh
Billings.
s'Have 1 not right to be saucy, if 1
please ?o asked young lady of an old
bachelor. "Yes, if you please, but not
il you displease," was the answer.
Lancashire, England, has another
''fasting GIRL" one Anne Riding. She
claims to have taken no food for Is
months, and is not yet proved hum
bug.
A lady of Mobile is said to be con-
fined to her bed from the effects of pois-
on, manifesting itself in sores about the
mouth, caused by biting her thread
while working with green sewing silk.
On emerging from the tunnel on the
Eastern Railroad, at Salem, traversed
1 Ou u olllS 10 tI1Ch Wy III CilQ VI bItluo
every day, the first object which strikes
the eye is coffin warehouse. Why is
this thus?
A correspondent of an Illinois paper
published at Galesburg says that he has
cured several colts and cows that had
been bitten on the nose by rattlesnakes,
by rubbing spirits ofturpentine on their
heads.
Somebody has started a story which
is now going the rounds of the press, of
man who is alive after having had
his neck broken. We trust none will
he so foolish as to suppose that it is lit
orally true. 1t is nothing but an alle-
gorical description of the condition of
the Democratic party.
A man armed only with double
barrelled shot gun loaded with buck
shot, encountered an infuriated grizzly
bear in ravine in Los Angeles County,
CAL, one day last month, and had the
singular and exceeding good fortune to
come out of the fight first best. The
beast weighed ], 200 pounds.
Bonneville s. Curtner, living near
Delphi, Ind, seduced his niece, Ella
Short, and recently administered drugs
to her to conceal the result of his crime
The wretched woman died, and Curt
ner has fed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
Scenes on RailMar Cars.

MIR. HowelIs, in his genial half-story
and half-essay. ''Their Wedding
Journey" in The September Atlantic,
sketches as follows the everyday
scenes on the cars, which everybody
viii recognize:
Yes, it is a very amusing world, if
you do not refuse to be amused, and
CUR friends were very willing to be en-
tertained. They delighted in the very
precise, thick-fngered old ladies who
bought sweet apples of the boys who
came on board with baskets, and
who were so long in finding the right
change that our travellers, leaping in
thought with the boys from the moving
train, felt that they did so at the peril
of their lives. Then they were inter-
eSted in people who went out and
found their friends waiting for. them,
or else did not lind them or wandered
disconsolately up and down before the
country stations, carpet-bag in hand; in
women who came aboard and were
laWkWardly shaken hands with or
sheepishly kissed by those who hastily
got seats for them, and placed their
bags or their babies in their laps, and
turned for nod at the door; in young
ladies who Wereseen to places by young
men (the latter seemed not to care i
the train did go off with them, and
then threw up their windows and talk
led with girl-friends on the platform
without till the train began to move
and at last turned with cleaning eyes
and moist red lips, and painted hard in
the excitemrnt of thinking about it
fand could not calm themselves to the
dull level of the travel around them; in
the conductor, coldiy and inaecessibly
lvigilant as he went his rounds, reach
ing blindly for the tickets with one
hand, while he bent his head from
time to time ard listened with a faint
sarcastic smile to the questions of pass
engers who were. supposed they were
going 10 get some Information out o
him; in the train boy, who passed
through on his many errands witt
prize candies, gum drops, pop corn
papers and magazines, and distributed
beoks and police journals with a blino
lpartiality or pr6digious ignorance or
supernatural perception of character il
1thOse who received them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
a Potato Race in New EIamp-
sIHire. -


A correspondent of the Boston Ad-
vertiser writes from East Wilton, n.
H., that out door athletic exercises are
the fashion, and one of the novelties is
the potato race, which is thus de-
Iscribed: tf-
Avery curious trial of speed and
strength it is. Three lines of potatoes
were laid. Each line is of fifty-each a
yard from each other. OF course each
line is forty-nine yards long. AT the
end of each line is d basket, by which at
the start, contestant stands. In this
case there are three competitors. Al
the word "go," each one begins where
he chooses on his line to pick up pota-
toes that he may bring them to the
basket. He must pick up but one on
leach trip, and turn to bring it back to
the basket. Your mathematical read
ers. will see that this involves seven
Thousand three hundred and fifty feet
of running, with such deductions as
NAV be made for an outstretched arm,
when one comes to his, basket; and,
with the serious addition of two turns
for evary potato, or one hundred turns
in ali.
Three spirited contestants entered,
and one Of them named 'Thrasher,' .
distinguished here as having won tub
race in the last sports, which We're
acquatic, performed the feat in a little
more than nine minutes. The othel
two were close behind. If you have
any occasion to try, let me tell you thai
the scientific performance is to take
your long runs first when your wind i;
good. When you want to regain you
breath, take your short runs, which In
volve the delay of turning, but are
easier for breathing. You see how
good the time was for a distance OF
/ mile and half.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
The Postofice as a Social Power

(From the n. Y. Evening Post.l
We have hardly begun to appreciate
the worth of the Postoffice as an agency
in civilization. The quantity of mail
matter carried in the course of year
through our country and the world is
astonishing, and every year the wonder
grows, for more letters, papers, Pamph-
lets, books and packages of ali kinds
are constantly sent by post, and every
reduction in the rate of postage swells
the amount sent. Nations, indeed,
differ much from each other in this re-
spect. as families and individuals do.
Thus, by the last accounts that met our
eye the number of letters sent by mail
| to each inhabitant of Russia averages
but .O23, or not three letters to one
hundred persons, while in England the
average to each person was over twenty
Tor more than eight hundred times as
many as to each Russian.
It seems that our rough and free
North American sends more letters on
the average than what are called culti-
yated Europeans. We count over sew
en- letters to each person, while Europe
averages only between five and SIX
letters; Prussia numbering SO, France
7.8, Belgium 81, Spain. 3.74, Austria
2.45, Sweden, with all its schools, only
1.95. The Swiss in 1859 sent q, 5000, 900
letters, and increase the number by
more than million year.
What effect on personal friendship,
family affection, business interests,
public spirit and human fellowship
must come from all this correspond
ence? What fidelity and intelligence
are trained and called out by the post
office service! This service, which is
so decidedly modern and so cosmopol-
tan, is probably one of the best things
in our new civilization. What atten-
tion, prudence and energy are required
to send single letter CIR paper safely to
its destination from the moment of
reading the address to the moment of
delivering it to the rightful applicant !?
Sometimes a small blunder proves the
perfection of the organization that COM
] mitted it. Thus member of our stiff
received this morning, from En- land,
a Boston paper Of July q, that had
been directed illegibly to an American
village at which he was spending few
weeks. 1t had gone to England to a
i town of the same name, where the mis-
take was seen, the paper was returned
i to London and from London sent to its
right destination.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28


= THE New Yord Standard Of Saturday
contained rumor of the arrest of Fri
day evening of Charles A. Dana, editor
of the Sun, who was held to answer
the charge of receiving money stolen
from the public treasury. But the
Standard says: upon inquiry at the
police station our reporters could
learn no confirmation of this report. Ii
was said that early in the afternoon, as
sooH as Dana learned of Judge Bar
Inari,s decision, he went on the Long
Branch boat and escaped to New
jersey. This will compel the Governor
tomake requisition upon the Govern
or of New jersey. There should be no
delay in making this application, as
the offender may take the alarm and
set off to Europe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

LITTLE stories like this Will never
cease to affect us. There is an aged
woman living at North Adams, Mass,
who relates that many years ago, while
attending social party, young me-
chanic asked her hand for one of the
dances. She Indignantly refused, fell
ing very much mortified that he should
make such an offer. Time passed on,
as the dime novels say and, as the
story adds, the proud young woman
has filed but humble position in life,
while the young man she scorned has
been governor of Masss chusetts." The
moral is obvious.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

a Boston youth, "with a head about
the size Of an early rose potato, y paid
$25 for hairpin that Nilsson had drop
ped in her room. MademeiseAe's dress
ing maid has since bought fifteen or
twenty boxes, and thinks she is ready
to meet any further demand for Nils
son hairpins at less than half price.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
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TEN THOUSAND TIMES
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times its cost. Reveals countless little worlds
all around us, IeemIug with lie. which to the
naked eye must forever remain q sealed book
-aS Eels in Vinegar, Animals in Water, Cheese
Mites, Sugar and Itch Insects, Mink Globules,
Claws and Hairs OF Insects, Hundreds Of eyes
in single eye OF a fiy, Dust of buJterdys wings
to be perfectly formed fee theirs, the much talk
ed Of Trichina SpiraIIs or pork worm, which
was first discovered in America with this Mi
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1t Is OF inestImRbIe value to the Farmer
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
Extracts from various Letters.

81 mad no appetite. Maggiers Pills gave me a
hearty one"
Your Pills are marvellous"
81 send for another box, and keep them in
the house."
"Dr. Maggiel has cured my headache that was
chronic"
II gave half of one OF your Pills my babe for
cholera morbus. The dear little thing got well
in day"
my nausea of morning is now cured"
Your box of Maggiers Salve cured me OF
noises in the head. I rubbed some of your
Salye behind my ears, and the noise has left. u
''Send me two boxes, 1 want one for a poor
family"
II enclose q dollar, your price is . cents, but
the medicine to me is worth 4 dollar"
] ''Send me five boxes of your Pills"
! LET me have three boxes of your Pills by
return mail"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

MANHOoDs HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED
Just published, new edition or D-. Culver
wells Celebrated Essay on the radical epre
without medtcine) OF Spermatorrhoea or Semi
nal Weakness, Involuntary Seminal LOSSES
lmpotency, Mental and Physical Incapacity
lmpediments To Marriage, etc, also, Consum D.
ton, Epilepsy, and Fits, induced BY self.iia-
ldulgence or sexual extrayagnnce.
u Price, IN sealed envelope, only 6 cents
The celebrated author, In this Rdmirable
essay clearly demonstrates rom thirty ypsrSf
successful practice, that the alarming conse-
Quences of Self-abuSe may be radically cffred
without the dangerous use OF internal M -
cine or the application OF the knife; pointins
out a mode OF cure at once simple cerfafnl as
effectual, Dy means OF which every su f.erer- ~
matter what his condition may be- al M ic+rs
himself cheaply, privately, aud radically
~ This Lecture should be in the Hands Of
every youth and every man IN The land
sent, under seal, in plain envelops n, ~
address, postpaid, ON receipt SIX cents or two two
lst STAN ps. - fNO
Also, DR.. Culverwelrs .'.Ararrisee cr,,a >,
price 70 cents. Address the Publishers
- CHAS. ]. G. KLINE 8COr
d29I1 1Y =. wv 1se@ Set4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

A novel wedding took place a few
days ago at at shoe mandatory in
Cleveland. Two of the employees
were placed on an elevator, and were
married by the Rev. d. G. Osborne.
This over, spring was touched, and
the couple were landed in the fourth
istory. Returning in few moments,
Mr.. Osborne congratulated them on
their happy bridal tour. Cake was
then served on sole leather plates.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

The following is an interesting case of a man
employed in an Iron Foundry, who, in pouring
melted iron into a flask that was damp and
wet, caused an explosion The melted iron
was thrown around and on him in perfect
shower, and he was burnt tdreadiully. The fol-
lowing certificate was given to me, by him,
about eight weeks after the accident:
NEW YORK, Jan. IL, 1866.
Ny name is Jacob Hardy; am an Iron Foun-
der. was badly burnt by hot iron in NOvem-
Der last; my burns healed, but had a running
sore Oh. my leg that would not heal; L tried
Maggiers Salve and it cured me in a few weeks.
This is all true and anybody can see me at
Jackson's Iron Works, I'd Avenue
]. HARDY, 1l9 Goerck Street.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

How they do things in Hartford: A
pretty woman goes into dental Office
with her husband to have a tooth ex-
tracted, and takes gas. After the tooth
is out, and she is coming out of the
effects of the gas, she throws both arms
around the dentists neck and exclairns
'sOh you dear young man; if wasn't
married I'd marry you.b Husband
enjoys the tableau and so does the
dentist.
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DlXO KGE.

York, Indiana, Illinois, and other states, or
persons from any State or country, legal every
wnere; desertion, drunkenness, non-SapPOrt,
etc., sufficient cause. no publicity No charge
until divorce is obtained. Advice free.
Address, MOORE q RICHARDSON,
CounseIlors at Law,
dec290Iys !3 ssts ork City
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28
Great m pr0Vement in
Washing Machines.
The Gid WG0den WaSh-R0ard
again Tgrned-Up. ap.l

! Z.
RY a SI8IPLE'Ct 6INATION OF the lever
~ power and the OF vssh-boartl, in the cols-
struction of the r---r-
Keystone Wa ing Machine,
the best machine even Introdus has been q
brought into use. \ F1r-.r
The cry of 'humbuga is complete siIenced
and the prejudice against Was Machines
overcome wherever this machine been tried
and Its good qualities anu eapacd ested II ia
universally pronounced just wiz vas needsd
as a la labor-saving Washing Mae e r~-
For reference as TO the S1pert, yof thisn1a-
chine over all others now IN uSe we give the
following names:
George Dilworth, Mt. Pleasant. o. -e
Wm.=Hall, HarriSvilie, Ohio.
stephen Hobson, Flushing Ohio. = u
Jacob Holloway, +"
Isreal Lewis, ST. Clairsyille. Ohio. b -g..r
Jesse Bewley, -
IL Z. Nelday, :.
Elijah Pickering, East Richland, -
EnOch Carman.
and all Others who are using the machine. ~
For Information, addTesS--
7rt o5 ~ BP ANSON & CO,
ma2-u Flushing, ohio
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City Bank Of BalIaiTa
Omce-On Water ST., opposite Cen
tral Block.

THIS Bank, lately established, Is now pre-
l. pared to do a general Banking business. II
receives money ON deposit, and pays interest
ON special deposits. Discounts Notes and b ills,
and makes short loans upon good personal and
eollateraI security. Deals in Foreign aud Do
state, and Local Securities
As- Collecting upon all points throughout the
United states and the Canadas done in the
promptest manner and upon the most liberal
terms.
Accounts of the bI ness public and others
solicited.
DIRECTORS:
a. w. ANDERSON, A. p. TALIMAN,
IsAAI BOOTH, joint. MERCER,
a. o. MELLoTT, G. G. KELLY.
a. W. ANDERSON, Pres't
- A. p. TALLMAN, Cash'r.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-09-28

The total circulation of the national
banks is stated at $S19, 1886, ,999,
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Misfllaueuas.
SOMETHING NEW
UNDER THE SUN.
A NEW ERA IN MEDICINE,

p@ Let the suffering and Diseased
read the following.
h9 Let all who have been given up
by Doctors, and spoken of as incurable,
read the following.
R9 Let all who can believe facts, and
can have faith in evidence, read the
following.
KIloeU all men By these presents. That, on this,
the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty
six, personally came Joseph Haydrick to me
known as such, and being duly sworn deposed
as follows: THAT he is the sole general agent
for the United States and dependencies thereof
for preparations or medicines known as DR..
Maggiels Pills and Salve, and that the follow
ing certificates are verbatim copies to the best
of his knowledge and belief.
JAMES SMEITQE,
II. ST. Notary Pub &c,
II Wall Street, New York.
DIR. MAGGIEL:-I take my pen to write you
of my great relief and that the awful pain in
my side has left me at last-thanks to your
medicine. Oh, Doctor, how thar kful am that
1 can get some sleep. l can never write ii
enough. 1 thank you again and again. and am
sure That you are really The friend OF all suf.
ferers. 1 could not help writing to you, and
hope you will not take it amiss.
JAMES MYERS, ll6 Avenue d.
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Have over 400 such Testimonials as
these,
bnt want of space compels me to conclude.
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This is to certify that was discharged fro n
the army with Chronic Diarrhoea, and have
been cured by DIR. Maggiel's Pills.
WILSON HARVEY, q Pitt. Street.
New York, April I, lS65.
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- &3Cte aEafF a-s5
| WOULD. respectfully inform the
Musical Public that have receiv-
ed Wholesale and Retail Agency for
the above PianOes and Organs, and
can furnish parties desiring an in
lstFunen on -asfavorable terms as any
Sgent in the state. Ny guarantees
are from the Manufacturers direct
and last for fiveyears. would earn
lestly request any contemplating bug
ing Piano or Organ to call or or
who live in Cities are not always the
best PARTIES to furnish instruments.
and in proof only ask q full COM
lparison of Styles and Prices. -
i Call on or address
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GHAMPIo n CIDER MILL.
MANHoop' now LOST, HOW RESTORED

Agent for Belmout. onroe. Gusrnsey ard
Harrison Counties. q for circulars or cat
alOgue. --ll ' ~
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SGlGIi0P Grain Drill e

Inc only Double Force, Continuous Feed Drill
IN use II leeds Barley, Oats, Beans Sc. colssl-
ly well as wheat. Also an Agent Tor the
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-25
FOE NEW YORK.

OLD DOMINION STEA aSntP S.Ss..a1
CONAN
TIE side wheel steamships WYANCKF, !%AtC
RELi., SA%aTpah, HlAuhRA, - ~.
MARIE. ard E&TTEIA&, i.ave New YORK !vr
Norfolk Guy roiGt, ind Ricl;Goad, every uEs-
DAi, THURSDAY, aud SATURDAY ~ ao'c'ack
z. 81. Leave kichIrOnd every TUESDAY, sEI-
DAY, ant SUNDAY, at high tide.
These ships ere entirely new. They have c!cEao.
salooas aNd slateroOms. Tee fare, accommodl1
tione and attention, are unsurpassed.
ClGse connections Elade with steamers for Ill
southern and European ports.
Insurance effected Wien ordered, At QUbR
TTKOF ONE PER CENT, ~ The ellce5 OF this
COMPANY.
FOR further Information apply to
lOHE w. WYATT Agent,
mYe6 No. Governor street
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-04-25

GrSTLrMEN's FAsHlOS s-FdShlon IN
Ho,,G ,rith Common SenSe.-ThiS spring
everything is to be toned down. The plaldS
at last year have dwlndled INTO neat NIUE
cheeks: stripes are narrower ana more
.lbducd; drab and mouse are mode colorS;
.'anta!oonS are larger ut the bot onS anu
comfortable at the knees. In tull dress
there is, rs there can be, nothing new. The
ncw walking coats ought to be quite rs
suitable in the drawing-room as III the
street. They are Of dark brown, green or
black diagonal cloth. Coat anu vest OF THIS
sort. with quiet trowser>, make very be-
comm. suit. Full dress vests expose the
Greater part of the Shirt-tront. shirt
Fn>ons are made with four or tive platS on
a side, instead Of one or two wide ones
So long in vogue. Cheviot linen is extern
>iy.v used for everyday wear. The ne"
spring cont is the only thing that ap.
proaches the cloud" 1t is made of light
Melton or English tweed, and is not intend
I'll 10 button. The fronts are turned back
:. full quarter of yard, and half this width
faced with silk shade lighter or darker
than the material. rs the taste of the wearer
NAV dictate. The sleeves tit closely at the
hand. A. regards neck. gear, Il gentleman
cannot be questionable il he tries. White
linen suits are expected to be very much
worn. The sacks will he made quite short.
1imn>t like sailors jtcket. y iaIoritc
-tvIr with some has been to bind these
white suits with tine black braid. This
.ivrS dainty finish to the toilet, which can
i,r 4 little better indicated 10y the adjective
"nubby," perhaps, than any other.