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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

Il. II. CLARK.

Wepubiished in last weeks issue an
article, showing that Mr.. Clark, Audi
tor, had received during the year end
ing Sept. /, 1870, on orders issued by
himself or the County Commissioners
over S. 900, and had only accounted for
some $3.50, as received by himself in
his annual statement, covering up the
excess under fees, allowances or some
thing else. This week we publish the
following questions for his further con-
sidera tien: l1ais
y Ffrst-Has an Auditor any right to
become co-partner with Bridge archi-
tects in securing contracts at the hands
of County Commissioners?
Second-Has All Auditor any right to
betray the confidence of Commissioners
in recommending one company before
another, when said company possesses
no merits or inducements for him so to
do, except certain amount per foot
given to said Auditor? 20
Third-Ifa company accept a con.
tract when paying an Auditor certain
commission for securing said contract,
would it not accept the contract for the
same amount less the Auditors com.
mission9
Fourth-would it not be to the tax.
payers interest to avoid paying an
Auditor in addition to his own salary
an extra sum received as commission
for securing contracts to certain com.
panies:e r.
Fifth-Did not our Auditor receive
from Cleveland Company of Bridge
builders engaged upon work in this
County one dollar per foot for securing
contracts?
Sixth-Can it be regarded perfectly
honest for a public officer who already
receives Eve thousand dollars per year
salary dc. to accept compensation OF
one dollar per foot, said compensation
10 be added to the amount for which
said company would have performed
the work and the whole to be paid by
the County?
Our columns are open for satisfactory
answers to the above questions. Tax.
payers viii be anxious.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

An error, according to last reports
has been discovered In the returns of
the Connecticut election. In one the
wards in New Haven, the count for the
State ticket was one hundred in excess
of the names checked on the poll list,
and the Democratic State ticket being
that number ahead Of the Representa-
tive ticket. This would go to show
that English received the benefit of the
alleged error, or fraud, and the fact
shall be shown on investigation. jew
el win be declared elected Governor
without throwing the question into the
Legislature at all. a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

From the Cisseiand Herald,l
On Saturday evening occurred oEeIef
the most frightful cases of burning to
Death which it is possible to imagine.
Andrew Krauss, foreman in the black
smith sop of p. Black on Broadway,
in.going te1iiS rome, No. 2SS st. Clair
stret- stopped st drug store and pur-
chaseu 4 sf:7il! vial of benzine, for the
purpose ng it to exterminate
some veT.- -slc:i infested his bed
room. As su0l s.s he arrived at home
he went into his room, and the fluid in
small open vessel, poured it on the
bedstead IN several places. In passing
around he stopped to examine whether
it had produced an effect, and holding
the candle which he carried too near
the infiammable substance, it took fire
and blazed up gently. A little daugh-
ter was in the room with him at the
same time, and discovering the fire,
began to scream. ~"
The mother, who was out doors at
the time, hearing the cries of her child;
fastened to the house. The father, in
turning around, either touched his can
die to thefluid in the vessel or dropped a
spark upon 1t, when it broke out in a
fearful blaze. He r11shed to the door
and threw the burning liquid out just
as his wife was entering, whole of ii
falling upon her clothing. The awful
realization of this act breaking sudden
ly upon his mind, he was so confused
that he did not know what it was wis
est to do, and begun with his hands,
endeavoring to scrape down the flames
from her body. ~
Two gentleman hearing the cries
from the street and seeing the flames,
ran to her assistance, but before they
could render any aid, every particle ol
clothing was burned from her body, ex-
cept small band passing around hei
waist. She was taken into the house,
her clothes and hair burned off and hei
whole body in a perfect crisp-a ghast.
ly spectacle, indeed. Medical remedies
were applied, but nothing seemed ad.
equate to relieve her suffering. She
was tortured by the most distressing
agony, to which she gave expression in
wild screams until fifteen minutes af.
ter twelve, when death relieved her.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
Legal Notice.
Francis A. Humphrey.

William Gardner. 2. q.
t'HE defendant, William Gardner, will take
L notice that ON tine 10th day of October, lS7O
the plaintiff, Francis A. Humphrey, filed In
the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Comm
Pleas within and for the County of Belmont
and State OF Ohio, her complaint III writing
settink forth that she rs the mother of q basJ-
ard child, and that William Gardner, the de-
(endant is the father of said child, and that the
William Gardner, has absconded
with the ini ent to defraud the mplainant in
this action, nd that on the said 10Th day OF
October, 1870, en- order of attachment was Is
sued with notice Of Garnishee to Robert Gard
uer and Thomas Gardner, and on the 22nd day
of December, 1870, = notice Of fiarnishee was
we'd upon Robert Gardner, Jr., said notices
have all been served and returned.
The defendant is notified To appear and an
swer said complaint in bastardy so preferred
against him as aforesaid on the LIST day of the
next Term Of said Court OF common Pleas 10
be begun on the 18th day OF May. 1871, at which
time you can appear and answer -.-
-lT-'-..tl0T FRANCIS A. HUMPHREY.
By TALLNAN 4 FEKREI, her att'ys-
March q, l1i6w
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
Legal Notice.
Sarah A. Huffman, ct, al.
Edward Bethel, Executor OF Abraham HUFF
man, deceased,

" Sarah A. Huffman, ct, al. a. -lI
sYNTHA MOORE and John Moore, her hus.
" band, Lewis Huffman, john r. Huffman,
band, William Huffman and Laura Huffman.
no reside In the state of Iowa, will take no
tice that Edward Bethel, Executor of the last
viii and testament of Abraham Huffman, decd,
ON the 2eth day OF March, "A. D.,ls7l, filed his
petition In, the Probate Court within and for
alleging that the estate OF said testator
Is sinsuficienb topay the debts and costs OF ad-
.min:stering said estate, that said testator died
seized In fee simpl of the following described
real esta, Q situate in the counties II Belmont
and Harrison and State Of Ohio, to-wiE The
East bali OF the Northwest quarter of Section
VILE land District. excepting LEX perches
fss e,
heretofore sold to John w. Neer, also ~ 35-l00
perchss heretofore sold TO James Parks, and
also g acres heretofore sold 70 William p.
s1Aiso, u certain other tract or parcel of land
sitnate in the County oil Be,munt aud State
Aforesaid and being part OF the East half of the
10, In Range 6 in the steubenviiie land district:
Beginning for the same at the eEortheasf corner
Of said quarter and running South 10 East 81
poles to . corner; thence North NJ West sOss
poles 70 u corner; thence North $50 20 East 40.55
poles to the place OF beginnfnE, containing 2U1s
from 1ls< acres heretofore sold 20 John D.James
1 And also, a certain other tract or parcel Of
o. iano situate IN the C0unIy OF lHarr1sonA and
State Aforesaid. and being part of the south
half OF Section n, In Township 10, in Range g,
beginninE for the same on the south boundary
line Of said sect ion az station fixed by Job
Briggs, Surveyor. in the County road which
passes from North TO South through said Sec
lion; thei.ce South SSo O. West SIS poles; thence
North 10 26 West 80 poles; thence North Seo y
poles; thence along said road South l41zo West
BUS poles; thence south 1879 East Ii poles;
thence South s2o East l7.5 poles; thence South
so West 1913 poles To the place of beginning,
containing 1875 acres be the same more or less,
excepting therefore - acres heretofore soli to
William p. Huffman. .t's -..f ~ 2 -
test tor is entitled to dover in said premises.
+ The prayer OF said petition Is for the assigI-
ment Of dover to the ,aid Sarah A. Huffman,
and for the sale Of said premises subject to said
dowes estate. for The paylpenfof sss deuts ssnd
|GharGog ufurssatd. 80 - - d..
reaid petition Will be for hearing on the 2lst
day Of April. 1871, or SO sOan thereafter as The
same can be heard. f1.E.f,-Es 1....+ss. .s..,
49, EDWARD BETHEL, EA-.
-li -s i' OF Aetalhafii Huffman deed
By TALLNAN q FERREL. mis- att'ys. -.,-.
Ma ch n, lS7l4w r,- -,.4 .-.... s, q
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

+ MARRIAGEIN HIGH LIFE.-A cou-
pie came from West Township last
Thursday, to enter into the blissful
path of eternal happiness matrimony.
The groom brought his own oats, and
Morton's grocery, "big," and demand
this frugal meal in the front parlor of
the Cowan house, and were duly splic-
ed In few minutes afterward. The
male remarked that he would never be
married again as it had cost him over
five dollars this time. How is that
for high ?'-[[Ne,o Lisbon (O.} Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

Mr. Henry Atkins, of Cincinnati, has
invented a piano that is played by the
feet. 1t has sixty-eight keys, which
are conical blocks Of wood, and each
one strikes a cord Of four notes, He
puts on slippers to play with, and while
he makes his piano go with his feet he
plays the flute with his mouth and fin
gers. The effect Is described as re-
markable. The new mechanism can
easily be attached to any ordinary pi-
anO. ~
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

There is man in Glen's Falls, New
York, who won't believe any stories a.
bout the sagacity of dogs. He says
dogs have not common sense. In proof
of his assertion he relates how he pour
ed kerosene on fire, just to have little
absence; and that dog actually ran under
the barn belonging to him, and lay
there andset the barn on fire, though. the
man whistled to him to come out. It
is enough to make a man lose faith in
dogs. So g5a9 .g3lsIY is6s n ali4s
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

A spiritual circle in Cincinnati has
learned from departed shade allabout
the pext Presidential election. The
departed shade raps out that the Re-
publicans will nominate two candidates,
Gen. Grant and o Radical, and the
Democrats, Chief Justice Chase, and
that the last will be elected, and We
shall dwell in peace and goodwill ever
after.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

w. R.Allison, the veteran editor
of the Steubenville Herald, Is warmly
indorsed as suitable man to succeed
Amber, in the Seventeenth District,
for Congress. Allison is sturdy Re-
publican, of many years unrewarded
service, and the affairs of the Seven
teenth District would becared for indus
triousIy If placed in his hands.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
OUR MAGAZINES.

The Magazines that are before US this
week are of q different character to
those noticed In our last. In selecting
a magazine, or even a newspaper q
person should have a tolerably well
defined idea of what they like, and
they dislike. II Is often the case that
some of our best publications are con-
demned as worthless by persons of con-
siderable talent and culture. They dis
like them simply because they don't
suit their taste, and without taking this
fact into consideration they condemn
them regardless of their real merits.L
This is unjust and in bad taste. Ifthey
don't suit us, perhaps they will some
other persons. There Is one fact we
would like to impress upon our readers,
it is this, "If more magazines were
read instead of the trashy literature so
prevalent, the people would be much
more intelligent, and would get a great
deal more for their money. 1t is as
easy to develope the physical organiza-
ton by feeding upon husks and chat,
as to deyelcpe the intellect by reading
sensational stories.n Among our most
worthy magazines of the class that is
scientific and practical is the Phreno-
logical Journal. This was the first
magazine that weremember of reading,
and for several years we have read it,
and found it very profitable. 1t illus
trates life in all its phases, constantly v
holding before its readers the necessity
of a knowledge of the laws of nature,
and an implicit obedience to them, to
secure a healthy body or a healthy
mind. 1t is practical and reliable, in
teresting and instructive. 1t contains
the following departments; Phrepology,
Religioni and Psychology; Signs :of
Charaeteri OurSooial Relations; Physi-
ology, Our Country and Its Resources;
Literature, Science, and History, Edir
toriai Chair, besides the Mentorial
Bureau. II contains about seventy
pages beautifully printed upon excellent
paper. Its engravings are of the high
est style Of art. It Is offered on trial
six months for one dollar. 8. r. Wells,
Publisher, Broadway, N. Y. $3 90 per
yeaf.
DIR lMonthly.-Ehis Is 10 Religious and
Literary Magazine of eighty pages,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

We have only Just come to understand
that the war between slavery and bar
barism, on the one hand, and liberty
and civilization, on tho. other, Is not
vet fought out. Beaten in the open
field, the rebellion yet lives in lawless-
ness ofSouthern scoundrelism. Beaten
by ballots and beaten by bullets, it
shows like other venomous creatures, q
wonderful tenacity. of life. Liberty is
not yet established at the South. Free
dom of speech, freedom of the press,
freedom of political action, are yet
hardly known there. If the Democrat
ic, party were to come into power to
morrow, the whole work of reconstruct-
ion would be lundone; the franchise
would be taken from the negroes, and
under some form of slavery or its
equivalent would be restored. Let Us
remember one thing. The lost cause Is
not an abandoned one. When the re-
bellion fights US again, 1t win be with
the arms, the ships, the forts and the
prestige of the Government ITSELF
When we vote at the next Presidential
election, we vote face to face and ballot
to ballot with the rebellion. The bat
tie of next year will be more decisive
than the taking of New Orleans and
Vicksburgh and Richmond together" T"
Nep York Independent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

The Scientific American says it is
now s'imposible to construct q burglar.
proof safe-for the thief, with his cylin-
ders of compressed hydrogen and oxy-I
gen, can, in q few seconds, burn holes
of any size in the hardest metal - his
fire drill enabling him, in few miutes
to work his way into the strongest safe
that was ever INSTRUCTED. ~ -i43
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
COMMUNICATIONS.
c. WILKINSON, ESQ.,,

. DEAR SIR:--I was not only much
surprised to see, in your, issue of the
18th inst. myself made the subject of
the leading editorial, but perfectly
as I have no doubt every
one who reads it will be, at the charges
made therein. The attack upon my
private character being no less severe
and plain, than that made upon m Y
public character, as an officer of our
County, whether or not you intended
the conclusions which must be legiti-
mately drawn by the public from the
language in which you couch your ar
ticle / am at loss to know, and from
which conclusions I would be done
saech Injustice If not an absolute wrong.
Hence my object in addressing you this
note, in order to avoid upon your part
as well as my own, the probability of
such conclusions being inferred by any
one who may have read the article,
by giving you detailed Statement of
the manner and form in which receive
my salary as Auditor s. -.lH
In the first place let me say that my
salary is prescribed entirely by Statute.
Under the provisions of the Statute, /
receive for the first twenty-four humid
red male inhabitants over the age of
twenty-one ye us, $500; and for each ad-
ditional two hundred, $40; which uLder
the enumeration returned by the
Assessor to the Clerk amounts to 81 $50.
BY allowance of the Commissioners,
provided for in the same law, receive
$500 for clerk hire, as has also my pre-
decessor. Under section Al of the
School law, $700-making in all paid
to me by the County, "a, 3,130-In addi-
tion to this amount / receive such COM
pensation as Swallowed by law, and ap-
proved by the County Commissioners
for the labor / perform under the
Statute providing tor and regulating
McAdamized Roads, which amount is
paid in the same way as other expense
In the construction of sal. Roads out
of the respective funds belonging to
each Road, and these amounts are in
cluded in the Receipts & Expenditures
in the exhibit of the total cost of said
road. 1 8-
l can readily perceive how you might
be misled with reference to my Salary
for any distinctive year. First, the
Auditors Salary commences to run on
the first Monday of March, while the
Financial year commences on the first
day of Sept, consequently the Receipts
and Expenditures show q part of the
Salary received for two separate years.
I have also permitted my Salary to run
from one year to another, or rather !
In which I could have done go. And
this was the case last year. Hence it
would appear as of the next year.
= 4 " 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

The Gel tifcate of incorporation of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Com
pany was fled at Columbus last week.
The incorporators are: Joel Wood, s.
Spence, and James Kerr, of Martins
vile; Chester d. Hubbard and Joseph
Bell, of Wheeling; John B. Barter,
Jacob Copeland, A. 3. Paul and DIR. j.
d. West, of Hopedale, Ohio. Capital
stock $500, 900.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

The Gadiz .Saitina is opposed to the
nomination OF Pendletoi for Governor
upon the Democratic ticket. It re-
CARDS him q party hack whose too we'll
known foibles it would be well to keep
out of the coming contest. We like to
see q journal with nerve enough to ex-
press an opinion. One would die a
looking before he would see the like in
the Gazette of this place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
HELMON TNITRSEEIES

ONE mile North OF Nat.onslRoad near the
We kssp eous antiy ap paud y eiioice selec-
ion 81 ErNtt and ornamental Trees, Vines, sc,
fAfties W,saing 20 Purchase viii do we'll 10
cali apd examine hefore purch asing elsewhere,
Orders promptly MI. r o. Address Eas, Rich.
Ee627l.lY ..t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

NOTICE 10 hereby given, that in the Probate
~ t3urtof Belmont county, Ohio, The nn der.
signed w as appointed aad qualified as Admin
,,s.ratgix q the estate of u. c. Frost, decd,
late OF said County. as .- - 7. = y
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
anested to make immediate payment, and
qusstedf TO present them wftlsin one wear
from this date. = -, ~s.sI A. fixssf. IT.
8 ll-..,,s,..,,i b. NANCY d. FROST, Aamrx.
msrlcSt OF the estate Of NJ. G Frost, deed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

A SERIOUS skirmish is reported be-
tween the Mexican and Q. g. Troops
ON the southern borders of Texas last
week. A party of Texan Indians had
committed some depredations across
the border, and were pursued by Mex
ican troops: In the efforts Of the U. s.
troops to shield the Indians 40 Ameri-
cans are reported killed. +a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
SOMETHING NEW
+: UNDER THE sun.
A NEW ERA In MEDICINE E.

B0 Let the suffering and Diseased
read the following. '-i'
t~ Let all who have been given up
by Doctors, ami spoken of AS ineurable,
read the following. -sf .. 'Tt
) B0r Let all who can believe facts, ,snd
can have faith in evidence, read the
following. -f....,i 3a'~
Eisosc aa nseskby these presents. That, on this,
the Twentlelh day OF June, IN the year Of our
Lord. Quo Thousand Eight hundred and sixty.
known Is such, and Deing duly ) orn deposed
a. follows: That he IL the sole general agent
tor the Uuited Ststss and dependencies thereof
Masgisrs Pulls and salys, and tina the ioilow-
Ing certidcares are verbatim copies to the hest
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II. 81 -,.l. Notary Pub Ic, 4i
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The following y an Interesting case Of q man
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20

yTTANTED-AGENTS, (e20 per day. 70 sell
w the celebrated HONE SUTTLE SEWING
MACHINE HAS tnez nnder-Jeed. makes the
"lock stich" (alike on both sides.l and is fully
licensed The best and cheapest family Sewing
Machiue in the market. Adress, JOHNSON.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-20
1T Is estimated that four millions OF
the twenty millions of currency issued
has been destroyed by handling 1t.

Bluff Ben. Wade is looming up as a
candidate for Governor. The Cincin-
natl Chronicle received an electricshock
from Washington shortly after Ben. IS
arrival from San Domingo-that high
friends in Washington were anxious
that he should run. Since then, Boyn-
ton, the GGzette's Washington CORES
pondent, has been writing the matter
up. Boynton, who was down among
the Dominicos with Ben, says the old
hero can swim like q shad, and that he
is more vigorous now than seventy or
eighty years ago. We learn also by
letter from Cincinnati, that our eandi-
date, Richard Smith, with character
istie magnanimity, is willing to with
draw in Ben.'s favor, and his name
sake, Beneggleston, has consented to
announce his name in the Convention.
To give the movement character, Joe
of Coshocton's paper, the Dryer Age,
has looked over the entire field of can
didates, and unwaveringly pronounced
for. Wade. There Is power in Boyn-
toms endorsements where the water is
too deep to Wade, you see he can swim
but this will be sad news to the other
boys, like Galloway, Lee and Noyes.-7
T O. s. Journal. .,la ai3 - i-.9 q llB