Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-16
William B. Astor.

with true democratic unpretension, and
with the air of man who was fully
occupied but not Overburdened with
business cares. Few of the hundreds
whom he passed would have suspected
that the pOrtly, vigorous man, dressed
in plain but scrupulOuS neat black, so as
to look like an attendant at a funeral,
with rather gross features, fiorid COM
plexion and griZzled mustaeheN and /
whiskers, afther the manner of Kaiser
William, was the owner of acres of real
estate and scores of dwellings in this
wealthy city. 1t was sunny spring
morning and he Wore no overcoat. He
seemed in the best of health, and walk
ed with quick and firm step, locking
down at the pavement every few min
uteS, and then up again with rapid
movement dS if he was startled at |
something. His face is neither rhard1
nor genial, but has a Dutch stOlidity, |
and not much animation about it.. Still
] imagine it to be the face of a good
father and husband, who looks out fert
his own interests and is not troubled by
any absurd notions of giving his money
away to people who would not thank
him for the gift. He works hard, ta-
king care of his vast property, and, ex-
cept for the glory of the thing, can't
see that he is much happier than the
average of humanity i .t.g 4
The following is the way they called
out the figure of a 'reel" in ArkaEsas:
"Dance to the gal with theyellow shawl;
now down outside and up the middle;
turner to your partner, Isaac Smith,
and now to that entire stranger; sachez
to the right and left; ra de tan, da dude;
now to Peter Schwitchall's daughter;
turn to your partner, everyone; set to
the girl with the fiaring trill; balance
one and spin about to the girl with the
hole in the heel of her stocking.N
The dog is no doubt very faithful
animal, bu. sometimes displays a plen-
tifui lack of sense. A gentleman trav-
cling in Illinois arrived home from a
Journey of some length and found that
he had lost his dog and pair of, old
boots. After long search he. pund
the dog twenty miles away keeping
watch and ward over those boots by
the roadside. Now a sensible, dog
would have left them to rot, and one
! with little sense and much fidelity
would have picked them up and tr0t-
ted home. A dog all fidelity and no
sense is MT worth much.
The following congratulatory itele-
gram was received from Cincinnati by
a wedding party in Nashville :ll-iCon-
gratulations on your nuptials'; may
your future troubles be only. little
ones" hHH gl13G f'V
The great ecclesiastical event of the
past week has been the meeting of the
General Conference of the Methodists,
in Brooklyn. A million and a half OF
commandments, fifteen thousand
, churches, represented by their delegat-
es-surely goodly gathering! For
the first time, the laymen come into
the Church. The number Of its Tbish.
ops-now absurdly disporportiouate to
to its size-will be greatly increased
Christian Union. 49,.
Drive Greeleyite into a corner and
, he always comes back at you with,
issWell, GREELEY will get the Irish vote
, land the Negro vote" When the pelit-
, lical milleninm shall dawn you viii see
/ the 1rishman voting the. same ticket
; with the Negro-not till then. And
!, GREELEY Will not usher in that mill
: ienium. Independent of the utter i'm
possibility of Irishmen and Negroes
fraternizing politically, there are the
best of reasons for knowing that neith-
er the Irish vote nor the Negro. vote
would be given to GREELEY. bel,
A good deal ofsport has been, made
of the old woman who kissed her cow,
but what should be said of. the, thou.
sand of young women who have kissed
great calves. A-
} KEEP CoOL.-At least make an eff
lott to do SO, even in the warmesl
7 weather and the hottest political cam
paign. We think that Horace Greeley
: is one of the incest, and cleverest, and
most virtuous old gentlemen in The
: world. But, soberly speaking, We
shall not sweat the oxen in helping
Greeley t'beat Grant" In fact, in view
: of recent developments, we, doubt
2 whether the word will come suddenly
!, ! to the end of its somewhat protractee
I I lexistence even if General Grant!shoulC
be reelected President of the Unitet
q States. AT any rate it is not iwortf
: while to crowd the 1im0urnefs six
!; months before the funeral. - Gin. Post
: (Ilea1. fgui 1854, fs s igi 80 s.iIi
! o A New York lady with a fondness
! for pet mice, the other day took one o
!. . these little animals to "a doctor, tellin.
! him that it was sick, and that it haC
> lbeen brought to her from a tenemen
. house where there had been severa
! leases of smallpox. After examinin,
. the mouse the doctor found that it wa,
! covered with sores! He sprinkled SOM
: disinfecting powder over it, and in ,
short time it died. 1t was then dissect
; ed, and clear case of smallpox in it
worst form was revealed. The re
q n -ssaains- Sparo inolosod in a giuss Jar, art
q are to be sent to the hospital for furth
. er examination, as it is believed to be
+ the first case of the kind ever hear'
r. of. 80, - =
3, Some rural editor, thunderstruck b,
g the first appearance of Dolly XardeI
= dress upon the streets of his native ham
II let, gives the following description @
1t what he placidly calls the siderned cut
o tlandish thing. '.The starbOard sleey
is bore a yellow hopvine in full leaf, ON
y red ground, with numbers of gray bird
g badly mutilated by the seams, flynn
hither and thither, in wild dismay a
the approach of a green and black hunt
q Ter. Calvary Mission infant class wa
depicted on the back, the making u
: of the garment scattering tfuant sehel
II ars up and down the sides and on TIL
!. skirt, while a country poultry fair, an,
y y a group. of American huntingEdogs
lU badly demoralized by the gathers, CAV
, the front a remarkable appearance
= The leftsleeve had on it the alphabet II
= FIVE different languages" ,aiisY -i5,
i'll Mr.. GREELEY has seen fit to an
rsl nounce to the world, through Mi. Bel
= Weed, of New York, that he. will NO
9, withdraw If he is nominated by th
A. Democratic party, no matter who
g nominated by the Republican party a
n Philadelphia. This means nothin,
r more than less than that he is Willing
: ifn haaO,,oa