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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12
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CARROLL, ARMSTRONG 4 CO.
nEALERS in Lumber. Lath, Shingles, de.
and manufactures of building material in
general We keep constantly on hand large
81 ,cx of Dry Lumber and can supply builders
INV s'Nt p &C CARROLL, ARAsTRoNe&Co.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12

ATTENTION: i9e s'o.a 1''sl
u HE undersigned would give notice that he
L fsprepared to furnish all kinds OF
CABINET WORK. ffIz.i o.
and do all manner of REPAIRING to Furniture
chairs &C. on the shortest notice. .--s..S-i
Particular attention given TO the UNDER-
TAXING BUSINESS. All kinds OF Collins
furnished at reasonable prices. AliWorK guar.
Wareroonas opposite DR. John Alexander's.
B. r. JOHNSTON.
st. lairsville, O.. Dec. 9. 1893.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12
! PURCHASING GENCY,

We Will purchase and forward any altlcie.
MANUFACTURED OR SOLD
In this city at the lowest rates.
Parties in the Country wishing to purchase
T3osaas Oroaas Setcin1 hdchfnes Guns. Revolrers,
Ns,segy Sock JeaCelyy Furniture Millinery, RT1'I-
1Odre Drugs Notions. Books. Stationery, SdddeTy,
11rYeti,los DRIP Goods dc., &c, will do well to
send 10 us All goods viii be chosen with
view to economy as wen as tsste and fitness,
and boxes or packa forwarded by Express
to any part Of the CoantrY. All orders prompt
Iy attended to, and satisfaction guaranteed
Address. - <,o, -.
I33m Pittsburgh, Pa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS
I0HN HAMMOND.

MANUFACTURES OF Tin and Copper are are
vi SneciaI Attention g1ven to Roonng anu anu
Ioi, WoTlr Keeps constantly on hand I'm,
copper. Brass, se-furnishing haroMsde p,A.Id
and Cooking Stoves. In Rhodes new NsMi9y19 1g
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12
! s.. ;...a'.aliilI[sA K,,ENNsITp

A Red oantf dTyhaeg Cow having fbeetrfIi the
q neFshborheod since oily, Red head and
white oii sides. The owner OF said properly
can have II by calling on the undersigned on
Jesse Baft5ff's Farm, on St8eb Run. by, ,pruyina
property and payifig charges. (. tlassslS las.slS
nov2s8ws .l';i.iS, % W. b, HARpETY. :,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12
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Passenger Trains on Central ONO
Division leave Bellaire and arrive at
Rellaire as follows:t sL''t p
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on CIVIL SERVICE.

w ASdiNGION, July lt,- lcVt.l
I have Rever,remOved man merely
because he was a Federalist. i have
never wished them to give a vote at an
election but according to their own
wishes. But as no government could
discharge its duties to the best advant-
age of IFS citizens, If its agents were in
q regular course of thwarting instead
of executing oil its measures, and were
employing the patronage and influences
of their. offices against the Government
and It's measures, have only request.
ed they would bequietand they should
be safe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-12
BBILlIRE.

The Accommodation stops si stewart bsiI .
tImeis omitted, -..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
LOCAL OPTION.

This being the year of a Presidential can
vass, legislators will naturally fight shy of
" agitating" topics, and we apprehend that
the Legislature neither of this State, Penn
sylvania or New-Jersey, will pass any act
disturbing the Liquor Traffic, unless impeled
by a public sentiment too earnest and general
to be deied. Hence we speak
The best measure, under the circumstances,
we hold to be that known as Local Option"
that is, submitting the question of License
OF No License to an annual vote of the legally
qualified voters of every municipality, whether
city or township, and require the licensing
board to respect and obey the popular fiat.
We prefer this to sweeping Prohibition, because
1. Wherever public sentiment favOrs the
Liquor Traffic there it will prevail, even
though the law fOrbids it. We prefer not to
cumber the statute-book with obsolete or
disregarded laws.
2. we want the Liquor and License questions
brought home to and discussed at every fire.
side 1t we are wrong in holding Alcohol q
deadly poison, we want to be set right: If DIR
adversares are wrong, we want them enligbt-
ened. Agitation establishes truth and disnela
error.
3. We want those cities and townships which
legalize the manufacture of paupers to eat the
fruit of their own doing first realizing what II
is. The statistics of crime and pauperism in
the townships respectively that authorize and
those that forbid the Liquor Traffic, could not
fail TO prove instructive.
A. We want to mark the GIBBS and flows of
public opinion under the influence of discus
sion and demonstration. II Prohibition il a
mistake, enlightened public sentiment will so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

Senator Cameron's resolution appointing the
Committee on the French Arms Investigation
was, undoubtedly, an offspring of a caucus.
1t was not necessary to call formal Republi-
can caucus, of course, but the hands Of the
superserviceables are recognizable in the franz
ing of a committee which is carefully packed
with majority of their own kind and leaves
off those who were prominent in procuring the
inquiry. If Mr.. Cameron was only throwing
out feeler he got it in the manner in which
his resolution was disposed of by the Senate.
A general confusion seems to have fallen on the
superservceables, and the Cameron proposition
was laid on the table with a shuttle. The
Presidents friends must do better than this
if they desire to retain a grain of public re-
sDeCt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
ADIEU TO WINTER.

March "came in like a lion yesterday.
The day was like many of its recent predeces-
sOrs--bright and pleasant save that there was
"an eager and a nipping air." which deferred
reluctantly to tho blaze of the MONDAY sun.
That the windy month will ego out like a
lamb" may be confidently anticipated.
For the Winter that according to the al
manac) has just left us has been an excep-
tionally cold one-cOlder, as we remember,
than any that had preceded it since that of
1866 1t began much earlier than that did {;
having been in full blast hereabOut before the
close of November. Farther nOrth-say in
northern Minnesota-it set in with cold and
heavy snow before the end of October. Even
below the latitude of Buffalo, many a farmer
found his Potatoes and Turnips frozen fast
into the ground when he wanted to dig them
and there they remain. 1t is not often that
Winter lasts one hundred days in lat. 4O', as
it will have done this year. We judge that
more persons have been frozen to death in
this country during the past four months than
in any four months preceding them.
Yet, except for the rebuilding of stricken
Chicago, this season has not been unprOpiti-
Gus. Many boys and swamps and water
courses have been steadily frozen so thor
oughly as to proffer facilities unusually pro-
tracted for the transportation of logs and
other timber to the banks of streams wherein
they can be floated TO market We presume this
years aggregate product of lumber will be
decidedly large. And, though the fall of snow
in this section has been moderate so that we
have had next to no sleighing in this City and
south of it, it has been very different west of
the Mississippi and north of the Platte. The
Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the
vast, desolate region between them, have rarely
beer so covered as this Winter; while California
has been blessed with plenteous rainfall
which justiies her hope that IN abundant
harvest will follow.
On the whole. we look for an early Spring
and bounteous Summer. May our prepara-
ton to improve them be ample and judicious (!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

Three not very pleasant rumors come to us
from the Department of State. The first is
that our Government, in reply to the note of
Earl Granville, while pretending to sustain
the American Case, really intimates that our
claims were not all serious, and that we have
asked for more than we expect to get. If this
be confirmed, it will be a derOgatiOn of ma
tiOnal dignity not easily condoned. The second
rumor is that Mr.. Sagasta, the renegade Pro-
gresista, and cordial ally of the slave-traders
and murderers of Havana, has indirectly rep
resented to our Government that he would
like to have some person less Republican in
his sympathies, and less favorable to reform
in the Antilles than Gen. SiCkles, sent as Min
lister to Madrid, and that the Adj
ministration proposes to Oblige Mr.. Sagasta
in this; in spite of the fact that
this impertinent adventurer is in minority
of the Cortes, and the supposed views of Gen.
Sickles on Spanish politics are those of large
majority of the Liberals of Spain. The third
of this batch of disheartening rumors is that
we are likely to lose the services of the Hon.
George P. Marsh as Minister to Italy, through
an inexcusable mistake of the Department Of
State. This discreet and intelligent diplO
matlst some time ago wrote dis
patch to the State Department Of a
confidential nature, in which he spoke with
great freedom of some of the personal aspects
of politics in Italy. 1t was an entirely proper
dispatch to write, and an entirely improper
one to print. 1t is now considered probable
that the authorities who blundered will re-
venge their blunder on the faithful public
servant who has done no wrong. All of which
incidents will doubtless be very encouraging
to the members of our diplomatic service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

1t might have been only an accident, but
Senator Buckingham, Chairman of the New
York Custom house Investigation Committee,
has actually admitted that something is wrong
with the institution. What have the John
Thomases to say to this9 What becomes
of Senator Harlan's proud boast that the Gus
tom-house is a pure thing and altogether
lovely? Senator Buckingham, who is a we'll
meaning elderly gentleman, with fewer polit-
ical aspirations than some of his associates on
the pro- Administration side of the house, ad-
mits that officials as well as merchants" are
implicated in the Custom-hOuse abuses. Now,
then, if the merchants are to be prosecuted,
what shall be done with the ofiicials2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

Mayor Halls trial was opened yesterday on
behalf of the prosecution by Henry L. Gin
ton, who spent the entire day in reviewing
and Analysing the Tammany Courthouse
frauds, and pointing out the Mayors connec-
ton Herewith. He cited the law eDjOining
the accused to be vigilant, dwelt upon the
Mayors opportunities for knowing the true
character of the fraudulent claims, and urged
that it was utterly impossible that he should
have approved them without willful negligence.
Mr.. Clinton's theory is, essentially, that with
which the public is already familiar, and it
now remains to be seen whether he and his
associates can establish by evidence degree
of negligence sufficient to constitute mis-
demeanOr,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
FICTION AGAINST HISTORY

From The NetO- York TINES
1T came TO pass that the pretensions OF certain
troublesome little faction OF the Republican party were
not recognized either at the White House in the Re.
publican State organization the leaders of that faction
Thought they should have been and then those leaders
whispered to a certain political philosopher that
there ought to be political philosopher in the White
House. and not military man. no matter how full OF
honesty and common sense. The political philosopher
could not conjecture who was meant Certainly he had
thought Of such change OF residence and no desire for 1t
but suddenly day the great OneTerm principle
discovered and held up TO the faithful the certain
cure like the brazen serpent in the wilderness Of all the
ills from which they suffered"
THB TRUTH
On the nth Of September, 184O, (more than
thirty years ago. the Editor of The TRIBUNE
reported and read an Address to the Young
Men of our State, wherein, on behalf and with
the hearty approval of not less than Forty
Thousand Wings then and there present, he
said:
awe believe experience has demonstrated that the
reigbIty OF President while in office Is calculated to
impair his usefulness pervert his talents, and alarm
ingly increase the power and influence OF his station
An ofce-seeking President unless his be one Of those
rare characters which rises above personal and party
considerations, must always exert fatal influence
over the freedom OF political opinion and action among
pleasure Gratitude for past favor the fear of instant
displacement and the hope OF future advancement will
inevitably combine the great mass OF Federal Office
holders into a drilled cOhort OF Executive uphOdePs-
a Prrtorian band OF apologsts and advocates OF the
great Dispenser of Patronage and his measures. No
matter how fragrant may be the usurpatlOn he commits
or the abuse he c0nDyes at he ID sure Of at least
ardent champion in every villageOf hundreds in every
principal city, and OF thousands constantly traversng
the whole length Of the country and mingng undistn-
gished with It's citizens. The history OF the last ten
years abundantly and strihngly illustrates this truth
This advantage given to power In every collision with
opposng public sentiment too strong for the purity IL
not for the perpetuity OF Republican institutions"
These views were held and reiterated by
the Wings in that contest. from Gen. Harrison
and Henry Clay downward, without one audible
dissent. and were unanimously reaiiirmed by
their National Convention whereby Clay and
Frelinghuysen were nominated at Baltimore,
May, 1874 This Editor has not swerved from
them TO this hour.
In 1864, he dissented from the great body of
his fellow Republicans, who deemed the re-
nomination of Mr.. Lincoln. under tho extra
ordinary circumstances then existing. indis-
pensable. The Times then assailed him for
tlds dissent, ~ its columns will show but it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
Netu!Iork Daily Gribm,te
SATURDAY, MARCH 2. 1872.

A terrible accident has occurred in Frankfort Ger
many IA persons being killed and many wounded by the
IAN OF a dwelling house. The Orleans Princes have
een restored 70 their former positions in the French
army and navy. 60 over 200 persons were injured
during the Thanksgiving demonstration in London
In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner declined to serve
pp the French Arms Investigating Committee An I'M
successful attempt made to elect the Committee
- In the House the st. CrOiK Land Grant scheme
Sgas further discussed bin was introduced establish
hng more effective system OF Quarantine for the South
Hrn coasts.
The American reply TO Earl Granvls note is eouched
IN nrm but friendly terms E= The Spanish Govern
neDt has complained OF Minister Sickness course ana
Dis removal is probable. ==z The Reform movement
has been iDaugurated by the Tennessee Republicans
- hr. Klian has been awarded seat In the State
hAssembiy
Henry L. Clinton made the opening address for the
prosecution in Mayor Halls trial. Closing argu-
sDents made for the defense In Stokes
- skllful forger was arrested two charges.
49, The insurance investigation was resumed. 49,
Gold, ilet ilOi, 11Oa. Thermometer 40. 800, S2o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

did not then attribute bis course to the motive
il now suggests.
In 1868, when Gen. Grant had just been
nominated for President, The Daily Chronicle,
edited by Col. Forney, and the leading Re
publican journal at the Federal Metropolis,
editOrially said
Ode Tocquevle wondered how the architects OF the
Federal system who hadmanaged to preserve so fair
balance OF power through the organization OF tho three
departments OF the Government. should have been
shortghted enough to render their whole work ihse
cure by making the President eligible to reflection we
wonder too for II has inconestably done more 10 de
sfroy the constitutional balance and weaken our instt
tons than any other inherent defect OF our system or
perhaps oil othegs G9pliIsd Una! .le sg9AI
try needs for pacicatioi i President without
policy. Such one shall have IN Gen. Grant nc 49,
moreover an advocate OF the OneTerm principle, as
conducting toward the proper administration of the law
"A principle with which many prominent Republicans
have identified themselves that II may be accepted as an
article OF party faith."-[June 81.
"Let not Congress adjourn without passing the One
Term amendment to the Constitution. There has never
been so favorable an opportunity. All parties are in
favor OF it, The present incumbent Of the Presidential
office has nducement TO oppose IL. NObody's sens
blties be offended by IL. 1t cannot be charged a.
party movement intended to head off an obnoxious
President Gen. Grant is ia JarOr Of IT, The party
which supports Cen Grant demands it, and, above all
else public morality calls for it. Let never again
witness the utter debasement OF the Presidential ONCE
by the efforts Of the incumbent to secure second term
The second term makes the first "a period Of chicanery
1t the fertile germ OF Executive Policy and brings
forth fearful crop Of treachery and lies.
at IL the fomenter OF divisions between the Depart
ments and the inducer of Executive usurpations II Is
constant peril TO the liberties OF the country. Not
man OF party in the country worth cOunseling with
wishes the President to be eligible to a reflection. II
the opportunity lost and wait until after the next
Presidential election shall counter 10 some sup
posed personal party interest in reopenins this sub
ject. Then why wait p July llth.
in view of these recor ded. notorious facts,
we ask candid public to Judge whether The
7Emes's imputatiOn is consistent with either
truth or decency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

pronounce. and the popular vote from year to
year declare it.
3. We want every man made to realize his
responsibility in the premises. Many one
will first discover that he is a devotee Of AL
coholic Indulgence when he finds himself put
ting vote for License" into the ballot
box
0. Finally. we want to disentangle this
Liquor question from party politics. Let every
man vote for candidates who represent his
more general convictions, while dropping into
The appropriate box q ballot for License" or
"No License" without fear that he is dam
aging the prospect of his party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

The Hon. Dwight Townsend, who proposed
in the House to submit to the arbitration of
John Bright the question of consequential
damages on which our Government is now at
issue with that of Great Britain, Is the Demo-
cratic representative OF Staten Island and
the rural portion of Long Island. As his prop
osition seems to have been Inexperienced,
we give it perbahm, as follows:
Whereas, The agitation OF the question OF conse-
ouenta damages 10 be claimed by the United States at
the Geneya Conference has produced feeling that may
initiate against tho completion OF the Washington
Treaty aresut upon the contamination OF which history
be searched In vain for parallel and whereas the
limited states in submitting to the proposed Convention
has consented In view OF the transcendent results to
flow thorefrOm in the interests OF humanity. to relin-
quish valuable power which by existing international
law they posses, yet a. this government seeks no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02

speedy contradiction has been made to the
statement of Mr. w. C. Bryant that Reel
procity Treaty was pending between the
United States and Spain on behalf of Cuba.
The reasons set forth in our Washington dis
patches for the absurdity of the report are
conclusive, certainly. Mr.. Bryant was I'M
doubtedly misled by the Cuban Intendente de
Ia Hacienda, who did not know, as well as
Americans do, that Spain would be the last
nation on the globe with whom we could have
free trade relations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
airy, 1857 In which the entire delegation from
inoiana seemed to be against Protection.

we mink IT worth while TO notice a letter f,...
No,A Ireland. which we find in The Boston pg.
ana IN which the writer tells ns what tho -
proper think Of American FeniaDismy oFor -,
ne says, the Irish people, as a people. have tnrns.
heart-'lck from the hope Of aid from America :.
% they rested all their hopes in it, ike all otbo,
nance on peoples neiRhbors, they found tbei, h,..
mistake Whether O'Mahony Roberts. Stenbsn.
0"eeny, Savage, O'Neil or somebody else uled o.,
io"s, IN America, we had the same eDtertain;u~
,pe','c'e "i well-meant bufoOncry-tbe same Aria
p"inoaSt-the same tall talk and small wo,L
AGAIN. We Irish are sensible enough
kho" That jail is q jail, and ner,I
Selyitude grim reality indeed. e.pecian,
~hen lts MAN object is to aggrandize the omlono.
OF the patriots Of New-YOrkH Again. " Tbero 4, a.
end Of the dcluson that we are bound 70 he in ~.
water till our Transatlantic cousins think we AZ.
properly cooked Any good that will evo, ho a.
for Ireland will be done BY Irsbmen in Iceland
Here IL sound practical sense. tbou0b nroLa1I.
during the celebration Of st. Pstricks nav - III,
hardly be appreciated is s2:ae Irish.Amerie,n.
hardly, at least by those who are professionally o.
gagged in hberatiDR Ireland, By writing and talt,n.
and dining and strcet-walking in New-York. Sound
men IN the old country say to their kith here: po,
heavens sake be more sensible but the appe,l vii
doubtless be little heedcd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-03-02
STOP TIE "sr1R CHAuBER0 G4BBLE.

STOP TIE "ST1R CHAMBER' G1BBLE.
We urged that the investigations Of the Com
mittee into the cOrruptiOns of our judiciary
should partake of the nature of Grand Jury
procedure and should consequently be secret.
Mr.. Tweed was not advised of the lnYestlga-
tons against him till the Sheriff arrested him.
Mr. Hall did not believe he was to be indicted
till after the indictment was found; and
Mr.. Nathaniel Sands went about, trying to
persuade everybody that he was in no danger
of indictment days after it had been voted.
Nobody dreamed of complaining that this was
unfair it was the regular order of Grand
Jury investigation, whose secrecy is one of
the most essential elements of its value, and
one of the surest means for ultimately attain
ing the ends of justice.
We thought the cOrruptiOns of the Judiciary
afforded an excellent field for the same sort of
practice, and that the usual reasons for Sc
Crccy in Grand Jury investigation were here
more than usually potent But another course
has somehow been taken. Intentionally or
otherwise, the Committee has lost all the adj
vantages while mourning all the Odum of Sc
crecy, and losing all the benefits of publicity.
The time seems fit for change. When the
eliminated Judges are present i'll person or by
counsel, able to mark the witnesses who make
disclosures against them, and to prepare for
wreaking their vengeance if the prosecution
should fail, we no reason why the public
should not be accorded equal privileges. If
the people of New-York knew to-day the evil
dence already taken before this Committee,
or prepared for it, the Reform Legislature
would find it as impossible to adjourn without
unseating the corrupt Judges az Mr.. Tweed
found it to face the public indignation and
remain in office Since we have lost all the
advantages of secrecy, let us have some of the
advantages of the widest publicity. We move
for open sessions of the Committee inyesti-
eating the Judiciary.