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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-05-15

Dispatches from st. Johns, New
foundland, furnish the sad information
of the death of Capt. Hall, the Arctic
explorer. An impenetrable silence
has brooded over the ill-fated vessel
ever since their departure from North
Greenland, in the summer of 1871, and
at the time when the scientific world
were looking anxiously for the news of
great discoveries, the veil is lifted only
to expose shattered vessel, crew re-
duced by privation and cold to nine
teen, all told, and captain buried ON
the frozen shores of the Arctic ocean.
The death of Capt. Hall appears to have
occurred in October, 1871. The vessel
had wintered in "Polaris Bay'' in lat.
y, some timesin August and in Sept,
the captain started northward on
Siedges, attaining the great altitude of
50 degrees, and 10 min., only % min.
less than the furthest limit ever reach
ed-that of Parry in 1S27-and seven
minutes less than was attained by DIR.
Kane's party.
Upon his return to his vessel Capt.
Hall called his men together to in
form them of the results of his expedl-
ton and to cheer them on, and in the
midst of his brave work he was strick-
en- with apoplexy.
A few minutes before the Polaris
started on her ill-fated expedition, we
had the pleasure of being escorted over
the staunch little craft, by Capt. Hall
himself. Every arrangement for the sue
cess and safety of the expedition seemed
complete. The brave hearted captain
was confident of success; his men were
sworn tostand by him through all the
perils of the hazardous voyage for at
least five years. His hopes were not
realized and so ends another vain at
tempt to penetrated the mystery of the
poles. --....
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-05-15

If the vessel be not fit to come home,
they can not easily construct boats for
their safety.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-05-15

IyTANTED, Agents and Peddiers for our
w PRESS AND STRAINER-Presses and
strains jams, jellies, 0eros, vegetables. lard.
tallow, meats, cheesc,sc. Over y, 90 sold In q
few localities sells quick. Every family
wants 1t. Sewing Machine and other establish
ed agents are finding this very profitable
Circulars free. Littleiield aud Dame, l02
Warrington Street, Boston. Mass. may leml
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-05-15

Endorsed 9y ne
dorsed
- Endorsed by Every Person.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22
JeffersOn's Debts.

Mr. Parton in his chapter of jefferson 8
life, for the Atlantic Monthly for March, al
luding to Jefferson's resolution to quit the
public service at the end of Washington's s
first term, says:
But why this agonizing desire for retire
ment? Thereby hangs tale. If we give
ten reasons for a certain course of conduct
there is often an eleventh which we do not
give; and that unspoken one is apt to be
The reason. He could no longer afford to
serve the public on the terms fixed by Con
gress. 1t was not merely that his salary did
notpay the cost of his Philadelphia establish
ment, nor that his estate was ill-managed by
overseers. An ancient debt hung. as he
says, " like a milestone round his neck'-a
debt which he had twice paid, although not
incurred by him. Upon the death of his
wife s father, twenty years before, he had re-
ceived property from his estate worth forty
thousand dollars, but subject to a British
debt of thirteen thousand. Impatient oi
debt, he sold a fine farm near Monticello for
sum sufficient to discharge it; but by the
time he received the money, the war of the
Revolution had begun. Virginia invited al
men owing money to Great Britain to de
post the same in her treasury, the State
agreeing to pay it over to the British cred
itor after the war. The identical coin which
Jefferson received for his farm he himself
carried to the treasury in Williamsburg
where it was Immediately expended il
equipping troops.
The Legislature Of Virginia however
thought better Of this policy, rescinded the
resolution, and returned the sums received
under it. But Jefferson was obliged to take
back his thirteen thousand dollars in depre
ciated paper. which continued to depreciatt
until it was worthless. In fact, the thirteer
thousand dollars, just suficed to buy hin
one garment; and in riding by that farm
in after years, he would sometimes point tc
| it, and say, laughing, "That farm | ono,
sold for an overcoat." At the end of thu
war, during which CORVALLIS destroyed
more than enough Of his property to pay
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

Products OF CALIFORNIA IN 1S72.-A
brief synopsis of what California did during
the year 1872, will not be deemed misplace
ed in this connection. We again extract the
following facts from the San Francisco Com
mercidl Herdids annual statement: The
wheat product of California for the period
mentioned was 25,000000 bushels-a far
larger yield than was obtained in any other
State, and of much superior quality. The
wheat and flour exports for the year reached
100000 centals, or seven hundred millions
of pounds, sufficient to furnish bread for two
millions of people for the space of one year,
allowing one pound per day to each individ-
ual. There were also something like 5,000,-
000 centals of wheat remaining Oh hand at
the close of the year. The gold and silver
yield Of this coast for 1872 reached $50 0,000,-
900, and our treasure exports for sixteen
years have amounted to the enormous sum
of S656,000,000 while our wheat and -four
exports for seventeen years were 43,000,000
centals, or four Thousand three hundred mil
lion of pounds, or enough to feed every man,
woman, and child in Spain for the space Of
one year. 1t is now known that the esti-
mated crop for 1872 was too low, and that
the harvest actually yielded 30,000,000
bushels, or l,8O0,00O,O00 pounds of the fin
est wheat in the world, The value of our
domestic exports by sea reached s24,OO0,-
900, while that of our imports was $4,000
900. Mining stocks were sold to the ex-
tent of S189,000,00o; our vineyards gave
1000, 900 gallons of wine. We turned out
100000 tons domestic Goals, and produced
25,OOO,0OO pounds of wool, enoughto clothe
100000 people, reckoning twenty five
pounds of wool to the suit. Our receipts OF
lumber were 237, 100000 feet-IHe West.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

Jean lngelow, in letter to Lucy Stone,
says she has not found time to give the
subject of woman's rights such an amount
of study as to make it wise to utter her
thoughts. Other things, she says, appear
to be given her to do, and she takes
them up to the exclusion of what lies be-
yond. But she takes "a keen interest"
in one problem which American women
have to work out, viz: How domestic
work is to be combined with high cul-
ture. She says: $50 long as household
work is thought degrading (and nowhere
is this SO much the case as in America),
there never can be anything like univer-
sal education; there must always be some
who work all their lives, because others
will not work at all. 1t is one of the
great things that you Americans, l be-
lieve, are raised up for, to teach the world
how this is to be done but the teachers
can never be those who are poor, they
must be those who are not obliged to
work at all. How to make clear starch
ing and ironing pretty and graceful occu-
pations land such they were thought by
our great great grandmothers), how to
keep house clean and to assist, even in
a kitchen, without the least sense of being
lowered, or the slightest personal deteri-
oration, might surely be managed if wom-
en- gave their mind to it."
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

THE EARLIEST NEwsPAPER.-Authori
have differed widely as to the nation and
city entitled to the honor OF having started
the first printed newspaper, For many years
it was supposed that the credit belonged to
England. 1t was claimed that the British
Museum had a copy of the earliest paper in
its collection. 1t was called the English
Mercurie, and printed July %, 1888; but
it has been shown that this copy, like speci-
mems of rare old coins, was spurious, and
gotten up for sale. Watts, the photograph
er of the Museum, who saw, on examina-
ton, that the type and paper were of mod
ern origin. and did not belong to the six
teenth century, exposed the forgery. 1t was
an ingenious fabrication, pretending to give
the news Of the Spanish Armada, which was
destroyed in the English Channel by Drake
and Howard day or two previous to the
date of the sheet. There were several num-
bers of this spurious Mercurie produced
four in manuscript, and three in print.
Venice has also claimed the honor of
leading the way in giving newspapers to the
world The Gazsetta, thus named because
it sold for small piece of money called gaz-
zetta, it is asserted, was printed there in
1870. and it is pretended that copies of this
paper of that date are in one or two collec-
tions in London. But late discoveries have
apparently established the claim of the old
German city of Nuremberg to this high hon
or. A paper called the Gazette, according
to trustworthy authorities, was printed in
that city as early as 1887, five years after
Peter Schoffer cast the first metal type in
matrices. Nuremberg, with the first paper
in the fifteenth century, also claims the
honor of the first paper in the sixteenth
century There is an anciently printed sheet
in the Libri collection which antedates all
others except the sheet of 1457 and the
Chronicle of Cologne. 1t is called the
Neue Zeitung aus Hispanien und Halien,
and bears the date of February, 1884. The
British Museum, it is said, has a duplicate
of this sheet.
Thus to Germany belongs the honor not
only Of the first printers and the first print
ing, but also of the first printed newspaper.
1t has also another claim to distinction. In
1918 Egenolf Eurmel started Die Frank
fwter Oberpostamts Zeitunq, the first dai-
y paper in the world This journal is still
published; and the city of Frankfort is to
erect monument in honor of its founder
and editor as the father of newspapers
Hmper's Magazine.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

Jealousy is at once the meanest and most
unaccountable of vices. What belongs to
us we shall have, inevitably; and what we
want and have not we shall never win by
unreason. If we are lovely, we shall be
loved and if we are unlovey, we shall not
be loved, no matter whether any one takes
our place or not Jealousy of the wealth,
the social importance, or the happiness Of
Others, is alike unaccountable and absurd.
Your own house is not lowlier because
your neighbors is two stories higher. II
be should fail, and have to give up his
carriage, it would only crowd the omni-
bus a little more, and by no means pro-
vide you with vehicle. What is there
in human nature that makes our poor
fare seem poorer because our neighbor is
eating roast duck and drinking champagne?
To envy the love bestowed upon another
is equally idle. Hearts keep their ac-
counts usually with very tolsrable fairness
We shall receive that Of which we are
worthy, no more-and what is our own,
by virtue of our desert, no fate can take
away.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

this debt, he had, as he remarked, "to lay
his shoulders to the payment of it third
time,' in addition to considerable debt OF
his own incurred just before the outbreak
of hostiities. What the laws of Virgin
Ia" he wrote to his creditor in England,
I" are, or may be, will in no wise influence
my conduct. Substantial justice is my OBJ
ject, as decided by reason, not by author
ity and compulsion." Ever since the war
closed, he had been struggling to reduce
these debts i; and. finally, made an ar
rangement for paying them off at the rate
of four hundred pounds sterling year.
How easy this ought to have been to a
person owning ten thousand acres of ex-
cellent land, one hundred and fifty y-four
slaves, thirty-four horses, five mules, three
hundred and ninety hogs, and three sheep.
But only two thousand acres of his land
were cultivated, nine of his horses were
used for the saddle, and the labor of his
slaves had been, for ten years, directed by
overseers. In 1898 the greater part OF
the debt remained to be discharged, and
he saw, whenever he visited Monticello,
such evidences of "the ravages of over
seers," as filled him with alarm. He had
now son-in-law to settle, q second
daughter to establish, mountainous debt
to pay, high Office to live up to, and an es-
tate going to ruin. Behold his eleventh
unuttered reason for the frenzy which pos
sessed him to live at home.
He might well desire to see the reign of
overseers brought to an end on his estate.
Readers remember, perhaps, General Wash
ingtons experience with them. How, when
he owned one hundred and one COWS, he
was compelled to buy butter for his own Ia
BILE; and how after building one of the best
barns in the country, where thirty men could
conveniently WELD the fail, he could not
prevent his manager from treading out the
grain with horses-so impossible was it, he
says, to put the overseers of this country
out of the track they have been accustomed
to walk in" He reached home for his an
nual vacation in 1893, about the middle oil
september, and caught this truly conserva-
tive gentleman in the act. 81 found tread
ng-yard," wrote the President, mot thirty
feet from the barn-door, the wheat again
brought out of the barn, and horses treading
it out in an open exposure, liable to the vi
cissitudes of weather" With such men to
manage, the General thought the new thresh-
ing-machine would have brief existence.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22
Too Late.

Ay, saw her, we have met
Married eyes, how sweet they be!
Are You happier, Margaret,
Than you might have been with me:
Silencei make no more ado -
Did she think l should forget,
Matters nothing, though know,
Margaret, Margaret.
Once those eyes, full sweet, full shy.
Told certain thing to mine;
What they told me / put by,
Oh, so careless of the sign.
Such an easy thing to take,
And l did not want it then;
Foo! wish my heart would break,
Scorn is hard on hearts of men.
Scorn Of self is bitter work,
Each of us has felt it now,
Bluest skies she counted mirk,
Selfbetrayed of eyes and brow;
As for me went my way,
And better man drew nigh,
Fain to learn with long essay,
What the winners hand threw by.
Matters not in deserts old,
What was born and waxed and yearned,
Year to year its meaning told,
L am come,-Its deeps are learned
Come, but there is nought to say
Married eyes with mine have met.
Silencel oh, had my day,
Margaret, Margaret.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

Is not this good. from an old Euro
pean writer p '"To study human nature to
purpose, traveller must enlarge his cir
cult beyond the bounds of Europe. He
go and catch her undressed-nay, quite
naked, az in North America and at the
Cape of Good Hope. He may then ex-
anime how she appears cramped, contract
ed and buttoned up close in the straight
tunic OF law and custom, as in China and
Japan or spread ont and enlarged above
her common size in the loose and flowing
robes of enthusiasm, as among the Arabs
and Saracens or, lastly, as she flutters in
the old rags of worn-ont policy and civil
government, and almost ready to run back
naked to the deserts, as on the Mediter-
ranean coast of Africa" I haven't seen
this equaled lately. For fine, free, strong,
picturesque composition, 1 doubt if it is
often beaten.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

THAT WAS FAR" Patrick, the widow
Maloney tells me that you stole one of her
finest pigs. Is it correct }"
"Yis, yer honor"
"What have you done with it,"
Killed it and ate it, yer honor"
"Oh, Patrick, Patrick! when you are
brought face to face with the widow and
her pig on the Judgment day, what account
will you be able to give of yourself when
the widow accuses you of stealingl"
did you say the pig would be there,
yer reverence ?"
"To be sure did :"
"Well, then, yer riverence, I'll say, Mrs.
Maloney, there's yer pig."
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-03-22

A man who lost some bonds from the
mail in 1858, after thinking the matter
over for 10 years, has concluded to ad-
yertise for them in New Haven paper.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

THE TAsKRR WoRKs-The M0ssrs. Tasker q
Co. have expended about 100000 ON their works
at New Castle. They have now employed about
fifty men, the greater number having been dis
charged in consequence of the cold weather and
short days rendering it impossible 10 employ a
large force with profit. In the Spring they pro.
pose, we believe, TO put on . large iorcc of men,
and press forward their various works TO an early
completion. At the present time they are en-
Ploying over thousand men at their establish.
ment in Philadelphia, aud are doing q very heavy
and profitable businessain gas pipes, fixtures, &c
Their improvements at New Castle are of such 0
character that will give them facilities for doina
an immense business which must eventually add
10 the large fortune they have succeeded in aceu
mulAiing. Mr. TaskeT, like many Others, com
menced work when 4 boy, with little bat habit
Of industry, good health and a clear head, and b,
constant application worked himself up TO hi
present honorable position.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

A DRFAULTTNo DEL.AWARRAN.-We find
the following bad account Of some Delaware
boy In the Philadelphia Ledger of last Satur.
day week:
1.-THE loss by the absent and defaultinQ
clerk in the Girard Bank will exceed the
amount Of 81, ,225, at first given, ana may pro
baby reach some 90, COO. The default Is the
result OF country collections, which have been
little unsettledtby the recent panic. These
collections did not, in the course OF the bank Z
business, 60 TO his desk, but TO that adloiniug
his, and In easy reach, from which the mis-
sing funds In nnguarded moments were alb
stracted. The young man Is Of good family.
from Delaware, where his security on the
bond, wealthy gentleman, resides. Up b
the time OF the discovery Of the default thll
clerk vas held In highest credit and was sun
posed TO be an AbstemiOus liver. His salart
was fair one, and one, with frugailty, iron
which he could have annually laid aside 4
portion. 1t has since been ascertained thal
he had invested moderately In q cigar store
which he had entrusted TO hired help thFOnRf
the day, giving his attentions there Ii IN
evenings He was here led into politics
thence TO visiting base ball gaming, and th.
cost and waste Of time attendant upon them
from which he found It but q step, 10 the &C
that has muleted his friend IN loss and blasiet
his character for the Temnlnded Of his lie. .Thl
bank Is no loser"
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

Hos DANIEL NJ. BATES Letters dated at Paris
have been received from Hon. Daniel NJ. Bates
He had quite pleasant trip across the Atlantic,
and was enjoying much better health on
reaching Paris than he had anticipated. On the
trip across the Atlantic lac had his hands full in
looking after his son and daughter who were very
sea sick, aud instead Of being able 10 minister tO
the wants of an invalid became the recipients Of
care and attention themselves. The release from
labor seems TO have had a very beneficial effect Oh
the health of Mr.. Bates, and there is reasonable
ground to hope that travel and change of scenery
may render him quite robust Republican,
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

HEAVY SALE.-Edward r. HembOld has sold
TO Simon T. Ksse, OF Danville, Pcnnsyiyanla, the
Stuart's Neck farm, Ia Somerset CO, for S65, 600
and The Waterford, in the same county, " the
same gentleman for Gas, 900 the fOmer farm con
tans abont 430 acres, aud the latter 500 acres ol
land. Not fifteen years ago the Stuarts Neck
farm was sold for 5000 aud the increase of value
is on account OF its adoption 10 peach and berry
culture, and the fine buildings, liberal of fer
Waterford farm sold for Sll 600 at trustees sale
and one year ago II was sold for S3O,OO0-SHssel
Journal.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

PArKNT.-James F. Wood, Of the firm Of VII
son, Wood & Co., OF this city, has obtained let
tiers patent on a false bottom for water coolers,
designed TO prevent injury to the coolers, when
dropping pieces Of ice therein. The false bottom
Is attached TO a spiral spring, which descends, as
the piece of ice touches it, and slowly resumes its
natural position, as the ice NETS away. 1t Is a
rood IN / needed invention.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

CArszKD.-on Wednesday last the schooner
Catiijnd, owned by Captain Owen Palmer, OF this
eity, when opposite Fort Delaware, was caught in
3 gale of wnid, and capsized, the crew barely es-
Gaping from her. The CdtiltRa was large
schooner, had Just been overhauled. and was
bound down to the oyster shoals, when the acci
dent occurred. Several attempts haye been made
to raise her all OF which 50 far have proved inci
fectual
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

LAND SALEs.-G. E Huklll sold his houie on
North Bread Street Mddletown, last week., to
Ms. Burnham for $1,000. Mr. Hukill also bought
Mrs. Burnham's lot on Cass 81, for $780, Mr.
Mead, the present occupant of Mr.. Hukilrs honst
has rented the dwelling of Geo. Dsrriclkson Esq
on Cass street for next year. Mr.. Derrlcksou
contemplates returning to his farm.
Mr.. Mark ii. Davis has bought Os Captain
u, Orge Russel. the Maud Draper Farm, in Prime
Hook Neck, Sussex CO for 400. He deEigni
setting it out largely in peach trees.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

VINO ARR Our or WoRK.-Des!ring to and aud
assist eur needy, but industrious mechanics, who
have recently been thrown out Of employment,
the Union Aid Association requests lnanufaetur-
ers TO furnish lists of men recently discharged
from various bishinents. II thls Is done, the
Association will be enabled 10 assist those who
really deserve 10 be helped.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

Coon PROGRESS About $4,000 of the $4,000
to be raised before the State aid is available for
the construction Of the Georgetown & Franktord
X. R., have been secured, and it is hopen that the
balance will soon be forthcoming, 10 which event
Il is proposed TO locate the road and commence
the grading as speedily as possible. The people,
It is said are at last becoming aroused TO the ne
eessity of prompt action.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

CENTENNIAL MEKTISG.-TO-night,a at the City
Hall. meeting in regard to the approaching Cen
tennial celebration will be held. Addresses wall
be made by n. Parker Shorllidge and John Price
Weiheiill, Esqs of Philadelphia. The City Coun'
ell will attend this meeting in a body, aud aiargC
attendance Of the public is hoped Tor.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

WILL sTILG. OONTINUR The prctacied meet
ings which have BEEN successfully held at Union
NJ. E. Church for some time past, will continue
next week. These meetings have accomplished
much spiritual good.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

tiooD PR1cEs.-At che sale of SIIi & Baly, at
the Red Lion, Chester county, Pa, on Monday
week, fresh cows sold from s45 TO &99. At the
sale az the effects OF the late John Thompson, in
Mill Creek Hundred, on Wednesday, pair Of
oxen brought S2ll .aa
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

TEMPERANCE MEETNo.- On Saturday night, a
public Temperance meeting was held at the City
Han, under the auspices of Asbury Lodge, Good
Templars, the attendance was quite large. Ad-
dresses were made by Geo Day, n. j. Mckeever,
and Others. Wawaset Lodge, Of McDOwellviile,
attended the meeting ia full rcgalia.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01
LOCAL IMTELuIoERoE

Mayor Slmms gives notice of a meeting this cy-
ening at O'Clock, In the Board Of Trade Roomss
to be addressed by committee OF the CentenEia
Commissioners.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-12-01

LARaE FUNERAL. members of the Post
Office Department, and the members of Hope
Lodge and Reynolds EncampmenL |. a. O. f.,
yesterday. attended, in body, the funeral OF their
late associate, Davis Messimer. Friends Of the
deceased, also attended in large numbers. :