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Maxinis for Anglers.

One OF the wittiest, merriest. ant
most entertaining of writers on thu
subject of angling was brother call
ed Penn-not much known to fame
but an undisputed authority among the
gIens where he ruled .king o. fishers
and while o. gusd men, He says:
1st. Find out if there is any fish in
the river to which you are going; if so,
get one who knows the water to show
you where the fish lie; and when he
shows them TO you don't you show
yourself to them.
I'd. Don't imagine, if the fish does
not dart away, that he has pot seen you
on the contrary, he is very likely de
voting his whole attention TO Won and
preparing to start the moment danger
is imminent.
Sd. If you are fishing with a fIy.
and you pass it neatly three times over
him, and he refuses it YOU need mot
wait any longer; he has seen your line
come.
4th. If you are above fish when
you hook him, get below him as soon
as you can, for if you pull him one in
slant against the stream, and he is a
heavy fish, he will break his hold.
9th. Never throw long line when a
short one will answer. -. =
9th. Never mind what is said about
playing your fish till he is tired;' put
him in your basket as soon you can.
1th. Remember that everything de-
pends upon the way you begin your
acIuaintance. If you can prevail on a
fish to go down, the stream a little
way with you, you will afterwards
have no difficulty in persuading. him
to let you have the pleasure of seeing
him to dinner. o 1-ziT !
To these excellent maxims I beg
leave to add one Of Mrs. Stoddard's,
especially intended for bachelors. Young
and old. Never fall in love with a
woman by the water-side; there are
situations in which every woman looks
an angel r1i 7'llIil I.-Il
In CONCLUSION, hope all true BROTH
ers Of the angle may never lack, in its
season, that dish of trout which good
old Izaak says SIS too good for any but
anglers, or very honest me11.'-Chris-
tian Union. p lt.--i1llr ialrs q :
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APersonai Advertisement.

A young lady arrived at Omaha, Ne
braska,. on Saturday, May 23d, and
registered her name at the Wyoming
Hotel as Edith Hayland, of New York
City. Concerning her the Omaha Re
publican tells a singular story, as fol-
lows: ''She came here for the purpose
of being married to Mr.. Bruce Adams,
of Wyoming Territory, they having
Strack up an acquaintance by means of
a notice IN an Eastern weekly neWspa-
per- which was follow ed by a cores
pondenceaid . prom: ise Of marriage.
.1hey h,it i5everiner each Utlferi face to
face, anu all they knew OF each other
was from Il correspondence that had
taken place between them. Rather
dangerous that! She found it so.
When She met Mr.. Adams at the Wy
0ming, she stated frankly to him that
she was disappointed in him, and she
refused TO marry him, She said she
did NOT like the looks of his face, Miss
Hayland Showed to us yesterday her
wedding outfit. She was we'll and am
ply provided with all articles that a
bride would need. Her dresses were
nice ana some of them quite elegant.
We noticed IA handsome toilet case in
her trunk with solid eOld trimmings.
The young lady is pleasant, fair look
ing gill. She evidently belongs to a
good family who are in comfortable
While she did not
show good sense in contracting to mar
ry man whom she had never seen,
and whom she had known but few
weeks, and then by correspondence on
ly, set she did act the wise part in
drawing out when she met the man,
and found thai she was disappointed
in him. Now comes the sequel, which
is as strange as the foregoing story.
The United States Marshal heard that
Bruce Adams was in the city, and it so
that the United States peace
officers here had orders to arrest Bruce
Adams who had been indicted in. the
United States District Court in Iowa
for robbing a. postofice in Vinton,
Iowa, in 1871. Adams was arrested on
Farnham street on Tuesday evening,
by Deputy Marshal Bierbower, and is
now in Jail here. The United States
Marshalis expected here to-day from
Iowa to take him East for trial Miss
Harland telegraphed to New York for
money received it yesterday ,and III the
she started back for her New
York home" 60; -; " y, ,s,.e,.I ',,,s-I -. s. ~
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Cremation in 1902.

The movement to substitute burning
of the dead for burial, has rcalled the
circumstances of the burning. of the
body of Ienry IaureaS, OF South Caro-
lima. He was an eininentsinerehant of
Charleston, WAS one of the patriots of
the Revolution, WAS President of the
Continental Congress, and became dis
'tinguished rs Statesn an In 1893,
during the Revolutionary war, he was
appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to
holland, to negotiate a commercial
treaty; but the vessel in which he sailed
was captured bya British frigate. HIS
papers, which he threw overheard,
were recovered by the enemy. He was
inearcerated in the TowertOf London,
and at the close of the war appointed a
Commissioner, with Franklin and Jay,
to negotiate the treaty ofpeace.
He died December s, 1898. By his
will he directed that his body should
be burned, and made provision alien
ating from his son his estate, valued at
more than a quarter ofa million, unless
the request was needed. A letter, writ
ten from Charleston at the time, says
that the reason Mr.. Laurens gave for
this singular desire was that his body
WIS tOO ROOu W DS tdtcu ny WOibo ~
foot-note, however, in Chadwick's RE
port on Intramural Interment' states
that Henry Laurens, having an infant
child die of small -pox, when the body
was laid out, caused the window to be
opened to admit fresh current of air.
The air, blowing over the body restor-
ed the child to life, and in this nifn2er
it barely escaped being buried alive.
So horror-stricken was Mr.. Laurens at
this event that he left orders in his will,
as before stated, for his body to be
burned. The funeral pile was erected
on beautiful spot on his plantation.
The body, wrapped in twelve yards OF
tow-cloth,' was borne upon the shoul-
ders of four favorite slaves and laid
upon the pyre, when incense and per-
fumery were thrown upon it. After
the funeral services were held beside it,
the flames were kindled, and when the
pile was burned, the ashes were collect
ed and placed in a silver vase.-[N. Y.
Observer. n -r.-.,,f.,.,. a...:.
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ABOUT WOMEN.

| a woman in Springfield, Ohio, had
"a fight with q saloon keeper, and then
walked up and paid her fine like =
little man..
We give the women nothing to think
about but dress, and abuse them for
thinking of that. 3-si49 sla
Noble county, Ohio, hasn't 9 saloon,
and the ladies want a small one open
ed so as to keep their hand in.'
A worthy Kentucky farmer, being
asked if daughter recaptiy married
was still living with him, replied, No,
sir; when one of my girls swarms she
must find her own hive
They are beading those lace scarfs
worn around the neck, for some reason
or other, and the great aim and ambi-
tfon of each and every lady appears to
be to get the beads as large as possible.
A Fonda woman took advantage of
a drunken snooze OF her husband to
glue his hair to the wall. Theincident
has Its moral, although II isn't every
husband who can afford tesbe stuck
'up.'i - .s-Isr -siiasJ
Some base thief entered the sleeping
apartment of young lady In Louis
vile, KY, Wednesday night, and cut
of and carried a away the long braid Of
her rich dark brown hair' on the right
side. ....s- ~ ,.t5.,.,'.. - -
;. Mrs. Marrowfat says: when a wo-
mans eye begins to look around her in
the world, 1t lights with most satisfac-
ton on some other woman,s bonnet
that isn't as expensively trimmed as
her own a'.. - u yab
I. A Lewisville (pregon) lady was re-
Gently black-balled by q grange. She
blamed a maa, neighbor, for casting
the vote, and meeting him at church,
proceeded to give him adrubhing. The
lady Is fifty years old, aud the man
seventy. ts,s..- -
! The number ofold bachelors and old
maids Is greatly on the increase. Club
life Is taking the place of home life. in
Massachusetts there are tvo bundred
thousand old maids. Think Of that,
dear ladiesi {. Isn't there something
wrong in society?
Miss Matte Gaylord and her sister.
of Boston, who have journeyed thir-
teen thousand miles In their own err
riage, are at Denver. They say that
no lady who hasn't tried Ii can have
any idea OF how much pleasanter il Is
to travel without the circumference Of
men. - s''4 s.ft
Mrs. Sartoris is gentle and amiable.
If the brave young Englishman who
Is her husband had married woman
of the disposition peculiar 10 q good
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Handsome Ferns.

0fiate there has been, says the Ohio
Farmer an increased interest shown in
rural homes for fern culture, and some
rare and choice varieties have been in
troduced by the. leading fioriststo meet
the growing demand. Hardy ferns are
the most desirable, for when once well
rooted they will last for several years,
the plants increasing in size and beauty
and all the care required will be to
trim off the decayed leaves in autumn,
and protect with aslight cover OF litter,
cite. during winter. Anyone. with a
small spot or nook of partialIy-shaded
ground, may enjoy the possession of a
hardy tern. succeed, the soil should
Ire of light texture, formed of good
loan, leaf mold, and sand. 1t is found
in practice that these beautiful plants
succeed best in reckeries-that is,
plenty of large and small rucks are so
plreed as to form banks, of any shape
desired; this is. filled with soil from
behind, where the plants are placed,
thus securing good drainage as well as
moisture from the presence of the
stones. Plenty of hardy varieties may
be found in the woods by those who do
not feel able to purchase. 80
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A Singular Courtship and its End
The following story is told by the

Inc lOliOWlns story IS tOiu Dy tne
Pittsburgh (Penn.) Dispatch:
'1Sorae months since the particulars
were pnblissaed of the romantic attach
ment of a weasthy young man, resi-
ding on Squirrel Hill, for Miss Zulula
Agra, the beautiful Creassian girl, who
was at the time on exhibition at Bur-
nelIs Museum. It will be yemembcr-
ed that the young man, fearing that he
was thwarted in his love. became mel
ancholy. On certain Sunday, when
he had been refused an opportunity OF
seeing the fair object of his loye, the
young man returned to the Union De-
pot, where he was boarding, and ex-
hibited symptoms Of what his friends
claimed was insanity. A day or two
afterward he was declared to be luna
tic, and with the consent and at the
request of his relatives he was taken to
Dixmont. Here he remained for some
weeks and was finally discharged. As
mans affections were still centered in
the fair Circassian. He made inqui-
ries in every quarter as to the where
abouts of his lady love, and having as
certained that she was connected with
ClTcuS, no uiSpdtCuCu q CUIuuicSlOuoA
to ascertain the exact location. The
lady was found to be travelling through
the State of New York, and when this
agent returned, the young man started
out to join the circus, at some place on
its advertised route. He came up with
the object of his search one day last
week, at the little town of Fair Oaks,
In the State named, and at once sought
out the fair Zululu. It Is said that the
meeting was an exceedingly cordial
and joyous one. The young man re-
peated his offer Of marriage which was
accepted, and preacher being found
the tedious and checkered courtship
was brought to q happy close in that
distant village by the marriage of the
romantic couple. After spending a
short time in the East, bride and BRIDE
groom started for Pittsburgh, and ar
rived In this city yesterday morning.
They took up their quarters at hotel,
and were the recipients of the con-
gratulations of privileged few, who
had been notified Of the happy culmi-
nation of this romantic courtship.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-06-25

LENGTH OF, DAys.-At Hamburg,
the longest day has seventeen hours,
and the shortest seven. At Stockholm,
the longest has eighteen and half
hours, and the shortest five and half.
At'St. Petersburg, the longest has nine
teen, and the shortest five. hours. AT
Finland, the longest has twenty-one
and half hours. At Wondorbus, in
Norway, the day lasts from the twenty
first of May to the second OF July. the
sun not getting below the horizon for
the whole time. but skimmlng along
very close to il in the north. AT Spitz-
bergen, the longest day lasts three
months and q half. sif ..,,. ..s RI.
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SHERMAN HOUSE,
BRIDGE EPORT, ONO.
VIM. PANCOAST, Proprietor
Dentistry,

,nR WOOD having located in ST. Clsirsvlile.
ID announces to the public that he Is nov
prepared TO perform all ope rations inpentsay
< rtfficial teeth inserted on the best putc0,esl<
6or sllS a set feither upper or underl Afternoon
is called 10 AltminuEa, the hghtest strooges,'
and purest m aterial ever worn IN tne ,oouIn'
SSneci al attention paid to treating & nlling ths
naiural teeth, Aliwork warranted
&. r, WOOD, Dentiat.
,aastr Ofice nearly opposite Post Once.
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Belmuat Go. Business Directory,
ooUNTY OFFICERS.


1,oboss yud0e-C. w. CARROLL. Omct
uo-stairs in public buildings, nrst door 70 TiEn'
Sheyf9-wM. C. COCHRAN once IN pupiic
Clerk or Corts-J. E. MITCHELL 0mcein puo-
lie buildings adjoining the Court aouss, .,
An1inor-W.rE- SIAMP--1O once upstairs III
public building. entrance a left aoor ~,
TreassreT-A. PoRrERFIELp once on Ma1n
sfreet first d oor west OF the Bank
Recorder-JAs. A. BARNES. once IN pubic
ouildine first hoor second door on LETT.
praseclfin0 khoraea-W. y kESNoN. omce
few doors east af the National Hotel.
(,mrsissioacrs-Sol Hogue. Somerton; b. Il
Duugan, Plank Road; William AiiAanoer
Bridgeport. - ,,,,.-.,
iSrrueyor--NeBLE c. RTER. Hendiysourgn-
. Cuosser-THoMAs GARRETTs isellaiLS- q.
C,omTnIssioners meet at ST. Clairsvflle on ths
FIRST Mondays of March. June, september ano !,
December-and a Board OF EquanLssion
fae third wednesday OF May. In each yea
: The Probate Court meets on the nrs. = ns NE
days Of JapuarEarch, May, July. sep.esma, 2:
n n and Noyenli US criminal court, and Is
sisays open fonbdsfne hours for the trans
sctIon Of other 6psin ness ! y
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Although a woman's age is undeni-
ably her own, she does nOtown it.
Two things that are weakened by
lengthening-stea mships and sermons.
When one splits his sides with laugh
ter he should run until he gets stitch
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-06-25

THE more God empties your hands
of their other work the more you may
know He has special work to give
them.-Etl,Dard Garrett.
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Nothing hurts the feelings ofa Vassar
girl so much as to be told, In the pre-
sence of strangers at the breakfast table,
that she must limit herself to thirty
pancakes on this oceosion.' a~raFi
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"a CA1rO,

AFR. 1T. sToNEBRAKER. is ready at bis
wi saloon under the st. Clair House. 20 4steno
q ali work in the way ofshsving, Hair Drsss-
ing. making Curls. witches, wigs, Swe s,os
him a D..
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A. horse must be miserable creature,
as his thoughts are always on the rack.
Why is bank poor place to inn
part secret? Because there Is always
teller in 1t. .l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-06-25

Itis estimated that it,coets New
Workers and residents of Brooklyn fully
'SlS, /, ,O00, 600 per year~for summer plea.
sure. Greene county, iniswhich the
Catskills lie. claims that it yearly re-
ceives 81, 900, coo of this sum. $50.
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Rnsiafss Cards.

j ATToRNEY at LAW ri
BEELAIRE, OHIO.
oe,ce-Msin street. in BuTE's Building. oppe
site National Hotel. IAno'.
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- NAs5NIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

! = ss-l'F - 'SsS-1s--l sfl8lit zoe Z
Belmont Lodge, 20. l6. F. A N; mees ,,, s,;
ery "Wednesday nlsns on 9. IsEfToR stseTgoR W. w M.
ii. FKRRELL,- -secy. - r.
:. at. ClairsviiIe Chapter. No. II Royal Arch
ssasons. meets every Friday night on or after
M s,,,1 moon s. j. BAGGS, II. p.
T. H.FERRELL, Sec'y. - = - ..
HeIu,ont Council, No. 81 Royal Select anc
super Excellent Masters, meets on the SECOND
.russday night of every month.
n. r. BUMGARENR, TIL. g. NJ
Ed BAILY, Rec.
v,o,e commandery No. 26 Of Knights Temp.
~. ,,oee,g = on the second Monday light OF every
rontb l4 F.D. BAILEY, En- com
s Las. B. Ryan. Rec i mari'
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slsl.is t,l -ns aa.- ua-lii .sosiE is..ss4
ifs's.s'ss'i e. iltl fiiisiti saf ~
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r. s. & A. p. LACEY,
= ATTORNEYS AT LAW. .~--- =
Solicitors Of
Patents and Claims.

Ga. ms and appear before all the Departments.
Prom ptpess and satisfaction given In all busi-
ness entrusted TO item, ,eCerrsspondence so
WASHINGToN.D ID. c. sep96u
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And have we not daily evidence In
Cadiz, of tins suppression of qrunden-
ness by the closing of dram-shops !?
CoT pare the quiet and sDbfiety of the
1st of June, 1874, when the circus was
here, with the drunkenness and FaWdy-
ism of former show days when the
shops were open. -s0 81 ID.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-06-12

opened early IN 1854. In 1857, after long
discussion, law for the sale of the State
works was passed, and the Pennsylvania
railroad became the purchaser of the
"main line, ard was thereby released
from the payment of tonnage, freight and
other, specified taxes. The section of the
law releasing the company from the pay
ment Of taxes was decided by the supreme
court to be unconstitutional, and in 1861
an act was passed "for the Communication of
the, tonnage taxi
During the years Immediately following
the completion Of the road it was greatly
improyeds the tracks doubled, other lines
leased or bought, depots and extensions
built, and more recently almost the entire
line has bean relaid with steel rails, the
line straighteeed and regarded. During the
war the Pennsylvania railroad was largely
used for the transportation Of troops and
supplies, and its vice president, Col Scott,
was charged by the government with the
special duty Of furnishing transportation
for large bodies of troops and immense
quantities farmy supplies.
Twenty years ago the Pennsylvania rail-
road was but link between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg- from Harrisburg
to the latter eity--now it has its eastern
termini at New York, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington, and unites them by
its direct lines with Pittsburg, Erie. CIeve-
land, Toledo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indian
apolis, Louisville and st. Louis. Connec-
tions are also made with st. Paul, Duluth,
Omaha, Denver, the cities Of California,
and with Memphis, Mobile and New Or
leans. To transact its extended and diver
sified business, the company owns and runs
upon its own lines eleven hundred locomo-
tiyes, one thousand cars devoted to the
passenger traffic, and twentysix thousand
in freight service. 1t owns two thousand
miles of completed road. Its workshops
cover an area of more than five hundred
acres. 1t employs an army of men, many
of whom are mechanics and experts of the
highest skill. 1t has two hundred and
twenty-five foreign ticket offices and agents
independent of those at its own stations)
established in thirteen different States.
Along with this great extension of the
road there has been great Improvement
in the rolling stock of the company and its
bridges. Its chief officers have been civil
engineers, and they have employed in the
service of the company some of the best en-
gineering talent.
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Select poetrg.
GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY.

She stood at the bar of justice, eH
A creature wan and wild, Fsal
In form too small for u woman, - -
In features too old for child; ,r
For look SO worn and pathetic
Was stamped on her pale, young face,
It seemed long years of suffering
Must have left their silent trace. a3
"You name," said the judge, as he eyed her
With kindly look, yet keen,
"Is''-''Mary MCGUIRE, If you please, SIR"
'And your age 2" "I'm turned fifteen"
s'Well, Mary" and then from paper
He slowly and gravely read,
''You're charged here, am sorry to say it,
With stealing three loaves of bread.
''You look not like an offender,
And hope that You can show
The charge to be false. Now, tell me
Are you guilty of this or not 70
A passionate burst Of weeping
Was st first the sole reply,
But she dried her eyes in a moment,
And looked in the judges eye.
81 will tell you how it was, sir;
My father and mother is dead,
And my little brothers and sisters
Were hungry and asked me for bread.
At first earned it for them
By working hard all day.
But somehow times were hard, sir,
And the work all fell away.
81 could get no more employment;
The weather was bitter cold,
The young ones cried and shivered-
(Little Johnny's but four years old)-
So what was to do, sir
am guilty but do not condemn,
l took-oh was it stealing p
The bread to give to them"
Every man in the court room
Gray beard and thoughtless youth
Knew, as lie looked upon her,
That the prisoner spoke the truth.
Out from their pockets came 'kerchiefs,
Out from their eyes sprung tears,
And out from old faded wallets
Treasures boarded for years.
The judges face was q study
The strangest you ever saw,
As he cleared his throat and murmured
Something about the law;
For one so learned In such matters
So wise in dealing with men,
He seemed, on q simple question,
Sorely puzzled just then.
But no one blamed him or wondered,
When at last these words they heard:
"The sentence of this young prisoner
Is, for the present deferred q"
And no one blamed him or wondered
When he went to her and smiled,
And tenderly led from the courtroom
Mary, the "guilty" child.