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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26

AN ENTERPRIsING COUNTRY EDI-
ToR.A-He was once ON jaHnt in the
township of White Oak, Ingham coun-
ty, sticking to every farmer until he
get his name and his money, and it SC
happened that he care to house
where death had called few hours
before. The farmers wife was laid out
ard the husbandman and his children
were grieving over her loss when the
editor knocked at the door.
whats up?' enquired the editor as
he saw the farmers solemn counte
nance before him.
MY wife is Dead replied the farmer
'Is that SOP unused the editor, lit.
tie disappointed. Did she die easy?'
Dropped off like lamb.'
Did she say anything"
Not word-just went right to sleep
like
Il didn't know continued the edi.
tar, sad look on his face, but wh..1
she might have requested you to sub.
scribe for the Cascade, which you
know Is fhe best paper i'm the county.
II you want 1t I'll take your name
ribgt in, and under the circumstances
won't charge a cent for the obituary
noticen
The farmer hung off for awhile, but
before the editor went away he had
two additional dollars in his pocket,
and had written an obituary notice for
publication In the next issuee, which
The bereaved husband pronounced "a
mighty smart piece. ."-Detroit Free
Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26
Women and Wine.

A writer in Scribner's Monthly uses
the following strong language which
will he responded to by the women who
have suffered all over the land:
s.Of the worst foes that women has
ever had to encounter, wine stands at
the head. The appetite for strong
drink i'm man has spoiled the lives OF
more women-ruined more hopes for
them. scattered more fortunes for them,
brought to them more shame, sorrow
and hardship-than anyother evil that
lives. The country numbers lens OF
thousaads-yea hundreds OF thousands
OF women who are widows to-day,
and sit in hopeless weeds because their
husbands have teen slain by strong
drink. There are hundreds of thou
sands of homes scattered all over the
land, in which women live lives of tor
ture, going through all the changes OF
suffering that lie between the extremes
offear and despair, because those whom
thew love, love wine better than they
do the women they have sworn to love
There are women by thousands who
dread to hear at the door the step that
once thrilled them with pleasure, be.
cause that step has now learned to reel
under the influence of the seductive
poison. There are women groaning
with pain, while we write these words
from bruises and brutalities inflicted by
husbands made mad by drink. There
can be no exaggeratiou in any state
ment in regard to this matter, because
no human imagination can create any
thing worse than the truth, and no per
Is capable of portraying the truth. The
sorrows and horrors of a wife with
drunken husband, or mother with 8
drunken son, are as near the realization
of hell as can be reached in this world
at least. The shame, the indignation
the sorrow, the sense of disgrace fol
herself and her children, the poverty
mot unfreauently the beggary--the
fear and the fact of violence, the linger.
ing, lifelong struggle and despair OF
countless women with drunken hus-
bands, are enough to make all women
cnrse wine, and engage unitedly to op-
pose it everywhere as the worst enemy
of their sex"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26
Maxims i'm Life.

John McDonough, the millionaire o.
New Orleans, has engraved upon his
tomb series of maxims prescribed as
the rule for his guidance through life
to which his success in business j,
mainly attributed. They contain SC
much wisdom that We copy them:
RULES FOR GUIDANCE OF MY LIFE
1874.
Remember always that labor is one
of the conditions of our existence. Time
Is gold; throw not one minute away,
but place each moment to account.
Do unto all men as you would be
done by.
Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do to-day.
Never bid another do what you can
do yourself.
Never covet what is not your own.
Never think any matter so trifiing as
not to deserve notice.
first cume in.
Never spend but to produce.
Let the greatest order regulate the
Transactions of your life.
Study, in your course of life, to do
the greatest amount of good.
Deprive yourself of nothing necessa-
ry to your comfort, but live in an hon.
orable simplicity.
Labor, then, to the last moment OF
your existence.
Pursue strictly the above rules, and
the Divine blessing and riches will flow
upon you to your hearts content; but,
first Of all, remember that the chief and
great duty of your life should be to tend,
by all means in your power, to the hon
or and glory of our Divine Creator.
Without Temperance there is no health;
without virtue, no order; without re-
ligion. no happiness; and that the aim
ofour being should be to live wisely,
soberly, and righteously.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26

There were 1 ,a27, ,533 cases of boots
and shoes shipped from Boston during
the year 1873,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26
.FOETRr
A RAINY DAY.
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

BY MARGARET E. sANGSTER.
All dsy against the window pane
The fitful dashing of the rain
Keeps up in dreary monotone
A minor music of its own;
A weary moan of restless pain,
This chorded anthem of the rain.
Nv tired heart with me he hears
Too tired to-day for easeful tears
And well inteprets every sound
From sobbing sky and barren ground;
Like one who from the organ-keys,
Awakens threaded harmonie5
To fit in pauses of the strain
Another sings, list the rain,
And try, thro' woven words OF mine,
It's cadenced melody To twine.
All day il falls on little beds
That pillow softly baby heads
From mothers tender nursing gone,
While vet their life was in the dawn.
Alss. how many a mother feels
The coldness of each drop that steals
Through that green coverlet that lies
Between her darling snd her eyes!
All day it shuts the cheerful sun
FROM many longing, lonely one;
No sparkling rift of heavens blue
Breaks regnant all its mystery through;
No golden radiance cleaves a way
through close-set banks of vapor gray;
Slow beating on the darkened pane
All day, the sleet, the storm, the RAIN
Yet think, impatient soul Of mine,
That somewhere still the sun must
shine,
That somewhere other hearts are glad
And DAYS are not forlorn and sad,
And that Gods benedictions still
Fall from stern lips of seeming i'll.
In memory's light these drops may bt
Like glittering amethysts to thee.
And all thy being yet may bless
His patient care and tenderness,
Who bids thee trust Him not in vain
For days, clear shining after rain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26
Valuable Real Estate at
Private Sale!

There is now offered at Private Sxle, that
valuable farn oeongfng 10 the estate OF Jacob
Keyser Sr., deceased, situated in Mead Town.
ship, Belmont county, Ohio. . miles Northwest
OF the Bellaire & Wegee Pike: 80 miles nom
the Wegee landing on the Ohio River spd 3
miles from Bellatre. Ohio.,-S miles Of which
distance Is PIKE. said farm contains 500 acres
ofland. of which about 100 acres are cleared,
and ell adapted to farming aud grazing; the
balan ee well timbered-all under fence. There
are on the premises good dwellings, large
frame bari, and all necessary out-ouildir gs.
also one q od bearing orchard. VIII he sold
entire or il tracts TO suit purchasers. Poss es-
sion given aU any time. Tile genuine. For
further particulars, call on or address
JOHN X EYSER. Beallsyiile Monroe Co. o.
JACOB II. KEYSER. Bellaii q. Bel. Co, o..
Or Executors.
/. NJ. Riley. ST. ciairsvilie, Ohio.
". s. kennoD, .. no6tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26

CURES ALL HUM0RS, FROM COMMON ERUP-
TION TO THE WORST SCROFULA.
BY its use Cancers are cured, and Can,
cerous tumors are dispersed without the surgeos's
knfe-Scrofnla conquered, and Consumption pre-
vented and cured.
VenereaI Diseases. Mercurial and Mineral
Hasons, and their effects eradicated, and vigorous
health and sound constitution established
Female Weakness and Disease. Dropsy,
general partial; Swellings. external internal
and Tumors are reduced and dispersed in very
sh2rt time.
Sores are soon removed by this powerful detergent
medicine.
Seorbutic Diseases, Dandruff. Sealy or
Rough Skin, and Pimples quickly give way. leaving
Chronic Diseases, Fever and Aeue. Disor-
dered Liver, Dyspepsia. Rheumatism, Nervous Af
diseases caused BY bad blood are conquered and give
way before this nest powerful corrector, the King of
the Blood.
F. Each bostle contains between forty and fifty
ordinary doses, costing only one dollar
From one to four or five bottles will
cure Salt Rhenm, Scald Head, Ring Worm, Pimples
on the Face, Bles, ordinary Eruptions, etc
From two TO eight bottles will cure Scaly
EGptions of the Skin, Ulcers, Sores, and Canker in
the Mouth and Stomach. Erysipelas, etc.
From two to ten bottles will restore
healthy action to the Liver and Spleen, will regulate
the Bowels and Kidneys.
From two to six bottles will be found Of
fectua in curing Neuralgia SickHeadache, st. Vitus'
Dance, and Epilepsy.
From Ave to twelve bottles will cure the
worst cases of Serofula.
From three to twelve bottles viii cure
seyere and obstinate cases of Catarrh.
From two to four bottles will cure the
worst cases of Piles, and regulate Costive Bowels.
From two to ten bottles will cure bad
cases of Dropsy.
Price 81 per bottle, or bottles for IS. Sold
by all Druggists.
d. RANSOM, SON L CO., Propr's, Buffalo, N. Y.
See testimonials in local colnrn
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26
MisfsIiaueuus.
ssIlsrlsEsUS RELIEF and s0Uxb.sEFaEHIyG AEE
Uuarah Ittu Uy usIhS my
Instant Relief tdr the asthma.

II acts instantly, relieving the parozysm
immediately and enabling the patient TO lie
down and sleep. l suffered from this disease
twelve years, but suffer no m ore. and work an d
sieep as well as any one. Warranted to relieve
in the worst case. Sent by mali on receipt O
price one dollar per box; ask your Druggis
| fOi il. CdAS, r. HURST,
| n1ar2OIy Roche ster. Beaver Co.. Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26

| IL the hnest farming and grazing land in
~ one body in Eastern Ohio. The undersign-
ed desiring TO remove West, now offers at
Private SALE his entire tract of land situated
ON wheeling Creek Union Township Belmont
county, Ohio. five and one-half miles North o
Belmont Station G. o. r. r three miles Nort h
OF National Road, and two miles south o.
Flushing %
q FIRST Tract, containing three hundred acres,
80 cleared and in coed state OF cultivation,
balance well timbcred. Can be conveniently
divided into two farms, as il has on il two
2-stoly aWelllrg houses cCmmodiOus horse
ana sheen barns and other out buildings: also
three good orchards
second Tract, contains two hundred end
thirty acres; 2t0 cleared and in grass; balance
neaNlly ulnDered, with IWo-Story frame
mouse, a good tenant house, and all convent
choice fruit.
Ihess tracts have an abundance oflimes.one
are underlafd with good vein of coal, easy of
access, are well watered with a nGi lber of
never failing springs and will be sold together
as IN tracts to suit purchasers
IeffnS reasonable and a clear title given
PERSONS wishing purchase. or desiring aI.y
information. VIII call on subscriber on the
premises, or address him g Morristown. Bel
mont County, Ohio.
decotf
Bellaire independent copy two mos. and send
Dill TO this office
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-26
TO CONSUMP PTIVES.

The advertiser. having been permanently
cured of that dread disease, Consumption by
simple remedy, is anxious to make known
10 his fellow sufferers the means of cure. TO
all who des,'e IL he will send n copy of the
prescription used Tree OF chargeJ with the d.
recttons for preparing and using the same
which they will find SURE CURE for Con,
ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, etc.
Parties wishing prescription will please ad
dress. Rev. Il. A. WILSON
NOy206m,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12
" Garden Cfty,0

A New York letter says One of the
greatest attractions in the suburbs of
New York is "Garden City," a city
growing rapidly into vast proportions,
and owned entirely by Mr.. A. L. Stew
art, of New York. Mr.. Stewart, wish
ing to confer benefit ON an industrial
and meritorious class of our citizens,
such as mechanics, artists, statesmen,
clerks, etc. conceived the idea of build
ing q city for their use, in which they
could enjoy all the conveniences and
comforts of domestic life at price
suited to their circumstances. 70 ac--
complish this object, he purchased
tract of land on Long Island, in the
town of Hampstead, which amounts, in
Guiding some recent purchases, to bout
10, 600 acres, all of which is dry,
sandy soil, admirable for building pur-
poses. The whole tract has been laid
out into broad squares, with wide streets
running through it at equal distaneesj
which are graded and graveledaso as to
furnish the finest drives we have ever
seen. The soil has been improved and
enriched, SO that most of it is suitable
for garden purposes, containing a vast
number Of fruit and ornamental trees IN
most fourishing condition. ''' -.
About $50 dwelling houses have al
ready been erected, and others are in
process of erection, embracing about
thirty for the season. Probably this
number and more will be erected ans
nually. The houses vary in size, and
are built in the most substantial and
perfect manner, embracing every posi-
BILE house convenience and comfort for
domestic purposes. We had the pleas
ure of examining one of the best of the
houses completed, and we, pronounce
| it the most perfect model of "a dwelling
house we have known. We could not
conceive of a convenience of such a
dwelling it did not possess. 1t stood
within an Enclosure of about half an
acre of rich soil, with fruit and other
trees, with stable and other out-build-
ings, the whole costing about 800, 900,
and rented for $500, less than one half of
the usual rental of such an establish
ment in location that distance from
the city. Some of the houses are small,
with four, five or sig rooms, though ar
ranged for convenience, and rent for
from 500 to 5000 aRd $500 per year. sa
"Garden City" is locaetd about
twenty miles fpom New York, in one
of the most healthy neighborhoods in
the country, and is connected with New
York by railroad just built by Mr..
Stewart, at great expense, and is per-
haps the most acknowledgements
railroad in the country, and passen-
gers are carried over it in about forty
minutes. r.
Mr.. Stewart, in carrying out this
grand, magnificent enterprise, has al
ready expended on it, we are told, not
less than $14,000'000, and the work is
just begun. The city is to remain for
ever for the purpose intended, and the
buildings only to be rented. He has
erected hotel, one of the largest and
best to be found in this or any other
country, but, as yet, no provision has
been made for church accommodation,
wisely leaving it for the tenants to at
tend to that part Of the work.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12
Emigration Statistics.

In one week in July last 1900 steer
age passengers sailed for Europe from
New York. Last Saturday week 500
sailed in a single ship. During the
year ending June 80, 1873, the outgoing
passengers by sea from the United
States were 119, 154. During the five
years previous the average annual num-
Der was 81, 900. Of those departing So,
706 were cabin passengers, and IS, 448
were "other than cabin" This excess
in the year named is not due to the
Vienna exhibition, for during the three
months of the spring and summer,
when travel was at it's height, the steam
ships carried only about 500 more pas
sengers abroad than in the correspond
ing period of 1872. For the year end
ing with June, 1873, 48, 744 citizens of
the United States came home, and
Ii, 1888 "aliens not intending to remain"
arrived. The whole immigration for
the year was 473, 141, exclusive of our
returning citizens. The remarkable in
crease in the number of people going
abroad indicates the return of immi-
grants for good. Some have made
their fortunes some have been disap-
pointed even labor has failed. This
last cause has operated for the past
year more than heretofore, as the re-
turns of next season will show. Brook
Inn ATO2GS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12

da JUDGMENT OF MUSICIANS. Theodore
Thomas, the distinguished founder and
conductor of the famous Thomas
Orchestra, New York, ought to know as
we'll as any one the opinions entertained
by musicians respecting musical in
struments. He declares that they gen
orally agree with him in regarding the
MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS as
much the best instruments of this class
in the world. 1t is not, therefore, sur
prising that they are now largely ex-
ported to Europe, commanding higher
prices there than the instruments of
their best makers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12
The GuilIOtine.

Science, says the London Lancet,
would almost seem to be as tardy of
growth as moral principle in some quar-
ters, if we may Judge from the argu-
ments against death by decapitation
which have been revived in connection
with the recent executions in France
Poiriers, the Liunours murderer, and
Moreau, the herbal poisoner of st.
Dennis, were both guillotined last week,
and forthwith the Partisan press in
Weighs against that MODE of execution,
citing the old experiments of DR.. Sue
(the novelist's father, and even advanc-
ing as la 0LatS .tTGppGpat 2reuUe that the
decapitated head feels and thinks EG
.j0ue de Charlotte CorG0y rougissGnt
SOatS Je Su670t dW V0Let de EerecuteaH'.
Our readers may remember that rather
less than four years ago we had to refute
the theory OF DR.. P1nel, that Trop-
mann's head, having lost under the
guillotine the sources Of common sensa-
tion, yet retained hearing, sight and
smell, with the whole apparatus of con-
seriousness and intellect. The trunk,
he maintained, died quietly and pain
iC0o1J 1AOAn ACnOIIuS1SS Ill Ou6 COAISo
of a few minutes /; but the brain,
shielded by atmospheric pressure, re-
tanned its blood and consequently it's
life, for no fewer than three hours.
1t is still necessary, it seems, to reas-
sert the fact that while the brain pos
sesses q considerable quantity of blood
after decapitation, the blood rapidly
becomes venous for want of oxygen,
the condition being that of asphyxla,
in which consciousness vanishes in
ninety seconds. The physical shock
sustained from the guilIotine would of
itself, moreover, paralyze all nervous
functions too completely to admit of
consciousness taking place during the
brief interval necessary for the thorough
deoxidation of the blood in the BRAN.
Beyond the momentary impact of the de-
scending knife on the felon's throat, no
further sensation can be felt. Indeed,
the mode of execution is so painless as
almost to weaken the deterrent force of
capital punishment, certainly to deprive
those who would abolish that punish
ment of any argument deducible from
the horrors of the guiilotlne.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12
Lead i'm Reer.

A Mr.. Atcherly has recently tested a
large number of samples of malt liquors
in England expressly for lead, and has
found that poison in most of them.
The liquor acts, in his opinion, upon
the lead or composition piping used by
beer retailers for connecting the barrel
with the beer-engine in the bar, and in
case where the beer has been for some
time in contact with the metal the pro-
portion of lead is very considerable
Hence, be cautious morning beer
drinkers against imbibing the first
"pull of the pump, especially when
their particular fancy happens to be for
cold ale" Sherry drinkers should al
so be warned against wines doctored, as
is frequently the case, with acetate of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12
DYSPEPSIA.

SYMPTOMS-Want of appeti e, rising offood and
wind ON the stomach, acidity Of the stomach,
heartburn, dryness and whiteness the tongue
in the morning, of distension in the stomach
and bowels, sometimes rumb ing and pain; cos
tiveness, which is occasionally interrupted by
diarr oea; paleness Of the urine. The mouth is
clammy, or has sour or bitter taste. Other fire.
quent symptoms are waterbrash, palpitation of
The heart, headache and dis rders of the senses,
as seeing double, &c. There is general debility,
ianguor, and aversion to motion; detection of the
spirits, disturbed sIeep, and frightfgl dreams.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12

Our lives like fastening streams must be
THAT into the engulfng sea- GJ& ia w
Are doomed to fall
The sea Of death, whose waves roll on ass
A3na DER king and kingdom, crown and throne,
and swallow all. as 81 asa., t,i7s4< So
-,- Alike the rivers lerdly tide,0 gmo3 D3I3t(
Alike The humble rivuet's glide
c~.t oso1uTo that sad wave! ar4di nisb h9
" Death levels poverty and pride,
rad The rich and poor sleep side by side ~ 1H
erev 4ii II" lFn h fne g grave fw lid 5m bta
Our birth is but starting place ;r3d dt.g
A& Life is the running of the race,
er.se "a And death the goal ;a4,1U sYt1B
There all our glitteriDg toys are brought
b'o That path alone, OF all unsought,W si1ll
Is found of all.
See, then, how poor and little worth
4t, Are all those glittering toys of earth d8Ie1
t~ r" That lure us here
Tae'. Dreams of sleep that death must break; e
Alas before it bids us wake,
VTH8 dgN We disappear. i0n- 4@4 3a
Z jd Bong ere the damp of death can blight,
ff,rr The cheeks pure glow of red and white Ct
Has passed away;
earl Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair u
Age came and laid his finger there
GulEl And where are they? a4s' *7 ts
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The steps that roved So light and gay. II / I
The hearts blithe tone?
The strength is gone, the step is slow, rs
tf' And joy grows wearisome and woe
- When age comes on !! TX. t..f-rf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12
Gained Fifteen Pounds Of Flesh.

SOUTH BERWICK, Me-, Jan. IL, 1872.
Il. r. STEVENS, Esq: H". ..e -s -.4 sas ## A.
Dear Sir-I have 0ad Dyspepsia in is worst form
for the last ten years, nj have aiken hundreds of
dollars worth of medic ne witho OBJ aiming any
relief In Septs mber last commenced taking the
VEGETINE, ace which time m health has st ad-
lily imp owed. My food digests wel, and 1 have
gained fifteen pounds of flesh. There al several
Othe s in this place taking the VEGETINE, and all
have obtained relief. Yours, truly.
Mills
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12

IT is estimated that the granite. lime
and slate quaries Of Maine, if they were
fully worked, would sustain a popula-
ton equal to the whole present popula-
ton of the State. There is enough
slate to roof over the whole State and
have some left.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-12

Mrs. HARRIS, who served as nurse
through our war, assisting at ffty-two
battles, has received the position of
United States Consul at Venice. That's
hanansa sha's Venice old woman.