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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01
Getting Tired Of 1t.

In an article upon "Our Friends anC
Allies at the North" the Richmond
(Va.) Enquirer says:
Some of our Democratic friends and
allies in the North are just now pitch.
ing into the South for the folly of the
New orleans revolution, which they
say will be so injurious to their pros.
poets. Well, We are of course sorry
that these things will occur; but, then,
the Northern Democracy have no true
cause Of complaint against US. Indeed,
they ought to be the very last to offer
complaint. The devotion of the South
and its blind zeal for the Democracy OF
the North have been the cause of all
its troubles. Radical hate could not
reach the Nothern Democracy, and 80
it took its spite out upon us; and
though we have no doubt of the hon.
esty of the professions of sympathy
made by our Northern Democratic
friends, yet that did not prevent our
being pounded almost TO death for
their acts.
To this the Cincinnati Enquirer re-
spends in a calumn of recrimination,
closing as follows:
The Northern Democracy have made
great many sacrifices for the cause of
the South, but there is a limit to all
endurance. We cannot be expected
to 20 on and sacrifice every thing upon
the altar of Southern folly and infatua-
tion. Ifthey willi insist every year
upon the eve of all-important Northern
elections upon hecoming a disturbing
element for the advantage of the Re-
publican party, then we say let them
take their chances with that party for
their restoration to the Union and the
Authority connected with it. We are
willing to do our best for those who
are maltreated, but if the maltreated
seek to injure US, after the fashion of
the Richmond Enquirer, we wash our
hands of them, and upon their own
heads be the responsibility.
Advertising Pays.
1t is not in the dry goods and cloth
ing trade alone that colossal fortunes
are made, through liberal advertising.
The same result follows the same policy
in nearly every other pursuitr Bar
mum pays the newspapers s4OO, 900 eve
ry year noted soap man spends some
years as high as $225, 900 in advertising:
Bonner, the newspaper publisher, prac-
tices his own precepts to tie extent of
about 500, 600 annually; and number
of medicine men pay out as much or
more every year. Many people look
upon money paid out for advertising
as spent and gone, but these shrewder
business men view it in its proper light.
They regard it merely as an invest
ment, from which large and regular
returns are certain to be gained. And
not for one year or two alone, but as
long as they continue in business. Nor
are they ever mistaken in this calcula-
tiOn' No investment a business man
can make will pay as certainly and
largely as the money paid for adverti-
sing in a newspaper of large aud good
circulation. Itgenerally yields, when
judiciously used, from one hundred toI
one thousand per cent. This is the tes-
timony of all who have fairly and
thoroughly tested the principle. The
sun is not more necessary to ripening
grain than publicity to a man who has
he wants the public to buy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01
Rusiaess Cards.
DentIStry,

nR- WOOD having located in ST. Clairsville
IL announces to the public that he is now
prepared io perform ali opt ratinns iDDentistfy
4 rTfficiai teeth inserted oh the best Viilconitt
for SO set (either upper or under.) Attention
lis called to ALsnninuDs, the lightest, strongest
and puTest material ever worn in the mouih
Gold aid Silver WORK done when required
Especial attention paid to treating filling The
natural teeth. All work warranted.
S. T. WOOD, Dentist.
je26ty ONCE nearly opposite Post Office.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS DC.
BRIDGEPORT.

GROCERIES AND PRODUCE:
t,HODEs, II. p. a SON, W hoIesale Grocer
IL and Commission Merchants. Opposite
X. Depot.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01

St. Clairsville, Sept. "a, 1874.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
Our Enlightened Age.

A cotemporary calls attention to the
fact that Bismarck's would-be assassin,
Kullman, gets off with light sentence
when compared with what the murder
ers and intended murderers of royal
official personages in Europe used to
receive. The torture of Ravaillac, the
fanatic who killed Henry the ~. of
France, was frightful. The rack, boil
ing pitch, melted lead and the boot
we're among the preliminaries, while
finally he was torn asunder by horses
drawing different ways. A century and
half later, Daimiens, who merely
scratched Louis XV., was subject to
similar barbarities. A bankrupt mer-
chant who shot Hon. Spencer Perceval,
Prime Minister of Great Britain, a
little more than sixty years ago, was
banged though he was undoubtedly in
sane. The English people had become
more humane, or at least more discrim-
mating, by 1910, for Oxford, who fred
at Queen Victoria, was spared the gal
lows, in view of his unquestionable
madness, but consigned to an asylum
for life. The annihilistwhoshot at the
Czar of Russia, about nine years ago,
was hanged. Kullman has fourteen
years of Imprisonment allotted to him,
and is to be watched by the police dur
ing the remainder of his life. He is
thought to be partly but not wholly in.
sane. He certainly seems dangerous
enough to be kept under surveillance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
The Young Man and the Farm.

The following extract from recent
address by Prof. Wickson, OF Utica, IS
noteworthy
"With the advance of farming as q
science will come better opinion Oh
the farmers position among men. Every
year intelligence and true success are
winning wider recognition in social cir
cles. Among old opinions which must
vanish is the popular view that a farmer
is outside the line of social and pohtl-
cal advancement. This opinion, al
though it has been widely held, has
always been fallacy, a mistake OF mar
row minds. The young men are blind
ed by it. They have left farms because
this cross-eyed view of life has been
forced upon them by foolish people.
They have been persuaded that deser-
tion of the farm was an entrance to
glory. How great an error this has
been. All history gives the lie to such
belief. A man upon a farm Is not ,ou'
of the world as some would think.
How far an occasion can reach to grasp
it's hero, do not know. But l believe
that when the saving of his country de-
manded the strong arm of Cincinnatus,
he was just as near, when behind his
plow, as though q graduated farmer,
he had been sporting purpled robes in
the forum. And 1 believe that when
the old Continentals of New England
called their leader, Putnam heard their
call lust as distinctly upon his farm as
though he had been serving tor twenty
years behind counter in Hartford. L
do not believe that man is buried
upon FARM It seems to me all his"
tory teaches us that the promptings to
duty and the call to greatness are no
louder in crowded thoroughfares than
in country lanes fripged with daisies.
"The Young man and the farm; on
the one hand duty, on the other an
opportunity here an obligation, there
a way to discharge it. And in think
ing of the duty of the young man, is 1t
not encouraging that he need not leave
the industry where he finds it, and that
he himself, as he fits himself for a bet.
ter farmer, becomes also better man 2
This the labor this the reward. The
better the man the more noble his call
ing. The young men can make agri-
culture what they will !; it offers full
returns for their best efforts. The
country needs better men, and the best
men will be honored in its service. The
best man in the end will win, and he
will reach the reward for his excellence
it matters not whether, departing,
he puts up the bars behind him, or
whether he come from marble doorstep.
The youth may become man upon a
farm if he will. He cannot do more
elsewhere"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
CAPITAL Punishment In Maine.

The general discussion of the Wagner
case by tho press Of Maine, says the
Lewiston Journal, has brought the
condition of the laws against murder to
the attention of the people, and there
is prospect that the next Legislature
will take some action with reference to
them. It is we'll understood that for
many years previous to 1869, while our
laws in terms declared that the penalty
for murder in the first degree should
be death, yet they omitted any require
ment for the "review" of the cases
with reference to Communication, or for
the issue of warrant of execution of
sentence. In other words, it came to
be understood-although the way in
which it came about was farcical-that
no convicted murderer should be exc
cuted except for crime committed in
the State Prison.
In 1869 the condition of our laws
against murder led to an agitation of
the subject in the Legislature, which re
suited in the enactment of law that
imposed upon the Governor and council
the duty of reviewing" each case
prior to the expiration of a year after
sentence, with reference to seeking
whether there was cause for pardon or
communication; and further required the
Governor to issue his warrant immedl-
ately after the end of the year for the
execution of sentence, unless the coun'
Gil advised communication or pardon. In
other words, the significant change IN
the statute was that while under the
old law there need be no review, COM
mutation, or issue of warrant, under
the new law there must be review In
each case, and the Governor was i'm,
peratively required to issue his war
rant if the council refused to advise
communication. But, at the same time,
the law, while requiring O "review
and practical retrial of every case, laid
down no basis or principles on which
the review should be conducted but
left so important matter to the vary
ing feelings, prejudices, and judgment
of the majority OF persons VINO naPpen
ed to be councillors. This left every
council open to the criticism of persons
who do not look with favor upon theil
decisions, and resulted in an uncertain
ununiform, and partial execution of the
law. For example, the council of 1877.
practically decided that under the Law
it was intended that every sentence
should be committed, except for mur
der in the State prison while that o
1874 decided that the law of 1869 dit
not contemplate Communication unless
evidence which had come to light sine,
the trial raised reasonable doubt a
to the correctness of the verdict, o
tend to materially mitigate the crime
There are now seven persons in til,
State prison under sentence of dealt
whose sentences have never been com
muted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
4 Love Song.

But now, alas
So fast a prisoner am to my love,
No power there is that can my chains remove
So sweet the Gagged hours pass,
That, il it parted me from thee
would not willingly go free.
Nor would dare
To ask for recompense of love again,
Who love thee for the height of thy disdain
Thou wouldst not show 30 fair,
II we should burn with equal fire,
Instinct with emulous desire.
Full well know
That what worship is not wholly thee,
But fair dream, pious fantasy
Such as at times doth glow
On yearnings Of the clustered mind,
Or the rapt vision of the blind,
Scorn me, then, sweet
would not thou should'st leave thy lofty
place,
But PROSTATE at thy feet,
No recompense, no equal part seek,
Only that thou be- strong and be weak.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
An Extinct Race.

A shopkeeper on Washington street,
San Francisco, in the effort to thin out
the rats that had become an intolerable
nuisance about his premises, recently
discovered in his trap what he sup
posed to be rare and strange specimen
of the species. An old resident of the
city happening to inspect the creature,
at once identified it as lingering rem
nant of the original black rat family,
which abounded there In great num-
bers in early days, and was known as
the California rat. The species was
about two-thirds the size of the present
master of the situation, much more
1.-the and active, and was capable of
climbing about with almost the facility
of a squirrel. Soon after the port be-
came much frequented by shipping, the
present army of occupation appeared
on shore in increasing force, and in one
or two years gained sufficient strength
to commence war of determination.
Since 1856 or thereabouts, it is seldom
that any representative of the aborigi-
nal rat family has been seen on the
peninsula. In what manner the speci-
men captured on Washington street has
managed to maintain himself in the
midst of hostile legions of the invaders
is question not easily explained.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
NO. 48.
Items of Interest.
A careless hunter shot and killed a
valuable horse in Charlton, n. 7.

A careless hunter shot and killed
valuable horse in Charlton, N. Y.
What is it that goes up the hill and
down the hill, and yet never moves
The road.
A man in Knox county, KY, killed
ten rattlesnakes the other day right at
his own door. A pleasant place to live
in.
A gang of boy bandits, whose depre-
dations have been on an extensive scale,
have just been arrested at HanulOal'
Mo.
The Oregon Senate has amended the
divorce law so that husbands and wives
having no children may get decree OF
divorce by simply refusing to i've TO-
gether.
A man in Rutland, eating roasted
chestnuts, put hot one between MS
teeth and bit. The nat thereupon ex-
ploded, and seriously burned and lacer-
ated his mouth.
Sixty men of Baltimore rode out ana
had fox hunt the other day: Inat Is,
thew would have hunted the fox II the
animal hadn't run under barn and re-
fused to come out.
The Maine State prison shows re.
cord in ten years of sixteen per cent. Oh
her prisoners returning on second con
yictions, The rest may have relormeu'
or have learned to avoid detection.
A few days since two young ladies'
died in Fairhaven, Mass. who were
engaged TO be married to two young
men, who we're cousins. Their wed.
ding dresses, made in anticipation OF
the occasion, were their shrouds.
Milk sickness, or "bilious SICK
stomach. !" is becoming alarmingly prev
alent in Wood county, Pa, and many
persons are dying OF it. IL Is S noS
known whether it is caused by sons
plants the COWS eat or the water they
drink.
The Bangor Wing and Courier says
that q Massachusetts man recently
boupht 14O rum barrels in that city,
With the intention of filling them with
cider, and the Boston Globe would IKE
tn know what 14O rum barrels were 40
ing in Maine. :.
The Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette
facetiously remarks that lndianapons
has produced the greatest wonder OF
the century. It is a Court House,
costing $500, 900, which is nearly com
pieted, and yet, up to the present tlme'
no "iob" has been discovered in con-
nection with it.
A young lady in a Pennsylvainla
town experienced a strange sensation
in the upper part of her nose - tew y, Gays ays
ago. She was troubled with IL IN as ons
way or another for some tlme' anu S;s IsS
even made very sick; but nnally ulS
covered that it was caused oy a pI"cl u
spider, which had crawled into one o
! her nostrils during the night.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
Donaldson.

"Professor" Donaldson, Barnum's
balloonist, has had varied experience.
His age is 81. His father tried to
make lithographer of him, but he had
q taste fer show life, and he became by
turns the "bones" of negro minstrel
company, circus gymnast, a tight
rope walker, a pantomimist, and mana
ger of an exhibition of live Indians.
In 1865 we find him magician, and
two years after French electro
physician" in Cleveland. His balloon
enthusiasm dates back but five or six
years. He formerly went through a
trapeze act at his ascensions, hanging
by one hand or foot to the bar at an
elevation of 1000 feet. His pet scheme
now is to build a balloon in the East to
carry him to California. He is very
careful in his personal habits, using
neither liquor or tobacco.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
The First Thousand Dollars.

The first thousand dollars that
young man, after going out into the |
world for himself, earns and saves, will
generally settle the question oil busl-
ness life with him. There may be ex-
ceptions to this statement yet, for
rule, we think it will hold true.
The first condition is that the young
man naturally earns the thousand dol
lars in question. He does not inherit
this sum. 1t does not come to him by
o streak of good luck, as the result OF
fortunate venture in the purchase and
sale of a hundred shares of stock. 1t
is the fruit of personal industry. He
gives his time and labor for it. While
he is thus earning and saving it, he
must earn two or three, or perhaps four
times as much to pay his current ex-
penses. He is consequently held stem
ly to the task of industry for consid-
erable period. The direct consequence
to him is steady, continuous and solid
discipline in the habits of industry-in
patient, persistent, folecasting and self
denying effort, breaking up all the ten
denotes to Incidence and frivolity, and
making him an earnest and watchful
economist of time. He not only learns
how to work, but he also acquires the
love of work and, moreover, lie learns
the value of the sum which he has thus
saved out of his earnings. Hehas toiled
for 1t he has observed its slow in
crease from time to time and in his
estimate it represents so many years OF
practical labor. His ideas of life are
shaped by his own experience. These
natural effects of earning the first thou
sand dollars we hold to be very large
benefits. They are just the qualities OF
mind and body which are likely to Sc
cure business success in after years.
They constitute the best practical edu-
cation which man can have as worker
in this working world. They are
gained in season for life's purposes, at
the opening period, just when they are
wanted, when foolish notions are most
likely to mislead an inexperienced
brain, and when, too, there is a full op'
portunity for expansion and develop.
ment in latter years. Men have but
one life to live ; and hence they start
from opening manhood but once. And
the manner in which they start, the
purpose which they have in view, and
the habits they form, will ordinarily
determine the entire sequel OF tnel1
career on earth. To succeed, men mus
have the elements of success within
themselves. One great reason VIII!
there are so many useless, inefIicien
and poverty-stricken men on earth-or
) rather, boys seeming to be men-con
: sists in the simple fact that they dit
not start right. A prominent reasol
q why the children of the rich so fre
Q quently amount to nothing may b.
9 found in luxury, ease and Incidence
$ which mark the commencement OF thel
$ lives. 1t is the law of God that W
: should be workers on earth andno on
: so we'll consults the best development
of this being as when he confirms hi
practice to this law. The workers i
: some suitable sphere are the onl
: really strong men in this world.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
A Bride SuffOcated in a Closet.

Hartlepool, England, has also been
the scene of sad event, very similar
to that of the Mistletoe Bough. A
gentleman by the name of Kelk, cashier
to building firm there, had recently
got married. He gave party at his
house. ellis young wife," says the
paper, "in her anxiety to get out of
the hot air, ventured up stairs, and
seeing q small closet with ventilator,
she entered to fasten it, when the cur
rent of air closed the door. In vain
she called to the servants, although she
could hear the door-bell ring and the
visitors enter, aud as none suspected
that the imprisoned lady was in the
roof of the house, all the other parts Of
the dwelling and grounds were search
ed. When at last found, Mrs. Kelk
was seriously ill and hyster1cal. Vio-
lent epileptic fits followed, and the
shock being more than the nervous
system could sustain, death shortly
put an end to her suferings."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28
GUILDHALI, VERMONT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1877

increased the pain they were suffering.
Knowing, as / do, the state of Mr..
Atherton's mind on that occasion, ] can
we'll understand how rudely Jared it
must have been. But that is nothing
to the disastrous consequences which
have followed. Ruin has been the re-
suit. An honest man has been stricken
down in the midst of his business
career, 1t is some satisfaction" added
Adams, bitterly, "that you, who con-
fess yourself the author of this VIZ, ng,
are involved in some of the conse-
quences. IT may teach you lesson
that will be useful to you hereafter"
AS he said this, he turned partly
away from Bonnel, who, feeling offend
ed, left his store.
The struggle upon which Mr.. Ather-
ton entered proved too much for him.
Alone, he could not contend with his
difficulties. After a day of anxious
effort he found himself unable to meet
the notes and drafts which fell due,
and she hour of three came with his
obligations still in bank. Up to that
time he had been in state of deep
distress and agitation. But, when the
three strokes upon the clock sounded
the knell of his broken fortunes, and
further effort was vain, calmness
fell upon his mind and he awaited.
with sort Of stoicism, the appearance
of the notary, into whose hands his
dishonored paper would be given fol
protest.
| Tho ,,oEorv ooroo opJ 1ro,E TIL "a
ordeal, deeply trying one, was passed
His reputation as merchant was nov
blasted. The apple of his eye hat
been touched. But he had borne thC
pain with q heroism that surprised
even himself.
This trial past, visions of futur,
meetings with creditors began to form
themselves in his mind, and his sensi
tive feelings were already beginning t,
shrink painfully in anticipation, whel
he saw Mr.. Adams enter his store.
"I am told that your paper has lai'
over to-day" said the latter, as he too
the hand of Mr.. Atherton.
"You've heard Alright. The notar
left me but little while ago."
"For what amount have you bee
noted ?"
"Three thousand dollars"
"How much more will you need t
carry you through?"
"Not less than ten thousand do
lars"
"You shall have it, Mr.. Atherton.
labored under a false impression IT
garding you, when I declined the a
rangement you wished to make wee
ago. Here is the money you need tC
day." And he drew forth his pocke
book as he spoke. sect your papt
out of the hands of the notary befol
he can protest it. Tomorrow I will sc
you and arrange the rest"
Before Atherton could recover fro
his surprise, and acknowledge h
grateful feelings, Adams had turne
from him and was leaving the stor
On the next day all was arranged
had been promised and the merchan
, who had been on the very brink
, ruin, was saved.
That was the last affair of the kind
which Bonnell ever engaged; and Il
last inflicted on the Athertons. Tt hs
like to have proved more than simp
surprise party to them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28

WHAT IT CosTs. s.-The annual meeting
of the Athletic Base Ball Club was
held in Philadelphia recently. The re-
ceipts during the year were $25, $50;
expenditures, $25,055; leaving
balance in the treasury of 1915. The
receipts from games played in the
United States were $40, ,005; games in
Europe, 81, 799. Salaries of players
amounted to $13, ,937; travelling ex-
penses in the United States, $3,O9l +;
and in Europe, SO, 1896. Clapp, Anson,
Sutton, McMuIlen, Hall, Eggler, and
Force have been engaged for the new
year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-11-28

Colorado claims that one-half its
population is composed of reconstruct
ed invalids,