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The Baltimore and Ohio Road.

ne ndIt1mOre ana OnIO Road
3 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company annouces dividend of per
cent for the half year which ended
March 31st, on the stock Of the main
stem, payable May 1st. Also a divi-
dend of per cent for the half year
ending the 51st ultimo on the stock of
the Washington Branch, payable to-
morrow. This dividend was announc-
ed at the monthly meeting of the
Board of Directors on Wednesday, at
which President Garrett, who has re-
turned from his trip South, presided.
In making the announcement, the Bal
tiEaore Sun says Mr.. Garrett made a
lengthy congratulatory speech on the
results of the pending railroad war so
far. The month of March, he said,
showed an increase in the gross earn
ings of his company over the same
month in 1874 of slO3,774, and that.
notwithstanding the diminished rates
for passengers, the revenue on the
stem from this source shows on increase
OF 45 per cent. The earnings of the
Chicago division were S1OO, ,625, an in
crease Of so per cent On the preceding
month. Mr.. G. also sketched pretty
freely the origin and history of the
pending railroad controversy with the
Pennsylvania Railroad, recapitulating,
as he said, the arguments used on the
occasion of his refusal to enter into the
Saratoga com mbination. He also urged
the viciousness of the fast freight lines,
expressing the conviction that they
were vampires upon the railway sys-
tenn. He alluded to his correspondence
in December last with Vice-president
Cassett, of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
in reference to the petroleum trade,
and the enormous advance in the
tariff for transportation of that article
from Pittsburgh by the combined
roads, and which he was censured for
not following, but that he thereby
favored bis policy of building up the
trade of Baltimore. He claims that
Statistics show that the exports Of the
refined oil from Baltimore from Janu-
ary l, to March 10Th, 1875, were $685.
4o5 gallons, and that the exports of re.
fined oil from Baltimore from January
L, to March 18th, 1874 were but $40, ,722
gallons, a gain of 4,674,6S4 gallons. A
large portion of the speech following,
to the end, aims TO be severe on the
president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, as we'll as on tine road itself, its
debt and business. He charges the
Pennsylvania Company as responsible
for the very great reduction in freights
and fares, and, with voice for war,
says, let the battle go on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29
BELMONT CHRONICLE.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE. OHIO.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1878.

Gsn. 81 iIror, " horetircs rs United
s S'ates Treasurer OH the Goth of June
uext, will pass his summers at 'lIick-
ory Grove his home on the Mohawk,
in New York, ami will spend the wint-
ers with his daughters in Florida.
'Thisss about the way have dreamed
cut how l shall spend the remainder
of my liie,' says The General. On be-
ing asked if he would go into any kind
of business he replied, %, no. l am too
old. ] shall step back and give the
boys a chance
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29

SENTIMENTS AS REGARD PRECIOUS
SToNEs.-Al precious stones were con.
sidered in olden times to have the
property or power of keeping of evil
spirits. The diamond from its brillian.
cy, was dedicated to things celestial,
considered a preservative of virtue, and
supposed to be an antidote to poison,
disease, etc; as a gift, 1T brought strength
of mind and fortitude to the recipient.
The sapphire lost its lustre-as all stones
were supposed to do-when worn by 9
person of impure mind; it was special
preservative against venomous reptiles
The ruby was said TO give warning ol
coming misfortune by becoming dark.
er, and returning to Its original bright.
ness when the danger was over; II was
looked upon as q preservative from. iii.
ness, and banished bad thoughts. The
turquoise was the emblem of hope and
trust.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29

SPEAKING of the common school
system of education, the New York
Tablet, a Catholic paper, says: This is
process by which the human mind
everywhere is demOralized and de.
bauched TO an extent which men, in
this railway age. have not leisure to re-
fleet on, and which they would not be
willing TO admit if they had. Through
the instrumentality of the imposture
which your quacks of progress have
substituted for education, the multi
tude are in possession of a minute
mOdicum of that little knowledge
W hich is so dangerous a thing If
this Is true, is it not little odd that
the Catholics of New York city snould
be trying to place their parochial
schools under the common school sys-
tenn? Or is the effort that is made
under that pretence merely a scheme
for compelling the State to support the
the parOchial schools while the Catho-
lie clergy virtually retain control of
them? The latter certainly Seems to
be the case if the Catholscs are in earn
est in their denunciation of secular edu-
cattOn.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
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OcCIDENr AND NETTIE.-Occident's
first race I'm the Eastern States will take
place at Point Breeze Park, Philadei-
phia, so soon as the track Is in order for
the trot. His competitor on the occa-
sion will be the bay mare Nettie, train
ed by Josiah +. Turner, Esq. Nettie's
best performance on the trotting turf
was last fall, at Beacon Park, Mass,
where she won the 2:20 purse OF ,0Oo,
beating Gloster, Red Cloud, Camors
three last heats in 2:2ls, 2:19i. 2:2.l,
Red Cloud winning the first in 2:22f,
and Gloster the second In 2-19l. This
magnificent performance stamped Net
ties reputation as one Of the leading
trotters OF the country, and II in good
trim when She tackles Occident. the
hero of the Pacific slope will be put to
his trups to beat her.
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LexingtOn-l@.

No maddening thirst for blood had they.
! No battle-joy was theirs who SCI
/ Against the alien hsyonet
Their komespun breasts in that old day
| Their feet had trodden peaceful ways.
( They loved not strife, they dreaded psin:
They saw not what to US is plain.
That GOD would make mans wrath his praise
No seers were they, but simple men;
Its vast results the future hid:
The meaning of the work they did
Was strange and dark and doubtful then
Il.
Swift as the summons came they left
The plow. mid-furrow. standing still,
The half ground corn-grist in the mill,
The spade in earth, the ak in cleft
They went where duty seemed to call;
They scarcely asked the reason why;
They only knew they could but die,
And death was not the worst of all.
OF man for man the sacrifice,
Cnstained by blood, save theirs, they gave.
The flowers that blossomed from their grave
Have sown themselves beneath all skies.
Their death-shot shook the feudal tower,
And shattered slaverys chain as well;
On the skys dome, as on q bell,
Its echo struck the worlds great hour.
VIII.
That fatal echo is not dumb;
The nations, listening to its sound,
Wait, from century's vantage ground,
The holier triumphs yet to come,-
The bridal time of Law and Love,
The gladness of the worlds release,
When, war-sick, at the feet of Peace
The hawk shall nestle with the dove
The golden age of brotherhood,
Unknown to other rivalries
Than of the mild humanities,
And gracious interchange of good,
When closer strand shall lean to strand,
Till meet, beneath saluting flags,
The eagle of our mountain crags,
rLe lion of our Mother-land.
-JoHN G. WHITTIER
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The Harrodsburg Reporter says;
This is Kentucky's centennial year.
One hundred years ago Richard Hen.
derson purchased from the Indians an
Kentucky south Of the Kentucky Riv.
er. One hundred years ago Daniel
Boone surveyed the purchase for hun:
One hundred years ago Boone complex
ed the fort at Boonesborough, In Mad
ison county. One hundred years ago
his wife and daughters came as the FIRST
white women to Kentucky. Oue hum
dred years ago the first sermon was
preached at the Big Spring, In Harrods-
burgh, Mercer county, Kentucky.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29
Tracy Turnerelli, In the London
Standard, gives his version of a con-
version he saw in Russia:

Tracy Turnerelli, In the London
Standard, gives his version of con-
version he saw in Russia:
We live in wonderful age, and the
account the papers are giving us of the
|conversion in twenty-feur hours of fifty
thousand Unitarians in Poland 10 Rus
sian orthodoxy, would alone prove it
to be so. happen to know something
of these things myself, having person.
ally assisted at the edifying conversion
of about two thousand Tehouvash peas
ants in the Government of Kazan,
E,ade Christians, not in twenty-four,
but ir less than four hours. The Tehou-
vash-WSose customs and religious GER
emonies / have described in my work
on Kazan-were pegans. The Emperor
Nicholas determined to convert these
unbelievers to Russian Christianity; 50
on a given day, aregiment of Cossacks,
armed with whips-the Governor Gen.
eral, the high clergy, and othsr great
officials presiding-and sufficient sup
ply of cannon, muskets, pixies, and
bayOnets in the rear, the task Of CON
version began-that is the task OF
scourging; and 80 effectually were these
Christian arguments applied, that on
bended knees, full of zeal, fervor, and
gratitude, the TchOuvash peasants kiss
ed the cross, signed their names with
a splendid cross and went to their
homes with bleeding backs, blessing
the white Tar for the benefit dops
them and heaven.
A few months later when they had
received full instructions in Christian
doctrines, chancsd to visit one of the
TchouvsshC Christian villages.
A crowd Of hirsute Christians Of the
race were gathered round me.
you believe in Jesus, God the Son y
said I.
oh, yes master, we de indeed-in-
deed we do and the Cossack whips
floated before their eyes when they an
swered my question.
And in God the Father, slso? l in
quired.
The crowd were puzzled, bewikiersd,
terrified at the answer they had to
make. At length one grey beard. evil
IDENTIFY an authority amongst them,
came forward and said gravely and
what, master, is the old man sill
alivev Not being able to persuade
themselves that the Son could reign,
even in heaven, until the Father had
ceased to live and breathe there.
This was Russian conversion ana
Russian instruction, and as these nity
thousand converts Will no doubt nnd
place in history, 1t will be well ii the
methods ef conversion adopted were
coupled with it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29

The design for the twenty-cent silver
piece authorized by the last Congress
has been decided upon. The diverse
contains sitting figure of Liberty,
with the word Liberty inscribed on
the shield, the whole surrounded by
thirteen stars, and beneath the figure
the date 1875. Oh the reverse the fig
ure of an eagle surrounded by the in
scription, UNITED States of America, ,
and beneath the eagle the words
Twenty Cents The edge or periph-
cry of the coin will be perfectly
smooth, in order to distinguish it from
the twenty five cent coin, which bears
a reeded or fluted edge. The new coin
is mainly intended for circulation in
the Pacific Coast States, where the want
of such coin has long been felt in
making change.
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Misers.

The sudden severe cold of some days
preceding Christmas Of 1874, comBlenc-
r ing the Saturday before, will long be
/ remembert in Illinois, Missouri and
the States adjacent, being unparalleled,
even in the memory of the oldest in
habitant.' .neea 80
On oue of the prairies 10 the central
part Cf Illinois tn. re had lived for ma
ny years two brothers, Englishmen,
Iquiie old and very miserly.
| For years they lad suffered no one to
do any hing for them, fearing the loss
of something if they did, and allowed
no woman to enter their premises.
| They attended to their own cooking,
and to such mendipg as their scanty
garments required to hold them to-
getber.
The manner in which they lived
would have led those but partially ac-
quainted with them to believe them
objects of charity, but their neighbors
knew betterr
These brothers lived in q little log
cabin on a corner of another brothers
farm. They were known to own land;
and to receive money for work, wood
and produce, but as they rarely spent Q
cent, it followed that they must accu.
mulste money, though no evidence Of
it appeared in their home and clothes.
AT the time of this exceeding cold, it
was observed that no smoke came from
their chimney, but as they had talked
of visiting relatives in a nsighboring
county, it was supposed that they were
absent.
On Friday after Christmas two men,
passing the house, observed that some
thing was not right. On going to the
window they found it nailed, and the
door locked on the inside. With diff
ficulty they effected an entrance thro'
the window.
Upon going 10 the side OF the pile of
rags the brothers usec as bed, the men
found one of the brothers lying thee
dead under the scanty covering. He
WAS entirely dressed, with his fOx-skih .
was found in the attic, alsO dead.
There was not morsel of cooked
food in the house, or even match to
light fire, nor did the stove seem to
have done much duty for q long time.
1t is supposed that they died on the
preceding Saturday night or Sunday
morning, when the thermometer mark
ed twenty-eight degrees below zero.-
They perished from cold and starva-
tion, with uncooked food in the house
and plenty of wood in the yard. Their
miserly habits would not allow them
to provide sufficient to support nature.
About the person of each was found
a little more tLan forty dollars in mon
ey, and tied in little corner of their
shirts were bonds, securities and GER
tificates of bank stock, in one case
tn about five th0uSand dol
lars and the other seven thousand dol
lars,
Thus the misers died, heaping up
riches, not knowing who should gath
common comforts of life, starving body
and soul-and for what?
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Grant and the Third Term.

The Graphic's Washington cores
pondent says that President Grant is
not candidate for a third term, and
never has been. He never suggested
the idea himself and never gave any
one the slightest warrant for supposing
that he would take the nomination if
offered, and it is understood here that
if he had ever been asked by any au-
thoritive person he would have declined
to be considered candidate under any
circumstances.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-04-29

THE question which now agi.ates
the average mind OF Martins Ferry, is
how many Beer, Ale, Porter and native
wine saloons are there in town? One
party clearly, emphatically and dis
tinctly, affirms that there are twenty
eight (; while the other faction are as
positive that there are only twenty
three; which party is right we cannot
tell, but one thing is certain, if they
continue to multiply for the next ten
days, as they have for the last ten days,
the highest number will be far below
the mark, and we will be prepared 90
fill the hides of all the roughs from the
suburban villages of Bridgeport, Steu-
benville and elsewhere. Some carping
captions people attribute this increase
to the acts of the late lamented' Legisla-
ture, but We make no charge-but leave
each one to settle the question them
selves Ohio Valley Neacs.
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The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that untruthful an
swers to questions which form the basis
of life insurance policy, even though
they may be immaterial to the risk as.
'suDed Dy the company, render the in
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A Terrible Balloon Adventure,
From Galignani's Messenger.

Prom GduSnanl messenger.
NJ. Eugene GODDARD made an ascent
last week at Bayonne, in lis balloon
Saturne. He had with him in the ear
NJ. Vinson, keeper of woods and for.
ests; M. Julien, pyrotechnist, of AL.
giers, and the editor of a Bordeaux
journal. The start took place at hall
past five in the afternoon. At a quar-.
ter to the party found themselves at
the frontier, the cold being exceedingly
keen. AT night the travellers, who had
got among the mountains, were Obliged
to throw out all their ballast TO sur
mount the Pyrenean peaks. The wind
then began to freshen, and the speed OF
the balloon became extreme, and to-
ward O'Clock the snow commenced
falling. Tossed about by different cur.
rents, and incapable of determining the
situation, their anxiety was extreme.
After four hours of suffering, toward 2
in the morning, M. Godard thought he
saw some lights, and prepared to de-
scend; but the valve, being choked up
by the snow, could not be opened He
then told his com panions that thew had
but one chance for their lives, namely,
to cut hole in the silk, and get down
at all hazard. The operation was eff.
fected, and the Saturne descended with
such great rapidity that all four were
stunned by the fall; N. Vinson, who
was the first to recover, saw his friends
lying senseless by his side, and, calling
for assistance, was fortunate enough to
make himself heard by two persons
who aided him in reading Pampelune,
which was not quite two miles off, He
Immediately gave notice to the author.
tiles, and an alarm having been sound.
ed, the inhabitants of the place went
out in quest of the other three, and
found them in q state of consciousness,
but incapable of moving. They were
all conveyed to the town, where every
attention was paid them. NJ. GODDARD
appeared to have suffered most, as his
legs were much swelled; the others had
only some severe contusions."
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The New York Lincoln Club, which
received ex-Seaker Blaine a week or
80 ago gave reception Wednesday
night to Congressman Lawson, who, In
a speech, urged the Republican party
to nominate Senator ConklIng for Pres
ident.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

Belmont Lodge, No. l6, F. & a. 81. meets ev-
cry Wednesday night on preceding the full
Eloou. h. X. BUMGAkNEk, VI. NJ
r III. + FERRE5L, Sec'y.
ST. Clairsv;i'e Chapter. No. IL Royal Arch
;i>i'us, meets 81 FRIDAY night each N muulh at
si lar siile- and the iaI Friday ca d month
al L. al a: I.Ifi. JAMES CLARK, II. Z.
Il u .fEEi.sI-i., %SSS.
IL, .siIo.,I CoI1,t,, ~. 81 Royal Select anu
NFireT eAceIIsnt as.S-t r., meets On the second
i-.,-s -;,y Iil,ltI OF = ry month.
e ". Ga hBULL, 7. /. 6. u.
EAILY, Eec.
Hope Com ip:naadery No. 70 OF Enights Temp
lars, sueeIs ia the first esday night OF every
n4outa. A. ]. BAGGS, EN- Com
F. ID. BAILEY. Rec. maris72I
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Some curious devices resorted to by
the witnesses in the Beecher case to
fortify their memory occasionally come
to light. The Brooklyn Argus says a
prominent witness employed steno-
grapher for week prior to his being
called upon to testify, TO whom he die
tated the facts to which he proposed to
swear. On Monday the expectant wit
ness dictated his narrative, and the
stenographer wrote ont bis notes and
delivered them. On Wednesday the
gentleman sent for the stenogra pher.
and beginning anew, went over the
story the second time; and again were
the notes written out. On Friday the
operation was repeated, for the third,
and as it proved, the final time, the
gentleman explaining that wheD he
got into the cross-examiner's hands he
wanted TO know what he was about
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New Series-Vol. Is. No. 15

very springs of national life, there, minute
men OF liberty, are your Lexington, Green
and Concrrd Bridge; and as you love YOU
country and your kind, and would have youl
children rise up and callyou blessed, spare moi
the enemy! Over the hills, out of the earth,
down from the clouds, posr in resistless fight.
FIRE from every rock and tree, from door and
window, from hearth-stone and chamber
hang upon its flank and rear from noon to
sunset, and so through land blazing with holy
indignation hurl the hoydes of ignorance and
corruption and injustice back, back, in utter
defeat and ruin.
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ENLARGED RESPONSIBILITIES.

But within the last half century causes then
latent, or wholly incslculable before, have
radically changed those conditions, and we en-
ter upon the second century of the republic
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No maddening thirst for blood had they.
No battle-j Joy was theirs who SET
Against the alien hsyonet
/ Their Eomespun breasts in that old day.
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Their feet had trodden peaceful ways,
They loved not strife, they dreaded pain:
They saw not what to US is plain.
That God would make mans wrath his praise
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No seers were they, but simple men;
Its vast results the future hid:
The meaning of the work they did
Was strange and dark and doubtful then.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-27
GRANTISM ONLY CHECKED,
We Have ScOtched the Snake, Not Killed 1t

President Grant is not to be presumed to
| surrender his aspirations for second re-
election. The Poland resolution contra
vening his Arkansas policy and closing the
door against presidential disturbances in that
State was severe check The shearing
away from the negro license or civil rights
acts the clause intended to annihilate South
| ern schools was another blow at C;e sar. The
defeat Of the Force bill stunned and staggered
Tertius Terminus Caesar very badly, and sent
him :" to grass in his own corner" And.
lastly, the postponement of Pinchback was
another check which he felt almost a. deeply
as he would have felt his rejection by the
Senate. Grant was snub5ed IN suudry other
matters, in Washington and elsewhere, before
the Senate adjourned.
But it is mistake to conclude that his Ex-
cellency has given up his purpose At no
time in his history, as boy or man, from the
time he wore his first bsots and got his first
thrashing at school, was lie ever known 10
give up for any mere whipping to stop for
difficulties or to halt before obstacles, or to
change his purpose, or to look upon defeat in
anything as tinality. 1t is even questionable
whether he sets any value upon what can be
obtained without struggling and fighting or
enjoys what is attained as much as he enjoys
the contest in attaining it. In politics as in
the field, he follows a defeat with some rapid
flank movement and new attack in another
quarter.
Grant and his adherents are now diligently
engaged in Grantizing the Republican party.
Every Simon pure devotee of the President |
is fed with the loaves and fishes of appoint
ment. Every ani-Grant Republican is
forced out Of prominent position. II in Of.