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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-18
MOrs Regis.
BY Harry HOWARD.

|
All day the battle ragged. Misfortune
fast
| Too few of able-bOdied men were there,
Those who were wounded to the rear
to bear.
Heart-sick and weary, wounded unto
death,
The king. in trusty arms-his rattling
\ breath
Painful and hard, his clammy brow
Betok'ning that life's tide is ebbing
low,
Swiftly is borne in the retreat.
And now the distant brooklet ripples
! sweet
As streams that sang to him when he,
Played in the highlands on the heath
er wild, ".s
And free as air; when WEAKNESS at
night
But helped to make the dawning morn
more bright.
His memory turns to that bright day
when he
Gould rest upon the roughest couch,
cOulQ De
Content at evening, if, thro' all the day
He had wronged no one. Oh! that he
could say
That through his life, from peasant un-
to king,
No one a stain cod to his record bring.
A soldier hastens to the stream and
with cup
That hangs about his girdle, he dips up
The sparkling fluid, fresh from mOssy
fount
Far up the craggy side of snow-clad
mount.
He hastens to his liege's side and
kneels-
The king the cooling touch upon his
forehead feels,
And feebly rises, stretching forth his
hand.
But now draws nigh the last devoted
band
That claimed the field, and in their
midst is borne
A drummer-bOy, who, on that doomed
morn,
First at the front his loud alarum rang
Above the clash of sabres and the clang
Of smitten shields. His burning cheek
is bright .-. ..5
With fever's emblem, and lurid light
Cleans from his eye. With choking
scream
He calls for water.
Oh, the madman'5 dream
OF fiends, the thought of hell, the sight
Of coming doOu-,.ll things that fright
The fearing viewer, all that make
The stoutest heart of all the fearless
quake,
Theithousand horrors of the burning
Nought in the earth above nor nought
in hell
Can equal thirst. No one who has not
felt can tell
The fearful hate of life that thirst can
bring.
The maddened thirster's cry has reach
ed the king:
He calls with feeble voice to those who
bear
The once brave boy. Their liege's
voice they hear,
And hasten to him. With his falling
breath
Ge speaks-and then his eyes are clo-
sed in death.
"Here, take it, boy; 1 wish that it
were wine!
"Thy lease of life is longer far than
mine.
'I have been sinful, but, dear Lord,
forgive:
"If must die, obi let this brave boy
live!
81 would not mind the ferceness ofmy
pain,
"If but my last good deed were not in
vain."
When life is fair, and we more bless
ings crave,
Forgetting to give thanks for those we
have,
God hears US not; bnt when in earnest
Comes from faithful soul sunk in de-
spair,
'Tis not in vain. The kings was not
in vain;
The drummer lived to lead the van
again.
And l believe that this self-sacrifice,
Though stepped, perchance, his latter
life in vice,
Though drenched his hands in sinless
brothers gore,
Shall live-live spotless on that shining
shore
Where He who died to save all men
is gone.
And l believe that at that dazzling
dawn
He who his life to save all lives did give
Shall look upon that face, and it shall
live.
Does not the dew which morrns the
even's close
Wet both the lily and the blood-stain-
rose?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-18

Teaching foreign ideas how to shoot.
A military academy has just been es-
tablished in Japan with an ex-United
States officer at its head.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-18
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

Belmont Lodge, No. Is, F. & A. NJ; meets G sy,
sfy wednesday night on or preceding NJ me luA
m oon. N. .
II. ii. FERRELL, Sec'y.
at Clsirsyilie Chapter, No. IL Royal Aicr y,
sosons. meets Sd Friday night each montn -
a. ,yairsyilIe and the ist Friday each monln
et Bridgeport. JAMES OAAnf>'
It. 81. FERRELL, Secy.
Belmont Council, No. 81 Royal ssieSt snS
super Excellent Masters, meets on 'he
c. w. CARROLL, I. l. u. ID.
Ed, BAILy, Rec.
nons Commandery No. 26 of knights Temp
lars meets IN the nrst Tuesday nlght oi Sro,' CoI
month. "a >. ,narIx72l
r.. d. BAILEY. Rec. maI-.--
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-18
BELMONTCHRONICLE.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE. OHIO.
Thursday Morning, Feb. is, 1870.

South Carolina will celebrate the
Centennial of the German Fusilier Com
pany of Charleston, organized in May,
l775.
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future wealth. He was very close and
attentive to business, never employed
clerk or a salesman, and very seldom
even called for assistance in carrying
great loads of heavy iron into his store
room.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

We commend to the careful considera-
ton Of our republican friends, the follow
ing extract from New York Times edi-
torial, in reference to the element which
defeated the party during the past year,
and which can, if the republicans act just
ly, give them the victory again. 1t con-
sists, says the Times, "of those men who
have acted with the republican party I'M
til within year or two, and who, though
they have once or twice given their sup
port to the democratic party, are quite
ready to withdraw it if that party does
- not behave Itself 80 as to retain them,
"and quite willing to return to the republi-
can ranks if they feel themselves justi-
/" fled in doing 30. This element is now
respectable In numbers as well as in char
"acter. 1t is an element which the saga
" cious leaders of both parties will studi-
60 ously consult. 1t is made up of men who
are by no means ION the fence but who
have clear convictions and well-settled
political purposes, and who regard politi.
cal parties as means, not as ends. AS O
rule, these men will not be found at con.
ventions, and will not pit themselves
against the professional politicians in any
contest for the control of the machinery
"by which the course OF political parties
is shaped But they will drop their quiet
Votes on election day as their consciencei
" dictate"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

We publish on the first and fourth pages,
this morning, the sworn answer of General
Baxter in the Emma mine litigation, and
commend the same to the attentive per-
usal of our readers. General Baxter needed
no vindication among his old friends and
neighbors. They had known him too long
and too we'll to believe, for moment, that
his connection with the purchase and sale
of the Emma mine was disreputable in the
least degree, and they have hitherto re-
spected his silence. We believe that he
could well afford to leave his reputation in
the hands of his fellow citizens without
word uttered in his own defense, but a
suit having been commenced against him,
he has been compelled to break silence, and
he has done this in manner that must
carry conviction to the minds of those
who, knowing him not, thought some ex-
PLANTATION was needed. AS an act of JUS
tice to General Baxter, as his complete ex-
culpation from the charge of wrong doing,
and as perfect AMI satisfactory answer to
all aspersers, we publish his sworn answer.
We shall give that Of Mr.. Park tomorrow.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20
Exnctions Under the New Postal
Law.

A new phase of the complications grow
ing out of the enactment of the new postal
law was revealed in New York, Friday. A
package Of printed legal documents was re-
ceived at the produce exchange, on which
the legal rate of cents postage had been
paid. Although the package was open at
both ends, it was stamped by the postal de-
partment, "due 81 cents" at the rate of
letter postage. Accompany it was the fol-
lowing circular posted on the package:
1t is the duty of the postmaster at the
mailing Office, as well as at the Office of de-
livery, carefully to examine all printed mat.
ter, in order to see that it is charged with
the proper rate Of postage and to detect
frauds. If postmasters cannot make this
examination without destroying the wrap
per, they will rate the package with letter
postage and collect the same upon delivery.
Postmasters will charge and collect post
age at the rate of three cents for each half
ounce on any newspaper or periodical SC
| marked or written upon as to give any other
information than that contained in the
print. The same charge will be made when
1t is so inclosed that it cannot be examined
without destroying the wrapper. The same
rule applies TO any other matter which may
be sent at less than letter postage
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

Peace, for the present, at least, is re-
stored to Louisiana and quit reigns in
New Orleans. The house of representa-
tives, by a vote of so to 10, adopted the re.
port of the committee on credentials which
seated twelve members who had been frau
dulently deprived of their rights by the re-
turning board. The twelve unseated men,
bers made speeches, on retiring, signifying
their acquiescence in the compromise one
of them, colored member, said that he
withdrew with pleasure, because the man
to take his seat was one who owned him
in former days, and who had always been
just and kind this was an honor which
did not occur every day." The house then
resolved that, "without approving the
same" they would not disturb the Kellogg
government, or seek to Impeach Kellogg
for "any past official act,' but would ac-
cord him all necessary and legitimate sup
port. The resolution of recognition"
was adopted by vote of forty-fve conser-
vatiyes and forty-four republicans in favor,
and thirteen conservatives and five repub-
licans against it. Those forty-fve conser-
vatives were "mob" and "banditti," you
know
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20
Notes and Com m cItts.

Col. jefferson Davis and Captain Ulysses
S. Grant are among those invited to attend
reunion of the officers of the Mexican
war in Austin, Texas, on May Sth.
The Detroit Free Press announces that
Susan B. Anthony is in search of man
who described her as occupying an improper
attitude toward Mr.. Tilton. and adds that
she proposes to be M other-in-law TO him
with all that name implies.
The American Unitarian association of
fremont Place, Boston, Mass, generous.
ly offers copy of Channing's works as Il
gift, postpaid, to any minister settled over
q religious society in the United States OF
Canada, or to any student of theological
school intending to enter the ministry.
A writer in the London Gl0Je says
"There are only three nations who use
slang TO any great extent, viz, France
England and America. OF these French i:
by far the wittiest, American the most ap
propriate, and English the most forcblC
and obscure"
Prussia "protests" too much. Its tran
QUILTING assurances are 80 constantly made
that they fail to tranquilize. Coming just
at this time with such frequency, they arc
good Indices of the serious trouble Turk
ing under the surface of the affair In cen.
trail Europe, and showing that the utmost
efforts of Bismarck are required to keep W
the good understanding between the three
emperors, upon which German supremacy,
and perhaps safety, depends.
To the New York Times reporter Mr.
Beecher's manner under cross examination
indicated undimished confidence the Her
alb reporter found the look of confidence
gone and nervousness playing about the
lips the Tribune representative detected
evident signs of nervousness the SIN in
quisitor discovered depressed nervousness
and deepening redness in his face. Bu
the Star, Beecher's organ, says the parsor
| floored Fullerton in less than ten minutes.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20
The Railroad Quarrel.

The Vermont and Canada stockholders
have a meeting at Bellows Falls on the Goth
to see whether they will authorize such
changes in the bargain Of sale to the Cen
trail Vermont, as are demanded by the lat
ter before the trade is made. 1t seems that
the Smith party, says the Springfield Re
publican, after all this delay in closing the
trade, now demand certain changes, the ef-
feet Of which is thus stated In circular is
sued to the stockholders by +. A. Brooks,
Bradley Barlow and f. A. Sowles, the
three directors who are opposed to ihem
The danger from this proposed change
in papers is, that, while your own deed ter
inmates your ownership and rights, the
deed of, he Genital Vermont railroad COM
pany toeSSsl docs not with certainty restore
the same title conveyed away by you, be-
cause your grantees will be at liberty, as
they say, 10 maintain that they hold title
or right to the property anterior and supe-
rior to that obtained from you, under
which claim they may at any time avail of
their possession as receiver in prejudice or
contraventon of their deed of grant or
mortgage to you"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20
An Opportunity Awaited Of.

A curious law in New Hampshire IS that
where there are $50 persons residing in un-
settled sections they can form themselves
into town and elect a representative to
the legislature, result of which was, that
at the recent state election gang of 700
laborers ON the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad divided and formed two towns,
and, with less than ninety voters, elected
two democratic representatives, one of
them being but twenty-five years of age
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20
Vicinity Items.
BENNINGTON.

A spelling match was given at Library
hall, Monday evening, April 10th. There
were six prizes First prize, a beauti-
full clock second, three silver dollars
third, a silver fruit knife fourth, toilet
set fifth glove box sixth, Photographic
album. The first person missing a word
received beautiful present, one that
will long be remembered-as set of alphabet
blocks. The exercises were open to all that
wished 70 participate. Prof. |. w. Durham
of the graded school, acted as enunciator;
T. ]. Tiffany, J. r. Shurtlelf and H. A.
Hartman, as umpres Dwight Riddle,
manager.
The last grand soiree of the Bennington
solree club took place at Library hall last
Wednesday evening. Prof. Holcomb fur
nished the music, and fine time was had
by all that participated in the terpsichorean
art.
Mr.. DIN Scott and family have started
for Richmond, Va. Their daughter Lilies
health being very poor, they were advised
by DR.. Collins of Great Darlington to re-
move her to a warmer climate, and have
taken those measures to restore her health,
which is hoped, by her friends and many
acquaintance, will prove beneficial.
Remember John b. Coughs lecture
Hp'h Si''' r NJ A.
FAIRHAyES.
The slate mills here are working upon
the largest orders they have ever had, and
more men are employed in the mills than
ever heretofore
The Fairboven marble and mo,h,oi,od
slate comnanv have inst niacad i" ot Thar their
quarry n gang cow IN SOW bfn;Id;nr Stonoo
fnr which they have rece;voJ MAN., nrdors
tb,s snr;na 1 niece IF flint that ,y; u' r,,;n
steel co. s,o, pr Tho ,,ara nii LII, nv, ,,;,ra
II for tbis msc Soon ,bora viii ho i;itie o.
No waste "''' ~ '''''' VI
A..
AMEN brothers arc making really very
i une ,nIns lor reltlgerator. win very
1 I.tle ice IL Keeps inc temperature very ioW'
me INTERNAL ariangemehts are very con
ven ,,, , iney niakc q new one ioI stores
ranged that when thev ,o,oiI from !, OH,
one tub is exposed to the warm air With
out doubt it is the best thing ever made fer
a country merchant who is either receiving
or retailing butter.
There are many slate sold conditorory
and oro only awaitinc tho nov tariff vast
1nromisedS 10 Inc Skinned Slate nroducers
saw thew never have hod az many annm;r;as
for slate from New England in the same
| time no sinco tho iseu;ng of the tarifr ,has
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DAILY GLOBE TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 90 1876

camille classes of England or the United
States. He says, "Ther eyes are dull to
the culture and progress of the world, and,
to oil that is above the world, wholly
blind. But they can spy a bargain through
a stone wall, and thievish advantage
through the lid of coffin They take SO
little trouble to make their lies plausible
that we cannot pretend to believe them
without blushing.
A case is now pending in court.at Alb
bcyvlllc, Va, which illustrates the fact
that in some obscure parts of the south at
tempts are being made to keep up the old
institution of slavery, and with some sue
cess. Albert Bethel, q colorel man who
was sold from Saltvile TO Aiken, s. c.,
away from his wife and children, before
the war, has ever since been trying to re-
cover the children, and now finds that they
have, all this time, been held as slaves, and
he has been obliged TO get writ of habeas
corpus to get possession of his own
children.
The Douglas monument question is not
yet out of the Illinois legislature. The bill
appropriating $4,000 has been defeated,
but there is another still pending which
provides for the removal of the remains 10
the grounds of the State University, and
authorizes the sale of the present site and
the application of the proceeds for the com.
plelion of the monument. The history of
previous legislation on the subject is given
as follows by the Chicago Tribune: "In
1869 the Legislature appropriated 1915, 600
to purchase The present site. where the
body Of Douglas was buried. This was Tin.
derstood to have been all that was expect.
ed of the state. The title to that site is the
property of the state. The % acres on
which the incomplete monument now stands
would bring, if put into the shape of lots
in round figures, $50, 000-perhaps $75,.
600. The most extravagant proposition
was for a monument to cost S75, 900, but We
suppose suitable and proper ono. coud be
built tor 1926, 900 or $780, If the site be
sold 1t is natural TO expect that the entire
proceeds will be consumed one way or tht
other"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

One of the witnesses against Kinds, the
Alabama marshal and alleged fraudulent
mail contractor, testified that he gave him
a gallon of whisky which he did not take
to the department, because the postmaster
general chad issued an order that liquor
''should not be DRINK in the department
Perhaps our northern cotemporary will
think this action of Gov. Jewell reprehen.
sible, and that 1t would have been "quite
as satisfactory" il he had allowed the post
office department to be turned into "gir
MILL" and looked little more closely after
Senator Hamlin. Perhaps so-ne gusti6usi
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-20

Snow fell at Chicago on Saturday Their
mometer, zoe.
Women can practise law in Maine, Mis-
souri,, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Ice formed in outside exposures at Wash
ington Friday night, and injury to fruit
trees Is feared.
The students of Bowdoin college have
voted to send six-oared crew to the uni
versity race at Saratoga in June.
There was heavy frost and ice at Mem
phis Friday night, killing vegetables and
seriously damaging, if not killing fruit.
The wife of DR.. G. G. Higbee of st.
Paul, Mimi, well-known physician, COM
mitted suicide Friday evening with strych-
nine.
The old city of Rio Janeiro is just Or
ganizing paid fire department, and is i'm
porting It's apparatus from the United
States.
The report of Commander Lull of the
Darien canal survey, has been made. 1t
considers either the Aspnwall or Nicaragua
route practicable.
At Groventon, N. H., Toohey's hotel
was burned Saturday morning. Loss, S10,-
900; insured, $4,000 Ten inches of snow
tell there and at Lancaster.
Lewis Harris who murdered Squire Mas
terton his father-in-law at Commerce, Mis-
souri,, on the 81 of November last, was
hanged at that place on Friday.
The earnings of the Union Praciflc rail-
road for fifteen days this month show an
increase OF $200,73 over same time las,
year, being sixty per cent over last year.
At Quincy, Mass, Friday evening, the
house of Nathan A. Brickett was struck by
lightning from defective lightning rod,
damaging the parlor. No person was in
jured.
At Chicago, Friday, Judge Drummond
reafflrmed his decision as to the jurisdic.
ton of the United States district court in
the Chicago. Danville and Vincennes rail
road case and in similar cases.
About dozen people were crossing the
ice of the Mississippi at Lacrosse, Wis, in
sleighs, the other day, when the ice began
to move down stream. After perilous
voyage of mile they struck on the shore,
and were all saved.
A bill to tax insurance companies was
discussed in the Nova Scotia assembly Fri
| day. Effort was made to exempt life in
surance companies from the operation o.
the tax, but they were placed on the same
footing with marine, accident and fire in
surance companies.
A Mr. William Squires of Nestocton,
Oregon, writes to the centennial commits
sioner for Oregon, that he will furnish al
Tillamook Bay fir plank twelve feet
wide and 100 feet long spruce plank
eight feet wide, cedar seven feet, larcf
seven feet, and hemlock five feet. Hi
says he can get much larger ones II trans
portation could be furnished, and can also
supply hardwood planks of like proper
ton, including chittim wood, the material
of which Noah built his ark.
| Julian Hawthorne describes the store
keepers of Dresden as Doors, uneducated IL
| everything except the tricbery OF bargain
ing, and intellectually far below the mer
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with knowledge and understanding and
take you by the hand and lead you by still
waters, which Is the sincere desire and ear
nest prayer of your unknown friend and
servant for Jesus sake.
"BENAJAH RooTs.
Rutland, on Otter Creek, Oct. 81, l776.
p. 8. This 21st Oct, A. d. 1910, the
Rev. Mr.. William Emerson of Concord
was decently inferred in this place with the
honors Of war by detachment from Col
Vandyke's Regiment commanded by Major
Stephenson, who died of bilious fever on
Lords day morning o'clock, Oct. Goth in
Both year of his age, after long illness of
about z weeks"
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The Tyycnty-Cent Coin.

The design for The twcnty-cent silver
piece authorized by the act of congress of
March 9, 1875, was selected and approved
Thursday by Hon. II. Linderman, director
of the mint The diverse design 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 1870 On
the reverse the figure of an eagle, surround
cd by the inscription, United States of
America, and beneath The eagle the words
Twenty Cents At DR.. Lnderman's
suggestion, the edge or periphery of the
coin will be perfectly smooth, in order to
distinguish it from the twenty-five cent
coin which bears reeded or fluted edge.
AS the piece is too small to admit the lc-
gend, "E. Pluribus Unum," or "In God
we Trust, both have been omitted. The
new coin is manly intended for circula-
ton in the Pacific coast states, where the
want of such coin has long been felt in
making change, and where the lowest coin
in circulation is the dime, or ten cent sill
yer piece.