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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06
NEWS ITEMS.

About half the fall wheat will be
plowed up in Missouri.
The peach crop in Missouri and Ar
kansas is nearly destroyed.
President Grant has not Yet accepted
the resignation of Attorney General
Williams.
Twenty-four States are Democratic
and eleven Republican, as represented
by their delegations in the next Con-
gress.
The Elgin, ILL.,, watch factory has
been wound up for an indefinite time,
and six hundred hands have stopped
work.
Pat Andrews cut his throat at the
Southern Hotel, Friday, in St. Louis,
and walked more than a block to a Sa-
loon, where he died.
Foreign immigration to this country
decreased 100, 1000 last year, and there
was besides d large return tide of emf
grants to the Old World.
johnson, the murderer who was to
have been hung on the 28th inst, at
SlSNCiduos CIlO, iiio oCiitGnSC
commuted to imprisonment for life, by
Governor Allen.
Two cOlored murderers who were to
have been hung at Charleston Friday,
were respited by the colored Lieuten-
ant Governor in the absence of Cover
nor Chamberlain.
Arthur B. Barrett, Mayor of ST.
Louis. died about half past four O'Clock
Saturday morning. His death was
brought on by over-wOrk during sthe
recent political canvass.
The report that vessel was burned
of Santa Barbara, CAL, Thursday had
its origin in the practice firing OF guns
by Il nian-of-war, the discharges of can
non being supposed to- be signals of
distress.
A Washington dispatch states that
the Treasury Department will on Sat-
urday dispatch number OF clerks to
London with eleven million dollars of
five per cent bonds, being the last sub
scription of the syndicate.
The Ohio State Board of School Ex-
aminer5 met at Columbus on Saturday
and decided to hold the four eXamina-
tions during the year, at Cleveland, Co.
lumbus, and Cincinnati, also ono at
Putin Bay, after the meeting of the
State Teachers Association.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC ROAD
The present assets of the Northern Pa
citic Railroad Company are reported to
consist of $50 miles of tinisbed Il road and
over l0,G00, 900 acres of Land, while the
liabilities are niortg1:rn ban,is to the
amount of $50, 500, stock to the
amount Of S25, 000, eco, which was dis
iritutpC! as Il premium tn the bonds,
and a floating debt of less I han 500, 900.
OF " hich 500, 900 is due to the directors
of the road. Besides this there is g, 5OO,-
O00 of back interest due, which is un-
classified, and which will probably be
relinquished by the bondholders in
settlement of the present difficulty.
Three plans have been suggested as
means of relieving the com pany from
embarrassment: First, to form an as
sociation of bOndholders that might be
strong enough to foreclose the mortage
and buy in the road; second, for the
bondholders to exchange their bonds
for preferred stock, leaving the compile
ted road olear,pf debt as the basis of
new series of bonds, and the latter to
effect second exchange of bonds for
the stock, if desired; third, to hold the
road built and lands earned as sole Sc
curity for the bonds now out. to divide
the road to be constructed il to sections
OF twenty-five miles, and to make an
issue of bonds fOI each section, to be
secured by that particular section and
lands earned through it.
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through other streets at some distance from
the mainsforce. Mr.. Englebrecht declares
that lie was at this time closely watching Nrs.
Fretehies house, and that she. in common
with all prudent citizens, kept all Union col
ors well out of sight. and Oily displayed them
several days later when McClellads army
followed Lee Then Mrs. Frietc.ie hung out
her banner, very small one, and Gen Reno,
supposing she meant it for him, took it, and
the colors were preserved in the brigade, and
known as ''old Barbara's." The female Grad
grind, as though bound 10 make Mrs. Frietchie
utterly commonplace, has also communicated
with Prof. Samuel Tylor. of Frederick, who
solaces her with the additional assurance that
the flag was really held and waved by a little
girl, Mrs. Frietchie standing by, and that the
charming bit of history which Whittiers
spirited verse immortalizes is but picturesque
fiction.
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party is in power. The Roman Catholic
Church is the controlling power in the Demo-
cratic party, and it means to use that party for
its own sectarian purposes. Is is not equal
rights it seeks, for these il has already. but
control. The Democratic party does not dare
oppose the demands of the Roman Catholic
Church, but the time is not far distant when
the demands Of the priesthood will divide the
Democratic party, as the slavery question divi-
ded and defeated it.
Our institutions are not and can not be in
harmony with the ideas of the Roman Catho-
lie Church or any other church that seeks to
connect the Church with the State, or use the
State for the purpose of promoting the inter
ests of one sect above that OF another, The
party that permits itself to be used for any
such purpose is doomed. The solid Roman
Catholic vote will not save ft.-Cin. Gazette
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THERE never was time when the Demo-
Pratic party deserved less to be trusted than it
does now. In order to secure the permanence
of the Union, and to preserve the integrity of
the Government, the White House and the [.
States Senate must not pass into the control OF
the men who believed in the vindication OF
Southern rights-must not be occupied, the
one by a majority of Democrats, the other by
a man in sympathy with Philadelphia
Press, Republican,
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How came you to be drunkard .
asked friend of Tom Marshall in a
conversation with him. We'll, i will
tell sou all about that said Tom. Il
graduated in law at Lexington, with
celebrated divine, Robert j. Breckin-
ridge, and our friends thought We were
the intellectual wonders Of the age, ana
they advised US, by the way Of taking
a high position at once, to attack Hen
ry Clay, then in the prime of his lame
and power, upon the nrst opportunity
soon came. We were both employed
in case insopposition to him. Bob
made speech and / made speech,
and our friends congratulated US upon
our tremendous speeches, and we were
basking in the sunshine OF coming
prosperity, when the old lion arose,
and, with one sweep of his paw, drove
Bob to the Bible and me to the bottle,
where we have been ever stnce.'
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BELMONT NTCHRONICLE.
ST, GAINESVILLE, OHIO.
THURSDAY, MAY 6. 1915.

BUFFALO GNATs.-A Memphis dispatch OF
of the 9th ult. says: Planters are complain
ing greatly of the unprecedented destruction
of mules, horses and cattle by the buffalo
gnats 1t is estimated that, within the past
ten days, hundred thousand dollars worth
of stock has been killed by them within Il
radius of one hundred miles from that city,
and the consequence has been heavy ad-
vance in the price Of mules and horses.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

THE big clock and bell which will strike the
dinner hour from tine belfry of Independence
Hall on July 4, 1876, cost $40, 900, and are in
scribed with the words: presented to the Ci-
ty of Philadelphia for the belfry of Indepen-
dence Hall, in the names of Adam and Mariah
Sarah Seybert, and Caroline, their daughter,
by their son and brother, Henry Seybert." p"
They constitute the most costly obituary no.
tice ever published in Philadelphia, and as
fine one as ever appeared outside the col
nmns of the Ledger.
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BRIGHAM You've does not grow wiser as he
goes nearer his grave. In the recent Mormon
Conference he said: Il am opposed to free
schools. Children should be educated under
the care of their parents, and parents should
labor and pay for that education. All the ed
ucation child wants is to fit him to get his
own living. In the prisons, gambling shops,
and other dens of infamy you see the results
of the education of children in the free schools
away from the care of their parents"
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Resignation of syiliiams-The
residents Reply.

WASHINGTON, April . The follow
ing is the letter of resignation of At
:OrneyGeneral Williams and the re-
ply of the President:
[ hereby resign the Office of Attor-
ney-General of the United States, to
take effect on the 10 proXilno. 1 can.
not dissOl 'e our official relations with
out thanking you for many acts of
friendship and confidence with which
you have honOred me, and expressing
for you personally very high regard
and esteem.
Very Respectively,
GEO IL WILLIAMS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

SCRIBNER's MoNTHLY.-The three
bright faces that look out from the
opening page of the May number of
Scribner's Monthly, are only different
views of one girlish head-the still liv-
ing heroine of i, tragedy which will be
remembered as long as the name of Ma
poleon is lauded and reviled among
lnen.-The picture here skillfully pro-
luced is Gilbert Stuari's threefcld por-
trait ui Madame Patterson-Bonaparte,
OF Baltimore, one of the most conspic-
uous victims OF the great Napoleon'S
VIM. Hayes Ward, of the 'Independ-
ent,' sums up, in an illustrated paper,
some OF the curious discoveries that
have recently been made in ancient As
syrian literature. Some Recent Wo-
thoughtful critical paper. 'Yung Wing
and His Work tells about the Chinese
Educational Mission, and its devoted
originator. In the way of fiction we
have two chapters of DE-. Hollands
Story of Sevenoaks lin which there is
more about Jim Fenton, and new
character is introduced;) more of that
exceedingly Mysterious Island,' by
jules Fefne; all ElSctrO- IhecHaHlcal
romance by Charles Barnard. Some
Old Letters (these are genuine by the
by, and ii later instalinent will be ac-
cora panied by iac-siniles,) and Both
Sides of the Shield by Mrs. Davis, are
the other prose contributions. In the
Editorial pages DIR. Holland writes
about Speaking Disrespectfully of the
Equator Popular Arts and The
Premium on Productive Culture. The
Old Cabinet has something about En-
glish Criticism of American Poetry
and The Poets Mind and Mood a
new department, entitled The Worlds
Work, takes the place of Mature and
Scicnce;' and 'Etchings' gives way to
'Bric-a brac;' and thus SCRIBNER en-
ters upon its tenth volume
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SOME vandals who could not bear to have
Barbara Frietchie's name so down to history
as that of brave woman who outdid the
whole town of Frederick in loyalty, have
been looking up the ''facts" of Whittiers
story. A female Gradgrind has written to
Jacob Engelbrecht of Frederick, whose house
was just opposite the one occupied by Mrs.
Frietchie when Lees army marched through
the town, and learns from him that Mrs.
Frietchie was nice old lady eff 96 years, who
exhibited no courage during the rebel occupa-
ton OF the place, except in poking her cane
between some soldiers who were crowding her
porch, and saying to them, "Get up, You dir
ty fellows, and let me in" This incident is
not mentioned by Whittier, and perhaps is
not poetic. On the day of Lees entrance Mr.
Engelbrecht says that the General marched
his men mp the main street and halted them
just in front of Barbara's house, while Stone
wall Jackson and his corps were passing
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

OF the ten Oldest Cengressmen now living,
five have passed into or beyond their nineti-
eth year, says the Boston Courier. The old
est is Horace Binney of Philadelphia, who
was born in that city on the 4th of January,
1880, and who is also the oldest living graduate
or Harvard College. Of the remaining nine
no less than six are natives of Massachusetts,
as follows: Willard Hall of Wilmington, Della
ware, born in 1880; Artemus Hale of Bridge
water, born in 1888; Perkins King of Cairo,
New York, born in 1884; George Grinnell, of
New Bedford, born in 1888; Ethan Shepley,
of Portland, Maine, born in 1889. If Virgin
ia is the mother of Presidents, Massachusetts,
would seem to be the mother of aged Repre-
sentatives.
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The Railroad War.
From the N. Y. Shipping List.

From the n. Y. Shipping List
The effect of low rates, should they
continue, will be to diminish the net
earnings of the roads, but in the end
they must reap substantial gains from
the increase oftraffic which must follow
Illustrations 10 the point are abundant.
The New York Central for example,
limited as it is to two cents mile for
passengers, accumulated so rapidly,
that to enable it to divide it legally
among its stockholders, ii issued scrip
dividend, watering the stock to nearly
double its original amount. In place
of this, it might have benefited the
people by adopting Il cheaper schedule
of passenger and freight rates. This
form of criticism will apply to every
railroad in the country. The tariff Of
legal rates ranges from two to five cents
per emile. The competing roads are
now carrying passengers between New
York and Chicago, via Baltimore, at
about SI5, or, say one and a half cents
per mile. A road that cannot carry
passengers at profit at three cents per
mile, is built before its day. And when
a railroad is fairly prosperous in bus
iness, nothing is clearer than that it can
dho-u w Vail y way ptt-'Sho$ . a. Z" ~ ~
per mile, and on fast trains at two cts.
ard have a reasonable margin of profit.
Passengers are self moving freight
and the interest on the increased cost
of passenger ears over freight cars is
equalized by the difference in the MUM
ber of employees on the several trains.
One passenger will not represent more
than one-tenth of a ton-and on this
principle it can be seen how reasonable
the rate is. In England, this is the
price charged on certain trains, as re-
quired by law, and the experience there
is, that the chcapening of rates has in
creased greatly the traffic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

THERE are eight metals more valuable than
gold, as the following will show None of
them are found on our farm though. 1t may
be worth while to mention that the first four
are never sold by the pound, but their value
is quoted for the sake of comparison. Laudi-
mum, So, 522 vanadium, $3.50; ruthenium,
81, 400; rhodium, 800; palladium, 1868;
uranium, $576; osmium, $317.44; gold,
S301.45. Indium, which was only discover
ed in 1858, is found only in the zinc blondes
of Fricburg, and is white metal of rare bril-
liancy, but practically of little value. Vana-
dium is a native of Mexico and Peru, where
it exists in lead ores under the name of vana-
diate of lead. Ruthenium. rhodium, palladi-
um, and iridium are all precipitates of plati-
mum, and all very hard metals, the last being
insoluble in acids, except when oxidized.
None of these metals are found in quantity, or
free from other metals; nor are they useful in
the arts, like gold and silver; nor could they
be coined into money, for that matter, with
out infinite trouble; so that there is very little
danger of their superseding gold and silver for
any useful purpose
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MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

belmont Lodge, No. 10. f. & A. NJ. meets ev.
sry wednesday night on OF precsdlng the iuli
IA IL DO " -
T. II. FERRE-L, Sec'y.
81. t,lairsvile Chapter. No. IL Royal Arch
unsons meeis 81 FRIDAY night eacD nontn NJ
81 Illirsyiilr and The lst Friday ga. Lnonth
at Bridgeport. JAMES ObAhn' L.
r. ii. r FGslREIL, Secy.
H-iIuou; Iou.icit, No. 81 Royal Select aa9
,S,c,.i tareiI,nL "a as;t rs meets on the 9ecoho
Tues,:ay night OF rY-iS month,
= ID, BAILY, Rec.
Hone CoIninan.eTy No. &c OF knights Temp,
lars u,.,,ls ,n tue first TuesdaJ night OF eseIy ,
MONTH A- -. noarII7aI
+. ID. BAILEY. Rec. marIHa
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MAGAZINES FOR MAY.

PETERsoN's JOURNAL, for May (PhiI-
adelphia: II. Peterson d Co., contains
The Baehfui WOoer, Il steel engraving,
and the following very readable list Of
articles: Ills Euemy,by Eliza Archard;
The Deans Watch, by Erck mann
Chat9ain; Wanted-An Angel to Do
the Cooking; Mr.. Cichkale's Courtship;
Diary of Il Governess; Romance in Il
Par, Pension; a May Moon; Plato;
Paper vs.. Gold: A Night in the Back
wocds: Waiting; Miscellany; On the
Terrace. The Journal Is one Of the best
cheap nJnthlies in the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

A CONSIDERABLE section of the Republican
press of the country was infected with the
suspicion that there was something radically
wrong in Louisiana, and that the only way
way out of the difficulty was to compromise
with the Democrats, by giving them share
of what they claimed. The compromise was
made accordingly;yet was no sooner made than
the Democrats vislated their part of the agree
ment, and betrayed the natural treachery of
their character. The Republican papers that
favored the compromise are indignant, of
course, that the Democrats should presume to
NEEDLE with it; but their indignation at an
earlier period, when the Louisiana outrages
first began, would have prevented any necissi-
ty for the compromise that was resorted to.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

ST.. NICHoLAs.-I'iere is fun enough
in the May number Of st. Nicholas to
Keep the children laus hing Jill the
ne Xt number comes out-if children
are as jelly lis We take them to be.
First OF ali is Rose Terry's poem of
''Poll Tudpole." Then there is q capi-
tai picture by Churcn, full of the this
artists humOr. A nOre graphic eX-
preston of the comic fleet OF :, new
comer's entrance has rarely been pt n
ciled. And, as if this were not enough
the "Very Little Folks" have their
share too,-a story, illustrated with
five pictures, which, if the. baby see
them first, will carry the laugh all
around The circle 10 grandpa. But St.
NichUlii, knows how to be serious too;
and no girls story could be swceter
that Susan Coolidge's delightful May
day narrative of Queen Dlossorii,' with
its beautiful illustration 1y Frederick5.
The three illustrated stories by Rebecta
Harding Davis, Elsie GOrham, and the
author of 'Rutledge' will interest every
body. But we cannot naD'e all the
good things; we OILY envy the children
the monthly happinessNof such Il mag
aZi:ie.
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PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN RoNE.-The
Baptist denomination have just dedicated their
first church in Rome. 1t was made a some
what noteworthy occasion by the presence of
delegation of upward of eighty Baptists
from England. The Baptists have had relig-
ious services in Rome since it became the cap
ital of Italy, but have been forced to remove
their place of meeting frequently. Some time
ago site for chapel was bought for 100000
at No. 81 in the Piazza San Loronzo by gen.
tleman friendly to the mission. A building
capable of seating about 800 persons was
erected, with school room and baptistry on
one side, and a shop in front for the sale of re-
ligious publications. The chapel is called the
Apostolic Church of Christ" and its pastor
is the Rev. Mr.. Wall, who has two assistants
The dedication services were attended by
large congregations. Eleven Italian commu-
mic ants were present.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-05-06

Both Houses of the Louisiana legis-
lature have adjourned sine die. In the
Senate the resolution suspendlng Clin-
ton from Office, was postponed.
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NOTICE.

UNR. S. +. WOOD having opened an ONCE in
~ Wheeling, announces 10 The public that he
will not be able tn be at his office in ST. Clairs-
willie all the time, hut will visit 1t the first
Monday OF every month and stay one week
com 10 encing Monday, sept. 7th.
once in Wheeling. No. il56 Aain-st. (up
staIrs-l
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THE TUSCARAWAs VALLEY RAIL
RoAD.-Although but little stir is be-
ing made about the affair, the prelimi-
naries to the bulldog of the Tuscara-
was Valley Railroad to this city are
being quietly but surely completed: On
Wednesday Of last week, the General
Superintendent and Chief Engineer of
the road, Mr.. w. w. Card, and the
General Manager, Mr.. Thomas arrived
in Bridgeport in the interests of their
road. On Tuesday Mr.. II. j. Baggs
and Andrew Baggs started with Mr..
Card in buggy to examine the route.
They kept along the creek for sixteen
or seventeen miles and crossed the
summit of the dividing ridge between
the Saltwater and Wheeling creek val
leys, at Bigiey's trough. They then
went down to Athens, carefully eX-
amining the route the whole distance.
Mr.. Card went from Athens to Edge
Vile, and from there to Cleveland, and
expecting to lay report before the
Board of Directors on Saturday, and
ask them to furnish a corps of engineers
to commence the survey Immediately
at this end of the line. This will pro-
bably he granted, and it Is possible
that the engineers will arrive in Bridge
port the first OF next week, and i'm
mediately commence work.
Mr.. Card was welcomed TO Athens
with many expressions of pleasure.
The citizens of Athens are jubilant over
the prospects of obtaining the road and
will no doubt do much to secure it.
Whether or not they. viii! get it is u
matter of doubt. For distance Of
sixteen miles up Wheeling creek the
road cannot diverge, above that point
there are four or five routes, the best
and most practicable of which will
likely be selected without regard to
any other considerations. n commit
tee from Athens was in Bridgeport
yesterday, inquiring into the prospects
of the road coming through their city.
The TuscarawaS Valley road, as we
have mentioned before is owned by
the New York Central, Southern Mich
igan, and Lake Shore roads. Owing
to this fact the connections of the road
are excellent, being unequalled by any
that has its terminus in this vicinity.
And further, this fact precludes the
possibility of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company obtaining control OF
the road without purchasing and pay
ing a round price for it, which it is not
likely the b. Il o. will do.-Wheeling
Register % ult.
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Very Respectfully,

The President having rendered the
position of AttOrney-General to Judge
E.JS. Pierrepont. of New York, that
gentleman has accepted.
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EXECUTIVE MANSON, April 28.
To Hon. Geo. FL. Williams:

DEAR SIR:-In accepting your resig-
notion of the Office of Attorney Gener-
al of the United States, to take effect
on the 18th of May, 1875, as rendered
by your letter tf the 22d, allow me to
express my appreciation of the ability,
zeal and efficiency with which the trust
confided to your charge has been per-
formed. My sincere friendship accom-
panieS you in the new field of life that
you have chosen, and my best wishes
for your success.
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