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Blaine OH Religious Liberty.

Ex-Speaker Blaine's position that the Con-
stitution of the United States does not secure
religious liberty in the various States is un-
doubtedly correct. Congress is forbidden to
pass any law restricting freedom of religion,
but the only limitation imposed upon the
States is that they must have republican
form of government. The provision giving
equal rights to citizen of one State in all 9TH
er States has many restrictions. For example,
clergyman cannot marry couples in certain
States unless he is a resident; special taxes are
imposed on merchants and their representa-
tives from abroad, and long residence is or
was required in Ohio before lawyer from an
other State could practice his profession within
its bounds. In New Hampshire, Roman Catho-
lies are excluded from executive and legisla-
lative offices, and we believe there are certain
Ieligious qualifications required hy Massachu-
sets and North Carolina. Now, should two
thirds Of the citizens of Ohio, for example,
decide that one form of religion alone be pub
licly professed, there is nothing in its rela-
tions to the general government which could
prevent the State from carrying out its pro-
gramme. 1t is not at all probable that such a
result could ensuc in our own or even future
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to Mr.. Nathans for $lI5. Mr.. Seeley
paid Sl10 tor bay, and Mr.. Barnum
secured little three-year old for his
granchild for $l35. The Clown Pony
that always used to shirk running the
first half of the monkey races, and
then come in first, went to NathanS for
800. The two trick mules, Pete and
Jerry, were bought by the same gentle
man Tor sos and S95. --
GREAT BARGAINS.
Ofthe fifteen ring horses Nathans
bought thirteen. For Eagle, a beauti-
ful white pad horse, he paid $400. i
sold him once to James Melville for
81, ,l0O,' said he after he had bought
him. Spot, another white horse, he
bought for S400. And for black Bess,
ID magnificent pad mare, he paid $500.
The old trick stallion Senator, was
bought by Mr.. Stewart for old John
Robinson forS 800. For Dixie, beau
tiful entree horse, there was no bid.
Charley, a white horse, went to Ma
lhans for 500. Mr.. Coup had orders
to give $500 for him, but was engaged
when the horse was offered, and so lost
the chance. Charley used to be ridden
DS the ceieDTaleu equeslrienhe, hisS
Cook.
The rest of the English running hor-
ses were next sold, but they did not
bring good prices. None of the circus
men wanted them, and the farmers did
not seem to appreciate the value of the
mares for breeding. For Queen, sor-
rel mare, SIPS was paid, and the rest of
the twenty went for prices ranging
from 10 to S15. ..., -
The 1852 horses, ponies and mules
brought about $50, ,0O0.-N. y. Sun, ,3Oth
uIr ~
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Stick TO Ii.

Learn a trade or get into business,
and go at it with determination that
defies failure, and you will succeed.
Don't leave it because hard blows are
to be struck, or disagreesble work to be
performed. Those who have worked
their way up to wealth and usefulness
do not belong to the shiftless and un-
stable class; and if you do not work
while a young man, IS an old man you
will be nothing. Work with will,
and conquer your prejudices against
labor, and manfully bear the heat and
burden of the day. 1t may be hard the
first week; but alter that, assure YOU,
it will become pleasure, and you Will
feel enough better satisfied with your
self to pay for all the trial OF a Begin
ming. Let perseverance and industry
be yeur motto; and with q steady ap-
plication to business, you need have no
fear for the future. Don't be ashamed
of your plain clothes, provided you
have earned them. They are far more
beautiful in the estimation of all honest
men and women than the costly gew-
gaws sported by some people at the ex-
pense Of the confiding tailor. The peo-
Pile who respect you only when well
clad, will be the first to run from you
in the hour Of adversely.
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Harper's Weekly.
illustrated.
Notices of the Press.


Harper's Weekly is the sblest and most po ~
ertul illustrated periodical published 10 this
country Its editorials are scholarly and con-
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circulation of 10000. the Weekly isread by 3:
least half million persons, and its influence
as an organ of opinion is simply tremendous.
The Weekly msintains positive position, and
expresses decided views on political and social
problems Louisville Courier -Journal.
Its articles are meGels Of high-toned discus
sion. and its pictorial illustrations are often
corroborative arguments OF no small force
NY Examiner and Chronicle
Its papers upon existent questions and its
iuimitable cartoons help 10 mould the senti-
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South America and the West Indies.
He came to the United States some
years ago, and was stationed at Mem
phiS, Tennessee, AT tie time of the yell
low fever epidemic few years since,
and having in addition to a theological,
a thorough training in medicine, rem
dered efficient aid ut Memphis during
the scourge. He has been stationed at
st. i1enry's Church, where the shoot-
ing was done, about two years. No
Bile County Republican.
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bly, the best Sustained
work of the kind in the World -
Harper's Magazine.
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NOItftS OF Lte I'Tt88.
The ever increasing circulation of this excel
lent monthly proves its continued adaptation
to popular desires and needs. Indeed, when
we think into how many homes it penetrates
every month, we must consider il as one Of the
educators as well as entertainers If the public
mind Boston Globe.
The character which this Magazine possesses
for variety. enterprise artistic wealth. and lit
erary culture that has kept pace with, II it has
not led the times, should cause its conductors
to regard it with justifiable complacency. The
Magazine has done good and not evil all the
days of its life.--(Brooklyn Eagle.
Some of the most popular Of modern novels
have first appeared as seIisls n this Maga-
zine In all respects. it is an excellent peri
odIcal. and fully deserves its great success -
Philadelphia Logger.
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Harper's Bazar.
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The Bazaar commends itself to every member
of the household-to the children by droll and
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matron by its patterns for the ehildren'selothes
to pdterfdmilias by its tasteful designs for en-
broitered slippers and luxurious dressing
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is uniformly Of great excellence. The paper
has acquired wide popularity for the fire.
side endowment it affords N. Y. Evening Post.
In its way there is nothing likeit. Fresh
and Trustworthy ~ 4 fashion guide. its stories
and essays. its poetry and squibs, are all in
vigorating TO the mind Chicago Eve. Journal
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DR.. j. G. HOLLAND wrote as follows to the
Woman's National Temperance Association,
which recently assembled in Cincinnati: ''For
the last twenty-five years / have watched
with absorbing interest the various phases
and stages of the temperance reform. con-
fess that have not found much to encourage
me, either in the results of personal reform or
in the outcome of prohibitory legislation.
Drunkards are made faster than they can be
mended, and the laws are neither executed nor
respected. The only way, therefore, to cure
drunkenness is to cease producing it. The
only way to get rid of drunkards is to stop
raising them. Here is where women's true
field of labor lies, with relation to this great
work. The hope of the country is in its chill
dren, and the children are in the hands of
women-women mainly in the home, women
mailny in the school, women mainly in the
Sunday School. have no great hope of your
success as a society in influencing legislation.
l should have no great hope of the results OF
legislation, even should you aid in securing it,
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The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
says in his report that there are eighty mil
lion tobacco chewers, smokers and snuffers in
the United States These are startling figures.
If true there are in this country nearly forty
million more tobacco users than there are peo-
pie. This appalling increase in the use of tie
injurious weed, should set every lover of his
race to thinking Ddn6ury Ne,os
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THE Boston Journal says that when the war
broke out the accumulations of Henry Wilson
amounted to some few hundred dollars. When
the war closed he was some $500 in debt.
No sick soldier was left uncared for if his pc
cuniary means rendered it possible to afford
relief
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-09

GEN. FIrz HENRY WARREN, since his con-
fnement in the Retreat for the Insane, in
Hartford, has rapidly improved, and his COM
plete recovery is expected. There proves to
be no braiu disease, the symptoms being mere
ly sympathetic, and called forth by purely
physcal troubles.
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The New York Herald makes VIM. B. As
tors fortune amount to $500, 900, 900, instead
of $50, 600, ,OO0. as at first represented. Peter
Cooper states that his wealth is really incalcu-
liable. John Jacob Astor, his eldest son, has
the management of the immense bonanza.
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THE New York Tribune, referring to
the ST. Louis whisky ring develop
ments, says that 'the attempt to fasten
some stain of completely upon the Pres
ident himself is wholly unwarranted
by the facts thus far disclosed. Nor can
it be said that the. Republican party
has shown the least sympathy for the
participants in these crimes, or made
the slightest effort to shield or EN- bar
rass Secretary BristOw in his work of
reform. On the whole, the Republi-
can party will unquestionably gain by
this exposure, as any party ought to
gain which unflinchingly hunts down
and Furnishes corruption of any form
within its ranks. The credit is the
greater in this case, because the guilty
persons were prominent in the party
and had been peculiarly influential.
The spirit which refuses to grant them
any shelter or mercy and demands full
punishment according to the full letter
of the law is the true spirit of reform"
This is every word true; and We have
only to add the stern eXhortatiOn of the
President, ''let no guilty man escape" !"
even though he should be the Private
Secretary of the President himself.
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PRoF. RICHARD A. PEocToR, on his return
to London next spring, will take the chair of
Astronomy in the new Roman Catholic Uni
versity, which was founded mainly by the eff
forts of Cardinal Manning and Mgr. Capel,
and was opened at Kensington October Is,
1874.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-09

THE very latest aspirant for President Grants
official shoes, is the Rev. W. E. Matthews, OF
Noble comfy. He has been preacher and
school teacher for thirty years, and thinks
such course of training eminently fits him
for the Presidency. He is not, he says, ga
whit behind old George Washington in princi.
ple," and calls himself Washingtonian Re-
publican.
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PAUL MICHAELoFF, the engineer commits
stoned by the Russian Government to exam
inc and report on the ports and water commu-
nicatious of North America, is in Cincinnati
examining the canal routes of Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-09

/. .NEys baS been received ofstlAe death in
China of Hon. BENZ. P. Avery, American
Minister to that country, appointed about two
years ago to succeed Minister Law.
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TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
-AH1 6EGO
Belmont County, Ohio.

1st Saturday December, St. Clairsville.
1st Saturday January, s.. Clairsville.
1st Saturday February, Barnesville:
Sd Saturday February, st. Clairsville.
lat Saturday March, Bridgeport.
Sd Saturday March, st. Clairsville.
Sd Saturday April, st. Clairsville.
Sd Saturday May, Morristown.
I'd Saturday June, St. Clairsville.
Also, at close Of Institute In Bridgeport, In
August 1876.
Begin at 8 O'Clock, A. NJ. Promptness is ex-
pected.
Furnish testimonials OF character. IL not
personally known TO the Board and OF success
In teaching. IL the applicant have had eIper-
ience,
Ex. Board, R. ALEXANDER.
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The National Grange is considering spe-
cial marriage service for members of the order.
A special baptismal service is suggested.
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BELMONT CHRONICLE.
ST. GAINESVILLE, OHIO.
THURSDAY. DEC. 8, 1875.

WV B. AsToR owned 5000 houses in New
York city, the rentals of which indicate for
tune of about fifty millions.
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generation. Yet we know there is at least
one denomination which has always claimed a
monopoly on the public or private conscience,
and enforced that claim wherever it could do
so. Mr. Blaine thinks that there should be
no possibility of such consummation. Ac-
cordingly, he proposes constitutional amend
ment which will secure religious freedom and
unsectarian schools for the whole country.
There is little chance of the adoption of the
amendment, as most people will think the
country safe enough without it.-Cin. Gas.
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ALICE TILToN has left her mother and is
now living with her sister Floronce in the fam
ily mansion.
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Miss SroKLEs, the eldest daughter of Gen.
Sickles, is said to be about to marry d Span.
ish nobleman.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

belmont Lodge, No. l6, & A. ". meets ev.
sry wednesday night on or preceding tne ioll
NJ Don. ID. H. h-bOMHAANEn' W S1.
T. H FERRE-L, Secy.
ST Clairsyil'e Chapter. No. IL Royal ATcn
nasons- meets Sd Friday night each month nj
st. Clairsville and the LIST Friday eanh LponIn ~
1T Bridgeport. JAMES CLAIM n r
T. II. FERRELL, Secy.
Belmont Council No. 81 Royal Select AID
Super Ex ceIlent Masters, meets on the SECOND
Tuesday night OF evsry month.
c. w. CARROLL, T. l. q. ID.
ID. BAILY, Rec.
Hope Commandery No. % of knights Temp
lars, meets on the first Tuesday night OF eveIy
month. A j. bAU1S, ELL So,H -,
F. ID. BAILEY. Rec. marlhA
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-09

A MALICIOUS FABRICATIoN.-We do not
know who was so andacious in misleading the
public in case that could result only to their
detriment, as to assert that HALLS BALsAM is
no longer. in the market We assure our
friends that such is rot the ease. This old
standard remedy for coughs and colds is still
prepared in its original purity, ard may be
had of druggists everywhere in the United
States or Canada Price, S1,00.
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THERE is an estimated deficiency of twenty
thousand dollars for the current quarter in the
appropriation Of the last Legislature for ex-
penses of prosecution and transportation Of
convicts. This is one of the beautiful results
of Democratic inanciering, which consists in
squandering the public funds in useless pro-
longation of legislative sessions, and trans
mitting as much of the current expenses of
the government as possible to the appropria-
ton account of succeeding Republican Leg
islature. Such are the astute methods of the
Eshelman system of humbug economy.-O.S.
Journal
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Wheat Growing MaXims.

Somebody has been at the trouble of
condensing a great deal of information
about wheat growing, as follows, into
very small compass, and somebody else
has set it af]oat without crediting it to
the author. If we could, we would
gladly give his name: /. The best soil
for wheat is a rich clay loan. 2. Wheat
likes good, deep, soft bed. 3. Clover
turned under makes just such bed. 4.
The best seed is heavy, oily, plump
and clean. .. About two inches is the
best depth for sowing the seed. 6. The
drill puts in the seed better and cheap
er than broadcasting. Z. From the
middle of September to the last of Oc-
tober is the best time for sowing. 8. If
drilled, one bushel of seed per acre; if
sown broadcast. two bushels. 3. One
heavy rolling after sowing does uIuch
good. 10. For flour, cut when the grain
begin to harden; for seed, not until it
has hardened.- Farmers Advocate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-09

James Rump, Toledo German, took
morphine to allay nervousness, and
crossed over to join the majority.
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Controller Knox, in that portion of
his report which relates to National
banks, has presented an elaborate his
toricAl essay in support of the National
banking system. In the course of the
report q very remarkable parallel is
drawn between banking legislation of
1712 and of the present day. 1t appears
that the general features of the legisla-
tion in 1872 are very similar to the pro-
visions of the present banking act.
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