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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

prices, and inspired extravagance ii living
Our debt, created by the war, and held large
| ly abroad, forced us into currency payments
and depleted US, year by year, of our gold
supply. Hence when the panic came, we
were being largely drained of our gold sup
ply, and thus could not recuperate as rapidly
as we otherwise might have done. Thus Ia
Dor is comparatively PROSTATE, even now; but
this is not chargeable to the Protective Tariff,
but to the debt we owe abroad, which consti-
tutes form of dependence upon, or allegiance
to, Europe. The aim and purpose of Pro-
tective Tariff is to foster the development of
American industry; and it has done this, in a
very remarkable degree, for years past, and
will again, so soon as we recover from our
commercial panic.
2. The other fact is, that as soon as the Free
Traders control our markets, they at once put
up the prices of their goods, so that we really
gain nothing, even in the element of first cost.
We have changed from Free Trade to Protec-
ton, and from specific Tariffs to Free Trade,
in this country, before. Hence we have ex-
perience to teach us in matters of this eharac
ter; and this experience shows US that while
foreign competitors are bidding for the Amer
ican market, they offer very enticing prices,
but once they have gained it, they make us
pay for the expense they have been at to reach
our market. Thus the statement that certain
goods, were the tariff reduced, would be sold
at given price, is delusion.
The pith of the Protectionist principle is,
that given form of manufacture, or product
of any kind, can be most cheaply enjaped, the
nearer the consumer is to the place OF manu-
facture The reason why American manufac-
lures could not at first be produced as cheaply
as in England was 1. Our rate of wages to
the laboriHg peopieswere higher, than in En-
gland. 2. We could not produce so cheaply
till everything had been systematized. We
have gradually reached the second condition,
and our manufacturers have been closely COM
peting with the English for nearly three years.
One reason for this is that the rate of comiyen-
,ation to labor has been increased in England,
through the influence of American example
Thus gradually we have reached a competing
point, and Protection has worked its legiti
nate results Even as to the demand for la
Dor, despite the badness of the times, we are
,etter off than in England. We thus have no
eason to change our policy to crafty our for
ign competitors. Pittsburgh Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
The Crops.

Agricultural returns for October show that
the wheat crop for the present year is short
one, and there is marked deterioration in
the quality, The average thus far reported
is about 80 per cent of last years production.
If this indicates the total depreciation it
amounts to neaaly 62,OOO,OOO bushels, and
gives crop of 246, ,000,0 900 bushels. In quail
ity the crop averages fourteen per cent below
a sound condition. The condition of the corn
crop is exceptionally high. The product re-
ported this year falls short of 1874 about four
per cent. The oats product is five per cent
greater than last year. The potato crop prom
ises to be extraordinary, both in yield and
quality. Tobacco is two per cent above the
average. Barley is eighty-seven per cent of
last years crop, and buckwheat not far from
an average.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
The "HOg Cholera"

A paper was read at the New York
State Fair, by DIR. Bush, of Households,
discussing disease among hogs which
had prevailed extensively in Chemung
and other counties;
The symptoms at the commencement
are loss of appetite, dropping of the
ears and tail. The hog appears dump
ish, generally seek for water, lies on his
belly. The urine is scanty, high col
ored, or bloody and acid, and in some
instances there is entire suppression of
his excretion. The bowels are some
times loose; at other times constipated.
In some cases bleeding at the nose, and
and this seems to mark very severe
cases. The hind legs appear weak or
lame. The animal uses them with dif-
ficulty; reels when he walks. The
pulse is very weak and the tempera-
ture high; the tongue and mouth dry.
AS death approaches, the breathing is
jerking and rapid, the pulse is quicker
and more feeble and death seems to
take place from exhaustion. In only a
few instances did the hogs indicate
severe suffering.
Treatment has been rather unsatiS-
factory. In several severe cases re-
covery has followed treatment when
pains have been taken to give medi-
cine promptly. Some got well with
out anything. The remedies used
were calcvlated to decrease the violence
of the circulation, render the blood
alkaline, act on the kidneys and other
excretories, as well as to sustain the
vital forces. EPSON salts, nitrate of
potash, digitalis. carbonate of ammon-
ia, Peruvian bark and gin were the
medicines used. The first two given
the hogs in their food seemed to act as
u preventive as very few cases occurred
after they were used.
Professor Law, of Cornell University.
said the disease is an enteric or intesti-
mol fever. He does not believe in treat
ing such fatal infectious diseases
among animals of ordinary value, but
thinks they snould be stamped out''
by killing all attacked by them.-
GCountry Gentleman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

Tna Carruth Lands case bids fair to be one
of the most famous on record. Lands, the
well-known proprietor of Vineland, n. j.,
shot the editor Carruth in the brain many
months ago It was thought at first that the
man would die. Afterward it appeared prob
able that he would recover. Finally, howev-
er, he died. Had he lived ninety days longer,
that is one year after he was wounded, Lands
could not have been legally charged with caus-
ing his death. As it is, he now stands in the
same position as if the shot had proved imme-
diately fatal. The length oftime between the
shooting and the death of Carruth will, how
ever. be made the SUBJECT of grave discussion
by lawyers and physicians. The defense, no
doubt, will try to make it probable that Car
ruth died from other causes than the bullet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
PHINEAS 7. BARNUM,
BOARDING BY THE DAY OR WEEK,
"a FRANKFoRT STREET,
New YORK.

This was probably in about the year 1880 or
1881; preceding Barnums advent in the ca
reer of Snowman, with ''Old JOYCE Heath. "
He had just been treated to sharp persecution
here in his native State, for his iberality in
matters of religious belief. Until about 1928
or 1929 it was not competent for aUniversalist
to testify in court of law here in Connecti-
cut The Times battled for change in the
law, and to good effect, too; and in Fairfield
county, Mr.. Barnum, with his Herald Of Free
dom, did effective, if somewhat violent, ser
vice, in the same direction, and for his attack
on Judge Daggett and the courts decisions
he was arrested and put in the Danbury Jail.
He served out his sentence and then went to
New York, where, it seems, he set out as
the keeper of boarding house. A few years
later he conceived the brilliant idea of launch
ing out into the showman's business, a career
for which nature had more peculiarly and pre-
eminently endowed him than any other man
before or since. He got an old Maryland ne
gress, took her to Boston, and had circulated
and read in the churches an appeal for aid for
her to purchase her freedom-she having rails
ed enough money, all to about $500, and was,
moreover, the same old aunty who had nursed
George Washington, The sell was perfect.
The ministers went to work to aid the contri-
button, larger sum than was asked for was
raised, and Barnum's career as a Snowman
began. His old negro woman drew like a
house on fire-not only in Boston, but all
about the country; and the success of the
scheme led later to the 'woolly horse" and
various other wonders, and finally to the best
travelling show that this country has ever seen.
Mr.. Barnum is rmquestionably genius-if a
peculiar one.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
Uninst Suspicious.

The other. day Detroit husband
went on a fishing exclusion with a
party of friends. Returning at mid
night he pounded on the door and
aWOke his wife. AS she let him into
the hall, she saw that something allied
him, and cried out:
"Why, Henry, your face is as red as
paint"
"Guesser MT" he replied, feeling
along the hall.
"And believe you've been drink
ing," she added.
"Whazzer mean by THAT ." he in
quired, trying to stand still.
"Oh Henry, your face would never
look like that if you hadn't been drink
ing"
mi to blame?" he asked tears in
his eyes. "Spozen big bass jumped
up'n hit me in th' face an make it red,
mi to blame ?"
And he sat down ON the floor and
cried over her unjust suspicions.-[De-
troit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
Open Arctic Sea.

DIR. Isaac /. Hayes, the Arctic ex-
plore writes letter to the New York
Herald, wherein he congratulates the
Pandora upon having made gallant
dash into the Arctic seas, and admits
that it came about as near to accom-
plishing the Northwest passage as any,
save the expedition under Sir John
Franklin. After much interesting
matter in relation to Franklin's fate,
and the Pandora's mission, the doctor
concludes by saying:
Il still believe, as l always have be-
lieved, since my first voyage thereto.
that in the vicinity of the Poles there
is an open, navigable sea in the sum-
mer; that it may be reached by ship or
boat, by way of Smith Sound, and that
the North Pole is within the reach of
any nation that will think it worth
while to spend money enough to get it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
Free Trade Schemes.

The Centennial has been seized upon. by
the European and American advocates of
Free Trade, as leverage, to be employed for
forcing their views of political policy upon
us. A year ago they were particularly
anxious to have Congress pass all goods that
might be entered for exhibition and sale at
the Centennial, free of duty. 1t was urged
that if the concession asked were made, there
would be a grand display of European goods,
and the Centennial be made a success, so far
as the exhibition of goods is concerned. Con-
gress refused to act favorably in the case, and
the tactics of the Free Traders were changed.
They experimental for time on public opin-
ion, but received no favorable responses. At
last the happy expedienr was hit upon of hav-
ing the advertisements at the Centennial made
into arguments for Free Trade Thus they
propose to post over their goods statement
of the cost of a given line of goods in England
or on the continent of Europe; what they
would sell for if admitted duty free; what, if
an ad vaL0rem tariff of twenty per cent were
changed, and what is the present selling price
in New York. This is the strong point of the
Free-Traders-to appear to the pockets of the
people, and say that Europe can furnish goods
at lower rate than is charged for goods OF
American manufacture. Where persons dc
not look beyond the first statement they are, OF
course, impressed. To them it is astonishing
that they should not be as cheaply manufac'
tured here, and the first impulse is to accept
Free Trade as wondsrful boom
Against this enticing representation are two
classes of facts that show the other side of the
question in its clearest light. l. Protection
has tendency to give employment to Ameri
can labor. True, the system of Protection
has been tried, during the past fifteen years
under adverse circumstances. The war rolled
on the country heavy volume of debt, ran uI
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
Happy Husbands.

1t is mans own fault if he is un-
happy with his wife, in nine cases out
of ten. The great men of this world
have been wretched in their domestic
relations, while common men have
been exceedingly happy. Absorbed in
themselves, those who desired the
worlds applause were careless of the
little world at home, while those who
had none of this egotism strove to keep
the hearts that were their own, and
were happy in their tenderness. No
woman will love man the better tor
being renowned and prominent.
Though he be first among men, she
will be prouder, not fonder; and if she
loses him through his renown, as is
often the case, she will not even be
prouder. But give her love, apprecia-
ton, kindness, and there is no sacrifice
she would not make for his content
and comfort. The man who loves her
well is her hero and king. No less
hero to her though he is not to any 9TH
er; no less a king, Though his kingdom
is her heart and hOme.-[ Boston Gull
tiVafOr
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
CHURCH AND STATE.
The Duties of Catholics at the
Polls.

In lecture recently delivered in ST.
Louis, Rev. Father Henning said:-''It
is the duty of every Catholic to vote
for a Catholic candidate; for one who is
not opposed to the Catholic religion;
who is not an enemy of the Church;
and it is the duty of every faithful
Catholic to vote against those Catholics
who are enemies of our Church and of
our holy faith. The enemies of the
Church have already given us an ink
ling of what they are going to do.
They are going to make an issue which
will create fearful amount of bad
blood, and l am sorry to say that this
issue has been made most loudly from
the lips of one who calls himself the
President of the United States. This
issue is the question of education, and
this issue will be nothing else but a cry
against Popery; cry against the Cath
Ollie faith; u cry against the increase OF
Catholicity in America. 1t IS nothing
else but war. We must make use of
all the legitimate means in our power
in this struggle that we must face like
men-not violence, not revolution, but
the ballot that we, rs citizens of the
United States, have the right to use as
we please. We have the right to act
according to the dictates of our relig-
ion; and if we are good Catholics, we
will fight according to our faith. 1t is
a great shame when Catholic voters al
low themselves to be bribed with few
dollars or few drinks of whisky; it is
a great shame when Catholics perform
their duty as citizens without any re-
gard to the holy faith. Our duty as
Catholics is to work for our religion, for
the increase Of Catholicity, for the pro-
motion of the faith, for the Christian
education of our children, for the sue
cess of Catholicity in America; and to
do this, not by illegitimate means, but
those that are given to Us by the
Constitution and laws of the land"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

A COzY HOME.-A Vicksburg wife
informed her husband the other morn
ing that she was working herself into
the grave for the want of hired girl,
and as he went out she leaned back and
fell to weeping. The children were
making noise in the hall as he passed
out, and he called out: you want to
stop this racket! Your mother won't
live week, and when you get step
mother here next spring she won't put
up with any such fooling" When he
came home to dinner his wife met him
with smile and said: isn't ours a
cozy home, Richard, with only our
own little family TO look after'--[ Vicks-
burg Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

THE provisions of the bill for the re-
organization of the Treasury Depart
ment will shortly be carried out. One
of these requires that the appointments
in the department shall be equally dis
tributed between the States and the
District of Columbia, so that as the
largest number have been made from
the District there will probably be a
good many changes. 1t is believed
that at least one-half the employees of
the department will shortly be dis
placed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Iowa City is going to have a new
er, to run by steam.
John Bull goes off in rage at learn
ing that Chinese agents are in Vienna
trying to buy cannon.
Cattlepsy. A Kentucky farmer the
other day raid S17, ,150 for Durham
heifer calf, four mounths old.
Thrifty little Rhode Island has only
4S0 paupers out of 25S, ,239 souls, and has
$40 200, 900 in savings banks.
An exchange thinks that Eve must
have been very unhappy woman.
There was no other woman to pass her
on the street that she might look
around and see how that dress fitted in
the back.
A Pewaukee minister who was en-
Ideavoring to persuade couple Of boys,
las Sunday, to give up fishing on the
Sabbath, slipped Off log into the wat
er, and had to postpone services for
that day.
France out into the garden, Maud,
and show those striped hose; likewise
YOUR high-heeled gaiters, too; also
your Summer clothes; but be careful as
YOU waltz about, looking sweeter than
4 rose, that the cold, damp wind don't
come along to sock cold into your
nose.
The big girls in Kentucky sit OF top
of the fence, knocking their heels
against the boards, and dreamingly
squirting tobacco juice into the dusty
road, and when a traveller rides by
they hail him and inquire, "What will
We take for that thar hoss-clean cash,
right in yer fist 2"
The trunk lines entering Chicago
from the East have adopted the follow
ing new passenger rates, which will go
into effect on November /: To New
York, $22; to Boston, SO; to Philadel-
phia, $50: to Baltimore, 1880; to Al
bany and Troy, $20.15; to Harrisburg,
sl9. This is an advance of about two
dollars on the old rates.
When a young man stays so late at
the house of his inamorata that II IS
found necessary to repaper the wall to
get rid of his shadow, 1t Is about time
for him to take his trunk and washing
there. Er
| Mount Holyeke Seminary has sup
piled lis wives for foreign missionar-
| les. the last two graduating classes furn-
ishing eighteen. They usually go
abroad first as teachers and are speed
lily married by the missionaries.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
ADVERTISING, RATES
THE New York BelIetin, in careful

THE New York Belletin, in a careful
article on Industrial reconstruction,
shows that by every process of reason
ing it is fair to assume that the bottom
has been reached in both cotton and
wooden manufactures. We observe,
too, that at public meeting in New
Bedford, Mass, last week, the Presi.
dent of an extensive cotton manu-
featuring company stated that his mill
had within few days made its first
shipment of manufactured goods to a
foreign market, whereupon another
manager informed the meeting that
his company had just made its first
while third gentleman
stated that he represented iron inter-
ests which had likely story to tell.
These facts are full of cheering signifi-
canoe and indications.
WELL SATIsFIED.-A middle-aged
man, says the Free Press, very ragged
and forlOrn, hung around Detroit no.
tel the other day for an hour or two
and then tried to skulk in TO dinner
The clerk nabbed him and said:
'You want to prance right out o heren
Il won'tv was the flunt reply.
'rhen I'll cOerce yOun said the clerk,
and he took the fellow by the hair,
walked him to the door, and lifted
him heavy, saying:
Now go to police if you want to-,
Say, mister replied the beat, as he
faced around, is this an unusual pro-
ceeding?'
No, sir, we allow no man to dead
beat u.s.
And would you have kicked George
out the same way If he
had no money!
Just the same, sir
We'll, Pm no better than General
was, and | shan't raise any
fuss" remarked the beat, as he walked
Ofi,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

THE Pittsburgh Democrats have been so
cruel as to invite Gov. Allen to take the stump
for them. Have they forgotten this remark
made by him a few weeks ago: Suppose l
shonld be beat like h-ll in my own State,
wouldn't be a pretty looking thing making
speeches in Pennsylvania There can only
be one answer to that question,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
THE VOTE ON GOVERNOR:
from Official and
Semi-OfficiaI Returns in Ohio
Majority for Hayes 5.J49.

Below is given the vote of Ohio on
Governor, by counties, fer the year
1875, compiled mainly from the official
returns in the office of the Secretary Of
State by the Ohio State Journal. The
table is practically official:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

Mr.. Moody is the most rapid speaker
the New York stenographers have
ever had to encounter. The Tribune's
swiftest stenographer took down from
his lips 1900 words in ten minutes by
the watch. This is at a rate four times
as rapid as that of Mr.. Evarts, and
third faster than that of Mr.. Beecher,
two of the most difficult speakers to
roDOrt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
BELMOHT CHRONICLE.
ST, CL4IRSVILLE, OHIO.
THURSDAY, NOV. 4. 1875.

Iowa will have IS Republicans in her next
Senate, to 9 Opposition. The House stands
so Republicans to 20 Opposition, giving a
majority of 90 on joint ballot to the Republi-
cans. In the last General Assembly the Re
publican majority on joint ballot was on
IL 16
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
The Editorial Departments,
Obstacles of Mar rage.

Happy Relieffor Young Men from the effects
OF Errors and Abuse in early life. Manhood re-
stored lmpediments TO marriage removal.
New method OF u eatment. New and remarka-
bio remedies. Books and Circulars sent Tree.
IN sealed envelopes. Address, HOWARD AS
sOClATION, 4l9 n. Ninth ST., Philadelphia,
Pa-an Institution having a high reputation
forh0n raole conduct and professional skill.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04
Common Pleas Court.

The Judges of the Eighth Judicial District
have adopted the following additional
RULE:
Ordered-That in all cases originally brought
in the Court of Common Pleas, where a party
is in default, either by reason OF a failure to
file an answer, reply, demurrer. a motion to
reform pleadings, such party will only be al
lowed to file such pleading upon terms that
there be a judgment against him for all costs
up to the time of filing such pleading or mo-
tion, and in appeal cases, upon terms that
there be judgment against him for all COSTS
accruing after such appeal, unless the Court,
for good cause, shall otherwise direct.
In all cases where demurrer or motion to re>
form pleadings is oyerruied, the party filing
such demurrer, motion, shall be ready with
his subsequent pleading, or be adjudged in de-
fault, aud where sucn demurrer or motion is
sustained. the party filing such detective
shall be ready with his amended
pleading, or be adjudged in default, and in
either case, the party so in default shall pay
all costs up, and ultil the filing of the reQui-
site pleading unless the Court, 1or good cause,
shall otherwise direct.
Rule SIX heretofore 2dOpted. is hereby abro-
gated The Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Muskingum County, is hereby order
ed TO send certified copies of this rule to each
Of the Clerks of Common Pleas in this District,
to be entered on the journal of said Courts.
LUCIUs p. MARSH,
w. H. FRAZIER, 1,a,roo
R. Z. CHAMBERs, 'u'5N''
JoHN H. MILLER
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-04

A Kentucky man thought he heard
burglars moving about the house, and
fired adouble-barreled shot gun in that
direction, killing his wife. This Is his
sixth wife, and the neighbors begin to-
shake their heads and look thoughtful.