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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
Where Your Perfume Comes
From.

Our fair readers may be interested to
learn where, for the most part, the
flowers grow, the sweet perfumes of
which are found in those pretty tiacons
on their dressing-tables. The chief
places of their growth are the south of
France and Piedmont, namely: Mont
pelier, Grasse, Mines, Cannes and
Nice; these two last especially are a
paradise of violets, and furnish year
ly product of about 1900 pounds of
violet blossoms. Nice produces har-
vest of 100000 pounds of orange bios
SONS and Cannes as much again and of
a finer color; 500 pounds of orange bios
SONS yield about two pounds of pure
Neroli oil. At Cannes the acacia thri-
yes well, and produces yearly about
5000 pounds of acacia blossoms. One
great perfumery distillery at Cannes
uses yearly 140, 900 pounds of orange
blossoms, 100000 pounds Of rose
leaves s., 900 pounds of jassamine bios
SONS, 10000 pounds of violets and s, 900
pounds of tuberoses, together with
great many other sweet herbs. The
extraction of the ethereal oil, the small
quantities of which are mixed in the
flowers with such large quantities of
other vegetable juices that it requires
about 900 pounds of rose leaves to win
one ounce of otto of roses, demand a
very careful treatment. The French,
favored by their climate, are the most
active, although not always the most
careful, preparers of perfume; half of
the world is furnished by this branch
of their industry.-I1ter-O Ocean.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
Sumner and Hooper.

A Washington correspondent writes :
"a personal bond made Mr.. Sumner
and Mr.. Hooper friends. In all Mr..
Summers affections Mr.. Hooper gave
him personal sympathy. Notwo could
be more opposite than these men were
in mental and moral mould, in habits
of thought and of action but these ma
lures met and struck good fellowship
somewhere, nor was it always at the
dinner-table. Samuel Hooper was a
man of integrity and of judgment and
wisdom in his own special sphere of
thought and effort, and his relation to
Mr.. Sumner seemed to be that of per-
sonal affection. While Mr.. Sumner
lived it was Mr.. Hooper's habit to
come every day into the Senate cham
Der and to take seat beside him. He
did not always or even often converse,
but would sit as father might, look
ing upou mighty son. can see him
now, this bent, full-fronted, bright
skinned, white-haired old man."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
New Hampshire.

The result in New Hampshire is an indica-
ton of the reaction that is setting in against
the Democratic party. The people of New
Hampshire have had Democratic Legislature,
and with it fair opportunity to judge that
party by its acts. 1t proved to be the same
old concern that was supposed to have died
several years ago. One of its first acts was to
revolutionize the judiciary so as to turn out
Republicans and fill their places with Demo-
Gratis. 1t vacated every Office in the State that
it could reach, and filled them with Demo
Gratis, thus clearly illustrating its idea of civil
service reform. The people had been educat-
ed to believe the country had outgrown and
risen above the Democratic doctrine that ''to
the victors belong the spoils, but their hopes
were stricken to the ground by the Democratic
Legislature. That body also modified the
naturalization laws SO as to make naturalization
free and easy. Democratic Judges having been
appointed, frauds were made easy, and
Democratic votes. were largely manufactured
Popular speakers were also imported Rep
resentative Lamar, of Mississippi, and Senator
Gordor, of Gorgia, were called in to show how
the South had been oppressed; how anxious
the people of that section were for peace and
the establishment of good feeling; how hon.
estly they were now attaced to the old flag
which while ago they hated; and that the
way out of trouble was to restore to power the
party that had made the trouble. Those men
made several powerful and plausible speeches.
They complmented the grand old common
wealth, and f1attered the hardy sons of the
Granite State, and not word had they to say
against New Englanders, or about wooden
nutmengs, or Yankee meanness. The Demo
Gratis, in word, strained every nerve, and
they expected to carry the State. The Re
publicans also worked hard. The contest OF
both sides was vigoeous, and as a result al
unusually full vote was polled. 1t was fail
expression of the sentiments of the people o.
the State, and the verdict was against thu
Democratic party. 1t had been tried, frounC
waiting, and was ordered to step down and out
Next fall, Ohio will, by decisive majority
elect honest old Ben. Wade Governor, and i
an election were to be held in Indiana thi
year, the Democrctic party would experienc,
a crushing defeat. The pleople have already
had enough OF the Democratic patry, and the.
are quite ready to follow the example of New
Hampshire. Cincinnati Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
State Grange of Patrons of Hus-
-l bandry.
COLUMBUS. O.. March 8.

COLUMBUS, o., March 9.
The State Grange of Patrons of Hus.
bandry met at City Hall to-day. An
informal public meeting was held, at
which W. H. Davis delivered an adj
dress of welcome, which was respond
ed to by WV. Meller, of Sandusky, Sec
retary of the Executive Committee OF
the State Grange.
In the afternoon the grange was call
ed to order for regular business by Mas
ter M. S. II. Ellis, of Springboro, War
rem county. Two hundred and thirty
four delegates, representing all the
counties in the State, were present, be-
sides many visiting grangers entitled
to be present, but not regular delegates.
There were about 600 present, inclu-
ding a large proportion of ladies, few
of whom are delegates. There is one
delegate at large for each county, ma
king SS when there is full representa-
tion, and besides these delegates at
large one delegate for the eight subor-
dinate oranges. Some counties have
five delegates each, but majority
have about three.
After the opening of the grange,
committees were announced, as fol-
lows: Credentials-E. Dryer, of Frank
lin county; E. Burson, of Knox; C. d.
Ensign, of Lake. Order of Business
a. H. AlLaugh, of Miami; w. G. Sut-
liff, of Lorain; CA. Oldroyd, of Wayne;
John Howell, of Clarke. Finance
w. T. Whitaker, of Warren; w. H.
Hill, of Hamilton; w. w. Miller, of
Erie. By-Laws-John w. Ogden, of
Champaign; c. C. Moon, of Clinton;
Chas. Phelps, of Madison. Resolutions
"A. s.. Piatt, of Logan; G. w. Kent,
of Greene; o. P. Laird, of Trumbull.
Grievances-Thos. P. Shields,o of Union;
]. j. Tuttle, of Clarke; Joseph Smith, of
Ross.
Several reports were made. The
Secretary's report gives the following
information: LAG oranges in Ohio
were reported in a flOuriShing condi-
ton. At the beginning of the year for
which the report is made there were
517 oranges in Ohio, an increase in one
year of 629, or, in other words, the
number has doubled. At the begin
ming of the year the membership in
the State was 1888. At the end of the
first quarter there were 25,91S men,
bers; at the end of the second quarter,
81, ,642; at the end of the third quarter,
Al ,712; and now, at the end of the fourth
quarter, there are, in round numbers,
65, 600.
Last year only about one-half the
counties in the State were represented
in the Stale Grange.-Cin. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
The Aim of the Southern Con-
SDiratOrs.

All this is not hate or madness with
outa method-it has, says the Albany
EUeniHg Journal, a deep and far-reach-
ing design. 1t aims first of all at the
control Of every Southern State. On a
1alr and free vote, several of those
States are Republican. South Carolina,
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, LOUISE
ana, and Arkansas have an undOubted
Republican majority. To wrest them
from their hands intimidation is neces-
sary. With the mastery of every
Southern State, the rebel element has
two possibilities. In the first place, it
may enforce IFS local policy; and, inthe
second place, it only needs fifty elec-
tOral voters from the entire North and
West to capture the General Govern
ment. With the success of the former
plan, it will reduce the blacks to prac.
tical peOnage-with the success of the
latter plan it will bring forward every
Imaginable claim. Already in several
Southern States schemes have been
proposed with the design of shutting
out the blacks from the ballot-box and
placing them under the heels of their
old masters. Then again the rebel ele-
ment of Arkansas has just adopted q
new constitution. In the constitution
OF 1868 there was prohibition of Sc
cessiOn. In the constitution of 1874
this prohibition is struck out. Why?
The country still misconceives very
much of what it sees at the South.
Take the 'banditti' dispatch of Sheri-
dan. He simply used language which
Washington himself used. But, wheth-
er justified himself or not, the country
has never understood its purpose.
Sheridan had no thought that the plan
Of military commission he suggested
would be adopted. The dispatch was
not designed for report to Washing
ton or for the information of the coun-
try, but for immediate effect in New
Orleans. 1t was, as President Grant
describes 1t, simply piece of strategy.
All New Orleans was in ferment. It
was the day after the coup detat in the
Legislature. The city was q powder
magazine, where a spark would pro-
duce an explosion. Something was
needed to strike and subdue the inflam-
matOry pOpulace, and Sheridan, with
a soldiers keen eye. wrote his dispatch.
Its object was shown by the fact that
he sent it, first of all, to the New Or
leans papers. 1t had its effect and he
was right.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
Unfinished Business in Congress.

OF the bills that failed, the most prominent
were Senator Morton's in regard to the cleo
tion of President and Vice-President of the
United States the Senate Steamboat bill; the
Texas Pacific and other subsidy bill; the
House Force and several Amnesty bills; vari-
Gus postal telegraph schemes; the Senate bill
for the payment of the French spoliation
claims: the bill declaring the intent and mean
ing of the United Pacific railroad acts; the
bill for the establishment or Bureau of Inter
national Commerce; the Morrill, bill for the
better government of the District of Columbia; +;
Senator McCreerys Cheap Transportation bill,
and the New Mexico bill. The Bounty bill,
fathered by Senator Logan, was passed by
both Houses, but there being disagreement
as to cereain amendments it went to confer
renee committee, and when the committee re-
ported to the Senate the report was laid on the
table The bill was subsequntly signed by the
Vice President through mistake, but it did
not receive the signature of the President.
This bill as amended would have taken from
$50, 900, 900 to $780, 600, 600 from the Treasury.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
The Southern Democratic
Appeal.

This document, in which, reversing
the customary order, a body Of public
servants undertake to instruct and in
t1uence their constituents, reads very
fairly upon casual glance, but what
does it mean? 1t means, says the Bos-
ton Journal, first, that there is reason
enough for such an appeal. The good
boys of the household are never lee
tured, warned, and entreated, especial
ly before others, to behave themselves
properly. 1t Is the other kind who are
thus dealt with-those whose evil con-
duct has been felt in the past, and Is
feared i'm the future. These Congress.
sional affectionate beseechings imply,
then, that every white man at the
South has not regarded himself as
commissioner of peace has not been
ward the black man. and that the lat
ter thus far has not been fully protect
ed in his guaranteed rights to vote as
he pleases in all elections Other wise,
why adopt this extraordinary method
for promoting an object which is sup
posed to need no such solicitude? For,
secondly, these intelligent Southern
men, like Gordon of Georgia, Beck of
Kentucky, Lamar of Mississippi, and
the rest, know well enough that the
people of the North are not misled in
this matter by street disturbances and
the usual order of hOmicides. Was the
White League uprising in New Or
leans a mere street disturbance? Was
the Coushatta massacre one of those af-
trays such as are incident to every
community upon earth?' These men
know that the North knows better,
and so they stand trembling in their
shoes lest the patriotic and fraternal
assurances they are giving to the coun-
try through their speeches may be con-
tradicted by their constituents at any
moment, breaking forth in such de-
monstrations of violence against the
cOlored people and against the Govern
ment as have already aroused the pub
lie Indignation. And, thirdly, the
stress of their nervousness is seen in
this fact, namely, that while they know
that this appeal will generally regard
ed as issued merely for political pur-
poses, and as confirming the charges of
misconduct at the South, yet they feel
that just now Southern lawlessness
must be stopped at all hazards, or there
will be no chance of electing a Demo-
cratic President in 1876, and 80 they
take all the risks of their unique pro-
ceeding. 1t is thus that this appeal
will be read between the lines by the
American people, and instruction will
be got from it which many of its sign
ers never intended.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

In view of David A. Wells denun-
Citations of the Republican party
RarpeT's Weekly says: at is amazing
with the situation in the Southern
Stats In full view, with the reputation
platforms of the Western Democratic
conventions adopted last autumn, and
with the unchanged leadership Of the
Democratic party, that any thoughtful
man who has been Republican should
look to that party for the honest de-
fense of equal rights or for sound
financial system, or be willing to in
trust the guardianship of the amended
Constitution to party which contains
every enemy of the amendments"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

GEORGE WASHINGTON was denounced as an
enemy to liberty, seeking to perpetuate his
power by acts of despotism. Jefferson was
denoinced as a public enemy, using his high
office to corrupt the public morals and to sat
tisfy his personal ambition for greater power.
jackson was exhibited to the world as mon
ster of vice-a second Cesar, trying to enslave
his countrymen; tyrant; an usurper; and
language was ransacked to find epithets severe
enough to describe his character. President
Grant proves no exception to this rule of abuse.
His spendid services to his country are not
sufficient to shield him from the poisoned ar
rows of envey and malice. But he will out
live his traducers, and transmit to posterity
name and fame second to none in our history.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

OF State Treasurer Jones, of Georgia, who
stands charged by Legislative investigating
committee with having paid, with State funds,
dishonored paper the second time to the
amount of 1852, ,25O, with having illegally
paid out SG8, ,917 50 more, and with having
disposed of 500, 59 more for which he
cannot show a single voucher-tinancial oper-
ations almost worthy of Tweed-the Atlanta
correspondent of Democratic Louisville paper
saws: '.As the finale of the mater it is evident
that Treasurer Jack Jones has lost 10 ground
in popular esteem" So much for Democratic
adherence of theory-by Democrats, Pitts
bUrgh Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

NITRoGLYCERIN AS A MoToR.-M.
Champion, French chemist, states
that the heat developed by a given
quantity of nitroglycerin when ex-
ploded is capable of eXerting, when
converted into motion, maximum
energy fully five times that produced
by the explosion of the same amount
of gunpowder, and three thousand
times more than that caused through
the combustion of an equal quantity of
coal. A single quart of pitroglycerin,
it is asserted, has the potential energy
of $500 horse power, working during
10 hours. 1t remains to invent ma
chine in which the gigantic force can
be harnessed and controlled.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

CIVIL SERVICE RULES ABoLIsHED.-The
Departments have issued ciculars announcing
the abolition of the civil service reform rules
covering their respective departments where
yer operative, and announcing the return to
the former method of appointment of employees
as provided by section 164, Revised Statutes,
enacted June 90, 1874, which is that no clerk
shall be appointed to any department in either
of the four classes until he has been examined
and found qualified by board of three ex-
aminers to consist of the chief of bureau or
office into which such clerk is to be appointed,
and two other clerks to be selected by heard
of department. All sub-boards of civil service
reform throughout the country are abolished
by these orders.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
ADVERTISING RATES.
Senator Andy Johns0n's Declare
ton Of PrinciDles.

New YORK, March THE Iri5usae's
Washington correspondent sends
lengthy interview with Senator John
son who said: ''I can give no pledge of
my future course; l cannot say Twill
act with one party or with the other,
we have too much of party, and pro-
pose to bind myself in advance to no
theory of party policy; I have never
dOGe so in the past, and do not intend
to do so in the future. shall support
such measures as appear in my judge
ment hest for the country, caring not
whether it is a Democratic measure or
whether it is supported by Republi-
cans. / will never place myself in a
position where / must do a thing be-
cause it is party measure, or oppose a
thing at party direction. Iplaee my
country above party" Mr.. johnson
could not say whether he would par
resolution. Being asked if he would
not in his new position have an oppor-
tunity TO pay off some old scores, and If
he did not have the mass of the facts
against the leaders of the parties OF to-
day, he said: "Whateyer may have
do not say, but shall use nothing. My
service in the Senate will not be- a per-
sonal one, as do not represent myself,
but Tennessee. The country has moth
ing to do with my personal matters
and with what has passed. have no
enemies to punish or friends to reward.
l have buried resentment, and have
forg often the ill-treatment of individu-
ais. If can perform the duties that
are now before me as conscientiOusly
and clearly as see them at this mo-
ment, shall accomplish as much as
human vanity may seek to attain"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

The gratuitous insult offered the people of
New Hampshier by the Democratic party in
slipping rebel generals into their State to in
struct them in their political duty, was very
nobly as well as very thoroughly avenged
We trust the managers of that party will now
send these White League missionaries into
Connecticut to teach political ethics and OBJ
legation to the citizens of the State.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

Sam How ard jr., ticket agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Zanes-
vile, is reported defaulter to the
amount of $4,000 or $4,000. He has
been In the employ of the company, as
clerk in the freight department and
ticket Office, nine years, and has been
one of their most trusted employees. An
effort Is being made by Howard's
friends to reimburse the company.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
New Hampshire Election.
Republican Legislature and One Republica
Congressman Elected.

CONCORD, March 1.-THE entire re-
turns of the State election are not yet
received. The Republicans still claim
nsjority in the House of eleven,
which they say will not be reduced be-
low nine. The Democrats have a ma
jority in the Council, which will be an
obstacle in the way of removals from
office. The Democrats elect two Con-
gressmen Jones, in the First district,
aud Bell, in the Second. Blair, Re-
publican, is elected to Congress in the
Third district. -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

THE Austin (Texas) Statesman is the
official Democratic organ of the ultra
Democratic government of that State,
yet even it is compelled to admit that,
there is no security for human life
there, and to suggest the passage of
law creating perpetual jury for trial
of murder cases. Itsays:
"Many men arrested and guilty Of
the most atrocjous murders are never
brought to trial. Some are sent to jails,
from which they find little trouble in
escaping, while the trials Of others are
postponed from one term of the court
to another, until Witnesses either die
or move away, and then, when their
cases are called, there is no evidence
against them, and they are set free, en-
cOuraged to continue their deeds of
blood"
If such statement had appeared in
a Republ. can journal, the entire DEM
ocratic press, North and South, would
instantly have given it the lie, stigma
tizing it as an infamous Radical cal
umny against the good name of that
delectable Commonwealth,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

JEwETT, of the Erie Railroad, has
attempted the graceful Office of media
tor between the exasperated and war
like railroad kings, Garrett and Scott.
Jewett is not Grant man, but he has
inscribed upon his banner, Let US have
peace Therefore he inquiries of Bro.
Garrett: ..r
"Would it not be judicious, wise and
creditable to all parties to refer the
whole question to the judgment of dis
interested men, by whose decision all
causes Ofdifference might be reconciled
and adjusted, including in such refer
ence the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Company, so that what
ever might be finally determined sho'd
apply not only to the connections west,
but the connections east to and from
New York, and to have such adjust
ment put in such form and ratified by
the Boards of the respective companies
that hereafter it could not be disturbed
upon the mere motion of an agent or
officer of either company"
Bro. Garrett does not seem to see it.
He observes in reply:
''In order to restore harmony, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company must
retrace its steps. Reckless reduction of
freghts by that company will prove il
lusory in accomplishing the object pro-
posed, by forcing the Baltimore and
Ohio Company into any combination
contrary to the fixed principles of its
management. Good will follow from
the present extraordinary course of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Con- pany. The
serious lessons which will be taught
by the history of the present wild hos.
tilities against the Baltimore and Ohio
Company will lead to calmer counsels,
to more good sense and to fairer deal.
ings in the future"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18

Western New York, it Is said, pro-
duces oue-half the apples raised In the
United States. The crop of Wayne
county last year exceeded half mill
lion barrels. The principal market va
rieties are the Baldwin, Greening, and
Roxbury Russet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-03-18
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
- s,,bscriber. per an1um, 81 90.
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

pe,uont Lodge, No. l6. F. A. N; meets II eTI
% Wadnesday night on or precedlng tne iuli
m oon. "a -
=, rrairsvilIe Chapter. No. IL Royal AIc1 =,
ot meets Sd Friday night each lnontn q, -
., s.IsirsyiIle and the lst Friday eaen G ~ Eo'- p
al Bridgeport "a ANS "
II. H. FERRELL, secy. ., .,d
ua,,,ont Council, No. 81 Royal SeieSs scaaS a
,,'ar ~ cellent Masters, meets on the
tuesday night of every mont 1pn1 GIN.
Ed, BAILY, Rec. ,,o,,,,,
,,ra meets IN the first Jussday n nighI r,n " Com;
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BELMONT CHRONICLE.
ST, GAINESVILLE. OHIO.
THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1875.

The last Congress authorized the payment
of private war claims from the South amount
ing to S716,O5S. This is not the spirit Of i'm
placability to our Southren.