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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
THE New York Herald thus rebukes
the Democratic blather about Radical
ODpression' of the South:


THE New York Herald thus rebukes
the Democratic blather about Radical
oppression of the South:
1t is with surprise that we see the
/ Courier-J Journal follow after the baying
pack of wild newspapers who believe
that the election of Tilden is Becessary
to save the South from Radical oppres
sion.' There is no such thing as Radi-
cal oppression. The Republicans, as a
party, stand with the Democrats. They
have never ceased to hold out to the
South the hand of magninimity and
friendship. There is nothing that Til
den, as President, could do that Hayes
could not and would not do. But the
Southern men insist upon regarding
the Republicans as enemies, as men
pining after their goods and chattels,
as laboring to build up governing
class of adventures and negroes to rule
over and plunder them. There has
been good deal Of this; but who is to
blame? The Southerners provoked a
policy of repression, and that policy
has been enforced. They have striven
steadily to bring the Union back to
what it was before the war. The Re-
publicans have defeated this in legisla-
lion as they did in arms. 1t has been
losing game. 1t is unjust TO say that
the Republicans did not wish to act
with the old Confederates. The truth
is, when an old Confederate acted with
the Republicans, he was at once hunt
ed out Of society. Take the case of the
celebrated General Longstreet. He was
good enough to command a great ar
my under Lee, but as he professed his
desire to act with the Republicans, he
was outlawed. The same may be said
of Gen. Mosby, who was good enough
to commend cavalry guerillas for Lee,
but who, as soon as he supports the
Republicans, becomes infamous.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
THE TWO PLATFORMS.
A CIlapce for COmparisOn--The
Contract i'm u NutsIlell.--A SYM
Opsis Of Both Documents.
THE REPUBLICAN PLA'
EnDaf OaUE.

TIE REPUBLICAN PLAT
FORM SAYS:
1st. The Unite,
States is a nation an,
not a league.
I'd. The Republican
party has saved this ma
tion to the one hun
dredt h anniversary
and in accordance t
the Declaration.
Sd. Every citiZel
must have secured t,
him those equal right
thus laid down.
4th. Urges a contin
uous and steady pro
gress to specie pay
ments-to fulfill thei,
pledges in redeemin!
their notes in coin.
9Th. Favors civil ser
vice reform.
9th. All betrayals o.
official trust to be pun
ished, and let 10 guilty
man escape.
7th. Recommends /;
constitutional amend
ment forbidding the
public support of sec
tartan schools.
8th. Favors a reve.
nue. tariff.
| 9th. Opposes grants
of public lands to mo.
nopolies.
10th. American citi.
zens must be protect.
ed abroad.
11th. Congress to in.
vestigate the immigra-
tion of Mongolians up.
on the best interests oi
the country.
10Th. The honest de.
mands of women fol-
additionalrights should
be treated with re.
spectful consideration.
18th. ..Polygamy tc
be abolished in the
Territories.
14th. The pledges
which the nation has
given to its soldiers
must be fulfilled.
18th. Discards all
sectional feeling and
invokes the earnest at
tention to the grave
truth that the Demo
cratic party courts as
its chief hope of sue
cess the efforts of those
who were arrayed
against the Nation, and
thus would reopen sec
tional strife and i'm
pede national honor
and human rights.
10th. Charges the
Democratic party as
being the same in char
acter and spirit as
when it sympathized
with treason, and as
unworthy and incapa-
BILE.
18th. Eulogizes Pres
ident Grant for his pa
triotism in war, and
his immonse service in
naaaa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17

The Cincinnati Times says that hens
are laying hard-boiled eggs There's
nothing eggs-traordinary in that con.
sidering the weather; but hens should
learn to bear the yolk more coolly.-
New York Com. ADV.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
How to Tell a Horses Age.

A difficulty occurred recently
through the sale of horse, resulting
in law suit which is likely to end in a
tedious and expensive litigation. AS
both parties are determined to weather
it through, it may safely be estimated
that the price of several horses will be
involved in this issue, whichever party
gains the suit. This is not the first
time that difficulties have arisen
through the same cause, and any means
that will be found effective in avoiding
the trouble will be readily adopted by
parties trading in horses. A gentle
man from Alabama, who appears to
have great confidence in his theory,
lays down the following for determin-
ing the age of horse: Up to the age
of nine years the teeth are an unfailing
guide, but beyond this age the dental
test is powerltss. There is another
equally infallible test, however. 1t is
this: After horse is nine years old a
wrinkle comes on the eyelid at the
upper corner of the lower lid, and every
year thereafter he has one well defined
wrinkle for each year over nine. Ii,
for instance, the horse has three wrink-
les, he is twelve; if foar, he is thirteen.
Add the number Of wrinkles to pine,
and you will always get it. So says
the gentleman; and he is confident it
will never fail. AS good many peo-
pie have horses over nine, ii is easily
tried, and it would be well for those
who do try it to give their experience
to the public. There are number of
stock breeders, for instance who own
aged horses and brood mares whose
ages they are familiar with. BY coun-
ting the wrinkles ''at the upper corner
of the lower lid," in these aged ami
mails, it will be easy to determine IL
the above test is borne out by fact.
Will some our many readers try the
experiment, and report the result? IL
the theory proves a correct one, tho
sooner it is made public the better.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17

Probably you have heard why min
ister delivering his peroration Is like a
ragged boy? Because he's tor'd his
close, you know. 1t Is hardly appara-
lei case, hoWever.-New York Graphic.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
THE DEMOCRATIC PLAT

1.-THE DEM0CRATIC PLAT
FORM.
1st. Reform in the
administration.
! I'd. Supremacy of
the civil over the mill
ltary authorities, and
total separation of
Church and State.
Sd. Reform. Carpet
bag tyrannies have
honey combed the Of
fees of the Federal
IGovernment.
4th. Denounce the
promise of the legal
tender notes a failure.
| 5th. Denounce the
eleven years of peace,
t1Xes and usele. . ex-
Ipenses.
9Th. Denounce the
ability to advance to-
wards resumption but
a hirdrance thereto.
7th. Denounce the
resumption act of 1875,
and demand its repeal.
Sth. Reform is ne
.cessary in taxation.
9th. Denounce the
present tariff; it pro-
NOTES frauds, enriches
dishonest officials and
bankrupts honest mer-
chants.
10th. Reform, and
no taxes for war or war
debt.
18th. Reform in
waste of public lands
to soldiers.
18th. Reform to cor
rect the treaties of for
'eign birth, and further
importation of the
IMongolian race.
18th. Reform in sec
tional strife in public
schools.
18th. Reform in civ
il service.
18th. Reform in the
administration, an d
elect honest men.
10th. Reform can
only be had ~ a
peaceful revolution.
We demand a change
of system, a change
o f administration, a
change of parties, that
we may have a change
of measures and of
men.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17

1t would be better for proof readers
If all the Turkish generals were named
Smith, Detroit Free Press.
Why may tipsy man fall into the
river with impunity? Because he
won't drown as long as his head swims.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17

Charles Lamb, when speaking OF one
of his rides on horseback, remarked
that "all at once his horse stopped, but
he kept right on"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17

GOVERNOR TILDEN complains of ex-
travagance in expenditures by the Re-
publicans and the grand scale of taxa
tiOn that has been pursued. Buchan-
ans average annual expenses were,
gold, $S1 100000.
r.n-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1874.

Belmont Lodge, No. l6, & A. NJ. meets ev;
ery wednesday night on or preceding the full
moon. ID. r. bOM0AhNGn, W. ~
T. b. FERRELL, Sec'y.
st. Clairsvilie Chapter. No. IL Royal Arch
ssusons. meets Sd Friday night each month at
st. Clairsville and the lst Friday eaGn month
ct Bridgeport JAMES CLAhA, ID. Z.
T. 81. FERRELL, Secy.
Belmont Council, No. 81 Royal select and
super Excellent Masters, meets on the second
Tuesday night of every month.
G. w. CARROLL, 7. /. q. M.
IF d. BAILY, Rec,
Hone Commandery No. % of knights Temp
ars meets on the first Tuesday night OF every
month. A J. bAIUo, EN- SO,n o,
r. d. BAILEY. Rec. marlHA
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-17
gasiasss Cards.

ID. ID. T. COWEN,
Attorneg at Lar, st. CIdirsrflIe, Ohio.
ss-oft,ce ON north aide OF Main Street. few
doors east OF Marietta Street.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
RogersviIle Female College.

The first half of the current ten
months session at this institution closed
on Friday last. The names of ninety
eight girls were enrolled during the five
months term, about one-third being
boarders in the college family. The pa
irons of the school seem to be unani-
nous in their expressions of satisfaction
with the progress of the girls in their
studies in all the classes from the lowest
30 the highest. No other result would
be looked for, for the teachers have been
and are energetic, prompt and singular
ly devoted to the one business in hand.
The girls have been kept steadily at
their work, and have prosecuted their
studies with interest and most of them
with avidity, When teachers and schol-
ars alike take keen interest in their
school and are proud of their institution
excellent progress will always he made,
and this has been the case here from the
first day the college opened.
The work for the ensuing five months
commenced Monday morning the 10Th
!, The prospects of the school considering
the hard times among all classes of
people in the country, are very good.
A number of new scholars will be in at
tendance. The teachers will not permit
their energies to flag, and we confidently
look forward to a career of unbroken
prosperity for our school in the future
The need of frst-class female college
in this section of East Tennessee was
too pressing for this institution to fail
now, and the success attending the first
five months of its existence, under the
charge of President Wilson, assures its
future success beyond any contingency.
AS soon as times brighten up a little,
and even small degree Of business pros
Perity comes to the people, those halls
will be crowded. We know of more
than fifty girls, the daughters of good,
iiberalminded men, who would be there
now if it was not for the dearth of bust
ness and the unexampled scarcity of
money. This state of things will not
last long, and when the cloud lifts and
blows away a season of great prosperity
and usefulness will commence for the
college.
Those who intend sending the coming
five months ought by all means to have
their children here at the beginning of
the term, or as near the beginning as
possible, so that they can take their pla-
ces in the classes and keep up until the
end of the session, the first of June.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19

The Western Farmers Almanac
1t is claimed that the Western Far
mer's Almanac published by John p.
Morton q Co., Louisville KY, for forty
nine years has reached circulation of
one hundred thousand copies. This is
certainly very remarkable, bat when we
come to think about it, it SCENE to have
been brought about in a natural way.
jim Fish used TO say. eff you have got
a good thing put all the money in it and
all the men on it it will bare, and the
American people win buy it" This is
what its publishers did every year with
the Western Farmers Almanac SO that
it grew to be standard authority. This
year the prophet Tice makes up its
weather notices, and there are q great
many highly interesting and practical
articles on such subjects as Jersey cattle
and shart-horn, butter-making, the eul-
ture of small fruits, tobacco culture,
manures, Patrons of Husbanry, co-opera-
tive trade weather forecasts domestic
recipes, ETC.. together with the usual
budget of anecdotes. Every body ought
to keep this reliable old almanac hanging
up by the mantle-piece for reference.
Its price is only ten cents.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
The Morristown Gazette.
HAWKINS COUNTY DEPARTMENT.
L. L. POArS, EDITOR.
RoGERsvILLE. JAN. 10, 1876.


tEI It is probable that much of the
pork killed since or during the cold snap
Just before Christmas, will be lost. The
weather for three weeks was unusually
warm and moist, and we hear complaints
from several neighborhoods of meat
spelling. This is indeed unfortunate for
hog meat hereabouts was exceedingly
scarce, and the prospect was that bacon
would have brought a good price. 1t
seems that Providence has determined
against hog meat. If the hogs escape
cholera, blind-staggers, etc, the warm
weather ruins the meat Well, it will
soon be spring, and then we can eat ing
ons and green's, and ali manner of gar
den sass.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
A Want Supplied.


The American mind is active. It has
given us books of fiction for the senti-
mentalist, learned books for the scholar
and professional student, but few books
for the people. A book for the people
must relate to a subject of universal in
terest. Such a subject is the physical
man, and such book 1.-THE Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser" a CO.
py of which has been recently laid on
our table. The high professional attain
ments of it's author-Dr. X. V. Pierce,
of Buffalo, New York-and the advan-
tages derived by him from an extensive
pratiec, would alone insure for his work
a cordial reception. But these are not
the merits for which it claims our atten-
ton. The author is man of the people.
He sympathises with them in all their
affections. efforts and attainments. He
perceives their wants. knowledge of
themselves-and believing that all truth
should be made as universal as Gods
own sunlight, from his fund of learning
and experience he has produced work
in which he gives them the benefits of
his labors In it he considers man in
every phase of his existence. from the
moment he energies ''from rayiess atom
too diminutive for the sight, until hf
gradually evolves to the maturity %
those Conscious Powers, the exercise OF
which furnishes subjective evidence of
our Immortality. Proceeding upon the
theory that every fact of mind has
physical antecedent; he has given an ad-
mirable treatise ON Cerebral Physiology,
and shown the bearings of the facts thus
established upon individual and social
welfare. The author believes with Spen-
Ger, that las vigorous health and its &C
companying high spirits are larger ele-
ments of happiness than any other things
whatever, the teaching how TO maintain
them is teaching that yields TO no 9th
er whatever" and accordingly has intro
duced GEf extensive discussion of the me
thods by which we may preserve the in
tegrity of the system and ofttimes pre-
vent the onset of disease. Domestic
Remedies-their preparation, uses and
effects-form a prominent feature OF the
work. The hygenic treatment or mrs
ing of the sick, is an important subject,
and recciAes attention commensurate
with its Importance. Nearly all diseases
"to which flesh is heir" are described,
their symptoms and causes explained,
and proper domestic treatment suggest
ed. To reciprocate the many fayors be-
slowed upon him by generous public,
the author offers his book at a p.ice 81.
50) little exceeding the cost of publica-
ton. Our readers can obtain this prac-
tical and valuable work by addressing
the author.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
A Remedy that has made its
Mark.

Success IL the need of exoelIence. The truth OF
this has never been more forcibly exemplihed than
by the triumphant career Of Hostetters Stomach
Bitters. No did the people discover the
genuine merits of that supreme invigorant and
corrective than they FASTENED to stamp II with the
seal of popularity. The press and medical pro-
fession speedily followed in the wake of the pub
lie, and emphaticaIIy endorsed il. Thus from the
very outset the success of the Bitters . remedy
and preventive established fact, and q de-
gree of popularity which Il often takes proprietary
medicines years to attain, achieved almost at
stride by the then new preparation. Since that
time every successive year has Witnessed fresh ac-
cessions TO the favor with which the Bitters were
early regarded, and the of its popularity
longer confined to the UVIted States, but includes
the British Provinces In North America and the
West Indies, South America, Mexico, portions Of
Europe and Australia. That is not only remedy
for dyspepsia, constipation, biliORsnnss, urinary
and uterine complaints. nervousness and dehility
but also preventive Of those maiadies TO which
air and water inpregnated with miasma, give birth
has been nowhere strongly evidenced in
those regions where climatic conditions unfavora-
bic to health exist, aud the Bitters have
been long and constantly tested To call this
superb cordial remedy that has made its mark,
cannot think be regarded as boasting, since
there is probably proprietary remedy more
widely known, universally respected and emphati-
cally endorsed than these Bitters.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
THE CHARNED COW.

To the Editor Of the Hawkins County Department:
Having bought nae q cow for the Cen
tennial, and proved her amenity by
turning her loose in the highway with
d lion, Ueo. Jr.,) provided her COM
Portable quarters and supply of nutri-
tious a1iment, a luxury to which she
lad by no means been accustomed, and
straightway began to count the un-
Matched eggs"
How often we find our fondess hopes
but sickly Authorizations Scarce was
my treasure three weeks old on hands.
when by some mysterious agency she
lost her 'caDdai appeadage. I found re-
lief in having explained to me the cause,
and means of redress, frora a good old
lady of no mean information in such
matters. The fact was-the cow was
bewitchedl
The perspicuity of this solution pleased
me, for it IL easier to conceive of the
subtle iafiuence of a charm, than to sup
pose that dog could have committed
the act, or that it was the result of the
animal having lost her cud, as was sug-
geSted by some.
thirsted for revenge, and selecting
any victim, sempiternal beldam of the
EiseB prepared for just retributiop.
tdaFlng prepared the most potent formu-
Ia OF lamentations, painted an effigy of
my nefarlous offender, loaded pop-gun
with silver bullet, {threRgia the centre
Of which WIS passed hair from the
stump Of the offended member), fired.
by agitation did not long permits me to
remain qaiescent. With some equivocal
pretext, started of to the house of nv
victim. Conscience had by this time
come to the front fconscienco always
remains in the background until an act
is committed. and then comes forward
20 approve or acquitl-and the fearful
thoughts that passed through nay excited |
mind / am now unable TO recount. |
Could it be that / was . murderer |
and all for cows tail
My JOY was unbounded when behold |
The old lady complacentiy knitting on a |
blue stocking, and at once perceived /
that the blue stocking was a talisman /
and had saved her life
She told me my COW had hollow-horni |
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
THE LAMAR HOUSE,
KNOXVILLE, TENN.
JOHN SCHERF. Proprietor.

Southwest corner Gay and Cum
berland SITS. in the business centre
of the city.
My aim will be to keep in the fn-
ture what Knoxville has long need
ed,
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL.
It has the advantage over all other
hotels in the city in regard &c loca
ton. being situated
In the Business Centre of the City.
The interior of the Lamar House
is being refurnished and refitted
throughout. Good Beds. an excel
lent Table and attentive servants,
await the traveller.
Terms will be reasonable and the
Public is invited to give the house.
under the new management. trial.
JOHN SCHERF, Proprietor.
WIZ. III. LILLARD, Clerk.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser, having been permanently cured
Of that dread disease, Consumption. by q simple
remedy, Is anxious to make known to his fellow
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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-01-19
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
Kansas Central Land Agency.

SALIEA. MAI JOHN w BERKS, Gen1 Manager.
Real Estate Business generally also have for
sale all the lands of the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company, amounting to 600, 600 acres of the
most desirable in Central and Western Kansas al
50, Min-eites Coal lands, Farms, Cattle Ranches,
and City Property In Ss1ina and the neighboring
towns, for sale at al times.
EE send for the "Kansas Central Land Journal
large 32-eolumn monthly paper, see what they
have for sale and read all about the great Keystone
State of the West.