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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

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ALxAsAcs for 1877 predict four eclipses
during the year.
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A TEACHERS INSTITUTE is TO be held at
Caldwell, commencing next Wednesday.
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:. OVER $1,000 tolls was collected on { 3
Bridgeport and Colerain pike last year.
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PRICE REDUCED TO
S2.OO, B Y MAIL, S2.2J.

Circular showing Platter aud different STYLES
OF Plating sent free. The American Platter.
can be ordered through any Notion or Fancy
'oods Dealer, IN n. Y, CT of the Manufactu-
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THE Ohio Legislature meets on the frs
Monday in January.
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THx Prospectus Of the Wheeling Register is
N paper. 1t isa Democratic paper
nsect, and we do not advise
N its political teachings.
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PLENTY of tub oysters in town for the
holidays.
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TIE war between the grest trunk lines OF
railroads is about settled.
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NEXT Monday-A merry Christmas.
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TEE Gasette stalks abroad with oiooo In i''
eve and Tilden in its arms.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

THE bull-dozers are frantic-they act as
though the other party had caught the COON
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

PRoF. TloK is the Prince of Probs. He pre-
dicted the late storm, and says there are more
of the same kind coming.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

TIE lesson of The honr-keep COOL oid
Probs has learned that.
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The Public Schools of st. Clairsville WI
od;oprn In. morrow until Tuesday, Jan. ID.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

"a Repository Of Fasaion, Plsosve, and In
Instruction"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

Dr.. MORRISON will be absent from his office,
during the holidays.
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CRRIsTHAs GIFTS, useful as well as orns-
mental, at B. r. Johnsonis Furniture Store,
on Main Street. 2t.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LEG.fk NO TaJf.
State Of Ohio, Belmont county, sS:
COURT OF COMMON PLEA~.
Civil suit.
Isaac Colts, survivor of himselfand II C. Cotrs
decd,
VS..
Isaac Colts.

Isaac Colts.
THE defendant, Isaac Colts. who Il non res
i ident of the State of Ohiv. will take notice,
that on the 29th day of July, 1876, the above
named piaintiff filed in the said Court, his Pc
tition, the object of which is to ooiainA jud &
ment on q Record from the County Court OF
Ohio county, state of West Virginia, for the
sum Of five thousand, three hundred and sew
enty-six dollars, with interest from the 10th
day of October 1875 and SO 75 costs of suit; anu
that the rayer is. that judgment be recovered
for the said amounts as above stated. in which
case an attachment has been issued and serve
on Henry Colts as garnishee. The said Isaac
L otis, the defendant, is notified TO appear and
answer the said petition: on Saturday, The Sd
day of February. 1877.
]. r. MITCHELL. Clerk.
Dec Z, lS16-7t.
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Hos VIM. BrNDT was in town on Tuesday.
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Admins tratrix's Sale
OF REAL ESTATE.
Wednesday. January "a, IS17,

/ n pursuance of an order OF the Probate Court
4 of belmont county. ohio. l will oaer for
sale. al Public Auction, ON
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Arrears Of Pay and Bounty.

OFFICES, SOLDIERS, and SAILORS o
the late war, or their heirs, are in many cases
entitled to money from the Government of
which they heve no knowledge. Write full
history OF service: and state amount of pay and
bounty rebeived, Enclose Stamp to GILMORE
given vOu free,
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P E N SION S.

wounded. ruptured. or Injured in the late war.
howe-er slightly, can obtain a pension by
addressing GILMORE & co.
Cases prosecuted by GILMORE co. before
the Supreme Court of the United States, the
Court Of Claims, and the Southern Claims
Com IN ission.
Each department OF our business Is conduc-
ted in a separate bureau, under charge of the
,ame experienced parties employed by the
old firm Prompt attention TO all business
entrusted to GILMORE & co. is thus secured.
We desire 10 win success by deserving IL.
Address GILMORE g. Co., 629 Street,
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Feb 9. IS16-tf.
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WANTED AGENTS--Also two General A.
gents, TO sell
Book Keeping s1%PFE aoPT 5000
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The Bellsire Leader has got en- too.
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IT is the .'sweet buy and buy season"
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ZAxrsrI1Lx has new daily paper, under
the management Of E. z. Hays.
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A VERY VALUABLE WORK.

Tie INustrated H,storu of tbe Cente,,,!
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GoLD refuses to bounee.
ace you ready for Christmas'

GoLp refuses to bounce.
ARr you ready for Christmas'
ZAsxsYrILr has a new daily paper, under
the management Of E. z. Hays
TIE lesson OF The honr-keep cooI oio
Probs. has learned that.
TEE Gasette stalks abroad with blood In its
eve and Tilden in its arms.
THE bull-dozers are frantic--they act IS
though the other party had caught the COON
THE war between the grest trunk lines o'
railroads is about settled.
THE Ohio Legislature meets on the mrs
Monday in January.
The Public Schools of St. Clairsville VIII
adiourn tomorrow until Tuesday, Jan. 3D.
DR. MORRISON will be absent from his ONCE,
during the holidays.
PLENTY of tub oysters in town for the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21
Thar dance.

Thar dance.
GoLD 1o7s.
VrsisoS is pretty deer.
The Bellaire Leader has got EN-. too.
NEXT Monday-A merry Christmas
IT is the .'sweet buy and buy season"
Hos VIM. BrSDY was in town on Tuesday.
A protracted meeting is in progress at the
~ E. church.
.I,ooK q leetle out" for the fellow who
would gobble up your Christmas gobbler.
TIE ladies Of the Presbyterian church be-
gin their festival this evening.
READ the Prospectus of the Scientific
american. Il tells you how it pays to take it..
ALxAsAcs for 1877 predict four eclipses
during the year.
COMMON PLEAS CoURT in Monroe 01ourn-
ed on Monday, and Judge Chambers returned
home.
PRoF TIoz is the Prince of Probs. He pre-
dicted the late storm, and says there are more
of the same kind coming.
CHRsTNAs GIFTS, useful as well as orns-
mental, at B. r. Johnsonis Furniture Store,
on Main Street. 2t.
III. whistle NJ the Narrouv Gsuoe engine ia
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-21

Uks1l5elLished soiM ocer 300 fine
Tengracings cf6,aIdings and scenes in the Great
National Republican., 1876-04-12

The telegraphic statement from St.
Louis, to the effect that District Attorney
Dyer intends to force Gen. Babcock to a
new trial, is pretty good indication of an
attempt at farce. The ground is that in
transferring the case from the District to
the Circuit Court only copies of the papers,
instead of the originals, were transferred.
If such motion is made, it will put Mr.
Dyer and the Government in the awk-
ward position of trying an acquitted man
the second time, because Of the legal in
capacity in the District Attorney or his
neglect in other words, it would put the
Government in the attitude of party TAX
ing advantage of its own mistake. 1t is
customary to grant new trials to convicted
parties in such cases, but no case is known
where the Government took advantage of
an acquitted man by ordering new trial
on technicality. Recently case oc-
CURED in the Supreme Court OF the Dis
trict, where man was acquitted, and an
attempt was made TO have a new trial,
because it was proven that one of hejurors
had been in thepenitentiary nineteen years
before. The judge overruled the demand,
on the ground that it was not proper for
the Government to undertake such method
nF 7-nserl1tion
National Republican., 1876-04-12
STATESMAN WANTED.

Come what may of it, the Democrats
propose to 60 upon the stump this fall and
rest their case upon the great saving they
have instituted in Government expenses.
They pretend to be the party of economy.
They will exhibit figures which in the
gross look formidable, and as the greater
part of the people have no disposition to
GO further into the question than is shown
by an arithmetical comparison, the argu-
ment will carry great force. We have
heretofore reminded Republicans of what
their duty is In this respect. Since the
people encourage economy, let the Repre-
sentatives practice it. The House Of
Commons secures the highest talent of
England without personal compensation,
and the House of Representatives OF this
country should do the same 1t may be &
sacrifice to be Representative under stich
conditions, but in the ratio of the sacrifice
the honor viii also increase. The sessions
may be shortened, and the endless discus.
sions which are for the most part the
result Of an overcoming desire to create an
tmfression at home may we'll be cut short.
Tbs actual work Of the session could thus
be narrowed down 90 that two or three
months IN the year would suffice to do ell
tias & 3 desirable that Congress should do,
and The individual cost would be light.
This matter Of making the meetings of
Congress political gatherings, where busi-
nssscsn only press forward under the clog
of thousand clinging political impede
National Republican., 1876-04-12


ments. has gone so far rs TO threaten the
entire destruction of the usefulness OF us
sessions. Congress, as well as society,
needs to return to simpler methods. There
is only one way to rcturn-to cut OH at
one blow all incentive to serve the coun-
try, except as patriots and statesmen. We
hone these words are not obsolete, not
ridiculous, and we trust that there are men
in the front ranks Of Republicauism who
dare sustain them by their acts
The great mistake of our time and age
is that, instead of having devoted public
servants, we have system which encour-
ages public plumbers. As consequence,
We have Congress that cares nothing
for the welfare of the country, but every
thing for the welfare of itself, and its
sessions, instead Of being an example Of
self-sacriice and devotion to the public
good, are coming to sustain the same atti-
tude that primary meetings do to town
election. The motive to securing place
in the House of Representatives undoubt-
edly partakes more of profit than of honor,
and when this condition is found, the only
safety lies in reversing it. These positions
should not be profitable. Human expe-
rience shows that they even require as
necessary ingredient to their pure admins
tration the quality of sacrifice. Large pay
and emoluments and all the power and
patronage that make them intrinsically
valuable are so many temptations to use
them to forward personal ambitions. The
average member Of Congress, it is believed
by many, now spends his time in efforts to
secure his re election, and comes to be an
intriguer, relying on his position for sup
port, rather than a representative chosen
for his integrity. and giving the time out
of his ordinary svocations to the great and
honorable work of serving the highest in
teresis of his country. The opportunity
now offers for Republican members to re-
turn to solid basis of patriotism. Let the
Democracy go before the people as 'honest
economists, willing to sacrifice all their
wifes relations-as many were during the
war-but also willing to retain the bulk of
the ''swag" themselves. But let Republi-
can statesmen inaugurate new thought.
Let them abolish salaries entirely. Let
them offer to come to Congress as repre-
sentatIVes. not as politicians-as poor men,
if need be, yet still as pure men. The
country needs such an example, and it
would be the highest form of patriotism,
as it would be of self interest to exhibit It..
The test Of such question as this will put
away Democratic simplicity and economy
where they belong-among the rest of the
articles of humbuggery with which they
have from time to time sought to deceive
the people. Let us have o home-spun
Congress next time, if need be, but an
honest one at all events
National Republican., 1876-04-12

THE DEATH of A. T. Stewart, the great
merchant of New York, is great surprise,
but calls forth no strong popular lament.
Mr. Stewards life was unostentatious, aud
little seems to have been known about him.
During his later years he has cast about for
some means to dispose of his great wealth,
and has been led to advance several impor-
tant and valuable charities. These will live
after him, and be the greatest monuments
to his character. Otherwise people look
upon him as remarkable production, hav-
ing little in sympathy with their ordinary
experience. His extreme prudence has left
his business in such shape that it can still
be carried on, and the 10000 employees
will not feel his death as a misfortune
This is business integrity carried to the
point of public charity, and reflects credit
alike on Mr. Stewards sense and humanity.
His biographer will, no doubt, find him a
greater character than is generally sup
posed. One of the singular idiosyncrasies
of Mr.. Stewart was his refusal to be pic
tured in any way, and hence, in an age
when photographs Of public men are to be
found in every Rews-store, he forms the
solitary exception to the rule.
National Republican., 1876-04-12

under the power OF o defective law, which
has since been repealed, could bid on q
route for the mere purpose of selling out to
real contractors having means and stock to
carry the mails, and with no intention to
perform the service themselves. Hence,
the contractors put in straw bids to affect
the bids of spectators, and the result was
that they counteracted each other in effect,
and the route was finally let on an equits-
BILE basis. The wide margin between the
lowest and highest bids represents at the
worst nothing but the difficulty Of framing
law which shall be equitable in all its
proportions. IF it can be shown that any
route was finally let for more than fair
price for doing the service, then the attack
on the Post Office Department has good
foundation, and the startling assumption
that frauds have been discovered and ey-
posed is well taken; but as 1t stands, the
attack falls on the law alone, which, per-
haps, designed to allow all bidders an
equal chance, opened the doors to Chi
canery and abuse. This fact is well
known by all who have made even cur
sorry examination into the matter. Instead
of putting up this kind of q job to deceive
the ignorant, if Mr.. Stone will show that
any route was finally let out at an amount
disproportionate to the expense and risk Of
carrying it,, he may prove something
having greater significance than mere
partisan delusion. The present Post
master General pointed out the ineficiency
of the law as it formerly existed and took
means to obviate the chances for abuse,
and the Republican Congress for two
sessions past have made amendments, so
that the system is now made imperative.
The statement that some speculator Of
fered to carry the mails over long route
for one hundred dollars per snnum, as in
dicated by Mr.. Stone, while the service was
in fact well worth ten thousand dollars, only
shows that the speculator has a design to
secure the right to run the route in order
that he might sell out his privilege to some
one else. This abuse was possible under
the law as it existed, and herein is the
whole ground for any honest attack on
the Post Office Department, which, after
dil, uuuei tue opcIatlOu vi the laws paSseu
by Democratic Congress years ago, was
helpless to prevent the abuse. 1t reverts
back, therefore, as do most of the "irregu-
larities and abuses" complained of, to the
want of sense or to the completely in fraud
of Democratic Congress of the past.
which passed the law. Let Mr.. Stone look
up the provision that forced these abuses
on the Post Office Department, and tell US
how it happens that it sprung from a
Democratic source.
National Republican., 1876-04-12

TIE GRATIFYING NEWS has been re-
Ceived, through advices to the Navy De-
psrtment, that the insurrection in the re-
public of Liberia is at an end. 1t is also
agreeable 70 hear that peace was brought
about by the Intervention of Captain A.
A Semmes, commanding the United
Ststes steamer Alaska, who offered his
services as a mediator between the Presi-
dsnt of the republic and the tribes in re-
volt, and was successful in restoring peace
without resort to force. The stipulations
were signed March ., and by the terms of
the treaty the insurrectionists give up
their arms and agree to live under the
laws of the republic. Liberia has thus
been saved from the continuance of de.
vastating conflict through the instru-
mentality of the United States navy.
National Republican., 1876-04-12

longs for rthat glorious old Wing party"
and yet consorts with its lifetime enemy.
Strange consistency in one SO capable of
better things.
: Ifthere was no similarity between the
present Republican organization and the
former Wing party there might be
shadow, and only a shadow. of an excuse
for the Tirginian's course but no one
knows better than the conductor of that
paper that the leading principles of the old
Wing party have been incorporated in and
constitute the characteristic features Of the
present Republican organization. All of
the theories of government, as illustrated
by Clay and Webster, have been reduced
to practical demonstration by the Repub-
hcans in the Inauguration Of a system of
internal improvements by the General Gov
eminent, a protective tariff, a system Of
national banks and wise and judicious
administration of the Government in the
interest of all its citizens. These were the
cardinal maxims of the old Wings, and yet
we find the Tirginian. and too many, alasl
Of the party of which it was an exponent
in Virginia, consorting with the Democracy,
who were always inimical to them. 1t is,
perhaps, not strange that it should be so
under the circumstances of the case, for so
long as the Wigs of Virginia and of the
South permit the Locofocos to mold pub
lie opinion in their own interest and for
their own base purposes just SO long will it
exist and no longer. 1t is passing strange,
however, that people formerly so intelli-
gent as were the Wings of the
South will lend an ear, willing or unwilling,
to these deliberate and willful misrepre-
sentations of the Republican party by the
Democrats. All this nonsense about "con-
solidated despotisms" and 'tradicalism" are
but the emanations of the natural oppo-
nents of the Wing party, made to keep
them in leading strings. Eeven years
have now passed since the end of the war,
and we have yet to hear of the Southern
Wing who has been hurt by Republican
administration. Is it not time, therefore,
for the Wings to assert their manhood and
redeem their party and themselves from
this disgraceful thraldom to Democracy.
by thinking and acting of their own voli-
tion, regardless of the howlings of party
with which they never had anything in
common We think SO, and would fain
see the Tirginian engage in such q work,
which would be worthy its best energies.
"Who would be free, himself must
strike the blow" The FirqiHian may
make the application.
National Republican., 1876-04-12
SOMETHING ABOUT STRAW BIDS

The system once in vogue of letting
postal routes under the operations of the
peculiar devise of contractors known as
straw bids is not generally understood.
Not being understood, and having a bad
name, it is at once supposed that it was. p
complicated swindle of some kind by which
the Government is an enormous loser. The
demagogues of this time are not slow to
increase the popular suspicion about this
matter; and in pursuance of the policy of
the present House to use every fair or
unfair means to make political capital, it is
observed that the oft-repeated charge of
terrible dishonesty in the letting of con-
tracts under the straw-bid system is re-
vamped. The speech of Hon. W. II.
Stone, delivered in the House on the 7th
inst. printed in the Record of Sunday, is,
by its peculiar arrangement and the en-
phssis which Is given to the samples shown,
made to serve the purpose of an election
eering document, with the hope to deceive
the credulous and ignorant. But it is q
mere piece of demagogery, as Mr.. Stone
knew it was when he compiled it.
Under the caption, "The following proof
of abuses and irregularities will be found
in Executive document 3s2, Forty-sec-
" ond Congress, is printed q long list
showing that routes were frequently let
for ten times the amount for which offers
had been made to carry them, and fire.
quen.ly let to contractors whose names do
not appear as bidders at all.
This APPEARS bad on the surface. just as
the compiler of the document intended it
should, but when the fact is known that
the bidder who makes the highest bid and
the one who makes the lowest are ons and
the sams person or firm, either bidding
through the agency of employed agents or
in their own names, the case takes on
quite different light. The system, in
fact springs out of the efforts of contractors
to protect themselves from SPECTATORS who,
National Republican., 1876-04-12

JONES of Kentucky is the champion
investigator. He wants TO know why the
water of the Potomac is muddy. This
question should not be pressed, as it might
lead to unpleasant consequences, as in the
Pend,eton case. The facts are that some
Democratic Congressman have been bath
ing in the river above the head of the
aqueduct. Hence this mud and these
National Republican., 1876-04-12

THERE are so many reasons why Penn
,syivania avenue should be repaved at once
that we have not space to ennmerate them.
One ought to suffice: 1t is the main street
OF the city, the one most Travelled in going
to the Capitol building, and its present
6oadition is disgrace to the city and the
National Republican., 1876-04-12

SENATOR OGLEsBY said yesterday he had
been in the habit of walking on dirt roads,
and did not see why Pennsylvania avenue
should be paved. We might get along
With Z good dirt road; If would be prefera-
bic to the present pavement.
National Republican., 1876-04-12

HuNT1NGToN and his Central Pacific
ring 'tgot busted Monday in the Senate
committee on their attempted steal of the
lands of the Texas and Pacific. They will
have another scheme up before the week is
National Republican., 1876-04-12
LOST AND FOUND.

II ETTERS LOST.-LOST ON WEDNES-
LIZ DAY evening package of open letters, ad-
dressed TO the Hon. W. ID. Kelley. OF Pennsylvania
The letters are Of no value, except to Mr. kelley
at the post office Of the House Of Representative
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