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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-08-30
POETRY.
SUMMERS GOING.

Leaves are shrinking on the trees,
Where the nests are hidden;
There's hush among the bees,
As to roam forbidden;
There's the silk of corn that shows
Faded tangles blowing:
So that everybody knows,
Darling summers going.
There's the mist that haunts the night
Into morning sailing,
Leaving flmy webs Of light
On the grasses trailing; -
There's the fierce red sun that glows,
Through the vapor showing:
So that everybody knows,
Darling, summers going.
There are insects wings that gleam;
Locusts shrilly Calling
There are silences that seem
- Into sadness falling;
There is not another rose
Z But the sweet-brier blowing:
So tbst everybody knows,
Darling, summers going.
Breathe but softest little sigh.
Child for vanished roses,
For each season, going by,
Something sweet discloses;
And if in your heart has grown
Truth to fdjrer bIouetng,
Summer then will be your own,
Spite of summers going.
Mrs. L. C. Wilton, in August Wild
Awake.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-08-30

JAMAICA
GINGER
This Elegant Preparation

This Elegant Preparation
Is prepared from the true Jamaica Ginger,
combined with choice aromatics and gems
uine French Brandy, and is vastly superb
or 10 every other Extract or Essence OF
Ginger before the public, all OF which are pre-
pared with alcohol by the old process.
CHOLERA MORBuS,
Cramps. Pains, Diarrhea, and Dysentery are
instantly relieved by it. II will render an ats
tacd of Cholera Morbus impossible, il taken
when the symptoms OF this dangerous COM
plafnt first manifest themselves.
CRAMPS AND PAINS
whether produced by indigestion, improper
food, change of water or diet, too frequent In
dulgeace in ice water, exposure to sudaen
changes oftemperature. of are Immediately re-
neved by II. One ounce added 10 gallon OF
ICE-WATER
and sweetened, forms a mixture which, as q
cooling. healthy. and refreshing Summer Bev>
erage, has no equal.
DYSPEPSIA,
Flstulency, Sluggish Digestion, want of tone
and activity in the Stomach and Bowels, Op-
preston afer Eating. are sure TO be relieved
by a single dose taken after each meal
Sod by all Wholesale and Retail Druggists
Grocers, and Dealers In Medicine. Price, 81
cents. Samples free. Dealers should purchase
original packages of one dozen TO obtain the
trial bottles for free distribution. WEEKS q
POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale
DruRgfstS Boston.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-08-30
the STEAMER ON FIRE.
How ITS Lives We're Saved by
sthe Man who Didn'f. Know
- MucI.
,,n,d,sck M,n.rsv's New Booi

The Captain stood another instant il
profound thpuehf, during which hi,
quick and fearless mind had consider
ed all the contingencies and, nwifhou
q word to the three men that wert
with him, he started for the deck ant
the pilot house. He summoned tht
Chief Engineer and his officers arounC
him, and stated what he had discover
d-laid the whole subject in few a ters'
words before them. and said: q.
sGentlemen, in five minutes the "a.
looms, will be like an oven, and Tx
windows of this pitot house will bt
cracking. Have you anything to sug
gestT isIas j, sia ~; se-I
The first officer, sailor from boy
hood, whose head and heard Were al
ready gray, said promptly:
Captain. we must beach her. The
ofhers looked their assent.
IFS our only course said the Cap
tain. Pilot, said be, turning to The
man whose eye was on tie lookout
Can you beach her?' ..e.-s'-.
The other deliberated a moment, and
said:
Captain II am ready to take any re-
spons1bilty that q man in my position
should take. am ready to execute
anyorder you give; but will not take
the responsibility of running this
steamer, with six hundred passengers
aboard, on to a coast that / know moth
ing of beyond the knowledge I have
of the lights, the reefs,g and the har.
bors. 1t would be mere chance If got
her within half a mile. OF the shore.
The ia ntaini aefrlaiiv ornanafl He
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-08-30
DRIFTING.

Nv soul TODAY
sfA Is Tar away,
Sailing the fesuvlan Bay;
EAG = NY winged ooat,
A Dird anoat,
lSwlms round the purple peaks remote:-
Round purple peaks
1t sails, and seeks
Blue lniets and their crystal creeks,
Mnere nlgh rocks throw
Ihrough deeps below, E
"A auphcateo goiaen glow
~ Far. vague and dim
The mountains swim;
Mith outstretched hands,
Inc gray smoke STANDS
Oeriooking fne volcanic lands
:
ineea not 49,
NY Hoing skiH .~Efss
float sWidI OF $40" rom ciiH 70 CHI; ciinn; -
mith oresmIlieyes Etsfft
my spillt i,ss - = : 6 -,
onoer 'i'e Walls " I'alaaiss .s
Wnefs s"slis ana iails
Inc Day oeep Dreast at ahteftas
AT peace ne,
bio"n soluf Dy azsl-isa-sl ssa-'-
A cloud upon this liquid sky.
The day 40 mild. "
sReskl Is heavens own child. 10 &
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An editor says: "We have received
q basket of grapes from our friend NJ,
for which he will please accept our
compliments some of which are nearly
an inch long"
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= -Wanted--Farm HOrses--Wanted to
purchase. pair Of good Farm Horses. Ap-
ply at the shop of Shepherd Davis, st. Clairs-
vile, for particulars. +lo S-28.
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death on many field where bullets
was thick will. stand by his side, and
the Lord of Marcy shall do with him
as he will. / should like to have seed
the. pups again; but the Lord will take
care OF the dogs
While this conversation had been
carried on, the officers Of the steamer
had made the arrangements necessary
to steer the craft FROM the stern; for the
pilot house was already so hot as to
make it unsafe for the four men station
TONED at the wheel to remain in it
longer. The ropes and blocks had been
adjusted, the purchase tested, and the
steamer was already being directed
from behind. The Captain still stood
by the side ofthe lad, trumpetin hand,
ready to give the orders to veer her
around. 'ee'i ~ l. .s.fs - ls.i5 I. - 4 r.
Young man. said the Captain, you
are pilot now. When shall we swing
about?' It's a rough sea; but the flames
give us no choice.' ~ q. ~
The lad looked steadfastly momentl
at the beacon they had passed, asked
the Captain question as to her course,
and then said:
'We are passing the cove! We mustn't
90 a rod farther! Quick! Swing her
rOund!' TsZtIaD N.
The Captain lifted the trumpet to his
lips, and in tones that rang strong and /
clear above the roar of the storm and OF |
-he fame, Shouted: 'Hard-a-port with /
your helm! Hard-a- port, | tell you!
lam her down for your hvesp ~ YJ
The men in'controi of the helm obey
ID with an energy born of the peril of
he. moment The mighty Ifabric
wayed for moment, but tore on AS
unwilling to yield. But the nextii
instant the immense pressure OF the
lelm 9hard-a.port began to tell, and fhel
nonstrous bulk swung slowly about, |;
oiled downward into the trough of the :
ga as II she would never rise, reeled !
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Again no reply came, sand he was
upon the point Of turning away when
the lad, who had been kneeling under
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22

Apv foreigner or American who wishes to study
fine physcal and social growth Of this country, will
find q cnrions series of stereoscopic views to aid
him. in Mrs. Fremonts papers, now being pnDllsheu
in Harper's Monbly. Here we have the streets OF
ST. Louis, filled with the French in their bright
colored peasant dresses long files of Indians. hunt
.ers and trappers." Kansas, ian untracked prairie
with Indians and wolves for figures" The calm re-
pose of the feudal life in the great Virginia houses
and the first emigration to California. Inc $40"
polling of the passengers in dug-outs up the Chagres
RIVER when TO sleep on shore for single night was
TO forfeit life insurance. the climbing over the noun
tains on mules the life in Panama, with its walls
and old Cathedral the roof inlaid with mother-of-
nearI IFS professions Of priests and yelled Spanish
women looking down from balconies. And all this
only thirty years ago! The change OF Phemon's
old hut into a temple not moro swift
or magical than the transmigratlon through
which this country has passed IN that
time 1t is a change too OF which we nave
oddly no account definite and pictorial enough to
show to the next generation the country as their
fathers knew it. birs. Fremont. as Benton's
daughter and the wife of the great explorer had ex-
ceptionabe opportunities for an accurate knowledge
of the extremes of social conditOnspoical life In
the Capitol and the pioneer life of the West. Her
sketches therefore, which are dramatic and sugges-
tive a. studies by Corot, have real historic yalue
rs well as interest. Our literature is singuary
deficient in those books of personal recolectons
which give flesh and color to history in France and
Germany we have but the dry bones of history to
give to our children Such fugitive papers as these
are too much like passing shadows on wall; they
would better fulfil their errand if compacted and
arranged AS a volume with definite aim. We need
not only dry details of politics and battles, but
history of our social life during these years OF deyel
opment, both accurate and dramatic, and the pubhc
Will be indebted to BentOn's daughter or 10 any
other writer who can aid in giving 1t to us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22
FIRES AND HARD TIMES

The destructive fire in suburb OF ST. John.
New-Brunswick follows closely upon the
greater cOnflaGratiOn in that city. 1t comes
with additional severity. at the beginning of
the long Winter of that latitude the loss falls
chiefly on a poor class of people; and much
hardship must inevitably ensue. IL will be said
with truth thar these disasters are an newt
able result of building towns and cities mostly
of wood. But it is 10 be recollected that
lumber is the chief product Of the district
of which ST. John il the port, and there is
more excuse for frame buildings i'll such To-
cality than i'll others where brick or stone is
comparatively cheap. Fires like this, which
has nearly destroyed suburb, raise the ques-
ton whether it il cheaper, under any ciicum-
stances, to put up frame structures; but that
is a question which people OF small means,
who want houses, can rarely wait to ask.
1t is, however. n noteworthy fact that in
this fire, one brick building served as
barrier to the flames and saved a whole
street. The circumstance adds one more
to the long list of ndIsputable proofs that
brick il the best of all building materials, TO
resist the attack Of great fires. At the pres
ent time, more than ever before in our his
tory, there is general feeling that our
troubles have arisen from want of prudence
in the past there is a tendency to avoid such
errors in the future-to arrange our business
and affairs with keener view to economy and
permanence. Let us hope that among the first
fruit. of this tendency will be the construc-
ton Of larger proportion Of secure and even
of fre-proof brick buildings, that will mark
the present period in our city architecture a.
distmciively as the mansard roof did that OF
ten or fifteen years ago.
This lire Will call attention TO the excessive
losses both here and in Canada, and especially
in the latter country, by fires during the pres
eut year. careful compilation of these
losses WAS recently published in Ihc Chronicle
of this city Of course, not including this last
disaster. The estimate shows that the increase
of loss rs compared with corresponding months
in 1876, was, for the United States, 10 per
cent for Canada, 266 per cent. The amount
of loss in the nine months of 1877 exceeds
the same period in 1876. for the two coun-
tries, by nearly $50, 900, 900. Whether insured
Oh not, the circle Of injury from disaster W u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22
THE RAILROADS. AND TIE CROPS

The reports Of Railway earnings, If regularly
made, would enable the public 10 form some
idea of the actual effect of the increased move
ment of crops. For several months, much has
been said of the great prosperity which large
CROPS would bring to the railways, and "a wait
ing public, very willing to believe that glor-
Gus prosperity has come but not disposed TO
believe without any evidence, awaits the re-
ports of the railways with much interest. 1t
is somewhat singular under the circumstances,
that :, few of the railway managers feel will
ing to contribute to the public stock of in
formation. The New York Central and Lake
Shore, tie Pennsylvania, and Pittsburg, Fort
WAYNE and Chicago, the Baltimore and Ohio
and its Chicago extension, have never con
scented to make known the reports regularly
received 10y the managers. But at such time
as this, if these railways were in position to
gladden. rs all with good tIdings, we strongly
suspect that they would break through custom,
and give ms something definite and cheering.
on the contrary, the only definite informa-
ton given by either of the trunk lines
is that the earnings on the roads
of the PENNSYLVANIA combination east
of Pittsburg were smaller by $52l ,908 in
August, 1877, than in August, 1876, and that
the gross earnings for eight months ending
August 81, were smaller by $3,4GS, 99l, and
the net earnings smaller by $9GG.s31 than
for the eight months of last year. This does
not indicate that the trunk lines, which lifted
rates August l. had any cheering intelligence
to impart as late rs September l. Moreover,
the grain reports show that there has been no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22
1norr TO Advertisements.


AMusYNE~rs-3d P0ge-5th aud 6th column" I,f oo,mn
BANKING HoUsE AND BANKERS |h td 0s IL ,rnoos
Roam AND ROONs-3d Pd0c-lst anu "a NVi"
BrsISEss CHANCEs--7m Pdqe-6th column
RrsISFss NoTICt S-4M Pd0e-lst coluniiI ,
CoPIKTSFRsHIp NOTICEs-1h rage , Vuluui-'
CoRpoR ,TIoN NOTICEs-7m Idgc-Oth coIuhh
CoIxTRY BOARD-3d Pdqc-lst column
D1NcfSG ACADTMEs-6M Pd0e-4th column
pTyrnrSD NOTICEs-7h Pd0e-5tb column -
my (;ooDs-3d PJQe-2, Sd, 4th and ON columns.
TTRoPFAN AuVEKTIsEMESTs-7h PGge-oth coiuihn-
FtSANCIN-7h Id0c-6tn column.
FUnNITrRF-3d GaJe-5th column.
HoTTIs-3d IdCe-5th column
Log CREAM -Gth PdGe-9th column.
ISsTRUCTION-Gh PdGe-2d and 30 columns
Iosr AND FOUND-3d Pdge-4th column -,
ARBLE AND SLATE MANTEIS-1M Idfe-otn Coiui"n'
MGTRIAGFS AND DEATHs-5M P0Gc-Oth column e.h
MIscELIANEOUs-7h Fdge-6th column ON FoSe-o'"'
9TH and 6ta columns. go -,
MUSICAL INsTRUMENT>-3d PdGe-oth column.
NEW PUBLIC ATIONs-6h PGge-lst aud "a COLUMNS
PKOPos Ns-7fh IGQe-6th column. 90 , .
REAL ESTATE For SALE-ClTY-Oh fdQe-Otn e c b,
RRooKIYN-6M Pdge-6th column; COUNTRf-Oh J ge
9Th column. -, ....u
SPECIAL NOTlCEs-5h PGqe-6th column. - , ~
srTTtTto~s WNNTED-MALEs-3d PGJe-3d ana an
columns; FEMALEs-3d Pdge-3d AMI IN c3lnnnss' r,,
eTx 1~poAfs AND RAILROADS ctr Pdge-4th ana ON
columns. 49,, -,,D
STRAMERs OCEAN-6h Pd9e-4th cOiuihn
TEACHrRs-6M pdge-4th column. o., ,,
To IET-CuY pROPERfN-6M Jdge-oth 0V"'''
CoUNTRY-Gh PGge-6th column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22

fire soon extends far outside OF the COM
munity where it occurs. Every loss OF the
kind adds to the severity of hard times. But
the loss to insurance companies OF property
burnt in Canada shows an excess for the nine
months of 100000. And the increase OF
insurance losses on property in this country
for the same period is 81 100000. Inc ng-
ures are startling 1t will not be denied that
such excessive destruction is itself factor In
the depression of business that has 80 long
been felt.
There are some other reflections which can
not be put aside. Undoubtedly the excess Oh
fires is in part a consequence OF the haru
times, as well as in part cause. IL ID Sad
thing to say but every fire underwater knows
that the number of losses to the companies IN
creases whenever general business is SUI
fering, when the markets for g0ods
slacken their demand, when prices fall'
1t cannot be denied that very
considerable proportion if not the greater
part of the fires in which much property Is
destroyed, are of incendiary origin Int FOR
the purpose of recovering insurance. 1t IL
rumored that the fire in the st. John
suburb was thus started. Excessive caution
in giving insurance is required In tiineS
like the present. Unfortunately the fire
insurance companies, instead of being more,
have been somewhat less cautious in
selecting their risks, because of greater
competition in their business. Coupling
these facts with the circumstance that
the rates for insurance have been conSld-
erably reduced, it is easy to see that only the
most conservative and fortunate companies
have been making money during the present
year. Perhaps few of them have lost more
than they can afford, but there would be
no harm done to solvent concerns IL the
Superintendent of Insurance wOald push for
ward the promised Investigations more rapidly.
Sound companies would be, in fact, benefited;
as for insolvent ones, they cannot be TOO
quickly exposed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22

at least. that General Mcclellan is
an amiablc and accomplished gentleman, and
that he would certainly make a more harmless
Governor than any of the predatory politicians
whose hopes werc-shipwrecked in that tempes-
tuous convention out of which ne was accident
ally cast up as a candidate. And although 1t
might be less humiliating for Jerseymcn to
have Governor who WAS capable OF
administering his Office without guardians,
the orators can say with emphasis, that Gen
eral Mcclellan would not be so dscredllaby
managed by the Randolph clique who have HIM
in their keeping as he would be. if possessed
by Mr.. Mcpherson, Mr. Albeit or the Hon.
Alyah Clark, of SomeCyillc.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, OCTOBER ~ 1877.

considerable increase during September, com
pairing with September of last year. In re-
CENTS at Baltimore or Philadelphia, or in ship
ments by rail from Buffalo. In short, all
known facts and the refusal Of the trunk-llne
managers to make returns. indicate that those
lines have not made gains of any consequence
in September, and that their earnings prior 10
that month had been smaller than during the
same portion of last year.
Earnings of twenty-four roads nave peeh
published for September, and amount 10 DIV
O4S. 557, against 50, &c. 800 for the same month
last year. a very handsome gam or SSoZ'zo" l.
But it is not well to overlook the TACT tlat at
the end of September, these same roads had
earned since January l, only S5S,73I,ooo'
oeoinst SCI .O59. 637 during the same nine
months of last wear. q loss of 1882 ISL II
they should continue during the three remain
ing months to gain as largely as they qua III
September, by the end of the year these ROADS
would barely Overtake in gross earnings inc
record of the disastrous year 1875, CURING
which only three of the twenty-four roads
pad dividends on their stock, while seventeen
of them were in deficit, either before or aiter
having interest on bonded debt. But II the
returns are examined, it appears that more
than the entire gain in earnings for Septem-
Der was made by only two roads. 1he MIL
waukee and st. Paul reports a gain or S534,-
1G9. and the Chicago and Northwestern a
gain of $357.17O. Deducting these two the
net result for all the other roads is an actual
loss of earnings compared with September
1S76-for these roads the most disastrous
month known for several years.
Last year, in the region from which the
Chicago and Northwestern, and the Milwaukee
and St. Paul draw their traffic, the wheat
movement was extraordinarily small. In MIN
uesota. and Northern and Western Iowa. there
had been great devastation by grasshoppers Tor
several wears. nor had the crops been full III
anv part of that region. To find out what
full September business for those roads Is
really worth, it is necessary to 90 back 10
1873. The September earnings OF these ROADS,
the amount of their bonded debt, ana the
price of their stock, October l, compare thus {;
amman Avn NORTHWESTERN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-22
MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAU

The nresent bonded debt of these roads not
bcing officially known, the figures gwen fOr
1877 are the totals of bonds reported out
standing in The Financial chronicle OF October
I. but they probably exceed the actual IN
debtedness. In earnings, the roads are doing
about as well ms they did when the last full
crop was being marketed. In debt they had
increased prior to the close OF 1876 nearly
$40. 900 600 and an unknown amount since
.Janua,y I. Bnt the stocks are now called
worth. the one trile less. and the other very
much more, than they were worth four years
ago. These, however, are the two ROADS winch
surpass I'LL others in the increase OF earnings,
and these have increased their bonded debt
over $4,000, 900, and the yearly interest
thereon over 100000, without any gain, even
in their only good month this year, over the
earnings of the same month in 1878. At the
end of September, 1873, the Milwaukee and
4. PAM had earned $6,413,0l0 but in 1877
oul, Sj.372. 400. The Northwestern had
earned in 1873, to the same date, SIC, 034 ,533,
and this year, though it has refused TO make
known its earnings for three Of the nine
months. the aggregate cannot exceed $500
900.
From the condition OF these roads, selected
because they report larger gains than any
Others. some estimate may be formed Of the
soundness of speculation which, because a
single large crop is coming forward, pushes
prices of stocks, in many cases, higher than
they were in 1878. The four roads which
carry nearly all the grain moved TO Chicago or
Milwaukee, are barely beginning to recover
the earnings of 1873, but with vastly in
creased burdens of leases and debts The
trunk roads eastward from Chicago compete
with the lake. and are gaining nothing. The
minor roads, whose earnings are known, report
smaller earnings than for September OF last
year. when those OF the two xraIn carriers are
deducted.