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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
Trade and Industrial Notes.

Many Minnesota farmers were ploW.
ing in December. rs
A number of influential colored men
are endeavoring to establish eollaI
factory in Augusta, Ga.
A bagging mandatory is being or
ganized ut Charleston, S. C..
Totten & Co., OF Pittsburgh, have
under way seven nail machines foK
Belleville, Chicago, Chattanooga and
England.
Kentucky farmers are still harvest.
ing their corn. The crops OF hay, to-
bacco and cereals have been larger this
season than any other since the war.
The metric system is to be taught in
the b grammar grade of the Cleveland
public schools. About 500 pupils will
study it.
The workingmen Of San Francisco
propose to erect building wherein to
hold their meetings. The cost OF ths
structure will be about 81 600.
Some Of the Westfield, Mass, farm.
ers are blowing, and they say they
ind the ground dryer aud easier to
work than in October.
Mederia and clsret wiues are becotn.
ing scarce abroad, and new msuufactc.
ries will have to be established IN this
country.
The largest coal barge afioat on tbs
Ohio River is the Iron Duke, go feet
long, 81 feet beam, and 8 feet hold.
The ironclad Is OF the same dimen-
sions.
All the Gloucester, y. J., Industrial
establishments are now running. The
Washington Manufacturing Company
have added story TO one OF thefR
buildings, and In the gingham mills Q
large number Of new looms have been
put in operation.
The great superiority OF sugar oane
over beet root for the purpose of m:s-
king sugar Is made apparent by the
fact that the average v cid Of sn acre
of beet root Is % tons, yielding peg
cent Of sugar, while cane yields 10 tons,
yielding 8 per centO,n OF sugar il all
the saccharine ingredients are extract
ed.
There is quite q sugar refinery ring
existing In San Francisco. The. owns
ers have pooled. Keep several estahS
lishmenis closed, and force prices uEa
to unhesrd Of figures. Many OF ira
more enterprising merchants and grJ>
GERS have grown restless under r.
system Of extorti0n and dictate
would gladly take any
presenting todeal In
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
THE sun.
NEW YORK.


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subscriptions, THE BUN would remind its
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years ii relics for & continuance CT the hearty
sympathy and generous corporation which
have hitherto been extended to it from every
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them. In either case the people should not
be obliged to pay for it. Let academies and
colleges monopolize that department of edu
cation, and let those who enjoy such priv
leges and facilities pay for them We be-
iieve every child should have, free of cost,
what was once called "a common school edu'
cation" We believe it is unjust to the tax
paying masses TO give him any more thsd this
free of cost; and we believe that if uncommon
schools are insisted upon, as they now seem
to be, the ;axpaying masses will sooner OF
later get tired of supporting any.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
Onr Public schools.

Cleveland Post.
The School Board of Columbus, Ohio, hav'
ing recently expelled pupil from the schools
of that city, because her father declined to
furnish the set of drawing books ordered by
the board, the case was submitted to the
State School Commissioner, whose decision
was thus summed up:
''That rule compelling pupils to purchase
text books and to study branches other and
higher than those enumerated in the school
laws of Ohio is not reasonable, and that a
Board Of Education on expellng pupil for
non compliance with such rule is liable to
damages" Z"
1t is, we think, becoming very evident eve
ry day that if the public school system of this
country is TO be preserved, the range of study
must be brought within proper limits. Pub
lie schools are sustained by the public, and
as the poorer classes in every community
largely exceed in numbers the rich, it follows
that the poor bear the heavier portion of the
expense. 1t is unfair to tax them for the
support of schools where what are termed
''the higher branches" are taught, not because
these branches are not useful as well as orna-
mental, but because they are not indispensi-
bic. @ ~
Schools, the. funds to maintain which are
drawn from the pockets of the people at large,
should confine their work to the educational
necessities, which, according to the laws Of
Ohio, are 'orthography, writing, arithmetic,
geography AMI English grammar The boy
or girl who knows how to read and write
well and properly, and who has an intelligent,
practical knowledge Of arithmetic sAd geogra-
ply, has sufficient educstional material to get
through the world successfully. II they have
desire and capacity for higher culture, with
these foundations on which to build, the boy
and girl can climb to IL. If they have no
such desire or capacity 1t is worse than nom
sense to try to drive the higher culture into
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

THE Indiana Democrats have disregarded
the wishes of Mr.. Hendricks, evidently, for
they have issued an address which is simply
a prolonged and stupid variation of the
fraud" war-whoop. They propose to ''re-
buke the crime.s' but announce with praise
worthy maguanimity that they ''do not pro-
pose to disturb the incumbents" of the White
House. This is kindly but unnecessary ex-
PLANTATION that the "hollering" will so On, but
that it will mean nothing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

THE Cincinnati Gazette notices that
the hard times are compelling the re-
ligious societies to study the art oI
economy and to conduct their work on
business principles. Some superfiuous
secretaries In the East have been re-
lieved of their nominal duties, and al
the last meeting OF the managers OF the
American Bible Society, 1t was shown
that q saving OF $4,000 per annum
could be effected by giving out itE
printing by contract. A warm discus
sion ensued, aud the matter was refer.
red back 10 the Publication Commit
tee for further consideration. The
main objection to the change arises, II
Is supposed, from the supposed danger
OF inaccurate proof reading In outside
establishments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

THERE is here and there silver advocate
who is trying to convince the public that he
is not hostile to the Resumption Act when he
favors initiation. He has a good deal of
trouble, though, in explaining, why it is that
all the public meetings which assemble te call
for unlimited silver, call for the repeal of the
Resumption Act at the same time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

INSTEAD of sending silver to England to
pay debts, the East Indian Government sells,
through what may be termed its agency there,
orders payable in silver in India Bankers
and merchants buy these, paying therefor in
gold. and collect them in the ordinary course
of trade. Recently the India Council sold
orders amounting to $4,000, 900, receiving
only 20 9-16 pence per rupee. Prior
to 1875, whsn silver began to fiuctuate, the
rupee was worth 244 pence, and was legally
valued at 46.6 cents in our money. The sam
realized was, it appears, less than was antici
pated, and in consequence the silver market
became completely demoralizcd." This cir.
cumstance is another striking illustration of
the absolute unsditability of silver as per-
.manent standard of yalue.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
Five Thousand Lakes In Minnes
sofa,

I have caused the meandered lakes
In all the township plats to be count
ed, and there are in the actually sur
veyed portions of the State Just 4. .999
Imeandered lakes. Calling them 5000
in number, and from reliable data ia
this Office we find that these lakes av.
erage 300 acres each, this gives us an
equivalent OF SOC, 900 acres Of water In
the surveyed portions Of the State.
Now, computing the lakes in the un.
surveyed portions of the State from re-
liable data In possession of the Office,
we find that there are z, 900 more lakes,
which makes 1000 in all. The mum.
ber of lakes to township is much
greater in the unsurveyed portions of
the State than that already surveyed.
They are also found to average greater
acres. We find We are compelled trs
estimate the 1000 lakes in the unsur.
veyed portion at GOO acres each, whirf1
gives Us al additional water area Of
I, zoo, 900 acres, making fetal of water
area on the surveyed lands of 2,760, 600
acres Of water within the limits of the
State. This does not embrace the vast
water areas included within the pro-
jectei boundary lines of the State in
Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods
and along the great water stretches Of
the international line.-Pioneer Pres ).
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
BELM0NTCH20HIcLE.
ST, CLAIRSVIILE. OHIO.
THURSDAY. JAN. 3. 1878.
Change of Time ON the N.G. II.

No. leaves St. Clairsville $40 A. NJ, to
meet the West bound train on the B. & o.
Road. No. 2 leaves at Gas to meet East
bound train No. leaves at 40 P. NJ, to
meet both East and West bound train at
Quincy. Trains run on Columbus time,
which is eight minutes slower than town time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03
MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1877.

Belmont Lodge, No. l6. q a. NJ. meets sv.
cry Wednesday night on or preceding the full
moon. JAMES b. RYAN. W. NJ.
Jesse r. AEYER, Sec'y.
81. Clairsvflie Chapter. No. II Royal Arch
hssous, meets lst Friday night esch mo1th.
GEO p. BUMGAhSE Ea. II. p.
JESSIE B. MEIER, 5ec'y.
Belsaon. OouncIi. ana q NJ, m Gets on tbs
Be~. nd .aesdRy " nigl,t % every month.
- II. X. BTMGARNER, q. n.
y ID BALT. Rec.
Nope Commsndery No.95 Of Knights Temp
ara n seis IN the drst Tuesdaf night Of every
saonfh. Q. W. CAHhcLl1, L. Y.
y n BAILEY Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03


What a blessing to household Is a
merry, cheerful woman-oue whose
spirits are not affected by wet days, OK
little disappointments, or whose milk
of human kindness does not soGr In
the sunshine of prosperity. Such .
woman in the darkest hours brightens
the house like a little piece of sunshiny
weather. The magnetism of her
smiles and electrical brightness of her
looks and movements infect every
one. The children 60 to school with
sense Of something great TO be schisv-
ed; her husband goes into the world in
u conqueror's spirit. No matter how
people annoy and worry him all day,
far of her presence shines, and ne
whispers to himself, 'At home shall
find rest" So day by day she literally
renews bis strength and energy, and II
you know man with q besming face,
a kind heart, and q prosperous business.
in nine cases out OF ten you will find
he has wife of this kind. s-f
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

Second Saturday OF January, st. Ciearrvf1f<.
second SATURDAY Of February, Brsdn1Dork
Second Saturday Of March, Sc: ClaifsvIlle.
Fourth Saturday Of March, AorristoWn.
second saturday Of April. BarnesviIIe
Firs. Saturday OF May, Martins Ferry.
p second Saturday Of June, st. ClairsViIlo.
Fourth Saturday Of Sune, ST. ClairEvflle.
At close of Institute In BeIlaire
Examinations begin at O'Clock, AN.
Piomptness IL expected.
Testimonials of character are needed II an
olcsnt IL not known to the Board, and certid-
ates OF success In teaching are allowed their
one weight. OHAs. r. SHREVR,
Ex. Board, r. ALExANDER,
e-S, n. IL BURNS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

Some atrocIous cynic says that going
to be married Is very much like going
to be hanged, aud observes that there
is only the difference of an aspirate be
tween the altar and the halter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

MANY years ago one Beck was tried
In London for robbery from the person,
then capital crime. A woman (who
represented herself as an officers Wild
ow) swore that he had robbed her Of
her purse, which she accurately de-
scrjbed, containing money, and, sure
enough, a purse answering her descrip-
tion was found on his person. More
than this, perfectly disinterested
witness proved that he had arrested
Beck on the cry Of Stop thiefv Beck's
defense was that he took out his purse
TO give woman shilling, when she
minutely observed 1t, and that he ran
away from sheer terror of having to
meet and confute such Ia charge. This
was thought ali too Thin and Beck
would have been hung but that fortu
nstely the case attracted The notice Of
other victims OF this horrible woman,
who came forward and amply con.
firmed poor Beck's account
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

A BRIDAL couple at Wheeling, came,
like Nicodemus, at dead of night, to
he house of a venerable minister, and
rang the door bell with tremendous
violence. His wife went down stairs
in a costume consisting principally of
a shawl, and found a stripping Of
twenty and gaunt cresture of forty;
and on learning what was their errand
brought her husband down stairs.
'Well!' be exclaimed, rather drow-
silly. The bridegroom could not speak
but motioned to his bride. 'Mr.
Preacher she said, nothing 10th, as
I'm the oldest, 1 expect I'd better do
the talking. You see, Charley, here,
has stepmother, aRd she don't use
him right at all. Now, Pm a widow,
and / want to take Charley home with
me tonight and take care OF him. Not
that want a husband, because, if I
did, I'd get some one nearer my own
age; but l just thought would try ard
take care Of Charley. So we'd like to
be married right away" There was a
hitch about the license, but in the end
she promised to be more than a step
mother to Charley, and carried him
home in triumph.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-03

Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchi or and Casper and Baltazar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by
day
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-15
The Original Mulberry Sellers.

One of the sensational announcements i'm
the late McGarrahan scandal is already
squelched by a free and healthy confession.
The statement was that w. o. Stoddard. Pres
idents secretary to sign land patents who, in
default of sufficient work at the Interior de
partment, his real locus, was detailed to do
red tape and routine drudgery at the White
House during the war; had revealed important
state secrets to New York stock brokers, &c.
This individual evidently had the instincts
and the weaknesses of Col. Mulberry Sellers.
He was always full of big things. There are
some big things in the wind he writes in one
letter. In second, after gravely announcing
that he had all the Washington cOrreSpOn-
dents in his breecheS pocket, he adds charac-
teriStically, there are immense things ahead
In third he says, Can make a splendid com
bnatiOn-" In fourth. his language overtops
Mulberry himself. Il am in the receipt now
of all the Cabinet information which comes
into the departments. No one else sees it be-
fore do, and it comes in cipher which alone
understand am also now secretary
at all the Cabinet meetings of Importance, and
ITO Cabinet officer makes move unless it has
been first discussed in Cabinet
AL this is the purest balderdash-a tissue
OF magnilOquent impOssibilities. The New
York EreRing Post publishes letter
Quoted by us yesterday from StOddard
Ill WHICH lie rises TO explain. lie c0n1tSSeS
TO gambling i'm gold and stocks. i'm a picayune
way, but says" No Cabinet or other govern
ment secrets available on Wall street were in
my keeping. nor were my means of obtaining
information half so good as those of the agent
of the Associated Press. / attended
no Cabinet meetings, received no government
dispatches. had no access to hidden matters
Of state My offence is gold and stock specu-
latiOn-nO more and no less
All who frequented the White House during
the war can cOrrObOrate the truth of this ex-
PLANTATION. StOddard was simply a clerk
doing routine duty in distant corner of the
building, who seems to have employed his
outside hours To imagine cock and bull stories
for hungry and credulouS curbStone brokers
who would cash an occasional hundred-dOar
draft for him. 1t was a disgraceful business,
and. had it been known, he would of course
have been dismissed. 1t is to be hoped that
the press and public will not swallow his mil
lions in it, as eagerly as did his Wall street
dupeS.
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The fears expressed by France that if Eu-
ropean congress, rather than a conference, be
held. matters outside of the Eastern question
may be discussed and settled, suggest that at
the last meeting of the great powers in 1856
France, under different conditions. desired
this very thing and it was only the arguments
of the English representative that prevented
the French Emperor from proposing measures
at the congress that would have brought about
a Encouragement of the map of Europe.
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that purpose"
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When the bibulous Virginian was es-
cOrted from the House by the Sergeant-at
arms, he paused moment in the cloak room
and asked himself Websterially, Where
shall gO?" Then with meaning smile he
Strengthened himself up, knocked his hat on
with bin, and meandered over to the Senate
Chamber where he sought to make himself con-
genially at home. But he got no sympathy
there What diSgraeeful spectacle" said
the Roman Senators sternly. Drunk at noon
Shocking: Shocking, Now if it were the mid
die of an all night session, why then to be
Sure-but now there is really no excuse and
he was hustled out in no time.
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