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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

In the House of Representatives al
Columbus, on Friday, the bill of oul
own Harvey Danford, to increase wit
ness fees in Courts of Common Pleas to
one dollar, was defeated. Mr.. Dan
ford, in a spt ech, advocated the pas
sage of the bill, and it appears from
the following in the Cincinnati Gazette
of Saturday, that the Honorable Rep
resentative from Belmont, was moi
treated with the respect due to a mem
Der of the Legislature from so respect
able county as Belmont. Our mill
tary should be ordered to Columbus to
disperse this gabbling crew who are
entailing disgrace upon the State
Here is what the Gazette correspond
ent says:
Mr.. Danford stormed the House this
afternoon on the rights and wrongs OF
witnesses. He lambasted the lawyers,
and kept the House in Il roar for hall
an hour. The old gags were attempt.
ed, such as calling 'lIoDder, lOudei!'
Take the centre of the hall, we can't
hear you,' etc., but he galloped over
all of them. There was good deal OF
Justice in what he said as to compell-
ing men to serve for ''less thai enough
to buy two decent meals a day." but
his style was not such as to excite seri.
Gus attention. After enjoying a good
laugh, the House rejected the bill, and
witnesses must get along on their old
fees
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
NOTICE.

ELIZA NICHOL, Alexander McElroy,
L Matte McElroy. VINO reside at Washing
ton, Pennsylvania; Joseph Timmons and Ra.
chel Ttmnors. at Tarentum, Penn sylyanta.
Thomas Blair and Nancy Blair, at Wheel
ing, West Virginia, who are owners of o.
10, township 6, range in Belmont county.
Ohio and Samuel Boyd, who resides In
Wheeling West Va, who is the owner Off
tract of land in section 80, township & o.
range 2, Pease township Belmont county,
Ohio,
Will Take Notice,
that the Cleveland. Tuscarawas Valley and
Wheeling Railway Company, March 7,lS7S, filed
In the Probate CuuIt,wiLh The Probate Judge o
said county of Belmont, petition, setting
forth that said Railway Company has been
duly Incorporated and organized under tue
laws of Ohio, that II has authority TO extend
its road through the county OF Belmont thai
1t has located Its railroad, and has commen
ced and is now engaged In Its construction
through said county; that by Its location said
railroad passes through the several tracts OF
land hereinbefore mentioned, that said Com
ers, or either of them, as to the amount to be
paid for the lands sought 10 appropriated.
The object and prayer OF the petition is tn
appropriate according to law, part OF each
OF said tracts OF land to ths purposes OF said
railroad, TO be used in It's construction aud
operation, Said petition contains a specific
description of the several parcels of land
sought to be appropriated and diagram and
plat showing the work intended TO be cons
siructed on each OF them. SAID owners or
persons in interest are required 70 appear IN
said proceeding in the Probate Court on the
I'D day OF April, 1873, at 10 O'Clock A. M.
= D. ID. T. COWEN, aud
ST. CLAIR KELLY,
Atty's for the Cleveland, Cuscarawas valley
W. Railway Co, S-l4' IS-4w.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
ADangerous Situation.

Subtle, adroit and impenetrable as
Russian diplomacy has been in all the
stages of the great conflict, it has never
been hidden behind a denser cloud
than at this moment, and it is not
strange that in England and on the
Continent the fear is felt that the war
is not yet ove-, and that Russia is only
playing shrewd game with the other
Powers while preparing to secure the
utternost fruits of her victories. A
suspicion finds expression in plain
words in the English press that she
does not intend that an international
congress or conference shall decide the
fate of Turkey and the Bosphorus or
settle the questions of the control of
the mouths of the Danube and the
Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. Such
misgivings are in nowise unjustifiable,
The conditions of the treaty Of peace
with the Sublime Porte have been so
mystified that they are not even yet
entirely understood; the calling of the
Conference has been purposely delay
ed; there are rumors of secret under.
standing between Russia and Turkey,
and all the time the Russian lines are
being drawn closer to Constantinople
and SO near to the shore that the coast
defences of the peninsula may at any
moment be seized and rendered inn
pregnable and an army thrown into
Constantinople itself. II, as reported,
troops have advanced to Boulair, the
meaning of such movement can only
be that on an emergency Gallipoll may
be occupied and the British fleet thus
cut off from returning to the sea in case
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
ItSusfains lis Reputation.

For nearly quarter of century it
has been acknowledged that DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy has no equal in speed
idly and permanently curing "cold in
the head" and all catarrhal affections
of the nasal cavities. Its Immense sale
and great popularity are dependent
upon and entirely due to its merits and
superiority over all other similar prepa-
rations. Very many physicians, hav :
ing thoroughly tested it, are now pre-
scribing it in their practice.
HALBURToN, Ont, Jan. l, 1877.
DR.. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear ST-For years | suffered with
chronic catarrh. Last winter it be-
came more severe, seriously affecting
my throat and lungs. My stomach
and blood were also sadly out of order
/ tried many physicians and several
advertised remedies, obtaining but
temporary or no relief. My general
health became worse,so that l despair
ed of life. Seeing favorable notices of
your medicines, L procured one half
dozen bottles of the Golden Medical
Discovery and SUPPLY of DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. The Discovery pu-
rifled my blood and restored my gen.
eral health, the Catarrh Remedy gave
immediate relief, and after little per-
radical cure was effected.
Thankfully yours,
ROBERT MCCORMICK.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

THE Concord IN. H) Monitor says
that the Republican victory 10 that
State is due, first, to the energy with
which the campaign has been conduct
ed alike by the Republican press OF
the State and by the Republican State
Committee; second, to the popularity
OF our candidates, third, to the clearly
established fact that the Southern white
South is aiming at supremacy in the
National Government through the
Democratic party, thereby not only
reversing the results of the war, but
opening the Federal Treasury to South
ern war indemnities of an almost limit.
less mangnitude; fourth, to the rotten
ness of the Democratic platform, which
adopted the rebel Interpretation OF
State rights, a financial plank upon
which infiationi5ts and anti-resump-
lionists might stand, and temperance
plank, which was "neither fish, flesh,
fowl, nor good red herring"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
BRIDGEPORT.

E. G. Cracraft, of Wheeling, made a
fine temperance speech in the NJ. E.
Church, Sabbath evening. And on
Monday, same place, Mr.. Mitchell, of
Pittsburgh, Giscoursed on the same
subject-while on both days an unusu-
al number of drunken men made the
town disgracefully hideous with their
indecent and riOtous conduct,
On Sabbath night burglars entered
the Postoffiue and Ross Grier's Hard
ware store, by crushing the doors
with Jimmy They got but little
for their pains in the P. o., but Jared
better in the store, where they helped
themselves to revolvers and choice
cutlery, with which to guard them
selves against the intrusion or inter-
ference Of any policeman who might
80 far forget himself as to attempt to
arrest them,
Old Pease, with her "gallant six
hundred" majority for Judge Okey,
says "well done, good and honest SER
vant," for his disintcrestedness and
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
Failure of the Louisiana Pros.
ecutiOn.
The MOckery of n Trial Over
turned.
GEN. ANDERSON RELEASED.

NEW ORLEANS, March 18-In the
case of the State vs.. Thomas q. An
dersOn, appeal for a new trial, the Su-
preme Court reversed the verdict OF
the jury and ordered the prisoner to be
released.
CHIEF JUSTICE MANNING's DECISION.
The Supreme Court this morning
Was crowded with members of the
bar, politicians and others anxious to
hear the decision in the case of the
State versus Thomas G. Anderson, con-
victed in the Superior Criminal Court
for publishing as true forged and coun-
terfeit election returns from Parish
Vernon. Chief Justice Manning read
Il very long opinion on the case. AT
ter reviewing the charge, verdict and
sentence the court took up two of the
exceptions as being the only ones me-
Ecessary to consider in rendering a
Judgment. These were that there had
been no preliminary examination, and
it is not practice to prosecute by
information. Both exceptions were
dismissed. First, on the ground that
preliminary examination IS not es-
sential, and second, that prosecution
by information has been q common
rule in criminal prosecutions for many
years. The exception to the drawing
of the jury was also dismissed on the
grounds that violation of spirit is not
pretended. Relative to the offense it.
self the Court gave an abstract of the
election law detailing its requirements.
The exact method prescribed in the
law was fully described and the record
offered in evidence did not conform
with that mentioned in the informa-
tiOn. The document was "consoli-
dated statement" certified by the reg
lister of voters and not the original re-
turns, and the statute of our State does
not attach much value to this consoli-
dated statement. The original returns,
not being altered, would not change
the result of the election and interfere
with the interests Of the people. The
paper offered In evidence is no paper
charged as being forged. In order to
be forgery, an instrument, which it is
alleged is falsified, must, if true, be lie
gally capable of committing a fraud.
Nowhere in law is consolidated re-
turn required as a declaration of the
result, and its alteration or modifica-
ton can in no way affect the election.
If every consolidated return were
forged and the Returning Board COM
piled with the law and made their
statement from The Com missioners' re-
turns, no injury could result. 1t does
not appear that any paper has been
forged that is calculated, with CON-
pliance OF the law, to change the re-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

suit. 1t is the essence Of this crime
that it should be committed by q pub
lie officer, and on document which
would change the result of the elec.
ton. This was not done. The letters
Of John Sherman, Stanley Matthews
and Others, which appeared on the
record, were alluded to by the Chief
Justice, who stated that it should be
treated by the public in like manner
as that of the member of the House of
Commons who attempted to influence
the decision of the court in the Itch.
borne case. 1t was ordered that the
verdict of the jury be set aside and
reversed and the prisoner discharged
from custody.
WASHINGTON, March 1S-GoVernor
Packard, Postmaster General Key and
several others called on the President
after the decision of the Louisiana Su'
preme Court in regard to the case of
Gen. Anderson and other members of
the Returning Board was announced.
The President expressed his gratifica.
ton with the decision and said the en.
tire Union would applaud the action
of the Supreme Court as patriotic and
in the interest of conciliation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
Redistricting the State for Con.
gresS.

The only desire of the Democratic
majority in the Ohio Legislature, is tt
do something to help the party. Th'
latest move in this direction is the in
PRODUCTION of bill by Mr.. Norton tt
redistrict the State for representation
in Congress, which provides as follows
First District-Clermont county enC
so much of Hamilton as is included il
the first twelve wards of Cincinnati
and townships of Anderson, Columbia
Spencer, Symmes, Sycamore and Mill
creek, and corporations of Reading
Avondale, Clifton and Riverside, ano
all the municipal corporations within
the bounds of said townships.
Second District-The remainder o
Hamilton county.
Third District-Browne, Butler, Gin
ton, Highland and Warren.
Fourth District-DArke, Miami
Montgomery and Preble.
Fifth District-Clarke, Champaign
Logan, Shelby, Auglaize and Mercer.
Sixth District Allen, Hancock
PauIding, Putnam and Van Vert.
Seventh District-Lucas, Fulton, De-
fiance, Williams and Henry.
Eighth District-Adams, Scioto, Pike
jackson, Hooking and VintOn.
Ninth District-Greene, Fayette
Ross, Fairfield and Pickaway.
Tenth Distfict-Franklin, Delaware
Madison and Union.
Eleventh Distriet-Crawford, Har
din, Marion, Morrow and Wyandot.
Twelfth District-Seneca, Erie, HUI
ron, Ottawa and Sandusky.
Thirteenth District Gallia
Lawrence, Meigs and Morgan.
Fourteenth District-Belmont, ,Guern'
sey, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble and
Washington.
Fifteenth District-Coshocton Lick
ing, Muskingum and Perry.
Sixteenth District-CarrOll, Harri-
son, Holmes, Stark and Tuscarawas.
Seventeenth DiStrict--Ashland, Knox
Richland and Wayne.
Eighteenth Disirict-Lorain, Medi
nd, Summit, Portage end Geauga.
Nineteenth Dist-Ashtabula, Lake
rrumbull, Mahoning and Columbia.
Twentieth District-Cuyahoga.
1t is intended by the authors of thi:
plan that only the Eighteenth, Nine
teenth and Twentieth Districts shal
be Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

fairness in his conduct in the Barnes
Wright case. Judge, you remember
the story oft the little dog barking sill
night at the m0on-you recollect the
moon went on. So let the Gazette
howl.
Never, in the past fifteen years was
Bridgeport so unutterably disgraced by
lprowling, ,loafing, bulged eyed, vulgar,
drunken brutes, in shape of reeling,
cursing, vile caricatures on the deni-
zens of the jungles of Southern Africa,
as have polluted the atmosphere and
streets of our town during the past
few days. We never witnessed such
scenes on Sabbath anywhere as those
enacted in our midst on last Sunday.
Groups of sinking, drunken Irishmen
patroled our streets, followed by
crowds of curious men and boys-fOr
the delectation of which the Mickeys
would pummel each other, to be soon
reconciled for fresh pastures and re-
newed orgies. We happened to wit
ness fight on the railroad bridge, at
which three of the pugilists were near
ly plunged into the creek.
Eye of newt
And tongue of dog,
Wool of bat,
And toe of frog,
Lizards fork and
Blind worms sting,
Like hell-broth
Boiled aud bubbled,
Making scenes of disgraceful
trouble.
We are glad, however, to be able to
L.
of our newly established chain gang,
our town is receiving sanitary good.
Three prisoners are already shoveling
mud, and really are doing good SER
vice to cOmmunity-their first effort in
this direction-while many others de-
serve to be assigned the same duty.
Renewed life and energy is being
instilled into the good people of Mar
tins Ferry, in prospect of the Glass
and Nail Mills starting up. Rents are
leaping up-a very foolish procedure
just nOw-with many inquiries for
houses. Let the owners of property
long vacant or yielding no profit, con-
slider wisely, and let their property out
on such terms as will encourage good
people to come and labor in their
midst. Any other policy will only
tend to keep your houses vacant and
your town still PROSTATE.
George w. Medill has just returned
from the East with splendid invoice
of Dry Goods. We assure those need
ing fine line of first class dry goods,
that George can and will accommodate
you with quality and prices which can
not fail to please.
The old veteran, S. A. Junkins is
just in from the East with a full line
of every conceivable variety of No.
tions, and an endless stock OF house.
hold necessities. Call and see him.
Sam has lost none of his old time pow
er TO please.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

Is it not high time TO stop the farce
of keeping a probibitory law on Our
statue books when thousands of saloons
are daily open and dealing out whisky
to all applicants? The State cannot
license liquor-selling under the Consti-
tuition, but it can tax it, and limit the
evil at the same time that it collects a
revenue from it. Whisky is the chief
source OF revenue for the United States
Government. Why not force it to con-
tribute to the support of the State and
municipal Governments, which are
Obliged to take care of the paupers and
criminals il IN makes?-Cleveland Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

Twelve Years of Suffering.

GenHemen-About twelve years ago, while
travelling with Father Kemps Old Folks Con-
cert II Oupe as q tenor singer, | took q severe
cold and was laid up at Newark, II ]. This
cold brought on severe attack of Cstarrh-
which battled with every known remedy
for four weeks without avail, and was finally
Obliged to give up most desirable position
and return home unable to sing note. For
three years Afterwards l was unable to sing
at all. The first attack of CatGrrh had left nay
slightest cold would bring on a fresh attack,
leaving me Frustrated. In this way contin-
ned to suffer. The last attack, the severest
ever had was terrible. / suffered the most ex-
cruciating pain In my head, was SO hoarse as
to be scarcely able TO speak. and coughed in
consumption, and firmly believe that had
these symptoms continued without relief
they would have rendered me an easy victim.
When in this distressing condition, CONS
menced the use of SANFORD'S RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH, very reluctantly,
confess, as had tried all the advertised rem
edieS without benefit. The first dose of this
wonderful medicine gave me the greatest re-
lief II is hardly possible for one whose head
aches, eyes ache, who can scarcely articulate
distinctly on account of the choking occumu-
lations in his throat, to realize how much re-
lief obtained from the first application Of
SanfOrd's Radical Cure. Under its influence,
both internal and external, rapidly reco ver>
ed, and by an occasional use of the remedy
since have been entirely free from CaLarrh,
fully yours, GEO W HOLBRO0K.
WaitnaIn, Mass, Jan s. 1876.
Each package contains DIR Sanford's Impro>
we'd Inhalirg Tube, with full directions for
use in all cases. Price, 81 90. For sale by all
United States. WEEKS 4 POTTER, General
Agents and Wholesale Druggists, Boston.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

The law to be repealed by the bill
to re-organize the institution for the
education of the Deaf and Dumb,
which passed the House ON Saturday,
is the law enacted for precisely the
same purpose as this new bill by the
Democratic Legislature four years ago.
rhe Republican Legislature which sue
ceeded made no attempt to reorganize
the institution. The same is true of
the law now governing the institution
for the Blind, which is set for passage
in the House to- day. It WAS passed by
the Democrats four years ago and new
er meddled with by the Republicans.
But this does not prevent the repiti
tions on the floor of the House of the
stale falsehood that passing these bills
is only "paying back the Republicans
in their own coin. 30. s. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

THE Philadelphia Press truthfully
asserts that the Investigations thus far
at Washington have only resulted in
the exposure of Democratic corruption.
In one term there has been more
knavery brought to light among the
officers of the House of Representa-
tives than has existed since the origin
of the Government. 1t has been
found necessary to abolish one Office to
get rid of both the incumbent and his
evil deeds. Either honest men are
scarce or they do not find favor with
the Democratic msjority in the House.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

THAT treaty has at last been con-
cluded and the Turkish representative
has left St. Petersburg for home. The
long expected document will be at
once submitted to the various Euro
pean powers and TO England among
the first. There are, in the meantime,
rumors that England is deeply inter
ested in another tfeaty which is being
negotiated with Austria and which il
no less than an Anglo.Austrian alli-
ance against the Colonies of the North.
Evidently the day of harmony in the
European household is still far in the
dim future.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

FREE traders harp upon the string
that protective tariff is beneficial to
manufactures alone, and that farmers
and merchants ale injured by its opera
tion. They should reflect upon the
fact that every producer in one branch
of useful industry is also consumer of
the products of Others, and as his
ability to consume depends upon the
profits of his production, it follows
that to give prosperity to one branch of
industry is to increase the rest. All
experience proves The unanswerable
logic of this position.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

OnICdgO.......s U ............
GAINESVILLE ACCOMMODATION leaves Zanes-
vile daily except Sunday at 6.40 A. NJ, and ar
rives at Columbus at 9.45 A. NJ. Stopping at
all Stations.
Fast Express runs daily. Express daily on
Central Ohio Division; daily except Sunday on
Lake Erie and Chicago Division. Other
Trains daily except Sunday.
L. NJ. COLE, General Ticket Agent.
THOS. P. BARRY, West Pass'r Agent.
W. c. QUINCY, General Manager Ohio
and Chicago Division.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21

FRANCE does not want any free trade
to interfere with her prosperity, and
the French Minister OF Commerce and
Agriculture is preparing to place before
the Chambers u proposition to increase
the general tariff OF duties twenty-four
per cent, and SO increase the duties
fifty per cent upon the goods of those
nations which levy duty Of more
than twenty per cent upon articles
manufactured in France. This free
trade policy which possesses so many
attractions for the great Democratic
leaders OF America meets with no favor
in that great empire, which has sue
ceeded in paying off a gigantic wal
debt in very few years, without al
all imparing or discouraging he home
industries. Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
The Result in New Hampshire.

From the New York Times.
The result, so far as it bears on Re-
publican prospects as a national party,
Is encouraging. In contest of mix
ed character, with many distracting
forces at work, and with no important
national Offices at stake, the Republi-
cans have succeeded in nearly holding
their own by the sheer force OF party
feeling. All the more obvious signs OF
the times have, for the past year, point.
ed to demonstration in the party and
to some degree of disintegration, and
1t would not have been surprising, in
these circu instances, if the Democrats
had carried the day. They could have
done so by change of twenty five
votes in thousand of the total vote,
or even by drawing off thousand Re-
publicsn votes on side issues. That
they have not done more than they
have, shows that the Republicans of
New Hampshire. unlike some OF the
party leaders at Washington, still have
definite political convictions and firm
attachment to their party associations.
There is no reason to suppose that, in
this, they differ from the mass of the
party throughout the country, and
their fidelity Is q sign that the vitality
of the party, however faithless or con
fused its representatives may be, is by
no means exhausted,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-21
Wheeling Cattle Market.

W HEELINGi MurCn IJ, 1878.
Live stock received at the Wheeling
Stock Yards during the last week:
CATTLE Receipts SO head. Cows
and bulls 2i3!c; thin steers or heifers
44s4c; choice steers 4a4!c; Western
cattle sold last week at s. 25a4 80;
demand moderate.
HoGs--Recepts l22 head, d;,market dull
at 3la4c.
SHEEP-In fair demand at 4a5c.
LAMB5-In fair demand at 4Ea51c.
CALvEs-In fair demand at 81 O0a
10 90 per head.
FRESH Cows-In fair demand at
S25 O0a50 90 per head,