Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-03-07

suit of happiness and when at last
its taps were sounded, the great light
went cut. as the wern out casket sank
to rest, hOnored and revered by all
who love country more than party
mans ACKNOWLEDGMENT more than par
ty thraldOm, and their. eountry's de.
fender and liberty's in the hour oi
their country's need. Untiinching 'old
guard of "all men are born free and
equaP'-you lived to see it engraveu
irradically and deeply on the pillars
of freedoms temple-where no sDred
Scott decisions will ever more de
face, defane or disgrace it-but along
side which will stand, through the
ages, the honored name of one of it:
most fearless champions-BENJAMIN
F. WADE.
The Bellaire Leader is too long fol
the length of it, and it gives the big
gest margin to its ''$2 90 d year" sub.
scribers, of any paper we ever saw.
A rousing Tariff meeting is on the
tapis for next Saturday.
By the way, the very acceptable
news has reached us that Barnes has
been declared elected by votes.
Now, Judge Okey, why did you do
this? You might know the Gazette
will yawp f-r-o-d a few hundred times
at you-besides, old Thurman may
never call on you for that.
We see some of the papers in the
county are disturbed about Tobacco
Warehouse Watson's political pedi'
gree. Some claim him as a Republi'
can because his uncle was new light
Baptist or something Ofthe sort. While
others claim him as a Democrat be-
cause-because-we give it up. Are
we, after all, left only TO infer he is q
political herm aphrodite? Verify, one
would rather be Democratic member
of the Legislature and be esteemed a
fool. f--sI .-t7f-s, ..,,.
-s MOODY NOWHERE. 1-.f. Fl
We heard the other day of remark
able case of religious zeal. An able
bodied young man, and athletic chris
tan, was in the act of chOpping a tree
into rail cuts, when a kindly natured
cclored man came that way. The
young christian asked him, at once, if
ne ever felt like getting religion ? The
man replied he had. Well, then says
our zealot-now is the time and this
the place-and if you will get up here
and chop Pll pray for you-which
christian proposition was acceded to by
.'our brother" And down the pilgrim
got on his knees, and the accents of in
vocation fiew-so did the chip5-and
then came "words with the bark on
in behalf of the erring but disposed to
be repentant cOlored sinner-and Jug
giles with the bark off-filled the air
around that devoted young christian g
head. On and on went the conflict,
growing fiercer and more respiratory.
One big log off and still the "hesthen
chinee" was unyielding-but attack
ing the log again the vollies resound.
ed with the strokes of the woodman's
axe-and the tender voice of the sup
plant pleader, who determined to
'hold the fort" till the last armed foe
expired, or the logs were cut off,
while the aXe'man grunted the louder
with each returning whack thus
blending the useful with the beautiful.
The contest was long and fierce, but
the chopper was invulnerablea and came
off, we might fairly conclude, second
best, as he remained unconverted-at
least he said 81 don't don gon feel
muffin de mattah wild me"-while tn e
good young man had got his work
done, and "had the dead wood" on
that darkey, sure. We have engaged
the young evangelist 10 go to Colum'
bus, and try his hand on the Demo.
cratic majority,