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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
The ScraD Book.

Every farmer should keep a scrap
book. Many valuable recipes, useful
suggestions and beautiful thoughts are
floating round in the various Dewspa-
pers, that may be preserved in this
way for convenient reference. Maga-
zines should not be mutilated, but
bound and placed upon the library
shelf, year after year.. Newspapers,
however, are usually destroyed; thrown
aside and fOrgotten-but II what is
either interesting or useiul to you, Is
first cut out and placed in the scrap
book, a valuable volume, containing a
vast amount of miscellaneous iDfor-
matian, is rapidly Completed and al
Ways accessible.
The matter may be arranged under
different departments-the sclentInc,
the floral, the horticultural, the i've
stock, the ornamental, the household,
the veterinary, and tho miscellaneous.
Ii every article is placed under It's
proper heading, no index will be ne
cessary, and you can readily turn to
the articles to which you wish to refer.
The value of such q book must be APP
parent to every intelligent farmer, and
its compilations pleasant amusement.
Tne lives of valuable animals may be
saved by a reference To its valuable
pages; grain and vegetables may be
cultivated more successfully, or other
and better varieties obtained. Useful
instruction may be found in vineyard
and orchard, meadow and lawn, barn-
yard and poultry house. Many a
pleasant evening may be passed by the
winter fireside reading its p,ges; for
If the selections are good, 1t will be an
interesting and valuable encyclopedia
1t Is q book in which all should take
an inierest-the husband, the wife
the child-and Ii should contain
selections suited to the wants OF all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
Clerical Runnnlers.

.Zion's Herald makes the following
structures upon certain class of minis
ters 1T is the misfortune of every
church to be cursed with squad of
clerical bammers-nen hangers on
VII use their position in the ministry
to secure some worldly advantage. In
seasons of prosperity, when spoils
abound, they travel far out from their
base, and often become encumb bered
with much plumber, but a reverse in
business not seldom finds them again
bare as plucked fowl and fastening
in crowds TO the headquarters of the
army. To do honest and steady work
the ranks il no part of their purpose,
and yet they are extremely reluctant
to cut loose from their centre, as it
affords them so convenient IL refuge in
the cloudy and rough day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

THE New York Medico- Legal Society have
been discussing the proper mode of inflicting
the death penalty. DR.. Packard, of Phila-
delphia, read paper suggesting that in place
of the rope a more humane and decent means
of life-taking be employed. His choice was
the administration of carbonic oxide in a
close room in which the criminal should be
placed under the direction of jury. At the
end of ten minutes fresh air should be ad =
mitted to the room, and the same jury should
view the body and give the necessary certifi-
cate as to death. He advocated this plan as
one presenting the ADVANCES of economy, hu-
manity, and decency. MIR. Riddle, one Of
the many speakers who followed DIR. Pack
ard, believed that if the gallows were dis
pensed with we should substitute something
more mysterious and horrible. 'Do away
with the rope as a means of punishment" he
said, "but give us in place of it u terrible
punishment by dead of night, in secrecy and
mystery, and let the body of the felon be put
so far away that even the devil cannot find
it. "
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

TIE noble Banning is in a perspiration.
Glover's mud grapplers had an unexpected
collision with the seat of Banning's trowsers,
last week, and the distinguished ballot-box
suffers candidate doesn't like the sensation.
He declares that this business of sending
smelling committees about in the dark to
smirch mems reputation is played out. 1t
must be when an attempt is made on Ban
ning's reputation for that passed the ''smirch-
ing" point long ago. Banning says that
Glover's star chamber performance is a dis.
grace to tie nineteenth century, and there is
not the least protection for private character
30 long as 1t is tolerated. Glover retorts that
he had no idea of catching Democrat, when
he threw out his hooks, but Banning thinks
anybody ought to have known that he would,
and Banning is right. The Democratic party
is in imminent danger 80 long as Glover is
suffered to go scraping about in such wildly
promiscuous manner.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
How to be Handsome.

Most people would like to be hand.
some. Nobody denies the great pow
er which any person may have who
has handsome face and attracts you
by good looks, even before a word has
been spoken. And we see all sorts OF
Device in men and women to improve
their looks.
Now, all cannot have good features
they are as God made them-but al
most any one can look well, especially
with good health. 1t is hard to give
rules in a very short space, bat in brief
these will do:
Keep clean-wash freely. All the
skin wants is to act freely, and it takes
care of itself. Its thousands of air
holes must not be closed.
Eat regularly, and sleep enough
not too much. The stomach can no
more work all the time, night and
day, than horse. II must have reg
ular work and rest.
Good teeth are help to good looks.
Brush them with soft brush, espe-
cially at night. Go to bed with eleansed
teeth. OF course, TO have white teeth
1t is needful to let tobacco alone. All
women know that. Washes for the
teeth should be very simple. Acids
may whiten the teeth, but it takes off
the enamel aud Injuries them.
Sleep in a cool room, in pure air. No
one can have a cleanly skin who
breathes bad air. But more than all,
In order to look well, wake up mind
and soul.
When the mind is awake the dull
sleepy look passes away from the
eyes. l do not know that the brain
expands, but it seems so. Think, and
read, not trash novels, but books
and papers that have something in
them. Talk with people who know
something; hear lectures and learn by
them.
Men say they cannot afford books,
sometimes do not pay for a newspaper.
In that case it does them little good, =,
they feel so mean while reading them.
But men can afford what they really
choose. Ii all the money spent in self
indulgence, in hurtful indulgence, was
spent in books or papers tor self im-
provement, we would see change.
Men would grow handsome, and wO-
men too. The soul would shine out
through the eyes. We were not
meant to be mere animals. Let US
have books and read them, and SER
mons and heed them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
INCOME TAX.
Provisions Ofa Bill Restoring the
Tax OH Incomes.

Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
WASHINGTON April 10.
The Ways and Means Committee will IN
doubtedly report bill restoring the income
tax. The committee proceeded so far as to
agree by vote of six to five to retain in the
bill the section which proposes to restore that
law. Details probably will be arranged Fri
day.
The proposition which is most likely to be
agreed to, if any is, is to asses tax of per
cent. on all incomes exceeding 1000 and not
exceeding $1,000; per cent. on all incomes
that are more than 5000 and not more than
$4,000, and of per cent on all incomes ex-
ceeding $4,000 The exemptions proposed
and $4,000 of ordinary income, $4,000 for
each five persons of every religious or social
community holding all their property, and the
income therefrom jointly and in common; all
national, State, and municipal taxes paid with
in the year; all losses actually sustained dur
ing the year arising from fires, floods, ship
wreck, or incurred in trade and debts ascer-
tanned to be worthless but not estimated;
depreciation of values; sums paid for interest,
reat, labor to cultivate land, or to conduct any
other business from which income is derived;
rent of residence; amount paid for ordinary
repairs of residence; salaries of the President
of the United States, and of all officers, exc
cutive, judicial, and legislative, of any State
of the Union. The first assessment of the tax
if this plan should be adopted, would be made
for the year ending December 81, 1873 1t is
also proposed to tax income of interpretations
at the rate of per cent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
FIVE KILLED MY GIRL.
A SOmnambulist While Asleep
Charging Himself with Murder.

AS Sergeant Haggerty was sitting at
the desk in the Fifth street police
station shortly before midnight on
Monday u pale young man entered the
roOm.
what do you want?' asked the Ser
geant.
Il have come to give myself up,'
answered the young man, in low
voice.
Come to give yourself up?' said the
Sergeant, half inquiringly. We'll.
what's the matter?'
'I've killed my girl,' replied the
man, who seemed to grow paler as he
spoke.
Come now said the ,rgesnt, fore
ing smile; this is the lst Of April
But killed her. plead the young
man, 1 poked her head through the
window and cut her throat from ear to
ear
The Sergeant at first thought that
the young man was drunk, and thon
that he was All escaped lunatic. He
asked:
Where does your girl live?'
she lives at No. SIC East Furteenth
street and her name was Eliza Gleason
Was the answer.
The Sergeant called Special Officer
Bissart and told hun to go to the house
mentioned. Just as the officer went
away the young man started for the
door.
Hold on said the Sergeant sternly.
You are a prisoner
The young man, not needing tho
command, continued toward the door
way, and the Sergeant hurried from
behind the desk and grasped him by
the shoulder.
Where am I?' exclaimed the young
man, shuddering and looking about
him in a daz5d way. There was no
reply to his question, but he was lock-
ed up. The detective returned from
the residence of the young lady saying
that she was alive, and that when he
informed her OF the charge the young
man had made against himself she
thought some one was trying to make
her the victim of an April fools joke.
Yesterday morning the young man
was taken before Judge Fla:nmer, in
the Essex Market Police Court, and
was Immediately discharged. His
friends say that he Is sOmnambulist,
and that he was undoubtedly asleep
when he entered the police station.
He had been reading of Mime. Restelle's
terrible death, and falling asleep
dreamed that he had committed a
murder. His name is Peter Coby, and
he is in the employ of the father OF the
young lady whose name he mentioned
in the station. DR.. Austin Flint, Sr.,
and DIR. RAnney think that it Is very
extraordinary case of somnambulism.
New York World.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
The Real Democracy.

The point in the election of Field over
Shields to the Office of DoorEeeper of the
House is that the issue was squarely made
between two Democrats, one of whom was
General of the army which fought to preserve
the national union, and the other General
in the army which fought TO destroy the ma
ton, and that the Democrats, in solid body,
cnose the Confederate General. No feature
was wanting that could make the alternative
plain or give point to this preferment. Gen.
Shields was not only General of the army
of national defense, but he was distinguished
in the war against Mexico, in which he re-
received serious and manning wounds All
this went for nothing in the choice between a
General of the Union army and Confederate
Brigadier.
1t is not enough that a treason which had
slain quarter of million of innocent men,
and had fastened the yoke of debt and high
taxes on our people for many generations,
had been left off without any penalties, and
that even its ringleaders had been permitted
to resume the privileges of citizens and ad
to destroy; not enough that magnanimity
and lenity unparalleled in history had been
shown to these overpowered reb is, but they
were resolved that treason should be honored
and fidelity degraded, and that the matter
should be so marked that no one could pre-
tend to doubt its meaning.
Another salient feature in this is the meek
submission Of the Northern Democrats to this
apotheosis of service in the war of treason,
and their uniting in a solid body with the
Confederate Brigadiers to dishonor service in
the patriotic army. If Democratic restora-
tion brings back the old Southern slavehold-
ing arrogance, it has also restored the old
doughface of the Northern Democrat. In
the former time he received meekly his Or
ders from the slave lords, and he looked up
to them as a superior class; in the restoration
he humbly honors the Confederate Brigadier,
and at his command degrades the soldiers of
his country. Thus does the Democrat re-
sumo his ancient character.
The same features are exhibited in this
State by a Democratic Legislature. 1t has
made an exposed bounty jumper and desertsr
of the Chairman of the Committee on Military
Affairs. This was its idea of the way to ad-
minister military affairs in the secession war;
And Democrats themselves have charged that
their bill to reorganize the officers of the pen
itextiary has resulted in the appointment of
deserters and bounty jumpers in the place of
crippled Union soldiers.
This is the third Democratic Doorkeeper of
this House, which has only got through its
first session. Two have been expelled because
t&ir eForts to find places for the horde of
ex-rebels that was pressed upon them ty DEM
ocratic members made a scandal Thus they
were sacrificed as scapegoats. In this as in
its rebel aspect, we have true picture of
Democratic character. Do the people Of the
Northern States want any more of it ?-[ Gin
cinnati Gazette
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
A Warning 10 Independent
Voters.

The Democratic House is affordlng the
country a spectacle which will doubtless serve
such a warning to the class of voters known
as Independents that it will not do to entrust
that party with further power. Never was a
Legislative body 80 bitterly partisan. Never
did the controlling element in party go to
Washington with SO many schemes to plunder
the Treasury. Never did party show itself
SO unfit to be entrusted with the financial
legislation of a nation. Never was Con-
gress followed to Washington by so numerous,
so hungry, and so worthless pack Of place
seekers. These considerations are having
weight with intelligent men, and to these
circumstances, more than all others, can be
attributed the satisfactory Republican votes
where elections have taken place. Boston
Journal (Rep).
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
HOneWard.

The day dies slowly in the western sky;
The sunset splend0r fades and wan and cold
The far peaks wait the sunrise; cheerily
The goatherd calls his wanderers to their
fold.
Ny weary soul, that fain would cease to
roam,
Take comfort; evening bringeth all things
home
Homeward the swift winged seagull takes its
flight:
The ebbing tide breaks softly on the sand;
The sunlit boats draw shoreward for the night
The shadows deepen over sea and land;
Be still, my soul, thine hour shall also
come.
Behold, one evening God shall lead thee
home
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
MUSICAL MOUSE.
The Singing Mouse That Aston.
iehed a Cincinnati Family.

The family of well-known gentle
man, who lives on the south side of
Seventh street, just west of Linn, have
been greatly exercised for some weeks
by the singing of what sounded like a
canary bird, behind the WainscOting of
the house and between the walls of the
partitions. NeighborS have been call
ed in to listen to the strange music and
the general verdict was that the sounds
were made by thatnuch talked of, but
seldom seen animals, a singing mouse.
All though the night hours the singing
has been done, and sometimes it has
been so loud as to waken the gentleman
and wife and disturb them. Yesterday
Mr.F. succeeded, with.the help of,one or
two lady friends, in capturing the
vocalist. A brick was removed from
the hearth in the kitchen, and the
ladies, after setting trap, armed
themselves with pOker5 and sticks, and
got upon chairs and tables and awaited
the coming of the warbler. After q
long wait lie ventured out and into the
trap. Last evening a Commercial re-
porter was at Mr.. FPS house, where
several other friends were gathered to
observe the wonder. The wire trap
containing the mouse was placed upon
the table, and the singing was anxious
ly awaited. The mouse, an ordinary
looking one, with rough coat and
bright, bead-like eyes, did not seem to
be disposed to sing, and after long
wait and good many expressions OF
incredibiiity concerning his vOcalistic
abilities, it was suggested that the
mouse be fed. A little bread was
given 1t and some water. 1t went for
the water, and began an extraordinary
amount Of face washing and general
primping, betraying its sex immedi-
ately, and convincing the audience
that they might expect soprano or
contraltO, and not a bass or baritone.
After the prima donna had finished
her toilette, she gathered herself up in
Il little brown ball and began to sing.
She began with twitter like wood
bird, then she chirruped like a spar
row, and then settled down into long,
sweet warble, like a young canary.
AS the they thing sWelled up its throat
and rolled its black eyes and executed
the most wonderful little trill, and
roulades, aud cadenZas, and the sweet.
est diminuendOs, and erescendoS, the
listeners looked at one another in
wonder and delight. That it was at
letst-a real, little mouse, sitting up in
its cage and singing away with all its
might. 1t is impossible to describe
the character of its singing, and Mrs.
+. says it varies remarkably every
time it sings. 1t is soft, sweet tone,
not clear and sharp, like the singing Of
an old canary-rather like a young
bird, just learning to sing. Occasional
ly it makes whining, exactly like q
very young puppy, and then, after a
chirrup or two, starts Of on its song
again. Talking had no effect, and did
not seem to annoy it; and the cage was
even passed around from one to anoth-
tr without interrupting the singing Of
the little prisoner. 1t had been sing
ing a straight hour when our reporter
lett, and was still at it, ami entertaining
an admiring, wondering party of
isteners.-Cincinnati Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
PITHS.

Eat slowly.
Be content.
LOye lightens labor.
Never start your fire with oil.
1t is fashionable to econimize.
Try lemon juice on cucumbers.
Fruits are delicious for breakfast.
Use cloth for washing pstatOes.
Quiet workers accomplish the most.
Variety is the very best culinary
spice.
Air pillows in the wind, not in the
sun.
Use blue tissue paper for wrapping
silver ware.
The work basket is often a spectacle
for gods and men.
Rub your kitchen table with a ripe
tomato to remove the grease.
Make your home as bright and
cheerful rs possible On rainy day.
Do not use silver spoons to scrape
kettles, or silver forks to toast bread.
Never starch napkins; they were In.
eOnoCu W "iPO eh0 nONSHS NV ~
scratch 1t.
Wash mating with warm salt wa
ter-one pint OF salt to two-thirds Of D
pail Of water, and dry with a soft
cloth.
TOsweeten q sour sponge, rub thor
oughly in lemon juice, then rinse sew
erl times in warm water.
First boil ashes in a new iron kettle,
then scrub with soap and sand; fill
with clean water and boil two or three
hours.
When servants do not wait upon tha
table, let the lady members OF Ghe
family take turns in serving. II Is
much pleasanter than for this one, or
that one, or all to jump up every time
an article is needed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

WHILE the Democratic caucus in Washing
ton throws overheard the gallant Irish soldier
and veteran of two American wars. General
Shields, and takes instead wounded General
of the Confederate army, the Democratic au :
thorities in Columbus are engaged in discharg-
ing from the public service men like Captain
Goodwin and Captain Hearing, each of whom
lost leg in the Union army, and according to
Democratic authority, filling vacant places
with deserters and bounty jumpers. 10. s.
Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
Spice.

Spice.
Ship bread-Sailors.
Made of awl work-Shoes.
Evening praysfs-Burglars.
Stay ride-A cavalry charge.
A stalk holder-The flower pot.
Bill bored-A woodpecker's nest.
Reseeding Westwsrd-The Changers.
Doughnations - Countries in the
(y)east.
A new publication-Tract, by de-
tective.
The hengman'S vegetable-The art
o. choke.
Corn descension-A fall in the grain
market.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18
A DHring Act.

A story of notable daring by Turk
during the battles of the recent war has
just been related. a very steep rock +,
250 feet high, was 10 be stUrmed, and
at its top frOwned the Russian bat
teries. A Turkish Colonel, desirous to
set an example to his men, scrambled
up first by the help of projecting
bushes and pieces of rock, but when he
reached the top he found himself en-
tireiy alone. The Russians looked at
him with amaZement, and their
General, ordering them not to fire,
FASTENED up 10 the Turk and said,
Colonel, begone at once; you see you
are aloner" The intrepid soldier Look
ell at his enemies moment, then
turned and went back safely as he
came, amid the cheers of the Russians.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

A large gold brick, valued at ovei
SO, 600. was cast MOndayefrom the pF.s
duct OF the PenObscot mine, about eiRh
teen miles from Silver City M0Rtan
The brick was the product OF $50 toss
ore. and the cost Of production wa
s., 900.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

MoNrGoNERl BLAIR says the Maryland
Senate did not pass his ''fraud" bill on &C.
count of his personal popularity. He is right;
it was On account of terrapin supper he
gave them.
EVERY age of the world has enjoyed its own
peculiar boons and benisons. The prehistoric
boy couldn't whistle # Cincinnati Breakfast
Table,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

The Democrats wouldn't take good Dem
ocrat when General Butler gave them the
chance, and now it seems that they have
chosen as Doorkeeper a poor Republican.
General Field turns out to be Democrat so
''ready with the oral that he has begged for
Office under Hayes as a Republican. But a
soldier who has served under JEFF Davis un-
derstands the whole art of going over to the
enemy.-TN. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

THE organs of the reform party have the
coolness to boast of the ousting of Polk as an
heroic act of virtue. They declare with more
or less truth that the Republican party never
did such thing. Because it had no occasion
to do it, sweet gentlemen. The Republican
party has shown its good disposition now,
however, by helping the other fellow accom-
plish job he was inadequate to conquer
alone
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

Saturday evening fifty horse Powe,
boiler In the engine room OF the Brs-
ton Stamping manufactory Of Zarey 4
Co., Cambridge, Mass, exploded
Three men were killed, another Wa
fatally injured. and ak Others more o'
less hurt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

Polk says he was removed because he said
'No" to too many Democratic members who
wished him to appoint their followers to posi-
tions, but he does not back Up his statement
with documentary proof. What the public
longs for from Polk is a full-blooded ''con-
fessionn
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-18

The Secretary OF War has sent Il
Senate communication from the A..
jutant G'uarsl recommending the az
preparation Of S30, 900 to continue ths
work Of collecting and the payment ei
bountias due colored soldiers and sail
Ors to January l, 1879.