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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12
This Will Pay.

Many times the small cost will be returned
to every person, in the country, or village, OF
city, who supplies himself and family with
the plain, practicable, reliable, useful, paying
information given in the American Agricul-
turist. 1t was so named because started 81
years ago as a rural journal, but is now great
ly enlarged in size and scope, and profusely
illustrated, so that it meets the wants of all
classes-of cultivators of the smallest plots,
or of the largest farms-of Housekeepers and
Children-cf owners of Cattle, Horses, Sheep,
and Swine-of Fruit Growers, Florists,
Builders, Mechanics, etc. From 600 to 500
original Engravings in every Volume, bring
right to the eye and understanding, many
useful, labor helping and lobor- saving con-
trivances, largely homemade, and for out
door and indoor work; also plants, animals,
construction of dwellings, etc., etc. These
numerous Engrsvings make this Journal
greatly superior to every other one treating
on the same subjects. The persistent, caustic
exposures of Humbugs and Swindles are. of
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12
Winding mp Of:s Successful Build
ing Association Over at CadiZ.
Cadiz Republican

NdulL hepuulCdu.
The Cadiz Building, Saving and Loan AS
sociation was organized in January, 1878. Its
capital stock was placed at one hundred thou
sand dollars, divided into one thousand shares
of one hundred dollars each. On Monday
evening of this week, after successful bust
ness career of nearly six years, it was found
that there was money and securities in the
treasury of the Association amounting to one
hundred Thousand dollars, and that therefore,
according to the Constitution and bylaws,
the time had arrived for making a division
among the stockholders and the winding up
OF the business of the Association.
BY rule of the Association each stock
holder paid into the treasury twenty-five
Gents each week on each share of his stock.
sly an easy calculation it will be seen that by
tins ihtals alone the stock would be paid up
10 full in 400 weeks, or little less than eight
years. But the money thus paid in was loan
ed each week to members of the Association
on mortgage security, the interest being pay
able weekly, and, besides, the borrower fire.
quently paid considerable premium for his
loan, the loan being always sold to the high
est bieid,r
BY this accumulation of interest, premiums,
and some fines, together with the regular
weekly payments, the whole amount of the
stock has been paid up in 306 weeks, which is
six weeks less than six years, the first payment
having been made January 9th, 1873 Each
efo hae ;,tn fbo ce7e An
Oh each share of his stock, as principal. The
remainder of $23 60 on each share now in
the treasury is the result of the accumulated
interest, psemiums. &c.
During the existence of the Association
only one members property has been sold
under mortgage foreclosure, and at the wind
ing up of affairs on Monday evening there
was not a single member delinquent in his
payments. The affairs of the Association
have been carefully and wisely managed by
an able Board of Directors, elected annually,
and the Association on the whole has been an
! affair of convenience and profit to large ma
jorty of its members. There las been but
very little loss from bad debts-only a single
Is 'hNS, W. OSAS'St "hSAN ehO iiOAhSo5N u
cnrity proved insufficient-and we think il
may be said that there was never hundred
thousand dollars better handled by any money
lending institution in Cadiz.
Some few persons made the mistake of
taking more stock at the beginning than they
were able to carry, and after paying on
it for time were compelled to sell out. With
these exceptions the association has proved
profitable to its members. 1t has stimulated
building in Cadiz, and has enabled quite a
large number of persons to pay for homes
which they otherwise would not probably
have been able to secure.
There is movement on foot for the organ.
ization of new association of this kind,
| further notice of which will be given to those
who desire to invest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12

Fox variety and ingenuity, the Southern
election frauds far exceed the master strokes
of the Tweed Ring. There were, after all,
but three methods at Tweed's disposal-''re-
peating," ballot box stuffing, and false count
ing; but the Tweed's of the South, having an
ignorant and helpless population, for the most
part, opposed to them, have been able to
adopt with impunity an almost infinite num-
Der of devices. Republican polling places
lave been abolished by the Legislatures; Re-
publitans, offer their votes elsewhere, have
been repulsed; negroes have been refused the
right to vote on the ground that they were
below the legal age, or until they could show
a certificate from polling many miles
distant, that they had not voted there; they
have been kept away from the polls by threats
and violence both before and during the day
of election; Democratic ballots were substi-
tuted for Republican by sleight.of hand, etc.
So much for the casting of the votes; as for
the counting, it is sufficient to say that the
United States officers were everywhere thrust
out of the polling places, and the opportuni-
ties for fraud were thus absolutely unlimited.
The stuffing of the boxes with tissue paper
ballots went on evon faster than the false
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turn for mileage and witness fees. No takers.

turn for mileage and witness fees. No takers
The Administration is said to be patting
Itself on the back with joy because it has
ceught up with the party. If it doesn't stop
smiling and brace up more yet, it will have a
chance to catch up again before long, for the
party is going at much the faster pace.
A New Democratic newspaper has been
started in Columbus, weighed down with the
Presidential ticket of Thurman and Abbot t
for $780, Mr.. Abbott is the man who ran for
Governor of Massachusetts in November as
the respectable" Democratic candidate, poll
ing 10000 votes. The size Of the party was
made known for the first time.
A Democratic member of the Potter Com.
mittee is credited with saying that his party
stands upon the cipher dispatch question like
a msn in the middle of the river-it must
either go through, turn back or sink. He be-
lieves in trying to go through. That is the
only hope, yet when the party gets p little
further on it will discover that it is in the mid
die of stream which is all middle and o
banks.
Proctor Knott starts his career in the new
session in the usually imbecile manner by re-
marking that the Presidents Message is a dis
credit to the Administration, and that he can
not believe the Cabinet had much TO do with
it, as it otherwise would have been more
marked. Whatever Mr.. Knott does is always
marked" is no doubt about that. 1t
generally leaves mark on the party also, in
the shape Of black eye or two.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12
HelIer's Second Sight Trick.


That feature of his performance con-
sisting of description by blindfolded
woman on the stage OF articles touched
by him in the audience was not new
with him, but he carried it to greater
degree of mystiticaIiOn than any of bis
predecessors. The late Mr.. Anderson
and his daughter used to do it cleverly,
and many others used it with more or
less success. The widest explanatory
theories have been gravely advanced,
but it is altogether likely that the cele-
brated French juggler, Robert H HOudin,
by whom the feat was performed, gave
in his autobiography the correct sOlu-
ton. Houdin said that by complex
system of new meanings for letters,
syllables, and words he was able to tell
his confederate Oh the stage what the
articles were, while using language
that to the audience conveyed no hid
den intelligence. That Is to say, alan
guage within language was construct.
ed so that the question, what is this"
might mean, This gold ring with
one stone 1t is easily conceivable
that man of Heller's intelligence
could, in dozen years or more of con-
stant practice, elaborate such a sys-
tenn to wonderful extent, and devise
variations-like the touching of a few
previously arranged articles without
saying anytLing-thatw would mislead
a casual observer. One point seemed
to prove that he used Houdin'S meth>
cd. He would never permit anybody
but himself to put the questions to the
blindfOlded woman.
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Figures from South Carolina.

The analysis of the vote of certain
counties of South Carolina, published
in the Tribune this morning, will re-
pay study. 1t has been said a great
many times that figures cannot lie,and
although the returns of some of the
Southern election managers might lead
US to question the familiar aphOrism,
there Is solid foundation of reason for
it. An examination of these returns
will show that however dishonest can
vassers may have falsificd the count
and poll clerks stuffed the boxes with
kiss jokes the figures at last will tell
the truth. We have taken for investi-
CATION to-day single Congress Dis
trict of South Carolina, namely, the
Ist, in which the candidates were the
same who contested the seat in 1876
JOS. III. Rainey on the Republican side
and John s. Richardson on the Demo-
cratic. Rainey carried the district in
1876 by majority of 1,50O; Richardson
carries it now by a majority OF about
$500. We invite our readers to look at
the manner in which this surprising
change has been brought about.
Eight counties are included in the
1st District. In five-to wit, Sumter,
Williamsburg, Darlington, MarIbor-
ough and GeorgetoWn-the colored
people are largely in the majority, and
these counties have always been con-
sidered safe for heavy Republican
vote. In the other three-Marion,
Chesterfield and Horry-the whites
have had the reponderance, and the
Democratic najorities in these cOun-
ties have ranged in former years from
600 to ], 200. Nov the election of 1878
was not marked by any exceptional
public excitement. There was no rea-
son whatever for any change in the
relative situation of the two parties,
and and IL Is hardly necessary to re.
mind intelligent men that revolution
in politics is never accomplished ex-
cept in consequence Of some great re-
vulsion in public feeling, for which
there must be visible, notorious cause.
In fact, the aggregate vote Of the State
was very light. In 1876 it Was about
1S3, ,000,Or 10 per cent of the population;
this year 1t is only 10000, or II per
per cent, supposing that the population
has increased since 1875 at the same ra-
ito which obtained during the five
years previous to that date. But the
colored population increases in South
Carolina at the rate of about per cent
per annum, while the white population
increases at the rate Of only per cent.
If, therefore, the proportions of white
and colOred citizens who stayed away
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12
How Congressman Live.
Washington Cor. Boston Herald.

| OOIs DOSIOu
In telling in my last how Congress-
men live in Washington; should not
have omitted little story about how
they sometimes set about engaging
apartments. l had the incident from
the renter of lodgings, who was the
spOkes woman in the dialogue, which,
let US hope, is singular:
Show me the rooms you ADVERTISE
said pOmDOus, we'll fed, sleek look.
Ing man, with smooth, fat face, sew
eral rolls of flesh beneath the chin, and
a particularly thick, red neck. Il like
the situation,' he continued; it's con-
venient to the hotels.'
Have you family, sir?' asks the
Ilandlady.
'Ah, my wife will not be here this
winter was the reply, but 1 want
good sizeti rooms. Oh, yes, 1 see these
will do
The terms-s7O per month and back
room, the first parlor on the second
floor, just above shop-were accept
ed, and then said the man, who had
lgveh his name as a member from the
Puddleville district, just elected TO his
first term in Congress:
'There'sjus one thing more-I want
two latch Keys
t'Whatl' exclaimed the hostess, you
said you'd be alonep
Il told you my wife Was not coming
he answered, testify, but 1 have a
friend who sometimes drops in to see
me evenings, and might be a little late
sometimes, and must have two keys.'
IL your friend man or wonan?'
demanded the landlady imperiously.
On, er-er-welI, she, in fact, is a
particular friend of my Wife's, don't
you set?'
oh, yes, understand veil enough
was the exasperating reply, 'and I'd
have you know this is a decent house,
sir, and you'd better look elsewhere
The NJ. G. turned red and hurried of.
muttering, Il thought it was customary
here, but that woman must be new to
her business. She must be keeping her
rooms for the Young Mems Christian
Association Convention
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12

from the polls last month had Eeeu
equal, and the election had been per-
fectly fair and free, it would have been
natural, allowing for this difference in
| the ratio Cf increase, to expect the re.
| turns to show white vote somewhat
less than it was In 1876, and a colored
! vote nearly the same as ii was that
year, or even little larger.
| 1t Is Just such result as this that we
do find In the hopelessly Democratic
| counties, where there WAS no tempta-
| ton to resort to shot guns and kiss.
! jokes In Chesterfield, where there
are perhaps 5000 whites to 5000 ne
groes, the Republican vote remaiDs
about what it was in 1876, and the
Democratic vote is Sc less. In Horny
county, with about 10000 whites and
10000 blacks, there has been a Repub-
lican loss OF 1S6. In Marion county the
whites at the date of the last Federal
census were in the majority, but if the
ratios of increase here have been what
we have found them to be elsewhere,
| the two races ought to be now about
equal. In Marion, consequently, the
| Democrats seem 10 have re -erted to he-
rOic means to correct the balance. The
! Republican vote fails off 264, and the
| Democratic vote increases 49I.
But now let US turn from the Demo-
cratic to the Republican strongholds.
There are five counties in the District
| where the colored people have a large
| majority OF the population, and have
always cast heretofore a propOrtionate-
! ly large majority of the vote. In Sum-
ter they have lost since 1876 nearly
/ 000 xryhi ho
ed 300; in Darlington they have lost
75O and the whites have gained 1,150;
in Marlborough they have lost nearly
400 and the whites have gained about
$50; in Georgetown they have lost 800
and the whites have gained 400. 1t will
be observed that there L. no proportion
between the losses on one side and the
gains on the other,as there would have
been If the c0lOred people had voted
the Democratic ticket. Evidently the
whites placed In the boxes as many
ballots as they believed they could
possibly need to overcome the honest
majOritles against them. Where they
had not majority they made one.
They ask US to believe that the freed
men, for no discoverable reason, sud-
denly abandoned the party to which
they have always unaffected an un-
cODqu Fable attachment, and tTooped
over to the other side; but they have
forgotten to explain why, If this was
the case, the change took place in GER
tain parts of the district ard not in 9th.
ers. If the colored people had been
inclined to desert their party, the
movement would have been most
marked in those counties where the
whites held the reins of power and
could exert the strongest influence. But
to pretend that the Republican voters
stood firm where they were the weak
est, and surrendered only where they
mon sense.-N. Y. Tribune.
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Only II Newspaper Man.
BY T. O. HARBAUGH.

We are nobody, then; it is curious.
Only the slave of the pen:
The p ace where we designate ''sanctum"
Is the lair of beast or den
Our work any one could accomplish?
Just try it, dear sir, if you can;
You'll find that in one thing you're lacking =
'Tis the snap of newspaper man!
I've stood in the parvenu's parlors,
Where wealth to the eye is unrolled-
Where mankind is put on the balance,
And weighed by the standard of gold:
And creaturls of beauty and fashion,
Whose life is frivolous span,
Drew aside, as if there were contagion
In the touch of a newspaper man!
And tho't Are my hands red with murder
Do | merit the signet of Cain
Nay surley must be a leper-
All marked with the hideous stain ?
But, no, there are more potent reason
For putting me under the ban
The sneer and the look say I'm only
Only newspaper man!
Is itwrong to use paper and scissors
Is it crime to get bread by the pen?
Would intellect shine like diamond
If newspapers never had been?
The man who absconds with million
Is soon welcomed back from Japan;
While he whose page sparkles with beauty
Is only a newspaper man.
I'm proud of my rank and my station,
As monarch is proud of his throne;
Eve kindred in every nation,
And brethren in every zone.
The high, the rich, and the naughty
Deny it to-day if you can
Will fawn for the sake of notice
At the feet of newspaper man.
wonder, sometimes, in my sanctum,
When alone with the work of the day,
If we have a right to that heaven,
Beautiful bright, far away.
Will the angels who stand at the portals,
To welcome whoever they can,
Turn aside when they see us, and whisper,
''He's only newspaper mani"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12
Rows on The Farm.

1t is proud day when the average
boy gets on his first pair of boots and
trudges to school by the side of an old
er sister. He does not care any longer
to take her hand. The leading strings
are cut. But this early ambition to be
Il man is entirely eclipsed, when he has
taken charge of his first pair of steers.
and started for the fair. Has he not
raised them, broken them to the yoke,
taught them to pull and to back, to
haw aud to gee? They are evidence of
his skill in subduing brute muscle. He
is going up to the exhibition to display
the fruits of his triumph, and, as he
hopes, to wear the laurels of victory.
He is no longer merely spectator, but
an exhibitor, an entertainer of specta
tors.-There is difference of native
tastes in boys. Some have natural
aptitude to one calling and some to an.
other but most men have their callings
determined by early circumstances,
sometimes by incidents so trivial that
they have hardly trace in memory.
1t is not difficult generally for a father,
who loves the farm, to determine the
calling of his children. If he makes it
u business of thrift, and provides COM
fortably for his family, they will re-
spect the calling. If bel is discouraged
and continually shifting his work, or
his home, they will not be very likely
to make tiIlers of the soil. One can
hardly begin too early with his boys to
incline them to the calling that is to
give them bread, and the means of
their usefulness. If the boy is to be a
farmer, he must begin to have per-
sOnal interest and venture in farming
while he is yet boy. Filial affection,
in happy home, is a very strong mo-
tive to industry and fidelity, but it
does not shape boys plans for life
like an investment of his own brains
and muscles in his daily work. He
should have crops and animals, not on
ly that he can cali his own, but that
are his own, to keep, to enjoy, aad to
sell for his own pleasure and profit.
The trusts may be small at first, but
they should be absolute, and let him
have his own experience of success and
failure in managing them. Let him
manage poultry, lamb, q calf, or a
c0lt, and exhibit his own stock at the
fairs. We notice with great satisfac-
tion the increasing attention paid to
the boys at the fall fairs. Boys did
some of the best work at recent plow-
ing match at one of our fairs. One, a
boy of fourteen, held the plow and
drove his own team, and made as good
seed he'd as his old competitors.
These premiums for boys work, are in
the right direction; let them be noted
i'll making up the lists for next year.
American Agriculturist for December.
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counting. At this point the New York Ring
usually stopped; but the Southern rings are
able TO 20 even further, for when an attempt
is made to bring them to Justice, they coolly
clap their accusers and prosecutors, and wit
nesses hostile to them, in Jail And now Sen
ator Conover enlarges the picture again. In
Florida, according to his statement, there was
a fraud which will put South Carolina to the
blush Under cover of recent law, the
names Of thousands Of Republican voters
were stricken from-the lists as ''disqualifed'
to vote; in one county having 1000 Republi-
can voters, 1900 were, Mr.. ConOver asserts,
thus disfranchised, aud had no redress.
Tweed was a bold man, but be would not
have dared to strike hundred names off the
lists in this city.-LN. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12

SHE'S pretty hot, amt she?' said a
backwOOds passenger, addressing the
engineer of a Mississippi steamer that
was racing with another boat. $3.50
responded the engineer, as he hung
an additional wrench on the safety
valve cord to stop the steam from cs-
Gaping. Il reckon we'll overtake that
craft soon,' pursued the stranger.
That's about it, returned the engi-
neer, giving the cord another twitch
and hallooing through the trumpet to
the fireman to shove her up
'One hundred and ninety-five,' hum
med the passenger, looking first at the
gauge and then at the boilers.
That's about where she's rusticating,'
put in the engineer.
The passenger ran his fingers through
his hair nervOusly, and walked about
the decks for few minutes, when he
came back to the engineer and Oh
served, Hadn't you better leave that
boat go?'
Can't do it. Must pass her,
But s'pOsen we should blow up?'
WELL said the engineer, as he peep
ed over the guard to see how fast he
was going, 'if it is the will of Provi-
dence for the boat to blow up, we'll
have to stand by it, Then no halloOed
to the fireman to coal, and give little
more turpentine and oil. The next
moment there was splash in the riv-
er; but before the yawl could be lower
cred the man had succeeded in reach
ing the shore, and hollOOed out:
Go on with the race. l guess III
walk
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A Convenient Land Measure.

To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy in
estimating the amount of land in different
fields under cultivation, the following table is
gwen:
Five yards wide by 96S long contains one
acre.
Ten yards wide by 4S4 long contains one
acre.
Twenty yards wide by 242 long contains
one acre.
Forty yards wide by 121 long contains one
acre.
Seventy yards wide by 694 long contains
one acre.
Eighty yards wide by 6OR long contains
one acre.
Sixty feet wide by 72S long contains one
acre
One hundred and ten feet wide by 397 long
Contains one acre.
One hundred and thirty feet wide by 1853
long contains one acre.
Two hundred and twenty feet wide by 181 !
ing contains one acre.
Four hundred and forty feet wide by %
long contains one acre.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-12-12

MR. jim KgENE, the California stock oper'
ator who won great deal of notorlety by his
speculations in Wall street, has appeared in
the Chicago grain market as great buyer
He started from New York last Saturday
light with his wife and family, the latter 60
ing on to San Francisco on a visit while he
stops at Chicago. He is buying about 1000,
900 bushels of wheat, and his operations have
already caused furry in the market. He
Intends, 80 il is said, TO relieve himself from
any imputations of being gambler In the
staff of life by taking up the wheat and pay
ing for it. In other words, he will pay for
the 4, ,00O, 900 bushels out and out, and store
it in elevators until he finds suitable market
to unload upon. The operation will require
omething ov er $3,OO0,0O of ready cash if
carried out on this plan, which has about it a
look of considerable dubiety. There are some
very smart people in Chicago. People have
gone there to shear and come home shorn.
1Balto. American, 5th inst.