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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-19

Next, we turn 10 Roman law for vim
dications of our theme The old Roman
discipline is provorbisi. GIbbOn says
that II soldier had 20 dread his superior
officer rs n despot, and that there WAS no
difference Tin Roman camp IN peace
and war, except that in the former case
there was no bloodshed. w bile Rome wss
free she did not make a scSrecrOw OF her
laws to irIghten the birds Of prey
until by custom il became their perch.
This strict Observance OF law extended
not only to the soldiery but the remotest
boundaries OF the Empire and TO every
petty governor of Roman provinces.
Fer example We have the case OF Paul
about to be scourged, when he mad but to
say, "is il tG,ofia to scourge 8 Roman
and uncondemned'' Art thou q Ro-
msn2" Then turning to his felow-oR-
GERS. stake heed Whist thou doest Tor this
man is Roman
Even Jewish malice could not pierce
the shield OF Roman law. Agsin when
he appeals to Caesar he bears witness 10
the Justice OF law.
Imperial Nome 1900 years from Romu-
lus shows in every particular the truth
OF Mr.. Burkes definition of Law, viz:
Law is beDehcerce working by rule
But even Rome gave way to lswless-
ness at last. Compare the reIgns Of n eso,
Caliguls, &c, with those of Trojsn and
his successors. Those display snsrcby
and misrule, these order and dis
clpline Rome, with sill her wrong,
has left US one imperishs bic
monument, and that is her msguif-
cent system of laws. Her psndects and
novels and codes will live forever.
FRENCH HISTORY
furnishes many examples for nv theme,
e. &. The French revolution, = revolu-
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-15
DAILY INTELLIGENCER.
Wednesday, May Is, 1878.

ANOTHER DEAR PARTNERS Scene
The Smithsonian villa. Time
Breakfast Captain Smith (reading
news of war panic; "Ah. ha Gun
powder in the air Now we volun-
teers will have some real service y
Mrs. Smith (hystericslly): "Oh,
Charles. don't you think you had bet
ter" Captain What: Resign !?
Never-r!" Mrs. Smith: "Oh, no. my
dear, not resign. but see about that in
surancc policy
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-15

CAPTAIN Jawkins. Of the Pie
bald Plungers. in the interval Of q
dance; Jaw, you and yeaw sister are
dwessed amazingly alike Miss O'Flan-
nigan. What a capital pair you'd
make, by Jovem Miss O'Flsnnigan,
with native simplicity: "Ah. now, in
deed, Captain, if it's in q pair 1 was
going. it isn't with my sister I'd like to
be matched 20
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-15

SIXTY thousand commercial travel.
lers are employed by the wholesale
merchants of the United States, ct the
average expense of $4,000, at least.
making in the aggregate the enormous
sum Of $50, 600, 900.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-15

AN editor who speaks of man who
has disco vered tact by experience. says
that the new way of preventing bleed.
ing at the nose is to keep your nose out
of other peoples business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23
MACAULAY.
The Lecture of President ]. Il.
Thompson Of the University
Of West Virginia.

The audience which assembled at the Pres
byterian church, last Friday evening, to hear
DR.. Thompson's lecture on "Macaulay," was
quite respectable in point of numbers, but es-
pecially SO in regard to quality. A more at
tentive or appreciat:ve audience is rarely
seen. So completely was the attention of the
listeners riveted that, though the lecture was
delivered in comparatively low tones, not a
sentence was lost. 1t was good seed sown in
good ground. We are so accustomed to hear
ing and reading Macaulay's praises, sounded
in all manner of variations by extravagant
critics and hero-worshippers, that it is re-
freshing to listen to lecturer who can place
anything like correct estimate upon that re-
markable character. To admire qualities of
greatness without worshipping the possessor,
to praise without superlatiye, and TO place
disinterested estimate upon that which is
deeply interesting, are critical rules which it
is difficult to observe in the case of Macaulay.
The study of his works lies so near the basis
of every broad and liberal education, and his
comprehensive logic, his rich, ringing periods,
and his picturesque descriptions are so closely
associated with the early Impressions of most
scholars, that he is apt to be regarded in the
light of that child-like faith which assumes
perfection. Even the critical reader of Ma
caulayis likely to forget, for the time, that
art can never be, like nature, faultless; that
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23
The Hail Storm.

The hail storm which recently visited this
part Of the Slate seems to have described in
its course large curve, coming from the
northwest and leaving the State in north
east directiqn:1 1pfour dispatches we observe
no mention OF hail beyond Coshocton, at
which place cit did considerable damage.
From that point il passed through Dresden.
twelve or fifteen miles south, in Muskingum
Co., thence about two miles north of Cam
bridge, and short distance north of Barnes
vile, striking the railroad somewhere between
Barnesyille and Belmont. A dispatch from
Lewis Milfssays that hail stones fell at that
place as large as hens eggs; but were probah-
ly not very numerous, as the damage done is
not repofted as being serious From near the
central part of this county, the general direc-
tion Of the storm seems to have been some
what north of east The southern edge reach.
ed as far south, as Bellaire, but no damage
was done at that point. The storm visited
Hendrysburg, .Moristown and st. .Clairsville,,
these points indicating the line along which
the heaviest damage was done in this county.
The Wheeling papers describe the storm as
approaching that City from the southwest.
The people there we're reminded Of their hail
storm OF 1859, and experienced considerable
damage 70 their glass and shrubbery. : - 2
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

Mas. GRIMES, relict of the late David
Grimes, residing on the farm of Frank Tag
CART two and one-half miles west of Morris
town, was burned so seriously, on last Thurs
day, that she died in few hours afterwards.
While her two sons were on some distant part
of the farm engaged in planting corn, awhile
before noon, she attempted to set fire TO a
brush or log heap a short distance from the
house, and in so doing her clothing caught
fire. Immediately upon discovery of the fire
the affrighted woman, who by the way was
about sixty years old, ran as rapidly as she
could to the creek two hundred yards away,
and plunged into the water to extinguish the
flames from the burning garments, which she
succeeded in accomplishing, not however, un-
til she was fearfully scorched and her flesh
roasted. The unfortunate woman writhing
in pain, after much effort reached her home
about one hundred yards from the stream. A
pbysician-was summoned who gave her OPT
ates to relieve her intense suffering, and at
two o'clock she went TO sleep and never
awOke. This is the second death from q
similar cause which. has occurred within q
recent period in the neighborhood of Morris
town.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

his logic may not always be absolute; that his
learning is not always necessarily accurate
because comprehensive; that richly modulated
sentences may have more of music than OF
matter; that swelling strains OF eloquence
which lift the imagination into the supreme
realms Of ecstasy-such, for example, as the
closing sentences of the essay in Ranke's His
tory of the Popes, or tho-e eloquent passages
at the close of the review of Mitfords History
of Greece-may, after all, contain more beau
ty than truth Ii is not necessary that the
critic should point out all these principles,
much less is it the duty of the popular lee
turer; but it is highly essential that they
should be recognized in the formation OF eve
nv estimate of writer's merits. The popu-
lar lecturers duty is to present his subject in
such manner as to awaken as deep an inter-
est as possible without creating expectations
which are not 10 be realized by study of
the subject. This duty, DR.. Thompson dis
charged in a manner approaching perfection
rhe Macaulay, with whom he made his audi
ence acquainted, was not like Bayne's hero of
that name, an ideal creation of the critics
own brain, made up from the great qualities
of the original with the humanity left out.
NeithIr was he the mystical, shadovy great
man which Emerson paints, with Just enough
humanity in him to have less faith in the
prominence of American institutions than he
had in the power of bread and butter. DR..
Thompson's was, perhaps, as near the real
Macaulay as it is possible TO conceive-the
man which Trevelysn has given 10 the world
in his final form-the man of commanding
power, of vast learning, of great genius, but
still d man; man whose goodness was no
small part of his greatness; whose indefatiga-
ble industry was a manifestation of his power,
and whose tender human sympathy was an
element of his genius. If as youth he was
little too precocious, We can only blame his
biographer for giving too much credit to old
nurses stories; if as poet he out-did himself,
we must charge the fault to contemporary
critics and publishers records, which are
sometimes better index of the curiosity of
the public than of the genius of the poet
Take it ali in all, DR.. Thompson's lecture was
noble effort. Without venturing upon any
invidious com Jarisons, we must say that it
did great credit to the author, 10 the subject,
and to tbe course of which it is the conclu-
sion. We will be glad to welcome DIR.
Thompson to our village again, and shall al
ways expect a rich literary treat when he
nOTnpS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

The issue for 1878 of the Newspaper Di-
rcctory and Advertisers Handbook publish.
ed by the world known advertising agency of
s. NJ. Pettengill & Co., 81 Park Row, New
York, has just come to hand. For simplicity
and convenience of arrangement, compreheI.
siveness of scope and general accuracy, we have
long regarded this as by far the best and most
reliable Newspaper Directory published in the
UEited States or elsewhere, 1t contains q
complete list of the newspapers published in
the Uuited States and British Provinces, a
second list arranged, for the convenience of
advertisers, in counties; lists of the daily,
weekly, monthly, religious, agricultural and
specialist newspapers and periodicals, with
full information as to character, circulation
and proprietorship, and list of the leading
newspapers of Great Britain, Australasia and
Europe. The volume Is illustrated with por'
traits Of Bayard Taylor, George w. Childs
and Brete Harte among living, and Samuel
Bowles, James Gordon Bennett, of the dead
journalists of the United States, with an ex-
cellent steel engraving of Mr.. s. NJ. Petten-
gill appear as the frontispiece. An interest.
ing article on advertising, replete with hints
drawn from long practical experience of the
subject, should make this volume specially
attractive to enterprising business men.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23
Congressional Convention.

The Republicans of the 10th Congressional
District of Ohio will meet in Convention at
on
Thursday, June ~, 1873,
to nominate candidate for Congress for said
District. The basis of representation as fixed
by the committee will be one delegate for ev'
cry 125 votes cast for President Hayes at the
Ohio election in 1876, and one additional del
egate for every fraction of 6S and over, to wit:
Belmont 40 votes, Columbiana 43, Harrison
81, Jefferson 80, Carroll IL. Whole number
delegates 154.
ALEXIS Cope, Belmont co.,
s. j. FIREsTONE, Columbiana.
D. A. HoLLINGswoRTH, Harrison co,
JOHN o. MCGOWAN, Jefferson CO.,
J. H. TAYLOR, Carroll.
Committee.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23
SHERlFFS SALE.
BELMONT COMMON PLEAS.
In Partition.
Franklin P Jetfers


Margaret Jeffers et al.
RY virtue of an order of sale in the above
- case ISSUED and to me directed from the
Court of Common Pleas OF Belmont county,
Ohio, will offer for sale on the Premises, on
Wednesday. June 5. 1873.
at the hour vf o'clock M on said day, the
following described premises to wit:
Situate in said county OF Belmont and State
ter of section No 10, OF township No 5. and
range No 8, containing 100 acres more OF
less.
second 1roct-Also part of southwest quar-.
ter Of said section No ~, beginning ior the
same at q stone IN the centre of said section,
running thence west 80 poles to the second
ravine: thence down said ravine the following
courses-south 1879 east 10 poles, thence south
$40 west poles; thence south 3So east II poles;
thence south 32o west $50 poles; thence south
poles; thence south 1877 east 6.65 poles; thence
south 2Oo west 10 poles 70 a sugar ireej thence
south l51So west 26.75 poles; thence south 40
thence south 4S1SEO east 50 poles; thence south
10 east 1925 poles; thence due north l5j ~
poles tothe place Of beginning, co Itaining g
acres, roods and perch.
Both of these tracts OF land are subject to
the dover estate of the said Margaret Jeffers
heretofore assigned by metes and bounds, and
described as follows, TO wit: Beginning for
the same at q point on the north boundary
line of said southeast quarter 4.36 rods west
OF the northeast corner of said southeast quar-
ter OF section 10. range 3, and township 81
thence south 42Ho west 10 rods; thence $50
west IL rods; thence north 5714o west 1912
poles; thence south 3l11o west 924 rods; thence
north 500 west rods; thence sonth 3l5So west
1888 rods; thence south l3o west 81 rods: thence
west 81 rods; thence north 20o east rodsthence
north 49, 1<o west So rods thence 27ao east IL so
rods. thence north 2Oo west 1850 rods; thence
north 32o east $50 rods; thence north 3s ; west
II rods thence north $40 east no Is; thence
north 1919 west 10 rods; thence east le5 rods
10 the place of beginning, containing 3 acres,
100 perches.
ALso-A right of way to and from the spring
near a large elm tree not far from the south>
sast corner OF said above described tract, with
he right TO use said spring for the purposes
)f watering stock In common with the owner
1f said spring. but with no right to obsLruet
by fences the road or lane leading into the
1eld southwest Of said spring, or to let stock
run at large at said spring.
Appraised at Sl3,9N.
I erms of Sale-One-third cash, one-third in
)ne year, and one-thlrd In tw,, years, with In.
crest On deferred payments, 70 be secured by
on premises sold. ' t-i'i''"i
WIN. g. KINNEY, Sheriff.
Anderson and Danford, Atty's. 81, s''7S 81 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

"A VIOLENT hail storm visited this section
about six o'clock on Monday evening, doing
much damage to fruit and the growing wheat
Hail stones fell from five to six inches in cir
conference. number of wheat fields were
almost entirely destroyed Small fruit, such
as plums and cherries suffered very severely
the trees being almost stripped Although
comparatively few apples were knocked from
the trees, we are led TO believe from reports
received, that the crop was badly injured by
the pelting, and that much Of the fruit is 50
bruised that it will not mature Damage to
windows was heavy-few houses with a west
ern exposure escaping. $50 lights at the In
Urinary and so at the School Building were
broken. The National Hotel, the residence
of Conrad Troll and numerous other resi-
dences had their lights shattered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

An exchange says: 'We like TO see u man
refuse to take his local paper, and all tha
time sponge upon his reighbors the reading
of it. We like to hear a man complain when
We ask him to subscribe for his home paper,
that he takes more papers than he reads now
and then go around and borrow his neighbOrs,
or loaf about him until he gathers the news
from it. We like to see mechanic or mer-
chant refuse to advertise in his home paper
and then try to get share of the trade which
the newspapers bring to the town. But above
all things, we Ike to see one of your rich
misery men, who cannot pay for local pa
per, always manage to be around in time to
read the paper at the expense of his friend
not worth the tenth part of what be is Ii
loUks so economical, thrifty and progressive.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23
Road Notice.

A. Office is hereby given that a petition will
~ be presented to the Commissioners of Bel
mout county, Ohio. at their next session. to
be hello on the first Monday of June, 1878.
pray Ing for the alterations on the lands of la
vid Y. Parshall, OF the County Road leading
from Scouts Meeting House, near the National
Road, in Pease township, to NJ. Greenlee's, in
Golerain township. The first alteration, so
much of said County Road as lies between a
point on said Parshalps south line OF said
land, near station 5, on said line, and station
I thereon, the south line of said alteration 10
extend to said line. the length OF said road
between said points being about 50 rods; and
second, SO much of said road as lies between
station IL, on The west line of said land. and q
point ON said line about IL rods north of sta
ton II thereon. The west side OF said altera-
tion to extend to said line; the length of said
road between said points being about Sc rods
Said alterations. at no point. to be exceeding
two rods from said road as now located.
5-2.57s st.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23
NOTICE.

,A,ILLIAM W .HUTCHISON. David R. Hutch
w ison and Albert Hutchison, who reside
at Sidney. Fremont cOunsy. Iowa, and Joseph
+. hutchisou, at Princeton. Franklin county.
Kansas Will take notice that ON the 24th day
of April, 1873. Susannah Hutchison and hus>
band filed in the Court OF Common Pleas OF
Belmont county, Chio, a petition against
the above named defendants and others, the
object and pray er Of which Is to foreclose q
mortgage executed by samuel Hutchison to
said Susannah and Ebenezsr w. Hutchison,
Samuel j. Hutchison and William W. Hutch
ison, dat April "a 1860 for sl6oa, with inter-
est On which there is now due plaintiff 500,
with interest from said date, and TO Ebenezer
w. 500, with interest from said day, credited
with SS5, paid May, 1866, and for the sale OF
the real estate described in the mortgage, be-
ing the northwest quarter OF section Z, town
ship 5. range 3, and % acres adjoining, being
the land then owned and occupied by said
Samuel Hutchison. Said defendants are re-
quired TO appear and answer by the 18th day OF
June, 1873. ST. CLAIR KELLY
So, '7S 6w. Airy for plaintiffs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

AT 8 meeting of directors and stockholders
of the Bellaire and Southwestern railway
company, held at Bellaire on last Tuesday,
it was found that their syndicate scheme 10
raise additional money along the line Of their
road had proved successful. The sum thus
obtained is fiftv thousand dollars, and with
this amount ii is hoped TO extend the compile
ton of the road as far as Beallsyille. As soon
as the Wegee bridge can be erected, which
will be within the next thirty days, track lay.
ing is to be resumed and the work rapidly
pushed. We congratulate our Captina friends
on what now seems the certainty that the
voice of the locomotive will soon be heard in
their prosperous valley.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

In remote part Of this county died, re-
Gently, an old man who once showed his
neighbors how to settle domestic difficulty
without going to law. When his wife ran off
with another man, he, simply at the expense
OF single days work, hunted up the other
mans wife and quietly adopted her as his
own. For nearly half a century they lived
faithfully together, until separated by death.
Thus without the aid of church or State was
the shattered peace of two halves of families
permanently and neatly repaired.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

will occur next week, beginning on Monday
afternoon in the, primary department, and
continuing each day, taking the several
rooms in their order, and closing with the ex-
animation of the High School on Thursday
Un Friday the annual picnic of the. schools
will take place-Parents should turn out in
force at the examinations and note the ad-
yancement of their children.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

HoN. c. H. MrrcHENER, prominent law
yer and citizen of Tuscarawas county, died
at his home in New Philadelphia, on the 10th
inst. Deceased was one of the founders of
the Ohio Democrat, a member of the Consti-
tutional Convention of 1852, and author of q
work of considerable merit, entitled ''FIistor-
ical Events in the Muskingum and Tusca-
rawas Valleys.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

Col. J. D TAYLOR, who has been gerry
wandered into Democratic district, may be
consoled in the knowledge that he had no
inconsiderable number of friends in the Dis
trict. The Colonel's Canvass for the nomina-
ton so far as it Lad progressed was conduct
ed fairly and honorably.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

Mr.. T. e. MARTIN, Deputy County Treas
urer under Treasurer Porterfeld, and for sew.
eral years past cashier of the Belmont Bank
at Somerton, will retire from that position on
the 1st of June, to engage in businessin some
of the Western States; be will be succeeded
by Enfield Hogue in the cashiership, with his
brother VIM. Martin as Teller. By the resig.
nation of Mr.. Martin the Bank loses careful,
competent, accommodating and popular of
aoor
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

The venerable Rev. Benjamin Waddle, of
Kenton, Ohio, the father of Rev. Vim. Wad'
die pastor of Unity Q. P. church, was the
guest of Rev. Balph of this place. on Tuesday.
Father Waddle, as he is Familiarity known,
has been in the ministry fifty years. Last
Sabbath he assisted his son at communion
services at Unity church.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

A TEN AoRR field of wheat on the farm Of
Robert Kerr, jr., q miles southeast of town,
was totally destroyed by the hail storm on
Monday evening. 1t was one of the finest
fields Of wheat in this section. Several fields
have been reported badly used up, among
them those of Wm. ]. and Samuel Clark, but
this one, in particular, is completely ruined.
Three years ago similar misfortune happen.
ed Mr. K. 4-aal.-a4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

REPORTS from all parts of the country
show that the storm which ragged so fierceiy
for short time in this region, on Monday
evening, was very general and in some places
very severe. In several sections the fruit and
the ''garden sass" was severely injured by
hail stones, which fell in great quantities,
covering the ground with thin layer of ice
and many of them being of the ''size of a
hens egg"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-05-23

WE learn that Mr.. James Coleman, north Of
town, has recently missed number of bush.
els OF wheat Eyaporated. Mr.. Hiram Wat
kins, of the same neighbOrhood, stored his oats
carefully away in garner last fall, and all
appeared correct till not great while ago
he smole smell, apparently arising from said
garner. Upon investigation he discovered
that all the bottom portion of the. oats bad
turned to pumpkins, and they were rotten
and worthless as pumpkins. ~