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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Legislative Doings.

APRIL 9.-SenGte-Bills g. passed: To al
low teachers who have been discharged
to bring suit for wages; making appro-
priations for the support of common
schools.
HOuSe-Bills introduced: To allow
boards of education to transfer books !;
prohibiting cemetery associations from
fOrbidding the burial of persons who
may have belonged to secret associations.
APRIL 0-SenGte-Bills introduced: !:
Providing that surplus of dog fund shall
go to schools at children's homes.
Bills passed: House bill relative to
extension of time of payment for school
lands; Senate bill to authorize township
trustees to employ physicians for out
door poor; House bill making appropria-
tions to pay interest on public debt.
House joint resolution providing for
the election of township trustees for
years agreed to, after having been amen
ded so as to provide that the Leg
islature shall fix the time for hold
ing all elections in the State.
HOnse-Senate joint resolution pro-
viding for Independent district courts
agreed to.
Report of conference committee on the
DUNCAN constitutional amendment re-
jected
The House refused to concur in Senate
amendment to constitutional mendment
relative to township trustees.
APRIL 11-iSendte-House bill codify-
ing the laws in relation to highways,
passed; Senate bill fixing printers fees
for publishing constitutional amend
ments introduced, read the first, seond
and third times and passed.
HOuSe-House bill requiring county
treasurers to insert rates of taxation in
tax receipts, passed.
House bill relative to printers fees
for publishing constitutional amend
mentS introduced, and read the first,
second third times, and passed.
APRIL II -Senate-Bills passed: Re
lating to surveys of the United States in
Ohio; providing that the surplus dog
tax shall be used to maintain schools
at Children's Homes.
HOuSe-A resolution was adopted
granting the use of the House for a lee
ture on MOrmonism Thursday night.
Senate bill providing for printing the
proposed amendments to the Constitu-
tion, at fifty per cent of the price now al
lowed by law, was passed.
A bill was introduced to repeal the
clause of the Penitentiary law requiring
the appointment of a Deputy Warden.
Various petition and remonstrances
were presented.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
UNIoNTOWN.


Rosa J. MCPHERSON died suddenly on
the night of the 10th inst, at IL o'clock
Her disease was a scrofalous affection
of the ear and head, passing to the
brain. The day previous to her death no
alarming symptoms were perceived. She
was about IL years of age, and was a
bright, affectiOnate little girl, greatly
beloved by her parents, her brothers and
sisters, and all who knew her. The pu-
pills of Mr.. Voorhees, school sang, Gone
to the grave are the loved ones," when
the little body was lowered to its last
resting place on earth.
"Oh Loyel what is it in this world of ours
Which makes it fatal to be loved7 and why
With cypress branches hast thou wreathed
thy bowers
And made thy best interpreter sigh?
As those who dcte on odors pluck the flowers
And place them on their breasts-but place
to die
Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish
Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.
Mr.. GEORGE NEEL, an aged citizen of
this town, is quite unwell, but hopes are
entertained that he may soon be better.
THE "NEw" MILLERs have advertised
to grind a certain amount of wheat for
each farmer free of toll, simply as a
sample of their work. Patronize home
industry. H.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

manently marked. At the instance of
the War Department, Congress has re-
Gently authorized the erection of similar
headstones over the graves of the Union
soldiers who are buried in private and
village cemeteries. This will be done as
soon as the necessary arrangements can
be made. In the meantime the Quarter
master General, at Washington, will at
once proceed to collect the necessary in
formation as to where these headstOnes
are required.
All persons having any knowledge of
the burial places of soldiers in private
cemeteries whose graves are not mark
ed, are requested to communicate the
fact to the QuaTtermaster General, and
give regiment, company, and date of
death of deceased, if known. Similar
information is desired from parties in
charge of such cemeteries.
OF course it is not intended to furnish
headstones for graves over which mOnu-
ments have already been erected by rela-
tives or friends of the deceased.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

A WASHINGTON dispatch in Sundays
Commercial says it is dead sure thing
that the President will veto the Army
bill, if passed, as it will be, by the SEN
ate. Still the President has not said a
syllable in the direction of the veto, but
it is believed with perfect confidence by
Republicans that he will not even hesi-
tate. Hence, with the stubborn deliber-
ations of the dominant party fully re-
corded, headed by the Confederate Brig
adiers, it is believed the Government
will in the emergency be called upon to
stand most trying test-the square an
tagonism of the Legislative and Execu-
tive branches, neither of which has any
constitutional power to enforce the 9TH
er (as was the case with President John
SOM, and hence the people alone will
have to consider and deal with the re-
suits, and they will have the placing of
the blame where it belongs. The Repub-
licans can thus afford to stand the conse-
quences, if the Democrats can.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

THE Hon. ]. T. Updegraff, the Con-
gresham from this District has been
placed on two important committees of
the House, which for new member is
doing exceeding well. AS skilled ply
sician he will have much influence on
the committee on 'The Origin, Introduc-
tion, and Prevention of Epidemic Dis
eases in the United States" which is fast
becoming one of national Importance
and interest. The Doctor has also IA
place on the committee on Invalid
Pensions" and in this position he will be
of invaluable aid to the MANNED and
crippled heroes of the Union. Our Con-
gresham will have ample field for Ia
Dor on these committees and ample Op-
portunity to benefit the country by the
wisdom of his counsel. He will be able
and willing for the service.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
The Confederate Raid.

The recent course of the Democrats in
Congress shows that they are so timid,
apprehensive, and so wanting in any
bracing power of principle, that they are
going to let the Greenbackers have their
way in introducing, if not in passing,
bills to promote all their wild notions of
paper money and the cheap silver stand
ard, for the chance of reinforcing the
Democratic party by the Greenbackers.
This indicates feeling that the state of
the party is desperate, rather than the
confidence of party in firm possession.
And so do the tactics of the party all
over the country. Somehow there has
come over it presentiment of defeat,
which has taken away all courage.
Everywhere it is striking the Democra-
tic flag, and hosting in its place signal
of distress. Everywhere it is crying that
unless the Greenbackers come to its help
all is lost. In Congress the majority
acts more as if it thought itself an incur
sion, sort of John Morgan raid, than a
possessor of rightful governing power
Gin Gazette
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

THE sensational story manufactured
by the New York Sun, assisted by Ben
Butler, to the effect that there is a
scheme on foot to import quarter of a
million, more or less, of black men from
the South into Ohio, Indiana and other
Northern States in order to make them
unquestionably Republican in 1880. is
superlatively ridiculous. Ohio has no
occasion to import yoters-that is an
exclusively Democratic practice. More
than that, movements are ON foot among
the colored people already citizens of
Ohio, and colonization societies have
been organized by them, "just like other
people" with view to seeking homes
on the cheap lands of the West and
Southwest. Ohio people are not such
asses as to interfere with these "move-
ments," either to encourage or discour-
age them.-O. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Republican Economics.

Yesterday the famous five-twenties
ceased to bear interest, and Secretary
Sherman began on the issue known as
ten-forties, $1O,OOO,OOO of which were
called in. AT the first of the year there
were outstanding about $35O,00O,0OO of
the five-twenties, which are now replac-
ed with four per cent. bonds, effecting an
annual saving in interest of 100000.
This great war loan now belongs to his
tory. When these bonds were first issu-
ed, in 1852, they sold slowly, the future
of the nation at that time looking so
gloomy that it was difficult for investors
to feel confidence in government securi-
ties. The banks, which had advanced
the government S100,O00.0O0 at $40 per
cent, refused to take hold of the loan,
and syndicate of bankers, composed of
Jay Cooke & Co., Fisk & Hatch, YER
milye & Co., Henry Clews & Co., under
took to place the loan. They issued cir
culars appealing to the patriotism of the
people, and sent out agents all over the
country, but the bonds went off very
slowly at first. Mr.. Fernando Wood, at
present Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House, had been
leading the Copperheads in their attacks
on the credit of the government; when
the House passed resolution pledging
itself to vote any amount of money and
anynumber ofmen necessary to put down
the rebellion he voted against it. Itwas
an act of patriotism to invest in bonds
then; the party which has made Mr..
Wood its leader on the floor of the House
now denounces the bondholder.
The financial management of the Re-
publican administration has been most
wonderful in its results. The reduction
of debt and taxation since the war far
exceeds anything of the kind recorded in
history. Since 1855 the principal of the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

THE situation at Washington is well
described in Nast's cartoon in the current
number of Harper's Weekly, entitled
1--WE Have Come to Stay" Itrepresents
a scene in one of the houses of Congress.
A Confederate in the foreground is going
down into his gripsack and fetching up
an assortment of bills and claims for
Southern pensions, Improvements, and
the like, which he heaps up on his desk,
together with revelvers and "a bowie
knife. Another long haired member is
tacking to the wall portrait of jeff.
Davis. An inscridtion denotes that the
body lie session is the "Forty-sixth Con-
gress of the U. S., or C. S. of A."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

debt has been reduced S114,290,65T, and
the annual interest charge has been re-
duced Sol ,426,SS1 per annum. This has
been accomplished in spite Of eontinu-
Gus and persistent assaults upon the
credit of the government by the Demo
cratic party, which made the repeal of
the resumption act one of the cardinal
points of its policy, and which is now
bent upon destroying the best banking
system ever devised, and also making
this country the market of Europe's de-
monetized silver. At the same time tax
es have been reduced from Sass, ,27S, ,465
in 1866 to S24O, ,752, ,SO4 in 1878, differ
ence in the annual collections from the
people of S247, ,521, ,160 per annum. 1t is
not likely that this nation will take
away the management of affairs from
the party that has done this in order to
give them in charge of a party whose ac-
tivity has been so persistently misehiev-
Gus as the Democratic party.-Balto.
American 18th.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Drift Of Comment.

There have been plenty of replies but
no answer to General Garfield's speech
Albany On. " Journal.
A solemn protest is entered by the
Bourbon editors against any compromise
on the election laws. There is not the
slightest danger of one.-N' Y. Tribune.
Virginia has six of her sons in the
present United States Senate, and ought
to be satisfied, especially as every one of
them is Democrat and an ex-rebel, or
submissively complacent under rebel
rule.-Phila. Press.
There is said to be some nervousness
among members of Congress about re-
manning in Washington during the warm
months. There is equal nervousness
among the people of the country from
the same cause.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
We trust that General Ewing will al
low no longer continuance of the impress
sion that the Thompson crew are run
ming him for either Governor or Senator,
for it has become quite evident that they
have used his name to futher the chan
ces of other parties. General Ewing has
had some experience in the past with
Thompson & Co., and if he doesn't know
he should know that they hold the most
cordial kind of dislike to him.-Steuben-
vile Gazette.
Mr.. Hurd, of Ohio, in his reply to Mr..
Garfield, characterized the Republican
party as the party of the army" and
thanked God that it was now powerless
in the House of Representatives Many
persons North have very vivid Tecollec-
tion of the fact that Mr.. Hurd's party, all
through the war, had not been to any
great extent ''the party of the army" or
the party of the Union, either 1t was
emphatically the party opposed to the
army, and while the Southern wing
sought the army in front, the Northern
wing kept up an incassant and harassing
fire in the rear.-Pitts. CON- Gazette.
Judge Taft presided at a Republican
mass meeting in Cincinnati on Saturday
night, and made a speech strongly de-
nouncing the Democratic programme in
Congress. Il well remember" he said,
when as prelude to the rebellion in
1S6O-61, we heard in Congress the bale
full cry, Not man nor a dollar to carry
on war for the Union, or to suppress a
rebellion" Now again we hear like cry,
HNOt man nor dollar to carry on the
of the United States" That
is the situation precisely, and the Judge
might have added that failure" would
be written after the last cry, as it was
after the first.-N. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
Live Stock Market.
ALLEGHENY.

EAST LIBERTY, April 14-CATTLE-
Receipts since Friday 1850 head OF
through and so head of local; total for
the week ending this day 4,773 head of
through and 425 head of local; against
5,593 head of through and 757 head of
local the week before The supply fol
this weeks yard sale is only ~ cars, all
of which were sold for the retail trade
here and were common at that. Can not
make quotations.
the week 19,250 head. against 1S,495 last
week; Workers So 6Oa3 80; Philadel-
phias 81 15a4 80.
Sheep-Receipts 10,1OO head; total for
the week 1890 head, against $4,000 last
week. The supply is heavier than for
many weeks; selling at 25a5Oc off from
last weeks prices.
CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, April 14.-The Drovers'
Journal reports:
Hogs-Receipts IA, 900 head shipments
1000 head. Steady; choice heavy So 7Oa
3 IS; light So 6Oa3 20; mixed 50 40a
8 10. Closed steady.
CATTLE-Receipts 3,7O0 head; ship
ments $500 head. Market dull and &c
lower; shipping 81 0Oa5 10; butchers
81 OOa3 IS.
Sheep-Receipts 800 head; shipments
10000 head. Market dull at So 4Oa3 10.
BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, April -Cattle-Mark-
ct dull and prices 1sc lower; very best
5a5 &c; first quality 43sa5c; medium 81
a43Sc; ordinary 3a93Sc; most sales at
44a5Hc. Receipts 1926; sales I,O49.
HOgs-Trade dull and prices 16a4C
off; quotations 5a54c. Receipts 1881
SHEEP-Receipts 1926; quotations "A
61sc.
Wool Markets.
BosToN, April l-Manufacturert
continue TO purchase domestic wool only fol
immediate wants, and the anxiety of holderi
to close up stocks as fast as possible has lee
to further slight concessions. Ohio, Penn
sylvania, and West Virginia heeces, double
extra and above, 323@36c; Wisconsin anC
Michigan 1eeces, 30@32c; combing and de
laine fleece, 35@39c.
|. PHILADELPHIA, April ID Wool-Ohio
Pennsylvania and West Virginia Xxx anC
above 32@34c; X 32@33c; medium 35@36
coarse 28@30c; New York, Michigan, Indians
and western fine 28@31c; medium 35@37c;
coarse 2S@29c; combing washed 33@42c; un.
washed do 25@2Sc.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
BRIDGEPORTT.

The Athens Journal, Democratic
stalwart, speaking of Uncle Dick Bishop
and his satellites says they are 'deaC
ducks" ''dead as mutton" "dead anC
damned'-and he might have added "anG
stinketh." Whatever one may think OF
the Journal politically, surely all must
admire its sound judgment in estima
ting its friends.
"Our Own Ross" reported to a Cleve.
land Leader representative that his
election as School Director this spring
"was due entirely to his vote for the
the Grimsly Local Option bill" His
election was "due entirely" to the fact
that there was no opposition ticket in
the field.
The Etna Mill will start up three
turns as soon as lake navigation is re-
opened sufficiently to afford plenty of
material.
The Democrats held their own in the
elections in this county on Monday
| Gazette.
Down this way they held, or tried to
hold, a good deal more than their own at
the election.
| Free beer saloons didn't help the
Democracy as much as was expected at
the election polls, however much they
affected their own poles.
Gradually but surely and steadily the
chances of James Alexander's recovery
vanish. 1t is almost certain he cannot
| get well.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
| the NJ. E. Church had pleasant reunion
at their Church Sabbath evening. Mrs.
Carr made an address, Miss Deb. Hol-
loway the Treasurer's report, and quite
an interest generally awakened in the
cause.
Next Wednesday the st. Clairsville
Presbytery, in conjunction with the La
dies Missionary Society of that Church,
meets in the KirkwOOd Church.
In the hurly-burly of things might we
inquire, what has become of that great
apostle of Democracy, O'Conner? and
Ephraim Holland, where is he? In the
great struggle of the Democracy for
pure elections, why are not these patriots
to the front?
We rejoice that the visiting commit
tee from the Legislature went so prompt
ly to the relief of their friend DIR. Keefer
at Dayton. 1t was too much to expect
a man 10 years old, to drink all the
whisky and kiss all the women in the
house including the cooks.
THE Baltimore Gazette says: "There
is no spectacle so grand and so classic
as a stay-at-home Republican politician,
fourteen years after the war, kicking
and pounding the venerable Jefferson
Davis and daring somebody to defend
him."
Nothing half so classic except the sub
lime facial grimace of the average Dem
ocrat as he swallows old JEFF. only to
have him fished up to be re-swallOwed
from time to time.
Isn't it amusing to hear the small fry
Democratic politicians fret and foam over
the supervisor law as an unholy thing,
when the poor drivellers don't know
that it is darling child of the Democra-
cy itself. But infanticide is no wrongl
with some folks.
Poor old Thurman staggers under the
rebound of his own feeble blows at the
Electoral Tribunal which he did his
feeble best to establish.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

DURING, visit last week at Columbus
we had a pleasant chat with Private
Dalzell, who had returned to the Capitol,
after somewhat serious illness. The
Private is no thin-skinned individual,
but by long service has become impervi-
Gus to the malignant assaults of his op-
ponents. The latest dirty attack upon
him, by the Columbus Democrat charg-
ing him with drunkenness, is shown to
be grossly untrue by atfidavits of his ply
Sinian -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

THE Cleveland Herald, says, if Allan
G. Thurman had labored as hard to pre-
vent the extra session of the FOrty-sixth
Congress as he has to make people be
lieve he is a sincere fire-eater and finan-
cial quack, his chances for the nOmina-
tion would have been good deal better
than they are inst now. 1t must be ad-
mitted, however, that this is not saying
much, for it would be hard to imagine
anything worse than Allan's prospects
are at the present writing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

WHAT unit the Democrats are that
there was nothing in Gariield's speech
it was weak and only sensational But
from its delivery to the present never
did pack of wolves howl more Justify
than have the entire herd of Rebel Brig
adierS, each one regarding that his pre-
decessor failed entirely to answer it, and
he must come to the rescue with more
chin music. They are at it yet, and yet,
and yet. Garfeld's speech remains un-
answered a-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

WHE countenance is pale and leaden,
l. colored, with occasional fushes, or
circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu-
pills dllate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is IL
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; Shiny or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with a gnawing sensation of the stom-
ach, at others, entirely gone; feeting
pains In the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir-
regular, at times costive; stools Shiny;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth; temper variable, but gener-
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR.. c. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepara-
ton, not capable Of doing tie slightest
injury TO tie NEST tendty mtant.
The genuine DR.. McLANE'S YER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of C. Nc
LANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
Wrapper. %
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

No FINAL ACTION mas been taken on
the Removal bill by the Legislature so
far as we are advised at this time. 1t is
expected that the bill will be reported
back to the House fiOm the Committee
one day this week. Nothing definite is
known as 10 what their repO.t will be,
but it is believed that it will be either
in favor of indefinite postponement or
without recommendation. In either
event it is thought the House will dis
pose of the subject favorable to st.
ClairSyille
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

THE New York Times seems inclined
to chime in with the Grant movement.
Commenting upon it, it says: "Let it be
frankly admitted that the popular cry
for Grant is largely prompted by the
keen instincts of men who can be safely
trusted with the preservation of free in
stitutions. 1t springs to a great extent
from widespread popular impatience
with the persistent discussion over the
very first principles of our system of gov
ernment."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

In an interview with the correspond
ent of the Cleveland Leader as to the
prospects of the various persons named
for the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency, "our own" Alexander is re-
ported as saying that 'Tilden should and
will be our next candidate" Ross knows
there's millions in it." The distinguish
ed Senator, from West Wheeling, re
marked gravely, Il don't wish to state"
And so, the matter remains unsettled.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-17

IT is probably generally remembered
that some years ago-in 1s7S-Congress
passed law providing for the erection
of durable headstones over the graves of
soldiers of the regular and volunteer
forces of the United States whose re-
mains are inferred in the National Mill
tary Cemeteries. This law has been car
ried out, and the graves of the Nations
dead in these cemeteries are now per-