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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14

ONE of the inscriptions placed on
the banners at Democratic meetings this
year is as follows tit @
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14
SENATE J0lNT RESOLUTION.

Proposing AN mendmenf 10 Sec
tio1s Three and Five, Article
Four, of the Constitution, EsC.
organizing the Judiciary of the
Stale.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14

Practices in all Courts Of Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14

..'il, i' FOSTERS WAR RECORD. =,
,: CALICO, sEVENTY-FIvE CTS. AYARD.:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-08-14
Thursday, Aug. IA, 1879.
Republican State Ticket.

For Governor, - -
- y CHARLES FOSTER,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-13
THE BRIGHT SIDE,

AS OUR GOOD HUNDRED EXCHANGES
SEE 1T.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-13

One HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE
POUNDS OF GIRL.-"Serena, darling
he murmured; and the old gate
scarcely creaked as it swung to and
fro beneath her light weight, and the
silent stars looked down with ten
derer glances, aud all South Hill
seemed to hold its breath to listen.
"Screna, sweet" he said, and the ra-
diant bushes that kindled over the
pearly brow and checks softened the
silent loyelight in her lustrous eyes.
"serena, my own, if every glittering
star that CLEANS above, every pass
ing breeze that stops to kiss the
glowing cheeks, if every rustling lea
that whispers to the night, were liv
ing, burning thoughts; if every -
Oh-h no no! Ow W! Wow-ow! AVN
oh, oh, oh! Oh, Jimmy pelt! Oh
glory! Oh! murder, murder, murder
Ion, dad-rang the swizzled old gat
TO the bow-wows! Ah-h-h- h" An
she said, stifly, that No gentlema
who could use such language in tn
presence of q lady was an acquair
lance of hers, and she went into th
; house. Aud he pushed the gate ope
and pulled his mangled thumbs OF
Eof the crack Of it, and went down til
street sucking tie injured member
and declaring that however light
one hundred and sixty-fve pound
of girl might sit on the heart of
' man, it was little too much pre-
: sure when applied to an imprompt
. thumbscrew. And the match
drawn. Burlington Hawk-eye.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-13

FITzNooDLE IN AMERICA.-AW I'm
almost wearwy of this perpetual
measurwing of stwenth between Eng'
lishmen and these pwetended Amer.
wican sporting men. 1t worwies me
if it be at all possible for anything
Of such charwactah TO twouble me il
the slightest degwee. 1t is q pwetty
we'll understood thing by all individ
uals endowed with the pwopah wea
sonable powahs, that undah ardinar
wy circumstances it is utterly widic
ulous for Amerwicans twy to av
compete with anybody in sporting
mattahs who is born under Bwltisl
wule. The Amerwicans must invar
wiably get uttahly wouted when they
make the attempt, unless by some
extraordinary accident the Eng
lish fellah bweaks down irwetWciya
bly,-[Puck,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-13

Blue fishing-to sit on a log all
day, with your line in hand, and new
err get a bite.-[N New Haven Register.
An inventor calls his new en-
CINE sMexico," because it makes 80
many revolutions.--[Corry penn. }
Herald.
Lydia Thompson calls the bald
headed row Of old men in the front
seat "Kind Words" because they
never die.
Matrimonial Mem-It is a very
strange fact that although many mar
ried folks always 60 to bed quarrel,
ing, yet they never fall out.-[Judy.
All the girls have to do to keep
up with the present style of sum-
mer hats is to sit down on them two
or three times Waterloo Observer
You can always tell when the he
70 and heroine in play are man and
wife. They infuse no warmth Or
feeling into the stage kiss Norris
town Herald.
Now is the time when the wise
country cousin. writes to his city re.
lations that neighbor across the
way is stricken with the smallpox.
I--[Haetford Journal.
] The Adventists propose soaring
upward on August 18th. We shall
not attempt to east ridlcule on their
intentions, as this is soar point
with them.-[ New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The Cory (Pa.) Herald makes
use of the following head lines for its
selected funny paragraphs; "Emo.
tional Insanty-Brought on by the
Prevailing Fashion of Starting Fun
ny (?) Department"
"A perspiring young American
lady at q London ball observed to
her partner, 81 feel little dewy."-
. Her partner was mist soon after that
G He thought it marriage proposal
e Il Norristown Herald.
J. III Atlantic City or Cape MAY
g could but manage to get up a respec
). table sea serpent story, what rusl
e there would be to the place fortunat
# enough to have a liar with ingenuit.
: and capacity equal to the occasion
= --[Philadelphia Star.
v "A young lady being taken to tas
/! for tight lacing, said that she resort
7: ed to the practice on purely cconou
'e ical grounds. "How is that1" aske
III her reprover. "Why," she replie'
IN l"I lace tightly simply to prevcl
ne waistfulness." - st. Louis Time
D Journal.
ae THAT land ought to be used
u. cemetery" remarked gentlem:
~ rs the train glided by field in whis
he sand and stones were the princip
RS, productions. Excellent idea," +
IL turned his friend; nothing but Il
~ dead could ever be raised there
> i Boston Post.
). When city gent attempts
. row in a "home- made" boat al
ta glides gently overheard, there
is nothing that will bring out the big
toned conversation that he has pic
ed up among the elite Of the metro
in oils so thoroughly as to have an u
sophisticated native shout from t
IS shore, "How do you like swimmi
on with your boots on?'--[ New Hay
!" Register.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-08-13

BOP Ingersoll has come out in
defense of the Hebrews, and express
sos the opinion that Corbin's action
is ''blgoted, mean and dissracefal. "
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
Simon the SOrcerer and the
Widow Oliver.
She Admits to Loving More Weller
than Wisely.
Simon, Beware Of vlddsrs,


wAsulSoros, D. O., March The case
Of Mary s. Oliver against Hon. Simon
Cameron, for $4,000 damages for breach
of promise Of marriage, came up in the
Circuit Court to-day. The plaintiff testl.
fed that in 1875 Cameron proposed mar.
riage to her and she accepted. Three let.
tets from Cameron were submitted, one OF
them closing with "you will be my vile"
Cameron did not come to the house where
she lived, as he said the people there did
not like It. She saw him quite often In
this city. He would come from Harris.
burg about once in every two weeks until
Congress met, and then she would See
him at committee room. There were
improper privileges'taken with her BY
Cameron during the existence OF their on.
Adjourned,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
The Situation nj tsitka-OmcIal Report OF
RrltINh Conmnnder.

SAS FRAScIsco, March 1.-THE official
report OF the commander OF the British
gunboat Osprey, now at Sitka, has been
received hero by telegraph, via Victoria.
He describes the situation at length, show.
Ing that there ore about $50 whites at
SiIka, Of whom 6S are capable Of hearina
arms. The Indian village adjacent con. =
tains at no time less than 800 warriors and
generally 800, while IN . day or two's
travel In CANOES are several thousand,
closely connected by ties ol Kindred.
Since the withdrawal OF the troops tho
Indians have torn down agood deal OF tho
stoCkade guarding the town, and at the
time Of the arrival Of the Osprey, the
young Chief who had gone to raise the
neighboring tribes to sack the town, was
momentarily expected 10 return.
The report concludes as follows: In con.
cluSion, l beg to state that feel certain
that the presence OF Oliver Walcott and
this ship has 9Yetted serious calamity, ,aId
that 1t Is my firm conviction that hothinP
but permanent protection and some sort
Of government having authority win ena.
blethe white people to live here without
molestation from the Indians, 10 carry on
their trads and levsloPe the res9ltees d
! the country, "''' >
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
Grounds or the Decision.

ST. PAUL, March 1.-THE decision
rendered in the United States District
Court here to-day, Is the case OF the
American Middling Purifier Co. VS.. John
A. Christian, ct. al, being the Minnesota
branch OF patent cases lately tried In ST.
Louis. The decision by Judge Dillon is
that the pateut originally issued covered
only process for an improve.
ment in the art Of manufacturing
flour, and that the claim made under the
relsslea patent is expanded to cover the
process for purifying middlings. This moi
being described IN tho original patent; the
claim is untpHAbIs, and tho pslent so far
as it refers to middlings purified Is void.
The Court does not enter into the ques.
ton Of infringement. Judge Nelson con.
NuFe
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
Madame Ander,on,. ,Enll,.

CHICAGO, March l7.-Madame Anderson
stopped walking shortly before 10 o'clock
tonight, when she should have completed
the 2,0B6 quarter miles in consecutive ten
minutes. In point Of fact she has taken
three rests during her walk, and has failed
to walk twelve OF the quarters. This spoils
the record, but her friends claim that
owing to atriling overlength Of the track
she has done an amount Of walking more
than equal to her task. Her last quarter
mile was done in 2:29, and she Is in good
condition. She begins to walk shortly In
New York,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
Kline Probably Qrgamenta nesseetlnr
Table tp qineian4ti. '''s''ss

CESelSSAT!, March 1.-THE body Of
Kline, who was lynched back Of Newport
last evening, was left hanging by his
lyRphers I'll frozen stiF. The coroner
won't after It early this morning, bur 1t had
disappeared and Is supposed to have been
stolen by parties in the employ OF the
Medical Colleges OF this city. There are
rumors that the Kentucky authorities will
proceed against the lynchers, who made
no great effort to disguise themselves.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
RaIIropa oaleIal. InaIetcd for Embe..Ie


ST. LOUIS, March lT.-Geo. II. Hcatlord,
General Passenger AGENT Of tho Missouri
Pacific Railroad prior to last April, was
brought here to-day from New York by
Deputy Marshal Cation the charge OF en-
bezzling large sum of money from the
railroad company, indictments TO that
effect having been found against him.
Charles L. White. former Auditor OF the
road, was also indicted for the same
ofTense, but hB hasinot been arrested yet.
Heal'ord has been Passenger Agent Of
the Pennsylvania Central Road IN New
York and Boston during the past year,
The amount alleged to have bGen embez.
zled by HeafFord and White Is estimated
at from $1,000 to $4,000.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18

WASHINGTON, March l6.-Mr. Wallace
will take position on two important COM
mittees, Finance and Appropriations, and
Chairman oi Revision Of Laws; The op'
Grafton Of the seniority rule, in placing
Davis, Of West Virginia at the head Of the
Committee on Appropriations is complain
ed Of by some Of the abler Senators, as he
is regarded as not qualified to handle the
appropriation bills OF the Senate, especially
as the Republicans will have tbOir abieSt
men as his colleagues.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18

San FRANCISCO, March l7.-U. 8. Ship
ping Commissioner Stevenson to-day met
a large assembly of ship masters and con.
sisnees, when an agreement was entered
into 10 yepress the collection OF blood
money by'salloy boarding'house keepers,
which has recently heDp revived. me
Chief of Police has taken steps 10 eSnsse thlss
arrest Of all runners attempting to board
shina on entering the harbor.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
Political Crookedness.

CIScrSSATl, MARCH l7.-Therc was con.
siderable excitement in the city tn.lay
over reports that tho Democrats have been
gathering evidence to show that Butter.
worth and Young, Congressman elect
from the First and Second districts OF this
city, were elected by unlawful means, and
that q large number OF atIldavits had been
taken and will be used in Washington to.
morrow TO prevent the seating Of the
above naped gentlemen. 1t Is charged
that many Of the attidavits are signed by
fictitious persons aud that they will not
bear close scrutiny.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18

| ~ tASetstS oVh1tVu W kut 1thn NVukTtbds
The Legislative, Executive, and Judlcia
Appropriation bill. eatf
The Army appropriation bill.
Tho bill to regulate interstate com
merco.
The Steamboat" bill.
The Geneva award bill.
The billto establish postal savings banks
The bill TO repeal the specie resumption
act,
The bill granting pensions to the sur
vivors Of tho Mexican war.
The Sugar" bill
The bill to restrict Chinese immigration.
The Joint Resolution proposinga Con.
stitutional amendment to prohibit the
payment Of diSloyal claims.
The bill to provide for the enforcement
Of the eight hour law.
The proposition to transfer the Indian
Bureau to the War Department
The Mississippi Levee bill, and the bill
providing q commission on the improve
ment Of the Mississippi.
The bill extending the time for the com.
pletion Of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The Brazilian Mail service bill.
The bill to regulate the transportation
otanlmals by railroads. e
The bill to devote the proceeds Of sales
ofpublic lands to educational purposes.
The bill authorizing railroad companies
to construct and maintain lines Of tele-
graph for commercial purposes.
The Burnside Committees army reor-
ganization bill.
The bill to revise the Patent law.
The Japanese and Chinese Indemnity
fund bill.
The various means reported from the
House Committee on Banking and curren.
cy, and many other financial bills both in
the House and Senate.
All bills, besides those specified above,
proposing aid in land or bonds for the con.
struction Of railroads, canals, &C., &c.
The total number Of bills and joint res
olutions introduced in the House Of Rep
resentatives during the Congress which
has just expired is 6,S9G, and for the Sen.
ate is / l,9SG.
The principal measures which became
laws during the last session in addition to
ten regular annual appropriation bills,
were
The bill reducing the tax on tobacco
and otherwise amending the Internal Rev
enue laws.
The Census bill.
The bill to aid the reiunding Of the na.
tional debt by authorizing the issue Of
small treasury certificates.
The bill to prevent the introduction Of
infectious or contagious diseases, and bills
providing for the payment Of arrears Of
pensions for service during the war OF the
rebellion.
All the annual appropriation bills ex-
cept the Legislative, Executive and Ju.
dicial bill and the army bill were signed
by the President, and became laws, to-
gether with the bill making the requisite
appropriation to pay arrears Of pensions.
Whether any Of the bills left over from
the last Congress, other than the appro.
priations, will be taken up by this Con-
gress remains to be seen. Ifthe President
vetoes the Appropriation bill on account
ofthe repeal Of the Supervisors law being
attached to it, the threat Is that Congress
will adjourn and 60 home. 1.-THE Demo.
cracy recede from that repeal project and
decline TO force such an issue, then the
session may last three months, and the
usual amount Of miscellaneous business
may be introduced.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
A Rain of sulphur ut Reading aud Al.
lenInMn nn.

READING, March II. 1t commenced
raining here last night and continued I'M.
Ill about noon to-day. All over the city
can be noticed strange yellowish spots re,
sembling sulphur, supposed to have Oomp
down with the rain.
ALLESfowy, March l7.-There was
found this morning, beneath the snow
which fell last night, substance, in some
places an inch deep, strongly resembling
sulphur. 1t has thu color and smell OF it.
and quantity scraped together and set on
fire burned as readily and emitted the
same fumes as sulphur.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
FOREIGN NEWS.
eRRMANY.
BgRLIN IN PErTY STATE or slEoE.

HBRLlN IN PETTY STATE OF slE1E.
BERLIN, March 1.-THE Reichstag to,
day discussed the report, explanatory oi
the action OF the government In inslitu.
ting petty state siege In Berlin. 4"
Herr LiebkneCht, Socialist, strongly cen.
sured the measure, which he pronounced
wholly uniustifed. He declared that his
party was the party OF reform and not
revolution. He defended the course ol
tho Socialist deputies In not rising from
their seats when cheers were given for the
Emperor.
The President OF the Reichstag, amid
cheers, remarked that his conduct offend.
ed the moral sense Of the Chamber.
Herr Liebknecht continued: "It a Re.
public is established in Germany"
He was unable 10 finish tile sentence In
consequence Of the uproar which, the
words provoked. The President threat.
ened to deprive him Of his right ofspeech,
Count Van Eulenburg explained that
the governments reason for proClaiming
such state OF siege was that Berlin was In
great danger because II was the home OF
socialist agitation, referring to what be
termed assassination and murder. The
epiden ic, he said, investigation showed,
that the instruments OF crime were pre-.
pared in Berlin and East Prussia. Tie
Reichstag took formal cueniSance Of the
report concerning the state oi siege.
KATHERINE KINGDOMS.
The Tdgblaa mentions, under reserve, a
runlor that o friendly understanding will
be announced on Emperor Williams
birthday, whereby the Duke OF Cumher.
land will renounce his claims to the throne
OF Hanover, and Prussia will give her con:
sent TO an early abdication Of the Duke
OF Brunswick in favor OF the Duke OF Cum.
berland
BISMARCK ASD THE EMPEROR THREATENED
WITH ASSASSINATION.
Count Won Gutenberg stated in the
Reichstag that Bismarck and the Emperor
had lately received good many letters
them with assassination. In.
iernal machines had been discovered in
Berlin aud East Prussia, although It was
true that the East Prusslan machine was
only constructed TO secure the inventor an
intormer's fees.
a LITTLE EXCITEMENT.
BERLIN, March l7.-At the close Of Herr
Liebknecht's speech, the President OF the
Reichstag threatened him with forcible
Removal from the Tribune. The tumult at
the time WIS indescribable.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
RnnlnII YlrInaIIr NomInnted.

At the Democratic Congressional caucus
last night ex,Speakcr Randall received the
nomination for reelection, and will un-
doubtedly be chosen in open session to-
day on the first ballot. The Greenbackers
were nowhere with their balance Of power,
just as they will bc nowhere in the great
contest OF 1880. As long as we arc obliged
to have Democratic organization Of Con.
grcss we are glad that Sam Randall is to
be at the helm. lie saved the country
from anarchy, in spite Of his party, on
the memorable night Of March %, 1877.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
sun Inyoiyed in mys,ery.

CtSclxS4rI, March 1.-THE police have
not yot succeeded in uarqvollips the
mystery surrounding the death Of Harry
Baldwin. schaller who was supposed to
have fred the fatal shot was released on
5000 bail. Tho pistol he used was SO
calibre, while the ball extracted from
Baldwins head was only % calibrc.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18

0TTowA, March 17.-No procession to.
day. This evening the St, Fatrick's Socie.
ty and st. Patrick's Literary Society gave
concerts. His excellency Governor.Ge Zen.
eral and H. K. H. Princess Louise, will be
present at the latter,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
VOLUME XXvu.-NUMBER lis.

the house, and soon the suffering woman
was left with her husband aud loved ones,
donbly shocked by the crime and the re-
trlbution which was about to be meted
out 10 the brute who had caused It. Then
there was brief consultation among the
stalwart Kentucky farmers who had him
in charge, and they moved of down the
pike a couple Of hundred yards or 80 from
the house 10 ...L ------
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
ENGLAND.
ESTIMATED DAMAGE AT szEcEplN.

LONDON, March 1.-THE damage at
szegedin is estimated at about El 100000
The story that Col. Pearson had been
attacked, at Ekowe, by a large force OF
Zulus, and that the latter was defeated
with an enormous loss, Is utterly false. 1t
was probably circulated by the Zulus 10
delay the dispatch Of assistance to Ekowe.
The Orange Free State Government has
refused aid, or to permit It's citizens to aid
the British against the Zulus on constitu-
tional ground.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
EGYPT.


CAlRo, March II. The Khedive has re.
quested Rothschilds to accept the modif.
cation Of the securities agreed on fora new
lOsn, Rothschilds have declined, and
given notice Of their intention to suspend
advances. The Khediys threatens Them
with legal proceedings.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18

Tho hands tied, his hat was removed
disclosing q bald head not badly SHAPED
black hair rather long and standing well
out from the head, dark eye.brows and and
dark complexion, black chin whiskets, ia a
nose slightly Roman; but upon the face
scarcely q sign OF tear, not a tremor no.
ticeable, he calmly awaited the fate which
ne knew could not be eaverted. There was
an effort to blindfold him, but this was
abandoned. Then the rope was nut
round his neck and slipped down tightly
and drown up from above so that there
SI Tss little "slaOk" left to allow for the drop.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
pspisa ths petition.

MILwAuxEE, March l7.-In The United
States Court, this afternoon, Judge Dyer
rendered decision In the Mcdonald. Lam
othe. Thompson habeas corpus case deny
Ing the prayer Of the petitioners for die
charge from custody,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18
KLINE ASsRRrs ms INNocENcE.

Mounted beside Kline, the hanpman
s%id: Now, do you want to say anything
"Are you guilty or not guilty?" said
some one from the crowd.
II am not guilty" said Kline, and a hoot
OF derision went up from the crowd, which
"Who is, then?" asked the hapgman.
"a man named Albert Jones, :" replied
Kline, we came 10 the Highlands 10.
Geuth!SS,tt 10y that day, and he told me he did it"
What is the use Of telling us thls?" Der.
sisted the hangman. 1--WE know YOU are
the man you have confessed It, tho Woman
has identified you and the watches we're
found upon SeA. Why don't You confess
=, ss,,SSS Sas not DIE with this lie upon your
This is no time for a confession. !" re.
piled Kline; this is.not law"
"Thts Is Kentucky law" was the reply.
Now continued the hangman. "i have
taken you out Of jail, taken you to the wo.
man, who has Identified you, given you q
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-03-18

NASHVILLE, March l7.-Fitty.two moon.
SINNERS delivered three revenue prisoners
out Of the HartsvIlle jail yesterday morn
Ing and took away a wagon and team
Which had been seized by Revenue
Officers, 80