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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
The Model Subscriber.

''Good morning, sir; Mr.. Editor, how ART
your folks to-day?
l owe for your next years paper; thought
I'd come and pay,
And Jones is gOin' to take it, and this is his
money here,
shut down lendin it to him, and then coax
ed him to try it year.
And here are few items that happened last
week in our town,
thought they looked good for the paper, so
just noted him down.
And here's bushel of russets my wife picked
expressly for you,
A small bunch of flowers from Jennie, she
thought she must do something too.
You're doin' the politics bully, as all our
family agree,
Just keep your old goose-quiIl 1appin" and
give them good one for me.
And now you are chock full of business and
| won't be takin' your time,
I've things of my own must tend to-good
day, sir, believe l will climb"
The editor sat in his sanctum, and brought
down his fist with a thump,
'God bless that old farmer" he muttered,
''hes regular jolly trump"
And It's thus with our noble profession, and
thus it will ever be still.
There are some who appreciate its labor, and
some who perhaps never will
But in the great time that is coming, when
Gabriers trumpet shall sound,
And they who have labored and rested shall
come from the quivering ground.
And they who have striven and suffered to
teach and ennoble the race,
Shall march to the front of the column, each
one in his God-given place.
As they march through the gates of the city,
with proud, victorious tread,
The editor and his assistants will not be far
from its head.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
Good Money Regulates It's Own
Vnlrlmc.

If more money were needed in this
country, as some fancy, we should have
more. For we use specie, and our prices
are gold prices. When the level is lower
here than elsewhere, gold will flow in
when it is higher, gold will flow out.
Resumption has cut away the barrier
between our money and that of the rest
of the world, and now, if we want more,
more will come. There is plan to cut
through the sands which separate the
sea from the great African desert.
Streams of some size now flow into that
low basin, but are lost in its sands. Let
in the waters of all the oceans. engineers
say, and Il new sea will I've created, and
kept always full. Resumption of specie
payments in this country was feat of
the same sort. 1t opened to us all the
specie of the world, which will now reg
ulate our supply according to our needs.
In place Of dreary desert of stagnation,
it has brought new life, and thrift, and
commerce. The African sea will have
two sources of supply, the ocean and the
rivers that flow into the basin. Our cur
rency also has a double supply; it is
open to the worlds monetary ocean, and
streams Of new notes without limit can
be poured into it by the banks. Of an
excess of notes, there is possibility.
Notes might so multiply as to fall in
value, stop redemption, and drive out
specie. How far we are guarded against
that danger will be asked hereafter.
But of Il lack Of currency, as long as
notes are paid in gold on demand, there
is no possibility. If more notes are
though to be needed for local use, the
banks will issue them. If more specie
is needed, either for circulation in addi-
tion to the notes, OF as Il reserve against
legal tenders, it will come under natural
laws, and according to our needs.
This is not fancy, but fact, as our ex-
perience fully proves. Resumption has
come, because the barrier of false prices
was cut away between the industries of
this and other countries, so that gold
was brought hither. and the yield from
our mines was kept here. The cost of
raising wheat, corn and cotton, of pro-
ducing provisions, petroleum and other
articles, and of moving them to the sea,
was so reduced, and the yield of them
was so increaeed, that it became more
profitable to send them abroad than
gold. So we paid off foreign debts with
our products, and in the process gave
good work to hosts of men who had
been idle, and piled up the gold from
our mines and from abroad until all
doubt that the United States could pay
its notes was removed. Until we have
an excess of money, prices must remain
at such u level that we shall sell more
to other nations than we buy from them,
and more debts will be paid, or more
gold will come from abroad So foreign
debts amounting to many millions have
been paid since the year began, and some
shipments of gold from Paris and Lon
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
SMOKY PROSPECT.

WASHINGTON, September 17.-At no
time since the October elections of 1872,
has there been such profound discourage
ment among the Democrats at the Ma
tional Capital as now. Some of the more
sanguine of the party attempt to take
courage from the old adage that the
darkest hour is just before the day
They say that if this be true, there is
every reason for hopefulness. Their
chances of success in next year are re-
garded as forty per cent. less than a
month ago. III speaking of this,a promi-
nent Democrat here says that had they
won California and Name, they would
have swept the country, or enough of it
to put them in power next year. But he
says they have received three stunning
blows to begin with-first the California
election, second The Maine election, and
third, the split of New York Demo
cracy, which is equal to defeat to begin
with. All this taken together, makes a
bad outlook for the Democracy at the
very time when they wish most to have
a show of strength. It's regarded here.
however, that the Democrats have one
thing to be thankful for at least, and
that is that the general Congressional
elections do not occur this fall, else they
would almost certainly lose Congress, as
is pretty truly indicated in California
and in Maine.--Cincinnati Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

don to New York have been made since
August l. Even if there should be an
excess of money here, the first effect
would be an undue advance in prices
the country would sell less and buy
more; gold would soon be wanted for
export, and some notes would be hand
ed in for payment. In short time legal
tenders would grow scarce, and prices
would fall back to proper level. Thus
some shipments of gold to Europe in
June We're each preceded, within day
or two, by closely corresponding redemp-
ton of notes at the Treasury, and, small
as the movement was, it probably help
ed to stop too rapid advance in prices
of which there had been signs. As long
as notes are redeemed on demand in
gold. it may be hoped that our currency
will have the self-regulating faculty of
hard money, which never loses the one
royal virtue of going surely and swiftly
where it is needed.
As long as prices here are ruled by
this great regulator of the worlds mark
cts. industry rnd trade will have a
healthy growth. OF growth that was
not healthy, we had more than enough
in the times of bad money and false
prices. Vast sums were worse than
wasted in making or growing things
that could not be sold, in laying too
many miles Of railroad. opening too
many coal mines, and building too many
iron and other mills. What good would
it do to bring into country settlement
ten lawyers, or twenty blacksmiths,
where one could do all the work? Bad
money and ill-regulated prices gave un-
due profits to some kinds of industry or
trade-to middle-men aud transporters
especially. Thus more means and more
labor were drawn into the very channels
where they were least needed, and our
industry went on from bad to worse,
getting more ill-adjusted every year, un-
til the crash came. Long prOstration
has forced return to a more healthy
proportion of occupations, 1t is said
that 10000 miners have gone from
Eastern coal regions to Westsrn farms;
a host of dealers have ceased trading
and gone to producing: and so from
other overcrowded occupations men have
gone by the thousand to try new fields.
No one can tell how much suffering and
waste would have been prevented, had
this misdirection Of labor and capital
been stopped at the outset. Hard money,
by going where tits most need, has great
power to prevent this mischief; it stops
an unnatural rise of prices, in any cOun-
try or in any brance of industry or trade,
keeps speculation within safer bounds,
limits the charges of transpOrters and
the gains of middle-men, and 50 checks
diseased or disorderly growth. If good
money should serve no other purpose
than to save this country hereafter from
such frightful waste Of means and
work as we have seen, it will prove an
incalculable blessing N. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
A Sweet Voice.

There is no power Of love so hard to
get and keep as kind voice. A hand is
deaf and dumb. 1t may be rough in
flesh and blood, yet do the work Of a soft
heart, and do it with soft touch. But
there is no one thing that love so much
needs as a sweet voice to tell what it
means and feels, and it is hard to get
and keep it in the right tone. One must
start in youth, and be on the watch
night and day, at work and play, to get
and keep voice that shall speak at all
times the thought of kind heart. But
this is the time when sharp voice is
most apt to be got. You often hear
boys and girls say words at play with a
quick sharp tone, as if it were the snap
Of d whip. When one of them gets veX-
ed, you will hear voice that sounds as
if it were made up of a snarl. a whine
and bark. Such voice often speaks
worse than the heart feels. 1t shows
more ill-will in the tone than in the
words. 1t is often in mirth that one
gets voice or tone that is sharp, and
it sticks to him through life, and stirs
up i'll will and grief, and falls like a
drop of gall upon the sweet joys at
home. Such as these get sharp home
voice for use, and keep their best voice
for those they meet elsewhere, just as
they would keep their best cakes or pies
for guests, and all the sour food for their
own board. would say to all girls
and boys, use your best voice at home.
Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great
price, for it will be worth more to you
in days to come than the best pearl
in the sea. A kind voice is a joy like a
lark's song to hearth and home. 1t is
light that sings as well as shines. Train
it to sweet tones now, and it will keep
tuned through life"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

The corn crop of this country in 1878
was $3.50, 100000 bushels. The crop Of
1879 will probably equal if not exceed
the crop of 1878. The export Of corn
from this country from September 1,
1878. to August 81, 1879, will probably
reach S5,OOO,OOO bushels. Fed to swine
and cattle slaughtered for export So
100000 bushels more, and in the manu-
facture Of distilled spirits, for export,
5000, 900 to 100000 additional bushels,
making the export Of corn. directly and
otherwise, 141, ,OOO, 900 to 14S, 100000 bush
els, thus leaving over 1,1OO.OOO,OOO BUSH
els for home consumption.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
THERE is great enthusiasm in Kansas

THERE is great enthusiasm in Kansas
over the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
settlement Of the State, and many dis
tinguished speakers are reviving the
memories of the DAYS when free-soilers
and border ruffiains met in conflict.
There is no more impressive lesson of
the power Of public opinion than the
early history of Kansas. 1t was not the
struggles Of the free-Soilers on her soil
that saved the State from being coerced
into slavery, but the force of public
opinion in other States. The Democrat
ic party was at its period of greatest
strength when the Kansas question came
to the front. The Wing party was al
NEST extinct. all the West was Demo-
cratic, and a couple of New England
States and few Southern were the last
strongholds of the opposition. Upon
the Kansas issue the Republican party
entered into national politics. and the
elections Of IS5S, which followed the dis
persal of the Lecompton legislature by
the federal troops, saw the North in re-
volt against Democracy. The issue was
drawn across the regular Democratic
organization, and caused it to split in
two, and in 1860 the Republican nation
al ticket was elected. The public Opin-
ion that condemns the use of the troops
to coerce the people of a Territory or
State also condemns and will surely
punish crimes against the ballot-box, ,and
not the bayonet, will eventually secure
the suppressed vote of the bulldozed
regions its privilege to the free exercise
Of the right of suffrrge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

THE former days were as funny as
these in many respects. In one at least
they differed. Methodist ministers itin-
Grated much more than they do now and
went much more cheerfully wherever
they were sent.
Old PhineaS Rice was one of the quaint
types of itinerants. He had hard patch
to cultivate once, and when he made his
report to the conference following he
reported the church "looking up"
The Bishop presiding expressed his
pleasure, but asked for an explanation,
because no one expected success in that
parish.
DR.. Rice was equal to the occasion,
and added: "Well Bishop, the church is
on its back, and cannot look any other
way"
There was a roar of laughter all over
the Conference.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
Elections TO Come Yet this Year.

Ohio, October 14th, State officers and
members of the Legislature.
Iowa, October IA, State officers and
members of the Legislature.
Maryland, November 4, State officers
and members Of the Legislature.
Massachusetts,, November 4, State Of
ficers ard members of the Legislature.
Minnesota, November 4, State officers
and members of the Legislature.
New York, November 4, State officers
and members of the Legislature.
Wisconsin. November 4, State officers
and members of the Legislature.
Mississippi, November 4, members OF
the Legislature.
New Jersey, November 4, members of
the Legislature.
Pennsylvania, November 4, State Off
GERS and members Of the Legislature.
Louisiana, December 2, on the adop-
tiOn of the new Constitution
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
W ise Words.

There is no tomorrow. Though Iefore our
face
The shadow named so stretches, We always
Fail to O'eTtsks it, hasten as we may;
God only gives one island inch of space
Betwixt the eternities as standing place,
Where each may work-the inexorable to day.
The secret pleasure of a generous act
is the great mans bribe-Dryden.
Peace is such precious jewel that 1
would give anything for it but truth
Matthew Henry.
As we must render an account of eve
~ idle word, so must we likewise of our
idle silence.-AmbrOse.
Let friendship creep gently to height;
if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself
out of breath.-Fuller.
There cannot be a greater treachery
than first to raise confidence and then
to deceive it.-SpectatOr.
Every person has two educations-one
which he has received from others, and
one more important, which he gives
himself.
The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from something which was
thought Of too little Importance to be at
tended to.-Bishop Butler.
knowledge is power" 1t is truth
that is glorious, but at the same time
terrible. knowledge is power, power
for good OF evil.-F. w. Robertson.
Our starving against nature is like
holding weathercOck with ones hand;
as soon as the force is taken off it veers
again with the wind.--ThOmaS Adam.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
New Series-Vol. 10. No. 81.

thus nullifying the decision of the peO-
| pie. 1t did the same thing for Cincin-
natl, and for the same reason, by wiping
out its most important municipal Board
and clothing the Judge of the Police
Court with the appointment of Commits
siOners to discharge the duties the Board
of Public Works had been elected by the
people to perform. Similar and worse
outrageS were attempted on the people
of other cities and towns of the State,
and only failed through apprehension
that the Columbus Caucus was man.
aging the party to the edge of catastI o.
phe. Mr.. Scott is right in his criticism
when he says that the principle under
| lying this policy is the same that governs
in Mississippi politics, the difference be-
ing that the Ohio mode is better for the
candidates and that of Mississippi more
economical.
But it is claimed for the Democrats
that whatever Outrages they may have
committed on popular rights; however
much they have disregarded the popular
will, and set aside the verdict of the bal
lOt-bOX, they have at least done their
work with greater economy. General
Americas Vespucius Rice, we believe,
claims credit for the recent Legislature
of saving over two millions of dollars
to the taxpayers of Ohio. This claim is
made the subject of q close analysis BY
Mr.. Scott. The following tabulated
statement sets forth the whole matter,
taking one year of Republican manage
ment for comparison with correspond
ing year of Democratic administration /:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

cessOr be Of the same political complex
ion. They propose to have a new deal,
and send to Columbus men who, having
rectitied the wrongs and outrages COM
mitted by the recent concern. will speed
lily make such appropriations and pass
such laws As are exigent, and go before
it is time to plant corn and put in oats.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
-AoN

Our daily familiar life Is but hiding
of ourselves from each other behind Il
scene of trivial words and deeds, and
those who sit with us at the same hearth
are often the farthest off from the deep
human soul within us, full of unspoken
evil and unacted good.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

TUE United States have $4,000 -four
ing mills, affording employment to more
than 10000 persons. Their annual pro
duct Of flour is moro than 50,000,Oe0 bar
tells, some Of the large mills producing
1000 barrels day. OF the above amount
we send abroad 100000 barrels. be
sides the large amount of wheat export
ed in bulk. This is sent chiefly from
California
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
AnsWer Ihis.

Did you evor know any person to be
i'll, without inactiOn of the Stomach, ,Liv-
er or Kidneys, or did you ever know one
who was well when either was Obstruct-
ed or inactive; and did you ever know
or hear of any case of the kind that Hop
Bitters would not cure? Ask your
neighbor this same question.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
Published Every Thursda,
Belmont County onloiaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-ThOmas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex c. Darrah.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditof-Wiliam n. COff1and.
Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Robert NJ. Eaton.
RecOrder-James A. Barnes.
CommissioDers-A. W. Anderson, l. j
Potts, Henry Frasher.
Surveyor-Chslkley Dawson.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infrmary Observation-Disclosures Taylor,
Wn. Parkinson, Thomas Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

Extensive preparations are being
made at San Francisco for the reception
Of General Grant. The steamer City Of
Toxic, on which he is to arrive. will be
met outside, headed by the yacht squad
ron and steamers with the Reception
Committee of citizens on board. Salutes
will be fired from the forts and the city
decorated in honor of the occasion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

a Greek maid, being asked what for
tune she would bring her husband, re-
piled: 81 will bring him what gold can
not purchases heart unspotted, vir-
tue without stain, which is all that
descended to me from my parents"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

A whistle fiend has turned and tuned
up. He challenges any man to whistle
with him for 800 side. We have
boy in this neighbOrhOOd who could
whistle him to death in just six hours
and a half
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

The Greenbackers Of Massachusetts,
met at Boston on Friday. adopted a plat
form, and nominated Benjamin f. But
ler for Governor, and Wendell Phillips
for Lieutenant Governor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

A man in Eaton, Miss. has sold this
year over 10000 white pond-lilies. Of
this number 1900 were disposed OF in
Boston.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

Beware of cards. Many young man.
saws the Boston Transcript, has fallen
into the hands of a knave and come with
| in an ace Of going to the duce.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25
Masonic Directory.


DELMONT LODGE, Ne. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be
fers full moon. &
]. ?. CHARLRSwoRTH, W. NJ.
N. 7. CoFRLAHB, Sec'y.
CT. CLAIRSYILLE CHAPTER, Ne. II,
y Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tioDs, first Friday Of each month.
C. ". CARROLL, Il. P.
JEsss B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R. & S. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. r. BUMGARNER, G. d.
GEO. MITCHELL, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDBRY, No. 26, K +.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday Of each
month. F. D. BAILEY, Z. c..
w. n. COPELAND, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

The son Of coffee and spice dealer
was asked at school where coffee came
from. and the reply was: Father said
mustn't tell, and he'll lick me If lido.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

AN exchange contains the following
scraps Of Bible truth:
The country is indebted to the Repup-
lican party for
The homestead act
The money order system.
The registered letter system.
The fast mails.
The Pacific Railroad.
A uniform currency.
The abolition of slavery.
The suppression of rebellion.
The high standard of the national
credit.
Specie resumption.
The nation.
They country is indebted to the Dem
ocratic party for
The civil war.
The national debt.
Burdensome taxation.
Southern claims.
Threatening legislation which paral-
yes trade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

In some parts of Texas, the streams
are so dry that the fish have to wear
busters to keep their cloths from being
spoiled.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

No woman was ever made round
shouldered at the wash-tub. and no man
ever became hump-backed from splitting
wood at the family pile.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

Tramps would be more numerous tnan
ever were it not for the self-saerihcing
women of the land who marry and sup
port so many.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-25

Trains leaving Columbu, at ~ p m and
25 IN, run daily.
Through Chicago Express leaves Columb bus
daily except sunday at 40 IN with sleep>
Ing cars attached and arrives in Chicago ut
so next morning. Berths can be secured In
buR
PulIuIan's Palace Drawing Roam Sleeping
Cars through without change from Steuben>
Will e and Columbus to Cincinnati, Louisville,
Indianapolis and st LouIs.
For through Tickets, Baggage Checks Sleep
ing Car accommodations, and any further in.
formation, apply To JOS BELLEVILLE,
Ticket Agent at Pan handle Depot, foot OF
Eleventh street, or City Ticket Office, under
Mcclure House. Wheeling.
ID w CALDWELL.
Genn Manager, Columbus O.
s M FELTON,, Jr,
Gen' Supt, Pittsburgh, Pa.
vi OBRIEN,
Gen'l Pass. and Ticket Agent, Columbus, o.