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UNSEATING A SENATOR.
The Democratic Fiat that Mr
kellogg Must Go.

| Special to Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.-The Demo
cratic members of the Senate Committee
of Privileges and Elections have pri-
vately decided to report in favor of un
seating Senator Kellogg. As yet no
formal action has been taken on this
subject in the full committee, but a
prominent Democratic member of the
committee said that Kellogg would be
undoubtedly out of the Senate before the
end of February. The claim Of the
Democratic members of the committee
is that the testimony of Mr.. Kelloggs
own witnesses, as taken in Louisiana,
was of itself sufficient to justify the
Senate in deciding against him.
When the investigation of this case,
during the extra session, closed, the
Democrats on the committee and in the
Senate generally felt that Mr.. Spofford's
own witnesses had been so thoroughly
broken down and had so completely dis
credited themselves that it became a
matter of serious consideration whether
the majority side of the Senate could
afford to unseat Mr.. Kellogg, after such
an utter failure on the part Of Mr.. Spof-
| ford'S chosen witnesses. There was a
feeling that the course of these witnesses
was so outrageous, as well as so gro
tesque, that any attempt on the part of
the Democrats to argue the case on the
floor of the Senate would, under the
treatment of the case by such men as
Edmunds, COnkling, and Blaine, cover
the managers of the case and their party
with ridicule in the eyes of the whole ma
tion. 1t is now claimed that the testi-
mony lately taken in New Orleans pre-
sents strong case against Mr.. Kellogg,
which is independent of the witness of
Mr.. Spofford, and which is at the same
time quite sufficient to justify the De-
mocracy in putting him out of the Sem
ate.
The exact shape which will he given
to the resolution to be presented by the
committee has not been determined
Some favor resolution setting forth
the facts claimed to have been establish
ed against Mr.. Kellogg, and ending by
declaring his seat vacant, the result of
which would be to obtain a new Demo-
cratic Senator at the hands of the re-
Gently elected Democratic Legislature.
The other plan involves resolution de-
claring that Mr.. Kellogg was not legally
elected to the Senate, and that Mr.. Spot
ford was so elected, and is, therefore, en-
titled to the seat at present held by Mr..
Kellogg.
1t is well understood that, quite indie
pendent of the merits of this case, the
action which has at last been decided
upon has been largely Influenced by the
belief that the political control of the
Senate in 1881 may depend upon the
question whether Kellogg is allowed to
remain or whether Democrat is now
put in his place.
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WITH a very few honorable eXeep-
tions, the Democratic press of the eOul:-
try sustains the Milne crime. This was
to be expected, and it is not subject
for Republican regret, so far as its par
tisan effect is concerned. This Iractic
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

AT seven o'clock Wednesday morning
of last week the thermometer ut Chiea-
go indicated 1Oo above zero. fall of
10 . at Omaha % above zero, fall of
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

TIE Republican National Committee
met in Washington, Wednesday, elected
Senator Cameron chairman THAT place
being left vacant by the death of Senator
Chandler), and Thomas Keogh, secretary,
Mr.. R. C. Mccormick resigning. They
decided to hold the National Republics L
Convention June Sd, 1880. The election
of Mr.. Cameron is not considered favor
able to any particular candidate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

CHRISTIAN FUNCH, the wealthy New
York shipping merchant who died Sum
day, leaves 25O,0OO Danish crowns to his
brother David, and 125,OOO Danish
crowns to his sister, Caroline Fredericka
BlOm, and directs that his body be en-
balmed, put in an iron coffin, and taken
to Milan, where it shall be eremated. He
asks to be placed in an urn and buried
at Copenhagen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
i Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 900 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday 2 pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
u1Rev. J. Fl. Conkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: IL am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday z
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday p m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
~ Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School 10 am. Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 8 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month. p. M.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2 pm. Young women's prayer meet.
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, 2 pm.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25
Belmont County on1ciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk Of COurts-Alex c. Darrah.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditor-Willism n. Coffiand.
characterization Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Robert N. Eaton.
Recorder-James A. Barnes.
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Potts, Henry Frasher.
SurVeyor-Chalkley Dawson.
CoroHer-E. B. Kennedy.
lnnrnary Directors-Nsthaniel Taylor
Wn. Parkinson, Thomas Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
I879-8o.
Belmont County. ohio,

Belmont County, Ohio.
Second SATURDAY OF OctOber. st. Clalrsvills
First Saturday of Novem ber, bridgeport.
Third Saturday OF November, St. CiasrsgiIle
Secon q Saturday OF December, BellaITe-
First Saturday OF January, BarBesville.
First Saturday Of February, Glencoe.
First Saturday OF March. ST ClairsviIle.
Third saturday of March, BeIlaire.
second saturday OF April. Martins Ferry.
First Saturday VI May. Morristown.
Fourth Saturday OF May. St. Clairsville.
Third Saturday of June, Beilaire.
Also at close of Institute in Belmont.
Examinations begin at O'Clock. AN.
Piomptness is expected.
Certificates will not be antedated nor time
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Testimonials of character are erequired If ap
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JEo. T. DUFF fEx. Board.
]. NJ. YARNELL.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

81 My homestead by st. Clairsyille
is for sale, and my farm is for sale or
rent. l will sell town lots ON Railroad
street. Good titles given to all the
above property and easy payments
III 20 tf) JAMES WEIR.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25
The Christmas Tree.
By ". z. Eszeltcn.

l.
When forest leaves have fallen,
And all the ruddy dyes
OF cOlOr-sated autumn
Have faded to the eyes;
When autumn flowers have perishe
And grasses withered be,
There's one thing immortal
1t is the Christmas Tree.
The babbling brook is silent,
And huShed its busy tongue
The icy hand of winter
Has stilled the songs it sung;
For death is in the landscape,
Save only where l see
One green spire point to heaven
1t is the Christmas Tree.
What though the binding snow
storm
Across the meadow drive
To wrap a shroud about thee
And bury thee alive,
/ know that in the morning
The sun will set thee free,
And green above the snow bank
Shall rise the Christmas Tree.
| love thy cloSe-knit branches,
Thy needles and thy cones,
Thy rugged nature burying
The frostS of frigid zones;
'Tis meet that in the season
When all is dead but thee.
Thy life should be the symbol
OF Christ's, o Christmas Tree.
When winter SHOWS have fallen
And Nature, rObed in white,
RepOses, cold and lifeless,
One faithful acolyte
OF all her tram is left her,
And one, it seems to me,
The fairest of the forest -
1t is the Christmas Tree.
But soon the stalwart Woodman,
With lusty axe. shall come,
And, with stroke unerring.
Shall lay the cold and dumb.
Thy fellows of the forest
Shall chant in minor key
n SOlellln MlSer6Te
To thee, o Christmas Tree!
The gales shall speed the tidings;
The story shall round
To oak and elm and maple,
And for thy fatal wound
The ancient weeping willow
Shall bend its supple knee
I'm, frr.5nf lnr-1Iu
Should die, o Christmas Tree.
Upon his brawny shoulders,
Unmindful of thy pain,
The woodsman home shall bear the
And thou shalt plead in vain
As pleaded once our Saviour
In greater agony
Thy death is but the symbol
OF Christ's, o Christmas Tree!
When dusky night has fallen
And softly uShered in
The happy hours of Christmas,
And Christmas joys begin;
When home becomes the circle
That draws all merrily,
There's one thing ne'er forgotten
1t is the Christmas Tree.
Now gentle hands upliIt thee;
Erect and firm once more
Thy head is raised to hea IN,
Majestic as of yore;
Now round about thy branches
The children dance in glee,
And sing Christmas carol
To thee, o Christmas Tree!
For suddenly transfgured,
Thy splendor fills the room,
As filled His holy presence
The resurrection tomb;
With precious Christmas offerings
Thy boughs bend gracefully
Most fruitful of the forest
Art thou, o Christmas Treel
o King-tree of the forest,
What recompense is thine
For sore humiliation
Thy life to intertwine
With His, of all most precious!
Who would not envy thee!
Thy life is still the symbol
OF Christ's, o Christmas Treel
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

Ministers and church members gener-
ally, of Cleveland, Ohio, are fighting the
proposed taxation of church property.
The churches of that city are valued at
S4,OO0,OOO, and if taxed would add $780,
600 to the revenue.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

Thirteen participants in the manage
ment and Office of the Louisiana State
Lottery Company, in New York, were
arrested on Saturday. Books, tickets
and other paraphernalia of the business
seized.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-12-25

A WHALE, fifty feet long, got into
Lynnhaven Bay, near Norfolk, Va, and
getting out of the channel was captured
by countrymen.
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-07-05

Tin full, Ston,orys calcitrans),
while the house-fly is Musca
domestica. Those who have expert
enced the sharp bite of this savage fly
can appreciate TO feeble extent the
suffering of q tired horse exposed the
whole aight to its incessant, blood
thirsty attacks. 1t is this which causes
the constant stamping which " murders
sleep" in the homestead upon those
nights when the air is close and heavy,
and the farmer writhes upon his bed.
ionorantly matchmaking the noise
made by his suffering team. This may
be prevented by few minutes work in
the evening. The horses may be brought
into the yard and a pailtul of water, a
sponge, and piece of carbolic or whale
oil SOAP provided. First with a corn
broom the legs of tho horse should be
washed down, and then the whole body
rubbed off with handful of straw dip
ped in water; the sponge is then well
soaped and passed over the whole body,
leaving some soap-suds to dry upon the
skin. This cools the horse, removes
the filth from the hide, and drives of
flies, all of which are conducive to its
comfort and rest. The change will be
both conspicuous and agreeable, and the
team, refreshed with q good night'srest,
will do better work the next day with
far less exhaustion.
A point that should not be neglected
at this season is to see that the harness
does not chafe or gall the skin. Few
men are intentionally cruel or inhuman,
and the sorely CALLED backs and shout
ders which result from ill-fitting or un-
clean harness and collars are permitted.
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because it is supposed they can not be
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BY washing the parts of the skin expos
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the cultivation of kindly feeling and at
tentive care to ones domestic animals
from the "harmless necessary cat "
upward to the noble horse, is conducive
to higher culture of the best DISPOSE
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and thus q man merciful to his beast
may be truly upright and generous
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-New York Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-07-05
An Old Time Bloody Duel.

Among the many bloody duels on rec
ord as having been fought by Congress-
men was one in which James Jackson
of Georgia-who had been and was
afterward United States Senator-was
the challenged party. He was can
Englishman," like the hero of " Pima
fore," by birth, but he came to Savan-
nah when q lad, studied law, was lead
ing Free-Mason, and fought gallantly
in the Revolutionary War. He killed
Lieut.. Gov. Wells in 1850 in duel, and
was engaged in several other "afiairs
of honor" until he finally determined
to accept challenge on such terms as
would make it his last duel. So he pre-.
scribed as the terms that each party,
armed with a double-barreled shotgun
loaded with buckshot, and with hunt
ing-knife, should row himself in skiff
to designated points on opposite sides
of the Savannah River. When the city
clock struck u each party should start
and row his skiff to q small island in
the middle of the river, which was
wooded and covered with underbrush.
On arriving at the island, each party
was to moor his skiff, stand By it for ten
minutes, and then go about on the island
till the meeting took place. The Sec
onds waited on the main land until
after o'clock, when they heard three
gun-shots and loud and angry cries.
Then all was still. At daylight, as had
been agreed upon, the seconds went to
the island, and found Jackson lying on
the ground, insensible from the loss Of
blood, and his antagonist lying across,
him, dead. Jackson recovered, bat
would never relate his experience on
that night, nor was he ever challenged
again. He died in this city, while serv-
ing his second term as United States
Senator, March 10, l606.-Washington
Letter 10 Boston Journal.