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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

THERE is one portion of the speech OF
Gen. Garfield which the Democrats find
great difficulty in answering. 1t is the
point that, in their course on the army
at the polls clause of the army appropri.
alton bill, they are squarely doubling on
their own record. Says the Chicago
Times:
"a remarkable part of this remarkable
speech, which greatly amazed the South.
ern Brigadiers, was that which acquaint.
ed them with the fact that this very au-
thOrization of the use of the army to
keep the peace at elections, the repeal OF
which is now coupled by the BOurbOns
with the threat of starving the govern
ment to death, was passed through both
houses, not only with the free consent of
the Bourbon members, but by their votes
in favor of the measure. 1t was passed
in 1865. The record of the proceedings
exhibits the following facts:
81. That every Democrat who voted In
the House voted for it.
80. That more Democratic members
than Republican members of the House
voted for it.
IS. That every Senator called Demo
crat voted for it.
"a. That ell the votes against it in the
house were given by members called
Republicans.
"The Times has taken pains 10 exan-
inc the record, and finds that every one
of these statements is according to the
fact. Among the Democratic members
of the House who voted for it were the
following: Samuel J. Randall. now
Speaker Of the House; George ii. Pen
dleton, now Senator from Ohio; Daniel
w. voorhees,, now Senator from Indi-
ana; Francis Herman, now Senator from
New ork; Fernando Wood, Samuel Cox,
and James Brooks, of New York; John
r. Eden, James C. Allen, w. r. MOrri-
son, Lewis w. Ross, and Anthony L.
Knapp, of Illinois; Chas. A. Eldridge, of
Wisconsin; William s. Holman, of Indi-
ana; Alexander Long, of Ohio; ]. E.
English, of Connecticut.
1t is said that Mr.. Hurd and others are
going to reply, hereafter, to the exceed
ingly strong speech OF Mr.. Garfield
They purpose showing that he has been
guilty of cOnsistencies. What of it?
Inconsistencies can be shown against any
man who has taken prominent part in
Congress. 1t is searching remark OF
Macaulay's that while logic admits of nc
compromise, compromise is the essence
of politics. Men work at politics as q
game of what is expedient and practica-
BILE. If they have theories developed
and symmetrical, they find the friction is
so great that they can not be carried out
So they work to get what they can, and
bide their time for the rest. Mr.. Gar
field has undoubtedly done several
things that he would not have done if he
had been the sole legislator. So has eve
ry man who is leader
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

THE new officers Of the Senate are
commencing to enjoy some of the sweets
Of public position beyond the receipts Of
handsome salaries and dispensation of
patronage. Secretary Burch is charged
with having once taken $4,000 for ma
nipulating telegraphic dispatches in the
interest of operators in Tennessee bonds
while he was editor of the Nashville
American, and had an opportunity of
coloring the information that went to
the people. The legislature investi-
gated the matter. and we believe that
the facts are of record Burch having
thus been disposed of, it is now the turn
of Richard j. Bright, the new Sergeant
alarms, to have the lights turned on
the dark spots in his past career. In this
ease also there is documentary and Off
cial evidence produced. In 1871 Bright,
who was then proprietor Of the Indianap-
oils Herald, was elected State Printer
by the Indiana legislature, and within
two months he sent in bills for paper to
the amount of $21,44s. Such an extra
ordinary account aroused suspicion that
Mr.. Bright might be a little crooked in
his official ways, and he was called upon
for an explanation. His answer was
charmingly nonchalant article in his
journal, which he prefaced with the
couplet-
"When you get good thing, save it, save il;
When you catch q black cat, akin il 10 the
tail" .
Mr.. Bright's cynical frankness, however,
did not save him from being indicted for
perjury in swearing to the correctness of
his bills. Legal technicalities and polit-
ical differences among the jury culmi-
mated in disagreement on the first trial,
and on the second his friends took care
that he should be acquitted. Meanwhile
civil suit for the recovery of the mon
ey was begun against him by the Attor-
fney General of Indiana, and he compro-
missed by furnishing the paper for which
he had originally charged. The affair
created a tremendous stir among the
Hoosier Democrats seven years ago, and
some of the party papers rubbed salt
into Mr., Bright's wounds. But the rec
ord did not prevent the majority of the
United States Senate from making him
Sergeant-at-Arms. That party in Con-
gress seem doomed to misfortune in
choosing officers, for the Fitzhugh and
Polk scandal are not out of remem-
Drance before Burch and Bright are
brought in with their contributions to
histOry.-[B BALTIC. American.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

BUSINESS reports from the East are
more encouraging than at any time since
the panic of 1873. The Boston Post says
that the factories are generally resum-
ing, or making ready to resume, work /;
and even real estate, which is the last to
rally, feels the effect of reviving trade,
and improves its figures and pretensions
together. Sales of New England cotton
goods to China have increased to a flat
tering extent during the past year. The
Buffalo Express speaks exultingly of
business prospects on the State canals.
From all standpOints the prospects are
encouraging. Twenty million bushels of
grain are in store on the upper lake
ports, and the amount of lumber cut
during the past winter and now await
ing shipment is larger than ever before.
Miners have been unusually active, and
immense quantities Of copper and iron
ore and pig material are ready for ship
ment, and here our business men all
speak encouragingly of the state of trade.
Manufactures are starting up, and mer-
chants report sales good and payments
pretty prompt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

follow the Confederate programme to
the end2 What is the next thing? To
abolish all laws that protect the cleo
tiOns, so that the party which has made
the South solid by destroying the cleo
tiOns may make the whole country SOL
idly Confederate by the same villainy.
And they have held caucus, and pre-
sented the Confederate ultimatum that.
unless the President shall abandon his
duty and his oath of Office, and assist
them in this destruction of laws against
crime, they will stop all branches of
government by depriving it of means of
existence
Is this what the war Democrats
fought for2 Did they support the ma
tiOn in that bloody struggle against re-
belliOn. in order to give immunity to
crime? Was the country which they
sought to preserve one in which the peO-
pies elections were to be given up to
ballot box suffers, repeaters, voting
tramps, false counters, tissue ballot
dealers, forgers of returns, ballot box
smashers. and all manner of scoundrels? ?
Was the country that called out their
patriotism one which they supposed was
to be formally surrendered to have its
government made by criminals?
OF course the war Democrats did not
contemplate any such vile end as this.
But they see it. They see the COnfeder
ates in possession at Washington by the
overthrow of elections in the South and
the slavish servility of Northern Demo-
Gratis. They see this demand for the alb
olition of criminal laws, so that they
may fasten themselves in power by the
They see the Confederate demand that
the President shall abdicate his Office in
Legislation, coupled with the threat to
take vengeance, not on him, but on the
country. And they see the whole work
of managing the city nominations in
Cincinnati, and of planning the election,
carried on for the same Confederate
purpose, in the interest of candidate
for nomination to the Presidency who
has sold himself and is trying to sell his
country to the Confederates for this
mess of political pottage.
Have not the war Democrats travelled
about as far in this line as their ideas of
patriotism will permit? The war ended,
naturally they wanted to try their old
party again; they have tried it, and they
linow see what is its nature. Every step
it takes in the nation is toward destruc-
tiOn. And in the State it is the same.
All that it lays hands on it defiles. 1t
has degraded all the State institutions
and made them scandal. Its control of
the General Assembly is standing dis
grace. And the party has no pretense of
principles or policy for the North; it is
all for placing the whole nation under
subjectiOn to the COnfederates. The
war Democrats can not follow further
in this course without cOnfessing that
their war resistance to the COnfederates
was fOolishness.-[Cin. Gaz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

ONE Of the things which none Of ouI
prophets foretold was the furious going
out of the month of March. Yet it may
be that this was included in the series
of disturbances soon to take place, ac.
cording to an interpreter of the signs in
the heavens, in consequence of the un-
usual positions the planets are to occupy
relatively to each other. Brilliant auro.
raj displays; parching flames shooting
out from the sun startling electric phe.
nOmena in the heavens; atmospheric
conditions so breaking up the order OF
the seasons that crops shall refuse to
grow and famine stalk around-these
are some of the things predicted as form.
ing part of the approaching train OF
evils. of which the prophet will perhaps
hold that this unusual ending Of March
is the feeble beginning.-[N. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

A PROMINENT Ohio Democrat told
the Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette that if things went
on in this way the Republicans would
carry Ohio at the next election by 1OO.-
600 majority. 1t may be remarked that
there is every indication that things
will go on in this way"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

ALL the Democratic and Republican
statements to the contrary. the Presi.
tnent and all the Cabinet stand squarely
to the position that the election laws
shall not be repealed. This has been
President Hayes attitude from the first
and those who think otherwise are de
ceived. If the Democrats carr New
York in 1880 they will carry it under
the United States election laws.-Cin.
cinnati Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

A family is like unto an eQuipage.
First, the father, the draught horse
next, the boys, the wheels, for they are
always running around; then the girls,
they are surrounded by fellows. The
baby occupies the lapboard; and the
mother-well, what's a wagon without a
tongue, anyhow
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10
seinaont County onlcIaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-Wm- Okey.
Probate Judae-Thomas Cochran
: Clerk Of Oourts-Alexs g. Darrnh.
Sheriff -Sau,nei Hiiiea.
Auditnr- w iiiiam n. Ceffland.
.Freszures-Hamilios Eaton. 5...,.--...5
Presenting Attornsy-hobert II. Eaten.
sHecordsr-Jsfnes A. Barnes.
Gonnissioners--A. W. Anderson, L J.
Poita, Henry Frasher.
: Survsyos-Cha Dawson
q UUruner-R, B. Kennedy.
lnhrnRy Dirsctors-Nsthaniel Taylor.
Vim. Parkinson, Thomas lodge
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

At country party the other night
humorist was called upon to get up
new style of amusement. Seeing an
electric battery he started it. and taking
one Of the handles himself he gave the
other handle to the prettiest girl in the
room proposing that they should kiss
eadh other. As their lips met two nil
lion needles seemed to break in all their
effulgence upon the startled beauty, ana
now she knows what kissing is.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10
Masonic Birsstsry.

DELNONT LODGE, No, 16, p. q A. u
ID 1esss every Wsdaesdsy night, On or BE-
fore full nooa.
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n. T. CszsLAzB, 6eey. A A
CT GLAfRSVILLA CHAPTER, Ne. II,
- RayM Arch AasonA Statsd eoasoea-
tions, hBt Friday Of each month.
j. s5sD l.i4 s.ii.ie7aC. ". CARROLI4 81 p.
Jsss1 B: BsrHR, Secy.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R. & S. n.
ID Meets secoad Tuesday of each month.
l-s saeiioll H. B. BUAGARNERy @. u.
Gao. MrToHKLI, See'y.
HOPE Co1fhANDERT. No. %, Z. r.
Ii Stated eonclaves. first Tues6ay Of each
month. ..s4 = =. D. BAILEY, z. c.
w, n C0FTLAHD, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

THE devotion of Gen. Ewing to the
cheapest and meanest money possible,
should commend him to the hearts of
the financiers who are in favor of pay
ing the National debt in cornstalks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

Gov. VAN ZANT's majority in Rhode
Island is 1866. Last year. on a larger
vote. it was but S,2S7. The Republicans
have done handsomely in little RhOdy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

THE Confederate Democrats having
failed in the field of battle, now propose
to capture the government by means of
the starvation policy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

THE most popular walking match of
the season will occur when Congress adj
journs and members depart for their
homes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

Spring wraps are of various kinds of
mantillas, mantles, and dolman visites,
all having long ends in front, square or
pointed, but slight Chuddah and India
shawls will probably be much worn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10
Church Directory.

DRESB1TERLAN CHURCH Rev. r
a Alexander, pastor. Public wership every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, T. Sabbath Schooi, 2:S0p.n. Youns
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday PA.
Strangers welcome 10 al services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
U1Rev. J. II. Conkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday ]
pm general prayer meeting: Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited 10 all cul
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
~ Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Ssbbatb
School: 10 am Public worship: ii am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 8 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday oi
each month, Q pm Woman,s Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, I'm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, . pm. Young womens prayer meet.
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, Q pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-04-10

Practice In the Supreme Court ana Court of
Claims. and appear before all the DEPART nenss
Prom ptness and satisfaction Kiven 10 Al e1si.
ness entrusted 70 them. Corrsspcndence So
sicited. 62s 7th st., op. p. o. Department,
WASHINGTON. d. O sspessf
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04

THE PHILADELPHIA Record" claims
to have Fad a total circulation last
week of 3l4.925 copies, an average
daily OF -, 4S7. This is a goo. circu
lation but it does not begin to come W
with the circulation of the RBprBLIcAN
in Wilmington in proportion to the
population of the two cities. The
population Of Philadelphia is now 50
near, that for the sake of convenience
We will call it;one million and the pop.
ulatiOn Of Wilmington is forty thous.
and. The "Record" according to this
only publishes within a small fraction
of one paper to every nineteen inhabi
tants of Philadelphia, while the REPuB.
LIcAN publishe one paper to every
eight inhabitans of Wilmington, or ecu
siderably more than double what the
"Record' does in proportion to popula-
ton. If the"Record"had as large circu-
lation in proportion to population as
the REPUBLICAN has, its circulation
would reach 125, 200. So far the RErrB
LEcAN is ahead. Does the "Record"
see the point3
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04
TIE REBEL Democracy of Washington

TIE REBEL Democracy of Washington
have a holy horror of ex- Union soldiers
and are clearing them out of the sub
ordinate Offices as fast as they possibly
can and are filling their places with ex-
rebels. On Monday, Captain s. S.
Blackford, chief of the Capital police
force, was removed for no other purpose
than that he was Republican and
during the war he sent his bullets in
the wrong direction. The Captain was
twice dangerously wounded during the
war, the last time losing an arm at the
battle Of Hatcher's Run.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04

or COURSE nobody pre- tends to enter
tain the idea that Dugan will be con-
victed Of murder in the first degree.
There ara several things intervening
which will be very much in his favor.
First, he claims that the shooting OF
Gel. Rowe at least, was accidental sec
oni, that a man ha, right 70 defend
himself in his own house, which is his
cast, tbiri, he Immediately went
and gave himself up; fourth, his great
remorse of mini for having killed Col.
Rowe; fifth, the weakness of the
States Attorney +; and sixth, he is a
hite man. We might add also that
the fact that his place was a noted
manufactory Of Democratic votes, will
bs largely in his favor. We reckon this
will be called slandering and libelling
prominent citizens of the State.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04

TIE GAaxrrE, for the want Of some
thing else to write about, took occasion
to say yesterday that the Republican
party of Delaware has gone clean dead
for want Of Statesmen to keep it alive.
1t says it csmmmitted hari-kari in rs.
1t then says "the little game played by
the (Republican) party in sending five
thousand uneducated negroes to the
polls did not work to the satisfaction Of
the Delaware people, and drove them
into the Democratic ranks and resulted
in the political death of the party in
all parts of the State except in this
city" We suppose the "Gazette"
means that it drove the people of Della
ware into the Democratic ranks, or
does it mean that the negroes were
driven in? Our neighbor must ex-
plain. If either were driven into the
Democratic ranks, how is it that the
ranks don't poll more votes After all
this driving in process, the Democracy
polled less number Of votes at the last
election than for many years before.
Had the five thousand negroes in the
State after being driven in voted with
them they should have polled $1,000
votes, or il all the people Of Delaware
had been driven in they should have
polled $4,000 votes. Instead of this
however, in the last election there were
only 1886 votes in all polled for Gov
ernor, which is only about half the
vote Of the State, and of this vote only
l0,055 was Democratic, showing that
with all the driving in process the
Democracy is really in a minority in
he State. Words are one thing but
cures are another, and the latter
show that if the Republicans were not
and could all vote, they
would have majority of 1900 in the
State.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04

WE HAVE BEEN favored with a copy
of the first issue of the " Delaware En-
quirer," the new Georgetown weekly
paper, published by Messrs. Pride &
Hart. 1t is medium size, with twenty
eight columns of matter, a fair proper.
tion being advertisements. 1t is bright,
newsy and chatty, its news miscellany
carefully selected and compiled, its
original matter spicely written up, and
altogether it gives evidence of first
class ability in newspaper management.
The price of the "Enquirer " is only
one dollar year, to be paid, not
promised, for publishers cannot live on
promises, which is certainly very low
price for such an excellent paper. 1t
is to be liberal in its treatment Of poli,i-
cal questions, not allying itself to any
Of the political parties Of the day as
partisans, but advocating that which it
deems to be right, no matter from which
party it emanates. We congratulate
our old friends, who are both expe-
rieuced newspaper men, on the favora-
BILE impression they must have made on
the public with the first issue of their
paper, and We hope they may be ably
sustained in Georgetown, where a first
C ass weekly paper has been needed for
many years past. We welcome the
" Enquirer" to our exchange table.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04
Troublesome Blaine,

Senator Blaine is all the time max
ing some of his Democratic colleagues
in the Senate mad. Hardly one of them
dares o1er resolution Of inquiry, than
Blaine Is ready with an amendment
which gives them immense disgust and
trouble. The latest instance of Blaine's
interference is in the case of Senator
Mcdonald, of Indiana, who thought
that Rhode Island was a very small
State and had too much representation
according to the vote cast, and then b.
ing small it would be easy to investi-
gate. Blaine who is usually around
about sach times. moved an amend
ment to Senator McDonald's resolution
that completely took the starch out of
it. Blaine actually proposed that the
investigating committee shall inquire
Why in nine Congressional Districts
which he names, in various Southern
States, there was total vote, almost en-
tirely Democratic, at the last election of
0n'y 81 oo0-or an average vote Of less
than !, ,J0Q-1hereas in those very same
districts in 1876 the Republican candi
date alone received, in ALL 50, 600 vote S
o. an average vote Of NOR" than $500
for raalI cardi late. Mr.. Blaine would
Ike to have the committee inquire
W" th"r th"Ie were Not fraud and in
TIM lation in those districts at the last
election. There rever vas a more strik-
ing display of Democratic faulty than
in this matter. Mr.. Mcdonald attempt
Ell t. make very small point upon q
Very small state, which is naturally
o '~rwhelmingly Republican, and hs
has simply succeeded in directing tue
attention of the whole country again to
the Southern States, where the MAORI
ty of the voter. in most Of the States
a e in subsection to the shol-gun5 and
81. 'ri1T cunning Of the minority
Wnile Nr. Blaine was Eout it hp
ought to have included Delaware
amongst the districts proposed. 1t
woIIi be int. resting TO know why only
l ;,ot0 votes we're poll in the State at
the ast election when the number gen
erAlly ran up.te $4,000 and 25,0o0.-I
This would be an interesting question
for Senator Bayard TO meet. Now We
will be accused Of libelliug the State
again.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-04

VIZ flD a disposiii1L existing with
sJ4o mi>chievous publishers o.ably
am ngst whom is he of the P-ninsular
Jews and Advertiser - 10 impose
u ION the weaker brethren Of the craft
il Ills city. Now, how could yon Mr.
4" NeWs' man u 20 truel as to vex tn
IL teou> spirit ofth- editor Of the " L.
E. by publishing such a sarcastic ar
t arpea ed i Saturdays isgu. ::
1t = bravery to stand Up and fac. u fo-
wien he shows fight, butt is coward
ice to drive the Scythian blade into the
s lsltiv- form Of a helpless foe. VINO
wJlli have thought the News"
wo Id have done 80 If VS. were only
c paile Of giving advice to our down
S..tr 20 temp 'rary, We would say to it
that it l. mark Of greatness to speak
gent y Of the err'ng, and especially to
cast NJ reflections upon the memory of
the d ad. Let the errors of him who
can 10 no more harm, him whose sword
has been T.! oxen OF, at the hilt in the
heat 0: tue attle te written in tn.
sand, an let il 8 virtues, few though.
the II az have 'e.n be engraved upon
the tablet Of ofenduring memory. When
W, ,ook upon the form of our PROSTATE
foe, we wo I'D say to the " News" man
or .ny other man who would hawk or
te at the ftllcn ON hands eff. The
" Z .Iubi an" humble! in in his
pri and it VI II protect and she'd him
nov in his humiliation an ! hep ess-
nes Fair .,lay tntlem H..