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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
Central Power.

State sovereignty. as interpreted by
the Democratic party, denies the su-
premacy of the nation. 1t is under cover
of this plea that they are wasting time
at Washington in an effort to deprive
the President of the powers with which
the Constitution has clothed him. 1t was
upon this claim that the Southern States
rebelled, asserting that the national gov
ernment had no constitutional right to
coerce a State This question was sub
mitted to the arbitrament of the sword,
and settled, as was supposed, in favor OF
the supremacy of the nation. But that
settlement is now again disputed by the
Democratic party, and is once more to
be submitted to the decision of the bal
lot.
The Democratic party, however. while
opposing what it calls the Capitalization
of power, is advocating the most dam
gerous power that could be placed in the
hands of the national government /:
the exclusive right to manufacture paper
money, the representative of real money,
and making that legal tender for all
debts, public and private. That would
be Capitalization in one of its worst and
most dangerous forms. The volume of
currency would be the subject of Con-
gresSioLal action. 1t could be increased
or diminished at pleasure. The whole
business interests Of the country would
be in the hands of Congress or the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. The volume might
be so increased as to render it impossible
to keep it equal with coin. A provision
making the paper convertible into coin
might be retained, but what would that
amount to if the volume should be so
large as to render redemption imprac-
ticable? There would, in that case, be
nothing to regulate the volume but the
will of Congress, or the will of the Sec
retary of the Treasury. Furthermore,
it is serious question whether Con-
gress has the power, in time of peace, to
make anything but coined money legal
tender, and paper not legal tender
and not convertible, might rapidly de-
preciate in value.
But the Inconsistency consists in State
rights Democrats, who question the right
of Congress to regulate Congressional
elections, supporting proposition to
center the money power of the country
in Congress. We do not question the
power of Congress to issue Treasury
notes, not legal tender, to take the
place of bank notes, and to be redeemed
in coin on demand, but we do question
the policy. State rights Democrats, how.
ever, who apprehend and oppose the
centralization of power, can not favor
such policy without repudiating theil
I own doctrine. -[Cin. GaZ
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

THE San Francisco Journal of Com
merce says: We have a wheat crop
which will reach at least twenty millions
of pounds. We will have wool crop OF
forty-fve to fifty million pounds. Our
vintage will yield not less than eight
million gallons of wine and brandy. Ten
million centals of barley will be raised,
and two million centals of corn. The
south will yield four million pounds OF
honey. Our gold and silver yield will
not fall short of twenty millions Of dol
lars. Quicksilver, coal and copper will
yield moderately, if not in their wonted
abundance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

THE Democrats are exceedingly anx-
ious to make it appear that there are
some sore places in the Republican party
growing out of the nomination for Gov
ernor. The wish, however, is father to
the thought. The Republicans were
never more harmonious and enthusiast
ic, and no men will work harder for the
success of the ticket than the Taft men,
The Judge will lead the way and will
take the stump promptly, and viii stand
at the front until the contest shall close
in October. 1t is this that troubles our
Democratic friends. Ohio is Republi.
can State. All that is necessary to a
Republican victory is full vote. That
will be secured this year.-[Cin. Gaz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
Recent History OF fhe Woolen
Manufacture.

During the war, wOolen manufacturers
made some money. Indeed, their ability
to render their business profitable at that
period seemed to be limited only by the
capacity Of their mills for producing
goods. Everything was in demand, and
prices were constantly advancing, while
the mills were running night and day.
1t was far different with the cotton man.
ufacturers. Throughout the entire re-
bellion, most of the cotton mills were
obliged to suspend operations for want
of the raw material, and at one time it
was said there was not a single cotton
spindle in operation in the whole city of
Lowell. Many of the cotton manufac-
turers, therefore, seeing such demand
for woolens, and with no immediate
prospect of the close of the war, came to
the conclusion to turn portion of their
establishment to the manufacture of
wooden goods, and purchased and put in
operation expensive machinery for that
purpose. In addition to this, woolen
mills generally were continually increas-
ing their capacity for production; and
their entire equipment was run so as to
produce the largest possible quantity OF
goods. The woolen machinery of the
country was more than doubted during
the war, and the industry enjoyed an era
of continuous prosperity. But after the
war was over reaction came, and the
large increase which had taken place in
the wooden machinery of the country be-
came the main element Of weakness to
the industry. In the latter part of 1866
the trade awoke to something of a real
iZation Of the excessive stocks which
they were carrying, but with the en-.
larged capacity of the mills it would
have been found difficult to have de.
pleted the surplus in any event; and the
unsatisfactory condition Of things was
still further aggravated by the unload.
ing of the national governments i'm.
mense accumulations of woolens. The
army blankets and blue overcoats which
found their way into all sections of the
country at That period have not yet en-
tirely disappeared. Ever since 1866
therefore, the wooden interest has been
engaged in constant struggle against
adverse fortune, and it is not saying too
much to assert that it has lost heavily
during every one of the past IL years
1t is true that there have been indivfd
ual cases where fair business has beer
done. But many wooden factories hav,
gone into the hands of new proprietor,
at large reductions from their first cost
and what appeared to be fair dividends
upon these decreased valuations would
have been equivalent to no dividend
upon the original investment. Woolel
mills representing an investment o
100000 have not unfrequently gon,
begging for purchaser at from $1,000,
to $4,000, and the capital stock of olt
and famous corporations had in SOM
cases been all but swept out Of exist
} ence. Woolen manufacturers woulC
inow, therefore, seem to be entitled t.
an opportunity to retrieve their losses
J The cotton manufacturers turned tn
corner some ago, and there are few witt
u are not inclined to hope that the occa
!; sion has come for the woolen interest t.
do the same Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
Plain Thoughts for Plain We
MleD.

When a woman loses desire to
please, says the Young Woman's Jour-
nal, she loses half her charms. Moth
ing is more conducive to beauty than
cheerfulness and good-humor; and no
morose or unhappy woman can be good
humored and cheerful. Then there
are vast numbers Of ill-tempered women
who are ill-tempered because they are
ugly. They do not know what is the
matter with themselves; neither do their
friends know. But the incessant neglect
and indifference with which they are
treated finally does its work Of embitter-
ing their feeling until the effect upon
their moral character is most pernicious.
Every woman ought to understand that
nothing short of deformity can make a
woman utterly unattractive. provided
she will study her points; and points OF
attractiYeness every woman has.
A thoroughly refined, graceful man.
ner can be acquired by any woman, and
is powerful charm. The best grace is
perfect naturalness. Still, you must
study yourself, and form your manners
by the rule of that art, which is but a
carrying out of the law of nature. But
if it is your nature to be forever as
suming some unpicturesque, ungraceful
attitude, pray help nature with little
art. Ii you are stout, avoid the small
est chair in the room; and be sure, If
you do sit on it, do not lean back on II
with your hands folded in front of you
lust below the line of your waist, es.
pecially while the present fashion lasts
If you are thin do not carry yourself
with your chin prOtruding and your
spinal column curving like bowl Of a
spoon. Do not wear fiimsy materials
made without ruffle or puff or fiounce
to fill up the hard outlines of your bad
figure, so cruelty defined by the tightly
pulled-back draperies. Study the art Of
dress.
We once knew very plain woman
who dressed so tastefully that it was an
absolute pleasure to look at her. II you
have been moping until you are sick
with the thoughts of your own hopeless
ugliness, be up and doing, Forget youl
disappointments; forget the past and
the sneers of your own family, over the
mistakes that you have made. There
are.still friends to be won. There is
work to be done. Rouse yourself, and
cast off the enervating distrust of self
and the moral cowardice which forbids
you to assert yourself.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
whittier and Garrison.

The poet Whittier, the lifelong friend
and co-labOrer of Garrison, sent the fol
lowing tributeto his memory, to be read
at the funeral service:
The storm and peril overpast,
The bounding hatred shamed and still
Go, soul Of freedom, take at last
The place which thou alone canst fill
Go up and on; thy day well done,
The morning promise well fulfilled;
Arise to triumphs yet unknown,
The holier tasks that God has willed
Go, leave behind thee all that mars
The work below of man for man;
With the white legions of the stars
Do service such as angels can.
Wherever wrong shall right deny,
Or suffering spirits urge their plea,
Be thine avOice to smite the lie,
A hand to set the captive free.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

NEARLY half century ago Cinein-
natl artist painted portrait of Presi-
dent Harrison. then so popular as "old
Tippecanoe," but, failing to find a pur-
chaser who was willing to pay the price
asked, he turned the canvas and dashed
picture on the other side. Tippeca-
noes face was turned to the wall and
hung there until few weeks ago. when
it was taken down that copy for the
Corcoran Art Gallery, at Washington,
might be made.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

It is not an easy matter to show the
actual profits OF farming. on debt and
credit ledger; but when an industrious
man raises good crops. drives good
team, pays all his taxes, edueates his
children, keeps square with the world.
enjoys many Of the comforts and some
of the luxuries of life, and minds his
own business, it is safe to say he makes
farming pay, even though he may not
be able to show it in "black and white"
onsa balance sheet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

Agriculture feeds the world; it is by
the hard labor of the farmer; commerce
guides the world; it is by the superior
profits of its votaries. Politics rules
the world it is by chicanery and fraud.
All industries, however, flourish by and
through the efforts of the farmer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

In France one-half the people or fully
nineteen million liveby agriculture. That
country has 1,s15,OOO farms under ten
acres in extent, and 100000 acres are
owned by $4,000 people. There are hun.
dreds of thousands of sO-called land
owners who are forced to work on farms
for the larger and richer proprietOrs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

New England has over ESQ Farmers
Clubs, with $4,000 active members, and
library books to the number of $1,000;
and in the United States there are near
ly 1000 agricultural societies, with sSs-
900 volumes in their libraries. and with
access TO $50 agricultural publications,
all exerting direct influence on the in
telligent and futare prospects Of the till
ers of the soil .-- 1.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

OHIO statesmen are getting along in
years. Judge Taft is SO; Senator Thur
man, 81; Governor Bishop, 81; Secretary
Sherman, Sc; Stanley Matthews, So;
Nominee Foster, "a; Tom Ewing, so;
General Garfield, AZ. Uncle Bill Allen
is sweet sixteen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
Belmont county onloIaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran
Clerk Of Courts-Alex. &. Darrah.
Sheriff-Samuel HilIes.
Audi,of-WiIliam n. Cofiand.
/ Treasurer-Hsmiltoa Eaton. ID
Prosecuting Attorney Robert n. Eaton.
Recorder-James A. Barnes
Commissioucrs-A.' W. Anderson, l. j
Potts, Henry Fraeher.
Surveyor -Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
lsfrmary Directors-Nathaniel Taylor
VIM. Parkinson, Thomas Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

Prof. L. B. Arnold says that if a COW
yields 5000 pounds milk annually. it
will carry with it from the soil little
over thirty-two pounds ofnitrogen. The
urine Of such cow for only half the
year would contain three times that
amount of nitrogen, half as much phOs-
phoric acid, and more than five times as
much potash as the whole years milk.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

The longest jump on record by an En-
glish hunting horse is said to have been
made in April, 1862, when Lord Inges-
tres horse "Lather" jumped thirty-seven
feet, six inches, over o mari pit.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
TEACHERS. ExAMInar.oa.
iszs-7e.

Belmont County, ohio.
F,r.t saturday Of December, 81 Clairsyille.
second Saturday Of January, bernesvii,fs:
ThIrd SATURDAY. Of February, ST ClairsVills.
FIrst saturday OF March. Bridgeport.
Third Saturday OF March, 81 Ciairsvile.
second saturday Of April. Belmon~
second Saturday of Nay. Bellaire
First SATURDAY. Of June. Morrtstown.
Foufth Saturday Of June. st Clairsyule 3
stcioaa of Instiiute In Martins Ferry.
EHxeminstions begin al eo'clock. A. n.
PIomptness Is expected:
Testifnonials Of character are needed II eP
,s,icant is moi known 10 the Board, and certfn'
pr,ss of success In teaching are allowed ien
sn.es .,Strbt - fCHAs. p. SHEEvEv
oue ~ Saard n. ALEXANDER.
IL. NJ. YAREEIL.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court of
| Claims and appear before ali the Depsrtn en- tn.
Prom ptness and satisfaction given In all busi-
| ness entrusted to them. Correspondence so
lioited. 529 7th St., op. p. o. Department.
WASHINGTON, d. sepe6tf
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church directory.

DREsBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. R
i Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 500 am. Ysung
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m.i gen
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday Z pm.
Strangers welcome TO all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
MIR j. H.. Conkle, pastor. sabbath
preaching: II Am; 7p.m. Sabbath School
$50 p.m. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 7 ?. m
Strangers are cordially invited to all Oul
servicts 80 taf saa.a 50
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IrNITEn PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.

NTTED PKESBf TERIAN CHUhCH-
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School: 10 am Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 3 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday OF
each month, 2 pm Moman'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, Q pm. TWrU ava
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23

trouble, and who has on various oc-
casions personated a revenue officer,
has at last been caught. His
arrest was effected at Indianapolis,
and to-day the officers brought him to
that city and took him before Commits
sioner Adams for preliminary exam
nation, which he waived, and was
bound over in the sum of SIS 900 for his
appearance before the United States
court.
A KANSAS CITY. Mo-, special Of July
16 says The disappearance of Phillip
Best, late of Milwaukee, causes great
uneasiness among his friends. Best
was last seen On Sunday evening, near
the Missouri river railroad bridge.
He may have committed suicide
or he may have been attacked by
tramps who infest that neighborhood.
On inquiry at his place Of business it is
learned that young Best has been in q
melancholy frame of mind, owing to
disappointment in a love affair and
separation from friends in Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23

JUDGE SHOCK presides over the Sum
NIT county, Colorado, court, now in ses-
sion at Breckenridge. Last Monday
one Charles Jones arose from his seat
in the court room and proceeded to
reprimand the judge for some ruling.
The Judge ordered the arrest of Jones,
but the latter escaped from the room.
Later in the day Jones re-entered the
court room, walked towards the bench
and leveled a Sharp's carhine at the
judges head. The judge grabbed the
stock of the gun and pushed itHaside
just in time to save his life, for the
charge went crashing-not to the jury,
as charges in court generally debut
over Judge Shocks head, and made a
rent in the wall. Jones was pinioned
by the jury and locked up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23
CRIME.

Cox, the murderer Of Mrs. Hull, was
found guilty Of murder in the first de-.
gree by the jury on the 18th inst, and
was then sentenced to be hung August
Goth.
A TRENTON, N. j., dispatch of
July IL says: Governor McClel-
Ian has granted repr1eve in tie
case of Covert Bennett and Mrs.
Smith, for the murder of police officer
Smith, until August 18th. 1fa
A Sioux CITY, Iowa, special of July
18th says: DR.. w. B. Porter, Of Lemars,
who has been undergoing examination
the past week on a charge of drugging
and raping Miss Ottoway, a young
school teacher, was yesterday held to
bail in 50, 900. Bf -
AN indianapolis special of July 10th
says: Workmen to-day engaged in
cleaning privy vault on Illinois street
discovered the skeleton Of woman.
supposed to have been buried there
about one year ago. There is no known
clew to her Identity, or that of her
murderers. s
THE steamship Etna from Port au
Prince arrived in New York, July II,
and the purser told the following story:
At Port an Prince, Monday, June 80,
Petit Canal, brother of the president,
shot De Lorme, member of the legis-
lative chamber. A general shooting
affray ensued, in which forty other
members and some of Canals adher-
ents were killed. The shooting COM
menced Monday, and was kept up I'M
til our departure at 4:30 p. M, July 3.
A SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, special of July 16
says James Shepler, who has caused the
revenue officers great amount of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23
NEWS BUDGET.
A Summary Of Events Domestic And
Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

, A WASHINGTON dispatch of July 10th
says two vessels on the eastern coast, one
at New Orleans, and q fourth on the
lakes, are enlisting boys for the United
States navy.
A DISPATCH of July 18th says: The
president has appointed h. NJ
Kutchin, of Fond du Lac, collector OF
internal revenue for the third district
of Wisconsin.
THE news Of the appointment of ex-
Senator Ramsay, of Minnesota, to sue
coed McCrary as secretary of war, was
confirmed at Washington July 10Th.
SAYS a telegram of July Is, Judge
Tabor, of Iowa, for sixteen years Fourth
Auditor Of the Treasury, to-day resign
ed. The civil service rules will be ap-
piled in this case, and w. b. Moore,
Deputy Auditor, will be promoted to fill
the vacancy.
A TELEGRAM of July 18th says the
opening of bids for carrying mails was
concluded at the postoffice department
to-day. The total numb of proposals
is twdnty-nine thousand two hundred
and thirty-three. This, together with
the bids previously made, make the
aggregate of bids received for 1879,
sixty.six thousand.
SAYS Washington special of July II,
There are over five hundred applicants
for the thirty-seven vacancies IN the
grade of second lieutenant in the army.
The class Of applicants is much above
the average. Many of the candidates
are sons of army officers. Many appli-
cants are young men Of family lntiu-
euce and fortune vino have military
tastes and ambition. All the applicants
are young men. F-a
A SPECIAL of July 10Th says Captain
Brown, engineer and Inspector for tue
South Pass jetties, has forwarded to the
war department the proper certificates
to the effect that on the 9Th day of July
there was thirty-foot channel through
from the South Pass to the Gulf. He
also certiies to the fact that this was a
navigabie channel. The law only calls
for channel thirty feet deep. without
regard to width. Captain Eads will now
put in claim for 100000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23
Products of Convict Labor.

Some interesting facts in relation to
labor have been prepared by Superin-
tendent Wright, Of the Massachusetts
Bureau of Labor statistics. According
to this expert the number of convlcts
in 1873 in all the state prisons OF the
Union was 20, 1877, of whom Il, loo were
employed in mechanical industries.
The greatest number was in New York
and the smallest in Rhode Island, very
naturally, the one being the largest and
the other about the smallest state in the
Union. At the rate of forty cents per
day, which was the average, the wage
earnings of convicts for the whole year
amounted to $1,634, 515. At 81 per day,
which is the average price of similar
labor outside of prison, these same men
would have earned 1922, 576, accord
ing to Mr.. Wright. The products of
prison labor, if we take the labor of So
per day, did not exceed $20,O0O,0O0 in
1878, while the products of all the me-
chanical industries of the United States
amounted to five thousand millions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23
Nail Up the Sign.
Detroit Free Press.

A woman who opened small millin-
cry store in the western part of the city,
engaged painter to paint her a sign.
When it came home the other day, she
saw that it read: "Mrss. ]. Blank" ETC.,
and she called out, "You have got an
extra IS in Mrs, and you must paint
the sign over again. The painter saw
the error, but he did not want the job
of correcting it, and he replied: Mad
am, haven't you had two husbands
"Yes, sir" you were Mrs. when you
lost the irst?" II was" And do you
think woman can go on marrying
forever and not lengthen out her title?
Mrs. means married woman or wild
ow. Mrss. means a woman who has
been married twice, and is young
enough to marry again, and only yes
terday a rich old coon was in our shop
and said if he had any idea you were
heart-free he'd come up" "Oh, we'll,
you can nail up the sign" she interrupt
ed. And it is there to-day.