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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

AN important case, which involved a
large amount of Pittsburgh real estate,
was decided in the United States District
Court. on Saturday. 1t was the cause of
a Michigan Indian girl, Cubba- Y Ou-Quit
VS.. Mowry, the girl claiming to be the
granddaughter of Peter Mowry. who
years ago, was a trader in Michigan.
MOwry had lived with on Indian women
during portion of his stay in the West,
and it was claimed that he had married
her in the Indian fashion. The case was
decided against the white MOwry heirs
in the lower courts, but the United
States Court has settled the matter that
there was no legal marriage with the
squaw, and rendered decision In favor
of the defendants. The property invol-
we'd in the suit has become very yalua-
BILE, being located in the heart of Pitts
burgh, and was worth over million dol
lars. 1t is thought that nearly a. hundred
thousand dollars expenses, in council
fees and costs, have been expended by
the parties to the suit.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago
Tribune writing from Mississippi says:
"The exodus will kill bulldozing. 1t
is the best medicine the negroes can
give the whites, while not sympathiZing
with the bulldozers, have permitted them
in the past to have things pretty much
their own way. The most bulldozing, as
rule, has been done by residents. of
white parishes or counties. who had no
special concern in the security and con-
tent Of negro labor. But now that the
retention of this labor has become so
much Il matter of consequence to the
planters it will be surprising if they do
not interfere to prevent bulldozing in
the future. They know it must be stop
ped or the negroes will all go. And the
declaration that it will be stopped on
the part Of the Vicksburg Convention,
and such planters as Col. Richardson,
Mr.. IngersOll and Judge Farrar, is suffi-
cient confession for all practical pur-
poses that it has been generally carried
ON, and has influenced the negroes to
join in this movement"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

The Detroit River Tunnel, one Of the
most important and extensive engineer
ing works Of the Northwest, is being
built with satisfactory speed. The tun-
mel proper will extend from Anderson,
under the Detroit river, to Stony Island,
a distance 4,450 feet, though the ap-
proaches upon either side make the en-
tire distance from enterance to exit a
much greater distance. The thickness
of the rock between the bottom of the
river and the crown Of the tunnel is Is,
Is, and % feet, according to the depth
of water in the river. The excavation
of the tunnel is to be twenty-six feet
clear, and when completed will be fifteen
feet in the clear, with two arches for
double tracks separated by a divided
wall. Under the tracks will be four
feet of solid masonry, and the top of the
arches will be constructed in a solid and
enduring manner with asphalt cement
and rubble stone, and overtopping all
will be placed smooth fagstOne to pre-
vent anchors drawing ON the top of the
tunnel and doing possible injury. The
cost of the tunnel is to be $1,5O0,OOO and
the contract stipulates that it shall be
completed by December 1, 1880.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

COMMUNISM, according to the apostles,
being purely development of modern
civilization, we should hardly have ex-
pected it to break out among the hill
tribes of Northern India. The dispatches
from simla reveal Il condition of affairs
in the Deccan that ON asmall scale rival
the efforts of the death-Or-liberty reyOlu-
tiOnists of Russia. The Indian Socialists
have been committing ineendiarism, and
have been given warning to the British
authorities that if something is not done
to- relieve the prevalent distress they
will raise a most tremendous row. These
unruly subjects of Victoria, Empress of
India, are talking in the most ferOcious
fashion, and it is quite safe to conclude
that Lord Lytton will not write any
more poetry until he succeeds in sub
DUNG "these mutinOus raseals." If the
world were twenty-five years younger
than it is, he might blow the leaders
from the mouths of cannon.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
The Man who stops His Paper.

Philip Gilbert Hamilton, in his admi-
mirable papers on intellectual Life"
thus talks to the man who stopped his
paper: "Newsfapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk Is to the
members of the family-they keep our
daily interest in each other, they save US
from the evils of isolation. To live as a
member of the great white race that has
filled Europe and America and eOlOnized
or conquered whatever territory it has
been pleased to occupy, to share from
day to day its thoughts, its cares, its in
spirations, it is necessary that every
man should read his paper. Why are the
French peasants so bewildered and at
sea? 1t is because they never read a
newspaper. And why are the inhabit-
ants of the United States, though scat
tered over territory fourteen times the
area of France, so much more capable Of
concerted action, so much more alive
and modern, so much more interested in
new discoveries of all kinds, and capable
of selecting and utilizing the best of
them? 1t is because the newspapers
penetrate everywhere, and even the
lonely dweller on the prairie or in the
forest is not intellectually isolated from
the great current of public life which
flows through the telegraph and press"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

THE course of events during the extra
session of Congress is getting exceeding
monotous. The Senate passed the Leg
islative, Executive and Judicial ApprO-
priation bill, with Democratic political
riders attached. The President will, of
course, veto it, and the House, with a
groan, sustain the veto. Then Congress
will resolve itself into partisan caucuses
to consider what to do next, appoint
smelling committees and thinking COM
mittees, and then try to pass the same
Objectionable measures clothed in more
adroit phraseOlOgy. That there will be
more talk of revolution and starvation,
and addresses to the President and ad-
dresses to the people. How many more
months will it take for the Democrats to
learn that all these lodges will avail
them naught, and that their best policy
is to pass the appropriation bills and 60
home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
southern Civilization.

We quote the following from a paper
on this subject by DR.. Holland in the
June Scribner:
We wonder if the South knows how
hard it is making it for its friends and
those who would think well of its spirit
and society. We know there are two
Souths, but everybody does not know it.
We are quite aware, and every one is
likely to be so, that the South is polit-
ically unit for its own purposes. Even
in this we think Southerners make a
grave mistake, as Southern solidarity
will be sure to beget Northern solidari-
ty, and the South knows what that
means for them and their views of ma
tional policy. But for this we have no
disposition to blame them. We UNDER
stand in this quarter that the South has
no great love for the national flag as
such, and that "the lost cause" is still
very precious to its politicians and its
people. We understand this, we say,
and We expect in all their dealings with
national affairs only such a policy as
would naturally be dictated by the cir
cumstances in which they are placed.
and the unrepentant spirit which still
possesses them and on which they take
their stand and boldly make their boast.
With this we do not quarrel We ex-
pect it. 1t is the most natural thing in
the world that we should have it; but
certain events have occurred in the
South of late with astounding frequen-
cy, which betray condition of morals
and society that makes every true friend
of the South and every true American
hang his head in shame. Murder after
murder is perpetrated in high life with
the coolest blood and nobody is arrested
for it and nothing is done about it. Now,
as we have said, We are perfectly aware
that however much of unit the South
may be politically, there are socially two
Souths. There is law-lOving and law
abiding South, and there is South
that is neither the one nor the other.
We understand perfectly that to great
number of Southern people such beast
ly murder as that of Judge Chisholm
and his family is horrible. We under
stand that to these people such notable
murders as have taken place all over the
South during the last three months are
great shock and great sorrow. The
feeling finds expression in some of their
best newspapers, but the trouble is that
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

A SINGULAR story comes from the
Maine State prison. James A. Lowell
was convicted in 1873, at Lewiston, of
the murder of his wife, Lizzie, whose
supposed skeleton had been found in the
woods. Lowell was sentenced to be
hanged, but the sentence was commuted
to Imprisonment for life. 1t is now as
certained that Mrs. Lowell is living in
Saginaw, Michigan, as the wife of man
named Spaulding. and that she does not
deny her identity. Lowell, when on
trial, had claimed that his wife ran
away with the employee of circus.
Should it be sustained by legal evidence
that the woman in Saginaw is the wife
for the alleged killing of whom Lowell
WAS sentenced to be hanged, the case
will prove to be one of interest in GRIM
inal annals.-IN. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
Cutting the Isthmus.

The result of the International Con-
gress which has just adjourned in Paris
will, it is hoped, be speedy beginning
of the great scheme of severing some
where the narrow connecting link be-
tween North and South America, and
the uniting the waters Of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans by means Of ship
canal. The work is in the best hands.
No better President of the convention
held to further the project could have
been found than NJ. Ferdinand de Les
seps, who succeeded so admirably with a
former remarkable undertaking in the
shape Of the Suez canal. He may well
be entitled the Emperor Of ship canals.
A large representation Of eminent
Americans were present, and many were
placed in the foremost positions in the
convention and its committees.
1t is apparent if the gigantic project
is carried to completion that the energy
and money must come mainly from
France and America. England looks
with indifference or jealousy upon it
Such canal would give great impetus
to American commerce by furnishing
direct communication with the eastern
coast of South America, and steamers
could pass from our great Atlantic sea-
ports to the hemisphere across the Pa
cific without the long and dangerous
voyage round Cape Horn. The heavy
freight rates by rail across the cOnti-
nent, or by the exacting Panama and
Aspinwal company, would be escaped,
and North America afforded every Op-
portunity to defy the competition of all
other countries, at least in her trade with
the rich field which forms the western
slope of the Andes, if not in that with
the countries beyond the Pacific.
OF course, no particular route was fl
nally decided upon in the Congress,
which convened solely for discussion.
The Nicaragua survey, however, met
with the most favorable reception. II is
the most extended of all the. routes pro-
posed, but for the entire distance the
land closely follows in altitude the pro-
posed water level of the canal. 1t is as
serted that no tunnels or great "euts"
will be necessary. Its length Is nearly
three hundred miles. but less than two
hundred Of this will require expensive
excavation. Its course is from the har-
bor at Greytown, along the San Juan
river into Lake Nicaragua, across this
body and by lock canal to the Rio
Grande river, and thence to BritO on the
Pacific, thus traversing the two Central
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
The Conspiracy Against the Bal

When the Democrats in Congress be-
gan their manevres for the notification
of the Election laws. the crippling Of the
Executive authority, the establishment
of State supremacy over the nation, and
in general the wiping out, as they ex-
pressed it, of all the legislation of the
war period, The Tribune declared that
they were engaged in conspiracy for
the destruction of free elections. Every
day since then has multiplied the evil
dences of their deep-laid plan to remove
the safeguards from the polls. No rea-
sonable and impartial observer of the
course of affairs in Washington can now
doubt that the representatives of the
party in Congress have deliberately set
themselves to SO hamper the Executive
and mutilate the laws that at the next
Presidential election the protection of
the ballot-box will be intrusted exclu-
sively to the White Leagues and Rifle
Clubs of the South, and the repeaters,
shOulder-hitters, dram-sellers, and unna-
turalized foreigners of the large North
ern cities. What will be the consequence
when the wolf keeps the fold we know
too well. At the North the Democracy
has always been notorious for its hostil
ty to all manner of precautions against
election frauds. 1t opposed registration,
opposed the appointment of supervisors,
opposed non-partisan managers of the
polling places, opposed the most obvious
regulations for the verihcation of the
count; and when it has had the chance
it has cheated, an dbullied, and created
scandals which win always fill a black
page in our political history. AT the
South it is quite within the mark to say
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

this South is utterly overawed by the
other South, so that no man dares to
move for the maintenance of the law
and the punishment of crime. Murder is
committed, and the murderer shakes
his bloody hands at the law everywhere
and walks the streets with entire free
dom and impunity. Human life is ac-
counted Of no sacredness whatever, and
law and the executors of law are held
in perfect contempt. The judge upon
his bench is not safe. Even the lawyer
who tries case that involves any seri-
Gus personal relations takes his life in
his hands when he does so. The most
trivial causes seem sufficient to awaken
the brutal instincts of men and to induce
the extreme of violence. Fighting
weapons seem to be in every mans pOck-
ct, as if he lived in state of war, and
he does not hesitate to use them OH the
smallest provOcation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

We warn this better South of which
we have spoken that it must arouse
itself and assert itself, if it would save
the section Of the country which it so
enthusiastically loves from irredeema-
BILE disgrace. The thing has gone too
far already. and unless these people are
willing to pass the South into the undis-
puted possession of the men who de-
spise the law and propose to take its ad-
ministratiOn into their own violent
hands, they must arouse themselves, and
become the sworn and devoted vindica-
tors of the law. When a man takes the
life of a brother man he must be made
to suffer the legal penalty. They cannot
but see that the matter is growing worse
from year to year. Any man can COM
NIT murder now, if he be in high life,
and do it for personal reasons, and bear
a white skin, with great degree of GER
tainty that nobody connected with the
law will take any notice of it: and so
long as this fact obtains, the murders
will go ON, and nobody will be safe. A
man might as well live in hell as in a
community where the law has no force
and life has no sacredness. As an Amer
lean who loves his country, we are
ashamed of these Outrages upon Chris
tian decency and modern civilization,
and they are, indeed, burning shame
upon the nation, and especially that part
of the nation which has been in the hab-
it of claiming for itself very high
stand in all those matters that relate to
social purity and high breeding.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
Horticulture ON the FARM.

7 IAiItC AItrcI
One principal reason why we have
so few orchards, so few gardens of small
fruits. such mere apologies for vegetable
gardens, and scarcely an attempt at fiOri-
culture and ornamentatiOn, all over
the south and west, lies in great meas
ure in the fact that the average farmer
is led to believe that there is some pro-
found mystery in this branch of agricul-
ture, requiring long years Of experience
and study. This, however, is no more
the case than in the cultivation of the
soil with reference to any crop.
The real farmer who succeeds in
making good home, and making money
from his farm, must understand very
decidedly and distinctly, the special
culture and requirements Of eve
ry crop cultivated, else he fails. Per-
haps this may be why so many western
farmers run so largely to corn and hogs,
the. first struggling among weeds, from
lack of drainage and imperfect eultiva-
tiOn, and the latter dying of cholera,
generated by imperfect care. and spread
ing the infection among other swine.
They are analogous to that class of Or
chardists who plant largely in localities
suited to the growth of fruit, and leave
them harbOrs of weeds, and breeding
places of insects, to the disgust and seri-
Gus injury of their more intelligent
neighbOrs who suffer from the yearly
overflow of noxious insects from these
natural breeding places. They thus
yearly fill our markets with wOrmy, in
different and scabby fruit, scarcely fit for
the cider mill and vinegar house. We
hardly expect to see a better state of
things until farmers generally come to
understand the use of reading, to the
end that they may get correct infOrma-
tion, Just as other successful men in the
various industries read journals especi-
ally devoted to their eallings.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

A CURIOUS case has recently been de-
cided in Philadelphia enforcing a con-
tract of mo cure no pay" entered into
by a dealer in medical preparations.
Alexander Barney, of Wilmington, Del
aware, a sufferer from rheumatism, was
assured early in 1877 by DR.. Joseph P.
Filter that if he would take about seven
ty bottles of his medicine that he would
warrant cure, provided that he would
abstain from all malt and spirituOus
liquors. A regular contract was entered
into, and the plaintiff not having been
cured, brought the suit to recover the
amount expended for the medicines.
The jury returned verdict for S1O6.96,
the amount claimed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

THE Democracy declared the first gun
fired from Fort Sumter uncOnStitution-
al, because it was an attempt to coerce a
State. They declared the first call for
seventy-fve Thousand troops unconsti-
tutional, because Congress had not time
to convene and order it. They declared
the draft unconstitutional, the emanci-
patton proclamation, and every import
ant step taken to suppress the rebellion,
including the Treasury notes and legal
tender act. The amount of it is the De-
mOcracy declare everything uncOnstitu-
tional that goes to sustain the Govern
ment or that is opposed to State soyer-
eighty Indianapolis Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

men of large cities. In the year 1875,
no less than 1000 women were arrested
in London, and. during period of thir-
teen years, 5O,3S9 women were confined
in the Liverpool Borough Prison, nine
tenths of whom owed their misfortune,
directly or indirectly, to alcohol. In
Edinburgh, during period in which the
population increased six per cent,
drunken women increased at the rate Of
50 per cent. This singular state of
things is alleged to be due to the growth
of the liquor traffic among grOcers,
though it has been supposed that the
least demOralizing way of meeting the
demand for liquor was provided by the
issue of licenses to grOcers. The Select
Committee of the House of Lords were
unable to find any satisfactory way of
limiting the growth of drunkenness by
law; but they recommend additional re-
strictions upon the liquor trade, and Sc
yerer penalties for liquor sellers who
violate existing laws.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29

American States, Nicaragua and Costa
Rico. The computations made by en-
gineers are that the canal will require
excavation to the extent Of 100000
cubic metres and filing of 5,5OO,COO
cubic metres, with only twenty-One
locks. The estimated cost is S1O5, 5,OOO,-
900, and ten years the time required for
the work.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
Masonic DIreetssy.

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ID Meets every Wednesday night. on or be
fore fun noon.
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N. T. CeFFLAND. Sec'y.
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tons, first Friday of each month.
c. W. CARROLL, Fl. p
JKssR b. NEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, Ns. "a, r. 4 8. N
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
Fl. r. BUMGARNER, q. d
GEO. MITCHELL Seey.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. &c, K. T.
IL Stated conclAves, first Tuesday Of each
month. +. ID. BAILEY, T. 4.
W. n. COPELAND, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-05-29
Belmont County onlcIaI Directory

Common Pleas Judge-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-ThOmas Cochran
Clerk Of Courts-AleX. c. Dsrrah.
Sheriff-Semuel Hilles.
Auditor-William n. COffiGnd.
Treasurer-HamiltOa Eaton.
Prosecuting AttorDey-hober n. Ealoa.
RecordeF-James A. Barnes.
CommissioDers-A. W. Anderson, !. ]
Potts. Henry Frssber.
Surveyor -Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
lnErmary Directors-Nathaniel Taylor
Vim. Parkinsou, Thomas Lodge.