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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

said, and turned his steps toward Ethel
WestOn's home
He found her alone.
Ethel" he said, 81 have come to free
you Hush, not a word. Chester Alb
bott loves you, and you love him. He
does not love you better than do, per-
haps, but he has loved you longer. I
free you from your engagement, and
God bless you
He was gone before she could speak.
He went to Chester Abbott.
go to her." he said, "she wants you;"
and then holding out his hand, "good-
by, old friend. and Heaven bless YOU.
We have changed places. You are
Ethel's lover now, and it Is who sail
for foreign land the day after to-mor-
row."
He tried to laugh, but failed, and with
another choking goodbye" was gone.
Ethel and Chester read his name in
the list of departures a few days later,
and sent up silent prayers for his safety
and happiness, while he, far out at sea,
prayed God to bless them and strength
en- him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

ONE result of the failure of the Rus
sian authorities to secure the eXtradi-
ton of Hartmann is a proposition for
the conclusion of an international agree
ment for the extradition of regicides.
Were such an agreement already in
force, however, it is difficult to see how
it would reach Hartmann's case. The
refusal of the French government to
surrender the prisoner was not based
upon the absence of any legal obligation
to do so, but upon the simple fact that
the evidence supplied by the Russian
ambassador of his guilt was not suffi-
cient to warrant his arrest by French
tribunal and therefore clearly not suffi-
cient to warrant his apprehension by
the foreign authorities.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

A QUAINT story of Andrew Jackson
is told by a writer in the Nashville Ban
ner. He was visiting Kentucky town
where among the gentleman presented
to him was a Major Lewis, who desired
to impress Jackson and his admirers
with his own independence. Taking a
digniied attitude, he said: We'll, Gen
eral, have all my life been voting
against you." Jackson courteously bow.
ed to him and said goodhumoredly
well, Major Lewis, have all my life
been fighting the battles for my country
i'll order that you might enjoy that priv
ilege."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
TrNlTED PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Masonic Directory.

DELMONr LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every "Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
GEORGE BUMGARNER, W. NJ.
NJ. T. CoFFLAHD, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
y Royal Arch Masons. Stated conyoca-
lions, first Friday of each month.
C. w. CARROLL, II. p.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R. & s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. R, BUMGARNER, G. M.
GEO. MIToHELI- Secy.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 2e, Z. T.
III Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. r. ID. BAILEY, E. c.
IL. .SKDwIcK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
A Yankee Egg Register
Bridegroom Conn. News. ]


An invention is credited to a Bridge
port Yankee to prevent marketmen
from palming off old eggs for fresh ones.
The inventor proposes to arrange rub
Der stamp in the nest Of every hen, with
a movable date. This stamp is arranged
with pad that is saturated withindeli-
BILE ink. When the hen lays an egg, as
is well known, she kicks slightly with
her hind leg. An electric disk arranged
so that her foot touches it, and the stamp
turns over on the ink pad and then re-
wolves, stamping the date on the egg.
The hen then goes off about her business,
the farmers hired girl removes the egg
and replaces the stamp which is then
ready for another. Each evening after
the hens have retired to roost the date Of
the stamp is altered for the next day
and the work goes on. In this way
there can be no cheating. You go to
the grocery and ask for fresh eggs and
the grocery man tells you he has some
eggs of the vintage of January 29. 1880
for instance. You look at them, and
there are the figures, which cannot lie.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

The business men of this country
ought to feel very kindly towards Mr.,
Tilden for preventing a civil war in 1875,
instead of sneering at his cowardice for
not appealing to force. The time is close
at hand W hen perhaps similar condi-
tion of things may be presented, when
the business men of the country will
again be on theis knees pleading for
peace, which may not come. 1t certain
ly will not if there Is any attempt to re-
peat the game of 70.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

IT can almost be asserted that ST. IA
CoBS OIL works wonders. Shortly be-
fore the New Year, when visited my
family in Mitchell, found my son Ed
ward, a lad little more than ten years
old, very sick. He suffered with Rheu-
matism, and so terribly that he was per-
fectly stiff in his limbs, could not possi-
bly, walk, and had to be carried from
place to place. At once l sent for some
st. Jacobs Oil, used it according to di-
rections, and in few days could see
evidence of considerable improvement.
On the tenth of this month again Wis
tied my family and was astonished to
find him well and hearty. He once more
has fresh color in his face and can go to
school again. Whenever the old trou-
BILE threatens to return, relief is imme-
diately secured by the use of the cele-
brated st. Jacobs Oil. From sheer joy
over this result l cannot withhold re-
commencing st. Jacobs Oil to suffering
humanity as q true benefactor.
CHARLES MErZDoRF,
Office of the Volksfreund,
German paper of Stratford. Ont.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
HOnOred and Blessed.

When board of eminent physicians
and chemists announced the discovery
that by combining some well known
valuable remedies, the most wonderful
medicine was produced, which would
cure such a wide range of diseases that
most all other remedies could be dis
pensed with, many were skeptical; but
proof of its merits by actual trial has
dispelled all doubt, aud to-day the dis
coverers of that great medicine, Hop
Bitters, are honored and blessed by all
as benefactorS,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

SECRETARY EvARTS and Mr.. Woolsey,
Professor of International Law at I ale
College, appear TO agree that the much
vaunted Monroe doctrine is practically
not applicable now in the De Lesseps
iater-oceanic canal, nor any similar case.
But it is not the Monroe doctrine, or any
diplomatic complication, which inter-
feres with N. de Lesseps' big scheme.
His books have been open to subserip-
tions for stock now for many months,
but with unsatisfactory results; while
American subscriptions, which have
been formally solicited, are conspicuous
by their absence. The simple fact is
that the American people do not believe
in theatrical effects in business affairs,
and where such effects are so cOnSpicu-
Gus as they have been in the De Lesseps
scheme, they cause investors to be wary.
The estimates that have been made are
VIGOROUSLY inaccurate, the surveys su-
perficial, and the plan adopted will be
enormously expensive-so much so that
the enterprise does not promise to be
remunerative. The American people
are interested in having an inter-oceanic
canal constructed, and that, too, at an
early day; but there is an utter want of
confidence in the De LessepS scheme.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

No man can do a good job Of work,
preach q good sermon. try a law suit
well, doctor patient. or write a good
article when he feels miserable and dull,
with sluggish brain and unsteady nerves.
and none should make the attempt in
such condition when it can be 50 easi-
ly and cheaply by a little Hop Bitters.
See another column.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

COLONEL E. C. BoUDINoT, gen tie
man who is well known as the son of
Cherokee chief, and whose education has
not had the effect of preventing him
from having sympathy with the red race,
lives in Washington, but is now in the
West, where he was invited to speak
about the affairs of the Indian Terri
tory. Colonel Roudinot studied law in
Arkansas and edited paper there. He
also represented his nation" in the Con-
federate Congress.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

THE general uneasiness throughout
the country in the direction of labor
strikes, is stimulated by the friends OF
Grant, who are endeavoring to impress
capital with the idea that he would sup
press the strikers by force whenever and
wherever they attempted to demonstrate
their power This is why the nomination
of Grant Is menace and why his elec-
ton WOuiG be crime.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

Mr.. JAMES REDPATH furnishes the
New York Tribune with some interest
ing details of the famine in Ireland.
He gives letters from clergymen in each
of the four provinces, which show that
there is much suffering, and that relief
is urgently needed. The writers refer
in grateful terms to America, and trace
the misery of the people in large part to
the landlords, who as class are doing
little or nothing to relieve them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

JACOB II. BLooMER, of Virgille, n.
Y, writes: "Your DR.. Thomas Eclectric
Oil cured badly swelled neck and sore
throat on my son in forty-eight hours
one application also removed the pain
from very sore toe my wife's foot was
also much infamed, so much so that she
could not walk about the house; she APP
piled the Oil, and in twenty-four hours
was positively cured.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

NEW YORK Commercial Advertiser:
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, boasts of
two-faced baby. If that child had been
born fifty or sixty years ago, he would
now be of proper age to meet great
Democratic want.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

THE few delegates at large from Indi-
ana to the Chicago Convention are
Blaine men. The delegation from that
State is now full, and Blaine has twen-
ty-nine out of the thirty. A decided
leaning to Washburne as second choice
is indicated by most of them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

SECRETARY EvARTs promises to give
reception at the State Department
some time in April when the moon is
high, and the balconies will consequent
ly be picturesque. The moon is full
April oath.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

THE Presidents mesSaget to Congress
last week leaves no doubt as to his posi-
ton on the inter-oceanic canal question.
Our commercial interests, our unity,
peace and safety demand that when
such canal shall be built it shall be
under our exclusive control. In this
position there is little doubt the Presi-
dent will have the hearty support of
Congress and the people.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

Josu BILLINGS says, if l wuz called
upon to mourn over deal mule should
stand in front Of him and do all my
weeping. That is all very we'll, Joshua,
but if a live mule was called upon to
plant his foot suddenly against your bo-
som there is nothing like quick appli-
cation of DR.. Thomas Electric Oil.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
Belmont coun.y orIciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-Wm. 0key.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Darrah.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auoitor-William n. Cofiand.
Decentralization Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Robert NJ. Eaten.
Recorder A. Barnes.
Gommissioners-A. w. Anderson, |. j,
Potts, Henry Frssher.
Suryeyor-Ch Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infrmary Observation-Disclosures Taylor,
VIM. Parkinson, Thomas Lodge. .
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
The World a Honest.
Detroit Free Press. |

A dozen men were yesterday loafing
away the rainy hours in business place
near the ferry dock, when the conVersa-
ton turned upon the subject of general
public rascality. A citizen said he had
given boy quarter to get changed and
had never seen him again; another said
he wouldn't trust his own grandfather,
and third would give 500 to see an
honest man.
Il have not yet lost my faith in hu-
man nature" finally remarked a man on
back seat. "Any Of you may call in a
stranger to US all, and / will give him a
So bill to go and get changed. If he
fails to come back lose the money; if
be returns you will see how foolish your
assertions are"
Half a dozen men rushed to the door.
A seedy, gaunt and evil-looking African
was padding by in the rain, and he was
selectep to make the test.
"Strrnger," said tbs man who hadn't
lost confidence. take this FIVE dollar bill
around the corner and get it changed
and / will give you 10 cents"
The black man departed without word
and for the next 10 minutes the laugh
was on the man who sent him. 1t died
away, however, as the African slouched
in, handed out the bill, and said:
Il runned all ober' an nobody could
change him"
He was given his 10 cents, and the
man who lost the quarter by the boy
said he couldn't have believed such an
exhibition of honesty if he had not wit
messed it. and he was willing to buy the
cider for the crowd. =
1t was only after the cider had been
destroyed and paid for that he learned
that the bill given the negro was base
counterfeit which no one would accept.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

WHAT do you do when you have a
cold ? asked a little boy of Jones the 9TH
er day. Coughl replied Jones. i don't,
for my ma gives me DR.. Thomas Elec-
trio Oil, and it always stops my cough
ing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

BY vote of 10 to 10 the Wisconsin
Senate has passed bill giving the State
Supreme Court the power to pass upon
contested election cases.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

TnDEN seems to have decided that
he will have to have the nomination. 1t
only remains for the Cincinnati Conven-
ton to ratify.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

MIR. HILL has introduced ILL in the
Legislature to establish an agricultural
experimental station in connection with
the State University.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

PARNELL sailed for Europe on Thurs
day, but will return to America after
the election.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

FIVE women were elected members of
the Board of Education at Middletown,
\. Y, last week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
BelnontChronicle
w A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
- Terms of Subscription:
TWO Dollars Fer Year in Advance.

If not paid within the year % per cent will
be added Tor each year it remains unpaid.
aOFF.oE South side Main street, nearly op
posite Pnblic School building
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TEACHERS EXAMINATION.
ts7e-so.

I879-So.
Belmont County, ohio.
First Saturday OF February, Glencoe.
First Saturday of March. st Clairsville.
Third saturday or March, Bellaire.
second saturday OF April. Martins Ferry.
First Saturday Of May. Aorristown-
Fourth Saturday OF May, st. Clatrsvtlle.
Third Saturday Of June. Beliaire.
Also at close of Institute in Belmont.
Examinations begin al 8 O'Clock. AN.
Plonptness is expected.
extended.
Testimonials of character are required IL ap
plicant is not KnOwn W the Board, and evil
dence OF success IN teaching is allowed its
proper weight.
JEo T. DUFF Ex- Board.
]. NJ. YARSELL.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

THE Iowa Legislature has passed a
Education Law.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCR-Rev. r.
i Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 900 s.ui. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p-m.; gen.
eral prayer meeting; Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. j. 81. Copkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; pm. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday Z
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday Z P m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u 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, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays ard Saturdays each
month, 2 IN. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, 1 pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18
A Monster Vampire from Asia.

In store in Summit street may be
seen an animal the like of which but
few people in Toledo have ever seen
1t is monster South Asian vampire,
the much dreaded "blood-sucker" of that
country. This rare creature, perhaps
the only living specimen of the kind in
this country, is about one and a half feet
long, has pair of piercing black eyes
which shine like diamonds, a double row
of sharp teeth, similar to those Of the
weasel, and its powerful wings when
stretched its full length measure two
and half feet from pointto point. The
vampire hangs suspended from bar in
the center of its cage by pair OF fOrmid-
able claws, and when in repose resembles
aelOsed umbrella. Its body is clothed
with a comfortable coat of brown fur,
while its beautiful propOrtioned head,
which has remarkable similarity to
that of diminutive black and tan ter
rier dog, is surmounted by pair of large
shell shaped ears. This strange Great
ure is almost totally blind during the
day, but at night its little eyes twinkle
with astonishing brilliancy. The vam-
pire is keptin temperature Of about
10 degrees, in order to conform as nearly
as possible with the climate of his na-
tive home.-TOledo Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

JUDGE LoCHRANE, of Georgia, the
Southern Democrat who has been most
prominent in his advocacy of Grant, has
offered to bet $1,000 that Grant will
receive at the CHICAGO Convention 39S
votes on the first ballot, thus giving him
the nomination. He figures out that he
will have 290 votes in solid State delega-
tiOns, and 1OS at least from delegations
that are divided. Probably Judge Loch-
rane don't know everything. General
Ewing of Ohio, thinks there is strong
possibility of break down in the Grant
boom, and is reported in the Boston
Globe as follows:
General Ewing did not believe that
the candidacy of General Grant was by
any means certain. 1t is true that the
present indications all pointed to his
nomination. 1t is true that the ring
politicians, with few exceptions, were
all in his favor, but there was grow
ing feeling that he would be the man
most easily beaten by the Democracy,
and the sober second thought of the Re
publican party and its Convention might
so strongly acquiesce in this feeling that
they would place some other man at the
head of their ticket rather than make 4
standard-bearer of him against whom
there was so much objection among The
people, and even expressed in the news
papers of the Republican party.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-18

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court Of
Claims, and appear before all the Departments.
Prom ptness and satisfaction given In all 6usi-
ness entrusted TO them. Correspondence So
icitsd. 529 7th St., ep. p. o. Department.
WASHINGTON DO sep26tf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-10
What We CaIl sTerra Fir ma.

The rivers OF the sea, apart from the aston
1Shment and wonder which their StupendOuS
proportions must arouse In the mind OF the
student OF nature present themselves to us
as subject OF paramount interest, when we
consider the part which they have played and
are still playing In the building up OF the top
most layer OF the solid earth crust. In the
The distribution Of vegetable and animal life
over the surface of our planet, and last, not
least, IL the recent advance OF ocean navi-
CATION, by which the inhabitants of the
most distant lands have been brought into close
intercourse with each other. The erOsive &C
ton Oh currents constantly tends to alter the
c0nhGuratl0n OF the coast lines, by taking
away land in one place and depoSitfng it else
where. Again, immense quantities OF sed-
ment carried by all the rivers OF the world
into The sea are taken up by the currents and
spread over the bed OF the ocean. Biologists
tel us that nearly all. Ii not all, the dry land
at present existing has at one time been at the
bottom OF the sea, an assertion confirmed by
OF the loftiest ain ranges have evidently
oeen deposited in ages long past upon the
noor or the ocean, ard still retain the remains
or The animals which dfSported themselves III
the seas OF former days. What we are still In
the habit OF calling terra flrna" is proved by
modern observations to be in constant motion
rising AND falling like The heeving breast Of
some mighty monster, whose arms stretch far
beneath the waves. BY the action OF the sub
lerrane0uS FORCES, as yet unexplained. vast
areas or the earth-CrlSt are depressed below or
lifted up above the level OF the sea, and we are
beginning at last TO understand the truth OF the
maxim, that there Is nothing stable In the
universe OF created things except the unstable.
SClt1l,S Al.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-10
D,,,rict Coyernment Affatr..

Chills ard fevers are quite prevalent among
the inmates OF the work and aims houses in this
city, some fifty persons of both sexes being
down sick with this disease.
Pourdmaster EiDstein to-day, on his rounds
for animals, captured 40 dogs besides num-
Ter OF geese and goats. The owners OF dogs are
contIaband dogs will soon become scarce
1t. Greene has directed that two street lamps
De placed ON g street, between 9th and 10th
streets Sw.
Building permits issued by Inspector Entwisle:
2. Harvey, repair frame, 1922 st. NV, $500.
Chas Banks, erect two story dwelling, Pom
eroy St. between Sd and 4th SITS. NV. $500. Wa.
Jones, erect a two story dwelling Samson be-
tween 18th and 10th SITS. NV, $500.
THE RECEIPTS IN TIE COLLECTORS OFFICE
for July was 81, 160 Of which Sc, 951.S1 were In
drawback certificates. OF the above $2s, 49s 30
was On account OF the current year endlng
June 80; 1880; s1o.4ss. on account g: personal,
taxes; 81, POO on account of dog tax, and 8; 500
from water rents. This is considered pretty
good showing for July, it being generally re-
garded as an OF month for tax collections. The
fact is rather conspicuous that but 81 1lt.1 6 was
collected during the corresponding month last
year for personal taxes. while this year the
amount Is Si0,4SS "a. The officials In Mr.. Cooks
office are busy making up the tax list account Of
delinquent taxes for publication on the first Tues
day in September, In accordance with the law.
IL should oe borne In mind by taxpayers that
the benefit OF the joint resolution OF June Z,
1880, liking the rate OF interest at per centum
per annum upon arrearageS, applies only to all
general taxes In arrears on the first of Jaly,
1879, and to all special assessments due the Dis
trict, and which may be paid ON or before the
first day OF January, 1881. At this time the
dement's OF this act ceases, when the old penal
ties will again be added, and it is not likely that
Congress will extend any further leniency In
this direction.
TEF CONTRACT
between the District Commissioners and Mr. j.
FL. Hewlett. for the erection of the new school
building on street, between 9th and It'll
streets. was executed to-day. Mr.. Hewlett
giving the necessary bonds. and he will proceed
With the work at once. The other contracts
will follow for the other school buildings.