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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Captain Eads' Ship Railway.

The Scientific American of this week
contains two full page illustrations of
Captain Eads proposed railway for
transporting ships with their cargo
across continents.
Captain Eads claims by his plan to be
able to take loaded ships of the largest
tonnage from one ocean to the other
across the Isthmus of Panama, as readi-
ly as can be done by canal after the
Lessup plan, and at much less cost for
engineering construction.
The project is certainly bold and in
genious, and the protector anticipates
no serious difficulties in carrying forward
his enterprise. The engravings referred
to in the Scientific American show the
proposed construction OF not only the
railroad, but the appliances for trans
ferring the ships from the water to the
rail.
In addition to the large number Of en-
cravings illustrative of engineering
WOIkS, luftuIlOllS tillu ncn utSCONOllco
which appear weekly, the Scientific
American has, during the past year, de-
voted considerable space te illustrating
aud describing leading establishments
devoted to different manufacturing in
dustries.
This feature has added very much to
the attractiveness and usefulness Of the
paper. More than fifty of the most i'm
portant industrial establishments Of our
country have been illustrated, and the
processes of the different manufactures
described in it's columns. The Scientific
American has been published for more
than thirty-four years by Mum & Co,
81 Park Row, N. Y, and has attained a
Jaeger circulation than all similar pa
pers published in the country. The
publishers assure the public that they
have not printed less than $4,000 copies
a week for several months.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
How to be Beautiful.

One of the most fascinating women l
ever saw Was very homely. but she had
such charming manner that no one re-
membered that she was plain. One of
the most beautiful had prominent eyes,
rather prominent teeth, and altogether
irregular features, yet no one could see
her and not recognize the fact that she
was beautiful: it was the beauty of a
lovely soul shining through and trans
figuring the whole.
Twill give you very short rule for
being pretty-think prettily, act pretti-
ly, live prettily. You can all remember
that; and the more you think of it, the
more you will see how much is compris-
ed i'll it. Be always neat in your dress /;
dress as tastefully as you like or are
able, but dress appropriately to your
form and complexion, to the time and
place, and to your circumstances; en-
deavor to have the different articles of
your attire in harmony with each other;
there is far more in harmony and ap-
propriateness than in elaboration and
expensiveness. But the question of
dress, aside from neatness, should be
considered subordinate; the rest depends
more on your character and manner than
you can at present realize.
A girl who is cross, selfish, petulent,
overbearing and discontented, cannot pre-
vent the expression of those qualities
from writing their character indelibly
upon her face sooner or later; while one
who is, or tries to be, good, patient,
thoughtful, loving, gracious and full of
4 charity that thinksth no evil, also has
written on her face the testimony of her
real life, and grows more beautiful as
she grows older. This is the kind of
beauty to strive to obtain.
Be regular in your habits; have socie-
ty, but not to dissipation. BY late hours,
excitement, unhealthy living, lack of oc-
cupation and lack of exercise, you lessen
the tone of your system, lose the bloom
of health, and, so intimately are mind
and body connected, impair also the
mind; the effect is, of course, to make
you lose even the beauty, that is al
ways, to greater or less extent, the
accompaniment of the freshness and
fairness of youth.
Youth should only be, however, the
promise of the bud; the full flower of
beauty should come with the fullness of
life and development, and it will do so
where the heart is pure and the life
righteous. for the writing comes from
within, not from without.-Arthur's
Home Magazine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
FALSE REASONS.

Suppose a machine should fail to per-
form its work, and the owner, instead
of trying to ascertain the cause of fail
ure and remedy it, should conclude to
run right along, and argue that as the
machine had heretofore come around all
right it would soon be so again. If a
general and permanent breakdown en-
sued could anybody be blamed but HIM
self? Now, precisely this way do peo-
pie act and argue when the "human
machine" is out of order. When the liv-
er is torpid" and bowels constipated
every one knows that DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Purgative Pellets afford prompt and
permanent relief. Yet some guess the
"machine" will come around all right,and
do nothing. Could any system of false
reasoning be more pernicous? Suppose
the blood be out of order and there be
pimples, ulcers, or running sores with
scrofulous tumors, swellIngs and gener-
al debility, and those thus affected sho'd
refuse TO use DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, guessing that the blood
would purify itself, could anybody be
blamed but themselves, ifa general and
permanent break down of health ensu-
ed? No remedy yet known equals the
Discovery in curing all scrofulous,
throat, bronchial and lung diseases.
Sold by druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
THURLOW WEED ON THE
RESULT.
The Views of Veteran Politician
Grave Question Set at Rest.

A Tribune reporter called last evening
upon Thurlow Weed to learn his views
in regard to the causes that led to so de-
cisive Republican victory. Mr.. Weed
was found sitting before CRATE fire in
his study, looking cheerful. "The Presi-
Dental contest of this year," he said,
"was very important; one of the most
important in the history of our country
The questions before the people were of
such vast interest to the prosperity of
the nation that no one could fail to
study the situation deeply, and to vote
in accordance with the result of such
study. The peOple have seen the work
OF the Republican party during the past
twenty years. Its position to-day is one
that Is favorable to the best interests of
the country, to the state of business and
to the prosperity of the laboring classes.
If any evidence has been needed, during
the canvass, of General Garfield's fitness
for the Chief Executive Office, his actions
and utterances have afforded it. | have
no fear of the future. / am sure that we
shall have wise, just and patriotic Ad-
ministratiOn.
"The Democratic party has been full
of bitter feeling. 1t has been opposed to
the unity of the country. If it had been
successful we should nave lost all that
we gained by putting down the rebellion.
They tried war twenty years ago. What
they failed in then they would have ac-
cOmplished now by legislation. They
nominated General Hancock because
they thought him strong man. They
fln0ia6 fhnf NV headline oI-
with Il man of pure character and gal
liant patriotism they would be successful.
They used the livery of God to advance
the cause of Satan. The people under
stood this; and, with unanimity never
before equalled, exerted themselves to
defeat the Democratic party. They saw
the apparent strength of General Han
cock and worked hard to undermine it.
think General Hancock ought to con-
gratulate himself that he was not elect
ed. His life as President would have
been anything but peaceful. He would
have been obliged to have Rebel Cab
met, and would have been surrounded by
a Rebel Congress; and thus would have
been the abject slave Of his party.
"The Democratic party, as it has been,
is utterly annihilated. Ever since it Op-
posed the admission OF Kansas and Ne
braska as free States, it has been mud
died. The Democrats lost their heads
then and have not found them yet.
There have been one or tive occasions
when, if they had been loyal, they might
have beaten us. Those times have pass
ed and their day is over. Unless they
utterly change their policy their exist
ence as party is at an end."-[[N. Y.
Tribune
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

| In every kind of work there is more
or less neglect of important minor mat
ters which, small in themselves, contrib
ute as a whole largely to the success or
failure of the business to which they
| pertain. This is not more true of any
other pursuit than of farming, and no
other, perhaps, offers more OppOrtuni-
ties for waste and negligence. When
we have an idle day in the printing office,
all hands turn in and rub up the machi-
merry, clean out the cases, rearrange the
furniture and fixtures, and the increased
facility of working and improved conve-
niences always resulting from such a
cleanup, show such days to be most
profitably employed. Why cannot the
occasional spare days on the farm be
used to the same advantage? On many
farms they are, but on many more they
are not. On how many farms have you
and we been, reader, where, in spite of
rainy days and multiplied odd hours,
there were none of the conveniences
which any man of ordinary ingenuity
can contrive? A few wagon-loads of
stone would make splendid walks to the
well, spring-house or stable, yet the fam
| lily plOds through the muddy paths ten
or twenty years for want of two or
three hours work 10y the team and boys.
In the same way broken gates are al
lowed to fall, fence-posts to lean and
break down for want of attention.. The
team will be driven to distant fields for
years on the way to which clumsy bars
have to be let down-because some rainy
day was not employed in making gates.
Stones are allowed to cucumber and
spoil fertile piece of ground for the
need of days work to put them into
solid fence. Pools of water are allowed
to gather and stagnate for want of lit
tie drainage. Good. springs of water
could be guided to fill troughs with pure
fresh water for stock-but the troughs
are not made, and the stock drinks from
such odd puddles and shallow rillS as it
can find. But there is no need of going
farther. The reader has seen plenty of
such farms. They are, fortunately, in
this time of unprecedented agricultural
progress, becoming fewer every year,but
they are still wonderfully plenty. The
only remedy lies in personal effort on
the part of the farmers to which these
remarks apply, and we appeal to them
to make it, and thereby save labor and
add to the value of their property
Pittsburgh Stockman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Not Very Mad.

The election of Garfield over Hancock
makes it certain that as party divisions
now stand the Republicans can elect any
ticket they put in tie field All
that we thought proper to say, we have
said and, yielding to no one in detesta-
ton for the party record of the man who
has been chosen President of the United
States, we declared early in the canvass
what We here take leave to repeat, that
he is person of commanding intellect
yo'uminous experience in public affairs,
incapable alike of personal venality or
malignity, and capable of being and
wishing to be "a just chief magistrate
That this will he his purpose and policy
we sincerely hope.-Louisville Courier
Journal (Dem)
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Masonic Directory.

belmont LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
GEORGE BUMGARNER, W. M.
NJ. T. COPELAND, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
G: w. CARROLL, II. P.
EssE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. 6 s. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
Fl. r. BUMGARNER, g. NJ.
GEO. MlToHRLL, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 90, K. T.
Ii Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. F. D. BAILEY, E. G.
l.. L. SEDwICK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Jupiter.

Have you noticed the wonderful brill
fancy and beauty of Jupiter?
To the naked eye, and without the aid
of "a telescope, it looks like torch in the
sky.
A few evenings since aparty of people
in the country espied the planet just as
it was making its appearance above the
horizon, and thinking it must be a large
meteoric light of some kind, dispatched
two of their number in its direction,
through the woods, to ascertain what it
could be. Then it was thought to be an
illuminated ascending balloon.
The reason Jupiter has shone with
such remarkable brilliancy of late is be-
cause it has been nearing the point when
it appears largest to observers on our
planet-a point it will not reach again
until about twenty years hence, which
will be quite as soon as the Democratic
party can reasonably expect to attain to
power under its present leadership.
The most sublime of all studies is as
tronomy. 1t turns the the thoughts Of
mortals from terrestrial troubles heav-
onward.
81 linger yet with Nature, for the night
Hath been to me more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
1 learned the language of another world"
We recall to memory conversation
with Daniel Webster at Marshfield, in
which the subject of astronomy came
up. Mr.. Webster remarked: "In the
winter season can tell the time of
night, within fifteen minutes, by the po-
sition of the constellations-I have OBJ
served them so much. l am often re-
minded Of the plain but sublime poetry
of DR.. Watts:
"'Ye stars are but the shining dust
Ofmy divine abode"
Thus was Mr.. Webster's soul lifted on
high when he was contemplating the
heavenly bodies; but when he looked
earthward, and the White House fixed
his gaze. he longed for that. Then came
a blight over his hopes, terrible disap-
pointment pierced and broke his great
heart, and he died!
Democrats, study astronomy!
Jupiter and other planets-except this
earth of ours-are Just about as bright
as they were before the election.-N. Y.
Sun, Nov. 4.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-R Rev. R
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evenin:
service, z. Sabbath School, 900 a. III. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m.; gen
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday 7 pm
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NIRev. j. II. Conkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting; Thursday p m
Strangers are cordially invited to all oul
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am Public worship: II am
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 8 pm
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday ol
each month, 2 pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2p.m. Young women's prayer meet.
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

A COMPLIMENT, true and genuine, was
paid by il sailor who was sent by his
captain to carry Il letter to the lady of
his love. The sailor, having delivered
tha message, stood gazing in silent ad-
miration upon the lady, for she was very
beautiful.
"Well, my good man." she said, "for
what do you wait? There is no answer
to be returned"
Lady" replied the sailor, with hum
BILE Difference, "if you please would like
to know your name"
did you not see it on the letter."
'Pardon, lady-I never learned to
read. Mine has been a hard, rough life. -
"And for what reason, my good man,
would you know my name?"
Because" answered the old tar, look
ing honestly up, "in a storm at sea, with
danger afore me, would like to call the
name of the brightest thing I'd ever
seen in my life. There'd be sunshine in
it, even in the darknessT
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

New Jersey has gone for Hancock by
about 1900 majority, and elected the
Democratic candidate for Governor. The
Legislature, however, is Republican, and
will stand rs follows: Senate, Republi-
cans, Is. Democrats 6; House, Republi-
cans 81, Democrats %. Republican ma
jority on joint ballot %. This insures a
United States Senator to succeed Ran
dolph, whose term expires March 4th,
1884,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
THE Cleveland Plain Dealer heads the


returns from the election as follows:
Our address is still up that familiar
old salty rivuiet, dear friends-Secure
your tickets early. brethren, and let us
away to the spot where we have linger-
ed 10, these many moons-To Republi-
cans: we acknowledge another four
years lease-Where are we? is the query
of the hour, and echo answers what are
we?-This is a conundrum that has
been propounded to US for twenty long,
weary years, but you can bet your life
we don't give it up yet-If at first we
don't catch on, why once again the ar
NOR don, and sail in with that determi-
nation born of a consciousness that we
are in the right--In Democracy where
there is so much life there is always
hope"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
The Eve Of Election.
From gold to gray

TIOu SUiu W gray
Our mild, sweet day
OF Indian summer fades too soon;
But tenderly
Above the sea
Hangs, white and calm, the hunter
moon.
In its pale fire
The village spire
Shows like the zodiac's spectral lance;
The painted walls
WhereOn it falls
Transfgured stand in marble trance.
Ger fallen leaves
The west wind grieves,
Yet comes seed time round again;
And morn shall see
The State sOwn free
With baleful tares or healthful grain.
Along the street
The shadows meet
OF Destiny, whose hands conceal
The mOlds of fate
That shape the State,
And make or mar the common veal.
Around see
The powers that be;
| stand by empires primal springs;
All princes meet
In every street,
And hear the tread of uncrowned kings
Hark! through the crowd
The laugh runs loud
Beneath the sad, rebuking moon,
God save the land
A careless hand
May shake or swerve ere morrow's noon
No jest Is this;
One cast amiSs
May blast the hope Of freedoms year.
Oh. take me where
Are hearts of prayer,
And foreheads bowed in reverent fear
Not lightly fall
Beyond recall
The written scrolls breath can float;
The crOwning fact,
The kingliest act
OF Freedom is the freeman's vOtal
For Pearls that gem
A diadem
A diver in the deep sea dies;
The regal right
We boast tonight
Is ours through costlier sacrifice;
The blood ofsVane,
His prison pain
Who traced the path the pilgrim trOd,
And hers whose faith
Drew strength from death
And prayed her Russell up to GOdl
Our hearts grow cold,
We lightly hold
A right which brave men died to gain
The stake. the cord,
The axe, the sword.
Grim nurses at its birth Of pain.
The shadow rend.
And DER us bend, -- ----
o martyrsl with your crowns and
palms
Breathe through these throngs
Your battle songs,
Your scaffold prayers and dungeon
psalms!
Look from the sky,
Like Gods great eye,
Thou solemn moon, with searching
beam;
Till in the sight
OF thy pure light
Our mean self-seekings meaner seem.
Shame from our hearts
Unworthy arts.
The fraud designed, the purpose dark;
And smite away
The hands we lay
Profanely on the sacred ark.
TO party claims
And private aims
Reveal the august face of Truth
Where to are given
The age of heaven,
The beauty Of immortal youth.
So shall our voice
Of sovereign choice
Swell the deep bass of duty done,
And strike the key
OF time to be,
When God and man shall speak as one
JOHN c. WHITTIER.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

The Philadelphia Times says that
Montgomery county, Pa. the home of
General Hancock, which usually gives a
Democratic majority of several hun
dred, has turned over majority of ten
to Garfield.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
VALUEOF A DOLLAR.

You never know the value of dollar
until you try to borrow one, and you
never know the true value of Spring
Blossom until you're doubled up with
Bilious Collie, Indigestion or Constipa-
tion, and you try it. Price so cents, tri-
al bottles 10 cents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

The thanks of the Republican party
should be rendered to Mr.. Barnum and
his coparceners in the management of
the Democratic campaign. If they had
been struck by lightning early in the
summer General Hancock might have
had some chances of election.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

The Republicans will have fifty ma
jority on joint ballot in the Pennsylva-
mia Legislature. This means Repub-
lican United States Senator in place Of
Wallace.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11
Two Pictures.

Miss Blanche Murray is very prop
er young lady. Last week she caught
her little brother smoking.
You terrible thing" she hissed, "I'm
going to tell father ON you"
"This is only corn-silk," murmured
the boy, peuitently.
81 don't care what it is. am going
to tell OH you, and see that you don't get
into that beastly, hOrrid, degrading hab-
it. 1 wouldn't have anything to do with
smokers"
1t is evening. Miss Murray is sitting
on the front stoop with AlgernOn. 1t
is moonlight, and the redolent spirits of
the hOneysuckle and syringa ale watt
ing bliss to their already intoxicated
souls.
Would little bird object to my smok-
ing cigarrette?"
Not at ALL" replied Miss Murray. 81
like cigarettes, they are so fragrant and
romantic. l think they are just too de-
licious for anything"
''Then I'll light one."
ado, and blow some of the smoke in
my face; it is so soothing and dreamily
paradisic.
Then he lights cigarette, and they
talk about the weather for two hours
and half.
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.BelTn0ntChrOniCle
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
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OFFICE South side Main street, nearly op-
posite Public School building.
Belmont Co vn.y offlcial Directory.
Common Pleas Judse-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Darrah.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditor William n. Coff1and.
Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred ii. Mitchell.
Recorder-James A. Barnes.
Commissioners-Owen Mehan, l. J. Potts,
Henry Frasher.
Surveyor -Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infrmary Observation-Disclosures Taylor,
Wm. Parkinson, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

Where was that host of Hancock Re-
publicans on election day? Answers
requested from Col. Forney, Leonard
Jerome and Ben. Butler.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-11-11

BED-RoCK-NATIoNAL SOVEREIGNTY
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Banking hours from 8 3 m. until 8 pm.
Discount days Tuesdays, at 10 am.
ES- Money received on deposit
Collections made and proceeds remitted
promptly. Exchange bought and sold.
Directors-Conrad Troll, David Brown,
George Brown.
d. D. T. COWEN, Pres.
Fl. G. WEIDAY, Cashier.