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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER BURNS
and wife spent the latter portion of the
week with friends in this place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

KING, the Monroe county murderer,
swung off on Friday. See particulars
in another column.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Mrs. EDWARD FERMOR and daughters
started on Wednesday last to visit
friends in New York. They expect to
be absent one month.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

A FATAL case of sunstroke occurred
at Martins Ferry on Tuesday, the vic
tim being an employe of blast furnace.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

THE Bellaire High School graduating
class attended the Commencement exer-
cises in this place in a body, on Friday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

The Nail City Glass Works, at Bridge
port, expects to start its fires this week
or next.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Wool a little slow. 1t usually is
about this time of year, when it ought
to bring a fair price.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

The census enumerators' "trouble :"
commenced on Tuesday. Lookout for
dogsl
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

E. G. CRACRAFT, of Wheeling, has been
retained by Mrs. Warren, who shot her
husband near Powhatan.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

PROF. and Mrs. BLACK went to Gin
cinnati on the day following Commence
ment, to visit friends.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
CHERRIES are hawked upon the streets.

FARMERS should sell their wool just
when they can obtain the highest price.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
EDWARD FERMOR,

Wood Lumber,
WILL KEEP ON HAND an assortment
w of Oak and Poplar Lumber in yard ct
st. ClsirsviIle. Bills for frame and other
timber, filed on short notice. Yard at SHEP-
HERD DAVIS. Ara Sm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

YOUNG ORCHARDS throughout the
country are suffering severely from the
attacks of the locusts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Ice cream of the choicest flavor, at
Wilson's saloon.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Mrs. JAS. RYAN, of Columbus, is visit
ing among friends in this place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

DIR. ID. r. Johnston, of Mansfield, ar
rived in town yesterday on a short visit
to relatives.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

DECORATION DAY was pretty gener-
ally observed on Saturday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Two ladies were appointed as GEN.
sus enumerators in this district.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

STRAWBERRIES are plenty, such as
they are. Sweet cherries in abundance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

CARDS are in preparation for another
wedding of some note in town.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

WHEELING will have her telephone
exchange ready for operation on June
10Th.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

For a choice dish of strawberries
and cream, go to M. E. Wilson's saloon.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Ice CREAM is selling in GAINESVILLE at
Is cents per quart.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

RAIN has come at last and will do its
work.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

WE had copious rain in this locality
on Saturday night.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

Cool yourself with a luscious dish
of Wilson's Ice Cream.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

STRAWBERRIES, three boxes for a
quarter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

M. E. Wilson is unquestionably the
restauranter of this place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
A<e@ MANY mothers are
= y - often alarmed at the

first symptoms of
~ S7E=)eS-Ey<Is---57 Sz.-Ey<Is<-T---57 "oIhS III Iheil onli-
dren-and in purchasing remedy have
foisted upon them nauseous medicines,
which are distasteful and ruinOus to
the patient. Use Patterson's Worm
Syrup, which is pleasant, safe and eff
fectual. "Children cry for it." Sold by
all dealers 25 cents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
DIED.

- A. JOHNSTON,
AttOrRey and Counselor at LG'c.
omce, three doors east OF Court Hous,.
VIII practice In Belmont and adjoining
counties. S9-t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

PROSPECT for fruit was never better
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
Town and Country.

SEE the corn grow.
VACATION will last three months.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03
Notice to Contractors,

Kennon & Pratt, Atty's.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-06-03

DURSUANr T to an order of the Probate
Il Court of Belmont county, Ohio, will
offer at public sale on the premises. on
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28

Grants administration. Mr.. Geo. Will
hanson, of Louisiana, was appointed
United States Minister to Central Amer
lea by President Grant, and served until
about a year ago, when he resigned.
Rev. Solomon Pool was professor of
mathematics in the University of North
Carolina, and was afterward President
of the university for several years. VIM.
A. Gurthrie is prominent lawyer and
politician in North Carolina. John Ty-
dent Tyler. Rev. E. P. Phelps was a
Hayes elector for the State at large in
Virginia in 1876, and was lay delegate
from the State of Virginia to the General
Conference of the Methodist Church
which met in Cincinnati last May. Alex.
White is an eminent lawyer, residing in
gress from Alabama in 1872, and again
in 1874.
A number of prominent Southern Re-
publicans not present at the preparation
of the address, but to whom copies were
sent by mail, have written letters au-
thorizing it to be stated that they fully
concur in it. Among these are VIM. r.
Rodman, for ten years Judge of the
Supreme Court of North Carolina; Geo.
w. Brooks, the United States District
Judge of the Eastern District of North
Carolina, and G. S. Winstead, many
years in the North Carolina Senate and
at one time Speaker OF the Senate.
David P. Lewis, the Governor of Ala
bama from 1878 to 1874 and at that time
the ablest Republican leader in the
State, has written o letter to Mr.. John
Pool, dated Sept. %, 1880, approving
the address and giving his own able and
decided views upon public affairs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
A Result of the Mississippi Jetties.

AS a direct result of the success of
Captain Eads' jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi River, is noted the present
remarkable demand for huge grain carry
ing barges for the transportation of
wheat from st. Louis to the ocean going
vessels at New Orleans. This demand
for barges is supplemented by the recent
purchase of several of the most powerful
towboats ever built at Pittsburg, and
which were originally designed for the
coal trade. With 20 feet of water as
sured at the South Pass, where the Jet
ties are located, the river transportation
of grain to ocean hulls bids fair to assume
proportions that may jeopardize the over
land carrying of grain between the Up
per Mississippi and the seaboard. Within
the past few weeks the St. Louis and
New Orleans Transportation Company
and the Mississippi Valley Transports
ton Company have been in the market
as purchasers for steamers and barges.
The latter are of the variety known in
Western waters as the "model" barge,
in contradistinction to the coal or square
barge. These craft are built to model,
and those recently contracted for are OF
the following dimensions: Length 225
feet, width SO feet, hold 9 feet. The
"cargo box" or receptacle for grain has
a capacity for 10000 bushels or about
1,5OO tons. At present forty such barges
are being built at different yards along
the Ohio River, and the total number of
barges that will soon find employment in
the grain-carrying trade between the
points named is placed by good author
ity at 100. A 'stow" of such barges
consists, under favorable circumstances,
of five, loaded barge drawing about
eight feet. To make the round trip be-
tween st. Louis and New Orleans re-
quires twenty days, and the freight on
wheat averages eight cents per bushel.
The lack of return cargoes prevents this
rate from being as great "bonanza as
would appear from an income of S24, ,OOC
for three weeks job. Nevertheless il
is good thing for those engaged In this
wholesale way of sending grain down the
Father of Waters. "-Scientlic Anaeri.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
The Last Of the Vespucci.

A decided sensation was created at
Washington during the Van Buren, adj
ministration by the appearance there of
handsome and well-educated italian
lady who called herself America Yes
pucci, and claimed descent from the nav
igator who gave his name to this conti-
nent. Ex-President Adams and Daniel
Webster became her special friends, and
she was soon welcome guest in the best
society. In few weeks after her arrival
she presented petition to Congress ask
ing, first, to be admitted to the rights of
citizenship, and secondly, to be given
ga corner of land" out of the public do
main of the country which bore the name
of her ancestor. An adverse report,
which was soon made, is one of the GU
riosities of Congressional literature. 1t
eulogized the petitioner as "a young,
dignifed, and graceful lady, with mind
of the highest intellectual culture, and a
heart beating with all our own enthusi-
asm in the cause of America and hu-
man liberty" The reasons why the
prayer of the petitioner could not be
granted were given, but she was recon-
mended to the generosity of the Amer
lean people. ".rhe name of America
our corlntry's name-should be honored,
respected and cherished in the person of
the interesting exile from whose ancestor
we derive the great and glorious title. y
subscription was Immediately opened
oy Mr.. Haight, the Sergeant-at-Arms OF
She Senate, and Judges, Congressman
and citizens We'd with one another in
their contributions. just then it was
whispered that Mad. Vespucci had borne
an unenviable reputation at Florence and
at Paris, and had been induced by pc.
cuniary consideration to break off an in
timacy with the Duke of Orleans, Louis
Phillippe's Oldest son, and come to Wash.
ington. Soon afterward the Dukes
younger brother, the Prince de Joinyille,
came to this country and refused to rec
ognize her, which virtually excluded hel
from reputable society. For some years
subsequently she resided in Luxurious
seclusion with wealthy citizen of New
York, in the interior of that State, an6
after his death she returned to Paris
| atlantic MO7athLu.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
THOSE AWFUL SOUTHERN CLAIMS {,

Tennessee stamps Oh s'AII Claims of
DisIOyaI Person i'm Any Way
Arising Out of the War.''
In recent speech delivered at Lewis
burg, Tenn, John G. Burch, Secretary
of the Senate and editor Of the Nashville
american, dealt with the "bugbear of
Southern claims"
A charge which is made by the Republican
speakers and writer's, to mislead the honest
masses of the North, is that when the Democ-
racy get the Presidency, as they now have the
Senate and the House, they will bankrupt the
Government by paying rebel war debts for
emancipated slaves, and property of Con
federates taken or destroyed by the Fed
eral army. That this is a lie ont of whole
cloth, every man in the South knows. But
there are thousands and tens of thousands of
good citizens in the North who are made to be-
lieve this unmitigated lie by the persistent mis-
representations of those they are accustomed TO
look to for political information and guidance.
Even if we desired SO to do, the constitution
forever prohibits us, without change of that
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
The Rings Rally for Garfield.

The nomination of Secor Robson for
Congress by the Republicans OF the First
district of New Jersey was eminently
proper. In every sense it was fit Sc
lection for the party which has put a
Credit Mobilier jobber at the head of its
national ticket Landaulet Williams is
an aspirant for the Senate from Ore
gon, and rests upon his past laurels as
Grants Attorney General for claim to
that distinction.
Schuyler Colfax is urged, he says, to
become candidate for Congress, and he
deserves that recognition from the Re-
publicans, who vindicated his venality
when he was caught with Amos bait in
his pocket. He was very quick to GER
tify to Garfield's "high integrity" and
he stood Oh the same platform with him
at Chautauqua, to give the party candi-
date the benefit of his moral support.
'Belknap has espoused the cause of
Garfield warmly, though he was at first
indignant at the rejection of Grant.
Thus far he has not been put forward
for Congress, but he is biding his time.
and is hopeful for political honors in the
| future
Babcock is enlisted zealously in the
cause, with a grateful recollection that
| Garfield made him the "sole voucher"
for the expenditure of So, 500, 600 of ap-
preparations voted to the Washington
ring soon after the payment of the S.
900 De Golyer bribe.
Boss Shepherd proclaims from
mine in Mexico that, next to Grant, Gen.
| Garfield is the man after his own heart.
| And he has reason for this good opinion,
considering what the Chairman of the
| Appropriation Committee did for him in
the winter of 1872-73. He knows how
| Garfield became possessed of his house
at Washington, and he holds in his own
| hands evidence that made him quail
once and will do so again whenever he
sees fit to use it.
Every one of the Credit Mobilier job
bers now living who shared with Gar
field in that corruption is shouting loudly
for his election. Dawes, Scofeld, Pat
terson of New Hampshire, Wilson of
Iowa, Bingham, Colfax. Allison. Logan,
Kelley, and "the rest of them, as Ames
contemptuously described the cattle he
had bought, are engaged in one form or
another in this business.
public thieves are solid for Garfield, and
that they have thrust themselves to the
front, so as to be seen and known of all
men. Mr.. Conkling must be gratified
with the company of these associates,
whom he never failed to sustain in the
Senate, and with most of whom he en-
tertained personal relations during the
two terms of Grantism.
The people will be apt to make one
job of the whole lot, and send them
where they belong in November. II
they had their just punishment, the
majority of them would be cracking
stone in penitentiary. But while the
statute of limitations may save the vile
crew from any such penalty, they will
be consigned to disgrace and exile
And with them, this administration,
which came in by fraud, will go out il
infamy, Hayes carrying with him more
than three-fourths of the salary belong
ing lawfully to Mr.. Tilden, John Sher
man enriched by millions, and the 9th
ers branded with public scorn.-Nc,t
York San.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
Opinions In Army Circles.


Presuming always that the reports of
Grants utterances are correct, the main
opinion in army circles is that Gen.
Grant has lost by stepping down into
the political arena to meddle where he is
not personally concerned. His attack
upon Gen. Hancock is regarded as being
In most execrable taste, and one that in
the end must detract much from his own
position of independence as private
gentleman. AS one of the officers put
it: "Gen. Grant has renounced his
character of the sphinx, and has stepped
down to become one of the party bosses.
Another said 81 think see in this
how bitterly Gen. Grant regrets his de-
feat at Chicago, and how Jealous he is
of Gen. Hancock. Nothing but jealousy
could have inspired this attack, and this
very feeling of jealousy shows Gen.
Grant to be a much smaller man than
was the general estimate before he be-
gan to talk" An officer who served in
Louisiana during 1876 and 1877 says that
Gen. Grants criticism of Gen. Hancock
| during his stay comes with an i'll grace
| from Gen. Grant when it is a well-known
fact that during the winter of 1876 and
| 1877 Gen. Grant was intriguing to get
Brother-in-law Casey elected to the Sen
ate by Packard. Had this been done he
would have set up the Packard Govern.
ment at once but, this failing, he left
the question to be solved by Mr.. Hayes.
Finally, friends of Gen. Hancock say
| that the latter will be fully able to take
care of himself, but that he will be in no
hurry. He will first find out how much
of these statements Gen. Grant will
! back over his own signature, and then
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
/" REBEL CLAIMS"

Who Are Their Real Advocates l-Gar-
field Responsible for the Payment of
Five Million DOlIars-COnfidcnt
Circular in Relation to Southern
CIaims-ssIt Is Considered That the
Interests of Roth Claimants and At
tOrneys Will BE Better Promoted by
the Election of Garfield Than That
of Hancock, and Thus Continue the
Republican Party in POwer-Ad-
dress Remittances TO Hon. Edward
McPhersOn.''
Washington Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer.l
The following is copy of a circular
which explains itself. 1t was forwarded
here by New York claim agent, who,
under date of Oct. 2, says: enclosed
I send you copy of circular received
by mail yesterday"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
tConfidential.1
II n Co,,t 1QQ0

WASHINGTON, ID. u, Sept. 3U, 1SSU.
DEAR SIR: The letter of Gen. Hancock in
regard to the payment of claims leaves nc
doubt in the minds of those who know him that
he will sternly carry out his views as thereiu
announced, and that he will promptly vet"
any and all acts looking to such compensation
as may hereafter be asked for loss incurred by
citizens of the States in the Rebellion by the
army of the United States, and also that he will
urge upon Congress the repeal Of any and all
laws now in force making it possible for claim
many man Of % the Southern s aS states, and By great
many prominent Democratic members of Con-
gress from the South, have come expressions
coinciding with and fully agreeing to the views
expressed by Gen. Hancock.
The position occupied by Gen. Garfield upon
the subject of the payment of claims is, and has
been, much more favorable to claimants than
that assumed by Gen. Hancock in his letter.
You are cited to the fact that Gen. Garfield was
Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations
when the present Vice President, Hon. VIM.
A. Wheeler, reported and had placed upon the
Army Appropriation bill the Act of 4th of
July" under which You and your clients have
received large awards, and that this meas
ure received the srdent support of Gen
Garfield in q speech upon the sub
ject. Also, that Gen. Garfield strongly urged
the extension of the time of the Southern Claims
Commission upon both occasions when said ex-
tension was made. 1t is extremely doubtful if
the last extension of such time would have been
peal made to the House by him, as you will see
by referring to the Record, when the bill came
up for consideration. Southern claimants, un-
der the operation Of the law creating the COM
mission, as you are aware, were paid nearly
S5, 900.
1t is considered, in the opinion of the best
posted and thoroughly attorneys
here in Washington, that the interests of both
claimants and attorneys will be better pro-
NOTED by the election of Garfield than that of
Hancock, and thus continue the Republican
party in power, as the Republicans have ever
been more favorable to the payment Of all
classes of claims than the Democrats. Wit
ness, as an example, the conduct of thS War
| Claims Committee, Bragg, of Wisconsin,
Chairman, at the last session of Congress. To
accomplish this, many of the attorneys here
have contributed literally, and they now ask
| you to aid them all in your power. Any con-
| tribution that you may see fit to make can be
| forwarded to your local correspondent here,
with instructions as to its disposition, or sent
| to Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Secretary Repub-
| lican Congressional Committee. Please be
| prompt, and make your response as literally as
| you possibly can, for the demand is urgent
and the interest to be conserved is very great.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-28
WHOLE NUMBER 7O4.

warfare. The disposition in New En-
gland to abandon the sectional issue has
been observed elsewhere than in Maine
this year, and the movement toward re-
Cancellation will be greatly strength
ened by the declaration of Robert @.
Winthrop, which is printed herewith
BOSTON, Oct. 2.
Robert G. Winthrop writes to the Post stat
ing that his name was used without his consent
among the list of Vice Presidents at the Demo-
cratic rally Wednesday night Mr.. Winthrop
says that for many years he has been an inde-
pendent voter, and finally confesses that he is
opposed to "any concerted array of solid
Norths against solid Souths. The sectional an
tagonlsm and contentious are worthy of all
reprobation, and never more so than when To-
mented and kept alive on the one side or the
other for the purpose of prolunging party
power. They brought on the war, and they still
interfere with the best fruits of peace. The
condition of the freedmen themselves, their
prospects of education, and their secure
enjoyment Of all tho privileges Of citizen
ship would. in my judgment, be far more hope.
full if the pressure OF a solid North were
taken off from the Southern States, and if they
could cease to feel, whether reasonably or un-
reasonably, that they were under tho dominion
of conquerors." After saying that he has no
desire to vote on what the Electoral Commits
sion did, or to find fault with President Hayes
administration, he concludes as follows ss Let
foresee dangers to our institutions or to the
geueral prosperity of the country in the success
of the Democratic party, nor, in view of the
great uncertainties OF the result, does it seem
worse to create a panic in advance by exag-
gerated partisan predictions. In my opinion
there has never been q moment since the war
ended when it would have been safer to intrust
the Government to such man as Gen. Han
cock, with the assurance that it would be adj
ministered upon principles as broad as the
itr1ti and tNpal,ar In
Union
Mr.. Winthrop, while refusing to be
counted rs member of the Democratic
organization, gives it as his deliberate
| Judgment that the Presidential Office can
not only be trusted safely to the hands
| of Gen. Hancock, but that Hancock s
of the country. The very language OF
Mr.. Winthrop's declaration is absolute
proof of its calmness, deliberation, Wis
dom, and freedom from all party bias.
1t is an indication that the best minds
with disgust from the sec
tional buncombe upon which the Re.
publican party is putting its main reli-
they have no sympathy with the reac.
tionary sentiments of considerable
portion of the opposite party, they see
in Gen. Hancock's candidacy an escape
from the extreme tendencies of botf
parties. With Gen. Hancock in the
Presidential chair there will come, a:
they feel, relief from the dead weight
of a perennial sectional conflict, while
at the same time there will be no danger
that a brake will be put on the wheels o
the nations political, social and materia
progress.