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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE practical questions of the cam
paign are strongly presented by the New
York Public as follows:
"The country has reached a condition
of great prosperity. Yet we are told
that change is most desirable. For
the politicians who happen at present
out of Office, perhaps it is, but what rea-
son is there for believing that change
would promote the business and indus
trial prosperity? Is there not great
reason to fear, on the contrary, that a
change of parties would disturb conf
dence, disorder industry, check the de-
velopment of resources, lessen the activ-
ity and the rewards of trade, and dimin-
ish the employment or the wages of la
bor? These are not questions to be dis
cussed in a partisan spirit. Of that sort
of discussion there has been Thousand
times more than enough. They are seri-
Gus practical questions, which affect the
resources and prospects, the means and
the profits, of every industrious or enter
priSing man in the country"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

WHEN cOlored men are invited to vote
for Hancock and English, they should
take out this extract from the speech in
1860, of VIM. H. English, the Democratic
nominee for Vice President, on the "Po-
litical Crisis and give it careful peru
sal. Said Mr.. English:
"How long will it be, if these fanatics
obtain power, before negroes are eleya-
ted to high official positions in the gov
eminent? How long will it be before
the Hon. Pompey Smash, Fred Douglass
or some other kinky-headed and thick
Tipped darkey presents himself here, all
redolent with the peculiar odor of his
race, to claim seat as one of the peo-
pies representatives? When we reflect
upon the state of public sentiment in
some portions of the United States, such
contingency may not be so improbable
or remote as gentlemen may suppose.
What is to prevent it, if the negro is to
be held citizen, possessing equal rights
with the white MANI"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

ONE of the interesting and valuable
features of the forthcoming census re-
port will be statistics of local indebted
ness in various States, collected under
the direction of Robert p Porter, the
statistician of Chicago. From summa-
ry of his report, which has been given
out in advance, it appears that the total
local Indebtedness of the United States, as
computed for the census, will be in the
neighborhOod of SSJ0,O00,000. In Ohio,
township debts aggregate only 1921,
and the county Indebtedness is but 81
S72,S34, while the city and village debt
is $37,O05,221. In Illinois the townships
owe more than S10,000,000, and the coun-
ties over $l5.000,000. New Jersey sur
passes all other States in the lamentable
condition of her local debt. Statistics
show total of more than S47,0O0,O0O.
The total county, town and city indebt-
edness of the United States in 1870 was
about S515,000,000, of which the towns
and cities owed $32S,00O,OOO The re-
mainder, about S1S7 100000, represent
ed the debts contracted by counties. 1t
is believed that the census of 1880 will
not reveal large increase. if any. in
this county debt. The increase of local
Indebtedness, therefore, is municipal in
character.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
ALL ABOARD FOR COLUMBUS
Excursion via Baltimore g. Ohio ar.

The second week in August, 1880, at
Columbus, Ohio, will be remarkable for
the unusual amount of interesting and
rare events that will transpire. On
Sunday, August Sth, the Rt. Rev. John
A. Watterson, D. D., Bishop-elect of
Columbus, will be cOnsecrated at St.
Joseph's Cathedral, with grand and i'm
posing ceremonies, at 10 o'clock A. M.
A large number of prominent Catholic
clergymen and societies will he present
on this occasion, and the societies will
parade at pm. On August 10, II, and
II, the ex-soldiers and sailors of the
State of Ohio will hold a grand reunion
at Columbus, under the auspices
of the same association of Frank
lin county. President Hayes, Generals
Grant, Hancock and Garfield, together
with other prominent soldiers and citi-
zens, will be present. Fully $1,000 vet
erns and strangers will visit Columbus
on this occasion. On the evening of
August 18th will be given one of the
grandest displays of fireworks ever seen
in Ohio. All are invited, and no one
should miss this most favorable Oppor-
tunity of seeing the Capital city in gala
attire. On above date the Baltimore s.
Ohio Railroad Co. will sell excursion
tickets at very low rates to Columbus
and return, from all points ON their
lines. Tickets good going and returning
on all regular trains, and the tickets to
the reunion good returning until Aug
ust 18th, inclusive. For tickets, infor-
nation, etc. call on Agents 3. & o. r. r.
or address W. E. REPPERT, Passenger.
Agent, 2O5H North High St., Columbus !
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
The Wool Market.
w York Bulletin of Saturday.


The general run of business is still
confined in the main to parcels required
for early consumptive wants, and The
market in consequence shows an alb
sence of spirit or animation. The prom
iSeS fer the goods trade are sufficiently
encouraging to lead to the belief that a
pretty full amount of wool will be want
ed; but manufacturers are still, as a
rule, unwilling to anticipate their re-
|quirements, and. with the possible ex-
ception of an occasional choice and ex-
ira attractive parcel, it is rare to hear
of purchases against the future. Just
now there appears to be quite little
call for good medium combings at about
4Sa49c, or possibly SOC, but very little
of this class of stock is here, and the
business reported appears light. Adyi-
ces from the interior Sill report a
stand Off" and the letters at hand con-
tain nothing of special interest. The
general supply on this market increases
slowly, and should any liberal demand
develop suddenly it would be difficult to
meetit, only two or three houses having
anything like respectable accumula-
tion of domestic. Foreign, however,
is plenty, and owners it is said are lit
tie more anxious to find call foE it
Sales reported are all in small lots, and
include: 10000 lbs. tub at 4Sc; 7Isoo lbs.
Western Virginia do. 4sc; 10000 Tbs. old
Xxx Ohio, 4S15c; 5000 lbs. do. axe;
8 900 lbs. medium, 4Sc; 5000 lbs select
ed tub, soc; 20 bales spring California,
2sc; $4,000 lbs. do, 91la34c,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

GEN. RosECRANs was well acquainted
with Gen. Garfield, and in general Or
ders No. 2S1. dated at Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, October 10, 1868, he said:
Brigadier General J. A. Garfield has
been chosen by his fellow citizens to rep
resent them in the councils of the ma
ton. His high intelligence, spotless in
tegrity, business capacity, and thorough
acquaintance with the wants of the army,
will render his services, if possible, more
valuable to the country in Congress than
with us. Reluctantly yielding to this
consideration, the general commanding
relieves him from duty as chief of staff.
In doing so he returns his thanks to Gen.
Garfield for the invaluable assistance he
has rendered him by wise counSels and
assiduous labors, as well as for his gal
lantry, good judgment and efficiency in
the battle of Ch;ckamauga.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
GLENCOE.

For the last few days we have been
having some rain, which has cooled the
atmosphere, and revived the general ap-
pearance of nature.
Prof. ]. w. Hunter, of Morristown, has
been visiting old friends and acquainces
here for the last week. We are glad to
see him looking looking well, and SEEM
ing to enjoy life as usual.
The jolly old pedagogue, j. E. Welsh,
is at home this week, rusticating. Hence
the sound of the piccolo that is heard in
the land.
There is talk of another festival, for
the benefit of the M. E. Church, to be
held in the parsonage. some time in the
near future.
G. Z. Welsh is at present acting as p.
NJ. at Glencoe. Ladies, don't fail to give
him call.
Miss Leutie Stanathan, who has been
visiting at Mrs. Welsh's, returned to her
home i'll GAINESVILLE, last Saturday eve
ming.
Does anybody know,
Or can anybody tell
What has become of the "Franklin Band''
That we loved to hear SO well?"
PRISCILLA.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

GARFIELD and ARTHUR received an
Endorsement on Thursday from the Ma
tional Convention of the American La
Dor Union-the Workingmen's party of
the United States, assembled at Sharon,
Pa. These sons of toll have decided to
recommend their fellow mechanics
throughout the land to cast their votes
for the candidates who will seek to pro-
tect American industry from destruc-
tion, and American workmen from being
brought down to the wages and the life
of the pauper laborer of England and
the Continent of Europe. Between Gar
field and protection to American indus
try on one hand. and Hancock with free
trade OH the other, the decision of intel
ligent American workingmen could not
have been otherwise.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
THE MEN.

SOLOMON H. LEE. candidate for Audi
tor. has always been faithful to every
trust confided in him. For years he was
the boOk-keeper and financial manager
of Heatherington's great coal works, at
Bellaire, receiving and disbursing during
that time immense sums of money, and
it was with very great regret that that
firm parted with him. He is well
qualified for the Office for which he has
been put in nomination, and is sober,
industrious, and deserving man. He is
a poor man, too, who has never held Of
flee of any kind, while the gentleman
who will be to-day put in nomination
against him, has been in the office for
several years, and has accumulated
considerable competency.
Mr.. THOMAS W. EMERSON, candidate
for Clerk, is young attorney of Barnes
vile, and is son of Mr. VIM. Emerson,
of Goshen township. He received a
fine education in the public school and
in the Normal School at Lebanon-af-
terward went West, and for time
taught at Sedalia, Missouri. Returning
hcme he read law in the Office of Mr.. l..
Danford, was admitted to the bar year
or two ago, and settled in the town of
Barnesville. Mr.. Emerson is a young
man of high character and of superior
attainments, and is well qualified for
the position to which he has been nomi-
mated.
SAMUEL HILLEs, has served two years
as Sheriff, and has discharged its duties
acceptably to persons having business
with that office. He is, what is not in
variably found in SheriffS, man of good
habits and of good character; and in his
administration of the Office he has at all
times been careful of the public inter
ests. He has been a pains-taklng, pru-
dent official, and deserves, as doubtless
he will receive, the active support of ev-
cry Republican.
WN. S. HOBBS, for Recorder, is a farm
er of Somerset township. Those who
know him best say he is splendid man,
and will make a good officer.
MORRIS COPE, for Commissioner, is a
farmer of Pease township, of irst-rate
business qualifications. He has made a
good record as Trustee of that township,
and we feel'very Sanguine will make an
admirable Commissioner.
THOMAS GARRETT is a well-known
citizen of Pultney township. He has
filed the Office of Coroner one term. He
iS all over a good man
JOSEPH BAILEY, for Infrmary Direc-
tor, is the very best nomination either
party has made for that Office in many
years. Friend Bailey is an influential
and active Quaker of Flushing town.
ship, who always takes lively interest
in all humanitarian movements. He
will see that the unfortunate are made
comfortable, but will not tolerate eX-
travagance. If the voters of Belmont
county are wise they will elect him.
Five of the seven men upon this tick
ct served their country in the army du-
ring the late war. One of them-Sher-
iff Hilles-was severely wounded.
The ticket is good one. Every man
upon it is we'll qualified for the place
for which he has been nominated, and is
deserving the cordial support Of every
Republican in the county.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE New York Herald, in referring
editorialIy to the late Democratic ratifica-
tion in that city, says that not much can
be said of the intelligence Of the man.
agement, which selected as one of the
leading speakers that unmitigated intla-
ZIONIST, General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio.
The Herald continues: His last previ-
GUS speech in this city has not passed
from public remembrance. 1t was made
only two years ago, and was devoted to
advocating the coinage of the dishonest
eighty-eight cent silver dollar, and legis-
lation to make this dollar an unlimited
legal tender, and to repeal the resump-
ton act, the execution of which, he
declares, would inevitably shrink the
value of land, labor and property; would
bankrupt the nation, and would massa-
cre the business of the country For
these sentiments he uttered last night
no word of sorrow. He recanted moth
ing"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
Wool Notes.
CadiZ Republican.

The buyers are making desperate
efforts to "break" the market by
adopting the old game of making few
purchases here and there at certain fig
ures, say 40 to AZ cents, with the private
understanding that they are to pay as
much more as the advance in price NAV
be during the season. We trust that
this old trick will not be successful this
year. The farmer that sells in this wav
is simply aiding the wool buyers to buy
the wool of his neighborhood cheap. The
price of wool is going to be more than
40 or AZ cents before long, and we hope
that the farmers of Harrison county. at
least, will not sell before the advance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
UNIONTOWN.

Mr.. NELSON TYSON has the contract
for supplying the Intirmary with -four,
He states his -four has met with the ap-
proval of the Superintendent, who pro-
nounces it the best that has been sup
Mr.. JAS. LONG, of Flushing township,
and Miss Martha Laisure. of this place,
were married on Thursday last. This
is only the commencement, and other
weddings will follow shortly.
Mrs. NJ. K. BURGoYNE is away on an
extended visit to her old home in Vir-
ginia. and as she is the dress-maker of
the village, those who contemplate mat
rimony are anXiouSly awaiting her re-
turn.
Mr.. WIN. S. BETHEL has had his
dwelling weatherboarded, painted, and
new doors and windows put in, which
improves the appearance of his property.
CoPARTNERsHIP has been formed by
Mr.. Robert Humphrey and Mr.. David
Yarnell in the blacksmithing business,
and Messrs. F. A. Coup and James NJ.
Shields in the boot and shoe trade.
MEssRs. BREWER & GRAHAM have a
threshing machine in operation, and
claim that chickens starve to death on
their straw piles in % hours.
PROF. G. W. Fox has secured num-
Der of pupils, and is giving instructions
on the piano and organ.
Mr. ROBERT DUAL and his wife and
family arrived last week from the West,
and their coming was a pleasant sur
prise to their many friends. Mrs. The
resa Dual is Il daughter of Henderson,
Hays, Esq, and many relatives In
this locality. Those present will not
soon forget the pleasant wedding party
on the event of their marriage, and as
best wishes were expressed for them on
that occasion, they are still continued,
and Hearty welcome accorded to them.
sOLoMoN's CORNER.
No. 7S-"It it is easier for a camel
to pass through the nose of needle"
was correct translation, as the Chinese
call the eye of the needle the nose (See
Doolittle's Life in China)
No. 79-"Tear down that Haunting lie"
aodS written by VIM. GLAND Bourne and
not by Horace Greeley or Miles O'Reilly.
beautiful Snow" has several parents
but it is supposed to have been writ
ten by a. young woman who was found
dead behind a keg of nails on the wharf
at Louisville. AS nothing was found
on her person but this poem, it is be-
lieved that she fIoze to death.
No. sO-The Egyptian Obelisk was not
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE effects of good times are con-
spicuously displayed in the productive
ness of the internal revenue taxes. AL
though. owing to the reduction of the
tax on manufactured tobacco from %
to 16 cents pounds, the revenue from
this source fell off 1884, ,15O.31 from
1879 to 1880, yet the total collections foI
1880 show an increase of S10,532, ,299.0S
over those of 1879. The main item OF
this increase comes from the tax on dis
titled spirits, the revenue from which
shows an increase of $S,615,224.1O.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

OLD soldiers of Belmont county, re
member that while you were periling
your lives in defense of your country
and enduring the hardships of the camp
and field, VIM. Lang, the Democratic
candidate for Secretary of State, while
a member of the Ohio Senate voted to
deprive you of the right of suffrage
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
RaIflIuOr0.

Aug. Beef Cattle-Market very
slow and prices 1Sa1sc off; very best AZ
as 2-5c: first quality 3Aa45s; medium
2Aa35sc; ordinary 2a2Ac; most sales
4a44c. Receipts $3.50 head.
Hogs-Fair supply and moderate de-
mand at &c higher; quotations 61aa7c
Receipts 6,29S head.
Sheep and Lambs.-Receipts S,641
head. Sheep 31a424c; lambs S11a51a.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
Is ID Lard or Butter?

Why will our farmers persist in flood
ing the market with such quantities of
white, lardy looking butter. when they
can, by the use of Wells, Richardson and
Co.'S Perfected Butter Color, make it of
the golden color of June, the year round.
Any butter buyer will tell you that such
a color will make difference of from
three to six cents per pound.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

CHAIRMAN CESSNA, of the Pennsylva-
mia Republican State Committee, scouts
the idea that Hancock can carry that
State. The Republicans are displaying
unusual activity and enthusiasm in o.
ganizing for the canvass, and the bad re-
cord of the Democratic party on the
tariff question has more than offset the
faVorite son boom for Hancock,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

Mr.. HENRY WATTERsON, of the Lou
isville Courier-Journal. is shrewd
enough to see that the Credit Mobilier
scandal cannot be utilized to Democrat
&c benefit, and is honest enough to avow
his personal confidence in the purity of
Garf1eld's character. In fact, the only
bad accusation he can bring against
him is that he is a Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

The ticket nominated by the West
Virginia Democrats last week is as fol-
lows: For Governor, Jacob J. Jackson
Auditor, Joseph S. Miller; Treasurer,
Thomas O'Brien; Judge of the Supreme
Court, Thomas Green Attorney General,
C. c. Watts; Superintendent of Schools,
B. l.. Butcher; Presidential Electors, E.
NJ. Wilson and E. G. Cracraft.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE Republican boilers of Cuyahoga
county on Thursday held convention
and nominated c. B. Lockwood for Con-
gress. 1t is hoped by this action to force
the withdrawal of Townsend the regular
nominee. The boilers central committee
have issued long manifesto to the Re-
publicans of the District. Unless this
foolishness is stopped soon it will result
in the loss of a Republican Congressman
in Ohio, and endanger other important
interests of the PARTY.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

ABOUT once week on the average,
Democratic papers quote resolution de-
nouncing Gen. Garfield in severe terms,
which they say was passed by Repub-
lican convention in Gen. Garfeld's dis
trict in 1876. That convention" con-
sisted of sixteen disgruntled politicians,
and the effect which their denunciations
had appears in the fact that Gen. Gar
fields vote in his district in 1876 was
20,012, as compared with 1851 in 1874.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
East Liberty
LIVE STOCK.

August -Cattle-Receipts 4,O63
head. Mostly through consignments;
selling slow at 1Oa15c lower than last
week.
Hogs-Receipts 4,5OO head; Philadel-
phias SIS OOa5 Is; Workers 81 65a4 Is.
Sheep-Reeeipts 5000 head. Selling
slow at a quarter off from last week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE Democratic States of Virginia,
Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina
and Alabama, have repudiated over one
hundred and seventy million dollars of
honest debts. Wade Hampton promises
all these States solid for Hancock and
the Democratic ticket Of course.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

A PRIVATE letter received at Wash
inston contains the information that
Hancock is more popular man in Texas
than jeff Davis" We suspect that there
is truth in the statement, for Hancock
surrendered the kpower of the U. s.,
which JEFF Davis could not conquer, to
those Texan gentlemen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
How TO Get Well.

Thousands of persons arc constantly
troubled with combination of diseases.
Diseased kidneys and cOstive bowels are
their torlnentoIs. They should know
that Kidney-Wort acts on these organs
at the same time, causing them to throw
off the poisons that have clogged them,
and so renewing the whole man. Hun
dredS can testify to this.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05
WOOL.

PHILADELPHIA, August 9.-Wool-
Quiet; Ohio, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia Xxx and above 46a4Sc; extra
46a47c; medium 47a4Sc; coarse 42c; New
York, Michigan, Indiana and Western
fine at 40a4Gc; medium 47a4Sc; coarse
42c; washed combing and delaine 42a50c;
unwashed do. 33a36c; tub washed Asa
soc; pulled 37a40c.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

ENGLISH, during his congressional
career, was specimen ''doughface." He
was one of the twelve Northern Demo-
Gratis who voted against the motion to
expel Preston S. Brooks from the House
of Representative for his brutal and
cowardly assault upon Charles Sumner
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

shipped to this country at the expense
of the U. S. Government, but mainly at
the expense of VIM. H. Vanderbilt, who
subscribed $4,000 for its removal. 1t
stood for centuries on the shores of the
Levant, near the city of Alexandria. 1t
is now lying at the wharf at New York
City III.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE Democratic platform shouts for
hard money and free trade-yet Sam
Randall, a rabid protectionist, and Gen.
Ewing, rabid infationist, opened the
campaign in New York. shouting for
soft money and protection. A "chaDge"
was furnished to order.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

ENGLISH, the Democratic candidate
for the Vice Presidency, in his letter of
acceptance brings a special grievance to
the front that the Republican party has
smonopolized the Executive Department,
of the general government for the last
twenty years."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE Hartford Post makes the remark
that "as the campaign goes on there is a
constant fresh proof that the business
men of the country are not ready to help
put the Democratic party in power"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

GEN. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER is setting
up his pins again to be nominated for
Governor of Massachusetts,. Ben is try
ing to manufacture party for himself
by mixture with the Democracy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

THE Republicans of the Fifth Con.
gressional District, including Defiance
Paulding, Van Vert, Mercer, Auglaize
Putnam, Allen, and Shelby counties, in
convention at Lima, Saturday, unani-
mousiy nominated W. K. Boone for Con,
preSS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-05

Hon. MARSHALL JEWELL, chairman
of the National Republican committee,
says that he is receiving from all parts
of the country reports favorable to the
Republican cause.