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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.
From q. 8. journal. ]

from ". .. 'JOurnal.
JAN. 13-Senate-Bills introduced
To amend the printing laws; relative to
insolvent corporations; to regulate street
railroads; to abolish the Cincinnati Po-
lice Board; relative to hauling heavy
loads on free turnpikeS.
House-Bills introduced: To correct
certain sections of the Revised Code
relative to the Board of Education of
Cincinnati; relative to location of cem-
eteries; to provide for the reorganiza-
ton of the State institutions; to amend
the school law relative to locating school
houses; to amend the attachment laws
relative to publication of tax notice.
JAN. 14-Senate-Bills introduced
To provide for the better regulation of
the tobacco warehouse at Bellaire. Bills
passed: To repeal the law allowing the
Engineer of the Board of Public Works
vote; to consolidate the first and fourth
subdivisions of the Fifth Judicial dis
trict. Hon. J. w. Fitch was unanimous
ly confirmed as Trustee of the Northern
Asylum for the Insane.
House-Bills introduced: To confer
on courts of common pleas jurisdiction
in mandamus; to amend the statutes re-
lating to licenses; to establish a State
Reformatory; to reorganiZe the school
board of Cincinnati; to provide for a
continued republication of the Revised
Statutes.
House bill repeating sections of Re-
vised Code requiring separate polls for
members of Congress in certain cities
was read third time and passed. The
two houses met in joint convention to
compare votes for United States Sena-
tor; and the President pro TEN. of the
Senate declared Hon. James A. Garfield
duly elected for the term commencing
March 4, 1881.
JAM. 15-Senate Mr.. Cramer's redis-
tricting bill passed by a.strict party vote
A bill was introduced to reorganiZe the
Cincinnati School Board, making it con-
sist of twenty-five members, of whom
five shall be elected each year. A joint
resolution was offered, appropriating
$3.50 to pay N. F. Mathews for the por-
trait of Gov. Bishop.
House-A number of bills were intro
duced, among which were the following:
Prohibiting law partners of prosecuting
attorneys from taking opposite sides in
criminal cases, and allowing them to as
sist the prosecution; putting all lands
held under lease of school boards for
over fourteen years on tax duplicate
changing the law for the grades of State
teachers certificates to life, fifteen years
and five years; making justices of the
peace deputy coroners. The House
joint resolution to pay four porters So
per day was adopted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
The Tribune Almanac for isso,

The simple announcement that The
TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1880 is now
ready is the only hint which the Ameri-
can public requires in reference to this
annual register. This is the only Alma
mac published in the United States that
has a National reputation.
The general Table Of Contents of the
present issue will be familiar to the
public After the calendar pages is
placed digest of the public laws of the
regular and and extra sessions of Con-
gress, with summaries of the party plat
forms adopted in 1879 and the Constitu-
tional Amendments enacted and sane
toned in various States. The chapter
ON the elections of United States Sena-
tors is next in-order, and is followed by
a table of the electoral vote for Presi-
dent from 1854 and lists af the princi-
pal executive, departmental, diplomatic
and judicial officers. Among the Gov
ernment, commercial and miscellaneous
statistics are tables relating to railroad
mileage and business, imports and eX-
ports, revenues and expenditures since
1875, immigration since 1870, coinage in
1879 and previous years, production of
gold and silver in 1879, imports and ex-
ports of coin and bullion, internal reve-
nue. statistics, public debt of the United
States, and value in United States mon
ey of foreign coins. Among other civil
lists are the rolls of the XLVIth Con-
gress, and the Governors of the States
The body of the work is reserved fol
election returns from all the States.
The Almanac has been compiled by
the Honorable Edward Mcpherson, a
statistician of National reputation, who
has conducted the series for several
years. The price remains as before-25
cents for each copy-with the usual dis
count to the trade. The Almanac fol
1880 will be sent postpaid to any ad-
dress in the United States, on receipt OF
the price.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
Showing its Hand.

The country at large has made more
out of the Maine attempt than has the
Democratic party. 1t has been given a
glance at what might occur were the
party of Tilden and Garcelon to come
anywhere near a show of power. A
new phase of Democratic deviltry has
been presented, and new warning CIV
en- those thoughtless voters who fail to
Democrats to gain the success that
would otherwise be impossible
The Maine Fusion Legislature has
joined the army of Democratic disgraces,
1t stands, in one sense, by the side of
the New York riots, the Mississippi
killings, the Hamburg massacre, the Or
egon Cronin-Grover fraud, the bulldo-
Zing in Louisiana and the Blackburn
yellOw-fever atrocity of Kentucky. The
attempt at stealing the State was not
successful, but the disgrace Of the at
tempt stands out all the more apparent,
because of the failure that prompt, pa
triotic Republican action, under legal
authority, made inevitable. The Dem
ocratic party will feel the recoil of the
fraud that came so near being accom-
plished, and the effects will be seen in
every ballot-bOx in the country at the
coming Presidential election.
A few INSCRIPTIONS leaders can do
an immense harm to the party they
speak for, if left at liberty to work their
desired ends. Under the control of per-
sonal interest they see only one step
ahead, and do not look into the ultimate
result, nor count the harvest day that is
certain to come. Jim Barksdale shot
his opponent because he desired to put
strong and resolute rival out Of the
way, and he neither knew nor cared
what the effect of his bullet might be in
the North. But that piece Of lead not
only killed Dixon, but it also grew pom
derous as it sped North, and at last was
found to be weight that tied down the
already fettered Democracy of the
North. The people are not prepared to
accept the mississippi plan," nor the |
MAINE plan" and any party responsible !
for an attempt to put either of them in |
to practice will be, to borrow current |
expression, "sst down upon" by the good
sense and patriotism of the whole peo-
ple.-Cleyeland Leader
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
The Coming Census.

The penalties for obstructing the cen
sus takers, who begin their labors Oh
the first Monday in June, are severe
The law says:
Ali persons above the age of 2l years
who shall refuse to furnish the infOrma.
tion required by the supervisor or emu
merator shall forfeit and pay a sum not
exceeding 800, to be recovered in an ac-
ton of debt. Presidents, directors, or
other officials of private corporations
who refuse to furnish information re-
quired of them are made liable to pen-
atty not to exreed $4,000.
Only two weeks are allowed for the
completion of the census. The compen-
sation to the enumerators is as follows
Two cents fer each living inhabitant;
two cents for each death reported ten
cents for each farm; fifteen cents for
each manufactory, which is to be in full
for all services, and no mileage or trav-
cling expenses. The subdivision as
signed to each enumeratOr must not ex-
ceed 1000.
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Good Company.

d Monthly Magazine, Containing only Origin
al Matter. Fresh, Bright, Varied, rigorous,
Makes specially of good stories by the most
popular writers, has entertaining sketches iu
great variety, crisp, pity essays; fresh, yigor-
GUS articles, and really good poems. Its con-
tributors nextyear will include, among others,
Harriet Beecaer Store, OhdrIes Dudley Wdrner,
Leonard W Bacon, Re6eccr Harding DGUis,
Rose Terry Cook, Horace r Scuddtr, Geo
N T0,oLe, Ellen W OLaey, Mrs Kirk, Sarah
o Jeaoett, James N Wtiton, Octage ThGret,
Elaine Go0dGIe.
What is Said Of It.-"It is an excel
lent specimen of clever editing.
Courant. 'tThere is not a dull word in il
from cover to cover. r."-Phila Enquirer. sit
IS live magazine, and will have grand
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Ky. ''fhere is running through all the ar
ticles vein of strong common sense, rare
commodity generally with magazine writers,
that makes the reading of it refreshing."-
Richmond Christian Advocate,
Special Offer to New Subscribers, 16 Months
for $500. ttr
Price So 90 a year. New yearly subscrib-
ers sending before January st get four extra
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Booksellers and newsdealers receive subscrip-
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Or, send to GOOD COMPANY.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

WITH the crumbling to pieces of the
fabric of fraud in Maine will crumble
the charges of bribery and corruption.
When the scheme to steal the Legisla-
ture from the people was first consider
ed it was the proposition to base the
theft upon stories of Republican rascali-
ty in securing votes on election day, and
a squad of experts were turned loose in
the field some weeks prior to the time
when the counting in was to occur.
These experts were directed to fill the
columns of newspapers with startling
stories of bribery and intimidation, and
if they failed it was through no lack of
zeal on their part. The fact is that the
sum total of their discoveries was too
absurdly trifiing to be considered, and
the matter was dropped. We heard no
more of Fraud" from that time until
after the attempt had been made to steal
the State upon an entirely different plan.
When the outrageous nature of Garce-
Ions villainy began to be fully apprecia-
ted throughout the country; when it
came to be denounced in the strongest
language by Democratic as well as Re
publican papers, then the conspirators
became worried and set up the bribery"
cry once more in order that they might
hide behind it. In cases where these
charges have been made specific the
persons accused have begun suits for Ii
bel with every prospect of making it in
teresting for their accusers. This is the
situation as to Republican Fraud" at
the present writing. Probably now that
the stolen property has been wrenched
by the courts from the hands of the
thieves and the "fences" who stole it
and received it, there will be another
outbreak of corruption" oratory to COW
er the retreat. That will be the last
squeak we shall hear from the Maine
Democracy for many a year to come
Cleveland Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
UNIOErOwN.

A PLEASANT social gathering of neigh
bors took place at the house of Mr.. JAS
Bell on Friday evening last. A new
Parlor Organ had been ordered by the
Misses Emma and Anna Whan, and a
first-class instrument was selected and
furnished by Prof. Roberts. The FOLLOW,
ing ladies acted as Organists: Misses Ida
Lodge, Retta Lodge, Mollie E. Lodge.
Vilolinists, Prof. Roberts and Mr.. Lem
uel Nichols. These socials are popu-
lar institution in that locality, and few
evenings previous invitations were is
sued by Mr.. Abner Lodge, and large
number of guests were entertained by
Prof. Roberts, first violin, Mr.. Laban
Lodge, second violin, Master Roberts,
flute, and the above named ladies as or
ganists. Both meetings were the source
of much pleasure and enjoyment.
RAILROADS marry cities and inter-
lock nations" muddy roads divorce
towns that have existed in unity, and
separate man from his fellow man. To
say that country roads are muddy would
give but faint idea of their true condi-
ton.
The TYPE made us say last week that
it was "dead" peas that were in reServa-
tion for the carcass of a sneak-thief that
robbed Mr.. Gossett. We wrote "lead''
peas, which are supposed to be fatal
when taken internally.
OUR FUTURE MAIL ROUTE has been
the subject of much surmising, and some
fears exist that Uniontown will be left
out in the cold. Upon the completion
of the new railroad it is not probable
that the present route will be continued
A cross route from Pollock's station to
New Athens may possibly be establish
ed. UniontOwn and vicinity should
watch their own interests.
WE OMITTED to make mention of a
party for the boys and girls,given by Mr.
and Mrs. John Caldwell at their home a
few days since. The children were de-
lighted with their kind reception, and a
very pleasant time was the result.
soLoMoN's CORNER.
No. 64-One million of dollars are lost
to the U. S. Government annually by
the washing of postage stamps, but don't
waste your time and money to devise a
plan to prevent it. Over five million of
women lick the mouth of the molasses
pitcher after pouring molasses, and fif-
teen million of men double the stream
back into the can with their dirty fin
ger. Invent and patent plan by which
the desired quantity will come out even
without remainder, and your name
will be rendered immortal.
No65-The year 1900 is not a leap
year, although divisible by 4.
No. 66-Days are as follows: Solar
day, Civil, Astronomical, Nautical, Pay
day, and Judgment day. Space will not
admit an explanation of the difference
of the four first named. Have not ex-
perienced the two last up to this date.
II.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
NEWS.

Richard G. Alexander, a prominent
citizen of Delaware City, died horrible
death from hydrophobia Saturday night
Mr.. Alexander was bitten just forty five
days previous to his death by strange
dog. supposed to have, been mad.
The house committee on Military AT.
fairs has prepared a bill which exoner,
ates Fitz John Porter, gives him $75,.
900, and restores him to his place in the
army.
Geo. Fessler of Canton, in the Ohio
Penitentiary for embezzling county
funds, has sert letter to the Prosecu-
ting Attorney proposing to make clean
breast of the whole affair before the
Grand Jury. This will involve his
bondsmen and prominent business men
who, it is alleged, borrowed money out
of the Treasury during Fesslers admin
istration.
Hon. James S. Gordon, of Cincinnati.
has been made Clerk of the committee
of the National House of Representa-
tives, appointed to investigate the Agri-
cultural Department.
A very heavy transaction in mining
interests took place at Leadville, COlora-
do, Saturday, five million dollars being
paid for three mines.
Mrs. Margaret Tuney of Cincinnati,
died Sunday after lingering thirty days
without food She had been victim of
chronic dyspepsia. Her last words were
Bread Bread, Bread"
A horrible story of wickedneSs comes
from Canal Dover, Ohio. 1t has been
discovered that couple who have been
living there for the past ten years as
husband and wife are none other than
full brother and sister. Three children
have been born them, but they have all
been so horribly deformed that no out
slider has ever been permitted to see
them. The last child was perfect, ex-
cept the bones, which were wanting. In
their stead was pulpy gristle.
Gen. Grant has arrived at Jackson
vile, Fla. Great preparations are being
made for his reception in Mexico, the
government having prepared an urban
and suburban residence for him.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Permanent Exhibition at
Philadelphia, the present directors were
reelected. A motion to close the Exhi-
Oition on Sunday was defeated. The
report shows Il balance of cash
)n hand of $4,000. The admissions last
year were nearly half million.
The GAINESVILLE Opera House was OPEN
ID Tuesday night with great eclat.
Among the prominent persons in the
audience were Governor Foster, his
wife and daughter. 'L
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
a rERRIRLE case of wholesale noison

a TERRIBLE case of wholesale poison
ing is reported from Oberlin, Ohio. A
colored servant girl named Mary Yonn,
in the family of Samuel Montgomery,
composed of nine persons, put arsenic
in lot of oatmeal mush, which she was
preparing for supper. of which only a
part of the family partook, but not in
sufficient quantity to prove fatal, al
although sickness was produced. The
girl was charged with the crime, and
confessed the deed, giving as reason
that she had but short time before
stolen small amount of money. and
the fear that she would be detected had
induced the desire to put the whole
family out of the way. She is now in
Jail at Elyria.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

SENATOR DAVIS, of West Virginia,
who has such mania for investigating
Treasury accounts, says he always ad-
mired Secretary Sherman's ability, re-
speeted his honesty and placed great
confidence iii his integrity of purpose
and wise judgment; that he had been in
position to know thoroughly the de-
tails of Sherman's administration of the
Treasury Department, and considered
him the ablest man that had been in
control of the national finances for
many years, sometimes thinking him to
be the equal Of Alexander Hamilton and
Albert Gallatin, and that he believed he
would make a good President q
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

GEN. BoYNToN proposes to bring suit
against General Sherman for saying to
a Cleveland correspondent, for ppblica-
tion, that he (BoyntOn) was a man en-
tirely without character; that for one
thousand dollars he would slander his
own mother, and many other hard
things. All the trouble grew out of the
fact that Sherman wrote a book.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

THE U. S. Supreme Court decided, on
Monday. that soldiers entering Soldiers
Homes could not be deprived of their
pensions. 1t has been the custom for
managers Of the Homes to draw the
pensions, and the money placed in a
general fund for support of the Homes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

GENERAL GRANT is enjoying oranges,
Strawberries and summer sunshine down
in Florida, in blissful ignorance of the
startling booms and anti-booms that are
agitating the Northern States.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
THE New York Express, a good. Dem

TIE NO" 1OIh 1APICoos a SOUu. 11OLII-
ocratic paper, says: --e,.-.., -
"No more conclusive proof of the
healthy condition of business could be
offered than is found in Dun, Harlow &
Co.'s circular relative to the failures in
1879. 1t appears that the mercantile
failures for last year were 6,65S in num-
Der, against 10,47S in 1878, a decrease of
$500. This is certainly a very satisfac-
tory showing, and it is rendered still
better from the fact that not only is the
number of failures so materially lessen
ed, but the amount involved is vastly
less" s.E ff a - 10.
So the resumption of specie payments
on the first day of January, 1879, had no
very bad effect after all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
PHILADELPHIA Wool.

JAN. 2O-Wool-Dull; Ohio, Penn.
and w. Va. XXssand above 5O@55c; X
5O@52c; medium 55@5Sc; coarse 500
SIC; N. Y, Mich. and Ind. and Western
fine 4S@50c; medium 54@55c; coarse
4s@5Oc; washed combing and delaines
50@60c.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

The Springfield Republican thinks
Secretary Sherman is "the passive obsta-
Gle, the rock ON which the leading and
the most dangerous Republican candi-
dates are likely to wreck, before or dur
ing the convention" 7.i 15a1r ~.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

It's an old practice for the losing
party in a law suit to "go down to the
tavern and swear at the court" The
Democratic press which pretends to up
hold the Democratic thieyery in Maine,
are satisfying their propensities in this
direction.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

AT Freedom, Pa, Saturday afternoon,
eight hundred dynamite cartridges,
stored in an old blacksmith shop, ex-
ploded with terrific force, fatally injur-
ing one man and blowing the building
tn atoms
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

THE Louisiana Legislature has at yet
been unable to elect United State Sen
ator. Monday ballot was taken, which
resulted at follows; Gibson 40, McEnery
Ss, and scattering 16. 1t requires fifty
i've votes to make choice.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

SOME of Uncle Dick Bishops friends
gave him banquet in Cincinnati last
week on his retiring from the governor
ship. and they were unkind enough
to the old man to fill his head with
thoughts of vice-presidential boom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

The Enquirer's Washington special
says that it is reported in that city that
Gen. Robert c. Schenck, of Ohio, is to be
appointed Minister to Brazil. His health
is bad, and it is thought the trip will do
him good. The place is now held by a
Confederate Brigadier General Hillard
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

EVANSVILLE ACCOMMODATION leaves Zanes-
vile daily except Sunday at 6. 20 A. NJ, and ar
rives at Columbus at $40 A. NJ. Stopping at
all Stations.
MIXED ACCOMMODATION leaves BeIlaire dai-
ly except Sunday at 800 A. NJ, and arrives at
Newark at As P. NJ. stopping at all Stations.
MIXED ACCOMMODATION leaves Deshler al
2. AZ m, daily, except Monday, and arrives
at Garrett at 900 am. Stopping at all Stations.
Figures West of Bellaire inclusive are
Columbus time; except at Chicago
Express trains run daily. Fast Line trains
run daily on Central Ohio Division and Main
Line; daily, EXCEPT Sunday, on Lake Erie and
Chicago Divisions. Accommodation Trains
run daily, except Sunday
THos. P. BARRY, Western Pass'r Ag't, Gin
cinnati.
L. NJ. COLE, Gen'l Ticket Ag't, Baltimore.
c. H. HUDSON, Sup't Trans. Ohio Division
Chicago .- fa as
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

The South Carolina idea of running
Grant and Bayard as "Solid Union"
candidates for President and Vice-Pre-
sident has advanced as far as the organ
ization of club, mostly composed of
ex-Confederate soldiers, in Newberry
county.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

MASONIC emblems have been discov-
cred in the foundation of the obelisk, at
Alexandria, Egypt, under the pedestal
on which it was set up by the Romans.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22
TEE President made the folIowil

The President made the following
important nominations on Monday:
James Russell Lowell, of Mass, to be
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen-
ipotentiary to England.
John w. Foster, of Indiana, to be
Minister to Russia.
Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, to be
Minister to Spain.
Philip 81. Morgan, of Louisiana, to be
Minister to Mexico.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

THE New York Herald has started a
big boom for Conkling. 1t thinks he is
an able, a very able, man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

THERE is a proposition before the
New York Legislature to elect Presi-
Dental electors by Congressional dis
tricts, instead of on general ticket.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-01-22

THE Fusion Governor of Maine, on
Saturday, ordered out. by telegraph.
three companies of State militia. No re-
sponse was made to the order.