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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

The Mai. e brigands emptied the State
Treasury before the Supreme Court
routed them. Every dollar which they
could reach was taken, and when the
Republicans came into power they found
a bankrupt Treasury. In recent speech
in the Assembly, advocating the pay
ment of the $4,000 which the Garcelon
raid cost, the Hon. Eugene Hale speci-
fed some of the grabbing which took
place. Every appropriation, he said,
remaining over with dollar was seized
by the Governor and Council He had
occasion the other day to look at an ap-
preparation for the female visitors to the
insane hospital, and only about a third
of it was drawn for its legitimate pur-
,ose, but every dollar of the other two
:.irds had been taken by the Governor
md Council for other purposes. One
man had drawn $4,000 from the high
school fund for advance work which he
had never done. Every appropriation
which had any money had been unlaw-
fully pillaged in this way, and no vouch-
ers were left. 1t was clean sweep, and
the more the voters of the State con-
template it the more thankful they are
that the State House itself was left.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

THE Democrats in Congress are kept
SO busy dodging the Questions they rails
ed at the extra session last Summer, and
fighting shy of all ether important issues,
that they. have not yet found time TO pass
an appropriation biz to pay the United
states afarshais, who have had no salary
fortnight months and have been defray,
ingthe expenses of their Offices ont of
their own pocket No doubt the Repre-
sentatives of lHoolshihing districts IN
thesSouth takespecial pleasure in annoy
ing the Marshals in this unfpsniy way
n. i. Tribune, . z p n . 8 = ~ -.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

law. 1t is thus seen that while the COM
mon school naturally turns the great
multitude of its attendance away from
manual employment, those still feel in
clined to enter upon them have no free
dom to do so, because great army of So
ciety-men stand firmly in the way, over
ruling employer and employed alike.
The public hardly needs to learn that
the result of the indisposition and ina
bility to learn trades among American
boys is about as disastrous as can be i'm
agined. 1t is found in the prisons, al
most universally, the number of GRIM
inals, who never learned trade to those
who are skilled workmen is as six to one.
The army of tramps who have infested
the country for the last few years is
largely composed of men who have had
no industrial education whatever. These
men, who beg at our doors, are mainly
men who never learned trade, and
who can handle nothing but a shovel.
a New York Clergyman, possessing a
large family of boys, recently declared
from his pulpit that he intended that
every lad of his family should learn
some mechanical employment, by which,
in an emergency, he would get living.
He was right. 1t is in the emergencies
of life-it is when men find themselves
helpless and without the powerof earning
money-that they slip into crime, and
become the tenants of prisons and peni-
|tentiaries.
So the American people must, sooner
or later, be driven to the establishment
of industrial schools. To learn how to
work skillfully with the hand must be-
come part of common education. Rich
and poor alike should be taught how to
work, for it is quite as Likely that the
rich will become poor as that some of the
poor will become rich; and that is, and
always must be, poor education which
fails to prepare man to take care of
himself and his dependents in life. We
understand what to do with criminals.
We confine them and set them to learn
ing trade, especially the young crimi-
mails. The reform schools never leave
out the element of manual industry.
Why is it not just as legitimate to teach
the yirtuous how to take care of them
selves without crime as it is the vicious.
u. G. Holland, in Scribner for March.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
Masonic Directory.

DELMONr LODGE, No. 16, r. & A. N.
I'D Meets every Wednesday night. on or be-
fore full moon
GEORGE BUMGARNER, w. N.
n. T. CoFFLAED, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSvILLE CHAPTER, Ne. II.
y ROYAL Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
lions, first Friday OF each month.
C. w. CARROLL, H. p.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R. & s. NJ.
Id Mects second Tuesday Of each month.
a. r. BUMGARNER, g. M.
GEo. MrTcHELI, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. &c, K. T..
Il Stated conciaves, firss Tuesday Of each
month. F. D. BAILEY, E. G.
l.. L. 5RDwIcK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

THE Sherman Club of Cincinnati has
published Life of John Sherman"
written by Ben. Perley Poore. The cen-
cluding observations are as follows:
"Such are the prominent events in the
life of John Sherman life which rep
resents the growth and capacities of
man, under the free institutions of this
Republic. From the school-room to the
courthouse, the Capitol, and the Treas
ury Department, he has done his duty
with ability and with fidelity. Self-re-
liant, he has risen by the firmness of his
character and the brilliancy of his intel
lect to the high position first graced by
Hamilton. An accomplished scholar, a
learned lawyer, fearless and enlighten-
ed legislator, a far-seeiag and upright
member of the Cabinet, an honorable
gentleman in private life, and a con-
fiding friend, he has ever been noted for
his comprehensive intellect, his consci-
entious integrity, and his adherence to
those conservative and constitutional
principles of Government, which secure
to every citizen his rights, and to every
section its equal consideration under the
administration of just laws. The dark
eorruptions of the war-epoch have never
clouded his reputation, nor has any
tongue ever ventured to impeacb his
honor, for his life has been pure and
unsullied, while it has been brilliant and
useful.
"Mr. Sherman is now in the prime of
manhood-tall, firmly built, yet graceful
in his movements, and capable of great
endurance. His features are expressive
and there is good-humored twinkle in
his bluish-gray eyes, while his forehead
and the lower portion of his face indi-
cate positive determination and adhe.
renee. His style Of oratory is colloquial
and convincing, "a vein Of practical com.
mon sense running through its series Of
arguments until convincing conclusion
/ is reached. The rapidity with which he
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
Belmont County onTcIaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk Of Courts-Alex. C. Darrah.
Sheriff samuel Hilles.
Auditor- William n. Cofiand.
Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney = Robert N. Eates.
Recorder a. Barnes.
Commissioners-A. w. Anderson, L j.
Potts, Henry Frasher.
Sufzeyor Chalkley Dawson.
Corener-E. B. Kennedy.
lnfrmary Directors Nathaniel Taylor,
WIN. Parkinson, Thomas Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

ACCORDING to the report of the Clerk
of the House, fun rdls of deceased Co..
gressmen cost the country from $1,000
to $4,000 each; but the expense of liquor
for the honorable escort figures so con-
spicuously as to suggest that hereafter
the Speaker should appoint only total
abstinence members for such dutr-it
there are enough Of them in the House.
And yet there are some members NJ
Congress whose funerals the Taxpayers
would be proud to pay for.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04


Senators Edmunds and Thurman had
3 bright little passage Of arms the other
day. In executive session Thurman was
quietly listening and smoking when Ed
munds objected to the'eonhrmatio nof a
certain Ohio nominee. Thurman, put
ingsaside his GcigzrS and springing TO his
feet, said: Mr.. President, Ihad not in
tended to Say q single word upon the
matter, but the Senator from Vermont
has thrown brick at an Ohio man, and
| must resent that, Mr.. Edmunds,
with assumed seriousness, retorted,
"You can't throw brick in my direc-
tion these days without striking an
Ohio man." w
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
Church DIRECTORY.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev r.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 800 an. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday 2 pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers wicome 70 all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. J 81. Conkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: Il an; pm. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday .
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 p m.
Strangers are cordially invited 10 all our
services.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

A CURIOUS bit of news comes from
Africa. The little black Republic Of
Liberia, that rather sickly offspring Of
the misdirected philanthropy OF the
American Colonization sotiety;'whieh a
little while ago was fearful of being
swallowed up by British colony of Sierra
Leone, has been seized with the annexa-
tion fever itself and has actually appro-
priated an entire native kingdom. bear
ingtlle enphoniOns llisme Of Medina.
The new territory .adjeias the interior
frontier Of the Republic. and was aequit-
ed BY friendly negotiation. g y
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
No Hospital Needed.

No palatial hospital needed for Hop
Bltters patients. nor large-salarled tall
entsd p1ifers to tell what Hop Bitters
will Go or cure, as they tell their own
story by their certain and absolute cures
at home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

"OH, DEAR, how lame my back isr'
OF course it il. my dear madam: you
have the, lumbssgn. Use DIR. Thomas
Eclectric Oil and your pain and its
cause will cease.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
IINITED PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.

z Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday OF
each month, Q pm Woman's Missionary
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
Published Every Thursday
Terms Of Subscription:
Two Dollars Per Year In Advance.

II not paid within the year 25 per cent viii
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFIcE South side Main street, nearly op
posite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
l879.8o.

Belmont County, Ohio.
First Saturday OF February, Glencoe.
First Saturday OF March. st Clairsville.
Third Saturday of March, Bellaire.
Second Saturday OF April. Martins Ferry.
First Saturday of May. Morristown.
Fourth Saturday of May. st. Clairsville.
Third Saturday of June, Bellaire.
Also at close of Institute in Belmont.
Examinations begin al Q O'Clock, AN.
Plomptness is expected.
Certificates will not be antedated nor time
extended.
Testimonials of character are required If sp
plicant is not known 10 the Board. and evil
dence of success in teaching is allowed its
proper weight.
r. ALEXANDER.
JNo- T. DUFF lex. Board.
]. n. YARNELL.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-03-04

Practice In the Supreme Court and Court of
Claims and appear before all the Departments.
Prom ptness and satisfaction given In ali tusi-
mess entytlstAd 20 them. Cerrespondence So
Efcitsd. So 7th st., ep. p. o. Departnent,r -
WASHINGTON 30 espsstf
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
PROSPERITY AND ExTRAvAGANCE

The vast growth in the expectation of
American products would be very graft
flying to the student of political econo-
my OF American birth and infused with
proper love of his country, if it was
not for the insane spirit of extravaganza
that besets the American people in the
day of their prosperity. Unfortunately
favorable balance of trade soon begets
a spirit of mad speculation, which, on
the slightest reverse of fortune, lands
whole communities in the dismal swamp
of bankruptcy. But we should always
take the good which the gods vouchsafe
as in no spirit but that of thankfulness
and leave the anticipated evils to cure
themselves.
The Treasury Department statement Of
exports of breadstufs for the nine months
preceding the 1st of April, 1880, shows
that their value reaches the gross sum OF
S182,632, ,226-an increase of $50, ,599, ,69e
and some odd cents over those OF the
same period last year. Over one-haf Of
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
The Cincinnati Star

CHE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers in the City OF Gncin'
matt and in all important Western cities
and towns for II CENTS PER WEEK,
payable to the carrier. Or the paper will
be mailed, postage paid, to any part OF
the country for 80 CENTS PEP MONTH,
se per annum
THE STAR is the only STRICTLY INnE-
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. It Is taken and read by
people Of all parties and shades OF opin'
Ion, and 1t seeks to present the news ol
allkinds fairly and faithfully, with justice
to all and with especial favor to mona
THE WEEKLY sTAR--$1 PER YEAR,
circulates in all parts of the country, and
is a frst-clsss family newspaper.
ADVERTISING RATES-In Daily, 121s
CENTS per line, or 81 per square Of eight
lines, agate measure In Weekly, %
CENTS per line.
Address THE STAR
23O Walnut Street. Cincinnati. O
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03

meetings FIR the election of Democratic
delegates to the State Convention takes
place tonight 1t is hardly necessary 10
call the attention OF our subscribers to the
importance of these elections. Every one
knows that at these primaries the delegates
to the National Convention are selected
and that it is OF the utmost Importance to
select the best men. As Tilden is the
strongest Democratic candidate. only such
delegates should be elected as are for Tilden.
The Volksblatt saws: 1t is positively
said in WASHINGTON that the President will
ap! oint a Southerner as the successor to
Postmaster General Key. and it is also a
fact that the successor will be Republican
and not Democrat, as is Key.
The Freie Pre- dsse says The Republican
members of the Board of Health have
buried the hatchet and smoked the pipe OF
peace, and are now transacting their busi-
ness matters in pleasant harmony. Somote
il be-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03

celebrity from being the birthplace of Pig
anini.
Pensacola has bar rel factory, but on
such small scale tina. it does not weigh much.
When the Medical Colleges want q
stiff the faculty solemnly remark to each other,
Let us prey t
Since the hurricane Mr.. Vennor has
sign fed his unwillingness to do any more blow
ing about theweather
There were reported to be 6,714 births
in Rhode Island in 1S79-not counting the accom-
mCdations for steerage passengers.
Mrs. Snooglefx says that she shall have
Araminta Jane taught the catarrh as soon as she
can secure professor who isn't all the time blow
ing his own trumpet
The ability of the telephone to trans
nit musical sounds was tested the other evening
with satisfactory results when Hello Columbia
was rendered with charming effect.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
Parrot That Knows Two Hundred
Words.

A parrot in Bowdoin Square, Boston,
is master of vocabulary Of two hundred
words, which he speaks with a distinct
ness truly marvellous. Among the many
phrases which ne has been heard to utter
are, "Come over here and have some
fun" "Polly is a nice old boy" "If you
bite me, I'll give it to YOU" One day,
when annoyed, he said to the cat that
was in the habit of sharing his meals, cpl
put head on that old catr"
When he is naughty he is punished by
being confined to his cage, which he calls
being put to bed. On one occasion he
said to an admirer, 'Tll put head on
you, and then I'll have to 60 to bed, and
don't you forget it." He is a stanch
Republican, and advises all visitors to
"Vote for Talbot" He sings the whole
of the song, ooh, dear, what can the
matter be?" and has never been known
to swear. Price, 5000.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
Brief Bulletins.


Nelson Clifford suicided at Greencastle,
Ind.
Samuel Fletcher, pioneer, died in Fort
Wayne.
Ex-Congressman VIM. Writ Warren died
in Boston.
Westerveit's hardware store burglarized
at Oberlin, O.
Grace NJ. f. Church burned in New York.
Loss, $4,000.
Anderson Pike fatally injured by cars at
Rochester, Pa.
Rardin's tenement block burned at
Greenfield, Ind.
John J. Kessler killed by Officer Kemp
at Morr:svile Pa.
Frank Hendricks, intoxicated, killed by
cars at Newark, O.
Sam. Hinkle fractured old man Shafer's
skull at Peru, Ind.
Mormon church dedicated in Chicago yes
terday by Joe Smith, Jr.
Henry Clark, shot by George Ramsey at
Clyde, O.. died yesterday.
Farmer Berry thrown from his wagon
and killed at Sandusky, 0.
Frank Benke was shot dead Friday night
in Philadelphia by Policeman William
Shields
Geo. Lounsberry, Laporte Ind, SEN
fenced to the Penitentiary seven years for
murder.
Panchot won the seventy-hour go-as-
you-please contest a. Buffalo, making 406
5-l1 miles,
In consequence of failing health Colonel
Thomas A. Scott has resigned his railroad
presidency. ........
Late Saturday Memorial Hall, at the
Soldiers Home, near Dayton, O., was en-
tirey destroyed by fire. Loss So, 900.
At Omaha, Neb., fire broke out in a
block of stores on Tenth street, on the
North Side. Loss estimated at $25, 900 or
more.
John Davis, while riding on hand-car
ON the Panhandle Road Saturday, near
Steubenville, was overtaken by passenge,
train and killed.
Mary Vreeland. aged twenty-one and
married, was married to another man Sat.
urday at st. Johns, Mich, and that night
committed suicide.
In the pigeon.shooting match at St
Louis, between Captain Bogardus and
Fred. Erb, the former won, killing eighty.
six out of one hundred birds to Erb's
eighty-three.
Mrs. William Stokes, living apart from
her husband, in Brooklyn, was shot deat
by Edward Kennedy, who boarded in tn,
same house. Mrs. Stokes refused to marry
Kennedy. Kennedy also shot himself, bu
not fatally.
James Johnson, living near Jonesboro
Ind, had his throat cut almost from ear Il
ear, with a razor in the hands OF Johr
Miner a lunatic. Miner was found deat
in the woods, half mile from where h,
made the attempt on the life OF Johnson
with his throat cut from ear to ear by hi,
own hand.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
CARPET GARDENING.
A Charming Occupation in Which
French Ladies Find Pleasure.
ipuric affar

Paris Letter.
The outdoor occupation is carpet gar
dening. 1t consists in the laying out of
beds on lawns, of borders and strips of
earth, with shrubs or bedding plants of
variegated hues in order to match the
shades of Persian carpets and Indian
shawls. This style of fancy gardening
commenced in France few years ago;
the lovely Japanese carpet in the Troca-
dero grounds during the late Exposition
gave an impulse to this mode of orna-
mentation. have seen the border OF an
Indian camePs hair scarf, with all its
palms and intervening designs, most
accurately reproduced on garden
border.
Neither is it so difficult to succeed in
this as one at first sight would suppose.
1t is a matter which requires care and
foresight chiefly, the height of variegat-
ed shrubs and the room they require for
spreading has to be acquired; the rest is
only case of painstaking and nicely.
The beds of French lawns set aside for
the purpose are prepared by the gard
tu6T, WHO uldkeS all Ino outidCCo pei
fectly level. When they are ready the
ladies lie on the top paper on which the
design has been carefully perforated; the
paper of course corresponds with the
size and shape of the bed or border to be
ornamented. All the holes are then
filled with chalk finely powdered or
sand, which leaves perfect impress on
the block mould after the paper has been
carefully removed.
The plants are afterwards sunk into
the different compartments marked out
for them, If the design is very intricate
it is wise to indicate the color and na-
ture of plants to be bedded by writing
their name on the paper. A plan or
paper bed is usually prepared indoors
when the weather does not admit of out
door exercises. Several gentleman hav-
ing property in the environs pride them
selves on their carpet lawn, which is the
successful attempt of their wives OF
daughters. The cost is moderate. A
tablecloth design is usually executed in
| low cream-colored shrubs.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
Editorial Spindlugs.

The Jersey market gardeners are all
at peas.
Spirits don't have the ghost Of chance
nowadays.
The new style of fountains will have
jettrimmings
The major part of the miners in East
ern Ohio are now at work.
Some of the Western chronological
stories are fearful grsss-whoppers.
A downtown restaurateur spells it
suop, and says he doesso for eufunny.
1t is now thought that Billy Patter-
son was struck with splinter of the boom.
Cincinnati obtained its first musical
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
The Grumbling Husband.
lTinsley's Magazine. !

The "grumbling husband" an indi-
vidual who, of all his fraternity, has
generally the least cause for complaint,
is one of those advanced pessimists who
renders existence as obnoxious as it is
possible to make it to those who have
the misfortune to share his earthly pill
grimage. 1t may be an afliction at the
best of times, but the grumbler makes it
ten times worse. He will begin the day
by abusing his breakfast; and man who
scowls over his coffee, eggs, and the daily
paper may be pronounced as not likely
to improve in temper as the hours ad-
vance. The influence of a grumbling
woman is particularly depressing; but
that of man chronic grumbler is
worse. We may expect to find some Ca
pricious brightness or ephemeral exalta-
ton at times surmount her narrow
minded morbid complaints, for women's
moods constantly vary; but with man
all this is different.
There is more of the granite in his
composition. His intuitions are duller,
and his sympathies less active. He will
cake positive pleasure in nursing his
gloom. 1t may proceed from physical
or mental causes, incessant disappoint-
ments, or poor digestion; but the grumb-
ling husband is in American parlance
"a caution"-the most hopeless selfish
specimen of mankind we can meet, dis
qualified for society, unfit for home, a
dead weight on every ones spirit. Who
can combat his prejudices or move his
spiritless misanthropy9 He takes a de-
light in seeing others as depressed as
himself. You are enthusiastic over
music, painting, poetry, literature, or
any of the arts that remove the cold pros
aism of matter .of-fact reality; he will
endeavor to destroy the fervor and hap
piness you have experienced in the COM
pany Of the tabled Muses--and why3
Because the dull leaden matter that
forms his brain can not soar to those
high pinnacles of Imagination and fancy
and he will envy anothers capacity fol
appreciating the works which represent
nothing or less than nothing to him. AL
grumblers, if nonentities, are, as rule
; essentially practical; they love theil
} creature comforts as dearly as they low
themselves; their predominant material
ism makes them resent the slightest flaw
in the management Of the household a
an injury to themselves; and woe betid'
the woman the grumbling husband ha
: made his miserable spouse if the peas ar
hard for his Sundays dinner, or the pc
; tatoes waxy when he prefers -four.
' vegetablel What antidote can be effere'
, to resist the effects of these intolerabl
croakers9 None. 1t is in the YER
blood and bones of the animal, irradics
' BILE as blight.