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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-08

With a Roman nose and a short stump tail,
And ribs like the hoops of a homemade pail.
Many a mark did her old body wear;
She had been target for all things known:
On many scar the dusky hair
Would grow no more where once II had
grown;
Many passionate, parting shot
Had left upon her lasting spot.
Many and many well-aimed stone,
Many brickbat of goodly size,
And many a cudgel, swiftly thrown,
Had brought the tears to her bovine eyes;
Or had bounded off from her bony bach,
With noise like the sound of a rifle crack.
Many day bad she passed in the pound,
For helping herself to her neighbors' corni
Many cowardly cur and hound
Had been transfxed on her crumpled horn;
Many teapot and old tin pail
Had the farmer boys tied to her time worn
tail.
Old deacon Gray was pious man,
Though sometimes tempted to be profane
When many weary mile he ran
To drive her out of his growing grain;
Sharp pranks she used to play
To get her fill and to get away.
She knew when the deacon went to town,
She wisely watched him when he went by;
He never passed her without frown
And an evil CLEAN in each angry eye;
He would crack his whip in surly way
And drive along in his "one-horse shay"
Then at his homestead she loved to call,
Lifting his bars with her crumpled horn;
Nimbly scaling his garden wall,
Helping herself to his standing corn,
Eating his cabbages one by one,
Hurrying home when her work was done.
Often the deacon homeward came,
Humming hymn, from the house of prayer,
His hopeful heart in a tranquil frame,
His soul as calm as the evening air,
His forehead as smooth as well-wOrn plow,
To find in his garden that highway COW.
His human passions were quick to rise,
And striding forth with a savage cry
With fury blazing from both his eyes,
AS lightnings fash in summer sky
Redder and redder his face would grow,
ADdSafter the creature he would go.
Over the garden round and round,
Breaking his pear and apple trees;
Tramping his melons into the ground,
Overturning his hive of bees;
Leaving him angry. and badly stung,
Wishing the old cows neck was wrung.
The moses grew on the garden wall,
The years went by with their work anC
play,
The boys of the village grew strsng and tall
And the gray-haired farmers passed away
One by one as the red leaves fall,
But the highway COW outlived them all.
Ali earthly creatures must have their day,
And some must have their months anc
years;
Some in dying will long delay,
There is climax to all careers,
And the highway COW at last was slain
In running race with railway train.
all into pieces at last she went,
Just like the savings banks when they fail
Out of the world she was swiftly sent,
Little was left but he old stumpy tail.
The farmers cornfelds and gardens now
Are haunted no more by the highway COW.
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Paving Stone.

1 am prepared to furnish the best
quality of paving stone, from the Ross
quarry, on short notice and at reason
able price. p. 7. Roscoe, {.
[6 "a tf) st. Clairsville, Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-08

PHYSICIANS freely prescribe the new
Food Medicine, MALT Bitters," because
more nourishing, strengthening, and pu-
rifying than all other forms Of malt or
medicine, while free from the objections
urged against malt liquors clio 4w.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-07-08
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
masonic pirectory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
GEORGE BUMGARNER, w. NJ.
II. T. COPELAND, Secy.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
y ROYAL Arch Masens. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
C. W. CARROLL, Fl. P.
RssR B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. & s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. r. BUMGARNER, G. M.
GEo. MITCHELL, Secy.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, Z. T.
II Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. F. D. BAILEY, E. @.
l.. l.. SRDwICK, Rec.
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Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 800 a. NJ. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday Z pm.
Strangers welcome to al services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. j. 81. Conkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:3G pm. Young mems meeting: Friday z
p.m.; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 p. m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 9 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, pm. Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm. Young woren's prayer meet
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, Pm
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denial of what you have told me, and
which intend to publish?
Prof. TOnry-Then, we are ready to
meet him and prove our side Of the
case
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BelInontChrOniCle|
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms of Subscriptions:
Two Dollars Per Year IN Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFIoK-South side Main street, nearly ep-
posite Public School building.
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THE HIGHWAY COW.
BY RUGBNR T. HAYES.

The hue o. her hide was a dusky brown,
Her body was lean and her neck was slim,
One horn turned up and the other down,
She was keen of vision and long of limb,
With Roman nose and short stump tail,
And ribs like the hoops of homemade pail.
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The census returns show the pOpula-
ton of Brooklyn, N. Y, to be $4,000, an
increase of 72,0O0 in five years.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
He Preferred the GOut.

In the following written prescript
addressed by a medical man, resident at
Roemershausen, in the district of Cas-
eel, to one Of his patients, will be found
q new and somewhat remarkable cure
for gout: II have measured your bap-
tismal name, and assured myself quite
exactly that it exhibits fully an inch
length of gout. This is depiorable !; but.
if you have faith in my treatment, pro-
pose, with Gods help, to cure your
malady for as long as you shall live.
This I shall do on the 18th, 10th and
18th Of the month. But, ere those days
arrive, l shall have mitigated your suf-
ferings. This is what you will have to
do upon the days in question. You
must not drink too much milk in your
coffee nor eat pork; upon no account
must you step across water, nor, indeed,
meddle in any way with that liquid.
Keep yourself nice and warm, prefera-
bly, in bed; the more rapidly viii you
get better. You may drink little wa
ter, but it must be drawn by somebody
else. But, whatever may be promised
to you in the meantime, have nothing to
do with it. Nothing will do you any
good but my treatment" The recipient
Of this extraordinary prescription, like a
late distinguished nobleman, who had
tried certain novel wine recommended
to him as an efectual means of warding
off his hereditary disease, replied, in ef-
feet, II prefer the gout. "-London
Telegraph.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
Hogs Killing a Jaguar.

ewildhogs Of South America are very
savage, and when aroused know no fear.
One night hungry party of explo2 ers,
camped in Brazilian forest, heard an
uproar of grunting, squeaking aud clash
ing Of tusks.
Pigs!" exclaimed all with joyful
ness; now We'll have dmner!''
Snatching their guns, they crept ca1s-
tlously toward the sounds. Coming to
the edge of clearing, they Saw jaguar
standing on OIL ant hill, about five feet
from the ground. Surrounding linn
were fifty OR sixty wild hogs, furious in
their efforts 20 get at their enemy. The
laguar, with his tail stuck well up in the
air, and his legs close together, stood
balancing himself on the hillock. As
the infuriated pigs threatened one side
or the other, he would turn around and
face them. He was evidently uneasy,
and only waiting for q chance to make u
rush and escape. In moment of fore et-
tulness, the jaguar slightly dropped his
tail: Instantly q pig seized it and
pulled then another, and another, and
the beast was dragged from his perch to
the ground. The battle was terrible
The yellow body Of the jaguar rose up
above the grunting, squealing mass Of
pigs, and his powerful paws struck dead
~ blows. Then he fell-the uproar sub
sided, and the herd dispersed. The party
Of explorers walked to the battle-ground.
Fourteen dead pigs were lying on the
field, but no jaguar or it's remains
were seen. Presently one Of the party,
picking up fragment of something, ex.
claimed,
"Here's the tiger!'
It was bit Of the jaguar's skin. He
had been torn to pieces and devoured by
the savage hogs.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
MASONIC CEREMONIAL.
Lsytpg tho Corner stone In Central Par
for tho ERyptiau Obolisk. =

Laying tho Corner stone In Central Park
for tho Egyptian Obelisk. :
New YoRK, Oct. 9.-The ceremony of
laying the orner stone for the obelisk at
Central Park this afternoon was with essed
by thousands of spectators. The feature
was the Masonic procession, which. formed
in front of the temple on Sixth avenue: In
the line were all communicates from Jersey
City, six Newark, and masonic lodges of New
York, Queens and Richmond counties. .Nei-
ther stones nor banners were carried by the
lodges; the officers and past masters wore
jewels and the marshals carried batons,
while the members were dressed in dark
clothes and high black hats, white gloves and
aprons. The procession moved at 2 O'Clock
and was reviewed by Grand Master Jesse B.
Anthony and the officers of the grand lodge,
Apollo commandery acting as 4 escort.
When the. head of the column
reached the entrance to the park it halted
with open ranks facing inward. The Grand
lodge and Anglo Saxon lodge proceeded be-
tween tho lines ond proceeded to the site of
the obleisk, escorted by the grand marshal
and staff. Following the Grand lodge came
the district deputy grand masters, and after
them the masters and wardens of lodges.
The masters then assumed command Of fitheir
lodges, and the ranks were closed and; the
column massed around the base of the obe-
lisk. The grand master and grand officers
occupied the platform, supported by the
masters and wardens of lodges. The
Knights Templar massed on the west side,
and the lodges on the north and east sides,
leaving tho south side for visitors. The
stone was then placed in position by the
grand master, with ceremonies accord
ing to the Masonic ritual.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
NUMBER Z.
A Story Of 4 Screw.

A singular accident happened to a
family named Hollscher, residing on
Pearl street, near Market, q few days
ago: The father died about week ago,
and was buried at Lone Mountain. On
Saturday morning the mother visited
the cemetery to decorate tho grave with
flowers. During her absence the chill
dren were at home under the care of o
servant girl. A little boy 3 years of
age, in playing about the room, got hold
OF small brass screw which he pushed
into his nostril. The girl in alarm tried
to get it out, and in doing so pushed it
further in. Then she ran and called
some of the neighbors in, and they, in
trying to get hold of it, pushed it out of
sight. They continued their efforts un-
til the screw-head was beyond reach.
The mother was sent for, and after O
night of alarm the child was taken to
DIR. Laine, who, after trying to withdraw
the screw with surgical instruments, put
the little sufferer under the influence of
anesthetics, and cut open the nose to
prospect for the screw. He succeeded
in disfigurlng the child, probably for
life, but failed in the object of his
search, and the child was taken home to
die, under the belief that the screw was
working up into the brain. It fingered
along for three days, suffering appar-
entity only from the cutting OF its face
and nose, and on Tuesday morning
passed the screw without distress, and
then it occurred to those interested that
the screw, instead Of going up into the
brain, had merely followed the air pass
age from the nose to the roof of the
mouth, and had there been swallowed.
Castor oil effected what the sealpel of
the surgeon failed in, and the child is
now recovering.-Saa Francisco Chron-
icIc.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
MARK LANE.

The "Express" Review Of tho Market for
Last Week--Tho Later English Harvest
Observation-Disclosures and Barley Ad.
vanced.
LONDON, Oct. H. The Mark Lane Express,
in = review Of the British grain trade of the
past week, saya: In consequence of heavy
rains throughout England, the remnants of
crops still outstanding must be considered of
no marketable value. Threshing has been en-
tirely suspended and wheat in stacks has suf-
fered somewhat. The present position is
favorable for an advance in all kinds of British
grain. The market has been decidedly in favor
Of sellers. Friday there was very small sup.
ply OF Eugli.h wheats, particularly marketable
qualities. These have been tending upwards
during the week, and sold readily at IL per
quarter above Mondays rates. Damp and in
was good consumptive demand for -four, but
the advance of Cd to Is per sack
was paid very unwillingly. Barley Cd
to 1s dearer On the week and oats Cd dearer.
The provincial markets are very firm. BY Sat.
urdsy the advance on best wheats and barleys
IN many instances was q ,on the week. The
course of trade IN foreign markets is influ-
snced by small arrivals and the action! of the
continental markets has been similar. .Ameri-
can reds and foreign whites generally advanced
IL. The demand, however, was purely con-
sumptive. Indian and Australian are stropplv
held for an ADVANCE. The finest -four il is to
% per sack dearer, but there was not much
activity. Maize aud oats advanced Cd. Sales
of Enalish wheat daring week. 50.ll0 quarters
corresponding>week Of last year. Imports into
the Dated Kingdom during the week ending
Qotobes "a we're 675, ST. ewt-~vhaat ,aaa l68,-
'75s owt. Of -four.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
MOOdy,S Methods.

"Mr. Moody is natural leader, put
him where you will, writes the North
field (Mass.) correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican. "He sees
what is to be done, how it can be done
in the best way, and directs some one to
doit. All the details of the meetings are
carried out in the most admirable man
ner. AS an illustration Of the feeling
among the guests, a lady from distance
said:to me: Il don't understand it my
husband and 1 never saw Mr.. Moody
before, and he had never heard of us.
Now, however, every time we meet him
he calls us by name, and treats US ex-
actly as if we were his personal friends
and particularly-invited guests MI.
Moody's remarkable executive ability,
consummate tact and keen knowledge of
human nature, mingled with his zeal
for the spread of vitalized, practical
Christianity, have contributed not a lit
tie to the success of these meetings,
which may be understood in spiritual
sense, and have held in check, without
doubt, any tendencies toward the intro
duction and discussion of isms."
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
The Pittsburg Railroad Disaster.

:
A Pittsburg, Pa, telegram Of Oct 10,
has the following: Tho feightful collision
last night At midnight on the Pennsylvania
road near the twenty. eighth street crossing,
was moro disastrous than at first reported.
Nine people were killed outright, and eleven
more have died since, making In all twenty
deaths, while as many more a:c dangerously
hurt, whom the physicians say cannot recov.
er. In addition to these there is large nun.
Der who are but slightly injured. As stated
last night the first section of Wallis accommo.
dation going East left the union depot at 1891
p. M, having large crowd of passengers who
had been to the city to particitats in the clos
ing exercises of the exposition and witness
the Democratic demonstration. The back
platform was so crowded that the headlight
In the second section following could not be
seen, and consequently the engineer Of the
second section did not see the train ahead Of
him until he was so near it that his train could
not 90 checked in time to avert collision,
and the engine weat crashing into the rear
end Of the first section. packed Us it was with
human beings. Among these unfortunates
the engine buried itself even to the car win
dows, in among screaming, suffering men, wo-
men and children, all who were in its course.
The boiler head Of the colliding engine was
bursted off by the shock and scalding water
and steam poured over the occupants of the
car as if bent on completing the horrible work
that had gone before. 1t is Impossible to de-
scribe the scene that followed The moans of
dying and wounded, and the shricks of those
who bad lost their friends were terrible.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
iaattons OF 4 scandnlous nature had beentmide,
on.both sides since the light over the,Will bc!'
.KSu, !, Il: III: .,'I,.;,.f| .I i-,;,,
.>I'!~.: United States. CurxeAcy!,,..t: =.
The 'Qenptroller, of: the currency re-

'7~G' Il 49, ~ 80 t''ff ~ j al -
] .,I,.>.:y Omitted States, Curxe1cy,,,.;i: -:
. The oemptroller, of the currency re-
ports additional circulation issued during Au-
gust and Sept to be sb72 $50, leaving a decrease
$50. The net increase Of national bank notes
during the year ending October lst, i8bo, was
$9, ,7l3; the increase Of legal tender otes
on deposit, for the purpose Of retiring nation.
al bank circulation, during, August and Sep.
tember was s666, ,06l; the increase; during the
year ending October LIST, 1850, was $7,l79, 1862,
and the amount Of legal tender notes now on
deposit is $20,S6Sls3; the total amount OF
national bank notes outs standing October lst,
1850, is s342, ,579s sa3, not including national
gold bank notes amounting to. $la5, 1000. The
following is astatemcnt showing the amount
of United States currency outstanding: Old
demand notes, $50 s25; legal tender notes, all
Issues. ss46 6sl ,016; one year notes of 1863,
$46O66; two year notes OF 1853, $l2,650; two
yearcompound notes of 1867, ,S23. $50, compound
interest notes, t241, ,2lO; fractional currency,
all issues, $76,557,S8s: total, ss6,282 291. .47e.
The following is statement showing how the
United States treasurer disposed OF the nat.
ional bank notes redeemed during the month
and quarter year ending to-day, as compared
with corresponding periods Of last year. Notes
fit for circulation, assorted and returned to
banks ofissue, month s4a8,6oo, quarter g., 2,5S7,.
800; notes unfit for circulation. assorted and
delivered to the comptroller of the currency
for destruction and replacement with new
notes, month $2,47l, ,40o, quarter $7,776 100;
notes Of failed, liquidating and reducing
banks deposited in treasury, month $45l 200,
quarter 81, 5S6 500; totals for 1880, month 49,
s61 400, quarter $l,leo.sso; totals for 1879
month $4329,6OO, quarter $2O,540, 200; de-
crease, month t97s, 100, quarter $S,6l2,O0O
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
Epix00tlc in New York.

A New York telegram has the follow
ing interesting particulars: The epizootic is
still spreading, and there would be very seri-
GUS alarm among horse owners II 1t were not
that the epidemic is Of an exceedingly mild
type. Most Of the horses that were first at
tackled have recovered, under treatment,
the list OF indisposed animals in the city is
still larger than heretofore. Some seven
thousand horses are now afflicted, the most Of
them so lightly that it has not been thought
necessary TO entirely withdraw them from
service. No horse has as yet died of the
disease. Its characteristics are the same as
in the first great epidemic, but the disease
thus far shows none Of its former virulence.
The owners say the weather thus far has been
favorable to the repression Of the disease, and
that its ravages have further been checked BY
the knowledge which all horsemen now pos
sess OF the proper remedies. It is hoped that
the epidemic will not take on a more danger
GUS type, but that it Is bound to be wide
spread seems certain at present. 1t is extend.
ing 10 the Hudson river, and many horses in
Poughkeepsie are sufferers. In the stables of
wealthy men here many fine carriage horses
have been attacked, and there are three cases
Of the disease in the large stables OF Robert
Bonner. The street car companies are put
ting the bulk OF their work on the we'll ami.
mails, but within the last two days have been
working their afflicted stock to some extent,
it being evident that their condition was
much improved and that the danger was not
growing.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
LOST IN THE ARCTIC.

Lieut.. Wykofr Returns Without Any News
OF Bennett's Jeanette or the AIissine
Whalers.
SAX Francisco, CAL, Oct. 1.-THE Cali to-
morrow will publish an interview with Lieut..
John Wykoff, of the United States revenue cut.
ter Coxwin, who has arrived here in the steam
whaier, Mary and Helen, twenty-oue days from
tho Arctic. The Ooxwin made three trips to
Herald Island without being able to land on
account of ice. The Cox~in has traversed the
Arctic in every direction between Point Bar
row and Herald Island without gaining anv
intelligence Of the Jeanette OK the missing
whalers. It WAS unable to reach Wrangrel
Land. for which the missinR ships were headed
when last seen. Another attempt will be made
to reach Herald Island before the close of the
season. The schooner Laleta was seized At
Port Pope, August 20, for violation of
revenue laws. and Lieut.. Wykod WAS put in
charge. On tho 4th of September she went
ashore On the no:th SIDE of St. Lawrence island
and became q total loss. September IL Lieut.,
Wykof made Plover Bay, where he found the
Mary and Helen, and took passage in her for
this port.
The Worthington advance., 1880-10-14
Hrs. Croker = shootest. =.


Mrs. Fannie Crocker, the tfiend. and
associate Of the bogus Mrs. Harrls,,; and who
Visited st. Paul to examine the trunk;aad re-
cover correspondence with that ill-fated wom-
an, after her death from. ths 11tal runaway &C.
cident, threw milwaukee, into .. lively sensa.
ton on the morning OF October g. She at
tempted to shoot her step: p:mother, but sue.
.ceeded only in shooting of. one OF her own
fingers. A Milwaukee telegrsphic, special OF
October 9, has the following psrticulare: This
city has just undergone one of its liveliest
sensations. It is case of: tragedy. In. high
life. X. B. Smith, a.Wealthy pioneer citizen,
died few months ago and left his willid such
: condition that his heirs have been fighting
over it ever since.: Yesterday the courts gave
q decision unfavorable to one Of the daughters
Mrs. Fannie Crocker, and favorable to Smiths
widow. The daughter has been furious ever
since, repeatedly threatening to xiii Mrs.
Smith, her stepmother. This morning she
went to the family residence and asked for
the widow, who refused to See her, but made
an appointment at law office an hour later,
They met there, and as soon as they were
fairly in the Office Mrs. Crocker drew pistol
and fired at her step-mother. She was too
much excited to take correct aim, and, the
shot resulted harmlessly. Mrs., Smith had
taken the precaution TO have policeman con:
venient aud the would.te murderess was at
once arrested. To-morro v she will'be exam
ined BY an expert in insanity. Iii probable
that she is Unbalanced mentally, owing to le:
gal complications She WIS very Award in
handling the revolver and injured her own
left hand IN firingit When she shot at Mrs.
Smith they were only about six feet apart.
The family haye always moved in the highest
circles Of society but it transpires that accu-