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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

Two young couple entered into a
clandestine match at Bath, n. Y, four
years ago. The parents of the bride in
tervened, succeeded in separating the
young couple and procured the marriage
to be legally annulled. Yesterday the
two met at hotel, the man shot dead
first his companion, then himself. A
letter was found saying that if they
could not live together they could at
least die together.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

TIE Republican party will be ready
to end sectionalism whenever the Dem
ocratic party is ready to abandon the
principles "for which Lee and Jackson
fought for four years." and not day
sooner. In this campaign the Demo-
cratic party takes the field with the
boast of the 1873 votes of the South solid.
Those votes cannot be solid save through
crime-save through the brazen viola
tion of the principles for which the
North fought for four years: 1t is sim
ply the old question of which side was
right in that four years fight, and the
North is prepared to maintain that its
side was, even if that maintenance be
Asectionslism.'-fN. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

GENERAL DENNIS F. BURKE, COM
mander of the famous Irish Brigade uu-
der Hancock, says: "The Democracy is
marked with corruption, treason and
everything that is corrupt in politics.
believe that-the American Nation is pos
sessed with common sense, and that the
people will show that they do not desire
change in the administration by elect
ing the Democratic ticket next Novem-
ber." That's the kind of Democratic
convert the General is.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19
DEMOCRATIC managers appe;

DEMOCRATIC managers appeal to
workingmen to support a ticket that
has an aristocrat by education and train
ing at one end and a Shylock at the
other. These same chaps ask patriotic
soldiers to support party whose prin-
pies are the same as those fought for by
Lee and Jackson.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

Bob 1NGERsoLL said the other day in
a Massachusetts speech that the North
ern Democrats were not respected in the
late Southern Confederacy even if able
to prove that they "had lived on South
ern spit" and that "Hdncocks famous
order No. 40 was agreeable to the Demo-
Gratis only because it was lie. 1t de-
clared that peace .reigned IN the South
when the Democrats were committing
an average of thirteen murders a week"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

IT is stated that Senator Roscoe Con-
king has made engagements to speak in
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, in
this state, and at Fort Wayne, Terre
Haute, Indianapolis and Evansville, in
Inliana
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

Ex-Governor Cox is to do service
on the stump for the Republican cause
this Fall. Belmont county will proba-
ably be favored at an early date with
one of his sound political speeches.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

THE Hon. Eugene Hale says there is
no question but that the Republicans
will carry Maine. 81 am claiming with
perfect good faith," he assures CORES
pondent of the Philadelphia Press, "the
of all five Congressman. The
IVth and Vth Districts are in the hands
of the Greenbackers, and our great fight
is to redeem them. 1 think we shall
succeed. We will have from 5000 to
10000 majority OH Governor, and pei
haps more on the Legislature"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

A SECOND edition of the colored exc
dus is promised. The President of the
Colored Relief Board at st. Louis as
serts that 1o,eeo negroes will migrate
northward from Mississippi and Louis
lana within the next two months.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

PROF. E. B. ANDREWS died on Satur-
dav. at Lancaster. Ohio, after long and
painful sickness. He leaves a grand
record as soldier, a gentleman, and a
scientist-one whose life has been ex-
ceedingly valuable to Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

WADE HAMPTON is the most Honest
and frank of all the conspirators of the
"Solid South" He boldly proclaims the
fact that it now contends for that for
which Lee and Jackson fought for four
years. That is what tire leaders of the
Democracy call conciliationl
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

THE Democrats opened their campaign
in Indiana on Saturday last. 1t is said
that three hundred speeches were made in
the various towns and cities of the state.
Reports do not indicate any lively de-
gree of enthusiasm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

AMONG the veterans at Columbus last
week there were 1928 who had suffered
the torture of rebel prisons. OF these
1922 are for Garfield and Arthur and 1
for Hancock and English. The boys
that wore the blue are opposed to the
principles that Lee and Jackson fought
for
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

TIE Democratic boilers of Georgia,
opposed to the reelection of Governor
Colquitt, have nominated ex-senator
Morrow for Governor. A bitter cam
paign, with Senator Hill leading the Op-
position, is anticipated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19
THOMAS GARRETT.
why the South is Solid for Han
an0l<

w ny sAO SSe~t
cock.
Consider achdt Lee and Jackson aooutd
do aoere they dIiUe. THESE ARE
THE SAME PRINCIPLES FOR
WHICH THEY FOUGHP FOR
FOUR YEARS Remember the men
qcbo poured forth their life blood on Vir-
g;nia's soil, and do not abandon them
no,c. Remember that upon yOltr Uote
depends the success Of the Democratic
ticket. Wade Hampton, at the meeting
in the interest of Democratic harmony
in Virginia, at Staunton, July 26.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

MAUD S. and st. Julien each trotted a
mile at Rochester, New York, on Thurs
day, in 2:11A, beating the best trotting
RI cords
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

DEMOCRATIC attention is respectfully
called to a special election held in Terre
Haute, Monday, where the Republicans,
in a test election, carried the day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

THERE is evidently a vast amount OF
political figuring going on beneath the
Democratic surface in this county. Re
publicans will do well to keep sharp
lookout and report to headquarters every
move of their opponents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

JUDGE EZRA B. TAYLOR, of Warren,
was nominated, Thursday, by the Re
publicans of the Nineteenth Ohio Dis
trict as the successor of General Gar
field
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

THE President will start to California
on the 25th, and be absent six to eight
weeks
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

The Democrats of the Sixth District
of Ohio, in convention at Napoleon, re-
nominated Hon. Frank II. Hurd for
Congress by acclamatiOn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

If the distinguished General Geo. b.
Mcclellan wouldn't do for President,
why Hancock?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

ADELAIDE NELSON, favorlte and
graceful actress, died suddenly in Paris,
on Sunday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

HON. FRANK CHANCE, a lawyer, OF
Urbana, has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Eighth
District.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

The ohnsdh ea ApHa
@f f
fDamer
tai
@ where d@y
WI Mhm mnh
kby Postal Card in
Send Samp for
by
a usual
until the O day %bmT mex"
axsnHwhiI a antxr
Certificates for labor performed roads received the collection December la only
1.-The eplpenyt pmp
id
A""'""A HAMILTON EATON,
St. ChhsvneA Augwt19
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

THE death of Bazaine eX-Marshal Of
France, has taken place at Madrid
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

SEvENTY-FIvE thousand persons wit
messed the parade Of fifteen thousand
veterans in Columbus on Thursday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

The ntred hall Rad nd
qh
Jun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

W.. H. VANDERBILT, the owner OF
Maud s., it is reported has purchased st.
Julien for $4,000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19
September Magazines.

Harper's Magazine for September is a
number of even more than usual attrac-
tiveness. x poem entitled Amid the
Grasses, by William NJ. Briggs, is Illus
tlated by five wondrously graceful draw
ings by Gibson. Some interesting Illus
trated papers in this number of Har-
per's are The Family of George Ill,
by r. NJ. Rowland, with twenty-one
portraits, engraved from painting by
celebrated English artists; The Amer
ican Graces,' a biographical sketch of
the three Miss Cations, of Baltimore, by
Eugene l.. Didier, with portraits; and
w. II. Bishops second paper on Fish
and Men in the Maine Islands, There
are interesting short stories by Rose
Terry Cooke and Anna Bowman Blake !;
installments of White Wings and
Henry james, Jr.'s delightful novel,
Washington Square, and unusually in
teresting miscellaneous reading.
Lippincotts Magazine for September
opens with an agreeable and well-llluS-
trated paper on the lake region OF Elori
Scrub The concluding
paper of A. II. Siegfeld's Canoeing on
the High Mississippi describes the re-
turn voyage. 'HOrse-Racing in France
the first of two papers by E. Lejeune, is
full of details that show familiarity
with subject in all its relations. The
fifth chapter of Studies in the Slums,
by Helen Campbell, treats of Diet and
its Doings.' Short Studies in the Pic
turesque,' by William Sloane Kennedy,
exhibits close observation of the
choice but characteristic features of
Americal scenery. The continuation of
Adam and Eve,' several short stories
and poems, the Monthly Gossip which
is mutually full, and the Literature of
the Day. complete the number.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-19

OHIO remains the third State in the
Union, beating Illinois six thousand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02
Ministers Not Deadheads.

The recent controversy over the proprIety OF
q ministers bringing suit for the payment of
funeral fees, moves a Troy preacher to remark
that he has attended several hundred funerals.
and taken many hard colds as a consequence,
riding several miles in extreme heat and ex-
IRENE cold, through wind and storm, consuming
many days or tine, and often paving something
for travelling expenses, but has never received a
penny for such services, nothing having ever
been offered tn more than three or four cases
And nine-tenths Of the funerals were OF per-
sons who were not members OF his own church
and their surviving friends would not even do
MIN the compliment to go and hear him preach:
or any other minister for that matter. The
preacher continues In this indignant strain: 81
recall one instance In a nelghb0ring city when
was sent for In the middle of the night to
visit man who was supposed to be dying
He kept me by his bedside a large part Of two
days and nights, and at length went to at
TEND MS funeral In town some twenty miles
away. In another instance / was sent for to
sOOthe crazy man, and actually spent whole
day with him, when l was more than half sick
myself, trying with some success, to calm his
mind and turn his thoughts from his ailments
am sent for by wives to reform their drunken
husbands; sent for to reconcile husbands and
wives that have parted-persons never saw,
and KNOW nothing about; sent for to help peo-
pie get work, and for many other purposes
which will not enumeIate. For services O,
This KIND have never received penny. and
never desired II. do not refer to these matters
to complain that tie minister Is called upon for
such services. am glad to perform them, and
glad 10 perform them without pay, and AN con-
scfous that many persons who are not ministers
perform like services. 1t Is our delight to help
suffering humanity In every possible way.
only wish you to understand that ministers
perform far more such gratuiGous services than
alas. we marry great many hopeful couples
without ray.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02
The Latest London Slang.

lUhye Logan in Philadelphia lines
OF curse Jack has picked up the new phrase
den him TO use IL as slang, but the sly rogue
manages every now and again 10 bring n into
his conversation, as It We're innocently OF
course. What creatures OF convention We are
IN ctr dress. our manners and even our speech I
Gold, silver and bis OF paper are money simply
because we agree TO call them SO: men wear this
style OF garb and women that only because con.
Seitioh settles the respective modes OF apparel;
and phrases are lifted cut OF one meaning and
conNenIfonaly made TO assume quite another
suddenly. ineXplicably, illogically, absurlly
Here Is this ordinary query OF everyday life ::
what DO aOu tiak?" which We have been
using ever sine we were first taught 10
patter our Now lay me- which.
In the interval between yesterday aud
tomorrow. is made TO take on some
vaguely humorous or even underhanded
Intention which almost tnterdicts the phrase
In ~ rious converse. ! have heard so many
Jokes rounded of with the nib OF WHAT do Uon
IhiD6?' that positively cannot help laughing
as write the harmless and empty words. But
tbe phrase is not disdatned, among other Eng
lish ydron0is, by the fashionable scEOol-for-
scahoat preceptors and students who meet in
tttle-tauling drawing rooms at o'clock tea.
Mrs. Langtry has gone 10 the Isle OF Jersev
AKA writes 10 her friends that she Will never re-
turn TO London. Mrs Candour hurries about
rom south henSiagton TO Regents Park from
P1ccadilly TO Richmond Ilill aud repeats the
s'rafge decision or THE Lilly" what can be
the cause OF IT." she says. with an air OF MOCK
sympathy. Sir Benjamin BaokbIte fancies IL ia
because she Is losing her beauty. Lady Sheer
We'll says she Is sure it is because the Queen dis
approves or Mrs. Langtry'S appearance at court
Now. ahem. IL won't go any rurther-"what do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02
Making q Will.

The october number of Appletons' Journal.
contains, among other interesting articles,
review or a book entitled "Curto5itieS OF the
Search Room" lately published In Lonaon;-
which review closes with the following admo-
milton:
Before taking leave OF a book from yhie>-
much entertainment may be gotten. we should
not fail to add that 1t is not Without practical
hlnts winch may prove useful to every one who
has anything to do with Wills or will making.
more simple or easy than for a man to express
his wishes as to the disposition OF his PROPERTY
in such way that there could be no Question
as 10 his Intentions: yet costly experience has
taught the world that few things are more diffi-
cult. and that, In general, where there's a will
there's a-lawsuit Even lawyer Of such re-
cognized professional ability as the late Lord
Westbury left behind him a viii which gave
rise to endless complications and disputes: and
LORD st; Leonards, who was proverblally
minute IT, IN the precautions he urged upon
others, left VIII which became the subject of
lorg and costly litigation.
In making Wili,'' says our author, 'much
mischief may be prevented by brevity, pro-
yided 1t be rbined with luctd1ty; 1t is mis-
take to suppose THAI many words or many re-
petitions tend to perspi. nifty; on the contrary,
with these there is great darser Of ''elucidating
mo e6scurity" All ambigulnes should be
eal1e0, does not bear the same meanI12 as
my black and my vi fte horses P6epositlons
ust De v1gilantly watched; the smallest mono
n ~ i 10 Inc Engsn language used or mis-
III,
~ n has before now been the cause of nrn-
trscled and expensive lawsuits Families have
Detn thrown into chancery for years. their
property shorn down to minute Proportions
lawyers enriched, and succeeding generations
Drggared, by the omission or addition of half a
Wold. "Chllo" for children has been known to
rave Kept families who were brought up to
large expectations, and were entitled to colos
sai fortunes, starving for years under the laws
When layman writes his own will he had
Detter take as model that Of the ingenious teS-
tat0r OF LeweS-(Ars. 40 hare all acle1a 7
tnwarted all attempts TO interfere with his in
,enticns. when de-" need scarcely have
neen inserted, and then the will would have
cut as It Is not too long even with them we
can not put think he was right In making as
suia a aouDly sure. Above all, let the lay
man AVOID legal terms lest the law insist on
giving them legal Interpretation OF which the
poor man never dreamed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02
Barbed Wire Fence.

In travelling over large portion OF country
this fence. have also examined. quite carefnllv
many 0lnerent modes OF construction l found
the majority OF farmers opposed to this fence
most decidedly, all the objections being In con-
sequence OF damage In SOME FORM which they
had sustained. Nearly all seem to agree on tie
point that they would sooner put up with the
inconyeniences OF the Old style or fencing, than
suner the damage from the wire fence. The
railroad people are putting up In this neigh
oorhood long sections OF this fence the results
cI which have already been Sd disastrous that
many persons are already protesting against
us Iurther construction, or maintenance OF the
portlonS aIready up. although the drSt portion
was put up only few weeks ago.
found some simple devices for preyent,nc
oamage 10 STOCK by this fence. / noticed On
oae Gtea an ,thrilsy;looking farm. which was
aSanf civ al ognGe1 ny the barbed wire, that
aoOut SIX common laths were Just tied at ragu
lar dist ances. by small piece of wire IL 9be
Daroed wire on each panel This servaJ RI
make the fence plainly visible. Another. and I
think much better plan that Observed was
tying common lathes to the top wire. The hasf
plan saw was swinging a six inch board rom
the top wire. This Is substantial enouvh IN he
observed by any animal having ordinary sight.
All these devices have more or less merit. All
are good and cheap, and quite durable, and ali
are quite easily applied without the outlay of
mucn ume or money. l think have plan
which Will be more effective, and every way
cheaper. would collect The brush that lies
rotting on many farms, and tie by q piece OF
common wire to the top wire of the fence
ms Would hang down much lower and be
tS more easily seen, and cost nothing but
me Time, which can be given when nothing
else requires the especial attention of the
hands. II a farmer has no brush on his own
iano, ne can generally get such worthless stun
,tom ms neighbor for going after It. In an en-
eosrse slough grass, which viii answer every
Puipose except, perhaps, that 1t might be eaten
W Tue animals restrained Country Gentleman,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02


Not every criminal who incurs the penalty Of
Punishment to Siberia Is on that account to be
cOmpass1onated, II we may believe the accounts
OF MI. Juchanzeff'S SoJourn In exile. recently
puolisned by ST. Petersburg Journal This
eminent malefactor, known Throughout Russia
Dy the significant sobriquet OF 1.-The Stealer of
MILLIONS" has contrived to retain possession of
the enormous fortune he acquired by high class
swlndllng. When condemned to deportation he
traveied 10 Krasnojarsk, the town selected for
his penal residence by the Imperial authorities,
In princely style, attended by suite OF servants
carriages, and horses, and 1t woula appear that
ne IS 10 become the leader OF fashion In that ST.
peflan city. Tailors perfumer5 and tobacco
nlsts advertise theirswareS under his Dame he
has been elected member OF the leading club
ana Is about to contract an alliance with
young lady belonging to oIeof the first families
OF krasno1arSk. Bis dinner parties are attended
ny me chief official percentages and local noblu-
Ties; ladies OF the best society flock to his even
Ing receptions, and accept the splendid presents
with which he Judicsousiy courts their favor and
socia! countenance. 1t Is proposed by a commit
Tee or krasnoJarSk ''l0hhes' to present him,
uIon his wedding day, with wreath Of laurel.
OAK leaves and roses. Altogether, for a convicted
mlsuemeanant, Undergoing sentence OF Danish
ment, he appears to be leading an uncommonly
peasant life. Not so the thousands OF his dupeS,
VINO. having trusted their fortunes to his keep
Ing, suffered total ruin at his hands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-10-02

card to state lines, hence their records are ma
Iicnal-they fought for one cause, like one man i,
thought OF glory. only In their country's de.
Tense. Now 1t Is only justice we pay tribute 70
men who carved out our independence and LAID
ther sngpest thai in the thirteen original states
that In their capitals should be erected monu.
mentS 40 the Patriots OF 1716, and leave the
next generation to determine upon latter many
days.
Fer MIDST the din and blaze of battle,
II the fury Of tho fight.
Who stays to ssk where Justice la
Or which side hae the right;
But when the binding smoke has passed.
Win give truth to all the world.
It will be Americans to them;
Nor viii their fame decay.
Honor viii be given alike
TO those who wore the blue and 1ray
forgot 10 mention that the Wesumorela1d
farmers refer with pride to the fact that the
CONSTRUCTORS for strengthening the base OF
Nasnlngton's monument In the capital city
purchased the gravel for this purpose all along
their coast, including the home or Washington.
I his seemed eminently proper, and 1t is to be
go on. Now Is the time to press the
work with vigor II they hope to reach results In
the present century. AS my ancestors are all
provided with monuments, It makes me anxious
their copatriots should not be neglected.
by their deeds We shall knew them"
1t fs to be hoped the goth century will discover
as much monumental material In the 10Th as we
find, although some prefer to believe we are not
posse sSed OF even the raw material OF human
greatness comparison with the past. l am
not OF this number; the truth is, / have
seen so much greatness this season l
am really inflated with national pride.
and more than ever delighted that /
had a grandfather, and he father,-which
has enabled me to enjoy season In Virginia.
for the fact is, unless one belongs in some way.
no matter how remote, to a 'sglOrified family
they have little to hope and much to fear In a
social way In the Old Dominion. MHSoy