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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07

At the Presbyterin Church, Rev. Robert
Alexander read for his text, Prov. 14:34-
"Righteousness exslteth nation. but sin is q
reproach to any people, and said:
Religion is 50 intimately connected with
national prosperity, that our country's well
fare is legitimate theme for pulpit discourse
for the religious journals of the land. Her
prosperity is the prosperity of her sons and
daughters. Her advancement shows the
prosperous state of her citizens Her welfare
should be dear to every heart, and all should
labor for her good. Civil government is ap>
pointed by God for the accomplishment Of
wise ends, and to take deep interest in ma
tioBal prosperity and welfare is not only con
sistent with the Christian character, but is q
Christian duty. With her success is connect
ed the success Of every good enterprise, the
comfort Of our homes and the enlargement
and advancement of our Redeemer's kingdom.
Let US love our country with the spirit and
feelings OF Christian men. Let Us view our
country from the Christian standpoint and
consider what Is most essential to her true
progress and greatness. We open Gods word
and find that He tells US plainly how q nation
may become truly great. II is not by wisdom
of policy, not by extent of territory, not by
splendid conquests, not by fourishing CON-
merce, not by fertile fields and inexhaustible
mines of wealth. A nation may have all these
and be far from true greatness. God tells-us
that it is righteousness that exalteth ma
ton" What He has written in His word He
has illustrated In His providence, and in all
the course RI history it is seen to be true.
Righteousness is the pure principles of relig>
ion brought into exercise in national affairs
These principles wrought in the hearts of the
citizens. and operating in the community and
on society produce blessed results. How
much can one good man do! Increase the
number to whole nation, sincerely devoted
to the service of God, and how distinguished
such land would be on the earth. Blessed
would that people be. Consider how the re-
iigion Of Christ a. taught in the Bible tepda
to national greatness and prosperity.
|. 1t gives to people internal peace and
quietness.
rhe love Of God In the heart produces the
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ON THE LOSS OF
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GEN. GRANT was among the first. on
Saturday morning, to call upon Mrs.
Garfield at Long Branch to express his
sincere sympathy for her.
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W Don't forget that Piso's Cure for
Consumption is warranted to do all that
is promised in the directions, given with
each bottle. Always kept in stock by
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TREATM EMIT.

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To LOan.-I have sum of money tc
loan on good real estate security.
w. A. MCMECHAN,
(512 tn Real Estate Agent.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
WASHINGTON ID. C, July 9, :
Wednesday i'm.

President passed very comfortable
night, first time since he was wounded.
His physicians feel fresh encourage
unent, but are intensely anxious for the
trying days yet to come. BLAINE.
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EAST BoUND.-New York Fast Line daily;
entire train runs through from Chicago Ia
and Baltimore Mall daily on L. E. d @. o. Div.
and Main Line; other Divisions daily except
sunday. with through sleeper from Columbus
to Baltimore daily. Sleeping car from San
dusday to Grafton daily except Sunday.
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IMPORTANT 70 TRAvELERS.-Special In
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SIS to jan
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Upham's Asthma Cure never aARIlRD a
fails. Sold by all dealers; only tVI4
50c. box; by mail 60e.~ 9. c. A1IMHI Il
UPHAM, Philadelphia, Pa. ~ tstts y
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MILK CRUST,

Mrs. Bowers, I43 Clinton street, Cincinnati.
speaks OF her sisters child, who was cured OF
milk crust which resisted all remedies for
two years: Now a fine healthy boy, with q
beautiful head OF hair.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
SKIN HUMoR,
EGZ 8 MA

Hon. VIM. Taylor. Boston, Mass, permanent
ly cured OF humor OF the face and scalp (ec-
xema) that had been treated unsuccessfully
for twelve years by many Of Boston's best
physicians and most noted specialists, as well
as European authorities.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-07-07
The St Clairsyille Pulpit on thu
Assassination Of President
Garfield.

At the M. L. Churuch, the pastor, Rev
]. h. Conkle, read the eightieth Psalm, re-
marking that its warnings and its lessons wer'
fitting in the perilous hour through which w
were passing. A hymn appropriate to thu
National sorrow, was sung by the choir anc
congregation. when the pastor prayed earn
estly for the President and the safety Of the
Nation.
On rising to commence the preaching ser
vice, Mr.. Conkle read the latest dispatches,
which contained more favorable intelligence
than any previously received. Prior to read
ing his text the pastor occupied fully ten
minutes in commenting on the dastsrdly deed
that was likely to deprive the Nation of its
Chief Magistrate. The following is q sum-
mary:
1t was strange news that flashed over this
broad continent at the noon of yesterday
Our President assassinatedi And this done
in broadday, In Q crowd, by citizen. Such
a tragedy possible in this land Of plenty and
prosperity
The second assassination of the Chief Mag
istrate Of this great and free people inside Of
seventeen yeaTsi When Lincoln was mug
dered, there were causes at work promotive
of such crime; but these reasons have ceased
to exist, and we are passing through an era
of unparalleled prosperity. We had fondly
hoped, that whiles such tragedies might be
enacted amidst the repression, oppression, and
poverty of Russia, the demon of murder
would not sssail the life of our President in
an era of profound peace and prosperity.
Here, if man, party, faction, have any
he hat he ha -.
his, or bis party's grievances to the people for
revision, and they decide-and their verdict
is final. Here, the ruler is the choice Of the
whole people; at least, there rested not a
shadow Of doubt upon the title of James A.
Garfield to the first Office in the gift of the
Nation.
Such crimes are possible only when backed
by vicious popular sentiment. Il may be
traced to the mock heroics of the day. that
finds its food in the insane thirst men have
for notoriety, throwing their worthless lives
away to get into the public prints, preferring
to dance on q gibbet rather than that their
worthlessness shall have its fitting ohscurity.
Another element that makes possible such
meR is our vicious civil service which sadly
needs thorough revision.
OF the man that the bullet struck, have
at present no heart TO speak. II may be fit
ting on some future occasion to call attention
to bis sterling manhood, his eminent states
manship. his manly, christian character, his
beautiful domestic lie; but to-day we for
besr to speak. II is not that he is an emil
nent citizen, it is not that be is q brilliant
statesman, but that it IL possible for the head
OF the Nation, to be so suddenly taken away,
that the succeeding probabilities are 30 un-
certain.
The Christian will find in this National af.
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EXECUTIVE MANSION,

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WAsHINGTON, ID. C., $50 A.. M.
Wednesday, July 9.
The President passed most comfort
able night. and he has remained through
out as favorable as when the last bulle'
tin was issued. The pulse is becoming
less frequent and is now 9S. Tempera.
ture 9s lilo. Respiration %.
BLISS,
BARNES,
WORKMAN.
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House and Lot for Sale on Main
street, st. Clairsville. Inquire of
Q6tf A. Ii. i w. MITCHELL.
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spread ali oven his ears. neck and face and
for six years resisted all kinds OF remedies.
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Cleveland, TuscaraWas Valley
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In effect Monday, May S0th, 1881.
NORTH BOUND TRAINS.

No 2, No No "a No No 10
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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13
Moods.

Our better moods do not wholly de-
pend upon our bodily health, for it is
the testimony Of manya child Of God
that some of bis hours of elearest in
sight and of deepest understanding Of
the divine compassion haye been cock
istent with seasons ofpain and nervous
distress. Laid aside from the world,
its cares and emolumeuts, shut in by
Gods providence, as in a safe harbor
from outside storms and ruilling winds,
some who thus dwell close to the Lord
are kept in spiritual eylronment Of
Alpine purity. But, with many Of u',
it is evident that our mental aud in
tellectual freshness and power very
greatly depend for their efficiency on
the state of our bodies. When we are
worn out, wearied, dyspeptic, racked
with neuralgia aud depressed with
languor or headache, our words are
quite likely to be in sympathy with our
lywered physical tone. We write bitter
things against ourselves, We fancy that
we are hopelessly behind our fellows in
the race, and we cast despairing eyes
on heaven above and earth beneath,
when we ought first and foremost TO
rest, sometimes a days repose, short
"trip out of town, the reading for recrea-
ton of a bright pleasant story, or an
evening spent at the concert or in the
house of a friend, will do far more to
restore the equilibrium and reinforce
the tagging energies of the soul than
will any amount OF sackcloth and ashes.
The sackcloth and ashes, indeed, we
may deserve for having oyerworked
and i'll treated our willing bond slave,
the body; but, whether deserved or not,
they are not 20 remedial as some
lighter and less heroic treatment.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13
A Good Dog Story

A correspondent Of the Spectator
writes that this story ola dogs sagacity
may be depended upon as absolutely
true:
During the meeting of the British
Association at Glasgow, friend OF
nine had occasion to 90 one day from
that place to GreenOck, on business.
Heariug on his arrival that the person
he wished to see was out, bat expected
ahortly to return home, be determined
10 take stroll about the town, TO which
he was a stranger. In the course OF bis
walk he turned into q bakers shop and
bought bun. AS he stood at the door
of the shop eating his bun, large dog
came up to him and begged for share,
which he got, and seemed TO enjoy
coming back for piece after piece.
Does this dog belong 10 you p my
friend asked he of the shop-woman.
No. she answered, but he spends
much of his time here, and begs half
pennies from the people who pass
'Halr-pennies What good can they do
him? p
oh, be knows very well what to do
with them he comes into the shop and
buys eckes.'
This seemed rather remarkable in
stance of cleverness, even for the most
clever OF animals {; so, by way Of test
ing It's reality, my friend went out Of the
shop into the street, where he was
Immediately accosted by the dog, who
begged for something with all the elo'
qnence of which dog is capable. He
offered him a half-pcnnY, aud was
rather surprised to see him accept it
readily and walk with the air Of regu-
lar customer into the shop, where he
put his paws upon the counter and held
out the half-penny toward the atten-
dant. The young woman produced
bun, but that did not suit the dog, and
he held bis money fast. 'Ah,' she said,
4 know what be wants, and took down
from a shelf plate of short.brsad.
This was right he paid lis half-penny,
took his short-bread and ate It With
decorous satisfaction. When he had
quite finished he lett the shop, and my
friend, much amused, followed him,
and when he again begged, found
another half-penny for him, and saw the
whole process gone through a second
time.
The dog clearly had learned by some
means, the use of money, and not mere
ly that it would buy something to eat,
but that it would exercise a right Of
choice. What is most remarkable is
that bis proceedings were entirely inde-
pendent, and for his own benefit, not
that OF any teacher or master.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13

To be permanent aud progressive, a
moral system must be based upon a
permanent aud progressive religion. A
religion, to be permanent aud progress
sive, must have an infinitely perfect
God. Men cannot long continue to
worship, respect, love and obey an i'm
perfect God. The history OF heathen-
ism illustrates this. A perfect GOD
continually calls mankind to still
higher heights OF heart exp rlence and
outward lite. A perfect God must be
God OF infinite. holiness. Holiness
may be j, 6ned as hatred to sin-ab-
horrence Of sin; not merely sin as ex-
bibited in its results, but sin as fact
Sin ia a rebellion against justice, good
meas, truth, and love. A holy God
must eudesvor to save as many as he
can from sin. In order to do this, He
must appeal TO the strongest possible
motives to win men TO holliness-to
deter them from sin. Nothing else will
have SO great power to deter men from
sinful life as the declaring the penalty
OF eternal punishment. Hence the
God of permanent religion, must de-
clare this as the penalty Of sin.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13

PERLITE SoCIETY.-'LoOk heah,
Jim Webster said Uncle Nose, has
you got pell'ec conlidcnc in Sam John
son.
Il has puacc confidence tn bis bein'
de most unreliable rascal on Galveston
Island responded Jim Webster.
well. Jim, III take a Bible oaf saw
him hab one arm around your wite's
waist and dey was a squeezin' each
udder's hands aud grinnln' at one an
udder.'
Jim Webster assumed an expression
Of countenance that would have done
credit 10 John Mccullough as Othello
as he Kissed ont, 'whers and when p
AT de ball, oh cource, when dey
was a wallzing wild each udder. Why,
jim, you was dar yourself aud seed ii
all.
'Pshaw = SAID Jim, what duz you
know bout &c requirements OBJ peril te
society in GalvestOn?'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13

IT WAS No KIND OF A FIT.-There
was quite a scene in the Galveston
Court House the other day. A young
lawyer bad just flushed an impassioned
appeal, dropped, as be thought, into
his char, but missed the chair. As he
struck the floor there was a report as if
a young cannon had exploded, creating
much excitament. The prevailing opin-
ion was that pistol had been dscharg-
ed in his hip pocket, but, upon raising
him up it was found that he had flatten-
ed out a beautiful silk hat 1t seems
that an old but reckless member of the
bar was TO blame for the accident.
When the younger lawyer was about TO
sit down, the elder pulled the chair
away, but he had forgotten that his own
silk hat wac under that very chair.
The elder lawyer laughed bOsterously
until he identified the mutilated hat as
his own, and then he smiled such sick
ly SMILE that bad it been photographed
and sent to the Houston Board Of Health
they would have been fully justified in
qnarantining him at once. lie says
that is no way Tor a mau to try on hat
anyhow.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13
|. Drunkenness In England.

A gentleman, whose work lay much
among the laboring classes, told nae
that he felt utterly powerless before this
vice, which was constant quantity in
the problem that he was called upon to
solve. knew a lady who was dis
trict visitor in a suburb OF London, one
of those mnisteying angels who in Enl-
land, more, it seems to me, than any
other country in the world, give them
selves up TO the work Of helping and
betteIing the most wretched and de-
graded of their kind, and who carry
Christ ian love and purity and grace
into dens of filth and sin and suffering
which, if they did not see them, would
be teyoud their chaste imaginatious {;
and l ask her ore day if she met with
any encouragement, and if she thought
she had been able 10 do much real good.
With sad, sweet smile she answered,
very little. The condition of these
people seems hopeless and they are
hopeless. All that We can do is TO help
them from time to time and we fnd
them always where we left them, or If
possible yet lower, more degraded,
more Wretched. And at the bottom OF
it all is drunkenness. The men are
always more or less drunk, and The wo-
men are almost as bad. They earn a
little money, and they get drunk. Hus-
band and wife get drunk together
they quarrel they fight; and the chill
dren grow up with this before them.
They are never really quite sober un-
less they are starving or i'll. What can
be done for such people? How can they
or their condition be made better?' The
tears gushed from her eyes as she spoke
/ knew that 1t was so. My own obser-
vauon, very small and Of little worth
as compared with hers, had yet shown
me this. And was struck with hor-
ror at the besotted condition ofso many
of the women-wOmen who were bear
ing children every year, aud sucking
them, and who seemed TO me little bet
ter than foul human stills through which
the aceursed liquor with which they were
soaked filtered drop by drop into the
Little drunkards at their breasts. To
these children drunkenness comes un-
consciously, like their mothers tongue.
They cannot remember the time vixen
1t was new to them. They come ou! Of
the cloud-land Of infancy with the ill.,
preston that drunkenness is oEe of The
normal conditions Of man like hunger
or ike sleep. Punishment for mere
drunkenness, unaccOmpanied by yio-
lence, must seem strange to them from
the superior classes from whom come TO
them as from q sort Ct Providence both
good and evil. October atlantic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13

THE Poison OF ANGEK.-The effect
Of passion upon the Italian tempera-
ment is something peculiar. In many
respects they are an odd development
of human nature. Few people are, IN
the main, more calculating and self
interested; but these calculations are
frequently marred by sudden impulse.
In fact, they are hard, practical beings,
with occasional intervals of lunacy,
during which they are hardly RESPONSE
BILE for their actions. This, to a coach
man. a very worthy sort Of man. Owing
to carelessuess, this cOachman allowed
a horse under his charge to injure IT.
self. Ny friend lectured him in some
what strong language; on this the
coachman betook himself to his bed, and
died. The doctor who attended him
told me that death was caused bya nt
of roJbia. SO angry had the coach
man been at the lecture, that bis bile
was converted in.o an acid nuld, which
ac.ed upon him as a sort OF poison.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13

CLEVER DoGs.-Here san authenti
Gated instance of practical joking iilly
reciprocated: A friend Of mine has a
rough-hared collie, wise and exquisite
ly modelled. One evening lady OF
the household, with whom he was a
special favorite, stopped quietly as he
lay half asleep on the rug, and placing
her face close to his head, blew sharply
with slight shout in one OF his ears.
Ttcklcd aud startled, he jumped up and
moved OF. seemingly somewhat Offend
ed. Inthe course of the evening the
lady happened to be reclining in an
an easy-chair. when the collie was OBJ
served BY some Of the inmates to rise,
and making circuit, to move stealthily
toward the chair, put his forepaws on
one OF the arms, and placing his nos 4.
close to the la5y's ear, to give a sharp
bark and Instantly bound off!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-07-13

A MARKET FOR HIS DAUGHTERS.
The richest Mexican IN all Mex.cO'-
for that is the way he is announced to
the hungry dowagers ofLondon-has
arrived there. His name is Tchibique, and
he is a native of Baguerres de BIgorre.
He began life as cabiu-boy aud made
a colossal fortune by the discovery OF
dimond nine. Having realized his
property, he goes to Europe to dispose
of his daughters and realize thelr
chances Of happiness IN married lue.-
There are several OF these young ladies'
more or less attractive. The London
bachelors are 10 have the first chance,
as the worthy pateriamiIias means to
spend the season there and will not
visit Paris, where multitude OF fur
tune-hunters with longing eyes aud
outstretched arms await him, until the
spring. Meanwhile the London match
making dowageIs are planning all kinds
of entertainments for the capture Of the
heresses. After London aud Paris, il
any Of the girls are left, New York will
be visited.