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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
New Series-Vol. 81. No. 43.

used in Georgia as well as in London.
Pious cares have preserved theserelics
for the eyes of the pilgrims. The tab
lets in the chapel will recall freshly to
the minds of the delegates the large
Drained mother of the Wesleys as well
as the Wesleys themselves; and with
something more than curious interest
the far-traveled Methodist brethren will
read inscriptions in memory Of Fletcher
Madely, Adam Clarke, of Richard Wat
son and other associates of the great
founder. There can be little dout that
these monumental objects draw their
inspiration from the warm heart of the
beholder; they do not create but they re-
fresh his emotion by reminding him of
the treasure of his personal faith. But
there is probable more power in the re-
collections of an earlier Methodist city
which lies almost under the Chapel. Co
ing back nearly forty years we see Wes-
ley opening the Foundry" as a place of
worship in 1889. The British Govern
ment had wretchedly failed in an effort
to found cannon there; but we mean no
wretched pun when we write that John
Wesley founded big church in their
deserted mandatory of big guns.
There was great explosion Que day and
the Governments project of making can
non was blown into the air. Wesley
got possession of the old walls, and they
had resounded with prayer and praise
for more than a generation before the
present. chapel was projected. And
these forty tears embraced Wesley's
most vigorous manhood and most heroic
achievements. He had won a large
place for his united societies when, after
opening several ether preaching places
he sOlemnly Dedicated this. chapel to di-
vine worship. He stillsregarded himself
as a pFesbyter. of the Church of England,
but he felt himself to be as good bishop
as the sleekest Of. the anointed, and as
competent to make other men bishops.
The memory of the old Foundry re-
calls to the minds of the Methodist dele
gates, as no china kettle or dilapidated
chair cab do, the struggle through
which John W esley founded religious
nation.-[N. Y. Tribune, 9th inst
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
Masonic Directory.

-DELMONr LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. M
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be
fore full moon. -..-..-
JAMES MELLOR, W. M.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. IL
- Royal Arch Masons- Stated convoca
'tions, first Friday of each month.
~ G. w. CARROLL, FL. P
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R. g. s. NJ
I'D Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. r. BUMGARNER, 4. 1. M
F. d. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. &c, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. Ii. r. BUMGARNER, E. g.
rol l. t. SEDwIOK. Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

has an abundance of hotels, boarding
houses and like places of comfort, and
no extra charge whatever will be made
for accommodations during the Oriole
celebration. Nothing will be spared to
make tie occasion the happiest imagina-
BILE. Baltimore people knowing full
well that to fail in proving her claim to
be the most hopi:abie city in the country,
would leave stain upon her fair fame
and name, time could never blot out.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

SENATOR HoAR says; "There is no
reason known to the public why the
Government can not go on for the next
three months. without any serious in
convenience arising from President
G,uli,id's sickness. The whole Ameri-
can people eagerly desire his recovery.
Tie press and all patriotic citizens ought
To abstain from raising or discussing
doubtful questions of this kind. Their
discussion can only distress the Presi-
| dent whenrhe RECEIVERS far enough to be
Informed of 1T, and seidelay his full res
toration to health. do not think the
trainers of the Constitution meant that
a temporary Illness. however severe,
should constitute such an inability as
would warrant the. Vice President in
taking possession of the Office. General
Arthur, all of whose conduct in this Sc
rious crisis has been 50 full of delicacy
and discretion, is not likely to yield to
any premature suggestions of this Char
acter," s.- $50 --.li..s1. s.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

FREDERICK DOUGLASS says that dur.
ing the years he spent abroad, though
he was much in society and sometimes
in the company of lords and ladies, he
does not remember one word, look oil
gesture that indicated the slightest aver,
sion to him on account of his color.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

They imagine they discourse of a
wonder indeed when they speak of the
fair white carpet, woven for thought to
walk on, from rags that tiuttered on the
back of the begger yesterday.
But there is something more wonder
ful still. When we look at the hundred
and ifty-twO- little boxes, somewhat
shaded by the touch OF inky fingers. that
compose the printers ''case," noiseless
except the click of the type as, one by
one, they take their place in the growing
line-we think we have found marvel
of art.
We think how many fancies in frag-
ments there are in those little boxes;
how many atoms of poetry and eloquence
the printer can make here and there, if
he only had little chart to work by
how many facts in small 'handful;"
how much truth in chaos.
Now lie picks up the scattered ele-
ments until he holds in his hand a
stanza of 'Gray's Elegy," or a mOnOdy
on Grimes all ButtOned up Before"
Now he sets Puppy Missing" and now
Paradise Lost" He arrays bride in
small Caps, and a sonnet in Nonpareil;
he announces the languishing "live" in
one sentenee-transposes the word and
deplores the days that are few and %eVil,"
in the next.
A poor jest ticks its way slowly into
the printers hand, like clock just run
ming down, and strain of eloquence
marches into line letter by letter. We
fancy We can tell the difference by hear
ing by the ear, but perhaps not.
The types that told of a wedding yes
terday announces a burial tomorrow
perhaps the same letters.
They are the elements to make world
of. Those types are world with some
thing in it as beautiful as Spring, as
rich as Summer, and as imperishable as
Autumn flowers frost cannot wilt-fruit
that shall ripen for all time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

PRESIDENT GHRFIELD's children ale
five in number. Henry n. and James
the eldest two, are well along in theil
''teens;" Mollie, who is next. Is about u
and after her comes Irwin Mcdowell
with Abram following. the youngest OF
the FIVE. Two other children have been
born to him, but both are dead.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
DEMOCRATIC EXTRAvAGANCE
In the Management of State Affairs.
A COMPARISON.

A careful comparison has been made
here between Democratic extravaganza
and Republican economy in the State.
The result is startling. The Democrat
ic party of Ohio had control of the State
government from January, 1878, until
January, 1880. The Republican party
has had control of the State government
! from January, 1880, until the present
time. Upon this and the following pag-
es the economy shown by the Republi-
can administration is compared with the
extravaganza practiced by the Demo
Gratis in 1878 and 1879:
The Sixty-third General Assembly
was divided as follows politically:
Senate-Democrats ..-............. 25
Republicans ........-......, 10
House-Democrats 49,. ........ 20
Republicans ............... 3S
independents ..-......... 3
The total appropriations made by this
General Assembly, from the general
revenue fund. during its two years,
amounted to SA514,36l92. To this sum
should be added 1858, ,14l.S9, the amount
of unrxpeIhled. appropriations remain
ing upon the 18th of November. 1871
the end of the fiscal year. To this should
also be added the sum of S900, 0,645.37, the
amount of debts created by the Demo-
Gratis during their two years, and left
unprovided for by the Sixty-third Gen
eral Assembly Total amount oharga-
ble to the Democratic Legislature, 3d.
67S,159.1S.
The Sixty-fourth General Assembly
was divided politically as fpllowsi
Senate-Republican ........ %
Democrats ........ 10
House-Republicans .........-..... SO
! democrats .....-......... 40
The appropriations made by this Gem
eraI Assembly, from the General reve-
nue fund Cess Democratic defciencies),
amounted to s4,Op1,pa2 81, To this
should be added the sum of S664,0sS 50,
the amount of unexpended apprOpria-
tions in the State Treasury upon the 18th
of November, 1879. To this should also
be added $4,000 for probable deicien-
cies that may exist upon the 18th of
February, 1882. The total amount
chargeable to the Republican Legisla-
ture is S4,S31, ,O2O'S9.
Balance in favor of the Republican
General Assembly, SS46,12S 20.
During the two years of Democratic
rule no part of the State debt was paid.
The Sixty-fOurth General Assembly,
in anticipation of the payment of S4.-
072,6 $40 80 of the debt, falling due July
l, 1881, provided, by the act of February
10, 1881, for the payment of Sl,272,6+o 80
of said debt, and for the refunding of
the balarce (S2,sO0OOO) of per cent.
certificates into bonds of the State being
rate of interest not exceeding per
cent per annum, and payable in annual
inStallmentS as follows.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
Belmont Co urty onIciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. e. Darrah.
Sherif-Samuel Hilles.
William n. Cofi1and.
Treasurer Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred III. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
CommissioDers-owenM Mehan, Morris Cope,
I. j. Potts
Surveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-ThOmas Garrett.
Infirmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, VIM.
Parkinson, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

THE seven Mollie Maguires. charged
with the murder of Maurice Healy at
Uniontown, have been indicted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. R
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, T. Sabbath School, 900 an. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday PIN.
Strsngcts welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. j ii. Conkle, pastor. Sabbath
preaching; II a.ui.; 7p-m- Sabbath School:
$50 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday Z
0. m general prayer meeting: Thursday p m.
Strangers are cordially invited to ali oul
sprvinea. - --------- -
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

On the 18th day of May, 1881, the cash
in the State Treasury amounted to $685.
1888 "a more than it did on the 18th day
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

THE Pniladelphis Press says of the
public spirit and marvellous manage
ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad:
when the Presidents wife was sum
moned to the bedside of her wounded
husband, the Pennsylvania Railroad co.
flashed her through from Long Branch
to Washington as though that were its
daily business. When distinguished sur
geons were needed for consultation
special trains were ready by the time
time they could reach the stations.
When special arrangements were regEif>
ed to removed the President from the
malaria of the Potomac fats hospital
car was constructed in seven hours, .
special track was laid. and the. whale
thing WAS ready hours before iswas
needed. Is there another railroad eonl-
panyi in the world that can and would
equal, this y Z The emergency greater
tSan the capability Of this wonderful
carrier has.yet to arise s.ii sns,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

THURSDAY was observed in New
York, Michigan, and some of the New
England and Western States as day
of prayer for the President.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

LORD DERBY thinks that the unfa-
vorable effect of American competition
on English Agriculture is only tenn
pOrary.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
Talmadge,s Opinion Of Pistols.

The following is an extract from Rev.
DR.. Talmadge's sermon delivered Sun
day, September 6tn:
Another use of this national calamity
is to disgust tie nation with the free use
of firearms. There is too much shooting
going on all over the land. If man
differs from you, shoot him; if he does
not do as you want him to do, shoot
him; if man doubts your yeraeity,
shoot him; il man stands in the way
of your interests, shoot him, and all
over the land-it is bangl bang! bangi
Guiteaus on small scale in every city
and village. Pistols are entirely too
common, and human life too cheap. Let
this Washington ruifian. going about
practicing at mark and sitting in parks
with the navy revolver in his pocket,
make the business of carrying firearms
disreputable. If a man has to go out on
the frontier among sayages or as an
officer of the law, be his work to arrest
desperadoes, let him go armed. Armed
police officers, armed sheriffs, armed
jail-keepers are well enough, but it is
high time that private citizens snapped
their sword canes in two and put up
their deadly weapons. No man that
goes in reputable society in Washington.
or Brooklyn, or New York, or London,
needs any other weapon than those
which God gave him-twO honest lists
and they are easily loaded. If you feel
the need of pistol in your pocket, you
are miserable coward. If You are
afraid to go down the street unarmed,
ask your grandmother, with her knit
ting needle, to go along with you. lam
glad to know that last week the common
council of this city made it unlawful tO
carry deadly weapons, or gave q special
empa3is to laws already enacted. The
meanest and most develish weapon ever
constructed is pistol. 1t is compact
and portable murder carried around.
The sword may have some nobility, for
you must expose your own life in order
to take the life of another, and it needs
some courage to use it, but pistol Is
the weapon of sneak. / had rather
carry toad in my pocket. Those who
carry the deadly weapon are almost in
variably men with ungovernable temper.
Now, a man with revengable or explO-
sive temper ought never to carry any
thing more dangerous than dull jack
knife. You know not what, under sud
den impulse, you may be tempted to do.
Away with this pistol businessl Let
Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth have
all the honors of assassination.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

THE Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention adopted resolutions enthu-
siastically indorsing President Garfield.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

HUNDREDS of people are supposed to
have perished in the flames which are
destroying the forestsof Northern Mich
| Joan
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
a2,sOO,OOo

Shortly after the enactment of this
law, the Fund Commissioners of the
State advertised for sixty days in the
newspapers Of Columbus, Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, and New York for sealed propo-
sails for said loan of S2,SO0,00O. On
June 2, 1881, the Fund Commissioners
opened the sealed proposals offering to
take said loan, which aggregated an of
fer of over s24,0OO,O00, ranging from
par, at per cent. interest, up to cash
premium of $105,n00 for the privilege of
taking the entire loan at 4 per cent, The
proposal of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New
York, offering premium of $105,O0o,
was found by the Commissioners to be
the best offer, and they were awarded
the Loan
The result is. that whensthe cash pre-
MUM of $1O5, 5,cO0is considered and ap-
piled on the interest account, it reduces
the annual interest charge to little less
than lilo of per cent. This is less
than the national government is to-day
paying Oil any of its Indebtedness. Up
to the time of the making of this loan it
was the lowest rate of interest ever paid
by any public borrower in the history
of this country. 1t should be borne in
mind that these bonds are not exempt
from taxation, but are subject to be
taxed wherever found. In this transac-
tion the Fund Commissioners, were able
to pay off $1,172,a4O 80 of the State
debt, canceling that much of the lien
upon the property of the State, and lift
ing that much of the burden from every
dollar of taxable property. BY the pay.
ment of portion of the principal and
the reduction of the interest, as above
stated, the interest account for 1882, as
compared with 1881, will stand as fol-
lows:
| Interest charge, 1881 ...... $3S8, Al
i
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
$3SS,35S Al
256,000 90
S132,35s Il

: odVIHB III II1ttItSJ %IoZ,0OO II
But this is not all. This loan is based
on different principle from that of any
former State loan, That is, it falls due
in annual installments; so that onthe
lst of July OF each year, commencing
July !, 1882. all the surplus funds in the
State Treasury to the ctedit of the sink
ing fund will be paid in redemption of
the State bonds then falling due. The
result of this will be further saving
upon the annual interest charge, as fol-
lows: t..
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15


THE New York Sun is beginning to
, stir up the old question regarding Vice
President Arthnr's birthplace. There
was campaign story that he was a ma
tive of Canada. and so ineligible. 1t was
completely refuted, however There is
no more doubt that he is native of
Vermont than that Gen. Garfield was
born in Ohio. The Canadian theory was
broached, and it is absurd, to use no
harsher word. to attempt its revival.
This is the dull season. and the Suns eff
forts appear to illustrate the saying that
Satan always finds some work for idle
hands to do.-[Gin. Gaz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

A SHAWNEE business man. a Demo
crat at that, says that Mr. Bookwalter
created a bad impression while in the
Perry county mining region, and that
when the ballots are counted five weeks
from to-day lie will discover that his
deposits with saloon keepers will count
for nought.-(O, s. Journal,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

I NIILD hl1OD 4 17ltI-A4N OI1O I'LL
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School 10 am Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 8 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday Of
each month, 2 pm Womans Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month. pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2 P. m. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

SIDNEY LANIER, the author of the ma
tional ode sung at the Centennial Expo
sition, is dead.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15

No uuxAN sgency can 50 speedily cleanse
the bloed, clear the complexion and skin, re~
store the hair and cure every species Of itch>
ing, scaly and snrofulous humors Of the skin,
scalp and blood IS the Caticura Remedies, ta
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Published Every Thursday
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Practice in the Supreme Court and Court OF
Claims and appear before all the Departments.
Promptness and satisfaction given In all busi-
CESS entrusted TO them. Correspondence So
icited t29 7th St., op. P. o. Department.
= WASHINGTON DO sep26tf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
A Printer and His Types.

Benjamin F. Taylor, the printer-poet,
says:
Perhaps there is no department or
enterprise whose details are less under
stood by intelligent people, than the
tart preseryatiye," the achievement of
time.
Every day, their life long, people are
accustomed to read the newspaper ard
find fault with its statements, its ar
rangement, its looks; to plume them
selves upon the discovery of some
roguish acrobatic type that gets into
frolic and stands on its head, or some
waste letter or two in it; but of the pro-
cess by which the newspaper is made, or
the myriad of mills and the thousands
of pieces necessary to its composition,
they know little and generally think
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-09-15
Saving in interest

Interest charge, 1881
Interest charge, 1882
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-27
Girc i0uy Hi/r 0 Chance.

\ great many of the farmers who
have kept poultry year after year
without realizing any profit from
them, know fully rs well rs l dO that
their hens, ducks. and turkeys would
if Tightly managed, yield II large
profit, but they claim that they have
SD much other farm work to attend
to that they cannot spare time to fuss
with poultry. Now, if you really
cannot find time to care for the fowls
don't try, but turn the whole business
over To your better half, and. my
word for it, she will make it pay.
Women are born poultry raisers. 1t
Is just as natural for Il woman to
handle and care for chickens us il is
for her to care for babies, and the
sooner you say to your wife, "NOw
look here, Matilda, we have been
keeping hens these ten years, and
and have never made Il cent from
them. Other folks make money
from their chickens, and why should
we not, Ii you will take charge of
the business, and make it pay, you
may have all that you can make. y
The sooner will your fowls cease to be
a bill of expense. After you have
made up your mind to set your wife
up in the poultry business, make up
your mind To give her fair start.
Dod't let her begin with IN old ram
Shackle hen house and Il lot of mon
grel hens. but put up i decent, COM
Portable house, and put some decent
fowls in it. Don't blunder ahead
man-fashion, and build the house
without consulting the woman who is
TO manage the occupants. Very
likely your wife may know more
about what Il poultry house should be
than you give her credit for.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-01-27
XPrer Foo Late to Learn.


Socrates, ut an extreme old age.
learned to play ON musical instru-
.nentS.
Cato. at SO years of age, began to
study the Greek language.
Plutarch WAS So years of age when
ne commenced his studies in light
literature: Yet he became one of the
greatest masters OF the Tuscan dia-
lcct. Dante and Plutarch being the
other two.
Sir Henry >pellman neglected the
sciences in his youth. but commenced
he study of the when he was between
ID and 90 years of age. After this
time he became Il most learned anti
Iuari"n aud lawyer.
DR.. Johnson applied himself to the
Dutch language but Il few years before
his death.
I.udoyico Mondaldesco. at the great
~ WI ~ s'stiS. NlOtS wv
If his own times.
Ogllhy, the translator Of Homer
and Virgil, WAS unacguainted with
Latin and Greek till he WAS pas, so.
Franklin did not commence his
philosophical pursuits till he had
reached his 50th year.
Dryden, in his 6sth year. commence
81 the translation of Enid, his
most pleasing production.
Thousands of examples of men
who commenced a new study, either
Tor "a llNclii. God or amusement. ut an
advanced age could be cited. But
every one familiar with the biography
OF distinguished men will recollcct
individual cases enough to convince
him that none but the sick and ill.,
dolcnt will ever say, Il am too old to
learn.