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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
How to Detect Classical Music
Fontanelle, lows

can give you simple rule by which
the most ignorant may know whether
any given piece of music should or
should not be admired. If you know at
once what it is all about; If it seems to
be saying l, 2, 8, hop, hop, hop, or /, 2,
8, bang, bang, bang, you may conclude
at once that you are listening to some
thing of very low order, which it is
your duty to despise.
But when you hear something that
sounds as if an assorted lot of notes had
been put into barrel, and were being
persistently stirred up, like kind of
harmonious cruel, you may know
it's fugue, and may safely assume an
expression of profound interest. If the
notes appear to be dropped by accident,
and are being fished up at irregular in
tervals in sort of placid, or drowned
condition, it is likely to be a nocturne,
and nocturnes, you know, are quite too
utterly lovely for anything.
! If the notes seem to come in car
loads, each load of different kind than
the last, and if the train seems to be an
unreasonably long time in passing any
given point, it will turn out most likely
to be a symphony, and symphonies are
just the grandest things that ever were
If the notes appear to be dumped out
in masses, and shoveled vigorously into
heaps, and then blown wildly into the
air by explosions of dynamite, that's q
rhapsody, and rhapsodies are among the
latest things in music.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
Secretary Of War Stanton.
ecretary Usher's Lecture.

Ex-Secretary Usher's Lecture.
Stanton was peculiar mana man OF
iron will, and one who never smiled. He
had son, a bright and promising fell
low and when he died he left the lad
nsthing, absolutely nothing, out of his
ample fortune, not even book from his
splendid library, but ordered in his will
that every volume be gathered up and
sold. The son obeyed the fathers in
struction to the letter. He is now dead.
Stanton was a man of resources, of great
executive ability, and could hardly have
been spared from the War Department.
He was very unpopular, and in fact it
may be said he was hated. He was mo-
rose and uncivil, though the speaker did
not think he ever intended to be. He
was never well, and that of course ae-
counted for q great many of his actions.
He never engaged in free and easy con-
versation. He was an accomplished
lawyer, and had the faculty of express
ing his views and opinions with preci-
cion and force rarely If ever equaled.
The written requests of Lincoln he
would sometimes, after reading, rend
to pieces, and throw them on the floor
or in the face of the bearer, and then
rudely deny the request. OF course his
conduct would be promptly reported to
Lincoln, who would reply; "Well, you
you see, l have not got much influence
with this administration; but 1 expect
to have moro with the next" The fact
was, there was an understanding be-
tween them that Stanton should refuse,
if granting the request was detrimental
to the service.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
MARRIAGE BROKERS AT HOME
The Parlors Where WifeIess Men
and Husbandless Women May
Seek Partners.

In large double par of an old-fash-
loned house in once fashionable down.
town street, an old gentleman with a
white moustache and sparse thatch of
| white hair on his head sat at a table
! opposite younger man with bushy
brown hair and moustache and imperial.
Two large piles of circulars lay on the
table by some bundle of cards printed
in English, French and German. There
was very little furniture. Four chromos
gave questionable adornment to the
walls. On a round table in back par
lor were two large photograph albums,
one of them entirely empty and the 9TH
er containing half a dozen photographs
of young women. The two gentlemen
spoke with foreign accents. They were
waiting for bachelors or maidens
They constituted the National Matrimo-
nial Alliance Bureau, which has been
organizing in this city for two months
past. The promoters of this benevolent
enterprise have been engaged in basiness
of a similar kind in Vienna, and have
undertaken to reproduce here Matri-
monial Exchange such as has existed in
Berlin, Paris and London for years.
Their purpose is "to facilitate acquaint-
ances between ladies and gentlemen as
means to lead to happy matrimonial al
| liances."
A reporter who thought he might pos
| sibly desire to undertake "a happy mat
rimonial alliance" called at the office of
the bureau.
"How is your bureau conducted ?" he
asked, bashfully, of one of the mana
gers.
Not only respectfully. but with great
circumspection, discretion, and delicacy.
We seek to engender confidence in our
selves as mediaters, and we promise
happy results
II want wife, for instance"
The affable mediator opened the emp
ty album, closed it quickly, and opened
the other one at tintype of a healthy
looking Chicago girl who wants hus-
band. She is % years old and large for
her age. The other pictures in the al
bum were of fair German girls All of
them were of modest faces and comely.
"You want a wife," the broker contin-
ued. you pay So and register your
name, address and business. l look up
your reference and put your photograph
in the album. Then you pick out by the
pictures the girl you think you'd like to
marry. She looks at your picture, and,
if mutually agreeable, you meet here on
Sunday afternoon. If the promises of
the photographers made good III person,
you two are left to conduct your future
negotiations as you please, and you pay
me one or two per cent. on the money
you give your wife or the dowry she
brings you. See?"
"Do you find that the people who
come to you have much money!"
Not as a rule"
"Who are they?"
people of all Sorts"
1t was noteworthy that the photo
graphs on file were all of young women. |
Separate days are set apart for men and |
women to call, and woman is in charge |
of the rooms on the days that the wo-
men may attend. Negotiations may also |
be conducted by letter, and correspond
ence may be carried on in almost any
modern language. The managers appear
to be perfectly honest in their expecta-
tion that their matrimonial enterprise
will thrive in New York. n. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
LongfelIow's Early Promise.

In the school readers of half a century
ago there we're two poems which every
boy and girl read and declaimed and re
membered. How much of that old lit
erature has Disappeared How mucf
that stirred the hearts and touched the
fancies of those boys and girls, theil
children have never heard of Viii
lis's Saturday Afternoon" and Burial
of Arnold" have fioated away, almost
out of sight, with Pierpont's Bunker
Hill" and Sprague's Fourth-of-July ora
tion. The relentless winds of oblivion
necessarily blow. Scraps of verse and
rhetoric once so familiar are caught up
waited noiselessly away, and lodging
in neglected books and in the dark
corners of fading memories, gradually
vanish from familiar knowledge. But
the two little poems of which we speak
have survived. One of them was Bry-
ants "March," and the other was Long
fellows "April," and the names of the
two poets singing of spring were thus
associated in the spring-time Of our po-
etry, as the fathers of which they will
be always honored.
Both poems originally appeared in the
United States Literary Grzette, and
were included in the modest volume of
selections from that journal which was
published in Boston in 1925. The chief
names in this little book are those of
Bryant, Longfellow, Percival, Mellen,
Dawes, and Jones. PerciYal has al
ready become name only; Dawes, and
Grenville Mellen, who, like Longfellow,
was son of Maine, are hardly known
to this generation, and Jones does not
even appear in Duyckinck's Cyclcp@dia.
But in turning over the passages it is
evident that Time has dealt justly with
the youthful bards. and that the laurel
rests upon the heads of singers whose
earliest strains ftly preluded the music
of their prime. Longfellow was nine
teen years old when the book was pub
lished. He had graduated at Bowdoin
College the year before, and the verses
had been written and printed in the Ga
zette while he was still a student.
The glimpses of the boy that we catch
through the oecollections of his old pro-
fessor, Packard, and one of his college
mates, are of the same character as at
every period of his life. They reveal
modest, refined, manly youth, devoted to
study, of great personal charm and gen.
tie manners. 1t is the boy that the older
man suggested. To look back upon him
is to trace the broad and clear and beau
tiful river far up the green meadows to
the limpid rill. His poetic taste and
faculty were already apparent, and it is
related that a version of an ode of HOr-
ace which he wrote in his Sophomore
year so impressed one of the members
of the examining board tnat when after
ward a chair of modern language was
established in the college, he proposed
as its incambent the young Sophomore
whose fluent verse he remembered. The
impression made by the young Longfel-
low is doubtless accurately described by
one of his famous classmates, Haw-
thorne, for the class Of 20 Is proud ira
dition of Bowdoin. In "P.'s Correspond
ence," enc of the Moses from an Old
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
In Almost Too Great a Hnrrr

1t was also an Ohio man, who, when
a terrible storm set in one night, rushed
into the house Of neighbor and cried
out:
"Jones, this is the winding up of
earthp
"I'm afraid so-I'm afraid sol" was
the reply.
And what shall we do?"
snake our peace with HeayenT
The wind blew still blew stronger, the
house began to shake, and the excited
man exclaimed:
Jones. you lost FIVE bushels of wheat
last fall"
"Yes."
"And you have your suspicion ?"
81 have. The man who took my wheat
had better own up"
"Can YOU forgive him?"
81 can"
"Well-"
Here the wind suddenly dropped. and
after looking through the window, the
conscience-stricken man turned and fin
ished:
Yes, if l ever meet him I'll advise
him to call pround."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

TRAVELLER.
Why dost thou wildly rush and roar,
Mad River, o Mad River?
Wilt thou not pause and cease to pour
Thy hurrying, headlong waters DER
This rocky shelf forever?
What secret trouble stirs thy breast?
Why all this fret and hurry?
Dost thou not know that what is best
In this too restless world is rest
From Overwork and worry?
THE RIVER.
What would'st thou in these mountains
seek,
o stranger from the city?
Is it perhaps some foolish freak
OF thine, to put the words speak
Into a plaintive ditty.
TRAVELLER.
Yes; would learn of thee thy song,
With all its flowing numbers,
And, in voice as fresh and strong
AS thine is, sing it all day long
And hear it in my slumbers.
THE RIVER.
A brooklet nameless and unknown
Was at first, resembling
A little child, that all alone
Comes venturing down the stairs OF
stone,
1rresolute and trembling.
Later, by wayward fancies led,
For the wide world painted;
Out of the forest dark and dread,
Across the open fields, fed,
Like one pursued and haunted.
tossed my arms, sang aloud,
My voice exultant blending
With thunder from the passing cloud,
The wind, the forest bent and bowed,
The rush of rain descending.
heard the distant ocean call,
Imploring and entreating;
Drawn onward, DER this rocky wall
L plHnged, and the loud waterfall
Made answer to the greeting.
And now, beset with many ills,
A toilsome life 1 follow;
Compelled to carry from the bills
These logs to the impatient mills,
Below there in the hollow.
Yet something ever cheers and charms
The rudeness of my labors;
Daily water with these arms
The cattle of hundred farms,
And have the birds for neighbors.
Men call nae Mad, and well they may,
When, full of rage and trouble,
l burst my banks of sand and clay,
And sweep their wooden bridge away,
Like withered reeds or stubble.
Now go and write thy little rhyme.
As of thine own creating.
Thou seest the day is past its prime;
can no longer waste my time;
The mills are tired of waiting.
Atlantic Monthly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

THE victories won by our American
bred horses On the foreign turf have cre-
ated quite demand for them in all
parts of the world. Shipments have re-
Gently been made from Kentucky to par
ties in New Zealand. The reputation
of the blue grass section is known wher-
ever horse-hesh has any note.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

EX-SENATOR THURMAN was ready
with the prediction while in Louisville
the other day that the Democrats would
carry Ohio this fall. When asked upon
what ground he based this belief he
could give none except that "our friends
say that we will carry It,"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

AT the last election in Tennessee the
Republicans polled about 100000 votes
the Debt-paying Democrats 10000, and
the Debt-scaling Democrats $1,000 This
year the Republicans and portion. of
the Debt-paying or State-credit Demo
Gratis are working together, and a Re
publican success seems to be certain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

PROMINENT Republican congressman
express the opinion that Mr.. Blaine's
election TO the House would be a great
gain to the Republican party and to
Congress. They all concurred in the
belief also that if he was elected and the
House was Republican, there we'd be nc
opposition to his elevation to the Speak
er's chair.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

GEORGIA is doubtful; Mississippi is
doubtful; Tennessee is doubtful; Vir-
ginia was doubtful, and if the Independ-
ent campaign South goes on as it has
begun, Florida, South Carolina and
Louisiana will be doubtful before the
summer is over. There was a solid
South. 1t is split pretty wide open just
now, and the cracks widen daily
philadelphia Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

THE Gazette prints long statement
taken from the county records, showing
the amount of taxes paid on personal
property by eighteen brewers and 1000
saloon keepers in the city of Cincinnati
The brewers pay tax on $31s,OOO of per
sonal property, and the 1000 saloon
keepers on $2SO.0OO These amounts do
not equal the sum upon which enc dry
goods house in the city pays taxes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. M.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be.
fore full moon.
JAMES MELLOR, W. M.
JESSE B. MEYER, Secy.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons Stated convoca-
tons, first Friday of each month.
G. W. CARROLL, 81. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Secy.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. & s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
FL. R. BUMGARNER, T. l. M.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE .C0MMANDERY, No. 2s, Z. t.
Ii Stated conclaves, first Tuesday Of each
month. C. W. CARROLL, E. G..
L. L. SEDwIok, Rec
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

A STRANGE disease has broken out
among the horses in some localities in
Indiana, and more severely around Wa
bash than anywhere else. 1t is kind
of kidney affection and paralyzes the
hind part of the animal. In most cases
it proves fatal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

GOVERNOR MCENERY, of Louisiana
has sent a special message to the Legis.
lature urging that the proposition of the
bondholders for the settlement of the
state debt be accepted. The total bond
ed debt is s11.7s6,s5O, and the holders OF
the bonds offer to accept per cent. in
terest for five years and 4 per cent inter
est thereafter. The New Orleans papers
are urging the legislature to accept the
offer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

AMONG the sources of disease in live
stock which are commonly overlooked
is the matter of too close confinement
and lack of exercise. No animal which
is deprived of fresh air, and reasonable
amount of sunshine, can be fairly ex-
pected to thrive and flourish. A close,
damp stall or pen, to which the fresh air
is rarely admitted, and from which the
occupant is seldom removed, must in
the nature of the case be breed
er of disease. This, however, does
not combat the idea of shelter for stock,
as shelter, fresh air and exercise are
clearly compatible. Sheds and pens
should % be so located as to be well
drained and free from dampness. Then
(2) they should be so arranged as to
regulate the circulation of air through
through them, according to the ruling
temperature. Another (2) important
point is to see that they are regularly
and thoroughly cleaned, and that filth is
under no circumstance allowed to accu-
mulate. And besides these points, it is
essential that the animals shall, at inter.
walls, and much of the time in the warm.
er months, be allowed the free range of
paddock or pasture. A close study of
this business will enable the stock-rais
er to properly regulate these matters
and keep his flocks and herds in sound
healthy and thriving cendition.-Stock-
man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

MIR. Bancroft, the historian, has been
forty-eight years writing the History of
the United States" and yet it is only
brought down to the election of the
frst President. so careful and pains
taking is his work. Like Gibbon, he is
said frequently to rewrite whole sec
tions which do not exactly suit him.
Though now eighty-two years of age,
the venerable historian is still at work,
and hopes to bring his history down to
the time of the Mexican war;
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

THE Charleston Is. c. News, now that
the election trials are over and no one
convicted, says that "there is no room to
doubt that there were election frauds or
irregularities in South Carolina in $780,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

IT is proposed to hold simultaneous
celebration of the Sunday schools ip the
capitals and other places of the several
countries of the world on october 81,
1889
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
Belmont Co ounsy Official Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Ceurts-Alex G. Darrah.
Sheriff-Semuel Hilles.
William n. Coffland.
Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred 81. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-0wen Mehsn, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-James Crosgrove.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
lnirmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

HENRY WARD BEECHER aptly says:
He is the happiest man who can carry
the golden threads of boyish enjoyment
farthest along through the web of life
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

JAMES WICK, the we'll known florist
of Rochester, New York, died on Tues
day of last week in the Gath year of his
age. He was born in Portsmouth, Eng
land, but came to this country with his
parents in his fifteenth year. During his
boyhood he was playmate of the late
Charles Dickens. He was type-setter
by trade, and worked at the case by the
side of the veteran journeyman, Horace
Greeley. At an early period he assumed
the managing editorship of the Albany
Cultivator, and subsequently, various
other rural journals. In 1850 Mr.. Wick
became engaged in the cultivation of
choice flowers, which occupied his at
tention to the day of his death. He was
very widely known throughout the Uni
ted States and Europe. He was the
largest dealer in flowers in the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court OF
Claims, and appear before all The DEPARTING ents.
Prom ptness and satisfaction given In all bust
CESS entrusted TO them. Correspondence So
icitsd 4 629 7th St, op. p o. Department.
WASHINGTON Do sop2etf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
Bob Burdette on the Smith Law

When man can stand up in public
and say that life will be burden too
grievous to be borne, if he cannot live
in saloon seven days in the week !;
when man is willing to admit that the
closing of saloon four times month
is going to destroy his moral happiness
and peace of mind; when he confesses
that every day he lives he must spend a
certain number of hours in the inspiring
atmosphere and elevating society of a
gin mill, that man ceases to be correct
moral guide, and society should not lis
ten to his siren voice, pleading for free
whisky, lots of it, and at all times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
Chronicle
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms Of Subscription:
Two Dollars Per Year IN Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFIoE oE-South side Main street, nearly ep-
posite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev R.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, 2. Sabbath School, 500 q. "a. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. s. F. Minor, pastor Sabbath
preaching: IL am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday 2
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 p. m.
Strangers are cordially invited TO all our
services.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

= Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 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 women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

Wool of this seasons crop is coming
into Mile sburg, o., and selling at thir-
ty cents pound.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

MRS. SERGEANT MASON has received
the Philadelphia Press Fund. amounting
to S3,542.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25

The large dealers in beet in Chicago
90 not believe that prices will descend
within the next two or three years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-25
TEACHERS ExAMIKATIo N.

t88t-82.
Belmont County, Ohio.
Sd Saturday of Sept at Barnesville;
LIST do Oct at Bellaire;
4th do Oct st Morristown;
Sd do Nov at 81 Clairsvtile;
zth do Dec at Bellaire;
Sd do Jan at Barnesville;
Sd do Feb at Bridgeport;
I'd DO March at st Clairsville-
lst do April at Glencoe;
4th do April at st ClairsYille;
Sd do May at Belmont;
ID do June at Bellaire.
Also al close of Institute at ST. Clairsviile.
Exam nations begin at 9. am.
Testimonials of character are required II
ppIicapt is not known TO the Board.
Certificates will not be antedate or extended.
Tests in higher branches will be given at
claire on the 23d OF December. and at close
Institute.
r. ALExANDKR,l
A. "A. CLAK. Ex. Board.
j. NJ. XARNELL.