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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
PRACTICAL TEMPERANCE.
How Judge Ball, of GAINESVILLE, Pro.
poses to Enforce the Law.

EVANSVILLE, Feb. 3.-A prominent So
ciety lady, accompanied by Lieutenant
of Police Fineral, made quite a sensation
this afternoon by entering one of our
prominent saloons in search of her mar
ried brother. She found him at a gaming
table. All of the parties attempted to
escape, but were captured by Fineral,
with the implements of the game, such
as box. chips, ETC.. which were placed in
charge of Mayor Mccoy. The lady took
this method of bringing her brother up
standing, as a last resort, he having
been source of great annoyance to his
relatives lately by his dissipation. The
proprietors of the saloon were arrested,
and all have hearing this afternoon.
The Supreme Court has passed on the
test liquor cases sent up from this coun-
ty. The Court holds that the statute in
questiou is not unconstitutional. One
year ago Judge Ball announced his in
tention as to enforcement of the statute
as follows: The community having &C
quiesced in illegal sales, and this being
the first general attempt to enforce the
law, the CO6rt will only impose the light
est punishment provided by the law, but
not less than a fine of SO in any case
for selling to be drank where sold, and
the lightest punishment for keeping a
place; but persons convicted of keeping
must satisfy the Court that the place
has been closed permanently, or the
Court will order the closing, unless a
bond be given as provided by the
statute But this Grand Jury having
given by these indictments notice that
hereafter the law is to be enforced, the
Court will, for illegal sales hereafter
made, impose such punishment as will
accomplish the end-the suppression or
illegal sales-even to the full extent of
fines and imprisonment provided by the
statute; and if the city or county pro-
vide Work-house, the Court believing
Imprisonment to be vicious, all impris-
onment for sales hereafter made will be
by commitment to the Work-hOuse, not
to the Jail. 1t matters not what any one
thinks of the policy or wisdom of the
law. 1t is on the statute-bOOks, and it is
the duty of the Courts, if any one de-
mand, to enforce it sufficiently, and it
will be so enforced.
Should Judge Ball persist in his policy
outlined in the above charge, it will close
up nine-tenths of the drinking places in
GAINESVILLE,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Disappearance of the schOol-master.

Disappearance of the SchOOl-master.
1t Sths excessive amount of system
in our wholesale methods of teaching
that prevents the best results in any de-
partment. The pressure of quantity
doesinot give tEesteaeher time to mold
character. DIR. Arnold himself eould
not have been DR.. Arnold if he had been
required by board of education to
teach the greatest possible amount of
arithmetic and geography within given
time. 1t is probable that DIR. Arnold
would have been considered wanting in
the requirements of an American school,
teacher of the present day. 1t is certain
he would have found himself hopelessly
trammeled, by the expectations of his
employers. The teacher who would fain
be less of machine-who would like to
take time to do some thorough training,
and to develop the men and women of
the future-getj no opportunity. He
must bring the largest possible crop of
arithmetic and geography at the end of
the year; all his better work in building
CndA dClOi VIII COunG IOT QOLllng with
the Board" Then there are hobby
riders, seeking to drive into the already
OvercrOwded course some special study.
The arts of design are often useful in
business way, therefore drawing shall
be universally exacted of the pupils
Music is charming at home, therefore
the vocal Teacher must have place. In
one considerable city, wealthy mer
chant in the Board of Education. who
found Uelegraphy valuable in his own
office, has succeeded in putting every boy
and girl in the town to clicking te!e-
graph keys.
But, no matter what is put into the
course, it is rare that anything is taken
out. The schoolmaster finds no place on
which to stand. His individuality is
utterly repressed. He is a mere cog
wheel in great machine He sinks
down at last TO the level mediocrity
which machines always produce; he be-
comes hearer of lessons, a marker of
registers, worker for examination
week. It's not chiefly his fault that he
does not do higher work There is hard
ly space for it, and there is no market
for it.-L"TOpics of the Time" in the
February Century.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

A china set-a hen on porcelain
nest egg.-Lowell Courier.
All the stoves in the country are hav-
ing pot-luck.-Detroit Free Press.
The popular aunts-Anti-mOnopoly
and observation-disclosures Express
The man who gets up at 10 a. m. in
dulges in fashionable turnout-Bos-
ton Star.
The Boston Transcript says the way
to cure reckless railroading is to-wreck
less.
When Abel was followed to the grave,
the funeral procession consisted only OF
members of the family. boston Star.
The potato is a susceptible vegetable.
Boston Com. Bulletin.
Never judge man by his clothes. His
tailor may have u suit against him. -
Yonkers Statesman.
The steamship Necker brought over
eight giraffes, three Of which died on the
way. A sea-sick giraffe has to throw
his victuals long way up.-Courier
Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Change of Views at the South.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson, who, in a GEL
tain sense may be called the originator
of the recent Atlanta Exposition, con-
tributes to the Midwinter Century a
suggestive paper on its Significant As
poets" which have political as well as
an industrial meaning, as the following
indicates:
| In general, it may be said that the
New South is surely surmoun;ing the
intense and dOgmatic proyincialism of
the Old, and is rapidly coming into line
with the more progressive States. The
most conclusive proof of the change
may be found in the instructive book
entitled "Our Brotherhood in Black" by
President Haygood, Of Emory College,
Oxford, Georgia.
If, then, Southern men, suffering even
under the sting of defeat, are, whether
Willingly or not, surrendering errers
which have come to them from remote
generations, and are now only sensitive
when the least doubt is thrown upon
their immediate ability to take any part
In any manufacturing, mechanical, or
other kind of wOrk,-if they are now in
as dead earnest to take up every branch
OF profitable work rs they formerly were
averse to sharing certain kinds of man
ual labor at all,-may it not be we'll for
Northern men to see if they also have
not been controlled by some errors in
regard to the past history and condition
of the South.
In the course of conversation upon
the events preceding the war, with two
grandscns of john g. Calhoun, the wri-
ter was somewhat startled 10y remark
substantially to this effect:
"If my grandfather and his associates
had known as much about the negro as
| know, and could have had the same
faith i'll his capacity for progress which
L have attained from my own experience
there would have been neither slavery
nor war"
"Do you mean to tell me-" l asked,
that your grandfather feared liberty
for the black. however compassed 2"
"Of course l mean that" said he.
What other justification could there
have been? He and his associates be-
Heved that the two races could not ex-
ist together upon the same soil except
in the relation of masters and slaves"
One of these gentlemen moved from
South Carolina to the bottOm-lands of
the Mississippi, with large number of
the negroes formerly the slaves of his
family. He has succeeded in assuring
not only his own prosperity, but their
welfare also, and he bears conclusive
testimony to the ability of the colored
laborers to sustain themselves in COM
fort.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE scaffold upon which Guiteau is
10 be executed now stands in the Wash
ingten Jail awaiting its victim. 1t was
constructed in 1879 for the execution of
a colored murderer, whose sentence was
commuted to Imprisonment for life.
The scaffold's first victim was James
Madison Wyatt Stene, who was hung
in April, 1880, and he was so fat and
heavy that his head was literally sever
ed from the body by the rope. Since
then two other llurderers have been
executed. The structure is twenty-one
feet high, the platform thirteen feet
from the ground, and the trap is FIVE
feet square. The spring is attached to
a strong rope passing over back of the
scaffold into one of the cells, where a
deputy jailor gives the fatal pull, upon
a signal from the warden.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

EXPERIENCED feeders know that there
is sometimes great difference in the
fiesh-forming capacity of grain. The
corn of one season will feed much less
satisfactorily than that of another, and,
other things being equal, the difference
will be so great that the least observ-
ant cannot but notice it. This is also
true to some extent of corn raised on
different soils or in different sections in
the same year. The different lots of
grain will appear equally we'll, but fed
under exactly similar circumstances
will produce somewhat dissimilar re-
suits. Here is man who makes a CIV
en- number of pounds of pork for each
bushel of corn fed to his hogs, while his
neighbor. feeding the same strain of
stock, in apparently the same manner,
gains two or three pounds less. While
differences of this kind ara very gener-
ally the result of various modes of feed
ing and degrees of care, the nutritive
quality of the grain certainly has some
thing to do with the result. The health
of stock too, is to some extent affected
by the corn fed out. Stock to whic h
clean, sound, well-eared, fully developed
grain is supplied, is quite naturally in a
much better sanitary condition than
stock. which is fed only half-grown, i'm
mature and unsound nubbins. These
are matters which seem small in them
selves, but every experienced stockman
understands their significance.-Stock-
man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE famous Gold of Ophir rose tree
on the Maddox farm, in Eldorado Co.,
Cal, was recently destroyed bya violent
wind. Its stem was twenty-six inches
in circumference, the shrub itself had
grown around and over an oak fifty feet
high. stopping in its upward progress
only because there was nothing upon
which to climb higher. When in full
bloom splendid mass of golden flowers
concealed the oak entirely from view
with blaze of glory which many per-
sons have Travelled far to see.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
IT is not always the land which wi

IT is not always the land which will
produce the most that will bring the
highest price, although the valuation
may be very justly made. Buildings
fences, Improvements, locatin, sur
roundiHgs and transportation facilities
have as much to do as fertility in deter
mining the market value of "a farm. Sc
it may happen that a farm worth $50 an
acre may make better show in market
products than one which would sell fol
double that price. The figure it may
bring is not, therefore, a complete meas
ure of FARMS productive worth. The
scritiniZing buyer will often find COM
paratively neglected tract of land, with
poor buildings, ETC., very good pur-
chase, because the lack of attractions
may put it on the market below its real
value. A moderate outlay ON improve
ments on eheaply-bought farm of
this kind,putting it in a neat and attrac-
tive shape, will often vastly increase its
commercial worth simply as a matter of
speculation, besides enabling the owner
to largely add to its productiveness.
Farm Improvements are rarely thrown
away, especially when they are of kind
which tighten labor and increase pro-
ductiOn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Eli Perkins on Modern Proposals.
New York Sur


NEW STYLE.
Her eyes shOne beautiful, joyous
light when he leaned forward and said:
Julia, have something confidential
to tell you.''
What is it, Augustus ?" she asked in
a low, silvery voice-a kind of Germa-
ny silvery voice.
"Well, Julia, TO be frank with you, l
think and then he seemed to be think
ing. 81 think" he said, ''that under
some circumstances l might love yon.
Now, do you love me?"
Yes, Augustus, do love yOu-you
know l dO;' she flung her alabaster
arms around his=neck.
II am very glad, JULIA" he said,- for
l like to be loved"
"Well, Augustus
And Augustus never said another
word. Fashionable fellows never say
more than that nowadays
They were never married.
OLD STYLE.
MAY L call you Paula?" he asked,
modestly.
Yes" she said, family.
Dear Paulal may call you that?"
al suppose So"
do yeu know how love you?"
"Yes."
"And you will love me?"
Paula did not reply.
will you, Panla?" he repeated.
"You may love me-" she said again.
"Do you love me in Teturn?"
81 love you to love me?
Wont you say anything more expli-
cit ?'
II would rather not"
They were married and happy with
in three months.
MORAL-Girls, never tell a fellow
that you love him until he has asked
you 10 be his wife.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

OUR news columns fairly Teek with
accounts of murders, assassinations, su-
icides, robberies and every species OF
dsyiltry. 1t was some hundreds of
years after the founding of Rome be-
fore parricide became known as a crime,
yet within the few past weeks we have
had repeated instances of it in the
States, and the latest illustration of il
was made by deadly assault of daugL'
OH her mother.
1t is not necessary to go into the
shocking and brutal details, and for
their own peace of mind We recommend
our readers not to study them minutely
They are calculated to depress ones spi.
rits, and give gloomy outlook for the
future of the country.
But the frequency of red-handed mur-
der ought to incite spirit of inquiry
into causes. There must be something
lacking in our social and civil systems
want of reverence for authority, per.
haps, and too light a regard for the val.
ue of human life, and the serious conse-
quences of taking it by violence. We
do not pretend to analyze the cause Of
such terrible results; we only recognizs
the facts of daily occurrence. Whether
prompter and more severe enforce
ment of the law will tend to arrest
bloodshed is doubtful. Executions have
been more numerous during the past sir
weeks than in as many previous months
but the torrent of blood is not abated
Perhaps we shall have better result.
further along. Hanging as remed,
for murder has not been thorough,
tried. We should like to see the mur
derers strung up in good style from Ithil
to the end OF June next, anyhow, as al
experiment.-Cin Commercial,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

RUSSIA wants to annex Corea and
take another slice from China to rectify
her frontiers; France already has pos
session of Tunis, and would not object
to Tripoli Germany meditates the pos
sibiity of acquiring Holland; Austria is
pushing her frontiers in the East, and
will possibly extend them beyond the
boundaries of Bosnia; England is sus-
pected of designs in South Africa, and
Italy would not be displeased to possess
the Italian Tyrol. Such fillibustering
spirit is abroad. But we are at peace,
and satisfied with the extent of our do
main. We would hardly accept Canada
as gift, and prefer commercial to polit-
ical intercourse with Mexico. The Uni
ted States to-day is the only great power
on the earth that is not coveting some
one of the possessions of her neighbors,
and seeking by intrigue or violence to
acquire additional territory.-[Cincin-
natl Commercial.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Why She Isn't Married.
Brooklyn Eagle.

How beautiful is the exhibition of hu-
manity in the youngl-A little boy found
a poor, half-frozen wasp in the garret
and placed it upon the chair in front of
the parlor fire to thaw out. Surely the
angels must have looked down approx
ingly on such an act of kindness. When
sister Mary's beau called that evening
he glanced at the chair, and seating
himself in it, murmured: "Ah bless her
heart. how thoughtful she is Of my
comfort" Two minutes later there was
as much noise and racket in that parlor
as if it had been turned into a den of
demons. The wasp had thawed out;
that is why Mary isn't married yet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
How Sleigh Bells are Made.
Scientific American.

OClentlnC hmerlCdn
1t has, no doubt been mystery to
many readers how the iron balls inside
of sleigh bells get there, and it is said 20
have taken considerable thought on the
part of the discoverer before the idea
struck him. In making sleigh bells the
iron ball is put inside sand core, lust
the share of the inside of the bell. Then
a mold is made just the shape of the out
side of the bell This sand core. with
the jinglet inside, is placed in the mold
of the outside, and the melted metal is
poured in, which fills up the space be-
tween the core and the mold. The hot
metal burns the core so that 1t can be
shaken out, leaving the ball within the
shell. Ball valves, swivel joints and
many other articles are cast in the same
manner.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE widow of Ezekial Webster, BROTH
er of the great statesman, and an even
more promising lawyer when they were
both young, is still living at Concord. n.
H., having survived her husband fifty
four wears.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

JUDGE ToURGEE says that he has
been told that the cover of Scribner's
Monthly was high art. He cannot see
it, but thinks it closely resembles dish
of vermicelli soup on piece of brown
paper.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

WE already have the first fruits of the
enormous rush of immigrants that may
be expected this pear. For the month
of January there arrived Castle Garden
the unprecedented number of 11,2S2, be-
ing an average of 304 day during that
midwinter month. The aggregate was
a half larger than the immigration for
the preceding January, which was then
surprisingly great.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Belmont Co unity onlciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-TbOmas Cochran.
Clerk of Ceurts-Alex. G. Darrah.
Sberiff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditor-William n. Coffiand.
Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred H. Mitchell
Recorder-W s. Hobbs
Commissioners-9wen Mehan, Morris Cope
|. J. Potts
Surveyor-Marshall Thompson.
4, Coroner-Thomas Garrett
lnfirmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, WIN.
Parkinson, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

SPEAKER KIEFER has issued an order
prohibiting the sale of liquor in the
House restaurant, in the Capitol at
Washington. "Cold tea" is kept on tap
as usual, however.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

PETER COOPER will be ninety-one
years old February IL. When he was
born New York City had only $1,000 in
habitants. He has lived under the ad-
ministration of all the Presidents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THERE are some people unkind enough
to think the Hon. Dan. Voornees some
thing of demagogue. He doth protest
his love for the Union soldier too much.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE memorial services of President
Garfield vii, take place February 81, in
the hall of the House at Washington,
beginning at IL o'clock. Blaine will de-
liver the address.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Masonic Directory.

pELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. M.
I'D Meets every Wednesday night, on or BE-
fore full moon.
y 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.
c. W. CARROLL, Fl. P.
JESSE B. MKYKR, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R.&s.
I'D Meets second Tuesday of each month.
II. r. BUMGARNER, T. l. NJ.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, z. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. C. w. CARROLL, Z. C.
l.. L. 5RDwIoK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

Raymond Eddy, the. Young lawyer
who shot ut Eli HALL, Newark, o. in
April. 1880, was sentenced to on ear
in the penitenti;uS-.-tiis i,nS are
working hard tussy't as release.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

There are twenty widows and 100
orphans by the Midlothian, Va, coal
mine disaster. The coal field appeals
for aid to prevent further suffering and
distress.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

Mr.. BARNUM has just had his new
baby elephant insured for one year
for 100000, paying a premium
of $1,000 a week for the insurance.
Should it live. The baby will be put on
exhibition in New York early in March.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

Foulard handkerchiefs have large
balls of three colors on white ground,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

Clipped feather rosettes, in pale pink
shades, trim newly imported bonnets.i
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

Jasmine and white lilacs are mingled
with orange blossoms in bridal wrsaths.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

LIMITED 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, Q pm. Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each mcpth, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2p.m- Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
'BeInlontChroniCle
WA. 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-South side Main street, nearly op-
posite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court OF
Claims, and appear before all the Departments.
Prom ptness and satisfaction given In all busi.
cess entrusted TO them. Correspondence So
iclted. e29 9TH St., op. p o. Department.
WASHINGTON DO ssp2Uti
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Church DIRECTORY.

DRESBYTERIAN CTIURCH-Rev. R
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, T. Sabbath School, go m. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday 2 pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
M ETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1f1Rev. s. +. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II a.m.; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2;30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday z p. m.
Strangers are cordially invited 10 all our
services.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-20
Birds All R GdIace,s

Fancy feathers and wings almost at yous own price. EDWARD MALLEY X Co.