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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21
A CHlLD'S LETTER.
Turning old letters over,

Turning old letters over,
As the twilight begins to fall, M
The gem of them all discover,
In weak, Insignificant scrawl;
With clumsy and artless unfolding
Of infantile thoughts, half whirl
And the poor, blotted page still holding
A single soft, colorless curl.
Uneven, misspelt, but how tender
And winsome! "Dear papa." read;
"Dolly's broke so never can mend her,
And pussy's made mammals hand
bleed" 's7 nl
Printed words intermixed with the writ
ten, tlEf
But how sweet And they hasten to
say: u-
"Nursyis tooth aches. I've tsreded my
mitten,
Nothing's good now. with papa away"
Only childish prattle on paper,
But how freshly hit off each event,
Formed of this or that fancy or caper
That made her existence content;
And now ON the paper she'll dropa
Round snip of her prettiest curl,
knowing well it will gladden. poor
papa"
Because from his own little "gurl."
Ah, again and again do l kiss 1t,
With her image still fresh In my mind
And that artless child's love, how l
miss it,
Since no more with my life It's com
bind,
Save as Death,the light-footed purlOiner,
BY Love is run down in the end,
And as Faith still abides to rejoin her
In the heights she WAS first to ascend !!
Back, back. with the rest return you.
Dear missive, more treasured than ALL
And again in the past inurn you,
AS the shadows, deepening. fall.
Once more in the casket l set you,
And turning the key depart,
No fear that I'll slight or forget you.
Your words are engraved in my heart.
IN. Y. Sun.
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M asonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. l6, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, Oaor be.
fore full moon.
ROBT. N. EATON, w. M.
JRssR B. MEYER, Ssc'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER. No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated cOnvOcs-
lions, first Friday of each month.
J. b. RYAN, II. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, r. & s. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
II. r. BUMGARNER, T. /. n.
F. D. BAILEY. Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 90, K. T..
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. c. w. CARROLk. Z. Z.
T.. G. 5RDwIok, Rec.
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Yield of Dakota Crops.

Bismark Tribune: Corn could not look
better in any country. at this time of the
year than it does in Burleigh county.
Red6eld Dispatch: ]. E. Labrie, Jr.,
threshed 1880 bushels of wheat yester-
day, getting an average of about twen-
ty-six bushels per acre.
Aberdeen Republican: NJ. j. Bower
brought into this Office yesterday a tur-
nip raised On his farm north flown
which measured over two feet in cir
conference and weighed eight and one
half pounds.
Kingsburg County News: Twenty-Five
bushels of wheat, eighteen of flax, sew
enty of oats and sixty of corn is about
the way our farmers talk it.
Chamberlain Register: Amos Fry, a
farmer southeast of Red Lake, estimates
his sod corn will produce thirty bushels
to the acre. How is that for corn
country?
Frederick Free Press: 1t is authenti-
cally stated that Thos. Owens, on Sec
tioh %, township "a, range 63, threshed
FIVE acres of oats the fore part of the
week that averaged ninety-two and
11-1O0 bushels to the acre.
The Redfeld Dispatch says w. D.
Beebe pulled up the produtt of one oat
last Monday morning, on his farm near
here, as he started for town, and on ex-
animation found that the eighteen
stalks of straw contained about $500
oats.
The North Dakota Capital says that
the hay crop will be immense in Stuts-
man county this year. the yield per acre
in many instances will 60 as high as five
tons is probably small estimate.
The Pioneer says just imagine, if you
can, the Black Hills participating in an
agricultural show with winter wheat
yielding fifty bushels per acre, spring
wheat forty; rye, seventy.fve oats,
eighty, and with other farm products in
proportion.
Aberdeen Republican: A piece OF
wheat, seventeen and one-half acres. be-
longing to S. H. Jumper was threshed
one day this week the yield being CSC
bushels. This is the first wheat thresh.
ed in this vicinity, but there are hun
dreds of acress that will do as well and
better.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21
A Husbands Christmas Present.

A gentleman sauntered into a large
dry goods store in the city of L. n few
DAYS before Christmas, and remarked
casually to the attentive clerk: 81 want
something for CHRISTMAS present for
my wife. What have you got?"
The clerk suggested various things.
but the customer seemed not quite sat
isfled.
At last he asked, "Yave you cotton
cloth?"
Certainly, sir"
~ need some new shirts. How much
cloth does 1t take for shirt?"
About four yards"
"Well, let's see. l want eight new
shirts. Eight times four are thirty-two.
Ill take thirty-two yards"
The gratitude of the wife at receiving
as Christmas present the cloth for
eight new shirts for her husband can be
better imagined than Observation-Disclosures
tors Drawer, Harper's Magazine for
October.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21
Changing Skies

Upon the noontide's perfect blue
There sleeps perfect cloud;
The lily's faultless form is hid
Within her lesfy shroud.
Now droops the cloud his silver wing.
Now fades the perfect blue;
The lilys form betrays a fault,
For lovers prove untrue.
Jamie FIELDS, in Harper's Maga'
zine for October.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

In breach of promise suit in Monta-
ma, the plaintiff said that the defendant
had failed to appear at the time agreed
upon for the ceremony. He afterward
came to the house, but she, being angry,
set the dogs on him. The Judge asked
the defendant why he had not appeared
"Well, Judge" was the reply" was
treed by bear all day and night, and
couldn't possibly get away in time.
The case was dismissed, and in few
minutes the contestants were husband
and wife.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

whether the Republican party has not
been guilty of such mal-administration
of the Government, State rnd Federal.
that it should no longer he retained in
power. That question is directly in is
sue, and the Democratic speakers Will
devote their time and energy to the
open and fearness discussion of that is
sue. Very respectfully,
JOHN G. THOMPSON,
Chairman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

The West Chester, (Ps.,) News, of August
26h, says: The parade of Van Amburg, Frost
& Stane's Mammoth Circus and Menagerie
which tpok place in our borough this morning
was simply grand. A splendid chariot con-
tanning good band lead The line of exhibit
tion vas > long one, consisting of chariOts,
cages of animals, Indians, camels, elephants,
etc. and wSs brought up at the rear by mag
nifcent WAGON, on the top Ofwhich was a NAM
moth lion. The show will doubtless be the
best of any that has appeared here.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

THE Government is lifting out eight
expediti6ns to observe the transit of
Venus, an appropriation of $4,000 hav
ing been made by Congress for this pnr-
pose. The scientists who will form
these parties of observation are making
extensive preparations. and expect to
acquire much valuable astronomical
knowledge. 1t will be some time before
they will be able to witness similar oc
currence again. as the next transit of
Venus does not take place rntil June T.
2OO4.
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Church DirecteN.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r.
i Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service. II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, $50 az. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesdsy ! pa; aeu-
eral prayer meeting: "wednesday Z p.z-
Strangers welcome to xll services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
uRev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: 1fan,s-f pm Sabbath School:
$50 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday 2
pm; general payef meeting: Thursday pm
Strangers are cordially invited TO all oar
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev.. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School 10 am. Public worship: II 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.
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Belmont County onIciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Darrah.
Sherif-Samuel Hilles.
Auditof-William n. Cofland.
Treasurer-Hsmilt0n Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred II. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-0we Mehan, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-James Crosgrove.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

Dom Pedro. the Emperor Of Brazil,
cares so little for etiquette that he al
lows the escort which accompanies him
when he travels in his own country to
smoke cigarettes in his presence.
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BelInOntChTOniCle
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms Of Subscription:
TIVE Dollars Per Year IN Advance.

II not paid within the year IS per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFIoE South side Main street, nearly op-
pOsite Public School building.
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p. w. DICKEY has just received ear
of L. l.. Crocker's Honest Phosphate and
Bone Meal. Also new lot Of Syracuse
Flows. It.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

Paul II. Haynes latest literary work
is short ode In memory of the late
Senator Ben. Hill.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

Prince Henry, of Prussia, is coming
to America in the corvette Olga.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-21

Banking hours from am. until 3 pm.
Discount days Tuesdays, at 10 am.
~koney received on deposit
Collections made and proceeds remitted
promptly. Exchange bought and sold.
.Dsrsstors-Co Conrad Troll, David Brown,
GeoRe Brown, George Jepson.
d. d. T. COWEN, Pres.
J. r. MITCHELL, Cashier.
The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24

posted their plunder. These boys are
sons Of respected citizens, and had no
object in theiving other than to crafty
a desire for adventure, which they had
formed from reading dime novels, a
number of which were found in their
headquarters-the cave.
"A writer iNRe Industrial Review
advises the Euction of the bamboo
in the southe45 States. Though >capa-
bic Of growing the plands, it is said
to be especially Suited to and valuable
for low-lying, narshy regions, such
as fringe the South Atlantic and Gulf
States. It's uses are. numerous. As a
timber for building and construction
purposes, for tools, implements, ETC., it
is well known. AS an article of food
its young shoots serve as substitutes for
vegetables, and are pronounced as deli
cious. Bamboo curry and chow-chow
are excellent. The growing plant is
invaluable also as a defense against ma
aria, sweeping fires and cyclones.
The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24
SlObbering Horses.

Some horses will slobber nearly oil
they eat; others when they eat certain
plants, usually in early summer, and
others are never known to do so.
Horses thus affected will, when their
diet is much restricted, sometimes cease
the habit. Clean timothy and red-top
hay, aud clean oats fed in the straw
(clean meaning free from weeds or 9TH
er plants,) will usually cause a con-
firmed case of soldering to stop tenn
porarily. A little clover, clover hay,
rag-weed in the oats, and many other
weeds, are liable to start it again, In
fact, will be quite sure to do so. Thus
it is clear that the tendency is constitu-
tional in the animal, that cause that
would excite slobbering in one animal
will not affect another, and that it is
excited by different plants which the
horse uses for food, either in the green
or dry state. Besides, the habit is said
to come from partial paralysis of the
nerves of the face, or of one side of the
face. Usually, however, it comes from
some article of food, and it is more
often caused by the second growth
clover than anything else. Veterinarians
have recommended astringents to be
employed in solution, the mouth being
washed with a decoction of oakbark, :,
witchhazel, alum, ETC., but no perma'
nent benefit comes from these applica-
tions. Partial relief has been expert
enced by confining the horse to diet OF
clover, as this excites the salivary score
ton most violently. After few days q
return is made to different food, with
the hope that this sudden change would
stop the o. Siye secretion of saliva,
which it y. always does for while.
-Aqrica{ f.
The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24
Profitable Investments.

The safest and most profitable invest
ment that can anywhere be found at
this time for money, the use of whichsls Is
not needed for few years, is i'll the
purchase of we'll selected real estate.
This general fact probably no intelligent
man would dispute, though some men
deny the application to particular cases
when it does not suit their interests. 1t
is we'll recognized that real estate falls
faster, as rule, and further when times
are good, than any other kind OF prop
erty of real and solid value. The III
trinsic value changes only with the
growth of community Or State, or the
improvement of means of communication;
so that for production or use in residence
or in commerce the value may increase
rapidly and greatly, but can decrease
slowly and moderately. But the price,
on the contrary, depends upon a market t
that is more variable than almost any
other. At times real estate is wholly
unsaleable, no matter what its rea;
value or its price may be. At other
times it is the object of the widest
speculation, with very little reference
to the present Legitimate demand AS q
consequence when real estate is not
wanted, it sells for song or not at ali;
but when it is wanted, there is scarcely
any limit to its price Hence, long
headed men are always on the alert to
get possession of real estate after every
period of great depression; to such
shrewd purchases the whcle or great part
of almost every colossal fortune may be
traced. We are just emerging from q
period of unexampled prostraion. The
price of real estate has fallen, as it
usually does at such times, i'll greater
ratio than that of almost any other class
of property yofsubstantial character. Now,
if ever, the purchase of real estate may
be considered certain 10 yield excep-
tionally large profits, if the property Is
judiciously selected.
Another fact, which, as general one
no intelligent man will deny, is that the
advance i'll the price, as rule, is certain
to be greater in Western than in Eastern
real estate. Western States and cities
are growing rapidly; Eastern slowly.
Every man knows the fact, and immense
volumes of statistics could be given to
prove or illustrate it; and yet there are
obvious consequence. New York City is
growing in population at the rate of
seven per cent. in five years, and the
State at the rate Of 7.2 per cent, while
Chicago or st. Louis gains 80 or 60 per
cent, and Kansas 100 per cent, and yet
some persons refuse to see that the
value of property in the Western city or
State is certain to increase in the long
run, and, as rule, more rapidly than
the Eastern. New railroads and greater
reduction in the rates of freight are con-
stantly adding enormously to the value
of Western property, and as yet SO potent
are interested motives in binding men,
that there are some who still insist that
real estate loans in Western cities and
States, as rule, are less safe than loans
on Eastern property, where multiplication
of roads is slow, and tends mainly to
divert residents and industries from
cities that are already oyer-crowded.-
NcaO York Public.
The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24
Dominic StimsOn's Wit.

Yesterdays meeting of the Baptist
ministers was opened with prayer by
Father Stimson, of Kansas. Father
Stimson is eighty years old, and has
preached for fifty years. Stories are
told Of him in which those who expect
ed to raise laugh at the old Dominic
found the tables turned against them
selves in the most unexpected manner.
One runs as follows:
Father Stimson owned q good horse,
but the keeping of the beast was some
what of drain on the Dominie's pock-
ct, and he was in the habit of dropping
hint to his parishioners once in a
while that Httle hay would be accept
able. One day church member asked
him to bring Mrs. Stimson to dinner.
Certainly" said Father Stimson,
'4and, as it's haying time, guess I'll
put some hay on the wagon when go
back home.'
TAI right, Father" replied the
church member, ''but bring one
horse wagon. +"
Father Stimson took his wife to sup
per in a wagon with an ample hay-rick
that would hold a hay-stack.
"See here" said the parishioner, as
lie helped Mrs. Stimson out of the hay
rick, "yotr said you were gong to
bring one-horse wagon, and now
you've appeared with the most capa-
cious hay apparatus ever saw
.Oh, Eve brought the one horse
wagon" said Father Stimson, but the
hay -rick-that's two-horse Lay-rick. :"
lie drove away after supper with
twenty two hundred pounds OF hay.
Father Stims0n was the first TO use
GOSPEL tents in the West. He put them
uD himself A fellow who passed him
one morning as he was hard at work on
lis tent called to him in a loud voice:
Hullo there. Are you going to have
circuS?h
Yes" said the preacher, continuing
hi5 work without looking up, " and I'm
looking for q baboon. Don't you want
to hire yourself for ole9'
The preacher was Chaplain in the
Ninth New York Cavalry in the war.
The Colonel WAS fond of leading the
soldiers through deep puddles at the
regular drill, and the Chaplain one day
rode around the puddle, and thereby
fell ont of the regular order The Col
onel noticed it, and at the close o. the
drill, when the officers came together,
said, with q sneer:
.If Captain Stimson is afraid to ride
through muddy water for fear of soil
ing his clothing, | will carry him across
the puddle myself"
"Thank YOU the Chaplain said;
"bnt as the Government provides
horses. | don see any reason why !
should ride on iackass. IN !. sam.
The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Prof Storer, blind musician OF
North Adams, Mass, has been appoint
ed teacher in the Royal College for
the Blind at London.
-Wilkie Collins is paying the PEN
atty for trespassing upon the capacity
of that most abused organ of the hui
man anatomy-the eye. His sight is
failing, and he can no longer read or
write He is dependent upon an aman"
uensis. m 7. independent.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour. OF
New York insists that he is an old man,
and il is true that he suffers from physi-
cal weakness in his legs, which disables
him seriously in walking; but he retains
his old simplicity of manner and con-
versation, as well as vigor OF mind
Chicago Journal
MIR. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan
County, Tennessee, were married about
two years ago. and now seven little
Suuibbses make it interesting for the
fond parents. Three of them were
born about year ago, and the guar
tets are but week or two old. This
squib is the eighth.
William S. Jett, the man who led
the soldiers to the hiding place OF
Wilkes Booth after the assassination OF
President Lincoln, and who. for his
connection with the capture of Booth
and Harold, has been immortalized in
history. was few days ago sent to the
Maryland State Insane Asylum Q raving
lunatic. Y Herald.
| One of the most noted women in
New York journalism is Miss MILDLY
Morgan, who does the cattle reports for
four New York papers, among them the
Tribune and Times. She has acquired
a fund of knowledge of cattle and
horses, both on the farm and turf, which
may be envied by the most experienced
male sportsmen.
MIR. Mudford, who controls the Lon
don Standard. is sometimes called the
irresponsible editor" Though he
owns no share in the paper, the late
proprietors confidence in him was so
great that he provided in his will that
Mr. Mudford should have sole control
of the paper while he lived, or as long
as he might see fit to retain it.
1t is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr.. Joseph
Sailer, who has recently retired from
the financial editorship of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest
editor in that position in this country,
but the first to write regular money
article for any daily paper. as the
Ledger was the first in this country to
print q money article.
I'm little red cottage on the shore
of lake called the Bowl, near Lenox,
Mass, Hawthorne wrote 1.-The House
of the Seven Gables.n Mr.. j. T. Fields
used to tell of carrying out to him there
one hundred dollars in advance of work,
but after accepting, Hawthorne sensi-
tiveness found the obligation irksome.
and he handed it back. Take it,
Fields" said he; 'tlfe house isn't big
enough to hold it."
The weekly defiance., 1882-10-24
WIT AND WISDOM.

AN exchange asks: "What is Pc
troleum?" 1t is very easy method OF
getting rid of fre-kindling servants
Maratkoas Independent.
"A Baltimore belle has married
policeman. His beat was in front of
her house for over year, and she no
ticed that he never snored- -Phtlddet-
pltiG Meas. a--
in 1859 eleven cars managed to
ship all the peach crop of Delaware that
was sent outside of the State by rail.
To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars
and ninety-six men.
A correspondent wants to know
show we pronounce Ras-el-TinP" We
don't pronounce it at all; we only write
it. Do you suppose we read the
papers to the subscribers? Courier
JostrsstsI
The Egyptian war will give about
hundred paragraphers the opportunity
20 say that the Bedouins are no great
sheiks, and that no matter how they arc
treated they will always Be-do-in some
thing atrocious and inexcusable. War
is, Indeed, O great evil. II TsrGs Stftiagc.
"A Chicago lady who had gone into
tie country at the invitation of some
relatives, wrote to her husband: Dear
Charley When left home I forgot to
bring my slippers with me. Send them
at once.' She received telegram the
next day to the following effect: "Ex-
press companies can't spare the room
to transport them. Buy new pair. -
Broektyas Eagle.
Courage. Suffering sisters" ex-
claimed the speaker, energetically
shaking the hair pins from her head in
her excitement, ''women will never OBJ
tain their rights until they display moro
courage. Let me say to you, in the
words of a famous French orator,
Courage! courage! courager" At this
stage of the proceedings somebody
threw box of caterpillars upon The
platform and the meeting broke up in
great terror and confusion. m. I. Post.
"A nouveau richie had his house
robbed of several valuable pictures. He
appreciated them because they cost him
great deal Of money, and when he
made his appearance in an art-shop he
was in very excited state. II want
you to get my. pictures for me-. ne
said. "What do you meanT' replied
the polite attendant. why, Was
robbed of them the other night, and I
come to you for satisfaction, "was the
answer. "But, my dear sir, we are not
receivers of stolen goods, nor are we
detective officers said the dealer.
"Then," shouted the indignant million
aire, "you had better take in your
sign, 'Oil-paintings restored. '"-Boston
Courier.