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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

Mr.. WHARTON BARKER, OF Philadel-
phia, says that he is confident that the
Independent Republicans have no
thought of making nominations for
members OF Congress in the districts of
Philadelphia.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

GENERAL WHEELER, who had to sur
render the seat he held in Congress
through frauds ia the Eighth Alabama
district, has just come to the front to be
vindicated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

THE soft solder" to mend the broken
links of the New York Democracy has
not been discovered as yet at Saratoga.
Tammany cannot come in, for Uncle
Sammy Tilden has said it."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

SENATOR BECK displayed his ignor-
ance in blaming the tariff for the high
price of barbed wire fences, and enabled
Senator Hoar to impale him on barbed
wire point long enough to be seen of
men
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

WHILE the Democratic State Conven.
ton Of Indiana was cheering itself
hoarse over the adoption of free-whis-
ky platform the band played Johnnie,
Fill up the Bowl"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

Col. WIN. B. THOMAS, once Republi
can and Collector at the Port of Phila
delphia, is now Democrat and candi-
date for sheriff. He has disgusted his
party friends by declaring on the stump
that ait was nothing more then an aci
of retributive justice that sent the bull
let through Garfield in return for his
rasealities in the election frauds in
1875" + A4A
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

REPREsENTATIvE SINGLETON, the
wealthy Illinois Democratic Congress
man, was defeated for denomination af-
ter fifteen hundred ballots at Boards
town, Wednesday,.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17
Belmont County on1cIaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. c. Darrah.
Sheriff-SamueI Hilles.
Auditor-William n. Coffland.
Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred b. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Com mmissioners- Gwen Mehan, Morris Cops,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-Jsmes Crosgrovs-
CoroDer-E. B. Kennedy.
1nfrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

THERE is considerable rivalry between
Tom Hendricks, Dan Voorhees, and Bill
English over the position of boss In In
diana. Each apparently feels that the
control of the whisky vote will give him
a first mortgage on the national nimina-
tion in 1884
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

THE Indiana Republicans met at In
dianapclis Wednesday and renominated
the present Secretary of State and other
minor State officers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

DEMOCRATIC interest in the campaign
in North Carolina must be at low ebb
when it is found necessary to advertise
two weddings at a political meeting in
order to attract crowd.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

REPRESENTATIVE JAS. S. ROBINSON
was renominated for Congressby accla-
nation by the Republicans at st. Mary's
on Wednesday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

In Texas the Republicans are adopt
ing the wiser plan of supporting the In
dependent ticket instead of nominating
their own men and being defeated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17
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SUCCESSFUL Ed UCAFOR.

Lecture Delivered before the Bel
mont County Teachers Institute,
by Prof ]. M. YARNELL, late
Sup't Of the Barnesville Public
Schools, August 2, 1882.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court oi
Claims and appear before all the Departments
Promptness and satisfaction given In all bust
ness entrusted 20 them. correspondence So
icited. 529 7th St, op. Z. Q. Department.
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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13
Redlstricting.

The question of redistricting
the state is destined to be a
very knotty one. There are
now six representatives in con-
gress, while eleven are to be
provided for. The six now in
congress have, of course, many
friends, and each congressman
wants, or if he does not, his
friends want, the new districts
SO arranged as to give each
one a chance. In redistricting
it is necessary to wipe out the
present districts and the form
ing of new ones will be the
cause of much controversy.
The state atlarge is democratic
and it is doubtful If a republi-
can district could be formed
that would be, by any means,
compact. The Austin States
man in discussing this matter,
takes the broad ground that
districts should be constructed
simply on the basis of CONNER
cial and business interests of
the sections, and that the pres
ent incumbents should be left
to take care of themselves I'M
der such apportionment. We
fully agree with the Statesman
that all personal considerations
should be laid aside and only
the public good considered.
Personal conditions should not
have any effect in matters of
this kind. AL the people are
equally interested in being
represented in congress and in
forming the districts no fear
need be entertained of any
lack of material from which to
select democratic members of
congress. There will never be
any scarcity of aspirants for
congressional honors, and, in
the natural course of events,
the best men will come to the
surface. If an equitable divis-
ion of the state into congress
sional districts be made, no one
viii be injured, and it may be
that some, if not all, of the
present members of congress
viii be retained, always saving
and excepting Wash Jones,
the political nondescript. The
sooner the legislature can dis
pose of this knotty question the
better.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13


The Paris, Texas, Tribune is
a prohibition paper; it has pro-
cured a slate and pencil and fig
ures out that whiskey costs the
people of the state the sum of
SS,25o,6Io.5o, every cent of
which it considers is a totalloss.
The prohibitionists loose sightof
the fact that the money spent
for whiskey is not lost to the
country or the people any more
than the money spent for tobac-
CO, bacon, -four, sugar, candles,
matches or any other article
that is consumed when used.
The money remains all the same
it simply changes hands. Peo-
pie who have money have as
much right to spend it for whis-
key as they have for cologne,
the use of both OF which could
be dispensed with were they so
disposed. Opponents of pro-
hibition are not opposed to tenn.
perance, and besides that pro-
hlbition prohibits only in name;
it comes as near prohibiting as
the gaming law does stopping
gambling.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13
Jesse James as he Was.

Some Of the papers in this
state are disposed to find fault
with the manner in which the
late Jesse James was removed
from this mundane sphere by
Mr.. Bob Ford. The St. Louis
Republican referring to the food
of mawkish sentimentality that
has been turned loose on the
con6ding public says: Judged
in cool temper and accredited
exact justice and no more, there
is nothing in the life of the dead
desperate to merit admiration,
nothing in his death that justi-
fies sympathy. His deeds pre-
sent little to mark exceptional
manliness, much less real nobili-
ty of character. Every act in
his career contributes to one
unvarying record OF cold self
ishness, of murderous brutality.
1t is known that he betrayed the
confidence OF the countrymen
whom he tempted into the Blue
Cut robbery and cody broke
promise to divide the spoils. Is
there anything to show that the
true story of the crimes of the
James brothers will not be found
loaded with similar treacher-
iesl Let it be known that these
men have been naught better
than common criminals, or, in
deed, much worse, for they have
been most despicable murder
ers. Their hands are stained
with the blood of unnumbered
victims, cruelty and brutally
slain. More needless murders
than stand to their account do
not blot the criminal records;
murders that have not even the
excuse that they were necessary
to protect the safety of the men
who did them murders that did
not even assist in the perpetra-
ton of the robberies in the ac-
complishment of which they
ware done; murders for the alb
solute wontoness OF which there
is not even the shadow of pal
liation. That their should be
any sympathy expressed for a
monster of the James type is
absolutely astonishing. Kill
ing such a man is like killing a
mad dog. James, like all other
cold blooded murderers, had not
one spark OF sympathy for their
innocent and unsuspecting VIC
TENS.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

The San Antonio Express
remarking the tendency of the
times towards Capitalization
says with every session of con-
gress rights of people are sur
rendered and appeals are made
to that body to legislate on
matters the mere suggestion of
ofwhich, a few years ago, would
have raised a cry of resentment
ali over the land. Unless check
ed there is no telling where this
species of legislation will end /;
congress may be called upon to
regulate the price of labor, the
price of goods, etc. We have
too much legislation instead of
two little.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

New PAPER Reader, don't
be astonished, the new paper is
not TO be started in Brennan,
at least not for the present.
The particular newspaper to
which reference is had viii be
started at Giddings by Mr.: A.
c. Rust. OF the Ennis Recorder.
Mr.. Rust is a splendid taIker
and if his Giddings paper is as
a good one as he is a talker the
Giddings people will be lucky.
The first issue will be out on
Saturday, but as it is not yet
born its name is Withheld.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13
From the Capital.

The prospect for good work
during this session of the legis-
lature is quite good; conversa-
ton with the representatives
upon the two leading subjects
of legislation mentioned in the
landlords proclamation con-
vening the legislature in special
session; namely, re-districting
the state into congressional,
senatorial, and representative
districts, and the regulation oil
railroads, reveals a coucilatory
compromising spirit, which will
eventuate not in the infliction
upon the country any one
mans views, but in enactments
the result of a multiplicity OF
counsel. There is a very gen.
eral admission of the pressing
necessity of some sort of rail
road legislation, and even rail-
road men themselves are not SO
hostile to such step as former
ly. The clans have not gath
cred yet, and hence it is impos-
sible to foretell with what
amount of energy the move
ment will be fought, or against
what particular measure their
artillery will be leveled.
The adherents OF the govern
or are quite scarce, though his
friends claim thai he is yet very
strong among the people. His
policy for disposing of the pub
lie domain, as outlined in his
speech before the stockmen's
convention, is very severely
censured. This is no question
but what it would result in the
creation of a landed aristocracy
in western Texas, which has
been such a fruitful source of
trouble in all the governments
of earth. West Texas for &C
tual settlers, instead of west
Texas for cattle kings must be
the policy, if we ever enjoy
that degree of prosperity that is
predicted for US from all quar-
tiers.
It is generally conceded that
not more than one half of the
work marked out by the land
lord can be be disposed of in
thirty days. Two thirds of it
might have been postponed for
disposition by the 18th legisla-
ture, which convenes in January
of next year, without any great
damage to the state. But the
landlord speaketh thusly. As
these are important matters de-
handed by the people, and if
you fail to take action, 1 will
tell my tenants and as a punish
ment you will be retired to the
shades of private life, and l
elected for a third term. From
which place l can easily step
into the United States senate.
To satisfy my inordinate ambi-
ton somebody must be slaugh-
tered, and l can not afford to
bestow attention upon smaller
game, than a contrary demo-
cratic legislature. H. H.
AUSTIN April 10 81.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13
Why

Dallas had a city election
last Tuesday. Dallas, it is
claimed, is a democratic city,
and, on strict party issue, we
have no doubt it is. The
democrats, or a part of the
democrats of that city, went
through the form of bringing
out a regular" democratic
ticket. The result was, the
democrats elected marshal and
two aldermen, and the spotted
party, as the Times calls it,
elected two aldermen and an
assessor. 1t will thus be seen
that the honors are pretty even
ly divided. The Times devotes
a whole column to the canvass
which led to the success OF a
part of the independent ticket,
and it processes to find it in the
fact the democratic party was
improperly managed, and fur
Their, that men claiming to be
democrats, flew the track, and
it also insinuates that the demo-
Gratis are all as treacherous as
the republicans. The demo-
Gratis are as true to their party
as they ever were, and when a
party issue is brought before
them, as in the election of state
officers and of congressman,
they will vote the ticket.
At this distance we know moth
ing Of the local issues at Dallas,
or of the personelle of the can
didates, but we do know what
the Times seems to have over
looked, and that is, that the
people pay but little attention
to party politics in minor cleo
tons. Republicans vote for
democrats for office and demo-
Gratis vote for republicans, and
both without stopping to en-
quire further than to know that
the man voted for is capable
and honest. 1t is useless to
deny, or to attempt to conceal
the fact, that party domination
is losing its potency in matters
that concern all the people
equally; it certaiely makes no
difference in the political aspect
of the state what the individual
political view of a town alder.
man may happen to be, and the
result of the election in Dallas
shows that this opinion obtain
ed among the voters, no matter
how the Times may attempt to
account for it. The fact that
voters are becoming more indie
pendent in their views, may be
regarded as good omen, and
it will give US better county and
city administrations than we
had under the old party reign.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

DIX. A. R. FITZPATRICK, of
Navasota, a leading physician
Of that place and well known
throughout the state, writes to
the Navasota Tablet that he
has used refined cotton seed
oil, for culinary purposes, in his
family and found it superior to
hogs lard. 1t being a vegetable
product, it is a more healthy
article of diet than lard and has
the additional advantage of be-
ing much cheaper. The doc
ter recommends its general use
in the place Of lard.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

NOTHING has been heard Of
the bungling train robbers that
went through the Santa Fe
train at Blum last Friday night.
1t is believed the men live in
the neighborhood and that they
are known to the people living
there, but the people are afraid
70 tell who they are, or to use
a common expression, give
them away. The men have no
doubt read of the daring eX-
PLOTS of the James gang and
were anxious to emulate their
example. The fair fame of
Texas and the safety OF railway
travellers in Texas demands
that the Blum robbers be, caught
and severely punished; as to the
manner Of catching them it
makes but little difference so
that they be caught or killed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

Mr.. Micheal Robbett, II Sar-
gent street, Cahoes, N. Y, was
cured of a very severely injured
knee by St. Jacobs Oil, says
the Rochester, N. Y, Sunday
Herald.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13


The question of regulating
the railroads will be a promi-
nent one before the special ses-
sion. All who are not directly
interested in railroads are in IA
vor Of a marked reduction in
freight and passengers tariffs.
Whether If is wise to attempt
legislation in this direction must
be decided by the legislature
itself. Texas has no navigable
streams and her commerce and
industries are dependent entire
upon railroads, and railroads
alene are now developing and
building up the state. Legisla-
ton is calculated to retard the
building ofrailroads, or injurious
to those now in operation
should not be undertaken. All
that is wanted is, that the peo-
the railroads should
Syenhanded JUS
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

The Brazoria Independent
says that Col. Mansfield will
not notice it. 1t proposes to
get even with the colonel say
ing that by the time we get a
new engineer appointed for this
section he will wish he had no.
ticed the Brazos, any how"
Colonel Mansfield will no doubt
feel very bad when he reads the
independent.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

REPLY1Ne to the remark of
the Houston Age that, the signs
OF the times point to the re-elec-
ton of Governor Roberts, the
Bastrop Advertiser says there
frequently occurs a slip be-
tween the cup and lip, and it
prayerfully remarks: MAY
God and the democratic party
grant US boon Of this charac-
ter, in this case"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

SEVEN firms of cattle raisers
and shippers living west Of
Cooke county and representing
about $4,000 cattle have signed
an agreement not to ship any
stock over the Missouri Pacific
railroad, nor to sell to any one
who win ship over it. They
claim to have been badly treat
ed by the railroad company.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

TIE train robbery on the
Santa Fe railway at Blum was
the work ofamateurs; they went
through the train with a pillow
case asking contributions; about
5000 was all that was realized.
The conductor was shot at as
he ran forward and told the
engineer to pull out. The en-
gineer made the run frym Blum
10 Cleburne at the rate ofnear-
~ a mile minute. The rob-
bers escaped.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

The St. Louis Republican
is reasonably certain that the
right old man Bender.
The Kansas murderer has been
caught in St. Louis. 1t devotes
about three columns to an ac-
count of his capture and has
found a man to identify Bender
who knew him in 1871.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

JEssE JAMES. one of the
grandest thieves, robbers and
murderers in the United States,
was buried in a $500 coffin, and
when good Sunday school small
boys read about what a hero
James was, and how nicely he
was buried. they, too, may wish
they were distinguished rob-
bers with a price set on their
heads by the state.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

The New Orleans Times
Democrat says the buffalo gnats
the high water and the so-called
hunters have nearly extinguish-
ed the deer in Louisiana. In
one small section in the north
ern part Of the state $50 deer
were killed by party of hun
tiers. There is a game law in
Louisiana which viii be en-
forced, but that will not bring
back the deer that have been
destroyed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13

A GOOD deal of sympathy OF
sentimentality is expressed fos
the manner in which Jesse ia
mes was betrayed and killed.
Characters like Jesse James are
entitled to no more sympathy
than a rabid dog or a rattlesnake.
The manner of his killing should
give no one the least concern.
He would have killed any man
who undertook to arrest him.
James was not a crank, but a
man Of far more than average
sense; he fully understood his
position but was caught in an
ungarded moment.
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cotton. =
"A part Of the e
lot at Bellville is utilize6
unsightly photograph
which the Times thinks q
to be removed.
"A married woman named
Sallie tried to hang herself at
Marshal the other day because
her husband upbraided her for
getting drunk.
AT McKenney the daugh-
ter of John Morrow lodged a
grain of corn in her windpipe
aud died under a surgical oper-
alton for its removal.
-Messrs. Correll and Kiber,
of Brennan, passed through
Brazoria the other day on their
way to inspect the harbor i'm
provements at the mouth of the
Brazos.
A convict guard named
Mcneil shot himself through
the foot last week while on duty
near Cameron. Guards some
times get shot as well as con-
victs.
The Fort Worth Demo-
crat-Advance chronicles its dis
appointment at not getting to
chronicle the execution of a ne
gro rapist, who was arrested the
day before.
Last Monday evening Abb
lene and vicinity was visited by
a heavy rain storm +; hail stones
as large as hens eggs fell dam
aging window glass and crops
to some extent.
= John A. Shapard, former
ly of Washington county, now
a printer in the Rockdale Mes
senger office, was married in
that town. on the 5th inst. to
Miss Mamie Beall.
= Hillsboro Mirror tells of a
child which at birth weighed
but twenty-four ounces. The
child is now six months old
and weighs eight pounds. The
child was prematurely born.
: Mr.. Henderson calamity
congratulates Miss Talbot on
her appointment to the George
town postofice. She is a
worthy young lady and amply
qualified to fill the position.
Several cases of diphtheria
prevail in the vicinity of Cedar
and Colorado streets, Austin,
and physicians are of the opin-
ion that the disease is caused |
by the vast Accommodations of
filth in the neighborhood.
Cameron Seminal Thss
of our readers who regard
Sentinel as being dull this
will bear in mind tb
are paying their dug
have been COMPEL
our attention to jof
starvation prices.
Near OenavilIe
ty, Mrs. Sedman VI
ing the COWS and
a boy of six and a
were left in the
boy got a pistol d a
and while playing
his sister in the
instantly.
!: i" :: :. :: &
Fruit was kno ICES, |
a bwn |
and consid bone
generally. iwsy |
and smashed
- A seri ecur-
red at the Sa fsial
school at Il Ion
day. A stL Gray
shot and 81 ed an
other stuS ordan.
1t is cert5 6ndition
Of affairs eudents at
/ state about the
20 their
itudi evolver
ckets. |