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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

HARPER's MAGAZINE for March is a
beautiful and exceptionally interesting
Number. The frontispiece, Fallen
Short" from Z. a. Abbey's drawing, one
of that ARTISTS Qaintest efforts, is print
ed separately on heavy paper. The
opening article of the number, "0ld New
York Coffee-Housss," by John Austin
Stevens, describes tie mercantile and
public life of the metropolis as associa-
ted With cofee-houses before the Revo-
luton. w. III. Bishop concludes his
Mexican series with a paper entitled
Typical Journeyings and Country Life
in Mexico. A biographical sketch of
Paul Bert, Gambetta's Minister of In
struction. with an account of his expose
of ,Jesuitism, is contributed by former
American Minister to France. Prof. ST.
mon Newcomb contributes popular ar
ticle on Small Telescopes, showing how
they pre- made. Luigi Monti contributes
an article upon the origin of Mother
Goose's Cock Horse" w. l.. Gage cen-
tributes personal sketche of the Mem
delss0hn famiyl, with eight portraits.
"Deam-Folk"-a poem. by Blanche
Willis Huwara-is illustrated by a fine
reproduction of Andrea del Sarto'S por-
trait of st. John. An interesting paper
entitled "Washington's Acceptance of
the First Presidency is contributed by
George Ticknor Curtis. One of the
most notable contributions To this Num-
Der is Elizabeth Stewart Phelps's Last
Words from George Eliot" containing
some letters from George Eliot TO the
writer not hitherto published. This
months instalmeut of Miss Woolson's
Anne" is especially interesting.
Mrs. Lilies "Prudence-a story of
Esthetic London" illustrated by Du
Maurier, is very strong novelette,,
to be an interesting love Sto-
ry, as well as faithful and artistic de-
lineatlon of London Society. Poems ara
contributed by Sarah o. Jewett, S. 5.
Conant, w. S. Kennedy. and Henry Ba-
con. The Editorial Departments are
filled with timely and entertaining mat
ter
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Baltimore.
STATEN z N 7
UNDER OATH!

HAVE been afflicted for twenty years with
l. an obstinate skin disease. called by some
NJ. DIS Psoriasis, and others Leprosy, com>
mencing on my scalp. and in spite of all
doctors, ii surely but slowly. extended until q
year ago this winter 1t covered my entire
person in form OF dry scales. For the last 3
years l have been unable 10 do any labor and
ing there could be a dustpanful OF scales tax en-
from the sheet on my bed. some of them half
as large as the envelope containing thi letter;
in the latter part OF the winter my skin CONS
menced cracking open; tried everything al
most, that could be thought of, without any
relief; the 18th of June started west. in hopes
could reach the Hot Springs; / reached De-
troit, and was SO low | thought should have
to go to the hopital but finally got ~ far as
Lansing, Michigan. where had a sister living;
one DR.. - treated me about two weeks. but
did me no good; all thought that had but
short time TO live; earnestly prayed TO die;
cracked through the skin all over my back,
across my ribs arms. hands, limbs, feet badly
and hard as bone hair dead. dry and lifeless
as old straw. oh, my GOhi how did suffer-
MY sister, Mrs f.. H. Davis. had a small part
of box of Cuttcura In the house she wouldn't
was applied on one hand and arm; Eurekai
there was relief; stopped the terrible burning
sensai lon from he word go; they imined lately
got the Cuticura Resolvent (blood purifier)
and Cuticura and Cuticura Soap (the great
SIX in turesl- 1 commenced by taking one
tablespoonful of Resolvent three times day.
after meals: had bath once day, water about
blood heat; used Cuticura Soap freely: applied
CLticura morning and evening" Result, re-
turned to my home In just six week from the
sheet of paper. HIRAM E CARPENTER.
Henderson. Jefferson county. n. Y.
Sworn to before me this 10th day OF ian. 80.
A. M. LkFFINGwELL, ]. p.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

LAST Thursday an Associated Press
dispatch was sent out from Wash
ington, and was published in the papers
all over the country on Friday, profess
ing to give an incident in the proceed
ings of the committee investigating the
expenditure of the contingent fund of
the Treasury Department. Two work
men having previously denied that they
had done work at Secretary Sherman's
house for which they were paid out of
the treasury contingent fund, it was al
legged in this dispatch that ex-Custodian
Pitney appeared in the committee room
to prove they had sworn falsely. 1t was
represented that he claimed he was pre-
pared to prove that they had done
such work and been paid for it out of
the contingent fund, and that he could
also prove that Secretary Sherman and
Mrs. Sherman knew that the work was
so paid for. Senator Hale was describ-
ed as Indignantly demanding how the
witness dared make such charge
against Mrs. Sherman, when Pitney
pulled from his pocket notes from Mrs.
ShermaL and Senator Sherman request
ing that worknen be sent from the
Treasury Department to the Sherman
residence.
The entire dispatch was most reck-
less and base falsehood, cuncocted to in
jure Senator Sherman, and be published
a card giving the lie to the statements
contained in the dispatches, and saying
that no such testimony was given, and
go such letters were produced. Senator
Hale gives the denials of Senator Sher-
man his unqualified endorsement, and
even Pitney himself contradicts the
story.
The enemies of Secretary Sherman,
satisfied that the report Of the commit
tee will fully exonerate him from any
shadow of blame for unauthorized ex-
penditures of the contingent fund are
reduced to the extremity of endeavoring
to smirch his reputation by the publi-
cation of the meanest falsehOod The
game will not win. John Sherman's
whole public career has been character
lied by strict adherence to the straight
line of duty. Like most public men lie
has had enemies, anxious to find a flaw
in his conduct, but after the closest scru-
tiny of the man who has had opportuni-
ties without number to turn public po-
sition to private gain, the infamous
wretches who hound his tracks turn
away with their malicious souls un-
graliiied. The people of Ohio believe in
the honesty and uprightness of charac-
ter Of Mr.. Sherman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

REPRESENTATIVE UPDEGRAFF intro
duced bill in the House last week, and
it is now before the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, authorizing the Secretary
of War to deliver to the Soldiers and
Sailors Association OF Bellaire, Ohio,
four condemned brass field pieces. if the
same can be spared without detriment
to the Government, to aid in the erec-
tion of a monument to the memory of
the Union soldiers and sailors of Bel
mont county, Ohio, killed in the late
war of the rebellion. The bill will
doubtless be reported upon favorably by
the Military Committee and will be-
come law.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE Erie Railroad Company has de-
termined to take no further risks from
the employment of drinking men in the
service. If a man drinks intoxicants at
all, no matter whether he gets drunk or
not under the new rule he will be dis
charged. 1t applies to ticket agents,
telegraph operators as well as train men
and track hands. The rule is good as
far as it goes. but it ought to reach out
and include all the officials connected
with the general management. Public
sentiment and self-protection alike de-
mand that persons entrusted with the
care and lives of human beings, whether
in the capacity of common carriers, or
as professional men, shall be in their
right minds, with the full and free use
of all their faculties.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THOSE credulous persons who think
that they can invest their money in
Kansas and get 10 or y per cent inter-
est without running any risks would do
well to take heed to the lesson conveyed
in the failure of the Riley County Bank,
an institution mainly occupied with
lOaning out the advances of New Eng
land farmers and savings banks. The
President and Vice President are now
under arrest, and the defunct bank will
not pay over ten cents on the DOLLAR
Cincinnati Gazette.
There are some National banks in
eastern Ohio, whose funds are largely
placed in the West at big interest, that
may take warning from the above col
lapse. 1t is very gratifying to stock
holders as long as they receive large div
idends, but should losses occur and the
"shent per shent" be stopped. they will
be the first TO exclaim 81 told you So"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
UNIONTOWN.

LOOKING FOR A BIBLE.-Our friend
Mr.. Henry Pickering, passed through
town on his way to Flushing, last Sat
urday, looking up large family Bible
as described in the Friends Journal
and which contains the authentic record
Of the Carpenter family. A fortune OF
about forty-five milliens is involved in
this research, and consequently every
effort will be used to find it. There is
also, he states, large sum of money due
the Pickering family.
RATHER-Ths boy, who wishing to
surprise his father with the latest news
on Monday morning, informed him that
"it was was rather damp peculiar
morning" The boy was more surprised
than his christian father, and up to this
date takes nis meals standing.
Mrs. WIN HUKELL, of Bellaire, with
her two children, have been paying a
visit to friends here, and will return to-
day. Allie Hukell is general favorIte,
and is one of the best hammered little
girls among all the city visitors. She
always receives warm welcome from
her little associates, and her pleasant,
happy face is like ray of sunshine.
MRS. CYNTHIA CAMPBELL has Just re-
turned from visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Sallie Nesbitt, who resides on a small
farm near Pittsburgh. Pa. Her visit
was very pleasant one, and she also
had the pleasure of stopping 4 few hours
at Mr.. Rogers, of Wellsville, a family
who were for many years residents Of
this town, and all their friends here
will be glad to know that they also are
enjoying good health and prosperity.
DR. J. C. WORKMAN has been called
on to vaccinate quite a number of per-
sons, as all are beginning to realize that
smallpox is prevailing epidemic. and
that although there is no cause for
alarm, all precautions should be used to
prevent the spread of such loathsome
disease.
Mr.. 7. S. BETHEL is introducing some
of the finest breeds of hogs and poultry
there seems to be great interest taken in
the Improvement of stock in this sec
tion, and Wheeling township farmers
generally keep in the front rank in this
branch of their business. H.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Our Continent.

The first number of the new illustra,
ted weekly bearing the ABOVE name is
before US. 1t is edited by Judge A. w
Tourgee, assisted by Daniel c. Brinton
and Robert S. Davis. Considerable has
been said about this new candidate for
public favor, and now an examination
of its merits convinces us that it prom
ises to be a success. The literary char
acter of "Our Continent" is quite above
previous Attempts in the same direction
the illustrations. though very good, cam
not be considered as high pieces of art.
Editorially. it forcibly and clearly dis
cusses the social and general topics of
the day. This publication aims to pre-
sent department of fiction which will
elevate the taste and rivet the interest
of the reader, thus striking popular
note with the masses as well as with the
most cultivated people. and doing great
service To the literature of the county,
published by Our Continent Publishing
Philadelphia, Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Ex-GovEkNoR Robinson, of Kansas,

Ex-Governor Robinson, of Kansas,
denies most positively the assertions of
the present Governor of the State that
the prohibition law has been bene fetal
He says that under the operations of
the law drunkenness and its attendant
crimes are increasing in Kansas, and
that the State is by no means so well off
in this regard as it was under the license
system. He declares that the prohibitory
law is only irregularly enforced, and
that it has resulted i'll the wider diffu-
sion of illicit traffic. Either Mr.. Robin
son or Governor st. John is greatly mis-
taken or misrepresenting as to the eff
feet of the temperance laws of Kansas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
Communicated ]
Save the Pieces.


At the time of its construction great
complaints were made-perhaps justly
of the enormous cost Of the Warnock
pike. Notwithstanding this cost the
great benefit and convenience it affords.
renders all within its reach willing to
acknowledge it aOds aOOrth the money
l do not propose in this connection to
enter into arguments. We shall regard
the question as settled. The Warnock
pike is Of vital Importance to our citi-
zens. The increased value of farms in
its convenient reach-facilities for
marketing farm products-with an un-
told number of lesser conveniences-all
conspire to urge upon its friends to de-
wise some plan to save the thousands al
ready expended--and those dependent
upon the future. Indeed the interests
of the future more than the past de-
mands some action. Cannot tho friends
of the road do something to save it?
They might, at least, meet and
consider the subject. Some tempo
rary repairs could be made to save it
from utter ruin until permanent plan
can be adopted. l do not believe there
is single farmer along the road for a
mile or two on either side but will will
ingly contribute more or less work for
this purpose. If from one to several
days can be thus secured from each one
according to their interest and ability
the aggregate would surprise Us all.
Those not wishing to furnish work can
pay in money, and n committee attend
to making proper use OF all these con-
While this is being done
sume sensible plan can be matured by
which the permanent care of the pike
will be secured.
Will not some friend of good roads,
salable farms and convenient markets,
maks "a move in this mattsrp
GOOD ROADS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
NEWS ITEMS.

At Unionville, Iowa, school boy, in
q quarrel, killed another with ball bat.
Surgeons of the University Hospital,
of Philadelphia, removed from lady a
tumor weighing 1l2 pounds.
President White, of Cornell Univer-
sity, says hazing will be stopped if it
cleans out every student there.
Miss Nellie Reed, Postmistress at
Lawrencevllle, ILL.,, took an overdose of
chloroform for toothache, and died.
Sergeant Bush, of the Tenth Cavalry,
on being reprimanded aud ordered to the
guard house in Galveston, blew his
brains out.
The distilers at Washington are re-
ported as confident that the House will
pass the bill to reduce the tax on whisky
to fifty cents.
james Coder, formerly a prominent
citizen of Newcomerstown, Ohio, COM
mitted suicide at his sheep ranch in Cal
ifornia. He was insane.
Mr.. C. W. West has presented the
Cincinnati Art Museum with an addi-
tional S150,00O, which is to be the basis
of perpetual Endowment Fund.
A Ku-klux gang was arrested in
Montgomery county, KY, and lodged in
Jail at Mt. Sterling. 1t had regulated"
several persons, including a woman.
Guy Powell, colored Readjuster, has
astenished the +. +. VS. by introducing
a bill in the Virginia Legislature max
ing the offspring of white men and mu-
lattO mistresses legal heirs.
John Harmon, an old blind bachelor
living near Newport, Tuscarawas csun-
ty, Ohio, was fatally beaten by one of
his relatives, to whom be gave his prop
erty under promise of keeping him for
the rest of his days.
The treasurer of he Comstock Opera
house, Columbus, Ohio. was robbed in
his Office Saturday evening of $40 or
$50, by a man who poked pistol
through the trap-door, and at the same
time grabbed the money.
A well-laid plan of escape. Sunday
morning, by the prisoners in the Frank
lin county Jail at Columbus, Ohio, was
discovered in time by the officials to
frustrate it. Frank Newburg gets the
credit of being one of the leaders of the
gang.
The suit of Gen. Walker, of Kenton,
VS.. John w. Book walter, of Springfield,
for $25,000 damages on account of inju-
res received from falling into hole in
front of defendants business block, end
ed its second trial Friday with verdict
of $4,000 for plaintiff. Counsel will file
a motion for another trial.
Trouble has arisen in a college at
MaryVille, Tennessee, relative to the
claims OF colored student for recOgni-I
tion in one of the literary societies. The
refusal to admit him has resulted in the
OF twenty-three students and
the withdrawal of twenty-five Others,
and their departure for their homes.
A bill is now before the United States
Senate, providing that grain brought
into the United States in wagons or 9TH
er ordinary vehicles by farmers hvingl
in Canada. to be ground by mills on the
United States side of the line shall not
be deemed to be imported or liable to
duty. This arrangement will save many
Canadian farmers long distances in the
to and from mill
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

OF the Shoe-string Congressional Dis
trict, proposed by some brilliant individ-
ual, and which includes Belmont, the
Carroll Free Press says:
what beauty of a Congressional
District that would make, proposed to
called the Seventh, with Monroe for the
head and Carroll for the tail of the kite,
one hundred miles long and twenty-five
wide. We could only wish that Legis-
lator had two half tons of ice to his
heated head; one under his head and
the other on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE House Banking Committee is
q bill which provides that
legal tender notes shall be liable to State
taxation on an equality with gold and
silver coin by the Treasury, and no
longer. 1t asserted that in some States
under the law as it stands, there was a
practice of converting property into
greenbacks just prior to an assessment,
thus escaping taxation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

A NEW PAPER, to be called the Day
ton Tribune, is to be started at Dayton
its principal mission being to "clean
out" the Journal. Well, possibly, the
Tribune folks will find after they have
sunk few thousands, that they have a
larger contract on hands than was ex-
pected when they began the cleaning
out" process. Billy Bickham will make
it interesting for the Tribune when the
music hapIns.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16
CONGRESS.

Ia the United States Senate on Tues
day, bill was introduced granting right
of way IN the Indian Territory to the
Mississippi and Inter-oceanic railroad; a
bill was passed giving S700 from the
proceeds of condemned ordnance TO the
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
for the Garfield statue 1t Washington.
In the House resolution was adopted
asking the authority by which the bridge
over the St. Joseph river is permitted; |;
the apportionment bill was discussed,
but no action taken.
In the Senate Wednesday, q resOlu-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

WALDEN Crocker says that Guiteau
has been much subdued since the trial,
and behaves himself very quietly and
with the greatest decorum. There is not
a sign of insanity in his conversation or
actions. He still clings to the hope that
the District Supreme Court will do
something for him, but is not so conf
dent as he was.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE Democratic party was never in
better shape in Ohio for winning victo-
ry than at the present time," says the
Columbus Times. No marked improve
ment is noticeable in its condition since
Irvine, O'Myers, Okey, Bookwalter &
Co., led its enthusiastic columns last
Fall, so that it is fair to conclude that it
has been woefully out of shape for
some wears.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

IT is observed that a great many per
sons who do not want Tilden to run for
the Presidency again are Republicans.
Cincinnati Enquirer. If there be any
such Republicans, they do not reside
hereabouts.- Baltimore American. Nor
hereabOuts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

THE Cincinnati Enquirer remarks
with apparent satisfaction that the
present Legislature will probably do
better work for the Democratic party
in the coming campaign than its preds-
cessor did for the Democracy in 1881.
Republicans of the Legislature should
see to it that the Enquirer crowd do not
"laugh last"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

AN outbreak of smallpox at Point
Pleasant, New Jersey, is imputed to
contagion from some secondhand school
books purchased in New York. The fact
that four members of the family of the
man who bought the books are down
with the disease shows how virulent
may be an infection transported in this
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-02-16

4 NEW weekly Democratic paper has
made its appearance in New York, CALI
ed the Democratic Advance. Every page
is sprinkled with Mr.. Tilden's declara-
tions, which causes it to be regarded as
Tilden's organ. They do say, however,
that the old man is still sitting on the
hung of his bar'l.