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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02
Gems Of Thought
vii cannot brook delay.

The evil cannot brook delay.
The good can well afford to wait.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
What frenzy dictates Jealousy believes.
Indulge no doubts-they are traitors
Beauty is the mark God sets upon yir-
tue. 49,
A virtuaus man is ever in unison with
natures works. f-i-iaa suiet si.-'i'
. In every parting there is an image OF
death. i0cs aTsi ;i-'t fcistz ~
Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to
all who work or wish. s-a.s. -r..s
Idleness is the key of beggsry and the
root of ali evil.
Half the ills we hoard in our hearts
are ills because we hoard them.
- We lose the peace of years when We
hunt after the raptureeof moments.
The qualities We possess never make
us so ridiculous as those we pretend to
have. -..... 5-..s., $40 .-.f,
a mans good breeding is the, best Sc
cyrity against the peoples i'll manners.
Nothing will so increase and strength
en- the virtues as practice and expert
enee in them. SSH .7,e'f,- ii3t
When you give to isthers give cheer
fully! There is no blessing from an mn
wiling onerlng-f .sa FRY .-sGsqys
The frmest friendships have been
formed in mutual adversity; as iron is
most strongly united by the 6srcest
flame. Gar S,EE.3 s- Il
Good temper, like summer dayJsheds
a brightness over everything. 1t is tho
sweetner of toll and the soother of dis
quietude. -. -
Reflect upon your present blessings.of
which every man has many hot upon
have some. -.-z ..+r4siffrf9 -5e ~
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ned to meet his tastes, and from the day
he first crossed its threshold as the
guest of its original proprietor until he
took up his permanent abode therein, he
was never SO happy as when permitted
to retire from Che BUSY world and seek
repose of body anderniRd w itliih1.its spa
c.eus walls. ,7sa~,l .....f,,.,f e, s,.r,,I
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02
FRANCE and England are coming

an understanding on North African af-
fairs. Eng md will make no objection
to French y ssession of Tunis because
English Dlerests are to be carefully
guarded. France learns with satisfae-
tion that England will pursue a similar
course in Egypt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02


The Democrats of the First New
nominated Perry Belmont. w.
An eastern astronomer reports an
other comet eight degrees east Of the
big fellow at present visible. 9qoTq
The Birmingham, Ala. rolling mills,
which shut down jais 1, resume opera
tioDs. The men agree to resumeson last
years seaie.o sjnlw sdf ara iase.
Two hundred students in the Mon
mouth Qll.) College, have struck on ac-
count of the suspension by the Faculty
of one of their number. l- sac
John G. Thompson's Democratic jam
boree at Columbus, Friday evening, waf
huge. Speeches were made by Thurman.
Pendleton3 Nv ard and others. io.t
Saturday morning aufreight train OIL
the Ohio Southern Railroad ran of ths
track near Greenfield, Ohio Conductor
Foster. of Springfield. was killed, 4
Fred. Captain jr..' has confessed to
having been implicated in the murder
of Arthur wellington Ross, in Glendale.
two weeks ago. He duplicates the col-
ored man, Harris, his father and himself.
The cholera has returned to Japsr.
The official returns show that since this
lst of May over forty-seven thousand
cases have been recorded, of which near
ly,twenty5eishs thousand ended fatally.
The Missionary Convention % thu
Christian Church. at Lexington. Ken
tucky, closed Saturday, TO meet Ino Gin
~, - anntAhnr cql A hrrfe tSSS0~
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02
course in Egypt.

In the Arctic islam is north of Alaska
there is great suffering among the ia
tives on account of ihe scarcity of food.
The bodies If 100 natives who, died of
Starvation lave been found in one place.
From the Topics Come reports of the
ravages Of cholera e-nd yellow fever.
Clearly longitudinal extremes are to be
avoided.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02
Muskingum College.

1--WE COURSES, OF STUDY: Classical.
II Scientific. Normal. Musical and Modern
Language Thorough Education az tie least
possible expense. Good moral surroundings
Send for catalogue.
BE- 7S72m Rev. T. NJ. SPENCER, Pres
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02

Io Misses JONES h NEIL, milliners, have
lust receiveda barge and elegant stock
of fall and winter goods, They have
all the new andyaried Shades OF Beaver
hats, pattern hats and bonhets,. plushes,
neckwear. Yelyets, a ribbons feathers,
tips, &cyaH new, and handsome gopds,
which they are, selling atbyery reasona5
ble prices. Call and see them.- 1926 II.
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1t is said the title to the site at Co
lumbus, o., for the. new Government mt
Building, is defective. 6f..f
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e9S-.For brick go to Hart at .Beimont'
He has large kiln Of very choice, JUST
buried. p''' s'''h (ioi2'6D
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-02

The Eesti complete Institute iu the United
states for the thorough practical education of
,young and middle aged men; enter at any
lime k0-For circulars giving full particulars
addrsss JD6AIFH, H. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
The Conflict of States.

In the January number Of the Prince
ton Regieae, Mr.. Eugene Smith, New
York lawyer, presents, under the caption
of can't National Phases of State Gov
ernment," the important bearing Of the
conflict of State laws upon both the bust.
ness and the political interests Of the
whole country, and by numerous exam
pie defines the pressing need of some
concurrent action among the several
States for rendering their laws affecting
the interests of the citizens Of other
States harmonious. The facts enume-
rated, such as the embarrassment
to business of a diversity of tax
laws, of debtor and creditor laws,
of laws affecting insurance, in
vestments, marriage and divorce,
railroads, transportation, ETC., are far
more general and far more momentous
than the general public is probably
aware of. One of the natural results of
this conflict of interests is an unconsti-
tutional resort to the General Govern
ment for the exercise of a power larger
than that of individual States, unconsti-
tutional, Mr. Smith points out, because
such powers have not been delegated to
the Central Government by the States
through the written Constitution. These
large measures of the government do
more than anything else to centralize
power in the General Government And
the government must take these mat
tiers in hand, for the people demand
that the interests of business, under
new conditions, shall be cared for,
needless, perhaps, of the effect upon the
nature of the government. AS these
new conditions advance and enlarge,
this tendency must increase, and the
is already plainly evident. AS remedy
for this state of things, and as the only
solution of the difficulty, Mr. Smith
proposes that the States shall wake up
to the danger of losing all their SOW
ereignty, and agree among themselves
upon plan to harmonic these conflict
ing laws. such as establishing an inter
State Council to be composed of the
ablest legal minds, who shall first cOdify
or unity the existing laws in conflict,
and afterwards continue as an advisory
body to the Legislatures of States upon
such matters as affect the interests of
the citizens at large in business or social
affairs.
The article brings forward timely
topic, and under the political aspect
which has heretofore been overlooked,
in discussions on the conflict of laws
and it is to be hoped that the plan here
proposed is but the beginning of dis
cussion in the right direction.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
DueIine in Virginia.

Your Virginia Readiuster is q queer
fish. There is a clause in the State con-
stitution prohibiting dueling, and law
was passed some years ago imposing
the severest penalties upon the practice.
Notwithstanding this law, during the
recent heated campaign, duels were very
common Ghough, fortunately, bloodless)
in the Old Dominion, and 50 many Re-
adjusters, as well as Democrats, had for
feited their rights as citizens for having
engaged in affairs of honor, that spe-
cial act had to be passed by the Read
juster Legislature to relieve them of
their disabilities.
A bill is now pending, however, before
this same Readjuster Legislature, requir-
ing all persons hereafter elected to office
IN the State shall take an oath that they
have not fought nor participated in any
way whatever in a duel since January
LIST, 1882. Thus the Readjusters propose
20 take fresh start on the dueling ques-
zion, and, if the bill is passed, it will
probably be as strictly observed as was
the old law; that is, it will be obeyed
until politicians see fit to disregard it,
when probably another act to relieve the
offenders of all penalties will be passed,
and another law to prohibit dueling will
follow. This way of swinging around the
circle on the dueling question only tends
to make the practice and the law on the
subject both ridiculous.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12

AnEnglish paper undertook, the other
day, to investigate the great question Of
brains-whether we have more or less
than our ancestors The Inquiry grew
out of the declarations of the hattels
that they were selling smaller hats to-
day than they had a quarter of a century
ago, and that the size Of the average
human head had decreased nearly one
inch in circumference in that period.
This was unpromising and mournful in
deed, and our contemporary across the
water accordingly set to work to dis
cover the truth or faisity of the story.
We are glad to learn that it has complete
ly exp loded the idea and routed the hat
tiers. An investigation of skulls showed
that the brains of the human race are
growing larger and heavier every genera
ton with civilization, and that the future
man will be brainier than the present.
The great difference-15 per cent.
shown between the male and female
brain, due, perhaps, to the fact that the
mind of man is more exercised than
that of woman. The investigation
clearly demonstrated the fact that the
circumference of the head and the
weight of the brain depend upon its
continuous use for several generations.
The people with the largest and finest
heads are the Chinese-not because they
are the most civilized race of the present
age, but because civilization is older in
that empire, and by constant study the
head and brains of the Chinese have
been enlarged.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12


Mr.. B. w. WRENN.-It would not be
lust. remarks the Atlanta Constitution,
to let the Cotton Exposition pass away
without paying proper tribute to the
energy, tact and ability of Mr.. B. w.
Wrenn, who was the head of the depart
ment of transportation. Mr.. Wrenn was
at work night and day in the interest Of
the Exposition, and travelled over the
entire country arranging schedules, and
the fact that he obtained lower rates
than were given to the Centennial stamps
his work as successful beyond cCmpari-
son. There is no man who knows the
passenger systems or passenger agents
of the country better than Mr.. Wrenn,
and this knowledge he gave the EXPOSE
ton the entire benefit of. 1t is confessed
on all sides that the railroads saved the
Exposition, and no one had so much 10
do with getting the railroads to the res
cue as Mr.. Wrend All the officers of
the Exposition combine in according to
him the highest praise for his energy, his
skill and his devotion, and the public
feels just the same way about it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
Free ShIns or No Ships.

The steady decline in American foreign
commerce has long been marked. A
glance at the statistics of the past year
Of the ocean commerce of the port OF
New York reveals q humiliating state OF
affairs.
Thus, while British, Belgian, Austrian,
Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swed-
ISL and even Russian vessels divided
among themselves some $8,000,000 of
freights from grain alone within the
period mentioned, not solitary bushel of
grain, nor barrel of provisions, went
abroad from that harbor under the Amer.
lean flag. This is going from bad to
worse, inasmuch as during the year pre-
viOus, out of total of 113, 346, 1853 bush
els of grain stuffs from New York,
American vessels had at least 1928, 436
Again, in 1880, there were seven nation
alities that carried less than we did, but
in 1881 all these have bounded ahead,
and left the stars and stripes literally
nowhere. The British, as usual, got the
lions share of last years business, their
proportion Of grain freights amounting
to about GO per cent. Of the grand total,
against 81 per cent. the year previous.
The Norwegians are next on the list,
Notwithstanding the fact that their trade
is wholly in sail vessels.
The same ratio holds as to our other
ports. so that so far as foreign COM
merce is concerned our seaboard cities
have practically lost their nationality.
The three great realms of industry
agriculture, manufactures and commerce
should be simultaneously developed to
achieve national greatness and prosperity.
In the first two we compete with the
oldest and strongest of our rivals, but
we neglect the last upon the false theory,
disproved by years of costly experience,
that it is better to enable few native
dockyalds to monOpolize the little ship
building that can be secured than to pur-
chase ships in the cheapest markets and
make our flag known and respected in
every sea.
Confronted with the spectacle of our
vanished commerce, the only remedy, if
it can be called such, suggested by those
who control affairs, is subsidies for
American steamship lines, which must
be wrung from the pockets of the PEG,
pie. As things are gong, our navigation
laws, designed to protect American com
merce, are annihilating it. 1t was un
wise to have passed them at all. 1t is the
height of folly, in view of the ruin they
have wrought to our ocean carrying
trade, to continue them upon the statute
book. Free ships or no ships is propo
sition of the truth of which each years
experience adds successive proofs
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12

New Orleans, according to the press
of that city, has had fairly prosperous
year. There have been more buildings,
and better, erected during the year than
any year since the panic-more business
done, and better. For the year on which
we have just entered New Orleans has
the promise of reaping rich harvests
from the Southern Pacific and other rail
roads which have been brought to its
doors. No large fires have visited New
Orleans during the year, and the city has
been wonderfully healthy and free from
epidemics. The only halt in the onward
march was that brought about by the
labor troubles of September-fortunately
averted without blOodshed and satisfac-
toriy arranged. With increased capital
pouring into the city. with the jetties
opened for the largest vessels, with four
railroads now running there and at least
three more on their way, the Crescent
City enters upon the new year with
bright and frightening prospects.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
The Charges Against Mr.. sherman.

The Washington Sunday Gazette con-
tinues its attacks upon the Treasury
ring, the operations of which, so far as
the disbursement of the contingent fund
is concerned, are now under investiga-
ton by the Senate Committee on ApprO-
priations. In relation to the manner in
which Mr.. Sherman conducted his Presi-
dental canvass in the summer of 1880,
the Gazette says: I'm the early part of
1880, M p Canaday, then as now, Col
lector of Customs at Newbern, n. c.,
visited Washington by request of Tycoon
John. He found that the latter was
anxious to secure the delegation from that
State to the Republican NatlO Ial COnven-
ton, and that the "Official business" that
he desired to consult CanadaY on was
to learn how far he could help to that
end. Canaday suggested that he better
appoint a lot of temporary special agents
in that State to work up a Sherman
boom. Tycoon Johns patriotic and
comprehensive mind grasps the idea at
once. He gave Canauay large numb r
of appointments for special agents signed
in blank to put when, IN the language of
another great reformer, they would do
the most good, and Canaday took them
to Lamphere to have the names of
the North Carolina patriots inserted
and put on the pay r3ll. From
that time on Canaday was constantly
travelling at the expense of the United
States in the interest of Sherman, and he
travelled so much at government expense
that the Commissioner of Customs eX-
pressed dissatisfaction.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
The Decline in Irish Industries.

The revival of Irish manufacturing in
dustries, largely destroyed by hostile
legislation, is much agitated TIE sta
tistics of the decline are given as fol-
lows:
In 1900 there were in Dublin 81 master
wooden manufacturers and 4, 918 hands :;
in 1910, 10 masters and 602 hands, 80
master wOolcOmbers and 230 hands; in
1884, 5 masters and &C hands. The car
pet manufacturers in 1900 were Is mas
tiers and 720 hands; in 1871, 1 master.
The blanket manufacturers in Kilkenny
in 1900 were 56 masters and 900 hands,
in 1922, 40 masters and 925 hands.
The broad silk loom weavers in Dub
lin in 1900 at work were $500;
and in 1910, $50 The calico looms IN
Balbriggan in 1899 in full work were
1000; and in 1871, 1896 The flannel
looms in the county of Wicklow in 1900
were GOO; in 1871, not one. The case
of the Cork braid weavers, worsted
weavers, hOsiers, wOolcOmbers, cotton
viewers, linen check weavers, was even
worse. These industries employed thou
sands Ct hands up TO 1920; now there is
nOthi- left but a few wheeZy hand
looms near ShandOn Church and an
almost extinct colony of calico weavers
at Clonakilty. The linen trade once
throve in Mayo, but there is not trace
of it now.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
A SNUG REMEMBRANCE.
How q Poor Young Student was
Left $4,000 By His Ama1ced
Bride.
PHILADELPHIA Record.

A snug little fortune has just come to
John F. Neuber, a son of Rev. j. G..
Neuber. of No. 1882 Montgomery ave
nue. While a student attending Dr.
Ferris Classical Institute in 1875 young
Neuber became acquainted with Miss
Mabel A. Kennedy, and year or so later
they were engaged to be married. As
the young man was poor an understand
ing was had that the marriage would not
take place until he graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania and
was able to support wife by
practising a protest. n. Miss Ken
nedy lived with her parents at
Villanova on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and Neuber was a frequent visitor to the
house. In 1877 he summered with the
Kennedy family at Lake George, and
spent the summer with them at SaratO-
ga and Long Branch. During the sum.
mer of 1879 Miss Kennedy was taken
sick and Neuber was with her when she
died, few days later After her death
the Kennedys moved from Villanova and
their intimacy with Neuber ceased. One
day last week Neuber was startled by
the receipt of a notice from G. A. Troos
an uncle of the dead girl, who lives in
New York, that she had left her affianc-
ed husband $4,000. The remainder of
her fortune amounting to $4,000 the
deceased had left to her brother and two
sisters.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12

There are good grounds for believing
that the government has been outrage
ously swindled in the location of swamp
lands in Florida and Minnesota. The
title to great tracts Of arabic land has
been parted with under the cover of the
act of 1850, giving swamp lands to the
several States. The matter has long
been one of the interior scandals of the
Interior office. 1t will now probably be
made the subject of a Congressional
investigation. The rottenness will
doubtless grow in proportion as ex-
animation progresses. The reckless
prodigality with which the govern
ment has Invested itself Of the title
to its public lands in late RS has no
modern parallel 1t was the custom of
English and Spanish Kings to make vast
grants of territory in America, the bounds
of which were usually no more definite
than parallels of latitude and longitude;
but they did not know, and could not
know, what they were doing. Possibly
the authorities at Washington do not
know what they are about, but they
could know If they desired TO. The
probability is very strong that the frauds
upon the government have been accom-
plished by the help of the governments
own trusted agents.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12

Italy is making preparations to hold
the next worlds fair at Rome, in 1885 SO,
and the conditions and surroundings are
all favorable to success. Since Italy has
been united she has made most satisfac-
tory progress in commerce and the me-
chanic arts. Rome, as the site of an inter-
national exposition, offers peculiar at
fractions. The Italian Government is
deeply interested in the exposition, and
will give it material aid. Every nation
is invited to be represented, and some
have already responded The French
delegation will be headed by Gambetta.
The United States should begin to move
in the matter of being adequately repre-
sented at the exposition.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12
Mrs. Evelina R. Goodwin. a lady over

Mrs. Evelina R. Goodwin, lady over
Lightweight years of age, met with a
rather peculiar accident on Friday night
at Paterson, n. J. Old age had made
her childish, and the greatest of care had
been taken to prevent her from meeting
with any accident On Friday night she
was left alone in her room, and, seeing
the bright light of the fire shining
through the mica doors of the base burn
er stove in her room, she moved her
chair up to it and forced in one of the
doors with her handkerchief. The result
was that her clothes caught fire, but as
these were made of heavy cotton they
only smouldered, aud the only lady was
killed by suffocation. the smoke from
her clothing arising to her head and she
not having strength enough to move
away from the stove or to extinguish the
fire. When she was found life was ex-
tinct. The Coroner granted a certificate
of death by suffocation.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-12

STATE OF OUR EXPORT AND IMPORT
TRADE.-The bureau of statistics reports
an excess of merchandise over imports
for the month ended November 30, 1881,
of $13, 1893, 439, against an excess for the
same month last year Of $50, 500, 226.
There has been falling off also in the
import of gold and silver, as compared
with last year, of nearly seven millions
from 50, 374, $50 to 1926, 763. The ex-
cess of total exports of merchandise, sill
yer and gold, for November 1881, was
SIC. 972 go. against $26, 524 361 for the
same period in 1880. The falling off in
our exports OF merchandise is best oh
served, however, in the figures for the
five months ended with November. In
the five months ended November 80,
1881, the excess of exported over I'M
ported merchandise was but SIS, sos, III,
while for the like period in 1890 it was
$11O, 1913, 1921 The early months of 1881
were months of large export, so that
when we include in our retrospect the
eleven months ended November 30, the
export for 1881 is found to exceed that
for 1880 by over two millions and a
quarter