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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
Why Printers are Cynical.

The other day stood within the COM
posing-room of great daily newspaper.
There was nothing to delight the eye
no pictures, statues, or sumptuous fur
niture. Serious-looking men were stand
ing before their cases so fixedly that
nothing less than the falling of the roof
would have distracted their attention.
Scarcely a sound was audible but the
faint click of type falling into place. L
never before realized so forcibly the
cause why newspaper printers are, as it
said naturally cynical. To-day they set
up the type that tells the world of re-
joicings and festivity, tomorrow the
same type is made to proclaim disaster
and mourning; the same type which
carries to 10000 homes the inaugural
message of the ruler of 100000 of
people has not time to lose its sharpness
by use before it is employed to report
the funeral grafton of the same man.
The momsntary contraction of the fore
finger of despicable wretch levels ex-
alted hopes and robes the whole civilized
world in sable. III there is spot on
earth where the instability of human
affairs il epitomized hourly, it is in the
composing room of newspaper.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

THE man who insists on acting ac-
cording to his right is occasionally heard
from. He is disagreeable fellow. and
never succeeds well. He is hard to
manage, because he never demands
what can rightly be denied him. When
he travels he insists on having a seat in
lieu of the ticket he holds, and sternly
refuses to yield an inch, though the wo-
man with two sick babies must stand,
or occupy half seat over the trucks.
He will not stay at his work d minute
after time, although a few minutes by
way of accommodation some evening
might save his employer much money
and a world of trouble. He will not do
any extra work To allow half-sick fell
low workman to go home and rest half
day No; he will have what is his
own by right, and fulfil what, and only
what, time and service he has agreed to.
Poor fellow! He is always uncomfort-
able, always disliked, always poor. He
thinks he is hardly used.-Christian In
StructOr.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
Lowell asa Young Man.

There is much to be said about Low
ellis life, genius, and character, and some
of the things that have been said may
well be recalled now. Thirty-two years
ago last Christmas Fredrika Bremen was
here visiting Boston, Concord and Gem
bridge, and she spent week or two at
Elmwood with the Lowells, while that
vision of gentleness and enthusiasm,
Maria Lowell, was still living. OF the
poet and his wife she said in her letters
home: such handsome and happy
young couple one can hardly imagine;
he is full of life anG yauthful ardor, she
is as gentle, as delicate, and as fair as a
lily; her beauty is full of soul and grace,
as is everything which she does or says.
Like him, she has poetic tendency, and
has written anonymously some poems
remarkable for their deep and tender
feelings, especially maternal, but her
mind has more philosophical depths
than his. Singularly enough, l did not
discern in him that deeply earnest spirit
which charmed me in many of his poems.
He seems to me occasionally to be bril-
liant. witty, gay, especially in the even
ing, when he has what he calls his even
ing fever and his talk is then like.an
incessant play of fireworks. l find him
very agreeable and amiable; he seems to
have many friends, mostly young men.
Among his poems the witty and satirical
political fugitive pieces" (by which the
good little woman with the large nose
meant the "Bigelow Papers" suppose),
shave been very successful. AS one of
his merits l reckon his being so fasci-
mated by his little wife, because l am so
myself There is trace of beauty and
taste in everything she touches whether
of mind or body, and, above all, she
beauties life. l passed Christmas Eve
quite alone with Maria Lowell. l sew
ed and she read aloud to me her hus-
bands new work, which had been pub
lished the day before. l should think
Lowell would be Alcott's ideal of son
of light-every blonde and blue eyed
person, according to him, belongs to the
realm of light and goodness.
field (Mass.) Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
Abduction of Children by Gypsies.

The recent theft of little girl by
Gypsy reminds the Vienna Neue Freie
Press of numerous instances of this
heartless crime which have been detect
ed in that city. Twenty years ago such
cases were not uncommon. One of the
most fiendish of them caused great ex-
citemeut in Vienna. An old Gypsy wo-
man had been accustomed to sit and
beg for aims day after day at street
corner She held in her arms little
child, whose pitecus cries attracted the
attention of passers by, and so excited
their sympathy that the old woman was
fast getting rich from the coins which
they dropped into her lap. At length
suspicion vas excited, and the police
made an investigation. They found the
child's back covered with minute
wounds. At one point half Of the shell
of nut clung to the skin, and when it
was detachtd out ran spider, the man
ifest cause of the child's sufferings. OF
course the old liend who had devised
this piece of devilish ingenuity was sent
to prison, but it is an infinite pity that
she was not cut up and fed to chickens.
Further inquiry proved that the child
had been stolen from his parents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

THE saloon keepers and brewers whe
propose to fight the laws pertaining to
their traffic passed by the last Legisla-
ture assume that their cause is that of
the people, and that there will be a
grand popular rush to their support.
The valid grounds for this assumption
are not visible to the naked eye. What
have the farmers and workingmen of
Ohio in common with the saloon-keep-
ers, that should induce them to take up
the banner of free whisky and follow
itp Is agriculture allied with or de-
pendent upon saloon-keeping? Are the
workingmen the benefciaries or the vas
sails of saloon-keepers2 How are farm
ers or laborers to be benefited by hav-
ing the saloons 60 untaxed, or exempt
from their just share of taxation? Why
should men who earn their living by
toll and sweat clamor, and work, and
vote for the tax exemption of the non--
producing saloonist?
| Heretofore it has always been popu-
lar to reduce and equalize taxes in Ohio,
but now we are asked to believe that
the great mass of the people will resent
this as an outrage. We are told that
there is going to be great popular YER
dict in favor of making the sale of liq-
uors favored and pet traffic, to be car
ried on when all other business must
suspend, and to be free from the tax
burdens which every other trade and
occupation must bear. The saloonists-
that is to say, many of them mot all
are preparing for war, and are making
loud and threatening predictions of an
overwhelming popular verdict in accord
with their hostile movements. Why are
they making these predictionsp How
are they going to lay hold upon popular
sympathy? By resisting the law? The
people of Ohio, with comparatively few
exceptions, respect the law. They have
no sympathy with either law-breakers
or with that which generates and i'm
pels law-breaking. They are not going
to vote to strike its equal share of taxes
from traffic which is the direct source
of untold misery, crime, and public ex-
pense. The people are not such fools
either in pecuniary or in moral sense
In our cities we need money to build
sewers, pay our policemen, and to light
and clean our dirty streets. In the
country there is want of funds fol
bridge, road, poorhouse, Jail and kindred
purposes. Every cent that will be raised
under the Pond law can be usefully ap-
piled in these directions. Are the farm
(. ers, mechanics and laborers going tt
load these burdens on their own back.
for the benefit of the non-producing sa
: loonists? Not exactly Ohio Stat,
4 Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

LEONARD HENKLE, who proposes to
use the power of the Niagara river at
the falls to generate electricity for light
ing all the cities far and near, has Sc
cured the offer of a contract for land on
which his works are to be located. The
Prospect Park Association offer to
transfer in fee simple by deed the prop
erty comprised in the twelve acres of
the park and three acres outside of it
for the consideration of S1.O00,000. Hen
kle's plan is to erect enormous hydrau-
lie machinery on the American side of
the river. just below the falls, which
will be used to do the work of genera
ting the electricity. He is now looking
for his million dollars.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
Let the Test Come.

The saloon keepers propose to bring
the constitutionality of the Pond tax to
test an at early day. All right. Let the
matter be settled once for all, and let US
have the settlement as soon as possible.
If it is not constitutional to tax saloon
keeping, either as a means of equalizing
taxation and raising revenue, or for the
purpose of restraining the evils result
ing from the liquor traffic, then the
sooner this fact shall be definitely deter
mined the better. We have the utmost
faith in the constitutionality of the law,
but other people have not, and their
doubts should either be removed or con-
frmed.
Whatever the result may be, it was
the duty of the Legislature, under the
circumstance, to pass law embracing
the principles of the Pond act. Those
principles are correct, and are on all
hands admitted to be so. If it is not
possible, under the Constitution, to in
corporate them into statutes of the State,
then the Constitution must be amend
ed. If the Pond bill shall be sustained,
then liquor traffic amendments to the
Constitution, though perhaps still i'm
portant OH some accounts, will be great
deal less necessary than they are now.
The policy that is to be pursued in fu-
ture concerning the liquor traffic will
therefore be greatly influenced by the
decision that shall be made as to the
constitutional validity of the Pond law.
A verdict against the law will probably
be hailed by the saloon keepers as a
great triumph, but whether they will
ultimately profit by it is another ques-
ton. If there is no way of taxing the
traffic, then the coming of local option
will be materially hastened, and when it
arrives, no saloon will, in many portions
of the State, be permitted to exist. We
do not say that local option will not come
at any rate, but the saloon keepers will
greatly accelerate its approach if they
succeed in having the Pond law declared
a nullity. We shall then see the traffic
not only taxed and restricted, but in
some counties and many townships and
towns totally prohibited. When it comes
to that, the saloon keeping interest will
find itself wishing that it might have
the Pond law back again, if only anti
liquor legislation would stop there.
The saloon keepers seem to be uncon-
scious of the fact that in trying to ex-
tricate themselves from Scylla, they are
placing themselves in greater danger OF
falling into Charybdis. They would
display wisdom in showing disposition
to let well enough alone, but since they
are not willing to do that, upon them be
the consequences. If the Supreme Court
shall pronounce the Pond law unconsti
tutional, the people of Ohio will, as law
abiding citizens, acquiesce in the yer.
diet, but they are not going to let mat
tiers rest there. The era of free whisky
if not ever, is at least drawing to close
and everyby may as we'll make up hi:
mind to that fact and govern himself
accordingly.-O. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
DROPPED DEAD!
SUDDEN Death of Hon. Horace May.
nard from Heart Disease.

The Hon. Horace Maynard died sud-
denly on Wednesday morning of last
week, at his home in Knoxville, Tenn,
of heart disease, in the 6Sth year of his
age. He had quite recently returned
from Nashville, where he went to attend
as a delegate the Republican State
Convention, which renominated Hon.
Alvin Hawkins for Governor. The day
before his death he was in apparent good
health, and received company up to 10
o'clock in the evening. When he had
gone to bed he remarked to his wife, 81
canno: BREATHE" and these were his last
words. He was born at Westborough,
Mass, August 80, 1914, and received his
education at Amherst College, gradua-
ting in the class of 1888. He afterward
became tutor, and subsequently Mathe-
matical Professor in the East Tennessee
University. He was admitted to the
bar in 1914, and became a successful
lawyer. He was a Representative in
Congress from 1857 to 1869, and through
his devotion to the national cause suffer
ed much persecution. He again served
in Congress from 1866 IS, representing
the Second or Knoxville District until
1878, when he was chosen Representa-
tive at large. In 1861 Amherst College
gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
In 1875 he was appointed Minister to
Turkey. He was recalled in 1880, hav-
ing received the appointment of Post
master General in August of that year.
Since the accession of the Garfield ad-
ministration he had been in private life.
He was an able if not BRILLIANT man, and
gave evidence of patriotism and cour-
age at very critical period of the re-
bellion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

IT may be of interest to Americana,
who are hankering after share in great
English estates, to know that so-called
International Agency, with headquarters
at Birmingham, and branches in the new
as well as in the old world, has been
broken up as swindle. 1t has adver-
tised that next of kin and other heirs
for over S25,OOO,OOO were wanted, and
people bearing such common names as
Smith, Brown, King, Mason, Wood, ETC.,
were specially informed that unclaimed
properties were awaiting them. Hun
dreds and perhaps thousands of poor
and moderately well off people have
been induced to make deposits on a
guaranty of being helped to affiuence,
and the grOssest frauds of all kinds
have been perpetrated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
limited PRESBYTERIAN CHURCB
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
JAMES MELLOR, w. NJ.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. IL,
y Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
G. W. CARROLL, II. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. & 8. NJ.
Id Meets second Tuesday of each month.
b. 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, E. c.
l.. L. 5EDwICK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

THE curious enterprise is being con-
Quoted in New Jersey of grinding up
worn-out Indian rubber Overshees to
make what is called "stoek." This ma
terial is brought in barrels and is press
ed by the manufacturers into new India
rubber goods. A thin coating of fresh
rubber varnish makes them look quite
equal to articles of the best quality but
they are said to have an outrageous lack
of durability.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

A ADIsPATCH from Santa Fe announces
that the Mexican Colonel Garcia, with
his troops, has met and killed 7S, and
captured 33, of the Indians whom Colo
mel Forsythe has been pursuing. They
must have crossed into Mexican terri
tory in fleeing from Forsythe's pursuit.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev r.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, $50 a. n. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m-; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; pm. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday z P. m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday Bpm.
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, Q pm Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
THE Secretary of the Ohio Board of

THE Secretary Of the Ohio Board OF
Agriculture reports that in the north
ern half of the State wheat and all late
fruits are thus far uninjured. Early
fruits, such as peaches and strawberries,
are considerably damaged. In the
southern half of the State the damage
to wheat is from ten to fifteen per cent.
Early fruit is nearly ruined. Late ap-
pies give promise of fair crop.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

OWING to insufficiency of funds for
uniforms and camping out. the Adjutant
General of Ohio has ordered the number
of the National GusnAssednced to the
minimum provided by law, except in
special cases.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
Belmont County on1ciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Ceurts-Alex. G. Darrsh.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditor-William n. Coffland.
Reconsideration Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred II. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs
Commissioners-0wenM 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, 1882-05-11

They are wrong, however, in dread
ing superiority of intellect and soul.
This superiority has most favorable
influence on the character; for extent Of
knowledge renders us very yindulgent,and
great depth of feeling inspires great
goodness of heart.-Mad. De Steal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

RALPH WALDO. EAERsos.A Americas
great philosopher ,essay1st and poet, died
at his home in Concord, Mass, April
9th, aged seventy-eight years eleven
months and 5z<pdays. He was born in
Boston, May z6 1903.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

THE coal miners of Northeastern Ohio
have concluded not to strike, but to go
to work. A similar course will proba-
bly, be pursued in the Hooking Valley.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

How men are privileged, that they can
go to war, brave death, give themselves
to the enthusiasm of honor and danger!
But there is no relief, from without. for
woman. Her existence, motionless un-
der the visitation of sorrow, is loBg
and slow torture.-Mad. De Stael.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

THE President has issued proelama-
ton warning the cowbow outlaws of
Arizona to subside by noon of May Is,
or take the CONSEQUENCES.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

THE Democratic Treasurer of Au-
glaize county, O., seems to have done
wholesale peculating business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

When / shall be wholly Frustrated by
sickness, a calm will spread over N.Y.
heart There is much innocence in the
thought of being about to die, and
welcome the feelings which that situa-
tion MISUNDERSTANDING.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

As THE late Indiana elections are
heard from, Republican successes ap-
pear to have been very general.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

BURGLARS robbed the Postoffice at
Oberlin, O., of $3.50 in money and $4,000
worth of stamps.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
BelmontChTonicle
"A, HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Evesy 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.
OyFIoK-South side Main street, nearly op-
posite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

You wrong others and are wronged
yourself by equivocstions Of any kind.l
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

Practice in the Supreme Court and Court OF
Promptness and satisfaction given In ali busi-
eees entrusted to them. Correspondence So
icited "a e29 7th st., op. 2. o. Department.
WASHINGTON DO ssp2stf
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11
TEACHERS ExAMINATIo N.

i88I-82.
Belmont County, OHIO.
Sd Saturday of Sept at Barnesville;
lst do Oct at Bellatre;
4th do Oct st Morrtstovn;
Sd do Nov at st Clairsvile;
4th do Dec at Bellaire;
Sd do Jan at Barnesville;
Sd do Feb at Bridgeport;
ID do March at 81 Ciairsville:
Ist do April at Glencoe;
am do April at st Clairsville;
Id do May at Belmont;
d do June at Bellaire.
Also at close of Institute at st. Clairsville.
Examinations begin at 8. am.
Testimonials of character are required II
ppIicant is not known to the Board
Certificates will not be antedRte or extended.
Tests in higher branches will be given al
claire on the sd OF December, and at close
Institute.
A. A. CLAK. Ex. Board.
]. NJ. YARNELL.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-11

At six-I we'll remember when
l fancied all folks old at ten.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-09-28
: The Grea, Southern Remedy

"Bralu, chill Cure" which i n
rAutrd for the cure ut cbiII- and tg
is positive auiiJutr for malaria, g
has no rival as tonic tor buillHg3
AN emaCiatCd system from such o.
matte CAUSES, and tu thO-. who ~
necessarily exposed fo mH-mA,iCIt.
euccs, aud are attended with ID. e.
lowing symptoms. such o. los, olllt
lite, aching pt tine back and ioinei-
vcrishucs-, severe hr..chr, iujl'Pa
ton to get about, low p.rit-, sleeps
ness, chilly sensations, and cyenlAi
hot, burning foyer, which may all!
terminate ia bilious, ym,ltrnt o. z
termittcnt fever We would -g.gegaG
you keep u supply ou hand al u
time and take dose three Times ill
No other mcdicin. i, necessary, Shs
very concentrated aud powerful 10 q
effects in removing rua pY-Ouou; If
mcnt, from the blood. and no oreG
appreciate thi, warming better than d
farmer, who Is more ur JOSS tIl1%
to those almost hcric lui~uu-, letAl
in the tall season, when gathering thG
crops in the midday SUM- cool nlgla
and heavy dcw- of morning, thenhs
those malignant fcycr- are most PREV
lent, and to them We would rctonneiii
to take a dose of "BUlo. Chill Cur,
every morning ON rising, ID they Ho44
avoid the danger OF much suffering, v
say nothing of the time and cxFe'S
saved IN the end. No strythnlle u
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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-09-28
uckImn"n - can. Attorney 81
Law. AIiIIsboro, 'IrNu~.

McKmon a Cu i. n'turuoy-.lt.
and nud agents, uf Iulsburl, Hill
county, VcNus are proprirtur4 uf u com
plrtv and perfect abstract Of titles ut an
lands "a Hill unity Their uhstrlri ls
complete IN nli ~ its parts, nul these
ucutlmcn have the reputation % heIu.
first cluas mui men, and those who hny.
amy husucss at this character to rtteud
to, will do we'll by corresponding with
them They mnkr uprciHitr- NJ COM
m rc.al and lnud practice. making ah-
-trarjs NJ lands selling lands md pny
my taxes for uuu-r Wdruie. No charge
made for giving informal ON 300 regard
10 lauda us 10 location, value etc .2olt