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The Purltans and Quakers in New
England.

/ The Puritan laid no claim to the pos
session of any peculiar inspiration OF
divine light whereby he might be aided
in ascertaining the meaning of the sa,
cred text; but he used his reS@ $nst as
he would in any matter of BUSINESS, and
he sought to convince, by raaonsl argu
ment. and by nothing else. Itfollowed,
from this denial of any peculiar inspi-
ration, that, there was no room in the
Puritan commonwealth for anything
Ikea priestly class, and that every indi-
vidual must hold his own opinions at
his. own personal risk. frS.
We can now see what it was that
made the Puritans so intolerant of the
Quakers. The followers of George Fox
did lay claim to the possession of some
sort of peculiar or personal inspiration.
They claimed the right to speak and act
as 'the spirit moved them." and they
sometimes sought to exercise this al
legged right to All extent that, in the eyes
of the Puritans, threatened the dissolu-
tion of all hHman society. Nor were
these obnoxious claims confined to the
decorum of written or spoken discus
sion. The Quakers who so reused the
wrath of Boston in the seventeenth cen
tury were not at all like the quiet and
respectable Quakers whom one meets to-
day in Rhode Island or in Pennsylvania.
Many of them were very turbulent and
ill-mannered, to say the least. They
were in the habit of denouncing all
earthly magistrates and princes, and
would hoot at the governor as he passed
along the street. They would allude to
the Bible as the Word of the Devil
and would rush into church on Sundays
and interrupt the sermon with untimely
and unseemly remarks. A certain
Thomas Newhouse once came into one
of the meeting-houses in Boston with a
glass bottle in each hand, and, holding
them up before the congregation, knock
ing them together and smashed them,
with the discOurteous remark, Thus
will the Lord break you all in pieces!'
AL dOOGAer IlIu0 d WOudll udueQ DItWS-
ter came to church with her face smear
ed with lamp-black. And Hutchinson
and Cotton Mather relate several in
stances of Quaker women running about
the streets and coming into town-meet
ing in the primitive costume of Eve be-
fore the fall. Such proceedings were
called "testifying before the Lord" but
one can well imagine how they must
have been regarded by our grave and
dignined ancestors, who could not have
forgotten, moreover, the odious scenes
enacted as Minister by the German An
abaptists of the preceding century. 1t
is not strange that the Puritans of Bos
ton should have made up their minds
that such things would not be permitted
in the new community which they had
endured so much to establish. Several
of the Quakers were publicly whipped,
or stood in the pillory. They were for
bidden to enter the colony under penal.
ty of death; and at last three of their
number, who had twice been dismissed
from the colony with words of warning,
and had twice been "moyed by the spir-
it" to return and "testify." were hanged
on Boston Common.-[ John Fiske, in
Harper's Magazine for December.
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Accident TO a Pan Handle Train.-Mi
raculOus Escape Of Pass
pnOpps

NEWARK, November 22.-The first
section of the Pan Handle passenger
train No. 2, going east, at o'clock this
morning, met with terrible accident
near Union Station, Licking county, six
miles west of Newark. The train con-
sisted of nine cars, and while running
at the rate of thirty-five miles per hour
the engine encountered rail lying
across the track, placed there by un-
known persons. The engine, engineered
by John Stone, with William Jones,
fireman, rolled down thirty foot EN-
bankment, and landed in a wheat field
with its head pointing in the reverse
direction. The engineer and fireman
kept their posts and escaped with slight
bruises. The rest of the train ran about
twenty feet farther on the ties and
plunged down the embankment. One of
the postal cars, containing six men,
turned over twice, and was left stand
ing upside down. The other postal car,
with four clerks, fell on it's side. The
baggage car was thrown clear over the
second postal, aud two coaches and the
sleeper followed the baggage car. About
seventy persons were in the train. No
body was killed or very seriously hurt.
Physicians and the wrecking train were
Immediately dispatched from this city,
and rendered aid. There is no clue as
to who placed the rail on the track, or
what the motive was. The loss to the
railroad company is about ten thousand
dollars,
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Bob Burdette's Ambition.

No wonder the mule is a kicker. Were
mule |, too, would kick. know just
exactly what kind of a mule would be.
A hay mule. One of those sad-eyed old
fellows that lean back in the breeehing
and think, with striped legs like zebra,
and dark-brown streak down my back
and paint-brush tail. and my name cut
short and my foretep.banged, and head
as long as barrel, and I'd be worth two
hundred and half in any market; and
I'd wear a fiat harness and no blinders,
and some day when some man hitched
me up to dray and piled on ton and
half of pig iron. cord of wood. and
six barrels of -four and a steamboat boil.
er, would start off with it patiently
and haul it steady until l got to the top
of the grade on the new road around
North Hill, and right about there and
then falling maple leaf, tiuttering
down in spark of gold and crimson,
would scare me all but to death, and the
authorities would have to drag the Mis-
sissippi river six weeks to find all of
that load and some of that driver, while
in three minutes after the emeitte l
would be TRANQUILITY browsing on the
grassy heights that smile above the sill
yer flowing river. That is the kind of
a mule wonld be u Burlington lowa)
Hawkeye.
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Wheat MaXims.

The following information about
wheat growing has been condensed and
and is now going the rounds in various
journals:
1. The best soil for wheat is rich
clay loan.
2. Wheat likes a good, deep, soft bed
8. Glover turned under makes just
such bed.
4. The best seed is oily, heavy, plump
and clean.
5. About two inches is the best depth
to SOW the seed.
. 6. The drill puts in the seed better and
cheaper than broad-casting.
/ T. From the middle of September to
the last of October is the best time fol
sowing.
/ 8. Drilled, one bushel of seed per acre
if sown broadcast, about two bushels
per acre. i.r
9. One heavy rolling after sowing does
much good. .
10. For flour cut when the grain be-
gins to harden; for seed, not until it has
hardened.
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The Lime-Kiln Club.

DE man who expects leas' of de world
am de man who has de fewest com
plants" said, the old man rs the sound
of rattling hoofs died away in the hall
"De man who imagines dat friendship
will borry money at de hank am doomed
to disappointment. My friend may lend
me his shovel, btit he-expects me TO re-
turn his hoe in good cOnidisfun. He
may inquar arter my wife's health, but
it doan' foller dat kin turn nv chick
ems into his garden. If am sick
doan' expect de world to stop movin'
right long. If my mex doah nabur
whispers to my wife dat he am willin'
to sot up wild my corpse he am doin' his
full duty If am in want dat's nuffin'
to de people who have plenty. If am
in trouble dat's muffin to people who
have sunthin' to rejoice ober. De world
owes me only what can airn. 1t owes
me room to pass to and fro. space for a
grave, an sicha funeral as de ole wo-
man kin pay fur and.keep de bin full o
teteis. De worlds friendship reduces
a man to rags as often as it warns his
heart. De worlds charity excuses the
crime OF q hoss thief an am horror
stricken, oher, de stealin' of a loaf of
bread by an orphan. De world promises
eberything an performs only what am
convenient" .s.-,-,t sr..
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rLangtry bonne,s. gloves and slippers

fLangtry bonnets. gloves and slippers
will be the rage. f:i- 49, --t sd
Telegraph, hussar. electric and royal
are four very popular shades of blue
ROYAL cardinal Jackets are very fash
ionably worn over black skirts OF silk.
satin, or cashmere.
= Scarlet cloth, with elder-down woven
in it, is light and comfortable fabric
for winter underskirts.
Round and oval-shaped brooches ara
imported now that every lady is sup
piled with long. slender lace-pins.
Ruby. very dark plain color, and
golden brown are the shades most 10
vogue for velvet costumes for the prom
enade. rH r,.sr.-
The oriental cloakings most fashion,
able this winter are of mixed silk and
worsted in fine camel's hair shawl de-
signs and Of rich and sabdued colorine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-30

Col. L.HENDERSoN,7 of Iowa, secretary
Of the Republican Congressional Com
mittee. says that the total sum raised by
assessments made by Jay Hubbellis con-
mittee did not foot up 100000. while be
had reason, to believe that the Democrats
spent more than that in Ohio alone
Democratic 6flice-kolders, the saloon
keepers. distillors, and brewers. and the
Free Trade League ali poured their
money into the Bourbon campaign fund,
and the Bourbons received the passive
or active support OF the great mass of
citizens who are opposed to the use of
meBeyzin elections The Democrats
were crying stop thief" for the purpose
of hiding their own rascality.-IGleve-
land Leader.
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Death of ThurlOw Weed, the Emi
neat Journalist and Statesman.

NEW YORK. Nov. 22- Surrounded by
his weeping Children. grandchildren,phy
sicians, nurses and the attaches of lis
household. Hon. Thurlow weed, the vet
eran journalist aud stateman breathed
| his last mt $50 this morning. His
daughter, Miss Harriet Weed, who has
devoted her life to her father, was So
overcome that she had to be supported
by two female attendants. The grief OF
the other children was none the less
poignant. Just before passing away
Mr. Wood groped with his right hand
around the bed, as though he sought his
childrsn's hands, His grand daughter
took the extended hand, felt a soft
pressure, and the next moment he was
dead. exc t, = r. i,'ii .
Thurlow Weed was born at Cairo,
Greene county, n. Y, Nov. 10, 1871 He
learned printing in the office of Machy
Croswell, at Catskill. In the war of
1912 he served on the northern frontier
as private and quartet master sergeant.
After becoming of age he established
the Agriculturist at Norwich, Chenango
county. n. Y, and during the next ten
years edited various journals, the last
being the Anti-Masonic Enquirer, pub
lished in Rochester. During the Anti
Masonic excitement in New York in
1867 he identified himself with the
party opposed to the Masons, and was
twice elected by it to the lower house
of the State Legislature. His tact as
party manager, and his services in 1926
in securing the election of Dewitt JClln-
ton as Governor, suggested him as a
competent person to oppose the ALBA
ny regency" who had the general man
agement of the Democratic party in
New York. At the expirntion of his
second term in the Legislature in 1880,
he accordingly removed to Albany. and
assumed the editorship of the Albany
Evening Journal, newspaper estab-
lished in the interest of the anti-Ja ack-
son party. From 1880 to 1862 he.was
political leader, first of the Wing and
afterward of the Republican party. He
was prominent in procuring thePresiden-
tial nominations of Harrison. Taylor
and Scott, acting in each instance as an
independent adviser of the respective
conventions. He warmly advocated the
election of Fremont in 1856, and of Lin
coin in 1860, although his influence had
in each case been exerted in favor of
the nomination of Mr.. Seward. In No
vember, 1861, he was sent to Europe by
President Linccoln in semi-diplomatic
capacity. He returned home in June,
1862, and shortly. afterward withdrew
from the editorship of the Evening
Journal In 1865 he became resident
of New Xork city, where he edited for a
time the Commercial Advertiser. Since
1868 intirm health has compelled him to
withdraw from active labor. He pub
lifhed Letters. from Europe and the
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|7TTT-T n I.f-F-It y -
She Thought They Did.

"We had such delightful time at the
beach" exclaimed the'first, as they took
seats in the car. 'i t'" z
did you gain any healthy" asked the
other .i'i1 '. i~"'.'n '''.''-''
'tNo,s L can't say that did" ~ 80 o.
do the children feel better ?"
perhaps not" 81 s-s.@fia it'
did your husband gee lid of his
cough?" ~ hi't u ia,l '"a
"Oh, no" $3.50 s'i.S'-'',-
"Then to sum the whole thing up, did
you really gain anything by going = q. (.
i,"Certainly we did. My husband made
some friends with . man from Iowa and
got him to sign aBOte with him for
$4,000. Il should say we did gain" 81
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Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, z. s. a. M
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be
fore full moon.
ROBT. NJ. EATON, w. N.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. IL
- ROYAL Arch Masons. Stated convoca
tious, first Friday of each month.
j. B. RYAN, II. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
iDELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R. g. 8. NJ
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
Fl. r. BUMGARNER, T. L M.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 90, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday, of each
month. @. W. CARROLL, K. @.
l.. l.. ;5BDwIoK. Rec. s-1
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-30

The story is going the rounds Of the
papers thai the famous ex-Confederste
WARRIOR General Beauregard, is about
to marry the widow of the late Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. 1t will be remembered
that theC Commodore in his old age took
unto himself 4 young wife, who at his
death inherited large portion of his
estate. The fair widow, has already
buried two husbands, and General Beau
regard has lost two wives, so in this re-
spect the parties stand on equal terms.
The widow Xanderbuilt is about forty
years of age, and the General is some
thing over sixty, and is a grandfather.
Mrs. Vanderbilt has no children.
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Words of. Wise Men.

A babe in house is a well-spring of
pleasure.-Tupper, :, ......6
Whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing welL-Disrieli. ~ ssf'suL
We should look at the lives of all as
at mirror, and take from others an
example for ourselves.-Terence. ~ i
1t is only necessary to grow old to be-
come more indulgent. l see no fault
committed that have not committed
myself. Goethe, c.
You may depend upon it that he is a
good man whose intimate friends are
all geod.-Leyater. ~.
We should do by our cunning as we
do by our courage-always have it ready
to defend ourselves, never to offend 9TH
ers.-Greville. 10 I :la3Gs7hG adt
A man should never be ashamed to
own heihas been in the wrong, which is
but saying in other words, that he is
wiser to-day than he was yesterday =
Pope. '5 ia
There are many men who appear to
be struggling against poverty and yet
are happy; but yet more, who, although
abounding in wealth are miserable
TacltuS.
Though soldier, in time of peace, is
like chimney in summer,yet what wise
man would pluck down his chimney be-
cause his almanac tells him it is the
middle of June eY-Tom Brown.
As in a mans life so in his studies, L
think it is the most beautiful and hu
name thing in the world, so to mingle
gravity with pleasure that the one may
not sink into melancholy. nor the other
rise up into wantonness.-Pliny. iiE
Equality is one of the most consum-
mate scoundrels that ever crept from
the brain of a political juggler-a fellow
who thrusts his hands into the pocket
of industry and enterprsing talent, and
squanders their hard-earned profits on
prohigate idfeness and indolent stupidi-
ty, lIangstaff. t7u iuti r.
Every mind seems capable Of en- eer
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New Series-Vol. %. No. At

tanning a certain quantity ofhappiness
which n0institutionS can increase, nt
circumstances alter, and. entirely indie
pendent of fortune. Let any man com
pare his present fortune with the past
and he Will, probably, lind himself,
upon the whole, neither better MOI
worse than formerly,=Goldsmith.
o, blessed health. thou art above all
gold and treasure; it's thou who enlarg-
est the soul, and epeiiest al its powers
to receive instruction and to relish viz
tue. He that has thee has little else to
wish for; and he that is so .wretched as
to want thee, wants everything with
thee. .--Sterne.. - - ~
:. Choose for. your friend him, that is
wise and good, and secret and just, inge-
which have latitude, use your own lib,
erty.-Jeremy Taylor a.; .1stsvss .a
5e Life, believe, is not a dream, .-lt.
asai So dark as sagesssay; cS; =
~ Oft ailittle morning rain
.Is-s Foretells Il pleasant day. .lH se
-Chhrlotte Bronte.1J
1t is a secret Known. to but few, yet of
nc small use in hecOndiIet' iof life, that
when you fall into mans conversation
the first thing you should consider is
whether he has greater inclination to
hear you, or that you should hear him.
Steele.
Had a careful and pleasant eompan-
ion, that should show me my angry face
in the glass, l should not at all take it
i'll; to behold mans self so unnatural
ly disguised and disordeged, will con
duce not aFlitLle to the impeachment of
-
elt1s anl0lGlsaying that charity begins
at home; but this is no reason it should
not go abroad a man should live " it'll
the world as a citizen of the world; he
may have a preference for Tie particu
lar quarter or square, or even ALLEY, III
which he aiYes, but he shuuhi lIave Il
generous feeling for the welfaresOf the
whole.-Cumberland. T.tias3-t
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The. New Geography.

How many farms are there in the
United States? 4,609,907.
How many dwellings in city and coun-
try? S,955,S12.
Which State has the most farms, and
how many? Illinois, with 255,741.
What is the total number of farm an
imals2 136,927,573.
What do they comprise, and the num-
ber of eachp Swine, Al 7,6S3,951; sheep
I35, 191,656; milch cows, l., ,443, ,952; work.
ing oxen, 903, $40; other cattle, 22,4S3,
500; horses, 10,357,9S1; mules and asses
t,S14,932.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-30

FoUR men in Pomeroy, Ohio, were
subpenaed as witnesses in ease sgainst
"a saloon-keeper. They attempted to
evade the questions put is them, where
upon the judge committed them to Jail
for contempt OF court The saloon-keep
er then chsnged his plea of not guilty to
guilty and the witnesses were released.
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Consultations of a SLOW Train.

I Consultations of Slow Train .
On some of the Western roads they
attach a passenger car to freight Train
and call it mixed" 1t isn't in. the or
der of things that SUCH trains should
travel very rapidly, and sometimes there
is considerable growing among the
traffice.'
Are we most there, conductor?' asked
la nervous man for the hund-edth time
"Remember, my wife is sick, and.sI L am
anxious. sAf 10 ts3 .-f i.R- $40 .f,-s
i'Wsll get thereon me,snreplied the
conductor, stOlidly.,Fl ~ .-- 5
Half anihOur later the nervous man
approached him again. lld HaI
Il guess she's dead now, said he,
mournfully, but I'd give you a little
something extra if you could manage to
catch up with the funeral. Maybe she
won't be so decomposed but what /
could recognize her, ,ali ~ -
The conductor growled at him, and
the man subsidized - rs sHs d q
.Conductor,' said he, after an hours
silence, conductor, if the Wind isn't
dead ahead l wish you would put on
some steam. should like to see where
nay wife is buried before the tombstone
crumbles to pieces. Put yourself in my
place for moment
The conductor shook himi off, and the
man relapsed into profound melancholy.
L say. conductor said he. after long
pause, I've got d note coming due in
three months. Can't you fix it SO as to
rattle along d little 70 .Istf. Sd.
If you come near me again Ill knock
you down. shouted the conductor, saw
liagely.sA s.-ff.3 ~" .Atsls-7.F -.i}s1
The nervous man regarded him sadly,
and went to his seat. Two hours later
the conductor saw him chatting gaily
and laughing heartily with brother
victim. aud approached him. ~ aI
''Don't feel so badly about, your wife's
deathr 81. lG3T1lE sal -.-ri. s-u ..-
Time heals all wounds, signed the
nervous man. r r >Ia.sr..
And you are not so particular about
the nOte?' -- 1r- a.+7.- -g-t
sneered the conductor
Not now. That's all right. Don't
worry I've been igurine up, and l
find that the note has Outlawed. since
spoke to you last.-TrayeleT's Magazine.
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The Next Congress.

AS near as can now be arrived at the
following table shows the number Of
Democrats and Republicans in the
next House. Weller Of Iowa, electstl
as Greenback-D Democrat, is classed
with the Democrats, and Lyman, Of
Massachusetts, Independent, is classed
as a Republican: r:.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-11-30

The names Of the new Congressman
for Ohio are: 1st, John Fnllett; 2i,
Isaac VI Jordon; Sd, Robert NJ Murray;
9Th, Benz LIE Feyre; 5th, Geo E Seney;
9th, VIM D Hill; 7th, Henry L Morey;
Sth, j W Keifer; 9th, Jas 5 Robinson;
10th, Frank Hurd; 11th, ] W MeCor-
mick; 18th, Alphonso Hart; 18th, Geo
L Converse; 14th, Geo w Geddes; ;l5sh,
A Warner; 10th, Beriah wilkins;
18th, JT Updegraff; 18th, j II Wal
lace; 18th, Ezra B Taylor; goth, David
X Paige; 2lst, Martin A Foran.
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The Democrats lost the State in 1880
by 6.642, and yet on decreased vote in
1882 they carried it by 1854 The Re-
publican vote fell off 2l,9sO. This did
not go to the Democrats, but staid at
home, and in addition there was a loss
in the Democratic vote Of 1904. The
Greenback vote increased 1884 votes.
The increased vote in the State doas not
enter into this calculation.
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Belmont County onlcial Directory.

I Probate eJudge-Thonas Cochran :
! Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Barrsh. - -
Z Sheriff Samuel Hilles. H
7Auditor-William N Cofiand.
Treasurer Hamilton Eaton. f,lt.. ..i -
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred II. Mitchell.
Recerder-W. s. Hobbs
Commissioners Owen Mehen, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
.Suryeyer-James Crosgrove. - rr..rg
Coroner-E 3. Kennedy.
1nfrmary Directors Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
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AN editor wrote headline, "a Hor-
rible Blunder," to go over railroad ac
cident; but though it was the printers
fault that it got over an account of
a wedding, the editor was the man
thrashed all the same. aa ,sra..-
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Then the eldest girl. with her thoughtful eyes
Who stood where ''the brook and the river
ga meet" .4... u. ....,.. -,s...,=.
Stole softly away into Paradise,
Ere ''the river" had reached her slender feet
While the fathers eyes on the graves are bent,
The mother looked upward beyond the skies;
sour treasures" she whispered, were only
, lent, .,...-.. ....,.-;-Y
Our darlings were angels in earth disguise. a
The years few by and the children began
With longing to think of the world outside;
And as each in his turn, became man,
The boys proudly went from the fathers
The girls were women 30 gentle and fair,
That lovers were speedy to WOO and win;
And with orange blossoms in braided hair,
The old home was left, new ones begin.
So, one by one, the children have gone =
The boys were five and the girls were three;
And the big brown house is gloomy and lone.
With but two old folks for its company,
They talk to each other about the past, 70 81
As they sit-together at-eventide,
And say, .All the children we keep at last
:; Are the boy and the girl who in childhood
died. Chicago Tribune.