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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Notes Of the Day.

| Texas has over $500 miles of railway
A Boston cuiprit told the Judge be
would prove an Arab"
The present population of Montana is
estimated at $1,000.
The latest estimate of the cost of the
Egyptian war is S50,00O,OOO.
There's forty-pound mud turtle In
captivity at Americus, Georgia.
The season for frogs is nearly ended
/, but croakers are always in season.
A man out in Sand Beach, Michigan,
has dug some prehistoric crockery.
Yazoo county, Mississippi, will pick
the largest cotton crop since the war.
Some of the bags of dates which come
to this country contain cannon balls.
Judge Here's, OF Nevada, sends his ju-
ries into cold celler for consultation.
st. Martins, Canterbury, is believed to
be the Oldest church in Great Britain.
A Michigan trifier welded a girl "in
order to skip with the bridal gifts"
Wm.- Boyer. of Council Bluffs, has
married seven women and buried six.
The London Lancet advocates stock
ings made like gloves to prevent corns.
The comet is POLITICALLY likened to an
ostrich plume. sprinkled with gold dust.
The Garfield monument fund of the
Army of the Cumberland amounts to
$4,000.
An exchange tells of man who
Strades horses and lives on the boot he
receives"
A fall of snow occurred in Melbourne
lately. Most of the inhabitants had new
er seen one.
Thieving and shooting are reported to
be greatly increasing among the children
of Missouri
Oriental cloth of as many colors as
JOseph's coat is the richest fabrics for
mantles and cloaks. .
In China there are two dozen mission
aries who are also physicians. Eight of
these are ladies.
The Austrian army is to have rail-
road brigade familiar with putting up
and destroying railroads.
TerrapiD and quail are now both in
season, but terrapin will not be at their
best for some weeks yet.
Andrew j. Houston son of the famous
Gen. Sam Houston, is clerk of the Fed
eral Court at Dallas, Texas. 5
Not less than fifty mines and pros
poets are being worked within two and
a half miles ofTombstone, Arizona.
Prince Victor Napoleon has gone back
to Germany to complete at Bonn the
course of study begun by him at Held
elberg. @
A man living in Scranton, Pennsylva-
mia, while digging grave found a
barrel containing seventeen pounds of
tobacco.
Mr.. E. III. Kaufman, of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, found branch OF u peach
tree holding seven peaches grown to-
gether.
The Japanese Government have re-
solved upon establishing public libraries
in every provincial capital throughout
the empire.
The hotel keepers of Berlin have made
and carried out an agreement requiring
all their walters to dispense with mus
taches.
Miss Adelaide Phillips began her pro- |
fessional career at the early age of nine |
years, in play entitled "The Spoiled
Child" ''."
At Lewisburgh. Louisiana, there Is
an oak which measures about the trunk,
two feet from the ground, twenty-eight
feet eight inches in circumference.
The Right Hon. w. E. Gladstone, Pre-
mier of England, is said to own piece
of land at Niagara Falls, between Table
Rock and the Prospect Houss, which be
refuses to sell at any price.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Making a Passenger Cit,

4 Justice of the Peace in the interior
of Michigan had case before him some
days ago in which the defendant, who
had been arrested as suspicious char
acter, and plead guilty to vagrancy, was
sent to the Detroit House of Correction
for six months. A constable took him
in charge to deliver him here, and, as
the man seemed rather pleased at the
idea of securing board and lodgings for
six months, he was net handcuffed. As
the train was about ready to go the
constable moved across the aisle to talk
politics with friend, and pretty soon
they were having it hot and heavy.
When the conductor came in for tickets
he held out his hand to the prisoner, and
the latter shook his head and replied.
81 don't pay fare"
"Aha! You don't, eh? Well, now, you
pay or gitI'
II won't payp
"Then you'll gitl When we slow up
at the crossing you jump off. If l find
you on the train after we pass there III
give you a bounce that you won't for
getp
In two minutes the train began te
slow, and the prisoner walked to the
door and picked a soft spot and dropped
off. When the train had made another
mile the conductor held out his hand to
the constable and received two tickets.
"Who is the extra one for?" he asked.
"For the prisoner over there"
what prisoner
"Why, that fel-T ~
Then there was raving and gnashing
of teeth and hurrying up and down, but
it was no use.
"Sorry," said the conductor as he pass
ed along; but when passenger says he
won't pay fare on my train l give him
the drop. The only thing that sur
prised me was to see how willingly he
obeyed ORDERS Detroit Free Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Why Should | Fear?
Youths Companion.

4
Nobody has spoken more justly on th'
subject of dress than Sydney Smith. VIII,
was as wise as he was witty. III
laughed at the absurdity which would
tell girl that beauty is of no value and
dress of no consequence.
Beauty" he said "ts of value. A
girls whole prospects and happiness in
life may often depend upon a new gown
or becoming bonnet, and if she has d
grain of common sense, she will find
this out. The great thing is to teach
her their just value,and that there must
be something better than pretty face
under the bonnet, if she wonld have
real and lasting happiness"
There is no surer expression of char
acter than dress. 1t gives evidence
which none can dispute, of wisdom OF
folly, of refinement or the want OF it;
and since it is an indication of what we
are. its edicts have their place among
the minor morals. ---
Taste and elegance are not always
signs of frivolity, or evenof an absorb
ing interest in the fashions.
We have in mind one girl, fair and
sweet of nature, and of far more than
ordinary intellectual power, whose dress
is elegant enough for royal drawing
room, and yet is so simply worn as to
t.~h halr t<xh hav- hi
to flower, and toexpress her character
as words express thought.
One day, she sat with US in her soft
raiment. her dOve-cOlored robe falling
around her slight figure, her pale blue
feathers framing her hair and gentle
face.
Looking at her, it seemed rs IL she
must have found some special sweetness
in life, which would make it especially
hard to leave it.
do you not dread to die p we asked,
suddenly, giving the words to the
thought which had possessed us.
1t was smile of strange. half-unearth-
ly lOveliness that crossed the young face
as she answered.
No; dread more lest should live too
long, and wear. out the body that clothes
my soul. l dread that. just as | should
dislike to wear these clothes till they
were shabby" and she touched the soft
dove-colored draperies that fell about
her.
.. Then yon have no fear of entering
into the new, strange life?
what should fearl" she answered,
"since here or there must be always in
my Fathers world; for love Him. and
believe that He loves me-"
The glory of hope so strong as to be
certainty, lit up her serene eyes, aud we
saw that to her, indeed, WAS the life
more than the raiment; and that girl
might blossom like flower. and be, as
a flower, unconscious of her beauty and
ready for whatever wind from heaven
might sweep away the outward adOrn
ing from the loving and waiting soul.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
The Wasps of Society.

"a mad dogs bite is not half so dan
gerous or destructive as the bite or
tongue of slanderer," said DIR. Watkins
in his sermon on "The Fashionable Sins
of Gossip and SANDER" Sunday. 1t is
generally believed that the evils against
which he preached are most common in
small communities, but undoubtedly
they are sufficiently prominent here in
New York to make DR.. Watkins's ar
raignment of them pertinent and time
ly. In great city, at least, there ought
to be enough to occupy the attention of
every person profitably, and it must be a
very empty pate which has room for the
silly gossip or the malicious slander
which Dr. Watkins denounces. Many
will be unwilling to admit that these
evils can be called fashionable sins"
here in New York, but there would
soon be less Doubt of the appropriate
ness of the term we're it to become more
common for people of self-respect to
promptly make known their estimate
of the practice, of gossiping as the in
fallible index of an empty pate. The
gossips are fools as well as wasps.--
IN. Y. Mail. .Hu. .r.r" o.,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
The Poorest Girl in the World.

III many girls VINO To-Day are living III
comparative idleness, could be made to
realize how tickle is fortune and how
uncertain is the turning of its wheel, il
is possible they would set about in more
sturdy fashion to shape their own des
tiny, rather than allow day after day to
drift them on without aim. Says an ex-
change: "The poorest girls in the world
are those who are not taught to work,
There are thousands of them they have
been taught to despise labor-hence,t they
do nothing all their days. and depend on
some one else for living. This class
of girls is usually supposed to dwell in
our cities; but this is great mistake,
for even in our rural country homes
where one would suppose they had re-
ceived only systematic training, do we
find many farmers daughters boasting
that they never expect to earn their own
living, but intend their friends shall
support them. Should misfortune over
take the friends, as is often the cast, they
are in lamentable and perhaps hope
less condition. The most forlorn and
destitute creature on earth is the wo-
woman who has never learned to labor
with her ewn hands.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

at Buffalo, N. Y.
i Peace negotiations between Chilli an,
Peru have again failed.
The death of Representative Lowe, O
Alabama, is announced.
The Timms Car Works, of Columbus
D., were sold for $4,000. -,.-..
Folger will not resign the Secretary
ship unless elected Governor.
1t is declared to be the policy of Eng
land to detach Egypt from the Sultan.
AT Kansas City, Thursday, herd OF
sixty-one blooded cattle sold for $26,62O
An increase in the. corn and cattle
duty will be proposed in the German
Reichstag.
Over forty thousand pilgrims visited
the shrine of La Bonne St. Anne this
year at Quebec.
A large gang of counterfeiters have
been discovered and arrested in Upton
county. Indiana.
DR.. Noryin Green has been elected
president of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.
Seventy-five per cent. silver ore has
been discovered in large quantities near
Bloomington. Illinois,
The revenue of Russia has been more,
and expenses less so far in 1882, than
for the same period in 1881.
The Christian Convention at Chicago
has an attendance of over Thousand,
mostly ministers and evangelists.
Austria has introduced measures re-
yising the usury and trade laws as a
means of settling the anti-Jewish ques-
tfOn.
The Mexican National Railroad Com
pany have completed the reconstruction
of their bridge across the Rio Grande at
Laredo - l SO
: The Tariff Commission at Wheeling
heard arguments on glass, wool and pot.
terry. The Commission moved to Phila-
delphia.
vania county, Va, have reached an
alarming extent, hardly family es-
Gaping. Twenty deaths occurred in one
school. ~ 90
The Delaware State Temperance ALI
ance has addressed letters to the Legis-
lative candidates of both parties, asking
if they will advocate local option if
elected. --
Western dressed fresh beef is new be-
ing shipped to Albany, N. Y, and the
local butchers there declare they cannot
profitably slaughter cattle at the prices
obtained.
A fire at Olathe, Kas., late Wednesday
night destroyed the buildings occupied
by the postOffice. the Olathe Mirror and
several law offices. The mails were
saved. Total loss, $4,000; insurance,
one-half.
A handcar on the Sciota Valley Rail
road, twelve miles from Chillicothe, was
run into by train and one of the Occu-
pants of the car, named Longman, was
instantly killed. Two others were Sc
riously injured.
J. d. Wattles, collector of Sunday
school statistics for the census depart
ment at Washington, demanded his pay
and was told the appropriation had run
out. He refuses to give up the papers
and statistics gathered.
The association of Congregational
Churches of New York and Brooklynl
regret the resignation of Beecher, hope
he will withdraw it, and express the be-
lief that the divergence of his views is
not sufficient to demand such course.
Troops have been called fer and there
are prospects of trouble at the western
end of the Northern Pacific Railroad on
account of strike. A mob has threat |
ened to lynch Superintendent of Con-
straction HaIlet. Cinnamon have been
driven away from the works.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Pearls of Thought.

Youth should be savings bank.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Poetry comes nearer the vital truth
than history.
Wisdom is to the soul what health is
to the body.
The dignity of truth is lost with much
protesting.
| Honors come by diligence; riches
from economy.
| Tne heart has reasons that reason
does not understand.
The man who never excites envy new
er excites admiration.
What we need most to realize the
| ideal is to idealize the real.
That which is bitter to be endured
may be sweet to be remembered. -
Suffering itself does not less afflict the
senses thar the fear of suffering.
The noble passion, true love, contains
all the elements of self-sacrifiee.
misunderstanding are far more di(Ii-
cult things that people would imagine,
in love OF in friendship.
Never does man portray his own
character more viyidly than in his man
ner of portraying anOther's.
At every tribes scorn to take offense,
That always shows great pride or little
sense. Pope.
Vanity it is, to wish to live long, and
to he careless to live -well-Thomas A,
Kempis.
Unto each man his handiwork, unto
each his crown,
The just fate gives;
Whose takes the worlds life on him.
his own lays down,
He, dying so lives"
Opportunities are very sensitive things.
If you slight them on the first visit, they
seldom come again.
"Ie who hath led, will lead,
All through the wilderness;
lie who bath fed, will feed;
He who hath blessed, will bless;
He who hath heard the cry,
Will never close His ear;
He who hath marked thy faintest sigh,
Will not forget thy tear.
He loveth always, faileth never;
So rest on Him, to-day, forever"
Education gives fecundity of thought,
copiousness of illustration, quiekness,
yigor, fancy, words, images, and illus
tration; it decorates every common
thing; and gives the power Of trifing
without being undignifed and absurd.
Smith.
A bird sang on wildwood spray,
And my heart was sad and repining,
AS it lifted its song so light and gay
Like one in a dream entranced / lay,
And, when the sweet notes had died
away,
The sun in my heart was shining.
H. l. King.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev, R.
4 Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service. II; evening
service, T. Sabbath School, v:s0 s.m. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p. n; gen.
essl prayer meeting: Wednesday 2 pm
Strangers welcome TO all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
H1Rev.;S. r. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
ESQ pm. Young mems meeting: Friday Z
pm; general prayer meeting Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited 70 all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Bslph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday SPIN.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday Of
each month, pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday esch month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and saturdays each
month, pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

THERE is an agitation commencing at
the east for IN earlier day for the an
nual Thanksgiving, now fixed by general
consent on the last Thursday of Novem-
Der. The Churehman, leading Episcopal
journal. urges that an earlier day isde-
manded. ON the ground that as thanks
giving for the fruits of the earth it
should be observed at a period of the
year when the surroundings are such
as are suggestive of the recent ingath-
ering of the harvest; which is certainly
not the case in the latter part Of the
month of November. September or Oc-
tober are suggested. 1t may be stated
on the other side. that turkey is not
really enjoyable until cold weather sets
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

A ST. LOUIS observer has discovered
that the cause of mans death, rs re-
ported by his physicians, will indicate the
financial standing Of the man when liv-
ing. When a poor man dies on account
Of having drank too much whisky. the
physician registers it as drunkenness" "
or "slcoholism;" but if the deceased was
a rich man the doctor puts it as "ner-
veus prostrstion," "pneumonitis," "gen-
eral debility" -mania a temuIentia,"
.methysia," or "ivrognerie." If he 10
only moderately wealthy. man is like
ly to get "delirium tremsns, mania q
potu." The moral is that it is better for
q man to die rich.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
A pRErrY and pathetic incident i

A PRETTY and pathetic incident is
related of little fellow from one of
our charitable institutions who was be-
ing taken to New Jersey farm by an
agent, the owners of the farm having
had the boy "bound" to them for term
of years. The agent noticed that the boy
kept placing his right hand inside Of his
jacket on the left side, and occasionally
would peep within with q tender look.
AT last he said, "What have you got in
there. my little friendP" 20, nothing,
sir" no replied, "only bit of my moth
er's dress, which I've sewed on my coat
it was the dress she had on when she
died. and now it kind Of comforts me to
touch It" tt tf.f
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Masonic Directory.

DELNONT LODGE, No. 10, r. & A. N.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
ROBT. M.EATON, W. N.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, Ne. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated c0nvOca-
tionx, first Friday of each month.
]. B. RYAN, II. p.
JRssK B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. q 8. II.
ID Meets second Tuesday 0f.each month.
81. R. BUhGAREER, r. ]. d.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. %, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves. first Tuesday Of each
month. c. w. CARROLL, e. G.
L. L. SKDwIcK. Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

A TRAVELLER was leaning at night
against a railing at Harper's Ferry, rail-
road station. A locomotive came along.
and he sprang lightly over the rail to
escape possible danger. He thought il
was meadow on the other side, bus
knew his mistake when he struck in
muddy stream forty feet below. On 10
ing rescued he was asked his name. -
wouldn't tell you my Dame for thou
sand dollars" he replied; describe me
As simply fool"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
Belmont County on.cIal directory.

'Commos Pleas Judse-St. Clsir Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomss Cochran.
Clerk Of Courts-Alex. g. Darrsh.
Sheriff Samuel Hiiles.
Auditor William N. Cofisnd.
.Treasurer-Hamilton Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred 81. Mitchell
Recorder-W. 8. Hobbs.
Cenmissioners-ewen Mehan, Morris Cops
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-Jsmes Crosgrove.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
lnfrmwy. Directors-Joseph Bailey. Leu
Jones, james B. RitcheJ.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

House and Lot at Private Sale.
Iwill sell at private sale my residence,
one-half mile west Of town. on National
Pike. Well improved. with all necessa-
ry buildings. Inquire on the premises.
e-3I 81 WIN. HvNTsMAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19
BelmontChrOniCle
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms OF Subscriptions
I've Dellars Per Yea. In Advance.

4 II not paid within the year Is per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
i. OFFIor South side Main street, nearly op-
posita Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

There were 1850 weddings in Phildel-
phia last year, which, leaving Sunday
out, is an average of twenty-five day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

A lineal descendant Of Simon de
Montford, England's premier baron, is
saddler in Tooley street, London.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-10-19

Banking hours from am. until s pm.
Discount days Tuesdays, at 10 am.
&Aoney received on deposit.
Collections made and proceeds RENTED
promptly. Exchange bought and sold.
Direetors-Coursd Troll, David Brown,
George Brown, George Jepson.
d. D. T. COWEN, Pres.
J. r. MrToHKLL, Cashier. ..
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-03-04
Roast Armadillo.

On the Isthmus of Panama the tapk
and sloth are eaten by the Indians,
who also consider the agouti and other
small rodents great delicacies. In
Paraguay the capybara, great amphi.
bious guinea pig as big as an ordinary
porker, is standard dish, and
througout the whole of South Ameris
roast armadillo is highly estesmed,
and may be seen in all the cafes and
restaurants of the cities, turned on
their scaly backs, feet uppermost, and
the interior filled with a rich sauce
composed of lemon and spices-much
too greasy for nay palate, though the
flavor of the animal itself is delicious.
1 have tasted monkey and parrot In
Mexico, and found both very dry and
insipid, bat l am given to understand
that the bird is not to be despised II
properly dressed. That most malo
dorous marsupial, the oppossum,
recognized as an article of food in Rio
Grande do Sui and other provinces
which it inhabits, where, however,
they bury it in the earth until tue
flesh is free from its characteristic
offensive smell before cooking 1t. lD
cousin, the dasyure, is treated sns
Same way In Australia, wherelt shares
the honors of the table with the KAN
garoO.-Chanpbers' Journal.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-03-04
The Jews in Russia.

Referring to the relief movement In
England for the prosecuted Jews of
Russia, the Journal de st. Petersburo
(Russia) angrily comments on this
agitation in England. 1t says that
though the agitation is carried on
under the mask of philanthropy, it
has its mains pring IN feeling of
hatred towards Russia and in the dis.
pleasure with which political factions
view the excellent relations between
Russia and England, which have ex-
listed since the accession of Mr.. Glad
stone. The Journal declares that the
accounts of riots are malevolently ex-
aggerated. AS the Government is
considering legislative measures in
regard to the Jews, the Journal begs
the foreign press not to inflame the
questions already bristling with diff
culties.