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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
An Autograph.

l write my name as one
On sands by waves o'erruh,
Or winters frosted pane
Traces record vain.
Oblvions blankness claims
Wiser and better names,
And well my own may pass
As from the strand or glass.
Wash on, o waves of timel
Melt moons the frosty rime!
Welcome the shadow vast,
The silence that shall laStl
When 1 and all who know
And love me vanish 80,
What harm to them or me
Will the lost memory be?
If any words of mine,
Through right of life divine,
Remain, what matters it
Whose hand the message writ?
Why should the "crowner's quest"
Sit on my worst or best?
Why should the Snowman claim
The poor ghost of my name?
Yet, as whom dies a sound
Its specter fingers round,
HAPPY my spent life will
Leave some faint echo still.
A whisper giving breath
OF praiss or blame to death,
Soothing or saddening such
AS loved the living much.
Therefore with yearnings vain
And fond still would f2in
A kindly judgment seek,
A tender thought bespeak.
And, while nv words are read.
Let this at least be said:
"Whate'er his life's defeatures,
He loved his fellow creatures.
"If, of the Laws stone table,
To hold he scarce was able
The first great precept fast,
He kept for man the last.
Through mortal lapse and dullness
What lacks the Eternal Fullness,
If still our weakness can
Love Him in loving man?
Age brought him no despairing
Of the worlds future faring;
In human nature still
He found more good than i'll.
"TO all who dumbly suffered,
His tongue and pen he offered;
His life was not his own,
Nor lived for self alone.
"He loved the scholars quiet,
Yet, not untempted by it, =.
Or poets dream of beauty,
He strove to do his DUTY.
HE meant no wrong to any, a
He sought the COED of many,
Yet knew both sin and folly
May God forgive him whoilyT
John G. Whittier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

The Childreais Aid Society in New
York hasa kindergarten school. in which
ninety little pupils are taught various
operations of agriculture and the nature
and the uses Of the produce of farm.
A trough containing earth is made to
represent a corn field, and this is plewed,
narrowed and planted. The children
are e'taught how the corn grows, and the
supposed ripened corn is taken to mill
and the meal is made into Johnny cakes,
baked and eaten.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

OLIVER DoUD BYRON. the actor, who
secured the railroad ties of the tempora-
ry track laid at Elbern, N. j.. to convey
President Garfield to the Francklyn cot
tage, has completed the log cabin which
he constructed out of the ties at North
Long Branch. The cottage contains a
handsome mantel made of slabs from
the railroad ties. having In its centre an
opening in. which is picture of the
dead President
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
Purchasing Power.

In 1915 one bushel of corn would buy
one pound of nails. In 1882 ole bashel
of corn would buy fifteen pounds of
nails. In 1915 it took from twenty to
eighty dozen of eggs to buy one bnshel
of salt. In 1882 one dozen of eggs would
do the same thing. In 1916 it required
"a bushels of barley to buy one yard of
broadcloth. In 1882 five bushels of bar
ley would do the business. In 1916 it
required one bushel of wheat to pur-
chase one yard of chico. In 1882 one
bushel of wheat would buy S5 yards of
a better article. In 1916 pair of wool
en- blankets cost as much as COW. In
1882 a cow would buy from six to twen-
ty pairs of blankets superior in every
way.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

THE plan of extending national aid to
especial champion in the death of Con-
gressman Updegraff. who had bill be-
fore Congress embodying substantially
the theory of President Garfelfin that
behalf. 1t will be a real misfortune if
some one competent to push the bill
forward does not appear and take up
the work where Updeffraff laid it down.
10. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
Masonic DIRECTORY.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 18, F. & A. N.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
ROBT M. EATON, w. ~.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Mascns. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
j. B. RYAN, II. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMoNT COUNCIL, No. "a, R. &S.M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. R. BUMGARNER, T. l. N.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 20, z. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday Of each
month. C. w. CARROLL, Z. G.
l.. e. SEDwIoK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

a. CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune, writing from Louisville on
the position of Southern Democrats on
the tariff question, argues that the North
and South will probably change their
views on. the subject, il they have not
already done, the latter becoming strong
prptectionists, while the former drifts
toward tariff for revenue. He thinks
this result is because of the fact that the
manufacturing interests of the North
have grown strong enough to go alone,
while those of the South, being in their
infancy, need the fostering care which
made the former SO prosperous. He
says the Southern manufacturers are so
weak that they cannot afford "even to
tolerate the half dozen lunatiGs who
favor SO sudden and radical a reversal
of National policy that has prevailed,
with but o few years intermission, since
the foundation of this Government" He
thinks that any respectable Republican
would defeat Free Trade Democrat in
Louisville, where tie Democracy usual
ly has a majority of five Thousand.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14


THE average reduction in duties re-
commended by the Tariff Commission,
including that from the enlargement of
the duties on charges and commissions,
at which the Commission has aimed, is
approximately twenty per cent and, in
in the opinion OF the Commission, this
reduction will be twenty-five per cent.
In this work an inhexible rule of hori-
zontal reduction has not been adopted.
In some cases it has been slight, in 9th
ers not attempted; bat in many cases re-
ductions have been made from forty to
fifty per cent. The Commission makes
no estimate of the total reduction of
revenue that will follow these changes .
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
Secretary Folger on the Government
Finances.

The annual report of the Secretary of
the Treasury, which accompanies the
message of the.President to Congress. is
a thorough business document. He
shows that the total ordinary receipts
fof the government for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1882, have amounted to
S403, ,525, ,250.2S. The total ordinary ex
penditures are shown to have been
S257 1881. .439.7l, and the surplus revenue
Si45 5,54S,S1O.71. This last sum, together
with 500, ,737, ,694.S4 drawn from the cash
balance in the Treasury, making s166,
Isl ,505.55 in all, was applied to the re-
duction of the public debt. The money
applied to this decrease was distributed
as follows: bonds for the sinking fund,
S60.079, ,150; fractional currency for the
sinking fund. s5,705,55S; loan of July
and August, 1861, S62,572.O5O; loan of
March, 1858, S4,472.9 900; funded loan of
1881, S37 7,194.4 .45O; loan of 1858, $1,000;
loan of February. 1862, S3O3,OOO FIVE
twenties of 1854, S7,4OO; fye-twenties of
1866. $4,000; ten-forties of 1864, S254,55O;
consols of 1865, sS6,45o; consols of 1867,
s4Os, ,25O; eonsols of 1868, s14I,4OO; Ore
gon war debt, So75,00O; old demand,
compound interest, and other notes,
S1S.350. These payments, with the ex-
ception of those on account of the loan
of 1858 and the Oregon war debt, were
on account of liabilities incurred in con-
nection with the civil war. Branching
off upon our commerce with foreign ma
tions, the Secretary shows that the total
exports. including S4e.417,479 in specie,
aggregated s799,959,736, while the i'm
ports, embracing S42 472,390, in specie
amounted S767, i'll ,964. The total of our
foreign commerce, embracing merchan-
disc and specie, amounted to the enor-
nous sum of $l,667 ,O71,7OO. The Secre-
tary takes ground against the further
coinage of silver dollars, and favors the
retirement of the silver certificates. OF
the LIS, 100000 dollars of the daddies'
thus far minted a little more than
$35, 100000 are in circulation. The bus
mess public will agree with the Secre-
tary that it is foolish to go on coming
silver dollars merely to pile them up in
the government vaults. The gold certifi !
Gates recently authorized by Congress
are much more popular than the silver
certificates, and this fact is sufficient in
itself to Justify the retirement of the
latter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
Be.mont County onlcIaI Dlfectory.

Common Pleas Judge-St Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Z Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Barrsh.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
William n Cofiiand.
Decentralization Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred 81. Mitchell.
Recerder-W. s. Hobbs.
ommissioners-ewenM Mehan, Morris Cops,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-James Crosgrove.
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infrmary Directors-Joseph Bsiley, Levi
Jones, james B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

FRAUDS of startling character have
been discovered in connection with the
Usage Indian lands in Kansas. Numbers
of entries have been made by cowboys,
who Immediately afterward turned the
land over to their employers. The best
farm lands and water privileges in the
section named have been taken up in
this way. An order has been issued
suspending all cash entries made by sim
gle men since June 2S, 1881. ait
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

DARLING NELLIE GRAY" a negro
melody that was once exceedingly popu-
lar in the South, was composed in an odd
moment by B. R. Handy. young artist
and musician. of Westerville, Ohio. He
disposed of the piece for five dollars. and
over 100000 copies were afteward sold
by the lucky buyer. --'l -'aa'q -ii q
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

A TARIFF revision which would cause
the introduction of large quantities of
manufactures into this country from
Europe would cause the exit of large
armies of workingmen from American
workshops
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

THE Ohio State Canvassing Board in
the Wallace Mckinley contest in the
Eighteenth Congressional district, de.
cided Wednesday that Mckinley Gre
pubiican) was elected by eight majority,
and issued certificate of election &C.
cordingly. In the Seventh district
Morey tRepublican) was declared elect
ed. and in the Twelfth district Hart
(Republicaul. ..- -. o.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

If the new Democratic Governors of
New York and Pennsylvania propose to
practice economy, how do they expect to
make themselves solid with the party
workers?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

AT the meeting of the Ohio Editorial
Association at Dayton. Wednesday. the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, l. F.. Mack, Sandusky; Vice Presi-
dent. L. A. Brunner, Upper Sandusky;
Secretary, w. C. McClintock, Lebanon;
Treasurer, E. r Alderman, Marietta. A
banquet was given the guests in the
evening, and at 80 next morning they
left on special train for Flezida.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

THE soldiers Of Boston have sent 4
letter to Gen. Grant regarding his vim
dication of Fitz John Porter, in which
they say: mo act, whether of valor OF
of policy, which has marked your great
career, should bring you more, honor
than the moral courage and spirit Of
fairness. and justice exhibited In this
defense of gallant Union soldier, con-
demnsd on insufficient or mistaken ev
idence." Gen. Terry has written lettel
of similar import.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

DIR. FRANK 81. HAMILTON, who was
one of President Gartield's physicians. is
lying seriously i'll at his residence, in
New York. His ailment consists of
hemorrhages resulting from bronchial
irritation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

THE track Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company has been laid as far
west as Livingstone, Mont, which is the
end of the Yellowstone division. and
trains are now running to that point
The distance from Mt. Paul to Living
stone Is l,03i miles.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

CoNeREssMAN-ELEcT KELLOGG has
at last been given his certificate. No
excuse, however slight. could be found
for cheating him out of it. or the Lou
isiana Bourbons would have done it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

CHARLES S, LILLY. Of Lowell. Mass,
proposes to- contest the seat of Wm.
A. Russslt in the next Congress.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

THE United States Supreme Court has
decided in favor of the claim of the
Lee heirs to the Arlington estate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

FoMENTATIoN with the water In
which potato has been boiled, and ap
plying the potato as : poultice, is said to
be a permanent cure for neuralgia and
sciatica. The water must be applied as
hot as 1t can be borne. In some cases
the cure Is immediate, but in others the
application must be continued for sew
eral days ..ft ~
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

Ex-SkcRETARY BLAINE thinks "the
Nicaragua canal scheme, which would
require an appropriation of s75.O0O.OO0,
a piece of gigantic folly"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

IT is calculated that twelve million
acres of the Sioux reservation will be
open to homestead settlement in the
spring.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

LAND frauds of startling magnitude
in connection with the Usage Indian
lands In Kansas, have heen discovered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

THE train robbers have been showing
up so lively in Texas that the trains on
the Southern Pacific are equipped with
guards of Texas rangers, police force
maintained by the State. .rr...i
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

II is positively predicted that a Re-
publican Senator will be chosen to sue
ceed Saunders of Nebraska.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

" Rev.. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, 2 pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month. pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2 pm Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. r.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, $50 q. nj. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p. n; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services. =
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. s. f. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II a. NJ; pm. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
p m; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 D m.
Strangers are cordially invited TO all our
services. l-.sss > -. E -.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-12-14

l write my name as one
On sands by waves o'erruh,
Or winters frosted pane
Traces q record vain.
Daily globe., 1882-09-18
Flesh Eating no Sin.

Mr.. W. Mattieu Williams gives
pointed answer, in the journal of Sci
ence," to the protests of vegetarian
writer against eating animal food, on the
ground that it involves cruelty to living
beings. No animals, he says, enjoy
more comfortable life, or are better
care,; for, thar those We keep for food.
II W. difl ;'"t eat them, they would DA
-Ai.iI,i. .,s., =, ;Aey wol,,d lot he a',i.,
- 5ahe sE>- "i themselves Yet, Ill the
veiy sish h6 OF the wonderful animal hap
piness that they enjoy, .'the sentimen-
tai vegetarian advocates the extinction Of
ali the pastoral bliss that has been a
leading theme to poets of all ages"
The final killing of them is in accordance
With the order of nature, and, if we are
to be denounced for it, the Creator must
also be denounced for giving life, and at
the same time making death one of its
necessary conditions. Then, if the kill
ing Is wrong, the vegetarian kills on q
tar more extensive scale, ''for the boil
ing OF cabbage involves the immola-
ton OF innocent slugs and caterpillars,
and tens of hundreds of thousands of
aphldes are sacrificed in topping a row
Of broad beans, TO say nothing Of the
millions of Colorado beetles that have
been mercilessly murdered in order that
ruthless, selfish man may satisfy his
greed for potatoes
Daily globe., 1882-09-18
The COurtesieS of Travel.

It is common to say that, in losing
the Old stage-coach, we have lost that
comfortable sociability which once made
travel so great charm. But we have
lostsomething more. We have lost that
humane instinct which, in the olden
times, made all travellers considerate Of
one another. Travel-traUail;. the de-
rivation of the word is suggestive. Tt
was work, and hard work, in the old days,
and out of the common strain and the
common hardship came cooperative
and fraternal spirit which transformed
its hardships into pleasurable memories.
But the Pullman car is refrigerator,
In transporting fruit from California.
the first condition is that there shall be
coldness. and then-isolation The nee
tarlnes must not touch each other. In
Ike manner, as we multiply the l,lxur-
les OF travel, we multiply barriers be-
tween the travellers. It is not merely
that there are parlor cars; it is that in
these, and in the ordinary American
railway carriage, also, the first consid-
Grafton comes, more and more, to be
personal comfort, and not mutual con-
sideration. The grudging answer, the
reluctance to impart information, the
almost brutal struggle for the best,
which increasingly disregards weakness
and age and woman-these are things
which one sees now more frequently and
unpleasantly than of old. We talk of
the garrulous and interrogative Ameri-
can. But where is he? Vanished as
utterly as the Massasoit Indians. An
English gentleman, who lately traversed
the continent, said that he had never
travelled in country In which his fell
low travellers were so reserved.
It is mistake, if it is no more. There
is no one whose horizon may not be
widened if he will only avail himself of
the wholesome education of the fellow
ships of travel. It is easy to be too
much upon ones guard. All travellers
are not swindlers, and courtesy is not
necessarily familiarity. As it is, one
is reminded of that countryman of
ours who, having crossed the Atlantic
with roommate who, from the begin
ming to the end of the voyage, had not
addressed to him one word, parted from
him, saying airily: "Well, good-by!
You will low proceed, [ suppose, to
your home at the Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum i'-Centatru MAGAZINE.
Daily globe., 1882-09-18
What Perils might come Out OF q
Tunnel.

The scheme to tunnel the Channel has
excited great alarm, and called out for
midable remonstrances in England.
The objection most prominently urged
against the proposed work is that it
would expose the country to a constant
menace of invasion or treachery. The
French might fill the tunnel at tany time
with soldiers in the guise Of innocent
passengers, and seize the English ap-
proaches so firmly that it would be i'm
possible to shake them of, before the
people had begun to imagine that dam
Fer was near; and the Irish republicans
might form league with the French.
and, seeing that the telegraph wires
were cut, destroy communication within
the kingdom, thus increasing the danger,
which. as it was previously presented,
seemed as great as it possibly could be.
The single defense of the English would
be the power of blowing up the tunnel
suddenly and unexpectedly, and what
would that power be worth? The pre-
tnier might think himself justified in
destroying twenty millions of property
nd lmpalring twenty-five millions more
but also he might not. He might
be an undecided man, or man expect
ing defeat by the opposition, or man
paralyzed by the knowledge that the
tunnel was full of innocent people whom
his order would condemn to instant
death III form which is at once most
painful and most appalling TO the ina
glnation. The responsibility would
be overwhelming for an individual. and
cabinet, if dispersed, takes hours to
bring together. The danger Of panic,
q which the people and market would
% q Instantly exposed. IN the view OF
Il :, a.: -. E,er<;:nts g. these, \ one t!,,.
= -; ~n!cn woui. E,e reM. Such
treas IL the tunnel have found for
.n;sl ~ preasion in rem onstrance which
mas i,ren signed by men whose names
carry weight everywhere, and have at
last brought about suspension of
the project. A very curious objection,
which Americans can hardly appreciate,
is suggested in ''The Spectator" It is
that the tunnel would turn England
into an outlying peninsula of the Euro
pean Continent, and would be almost
purely mischievous, as slowly destroy
ing the insularity and separateness of the
national character.