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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
1883 's4-BeInont Co.. Ohio.

Third saturday Of fseptember. at st. Clairsville
Third Saturday of October at Bsllaire.
Taird Saturday of November, at Belmont.
Third Saturday of December, al st ClairsvIlle.
RULES.
Examinations begin at 9 O'Clock a. m.
Testimonials of character are required II
applicant is not know 70 the Board
Certificates Will not te aniedated nor ex~
tended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given
al close nf destitute ONLY
Certificates VIII be da:ed end issued by the
Board 4 adjourned session on Saturday fol-
lowing each examination
scale OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A hrst>ciass IS yesrs1 certificese is granted
upon an average Of 90 Ger cent. including three
higher branches, provided applicant has dad
three wears continuous experience, EIGHTEEN
MONTHS of which shall have been in the same
school.
A secoLd-class g yearsa certificate is grants
ed upon an average OF 80 per cent. including
three higher branches. provided applicant has
had three years experience In teaching.
A third -claas q yesrs) certificate is granted
upon an average o. 50 per cent. including one
higher branch, provided applicant has had
one ears experience in teaching
A fourth-class a year, certificate is granted
upon an average OF 7n per cent. provided ap
plicant has had one Terms experience in
teaching, or takes three higher branches.
A fifth class (6 months cert tficate is granted
upon an average of 60 per cent. where appli~
cant mas had no experience in teaching or no
higher branches are taken.
No certificate is granted unless the applicant
answers 50 per cent. of the questions in each
branch.
X ALEXANDER,
A. A. CLARK, Board of Ex.
]. A. HENDERSON,
9>6 1y
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

TEE current Democratic rallying
cries are nothing if not the last express
sion of humbug. "The Republican par
ty must go" is demand, by implication,
that the Democratic party must come.
Turn the raseals out" is in its full sig
niicance, bid for office, based on the
theory that, in the last analysis, Re-
publican is dishonest, and Democrat
honest. In other words, the Democratic
party is now hard at work. consciously
or unconsciously, endeavoring to out
Pharisee the Pharisee who stood up in
the temple and with an unctuous self
complacency thanked God that he was
not as other men are.-[New York Tri-
bune
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Dew Drop Maxims.

When the triangle of the Lime Kiln
Club had sounded the call to order and
the rsttling of many hoofs had ceased.
Lord John Dew Drop arose and offered
the following at very reasonable rates ::
"Doan saw off the handles of your
wheeibar'er to keep naybur from bOl-
rerin' it.
DE man who loses his temper will be
certain to lese bis friends.
"If it wasn't fur goslins dar would be
no geese. Gin boy chance to befs gos-
lin befo' expectin him to be a gaRder.
IAN egotist am man on stills. Let
him alone an he am sartin to come
down.
"Befo' praisin' de philanthropy Of y
man who has donated a site for an Or
phan aSpldm. try an diskivsr if his wife
isn't doin' the kitchen work 10 save the
expense of hired girl.
DE man who has no friends to speak
well of am a man to be avoided.
"Be guided in your outlay by what
you kin affOrd-not by what your nay
Dor brings home.
Truth am mighty, but use 1t In small
doses in criticiR' de acts Of your friends.
DE peacock may make a fine display
of colors, but when it come. down to Sc
lectin' sumethin' solid doan' oberlook de
gander He's de same all de way frew,
an you allus know whar to find him.
"De man who drops his wallet to test
de honesty OBJ de public, shouldn't give
hisself away by advertisin' a reward and
no Qurshens axed."
On motion of Pickles Smith the club
accepted the above at thirty per cent. vt
their face value, and the amount was
passed to Lord Johns credit on the
cash book.
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JOTTINGS FROM THE WEST.

FONTANELLE, Iowa, Sept. 6, 1888.
Mr.. EDITORIALS | have few min
utes leisure time, and thinking ii few
lines written tC the dear old CHRONICLE,
might be interesting to IA portion of my
old friends and your readers, l proceed
to pen few items.
We had very wet and cold spring up
the middle of July, then less rain ana
warmer weather till the last of the
month-then more cool weather and
rain up till the middle of August, and
now it is warmer and more windy.
Our corn is rather later than usual, but
with favorable weather, we are going to
have good crop,as general thing. The
wheat and oats crops this season al as
good as Iowa has ever produced, at least
in this part of the State. And the pota-
to crop is immense; we have as large
Early Roses and Peach-blows as yeu ev-
er saw come out of the ground, as also
the red Cbiiies and Mammoth Pearls, as
well-favored and from present appear
ances all the other crops will be excel
lent. raised a turnip of the SNOWFALL
variety, which is something over five
inches in diameter, and no doubt it will
grow considerable yet. Our melons,
though very late, can't be beat. | won't
vouch for it, but the report is current in
this neighborhood that oats are only
bringing nine cents a bushel, and if
presezt indications hold good, corr will
not bring over Is cents a bushel. Hogs
and cattle are about the same price here
as in Ohio.
We engage in the culture of hax-seed
here, instead of tobacco, to make cur
odd change-but the principal part of
our money is obtained from corn, cattle
and hog raising. Some are engaged in
the husbandry Of sheep. This could be
made profitable business here, if there
were suitable winter quarters provided
for sheep. Some have tried the sheep
without any sheltering, and consequent
ly pronounced them failure here.
| have raised, the incest and largest
onions this year from the top-sets, that
| ever saw. The greatest fault | have
to this country is that the first settlers
did not plant out orchards. Those who
did have plenty of fruit now.
We have renOminated the present in
cumbents for State ticket. The issue
here is the same that you have in Ohio,
between the Republicans and Democrats,
the liquor traffic. The Democrats
want free trade in whisky, and the Re
publicans don't. We carried the amend
meht, and we intend to elect B. r. Sher-
man for Governor of Iowa this fall. |
intend to take an active paIt in the po-
lltical fight this fall If words of mine,
hurled into an audience, from the stump,
will prevent King Alcohol from ruling
in this great Sta e,or even in Adair couu-
ty, it shall not be wanting. The using
generation shall never accuse me of lack
of words spoken In behalf of temper
ance or for lack OF votes cast in its ia
VOT.
There is some cholera morbus here, ,oc-
casioned by too free use of green corn,
as well as green apples, but i'll other re-
spee.S it is healthy enough mere, especial
~ to these who take proper care of
themselves. Some persons don't do
that, and then return from whence they
came, and curse the country for not be-
ing healthy. Time and space have fail
ed me again. BELMONTER.
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gan in Richmond sels forth this issue in
the foll1WinU.

gan in Richmond sels forth this issue in
the following:
The party that maintains that there
must be NJ discrimination against ne
groes in appointing officials for the
hite schools. but that negroes must be
appointed trustees ot white schools as
we'll as of black schools, and whites
must be appointed trustees of negro
schools as well as Of white schools, can
not command the sGffIagts OF the white
voters OF Virginia.
1t is this prescription Of intelligent
colored m-n tina: tends to decrease the
volume OF i,'iteFacy in the South, for it
is safe to say that the opinion in Fir-
ginia extends 10 other States where the
negro was lately a slave. Preference
must be given ignorant whites in the
manage OF the school system OF the
Suuth, rather than permit educated
black men to have Il voice in the Selec-
tion of competent teachers and the es-
Iablishment of schools that will tend to
the dignity ef the State and the useful
ness os her Citizens Cleveland Herald.
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Father Hubbards' TO Match the
''1IOther HubbaFdS."

The other day, when old Major Sol
man announced his readiness to proceed
in the direction of church, his wife ap
peared, wearing Mother Hubbard
dress. The old man iDteutly regarded
her for few moments and asked:
Mary, what sort of ii coat do you call
that?'
Its Mother Hubbard, Jeems.'
Air you goin' to ar it TO church !?
why, certainly, Jeems. The Mother
Hubbard is all the fashion now
We'll, I'm glad to know it, the Old
man replied. Just wait until | get
ready, and we'll go
The old man went out into the kitch-
en-, took couple of meal sacks, cut The
bottoms out, sewed the tops together,
and put them on in imitation Of .panta
looms. When he returned his wife ut
tel ed loud cry of astonlshment, and
exclaimed:
Great goodness, Jeems, what's that /?
Father Hubbard the old man re.
Piled.
You're not a-goin' to wear them
sacks are you|
I've got to be fashionable to keep up
WIN NOu' Nt BuU do iuuCu TlgDJ 10
wear these meal bags as you have to 60
in that bran sack
IN take it off
"A Il right; off goes the Father Hub.
bard, and turning away he added TO
himself: Only one way to beat a wo-
man, and thaC is by agreein' with her
>Ef it hadn't baen for the daddy Hub-
bard I'd been in Il mighty bad fix
Arkansas Traveller.
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Church DIRECTORY.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Re R.
L Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 900 g. nj. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
We Rev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II a. m; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday Z
p m.; general prayer meeting: Thursday 7 p m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, Q pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each 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, 1883-09-13

THE indianapolis Sentinel asks its
Democratic associates this question
is there any way TO get rid Of New
York Tamnany and the Enquirer gang
of Cincinnati? If the Democratic party
owes them anything, let it give them a
check and take d receipt in full before
the campaign of 1884 begins. The Re
publican party and the United States
Treasury are about all We; ought to fight
at one time"
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Democrats and the Wool Tariff.

The Democrats in Congress tried to
reduce the tariff on wool so per cent
and now they profess to be mad be
cause it was reduced Is per cent; but
they take care not to promise that the
next House. which is Democratic. will
pass bill to restore the duty. 1T that
party should carry Ohio the committees
OF the next Congress would be organ
ized ir the interest of flee trade
{ Commercial Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

WHILE the worst of the rumors about
Judge Hoadly's condition are not well
founded, it is fact that his health is so
seriously impaired that some Of his
most devoted friends have urged him to
withdraw from the political contest, in
which his name has been so largely as
sociated; and it is utterly improbable
that ne will make any more political
speeches this summer All denials of
the statement that he is in seriously
shattered state are false and cruel.
Whether he will actually retire from the
ticket depends upon his own discretion
and the weight of the judgment of his
medical advisers.-LC Gin. Com. Gaz.
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Belmont County oncIal Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-1homas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Darrah.
Sherif-Leroy c. Sedwick.
Auditof-William n. Coffiand.
Tressurer-Edward L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred H. Mitchell.
Recerder-W. S. Hobbs.
Commissioners-0wenM Mehan, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-John H. Mitchell
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Inirmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Masonic DIRECTORY.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
ROBT. M. EATON, w. NJ.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
j. B. RYAN, II. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No 54, R. 6 S. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. R. BUMGARNER, T. l. M.
F. d. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMhNDERY, No. 26, Z. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. G. W. CARROLL, E. G.
L. L. 5EDwIoK, Rec.
st. CIaIrsviIIe Professional Cards.
T W. NICHOLS.
Attorney at Law and Notary Public
Office over Vests Drug Store, opp. Bank.
4 5~ly ST. CLAIRSVILLE, o.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

EX-SECRETARY EvARTs is the latest
presidential prophet. He predicts that
the four persons who will receive votes
for president in the National Republi-
can Convention are Chester A. Arthur
Senator George F. Edmu unds, Gen. ".
I. Sherman and James g. Blaine. One
of the four, Mr.. Evarts thinks, will be
nominated, and he regards it as an en-
couraging sign that man now promi
nent before the country will be named.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

JUDGE HoADLY's Philadelphia doc
tor, after a careful diagnosis of his
symptoms, says that the patient will not
Withdraw from the tieket.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

Brightness expresses Of actions what
straightness does of lines: and there
can no more be two kinds of straight
lines than there can be two kinds Of right.
-. Herbert Spencer. ~
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"A clinton. Indiana, cat with family
OIL Sniee klICens, has adopted three
young coons and flying squirrel.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

Mrs. Harriet Bsecher Stowe wears
clothes twenty-five years out of fashion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

Three milk white deer have recently
been seen ia the forests of Washington
county, Alabama.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

A census has been taken in Egypt
showing that the population is now
9,70S, 200.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

The railroads Of the United States
owe little debt of $4,000, 100000.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-13

Thought is motive power that keeps
The worlds progress moving.-Hamiiton.
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DIR E Glory
or THE
Principal Business Houses Of Bridgeport.

JAMES DUNCAN, dealer IN Groceries and
y Provisions, Ogiebay's Block.
* EORGE GIFFEN. dealer in Choice Family
VI Groceries. Phoenix Flour Specially.
= WO0DCOCK, dealer in Hardware, Stoves,
-. Tlnware, Glass, Nails, &C., corner Main
and Bank st. Tin Roofing q Specially.
" N. ALEXANDER, Wholesale and Retail
w Grocer, corner Main and Bank SITS.
A BRANUM q SONS, Wholesale Grocers,
IA Bank Street.
l. A. MABERY-A Full and Complete Line
i OF Boots, Shoes and Gents Furnishing
Goods.
nINSMORE BROS. Grocery and Feed Store,
IL Main ST., one door east of Smiths Mil.
The bee., 1883-12-01
Dashing 1t on.

The first and most prevalent misconccp-
ton of tyros is, that an article or poem,
to be brilliant, must be dashed off," They
have heard of course, that Johnson wrote
"Rasselas" in week; that By.Jn was
only thirteen days over THE COrsair;' that
Scott was scarcely double that time in
writing volume of "Waverley.," and that
Burns composed Tam o Shanter' between
dinner and tea. But they forget that be-
fore these tasks were accomplished, John
son had composed and published what
would fill volumes; Byron had already
spent the best of his life in constant prac-
tice of his pen; Scott had edited the BOr-
der ballads, the works of Swift and Dry
den, and written the greatest of his poems;
and that Burns was an expert, and practic-
ed in yerse-making as long experience in
the art could possibly make even him.
Apart altogether from the question Of the
supereminent genius or all these men, they
did not attain to this degree of literary
celerity all at once. They did not jump
into it as man may get into suit of new
clothes. 1t was in each case the result of
the unwearied practice of their art. There
have been instances, such as that of the
poet Campbell, where the genius ripened
early, and where the first work was the
best; but this is very rare even in the
ranks of genius. The rule of these ranks
has rather been on the side of unmitigatcd
labor in correcting and perfecting their
Many of them, such as
Gbbon, wrote and re-wrote the first of
their productions three or four times over,
and after all, when they saw their work in
print, have been known to declare that they
thought they could still improve it were
they to write it over again. 1t may be
taken, therefore, as fundamental rule i'll
the attainment OF literary excellence, to
spare no labar in periecting and polishing,
and to leave no word, or sentence, or pas
sage unimproved that still seems to admit
of improvement. Attention to this would
save many young writer some of his Bit
terest disappointments.
The bee., 1883-12-01
How the Weather Indications are De.
termined.

At the Signal Service Bureau in Wash
ington, the weather indications are record
ed at five a. M. eleven q. H., four p. NJ,
and eleven p. H., daily. 4 reporter under
takes to tell how the work is done, and
this is what he sees:
Take seat in the indication room with
me, and we will see how the weather is
gotten up. 1t is now four o'clock, Wash
ington time, and kilograms are pouring in
from all parts of the United States, Canada,
British America, West Indies, Novia Scotia,
and falling into the lap of the sergeant in
charge. The territory covered is from
Olympia, in Victoria, OH the northwest
coast of British America, across to Sydney,
above Newfoundland, thence down to Ha-
vana, across San Diego, California, and
thence back again. There's girdle for
Puck. At certain hour Of the day-three
o'clock Washington time-observations are
taken at all the stations, and then they be-
gin to come in, chasing each other over tie
wires pell nell, like crowd of unruly
school boys. These dispatches are called
off to six gentlemen, each of whom sits be-
fore map, one noting the thermometer,
another the barometer, a third the condi-
tlon of the weather, and so on. These are
transferred to ono large map, and then Old
Probabilities makes his appearance. He
glances over all sees where a storm was
at 1 q. NJ, and notes where it was at three
o clock. He takes int consideration the
wind currents, the humidity, and all the
minor details which his experience and
learning have taught him. Not a word is
spoken in the room. Old Probs is in deep
study. In moment he will speak to fifty
millions of people, and few more over in
Canada. His stenOgrapher appears, and
the indications are dictated for New Eng
land, then the Middle States, the South,
West, Mississippi Valley, then perhaps, a
storm bulletin twenty-four hours in ad
vance to warn some special section.
Among the innovations made is the fur
nishing to sections of the country special
reports of floods, the conditions Of rivers,
and their probable rise and fall, within
twenty-four hours following, at given
points. Then reports are made for South
ern States on the weather during cotton
picking time, signals being displayed from
The telegraph stations denotiDg clear OR
had weather coming.
The bee., 1883-12-01

1t would appear that the doctrines of
Of feminine dress, promulgated with con-
siderable vigOU by strOng-minded ladies in
the United States, have recently been en-
Enthusiastically adopted by an association of
German matrOns and maidens, which un-
der the significant title of Clothing League
for the Abolition Of Petticoats,' recent.
ly held its first meeting in concert room
Of the Brunnestrasse, Berlin. A chairwo-
man having been duly elected, the pro-
Redings were opened BY an eloquent speech
setting forth the :ncOnycniences and disad-
vantages, from a sanitary point of view,
Of the flowing garments hitherto deemed
appropriate wear Of civilized females. This
discourse pronounced it to be a sacred
duty Of every member Of the association
to discard with the utmost prOmptitude
such Objectionable raiment, typical Of all
the disabilities wrongfully ascribed to wo-
man by her ppressOr-man-and to as-
sumo in its stead "a dualistic covering for
the legs, as well as for the arms This
daring programme Of action was hailed
with acclamations Of approval by all save
one, a Frau Peters, who cOurageously
stood up for the denounced petticoat upon
the ground that it was far more becoming
than trousers 10 members Of the female
sex. Her prOtestating voice, however, was
drowned in a storm Of indignant clamor,
and a resolution embodying the sentiments
previously enunciated by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority Of the fair leaguers.
The bee., 1883-12-01
Life's Opportunities.

Life Is, IN great degree, what we make
II. We are not to sit paSsiyely awaiting
the good time; but we are to strive with
mighty strength of purpose to make of
ourselves examples of goodness, wisdom,
integrity and high moral courage, so that
when the end shall come we shall feel we
have not lived in vain. And how shall we
succeed If we heedlessly pass by hfe's
precious opportunities We would not
enforce upon our readers the necessity of
grasping great opportunities alOne-far
from 1T; for, do not the little drops of
water make the broad restless ocean "A And
where the desert but for the little grains
OIL sand? So it is that little opportuni-
ties for doing good, little lessons that NAV
at present seem so Unimportant help ma
terially to lay the foundation for q great
and useful life.
Our faculties for exercising an influence
over others are so many and great that il
Is difficult to converse together without
exerting mutual influence; and everv
man who critically examines his intellect
ual and moral state will observe that how
ever short his interview with another per
son may be it has had an effect upon him.
And this influence is usually exerted when
we think little about it but we have prob
ably left impressions upon some minds
which viii never be erased. And this in
huence and .constancy has often great power.
a single instance of advice, reprOof, eau
ton, or encouragement, may decide the
question OF mans respectability, useful
ness and happiness for lifetime. How
important, then, that we improve every
to make our lives q blessing
to others