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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

1883 ,s4-Belmont Co., Ohio.

Third Saturday of Septem bel, at ST. Clairsville
Third Saturday of October. at Belfsire.
Third Saturday of November, at Belmont.
Third Saturday OF Decembe at st Clsirsville.
RULES.
Examinations begin at O'Clock q. m.
Testi monials of character are required II
applicant is not known 10 the Board.
Certificates will not be antedated nor ex~
tended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given
at close of Institute ONLY.
Certificates viii be dated and issued by the
board in adjourned session on Saturday fol-
lowing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
f1rst-class Is yearsD certificate is granted
upon average of 80 per cent. including three
three years continuous experience EIGHTEEE
MONTHS Of which shall have been in the same
school.
A second-clsss q years? certificate is grant>
ed upon an average OF 80 per cent. including
three higher branches. provided applicant has
had three years experience in teaching
A third-c class q years) certificate is granted
upon an average of 81 per cent. including one
higher branch, provided applicant has had
one years experience in teaching.
fourth-class Il year certificate is granted
upon an average OF 20 per cent. provided ap-
plicant has had one terms experience In
teaching, or takes three higher branches
A nth class (6 months } certificate is nted
upon an average Of 60 per cent. where appli>
cant has 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.
J. a. HENDERSON,
9>6 "
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T En- Voyage.

Whichever way the wind doth blow,
Some heart is glad to have it SO;
Then blow il east ur blow it west,
The wind that blows, that wind is best
My little craft sails not alone;
A thousand fiaets from every zone
Are out upon thousand seas;
What blows for one fayoring breeze
Might dash another, with the shock
Of doom, upon some hidden rock.
And SO | do not dare TO pray
For winds to watt me on my way,
But leave it to Higher Will
TO stay or speed me, trusting still
Thai all is well, and sure that He
Who launched my bork will sail with me
Through storm and calm. and will not fail
Whatever breeZes may prevail,
To land me, every peril past,
Within His sheltsring heaven at last.
Then, whatsoever wind doth blow,
My heart is glad to have it so;
And blow it east or blow it west,
The wind that blows, that wind is bsst
Caroline A. Mason.
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consider what we really ought to wish

/
| for"
And that was the end of the matter.
1t really seemed as if the ring had
brought blessing into the house. Ora,
naries and barns were full to overflow
ing, and in the course of a few years
the poor farmer became a rich and port
ly person, who worked with his mon
afield during the day, as il be, too. had
to earn his daily bread but after supper
he liked to sit in his porch, eontented
and comfortable, and return the kindly
greeting of the folk who passed and
who wished him a respectful good eve
ming.
So the years went by. Sometimes,
whom they were alone, the farmers
wife would remind her husband of the
magic ring, and suggest many plans.
Bat as he always answered that they
had plenty Of time, and that the best
thoughts come last, she more and more
rarely mentioned the ring, and at last
the good woman ceased speaking Of it
altogether.
To be sure, the farmer looked at the
ring, and twirled it about as many as
twenty times day but he was careful
never to wish.
After thirty or forty years had passed
away, and the farmer and his wifa had
grown old and white haired, and their
wish was still unasksd, then was God
was very good to them. and on the same
night they died peacefully and happily.
Weeping children and grandchildren
surrounded the two collins; and as one
wished to remove the ring from the
still hand as remembrance, the oldest
son said: LET our father take his ring
into the grave. There was always a
mystery about it; perhaps it was some
dear remembrance. Our mother, too, so
often looked at the ring-she may have
given it to him when they were young"
So the old farmer was buried with the
ring, which had been supposed to be
wish-ring, and was not; yet it brought
as much good fortune into the house as
heart could desire. Anna Eichberg, in
st. Nicholas for October.
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Election Tuesday, Oct.
9th.

ALLEN O. MYERS is a Democratic can
didate for the Legislature in Franklin
county. He is one of the new-and-living-
Hoadly- Book kwalter-and-M Mclean Demo
Gratis. At meeting in Columbus We'd
nesday evening. he is reported, in the Ohio
State Journal, as saying:
jefferson Davis is the person who
freed the colored race and not Abraham
Lincoln or the Republican party. All
glory and praise to jeff. Davis. We don't
want the nigger vote this year; we don't
want Republican votes; all we ask for is
the votes of good, true Democrats and not
SOreheads.'
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How the News Reached the President


There be thousands of citizens of Ohio
who can recall with great distinctness
the days and weeks of agonizing sus-
pense during Sherman's march from At
anita to the sea in November and De-
cember, 1864. How the great heart of
the North fairly stood still in anxiety
to hear reliable tidings of his progress,
and the condition of his army! What
battles had been fought; what brave SOL
diers were slain or wounded? These
were questions that were in every mind.
No news came except through rebel
sources, and there were stories of disas-
ter to our army. put forth, as We after
ward knew, to fire the tagging zeal Of
The Southern people, but they served to
increase the anxiety of Ohio people who
had thousands of husbands, sons and
brothers in that army.
Fort McAllister was taken by assault,
but Savannah still held out and offered
a strong obstacle to our march. Final
ly, however, that city was taken, but
there was no means of direct communi-
cation with the North TO transmit the
news. Knowing the great anxiety of
the Northern people to learn tidings of
his progress, a messenger was sent from
Savannah by night, down the river Is
miles TO the fleet at its mouth, with the
welcome news which was to electrify
the loyal nation. The river was filed
with torpedOes and Instructions, and the
banks were lined with rebels, but the
daring young messenger, for he was but
IL years of age, taking only two faithful
negroes as guides and oarsmen, thread
ed the dark and dangerous river and
reached the fleet in safety, CARRYING
Sherman's famous dispatch to the Pres
ident:
SAVANNAH, GA, Dec. 22.
To His ExcellenGy, President Lincoln:
| beg to present to you as Il Christmas
gift the city of Savannah, with $50
heavy guns and plenty of ammunition.
and also about 10000 bales of cotton.
W. I. SHERMAN, Major General.
The safe conduct Of that dispatch was
daring feat, requiring the highest de
gree or courage and judgment. People
Will readily remember the incident and
the dispatch, but the modest yonng
bearer of IL has been known to but few
persons until late years, though he is to
be better known in the future. His
name is Joseph B. Foraker, the next
Governor OF Ohlo.-O. S. Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
Be Courteous.

The influence of gentle. courteous
words upon those unused even to words
of common comfort may be learned
from an incident, which also shows
that it pays to be polite eten to street
Arab:
One day in suddenly turning the cor
ner of u street, 4 young lady ran with
great force against little ragged boy.
and almost knocked him down. Stop
ping as soon as she could. she turned
and said very kindly to the boy:
IL beg your pardon. my little fellow
am very sorry that ran against you"
The poor boy was astonished. He
looked at her for moment in surprise: /:
and then taking off his cap he bowed
very low and said. while broad smile
spread itself all over his face:
"You can have my parding and well
come, Miss; and the next time you may
run agin me. and knock me clean down,
an | won't say word"
After the lady had passed on. he turn
ed to his companion, and said. IL say,
Jim. IL the first time | ever had any
one ask my parding. and il kind a took
me OIL my feet"
That poor boy will never forget those
gentle, loving, peaceful words.
Opportunity is the pilot which carr:cs
manu- n Snaoaaa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN OHIO
means that the Supreme Court will be-
come Democratic by the election of two
judges of that party and a new liquor
test case will be tried before that tribu-
nal and tbs Scott law be declared uncon-
stitutional. In that case the two mil
lions already collected under that law
will necessarily be returned to the sa-
lOonists, and non-saleonists will have to
be taxed that much in addition to their
present tax to enable dealers in whisky
to be exempt from taxes. This is GER
tainly great reason why taxpayers in
terested in keeping the Scott law in force
should turn out to man on election
day and vote the Republican ticket.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

ONLY twenty years ago and Judge
Hoadly denounced Vallandigham in the
bitterest and most acrimonious language
of all the stumpers of the State. Now,
he expects the son of Vallandigham and
all his admirers to vote for him. How
strange. and yet how trHe
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

THE murder of Ada Atkinson, in Ben
ton county, Ind. was one of the most
fiendish crimes ever committed. There
were twenty-eight distinct cuts on her
person. Revenge seems to have been
the only motive, and the opinion pre-
walls that the murderer is woman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
Bows Be Thoughtful.

Never start off on a walk or journey
without telling some one of the family
your purpose. Never be away from
the dinner or supper at home without
giving your intentions or liability. Above
all. never be away at night time when
some one at home is sitting up or keep
ing awake to let yon in.
Do not presume that your parents are
strong enough to bear the anxiety your
absence occasions. 1t requires more
strength OF body, mind and soul than
most people possess to be calm and re-
conciled under such trial.
Dangers seen and unseen are aoout
us all the time, and your parents can I
help imagining all sorts of evil happen
ings to you. Be thoughtful, therefore,
and prevent such trials which lmpairs
the health and shortens the lives OF
those who love you most, and depends
upon more than all others.
Con,,;t ra not the DrOpriety OF which
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

the actors in which are still honored
leaders and officehelders, to now set it
self up as the friend par excellence of
the cOlored man exhibits an amount of
assurance so stupendous that it creates
suryrise if it does not command admira-
ton O. 5. Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
Election Tuesday, Oct.
9th.

THE following extract from a bogus
and denounced interview" with Cover
nor Foster is doing service in thousands
of Democratic circulars:
"The German vote is a despotism in
this country, 1t would sacrifice anything
for the sake of its glass of beer. 1t has
been an incubus on the Republican party
in Ohio for years, and we intend to
shake it off now, whatever happens"
Now this is what GoveFnea-3eostef
saws about it:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
Election Tuesday, Oct.
9th,

4 DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN OHIO
means endangeriag our chances of car
rying the Presidency next year. There
fore all Republicans should labor be-
tween now and election day and aid in
making our noble State surely Republi-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
Church DIRECTORY,

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r
4 Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 500 a. N. Young
pen's prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday z pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
NJ METBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
w Rev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II a. m; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:5O pm. Young mems meeting: Friday z
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday D. m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
NlTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
~ 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, 2 pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each mcnth, 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, 1883-10-04
Belmont County onIciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-St Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk Of Courts-Alex. G. Darrah.
Sherif-Leroy c. Sedwick.
Auditor-William n Cotfland.
Treasurer-Edward L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred II. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-0wen Mehan, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-John H. Mitchell
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
lnirnary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
n1 T,Iu or 1Sg

DEAR SIR-Thers is not word of
truth in the alleged interview attributed
to me in the article you send me.
ut appeared first in the News Jour-
nal, Cincinnati, o., and was promptly
denied by me in the Commercial Gazette
but not in the News Journal.
Il will pay handsome reward to any
reputable man who will say he ever
heard me say anything of the kind. l
never dreamed even such thought.
Yours very truly, CHAs. FOSTER" !"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

MANY are ambitious of saying good
things-that is. of being grandiloquent.
Eloquence is speaking out, Il quality few
esteem and fewer aim at.
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BelmOntChrOniCle
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms of Subscription:
Two Dollars Per Year Il Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFICE side Main street, nearly op.
Poste Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

THE issue of Harpsr's Weekly dated
September 30, contains very interest
ing first page illustration entitled THE
Scott Law in Ohio-Putting the Burden
where it Belongs" The sketch is by w
A. Rogers. II shows wsll-dresSed, able
bodied bar-keeper, standing on the head
of substantial whisky barrel, with
decanters and basket Of champagne at
his feet and the burden where it be
longs" Atias-like, gracefully poised upon
his slightly stoo ing shoulders. The
burden" consists of d rock foundation
on the upper surface of which are group
ed buildings labeled "penitentiary,
jail "police station" and poor house"
Convicts are engaged breaking stone, the
poor are taking a sun bath. and cart
labeled "scavehger" is being loaded with
filth from the alleys.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04

THE ST.. Louis Republican cOngratu-
lates the people of Missouri on the great
good which is to come to them through
the recently enacted high license law,
In Bates county, where the saloons used
to yield revenue of $1,000 per annum,
they now pay $4,000, and the court has
directed that One-half the amount he
applied to the building of county Jail,
and the balance to bridge fund. Other
counties will use the license money for
building and repairing bridges and
roads, and the Republican urges that
this course be pursued in every case
except where counties mead the money
to cancel existing indebtedness. In the
exuberance of its feelings, it says that it
will not be many years before a large
portion of Missouri will be provided
with good gravel and rock roads at little
cost to the people.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-10-04
DIR q Glory
Principal Business Houses Of Bridgeport


IAMES DUNCAN. dealer IN Groceries and
- Provisions, Oglebay's Block.
~ EORGE GIFFEN, dealer in Choice Family
VI Groceries. Phoenix Flour Specially.
Q WOODCOCK, dealer in Hardware Stoves
-. Tinware. Glass, Nails, &c, corner Main
and Bank st. Tin Roofing Speciality.
"M. ALEXANDER, Wholesale and Retail
w Grocer. corner Main and Bank SITS,
A BRANUM d SONS, Wholesale Grocers,
~ Bank Street.
L A. MABERY-A Full and Complete Line
L OF Boots, Shoes and Gents Furnishing
Goods.
nINSMORE BROS. Grocery and Feed Store,
IL Main ST.. one door east OF Smiths Mil.
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Commit nc act, the propriety of which
appears questionable.
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IHS government Telegraph lines, the post
master general remarks that the first two
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Masonic DIRECTORY,

belmont LODGE, No. 16, F. g. A.. NJ
- 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, FL. P
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
PELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R.&S. NJ
- Meets second Tuesday of each month.
FL. R. BUMGhRNER, t !. M
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. C.. CARROLL. &c.
l.. l.. SEDwIoR, Rec.
st. Clalrsville Professional Cards.
- $1,000
7 W. NICHOLS,
Attorney at Law and Notary Public.
Office over Vests Drug Store, ODD. Bank.
4 SLY ST. CLAIRSyILLE, o.
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limited machinery placed at their disposal;
N is recommended. in the interest of instice
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ending June 80, 1888, is 162 from disease,
and 50 from wounds. injuries and accidents.
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AA4S ASOuCNlOA
The expenditure was
q ~
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tribe without covering It into the treasury.
Tho .~~-~..-.- ~-~.>-Ds-as ~ thn ~n~N''nr
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ii me thod by which spriis are made unacceptab-
fov 9th er rpufposes BY .methylating" them, whi, b
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Opportunity is the pilot which carries
many to success.
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turbance OF business interests which have been
fnstarrd nerhans stimulated. bv provisions ot law
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of postage took effect.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-10
BREAKFAST Blu JuRT.

Gladstone holds $4,000 in rebel bonds,
and is looking longlngly toward the trade
dollars.
The dying Egyptians are greatly com
forted In knowing that their cholera is not
the Asiatic kind.
Miss Alice Ransdale, OF 0rangeburg, S.
O., wears a gold ring which was the we'd
ding.ring Of her great-great-grandmother,
and is nearly 200 years old.
The Hon. Henry W. Archer, OF Mary
land, says he is not a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor OF
State, or, indeed, for any political honors.
An Illinois family named Hicks recently
went crazy, and were about to nail one OF
the young children to a wooden cross, when
the neighbors prevented the c%rucifxion.
The entire family are in confinement.
On the railroads OF England and Wales
there were in 1881 about 2,26S inhabitants
for every locomotive, as against 1907 in
1871, and there we're l,0l7 inhabitants for
every passenger car, as compared with j.
232 in 1871. .t..... -
Massachusetts papers say that Gov. But
Ter Is going 10 Europe in November to study
the history OF Christian Emperors Of Rome.
II we should ever need u Christian Emper.
or for these United States, Benjamin will
bail ready.
The most spiteIul mar in the world has
committed suicide in Lower Silesia. He
left a letter stating that his purpose was to
deprive his heirs Of thirty thalers which
they would receive from q benevolent So
ciety in case his death were natural. y.
The Duke Of Westminster, in a recent
speech, declared that the London smoke
was Injurious TO health, while It repre-.
scented q waste in the city alone Of El,000,.
600 a year. Its effect on public buildings
was destructive, and 1t cost E2,5oO q year to
repair its damage to the House Of Parlia'
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-10

Director S%turtevant concludes from ex-
periments at the Geneva Station that orch
ard rrass is worthy OF u place in a mixture
Of pasture seeding; the same OF tall mead
ow oats grass; fescue grass appears TO pos
sess little usefulness in presence oil our
better varieties; tall iescue has value tor
pasture; "timothy seems ouly to be grown
successfully by itself in rotation with
wheat D o our rich Soils" June grass is
able 10 withstand eve drouth on
account OF its deep roofing hab-
Il. Tas a matter OF common observation, the
n%on-Iulting species have ever been more
nonuIar for the purpose OF cultivation than
those which form tussocks."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-10

LASNa"y''
A Burlington man has a mothsr.in.law
who never spoke a cross word to him.
The mother.in.law OF the young man in
Harlem Is q model one. She Is deaf and
4 Morristown mother:in.law pays the
tailor's bills OF her son.in.law. This young
man is extremely polite and d~eterential to
her.
An Indiana man has come to the tardy
yindication OF the much abused mother-in-
law. firing OF his wife, he got a divorce
and then heroically married her mother,
A Syracuse son-in.law says his wite's
mother is au angel. This does not seem
strange when the fact Is known that she has
been dead for several years.
The daughter.in.law Of q Louisville wo:
man claims that her husbands mother Is
the dearest old lady in the land, because
she always does up preserves for her every
season.