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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

A SYSTEMATIC effort was made by the
Commercial Gazette to ascertain the
losses by the flood at Cincinnati, but the
difficulties were too great to enable one
to reach anything like an accurate re.
suit. The largest actual loss is the Gas
Company, 100000, besides the loss of
"A weeks business. The losses to the
coal interests are 100000; to the city,
from broken cnlverts, sewers, drains,
streets and sidewalks, $4,000; to the
railroads, actual and indirect, s500,Ooo'
The personal losses, SO far as gathered,
amount to. hundreds of thousands, but
nothing like complete estimate can
ever be made.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

The blue jay is the boldest and most
mischievous of wild birds. Near Knox
vile Tenn, recently, one was seen to fly
a number of times to a high picket
fence to attract pair OF kittens playing
on the lawn. The kittens finally mount
cd the fence and began cautious ap-
proach from picket to picket. The jay
let the first get to within eighteen inch
es, then hepped over between the two.
The second kitten approached; the bird
hopped over it. 1t turned, and the jay
hoped back and between. The first
kitten approached, and the jay hoped
back over it, and 80 kept 1t up till one
kitten got disguised and left, and the
other followed soon after. Once or
twice after the jay tried to inveigle the
kittens to another frolic, but failed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

want, and gave him as reward all sort!
breast, and about fifteen yards of ribbon
to wind about his neck and shoulders.
The wedding was splendid. The whole
city was gay with flags and banners, and
garlands hung in huge fesfoons from
house to house; and for two whole
weeks nothing else was thought of and
talked about
The Kirg and Queen lived so happily
together for year that the King had
quite forgotten about. the gingerbread
and the Queen about The Ir0mbone.
Unhappily, one morning, the King got
out of bed with his left foot foremost,
and that day all things went wrong. So
it happened that the royal pair quarrel
ed for the first time, though they could
not have told the reason why. In short,
the King was cross, and the Queen was
snappish and insisted on having the last
word. I.at
ut is about time that you ceased find
ing fault with everything" said the
Queen at last, with great seorn, shrug-
sing her shoulders. "Why. can't you
even play on the trombone" 2
"And you can bake gingerbread" the
King retorted, quick as flash.
For the first time the Queen did not
know what to say, and so, without an
other word, they went to their separate
rooms. The Queen threw herself on the
sofa and wept bitterly. What little
fool you arel" she sobbed. where was
your common senssf You couldn't
hove been more stupid if you had tried"
As for the King, he strobe up and
down the room rubbing his hands. at
is fortunate that my wife can't bake
gingerbread he thought. glesfully, for
if she could, what should have ans wer-
ed when she said that / couldn't play
the trembone?"
The more he thought, the more cheer
full be became, He whistled a favorite
tune, looked at the great picture of his
wife over the mantel, and then, climb
ing upon chair, he brushed away a
cobweb that vas dangling over the nose
of the Queen.
"How angry she must have been, poor
little wOmanl" he said at last. Sup
pose see what she is doing"
He stepped into the long corridor into
which all the rooms opened, and it being
the day when all things went wrong.
and the groom Of the chambers had for
gotten to light the entry lamp, though it
was eight o'clock at night and pitch
dark. The King went cropping forward,
with bis hands stretched out for fear of
failing, when suddenly he touched some
thing very soft.
"Who is thereY' he demanded.
at is ]" said the Queen.
What are you in search of, my dear?"
81 wanted to beg your pardon-I was
very unkind," she sobbed.
pray, don't, my love-" the King said,
in his very gentlest tone of voice. at
was my fault, but all Is forgotten. One
thing. let me say, however, my dear:
there are two words which must never
be uttered in our kingdom on pain OF
and"
"' Gingerbread, the Queen added,
though she stealthily brushed
away q tear,
And so the story ends.-St. Nicholas
for March.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
II =. o. AAot
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. s. A. M.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be.
fore full moon.
ROBT. M. EATON, w. N.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
y Royal Arch Masons. Stated eouvoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
j. B. RYAN, Fl. p.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R. 6 s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. R. BUMGARNER, I. l. M.
F. d. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 90, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. G. w. CARROLL, E. g.
L. L. SRDwIoK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

THE Wayne County (OJ Democrat, OF
February Z, says: Having shown in for
mer numbers that the Ohio and Nation
al Democracy platforms not only favor
ed changes in the civil service as provi
ded in the Pendleton act, but went far.
ther in demanding radical changes
changes that would involve the amend.
ing of the constitution-we now find, in
the face of this record of the Democracy
a few opponents of the act who say Mr.
Pendleton asked for its passage merely
of his own volition. The Michigan
Democratic State Convention endorsed
this reform in 1882. The New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts and California
Democratic platforms endorsed the PEN
dleton bill by name.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01
Washington.

Soldier and Statesman rarest unison!
| High-poised example Of great duties done
Simply as breathing, q worlds honOrs worn
As life's Indifferent gifts to all men born;
Dumb for himself, unless it were to God,
But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent;
Tramping the snow to coral where they trod
Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content;
Modest, yet firm as Natures self; unbalanced
Save by the men his nobler temper shamed;
Never seduced, through show of present good
By other than unsetting lights to steer,
New trimmed in heaven, nor than his stead
fast mood
More steadfast, far from rsshness as from fear
Rigid. but with himself first, grssping still
In swerveless poise the wave beat helm oi
will;
Not honored then or now because he wooed
The popular voice, but that he still withstood;
Broad-minded, higher>souled, there is but one
Who was all this, and ours, and all mems
Washington.
Virginia gave US this imperial man,
Cast in the massive mold
Ofthose high statured ages old
Which into grander forms our mortal metal
ran;
She gave US this unblemished gentleman;
What shall we give her back but love and
praise,
As in the dear old unestranged days
Before the inevitable wrong began9
Mother of States and undiminished men,
Thou gavest US country, giving him,
And we owe alway what we owed thee then;
The boon thou wouIdst have snatched from
US again
Shines as before, with no abatement dim.
A great mans memory is the only thing
With influence to outlsst the present whim,
And bind us as when here he knit our golden
ring,
Ali of him that was subject to the hours
Lies in thy soil and makes it part Of ours;
Across more recent graves,
Where unresentful Nature waves
Her pennons DER the shot-ploughed sod,
ProclaimiDg the sweet Truce Of God,
We from this consecrsted plain stretch out
Our hands, as free from afterthoughto or doubt,
As here the united North
Poured her empowered manhood forth
In welcome of Our savior and thy son.
Through battle we have better learned thy
worth,
The long>breathed valor and nndsunted will,
Which like his own, the days disaster done,
Could, safe in manhood, suffer and be still.
But thine and ours the victory hardly won,
If ever with distempered voice or pen
We have misdeemed thee, here we take it
back,
And for the dead of both don common black.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01


THE decree regulating the liquor traf-
fic in Russia, recently signed by the En-
peror. is one of the most stringent
character. There is to be only one
liquor shop in a village, and where two
or three villages are almest contiguous
one shop must suffice for their combined
inhabitants. The publican must be a
native of the place, appointed and paid
by the common council. and must sell
food as well as liquor. If he allows any
person to get drunk. he is liable not only
to dismissal, but to fine and imprison-
ment. If any Russian village is report
ed to the authorities as addicted to
drunkenness, the sale of liquor may be
interdicted for as long period as may
seem necessary.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

The vote at the Philadelphia fnuniei-
pal election last week was very light,
being nearly 10000 less than at the Pres
idential election. John Thompson beats
Cobb lDem.) and the Committee of One
Hundred candidates for Police Msgis-
trate by over 5000 majority.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01
Oh, when l.

THE somewhat romantic femenine no
tion OF sending up balloon with acard
attached. asking the finder to open cor
respondence, was tried by an Ohio girl
Her brother in Pennsylvania found the
balloon and wrote to her not to be q
fool.
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Belmont CO unty onlciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thornas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex G. Barrah.
Sherif-Samuel Hines.
Auditor--Wii N. Gofland.
Decentralization Eaton.
Prosecuting Attorney--Alfred II. Mitchell.
RecordeI--W s. Hobbs.
CommissioDers-0wenM Mehsn, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor. Il.
Surveyer--James Crosgrove.
Coroner-Es B. Kennedy.
Infrmary, Directors-JOseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, james B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

PENNSYLVANIA still produces more
than half of the iron and steel rails
made in the United States. Ohio ranks
fourth with New York third and Illi-
nois second,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-03-01

A GEORGIA woman Is losing the pow
er Of speech through indulgence in
canned fruits. Now you know what to
think of man who is going home with
lot Of canned fruit under his arm.
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w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
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Church Directory.

DREsBYTERIAN1 CHURCH-Rev. R.
i Alexander, pastor, Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 9:60 In. Young
mems prayer meeting; Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting. Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II an; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday 2
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 :. m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 a.m. Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, 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, 1883-03-01

Banking hours from am. until 8 pm.
Discount days Tuesdays, at 10 am
q Money received on deposit.
Collections made and proceeds remitted
promptly. Exchange bought and sold.
Directors-Courad Troll, David Brown,
George Brown, George Jepson-
D. D. T. OOWEN, Pres.
). R. MITCHELL, Cashier
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MORAL
A ROguish Bird.

Don't lend both horse and saddle |.
the same PERSONAL---VERY. Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
Personal AND mPFRSONAI.

-Gadseen, Ala, with a population Of
$500, has sixteen lawyers, ten preach
ers and nine doctors.
When Colonel Sellers is asked if he
sings. he frankly replies: s.Well. these
who have heard me say do not.
Principal Dawson, of AIcGin Uni
versitY, at Montreal, who is not with
out honor in his country, was presented 4,
with an address and $4,000, when he
left home for a year in Europe.
Mrs. Esther j, Bates, although
eighty-three years of age, rendered
efficient aid in bringing water to save a
house from destruction by a swamp fire
in Cohasset, Mass, recently.-BoStom
Post
Mrs. j. w. Lent, frightened by q
drowning scene in a theater in Oakland,
Cal, tainted and then broke out in a
violent perspiration. They took her
home and she caught cold and soon died
of pneumOnia.-Sd7 Francisco ClsrO3li-
Gle.
An official high up in the railroad
world wrote to Charles Wyndham for
his autograph. The comedian sent back
this epigraph: Railways in their way
are autOcrats. They teach every man to
know his own station, and to stop there
N. 7. Herald.
General Crook is now living at Fort
Whipple, near Prescott, A. T. His
home is a pleasant roomy house of two
stories, surrounded by plazas, and COM
handing fine view of hill and valley.
The Indians of the section call him THE
Gray Fox. - Chicago Herald.
Jonathan C. Bowles, who recently
died poor and friendless in the Cleve-
land CO., City Infrmary, at the age of
seventy-tive years, was twice worth
100000, it is said, and lost both for
tunes Unreal estate speculations. Among
his few effects was found copy of Win
Cartoons poem, cover the Hill to the
PoorhOuse.-Ch Chicago Tri6u1ae.
David Hinkley, of LAGRANGE, drove
from that place to Dexter, stopped over
night, and drove from there to Liver
more Falls, distance of about sixty
miles, in one day. What makes this re-
markable is that the old gentleman is
over ninety years of age. He went to
visit brother two years his senior
After visiting about week he drove
from Augusta to Dexter in day, and
seemed none the worse for his Journey
LeaOistO1s (lNe.) Journal
Rev. Frederick Freeman, known as
the Historian of Cape Cod. who died
recently at his home in Sandwich, Mass.
at the age of eighty-four years, was the
thirteenth child of twenty children of
the late Brigadier General Nathaniel
Freeman, and was himself the father of
twelve children. He was the author of
two large volumes of 1.-The History Of
Cape Cod, or the Annals of Barnstable
County, which came out in successive
numbers between 1853 and 1862. He is
also the author of other works.-M. 7.
Post
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
Humphrey Marshall.

Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky,
was a burly Congressman who weighed
at one time over 400 pounds. Born in
1912, he was educated for the army,
but, after having graduated at West
Point, and been commissioned as Second
Lieutenant, he resigned and studied
law. An eloquent speaker, he soon be-
came one of the leading members of the
Kentucky bar, then headed by Clay and
Crittenden; but on the breaking out of
the Mexican war he took the field as
Colonel of a regiment of Kentucky vol
unteer dragons. This was probably
one of the bravest and best drilled vol
unteer cavalry regiments in any service,
and its gallant services at Buena Vista,
where Colonel Marshall led it into the
thickest of the fight, were the admiration
of all who witnessed its heroic exploits.
Entering Congress in 1S49 as q Repre-
sentative from Kentucky, Colonel Mar
shall soon took a leading part in debate,
and as humorous speaker ranked next
to Tom COrwin, of Ohio.
MarShalIs secret was the indulgence
in ''fOrty-wink naps,'' which, by the
way, enables Governor Butler to stand
such fatigue. One moment the brilliant
Kentuckian would be uttering an origi-
nal remark, and as you still listened a
muff1ed snore would come from his
phlegmatic flesh Yet this state of
balmy sleep would be but flash. His
eyes would twinkle again, his cheeks
would expand, breath-puff would de-
note his relief, and he would 90 on with
the conversation as though no slum-
brous moment had broken the thread of
his discourse. This Rip Van Wrinkle
ism in broken doses was also INDUCED
in by Colonel Marshall in the court
room. He used to snOOze at least half
the time, bolt upright in his chair, law
books and brief before him, in the midst
of the trial of the most important cases,
even while his opposing attorney was
addressing the Court or jury, yet his ears
seemed ever awake, and no fact essen
ial to his clients interest was ever lost.
Colonel Marshall was an inveterate
gambler, and when he was appointed
by President Fillmore Minister to China
he lost the money paid him at the State
Department as an "outft." Luckily
for him, the keeper of the gambling
house was Jack Pendleton, who prided
himself on being "a Virginia gentleman,
| siri belonging to one of the first fami-
| lies, sir!'' He loaned Marshall money
enough to get to China with, and used
his potent exertions to have Congress
raise the grade and consequently, the
pay of the Chinese mission.
! Meanwhile Colonel Marshall sssaw
Sam, . and drifted from the old Wing
party into the National Americans. and
/ thence into the Democracy. In 1857 he
was reelected to Congress, and in 1861
! he espoused the secession cause,
although Kentucky remained firm for the
| Union. Marshall was made Confed-
crate Brigadier, and he served through
out the war. When the silver-toned
trumpet of peace was heard. he resumed
the practice of law at Louisville, Ky,
and died at Louisville, of pneumonia,
OH the 28th of March, 1672.-St. Louis
| GLobe-Den.ocrat.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
CuriOsities Of Manitoba.

There are various points of historic
interest around the city that the casual
visitor seldom sees or knows anything
about. Fort Rouge, across the Assini-
bOine, is the site of the old red fort,
built as far back as 1874 by LIE Vera2-
dyre, the intrepid explorer of the North
west, and from which the Red River
subsequently got its name. Silver
Heights, few miles to the west of the
city, is the favorite resort of distin-
9dished tourists to drive to and dine.
Kird's Hill, about the same distance to
the east, was the refuge of the Selkirk
settlers during the great flood of 1926.
Seven Oaks, on the suburbs, is where
desperate battle was fought in 1912 be-
tween the trappers of the great fur
trading companies. But Stony Noun
tain, ten miles to the north, is the hap
py hunting ground for picnics and all
sorts of pleasure parties from the city.
Be it remembered that mountain IN
Manitoba simply means any kind of ele-
walton above the surrounding prairie,
and Stony Mountain is only about two
hundred feet in height. 1t is shaped
like a mammoth horseshoe, with a
gradual ascent from the two arms to
the rounded ridge in front, where it ter
inmates abruptly in a perpendicular
buff The material is fossiliferous
limestone Of the finest grade, and lami-
mated into layers of every thickness from
an inch to four feet. BOwlders of every
SIZE and shape are scattered all over the
surface. The depth of the ledge has
never been ascertained yet
The Provincial Penitentiary is built
GA it, which is also used as an asylum
s, =,
be put up. There is no wall around it,
no sentry, no guard, except two brass
fald-pieces within a small stockade on
the hill, but it is rarely indeed that any
one gets away, though most of the con-
victs and light-headed fellows are al
lowed to work in the brick-yards half a
mile away. The keeper had a menagerie
OF all the wild animals of the Northwest,
bnt only a few bears and buffalo hy-
birds are left. the latter a cross between
q COW and bison. They are very rare
and beautiful, brown and brindle in
color, with long wavy hair. 1t is won
der Barnum has not captured them
The next curiosity is large oval stone,
perfectly smooth, that farmer used for
many years as threshing floor, and a
capital floor it made, too Then comes
SilO O1FC III UuO oIuO VI JIG Ill., WuOIC
innumerable Indians were buried, but
some years ago the rock crumbled to
pieces, and covered the entrance to it
completely. 1t is well worth excavat-
ing. The Indians made another use of
the mountain in the Olden time They
drove large herds of buffalo up between
the two arms of it and forced them to
leap over the steep precipice in front,
breaking their necks by the fall. Their
bones may still be seen there. The
ground at this time of the year is thick
1y covered with all kinds of flowers that
grow naturally on the mountain, which
gives it the appearance of a grand old
neglected garden Winnipeg Cor. N. Y,
Grdpbic.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-10-18
The Iurrmen and the Conn.

The Birmingham eng Daily Mai
reports a tragic-cOmic scene which Oc-
Cured at the holding of an inquest upon
the body of an inmate of the borough
Jail who had died from smallpox. 1t
may not be generally known that a cor
Oner is bound to hold an inquest on the
body of any prisoner who may die in one
of her Majesty's prisons, no matter how
evident the real cause of death may be.
The statute is of course very necessary
one, but yesterday it entailed on the
iurymen who had been subp9naed the
not very desirable duty of viewing the
body. The Deputy Coroner (Mr.
Weekes), had, from motives which re-
quire no explanation, kept the fact from
his jurymen till he had got them COM
fortably and securely within the court,
and then he unfOlded it to them. The
bare statement that they were to hold
an inquest on a smallpox case was
enough; four or five of them required
no further particulars to make up their
minds that they would not view the
body. No, they would not for all the
corOners in the kingdom; they did not
care what precautions had been taken.
Persuasion having failed to convince
these obstinate few, Mr.. Weekes was
compelled to read to them, in a
very sepulchraI and solemn tone,
the penalties which the law pre-
scribed for such cases. Discomfort
was not, however, stifed, as was evil
denced by the lowering brows and low
mutterings of the fourteen good men
and true who had been empaneled, and
the Coroner told them he would allow
them to smoke, drink, or take any other
means they chose of avoiding the infec-
ton. This seemed to soothe them, and
Sergeant Costing marched his little
army down stairs to their long funeral
vehicle, with the suppositiOn that they
had all been thoroughly broken in. Co
ing down stairs, however, one thirsty
soul suggested that they would have the
drinks then; and another, lover of the
nOxious weed, no doubt, took up the
hint and talked about cigars. When
they got into the street they rushed pell
nell for tobacco and liquor. One poor
teetotaler and non-smOker was in a sad
way. What was he to do? Brandy
and Soda" said one facetious colleague;
''Black Jack" said another. On me-
dicinal grounds, this abstemiOus individ-
ual at length brought himself to imbibe
a glass of very weak whisky and water,
but he could not brace himself up to the
task of smoking even Pickwick; he
dreaded sickness. 1t was quite a quar-
ter of an hour before all these dutiful
citizens had provided themselves suffi-
GENTLY with liquor and ballasted them
selves with an equivalent stock of smok-
ing material to face the perils before
them, and the worst smoking carriage
on any railway in the kingdom would
have paled its Intellectual fires before the
furnaces which glowed and pulled in the
"Coroner's van" And after all it was
found that, as Mr.. Weekes had told
them, there was nothing to fear. All the
jury had to do was to keep a respectful
distance from an air-tight coffin in the
yard, with a piece of glass at the end of
the lid to disclose the face of the corpse.