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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
The Far Northwest.

Puget Sound is ravishingly beauti-
full archipelago. There is not 50 lovely
body of water on the earth. Tourists
by tens of thousands will go yearly to
Tacoma, to sail on this purple sea,
through islands ever green with fir trees.
the purple sea buttressed on the west by
the snow peaks of the Olympian range,
and sentried on the east by the slumber-
ing volcano Tacoma, 14,500 feet high,
pyramid of eternal ice and snow, which
give back to the entranced behelder the
revolving light of day and of the moon
lit night in every color and shade known
to the prism and to art. There Is not
in all America such superb spectacle
as this snow mountain, and alone OF
American mountains, it holds in its
heart "A glacier, as grand and impressive
AS that of Mont Blanc. The time will
surely come when our society mob,
which now goes annually to SwitZer-
land because it is fashionable and Eng
lish to do so, will become sufficiently
AmericaniZed to desire to know the
geography of its own country. Then
the objective of our far summer travel
will be Tacoma, the purple archipelago.
and the Tacoma glacier Puget Sound
Cor. n. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
The Postal Note.

WAsHINGToN, April 25.-Althopgh
the Postof1ice Department has adver-
tised for proposals for furnishing the
"postal notes." authorized by Congress
at the last session, the use of these notes
is not expected to begin until the 1st of
next October. These notes are expected
to take the place of the former fraction
al currency and drafts under the sum of
So, and will, it is believed, be very
great convenience to the public as well
as all publishers. By going to the post
office and paying cents any person can
obtain postal note for any sum under
S5, which note can be sent in letters
through the mails. 1t is expected that
these notes will enter into general circu-
lation as money, although the fact that
the Government limits the time when
they can be redeemed will restrict their
use and prevent them from taking a
place with the money issued by the Gov
ernment. As
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

The regular army of the United
States is at present made up Of twenty
five regiments of infantry, ten regi-
ments of cavalry, five regimens of artil-
lery and corps of engineers, compris.
ing in all $4,000 enlisted men, 2,1S1 COM
missioned officers, making, with 312 Ca
diets and nine professors, grand aggre
gate of 2S,002 men in active service
there being also 400 retired officers on
the rolls. The annsal pay of the general
of the army is S13,5OO, and of the lieu
tenant general S11, 200, while the major
generals receive $500, brigadier gener.
ais $500, colonels $500, lieutenant
colonies $4,000, majors $4,000, mounted
captains $4,000, and captains dismouRt
ed Sl,S6O. The chapiains,Z Of whom
there are thIrty-four,z receive $500.
The pay of paivate soldier for the first
two years of service is S13 month, be-
ing increased 81 a month for each year
of service until for the fifth year it is
SIT a month"; II then he re-enlists he
receives SIS month, and for each sub
Seuuent re-enlistment 81 more.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

JUMP is name much better known
in the Western cities than here. He
was caricaturist of the Keppler school.
and was acknowledged to be genius in
his line. Jump WAS his real name. He
was swift worker, and needed but a
brief glance to get possession Of the sal
lent features 50 useful to the caricatu-
rist of public men. His employment
took queer and original turn. Strong
drink made him too untrustworthy for
a periodical, and the eYactions even of
weekly publications in this city were
too rigid for him, and he sped westward I;
and caricature appeared in st. Louis
illustrating his change of base, entitled,
"a Good Jump" He lined saloon walls
with his caricxtures, but it is related
that to get any work out of him he had
to be locked in room to keep him from
strong drink. All that he made he
wasted in whisky. He went upon the
stage as lightning caricaturist, but his
enemy tripped him up there. He had a
long wrestle with his foe, but he was
thrown every time. On Friday he shot
himself in the head in Chicago, leaving
note to his wife saying, Il had to CO."
Talent'and whisky are poor friends
N. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
The Real Issue in 1884.

Mr.. Charles A. Dana, OF the New YOrk
Sun, the especial friend of Samuel j.
Tilden, and the inventor of the Demo-
cratic slogans "Casarism" and Fraud
is at present nursing his boom and en-
joying the balmy air of the Pacific, at
San Francisco. He was interviewed
upon the political situation on Sunday
and synopsis of what he said appear
ed in Mondays Leader. He started out
with the proposition that 'the principal
issue Of the next Presidential campaign
will be to turn the Republicans out.
That is exactly the issue from a Demo
cratic standpoint, and Mr.. Dana is enti-
tied to much credit for putting it in such
terse, frank, and truthful form.
Though the average Democratic politi-
clan has not the candor to acknowledge
it thus boldly, it is about the only issue
the Democracy have had since 1900, and
the only one the party has been able to
unite upon Jor the past twenty years. 1t
was the real issue when, in 1854, in the
face of armed rebellion and in the very
presence of dawning victory, his party
stultihed itself by declaring the war a
failure and demanding peace at any
price, thereby appealing to the baser
passions and supposed discomfort of the
people, yet attempted to hide the hide
Gus moastrosity by placing General Nc
Clellan at the head of its ticket.
1t was the real issue in 1868, when the
Democratic party again appealed to the
prejudices of the people by declaring
in favor of paper money and the taxa
tion of government bonds, and in express
sions of love and admiration for the
Union soldiers whom four years before
it vigorously denounced.
1t was the issue in 1872 when the
Democratic party abandoned its own
leaders and previous positions and put
at the head of its ticket one of its most
bitter enemies for years, in the person
of Horace Greeley, upon a platform of
"honest money" and equal rights to all
men,"
1t was again the underlying issue in
1876, when it took up the cry of Mr.
Dana against "Casarism" and central
ization," and with loud protestations of
"reform,' put at the head Of it's ticket
one of the most crafty, corrupt, and un-
scrupulous of its leaders-Samuel J,
Tilden.
1t was the only issue upon which the
whole Democratic party was united in
1880, when it put General Hancock at
the head of its ticket, and then attempt
ed to "straddle" the tariff question and
the soldier vote at the North, and to
make itself solid with the south by the
advocacy of the ambiguous doctrine of
Home Rule"
Mr.. Dana, therefore, has good reason
for announcing that the principal issue
in 1884 Will be "turn out Republicans
In that respect the campaign will not
differ essentially from all others since
1860, except, perhaps, that in the com
ing contest "the issue" will he more
clearly defined. The party has demon
strated Its willingness to swallow apy.
thing or anybody, to adopt or repudiate
any prlhclpal, or to reverse itself as
often as its leaders deem neces.
safy IN order to cater TO what they con
ceiVe 10 De the popular sentiment most
hkeiy 10 catch votes. 1t will probably
not tnank Mr. Dana, however, for put
Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

THE great cyclone which swept thro'
the heavy-wooded gulf state Sunday Of
last week shows how little forests avail
to check terrific winds. Hilly and
mountainous sections are usually heavi-
ly wooded, and the plains of the West
are comparatively treeless. Hence it
has happened that because the severity
of the wind was felt to the most fearful
extent, on the prairiss, and was not so
much noticed in the valleys of the East,
trees have come to be considered SOW :
ereign cure for tornadoes. The fact is
that it is hills and mountains against
which a great wind dashes itself to
pieces, and the forests on them get the
credit for it. Anywhere on the Appala-
chian system there can be found evil
dences of destruction wrought by winds
which touched only the crests Of the
hills, and which would evidently have
created vast havoc in towns or among
farms.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
He Couldn't Make Change.

1t is very noticeable fact that manv
people of the world, who are cheap in
every sense, make almost frantic endeav-
OrS to impress their friends, OF, rather,
their observers, for they have very few
friends, with a sense of .their-the cheap
party Such beings never
request a clerk or waiter for anything.
they always order it-sOmetimeS with an
air of patronage, sometimes with an air of
bluster; and which of these methods is
more to be despised is difficult to say.
Here is an incident in point, somewhat
imaginative, we presume, yet full of
meaning:
A very high-tOned looking young man.
in exquisite mustache, loud, plaid clothes,
red necktie, and knitting-needle cane, walk
ed into tobacco shop, and, throwing
down half dollar on the counter, said:
Say, Mr.. ShOp-keeper, can you sell a
man decent cigar?"
"Yes, sir," said the cigar man meekly.
''Well, then, fly around lively and do it.
Don't you see that half dollar?'
"Yes, sir. What kind of a cigar do you
wish"
"What kind?"
"Yes, sir"
"Why, look at me, sir, moment, and
see for yourself what kind of a cigar
would suit me" and he drew himself up
grandly and gazed down on the shop
keeper.
The shOp-keeper looked and then took in
the half dollar. got out cigar, handed it
to the man, with fOrty-nine cents change,
and said: 81 owe you half cent, sir, but
l can't make change unless you take an
other cigar"
The nice (''dude'O young man looked at
the shOp-keeper and then at the cigar, and
then at himself, and, without a single
word, walked out of the shop.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

from foe. Gray perked up her head at
Brindle's approuch, as she always did at
a noise; but when she perceived only a
staid old cow, she went on her way as
uncOncernsd as though she had been on
Tly stump. She saw nothing of that
queer budget in sun bonnet and panta-
lets, creeping behind the friendly COW.
On went the Teassured turkey; on
went sober Brindle, grazing at tuft and
bush and on went watchful Noby, get
ting peeps over Bossy's red back, under
herspotted belly, between her horns and
about heribusy, switching tail.
The little detective did the shadowing
capitally, and finally was rewarded by
seeing the turkey dart off on run.
Now, her nest is close by" thought No
by, recalling what the mother had said.
Eyes, ears, and thought were now all
strained to follow the poor victim. Ze-
nObia was greatly excited. and at one
time almost rushed from her shelter.
But she remembered in time to prevent
the ruinOus movement. In this supreme
moment she saw that Gorilla had left
the persimmOn tree, and was crossing an
open space in noisy way, as though
she WAS exploding torpedo at every
step. Zenobia frantically motioned the
Legro down. Gorilla, used to obedience,
dropped Oh her face, and defeat was
avoided.
On went old Brindle with increasing
eagerness as she neared the brook; and
on went Noby, also with increasing ca
gersess. keeping her eye on the bushes
between which the turkey had disap-
peared. Soon Brindle had pushed her
way to this very spot. A second more
and she had crowded by it; another mo-
ment and it WAS yards in the year, while
there. almost under her hoOfs, against
Il sweet gum tree, was old Gray busy
with her beak moving grass and leaves
and twigs-uncOvering- yes! un-
covering her nest. Noby was ready to
shout in triumph as she caught sight of
the great freckled eggs, great fine speci
mems as they were.
Old Gray did not get into the make
up of the next Christmas dinner as had
teen threatened. The Hitts's had lus-
cious young turkey from one of those
identical eggs which Noby had discOv-
ered-Youth's Companion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
The UoIntry's Crops.


With the opening of every spring re-
ports are industriously circulated rsla-
tive to the prospective shortening of the
crops. These stories are told by inter-
ested parties who insist that the seed
has either rottsd in the ground, or the
grain has been frozen out, or the bugs
or flies have committed such ravages as
to render only partial crop possible.
The present spring is not an exception.
The same old yarns are flying abroad, land
the same prophecies of evil are be-
ing made When it is remembered that
they are simply put forth for effect, they
may be estimated at their true value.
Although the department of agriculture
rated the general average of the winter
grain crop on the 1st of April, below
that of last year, yet the opinion was
pressed that the real condition of wheat
was less unppromising than it seemed at
that period Since then there has un-
doubtedly been great change for the
better. In California, for instance,
where the wheat was threatened with
damage from lack of rain, there is now
certainty that the State will have q
full average crop, which.will amount to
about thirty millions of busnels. COpious
showers during the past few weeks have
changed the whole condition, and it is
now estimated that California will not
have less than twenty millions of bush
els for export. The average of Dakota
is considerably larger than that of last
year, and if reports are to be relied up
on the crop will almost double that of
last season. Recent accounts from
Southern Iowa represent winter wheat
to be in good condition, although there
is decrease in acreage. A large acre
age has been sown in oats, and the rye
looks promising In Wisconsin the win
ter wheat has been damaged at some
points, but the general crop promises to
be fully as large as that of 1882. The
acreage of bot winter and spring wheat
has been increased to some extent in
counties where dairying is not made a
specially. A dispatch from Ssdalia,
Missouri, says that the prospect for
wheat is very fattering in the Parsons
and Hannibal sections of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas road. The acreage is
fully up to that of last season. Farmers
are plowing, and the prospects of large
corn crop are good. Kansas official re-
ports speak we'll of the condition of the
wheat crop. Good rains and warm
weather have helped matters very much,
and with favorable season the yield
will be abundant. In pretty much all
the western wheat producing section
spring seeding is nearly completed, the
circumstances being most faborable for
planting In all parts of New York the
winter wheat is being represented as
being in fine condition. The report from
Pennsylvania is fiattering, and many OF
the best posted grain men in the State
predict yield of at least 100000
bushels. The outlook in Ohio is less
fiattering than in other States. The
winter has been unfavorable, but with
fair weather and good season it is be-
lieved that the crop may possibly reach
thirty or thirty-three millions of bush
-(Cleyeland Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

A'YoUNG girl in Memphis family in
sisted upon having something to say as
to the selection of new carpet for the
parlor. 81 don't care so much about the
colors," said she, nor whether we get a
regular carpet or rug; and most of the
pattern may consist of small designs, if
you like, so long as there are few fig
ures in it of oblong shape. and about s
by IA inches in size. really
must insist on those dimensions, and l
want the outlines to be distinct. Why
am l particular about these points ?
Simply because my feet are rather large.
My knowledge of art is sufficient to
teach me that the eye judges of size by
comparison. If my foot is put out for
view on or beside figure in carpet
that is smaller than itself, don't you see
it shows for all its actual dimensions,
but if it rests OH distinct design of
three Or four times its own area, it is
apparently reduced So our carpet must
have few big figures in it for my per-
sonal USE As soon as you have made
the selection will know by the colors
how to make my purchases of hosiery
for the season. The sxactions of dress
nowadays require harmony of hues."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

THE chief complaint made against the
Scott Law is, that it contains the Nc
Connellsville Ordinance. The amount
of that is that where the sentiment Of a
community is against carrying on the
liquor traffic, it may be suppressed. This
is the assertion of local sovereignty. The
prudent thing for saloon proprietors
would be to pay the tax as soon As the
opportunity arises. and then if they can
not go on, the money is refunded, and
the sentiment against saloons must be
pronounced before it will take money
Oat of the town treasury.-(Cin. Com.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCE
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & 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,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions,- first Friday of each month.
]. B. RYAN, II. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. 6 S. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
FL. r. BUMGARNER. T. l. N.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, Z. T..
IL Stated conclaves. first Tuesday of each
month. c. w. CARROLL, Z. g.
L. T.. 5RDwIoK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

How MANY people there are that save
all their smiles and graces and honeyed
words and "Pleases" and Thank yous" for
strangers, and have only impatience, cruS-
ty replies, and harsh criticism for those
members of their own families who have
the right to everything at their hands,
and who are hungering and thirsting for
the gentleness bestowed upon Others. If
the smiles and courtesies cost anything,
then such a course of action might pos
sibly be construed as generosity. Even
then, however, generosity should begin at
home. But these gifts do not cost any
thing, and the supply of them is absolute
ly ineXhaustihle,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

THE TUNEFUL MULE.-WhO has not
heard the merry matin song of the tune.
full mule knows nothing of the power and
potency of music in her widest, freest
mood. Whether in solo or concerted
opera, the four-footed choir is head and
ears above all human possibilities. The
music begins with an andante movement
soft and sweet as the ungreased wheel
barrow's plaintive voice; then comes the
staccato furioso, the adago fortissimo
splityourearso, followed by the tremulous
yee-haw, which is the crown and summit
the cloud-capped mountain top of|ecstacy
and joy. Talk not of music, follow citl-
zens till you have heard the song OF the
mule.-Detroit Post.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

When grief can vex my my soul no more
When my lone boat shall quit the shore,
Who'll miss meY
When white, and still, and cold am /,
With silent breast and closed eye,
When my tired hands unmOving lie,
Who'll kiss me?
When all my deeds shall lie behind,
And my worst foe can only find
The one poor fact that l was blind,
Who'll bless me?
When my best friend can only weep,
And silent dust Ger my dust heap,
Who will, in that long slumber deep,
Redress me?
When all that have lost and won,
All that I've finished and begun
Is known; who'll do what Christ has
done
Forgive me?
Who, DER the place where L shall lie,
Will kindly pass my follies bys
Who, then, the love for which l die
Will give me?
What shall 1 care, in that long sleep,
That rest so dreamlsss and so deep,
Who may condemn, so | may keep
My slumber?
What shall l care t0hO they may be,
That tread in hatred over me,
Or if like sands along the sea
Their number?
And yOnder, where l soon shall stand.
If He shall take me by the hand
And bid me welcome in the band
Forgiven.
What shall care for earthly praise,
Or words of fault with my weak ways,
So that but bask in the soft rays
OF Heaven?
Oh! Friends if you have kindly word
For this weak heart, oft passion-stirred
Speak, while your voices may be heard
Or never.
The darksned soul that hluagerS n0lC
For friendships tones, will soon lie low,
Beyond the stings earth's faint ones
know,
Forever.
Cincinnati Morning Journal.
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Belmont County OFFICIAL Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-AleX. G. Barrsh.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditor-William n. Coffland.
Tfeasurer-Edward L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred Il. Mitchell
Recorder-W. S. Hobbs.
Commissioners Mehan, Morris Cope
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-JOhn H. Mitchell
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infirmary Directors-JOseph Bailey, Lev
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

SOME people may have imagined that
when Gen. Butler once secured his Gov
eted prize of the Gevernorship of the
Bay State his ambition would be salts
fed, and that he would lay down the
Chief Magistracy at the end of his FIRST
term. The doughty old Lowell lawyer
evidently has no such purpose. He in.
tends to have another shy at the Office,
and Massachusetts is already In the
midst of = premature political commo-
.tion. Probably the coming canvass will
be ene of the longest as well as one of
the bitterest ever known .in the State
Gov. Butler has already made Tswks-
bury thorn in the side of his oppo-
nents.-(N. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03

ONE of the Grand Army Posts in Bos-
ton has voted to do away with all flow
ers and floral emblems on Decoration
Day, and decorate simply with stars
and stripes. The idea of the organiza-
tion is that flowers in May aro compare
lively scarce and expensive, and few of
the Grand Army Posts are rich enough
to spend large sums for emblems that
fade in day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, T. Sabbath School, $50 an. 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 am.; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm, general prayer meeting: Thursday .. m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all oul
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 8 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, 1883-05-03

A NEW disease has broken out among
the horses in Northern Illinois, called
equinia, which is communicable to man.
kind from infected horses. Active
measures are being taken to stamp it
out, by killing the animals, and burning
stables, etc. 1t is highly contagious.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-03
Central Ohio Railroad Meeting.

COLUMBUS, O., April 25.-The annual
meeting nf the stockholders of the Cen
tral Ohio Railroad Company was held
to-day, Judge J. R. Swan, Chairman; a
Crane, Secretary. The following Direc.
tors were elected: Orland Smith, J, 81
Collins, Isaac W Hall. Bradford Dun.
ham, Joshua 6. Harvey, Robert Garrett
David Lee, Joseph r. Swan, W. b
Brooks, Daniel Applegate, Jas. w. .Jen
kins, VIM. H. Clements. and Osmun La
trope.