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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

The present illness of Senator An
thony of Rhode Island, is attributed to
blood-poisoning at Baltimore several
years ago-the year following Summers S
death. He went out, while there one
day, to call on some Providence friends,
taking his dinner honr for the call. He
conversed with them somewhat at
length, but did not partake of dinner
On his way back he stopped at restau-
rant and was served with partridge.
Snow was on the ground, and it is sup
posed that the bird, thus deprived of its
ordinary supplies, had eaten of kalmia
berries and tainted, its flesh with their
poison. Soon after his meal he became
i'll, and on the train for Washington,
feeling worse and fearing he might be-
come unconscious, he called the con-
duster to him and gave him his name
and Washington address, which proved
a timely help on reaching there. 1t was
several days before he got about to re-
sumo his duties, and he has felt the ill
effects of the attack from time to time
in his system ever since.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
REST.

There is no rest. 'Tis but an empty
sound
A dream all shadowless the world
around.
Unrest is normal. Every orb or ray,
Greater or less that beams by night OF
day,
Sun, moon or star that burns through
endless space,
Each III its course runs one eternal race.
God never rests-eternal vigil keeps;
The Eye All-Seeing slumbers not, nor
sleeps;
All things obedient 20 one Lofty Soul,
Move ever restless as the ages roll.
Unrest is fe-bope-action-g
play:
Rest is but death-cessation is decay.
Unrest is real. The glorious Power
that spanned
The mighty fabric of the skies and
planned
The architectural glories far and near,
That deck each world and ornament
each sphere.
Is constant in its work supreme, sub
lime,
In restless glory through resistless time
There is no rest in all the realms of life.
Man is an epitome Of endless strife;
The heated words which drop from hu-
man tongues,
The breath that parts the lips and fills
the lungs,
Each beart-throb, each pulsation, every
Of joy or sorrow, leaves him restless
still.
There is no rest, nor can rest ser pre-
vail;
The worlds in motion-mountain, for
est vale;
The wondrous oceans restless currents
Around the sea-washed world from pole
to pole;
The cloud, the storm, the darkness and
the light
Proclaim the resistless force and restless
might.
There may be peace; the world ir still
ness may,
And awful silence, pass the years away;
Long centuries hide in Times eternal
breast
Peace, silence, stiffness all-but never
rest.
Rest is the mildew, the corroding rust,
Hopes fading ashes and loves crum-
bling dust.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
Anti-Treatine Societies.

Cincinnati Germans are taking an ad-
yanced step in the temperance question
by the organization of anti-treating So
cieties. If rot step toward the grad
ual disHse of beer, it at least leads to
habits of moderate drinking. Leave out
the conyiviality that accompanies the
custom of drinking, and there remains
small inclination to indulge to excess !;
and it is excess that does the great
harm. In the society mentioned above
the citizen meets his friends, but instead
of treating and accepting treats he pays
for what he drinks and drinks as little
or as much as he desires. There being
10 seeming obligation to drink at the
expense of another, the quantity Of liq
uor man imbibes is limited by his de-
sires, and the tendency to drukenness is
reduced to minimum. Were anti
treating societies more general there
would be less frequenting of saloons by
young men, less drinking in Difference
to established custom, and new forms of
sociability devised.
The custom of treating is distinctively
an Americanism. The young American
who first begins TO drink soon begins to
swill. He indiscriminately mixes beer,
wine and whisky in the mistaken guise
OF sociability, and in a short time reach
es the condition of blind, maudlin drum
kenness. The German is brought up to
the use of beer as a beverage, and it is
not nearly so likely to throw off all re-
restraint as is the youth whose educa-
ton has been in another direction. The
German drinks for the quiet moderate
enjoyment there is in it the American
drinks for the conviviality and excite
ment it produces. ......
Anti-treating societies are new
thing in the West, although in New
York they number many thousands of
members; and their formation is viewed
in many cases with anything but appro-
baton by habitual drinkers. But their
growth is gradual. and while slow, it is
doing great good in keeping young
men within bounds. Very few men who
do not acquire an overpowsring appetite
for liquors in their youth become drunk
ards in their old age. And the estab
lishment of anti-treating societies will
have tendency to prevent the forma-
tion of such habits. Every project that
will in any manner decrease the tenden-
cy to drunkenness should be encouraged,
and the formation of similar societies
to those of New York and Cincinnati,
among both young men and old men,
should be advocated by every temper
ance worker and by every moderate
drinker.-[ Cleveland Herald.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
What the IrOquOis Banquet Demon
strated.

The uproar Carter Harrison has pro-
duced is practical proof of the verify
of the Times's positive assertion that
there is no such thing as a political par
ty having the name of Democratic party.
There are election machines of that
name-mere artifces for Office getting,
controlled and manipulated by office
hunters. Thele is an organized appetite
of that name-an eager, covetOus desire
to hold Office as an easy mode of living
and getting money without earning it..
There is also an irrational, senseless and
rather paganish force of habit of that
name, which impels multitudes of cleo
tors to arm themselves with voting pa
pers having that word printed on them,
and to obey the orders of self-seeking
humbugs who say their prayers to that
word, without being able to give rea-
son for doing so. But that there is a
Democratic party, in the sense of a body
of citizens formed around a political
question to effect political object by
united action to that political end, is not
true, and has not been true since there
was Democrat party organized to up
hold and enlarge the area of slavery
The last act of the Democrat political
party was to organize rebellion of the
slave provinces in support of its great
est political idea. When its rebellion
was put down, the Democrat ceased to
have political reason to be, and thereby
ceased to be as IA political party. All
that since then has been manifested un-
der that name has been either an appe-
tite for office, an inherited prejudice, an
unreasoning force of habit or coaction
in mode of idolatry resembling the
indefinable notion of kinship which
binds barbarian society in the tribal
elation.-(Chicago Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
A Shadow.

''In perfect love is perfect trust"
So says maxim old;
And yet the saying is not just,
When all the tale is told.
There never yet love was born
Into this world, without
y silent shadow on its dawn
The shadow of doubt.
A shadow which is scarcely seen,
And yet as swiftly flies,
As objects which may come between
Our vision and the skies.
And vanish, leaving in their track
No token and no trace,
Nor ever in their paths turn back
To mar the days sweet grace.
But through the shadows that are past,
Through all 10. e's wavering doubt,
The perfect trust shall dawn, at last,
To cast the shadows out.
Through darkening clouds, which over
brood,
The sunlight shall appear,
And loves transcendant interlude
Shall Danish every fear.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. 6 A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
ROBT. NJ. EATON, w. Nj.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
y Royal Arch Masons. Stated conyoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
j. B. RYAN, II. p.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 54, R. 6 s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
a. R BUMGARNER, T. l. M.
F. d. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. c. W. CARROLL, E. G.
L. L. SEDwIoK, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
HENRY WARD BEECHER, in his Fri

udS evenings laiK TO MS people, Salu:
My dear friends, there are 10000 wo-
men in the city of New York, who sup
port themselves by services of one kind
or another. Two-thirds of these sup
port themselves by the needle. BY the
power of this little glittering instru-
ment they support not only themselves,
but their families, and with it alone
many of these women defend them
selves from the infections of vice and
damnation. They are paid. oh, how
wretchedlyl Thirty cents they get for
making one dozen shirts! Extravagant
prices Thus they struggle along day
after day, month after month, and year
after year, in poverty, and finally die in
wretchedness. Yet everywhere they go
as illustrous instances of heroic pa
tience, faith, courage, endurance, victo-
ry, benifcence.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

SINCE the close of the civil war the
Northern Methodist Church has expend-
ed about five million dollars for educa-
tfonal purposes in the South, chiefly
among the colored population. Twenty
five flourishing colored colleges have
been established, which have an aggre
gate of $500 colored students. The same
denomination has also built some $500
churches. The Southern Methodists
have less means, but they have done a
proportioDately large work. Other
Northern churches are doing good work.
and in the, matter of sappressing South
efn illiteracy are accomplishing more
than all the Southern Legislatures.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

THERE is no reason to apprehend that
the Emperor of the Sand wich Islands.
Kalakaua L, may soon be an exile from
the land of his fathers. During the pres
ent season a great Influx of Chinese has
taken place, which if continued will
soon cause that race to largely outnum-
ber the natives. Already 1,1OO Chinese
have been landed, and five large steam
ers, containing in all 6,1OO of the al
moned-eyed celestials, are on the way,
and have probably, ere this landed their
human freight. The Hawaiian Cabinet
Council have entered protests against
any further exclusively male emigration
from China, but the addition already
made largely increases the comparative
ly small population of the islands.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
Belmont County onIciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
= Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. G. Barrah.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
William N Coffland.
Treasurer-Edward L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred 81. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. S. Hobbs.
Commissioners-0wen Mehsn, Norris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Surveyor-John H. Mitchell
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
Infirmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

The cost to the brewers, ,saloon-keepers'
and liquor dealers association of Cincin-
natl of contesting the Scott law, will be
$4,000 if the law is decided to be uncon-
stitutional, and SIC, 900 should the decision
be that it is constitutional Judge HOad-
ly has reconsidered the request that he act
as one of the counsel, and now promises
to go into the contest with all his heart
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 900 AM. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; pm. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday z
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2. m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

The grand jury has indicted congress
man Phil Thompson, of HarrOdsburg, KY,
for murder in the killing of Walter IL
Davis. The Indictment was a surprise in
Harrodsburg, but is said to meet with
general approval.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

do not disappoint US both. Give me the
right to love you. | will trust to time
for its return
There was lOng-sobbipg breath, and,
with the searcc-uttered words, For his
sake, then,' she suffered her strangely
accepted suitor to take the hand which
made him shiver as he touched it. as if
it had been ice.
How well Miss Van Decken looks to-
night commented one.
She is beautiful came from another;
and what happy woman
The lady spoken of caught the last
two words as she moved by the speak
ors, not thinking to whom they referred.
"A happy woman She pited herself to
think they could never again apply to
her, and yet she had dreamed of happi-
ness once.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
IINITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Z Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: IL a. m.
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, 1883-05-10

S. C. Drake, of Osborn & Drake, of Leb-
anon, o., committed suicide by shooting
himself, while suffering from mental de-
preston. He was nephew of Tom Cor
win 10y marriage.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

In an interview with Secretary Fol.
ger the PRESIDENT assured him that he
had the FULLEST confidence in his admin
lstratlon OF the Treasury Department
and desired him to remain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
Published Every Thursday
Terms of Subscription:
Two Dollars Per Year IN Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
COFFIoR South side Main street, nearly op-
Bosite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
An Important Wharfage Decision.

An important w marriage DECISION.
WASHINGTON, April 3O.--A decision
was rendered by the Supreme Court of
the United States to-day in the case of
the Parkersburgh and Ohio River Trans
pOrtation Company, appellant, against
lLhe City of Parkersburg, w. Va, and
others. This case, which is one of con-
siderable Importance to all cities and
towns along the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, arises out of the following state
of facts: The City of Parkersburg built
a wharf and established certain rates of
wharfage, which the ParkerSburg and
Ohio transportation Company complain
ed of as eXtortiOnate and as being mere
ly the pretext for leyying duty on
tonnage. The company thereupon filed
bill in the circuit court of the United
States to restrain proceedings in suit
brought in state court for the purpose
of collecting wharfage, and To have
the wharfage ordinance declared illegal
and void. This court holds, first, that as
the ordinance on.its face imposed charges
for wharfage only Though these charges
might be unreasonable and exOrbitanD,
the court will not entertain an aver
ment that they were in reality not in
l6hucu dS hudild&t, Uub dS q 0uby Oh
tonnage. An inquiry into the secret in
tent of the body which imposes charges
is inadmissable. Whether it is one thing
or the other, must be determined by the
ordinance or regulation itself. Second,
that wharfage is . charge for the use OF
a wharf, made by the owner thereof, By
way of rent or compensation; while
duty of tonnage is tax or duty of
charges for the privilege OF entering, or
trading, or lying in a port or harber, and
can be imposed only sy the government.
Third, that whether the charge is wharf
age or duty of tonnage, is question
not of interest, but of fact and law.
Fourth. that although wharves are re-
lated to commerce and navigation as
aids and convenienceS. yet being local In
their nature, and requiring special regu-
lations for particular places, the control
Of them (in the absence Of congressional
legislation on the subjec0 belongs to
The states in which they are situated.
Fifth, that suit will not lie in the cir
cult court of the United States for re-
lief against exorbitant wharfage, as
Ease arising under the Constitution or
avs of the United States, even though
t be alleged that the wharfage ives in
tended as duty of tonnage. The decree
,f the court below in favor of the City
If Psrkersburg is therefore affirmed.
Opinion by Justice Bradley, Justice Har-
an dissenting.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

The President has selected Boston, At
lanta and Chicago, as names for the three
new steel cruisers of the navy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
COL. JACK" HAYES.
His Career as a Mexican Fighter-A
Conspicuous Figure in California.

A dispatch from San Francisco has
announced the death of Col. John c.
Hayes, better known as Col. Jack"
Hayes, a gallant fighter in the Mexican
war, and in later years a conspicuous
figure in the early history of California.
Col. Hayes commanded a company of
Texan rifle rangers during the War Of
the Lone Star Republic Tor independ-
ence, and he served with his mounted
rifie-shOoters) as an auxiliary in the
American forces during the war which
was subsequently carried into Mexico.
Texas Jack" as he was called, was as
remarkable for his mOdesty and amiable
qualities as for the dauntless bravery
which rendered him the terror of the
Rio Grande frontier and made many
a Mexican tremble. His reputation was
so great, indeed. among the Mexicans
that they stood in constant dread of his
hardy band of soldiers. 1t was said of
the Texas Rangers that they could live
on less and go further than any men
alive, not excepting the Indians. He
was once captured and taken to Castle
Perote, near Monterey, whence he es-
capped by digging through the walls. and
made his way back to the American
lines. Innumerable stories of mis- eOur-
age, audacity and skill are told, and
paper-covered edition of his biography
preceded the absorbing "dime novel" of
later days. He went to California as
SuOA as the Mexican war was over, and
was an independent candidate for Sheriff
of San Francisco at the first county
election held there, April, 1850. John
w. Geary, who was subsequently Cover
nor of Pennsylvania, was the first al
calde of San Francisco, and David G.
Broderich. afterward United States Sem
ator, had just been elected State Sena
tor. The election that resulted in the
choice of the Texas ranger was long re-
membered as one of the most exciting
and spirited ever known in the country.
There were three candidates in the
tield-whig, Democratic and independ-
ent. There were professions, open-air
meetings. tOrchlighl shows and other
great displays. During the height of
the independent (or Hayes boom the
rifle ranger suddenly appeared
in full rig, but bareheaded, and mounted
on fiery black charger. Darling into
the midst of the excited crowd, he ex-
hibited sundry splendid and wonderful
feats of horsemanship, restraining his
noble steed, but pranciDg wildly about
while trumpets blared and cannon thun-
Tered. This characteristic stroke turned
he scale. Hayes was elected By vast
majority. During the troublOus times
hat followed Hayes, as Sheriff, was in
.rusted with the duty of attempting to
lisperse the vigilance committee, who
rad already hanged several notorious
thieves and ruf1ians. He was unequal
% the task, and he came in for fair
hare of the odium incurred by the "law
md order party" During the latter
PORTION of his life Colonel Hayes mixed
cry little in public affairs. In the en-
Oyment of a small income, he passed
lis last years comfortably and quietly
D Oakland. where his death took place
aturday, April 21.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

THE increase of the meat and live cat
tie expectation from this country to
England is illustrated by the statement
of the London Truth that during one
week of April seven steamers arrived in
Liverpool from America with cargoes of
fresh meat, consisting of 9,046 quarters
of beef and 1.60S carcasses Of mutton,
while seven other vessels brought to the
same port 1866 cattle and 2,3l5 sheep.
Possibly some of those fourteen vessels
we're from South America and Canada.
bus doubtless most of them came from
the United States. In the days when
cotton was king, the Amer ican civil war
produced great distress in Lancashire,
out England now depends largely Oh
America not only for cotton, but for
food.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

The colored people of Kentucky are
preparing to emigrate in considerable
numbers to Kansas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10
DIRE Glory
Principal Business Houses Of Bridgeport.

TAMES DUNCAN. dealer ID Groceries and
- Provisions. Oglebsy's Block.
GEORGE GIFFEN, dealer in Choice Family
VI Groceries. Phoenix Flour Specially.
@ WOODCOCK. dealer in Hardware, Stoves,
% Tinware, Glass, Nails, &C., corner Main
and Bank st. Tin Roofing q Specially.
VIM. ALEXANDER, Wholesale and Retail
w Grocer. corner Main and Bank SITS.
A BRANUM SONS, Wholesale Grocers.
~ Bank Street.
Il A. MABERY-A Full and Complete Line
L OF Boots, Shoes and Gents Furnishing
Goods.
DINSMORE BROS. Grocery and Feed Store,
IL Main st.. one door east OF Smiths Mil.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-05-10

THE first acquittal of the persons in
dicted for the Phenix Park murders
was that of the car driver, Fitzharris,
yesterday. There was no evidence
against him to show he had any knowI-
edge of the conspiracy to murder Secre
tary Burke. His driving the assassins
to the place appears to have been merely
in the way of business. Fitzbarris was
remanded to await trial On conspiracy
to murder Secretary Foster.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-01-27
A SELF Evident Fact.

"Plate sin with gold" says the
poet, "and the strong lance Of Justice
hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a
pigmy's straw doth pierce it," This
same principle applies to thousands
of quack medicines now in the mar
ket. Extravigant and spacious adver
tisements and elaborate wrappings
are the means employed to swindle a
credulous public. one trial proves
the worthiessness of the article. DR..
Swayne merely calls attention to his
Ointment for itching piles, relying on
It's merits for its sale. Intense itch
ing after getting warm ia bed is now
a thing of the past.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1883-01-27

A BILL has been introduced
in the California Legislature to COM
pei all proprietors OF hotels to place
o card in each room of their house
notifying guests not to blow out the
gas. This is perhaps all that can be
done to show that the proprietor has
not been careless, and is not to blame
for any accident ofsuch nature that
may happen. However, a person old
enough to be travelling around the
country and stopping at hotels, who
does not know better than to blow
out gas, probably would not know
enough to read, and such an one
might as well be out of the world as
10 it for all the good he could do.
Death by suffocation from gas is as
pleasant as in any other form proba
bly. and if left to themselves the
number OF idiots who are now travel.
ing from one place to another will
become noticeably less in the course
of two or three years.