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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07
Shielding Assassins.

1t seems good to Democratic journals
to sneer whenever an American Sena
tor asks whether American citizens are
still murdered for their opinions. This
is in keeping. A stream cannot rise
higher than its source. The party that
has reaped the fruits of systematic as
sassination could not be expected to
teach through its organs decent regard
for law, for the lives Of citizens, or for
the rights which are held sacred by the
Constitution and by those who are fit to
live under it.
The coarse sneer is a self betrayal
Men who do not respect the rights of
others are not yet it to have rights of
their own! We have been welcoming
to this country, and to the shelter and
the opportunities of its freedom, some
men who never had chance where
they were born to rise above the herd,
who had no conception of freedom ex-
cept as an escape from the restraint of
force and fear OF the dignity of self
restraint they knew nothing; of their
duties as sharers in self-government
less than nothing; and when some free
born American citizen is murdered for
voting according to his convictions they
may naturally sneer about "Lhe outrage
mill" Th re are not many of these peo
pie, we trust; assuredly they have no
sympathy from intelligent and worthy
citizens of foreign or native birth but
the Democratic party naturally finds
use for large proportion of them. Men
less incapable of the sediments natural
to freedom would count it intolerable
infamy to be compelled to defend polit-
zeal assassinations.
When Senator Sherman spoke in the
Senate on Monday, demanding inquiry
regarding certain partisan murders, he
spoke for every man in the land who is
capable of an honest conviction, or has the
least idea what freedom means. A Gov
ernment that refuses to suppress such
wrongs has no business to exist. A par
ty or faction that excuses OF shields
such crimes, no matter what other
claims it may have, deserves only defeat
and infamy. If the Senator is mistaken,
and no such crimes have been commit
ted, the inquiry will disclose the fact.
But he who votes to suppress the Il nth
and shield the murderer puts mark on
himself that will not rub off Twenty
years ago Mr.. Seymour addressed GER
tain rioters as his friends" Though
he should live to be as old as Methusa-
leh. the fact would be remembered. So
it will be remembered that, as late as
the year 1884, certain persons, mainly
Democratic editors and politicians, in
cluding the solid minority in the Senate,
resisted the motion to inquire whether
American citizens were systematically
asslssinated because of their opinions,
and met all evidence on the subject
with spirit as fendish as the crime
itSelf,-N. Y. Tribune.
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FAIkPOsNT.

On Friday last, dispatch brought the
sad news of the death of Mrs. Florence
Shepherd, sister of our school teacher,
s. c. Murphy, ESQ.,, who went to Quaker
City, to attend her funeral. She was
the wife of H. T. Shepherd, Esq.,, an able
attorney, and only daughter OF Hamilton
j. Murphy, Esq, one of Monroe county's
extensive farmers. She leaves bereaved
parents, husband, and three little chill
dren to mourn her unJimely less.
On last Thursday morning there was
a most daring burglary committed here.
The large store room of J. w Horn was
broken into. aud so worth OF goods ia
ken. Thls makes the third robbery since
the formation of our village. We would
suggest steel trap, inside the doors, as
a safe guard.
This week we note the convaleScence
Of Hon. I. II. Nichol, who has been Sc
riously i'll.
Our literary has been newly organized
with the following corps OF officers: 5.
c. Murphy, President; James Pollock,
Vice President; Miss Maggie BrattOn.
Secretary; Albert Jackson, Treasurer
Hon. ,,hn Patton, Reviewer. The ques-
tiOn debated at the last meeting was
l"Resolved, That fictitious writings are
more Injurious than beneficial" 1t meets
every Wednesday evening.
We were at Teachers Association
meeting at the Bannock school hOnse on
Saturday last. We found J. G. Taggart
in the chair. The first question discuss
ed Was on Grammar" by IL J. Taggart
who made many points on the technical
tiles of that science. which was quite
entertaining. Next was paper read
oy MIR. Carman, subject, "Whispering in
schools" whicn WAS also good. Next
was general discussion On the graded
system in our public schools. The Asso-
citation adjourned TO meet in UniontOwn
in two weeks. QUIZ.
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oor-+ records tberefor. was passed

court records therefor, was passed.
A resolution providing for committee
of investigation as to alleged errors and
omissions in the Revised Statutes was
adopted.
The Loewenstein liquor bill wac re
ported, with amendments. from the judi
ciary committee, and the amendments
were adopted.
FEB. 2-Senate-A bill providing fol
the publication of legal notices in Green
back papers, where they exist. was dis
cussed, and postponed until Tuesday.
Nine bills were read a second time.
se-Remonstrances Against pro
Ihibiting the manufacture of toy pistols
against the bill regulating conditional
rates Of personal property. Petitions
For free turnpike enabling acts; fol
payment of a bounty for fox scalps; il
favor of Reeds pharmacy bill.
A bill was introduced amending the
law as to blackm2iling.
Fifteen bills were lead second time
FEB. 4-Senate-Bills were introdu
ced: Providing for cleaning streets by
sectional contract instead of by mile
to provide for selling perishable prop
erty by the sheriff pending a suit.
Five bills were read a second time.
HOuse-Petitions For month,
payment of corporation employees; fo
passage of the pharmacy bill; askinl
exemption of Brinkerhoff ) system 70
treating certain diseases, be exemp
from application of any board of healtl
law.
Bills introduced: New $4,000 cour
house in Holmes county; to prevent tn
killing of deer and elk; punishin,
tramps by Imprisonment in Jail; 70
election of Columbus councilmen a
large instead of by wards
Bills passed: For indexing Ian,
records of Greene county; to provide TO
printing bills and documents NOR,
promptly.
A resolution was offered, and refer
red,prohibiting the importation of alien
under labor contracts.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

MONDAY Mr.. Morrison, chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee, in the
House of Representatives, introduced in
the House the Tariff bill, upon which he
has been laborlng for some time. 1t
was sent to the Committee on Ways
and Means, aad it is understood will be
reported back shortly, when the tariff
music will begin in earnest. The new
bill purports to provide for general
horizontal reduction of 20 per cent. af
ter the 1st day of July next, but in its
practical workings it will be found that
there is more in this seheming measure
of the Free Traders than reduction of
20 per cent on the tariff sched ules under
the act of 1893. Where there has been
departure from the uniform rate of re-
duction it has been either to make ID
greater reduction or increase the num-
DER of articles on the free list, and
among the latter class are iron, copper
and lead ores, Goa, ,hewed and sawed tim
DER, and various other products.
On wool, enc of the important articles
in which Ohio is especially interested,
Mr.. .Morrison's bill makes positive re-
duction of 20 per cent. from the present
reduced duties, but provides way by
which still greater reduction may be
effected, whenever the price of imported
wool and woolsn goods is so low that
the duty becomes more than so per cent.
on the value at the last port whence ex-
ported, when the surplusage may be
struck off, and thus direct inducements
are offered for under valuation when
the fixed limit is approached.
1t is barely possible that when this bill
comes from the committee. its closest
acquaintance will recognize it, but
| while this is true, any bill emanating
| from the committee will contain much
that is dangerous to the commercial and
industrial interests of the country, and
will be scanned by the champions of
these interests with distrust. There is
| encouragement in the fact that the
friends of Protection are awake to the
danger. and that their resistance will
be united and determined.
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SHEPHERDSTOWN.
The roads are getting very muddy.

The roads are getting very muddy.
Mr.. Asa j. Hoge and family have beer
quite sick, but glad to say are GONZALES
cent.
All quiet around our town except now
and then a senighted man gets hole
shot through his coat.
The best we have heard lately is about
the man who heard of "sheep for sale
at Quaker City, and started Immediately
but not knowing where it was, and think
ing it was near Pittsburgh, got as far as
Steubenville, when small boy told him
it was near Barnesville, o.
Two failures reported for the week
one a farmer, the other the man who
started for the sheep
Wanted-"An Atlas" and compass.
so we may be able to go more directly to
towns.
Sherman and Lincoln for President
and Vice President. RIx.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

INDIANAPOLIS has weather prophet
and although his name is Love, he pre-
diets some unlsvely weather, very
much like that we have been experience
ing during the past week, which he says
will be followed by severe csld. Among
other cheerful predictions, he says most
destructive storm will occur about March
9th. The backbone of winter will begin
to break March 10. and there will be
frequent rains and thunder storms up to
the 9th, when there will be a gale.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

A TERRIBLE and heart-rending acci
dent, caused by the explosion of tank
of gasoline, occurred last Friday, at AL
lance, Ohio, in which seven lives were
lost. and others seriously injured. The
damage to property is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000. with partial insu-
rance. Business was eHtirely suspend.
ed in the city after the accident. A
fuller account of the particulars of the
sad affair will be found in another col
umn in a special to The CHRONICLE.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

CONGRESSMAN TAYLOR, of this dis
trict, said to an Enquirer reporter on
the gerrymander, by which he is placed
in Democratic district: "Of course
would be expected to object, and to enter
my protest against this redistricting
bill. But, aside from any interest may
have, l regard the scheme as an outrage,
and one that the people will resent.
These gerrymandering measures. made
out of season and contrary to justice.
have never done any party any good"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

THE Brooklyn Eagle has this worthy
tribute to Wendell Phillips: mo man
will have the hardihood to deny him the
foremost rank in American oratory, or
refuse him place beside Webster. To
the latter belonged more dignity, per-
haps, and relation to more large and
important questions, but in point of fire,
illustrative felicity, aptness of phrase,
and capacity for moving the popular
heart, Wendell Phillips occupies the
irst place among modern Anglo-Saxor
orators. He was easily and without
question the orator of the anti-slavery
movement, as Garrison was its practical
director, as Whittier was its poet, Beech
er its theolegian, and John Brown the
incarnation of its fanatacism."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

The Republican State Central Com
mittee is called to meet at Columbus on
the 2Sth inst. to fix the time and place
for holding the next State Convention.
A general meeting will be held the eve
ming previous for consultation. The
meeting of the committee will be an
important one, and the State ConveD-
tion called by it will select delegates at
large to the next National Convention.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

THE Monroe Spirit of Democracy, in
referring to the refusal of the Ohio Sen,
ate to confirm Gov. Foster for Trustee
of the Insane asylum at Toledo, says il
"was an insult to Gov, Hoadly and ex
hibited a degree of littleness on the part
of the Democratic majority toward Gov
Foster that the Democracy of Ohio are
heartily ashamed of"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

beyond recognition, and the only means
Of Identification, was the finding of in
eombustible trinkets. known to belong
to the dead persons. The accident is
attributed to defective threads on the
supporting rods of the bridge, which al
lowed the nuts to become displaced,
thereby weakening the bridge to such
an extent that it gave way.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

THE bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter has passed the National House,
and its friends are confident it will pass
the Senate. 1t is refreshing to have a
gang of rebel brigadiers pass upon a
question of federal army discipline
which arose when they were trying to
shoot the Nation to DEATH
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

THE Democratic party in Congress
sat "mum" when Senator Sherman ar
raigned it in the Senate last week for
fostering and maintaining the shotgun
policy in the South. Its voice is made
powerful in that section only through
the bludgeon and shotgun, and throug b
these agencies the will of the majority
is stifled,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07
Legal Notice.

TOHN NJ. NABB, whose place of residence
q is unknown, will take notice, that Eva
Nabb has, on the 7th day of December, 1888,
filed her petition in the court of common pleas,
of Belmont county, Ohio, praying for di-
vorce, and for the custody of her minor child
and alimony, and alleges that the said John
NJ. Nabb has been willfully absent from her
for the last past three years without cause on
her part. The said John NJ Nabb is re-
quired to answer or demur to said petition on
or before the expiration of six weeks after the
first publication of this notice.
EVA NABB,
10 13-6w By P. Tallman s. Son, her Att'ys.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

THERE will be- some fun in the Dem
ocratic municipal caucus. when it comes
to the nomination of Marshal. A large
number of patriots are already in the
field, with one or two wards and dis.
tricts to hear from. Those already an
nonnced are Robt. Steadman, John Rice,
WIN. Webber, George Martin, Alex.
Wilirms, w O. Umstead, and Robert
Burlington.
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

AT the balloting for U. S. Senator in
the Kentucky Legislature on Monday,
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle was in the lead, Ie-
csiving twenty-five votes to Williams
fourteen and Blackburn's nine. There
is still room for dark horse.
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bunnmers.

THE New York Tribune says: "Mr
Barnum's white elephant may not be as
white as Mary's little lamb, but then,
like the tariff issue in the Democratic
party, there's no doubt about its being
an elephant"
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NOTICE.

The solicitors of Bank stock in the
proposed National Bank of Flushing,
Ohio, hereby notify al interested that
they desire to close the books Feb. 1st.
1884. ANY parties wanting stock make
early application to ISAAC HOLLOWAY,
Chairman of Committee. q l03t.)
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

Gov. GEoRGE HOADLY is of the opip-
ion that there will be an uprising of the
people in favor of Payne for President
s andard Oil is not so apt to make the
Democratic masses rise as it is the ward
bummers,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

Ex-Governor Foster is credited in New
York with an ambition to secure the
second place on the Presidential ticket.
His preference first for Blaine, then for
Arthur and now for Logan is said to in
dicate failures in the first two instances
to make the desired alliance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

WENDELL PHILLIPS, the distinguished
orator and citizen, after a weeks illness
died at his home in Boston, on Saturday
in the seyenty-third year of his age.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

The Senate OF MissiSs ppl has passed
bill providing for the formal trial of
hahitual drunkards, and at the Judges
discretion, for the appointment OF guar
dians for the same class, or their con-
lfiuement in the lunatic asylum.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-02-07

THE public debt of the United States
was reduced in January S12,000,000 in
round figures. This is another disaster
brought about by the Republican policy
of Protection
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