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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Mailing the Calumny.

The Democratic ghoHls that invented
and put in circulation the atrocious cal
umny against Mr.. Blaine and his wife,
with a view to offsetting the unrelated
charges against Grover Cleveland, made
a bungling job of it, and as a result their
infamous story is literally torn to pieces
and scattered to the winds. First, with
lightning rapidity, came the sweeping
denial of Mr.. Blaine, accompanied with
instructions to prosecute the maligner
with all possible speed. Then came the
statement of Mr.. Wattsrson, the able
Democratic editor of the Courier-Jour-
nal, who had investigated the matter
long before, and found it untrue. This
was backed by the evidence of dozen
others, who knew Mr.. Blaine and Miss
Stan wood intimately in Kentucky, all Of
whom brand the story as vile fabrica-
tion. Now comes Mrs. Abbie L. Marble,
of San Francisco, Mrs. Blaine's sister,
who, in answer to that part Of the CAL
umny which says that Colonel Stsnwood
compelled Mr.. Blaine to marry his daugh-
ter says her father died in 1916, six years
before her sister ever saw Mr.. Blaine,
and that her father never saw or heard
Of him. To this is added an editorial
from the pen Of Hon. Wallace Gruelle, a
leading Democrat of Kentucky, editor
of the Breckenridge, KY, Democrat, who
lived in Millersburg when Mr.. Blaine
taught school there. In commenting on
this matter, Mr.. Gruelle says:
"If there had been anything in the
story of Mr., Blaine's having wronged a
young inmate, either teacher or pupil. of
a seminary at Georgetown. KY, at the
time he was engaged az tutor 10 the
Western Institution, we. who were born
and reared in that c0uRtry. would have
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
What 1t Is and What 1t Might Be.

In 1875 Mr.. Tilden carried New York
by plurality of 82,742. and New Jersey
by plurality of 2,445, and Connections
by plurality Of 1900, making a total of
4S.0s7. These three States gave him fifty
electoral votes. They are pow entitled
to ffty-ons.
In view Of the opposition to Mr.. Blaine
among the Republicans, if the Democrats
had nominated q candidate who united
the party instead of dividing it, they
would have carried these three States
next fall beyond all doubt, and secured
the electoral votes on which the PIesi-
Dental contest will turn. The prospect
now is that the Democracy will lose two
and perhaps all of these States, and thus
throw away the election.
Such are the consequences of tramp
liAg on the dictates of common sense aud
prostratiDg elevated craftsmanship to
vulnerable mediocrity. Though not alb
solutely too late for the Democracy to
retrace its false step by substituting
Allen G. Thurman for Grover Cleveland,
it probably will not be done, and tbere>
fore the chief benefit the party can de
rive frsm this sad blunder will be the
sdmonitory lesson which the result will
teach.-N. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
A Grave Moral Issue.

The Independent Republicans, who
ignorantly iHdorsed Mr.. Cleveland, and
publicly declared their purpose to sup
port him, did not know the man as the
record of his private life has revealed
him to be, and which record, by Gods
lightning voice, has been sent with
flash to every village and hamlet of the
nation. and thence to the very ends of
the earth. These Republicans cannot, in
view of what they know, give him their
support, without the grossest self-stulti-
hcation, and, indeed, without Justly ex-
posing themselves to the charge of gross
and senseless hypocrisy. The simple and
plain truth is that the admitted Offehse
of Mr.. Cleveland touches upon domain
of family and public morals so Vitally
and so dangerously to the public good,
as utterly to disqualify him for the Of
ice of President. or any other Office In
the gift of the people. Whoever
else may be elected or defeated, let Gov.
Cleveland. with the knowledge the pub
lie now have of bis private character,
have the mark of Cain put upon him as
the fitting end of his public career. We
call upon the religious press of the ma
tion, and also the Christian pulpit. to
speak out in bold and emphatic language
against his election. The issue now is a
moral one, and that, too, of the gravest
character; and this is no time for any
timid, half-hearted or halfway utter
ances. . When the religious press and
the pulpit shall cease to teach and preach
good morals, the both will become alike
unworthy of respect or support.-N. Y.
Independent, Aug. %.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
The Civil Service Question Among
Ohio Democrats.

Mr.. -Clevelaads declaration that the
servants of the people should give hon.
est work for the money they draw from
the public treasury is eminently sound
Beyond this, however, the Governor
would have been much stronger in Ohio
if he had not referred to the civil ser
vice, or if, referring to it, he had been
explicit in assurance that Democratic
Administration would mean the routing
from public place of all those belonging
to the maladministration party. against
which great majority of the people are
indignant. Too much tenderness toward
the Republicans in the matter of the
civil service, and strong tendency to-
ward class aristocracy in Officeholdlng,
recently retired a Democratic United
States Senator from this State; and Gen.
Butler no doubt told the truth at the
Chicago Convention when he said not a
man there believed in civil service ret
form on the schoolmaster plan. Some
thing besides fitness ought to be required
in the ofliceholders, principal and subor-
dinate. They should be honest, and in
sympathy with the Executive chosen
by the people, and there should be chan
ges made oftner than once in twenty
fac years. to insure honest performance,
and to demonstrate that this is not
government by offieeholders, but a gov
ernment by the people. There is great
deal of claptrap about the capacity in
the Government clerkships. There is
hardly position in private employment
above the grade of manual labor that
does not require higher capacity and
better education than any subordinate
position under the Government. The
great army of clerks in the departments
at Washington, the postoftices, revenue
Offices, &C., work by well established
forms that any ordinarily intelligent
person can learn in few days, if not IL
stantly. To regulate appointments. to
these places by rules that would pro I
mote schoolma'am to the government
of the young idea is absurd, and the
Democracy of Ohio do not believe in civil
services regulations of that description
and they do not deem it important that
tue Democratic view of that question
should be obscured in phraseology.-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
A Good Enough Democrat.

When Gen. Butler led the Democratic
party in Massachusetts, from hopeless
minority to a majority, he was good
enough Democrat even for these of our
Democratic contemporaries who have
lately found out that he is no Democrat
at all.
When with splendid strength and
courage he struck down old abuses that
the SNUG puritanicaI Republicans of
Massachusetts had fostered or concealed
his vigorous blows had long re-echo,
and these same Democratic journals were
loud in his praise. He was good enough
Democrat then.
When, last year, the desperate rally of
every force and the expenditure of every
resource of the Bay State Republicans
left him and his party again in minori-
ty, it was minority that astounded
Massachusetts, and showed that the
Democracy of that State had at length
found a leader who was increasing its
strength every year, and making its final
ascendancy only question of time. The
difference between the vote of the Massa-
chusetts Democrats before Gen. Butler
came to their help and their vote after
that is voncher of the debt of gratitude
which they and all Democrats owe him.
He organized for victory. His services
were then freshly remembered. He was
a good enough Democrat then.
When in the interest of true and gen.
uine Democracy he offered himself for
the suffrages of the people as the peoples
candidate, appealing to the great con !.
vention of the people in which no unit
rule can be enforced, it was for the first
time discovered that Gen. Butler was not
a Democrat.
If he is not, it is because Democracy
has strayed from the old paths and got
too far away from the hearts of the
people. 1t rests with the people to bring
it back. IN. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04

heard something of it, particularly il the
scandal had+reached the dimensions of
breaking up the school. We always heard
the three Misses Stan wood, one of whom
is now the wife of Mr.. Blaine, spoken of
interms of the greatest affection by their
pupils, and we know that they were held
in high esteem by the entire community
of Georgetown and Millersburg We
never heard of this scandal until 1876,
and then we branded it. as we do now,
as an atrocious calumny. No man in
America will oppose Mr.. Blaine for the
Presidency with more persistency than
Ourself. but we base our opposition on
his record as a public man. and net on
falseheOds hatched up by his enemies;
falsehoods involving the reputation of
pure, good woman; falsehoods any gem
tlenan wO1ld hesitate to read in print
and Scorn tOrepeat With his own tongue,
even though they were true, instead of
false. Let US, men and brethren, either
fight fairly and decently, or back out of
the contest"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Emotional Insanity.

A man met girl and kissed her. She
was terribly indignant, and had him ar
rested. She gave An account in the Wit
ness box of how he gazed at her, and
then, throwing his arms around her i'm
printed kiss upon her lips. The prison
er made no defense, and the jury was
expected TO promptly convict him. They
returned 10 The court roOm.
"The jury would like to ask the lady
two questions" the foreman said. The
Judge consented, and she went on the
stand. "Did you wear the jersey that
you've got on now?' Yes, sir, was the
demure reply. And was your hair
banged like that - ~Yes, sir" Then.
your Honor, We aequit the prisoner on
the ground of emotional insanity"
Chicago Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
was taken, and the bill remains undis

was taken, and the bill remains undis
posed of.
From this simple record Of votes and
facts yon will see that for the original
Legislation on this question, the Demo-
cratic minority in the early days after
the war claim no credit; that upon the
arrearage act Of the FOrty-fifth Congress,
the majority of their party voted in op-
position, and that for the failure of legis-
latiOn recently in the House the resIon-
Sibility is clearly with the Southern
wing of that party. 1t not only iilibus-
| tering to prevent consideration of the
State amendments, but distinctly antago-
niZed that bill with another and an orig
inal House bill, to pension soldiers of the
Mexican war, the Greek, the Seminole
and the Black Hawk wars, of 1882, 1885,
1886 and 1912.
Eighty-fOur Democrats In the one case,
79 in another. and Al in a third, joined in
thus antagoniZing the Mexican war PEN
sion bill, Which had passed both houses.
and was then pending in the House on
the Senate amendments. 1t compile es this
record to add that while this bill was
| p 'nding in the Senate motion was made
- repeal Section No. 47l6 of the Revised
Statutes, which provides that no money
on account of pensions shall be paid to
any person, or to the widow, children or
heirs of any deceased person, who in any
manner voluntarily engaged in, or II led
or abetted the Late rebellion against the
authority of the United States. This mo-
! ton to repeal was defeated-yeas, %;
nays, 90.
| The affirmative vote was sOlidly DEM
ocratic, save one. The negative vote was
sOlidly Republican.
But one inference can fairly be drawn
from this record, viz: that the party
which has done most to serve the Sol1
diers of the Union, and which has done
most to serve the soldiers of the Union,
and which can confidently be relied upon
to do the most for them, is the party
which called them to the field; which
loyalty sustained the authority of the
United States durins the whole of the
rebellian; which elected and reelected
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant,
and which in order to perfect the yet un
finished work of effectively securing the
political rights of citizens equally over
every foot of the territory of the Union,
now proposes to elect James G. Blaine to
the Presidency of the Nation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Deferred from last week.
Report of Examination held at
BarnesviIle, Aug. 10, 16.


Whole number of applicants, 14O.
FIvE-YEARs Glass.
Graves Griffith, Morristown.
THREE-YEARs CLASS.
F A Drummond, MOrristOwn: G w King.
Shields; Mary II Clayland, Bridgeport; G
Taggart, Maynard.
Two-YEARs CLASS.
T o Bolton, Portland Station; NJ Beck
EFT, Demos; A NJ Brown, Kennon; r G
Clark, j W Fowler. LenOre L Jones, Agnes
Reid, Bridgeport: w Cassels, w K Talbot,
Plumly, Sadie M Pickett, Anna Richard
son, Barnesville; G B Clegg, Powhatan;
E E Clevenger, Morrislown; Carman,
East Richland; w G CasI. Compton; o E
Dunlap, A E Howell, FL lshing; P Fl job,
COlerain; David Keyser, Amber; d E Morris,
Fairview, Herschel Pugh, Alledona; NJ Y
Rusk, Fairpoint; G W Toland. Harrisville;
Hezekiah Thomas, A W Wilcox, Ella Whit
acre, Somerton; Z Fl Thompson, Hope
dale; G r Wood. Smithfield; A White
Lamira; Amelia Adams, st Clairsville; Eta
Ashenhurst, Blaine; M Alma Barrett, Cam.
bridge; Lizzie h Dutton, Mt Pleasant; Mary
CGOrman, Ella Kerr, Martins Ferry; Matte
Hutchinson, Shields; Fannie Kinney, F
Gregg, Emma l. Miller, Belmont; Stella Mac
Donald, Woodlawn, Pa; Lizzie McMaster,
Sadie McMaster, Ida B King, Glencoe; Flor
ence Wheeler, Snort Greek.
ONE-YRAR Glass.
WI Ayers, X VI Hare, Ella Mcbride,
Morristewn; E Z Bro IL, Kennon; d H Ben
son, VIM Emerson, Jennie Emerson, Emma
L Ewers, Hunter; VIM Carleton, Joseph
Wiley, Jerusalem; A Grouse, w Harper,
Bellaire; Y c Dement,, Atlas; d A Hender-
shot, Armstrong;: G Z Henderson, New
Athens; P L Hamilton, Clarence Smith,
Georgia Frame, Maggie Mahanna, Matte
Richardson, Anna Starbuck, Flora Starbuck,
Anna Smith, Clyde Carter, Barnesville; E Z
Jackson, Demos; j Joiner, Sarah A Cole,
Agnes Lilly, LeOta Liston, Nellie Oxtoby,
Bridgeport; VIM NJ Kinslev, D McNIaufs,
James E Welsh, Glencoe; Lingo, Pugh;
James Lloyd, Elwood Murphy, W NJ Sells,
Kate Gray, Hendrysburg, A P Meyers. Ada
o Giffen, Businessburg; Melancthon Moore,
Samuel Tschappat, Jacob Tschappat, Emma
Fletcher, Beallsville, G L Monroe. Alledonia,
F B Milllgan, Cambridge; Fl G Prrtt, Belle
Mead, Clara Wright, Bethesda; T Russell,
Holloway, S A Ramsey, Hattie Rowles,
Jacobsburg; A L Sackett, Bellaire; r w
Sco6eld, Bailey's Mills: Taylor, Morning
View; E d Thomps IN, Antioch, I Wells,
Blaine; w Wilson, lIarrisvile 4 B War
field, Nettie Nljor, Laura Is Skinner, Somer-
ton; Ella Anderson, Sewellsville; Ada NJ
Curtis; st Clairsville; Nora Cl1rk, Martins
Ferry; Laura Griffith, Lou Meek, Belmont;
Anna B Grubb, Key; Nettie E Henderson.
Harrisvile; Ella Hibbs, Dora E Hollett,
Smyrna; Kate Hughes, Ella H johnson,
Short Creek; Mary A Sumption, Warnock.
A A CLARK, Clerk 3D. Ex.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
New Series-Vol. "a. No. SO
was 90 degrees on June Esd, 9S on July
2lst, and 931 on August 10th.

was 93 degrees on June Esd, 90 en- July
2lst, and 931s on August 10th.
Another young lady of Claringtsn,
Monroe county, mysteriously disappear
ed Tuesday night Of last week.
There is no tidings yet of she missing
Mr. Jacob Remer, of Ciarineton, Mon
roe county. and it is coming to be gen
orally believed that he has been fOully
dealt with.
The LaBelle mill at Wheeling, has
erected derrick to bore for gas. The
contracs calls for 1000 feet.
The enumeration of Wheeling has lust
been taken for school purposes. The
population of the city is S1,404-a gain
of 1,074 over 1888.
Tippscanoe. Harrison couhty.is to have
q stone saw mill. to prepare stones from
the quaIries for the market.
DR.. Fl. c. Black, of Freeport, has
book entitled ''Sir Isaac Newton's Math-
ematic Philosophy" which was printed
in 17lo-16S years ago.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
Lost i'm the Woods.

We asked at the office when month
was gone,
But the postmaster laughed, and he
Jest hooked in the box and sayed, There's
nothing here
For the lnde- Democratic part-ee.'
Very strange.
So we looked for letter all the week
after that,
1t ought to come, we said, from Alba
nee;
But the postmaster shook his head and
looked in his hat,
There's nothing for you yet, said he.
That's singler.
ut won't be from Buffalo," we sayed,
next day;
An he looked in the box with grin,
An he tapped on the bottom in an ag-
gravatin' way,
Says he, The mail from Buffalo amt
in"
Mighty queer.
They want no letter an they want no
word,
L VI " SdN IL VI uOI uo u bohO hhO SOONSg .
When a lawyer from the wilderness al
lowed that he'd heard
That the Governor had tux to the
woods.
Now what fur?
We've looked in the villages from Buff
falO down,
An we've raked through the woods
with comb;
He amt in the timber an be isn't in the
town,
An we're wonderin' eff he's never
comm home?
Looks odd.
He's lost ia the woods, ,tker' amt no kind
O doubt;
He's been rather prone to go astray;
An theirs no time to lose Of we're
goin' to git him out
In time to make shOwin' lection day.
Heyi GroVeri -Burdette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04

THE Detroit Times says that the boy
who is forbidden to go barefoot is de-
frauded, and he has right to protest
even with tears and objurgations. The
poor little girl has the same right If she
only chose TO assert it, but she is taught
that it is not pretty. her feet will get
dirty and tanned, and, worstOf all things,
they will spread out at the toes as ma
ture designed they should. But the boy
who cannot kick off his shoes and stock
ings, and court the tickling grass. and
let the sand run between his toes, and
get stone bruises On his heels and stub
his toe nails, deserves commisseration.
1t is almost as bad as overlooking Rot
inson Crusoe for the Christian martyrs
for interesting liisrary entertainment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04

THE word fudge" has positive per-
sonality underlying 1t. Such it is, at
least, if Disraeii'S account be authentic.
He quotes from very old pamphlet en-
titled "Remarks Upon the Navy" where
in the author says: There was In our
time enc Captain Fudge, commander
of merchantmen, who. upon his return
from his voyage, how i'll fraught sosver
his ship was, always brought home his
owners good crop of lies. so much that
now, aboard ship. the sailors, when they
hear great lie told, cry out: You
fudge itp' The ship was the Black Ea'
gle. the time that of Charles Ill"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

SteubenviIle has purchased street
sweeping machine.
Wheat is down to S71S cents in Balti-
more, and farmers in this county are
chopping and feeding to hogs rather
than sell at 10 cents.-Caldwell Repub-
can.
A Butter club with 200 members was
organized last week in. .Steubenville, says
the Gazette.
David Waugh, proprietor of ferry
in Steubenville, mySteriously disappear
cd Tuesday of last week. 1t is thought
there is woman in the case. A wife
and child are left behind.
James Owens, of Steubenville, will
enter suit W inst the c. & p. road for
damages, TOR the Kill, : ul his soma few
days ago.
At meeting of the Washington Co.
Pa) Stockbreeders' association last
week. it was decided to hold stock sale
in October. A Farmers Institute will
be held in December.
Harrison county farmers have been
giving feather beds to renovator men,
who promised to return them renovated
in few days. They will now have to
sleep on husks, as the men return not
Wellsburg reports forty cases of ty-
pheid fever.
David Spaulding has donated a lot 10
Brilliant for the erection of Catholic
church. Father Hartnedy will build
the church.
An adjourned term of common pleas
Is being held this week in Cambridge.
Andy Baker, deaf muts of Cam
bridge. has made oyer 800 this summer,
from fish caught in Wills creek
The output of the East Liverpool pot
teries for the past year brought 81. .4S3,-
900.
The highest temperature this year, as
noted at the Quaker City signal station,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04
A Sharn Witness

During recent trial the following oc-
CURED, varying the monotony of the
proceedings. Among the witnesses was
as yerdant a specimen of humanity as
one weuld wish to meet with. After
severe cross-exanination, the counsel
for the government paused; and then,
putting on look of severity, and an
ominous shake of the head, exclaimed:
"Mr. Witness, has not an effort been
made to induce you to tell different
story?'
"A different story from what I have
told, sirp
THAT Is what / mean"
"Yes. sir; several persons have tried
to get me to tell different story from
that which have told but they couldn't.
Now, sir. upon your oath, | wish to
know who these persons are"
WAL, guess you've tried about as
hard as any of EN-"
The witness was dismissed, while the
Judge, jury, and spectators INDUCED in a
hearty laugh.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04

THE following is suggested to the
Democrats as = synopsis of Mr.. Cleve-
lands letter of acceptance: 81 got your
letter all right. OF course accept. That
Democratic platform is big thing. /
am standing on it-that is on most of it
now. But 1 forbear to go into partic-
ulars. am just as intensely American
as any other fellow. love the dear Ia
boring man. think [ said something
about that nearly two years ago. What
l did afterward is of no consequence.
Whoop 'er up for Purity and Reform. l
love the laboring man some more. l
don't want second term, but am just
aching for first one. The usual refer,
ence to the Supreme Being is here in
order. This is what know about states
Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-04

PROHIBITION candidate St. John dyes
his red moustachs. 1t is nice point to
decide whether the consequences of the
use of hair dyes are such as to warrant
the formation of Political party pledg-
ed to the prohibition OF their manufact-
ure and use.