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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

The New York Sun has come out
squarely against Cleveland, and the
question might be asked, who will now
edit the Democratic country papers?
The Sun did it in the Tilden and Han
cock campaigns
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

WHATS wrong with the TIMBER" is
the way the Enquirer headlines a Nor
walk telegram, to the effect that twenty
five Democrats in a bending works and
planning mill at Wakeman have decided
Co vote for Blaine and Logan.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

ANOTHER cashier has gone wrong, and
the Wall Street BaHk, State institution,
is the sufferer; 100000 is the amount of
his indiscretions. The depOsitors are
secure. but the capital stock is no more.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

JEFFERSON DAVIS, who is enthusiastic
for Cleveland and reform, wrote lette
last week to the Confederate soldiers
who had reunion at Dallas. Texas
growing at the Republican Senate, be'
cause they refused to pension rebel sol
diers. The growl was loudly cheered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

"WE bold" says the New York Sun,
that Grover Cleveland is not fitted to be
President, and that he has done nothing
to merit such promotiOn,"- and SO the
American people will say in November.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

Noble County Republican: "Seme one
sends us by mail. a small black snake
that has two distinct heads on one body
We do not go mnch on snakes. and the
oldf-chi go. III sith one head, SUPP
rlies all the denand We have tor the
article"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14
Legal Notice.
George Edwards, Plaintiff,
vs..
NJ. n. Fowler, E. R. Fowler and l. ].
Potts, Defendants.

BELMONT COMMON PLEAS.
THE defendants NJ. NJ. Fowler and E. R.
L Fowler, who reside at Cachoaffe, in the
state OF Kansas, and |. j. Potts, who reside
at Moundsville in the state of West Virginia.
will take notice, that on the 23d day of July,
1884, the plaintiff filed in the court of com,
mon pleas, in and for Belmont connty, Ohio.
against the several above named defendants
his petition. the object and prayer of said
petition 10 to subject certain tract of land
owned by said NJ. NJ. Fowler in Mead town>
ship, In said county, to the payment of cer>
tain judgment obtained in said court, at the
summer term, 1881, against said M. NJ,
Fowler and others and in favor of said plain
till. Said defendants, E. r. Fowler and |.
Potts, are made defendants claiming mort
gage liens on said premises. Said defendants
are required to answer plaintiffs petition ON
or before the 9th dsy of September, 1884,
and show the nature Of their claims.
w B. CASH,
Clerk Court Common Pleas,
Belmont county, Ohio.
L. Dsnford, Atty for Plff. 1914
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14
County Republican Ticket.

TANMANY men of prominence say that
Butler will poll 10000 votes in New
York, and that of that number $4,000
will he Democrats. Just how Cleveland's
election is assured is not clear.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

TIE Independents are getting sick Of
The paramount issue of the Presidential
election-mor4l rather than political"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

MANY decent Democrats are clamoriug
to let the moral leper" 60.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

1T is rumored tha; the Cleveland Her
aid and Leader are To be consolidated.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

The Feeble Growing Strong
When Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is used to
promote assimilation of the food and enrich
the blood; indigestion, the chief obstacle to
an acquisition OF strength by the weak, is an
ailment which infallibly succumbs to the ac>
ton Of this peerless corrective; loss of flesh
and appitite, failure to sleep and growing
evidence of premature decay, are speedily
by the great invigorant, which
braces up the physical energies and fortiies
all druggists and dealers generally.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

NJ a Week; 81 day al home easily m ade
~ costly outfit free; address True q %
ugusta. Aai2s SiQ-iF
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

Now, gentlemen, think / will go back
ward iittlr The gentleman saws thst I
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

fate. The rules OF the House are such that |
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-08-14

Ex'rs Of the last will of John Mccall,
8 13>ft Deceased
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
THE WEST.

DAVID PRESTON, a well known Detroit
banker, in public letter says he will ac-
cept the nomination of the Michigan Pro-
hibitionists for Governor, if rendered it,
because the Prohibitionists in their Con-
stltution acknowledge Almighty God as
the Sovereign of all men, from whom the
just powers of Government are derived.
NEARLY ten thousand people attended
the services at the recent Methodist camp
meeting at Decatur, Ill.
GABRIEL Z. MCISAAC, Clerk of the Cir
cult Court of Florence County, Wisconsin,
disappeared, charged with having appro-
priated to his own use about two thousand
dollars intrusted to him by settlers.
Z. X. HovEY was arrested in Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, the other day on the charge of
taking number of passenger tickets from
the Inman Steamship Agency in Chicago
and disposing of them for his own personal
benefit.
The body of III. A. Woodbury., a teacher
in ward school at Salt Lake was recently
found in a deserted barn a mile below Park
City. He had been drinking heavily and
died from the effects He left wife and
six children in destitute circumstances.
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS has agreed to de-
liver an address at the Peoria fair next
month.
DE- J. H. STEWART. five months Mayor of
st Paul was carried of by apoplexy on
the 18th.
JONAS WOLF was elected Governor of
the Chickasaw Nation by small majority.
THE Grand Lodge of Ohio Ancient Order
OF United Workmen met at Cincinnati on
the 9th.
The Minneapolis team was the victor in
the rife contest at Western Union juno
ton, Wis. ]. 4. Snapper, of Chicago, won
the first prize in the Billiard match and the
fourth prize in the individual shoot.
ROBERT BUTTS was fatally injured in a
a quarrel at Cincinnati on the 18th.
A RECENT conference at Glyndon, Mimi,
between the managers of tn, Northern and
CaDadian Pacific roads, has &ed to = ruror
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
THE LATEST.

| THREE schooners and their cargces,
valued at $4,000, which were recently
seized for smuggling at Quebec, were lately
sold by the customs authorities.
FRAUDS aggregating eighty thousand
pounds, in which foreign officials of high
rank are involved, have been developed in
the Treasury Department of Egypt.
LILLE Leroy, young woman of good
appearance and fashionably attired, was
lately lodged in Jail in Chicago for obtain
ing numerous meals at the Palmer House
on ticket given her as a guest in Nav
last. She claims that she was compelled
by failing health to abandon work as a
short hand writer, and was reduced to this
peculiar species of theft.
HOG chossra is reported to be carrying
off many animals in the vicinity of Hills
boro. ILL.,, and Reading, Pa.
IT has been promised that Shanghai will
remain free from attack during the Franco
Chinese war.
MAN and his wife in Illinois recently
compelled young lady to submit to the
husbands brutality, and both were in this
way parties to the outrage. There we've
strong threats of lynching.
In celebrating his seventy-fifth birthday
Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes received con-
gratulatory kilograms from numerous
friends in Europe aud America.
COAL miners in the Snake Hollow mine
in the Hooking Valley, recently made
mnrderous attack on the guards. They
cut telegraph wires so troops could not
be ordered, but finally message reached
fln
troops were on the road.
w. I. SUTCLIFFE, corn merchant of
Liverpool, has suspended payment on
liabilities estimated high as one hum
dred and sixty thousand pounds.
GERMANY intends to raise a corps of vet
eran soldiers for colonial service, as the
Prussian military system will not allow
troops to be sent abroad. The funds re.
CURED will be furnished by the mercantile
firms desiring protection.
CRYoLITE, a mineral which is of great
value in the potash manufacture, has been
discovered in the Yellowstone Park Here
tofore IL has been obtained only in Green.
land.
FREDERICK LAYTON, of Milwaukee, an.
nounces his intention to construct a spa
cious museum. fill it with choice works of
art and present il to the city. The build.
ing and site will cost one hundred thousand
dollars.
THE Canada Pacific road has laid its
tracks to point seven miles west of the
summit of the Rocky Mountains, and hopes
to reach the highest point of the Selkirk
range this season. The California Board
Of equalization reports the Central Pacific
road at twenty-four million and the South.
ern Pacific at seventeen million dollars. |
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
THE SOUTH.

GEORGE CLARKE, colored youth, was
recently hanged at Dawson, Ga, for
a criminal assault on a white lady. The
negroes wisely abstained from burning
the town, which they had threatened to
do.
THE directors of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company have agreed up.
on plan of reorganization.
THE Virginia House of Delegates has re-
ported on the condition of the Merchants
and Planters Bank. Over drafts caused
the trouble.
THE noted outlaw, John Lynch, was
26th.
A NEGRO was hanged at Jeannerette, La,
for an indecent assault on a white lady
August Goth.
THE Greenbackers of Texas met in State
Convention and nominated a ticket the % h.
THERE was a river improvement meet
ing at Memphis, Tenn, few days ago.
Two ladies were attacked by burglar
at Abilene, Tex, recently. He was cap
tured promptly and lodged in jail
AT Chattanooga a highwayman was
robbing a man of 81 900.
j. S. CUNNINGHAM, an old man at Knox
vile, Tenn, fell under a circular saw and
was killed recently.
A RIVER Improvement meeting of consid-
cradle Importance was held at Memphis
lately.
SOME men at Duck Hill, Miss, three of
them being negroes, attempted to rob
train the 2S;h.
JOE BoGARD, colored, was hanged at
Lonoke, Ark, recently for rape. On the
gallows he made a speech warning the
crowd against low company.
IN the TallapooSa matter the Medical
NelrS has suggested an examination of the
eyes of the officers for the purpose of de-
tecting whether color blindness exists.
A YOUNG negro burglar at Abilene, Tex,
broke into the Southern Hotel and tried to
rob the inmates, Mrs. Gilstrap and her
daughter. The ladies were murderously
attacked and terribly beaten and choked.
Excitement ran high after the negroes cap
ture.
A LITTLE girl at Dallas, Tex, was horri-
bly, burned by kerosene explosion, which
occurred while she was building a fire, a
few days ago.
THE Matador Cattle Company, of 1'exas,
lately applied for twenty thousand acres of
lands in the Pan Handle.
THERE has been great excitement at Eufa-
la, Ala, over hYdrophobia. A few dogs went
mad on the plantation of Punch Doughtie,
and spread hydrophobia far and near, both
among animals and men. A mule chased
Mr.. Doughtie across a field and bit him
severely. Twenty or thirty negroes were
also severely bitten.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
Oklahoma PAINE,

FORT SMITH, August 2T.-Okahoma
Payne and seven of his followers, in charge
of Lieutenant jackson and detachment
of the Ninth cavalry, crossed the
Arkansas River Monday evening, en-
route to Fort Smith, where the pris-
Oners were to be turned over to the civil
authorities for trial. Before crossing the
Indian line, Lieutenant Jackson received a
telegram ordering him to take the prisoners
to Fort Scott, kaS., whereupOn he recrOssed
the river with bis command and
rqmped in the Cherokee Nation, opposite
the city where an Associated Press
correspondent and Payne's attorney visited
them to-day, but were refused an interview
with the prisoners. Payne begged hard to
be allowed TO converse with the Reporter
and his Attorney, but Lieutenant Jackson
emphatically refused. The party are now
In camp awaiting further orders
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
GENERAL.

THE Turkish Council of Ministers has
approved of the proposed reduction of the
petroleum dues.
GORILLA, the chief of the Spanish Radi-
Gals, is said to be fomenting a rebellion.
Alfonso's Government is taking precau-
tions to suppress it
SEVERAL persons were arrested in Lis
bon recently on the charge of uttering Sc.
ditious sentiments.
The average yield of grain in Great
Britain and Ireland from present indica-
tions will be: Wheat, thirty-three BUSH
els; barley; thirty-three; oats, twenty
nine. Beans will yield about twenty-six
bushels to the acre, and peas twenty-five
TIE German corvette Bismarck has been
ordered equipped preparatory to proceed
ing TO the coast of Africa In October.
II is announced that Bradlaugh, the
English Radical, will deliver q series of
lectures in America during the months of
October and November.
THE celebrated Arsenal at Foo Chow Is
In ruins. Eighteen hundred workren are
out of employment. The Arsenal cost
forty.two million francs, and the arms and
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
A Rumured Resu<citatiOn.
Little ROCK. ARK, August %.

LILLE ItVJLAf 4AItFNf Il u ut ..
Last January, 10. BOgard, n"gro,
outraged an eleven-year-oid girl, and
narrowly escaped lynching. He was con-
victed and sentenced to be hanged yes
terday. News reaches mere that the ne
groes of the vicinity are intensely excited
over the reported re>uscitation of Bogard
after ne was cut down from the galiOws.
II is certain that bis neck was not broken,
and that the bodt was delivered 10 Bo-
CARDS father and carted off in haste
The neg oes declare their belief that the
man was brought back TO life.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
A MANITOBA CYCLONE.

"lnnepeg and Vicinity Severely Shaken Uu
Dy Cvelone-Houses Barns and Other
movable Property Scattered Broadcast.
horrible Time on n CoIIingwood Line.
Steamer.
ST- PAUL, MINI. August 90.
A Winnipeg special to the Pioneer Press
says: ga terrible storm of cycionic char.
acter prevailed here last night, doing in
calculable damage to property in towns.
and villages throughout the province and
damaging crops 20 an extent not vet as
certained, although believed to be large.
The roof was wrenched off the Bay
stores and torn to pieces, damaging sur
rounding buildings. street-car with q
number OF occu; ants was blown from,
the track. A frame house and stable,
occupied by horses and owned by William
BURKE, were Carried into the river
Not less than fifty bui .dings in the city
were damaged. Reports from twenty
points In the province show that the
storm was equally disastrous in all.
A special from Headingly, a village if
teen miles southwest, says: A large num-
Der OF buildings suffered. Mr.. Francis
store was scattered over the prairie. Mr..
Taylor'S dwelling was picked up and car
ried several rods before it struck the
ground, and was shivered into fragments.
The occupants had a narrow escape. The
English Church was strewn into frae.
ments in all directions. Mr.. Luxtent's
house was turned completely over, and q
Darn on Mr.. Coucheon's farm, measuring
thirty by sixty feet, was carried away.
Along the Canada Pacific the storm
extended from Vermillion Bay to Bran
don. A freight shed at Portage wac
wrecked and the Brush House destroyed.
1he hotel was uRoccupied. At Gretna
crops were flattened, and Penner's news
store was blown down.
A special from Port Arthur SAYS: The
City OF Owen Sound, of the CoIlingwood
line, arrived yesterday after six days'
voyage from Collingwood. She encount.
cred gales and terrible hurricanes. The
passengers were wild with excitement.
expecting to be lost. The furniture in
the cabin was thrown IN all directions.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
An Event in Indiana.

EVANSVILLE. md, August 3O.-At nine
yesterday morning the most destructive
hurricane ever known here broke upon
Evansville, doing damage not less than a
quarter of a million dollars in the city and
vicinity. Houses were blown down. roofs
carried away, three or four steamboats, bad
ly injured, thousands of shade trees torn up
by the roots and other injury done. It is
impossible at this time to give the amount OF
damage done. 1t will probably fall short
of the figures given. Probably the heaviest
individual loser is John II. Rocker, whose
new foundry was almost wholly demolished.
The steamers Josh Throop and SilYer Thorn
were bgdly damaged, the former wrecked
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
River Matters.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 29.-The Dis
trict Board of Levee Engineers have not
yet announced their action in the diStribu-
sippi River Department by the River Com
mission. The YazOo Delta Board met yes
terday. but had no quorum. \ full quorum
will be present soon. They will discuss the
Wilson proposition to negotiate $500, 900
worth of leyee bonds, which are guaranteed
by certain tax on the cotton raised in the
district. 1t is limited that Wilson demands
all additional guarantee of one dollar and
fifty cents per bale, and that Representa-
tiveS from the district to the next MisSis-
Eippi Legislature will advocate the demands.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
Bob Ford Fooled.

KANSAS CIEY. August 3O.-Mr Harry
Thompson, a cowboy who arrived from Las
Vegas, n. NJ, says that Bob Ford is in jai
at that place for shooting at the City Mar
shall. He says that Bob and Dick Lidd
have been running a saloOIr in Vegas. That
recently in a fight in their saloon, they at
tempted to resist the Marshal Bob was
overpowered and disarmed but LiddiI IS
capped. The Marshal, Thompson says, now
has charge of the saloon. The facts are
given as stated and may account for the rrl,
NOR current several weeks ago that Bob
Ford had been killed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
He viii Go to the Fair.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo-, August -.
Fl. II. Newman, Labor Commissioner
who has Just returned from Moberly, while
absent saw Z. M. Mclean, of the Fair
Association, in regard TO the Frank James
visit to the fair. President Mclean
states that James had been invited to the
fair by him to show his two war horses,
and there had been no idea OF lionizing
him. snow that thu howl of objection
to his presence has been made" be said,
''we intend to have him come anyway,
although don't think he would have ac-
cepted our invitation if he had known
that it would have stirred up such agi-
tatiOn.D
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
GROWTH OF CITIES.

The Thermometer of Business Indicates
the Temperature of Trade and the Rate
of Growth.
BOsTON, August 26.-The following table
compiled from special dispatches to the
Post from the managers of the leading clear
ing houses of the United States gives the
clearings for the week ended August %, with
the percentage of increase and decrease
compared with the corresponding week of
1888.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04

"A young man, meaning to be very
gallant, presented lady with rose.
saying: Madame, allow me to present
you to one of your sisters" Judge OF
his chagrin when bug erawled out
and sat down in the middle of the rose
-IrOu Times.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04

that Joint line will be built from Whine
| peg TO st. Paul for a winter outlet from
| Manitoba.
| THE Peoples Bank of st. Paul was re.
Gently robbed of $4,000. Edward Mason,
aged sixteen, who was bookkeeper in the
bank, was missing.
| POLICE recently had to quell a riot be.
| tween union and non-union brickmakers
in the town of Lake, north of Chicago.
Mrs. CARRIE WILSON, beautiful widow
at Arrow Smith, ILL.,, mysteriously disap.
peared not long since.
The veteran sailors and soldiers of the
| Northwest held reunion at Chicago Au-
gust 9th.
ROBERT WATSON was run over and killed
by the cars at Milbank, Dakota, on Au-
gust Goth.
The Southern Illinois Teachers Asso-
citation was in session at Centralia re-
Gently.
ESCARINo, the condemned Mexican muir
derer, has been respited for thirty days by
Governor ireland, because of extenuat-
ing circumstances.
A WOMAN was found starving in the
was reduced almost to a skeleton. She
was too proud to beg and when her prop
erty was sold for taxes she became an
aimless wanderer.
Dr. S. C. SMITH was killed by being
thrown from his buggy at Salt Lake, the
18th.
TIE eleventh annual temperance meet
ing of the w. C. 7. U. will be held at
Chicago.
JOHN FLOYD MASON was murdered at
Washington Court House, o., recently.
DR.. PAAREN, State Veterinarian of Him
ois, killed ten Jersey cows recently and
found their lungs hepatized badly.
THE bank failure at Xenia, O., is not so
serious as was thought at first. The Comp
troller of Currency says no receiver need
be appointed.
THE dry goods house of C. L. Luce & Co.,
of Toledo, burned on the 2Sth. Loss, $780,
900; insurance not stated.
A DESTRUCTIVE hurricane visited Evans
vile, Ind, on the 18th, doing about quar-
ter of million dollars damage.
A SCHEME was recently found by which
officers and agents of the st. Louis & Cairo
~NoAAO" OoO6O "SAO GAO SOiupd
JACOB BECHER, aged sixty-four, hung
himself in a smoke house at Decatur, ILL.,,
August Goth, on account of bad health.
Two prominent Mexican officers have
been missing some time and it is thought
they have been imprisoned in Gonzales
Military Dungeon.
DR.. SMITH, of Virginia City, NJ. T., was
thrown from his buggy and killed on the
Doth.
REPORT comes of serious Mexican riot
at Piedres Negras, over the election of a
Judge. Over one hundred persons were,
perhaps, killed.
A SUIT was recently decided against the
Davenport, Ia, Gazette Company Awhich
will cost the company eleven thousand
dollars.
JAMES CAMPBELL, well known citizen
of Rockford, ILL.,, and who was formerly
Sheriff, was lately found dead in his room.
A GASOLINE explosion at Uricksville, O.,
caused damage to the amount of thirty
thousand dollars recently.
Bob FORD was arrested and incarcerated
in prison at Las Vegas recently for shoot
ing at the City Marshal.
Four polygamists were recently indicted
in Arizona by the United States Grand
Jury. These were the first indictments of
the kind ever found in Arizona.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04

Small stuffed birds of brilliant plu-
mage are now worn on the left Shout
der. One lady, who forgot her canary
and let it starve to death. bad it mount
ed and wore it with black costume
" Y Bazaar.