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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

WHISKY IN BoND.-It was positively
asserted last week that the defeat of the
Whisky bill would force the holders of
whisky to pay S2O.OO0,OOO into the Treas
nry within three months. or else to have
the stuff thrown on the market at dis
astrous sacrifice. The official records do
not justify this extrayagant statement.
Examining the official table of the date
of production of all whisky in bond, We
find that the tax on 3,s52,213 gallons
should be paid between March 8 and
April 8, the month nearly completed
that 4,o39,s1O gallons more should be
taken out from April 6 to May 6; 4,l26,-
076 gallons from May to June 6; and
3,495,512 gallons from June 6 to July 6
The largest quantity in any three con-
secutive months Is not quite l2,000,OOC
gallons; at ninety cents per gallon, the
tax to be paid would he Sl0,900,000. The
entire amount falling due from March
to July 6. of which part has been paid
was $1S, ,962, ,25O. But arrangements have
been made to evade payment of the tax
still longer on several millions gallons
by exporting it to Germany. Perhaps i,
may prove as difficult for the spectators
to raise $4,000. 900 as to raise $40, ZOO, 900
but the amount of their debt need not be
overstated.-N. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
THE TRODDEN VIOLET.

4 violet in the morning dew,
With sunshine melting in its spheres
Whose honey all the wild bees knew,
And birds and hreezes, happy crew
A violet in the morning dew
Was like her in her early years.
a violet trodden under foot,
Its breath with piercing perfume rife
The birds and bees and breezes mute.
And only tears about the root
\ violet trodden under foot
Was like her-in her later life.
Sweetness past telling did she shed.
When day by day brought darker dole
And sorrows with heavy tread
Crushed her and bruised the lovely
head
Sweetness past telling did she shed.
AS the bruised violet sheds it soul.
led
So was the spikenard bruised and crush
And SO the precious ointmeRt filed
With odor that about it gushed
As if, within, whole gardens blushed-
So was the spikenard bruised and crush
ed
That oveSthe Lords feet was spilled.
Harriet Prescott Spoford.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE ancients were strangely fond of
perplexing problems. Thus there was
the famous problem of the ass between
two exactly equal bundles of hay, at
exactly equal distance. This ass" says
the sophist, "will attempt to eat neither
bundle; for, by whatever line of reason
ing it could be shown that he would
turn first to one, bundle, by line of
reasoning precisely similar it may be
shown that he would turn first to the
other. But he cannot turn first to both.
Therefore, he will turn to neither
Another of these problems was thus
worded: "Epimenides. the Cretsu, say IS
that the Cretans are liars. Now Epimen'
ides is himself Cretan; therefore
Epimenides is liar. Therefore the
Cretans are not liSrs. Therefore Epi'
meDides is not liar. Therefore the
Cretans are liars. Therefore Epimenides
is liar. Therefore, etc. ad infinitum." p"
Others stated the problem in more
simple form, thus: when man says l
lie, does he lie, or does he not lie? If
he lies he speaks the truth, II hs speaks
the truth he lies" We are told that one
philosopher, after vainly endesvoring to
clear up this important question, flung
himself, in despair, into the sea.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
THE sudden death of Prince Leopold

THE sudden death of Prince Leopold
Duke of Albany, fourth son of Queen
Victoria. will call forth universal SYM
pathy especially iu behalf of the Queen,
whose life has been so much bound up
in bsr immediate family. He died at
Cannes, France. on the 2Sth ult., as he
was on the point of starting for Darn
stadt to attend the wedding of his niece,
the Princess Victoria of Hesse He was
the eighth child of Victoria and Albert
and the youngest but one-the Princess
Beatrice being his junior. He was born
April I, 1858. From infancy his health
was delicate, and he had led d retired
life in accordance with his tastes. which
were simple and scholastic. He was
educated at Oxford, and was highly ac-
complished, and in his literary taste, as
well rs in his personal manner, strongly
resembled his father, the Prince COnsort
At one time he WAS very desirous of en-
teriAg the Christian ministry He was
married in 1882 10 Helena Frederick
Augusta, Princess of Waldeck Prymont
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

MURAT HALsTEAD shows how the
seeds of the recent outbreak were sown
in Cincinnati:
This city has been in bad way for
some years as to its public affairs, and
has been growing worse. The admins
tration Of justice has been especially de-
graded. The result has been several
frlghtful scenes recently. One was the
killing of a family for the chance of
selling them to a medical college. Last
week a boy who had seven times con-
fessed that he was guilty of numbering
his employer fer money was found guilty
of maDslaughter. Public evaporation,
especially among the wOrkingmen. has
been extreme. The cry has been that a
man with money could commit murder
and get away, and there was too much
truth in it"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

LORD CoLERIDGE is delighting his
English friends with stories of his
American visit, and among them with
this. He was at Mount Vernon with
Mr.. Evarts and, talking about Wash
ington, said: II have heard that he was
a very strong man physically, and that
standing on the lawn here, he could
threw dollar right across the river on
to the ether bank" Mr.. Evarts paused
a moment to measure the breadth of the
river with his eye. 1t seemed rather a
tall story, but it was not for him to
belittle the father of the country in the
eyes of a foreigner. Don't you believe
it ?" asked Lord Coleridge. YES" Mr.
Evarts replied, 81 think it's very likely
to be true. You know dollar would
go farther in those days than it does
now."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURC
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be
fore full moon.
ROBT. NJ. EATON, w. ".
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. IL
y Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca
tions, first Friday of each month.
]. B. RYAN, Fl. P.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, R. & s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. r. BUMGARNER, T. l. M.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 90, Z. 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, 1884-04-10
The New Danger to Democracy.

Tho whisky men are stirred to deep
anger because Of the rejection of their
bonded bill by the Democratic House of
Representatives. A small majority
against the measure would have left
them with some hope, but in view of the
fact that more than two-thiIds voted
against the bill. they feel that they were
literally kicked out of doors. When a
Republican House failed to grant their
desire they turned to the Democracy for
relief, assuming that in that party they
had both friend and champion. Last
fall the liquor interest readily put its
money into the elections for the benefit
of the Democracy. hoping that the ser
vice would be recognized and repaid
with gratitude. When the present Con-
gress met the whisky men believed that
the service would be recognized and re-
paid with gratitude. When the present
Congress met the whisky men believed
that the measure upon which they had
set their hearts to carry through would
be espoused by their friends, the House
Democrats. Imagine their surprise when
the Democrats turned tail to and knock
ed their bill into "smithereens," as the
Irish would say. Had they been struck
by a thunderbolt their astonishment
could not have been greater. Now that
they have recovered from the first shock
they are swearing mad, and threaten
the traitors to their cause with dire VEN
geance. They declare that the action of
the House will make both Ohio and In
diana sure for the Republicans next
fall, and that even in benighted Ken
tucky it will drive thousands of weak
ribbed Democrats into indepeDdentism'
In other words, the leading whisky men
realize that they have been deceived and
betrayed by the Democracy, and intend
to have satisfaction, One prominent in
the interest recently said: "The whisky
men feel that they no longer owe allie
giarce to the Democratic party" Well,
why should they? That party has taken
their money. accepted their influence,
made them great promises, and then de-
liberately sneaked out of their pledges.
1t has been 80 at Columbus, as well as
Washington, and the whisky men are
now able to understand that they have
been made the dupes of "a party which
is as unscrupulous as it is devoid of
correct political principles. But the
whisky men walked into the trap of
their own accord, and while We have no
sympathy for their disappointment, we
do not wonder that they are both dis
gusted and angry.-Cleveland Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

FLOWERS preach to US if we will hear
The rose saith in the dewy morn,
81 am most fair,
Yet all my loveliness 10 born
Upon thorn"
The lilies say, "Bshold how we
Preach, without words, OF purity!
But not alone the fairest flowers;
The merest grass
Along the roadside where we pass,
Lichen and moss and sturdy Weed
Tell of His love who sends the oew'
The rain, and the sunshine too'
To nourish one small seed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

DURING the rioting at Cincinnati a
section of the mob raided = pawnshop
and were carrying off their plunder when
squad of police arrested fourteen of
them. Two were boys fifteen years old,
one sixteen, one eighteen, one nineteen,
one twenty, one twenty-one, and so on,
the oldest being thirty. All were armed,
and one of the fifteen year old boys had
three revolvers All the youths were
hardened characters and took their ar
rest philosophically. If "the boy is father
to the man" what sort of men are boys
of this lot likely to make.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE House of Representatives has
passed bill providing for the purchase
by the Government of Trade dollars at
their face value, either in silver dollars
or by receipt of them for dues, and for
their recoinage, when thus got, into
silver dollars. The section of the bill
that the amount of Trade dollars pur-
chased should be deducted from the an
nual coinage Of the standard silver dollar
required by existing laws, was rejected
by the vote of yeas 1913, nays 46.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

The Louisville Commercial says that
there are still too many protectionists
in the Democratic camp to suit Mr..
Watterson, and he is trying to read them
out of the party. He ought to have the
Democratic party copyrighted in the ia
terest of the free traders, which would
prevent Mr.. Randall and his followers
from ever having a hearing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

Among favorite monogram decora
tions for note paper is u sunken square
of darker tint than the paper, with the
monogram in lighter shade upon it. In
exclusive stationery we have the pale
ography resembling old parchment. 1t
bids fair to be favorite among lovers OF
the antique,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

WIGeINs, the Otta Wa prophet, predicts
earthquakes in Java and Hindoostan,
with frequent cyclones aud general dis
asters in all quarters of the world. The
coming summer will be humid one,
and the American corn crop will be a
failure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

MR. BURNETT, Republican member
of the Legislature from Cleveland, has
introduced bill to permit the intermar-
riage of negroes and white people. II
any Democratic member Of the legisla-
ture votes for that bill he ought to be
treated to liberal dose of tar and
feathers when he returns to his constit-
uents.-Manslield Shield and Banner,
Democratic.
Opposition to the "nigger" is orthodox
Democracy. Without this stock in trade
the old party that is occasionally resus
citated in Ohio by means of whisky
would have died long ago. But serious
ly now, Bro. Gaumer, is this marrying
business not sort of matter of taste, as
the milkmaid said when she kissed the
COW? What is the difference whether
the hair be straight or kiRky, or whether
the skin be green, red, brown, yellow
or black, provided the parties to the en-
gagement are satisfied If you were as
black as the ace of spades or a stack of
black cats ON dark night, and that
pretty little bright-eyed woman had been
willing to become your ether half for
better and for worse, whose funeral
would it be? Where do the tar and
feathers come in? Think little, Char
lie. We have no idea that the present
Democratic legislature will pass any bill
compelling any man or woman to mar
~ a nigger" as the Democrats used to
say, and so far as the privilege is con-
cerned we know of nothing in the con-
stitution or late civil rights law passed
by the Democrats to prevent them from
doing so, although the Democrats were
careful to omit from that bill the equal
rights of the races in hotels and res
taurants, about the only places where
there has been any trouble regarding
the social equality problem. We think
Mr.. Gaumsr must be little off on the
amalgation question. 1t is not necessa
ry to prohibit what is not prohibited
Guernsey Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 800 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p. n.; gen
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday 2 pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. s. F. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II s.m.; 7p.m. Sabbath School,
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 IN.
Strangers are cordially invited to all oul
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" 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 eact
month, 2 pm. Young womens prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at tht
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

Skirts of white or cream lace are some,
times trimmed in front with three long
lines of bright eolored satin ribbon,
which spread outward towards the edge
of the skirt from beneath large rosette
at the waist. The ribbons are in the
color of the corsage or underskirt be.
meath the lace.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE population and health statistics
of Russia show some strange facts. In
1882 the population was 91,l1s.514. and
it is increasing at the rate of 100000 a
year, and will be doubled in sixty years
The present population is over 94,0eO.-
900. The increase is largest in the south
with less mortality, and smallest in the
north with the maximum mortality av-
erage. This is accounted for by climatic
and economic conditions. The average
Of life in Europen Russia is twenty-six
years and in Asiatic Russia thirty-One
years. The mortality among young chill
dreO is enormous, fully 90 per cent. of
them diving before reaching the age of
five. Fully one half OF the male popu-
latiOn die before reaching the age which
fits them for military service. In the
Russian Empire child is born every
eight seconds and a death occurs every
eleven seconds, one dying in st. Peters
burg alone IN every fifteen seconds.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

On ball dresses showers of single
blossoms now take the place of large
sprays and festoons of flowers, and these
are sown all over the upper skirt, some.
times hanging by their stalk with excel
lent effect. Such flowers are used as
daisies, buttercups, forget me-nots, blue
bells, and tiny rosebuds.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THERE are 10000 Indian children in
the United States and the Territories.
Over one-fOurth Of them are pupils in
the Government schools. This is a good
result for but eight years of systematic
work.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
Belmont cour,y omciaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judse-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-lhomas Cochran
Clerk of Courts-Wm. b. Cash.
Sherih--Leroy G. Sedwick.
Auditor-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-EdvardL L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred II. Mitchell.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs
Commissioners-0wenM Mehan, Morris Cope,
Nathaniel Taylor.
Snrveyor-Jobn 81. Mitchell
Coroner-E. B. Kennedy.
lnfrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Levi
Jones, James B. Ritchey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE Republicans of the Buffalo Dis
trict are most likely to send two openly
declared Arthur men TO the Chicago
convention.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE failure of criminal justice" SAYS
writer in the Century, (which makes
room for mebs and lynching. is greater
disgrace thaH the savagery of the mob. y
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE report is gaining ground in Ten
nessee that her late defaulting Treasurer
Marshall 7. Polk. is not dead, but that
he is living in Texas. 1t is said that the
coffin in which his body was supposed
to have been buried, was in reality
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

Wire bracelets that it any arm pretty,
and then there are flexible bracelets in
links and curved chains OF gold. The
wire braces are merely supports for the
row of precious stones on the back OF
the wrist
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

THE whisky men claim there is too
much tariff; the tariff men believe there
is too much whisky. Honors are easy
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

Scarlet petticoats are again in vogue.
White underskirts should be worn only
in the evening. Very elegant French
ladies wear underskirts of white cash
mere or white satin at home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
The possession of the statne of Lib

The possession of the statue Of Lib
erty by New York is becoming as EN-
barrassing as possession of an elephant
by man who knew not how to dispose
of it. 1t is found that the sum estimated
as the cost Of the pedestal is a mere Dag
atelle compared with the sum that will
really be needed before the statue can
be placed in position. Already $4,000
has been put into the concrete fOurda
ton, and $4,000 will yet be required to
complete that part of the work. The
granite for the pedestal will cost $780,
900. while the laying of the stone will
cost 100000 more. To this must be
added necessary expenses" and if New
York sees the statue mounted short of a
half million dollars she is to be congrat-
ulated. Where the sum to be required
is to be obtained the committee does not
know
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
BellnOntChTOnlCIe
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms of Subscriptions:
Two Dollars Per Year il Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFICE South side Main street, nearly op-
posite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
DIRE Glory
PRINCIPAL Business Houses Of Bridgeport.

GEORGE GIFFEN, dealer in Choice Family
" Groceries. Phoenix Flour a Specially.
q woODCOCK. dealer in Hardware. Stoves,
% Tinvare. Glass, Nails. &c., corner MAIN
u7M. ALEXANDER, Wholesale and Retail
w Grocer corner Main and Bank SITS.
A BRANUM q SONS, Wholesale Grocers.
a. Bank Street.
" A. MARERY-A Full and Complete Line
4 OF Boots, Shoes and Gents FURNISHING
Seeds.
DNsMORE Bros. Grocery and Feed Stores
IL Main ST., one door east of Smiths Mill.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10

WALTER l.. CAMPBELL, the Republi-
can nominee for Mayor of Youngstown,
who has been blind since he was five
years old. was graduated from Harvard
Law School, is a fine organist, success
full chess player, and edited a daily news.
paper for many years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-10
rEACHERs EXAMINATIONS.
1883 's4-BeImont Co., Ohio.


Second Saturday January, Bridgeport.
Sendond Saturday February. ). Cleirsville
First Saturday March, BsrnevEiile.
Fifth Saturday March, ST Clefrsville
Third Saturday April, Bellaire.
Third Saturday June, st ilaiIsvtlle.
And st close OF Institute at BaInesvilie.
RULES.
Examinations begin at O'Clock g. m.
stimonials of character are required II
applicant is not known TO the Beard
Certificates will not be antedaied nor e1-
tended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given
1t close of Institute ONLY
Certificates will be dated and Issued oy the
Board In adjourned session on Saturday fol-
owing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A frst-class Is yesrs') certificate is granted
upon an average OF 50 per cent Including three
higher branches, provided applicant has had
hfee years continuous experiences, EIGHTKEN
MONTHS of which shall have been In the same
chool.
A second -oless Is years'l certificate is grant-
ed upon an average OF 80 per cent intending
three higher branches. provided appllcant mas
hal three wears experience in teaching.
A third -cass e yearsD certificate Is granted
upon an average OF 50 per cent. Including one
higher branch. provided applicant has had
A fourth-clsss Il year, certihcate Is granted
upon an average OF 10 per cent. provided ap-
piicsnt has had one terms experience In
teaching or takes three higher orsncnes.
upon an average of go per cent. where appli~
can't has had no experience in teaching or no
higher branches are taken
No certificate Is granted unless tne spplicant
:: !: zaSkAsERss, + SshkssBbEkasos shsBEaos Board of Hr
Delta chief., 1884-06-11
Crazy Patchwork.

Having a large assortment of remnants and
pieces of handsome brocaded silks, satins and
velvets, we are putting them up in assorted
bundles and furnishing them for Cray
Patchwork" Cushions, Mats Tides, etc,
etc. Package No. lis a handsome bundle
of exquisite silks, satins and brocaded vel
vets (all differently Just the thing for the most
superb pattern of fancy acork. Sent postpaid
for 56 cents in postal notes or 1-cent stamps.
Pockage No. 2-Containing three times as
much as package No. l. Sent postpaid for
81. These are all of the very finest quality
and cannot be equalled by any other silk
works in the U. S. a, three times our prices.
They will please any lady. One order always
brings dozen more Ladies' Manuel of
Fancy Work, - with 400 illustrations and full
instructions for artistic fancy work, hand
somely bound, postpaid, for 80 cents. Ordcr
now. Address, THE ROCHESTER, SILK Co.,
Rochester n Y