davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
Where BoboIink Cos in Winter.

Bobolink is very dandy-looking fell
lew, proud as belle who has danced
with the Prince of Wales or Duke Alex
is. He has habit ofsinging his rattling
notes in the air and lowering until his
rollicking solo is finished; or, if he com
mences his song on a stake or tree he
never rises until the music is completed.
Many writers have tiled to initiate his
song. Bryant and Irving both give him
prominent place in their written picture
galleries. When | was boy on farm
we used to call him the corn planting
bird, and, as we read his song, he said,
"Dig hole. dig hole, put it in, covert
up, stamp ont, step along" He wore
his parti-colored suit. the main portion a
genteel black, little whitish-yellow
powder in his hair, rs if he had poked
his heap into a lily sometime and carried
away the pollen, and shOulder-strap
of the same on each side of the neck.
proving him brigadier in the army of
peace. In the autumn the bobolinks go
South on furloagh, take off their gaudy
uniform. put on suits of rusty black.
change their name and become either
reed-birds or ce-birds.-Hearth and
Home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

DURING the late campaign the Demo-
Gratis constantly talked about opening
the books of the Treasury Department.
Well. an expert has finally been set to
work but the well informed do not be-
lieve that anything of sensational char
acter will be discovered. The truth is
that the books give an accurate account
of every dollar received and expended
under Republican administrations, the
officials of which were as capable and
upright as can be found anywhere. To
get at anything improper the expert will
have to go to the authority under which
the Treasury has been working and ex-
anime the records of Congress. The de-
partment has nothing to do with the
merits or demerits of legislation calling
for money. All that can be done is to
keep the accounts in proper shape. 1t
is possible to find fault with the method
of keeping accounts, but when our Dem.
ocratic friends get through with their
examination they will find that every
dollar has been accounted for and that
the books will remain. the same as ever,
the basis for all government reports
Cleveland Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

4 PAwNINe HER BoY's CLOTHES FOR MEDI-
ioNR.-A poor woman in Wales, whose boy
had been very i'll for several years, had ex>
pended all her means for medicine; at last
the doctors gave him up and said he must die;
he suffered 30 terribly with rheumatism that
he could not be moved; one day some one
told her about the Mount Lebanon Shakers;
the evidence of the curative powers of their
Extracts of Roots was so convincing that she
pawned the poor boys clothes to buy bottle
of the remeday (Siegers Syrup, but now she
feels proud that she did 80, for it was the
means of curing her son; Shakers say that was
the result of indigestion, and that the medi>
cine cured the dyspepsia, and that the rheu
matism was only symptom of the real dis
ease. For coughs the Shaker Tar Capsules
are strongly recommended.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
Sheriff S Sale.
BELMONT COMMON PLEAS.
John NJ. Evans
William B. Kern, ct al.

William B. Kern, ct al.
DURSUANT to an order of sale in the
i above entitled case, issued and to me
directed, from the court of common pleas of
Belmont county, Ohio, | will offer at public
sale, upon the premises, on
Monday, April 9Th, 1885,
At 9 o'clock a. m, the following described
real estate, to-wit'
Situate in the township of Pease, county of
Belmont and state of Ohio, and known as a
certain parcel of ground in fractional sections
81 and %, township 3, range 2, the same be-
ing part of out lot number 10, in the town of
Bridgeport, Ohio, bounded and described as
| follows; Beginning at the northeast corner Of
lot number 80 in said town; thence south 60"
36' west 8. II chains magnetic course to the
west line of section %; thence on section line
south 60 Az west chains to a point in the
middle of Wheeling creek; thence down said
creek north5So east 5. SO chains to point in the
creek; thence north 10" As west 4. 20 chains
to stake; thence north 62o 35f east 33 100
chains to the southeast corner of lot number
SO in the town of Bridgeport; thence north
27e 25' west 1. 81 chains to the place of begin>
ming, containing 2.93 acres.
The above premises will be offered as a
whole and in two parcels, and will be sold as
shall bring the most money.
Appraised at $4,000.
Terms-Cash.
LEROY C. SEDWICK, Sheriff.
Galleher & Woodbridge, Plffs Atty. 5>td
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
Dudes and Apes--Talmage on EvO-
luton.

81 don't think that a monkey can ever
evolute into a man, but the appearance
of dude makes me about believe that
man can evolute into an ape" said Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage, of Brooklyn, in the
course of an address to the Baptist Min
isterial Association in Philadelphia last
week, in answer to the question rs
there such thing as Christian Evolution :?
Those poor creatures, the dudes" con>
tinued the reverend gentleman, "who,
by cut of Shoe" angle of elbow and the
the use of an eyeglass, making poor i'm
itstions of foreign soft heads, are evolu-
ting backward. The theory of evolution,
in the recognized sense, is not only inf
del, atheistical and absurd, but brutaiiz>
ing. If there is anything in the world
that will make beast ont of a man it is
the idea that he is descended from ami
mails. Evolutionists would moke US be-
lieve that we are only superior kind of
cattle; sort of Alderney among other
OlOWoluS OOObCA Paob0AOo anu
housed in better stalls. The evolution
lists have no idea of a future world.
They say the mind is only superior
part of the body, our thoughts only one
molecular formation; that when the boz
dy dies our whole nature dies; that the
tombstone is not milestone oD jour-
ney onward, but wall shutting US out
from the world into eternal nothingDess ;
that we all die alike the pig. the mule,
the sheep, the man. the crocodile. An
nilation is the heaven Of the evolution
lists. Turn away from such stenchful
and damnable doctrine" DR.. Talmadge
exhorted in conclusions: "Tbe question
of nay condition a million years ago does
not interest me as much as my con-
dition millions of years hence. The an
imal from which they say l evolute6 is
not so absorbing a topic as the being in
to which l shall evolute."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

longer on the farm, and then determined
to go over to Galena, where his father
was. and assist in the management of
the old gentlemen's tannery. He could
not take slaves into Illinois, SO he and
his wife gave their four human chattels
to John F. Long. and moved the balance
of their belongings over to the Sucker
State in 1857. Soon afterward the war
broke out and Grant was not long in
discovering that there was at least one
way in which ne could earn a living and
earn it nobly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

! JOHN D. C. ATRINs of Tennessee, Sc
lected by President Cleveland to be COM
missioner of Indian affairs, is a Demo-
crat of the ultra school, who has posed
on numerous occasions in Congress as an
advocate of parimonious economy. He
was born in Henry county, Tenn. June
4, 1925, and is by occupation a farmer.
He was a member of the Tennessee
House of Representatives in 1S49 and
1851, in the state Senate in 1855, Dresi>
Dental elector in 1856, member of Con-
gress in 1857, on the Breckinridge electo-
raj ticket in 1860, served as a lietentant
colonel in the rebel army in 1861, was
chosen to the Confederate Provisional
Congress in the same year, reelected in
1868, and was elected to the 43d, 44tb,
45th, 46th and 47th Congresses success
sively.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

IF any doubt has arisen with those
who are unacquainted with him as to
the pure and undefled Democracy of
Mr.. E. j. Phelps, the "able, courteous,
and accomplished" Vermont patriot who
goes as Minister to England, it will be
thoroughly dispelled by the knowledge
that in speech made by him at Bur
lington in September, 1864, he elegantly
styled Abraham Lincoln a "wooden head
and twentieth rate back country at
torney," and declared that the North was
lighting simply to turn loose all the
niggers" and "white wash the Higger in
the blood of millions" That settles it.
Mr.. Phelps is Democrat of the strictest
sect and can fittingly represent his party
anywhere.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

The North American Review for April
discusses the agricultural crisis in Eng
land in an article by VIM. E. Bear, editor
of the Mark Lane Expr, IS. Charles
Dudley Warner presents an interesting
Study of Prison Management while
Robert Buchanan, the English poet, dis
cusses Free Thought in America L. V.
Powderly The Army of the Discomfort
ed and Pref. Hunt, How to Reform
English Spelllng.' The other ar
ticles are: The Laws Delay by Chief
Justice Thomas F. Harris, and 'Cbsrac-
teristics of Persian Poetry by A. R.
Spofford. But what will probably att
tract the most immediate attention in
this number is the new department of
Comments consisting of brief criti.
cisms of articles that have appeared in
the Review. Murat Helstead's political
article in the March number is here dis
cusscd by three writers-a Democrat, a
straight Republican, and an Independ.
ent Republican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

Mr.. CLEVELAND is the only President
who has ever worn only mustache,
with the rest of his face smooth -shaven.
George Washington wore no beard. Joh.i
Adams had slight patch of whiskers in
front of each ear. The faces of Jeffer-
SOD, Monroe and Madison were smooth.
shaven. John Quincy Adams had light
pair of side whiskers, which followed the
line of his cheek bone. Andrew Jackson
wore no beard. Van Buren, had thin
side wbiskers, which ran around nearly
to his nostrils. Harrison, Tyler, Polk.
Taylor, Fillmore and Buchanan were all
smooth-shaven. Mr.. Lincoln, when he
first came to Washington, shaved his
beard and only let it grow during the lat
ter years of his stay there. He always
shaved his upper lip. Andrew johnson
was as smeoth-shaven as monk. Grant
wore stubby short mustache and beard.
Hayes and Garfield wore long mustaches
and full boards. Arthur wore a small
mustache and long side whiskers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs. says the
New York Tribune, is little changed
since she went from her native country
to live in the land of fogs. She is slight
ly stouter, and her face is mooe full.and
the ruddy tinge upon her cheeks is only
deepened in hue and glows more bright
iy, as if the air of England had been
beneficial to her health. Those who
called to see her found her the same
frank, open hearted nature, full of life
and sunshine. When not engaged in
receiving callers she spent the time with
her father, and her cheerfulness and
brightness evidently had good effect
upon him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

ONE of the charges laid at Appoint,
ment Clerk Higgins door is that in 1875
he crawled in a window at Baltimore
and stuffed the ballot boxes, thereby
electing Democratic Mayor-which
same Mayor, by the way, now certiies
to Mr.. Higgins good character and high
standing in the community. If ballot
box stuffing is to be regarded as a dis
qualification for office under this adm:n.
istration it is cold day for nine out of
every ten of the Slice seekers from the
South.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

EDITOR MCLEAN says in the Enquirer
that Mr.. Pendleton's appointment to
foreign country will surprise no one else
as much as it will his active party friends
in Ohio, and that it now appears that he
preferred even the Berlin station to the
vicissitudes of politics in the Buckeye
State.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

The New York Evening Post, COM
menting on the costly and almost result
less liquor crusade in Portland, Maine,
says: "The trouble, however, is not in
the weight or lightness of penalties, but
in public opinion. If public sentiment
were strongly against liquor selling, it
would be comparatively easy to euforce
the law"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
Belmont County onlcIaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Issac 81. CASTOR.
Clerk of Courts-Wm. b. Cash.
Sheriff-Leroy G. Sedwick. o
Auditor-R. r. Barrett
Treesurer-EdWardL L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. Z. Kennon.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-0w Mehan, Morris Cope,
VIM. j. Berry.
Surveyor-John H. Mitchell
COroner-P. o. Criswell
Inhrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, James
B. Ritchey, John sidebottom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

SPEAKING of the new political idea"
that man who seeks Office is open to
the suspicion of being a rascal. the Ohio
State Journal asks, if it be wrong for
party leaders to hack their friends for
Office, how is the President to ascertain
the fitness of men for official station?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
A START IN BUSINESS.

Tiring of farm life he moved into st.
Louis again and rented honse. There
the family lived in very nice style, and
Grant meanwhile sought some employ
ment which would enable him to make a
living for his growing family. He knew
very few people, and besides, his army
life had totally untitled him for CONNER
clal pursuits, so that he found very poor
success in his search. His funds began
to run low, and, after boarding for time
he moved his family into very dimin
utive cottage.
About the time he took up bis resi-
dence in this place he went into partner
ship with a Mr.. Boggs in the real estate
business. The style of the firm was Grant
& Boggs. Their furniture consisted of "a
pine table and a couple of chairs, and
they kept an account book in the drawer
of the table. An army officer is not
good collector as rule, and Grant was
an exceptionally bad one, because of his
soft-hearledness. his disposition being to
forego his commissions whenever a
renter appeared to be in distress. The
firm did not prosper and the little office
room closed up. He lived for some time
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

IN the days of their enslavement the
colored people of the South we're trained
to agricultural pursuits. The knowledge
then gained is being turned to good ac-
count. Through it they are gaining a
foremost position in many parts of the
South. They are beginning to become
landowners, and their we'll cultivated
fields mark the advance from slavery to
independence. With the proper iDcen-
tive the cOlored man will labor and accu-
mulate, and in this respect thousands of
them are furnishing an example to
Southern whites which they will do well
to initiate. In the art of prospering
many of them are outstripping their for
mer owners. If the whites of the South
hope to keep their boasted race SUPERIOR
ity, it must be by entering into the in.
dustrial race with the negroes. The
black man is fast coming to the front,
and the line of caste will not keep him
back. He is becoming worker, and
labor produces wealth. The New Or
leans Exposition furnishes evidence of
the colored mans industrial progress,
and proves the wisdom of the policy
which made-him free man and a citi-
] zen. Cleveland Leader
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

WHILE States much further south
have admitted colored lawyers to prac>
tice, Maryland, oddly enough, has hith>
erto maintained the color line in the
courts. AT last the bars have been let
down by decision rendered at Balti-
more, and hereafter in Maryland, as
elsewhere, the color of mans skin will
rot be considered in deciding his claims
to practice at the bar.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

IT is said the Massachusetts people in
Washington take great pleasure in
speaking of the fact that the Endicott
ancestral line in this country is good
deal longer than that of the Adamses,
and as blue-bIooded as that of Nova
Scotia aristocIat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

Joe Smith, who pointed out Mr.. Burke
to Carey in Phoenix Park, and after
wards turned informer. died of dread
that he would meet a death like Carey's
Kavanagh, also informer. who drove the
carriage in which Carey escaped after
Burke, is in a lunatie
asylum
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

THIS does not seem to be good sea-
son for old Romans Thurman gets
nothing, Mcdonald gets hOtning, Durbin
Ward gets nothing, and Cerro Godo Will
lians gets left. Yet it would be slight
TO any one of these old Democrats to
call him peer of W. C. Whitney, in eve
thing save $4,000 contributions to the
campaign funds.-Pitts. Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

Poor New York. The President has
decided to take no action as to Post
master Pearson "for some time yet"
And, meanwhile, Tammany, Irving Hall
and the mugwumps are all kept in
direful and distressing state of suspense.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

The Bar association of Cincinnati has
adopted measures for reform in judicial
nominations and elections. A bill has
been prepared for submission to the State
Legislature making it Penitentiary off
tense to solicit a contribution for cam
paign purposes for nominee for judicial
Office.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, concludes the
Philadelphia Times, is moving with such
provoking deliberstion that people have
ceased to be surprised when day or two
goes by without new appointment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey. R.
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, T. Sabbath School, 500 a. m. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m.; gen.
ersl prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome TO all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rev. W. H. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
seryices.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

IN case of the'death of jeff. Davis, says
the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette, Mr..
Endicott must close the War Departs
ment. Old jeff. was'the Secretary of War
under Pierce
And something more than that should
be done. The dome Of the Capitol draped
in black would inadequately express the
grief of this reform Administration.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

BY the use os Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
the haggard appearance of the cuurtenance
and sallowness of dyspeptics are supplanted
by healthier look, and as the food is assim-
Hated, the body acquires substance
Appetite is restored and the nervous
system refreshed with much needed
slumber, through the use of this medi-
cine, which is also beneficial to persons of a
rheumatic tendency, and an inestimable pre-
ventative of fever and ague. For sale by all
druggists and dealers generally.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02

Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York. was ap-
pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary to Turkey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-02
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, 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, 1885-04-02
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS
Iss4-s-Belmont County, Ohio


I'd Saturday of Jan at 6t Clsirsvine-
ID SATURDAY. of Feb at Bridgeport.
Ist Saturday OF Mar at St Cialrsviile'
4th saturday of Mar al bsrnesvllle'
I'd Saturday of April NJ beualre.
Al SATURDAY. of May at st ClalrsV1Ie-
Sd Saturday of June at st ClairsVille.
BarnesvilIe at close OF Institute
Examinations begin at 9 O'Clock q. m.
Testi moufals OF character are required II
applicant is not known TO the Board
Certificates will not be antedateo nor GA
Tests In the higher branches Will be given
at close OF Institute ONLY. Al. :
Certjfcates Will be dated and issued oy the
Board In adjourned session on SeIafusS ioi~
owing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES
A nrst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon an average Of 80 Per cent, incluoins i've
higher branches with no grade below 20, pro-
yided applicant has bad i've years experiences
second.class a years) certificate is grant
ed upon an average OF so per cent, lnciuotns ~
three higher branches, with no grade oelo.x ~
royided applicant has had four years expert
A tbird.class q years. certificate is granted
upon an average Of IS per cent. inciuoieg
three higher branches with no grsoe az
provided applicant has had three year se~Pe
fourth-cisss q years. certificate Is granted
upop an average OF 70 per cent, Win no stsoe
below 60, provided appiicant mas nAO
years experience in teaching. .s
A fifth-class year, certlncaIS - = Sa a
upon an average Of 65 per cent, with M grace
below IS.
3. ALExARNKPER' E1s1 RK Board of E1.
]. a. HENDERSON,
e~6ly