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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-19
UNIONTOWN.

THE new church building is now near
ing completion, and as many in this and
other localities, and even in foreign
lands, are interested. we will at proper
time give brief history of the church
with Il description of the improvements
which have been made.
DIPHTHERIA is prevailing to some ex
tent in portions of the township, but we
have learned of no deaths from effects Of
the disease.
Mr.. DAVID BALE and Mrs. Lydia
Bryant, were married by Rev. G. Shack
EFT, at the residence of Mrs. Dateu, on
Thursday evening last, at Z o'clock. A
few of the neighbors were invited in to
witness the ceremony, and good and
bountiful supper was served by Mrs
Dsten. Mr.. Bale took his wife to heT
new home CD Monday evening. David
is trusted and faithful employe OF
the firm of Bentley & Coffiand. and
has the esteem of all who knew him
Mrs. Bryant was known woman OF
industrious and economical habits, anG
will no doubt strive to make his home
a pleasant one.
Pa, paid brief visit to her brother sn6
sister, Rev. c. 5. and Lizzie Hackr.t, oi
this place, last week, returning home or
Saturday. Miss Moreland is an lntelli'
gent and pleasant lady, and her friends
and acquaintances regret her departure
GERTRUDE" an infant daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Giesey, of this town
has been dangerously i'll, but is new in g
condition more favorable to recovery.
SoLoMoN's CORNER.
D. N.-The letter IN" on the neck OF
the. liberty head of the Bland dollar
is the initial of the engraVer. (See
W orld)
T. SO b-l-i-g-e-d," can be pronounc-
ed obleej ed, which is sometimes done
as you state, by distinguished speakers,
That was the former pronunciation
which is not marked obsolete. "Oblij led
is at present approved.
/. E. W. S.-Rome became a Republic
500 years B. C-Jonah wrote the Book
of Jonah" at Jerusalem. II.
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A FEW scattering fakes of snow fell
Sunday, but it was beautiful day.
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; The saloon keepers association of this
county is a thing of the past.
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A REVIVAL meeting is being held in
, the A. NJ. E. church of this place.
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THE revival season is here, and they
are starting up all around US.
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quail are protected by law now, so
dent waste ammunition on them.
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REARK, an East Liverpool roller ska
ter, defeated Bellaire's famous Shuttle
worth in three mile race, on Saturday
evening.
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A NEW time card will go into effect Oh
the B. & o. railroad next Sunday.
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THE Saturday Evening Guide" Is the
name of new publication at Wheeling,
which made its first appearance last Sat
urday.
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DIPHTHERIA is prevailing toFsome ex-
tent in the neighborhood of Louisville.
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TIE Salvation Army at Bellaire has
ceased to exist.
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Ice has been forming every night for
some time past.
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Sherif's Sale.
IN PARTITION.
BELMONT COMMON PLEAS.
Louisa Bysinger, ct al,

Vs.
William T. Ochsenbein, ct al.
! d URSUANT to an order of sale in the
Il above entitled case, issued and to me
directed, from the court of common pleas of
Belmont county, Ohio, l will offer at public
sale at the front door of the court house, of
said county, on
Monday, December 2Ist, 1855,
at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the following
described premises, to-wit:
A parcel of land in section 81, township 6,
range 8, in Richland township, SAID county,
containing acres, 3 roods and 4 perches,
and being the same premises described in a
deed from Isaac Ammons to the last named
Samuel Ochsenbein, dated September 9th,
1857, and recorded in volume 42, page 593 of
the records of deeds of said county; also an
other tract of land in section 26, township 6
and range 3, in said county, containing 49
acres, and being the same tract Of land de
scribed in deed from Isaac Ammons to said
Samuel Ochsenbein, dated September 5th'
1857, and recorded in last named records, in
volume 40, page 593.
Appraised at $2855.
| Terms of fSale.-One-third cash; one-third in
one year, and one>third in two years from
the day of sale, with interest; deferred pay
ments to be secured by mortgage upon the
premises sold.
LEROY G. SEDWICK, Sheriff.
By FRANK R. SEDwIoK, Deputy.
J. E. Mcdonald, Plfrs Atty. II 19>td
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01
pianos and PlanO.Makers.

In Germany a fine piano-maker is
classed as an artist; in this country he is
mechanic of the higher order. There
are about 600 men employed I'M the
different branches of piano-making in
this city. Some are paid by the week,
but most of them do piece-work. A
skilled mechanic makes all the way from
SO to Sc per day. There are many diff
ferent departments in piano-making, the
principal ones being case-making, sound
board making, fy-fnishing, tone and
action regulating, iron-workings, action
making, key-making, finishing and
vanishing. The laborer who does the
heavy work is paid from 81 to $3.50 per
day. Very few learn the trade in Balti-
more. These men are imported from
Germany, and large number are from
New York, Boston and other places
The cases are made in four different de-
partments, and are put together by men
doing piece-work. The makers average
from $40 to $50 per week. Inc wages
of the regulators of action and tone
range from $15 to $25 per week. The
sound board makers do their work by
the piece. They make from $12 to $2S
per week. The fly finishing and there
are three departments in this branch
net the men about $15 per week. The
action makers wages are from $14 to $50
per week. The varnishers average $12
per week, and their pay runs all the way
from 50 to $22. The fnisher is the most
skilled and his work the most important.
he makes the highest wages. He gets
from SIS to $50 and $S1 per week. The
amount mechanic makes depends en-
tirely on his shilI. Some Of the men
make twice as much as their fellow
makers doing the same work.-BGltimoye
Anericdn.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01
nrinin n ! MalI.Knnwn Phrase.

In 1889, when visitors TO Chicago came
BY stage coach, famous old pioneer
named John Oldershaw made the jour
ney from Buffalo to the West. Before
leaving Buffalo John made o bargain
with the driver that he was to be walked
up every hour when asleep in order to
take drink with bis accustomed regu-
larity. The scheme worked well until
they came within days drive Of Chi
cago. There were only two other pas
sengers in the coach and they had evi-
IDENTIFY discovered what was going on.
AS the journey was near its end all hands
agreed to ride all night in order to reach
Chicago in themorning. With many in-
functions to the driver old John went to
sleep. When he had begun to snore one
of the other passengers crowded him out
of his place and sat down in his corner,
exchanged his own hat for Johns coon
skin, and pretended to be asleep. All
night long the deception was kept up,
the driver stopping every hour, nudging
the man that he supposed was Oldershaw
and giving him his bitters When Chi
cago was reached John found himself in
his own corner, but he knew that he had
had no whisky, and he became 20 furious
that they had to put him under guard.
He sued the stage company for damages,
and after ten years Of litigation got q
Judgment for $15, 700. That il what
came Of waking up the wrong passen-
.,ar sf Rg,hsrs, Gnzetfe
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01

The exiles who live in the mines of
Russian Siberia are convicts of the worst
type and political offenders of the best.
The murderer for his yillainy, the intelli-
gent and honest Polish rebel for his pa
triotism, are deemed equally worthy of
the punishment Of slow death. They
never see the light Of day, but work and
sleep all the yea. EalsaA jfgtE Ehe staaxtAsSeg
under the eyes Of taskmasters who have
orders not to spare them.
Iron gates, guarded by sentries, close
the lodes, or streets, at the bottom OF the
shafts, and the miners are rallied off from
one another in gangs of twenty. They
sleep within rock-hewn recesses-very
kennels-into which they must creep on
all fours. Prince Lumbomiroski, who
was authorized to visit one of the mines
of the Ural at a time when he was not
suspected that he would publish an ac-
count of his exploration in French, has
given an appalling account of what he
saw.
Convicts racked with the joint pains
which quicksilver produces; men whose
hair and eyebrows had dropped off, and
who were gaunt as skeletons, were kept
to hard labor under the lash. They have
only two holidays year-Christmas and
Easter-and all other days, Sunday in
cluded, thev must toll until exhausted
nature robs them Of their limbs, when
they are hauled up to die in the infrm-
ary.
Five years in the quicksilver pits are
enough to turn man of thirty into an
apparent sexagenarian, but some have
been known to struggle on for ten years.
No man who has served in the mines is
ever allowed to return home. The most
he can obtain in the way of grace is leave
to come up and work in the roadways.
and it is the promise of this favor as a
reward for industry which operates even
more than the lash to maintain disci-
pline. Women are employed in the
mines as sifters, and get no better treat
ment than the men.
Polish ladies by the dozens have been
sent down to rot and die, while the ST.
Petersburg journals were declaring that
they were living as free colonists; and
more recently. ladies connected with
nihilist conspiracies have been consigned
to the mines in pursuance of sentence
Of hard labor 1t must always be under
stood that sentence Of Siberian hard
labor means death. Boston Gasette.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01
DepredaIions of the White Ant.

Professor Henry Drummond says in an
article in the Popular Science Monthly:
The animal we are in search Of, and
which venture 70 shinlz osgal 70 aiI tho
necessities Of the case, is the termite, or
white ant. 1t is small insect with 0
bloated, yellowish- white body and 0
somewhat large thorax, oblong-shaped,
and colored disagreeable oily brown.
The fabby, tallow-like body makes this
insect sufficiently repulsive, but it is fol
quite another reason that the white ant
is the worst abused of all living vermin
in warm countries. The termite lives
almost exclusively upon wood; and, the
moment tree is cut or log sawed fol
any economical purpose, this insect is
upon its track. One may never see the
insect, possibly, in the flesh, for it lives
underground; but its ravages confront
one at every turn. You build your
house, perhaps, and for few months
fancy you have pitched upon the one
solitary site in the country where there
are no white ants. But one day suddenly
the door-post totters, and Intel and raf-
ters come down together with crash.
You look at section Of the wrecked
timbers and discover that the whole in
side is eaten clean away. The apparent
ly solid logs Of which the rest Of the
house is built are now mere cylinders of
bark, and through the thickest of them
you could push your little finger. Fur
niture, tables, chairs, chests of drawers,
everything made of wood is inevitably
attacked, and in single night a strong
trunk is often riddIed through and
through, and turned into match wood.
There is no limit, in fact, to the depreda-
tion by these insects, and they will eat
books, or leather, or cloth, or anything,
and in many parts Of Africa 1 believe if
a man lay down to sleep with a wooden
leg it would be heap of sawdust in the
morning. So much feared is this insect
now, that no one in certain parts Of
India and Africa attempts to travel with
such thing as Wnoden trunk On
on the ground winch was as hard as ada
mant, and as innocent of white ants ap-
parently as the pavement Of st Paul's, and
next morning to find stout
wooden box almost gnawed to pieces.
Leather portmanteaus share the same
fate, and the only substances which seem
to defy the marauders are iron and tin.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The seed vessels Of the bird-catching
tree Of New Zealand secrete very sticky
gum, in which not merely insects but
birds are entaDgled and perish.
Professor Vulpian, Of the Paris Acad-
emy Of Medicine, repudiates the view
that persons can suffer after decapita-
ton, SO he finds satisfactory physioIogi-
cal evidence that the severing Of the
head produces instantaneous loss OF con
sciousness.
I.yoll estimated that the gnrga NJ Ni-
agara river was cut out ii about 81, 600
years, but surveys to determine the pres
ent rate Of recession of the falls indicate
that the work may have been done in
10000 years. During forty-one years
the average annual wear of rock was
two and three quarter feet.
In countries having marked winter
seasons, earthquakes are found to be
more frequent in winter than in summer.
DIR. Knott, of the seismological society
of Japan, finds only two possible me
teorological reasons for this-one being
the stress Of accumulated snow, and the
other that of high barometic pressure
during the cold season.
The Formosarians, says M. Girard de
Rialle, are fetish-worshipers. lin one
Of their houses traveller found stake
on which was placed the skull Of deer
adorned with garlands Of flowers and
herbs. This he was told was the female
fetish; the male was composed Of bam-
boos and interlaced like cradle a jar
Of pure water below appeared to be the
only offering.
Professor A. Vogel deserves that the
hemlock plants which yields coniine in
Bavaria, contains none in Scotland, and
he concludes that sunlight plays part
in the generation of alkaloids in plants.
This view is confirmed by the circum-
stance that the tropical Cinchonas, if
cultivated in feebly lighted northern
hothouses, yield no quinine. The for
nation of tannin in the bark of the
beech or of the larch having been found
to increase from the less illuminated to
the more Illuminated parts.
The question whether or not the Eng
lish language would wholly supersede
the French in Canada has been much
discussed by educators in that country.
The latest opinion on the subject is that
Of Professor RiYet. who. in an address he
--A.,-.'.,lned : That the hope OF doing awag
WIN WIN ne French language, altho1gb MAN. tbs
French speakl-4eIaas ferms5 1, al'-Ougn M
third of the populaI1- 4o,neu only one
be abandoned forever, andCanada, must
Of there being two languages ihRs- fact
must be distinctly recognized. He saiu
this was due to the rapid increase Of the
French element, and to its influence in
all social, CONNIE cial, political and edu-
cational centres.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01
nriantaI nhsarYances.

a correspondent writes to London
Truth: With all princes-H Hindoo, No
hammedan or Buddhist-on the penin-
sula Of Hindoostan, superior is ap-
preached by an inferior with presents.
There must, in fact, be the earnest of
present, if it be only lime or flower.
From those incontestably of an inferior
rank the reception of the lime or flower
is counted as sufficient condescension,
and as recognition of the acquaintance.
With those who by right wear a sword,
the sword in its scabbard is presented to
be touched by the recipient of the visit,
and his graceful address is the shorthand
token of the bearer Of the sword
having offered his services, even to de-
voting his life. After the lime there is
an ascending scale Of presents, such as
nosegays, trays Of fruit, sweetmeats,
palanquin, horse, an elephant, or jew
elry up to the value of the koh-i-noor.
And in every instance the recipient -
understood to return present 10 the
donor Of greater value than the present
received IL may be in kind, or it may
be in favors to be granted. but there
must be no mistake as to the worth.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01
Lady Shoots an EaaIs.

Some time ago, as a party of ladies
and gentlemen from Denver, who have
been making tour of some Of the prin-
cipal points of interest in Colorado, the
principal purpose of which was to sketch
some of the magnificent scenery of this
most romantic state, when about sixteen
miles from Leadville and short distance
from camp, two of the ladies witnessed
strange scene. Looking upward I de-
scried, soaring above them, magnif-
cent specimen Of the American eagle.
Slowly it moved in grand circle, which
gradually narrowed until it approached
the ground, when, with one fell swoop,
it darted like an arrow to the earth
within short distance Of where the
ladies stood. Its stay was but momen-
tary, however, for, rising quickly in the
air, the astonished observers noticed that
in its beak it bore, writhing and twist
ing, large snake. Before, however, it
had reached too great an altitude, one
of the ladies, Mrs. NJ Ensel, snatched
gun, and taking deliberate aim, fred
at the ''proud bird of the free" The
shot was well directed and both bird
and reptile fell to the ground. After a
few struggles the eagle was dead and the
snake soon dispatched. The latter,
which was large specimen of the bull
snake, measured five feet two inches in
length, and the eagle six feet from tip
to tip. Both will be stuffed, and Mrs.
Ensel will preserve them as trophies Of
her skill as marksman and memento
Of the excursion. Denoer (Col.) Necs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-01

nomination are going to be struck dur
ing the year, and you can salt away the
rare ones until there is market for them
at jolly premium. There are the twen-
ty cent pieces Of 1877 and 1878, for in
Stance They are worth 50 apiece now.
! knew just how many were going to be
struck, and laid in a little stock Of
them " twenty-five cents apiece, but ]
didn't Lay in enough, and they're al
sold.
sHave you any idea how many col.
lectors there are in this country?n
I've heard them figured at $4,000.
and guess That's Hens 560 high lifg6F5s
A good many coins come into our hands
almost ruined by ignorant collectors.
They soak them in acid and scour them
with brick dust, when they never ought
to be cleaned except with soap and
warm water and soft tooth brush.'
''Do collectors make speciality of
gold"
mo; it's too expensive. A good deal
of silver is bought, and one or two col
lections that have seen were entirely
of silver pieces, mostly of crown or dol
lar size. But collectors have their hob
bies. Some go in for American coins
altogether, some for English, one or two
are mad enough to try to get complete
collection of German pieces, which
would fill about three barrels, and
good many buy only ancient Greek and
Roman money. Then some collect odds
and ends, like pattern or trial pieces that
were never adopted as currency; queer
shaped siege pieces or provisional money,
the heavy copper dalers Of Sweden, fiye
or six inches square and quarter Of an
inch thick; the key-shaped and razor
shaped coins Of China,~ Japanese bous,
ltzebus, and tembos; Indian wampum,
African shell money, Siamese bullet
money. Oriental glass and porcelain
coins. Some collect medals; some col
lect paper money. Oh, there's no end
to coin collecting if you once get
ltarted. d.-NeaO York Sun.