davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-01-15

NoTlCR-ro WHOM IT MAY CON-
~ CERN.-I hereby give notioa that shs,,
pe1son the Legis ur Of the Stale OF ielsx AZ.
hI .his sesslou, 10 grant me divorce from inv
Vi nhuimony. JEANETTE M OHAMBEkS
DELAWARE CITY, Jan, Z, 1885. janib Inns
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
Gen. Sheridan's Three Girls.

Children of officials often give a re-
freshing side to social life at the Capital
that makes it not all superficial and
frivolous. 1t has been said Of General
Sheridan that be is not success as go
ciety man" because be is too much in
love with his pretty wife. The "hero of
Winchester" is even more devoted to
his children, three girls and little Phil,
jr., boy of 8 years. The twin girls,
Mary and Louise, look up to their oldest
sister, Irene, who is but a year older
than themselves, with a faith in her
superiority that is sometimes amusing.
"So yau three littlr girls are sisters, -
said lady the other day, meeting the
trio out for a walk.
"Oh, no; we are twins. Irene Is our
sister" replied one of the pair with seri-
Gus simplicity.
At the fancy dress children's party
given at Gen. Beale's house Irene wore
a long train. Little Johnny Hazen, on
ly son of Chief of Signal Service Hazen,
was so much amused that he laughed at
the little lady. The twins were indig-
nant, and one of them exclaimed:
Just see that boy laugh at our sister
don't like him a bit. and don't know
his name. But you know his father is
the man who makes the weather-Wash-
ngton Capital.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
Stopping Work.

In every period of industrial stagna-
tion and business depression, strikes of
workingmen and stoppages of workshops
on account of disputes respecting wages
and hours, are sure to occur; and the
worse the depression, the greater the
strikes and stoppages.
The most serious recent manifestation
of this kind is that of the iron manufac-
turers of western Pennsylvania and
Ohio. At the present rates of wages the
mill owners cannot keep their mills GO
ing, and at the same time the workmen
are not willing to accept the wages which
the manufacturers are willing to give.
The result is that mills are shut, and
workmen by tens of thousands are de-
prived of employment and of pay.
This is not an encouraging symptom,
but the opposite. 1t does not look to
better times, but to- worse tines. 1t
does not promote human happiness; it
creates misery.
1t is evident that the commercial, in
dustrial and financial crisis which began
about the time of President Garfield s
death, in 1881, has not yet ended. The
longed-for period of recuperation has
not set in. There are still hard times
before the country, and poverty and
suffering will weigh down many fami-
lies.-N. Y. Sun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
DR.. bod and the Drunkards.

Northampton letter in Chicago Inter-ocean.
Here preached the famous DR.. Dod,
who was met one day upon the high
road by some bacchanals and compelled
by them to preach sermon on an old
stump from text of their own choos>
ing. They gave the little man Malt
as his text and bade him to proceed.
Beloved" said be, 81 am little man,
come at short warning to deliver brief
discourse upon small subject, to thin
congregation, and from an unworthy
pulpit. My text is Malt which can not
be divided into either words or syllables,
it being but one. L must therefore re-
duce it to letters, NJ A 1t.
an is Moral; A is Allegorical; L is
Literal; and 7 is Theological. The NOR
al is set forth to teach you drunkards
good manners; therefore, M, my mas
ters; A, all of you; L. listen; I, to my
text.
"The allcgorical is when one thing is
spoken and another is intended; the
thing expressed is Malt, which you bae-
chanals make NJ, your meat; A, your
apparel; L, your liberty, and T, your
text. The literal is according to the
letter: NJ, much; A, ale; L, little; T,
thrift.
"The theological is according to the
effect it produces, which 1 find to con-
sist Of two kinds: First, respects this
life; second, that which is to come. The
effects which it produces in this world
are in some NJ, murder; in others A,
adultery; in all L, licentious lives; in
many 7, treason. The effects consequent
in the world to come are: NJ, misery;
A anguish; l.. lamentatiOn; T, torment.
And now, beloved, first, by way of ex+
hortation: NJ, my masters; A, all of
you; l., leave off; T, tippling; or, sec
ondly, by way of combination: NJ, my
masters; A, all of you; L, look for; T,
torment.
"Now, to wind up the whole and draw
to close, take with you the character
of drunkard. A drunkard is the an
noyance of modesty, the spoil of civili-
ty, his own shame, his wife's sor>
row, and his children's curse, his
neighbor's scoff, the ale-house mans
benefactor. the DEVILS drudge, q walk
ing swill-bowl, the picture of beast,and
monster of a man."
With this extemporaneous philippe
the little man got down from his un-
worthy pulpit and left the paraIyzed
drunkards In amazement.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

CONNECTION with this Administration
must have a most demoralizing effect.
Commissioner of Pensions Black was a
gallant Union soldier, and yet he posted
a notice ia his Department forbidding
the collection during office hours of
money to defray the expenses of strew>
ing flowers on his comrades graves in
Arlington Cemetery on Decoration Day,
on the ground that it was wrong to take
up valuable time in collecting funds for
a purpose which could be of no practical
benefit to anybody" Yes, Mr.. Black, it
may be of no practical benefit to any,
body to pay the simple tribute of flower
to the memory of men who died for
their country, but, somehow, loyal and
a grateful people take solemn pleasure
and pride in paying it. Time is doubt
less valuable, and yet the Pension Bu-
reau and the entire Interior Department
were recently closed for a whole day,
and the Nations flag hung at half mast
out of respect to the memory of an un-
repentant traitor.-Pittsburgh CONNER
cial Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

A STORY is told by Washington pa
per of recent removal for Offensive
partisanship" which demonstrates that
in some directions at least that term
may be stretched to an almost illimita+
BILE extent, and made to create vacancies
at rate of speed not yet suspected. A
clerk who has been several times promo
ted under the civil service rules was
suddenly removed day or two ago, and
in answer to his protest and request for
information as to "eause," was told that
he was one of number of clerks who,
in the department corridor, gave three
cheers for the Plumed knight when it
was reported that Mr.. Blaine had been
elected.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
A Generous Man.

"Did you see anything of a pocket
book that dropped somewhere in the
bedroom 1 occupied last night, land
lord?" ANY money in it?" About
$780," "Yes, sir. Here is your pocket
book, with the money. The maid was
honest enough to bring it to me, and
lockei it up in the safe" "Ah, very cor
rect proceeding. very. I had intended
placing the money in a savings bank
this morning, where it would have been
drawing per cent. AS reward for
your honesty 1 will say nothing about
the interest for the time it has been in
your possession and you can make il
square with the chambermaid. There is
nothing small about me when l run
across man who seems to be trying tC
do what's right. Detroit Journal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
u. S. History.

1. What is the meaning of the phrase,
fifty forty or fight2"
Ans. 1t arose from the difficulty be-
tween the United States and Great Brit
ain in settling the boundary line be-
tween the United States and Canada, exr
tending from the crest of the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific. Great Brit
ain proposed the parallel of 40 degrees,
while the U. S. urged that "a degrees and
40 minutes was the true boundary. The
question was definitely settled by treaty
in 1916. 1t was settled in faver of Great
Britain, and the 49th parallel became
the boundary line. The Whig party was
violently opposed to this treaty, and
adopted as q political battle-ery the
phrase "ifty-four forty or fight"
2. When and where did the first Con-
tinentsl Congress meet and what action
did it take?
Ans. Philadelphia, September, 1774.
1t passed the Declaration Of Independ-
ence and prepared for war.
8. When and by whom we're the words
Don't give up the ship" used2
Ans. In 1912, by James Lawrence.
4. Who used the words, I'VE have met
the enemy and they are ours" and to
whom sent?
Ans. Oliver Il. Perry, after the naval
battle on Lake Erie, and sent TO Gen.
Harrison.
3. What eminent Americans were
nicknamed respectively, Rough and
Ready" "Fuss and Feathers" "Old Hick-
ory?"
Ans. (a) Zachary Taylor, (b) Winfield
Scott, (c) Andrew Jackson.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
Disinfectants.

a word about disinfectants. There
are many kinds-some much easier of
application than others, and some whose
value is not disputed. For common,
cheap disinfectant, chloride of lime is
good, but sulphate of iron, ordinarily
known as cepperas, is much better. For
those unable to purchase or apply the
others, this simple direction may be of
service: Put fifty pounds of copperas
into basket or some other porous re-
ceptacle, and suspend it in barrel of
water; after it has stood day or two,
use literally of the liquid thus formed.
by pouring 1t into vaults and drains, and
over the ground about your doors, where
any filth has been allowed to accunu-
late. If you can not use it On so great a
scale, dissolve a pound or two in pail
of water as you need it, and use freely
from time to time.
These suggestions needed, the body
kept clean by frequent bathings, the food
plain and well cooked, all unripe fruit
and stale vegetables prohibited from the
table, we may almost defy those mala-
dies which, like diphtheria, scarlet fever,
dysentery, typhoid fever, consumption
and cholera, destroy so many homes and
desolate so many hearts. We need have
no fear that too much care can be taken
to have our homes, from cellar to garret,
scrupulously clean. Until they are, we
must stand responsible for the conse-
quences that will surely follow our care
lessness and neglect.-F. II. Rowley, in
Good Housekeeping.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
Thr New Policy Taking Shape.

There seems to be no more disguise
upon the part of the administration, en-
the civil service subject. 1t is satisfsc4
torily settled since the Villas letter that
offensive partisans" include about all
Republicans who are not expressly saved
by law from dismissal from the public
offices. Among the late instances none
has been more notable than that of Col.
Suowden of the Philadelphia Mint. Here
was the case of an official who grew up
in the Mint from one of the lowest posi-
tions; who understood its operations
from alpha to omega; who had given as
Superintendent an administration in
is conceded upon all hands to know more
about the coinage of the country than
perhaps any other person. But Colonel
Snowden's place was among those cov>
eted; and while not requested to resign
he was subjected to such annoyances by
way of intimations and miSrepresenta+
tlons that be felt compelled IN Justice to
himself to hard in his resignation
which it is needless to say will likely be
acdepted.
President Cleveland and bis ca>adju-
tors must be judged by their work. If
their appointments and their policy give
satisfaction when tested by time, they
will have due credit. But candor cons
pels the remark that they have practi-
cally abandoned their professions on the
civil service reform and the tenure of
office; and that the phrase offensive
partisanship" has become but very
thin blind to the evident purpose of
reforming out" of Office every Republi>
can who is not protected by the provis-
ions Of the Civil Service Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

THE success Of the administration in
hunting out the most Objectionable Con-
federates and copnerheads for frst-class
appointments abroad leads the Chicago
Tribune to shed little light on Colonel
Charles DENLY, of Evansville, Ind, who
has been selected for the Chinese mis-
sion. 1t says that DENLY went into the
war on the Mcclellan idea" He was a
good enough patriot SO long as the "di>
vine" institution of slavery was let
alone, but when President Lincoln is>
sued the emancipation proclamation
DENLY left the Union army and went
home to play the roll of undertaking
copperhead. This is his chief eommen-
dation to the present administration, and
he is given a frst-class mission while
other Democrats who faithfully stood by
the "eld flag" to the last get nothing.
But then it is, as the Tribune says, the
boys who fought hard to the end are not
in favor just now with the Csnfederates
who are running the administration or
the man at the head of it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
WHEN THE COWS COME HOME.

With klingle, klangle, klingle,
Way down the dusty diDgle,
The COWS are coming home;
Now sweet and clear and faint and low
The airy twinklings come and go,
Like chimings from some far-off tower
Or patt erings of an April shower,
That makes the daisies grow;
Ko-kling. ko-kling, ko- o-klinglelingle
Way down the darkening dingle
The cows are coming home;
With jingle, jangle, jingle,
Soft sounds that sweetly mingle,
The cows are coming home;
Malvine, and Pearl, and Florimel,
De Kamp, Redrose and Gretchen Schell
Queen Bess, and Sylph, and Spangled
Across the fields l hear ber leo 90,
And clang her silver bell;
Go-ling, go-lang, go-linglelingle,
With faint, far sounds that ningle,
The COWS come slowly home;
And mother-songs of loug-gone years,
And baby joys, and childish tears,
And youthful hopes, and youthful fears,
When the COWS come home.
With ringle, rangle, ringle,
By twos aud threes and single,
The cows are coming home;
Through the violet air we see the town,
And the summer sun slipping down;
The maple in the hazel glade
Throws down the path a longer shade,
And the hills are growing brown;
To-ring, to-rang. to-ringlelingle.
By threes and fours and single
The cows come slowly home;
The same sweet sound of wordless psalm,
The same sweet June-day rest and calm,
The same sweet scent of bud and balm,
When the COWS come home.
With tinkle, tankle, tinkle,
Through fern and periwinkle,
The cows are coming home;
A-lOitering in the checkered stream,
Where the sun-rays glance and CLEAN,
Starine, Peachbloom and Phoebe Phyllis
Stand knee deep in the creamy lilies
In a drowsy dream;
To link, tO-link, to linklelinkle,
Ger banks with buttercups a-twinkle,
The cows come slowly home;
And up through MemOry's deep ravine
OOLnO I1O DlOOh O1u oOhR duO AIo OlO-
time sheen,
And the crescent of the silver Queen,
When the COWS come home.
With kliDgle, klangle, klingle,
With a loo-oo,and meo-oo. and jingle,
The cows are coming home;
And over there on Merlin hill
Hear the plaintive cry of the whip-poor-
will;
The dew-drops lie on the tangled vines,
And over the poplars Venus shines,
And over the silent mill;
Ko-ling, ko-lang, ke-linglelingle,
With ting-a-ling and jingle,
The cows come slowly home;
Let down the bars; let in the train
OF long-gone songs, and flowers and rain,
For dear old times come back again
When the cows come home,
Agnes E. Mitchell.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
A Mild Kicker.

81 understand the old man doesn't
want you to come to see his daughter"
said one young fellow to another.
"That's the state of the case, but 1
went all the same"
MOP"
"YeS; was there last night"
Ibid he kick?"
Some"
"Much?"
"Well, no, not great DEAL" was the
hesitating reply; that is, not as much
as he might have done. He only kicked
me from the psrlor to the front door and
1 went the balance of the way myself.
Merchant Traveller.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
THE WAY TO WIN A FIGHT.
What Gave Gen. Grant His Great Vic
tories in War.

Gen. Grant has often told me that
there comes time in every hard fought
battle when both armies are nearly OF
quite exhausted and it seems impossible
for either to do more. This he believes
to be the turning point; whichever af'
terward first renews the fight is sure tC
win. The general or man who does
what can neither be expected nor re-
quired is the one who succeeds.
This theory was sxempliied. At a
certain moment in this battle the na
tional troops were thrust back nearly to
the river. The reinforcements had not
arrived; a part of the command was
broken; thousands had been taken pris-
oner, and thousands had fled to the rear
At this juncture Gen. Buell. came upon
the field, in advance of his troops, still
miles away. 1t was the darkest moi
ment of the day. He rode up to Grant
near the river, and, seeing the crowds
OF cravens there, supposed that all was
lost. "What preparations have you
made for retreating, general ?" he in
quired. Grant replied, 81 haven't de-
SPARED of whipping them yet. But if
you should be whipped" said the other,
show will you get your men across the
river? These transports will not take
10000 men," "If 1 have to cross the
river" said Grant, 10000 will be all /
shall need transports for" His army
was 10000 strong.
In battle, as in strategical movements,
Grant always meant to take the initia
tive; he always advanced, was always
the aggIessor, always sought to fOrcs
his plans upon the enemy; and if by any
chance and circumstance the enemy at
tackled, bis method of defense was an
attack elsewhere. At Donelson, as we
have seen, when his troops were pushed
back on the right, he assaulted on the
left; and this was only one instance out
of a hundred. This, too, not only be-
cause his forces were numerically strong
er, but because it was his nature in war
to assail.
In the Vicksburg campaign his army
was smaller than Pemberton's; yet he
was the aggressor. In the operations
about Iuka his position was defensive
one, but he attacked the enemy all the
same. 1t was his idea Of war to attack
necessarily and advance invariably, and
thus to make the operations of the ene-
my part and parcel of his own.
Like most great soldiers, Grant was
Indifferent to fatigue in the field. He
could outride the youngest and hardest
of his officers, and endure the lack of
food or the loss of sleep longer than any
of his staff. Yet he slept late whenever
it was possible. and never put himself
to needless trouble. So, too. he never
braved danger unnecessarily; he was not
excited by it, but was simply indiffer-
ent to it, was calm when others were
aroused. have often seen him sit erect
in his saddle when every one else in
stinctively shrank as shell burst in the
neighborhood. Once he sat on the
ground writing dispatch in fort just
captured from the enemy, but still CONT
manded by another near. A shell burst
Immediately over him, but his hand
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

IT is becoming very plain that the
stock of wheat in sight in the United
States which will be carried over into
the new crop year will be wholly un-
precedented. The visible supply is now
nearer 4l,OO0,00O than 100000 bushels,
and is decreasing very slowly. The fig
ures of the secretary of the Chicago
Board of Trade show falling off of only
395,000 bushels last week, and at that
rate there will be still about $4,000. 900
in store in the United States and Canada,
east of the Rocky Mountains, when the
new crop year begins, July l. India has
an unusually large surplus available for
export, and the Australian crop is very
good. The prospective yield in this coun-
try and Western Europe is comparatively
small, but the effect of this will not be
seriously felt for many months. Mean
while the disposition of the present inn
mense surplus is becoming more and
more interesting and serious problem
The market gives way slowly, but an
other era of very low prices would not
be surprising sometime before the visible
supply is reduced to normal figures.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

President CLEVELAND still has a
strong ally in the Courier Journal. That
paper says: with the present admins
tration, all else being equal, good rebels
are preferred to bad ones. and, by this
token, if contest should arise between
an honest Southern man and a dishonest
Northern man, we suspect the latter
would have to stand aside.'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

THE Philadelphia Record says that
when Congress meets in December an
earnest effort will be again made to re-
lieve labor and productive enterprise
from their grievous burdens by extendt
ing the free list of raw materials and by
reducing the excessive duties on neces
saries of living. This effort will have
the cordial support of President Cleve-
land.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
The apostates are being rewarded with

The apostates are being rewarded with
their thirty pieces of silver. Ex-senator
I. W. Upton, of Nebraska, is made re-
ceiVer of public moneys in his State, ex-
Senator E. G. Ross is Governor of New
Mexico and ex-Congressman George W.
Julian becomes surveyor general of New
Mexico. That is mugwumpism.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

IT is the opinion of the Philadelphia
Ledger that the hours Of labor will never
be regulatable by statute until mems
necessities, desires and capacities are
comfortable by law. Nobody understands
this better than the intelligent working
men of the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday.
All trains between Columbus and Cincin>
natl run through with out change of cars, con-
Meeting in the union depots with all diverg>
ing lines Through tickets are sold by agents
of this line to all parts of the United States at
the lowest rates.
For rates, time tables and Information, call
on J. W. WILLIAMS, agent, Warnocks. Ohio.
? PEABODY, w REPPERT,
Gen'r Sup't Gen1 Pass. Ag't.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
Belmont County Official Director.

Common Pleas Judse-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Isaac q. CASTOR.
Clerk of COurts-Wm. B. Cash.
Sheriff-Leroy c. Sedwick.
Auditor-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-EdWard L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. Z. Kennon.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-Owe Mehan, Morris Cope
VIM. J. Berry.
Surveyor-John II. Mitchell
Coroner-P. o. Criswen.
Infrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, james
B. Ritchey, John Sidebottom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11

THE resurrection is only the toner
row morning of death, and when we
think of the grave we should do so as in
the happy days of our childhood we
thought of our bed when we retired to il
for the night, expecting an elder brother
to call US In the morning and take us
with him on a pleasant excursion.-Dr
VIM. n. Taylor.