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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
Convention Echoes.

The Enquirer says that "a strong tick
ct was nominated at Springfield, but
Ohie Democrats are not discouraged"
The Tines Star says that Foraker and
Kennedy on the stump will make the
greatest campaign ever known, and that
the heavy weights will be with them.
The Ohio State Tribune, the organ of
the colored voters, says that the ticket
is strong one, and that with the Beatt
ty idea in the platform, Foraker will
get the hearty support of the eolored
people and be elected by large majors
ty.
Canton Repository: Kennedy is a gall
liant, gifted and generous gentleman
When he gave Foraker the grip at
Springfield he touched the pulse of the
Republican party of Ohio and it beats
with healthy vigor for Foraker and
Kennedy.
Toledo eCommercial-Tele Thought
full Republicans are satisfied with the
platform on the temperance question.
1t leaves it for the people of each county
and senatorial district to express their
wishes through the election of members
of the Legislature.
Akron Beacon: Foraker was the
Blaine of the Springfield convention and
Kennedy was its Logan. 1t was the
field against Foraker, as it was the fielG
against Blaine. And just as the Chica
go convention drafted a formidable ri
val of the successful candidate into sec
ond place, so Kennedy was impressed
for the gubernatorial lieutenancy.
Circleville Union Herald: There are
no quarrels in tue Republican camp this
year in Ohio. All are animated by the
burning desire to drive the coal oil Leg
islature from power and take one step
toward wrestling the national governs
ment from the control of cOpperheads
and unrepentant ex>COnfederates who
boast of their treason in the very capi
tai of the nation they sought TO destroy.
Youngstown News-Register: Here in
the valley of the Mahoning where Re-
publican success and the establishing of
Republican principles means deeper
haze of smoke between the sunlight and
us, and denser gold-lined clouds rising
from our factory stacks, and the broader
civilization and advancement that in
creased prosperity brings, the banner
created with the boy-soldier's name, will
be hailed with mighty acclaim as an
omen of the triumph that Ohio so gal
lantly struggled for in last November
Major Bickham says: "The Republi-
can ticket embodies the Methodist, Bap-
tist and Presbyterian churches; about
all the societies that are known, inclu+
ding the Grand Army and the Loyal
Legion and other army organizations;
and Americans of Irish, German, Welsh. |
and English extraction. The ticket
covers as much ground as possible with
six names, and all of the men are of the
most manful character. AS the Demor
cratic papers freely admit, it is mighty
strong combination.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
SPEAKING of the Ohio Republican

SPEAKING of the Ohio Republican
platform the Nashville Banner says:
1.-The old cry against the rebels has
lost its power as a political war song,
and the Republicans will not help their
cause by trying so keep it up. The
country is progressing and leaving be-
hind the war prejudices and passions,
and it will leave behind the party which
attempts to keep them revived"
The people of the North will be found,
however, generally to hold the PROPOSE
tion that one man in Georgia should not
count for as much in National affairs as
two in Ohio. Grover Cleveland was
elected President by the unconstitutional
suppression of honest votes in the
Southern Republican States. The Solid
South is bloody fraud, and in violation
of the terms and conditions of the peace
that followed the Southern surrender
The idea that the States that were true
to the Nation conquered those that at
tempted the destruction of the Union,
simply that the conquered rebels should
be re- established as the ruling class
over the whole country, and that all ops
position to this class is sectional. and
tends to the revival of the war, is one
which should not be entertained in any
part of the country. We object to the
possession by the man who fought
against the Nation of two or three times
the political force in shaping National
affairs that the man has who fought for
Nationality. We are willing to stand on
equality with the rebel brethren, but the
object of the conquest Of rebels was not
that they might rule over us; and they
have the potency to do because through
the alleged abolition of slavery and the
substantial disfranchisemento of the black
race, the rebel is rewarded by holding
two votes-his own and his black neigh
boris. We propose to have this question
settled on terms that recognize the
equality of citizenship. -TCin. Com.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
in SCHOOL DAYS.
Still sits the school house By the road,
raOuad haorar cpppiDn.

Still sits the school house By the road,
A ragged beggar summing;
Around it still the sumachs grow
AND blackberry vines are running.
Within, the masters desk is seen,
Deep-scarred by raps Official,
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack knife-carved initial;
The charcoal frescoes on its its walls.
1t doors worn sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping now to school,
Went storming out to playing.
Long years ago winters sun.
Shone over it at setting.
Lit up its western window pane
And low caves icy fretting.
1t touched the tangled golden curls
And brown eyes full of grieViRg,
Of one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving;
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled,
His cap pulled low upon his face
Where pride and shame were mingled,
Pushing, with restless feet the snow
To right and left, be fingered,
And restlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light caressing,
And heard the trembling OF her voice,
As if fault eonfessiDg,
I'm sorry that spelt the word;
hate to go above yon,
Because" (the brown eyes lower fell)-
Because, you see, love your"
Still memory to gray-haired man
That sweet child-face is showing.
Dear grill the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing;
He lives to learn in lifs's hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss
Like her-becaGse they love him.
John G. Whittier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
NeIghbOrhOOd Notes.

Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, widow of the
late DR.. James Barnes, of Deersville,
died at the residence of her son A. D.
Barnes, in Cadiz, on the Sd inst, in the
18th year of her age. Deceased was
native of Kentucky.
Last week bridge on Middle fork of
Short Creek gave way under the weight
of the traction engine of McManniS and
Smallwood which was crossing it, and
the whole outfit went down. badly in
juring the engine.
". P. Hays, administrator of William
Dewitt, has entered sdit in the Common
Pleas Court at Steuoenville, against the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis rail-
road, asking for $4,000 for the killing
of Dewitt on the road in the winter of
1884.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
A Great Discovery,

Mr. VIM Thomas, of Newton, Iowa, says;
My wife has been seriously afflicted with
cough for twenty-five years, and this spring
more seriously than before; she has used many
remedies without relief, and being urged to
try DR.. Kings New Discovery, did so with
most gratifying results; the first bottle reliev>
ed her very much, and the second bottle has
absolutely cured her; she has not had so good
health for thirty years Trial bottles free at
Pattersons' drug store; large size 81.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25

"Now," said the bridegroom to the
bride when they returned from their
honeymoon trip, "let us have clear
understanding before we settle down to
married life; are you to be President OF
Vice President of this concern" Il
want to be neither President nor Vice
President" she answered. II will be
content with a subordinate position"
What is that?" Controller of the cur
rencY."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25

Iss4-5-Belmont County, Ohio.

Sd Saturday OF Jan at st Clairsv1lle.
2d SATURDAY of Feb al Bridgeport.
LIST Saturday Of Mar at st Clairsville.
ztb Saturday Of Mar al Barnesvilles
Sd Saturday OF April a. !, BSlialrei S1d dslts;,,o
Sd Saturday of June at s. Clairsvtlle.
GAINESVILLE at close OF Institute.
Examinations begin at g o'clock q. m.
Testimonials Of character are required II
applicant is not known TO the Board
Certificates will not be antedated nor ex~
Tests in the higher branches will be given
at close of Institute ONLY.
Certificates will be dated and issued by the
Board in adjourned session on Saturday fols
owing each examination
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A nrst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon an average Of 80 per cent, including i've
higher branches, With no grade below rs, pro-
vided applicant has bad i've years experience
in teaching.
three higher branches with no grade below 70,
provided applicant has had four years experi'
ence in teaching.
A third>class Is years. certificate is granted
three higher branches, with no grade below S.
provided applicant has had three years exper-
1ence in teaching. t ~ ~
A fourth -class q years. certificate is granted
upon an average OF IS per cent, WIN no grace
below so, provided applicant has had TWO
years experience IN teaching.
A ffth-class q year, certificate Is granted
upon an average Of IS per cent, with no grade
below 55.
"a! z. ALGkAMpER' 6kARK' Board of E1.
]. A. HENDERSON,
s>61y
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
"PICKAWAY' wants the Administers

"PICKAwAY' wants the Administra-
ton to Immediately turn out all the Re-
publican offiee-holders in Ohio, as a
means of revenge for the insults of the
Republican platform. That would be a
good way to make Ohio overwhelmingly
Republican next October. When the
Republicans once get stirred up in this
State, they do vote like thunder.-Co>
lumbus Dispatch.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
WESTBOUND,

*Trains run daily. fDaIIy 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 ]. W. WILLIAMS, agent, Warnocks. Ohio.
8 PEABODY, w e REPPERT,
Gep'r Supt. GeDn Pass. Ag't.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
Belmont County on1ciaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Isaac 81. CASTOR.
Clerk of Courts-Wm. B. Cash.
Sheriff-Leroy G. Sedwick.
Auditor-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. Z. Kennon.
Recorder-W. s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-Owen Mehan, Morris Cope,
VIM. J. Berry.
Surveyor-John H. Mitchell
Coroner-P. o. Criswell.
1nfrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, James
B. Ritchey, John sidebottom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
The Mirror

is no f1atterer. Would you
make it tell a sweeter taller
Magnolia Balm is the charm
er that almost cheats the
looking-glass.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon
ROBT. M. EATON, w. M.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
]. B. MEYER, Fl. P.
V. L. HAWTHORNE, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. 81, R. & s. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
F. D. BAILEY, T. l. M.
]. B. MEYER, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
Ii Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. ]. B. RYAN, E. G.
j. B. MRYER, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25

The Russian alphabet contains forty
one letters. Any Russian word can be
made by changing the position of these
letters, care being taken to use the entire
forty-One.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
BelInOntChrOniCle
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms of Subscription;
Two Dollars Per Tear IN Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
OFFIoE-South side Main street, nearly op-
posite Public School building.
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NRl7F Send &c for postage and receiy.
Il UuIH free costly box OF goods which
uTHUT will help all, of either sex, "a
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

u 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 womens prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, / pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey. R.
i Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 900 I'm. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m.; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. W. H. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:90 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
p.m.; general prayer meeting: Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25

The Enquirer says that "a strong tick
ct was nominated at Springfield, but
Ohie Democrats are not discouraged"
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21
TWO Georgia .ssnakes.n

Dalton Argus: A few days since a gen
tleman living above Dalton went to his crib,
and lying in coil, in one corner, was a
rattlesnake- bulk large as a half bushel.
A few feet from it was his cat, gradually
approaching the monster in creeping man-
ner, eyes riveted, yet lacking that springy
electricity peculiar to the feline when ready
to spring upon its prey. He hurriedly killed
the snake, breaking the charm that was
Turing the cat to certain destruction, when
it sulked away The snake was said to have
been five inches in diameter, and when
skinned the hide held a measured half
bushel of sand.
Americus Recorder: Capt Bell tells a
rather hard snake story, but as it is him we
must believe 1T. He says few days ago
he saw moccasin swallowing frog. he
waited until the frog had disappeared and
then he shot the snake. His shot took ef-
feet and cut the snake in two pieces, when
the frog jumped out and away.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21
A SINGULAR SUICIDE.

When Mother Hubbard dresses first
came into fashion old people shook their
heads and predicted that no good would
come of such an outlandish costume. And,
sure enough, their predictions have come to
pass. A Maryland lady, having been ban
tered by nephew on the cOnventionalities
of dress, went to Dorchester ball in
Mother Hubbard costume. She said
she did it for fun. But her husband
soon afterwards came on the scene and was
indignant at his wife for her immodesty.
AS she undertook to explain matters he be-
came ungovernable and, drawing revolver,
shot himself, falling dead at her feet. 1t
has been matter of surprise with some
people that the Mother Hubbard style OF
dress has not had tragical ending before
this time. That it has not speaks well for
the patient devotion Of the husbands OF this
generation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21
PHYSICAL RELIGION.

From reading the published reports of
the faith-cure meetings being held in Chi
cago person must come to the conclusion
that the devotees have mistaken hysteria
for religion. Where women fall down in
''trances," and men profess to see visions
while laboring under an intense excitement,
there can be no rational explanation of the
causes except that they are. at
tributable to some nervous disease.
In these physical phenomena there
is no evidence of any intellectual pro-
cess whatever, and consequently can be no
mental conviction or conversion. It is
nothing more or less than an involuntary
and irrational nervous cOnvulsion. The
medical student at once recognizes in it one
of the manifestations Of the many sided dis
ease called hysteria.' Such manifestations
are not uncommon during periods of deep
religious excitement. They are familiar
scenes to those who have been in the habit
of Witnessing revival meetings among the
negroes in the Southern states.
A popularity of this physical religion is
that it is contagious OF epidemic in charac-
ter. Merely looking at person in convul-
sions will often throw sensitive persons into
precisely similar state. The precise as
pect of the epidemic may be determined
by almost any trivial external incident
Some forty years ago singular re-
ligious excitement swept over the
state of Kentucky. during which was
developed phenomenon commonly
known as the clerks" Suddenly one person
in a congregation would commence jerking
and perhaps in less than ten minutes every
body in the house would be doing the same
thing. About the same time, or little be-
fore, there was similar excitement in Ire
land which was marked by peculiar desire
of those affected to climb. In the churches
the converts would climb the pillars of the
edifce, and when meetings were held in the
open air they would climb trees and poles
Both in Kentucky and Ireland the epi-
demic was spread by contagion. Those
passing from an infected village or parish
to one which had previously escaped
wonld carry the infection with them. And
it looks now as if the faith-healing cure,
which broke out in the Eastern cities a
short time age, is spreading and will con-
tinue to spread until it has swept over all
parts of the country. Inasmuch as the
phenomena attending these revivals are
physical and not mental, and can have
nothing to do with the will or understand
ing, the effects will be evanescent. A
little sound education in physiology and the
elements of medical science is all that is
necessary to dispel the hallucination.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21

selves with dogs head instead of the
whole dog. He says s'the head can be
mounted on neat stand and it can be
filled with blood whenever the owner wishes
to pet his abridged dog. The owner could
permit the head to die through the day time
and could vivify it only in the even
ing, thus obtaining all the advantages
of canine society at very little expense for
blood. There can be no doubt that if per-
sons desire to keep such dogs as spitzes and
pugs, the plan of keeping only the dogs
head, deprived of the power to bark, and
incapable of biting an unsuspecting leg,
would be great improvement on the
present plan of keeping whole dogs, and it
is probable that it would be cheaper to fill a
dogs head with blood for an hour or two
every day than it would be to feed him
meat and supply him with eats for outdoor
sports. The great value of the discoveries
made in connection with dead dogs is the
fact that If dead dogs can be brought to life
by filling them with fresh blood, they can
be permanently nourished and kept alive
by the same process, and that if this can
OO OOlS ~ tilt CGSC VI QoSc ~ Stui uioO Nv
done in the case of men, Nearly all the
physical troubles to which flesh is heir are
connected with our bodily organs. Dys-
pepsia. heart and liver diseases and con-
sumption, are all due to the fact that we
possess organs. Now, if man can be kept
alive by injecting fresh blood into his veins
every day he would have no use for his
digestive organs, and they would in time
become rudimentary and inaccessible to the
attacks of disease. He would never be
troubled by dyspepsia, liver disease, or the
whole series of diseases due to the presence
of germs received into the stomach. Then,
too, he could save the time and money that
are now consumed in supplying the stom-
ach with food, and in the place OF spending
several hours day at breakfast, lunch and
dinner, and perhaps vainly trying to find
food that would tickle his palate he could
go every morning to his doctor and have
his yesterdays blood drawn off and replaced
with fresh blood in, say, five or ten min
utaS -
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21

nothing out of the silver state but political
position, Yet Nevada has gift which he
covets-the United States senatorship,
which will be given up by Senator Jones
two years hence. To secure this, Mackay
Is said to be bending all his energies. He
will have small difficulty, judging from the
past history of senatorial contests in that
state, since he is far more popular than any
man who has won the seat for years. He
is the ideal miner, sprung to great fortune,
and his hand is always open to relieve an
old cOmrade or help on aworthy enterprise
This is not saying that he maintains a
crowd of parasites, as some rich men do
He is too shrewd for that Hangers-on and
blacl1mailers hold him in holy terror, for he
sent two of the latter fraternity to San
Quentin for term of years, and the toadies
he gets rid of with small ceremony.
A POPULAR BONANZA KING.
There isno question that of all the bon
ANA and railroad millionaires he is by all
odds the most popular and the most re-
spected, Wealth seems to have given him
none of the air of importance which clothes
some of his associates. He returned re-
Gently from trip to the East, but no news
paper had an interview with him for the
simple reason that he always requests the
reporters to keep his name out OF print.
lie is ready to give them any news, but he
has the Englishman's dread of the inter-
view. Personally Mackay would be taken
for Kansas or Missouri cattleman. He
has the fine, ruddy complexion of a man
who spends much of his time out of doors,
and when he travels he affects blue flannel
shirts, SLOUGH hat and other features of
the outfit of the stage miner. When he
talks however, he seems like wide-awake
city business man; he expresses himself
clearly and to the point, and wastes no
words; in fine, he gives one the impression
OF a man of great intellectual force and or
ganizing capacity, together with fine
healthy physique, which inclines him to
look on the bright side of everything, and
Judge human nature with large liberation.
He smokes and drinks, but indulges in nei-
ther to excess. Although he is worth any
where from $780, 900, 900 to $50, 100000, I
don't think he spends more on his clothes
and personal expenses than most men whose
income doesn't rise above So, 600 year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21
SUNDAY school Convention.

The Minnesota State Sunday School as
sociation will hold it's annual convention of
three days, at Faribault, June 30. Schools
throughout the state are entitled to one
delegate for an attendance of 100 OF less,
and one for each additional hundred OF frac-
tion thereof. Pastors and their wives, SUI
perintendents, professors in theological
seminaries, colleges or state educational in
stltutions are entitled to sit ih the conven-
ton. Special rates, one and one-fifth fare
for the round trip, are offered by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee &c st. Paul, Chicago 6
Northwestern, Omaha, St. Paul d Duluth
and Minneapolis s. st. Louis railroads,
tickets good until July4. The officers OF
the association have issued call for the
election of delegates in the churches to-day.