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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

at breaks my heart,tO see her work
at her sewing from morning till night,
and often half the night" Mrs. Venne'
vale said, in conclusion, her eyes dim
with tears. And sometims she has to
take such insolence, too, that is hard to
bear. To-day Miss Gussie Ellisten came
for dress she had left for Louise to
make, and she found so much fault and
said such cruelty unkind things that my
heart ached for my daughter.
"My dear madam. you and have been
strangers too long. Let me come here
on Monday and become better acquaint.
ed with you"
So when Gussie Elliston, arrayed in
the pretty, dainty muslin, which was
really well made and well fitting, and
set off her blue eyes and fair complexion
to advantageous watching for one face
vainly, that masculine face was turned
toward a window in the little cottage Of
the Vennevales, at which girl sat-
1t was only three months later that a
pretty Gothic dwelling shot up rapidly
beside the church.
And when it was completed Jerome
Grant took his bride aud her mother to
it one golden day in late autumn, and
Louise VeEnevale, the sighted dress
maker, was that bride.
Strange to say, Gussie was one of the
tirst to call on her, as she whispered to
her intimates, "out of pure curiosity.
OF course, as the minister's wife, Lou
ise, had to be civil to her, laying aside the
past.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
THE LAST YEAR.

Tender lights on sky and sea;
Milk white blossoms on the tree;
Lull of storms and tempest bleak;
Faint bloom on wan young cheek,
"Spring, the blessed Spring, is nighr'
Sad my darling hopefully.
Violets' breath and primrose rays;
Sunshine threading leafy ways;
Gentle steps, that, weak and slow,
Through the woodland pathways go,
at were sad in Spring to die"
Said my darling wistfully.
Glorious summer, crowned with flowers;
Dreamy days of golden hours;
Sunset-cTinsOned hills afaI;
Dewy eye, and silver star.
strength may come with by -and-by,
Said my darling patiently.
Glowing fruits and ripening grain;
Languid days and nights of pain;
Fields so golden, earth so glad.
And young life doomed "'Tis sad
Through the bright days here to lie, y
Said my darling wearily.
Signing winds and falling leaves;
Yearning love that vainly grieves;
Patient eyes, with farewell gaze,
Greeting the wan autumn days,
Happy world, fair world, good-by,"
Said my darling tenderly.
Wailing storms and weeping skies;
Soft wings spread for Paradise;
Solemn whispering accents thrilled
With the awe of hope fulfilled.
Life! Oh blissful life ON highF'
Breathed my darling raptnrously.
Wreathing snowdrifts far and wide,
Mantling DER the lone hillside,
Purer than than that stainless veil
Like folded lily pale,
While the moaning blast goes by,
Sleeps my darling peacefully.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

HoME.-" Let home," says a well-known
writer, ''stand first before all other things No
matter how high your ambition may transcend
its duties, no matter how far your talents or
your influence may reach beyond its doors, be-
fore anything else build up true home! Let
it not be enough that it is swept and garnished,
that its silver is brilliant, that its food is de-
liciOus but feed the love in it, feed thought and
aspiration, feed all charity and gentleness in it.
Then from its walls shall come forth the true
woman and true man, who shall together rule
and bless the land" Is this an overwrought
pictureS We think not. What honor can be
greater than to found such homer What
dignity higher than to reign its undisputed,
honored mistressG What is the ability to speak
from platform to large, intelligent audiences,
OF the wisdom that may command seat on the
judges bench, compared to that which can in
sure and preside over true home, that hus-
band and children "rise up and call her bless
ed?" To be the guiding star, the ruling spirit
in such position is higher honor than to rule
an empire.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
SUICIDES BY MONARCHS.
A Popular Death Among the An
clients.

There have been comparatively few
instances of suicide among the occupants
of the thrones of modern times. The
most recent case was that of Abdul
Aziz, Sultan of Turkey, who killed him
self in June. 1876, by opening the veins
of his arms with pair of scissors. His
subjects had rebelled against him, and
the Council of Ministers had determined
to remove him and appoint his nephew
Murad as Sultan in his stead.
In 1868, Theodore. Emperor of Abys
sinia, is said by some authorities to have
shot himself, while others assert that
ne was killed in battle by the British in
yaders.
On October s, 1920, Henry Christophe,
King of Hayti. in order to prevent him>
self being taken prisoner by the insur>
gents, who had gained sseendancy in
The land. shot himself through the heart.
Charles VII, King of France, proba>
bly, inherited taint of insanity from
his father, and the latter part of his life
was embittered by monomania, mani
Testing itself in the apprehension that
his children had cohspired to poison him.
Under this apprehension he refused food
for seven days, and died of starvation
near Burgess, July p, 1461.
Concerning the death of Richard IL.
King of England, there were at the time
various conflicting reports, and there has
continued to be difference of opinion
among historians. Walsingham, Otter
bourne, and Peter of Blois say that he
also starved himself to death. There is
certain parallel between the case of
Richard II. and that of Ludwig II. Both
were weak characters, both were depos-
ed in behalf of stronger aspirants to
power, both were shut up in castle for
safe keeping and both were reported to
have committed suicide In the case of
the English king, however, the weight
of the evidence perhaps favors the the
ory ttat some interested persons assisted
in his taking off.
Among the ancients it appears that
suicide was rather popular form OF
death. Many of the philosophers advo
Gated it as an honorable and convenient
method of ending existence, and gave a
certain pertinence to their teaching by
putting it in practice themselves.
Among the long list of the rulers of
antiquity who died by their own hand
are Nero, Cleopatra, Dido, Boadicea,
Queen of the Iceni in Britain; Otho, OF
Rome; Ptolemy, of Cyprus; Mithridates,
of Pontus; Saul, of Israel; Rameses, the
Great, aud Sardanapalus, of Assyria,
who burned himself in his palace with
his wives.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
AnecdOte of Gov. Tod.

An old gentleman who was on init
mate terms at the White house during
the war said to a Boston Travellers COR
respondent the other day: "Stories about
Lincoln are plenty enough, but l will
tell you one which l can vouch for as
being true. and which, as far as my
knowledge is concerned, has never been
in print. One of Lincoln's most esteem
ed friends was old Ex-Governor Tod of
Ohio. He was quaint old character.
and Lincoln loved him for his honesty,
ability and native shrewdness. At one
time he thought of Tod in connection
with the secretaryship of the treasury,
but afterward he gave him foreign
mission. One evening when Tod was in
town Lincoln invited him over to the
White house. They had long chat to-
gether, when Lincoln finally said: Look
here, Tod, how is it that you spell your
name with only one d? L married a
Todd, but she spelled her name with two
ds. All of her relatives do the same.
You are the first Tod 1 ever met who
spelled his name with SO few letters
Old Tod looked, at Lincoln for a mO>
ment in his peculiarly quizzing manner,
and then replied: Mr.. President, God
spells his name with one d, and what is
good enough for God is good enough for
me- Lincoln used to repeat this story
to some of his more intimate friends
and every time he did so he would laugh
until the tears ran down over that fur
rowed but grand face.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

THERE is pretty quarrel going on
among the Doodle gang of Cincinnati
Allen o. Myers, the new managing edit
or of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has dis
charged Messrs. Criswell and Roe, of the
staff of that paper, and the latter say the
reason is that they refused to perjure
themselves during the recent investiga+
tions-that they were wanted to appear
before the grand jury and the Payne In
vestigating Committee and testify in the
interests of the doodle gang, but they re-
fused to do it. The indications are fs-
vorabie for some very startling discle
sures in Cincinnati, for it is freely as
serted that if Messrs. Criswell and Roe
tell all they know that "there will be a
full revelation of the most stupendous
political fraud ever perpetrated against
an unsuspecting people, that takes in its
ramifcations, several Of the largest
chimes on the calendar, committed by
persons carrying on a great scheme for
the control of the patronage, Offices and
revenues of the state and Cincinnati"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
Recent Exploration and Scientific
Investigation.

The Director of the Geological Survey
of Ireland, Professor Hull, F. r. s., de-
livered the Annual Address of the Vic
toria (PhilosophicaD Institute in Lon
don, on the 2Stb of May, en- which occa-
sion the Institutes new President, Prot
fessor Stokes, President of the Royal
Society, took the chair The report was
read by Captain F. Petrie, the honorary
secretary ,and showed that the Institutes
home, colonial, and American members
were upwards of eleven hundred, includ-
ing many who Joined from desire to
avail themselves of the Institutes privl-
leges rather than bear part in its work.
An increasing number of leading scien-
tifc men now contributed papers and
aided in the work of bringing about a
truer appreciation of the result of scien'
tifc inquiry, especially in cases where
scientific discovery was alleged by the
opponents of religious beliefs to be sub
versive thereof. The author of the Ad-
dress then gave an account of the work,
discoveries and general results of the
recent Geological and Geographical Ex-
pedition to Egypt, Arabia and Western
Palestine, Of which be had charge
Sketching the course taken by him
(Which to considerable extent took the
route ascribed to the Israelites,) he gave
an account of the physical features of
the country, evidences of old sea mar
gins 200 feet above the present sea mar
gins, and showed that at one time an
arm of the Meditt erranean had occupied
the valley of the Nile as far as the first
cataract, at which time Africa was an
island (an opinion also arrived at by an
other of the Institutes members, Sir w.
Dawson,) and that, at the time of the
Exodus, the Red Sea ran up into the
Bitter Lakes, and must have formed a
barrier to the travellers progress at that
period. He then alluded to the great
changes of elevation in the land east
ward of these lakes, mentioning that
the waters of the Jordan valley once
stood 1892 feet above their present
height, and that the waters of the Dead
SEA, which he found 1,O5O feet deep, were
once on level with the present Medit-
terranean sea margin, or 1899 feet above
their present height. The great physical
changes which had taken place in geo
logical times were evidenced by the fact
that whilst the rocks in Western Pales.
tine were generally limestone, those OF
the mountains of Sinai we're amongst
the most ancient in the world. The va
rious geological and geographical fea'
lures of the country were so described
as to make the address condensed re
port of all that is now known of them
in Egypt, Palestine and Arabia Petrea.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
TEACHERS, EXAMINATIONS.
Iss5-6-BeImOnt County, Ohio.

I'd Saturday OF Feb at st Clairsville
I'd Saturday of Mar at Barnesville
I'd Saturday of April at 8. Clairsville.
I'd Saturday OF May at Bellaire.
I'd Saturday of June at Morristown.
81. Clairsville at close oil Institute in Aug.
RULES.
Examinations begin at o'clock a.. n.
Testimonials of character are required II
applicant is not known TO the Board
Certificates will not be antedated nor ex-
tended.
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 folH
owing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A nrst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon ap average of 80 per cent, including three
higher branches and the scnool law, with no
grade below rs, provided applicant has bad 30
months experience n teaching.
A seoond~clsss a years. certificate is grant
ed upon an average OF 80 per cent, including
two higher branches and the school law, with
no grade below 20, provided applicant has had
"a months experience in teaching.
A third>class g years. certificate is granted
upon an average Of IS per cent, including
no grade below IS. provided applicant has had
l9 months experience in teaching
A fourth-class z years. certificate Is granted
upon an average OF 70 per cent, intending the
school law, with no grade below so, provided
applicant has had II months experience In
teaching.
A ffth-class q year, certificate Is granted
upon an average of 65 per cent, with no grade
r. ALEXANDER.
s>3ly ]. A. HENDERSON,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
Succeeded in Hanging Their Clients

The supreme court of Missouri has de-
cided question in the case of the State
against Anderson ct al, which is of in
terest to lawyers, and it may have the
effect of deterring many criminals from
appealing their cases.
The defendants were tried for murder
In the circuit court of Carroll county,
and convicted of murder in the second
degree, and their punishment assessed
at 80 years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary. They took the case to the su,
preme court and it was reversed on a
technical point. Upon the second trial
they were found guilty of murder in the
first degree.
They of course were greatly disap-
pointed at this and again appealed the
case. But, Notwithstanding the verdict
of murder In the second degree at the
first trial would look like an acuuittal
of murder in the first degree, the supreme
court has decided that the second con-
viction was right. The day for their
execution has already been fxed.-Den.
yer Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
I.nndnn Wnnl Sales.

LONDON, June 16-At the wool sales
to-day 36S,OOO bales were offered. There
was large attendance and an abund-
ant selection of wools. Foreign com
petition was extremely keen, outbidding
the home demand. In comparison with
the closing prices of the last series, me-
rinos were fully 10 to 20 per cent higher
finer grades and cross breeds 10 per cent
higher.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
The True Field for Temperance Work.


The manner in which the local prohi-
bition clause of the Dow law is being ta-
ken advantage of by the smaller towns
of Ohio would seem to indicate that this
wise and beneficial measures is aPpreci-
ated by the temperance peo-
pie of the State. About the only
classes who are finding fault with its
enforcement at present are the saloon
keepers and third party Probibitionists.
Anomalous as it may seem, the advo+
Gates of the no whisky idea are found
once more on the same platform with
the champions of free whisky. Already
the Prohibition bugle call has been
sounded fn various counties of the State
calling upon the third partyites to coz
Rregate and nominate candidates for
office. Congressional conventions have
also been called, and on the 2Sth and
29th inst. State ticket will be nomina'
ted at Canton. This was no more than
was to have been expected. One year
ago it was plain to every thinking man
that it was not prohibition, but the sue
cess of the free whisky Democracy for
which the third psrtyites, in their mis-
guided zeal, were striving. Effective To-
cal prohibition is practical, and there>
fore it does not suit these ultra-political
Prohibitionists. Their ideas of reform
are too comprehensive to be confined
within the limits of municipal corpora
tions. They do not believe in putting
on prohibition in spots where it will do
the most good, but would prefer, if they
could, to spread it out thin all over the
State, rendering it at once impractieable
and imperative. Local prohibition (or
local option) has been tried in small
towns of other States. noticeably New
York, and has been found to work salts
factorily. There is no reason why the
people of Ohio should not make it just
as effective. The practical temperance
workers realize this fact, and everywhere
they are earnestly striving to enforce
and sustain the law. President Payne
of Delaware Wesleyan Univrsity. in his
baccalaureate sermon last Sunday called
upon the christian Jacksonian Demo
crrts, the Christian Republicans, and
the Christian friends belonging to the
third party" to join hands in the move
ment to secure the passage of an ordi
nance by the Delaware City Council clos
ing the saloons in that place. 1t strikes
us that the Dow law should commend
itself to every sensible man. 1t makes
prohibition compulsory nowhere. bu'
places it within the reach of every mu-
nicipality in which majority of th'
voters favor it. Every true temperance
man must see that this cause is more Ger
tain of advancement through the en-
forcement of the Dew law than by thu
holding of Political conventions for th'
nomination of candidates who have NJ
hopes of election Cleveland Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
Consolation in the Hour of Death.

DR.. Swan relates very sad case of the
ruling passion strong in death. l always
believe doctors story except in case
of cure. If the patient dies you never
hear anything but the truth. Ii he lives
the doctor has to find some explanation
of the phenomenon. Doctors, of course,
see 4 vast variety of human nature. and
especially its weak sides. This is q
touching story of young and fair girl
leaving the bright world while the dew
of life was still lying on its morning
glories. You can imagine the sadness
of the scene. The growing certainty of
the end-the passing beauty of the
world-the bright vision of all the hap
piness and the joy-the heavy shadow
hanging over all.
at is hopeless, said the gentle doctor,
"you can not live"
"And must die?" she asked.
"You can not live"
"Tell me, doctor, one thing before 1
60"
"What is it?"
"Does the hair change its color after
death :"
"No."
"Then die happy. I'll look as well
as those Smith girls on the day of iudg-
ment anyway."-San Francisco Chron.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r.
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 800 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
N1Rey. W. II. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: IL s.m.; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday 2
pm; general prayer meeting Thursday pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
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 women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

WITH appropriations already $4,000
600 above the estimated receipts for the
next fiscal year, Congress goes calmly
forward with its work of increasing va
rious items in the different bills. DEM
ocratic economy can very properly be
characterized as barren ideality.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

THE Supreme Court of Ohio has au-
nounced its decision in the QUO warran-
to proceedings institutedsby the Board
of Public Works of Cincinnati against
the Board of Public Affairs. 1t estab
fishes the legality of the Senate and the
legislation enacted by it, and holds the
act creating the Board of Public Affairs
constitutional. The Beard of Public
Works is no more. The Court stood
three to two, the dissenters being Demo-
Gratis.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

THEY have summary way of dealing
with wife beaters up in Waterford, Pa,
which must have a depressing effect
upon that particular branch of industry.
One Higgins, who practically demon
strated his belief in husbands inalien-
able right to castigate his wife, was
taken in hand by the fire company to
which he belonged, the members of
which turned the hose on him and gave
him a thorough duckiRg, after which
they expelled him from membership. A
secret beneficiary society to which he
belonged, the Ancient Order of United
Workmen, also ousted him, and the wO-
men of the place held an indignation
meeting and pledged themselves that
Mrs. Higgins shall be protected from
her husbands brutality in the future.
The case is unique in all its features,
and gives hint as to a new and effect,
i've cure for wife pounding.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

AND now comes forward Civil Service
Commissioner Edgerton with the asser
tion that he does not intend to resign
until the foes of Civil Service reform
in the Democratic party are less in num-
Der than now. Mr.. Edgerton seems to
be preparing himself for, long oeeu
pancy of his Office, for the friends of
Civil Service reform in the Democratic
party, never very numerous, are grow
ing fewer daily.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

THAT Important committee, the Sen
ate Agricultural. is now wrestling with
the revenue measure. known as the
Oleemargarine bill, and its friends and
opponents are busy with their arguments
The testimony Wednesday was mainly
in favor of the artificial product. Prof.
Morton, President of the Stevens Insti-
tute of Technology, and Prof. Chandler,
formerly President of the New York
Board of Health, both testified to being
chemical experts aud microscopists of
many years. experience. and to have de-
voted much study to the study of oleo-
margarine and concluded that it is a
perfectly wholesome substitute for but
ter, made by equally clean process, from
equally wholesome materials.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

ME-. BLAINE has been interviewed as
to his candidacy in 1888, and summed
up the whole situation very pithily in a
single sentence: Perhaps they had bet
ter try some other man next time"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 18, F. & A. M.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon
W. D. BUMGARNER, W. NJ.
JRssR B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. IL,
y ROYAL Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
F. D. BAILEY, 81. P.
]. B. MEYER, Rec.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R. & 8. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
C. w. CARROLL, T, L III.
]. B. MEYER, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. ]. B. RYAN, E. G. =
j. B. MRYER, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24
Published Every Thursday
Belmont County onlciaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Isaac q. CASTOR.
Clerk of Courts-Wm. B. Cash.
Sheriff-Leroy G. Sedwick.
Auditof-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-EdwardL L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. K. Kennon.
Recorder-W. 8. Hobbs
Commissioners-Mor Cope, VIM J Berry,
John G. Israel.
Surveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-P o. CrisweIl
In6rmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, John
Kintner. VIM. Lodge
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-06-24

THE Democratic Administration has
certainly a great love for the negro. The
only colored clerk In the New York Gus
tom House has been removed.