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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
VAIN MAN

More than half century since thest
lines were found in the Royal College o.
Surgeons, London, beside a skeleton re-
markabled for its symmetry of form
They we're subsequently published in the
London Morning Chronicle, and a vaiI
effort made to ascertain the author, ever
by offerifg reward of fifty guineas:
Behold this ruinl Twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full;
This narrow cell was life's retreat;
This place was thoughts mysterious seat
What beauteous visions filled this spot
With dreams of pleasure long forgotl
Nor hope, nor JOY, nor love, nor fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this mouldering canopy
Once shown the bright and busy eye;
But start not at the dismal voidl
If social love that eye employed,
If with no lawless fire it cleaned, led,
But through the dews of kindness beam
That eye shall be forever bright
When sun and stars are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift, and tuneful tongue,
If falsehood's honey is disdained, led;
And when it could not praise was chain
If bold in virtues cause it spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke;
The silent tongue shall plead for thee.
When time unveils eternity.
Say, did these fingers delve the mine,
Or with the envied ruby shine?
To hew the rock, or wear the gem;
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or comfort to the mourner brought
These hands richer need shall claim
Than all that wait on wealth or fame.
Avails it whether bare or shod,
These feet the path of dutry trod?
If from the bowers of ease they fled,
To seek affiiction's humble shed;
If grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to virtues cot returned
These feet with angels wings shall rise.
And tread the palace of the skies.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
Iss5-6-BeImont County, Ohio.

ID Saturday of Feb at st Clairsville.
I'd Saturday of Mar at BarnesviIle.
I'd Saturday Of April at 8. Clairsville.
I'd Saturday of May at Bellaire.
I'd Saturday of June at Morristown.
st. Clairsvtlle at close of Institute in Aug.
RULES.
Examinations begin at O'Clock q. m.
Testimonials of character are required II
applicant is not known to the Board.
Certificates will not be sntedated 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 fols
owing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A hrst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon an average of90 per cent, including three
higher branches and the scnool law, with no
grade below rs, provided applicant has bad 30
months experience teaching.
A seeondsclass 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
4 months experience in teaching.
A thirdsclass e years. certificate is granted
upon an average of IS per cent, including
no grade below IS. provided applicant has had
Is months experience in teaching.
A fourth-class z years. certificate is granted
upon an average OF 70 per cent, including the
school law, with no grade below so, provided
applicant has had II months experience in
teaching.
a fifth-class Il year, certificate Is granted
below So.
{ 4 ET %ATTEks. Board of E1.
e~3 ly J. A. HENDERSON,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
He Fixed Him.

Young James Blank, whose father is
among the millionaires, lounged into a
tailor shop some weeks ago and ordered
suit of clothes. The suit was sent to
the young mans hotel, but of course the
tailor got no money for it. A few. days
ago, as Master James was passing by the
tailor shop the bland proprietor hailed
him with smile.
"Why, Master James," he said, "that
coat is horribly wrinkled, come in and
we will press it for you" Unsuspect-
ingly he entered and surrendered the
coat. Then something was wrong with
the vest, and that too, was taken down
stairs for treatment. The tailor next
declared that the trousers might be im+
proved upon. They were given up and
the youth accommodated with seat in
the dressing room.
"Now," said the willy tailor, "you will
have to send messenger boy to your
room for your other clothes, for 1 am
afraid we can not let you have this suit
again unless you liquidate the bill in
full"
Young Master James begged hard for
his clothes, but the tailor was inexora-
BILE, and much to his disgust he resumed
his winter garments and departed.
Francisco Post.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
WHAT IS DYSPEPSIA?

Among the many symptoms
Of Dyspepsia or Indigestion,
the most prominent are: Va
riable appetite; faint, ,gnawing
feeling at pit Of the stomach,
with unsatisfled craving for
food; heartburn, feeling Of
weight and wind In the stom-
ach, bad breath, bad taste In
the mouth, low spirits, general
prostration, headache, : ana
constipation. There is no form
Of disease more prevalent than
Dyspepsia, and none so pecul-
lar to the high-living and rap
id-eating American people.
Alcohol and tobacco produce
Dyspepsia; also, bad air, ete..;
BURDOCK BLOOD
hITTERS, will cure the worst
Base, by regulating the bowels
and toning mp the digestive
nrgans. Sold everywhere.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

ALL jokes and jibes aside, the nomi-
nation of Edward j. Nealus, the Cincin
natl slugger, and former inmate of the
workhouse, by the Democratic State
convention, for an important State Of
fee, shows how utterly unsafe it is to
trust to Democratic conventions to nom.
mate competent and decent men. He is
just the kind of a-man who would be
selected for leadership by an inorganic
ed mob. The idea that such candidate
could be nominated by body of seven
hundred men, supposed to represent the
more intelligent and reputable elements
of great G.? is positively appalling. No
wonder the State Central Committee,
out of pure shame, had to compel Neal
US to withdraw in order that one who
was not a workhouse bird could be Sc
lected to take his place on the ticket.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 800 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday p.m.; gen
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
MI EfBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
VARev. W. II. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II an; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
ESQ pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 2 pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
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, 2 pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

The greatest of many objections to The
Democratic party is that it is anti-dem'
ocratic. 1t has been an anti-democratic
party at every stage of its existence from
the hour of its birth to the present mo-
ment. Its vigorous youth and lusty
middle life were devoted to the nurture
of human slavery. 1t made war by
one of its two wings that would not "haI
together" on the Federal Union and the
old flag, because slavery could not keep
even pace with freedom.-National Re-
publican.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

THE denomination by the Democrats
at Toledo of D. NJ. FOllett for Supreme
Judge, is point blank Endorsement of
the Fourth Ward, A, Forgery. They
could not have done it more forcibly had
they put plank to that effect in their
platform. The Circuit Court of the First
District had unanimously found against
counting this precinct, and this finding
was reversed by the Supreme Court.
One of the Supreme Judges was NJ. D.
Follett, whose services by that judg-
ment were rewarded yesterday by re-
nomination for the Office. The issue
joined by these two courts is good one
on which to go to the people in Novem-
Der next. Judge Cox, of the Circuit
Court, whose judgment Follett helped
to overthrow, has been named for the
place. His nomination for Supreme
Court Judge. would present an excellent
opportunity for an appeal to the people
of OhiS on this matter. And the people
of Ohio would no doubt rejoice to pro
claim by fifty thousand majority their
preference for Judge who was against
the Fourth Ward, A, fraud over one who
said in his Judicial mandate that the
fraud should stand. Give the people
now chance to emphasize the action of
their Legislature in ousting the benei-
Charles of that fraud from the seats they
so befouled, by ousting from his seat the
Judge who joined in sustaining the
fraud against the will of the people, and
placing ia his place the Judge who stood
firmly and unqualiiedly for denOuncing
the fraud and righting the wrong.-Cin.
Com. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

THE Democratic state convention at
Toledo. O., Wednesday of last week,
nominated the following ticket: For
Secretary of State, John Mcbride, of
Stark county; Judge of Supreme Court,
Martin d. Follett, of Washington coun-
ty; Clerk of Supreme Court, John W.
Cruikshank, of Miami county; Commis>
sioner of Common Schools, Leroy D.
Brown, of Butler county; Member Board
of Public Works, Louis Ludwig, of Guy
ahoga county. Ed Nealis, of Hamilton
county, was nominated for the last Of
fee on the list. but bis name was subse+
quently taken off by the State Central
Committee and that of Mr.. Ludwig SUBJ
stituted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

JOHN BAKER, farmer of Melville, L.
l., recently bought a horse which was
afterwards found to have the glanders.
Three of Mr.. Bakers children were SUBJ
sequently taken i'll, exhibiting symptoms
of glanders. One, a thirteen-year>eld
has died, and the two others are not ex-
pected to live. The horse has been kill
ed by health officer. =
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

IT is now believed that, apart from be.
ing a curiosity, the immense tower
1000 feet bigh) to be erected in Paris
will render important service to the
cause of science, inasmuch as observa-
tions. it is claimed, can be made from its
top that hitherto have been impractical
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

THE war of rates between the trans.
Atlantic steamship lines continues
They now offer to carry passengers from
New York to some European ports for
S12. At this rate they will soon be able
to take Anarchists and other foreign
scum as ballast. That would be a cut
which the American people would ap
nreciata
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

A MAGNIFICENT diamond, weighing
one hundred and eighty carats, of the
finest water, and free from all flaws and
imperfections, has just been cut in Eng
land. 1t is owned by syndicate, and
is said to surpass in weight and quality
all the historical diamonds on record.
Some idea of its value may be gotten
from the fact that little piece sliced off
the end to improve its shape produced
brilliant of nineteen carats, and was
sold for $4,000 to diamond merchant.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

LAST year 279,OOO,OOO stamped envel-
opes were sold by the government. They
were worth S5,773.OOO. Envelopes,
which in 1869 cost $3.50 per 1000, Can
now be sold for S1.sO per 1000, and the
extra letter size that then cost Sc. are
now sold for S2.4O.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

SAM JoNEs-I have often thought that
great many people would like to swap
sides with the Lord. The old country
farmer would like to do the raining and
shining, and let the Lord do the blowing
and sowing. l reckon he would get on
swlmmingly with his rain and storms.
How he would thunderl He'd burn the
world up in about ten minutes firing his
electricity around.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

THE Ohio Democratic Convention did
not point with pride" in so many words
to Senator Payne and his improved
method of obtaining seat in the United
States Senate, but as it endorsed and
eulogized him, it may be considered that
he used the proper Democratic means of
breaking into the Upper House.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

A PHILADELPHIA thinks that Graf
hams experiment with his barrel in the
Niagara whirlpool may be of practical
benefit. His idea is that seagoing YES
sells might be equipped with one or more
such casks, which in case of wreck on a
surf beaten coast might be the means of
establishing communication between the
vessel and the shore.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

MEEKER county, Mimi, people are
being eleverly swindled by young wo+
men, who sell clocks on the installment
plan and collect two dollars. A confed-
crate follows and claims that the clock
was stolen, giving its number in proof.
The victim loses the clock and two dol
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

THE Toledo Convention extolled the
democracy of the Democratic members
of the Senate of Ohio" The men re-
ferred to adopted the motto of Rule or
RUM and ran off to Kentucky, hoping
to plunge the State into anarchy. This
appears to be officially SecOgnized as a
true Democratic procedure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

ELIMINATION and recrimination are
the order of the day among high Dem
ocratic city official officials in New York
If all the charges of corruption are sus-
tained it will be necessary to call spe
cial election to fill the places to be made
vacant by removals. There is not much
probability that they will be sustained,
however, for everything is in the hands
of the Democrats from the Governor s
office down.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

OUT of 100 heroines of elopements, es-
capades and more serious offenses, a sta
tistical authority says that seventy-nine
are described as young and beautiful,
thirteen as beautiful, and eight as occu>
pying high social stations.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

The best gravel for road making has
no stones larger than hens egg, and is
free from dirt, and has no more sand
among it than will barely Gil the inter
stices between the pebbles. Clean gravel,
free from dirt and stones, will pack uni
formly, make smooth road, and last in
dafnitAlv
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
Masonic DIRECTORY,

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. M.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
W. D. BUMGARNER, W. M.
JESSE B. MEYER, SecY.
ct. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
~ Royal Arch Masons Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
F. D. BAILEY, 81. P.
j. B. MEYER, Rec.
belmont COUNCIL, No. "a, R. & s. NJ.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
@. W. CARROLL, T. !. n.
]. B. MEYER, Sec'y.
HOPE OOMMANDERY, No. 90, K. T.
II Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. ]. B. RYAN, E. @.
j. B. MRTER, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

A WRITER in the Bee Journal says
that bees have a strong antiphathy to
dark colored objects. A brood Of chick
ems ran about his hives. The bees stung
one of the dark ones to death, and did
not molest the light colored ones. He
says that a man with black plug hat
rarely gets stung, the bees devoting their
attention to shooting the hat
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

TOMORROW may never come to us; we
do not live in to-mOrrow-we cannot
find it many of our title deeds. The
man who owns whole squares of real es
tate and great ships on the sea does not
own a single minute of tomorrow. To-
morrowl 1t is a mysterious possibility
not yet born; it lies under tho seal Of
midnight, behind the veil of glittering
consultations.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26


THE Chicago Times has described the
men who want "war:" Men who would
like to be suffers, and wear eagles on
their shoulders with no more risks or
wounds than one incurs in running
through chaparal. There are some peo-
pie who are not anxious for war. Men
who have marched thousands of miles,
slept in snow and mud; dropped asleep
by the wayside with the rain falling on
them; who have marched with sound of
fife and drum, and blare of brass bands
and waving banners through towns and
hamlets where terror stricken children
and weeping widows, innocent victims
of mems lust for power and place, cow
cred as rank on rank past them. Men
who have seen gates without hinges,
doors without latches, fields without
fences, cattle roaming at will, grain ripe
to the hand of the harvester neglected
apathy and despair everywhere. Those
who have looked along the paths plowed
by the musket and cannon ball; who
have seen a vast scope of country deso-
lated by war and wars alarms, who have
seen clouds of smoke in lieu of happy
homes. ashes where the family altar was
erected; they would avoid war. Men
who have realized how wasteful, cruel
and demoralizing war is, want no more
war. Only the fools want war.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

The Washington Post. Democratic,
apologies for Secretary Bayard by say
ing that be was misled in the Cutting
affair by Consul Brigham. A poor ex-
cuse is perhaps better than none.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
Under the Curse.

Turner, the great painter, was mar
of phenominal industry, but at intervals
his temperament craved for some ex
citement more violent and distractinG
than any he could get from the steady
strain of daily work. He used to gC
away to Mapping, and spend week:
with the lowest characters in London
None of his companions guessed who he
was; they only knew that he had more
money than they had more money they
had, and that he behaved in more bes
tial manner than any of those who fire.
qnented the Fox under the Hill" and
other pleasing holsteries.
Turner pursued his reckless career til
his money was gone, and then he re-
turned to bis gruesome den and pro.
ceeded to tur1 out artistic prodigies un,
til the fit came upon him once more.
Benvenuto Cellini was subject to SIM
liar paroxysms, during he behaved like
maniac.
Our own novelist Bulwer Lytton, dis
appeared at times, plunged into the
widest excesses among wretches whom
he would have loathed when he was
in his normal state of mind. He used
to dress himself as a laborer, or as a
sailor, and no one would have recognize
ed the weird intellectual face when the
great writer was clad in rags, and when
the brutal mask of intoXication had
fallen over his face. 1t was during his
recovery from one of these terrible visi-
tations that he drove the woman he
most loved from his house, and brought
on that breach resulted that in irrepar-
able misery.
Poor George Merland, the painter, had
wild spells of debauch, during which he
spent his time In boxing saloons among
ruffianly prize fighters and jockeys. His
vice grew upon. his mad fits became
more and more frequent, and at last his
exquisite work could not be produced
only when the nerve was temporarily
steadied by copious doses of brandy.
Keats, the poet, who "worshipped
Beauty" was afflicted by seizures like
those of Turner and Morland. On one
occasion he remained in a state of
drunkenness for six weeks; and it is a
wonder that his marvellous mind re-
tanned its freshness at all after the poi
son had passed from amid the delicate
tissues of the brain. He conquered hint
self at last; but we fear that his health
was impaired by his few mad outbursts.
Charles Lamb, that dainty and belov>
ed writer who Is dear to US all, reduced
himself to pitiable state by giving way
to outbreaks of alcoholic craving. When
Carlyle saw him, the unhappy essayist
was semi-imbecile from the effects of
drink; and the savage Scotsman wrote
some cruel words which will unfortu-
nately cleave to Lambs cherished mems
ory for long. Lamb fought against his
failing; he bitterly blamed himself for
"buying days of misery by nights of
madness;" but the sweet soul was eH-
chained, and no struggles availed to
work blessed transformation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

AT recent hangings in this country,
the condemned man has stood upon the
ground and been jerked into the air by
the fall of heavy castings from a height.
They weighed altogether $50 to 400
pounds, or over, according to the mans
size. This fling into the air breaks the
criminals neck.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

ALLEN G. THURMAN, who was writ
ten and telegraphed to accept the per
manent craftsmanship of the Toledo Con-
vention, simply replied: my private
duties will not permit me to be present"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

A YOUNG man, whose girl has red
hair, sang, as he bade her good night a
few evenings since: Farewell, my love,
light of my life, FAREWELL" And he
can't imagine what makes her so cool
now.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26
Belmont County omcIaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Isaac g. CASTOR.
Clerk of Courts-Wm. b. Cash.
Sherif-Leroy G. Sedwick.
AudiSE-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-Edward L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. K. Kennon.
Recorder-W s. Hobbs.
Oommissioners-Morris Cope, VIM Berry,
John G. Israel.
Surveyor Chalkley Dawson.
Ooroner-P. o. Criswen
lndrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, John
Kintner, VIM. Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

VIM. A. GRAVES, a colored man, was
principal of colored school in Atlanta,
Ga. The school committee had ordered
the children to turn out to make parade
and holiday on the occasion of the jeff
Davis reception. Mr. Graves refused to
lead his colored children, laden with
flowers, to honor the man who tried to
keep them in slavery. Because he thus
refused he has been turned out of office.
Another colored man, the very man who,
as ragged little schoolboy, told General
Howard to tell the friends North that
ives rising" has just been turned out
of the position of master of the colored
public school in Macon, Ga, because he
made an alumni address last June, in
which he told his brethren and sisters
that they had the same right 20 seats in
public conveyances and to places in the
hotels as white men. and that they sho'd
be demanded. There is sad element of
cowardice in the tyranny that thrusts
men, for such reasons, from their posi-
tiOns.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

Young, old and middle aged, all experN
fence the wonderful beneficial effects Of Ayers
Sarssprilla; young children, suffering from
sore eyes, sore ears, scald head, or with any
scrofulous or syphlitic taint, may be made
healthy and strong by its use.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-08-26

1t is denied that Senator Bayard in.
tends resigning. In addition to his fam
lily bereavements he feels keenly recent
attacks On his official conduct.