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The Portland daily press., 1886-05-04

patrick, are you sure you can handle pair of
horses if they are little vicious?"
.Begorra, can, sur"
"How long were you in your last place?'
"Four years. sur"
"Thatsspeaks well for YOU You don't dTink?'
s'WhiSky do you mean? Sure, niver a drop
passed my lips durn all that time, sur
''Good for you, Patrick. Oh, by the by. where
were you those four years?"
II was in jail, sur"
The Portland daily press., 1886-05-04

A curious case of absent minded-ness is that Of
a young married man living near Jonesville, n. Y
who one morning MIXED his cow, set the pail of
milk in the corner of the table, and carried the
stool to the house. This he did twice in success
sion. The third time he went to the barn to milk
he took basket of roots to the cow. He emptied
out the roots and sat down and commenced to
milk the cow in the basket, but found out his mis-
take in time to save enough milk for breakfast
coffee.
The Portland daily press., 1886-05-04

Two friends meeton the Boulevard. 'Have you
been sck?" asked the first, you don't look we'll
have consulted three physicians and they don't
seem to agree upon the cause of my malady"
'How is that?"
well, the first said had consumption, and the
second heart disease"
"And what did the third tell you?"
sob, he said what the third one always says,
that the other two were asses"
The Portland daily press., 1886-05-04

BAD DRAINAGE causes much sickness. Bad
blood and improper action of the liver and kid
neys is bad drainage to the human system, which
Burdock Blood Bitters will remedy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
Grains of Gold.

If word spoken in time is worth one
piece of money, silence In its time is
worth two.
1t isn't so much what a man has that
makes him happy as it is what he doesn't
want.
The great beauty of charity is privacy;
there is sweet force even in an anony.
nous penny.
There is nothing so valuable, and yet
so cheap, as civility you can almost buy
land with it.
Prayer was not invented-it was born
with the first sigh, the first sorrow of
the human heart.
Nothing tests a mans true inward
wardness better than to feel like de-
mon and be obliged to act like saint.
1t is he who has much and wants
more who is poor, and he who has little
and is Herewith content who is rich.
1t may be a parodox, but it is true
nevertheless, that whoever understands
his dependence upon others is likely to
be the real independent.
No one ought to remind another of
d niolOi ltllo VI WulCu Iu0 Sull0T6T uOtS
net complain, and which there are no
means proposed of alleviating.
Actions speak more forcibly than
words; they are the test of character.
Like fruit upon a tree, they show the
nature Of man; while motives, like sap,
are hidden from our view.
The interests of health are as much
opposed to discomfort as they are favor
ed by the calm spirit of content with the
measures of good and happiness which
fall to the individual lot.
Adhere rigidly and undeviatingly to
truth; but while you express what is
true, express it in a pleasing manner
Truth is the picture, the manner is the
frame that displays it to advantage.
As the snowdrop comes between snow
and sleet, appearing as the herald of the
rose. so religion comes amid the blight
of affliction, to remind us of perpetual
summer. where the bright sun never re
tires behind wintry cloud.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29

to the Senate. These were events, he
said, which had aroused the people of
Ohio. They would not submit to them.
They could not be ridden over by fraud
or violence. These events had stirred
up the people of Ohio to demand an int
vestigation of this beginning. the pro-
gress. and the end of that internal con-
spiracy. Newspaper extracts are here
in this public document,snd are not one
half of the utterances by the Democrat
ic newspapers after the election. What
did they say? They uniformly with
one voice, pronounced the election an
act of corruption. Forty Democratic
papers in Ohio did so 1t is said that
they we're Pendleton papers. 1 do not
know whether they are or not.
DEMOCRATIC TESTIMONY.
But have here letter from a man
who will command the respect of the
Senate and of the people, Allen G. Thur
man. He was asked his opinion by the
editor of the Times, and he stepped to
the table, called for paper, and wrote a
note in which he uses these words: 81
have nothing to say against either Of the
candidates. My personal relations with
each of them has been always friendly
and pleasant. But there is something
that shocks me in the idea of men like
Pendleton and Ward being defeated by
the combination against them of person
al hatred and overgrown wealth."
ask you is this a party question?
When 1 produce to you the opinion of
the Republican editors, and added to
that the testimony of Judge Thurman,
added to that the editorials of forty
Democratic papers with their storm of
charges, sometimes too strong, and
which l do not desire to read. This
matter can be quieted. There are six or
seven men whom l can name, who, if
summoned before this Committee Oh
Privileges and Elections, would settle
this question forever one way or the
other, and l would express my earnest
hope that all these charges may be dis
sipated into the air. No man would re+
joice more than 1.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
THE STAR.

Beside the eternal sea one night slept
But soft airs famed me. l from my
dream-land broke,
While angry storm-winds down the black
west swept,
And while nights cloud yet fingered !
awoke.
Afar, through infinite skies divinely
clear,
The star of morning trembled purely
bright,
As though thought, feeling. warmed her
silvery sphere,
And throbbed within her living heart
of light.
With mellow radiance, pale, yet beauti
full,
She touched the summit of the Dip
ping mast.
The swelling sails above the ships dark
hull,
The scudding mists that Ger the gray
sea passed;
And still the changing, yet unchanging,
sea
Throbbed with vast pulses toward the
the star of morn
And strove to soothe his moan to mel
ody,
Lest she, fair orb, should set in fear
and scorn.
Young birds began to twitter In the nest;
Thin grasses whispered, dreaming of
the sun;
From high sea- polished cliff, seagulls, at
rest,
With grave-eyed wonder watched the
shining one
AS though they deemed her some trans.
figured bird.
A tender flower, awakening at my
feet,
Sighed in breath more clear than spo-
ken word,
Hail, blessed life! Hail, starry sister
sweet!
Ineffable love filed all the extent of
space,
Hushed grew that deep roar by the
rocking bar,
And while the dim veil rose from Ma
lures face
heard a voice that issued from the
star
And said: Behold 1 am the star that
Shone
"O'er great Taygetus, over Sinafs
height,
On Moses, Dante; the frebrand thrown
By Gods own hand at the dark brow
of night!
Lol 1 am she, whom men believe no
more,
And yet l live, and yet my life shall
be,
When earth lies shattered, human des
tiny DER.
Ye nations, l am ardent Poesyl
Up ye who sleepl Faith, Virtue, Cour
age, wake!
Mount, thinkers. sentinels, each un
trodden height!
Behold he comes, for whom a path 1
breakl-
The angel Liberty. the giant Light "
Victor Hugo.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
Into the Doodle Gangs Methods OF
Making Senator.

Mr.. Sherman proceeded to address the
Senate, Mr.. Sewell occupying the chair.
He rose, he said, to perform the most
disagreeable duty of his life. During all
the time he had been in this body he had
never had occasion to bring before the
Senate the politics of Ohio as distinr
guished from national politics. In per-
forming what he regarded public duty
to the people of Ohio, and particularly
to the Republican people of Ohio, he
would do it in no spirit of unkindness to
his colleague. He had known him, or
had known of him, since he had arrived
at the age of manhood. He had always
known him as a respected and honored
citizen of Cleveland, regarded we'll by
his neighbors, and he was glad to say
that in this investigation and in per
forming this duty he should not have
occasion to arraign his colleague in the
slightest degree. He believed that what
ever corruption had occurred in the pro-
cess of the election, no knowledge of
such corruption was brought to his col
league. He believed also, sincerely be-
lieved, that if the investigation were
granted his colleagues honor would not
be touched by the testimony that would
be produced. He wished to say also to
to the Senators from Illinois, New York
and Colorado (Messrs. Logan, Evarts and
Teller that he had no sympathy what
ever with the criticisms made upon those
honered Senators. He did not think any
of the newspaper extracts read by Mr..
Logan yesterday showed any reflection
on their motives. AS matter of course,
newspapers were rude and rough IN
their language about public men. But
if anybody expected better treatment
from the newspapers he would have to
live in an age yet far remote. That was
the history of politics, that every man
in public life must be arraigned by the
newspapers. If his honored friend from
Illinois were not so universally comba-
tive he would have found that 1t would
be better not to combat the newspapers,
because he has not the opportunity of
replying to them.
CORRUPTION IN PAYNE's ELECTION.
He did not enter into this discussion
with any desire to reflect on the motives
of those Senators who differed with him
in an opinion about this matter, but he
believed from his own knowledge and
from the papers sent to him that there
was profound conviction in the minds
of the great body of people in Ohio of all
political parties that in the election of
his colleague there bad been (not with
his knowledge) gross frauds and large
use of money to corrupt members Of the
General Assembly. That was fact.
Whether or not sufficient evidence had
been laid before the committee of the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29

THE statement made last week by
United States Treasurer Jordan before
the Senate Finance Committee, that the
Treasury is practically without a sur
plus, will startle a good many peo
pie, but not those who have carefully
analyized the statements furnished by
the Department The latter have ne
teed, what Mr.. Jordan gave as fresh in
formation, that number of important
items among the Governments liabili1
ties are regularly omitted from the
Treasury statements, and when deducted
from the apparent surplus there is little
if anything left.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
A Temperance Anecdote.

John Jones began at the age of fifteen
to build monument, and finished it at
fifty. He worked night and day, often
all night long, and on the Sabbath. He
seemed to be in great hurry to get it
done. He spent all the money he earned
upon it-some say $4,000. Then be
borrowed all he colud; and when no one
would loan him any more he would take
his wife's dresses and the bed clothes
and many other valuable things in his
home, and sell them to get more money
to finish that monument.
They say he came home one day and
was about to take the blankets that lay
over his sleeping baby to keep it warm,
and his wife tried to stop him; but he
drew back his fist and knocked her down,
and then went away with the blankets
and never brought them back. and then
the poor baby sickened and died from
exposure. At last there was not any
thing left in the house. The poor, heart
broken wife soon followed the baby to
the grave. Yet John Jones kept working
all the more at the monument. 1 saw
him when he was about fifty years old.
The monument was nearly done; but he
had worked so hard at it that hardly
knew him, he was so worn; his clothes
were all in tatters, and his hands and
face, indeed his whole body, were Gov
cred with scars which he got in laying
up some of the stones. And the wretch
ed man had been so little in good socie>
ty all the while that he was building that
he had about forgotten how to use the
English language; his tongue had some.
how become very thick, and when he
tried to speak, out would come an oath.
That may seem 8 range; but l have
found out that all who build such monu-
ments as Johns prefer oaths TO any 9TH
er wordI
Now come with me and 1 will show
you Johns monument. It stands in Il
beautiful part of the city where FIVE
streets meet. Most men put such things
in cemetery. But John had his own
way, and put in one of the finest lots to
be found.
docs it look like Bunker Hill monu-
meDt?" asked little Amy Arlott by my
side.
Not at all. John didn't want to be
remembered that way. He might have
taken that $4,000 and built an asylum
for poor little children that have no
home, and people would have called the
asylum his monument.
But here we are at the front door. 1t
is grand house! 1t is high and large,
with great halls and towers. and velvet
carpets, elegant mirrors and piano, and
know not what all; so rich and grand.
This is Johns monument! and the
man who sold John nearly all the whis>
key he drank lives here with his family.
and they all dress in the richest and
finest clothes.
Do you understand it?-Eli Perkins
wit and Humor of the Age
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29

THERE are cranks who think the use
of the alleged surplus in the National
Treasury, in the payment of bonds,
would make money so plenty as to help
the country.
1t is not the lack of money that is the
matter with tie country. The heaping
up of an additional sum in the banks in
stead of the Treasury, will not assist the
indurtries.
There is one thing more important
than the reduction of the National debt,
and that is the preservation of the Ma
tional credit. 1t was the elevation and
confirmation of that credit by specie re-
sumption, during the administration of
the Treasury Department by John Sher+
man, that cut down the interest charges
The money is ordered to be used, ac+
cording to the House resolution, simply
to force silver on the bondtolders. As
long as the silver dollar is maintained at
the gold standard this is not in the ma
ture eff financial achievement of the
Confederate sort.
The cry was to pay the debt in green+
backs and great deal of it was so paid.
but as the greenDacks were on a level
with gold, the payment in greenbaeks
was not reputation, and amounted to
nothing.-Cin. Com. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
THE FIRST SHOT OF THE WAR.
An Interesting Reminiscence of the
Attack on Fort Sumter.

A Charleston Is. c. dispatch says: In
view of the contradictory statements
which continue to be made concerning
the firing of the first gun at Sumter, tie
News and Courier asked Col. Alfred
Rhett TO give bis recollection on the
subject, and these, it will be seen, do
away with most of the difficulty as ma
king the distinctions between the she'll
fired as a signal and the first hostile shot,
Col. Rhett says:
On the morning of April u, 1861, at
about 4:3O A. NJ, the batteries surrounds
ing Fort Sumter opened fire on that
port, then held by garrison of United
States troops. From 4:30 o'clock A. NJ.
of the 18th until las o'clock on the
13h a steady fire of shot and shell fell
upon Sumter.
On the morning of the 18th fleet of
United States vessels appeared off the
bar. After consultation it was decided
to bring matters to short conclusion.
Two 90 FOUNDERS from the Sumter bat
terry of Fort Moultrie opened with hot
shot. AT As o'clock P. NJ. the white
flag was shown from the walls of Fort
Sumter.
In the war that followed, which cost
million lives, and desolated the fairest
part of the American continent, it has
been matter of inquiry who fired the
6rst shot in so grave matter. On ac-
count of wide separation of the batter
les surrounding Sumter. on Morris ISL
and, James Island, Mount Pleasant, Sui
livan's Island. it was necessary to ar
range some signal for a general fire to
be opened on Sumter in case of emergen-
cy. A white lantern run up to the head
of the flagstaff of Fort Moultrie at night
was to be that signal.
On the 18th affairs were so strained
that we expected the order to open fire
at any moment. 1t was then decided
that, as Fert Johnson was much nearer
to Charleten that Fort Moultrie, NOR
tar shell fired from Fort johnson would
be signal to Gen. Ripley to run up the
lantern at Fort Moultrie-that being the
general signal.
Weeks had been spent in drill and
preparations, and on the evening of the
18th, at Fort Moultrie, the gun squads
were told off-the men instructed to be
at their posts at moments notice-and
the lines of fire we're marked on traverse
circles with chalk, for use at night. 1t
rained after midnight. and our chalk
lines were nearly washed out.
When the mortar was fired upon Fort
johnson the men we're instantly at their
posts and the lantern was run up. Our
guns had been already loaded and eve.
rything was ready, but the fire was not
ordered until the lines had been renew
ed. Just as this had been done gun
was fired from the iron battery at Cum
ming Point, under the command Of Capt.
George B. Guthbert, of the Palmetto
Guard. The gnn was fred by Edward
Ruf1in, of Virginia. The guns of Moule
trie then opened and the fire became
general.
Capt. - James, formerly of the
United States army, afterward killed in
Virginia, as Colonel of the - Regi-
ment, fired the mertar shell from Fort
johnson. the order being carried from
Gen. Beauregard by staff officer in a
small boat.
These 1 believe to be the facts as to
opening fire on Sumter, April IL, 1861.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
Happenings.

Gen. Grants book has been translated
into Japenese.
Queen Victoria's recent visit to Liver
pool cost that city 100000.
The compulsory prayer system has
been repealed in Harvard.
1t is rose of clear green that the
Partisan florists now talk about.
Jay Gould's income is said to be ten
cents every time the clock ticks.
A 7-year-old suit over a bale of hay
was recently decided in Los Angeles.
According to Gen. Rosecrans the war
of the rebellion cost Sc, 1S9, ,92O,9Os.
A single sale of 200 tons of shelled
pea nuts was made in Petersburg, few
days ago.
The pay Of doctors in China is from
five to ten cents a visit, and they are
kept exceedingly busy.
An Amador county, Cal, man has ap,
piled for a patent on a process for max
ing butter by boiling the cream.
Alta John picnic in Pennsylvania
every son of man named John was CIV
en- plate of cake and dish of ice cream,
scot free.
There is house in Norfolk, Conn.,, on
which there has been $50 mortgage for
81 years, and on which interest has been
paid annually.
A man in Campbell county, Ca, had
SO boys old enough to fight in the late
war, and % of them were killed. He
had been married times.
Bees have strong apathy to dark col
Ored objects, and man with black
plug hat rarely gets stung, the bees de-
voting their attention to the hat.
Telephone conversations. a st. Louis
circuit court decides, are admissible as
evidence in court, even when the speak
er's voice is not recognized.
Ina garden at Caledonia, N. Y, bed
of flowers has been laid out % feet long,
to represent a huge trout. The gills,
fins and eyes are represented by differ
erent colored flowers.
The largest landholders in the United
Kingdom are the Duke of Sutherland,
the Duke of Hamilton, Earl Dunraven,
and the Marquis of Tweeddale. The
latter owns tract exceeding $500
square miles in extent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
L Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 800 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome TO all services.
M ETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
VAReV. w. Ii. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II a.m.; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:3O pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday Z p IN.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
" Rev. Thomas Bslph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 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, 1886-07-29

THE exercise of civility costs one
nothing. 1t calls for ne sacrifice of time,
money, or interest There is nothing to
consume or fatigue one in this delightful
exrcise. 1t is the spontaneous flow of
good affections, and consists in those
little offices of kindness which can be
discharged without trouble, and leave
loss or inconvenience behind them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
Belmont County onlcIaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Issac q. CASTOR.
Clerk OF Courts-Wm. B. Cash.
Sherif-Leroy G. Sedwick.
Auditof-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-EdIard L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. Z. Kennon.
Recorder-W s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-Morris Cope, VIM Berry,
John G. Israel.
urveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-P. o. Criswell.
ln1rmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, John
Kintner. VIM. Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
BURDOCK BLOOD BIrTERS
WHAT x8 xTR

a strictly vegetable prepa-
ration, composed of q choice
and skillful combination Of
Natures best remedies. The
diseoVerer does not claim 1t q
cure for all the fills, but boldly
warrants 1t cures every form
Of disease arising from a tor
pid liver, impure blood, dis
ordered kidneys, and where
there is g broken down condi-
tion OF the System, requiring q
prompt and permanent tonic,
It never fails to restore the
sufferer. Such is BURD0CK
BLOOD BITTERS. Sold by all
druggists, who are authorized
by the manufacturers to re-
fund the price to any pur-
chaser who is not benefited BY
their use.
PRICE, @loo-
FOSTER, kILBURH & CO., Props,
BgEFALo. NEW YORK.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29

ORDER is gradually being evolved
from the chaos of English politics now
that it is known that the Tories will not
have a working majority over all in
Parliament. They are in strong plus
rality, however, and the Gladstone MiD-
istry having resigned Lord Salisbury
will doubtless be summoned by the
Queen to form a new Cabinet. But he
will have to go alone, as Lord Hartingt
ton has declined to enter coalition Cab
met, and his tenure of office will depend
upon the forbearance of the Mugwump
Liberals. This will prevent the adop>
tion of Lord Salisbury's coercion policy
toward Ireland, and, together with the
vigorous opposition that will be offered
the Government by Mr.. Gladstone and
his followers, will make the conrse of
the Tory Government very difficult.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29
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, Sec'Y.
CT. OLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
F. D. BAILEY, 81. P.
J. B. MEYER, Rec.
pELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, R. & s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
G. w. CARROLL, T. l. NJ.
J. B. MEYER, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
IL Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of esch
month. ]. B. RYAN, E. @.
J. B. MRyER, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29

A WITTY woman of Paris says that it
is more difficult for a woman to make
excuses for her beauty among other wo'
men. when she is really beautiful, than
for plain woman to find favor among
the men.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-29

What is more disagreeable to lady than
to know that her hair has not only lost its
color, but is full of dandruff2 Yet such was
the case with mine until used Parkers Hair
Balsam; my hair is now black and perfectly
clean and glossy.-Mrs E Sweeney, Chicago,
Ill 63>4t