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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

JAN. 26-Senatt tt-NOne of the Demo
cratic senate appearing the Senate ad-
journed for went of quorum.
House Bills passed: House bills
amending ditch laws, making terms OF
township trustees three years, for addi"
tioual Judge in the First subdivision,
Ninth district.
JAN. 27-Senate-No business trans
acied
House-Blli passed: House bill amend
ing laws for city councils.
Bills introduced: Appropriating $40,
600 far Blind Working home; for citl-
zens to deposit ballots in envelope admit
ting soldiers orphans to children's
homes: prohibiting shaving of notes (;
increasing compensation of township
trustees; apprepIiating $4,000 for mon
ument to Ohio soldiers at Gettysburg.
JAN 2S Standardization met at
10 a. %. Democratic members and clerks
all being absent.
At 1851 p ID Democratic members and
clerks took their places.
Adjourned.
House-BilIs passed: To compile laws
relating TO City Councils; to repeal sect
tions 5lS3 and 51S4 (R 81; to amend sec
lions 449 and 457 Il -.
Bills introduced: To amend election
laws; to appropriate $4,000 for Ohio
Working Home for Blind; to admit sol'
diers' and sailors orphans into children's
nome; authorizing Franklin county
commissioners to allow $4,000 for sol+
diers' and sailors monument in Green
Lawn cemetery; providing penalties fer
exOrbitant rates of discount; increasing
pay of township assessors to S3 per day !;
to increase maximum fees of township
clerks and trustees; appropriating $780,
600 for soldiers monument at Gettys-
burg: to amend section 5,10T (R s..
JAN. 2S-Senate COMMITTEE on En-
rollment reported on the bill making
appropriations to meet the deficiency in
the publication of the Constitutional
anendmets, so that those to whom mou-
ey is due could receive their pay. Ad-
journed.
House-BilIs passed: House bills ex-
tending the indenture of children to ma
'turity; preventing cruelty to children /;
for free turnpikes in Belmont and Brown
counties.
Bills introduced: For addition to
Longview Asylum; for maintaing bridg
es inside corporations.
JAN. 29-Senate-Met and adjourned
without trahsacting any business.
House-Bills passed: Authorizing
Boards of Education to expel members
for drunkenness; to prevent the ap>
pointment-of deputy sheriffs not resi-
dents of State.
Bills introduced: To reduce salary of
members of Board of PenitentiaTy Man
ayers; TO amend Revised Statutes rela-
tive to challenging jurors; for sale of
intermediate Penitentiary grounds and
repeal of act authorizing same; to amend
game Law; to protect hotel keepers; to
prevent swine running at large.
Joint resolution introduced: To cele
brate the one hundredth anniversary of
the settlement of Ohio by an Exposition
at State Capital
FEB. 1-Senate-nOt in session.
House Bills int Oduced: Making cleo
ii N days legal holidays; making it
misdemeanor to burn bridge or water
craft; making it a penitentiary Offense
to secure notes as Bohemian oats paper
giving justices of the peace power to
sentence prisoners pleading guilty to
misdeTeanors.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

The Pennsylvania Co.'S depot and ho-
tel at Wellsviile, were destroyed by ice
Friday. Much valuable property in the
building was destroyed.
The Miugo skating rink, owned by
Hill Bros, was destroyed by lire Thurs
dsy. Loss S2,0V0, covered by insurance
Burglars took several hundred dollars
worth of goods from EnOch Balls shoe
house, Wheeling, one night last week.
Judge Hance will hold short term OF
court at Cadiz, commencing on the 9th.
Thirteen iron storage tanks between
Macksburg and Elba, in Noble county,
have storage capacity of 100000 Dar'
Fels of OIL
Five natural gas companies are asking
for the right to enter Steubenville.
The first telephone message was sent
from Steuhenville to Cleveland last
week.
Mrs Sullivan, of Steubenville, became
tired OF life aud took arsenic. The doc
tors saved her.
The board of directors of the Cadiz
fair elected VIM W Jamison, President;
Jacob Jarvis, secretary, and w 5 Cessna
treasurer.
The indictment against B Ferguson
Cambridge attorney, has been nollied
He paid over the 81, 800 collected from
the insurance company.
A Steubenyille drayman, James White
left a fortune of 100000.
E Fl Archer, of Caldwell, has been ap>
pointed secretary in the adjutant gener
ais office.
Mike Ryan, of Marietta, has been ap-
pointed Indian agent at Wolf Point
Montana.
A little son of the man Apperson. who
was murdered at Zeno, on the B, z s. c
road, had his legs aud feet badly frozen
the night of the murder, by running in
his night clothes, to give the alarm in
the neighborhood. He may lose one leg.
Tiltonville, Jefferson county wants to
be incorporated under the name of Bel
vedere.
Cambridge is proud over the possess
sion of steam laundry.
The Cambridge Oil and Gas Co, has
been incorporated. Capital stock $4,000
A building and loan association is be.
ing organized at Quaker City.
Frank Hood, East Liverpool printer
has been bound over to court in the sum
of S700. charged with dealing in OBJ
scene literature.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

ONE of the best of the many almanacs
of political information nov published
each year is the New York Tribune Al
manac. We have just received copy
of the Almanac for 1886, which gives a
great variety of information about gold
and silver, the Presidents inaugural ad+
dress, the popular vote for President
since 1864. and the financial reports OF
the Government. The figures are Off
cial and have been compiled with care,
The statistics As to the general operation
of the Government are elaborate. The
Almanac has the new postage rates, Z
list of the new Congress and its Com
mittees. showing the operations of the
new Tariff law. This Almanac was one
of Mr. Greeleg's hobbies, aud it became
under his management what it has been
ever since, an accepted authority. The
Almanac will be sent TO any address for
thirty cents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

GEN. DAVID HUNTER, United States
Army, retired, died Suddenly Tuesday
evening at his residence in Washington
City. He was in his usual good health
and made several visits down town du-
ring the afternoon. On returning he
complained of pains in bis abdomen, and
had to be assisted to bed. He died in a
few minutes. He was veteran of the
Mexican war. and also served with dis.
tinction in the late war. He was retired
in 1866. He was president of the mili>
tary court that tried Mrs. Surratt.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

Mrs, BAYARD. wife of Secretary of the
State Bayard, died at her home in Wash
ington, on Sunday morning. sg I'd about
81 years. The immediate cause of her
death was congestion of the brain, SUI
perinduced by the shock of her daugh-
ter's sudden death two weeks previous.
During the first week following that
event she stood the strain quite well,
but week ago on Friday. she was COM
pelled to take to her bed and grew worse
from day to day. For twenty. four hours
before her death, she was unconscious.
Although Mrs. Bayard had been con
firmed invalid for number Of years,
during the last six months she had been
in better health than usual = in fact, she
was so much improved as to be able to
appear in society this winter.
In the severe Affections which have
fallen upon him. in the loss of his daugh.
ter and his wife, Secretary Bayard will
have the sympathy of the entire nation.
The death of Miss Bayard was very sad,
and that of her mother caused by grief
for the loss of her daughter, is doubly 80.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

IN the last number of the North
American Review General Beauregard
completes his article on the Shiloh Cam =
paign. He insists that the Federal
army was taken completely by surprise
on the morning of the 9th of April. His
reason for thinking so is briefly given
when the first encampments were Ia
ken many Federal officers ald soldiers
were yet lying in bed; bread was being
baked and was taken hot from the ovens
by our men," Gen. Sherman never was
convinced and is not likely to be. that
the version of Beauregard is true.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

The ground hog had slim chance in
the West and North west. At Chicago,
on the night of the I'd. mercury dropped
to 10 degs. below zero. Throughout
Iowa it was Is to II below; at Galena,
ILL.,, 20 below; at st. Paul SO below Da-
kota and Manitoba report very cold
weather. A Galveston dispatch says
that the snow is i've inches deep in the
indian Territory. There will be heavy
loss to stock in Texas. A Nashville,
Tenn, dispatch says the snow is six
inches deep in that city. Severe snow
storms are also reported in Southern and
Western Kansas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

THE failure on Monday of Ritzinger
Bros, banking firm. Indianapolis, is sta.
ted to be due to the fact they have lost
$1,000 Oh whisky and $4,000 on stoves.
Stoves and whisky in large quantities
don't mix, especially when the stoves
are hot, without burst up. Liabilities
about 100000. Depositors it is thought,
will not realize more than % per cent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

THE Pan Electric Telephone Compa-
nv seems to be Democratic corporation
for the interchange of certificates OF
stock and Administration and Congress
ional influence. The New York World,
Democratic paper, proves it to be so,and
connects Attorney General Garland and
other high Democratic officials with the
rotten business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
4 WaIking SkeIcton.

Mr.. E. Springer, of Mechanicsburg,
Pa. writes: 81 was afflicted with lang
fever and abscess on lungs, and reduced
to walking Skeleton. Got a free trial
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, which did me so much
good that bought dollar bottle At
ter using three bottles, fonnd myself
once more man, completely restored to
health, with a hearty appetite, and a
gain in flesh of 49 lbs" Call at Patter
sons Drug Store aud get free trial bot
tie of this certain cure for all Lung Dis
eases. Large bottles S1.0O.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

WHILE the differences in the Ohio
Senate bave not yet been adjusted, there
are indications that the joint conference
copmittee may hit upon a plan, which
will permit of tie public business being
transacted. In any event, it is hoped by
honest citizens that there wi be no COM
promise with fraud and corruption.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

OF the total population Of Louisiana
over 10 years of age, 40 per cent are un-
able to read. The State Superintendent
of Education says:-"For the past nine
years the government of Louisiana has
been in Democratic hands aud the pro-
portion of illiteTacy has largely increased
in that time"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

THERE has been another call for
troops from Mississippi town TO meet
and suppress possible uprising of the
eolored people to avenge the death of
one of their number who had been rid
died with bullets by a posse of constables.
It is singular that in all the troubles of
this kind it is the colored man who SUI
fers, and never by any possibility the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

REPUBLICANS can point with pride"
to Mr.. L. J. Thomas. of Salisbury Cove,
Md, who is now entering upon his fif-
tieth year as postmaster of bis town.
He is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian
school, but he was not removed for "of>
fensive partisanship' during the quarter
of century the Republicans held the
rains of government,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

HERE is "a story for ladies': Several
years ago U. S. Senator Ramsey offered
his wife the choice between new spring
bonnet and block in Minneapolis, then
valued at nominal figure. With rare
seli-sacrifce she let the bonnet go and
took the lot. Its value has since in
creased so unexpectedly that it is now
worth $4,000. If there is a moral in
this, it is worth finding.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

of silver by boarding the money in treasury
Bills introduced: Appropriating $4,000, 600
for closing the Mississippi levee gaps; to es-
tablish bureau of public health; to establish
graduated income tax: to establish the Crater
lake national park; TO abolish discriminating
duties on works of art.
Bill passed: Increasing the pension of SOL
der. widows from IS to $l2 per month.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

l THINK Ely's Cream Balm is the best rem
edy for catarrh ever saw; l never took any
thing that relieved me so quickly, and l hav,
not felt so we'll for long time; [ used to bt
troubled with severe headaches two or three
time week, but since using the Balm have
only had one and that was very Eight compar.
ed with other former ones.-J A Alcorn, Agr
Q P R R Co., Eaton, Colo. l find Ely's
Cream Balm good for catarrh of long stand
ing.-M N Lasley, 1884 West Chestnut St.
Louisville, Ky. 2S~2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

TAMMANY remains true TO John Kelly.
her old leader. Though his illness still
prevents him from attending to any bur
siness-political or otherwise-he has
been unanimously reelected permanent
chairman of the Committee on Reorgan-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

A TERRITORY must have 10000 in>
habitants to entitle it to statehood. Da-
kate has 100000. Southern Dakota
alone has $4,000 farms worth $S7,OOO,-
600, with live stock valued at S25,00O,-
600, and with annual farm products
worth nearly S2O,OO0,O0O. Dakota is
twice as large as Indiana, and if admit r
ted will be the eighth in size in the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

THE Baltimore American suggests
that the Cincinnati hackman who stupe-
lied passenger by forcing gas into the
carriage. could become a patriot if he
would 90 to Columbus and work the
came result on he Ohio Legislature.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

ANOTHER handsome decrease in the
public debt is reported for the month OF
January. The cold fact is that the priD-
cipal of the debt OF the United States
was more than S7,OOO,0OO greater Janu-
ary 81. 1886. than it was Dec 81, 1885.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

THE Supreme Court on Monday gave
decision on the Virginia coupon case
reversing the Court of Appeals OF that
State, and deciding The tender OF cou~
ppns in payment of taxes is legal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

THE count of the funds in the New
York sub b-Treasury reveals the fact that
there are five cents too many. Those
Republican "rascals' who are now Hear
IL all out of office appear to have been
a terrible SET of fellows.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

CAPITALISTS who are shreWd enough
to buy their way into big offices are not
foolish enough to leave record of their
crimes en- their bank books. OF course,
this may not apply to any Of the Coal-oil
gang in Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

A sToRY-PAPER snnJunces : new se+
rial entitled Burglars in Paradise
The authors name is not mentioned, but
apparently the yarn WAS written by Bob
Ingersoll.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

A call has been issued for the redemp-
tion of bonds Of the per cent. lean of
1882.
Work will begin in the early spring on
the new Art School, to be erected on the
grounds of the Cincinnati Museum.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

ACHES and pains lcng borne make even the
young feel DID, the true remedy is Parker's
Fonic; it purifies the blood, sets in order the
liver and kidney, banisbes pain and builds up
the health; besides it has the reputation of
doing what we claim for it. 174t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

James T. Hendershot, plaintiff.
vs..
Rnsanna Handarahnf az al

Rosanna Hendershot, ct al.
THE defendant, Clay Hendershot, who re-
sides out of the state of Ohio, and whose
= residence is unknown to your petitioner,
will take notice, that on the 2lst day OF Decem-
Der, 1855, the undersigned filed in the court Of
common pleas of Belmont county, Ohio, his
petition against him and others praying that
partition be made Of certain lands. situate in
Washington township, said county, OF which
Henry Hendershot dled seized, and particularly
described in said petition. Said Clay Hender-
shot is required to answer said petition by the
20ty day of February, 1856.
JAMES t. HENDERSHoT, Petitioner
L. Danford, Atty for Petitioner. y 24-6t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

A new kind of seed wheat, selling at
SO bushel, is offered in Preble county,
Ohio. 1t seems to have grown on the
same ground as the Bohemian oats
Swindle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

MORRISON has a nsH tariff bill, and
the probabilities are that he will remain
the sole owner Congress has no u.s.
e
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

NEARLY ali the telegraph and tele
phone wires in New England were bu
riad by the snow and ice last week.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
CLEVELAND, LORAIN & WHEELING
~ RAuRoAD-TINR SCHEDULE,
GOING NORTH.

In effect Nov 49, 'S5-New STANDARD, Goth
Meridian time, which is 2S minutes slower
than Columbus time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
Thursday, Feb. 4, 1856

ANOTHER SIO.OOO,O00 of government
3 Der cents have been called for March.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
EcZe m a
And Every Species of itching and
Burning Diseases Cured
bv Cuticura

FCZEMA, or salt rheum, wita its agonizing
u itching and burning, Instantly relieved
by warm bath with Cuticura Soap, and
single application OF Cuticura. the great skin
cure; this repeated daily, with two or three
does of Cutlcura ResoIvent the new blood
puride:, to keep the blood cool, the perspira>
lion pure and uni rltating. the bowels open
the liver and kidneys q. tive, wtu speedily
cure eczema tejtei, ringw JIn psoI Iasis lIch-
species of itcning, scaly and pimply humors
OF the soap ana skin, when the best physi>
Q ans and ali Anown remedies fail.
Will McDOhald, 2542 Deal bOr St. Chicago,
gratefully acknowied Ees cure of eczema or
sa' rneum. on head. neck, face, arms and legs
on hands and knees for one year; not able 10
help help himself for eight years; tried nuns
dreds OF remedies; doctozs pronounced ms
case hopeless; permanently cured by Cuticura
HesotVent, blood purifier. Internally, and Cu>
t,cura and Outcuoa Soap, the great skin cures,
externally,
Chas. Honshton, Esq, lawyer, 2S State St.,
BOSTON. reports case of Eczema Iuder his OBJ
patients body and limbs, and to wuich all
known methods of treatment had been appll-
ed without benefit, which wss completely
ing Clean and healthy skin.
MIR. John ThieI, WiIkes6arre, Pa writes: Il
have suffered from salt rheum r over eight
years, at times so bad that cou.d not attend 10
my business for weeks at q time: three boxes
entirely cured me Of this d. eadful disease.'
Mrs. Isaac Phelps. Ravenna, Ohio writes
For the last yea have had species of Itch
ing, scaty and pimply humors on my face TO
which have applied a great many methous
of treatment without success, and which was
speedily and entirely cured by Cut;cura.'
Physicians Prescribe The NJ have nothing
but the higne est praise for the results obtained
from your OuticuTa Remedies of which have
sold more than of the Others of the kind.
MONR0 BOND. NJ. D..
300 N Broad ST., Phllad phia, Pa.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

The Ohio Senate still exists as double
barreled institution. with both barrels
disabled.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

n AIDES WANTED to work for us at their
II own homes; 81 to so per week can be easily
made; no oanvassing; facInating and
IN steady employment; particulars and sam
pies of the work sent iree for stamp; address
HOME MFG CO., P o Box 1916, Boston, Mass
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

Connections at Barton with all passenger
trains on the O.. L. q W. R'yi At Bridgeport
with @. P. R'y for Bellaire, Martins Ferry
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
Good Farm for Sale.

I 46 ACRES, three miles north of 81.
i Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio. 1S
miles from Wheeling, on the c., L. & w. R.
R., and one>fourth mile from Maynard sta>
tion. Good soil, underlsid with coal and lime
stone; well wstered and under good state Of
cultivation, with good orchard, good house,
barn and out-buildings, all new; church,
school and postofflce near. Call on or address
GIFFEN & KERR,
l 7>3t* Msynary, Belmont Co., Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

The case of chief Hudson, of the Cincinnati
police, was decided in the police court by the
acquttal of the defendant The information
charged contempt in wilfully failing to serve
warrants sworn out by the committee of one
hundred for arrests for violations of the regis
try law. Judge Fitzgerald held that the officer
had only followed the old system for years in
vogue in the police department, however OBJ
jectonable it might be, and as a reform meas
ure his honor ordered that hereafter, instead
of intrusting warrants to regular patrolmen,
they shall be given for service to person esp,-
cially charged with the duty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04

]. NJ. Wells Post, G. A. R, has adopted a
memorial to congress requesting that it be
made an essential condition of any act that
may be passed approsriating money for the
erection of monument to General Grant, that
in connection with, and as part of such me-
mortal, there shall be established national
military museum and a national home for dis
abled soldiers and sailors.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-23
MarShal's Sale.

DURSUANT TO AN EXECUTION TO ME
i directed by the Third Judicial District
Court of the Territory of Utah. / shall expose at
Public Sale, at the front door of the County
Court {oHa Hons House in the city Of Salt
of Utah, on the 9TH day Of April, 1885, at IL
O'Clock m, ali the right, title. Interest, claim
and estate which Louis oyiatt holds of. in and
to certain real estate situate, lying and being in
salt Lake county, Utah Territory, described as
follows, to-wit:
>, A part Of Section Twenty-one t2p and Section
twenty-five (22l in Township One ~ north
of Range One ~ west of Salt Lake meridian.
Commencing at point thirtythree and seventy
one-hundredths (33.70) rods south of the
northwest corner OF Section Twenty-Five
(22); thence east fifteen and twenty one-hun.
dredth (l5.20l rods to the west bank of the Jor-
dan river; thence up the west bank of said
river south 81 degrees east twenty and
eighty one-hundredth (20.s0) rods thence
south thirty-four and forty one-hundredth
t3i.40) rods; thence west one hundred ana seven
900 rods; thence north four and onehalf 40
rods; thence east twenty-six and forty one
hundredth l26.40) rods; thence north fifty and
eighty one-hundredth (5o.s0) rods: thence east
fifty-three AID sixty one-hundredth (53.60) rods
to the place of beginning.
Together with all and singular the tenements,
hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto
belonging or in anywise appertaining.
To be sold as the property of Lewis Oviatt,
at the suit of George N. Scott & Co.
Terms of sale, cash.
E. A. IRELAND, U. S. Marshal.
Dated March 18TH 1886.