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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-11

THE wine-dealers and producers of
California have formed an organiza-
ton for the purpose of putting up the
prices of native wines The uuexpect-
ed shortage ia the grape crop of 1885 is
the main cause for the action. Chair
man Harazthy thus explains the sit
uation: "The vintage of 1884 gave us
about 600, 600 gallons more than the
demand called for. From the vint-
age of 1885 we were justified in expec.
ing from ~ 600, 600 to 13 900, 900 gal
Ions of surplus over the requirements
OF the markets. This would, of course,
have left us with a surplus of Eearly
10000, GOO gallons. In view of this
anticipated state Of things dealers be-
gan to unload as rapidly as possible,
and at prices lower even than the cost
of production, in the expectation of
being able to replenish their stock
from the new vintage at even lower
rates. Prices fell especially on foreign
shipments AID Eastern consignments
of sweet or fortified wines. This course
was pursued until the middle of the
vintage, when, to every ones surprise
there was found to be a shortage in
stead of surplus Then the produc-
ers and shippers were faced with the
problem of how to raise prices. The
Eastern dealers refused to believe that
the state of matters was as represent
ed in California, and it was soon evil
dent to every producer and shipper
that he must Individually raise and
maintain the prices" No definite
scale of prices has been decided upon,
but the rise will be about 20 per cent.
all around.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Passengers in a finder Box.

The ordinary passenger car is a finder box
Built of dry and infiammable woods and
the paints and varnishes with which it is fin
ished, composed of ingredients that burn as
readily as gunpowder; no sooner does fire
come in contact with any portion of its inner
surface than it is wrapped in flames instan-
taneously. As the passengers, as rule, find
themselves unable to get out OF the car, and
as no one can break into it, the incineration
of every person in wrecked railway car in
which coal stoves and oil lamps furnish heat
and light is matter of very few moments.
Some Of the more progressive railways, while
still clinging to the infammable car, have
adopted systems Of steam or hot air heating,
especially for their btst and most literally
patronized trains. It is doubtful, however,
whether there is any single road in the coun-
try that does not still use the stove on its
cheaper trains or its branch hnes-Philadel-
pbia Times
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
AMONG ENGLISH HOP PIcKERs.
Batches of People Going Home from
Work-Singing the Hopping Songs.


hAIehes Q. feoPie ooine nome rrom
Mo-osns inc hopping sone
~Tht'nk God, I've got that lot on said the
stano1rnaster. was NOISY oatcn OF mop
pickers going nome from small station on
.ne hasengs nne hao occasion 70 eaVei
In -tnlru 70 the ne1t 1uncaon; my fellow
passengers were q Ie" quie' country ioAK,
tne nopPers oenis saAeiJ Sso"eo IN iof-
Naru carriaee Du., Aias' a the next sVa-
non there was snoener oatcn, ana INTO our
carriage tney pteraily tumoied' tossing In
children and bundles tll there were twenty
Tour persons ADDED 70 tne nine aiready In the
oouole compartments linen oegan scume
70 get tne screaming enhoren rlgnt way up,
Win gooo oeai OF sIrong language at the
Oop Oh powerful VOICES Inere only TWO men,
quieuy orunhi lne "omen were soper ana
NOISY.
As my neignDors were not over clean
lnougnt mySeil lucky IN naVIng large oiack
COOKING pot ON 1ne sea' next 70 me- A feW
geniA worus soon put me On irienuiy Ioot
ing WIN 'ne nearesS women lney were
gong nome 70 "nlpecnapei' ana snouid De
gao 70 ee' nome tnougn Iney mao enjoyed
.ne ouHne' PNe weeks Is ana q oay we've
Deen at IL Hs more lor Ine cnange tnan tne
wages .nougn Vne money neips on ior tne
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
MODERN sHAMs IN SOCIETY.
The Many Deceptions and the False Gill
ter Which II Contains-Unreal Virtues

The Many Deceptions and the False Gilt
ter Which 1t Contains-Unreal Virtues
Nothing is so clearly apparent TO the intel
ligent observer Of modern society as the many
deceptions and the false glitter which it con-
tains There ara social circles into which one
may enter where the false and deceptive find
no place. but these are in the minority.
Glance at the average society Of to-day, and
there is but little in it that is really what one
supposes it to be. How often is it that we
find men and women carrying impressions Of
wealth and station far beyond their real in
comet Dignity is found to be only preten-
sion, refinement an artificial gloss, and intel
hgence but verbal display. White satin
dresses are worn where the plainest muslin is
scarcely within the wearers income; broad
cloth, where the simplest business suit, if
honestly paid for, would almost be a draft
upon the revenue received. Flowers are
worn in profusion, jewelry loaned and car
riages hired by those to whom the acquire
ment of the necessities of daily life is a
struggle
Society, instead of being made great
compact designed to promote the good Of
man and woman, is used only as a cunning
contriyance to palm of unreal virtues, and
give 10 Une ullsOpnlSllcdUc1 hTOnS dllu 1nyuII-
Gus impressions. Host and hostess share in
the general deception with their guests, al
though neither is conscious of the others de-
ceit The china on the table of the hostess is
admired and its possession envied by her
guest, while the former in return is driven
to maddening inward jealousy at the gor
geous garments of her guest The guest
knows not that the china is loaned, the
hostess is ignorant of the unpaid bill of the
dressmaker. The furniture, heavy portieres
and expensive draperies are examined with
admiration, and SO fixed becomes the atten-
ton of the guest upon the embellishments Of
the home of her hostess that no room is left
in the mind for a suspicion of plan of pur-
chase commonly known as the "instalments"
The young man, with only cursory
knowledge of the cost Of feminine apparel,
regards what is only inexpensive silk or
satin as the richest goods the market affords.
The young lady, in turn, silently calculates
her chaperone's income by the flowers he
sends, the iveried carriage in which he es-
corts her to the reception, and the fun dress
suit in which he is arrayed Her unframed
mind knows not the existence of places where
lunch may be had by a modest indulgence
in beverage, and establishments where cloth
ing is sold for night.-Brooklyn Magazine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
The snanish Conspiracy.

The official press organ of Senor Ruiz
Gorilla is practically the only newspaper
which does not express satisfaction and graft
tude at the announcement that the queen, on
the recommendation of the government, has
resolved to temper justice with mercy. 1t is
an undoubted fact that the most extreme and
utterly unscrupulous republican conspirators
desired that their dupes might be shot, in or
der that the reign of the young king might
be baptized with blood. They even provided
victims to insure this. As it happens, the
only blood shed has been spilled by those en-
gagged in one of the vilest and most criminal
conspiracies in modern history. When the
details of the plot are published this language
will not be found one whit too strong One
fact proves this. Bands of assassins were
told off to murder any officers who should at
tempt to enter the barracks and take COM
mand of the soldiers, who were thus obliged
to obey the sergeants, already suborned. In
this way Gen. Velarde and Count Mirasol
were foully ssassinated.-Madrid Cor. Lon
dO,, Times
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
"AH-GOOw

vot vas Id mine baby vas trying TO say,
Ven goes TO hees crib at der preak OF der oayf
Und oudt vrom der planket peeps ten ieeole Toes
So pink und so shveet as der fresh plooming rose,
Und twisting und curling themselves all aooudt,
ShuS: like dhey vas saying; "Vev want 70 gel QUOT
VIII. dot baby looks CUP nit dhose bright eyes
so plue,
Una don'd could say nodins, shust only:
"Ah-Gool''
Vot vas i'd mine baby vas dinking aboudt-
When dot thumb goes so quick IN his shveet leedle
mout,
Ind he looks right away Ike he no underestimate
Der reason he don'd could quite Swallow hees
handt;
Und he digs nit dhose fingers righdt into hees
eyes,
Which fills hees oldt fader NIT fear und surprise;
Und when NIT dhose shimnasdic bricks he vas
droo,
He lay back und crow, and say nix budt:
"Ah-Goop'
vot makes dot shman baby shmile when he's
ashleep'
Does he dink he vas blaying NIT some Won "bO-
peep!"
Der nurse say dhose shmiles vas der sign he haf
More like dot he dhreams he vas hating some
frolc;
Ifeeds dot oldt nurse init green abbles some day,
Und dhen eef she shmiles, pellet what she say;
When dot baby got cramps he find something TO do
oxeept shmie, und play, uDd keep CUP hees
"Ah-Goog"
ask me, sometimes, when looks in dot crib,
'sVin der shirdt frondt, Won day, dake der place
of dot bib?
Vii dot plue eyed baby, dots pooling mine hair,
Know all vot knows aboudt drouble and care?'
Dhen dink of der vorldt, nit its pride und its
sins
Und wish dot minesef und dot baby vas twins,
Und all der day long haf nodings to do
Budt shust laugh und crow und keep saying:
"Ah-Goor'
Charles FoIlen Adams in Youths Companion
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
THE NEWS.

A colony of about five hundred Norr
wegians have settled in Putnam county,
Ohio
Abram S Hewitt was sworn in as
Mayor of New York, Wednesday of last
week.
Will Thornburn. formerly of Cincin-
natl died in Centaal America from bron-
chial disease.
California papers tell of head of cab
bage weighing even forty pounds It
was two feet through.
One of the latest kinds of counterfeit
Ing is the imitation of old coins for sale
to the numismasists.
The Marine Hospital Bureau has been
officially advised cf the prevalence of
cholera al Buenos Ayres.
Ex-Governor CLANCY, of New Hamp
shire, has been appointed U 5 senator
to succeed Austin F Pike.
Erastus Brooks is lying dangerously
i'll at his home in New York. His phy-
slcians say he cannot live.
A new railroad. to be known az the
Utah Midland, has been tormed in Salt
Lake City; cayltal S5,O00.00O.
JP Fswcett has been appointed pro-
bate judge of Stark county. to fill the
unexpired term of Meyer, resigned.
John N. Achey, one of the organizers
of the Dayton (O) National Bank, and
for twenty years its president. is dead.
Quartermaster General Holabird has
recommended the erection of new quar-
tere for the Newport (Ky0 Barracks.
A sea spider. measuring twenty two
inches from tip to tip of its claws, was
dredged from Oyster Bay Harbor. L. L.,
ther day.
Application has been made to the
Illinois supreme court for supper
sedas in the case of the condemned
Chicago Anarchists.
In Washington county, KY. Ike Ar
mold, a notorious tough, attacked Tom
DpgaD, farmer, with knite. Dugan
shot and killed him.
A wood stove that saves IS per
cent. of fuel, the yield of ashes paying
for the other fourth, is an allurlng in-
ventien of Troy man.
Id Collier, son of Rev. Robert Col
lier, formerly of Chicago, late of Kansas
City, was shot and almost instantly
killed by james G Yarborouh.
The will of ex-President Arthur dis
poses of real and personal property to
the value of about S25O.0O0. The be-
quests are mostly of a private nature.
In accordance with the agreement
signed by representatives Of the various
express companies, the rates of last
spring have been restored on all lines.
H M Hoxie, general manager of the
Gould Southwestern System. died at his
home in the Metropolitan Opera-house
in New York early Tuesday morning of
last week.
The capital stock of the Southern
Pacific railroad company has been sold
to the southern Patiic and Pacific Im
provement company for from $4,000
900 to $6,0Oo.000.
The funeral services of Ch aries Fran
els Adams were held at Stone Temple,
Quincy, Mass, Tuesday afternoon of
last week, the interment taking place
at Mt. Wollaston cemetery.
VIM. Reed. Treasurer of the South
Boston Horse Railroad Company has
been arrested on charge of embezzleiDg
100000 in cash and 100000 in an over
issue of stock of the company.
The jury in the case of ex-boodle
Alderman McQuade, OF New York.
disagreed and were discharged. They
are supposed to have stood nine for
acquittal and three for conviction.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
England a Small Country.

One realizes how small the distance is from
sea to sea in Britain, when he finds that a
@swell" young American, with more money
than he knows how to spend wisely and well,
a scion of railroad car wheel family by
the name of Winans, has simply for amuse-
ment hired in Scotland tract of field and
forest that stretches from shore to shore, and
yet includes less than go, 600 acres-a slice of
territory that would make but small ranch
in our southwest And as regards the ex-
treme length of the United Kingdom, let
these figures tell the exact story: His name
was Marriott, and he was captain of the Not
tingham Tricycle. club. On his Humber tri-
cycle he rode from end to end of England.
He left the Lands End hotel, at Cornwall, on
the 20th, and reached John O'Groat's house,
Caithness, on the 26th. "Distance, precisely
$50 miles; exact time, six days, fifteen hours
and twenty-five minutes. Delayed by snow
storms in the Highlands, ten hours. Boston
Commercial
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
THE OLD. OLD CLOCK"

It stands in the corner of the room,
Behind the door in the shade and gloom
In heavy antique case
Rich mahogany, maple and oak;
Battered and scratched and dim with
smoke;
And the hands are bent on the face.
The knob and hinges are red with rust
The top of the moulding covered with
dust,
The panels are yellow with stains;
And ragged web. like a tattered pail,
Runs from its eide to the somter wall.
And over the window panes.
The pendulum swings, the wheel GO
round,
Making dull, mOnotonous sound,
IA the vanishing moments fleet;
A tick, like falling grains of sand,
AS Time was pouring from out his hand
The dust of years at his feet.
Years have vanished-forgotten years,
With all their sorrows and sins and tears
And left their marks in the hall,
The old have died, the young grown old
Generations have gone to mould,
And the clock survives them all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02

= A candidate for teachers position in
Macomb comfy, Michigan. wrote at an
examination that there two kinds of
gender, lady and gentleman.
The State Trades Assembly, which is
in session at Dayton, last week elected
delagtes to the National Convention, to
he held in Cincinnati February % next,
which is to organizs a new political
party.
Mrs. Lizzie Sherman, of Toledo, the
wife of Lieutenant Sherman, of the
Army, and former ward of Chief JUS
tice Waite. dropped dead just as she
was entering carriage OF the Washing
ton City depot.
Four prisoners in Jail at Huntington.
Pa, broke the locks of their and quar-.
ried their way through the main wall
with an iron bed-post, making their
escape. Twenty prisoners have escaped
from this prison in two years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Punched Coin in the Collection poue.

SOAh thc SOlcCllOh DO1ess
HWhat we need in our church is less preach
ing of prohibition and more preaching of
honesty" was the exclamation of business
man to friend VINO took the vacant seat be-
side the speaker on a train from Connecticut
into New York. This rather remarkable
comment was the answer the friend received
when he asked the business man what he had
that jingled SO in the heavy bag that was
taken from the seat to make room.
"This bag" continued the business man,
contains punched, clipped and abased coins,
and 1 am going to New York to.sell them for
what they will fetch. Oh, no, didn't take
them in my business, but in another way, in
which 1 couldn't refuse them. You see 1 am
treasurer of our church, and these dimes and
nickels and other coin were put from time to
time in the contribution box. When clipped
and punched coin began to be refused they
began to make their appearance in our boxes
when the collections were taken up. l sup
pose we have taken in 500 worth of
this coin at its face value. 1 am going to
suggest to our minister that he give us ser
mon on petty dishonesty. Our church isn't
peculiar in this respect either. The treasurer
of one of the other churches in town tells me
that he is tethered in the same way."-New
York Sun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
MAGAZINE,
Published Monthly,
WITH ILLUSTRATE
First Number Ready Dec. 1stl

IN ElSd(N DSSs SII1.
SCRIBNER's MAGAZINE will be in the
widest sense a magazine of general lit
erature, and each number will be fully
| illustrated.
Some of the most notable papers to
appear during the first year are a series
of UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF THACK-
ERAY of very great autobiographical
value EY- MINISTER E B. WAsHBURNE's
"REMINISCENCES OF THE Commune OF
PARIS; Glimpses at the Diaries of Gou-
verneur Morris, Minister to France at
the close of the last century (giviDg de
scriptions of social life and characters
at the time); a collection of contempora-
ry letters describing Early New York
and New England Society.
There is much excellent fiction, inclu>
ding serial by Harold Frederic; stories
extending through several numbers by
Fl C Bunner, J S of Dale. and others
and short stories by R L Stevenson, Joel
Chandler Harris, I A Janvier, Miss
Jewett, Octave, Tbanet, H H BoyeseD,
Miss Crosby, and host of others.
Notable special papers to be published
very early are GeR A Walkers on So
CIALIsM; DR. Wm Hayes Ward on BAB>
YLoNIAN CYLINDERS; Mr. John c Ropes
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Subscriptions may be sent to any news
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
THE CRIMINALS OF SIBERIA.

Country Full of Tramps-DangerUus
to TrayeIers-Oficials Not Attacked.
Siberia is best known to the rest Of the
world as the land of exiles. Since the time
of Peter the Great it has been the place of
banishment for those who offend against the
sovereign of Russia and his laws. Ordin-
arily from 10000 to Il, 600 criminals are sent
there every year; the occasional revolts in
Poland and the present spread of Nihilism
through the empire add more or less largely
to the Involuntary emigration In some
years %, 900 or 10000 exiles, including GRIM
inals and politicals, have been sent to Si-
IBERIA, and of this great number compare
lively few are ever returned to Europe. 1t
naturally follows that Siberia is filled with
an undue proportion of the criminal classes.
Many of the criminal exiles have been
sent there for small offenses, and are conse-
quently of the category of simple detenus, or
detained in the country They can do
pretty much as they like, as long as they do
not return to Europe; can wander from
place to place, and take any employment that
is open to them. The result is the country is
full of tramps, and on occasions when there is
a chance of making an honest penny by high
way robbery the tramps are not slow to en-
brace it. In the winter the weather is too
cold for their operations, and they mostly
hibernate in the towns, like the tramps of en-
hghtened America, so that the roads are COM
paratively safe, but if you carry any bag
gage in the rear of your sleigh it must be
fastened with chains, and not with ropes,
which can be cut away. In the spring the
tramp's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
rural strolling, and he continues to wander
till the snow falls again
1t is in this period that he Is dangerous to
the traveller, or, rather, to certain classes of
travellers He does not attack a government
courier, as he knows he can and probably
will be shot down without mercy, and, be-
sides, the courier does not carry much money
about him The same reasons apply to trav-
elers of the second class; officers on private
business and not travelling en- courier, and
the game of the Siberian robber consists Of
the third class travellers -merchants-who
are not often armed, and far more likely to
have large sums of money about them than
are the officials. Besides, the robbery or
death of an official would rouse a very un-
pleasant hue and cry, while the same calam-
ity to merchant would be-well, it would
not make so much trouble for the tramp
Thomas W. Knox in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Not to Be Hurried.

One day Beauregard, with several lesser
lights, came upon sentinel who had taken
his gun entirely to pieces and was greasing
lock, stock and barrel. The great general
looked like thunder cloud, but neither his
flashing uniform nor the scowl on his face
had any effect on the sentinel, who quietly
proceeded to rub piece of his gun.
"Say," remarked an officer, "thats Beaure-
gard there; he's sort of general"
"An right" said the unabashed sentinel,
"if he'll wait till get this gun together I'll
give hin 4 sort of salute Atlanta Consti-
fJltiOu
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Why They Are Penned Up.

Omaha Mani understand the arrange
ments for the reception of immigrants at
Castle Garden are very complete. New York
Man-We do our best to make strangers feel
that they have come to Christian country.
As soon as they arrive they are furnished
with Bibles printed in English, Welsh, French,
Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Spanish,
German, Dutch, Russian, Bulgarian, Hunga-
rian, bohemian, Polish, Slavic, Arabic, Greek,
Armenian, Hebrew, or Portuguese. @Do they
read themg" "Yes, indeed. You see there
is nothing else they can do, being all penned
up like flock of sheep" "But why do you
pen them up?" "To keep them from being
robbed Chicago Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
A Story of Robson and Crane.


Not far from Robson and Cranes summer
home at Cohasset there stands in a shady
nook little house OF worship, which both
the actors are wont to attend every Sabbath
regularly-unless the wind is good for a
cruise in Mr.. Cranes yacht One bright Sun
day morning last summer, while the birds
were chirping in the trees to escape sum
stroke, and the sheep and cattle browsed on
the tender pasturage or waded in the brooks
to cool off, the comedians, accompanied by
their wives, hitched up the carryan and
drove down to church. The members of the
congregation are great admirers Of Robson
and Crane-who have lived among them so
many years-and are always disposed to ex-
tend them such delicate and fattering atten-
ton as seat in the amen corner, permitting
them to act as ushers, to pass the contribution
box and the like
1t so happend that on this particular oc-
casion the worthy deacons who oficiated in
passing the plates were absent, SO the good
old pastor from his pulpit kindly asked:
"Won't Brothers Robson and Crane be kind
enough to take up the regular missionary Of
fering, while Sister Jones plays a short Sc
lectionl" The comedians cheerfully stepped
from their seats in the cool corner and
passed up the alsles with the round, old
fashioned boxes so common in eastern houses
of worship. Not more than thirty people
were in attendance at church that morning,
and the contribution was not what it might
have benin fact, in Mr.. Robson's box
there were but two nickels and three two
cent pieces, while Mr.. Cranes boasted Of the
trihing sum of two nickels and three one cent
pieces. On being asked to state the amount
of the collection, with far-away look upon
his dreamy face, Mr.. Crane rose, mechanic
ally shook each contribution box, and re-
piled, in a sort of half-asleep, midnight voice:
Brother Robson has pair of ives and
three deuces, and the pots mine, for I've got
two fives and three aces" 1t took Mr. Crane
all one week to explain individually to the
Mortified congregation how he came to fall so
far from grace.-Boston Herald.