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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
EVENING DEVOTION"
BY NATHAN D. URNER.

Soft as the shadows stealing
Refund the hushed and regardful place
Are the accents of prayer appealing
To the worshipful throne of grace,
Where the child devotee is kneeling
With earnest, uplifted face;
Telling off the score of the freighted heart,
After which, with no sense of blame:
Our Father kind that in heaven art,
Hallowed be Thy name!
First, blessings supreme entreated
For mamma so sweet and good;
Next, portions rare to be meted,
By papa best understood;
And then brother and sister greeted
To the care of the angelhood;
Nor forgotten dear and beloved one,
In the trust of the Master given:
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
On Earth as it is in Heavenl
A prayer in each pure pulsatiOn
Of that bosom's all-heedful fold,
So wrapped in its invocation
Nurse, playmate and friend, new or old,
In naive recapitulation,
Lest lamb should remain untold;
Lest the daily bread that is asked for be
Unshared by all things that live:-
And forgive US our debts, dear God, as we
Our debtors in turn forgivel
The little beseecher prayeth
With beauty so much her own
1t would seem that each soul that strayeth
Could but heed the alluring tone,
And go in where serene Peace stayeth
In the light of the crystal throne;
Till holy and sweet were each barren spot
While the hope of redemption stands
Oh, unto the Tempter lead US not,
But deliver us from his hands
As the brook or the wild bird singeth,
She prays with an untaught grace
Which peace from the Highest bringeth;
And, looking upon her face,
The doubt of the skeptic wingeth
Abash from the chamber-space,
When on childish lips is the blessed sign
So dear TO our longing KEN
The kingdom, the power and the glory Thine
Forever and ever. Amenl
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

A MAN is doing the Lords work when
he is faithful to his employer-does a
fair days work; when he takes proper
care of his health; when he governs his
temper; when he is careful to speak the
exact truth; when he is courteous to
strangers, and lends a helping hand to
the needy; when he has word of en-
couragement for the responding; when
he sets an example of industry and hon.
esty; when he returns good for evil;
when he leads such an upright, benevo
lent, God-honoring life, that men take
knowledge of him that he has been with
Jesus. Religion does not consist solely
in reading tie Bible, praying, attending
church and laboring for the conversion
of Lien. These are important duties,
but they not include the whole of duty.
Gods will has reference to every act of
our lives
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

MANY people are forever seeking to
find out what God alone can know; what
he never intended they should know,
what they may rest assured they never
can know, and what would not be of any
advantage for them to know. Not being
able to fathom the unfathomable, they
become anxious and unhappy, and are
apt to think that they are shut out from
the kingdom of God. One of the great
est blessings one can possess in this
world is the gift and application of cons
mon sense in tie treatment of spiritual
and supernatural things. There is a
vast amount of uncommon sense, but
that is poor stuff.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
No REPUBLICAN paper was ever NOR,

! No REPUBLICAN paper was ever more
severe upon the Democratic party thar
the Democratic Chicago Times, as quot
ed below:
THAT which goes by the name of The
Democratic party is manifested only in
the forms, terms and methods of an elec
tion machine. II is not formation OF
electors around any undecided political
question. 1t is not a formation of rep
resentatiyes around any political ques
ton. Though it is name applied tC
a majority of representatives, it is not a
union of that majority in any political
purpose. 1t is not party that guides
directs or controls the representative de.
cision or political policy of the Nation
on any public question. 1t is not the
governing party. The proof of this has
been furnished by fatal division among
the representatives of its name on every
public question of Importance that has
entered Congress since majority ap
peared there cenfessing their election by
its machine.
at is an organized fraud. 1t is hypo-
critical sham. 1t is a name of conjura-
tion to capture the votes of electoral fools
for the profit of Office seeking knaves.
The knsves that conjure by it are of ev
cry political color. race and tribe, as well
as nondescripts. They are protectionists
and free traders; civil service reformers
and incorrigible spoilsmen; progressive
Liberals and reactionary Bourbons; {;
demagogues on every side of every pub
lie question, united in nothing but
habit of seeking their personal advance
ment by methods of fraud.
when Randall and Morrison, protec>
zionist and free trader, entered the same
church. sat lovingly in the same pew,
subscribed to the same pretended arti-
cles of faith, they knew that they were
playing before the country game of de-
ceit. When the foremost free trader
and the foremost protectionist united to
place in the Speakers chair man who
would place them where they could most
effectively divide the pretended govern
ing party against itself. they knew and
he knew that it was a proceeding of po>
litical dishonesty. The consequence was
what every rational being foresaw. Did
they not intend the rational consequence
of their performance? 1t can not be
said that they were so feeble of under
standing as not to perceive it. They saw
the effect in the preceding Congress, and
seeing it, proceeded deliberately to rer
peat the game of fraud in this Congress.
again the country witnesses the same
result; witnesses the cumulative proof
that that which goes by the name of
Democratic party is not political part :,
nor body of representatives capable of
party government; but ring of place
hunting gamblers on popular credulity,
cooperating only to prevent party gov
ernment and to maintain an embargo on
political progress"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

BEsTow thy youth so that thou mayest
have comfort to remember it when it
hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and
grieve at the account thereof. While
thou art young thou wilt think it will
never have an end; but, behold, the long
est day hath its evening, and thou shalt
enjoy it but once it never returns again.
Use 1t, therefore, as the springtime,
which soon departetb, and wherein thou
oughtest to plant and sow all provisions
for long and happy life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

A FRAUDULENT issue of over half a
million dollars of canal bonds, made 80
years ago, has just come to light in Phil
adelphia through the confession of an
official who "squealed" when conceal
ment was no longer possible because the
bonds were becoming due. There was
as much dishonesty to the square acre in
''the good old times" of thirty years ago
as now, but chances of concealment were
better.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

THE Lewiston, Maine, Journal claims
that John F. Chase, of Augusta, is the
most wounded man of the war of the
rebellion. He was in the Fifth Maine
Battery, and never had a scratch during
three years, in which he was in every
battle in which his battery was engaged
until Gettysburg. where he received
forty-eight wounds. He is credited at
the Pension Bureau with more wounds
than any other soldier now living.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

EVERY man has a paradise around
him till he sins and the angel of an ac'
eusing conscience drives him from Eden
And even then there are holy hours
when this angel sleeps. and man comes
back, and, with the innocent eyes of a
child. looks into his lost paradise again,
through the broad gates, at the rural
solitudes of nature.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

THE Senate, by a two>thirds vote
passed q bill over the Presidents veto
but the bill stuck in the House. AL
though the necessary two-thirds in its
favor was not secured, the affirmative
vote was 161 against 81 nays, which is
not an enthusiastic endorsement of the
Presidents position.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

ONE of the most pronounced of the
Democratic editors of the State is Mr.. L.
Harper, of the Mt. Vernon Banner. He
has an article in his paper of this week
under the head, No Case Against Senar
tor Payne" which contains the follow
ing:
THAT money was spent freely among
members of the Ohio Legislature, at the
time Mr.. Payne was elected U. s. Sena>
tor, has been very clearly established by
unimpeachable testimony; but all at
tempts to directly connect Mr.. Payne
with this shameful business have proven
utter failures. No one that knows Hen
ry B. Payne will believe that he is capa'
BILE of being party to bribery and cor
ruption but that he was the unfortunate
beneficiary of the transactions of men
who had plenty of money and were de
termined that Mr.. Pendleton should be
defeated at every hazard, there is no
manner of doubt.
ut is to be hoped that this Ohio Sena
torial election will teach the people a
lesson that will long be remembered.
No man that has accepted money as a
consideration for his vote for Senator. OF
any other business, should be returned
to the Legislature again. He should be
branded with the mark of Cain, and
Stunned by all honest people. Ohio can
not afford to follow the example set by
the Pacific and other States, where seats
in the Senate we're purchased by unscru-
pulous millionaires. There must be
honesty in politics as we'll as everything
else. Boodlers and Doodle practices
must be stamped down into the EARTH"
Mr.. Payne did not personally buy the
Democratic members of the Legislature,
but others did it for him. is this the
sort of vindication the Payne men want? ?
Is this satisfactory to the Senate? Are
the Democrats of the Senate solid upon
this proposition ?-Cin. Com. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

MURDERERs have liberal chances OF
escape from penalty in Texas, but horse
thieves are doomed. A couple of depu-
ty sheriffs stopped train and scared
the passengers into fits while going fol-
a couple of horse thieves on board, but
they fetched out their men, one dead and
the other dying.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

MAKE thy recreation servant to thy
business, lest thou become slave to thy
recreation. When thou goest up into
the mountain. leave this servant in the
valley; when thou goest to the city.
leave him in the suburbs, and remem
Der the servant must not be greater than
the master.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

IT is only those who have character
and principles themselves that are quail.
ilied to praise character in others. What
does it avail for a deceitful man to
praise trutbfulness in another, for a
mean man to commend another's liber
ality, for swindler to shower plaudits
on one who is the soul of honor? II
any one would give praise worth having
he must know of what he speaks about
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER's bill pro-
posing a 25 per cent reduction of the
salaries of Cabinet officers and Congress
men will not be pleasing to the stern
economists who have been cutting the
pay of clerkships, but it puts the matter
of retrenchment on basis OF equity that
will be acceptable to the people.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

TOMORROW may never come to US.
We do not live in tomorrow. We can
not find it in any of our little deeds. The
man who owns blocks of real estate and
great ships on the sea. does not own a
single minute of tomorrow. To-mor'
rowl 1t is a mysterious possibility, not
yet born. 1t lies under the seal of MIDI
night, behind the veil of glittering con-
stellatiouS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
Belmont County onIcIaI Director.

Common Pleas Judge-St. Clair Kelly.
Probate Judge-Issac 81. CASTOR.
Clerk of Courts-Wm. B. Cash.
Sheriff-Leroy G. Sedwick.
Auditor-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-Edward L. Feeley.
Prosecuting Attorney-N. K. Kennon.
Recorder-W. 8. Hobbs.
Commissioners-Morris Cope, VIM Berry
John G. Israel.
Surveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-P. o. CriswelL
Infirmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, Johr
Kintner. VIM. Lodge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

THE New York sun has brought thr
political ghost of 1876 out again. aud pro-
u, sPs Ia run il iUr Lne Presidency in
1858. 1t says Tilden could win where all
others would fail, and intimates that he
is prepared to make the campaign.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

THE stage from Fairfax to Westford
Vermont, is driven by Joseph Root, a
man who it is said will be 100 years old
next March. He drives eighteen miles
a day and rarely misses trip. Mr.. Root
has been stage driver for forty years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
-NITED PRESBYTERIAN OHURCH.
Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. NJ.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on OF be.
fore full moon.
W. D. BUMGARNER, W. NJ.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y.
CT. OLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca.
tions, first Friday of each month.
F. d. BAILEY, q. P.
j. B. MEYER, Rec.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a, r. & s. M.
ID Meets second Tuesday of each month.
G. W. CARROLL, T. l. NJ.
]. B. MEYER, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 90, K. T.
month. ]. B. RYAN, E. G.
J. B. MRyER, Rec.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
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 2 pm
Strangers welcome to all services.
M ETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1MRev. W. H. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m. Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday Z
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday IN.
Strangers are cordially invited TO all our
services.
LIMITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
~ Rev. Thomas Bslph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, 2 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, 1886-07-08

"WHY does marriage make men
thonghtfulp" asked young lady of an
old bachelor. "Well, l suppose it is be-
cause they are continually wondering
what's going to happen next?"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

Without beautiful hair no woman is beau.
tiful; is yours falling off or faded? The loss
is vital; Parkers Hair Balsam will preserve
your hair and give back its gloss and youthful
color; clean, elegant, perfect; prevents dand-
ruff. 71-1m
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

In Pitts day, during the war with
France, it was penal to the extent of
five hundred dollars to part with an En-
glish newspaper to q FTenchman.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

A woman who has been put under
treatment at San Antonia, Texas, for
dementia, has delusion that she is the
Presidents bride.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

Tobacco is used in some form or other,
1t is stated, by 5S of the 20 United States
Senators, and only few members of
the House abstain wholly from its use.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

THE appellation of gentleman should
never be affixed to mans eircumstan.
ces but to his behavior,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

Times chariot wheels make their car
riage road in the fairest face.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
.BeIn0ntChT0nlCIe
w. A. HUNT,
Editor and Proprietor.
Published Every Thursday
Terms Of Subscription:
Two Dollars Per Year In Advance.

If not paid within the year 25 per cent will
be added for each year it remains unpaid.
ORFIoE-South side Main street, nearly op-
poeite Public School building.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS
Iss5-e-BeImont County, Ohio.

ISSO-O-ocAuhOnt OOuulys UAAlO.
I'd Saturday of Feb at st ClairsviIle.
I'd Saturday OF Mar at GAINESVILLE
I'd Saturday OF April at s. Clairsville.
I'd Saturday OF May at Belloire.
I'd Saturday oil June at Morristown.
st. Olairsvtlle at close OF Institute in Aug.
RULES.
Examinations begin at O'Clock O. m.
Tesu monials of character are required II
Certificates will not be antedRted nor exs
tended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given
at close Of Institute ONLY.
Certificates Will be dated and issued by the
Board in adj ourned session on Saturday fols
owing each examination.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A nrst-class Is years. certificate is granted
upon an average ofSO per cent, including three
higher branches and the scnool law, with no
grade below rs, provided applicant has bad 30
months experience n teaching.
A secondsclass a years. certificate is grant,
ed upon an average OF so per cent, including
no grade below 70. provided applicant has had
"a months experience in teaching.
A third>class g years. certificate is granted
upon an average of IS per cent, including
one higher branche and the school law, with
no grade below IS. provided applicant has had
10 months experience in teaching.
fourth-cass q years. certificate Is granted
upon an average of rs per cent. including the
school law, with no grade below so, provided
applicant has had Il months experience In
teaching.
ffth-class q year, certificate Is granted
upon an average of IS per cent, with no grade
below So.
r. ALEXANDER,
LII WATTERs. Board of E1.
s>Sly J. A. HENDERSON,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-07-08

st. cIaIrsviIIe Professional Cards.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

times in rapid succession. The first
goal was made in seconds, the second
IN 1851, and the third in 2:1S An ex-
hibition game followed, but the Milwau-
KEGS couldn't find the net, and the Ra-
cines made three more goals in %
seconds, ISL, and liz, the total time
for the six goals being minutes and
AZ seconds. The games with the Mil
yankees do not count in the champion
ship race, but the referee, Harry Wal
lace, decided that the Janesvilles had
forfeited the scheduled game to the Ra-
cines, and awarded it to the latter by
score of 8 too. A special train was run
from GAINESVILLE to Racine, and a large
of lovers of the game were pres
ent. The GAINESVILLE club has challenged
the Racine team to play i've games for
81 900, the GAINESVILLE team, as consti-
tuted and played in GAINESVILLE on the
9th inst, against the Racine team as
constituted and played at Racine; the
games to be played at the Riverside
park, GAINESVILLE, at such times as may
be agreed upon by the managers OF
both teams.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
500

Acres of choice farming land, entire in one body or
IN parcels OF from forty to one hundred and sixty
acres, fine arabic and meadow and-the centre ofthe
tract lying equidistant two and onehaf miles to the
station of the @. & N. W. r. R. or the c. Mil a ST.
Paul r. r. are now offered for sale-the owner from
increasing years, not feeling longer able to handle
it.
This valuable property reaches within one mile of
the City of kenosha, Wisconsin. and produces be.
sides the grains cultivated in the region immense
crops Of hay ffOm natural meadows in addition hay
ing upon IL several flowing springs of the purest
water. 49,
There is dwelling house, several barns granaries
and sheds, and wood ordinarily sufficient for farm
purposes, and depots of coal fuel lumber &c. easily
reached from the Kenosha harbOr. The we'll known
" Deming" or -" Waldo farm of one hundred and
sixty acres is part of the property.
This Is fine opportunity for Stock for Dairy
man to secure base of operations, as the advan-
tages are rarely equalled and cansot be surpassed
Markets in every direction. Four or five populous
cities in close proximity and everything desirable to
sustain farming enterprise.
1t is so situated that it can be subdivided into
smaller farms-and is offered in parcels at CORES
ponding prices, and will be sold to suit.
On sale part of the purchase money can be secured
by mortgage on the land purchased at a low rate of
interest. Applyto sly. BRANDE,
Dealer in Real Estate Kenosha. Wis,
Or HARVEY DURKEE, the owner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
MARKETS.

Apples 100000.
Barley, No. 8, 45c extra No. 8, SOC;
No. 2. Soc.
Beans-$1.0 0@1.5O for hand-picked
Butter-Old and low grades unstable
choice to fancy, 18922c creamery, 22@
25c.
eese-70123c. for new full cream.
Eggs-18@20c.
Corn-Ear, 22@25c shelled, 45c.
Oats-24@26c.
Flour-Washburn's patent spring,
$3.50 Minnesota, 1915; do, straight,
1925; Simmons. Arndt & Co.'s Sunny
side, 1925; patent. 1915; o X, $5.25
Lentz & Funck's fancy family. $4.75.
Beef, $2.50@4.00 per cwt; calves, $500
@7.0O per cwt., live weight lambs,
$1.5O@2.5O each sheep, $2.75@3.50
per ewt: dressed hogs, 4.50@4.75.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19

The New York Commercial Bulletin, in
recording the months fire losses, says
a. AS to the fires in January, we find
there were 20S fires recorded in our
columns where the reported loss was
$4,000 or more. Their destructiveness
aggregated SIC, 25O, 900, to which we add
the reasonable estimate Of 81, $50, 900 for
smaller and unrecorded fres-making
$12, 0o0. 900 as the total fire waste for the
month in the United States and Canada.
This is g, 600, 600 more than the average
loss in January during all the period of
which any trustworthy statistics have
been gathered. As the record from our
files shows, there were in January SO
fires where the reported loss was be-
tween SIC, 600 and go, 600; AZ between
sc, 900 and $50, 600; So between $50, DOC
and 5000; II between $4,000 and
N5, 900; Ii between $75, 900 and $780,
600; z between 100000 and 5000, 900
and 9 where the loss reported was 5000,
coo and upwards"