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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP.

A FORMER ST. GAINESVILLE LADY THE
VICTIM.
An Akron, o., special dispatch to the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette of Tues
day, says:
An attempt to abduct the daughter of
Rev. j. H. Conkle, pastor of the Second
NJ. E. Church, became public to-day.
Last Thursday George Snyder, of Co
shocton, Ohio, came to this city and sent
word to Mr.. ConkIe that he was wanted
at the hotel He responded to the mes
sage, and young Snyder then drove to the
house, and having been a claSSmate of
Miss Conkle at CoShocton, and being well
acquainted with her, at once got her con-
sent to take buggy ride. He drove to
Tallmage, Cuyahoga Falls, and then to-
ward Ravenna. Miss Conkle, seeing that
she was being deceived, protested against
going further and asked to be taken
home. Snyder refused to do this, and in
sisted that she should become his wife.
Finally, when in the vicinity of Ravenna
the young lady adroitly Outwitted her
raScally escort by dropping her muff into
the road just as they passed man stand
ing by the road. When Snyder got out to
get the muff the young lady jumped from
the other side of the buggy and called
upon the stranger to protect her, which
he did, and also conducted her to Raven
ma, where she borrowed money to return
home on the next train.
Miss Minnie Conkle, to whom the above
refers, is well known here as the daughter
of Rev. ]. II. Conkle, who was pastor of
the NJ. E. Church in this place few years
ago. She is an attractive and intelligent
young lady, and will have the cordial
sympathy of here acquaintance here,
among whom she was quite faYorite.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
FRoM. oUR CORREsPoNDENTs:
Spring stvles ave hudding.

Spring styles are budding.
Crows registered last week, and are
fully equipped for the summer campaign.
Maple molaSses and tafy are now
ready to pull.
The NJ. DIS purses are growing fat.
1t is probable some of our citizens will
be initiated iii the long procession OF the
busted before the swallows homeward
fly.
The agent for the Standard Oil Co. re-
Gently made his appearance in this COM
munity and leased more oil territory for
post holes and .sich like he will proba-
bly, appear again with the coming of
spring.
The special services of Rev. James
Day, at the Pennington Church are pro-
crossing with indications of great good
being done. The young people are in
tereSted. and eleven of them have al
ready united with the church. There is
a proposition to the effect that Rev. Day
will be called again as pastor of that
church.
The Board of Education will probably
unite the new Sub-school districts at
Barton and Kidd, building the school
house at the junction of the st. Clairs-
vile and Northern railroad, half way
between the two places.
The wool market closed up last week
with a shade below 80 cents a pound.
Mr.. ". c. Wells. of Portland, Oregon,
a nephew of 5. and T. C. Brown, spent
last week in this vicinity; he is exten-
sively engaged in sheep raising; he and
his partner have 1900 fine MerinO ewes.
Wool brings Is cents per pound in the
dirt.
Mr.. VIM. Henderson, a prosperous
granger of Gray's Ridge, is nearing the
shores Of eternity; he has been wrest-
ling with sOftening of the brain for some
time, and his case is considered hopeless.
Mr.. James Beck, who was thrown from
his wagon and seriously hurt, still lies in
a very critical and dangerous condition.
Mr.. Jesse Litten, an influential young
farmer of near the village of Colerain, is
dangerously sick with heart disease.
The Pittsburgh and Wheeling Coal
Co. leased the Ramage mines north of
Maynard, and will operate them.
Mrs. - Franklin died at her home at
Maynard last week, at the early age of
Is, from pneumonia, leaving husband
and three small children to mourn her
loss. She belonged to family of thir-
teen children. of whom twelve now sleep
the sleep that knows no waking.
COUNTRY COUSIN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23

JACOB HARRIS PATTON, author of sew
eral volumes on American history and
industries, has written a volume, just
issued from the press of the Appletons,
entitled Natural Resources of the Unit
ed States," which is full of important
information. The coal field within the
State of Ohio is about 190 miles long,
with maximum width of 80 miles, and
a workable area of 10000 square miles.
The richest coal is found in the vicinity
of Youngstown, and is especially adapt
ed for smelling iron ores. The Mahon-
ing Valley has also vast deposit of
iron ore. The Hooking Valley district
has an area of 600 square miles, and a
thickness of from six to eleven feet.
West Virginia has about 10000 square
miles of coal fields, and in proportion to
size is the richest of all the States in coal,
iron, salt and oil. Between Pittsburgh
and the Mississippi River alone, it is es-
timated there is twenty times more coal
than in the whole of Europe.
The enormous mineral deposits of
the region between the Alleghenies and
the Mississippi River are but scratched
on the surface, and it is bewildering to
contemplate the strides the country will
make in the next century if its resources
are wisely fostered and developed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23

THE proposition to appoint joint
Legislative committee authorized to sit
during the recess of the Legislature to
consider plans for revision of the tax
system of the State, and to devise plans
to secure more perfect listing of per
sonal property, should receive the prompt
attention of the General Assembly. The
present tax system needs revision badly.
Large amounts of corporate and person
al property either escapes taxation alto
together or is listed at mere nominal. fig
ures, leaving the owners of real property
to bear the burdens of taxation. This
committee should be composed of men
who have given special study to the sub
ject of taxation, with practical business
sense, and not of mere theorists, whose
financial knowledge is confined to words.
If it is not possible to constitute a CON-
mittee of men of this class who have the
time and inclination to thoroughly in
vestigate the workings of the tax sys-
TEN of this and other States, then it
would be better to constitute a commits
sion outside of the Legislature, specially
chosen for their knowledge and compre-
hension of the whole subject of taxation,
and report their findings and suggestions
to that body as soon as practicable.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
PANCAKES IN VARIETY

On cold winter mornings pancakes OF
all kinds hold an important place at the
breakfast table. The cherished buckwheat
cake, most prominent of all, from Thanks
giving Day until early Spring, is seldom
absent from the morning meal in the gen
ulne American household. When proper
ly made, this is the most delicious of all
the griddla cakes. but it has been against
1t when made from yeast or risen over
night that it was difficult to make light
and sweet, and that diSagreeable effects
frequently follow its eating. 1t is found
that by the use of Royal Baking Powder
to raise the batter these objections have
been entirely overcome, and that buck
wheat cakes are made a most delicious
food, light, sweet, tender and perfectly
wholesome, that can be eaten by any one
without the slightest digestive incOnve-
nlence. Once tested from the following
recipe no other viii be used: Two cups
OF buckWheat, one cup of wheat flour,
two tablespoons OF 4}+,yr,4 Hrtivfrr=- Powder
one-half teaSpOOnful of salt. all Sifted to-
gether; mix with milk into a thin batter
and bake at once on hot griddle
The pureSt and richest syrup is made
by dlSSolying sugar in the proportion of
three pounds of sugar to one pint OF
water. Many persons prefer the flavor OF
syrup made of Orleans sugar to that of
the white
Rice griddle cakes are very delicious.
The rice is cooked until perfectly soft,
drained dry, mashed with a spoon until
the grains are well broken up. For each
cupful of rice take two eggs, one pint of
milk, one heaping teaspOOnful of Royal
Baking Powder, one-half teaSpOonful of
salt, and flour enough to make a thin
batter.
For hOminy cakes take to cupfuls of
cooked hOminy, and crush it with a pota-
tO-maSher until it is a smooth mass. Add
one level teaSpOonful of salt, two tea
spOOnfulS of Royal Baking Powder. and
one cupful of four Stir together; then
add by degrees one quart of milk. and
lastly three well beaten eggs. Bake in
thin cakes.
Very delicate and delicious cakes are
made be allowing two teasponfuls of
Royal Baking Powder and One-half tea
spoonful of salt to one quart of milk. and
sufficient corn meal, mixed all into a
smooth, thin batter; no eggs or butter
are used for these. The cakes bake quick
ly to a rich deep brown. and are extreme
ly tender and light.
\ very delicious. sweet pancake is made
by taking one pint of sweet milk. four
eggs, two tablespoOrfuls of powdered
sugar, two tablespOonfuls of melted but
ter, one teaspOOnful of Royal Baking
Powder, and flour enough to make a
moderately thin batter; beat the eggs,
whites and yOkes separately, until well
frOthed, stir the butter, sugar, and one
cupful of flour, into which the Baking
Powder has been mixed, into the yOkes.
then add the milk; if needed, add more
flour: bake in small cakes. butter each
one as it comes from the fire, place four
in a pile, with very thin layers of any
kind of sweet jelly between, and powder
ed sugar over the top. They should be
baked very thin and four served to each
person.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.

| FEBRUARY 15.-Sendte-Billsp passed:
5. B. requiring military organizations
and certain drill corps to take oath to
support the Constitution of Ohio and
the United States; H. b. providing for
an additional Judge in the Licking Judi
cial district; 5. B. fixing the term of
| township trustees at three years: H. b.
regulating the rendering of judgments
in justices courts. Bills introduced:
empowering councils of cities and vii
lagos to appoint water works trustees
and fix their salaries; county treasurers
| to state in detail the valuation, rate, per
cent, amount of tax and penalty on tax
receipts; to prevent the spread of disease
among live stock; amending the chill
drens' home law.
! Resolution offered: To investigate
pools and report at the next session.
HO'sSe-Bills passed: 5. b. providing
manner for cOntesting the election of
presidential electors; H. B. making it
compulsory in cities of more than five
Thousand to establish local boards of
health: H. b. to give the natural gas
companies the right of eminent domain;
Fl. b. for labelling and marking convict
made goods manufactured by convicts
in other States.
FEB. 16.-SeRdte- Bills passed: S B.
amending the law relative to the relief
of outside poor; s. B. harmonlzing sec
tionS of the homestead law: H. b. to
prohibit the selling of liquor within two
miles of a Grand Army or Sons of Vet
erans' reunion.
5. J. R. adopted: For the appoint
ment of a joint committee to investi-
gate trusts" and pools" and report at
the next session.
The township local option bill with
favorable recommendation is set for
next Thursday.
House i Bills introduced: For the
holding of elections in new wards with
out councilmen; to prohibit the sale of
cigarettes and tobacco to minors; rela-
tive to the compensation of county COM
miSSioners; Belmont county to refund
court house bonds; requiring two mem
bers of board of education from each
ward in all cities over 10000; requiring
physicians to register; commissioner of
ldDOr SUdJlSJlCS 10 enter SllOlS anu IdC-
tories to secure information: bounty
for English sparrows; Pioneer school
district, Williams county, to borrow
money Bills passed: II. B. for town
ship boards of education to be compos-
ed of one member from each sub-school
district; for the appointment of non
partisan State commission to prepare
series of school books for the common
schools, the same to be published by
contract and furnished at cost.
FEB. II. .- Senate - Bills introduced: |
TO license solicitors the same as peddlers;
a witness committed to Jail to secure
attendance to have fees for time and
not to be confined with common crimi-
nails; giving city solicitors greater au-
'hority to regulate sidewalks.
). j. r. adopted: For a joint com
mlttee to investigate the subject of tax
alon and report at the adjourned ses-
Ho"Se-Bills introduced: For the en-
elpsure of abandoned burial grounds;
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23

for toll-gates in Flushing, Belmont
county; women to vote at municipal cleo
tionS: against the killing of quail for
five years; regulating the practice of
medicine; preventing the adulteration
of milk; to prevent the adulteratiOn of
wheat: amending the road laws; for an
additional bond in appeal cases at cham
bers; requiring certain Incorporated com
panies to report to the Secretary of State
annually; each county to appoint per
sons to visit charitable institutions.
Adjourned to Monday.
FEB. 20.-SeHGte- introduced:
Amending the law relative to the disso-
luton of joint sub-school districts.
HOuse-Senate bill authorizing Co
lumbus to supply deficiencies.
Bills introduced: To create a state
schoOl-boOk commission; amending the
law relating to the care of INDECENT sol
diers; revising the road laws; providing
a new schedule for switching on rail
roads; amending the mechanics lien law.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23

IN the opinion of the st C7aisScf, lie
Gazette the Democratic party receive, the
law and the gospel from President Cleve-
land, and any man who refuse to accent
and abide by the gospel of Z .mocracv as
laid down by the Presider t is not a good
Democrat. Mr.. W. y. -Cowden does not
agree to this, and spe> AXIS his disapproyal
in vigorous terms.
On the occasion. of the recent Farmers
Institute Mr.. Cowden delivered an ad-
dress upon y le relations of wool growing
TO the tariff, in which he expressed deci-
ted dlssP Mt from the recommendations
OF the Presidents message Mr.. Cowden
Is one of the foremost agriculturists of
the State, and one of the most influential
Democrats Of Eastern Ohio. The Gazette
referred to him as former" Democrat,
and in other ways sought to drag party
politics into the matter
Mr.. COwden has replied, in a letter
printed in last weeks Gazette. and a
caustic and conclusive reply it is. He
denies in vigorous terms that the Dem
ocratic party is bound by the utterances
of President Cleveland, especially "when
he writes about an industry of which he
knows, practically, nothing" He quotes
the platform of the convention which
nominated Cleveland, which pledged the
party to take care of the industries re-
quiring protection, and forcibly asserts
that President Cleveland and all other
Democrats are bound by that declaration
until it is set aside by national conven-
ton. at is surely not disloyalty to a
party" says Mr. COwden, "to hold Pres
ident Cleveland to the platform on which
he was elected, and to criticise him when
he departs therefrom" This sentence,
too, has a manly ring, and is approved
by many more Democrats of Belmont
county th;In the Gazette imagines: mo,
sir; you ian not read me out of the party,
at least until another platform is an
nounc ed, and if that platform says free
wool there will be no Democratic party
left in Eastern Ohio" Mr.. Cowden says
if it is said that free wool will promote
the healthy growth" of the industry he
has no reply to make. He then cites Mr..
]. H. Close as authority for the statement
that wool can be grown in South Amer
lea for 10c pound, and the United
States Consul at Melbourne, Australia,
for the statement that it can be produced
on that continent for less than 10c, while
freights are only nominal, and often it
comes as ballast.
In reply to Mr.. Cowden's conclusive
letter, the Gazette prints lot of newspa-
per clippings, which are about as peril
nent to the subject matter as one of the
interesting advertisements of royal bak-
ing powder.
Editorially, the Gazette says: "The
" Gazette does not irish to be misInder-
"StOOd in this aCOol controversy. The Ga
"zette beIieOeS that President CLeoelaild'S
" recommendations as set forth In his mes
" sage are correct" All right, Mr.. Gazette;
let your party make that issue next au-
tumn broadly and clearly, and if Belmont
county does not pronounce against it to
the tune of 1000 or more, we are very
much mistaken in our diagnosis.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23

A BILL providing for reorganization
of the Judiciary of this State has been
prepared. The bill provides for abolish
ing the Circuit Courts -enlarges the pow
ers of the Common Pleas and of Probate
Courts, and of Justices of the Peace, and
gives to each final Jurisdiction of certain
classes of cases.
The administration of justice as prac-
ticed to-day is a reproach to the civiliza-
tion of the nineteenth century. The ex-
pense attendant upon it is, practically, a
bar to justice and a terror to prudent
men. Frequently the courts are him
drance, rather than an aid, in the admin
istration of the law. Lawyers, in large
degree, are responsible for this, and the
courts are by no means blameless. The
late Judge Baxter, of the United States
Circuit Court, illustrated to what an ex-
tent fearless and able Judge can clear
the atmosphere of courts and facilitate
the administration of justice No law
yer with a bad case ever trifled with him
long, nor long delayed business in his
court.
Nine cases out of ten continuanceS can
be avoided if due diligence is exercised
by counsel and client, and, as a rule, they
are resOrted to simply to gain time and
delay conclusion of the case. And then
the wonderful reviewing" by the won
deTful Supreme Court! 1t is not extrav-
agant to say that Kennon, Jr., Cowen,
and Kelly were as good lawyers and as
fair men as the members of the Supreme
Court contemporaneous with them, and
it is fact that they were rarely reversed;
and yet lawyers, honestly beaten in the
Common Pleas, would appeal from their
rulings to court not in any degree su-
perior in wisdom nor integrity, usually
in order to delay the day of judgment.
AS a rule, much better jurors are OBJ
tanned in Justices courts than in the
common IledS. IL Is Il notorious 1acI
that men in all the townships solicit the
Trustees to put their names on the jury
list, and that, because of political or other
reasons, very many unfit men get upon
juries. This defect can easily be cured
by constituting a Jury Commission in
each county, the Commissioners to be
appointed by the court, two from each
of the great political parties, representa-
tive men of the county, and to serve with.
out pay. An act of the Legislature viii
cure this growing evil, and such an act
should be passed without unnecessary
delay.
The difficulties attending a satisfac
tory reform of the Judiciary are great, We
admit; but surely great people of q
great commonwealth have the genius t.
devise the remedies, and the courge t.
put them in force.
Admission to the Bar is much toe
easily secured, and too little attention i.
given to the character of men applying
for admission to it. With greater cart
in this respect, and more circumspectior
in the choice of Judges, judicial reform
will be greatly simplilied.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
LOUISVILLE.

Mrs. Clark Michener, of the east end
is still seriously i'll.
Mrs. Harriet Griffith, of this vicinity
is visiting relatives in Martins Ferry.
The supper given in honor of w.
Moore, of Bethany, on last Saturday
evening, at VIM. Waters, of this place
was attended by few of the elite of
Louisville. AS Mr. Moore is a frequent
visitor to this place, we infer that there
will be wedding in the near future.
st. Valentines daywas observed here
pretty thoroughly, by the way the valen
tines were received.
The White Oak Grove Literary met
last Friday evening. and discussed the
following question: ''Resolved, That MAJ
will do more for the love of woman thar
for the love or money" Affirmative
j. Lester, John Piper, James Hogan
negative, f. s. McMillen, J. 5. Parkln
son, c. p. Dillon. Decision in favor OF
the affirmative. Miss Josie Mckelvey
defamation, IAN Old Bachelor, was
the crowning event of the evening.
r. Hamilton, of Bellaire, is in town
looking out a location for butcher
shop. If he succeeds it will be great
accommodation to our citizens.
The Leap Year party held last frlda.
night, in town, was not much of sue,
cess, owing to the smallness Of the crowd
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-23
THE TARIFF ALCHEMIST.

New York Mail and Express.
Down in the crypt of the Capitol at
Washington there is room with one
window. The window looks out into a
coal-hole, and the coal-hole is lighted
through a grating which is fifteen feet
above the window. All the light that
gets into the room sneaks in after it has
begrimed itself with the dust and cob
webs of the coal-hOle. In this room, be-
hind the locked and bOlted single door
which opens into the Subterranean hall,
is Mills. He is making a tariff bill. The
dusty and begrimed sunlight which gets
into the room in an indirect and Stealthy
way is a likeness of the intellectual light
which struggles into the alchemist'S S
mind. That mind never received full
and brilliant ray into its muddy recesses.
All that has illuminated it are reflected
and crooked rays from the minds of 9th
er men. The alchemist is trying to i'm
prove himself, and to bring forth a
product the making of which requires
skill and learning. Down there in the
crypt Mills is trying to make diScov-
cry. He is not trying to make the phil
osopher's stone; he is mixing ingredi-
ents for tariff bill. He has been mix
ing messes for a good while, but as yet
he has not made anything that satisfies
the various Democratic palates for which
he is working. Sometimes he mixes
one thing and sometimes another, but
each time he is obliged to change the
formula. Down in the old room he is
working with all the industry and ignO-
rance of which he is possessed. We
suppose he wears long dressing gown.
skull-cap, spectacles on his forehead
and slippers down at the heel. He mix
es iron and ore, wool and woollens, salt
and lumber, and the tariff bOils and
bOils, but it won't consist. Then he
changes the ingredients and still it will
not consist. Then he changes the pro-
portions and still it will not consist
The poor old man is as gloomy as the
crypt, and the struggling light is growing
DINNER. Some day he will be told that
alchemy is Old-fashioned and out of
date, and that he is as likely to produce
a tariff bill by experimenting with his
simples and his metals. as he is to see
Faust's black dog circling around him,
but by that time he will be beyond un-
derstanding. Meanwhile, fancy the
emotions of the clear-headed Speaker as
he reflects that he has asked an alchem-
ist of the middle ages to find tariff bill
in a crucible.