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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

THE triumphant conclusion of the
wool conference at Washington will re-
ioice the hearts of all friends of protec-
tion in the country. The advocates of
free trade in wool had hoped to set the
wool manufacturers against the wool
growers by insidiously insinuating to the
former that if wool should come in duty
free they could obtain the raw material
for their manufactures at greatly re-
duced cost, and thus would add largely
to their profits. While thus endeavor-
ing to deceive the manufacturers they
were living by telling the consumers of
wooden goods that if wool should be ad
mitted duty free consumers would get
the benefit of the whole amount of the
present duty being deducted from the
price of the goods. Openly and shame
lessly, but as they thought slyly, they
piled these two contradictory and mutu-
ally destructive arguments to these two
classes of persons. As result they have
deceived neither, and now we have the
gratifying spectacle of both the wool
growers and wool manufacturers uniting
in a declaration that both these great
American interests must receive due
protection, and showing by an unassail-
able array of facts and figures that the
due protection of both results to the ben
eft of both, and that the home competi- |
ton induced between the producers of
woolen fabrics has given good wages and
with lower prices of wooden
goods to American workmen and arti-
sans.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
THERE is being organized an assoeia

TITERE is being organized an asSOcia-
tion of wealthy colored men, the object
being to secure for the colored men of
the South homes in the South American
States, and to relieve them from the
vengeance of the Solid South. 1t is ex-
pected that a million or more will be
colonized next season.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

GENERAL SHERMAN will have an arti-
Gle in the forthcoming Century on "The
Grand Strategy of the War of the Rebel
lion" He demonstrates his belief that,
in the main, the war was prosecuted on
sound military principles. He gives 3
general review of the chief campaign,
dwelling interestingly and with particu-
larity upon his own Georgia and Caro-
lima operations. At the close he remarks
upon the failure of most foreign military
critics to understand the character Of the
war,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

NATURAL gas has been struck near
Marion, o., at a depth of little more than
one hundred feet,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
THE MISTAKES OF MOSES

and Ingersoll, are common topics of con-
versation, but the mistake We wish to
comment on here is the great one so many
people labor under that consumption
(which is really only Scrofuia of the mngs)
is an incurable disease, and that there is
no hope for one suffering from it. This
terrible malady, that yearly fills so many
graves, can be surely cured, if not too
long neglected Be wise in time, if you
are afflicted with it, and arrest the under
mining influence that is sapping your
life-blOod, and hurrying you to an un-
timely grave, by using DIR. Pierce's Golden
fails in its life-giving mission, if taken in
time. All druggists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, in his cam
paign against Lincoln, spoke in front
of the hotel, and oldd2ube was an atten-
tive listener. Afterward he was asked
what he thought of the speech.
"Dat was heaby doctrine" said he
-"de heabiest kind OBJ doctrine But dar
was lots OBJ ign'ant folks dar, Mr.. Hall,
dat didn't understand dat doctrine-not
a bit of it. Dey didn't understand it,
Mr.. Hall, no more'n yOu did. d."-Editor'S
Dratoer, IN Harpe,'s for Fe6.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
NORTHWESTERN TALENT,

st. Paul Globe.
A well known opera manager recently
said that he always liked to get chorus
girls from st. Paul and Minneapolis, not
only because they were prettier than
other girls, but because the singers in
the Northwest had the strongest voices
he found anywhere. 1t may be said with
equal truth that the best amateur dra-
matte talent in the country is to be found
right here in the Twin Cities. We ehave
amateur actors in our midst who are
away ahead of the leading actors of the
New York and Boston stock companies.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
WORTH KNOWING.

Mr.. w. II. Morgan, merchant, Lake
City, Fla, was taken with a severe cold,
attended with a distressing cough and
running into Consumption in its first
stages. He tried many so-called popular
cough remedies and steadily grew worse;
was reduced in flesh, had difficulty in
breathing and was unable to sleep. Fin
ally tried DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption and found immediate re-
lief, and after using about half dozen
bottles found himself well and has had
no return of the disease. No other rem
edy can show so grand a record of cures as
DIR. Kings New Discovery for COnsump-
ton. Guaranteed to do just what is
claimed for it. Trial bottle free at Pat
tersOns' drug store.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

JAY GoULD's latest scheme is said to
be the combination of 10000 miles of
railroad across the continent, from ocean
to ocean, and represent $800,000,000
capital, of which he will be the greatest
single holder. These roads are said to
be the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, the New Jersey Central, the Read
ing, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Rich
mond Terminal, the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton, the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
LET IT ALONE.
Cincinnati Commerciai-Gazette.

NihCihustll
There are some people in Ohio who are
in the habit of demanding ever so many
things in the name of the temperance
sentiment. 1t has not always seemed
clear to us that these people had creden-
tials that entitled them to speak by au-
thority for those who are devoted to the
cause of temperance in its various FORMS
Sometimes one thing is demanded and
sometimes another, but the manner of it
is always imperious, and the assumption
is that the requirements are made by
Omnipotence. If those people had their
way with the Republican party they
would give the State and country up to
the Democrats exclusively for 40 years.
We could give several reasons for not
being in favor of that proposition. Just
now the demand seems to be coming in
the form of amendments of the Dow law.
We have to say there is no public senti-
ment in Ohio in favor of the amendment
of the Dow law that is entitled to the
reverential consideration that the trump
eters blow their horns inculcate. We do
not say that there should not be more
liquor legislation of any sort, but we do
say let the Dow law alone We do not
want the tax increased or the discrimi-
nation in favor of beer as against ardent
spirits removed. Let the law alone.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26
WAS THE ENIBALMER DRUNK?

WAS THE EMBALMER DRUNK?
BallstOn On. " telegram, Jan. 10.
The libel suit of Embalmer Holmes
against Editor Jones, of the Neao York
Times, passed into its second day of
trial with the mercury degs. below ze-
70. The forenoon session was consumed
with expert testimony from rival en-
balmers, each of whom expressed the
opinion that Holmes was drunk on the
day following Gen. Grants death. Dur
ing the embalming process one of these
witnesses said that Holmes, after expe-
riencing some difficulty in introducing
to the body ahypodermic instrument,
said: 'This old chap has hide like a
pig" Thereupon the Mexican Minister,
Mr.. Romero, left the room, saying:-
'These men are not fit to have charge of
this body" Harrison, General Grants
body servant, was on the stand to testify
to the inebriety on the morning of the
embalming. While at the Commercial
Hotel, at Saratoga, Sullivan is accused
of exhibiting apiece of skin cut from the
body of Gen. Grant, and which he con-
sidered to be valuable memento. This
he denied to-day, but the counsel for the
plaintiff claims to be able to prove it,
and such evidence will be produced to-
morrow toward that end.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

AN average of 1873 miles per hour
is claimed to be the fastest time made
in the United States, the p ennsylvania
"limited" making its run from Jersey
City to Philadelphia miles-in ll2
minutes.
GOSSIP in New York legal circles says
that Judge Fullerton's fee in the Ar
buckle Campbell breach of promise case
is to be one half of the verdict of $45, 900,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

RATHER SOUND GOSPEL, TOO.
Boston Herald.
Under the high license system of Min
nesOta, st. Paul has reduced her saloons
from $50 to about half that number
This is the gospel according to st. Paul,
as the Testament hath it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-26

Examinations will be held at St Clairsyie on
January IA, February II, March 10. April IA, MAY
H. and June 9, and at Flushing at close of Institute
in August, 1888.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
ITEMs oF GENERAL NTEREsr.


A treaty Of international traffic by rail has
jus been signed between Chilli and the Ar
gentine Republic.
An English peer, whose revenues have been
reduced, has accepted position as drummer
for pianoforte manufacturer
A British shipmaster at New Orleans re-
ports that while off the coast Of Patagonia
butterflies were blown aboard his vessel at a
distance of $50 miles from the land
Paris is threatened with a battle Of flowers.
The imperialist violet is to be rivaled by the
Boulangist carnation, the carnation being
the favorite flower Of Gen. Boulanger
One Yankee publisher, who uses 5000, 900
envelopes a year, has sailed for Germany
after 20,O00,OO0 envelopes, with which he
proposes to crush the envelope monopoly.
An Albany cattle broker is so much afraid
Of meeting death in violent form that he
cannot be persuaded to ride on a railroad
train or steamboat, or even behind horse.
school for the manufacture of clocks
viii soon be opened at La Vilette. 1t will
accommodate forty pupils, who win pay $50
year for instruction and Sl7 a month for
board.
The newest freak in London hair dressing
is to have a few locks standing up almost
straight on the top Of the head something
after the fashion of Claire in the convent dun
geon, but feathers or flowers are stuck in the
little elevation, and it is considered orna-
mental
An eastern paper tells of the queer way in
which the town Of Orrington, Me-, got its
name. The citizens decided upon tho name
Of Orangetown, and sent their minister to
get an act Of incorporation from the legisla-
ture. The clerk of that body was a littlo
shaky on orthography, and thought "orringn
was the proper way to spell orange The
pastor loved joke, and so made no correc-
tion, but let the word go as written.
It is quite customary when any ono desires
to show how little man knows, after all, to
ask ''who can tell what makes a blade Of
grass grow, or why it growsF But there are
equally great mysteries closer to man than
even that OF the grass For instance, what
man can tell why every man who pays heed
to style is now putting his scarf pin in the
upper left hand corner Of his scarfl Who
first wore his pin that why, or what man or
body Of men ordered the pins worn that wayi
When last scarf pins were worn they were
put in the middle Of the scarf Then, very
mysteriously, they were not worn at all
Now they reappear in this peculiar way.
Lieut. NJ E. Hall, U. S. N, has been ex-
perimenting with an automobile torpedo,
invented by himself, at the torpedo station
in Newport, r. I. The torpedo, which is
made OF aluminium brass, presents some
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
Damage Done by AvaIanches.


We have to g01back for something like half
a century to find in the history Of Switzer-
land and Piedmont any record Of calamity
from avalanches ut all equal to that Of the
recent season. The loss OF life seems to have
been greatest ON the steepeSt southern side Of
the Alps, but the loss of cattle and destruc-
tion of fields and houses on the northern side
has been perhaps greater Some Of the best
known resorts in the Valais have thus suf-
fered. Randa, in the Zernatt valley, has
been destroyed, and in the Saasthal nearly
all the principal villages have been more or
less ruined. The damage done is not confined
to the chalets and cattle sheds struck by
masses Of snow, earth and trees which the
avalanche whirls along, but the injury from
the avalanche blast is still more extensive
Thus, in Saasgrund, where only part Of tho
village is exposed, the other part being pro
tected by an immense pine wood, the unpro
tected portion, which includes the village
church, was shattered by fragments Of tho
avalanche, but the doors and windows Of
every house in the village, with hardly a
single exception, were forced in by tho mere
conclusion OF air, and the same thing hap
pened at the Simplon Hospice
The spray Of large avalanche raises a
snow storm Of such fury as to oblige men
more than a mile OH to run for shelter, Tho
houses which suffer in this way get rapidly
filled with snow, and the cattle, if not got
cut quickly, perish. As Switzerland is SO cs-
sentially tho playground Of Europe, it is to
be hoped that the appeal for aid for sufferers
made by the English Alpine club will meet
with generous response. --LOndUn Observer.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
SAID OF ADAMS SONS.
Bits of Personal Gossip by .he Paragrap
lists of the Daily New papers.

Bits of Personal Gossip by she Paragraphs
lists of the Daily New papers.
John Ruslin has written sixty-four books.
and his annual receipts from his publisher
reach 10000.
Sidney Lanier, the southern poet is to have
"a monument costing $4,000. and Baltimore.
Montgomery and Macon will pay the largest
part of the bill.
Hugh McCulloch, who vas Lincoln's. John
sons and Arthir's secretary Of the treasury,
is So He looks to be CO. reads without
glasses, runs around in society, and he and
Mrs. McCulloch celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary recently.
A venerable son Of Maine and ex-cabinet
minister in Washington is Horatio King,
who was among the founders Of The Port
land Argus. He is nearly 57 years Of age.
He took clerkship in the postofiice depart
ment forty-ninc years ago, and under
buchanan hc became the only postmaster
general who worked his way ~ from the do
partmental ranks. lie is still active socially,
and retains his early fondness for the pen.
Robert c. Sehenck is 20, and is still quito a
well known figure in Washington streets.
He entered Congress foity-hve years ago,
but his last public service was rendered as
minister to England When incidentally he
rendered a little private service to the apt
and eager Britishers in the way Of instruc-
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
LadIes LookIng al q IlattIe.

On lovely spring Sunday some months
ago some English ladies in Suakin mounted
to the housetops and witnessed a thrilling
spectacle in the clear atmosphere every
movement was visible on the sandy plain be-
hind the town, across which Osman Digna's
horsemen, poising their long spears and with
terrific yells, charged furiously, while the
Egyptian troops drawn up in battle array
pour volley after volley into the turbaned
hosts Shells from the gunboats in the har-
Dor hissed over the heads OF the ladies and
plunged into the mass Of advancing Arabs.
The charge was as desperate as tho furious
rushessat Abu Klea, and the tremendous fire
that emptied many saddle did not daunt
tho fanatical courage of the desert warriors.
Then the ladies saw on the yellow sand a
fierce hand to hand fight, soldiers who we're
defending themselves pierced with spears,
wavering Of the charging line, and finally
tho slow retreat Of the enemy, who carried
their dead and wounded from the field as
they sullenly retired.
There was not tree or house to hide a
single detail or 10 impair the vividness Of that
Sunday morning spectacle It cost over zoo
lives, and it was one Of those rare occasions
when non-combatants arc able to sec, spread
out before them as on a stage, the carnage
and all the realities Of battle.-New York
Crla
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
Tho rl,rnnt Trouble scnre.

I was talking to physician the other day
about the kaiser's throat. In that connection
he told me Of serious effect it is having in
this country He said that the constant pub
LEGATION concerning the emperor's trouble,
coming after all the talk the illness Of Gen.
Grant provoked, has caused a general fear
among public men who do much talking that
they may have the same trouble He told
me that since this matter has been so much
ugitated he has had u score Of members OF
congress and senator's come to him to have
their throats examined for cancer Mono
lave actually been threatened with that
dread disease, but he has had difficulty to
convince some Of them that they were not
already beyond cu;'c. Some have stopped
smoking for fear that might produce the dis
ease, and they consult the doctor very often.
As a matter of fact, throat trouble is very
common among the orators in congress, but
it is not of u acancerous character. w Washing-
ton Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
The Cd silver spoon.

How fresh in my mind are the days OF my sick
MISS.
When / ssed me in pam all feyered and sore (;
The burning. the nausea, the sinkiSg and weak
mess,
And even the Old spoon that my medicine bore.
The old silver spoon. the family spoon,
The sick chamber spoon that my medicine
bore,
How 10th we-e my fever parched lips to receive IL,
How nauseous The stuff that t bore Ia my tongue,
And the psin at my inwards, oh naught could re-
lieve H.
Though tears of disgust from nay eyeballs It
Wruug.
The old silver spoon. the medicine spoon,
How awful the stuff that 10 left on my tongue.
Such is the effect Of nauseous, gripping
medicines which make the sick-room a
memory of horror DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, on the contrary, are small,
sugar-toated, easy to take, purely vegetable
aud perfectly effective. IS cents vial.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
neuevs Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley Peterson, Clay Co.. Iowa
tells the lollwiGg remarkable story, the truth OF
which is vOuched for ny the residents OF the
town II am % years Oih. have been troubled
with kidney complaint and lameness for many
wears ; COn'od not dress myself without help.
Now nm Tree from all pain AMI soreness, and
am able to do all my own hOusework. owe my
thanks to Electric Bhters for having renewed my
youth. aud removed completely all disease and
pain." Try bottle, only hOc. al e. W. Mar
shars Drug Store.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
Charms Of Cuban scenery.


Throughout the entire trip across Cubs,
Therever the train halted, in poured dis
NAL troop Of beggars, lottery ticket sellers,
dulceros with oil kinds of sickening sweets,
Of which the Cuban ladies bought freely and
ate voraciously, and peddlers Of glow worms
and beetles, guava, green cocoanuts, and
fresh country cheese similar to the German
schmeerkase. II one alights for refresh
ment, another savage horde Of ''eros." with
ull sorts Of edibles and refescas, are TO be-
battled with; and il a meal mt a cafe is taken,
you are unblushingly charged from 81 to 81
in gold But all these annoyances are as
naught when one considers the glorious
tropical panorama provided in this trip
across the island. The loneliness Of the
northern coastwise country disappears on
leaving Mantanzas, and of a sudden your
train is whirling through veritable natures
garden. Great orange groves are as common
as the pine woods in Maine Vast pineapple
plantations fiji the space between. Here the
view sweeps across the river, valley and vast
reaches Of cane grounds, tie last cuttings
being hurried to the massive and groaDing
machinery with the splendid villas behind,
the whole surrounded by stately coco trees
and the lordly palm. There, for miles,
stretches another valley, plain Of puce and
yellow where tho "last CUT Of tobacco is
being piled by the operarios upon the cujes
or curing racks, or carried from there before
tho dew falls at o'clock, to the great casas
dc tabacis where are other noble houses,
palms and fruits and flowers unreliable.
Here and there are ranches and herds like
the shining horned hosts Of Camaguay, with
mounted vaqueros and monteros and their
wonderful dogs, in picturesque groups, with
tho great palmetto palisaded coralles for the
"round ups and again by these, porticoed
houses and qaintas, like palaces Upon every
stream, at the mouth Of flower imbedded can
yons, set like brown gypsies upon mountain
side, are the poor guajiros' palm thatched
cabins. And everywhere are such luxuri-
ance in soil and forest, vine and flower, that
when you reach the splendid city Of Cienfue-
gos as the shadows fall, and the moonbeams
begin to dance upon its matehless bay, one
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
Aftsr the Rn,l,.

Lett here remark that no bath is perfect
in its results without the long and brisk fric-
ton Of hands OF q coarse towel afterward
Friction not only stimulates circulation. but
it makes the flesh firm and polished like
Parian marble It is sometimes astonishing
to see the change made in an ugly skin by
friction, and any lady who wishes to possess
healthy body, firm to the touch and fair to
tho eye, with the elasticity Of youth we'll
prolonged into age, must give willingly Of
her strength to the daily task Of rubbing the
body thoroughly-Dress
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25

NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
Leave Wilmington at 500 a. IA. and 2.55 D. m.
Leave New Castle ~ 6.85 a. m. and 1856 p m.
DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA BRANCH
TRAINS Leave Harrington for Lcwes Los q.
m, 5 a D. m; returning leave Lewes al o.3h
N. and , As r. m; for Franklin and way stations
1l05 a. m Returning train leaves al $50 a. n.
Express tram leaving Harrington at so a M
and arriving at > "A IN, runs through solid, TO
and frsm Baltimore. via P0rters and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT r. R--Leavo Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 40 "a. IN. and
7.44 D. m. weekdays.
DEL 4 CHESAPEAKE r. Leave Clayton for
Oxford and way stations at 1905 a. M. and III p
m. weekdays.
CAMRRInGE & SEAFoRD r R.-Leaye Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations at 80
a. m week days.
CONNECTIONS AT Porter. with Newark &
Delaware City Railroad At townsend with
Queen Annes & Kent Railroad. AT Clayton. with
Delaware & Chesapeake Railroad. and Baltimore
& Delaware Bay Railroad At Harrington with
Delaware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad AT Sea.
ford, with Cambridge & SealoTd Railroad. Al
Delmur, with New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk,
WicOnicO 4 PocomOke, and Peninsula Railroads.
CnAs f. PUGH, General Manager
J. r. WOOS. General Passenger AGENT
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25
Tearing Down "cracker Castle. ..

One of the most grotesque residences in the
United States, the famous Cracker Castle, :"
IN st, Louis, is soon to be torn down. The
building has been q monument to the folly
Of Charles Pierce, who built it at a cost of
S75, 600 out Of the fortune hemade in furnish
ing the government with hardtaek in war
times There is not comfortable room in
the castle 1t has long been an object of ridi-
cule. Its next owner after Mr. Pierce was
+. c. Sharp, who bought it for $4,000 and
sold it for $4,000. 1t is related that a
stranger once asked Mr. Sharp 'sWhat fool
built that house" "Oh,n replied Mr. Sharp,
Il live there New York World.
Milford chronicle., 1888-05-25

novel features The diving rudder with the
intricate mechanicism common in fish torpe-
does is done away with. The flask contain
ing the motive power occupies eight feet OF
the length OF the torpedo, which is twelve
feet long. The engine employed, owing to
the novel way Of mounting it and its au-
tomatic character, utilities the full expansive
force Of the compressed air In the runs that
have been made tie torpedo developed high
speed, although only one-third Of the maxi
mum pressure was carried, and the diving
device has answered its purpose as far as It
has been tested.