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

The Farmers Institute.
The Most Successful Yet Held.
The Large Hall Packed With People.
Interesting and Spirited Discus
sions of the Road Laws and
The Wool Tariff.
Eloquent Lectures by DR.. Man
chester, Rev. J. w. McGregOr
and Gen. s. H. Hust.
REGULATIONS AND MUSIC.
Hon. John MCDOWell'S Interesting EX-
hibit of Wool, and Plea
For a Tariff.
Mr.. PARSONS ENTERTAINING TALK
ABOUT THE COW.
Unprecedented Attendance and Absorbing
Interest in the Proceedings,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-02
4 SSIGNEE'S NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has
been appointed by the Probate Court of Belmont
county, Ohio, Assignee of the estate of William ii.
Hilyer, aSsignOr Persons indebed TO said estate
are required To make immediate payment, and
those having claims against the same will present
them dnly verified, for settlement.
224t WARREN HOLLISTER, Assignee
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-02
AFTERNOON SESSION.

The committee appointed the previous
evening. through Mr.. RE. -Giflin, report
ed the following officers for the Belmont
County Branch Centennial Commission:
President Hon. A. It. McKelvey.
Secretdry-.J. w. Nichols.
TredSurer-IIenry Morgan
EGecattice COmmittee-Dr J. w. Hol-
lingshead, -. W. Emerson, j. B. Nc
Mechan.
After some discussion the report was
adopted
Mrs. Ella Snyder, of near Barnesville,
read an essay under the caption "A Far
mer's Wife's Experience" in which she
related many amusing experiences, and
presented useful thoughts to her hearers.
Secretary BOnham, of the State Board
of Agriculture, was unable to be present,
and sent i'll his stead Mr.. Parsons, an ex-
perienced dairyman and cattle-raiSer of
Franklin county, who lectured upon "The
Cow" Mr. Parsons spoke in converse
tional tone, but his dry humor and his
apparent thorough knowledge of his sub.
ject together rendered his talk very inter
esting, even to those not directly interest
ed in the subject he was discussing. He
started off with the declaration that the
COW is the most useful animal given by
God to man. She is spoken of in the
Bible, and the Hindoo from the remotest
times has treatedSher as a sacred animal
He gave the result of experiments as tC
the best food for cows, and with great
earnestness insisted that the best thing
! to offer them is kindness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-02
EXECUTOR'S SALE
OF REAL ESTATE.
Saturday, February 95th, 1888,

In pursuance of an order of the Probate Court o.
Belmont county, Ohio, will offer for sale at public
auction, on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-02

Eloquent Lectures by DR.. Man
chester, Rev. J. w. McGregOr
and Gen. 8. H. HuSt.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
INTERESTING TO WOMEN.

THE election OF the wife Of Senator
Blair to be trustee of the New Hamp-
shire Normal School Is said to be the
first instance of a woman being chosen
to such position in State institution.
The Northern Christian Aduocdte is
doing excellent service for equal rights
by opening it columns to the discussion
of woman suffrage A late number had
five articles on the question of woman's
rights to the ballot
Mrs. GENEVA ARMSTRONG, mem
ber of the faculty of Elmira Female
College, an artist of merit, and fine
singer and musician, has patented an
adjustable trough for stock cars, by
which animals in transit can be readily
fed and watered.
In the New York Legislature bill
has been introduced to amend the act
for the founding of State Women's
Asylum, by providing for thirteen wo-
men members of the governing board;
bill also to raise the legal age for
marriage to eighteen for males and fif-
teen for females.
Mrs. FISK, wife OF General Clinton
B. Fisk, organized the first relief soci-
ETY. in war times, opened the first school
for freedmen in the Mississippi Valley,
and taught it herself in Arkansas, di-
viding her time between hospital and
school. She worked, journeyed, and
nursed the sick and wounded all through
the war.
WHAT is unbecoming in a woman is
equally so in a man. Fatherhood de-
mands as much of purity and honest
worth as motherhood. Napoleon once
said France needed mothers. America
needs fathers-fathers in the homes OF
the land whose lives are as ideal and
beautiful as those of the women they
love.-Dcs Moiaes fIa.) Nal.
Miss MARY MWARDwELL, daughter oi
Judge Wardwell, of Buffalo, n. Y. is one
of the young women who took fellow
ships at Cornell this year. The pr0fes-
sor Of mathematics Is reported to have
said that he had believed /. was men
tai impossibility for woman TO com
prehend mathematics until Miss Ward
well convinced him 70 the contrary
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
HINTS ABOUT QUILTS.
An English journal Breaks Lance
Defense of Patchwork.

An English journal Breaks a Lance in
Defense of Patchwork.
In these days of art decoration and
superior needle-work, patchwork is
looked upon with horror by great
many people, but not so by all, for in
all village industrial exhibitions, fancy
bazars and charity sales, this branch
of handiwork is always well displayed
in many forms and varieties. 1t is u
source of deep pleasure 30 many sick
person or crippled child, and though
the Lady Bountiful may try to raise
the standard, she can not eradicate the
much-admired, highly-prized patch
work, Since crazy patchwork came
to us, in all its wild vagaries, from
America, many have been the imita-
tlons of it, and some have been most
ingenious. AT recent village show
Of work, child's cot quilt was sent in
for exhibition, composed of crazy
patchwork on one side, with every
single piece ornamented with some de-
vice in colored silks, while the otner
side was of scraps of velvet of every inn
aginable color, arranged in the diamond
star design. It was wonderful speci-
men OF industry and perseverance-the
work of young milliner in her spare
time. Another bed coverlid, recently
seen in the room of young girl, was
in crazy patchwork, but the colors
were restricted to gold, white and
cream. All were worked with gold
tiloselle and Joined together with a
feather stitching of the same. The
popularity consisted in the pieces be-
ing all worked by herself and her
friends in half yard square sections.
Several friends worked one section,
inscribing their names on one scrap,
their favorite flower or some device
on others, adhering all the time to
the gold filoselle. Every section was
neatly Joined. and when the quilt was
complete, band of gold-colored
plush, about quarter OF yard wide,
bordered it all round The lining was
of gold-colored sateen. The effect
was extremely good and the study of
it most amusing. This may be hint
to some patchworker. Very many
years ago it was the custom for set
of friends to work, in fine cross-stitch,
squares of canvas, which were after
wards joined to form the border of a
cloth or velvet table-cloth, owned by
one of the number; and bride used
sometimes to get her friends to do this
as memento of the years of past
friendship Many old ladies have.
doubtless, some relic of their youth in
this style, so that the idea is not a
novel one; it is but, as so many things
are now, a revival.--LoRdoR Qaes-s.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Progress of Ideas Respecting the Speak
ing of Women In Public.

Progress OF Ideas Respecting the Speak
ing of Women In Public.
1t is perhaps twenty years since Miss
Charlotte M. Yonge, in one of her nov
els, described meeting of the gentry
in a certain neighborhood, to discuss
measures for the relief Of large num-
Der of poor families suddenly rendered
homeless by flood or fire. After several
more or less impracticable projects
have been started, lady gets up and
proposes a plan so much better than
any thing previously brought forward
that it is adopted at once. But all the
refined characters in the story are DIS
gusted with her effrontery in making a
suggestion herself in a mixed gather
ing. "Why did she not speak of 1t pri-
vately beforehand to one of the gentle
men, and get him to propose itp" they
say; and the author is evidently OF
the same opinion. 1t is only about
fifty years since the clergymen of
Massachusetts, united in that famous
Pastoral Letter." warning their con-
gregations against the dangers which
seem to threaten the female character
with widespread and permanent injury
because Of the public speaking OF wo-
men. And now we have had one OF the
very standard bearers Of modern con-
servatism ON the woman question, maxi
ing speech to a mixed audience, and
other standard-bearers in the same mis-
taken cause listening to her with entire
approval. The "bleeding feet" of Abby
Kelly and the Grimke sisters have
snoothed the way, and any woman now
may walk in 1t. 1t was a striking illus
tration of the fact that
"Where the vanguard camps to-day
The rear shall camp tomorrow
What will the radicals and conserva-
tives be fighting about fifty years hence,
when the voting of women has become
as much matter of course as the pub
lie speaking of women is to-dayP 1t
would be interesting to know. What
pity there is not some kind of telescope
through which we could look into the
future, as an ordinary telescope enables
us to look into the distance! But we
can only "hoe our own row. and leave
posterity to hoe theirs. Alice Stone
Blackwell, in Woman's Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
The Proper Basis.

Under growing pressure of enlight-
ened public sentiment, something has
been done to remove the wrongs under
which women suffered through the evil
ind unjust discrimination of the law.
But much still remains to be done in
this direction; and the demand for we'll
balanced justice will not be satisfied un-
til the fundamental assumption of the
superiority of the man over the woman,
and the headship and the authority OF
the husband over the wife, shall give
place TO view of the political and per-
sonal equality of the sexes which shalt
furnish a better basis for the adjust
ment of their rights. Christiam Regis
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
HUMOROUS.

Hens do not live to be old for the
reason that they are killed and sold
for spring chickens rs soon as they
lose their teeth. N. o. Ricayttne,
She" "Why do you take such an
interest in politics, HenryP" He
Because, my dear, [ have so much
principal invested. ~ Washington Post.
-Annoying-"1'he trouble with
pa" said Mrs. Bentley, sis that he
let's little things worry him. He was
mad this morning because the baby
kept him awake all night. ."-Harper's
Bdzar.
Next to the small boy on the front
seat at baseball game, the most re-
markable case of absorption we ever
saw was that of a cat which stepped
on some floating sawdust in mill
pond with the impression that it was
solid.-0nce a Week.
Don't fret john" said Mrs.
Virgins. You've lost nearly every
thing you had in the world, l know,
but remember you've still got me. "
"Yes," said John, with another heart
felt groan. That's Just what l was
thinking. journal Of Education.
Proprietor Ito recently engaged
waiter)-"You will have to go; can't
keep you" New waiter-''What' S
the matter?" Proprietor-''When-
ever customer asks you if the fish is
fresh you get red in the face. You'd
break up the whole bus mess in short
time. ."-Teras Sytings.
-"How many sons have you?'
Three, and two Of them are right
good boys" whats the matter with
the third9'' '.Well. you see, Tom and
Bill stuck to the farm and worked
hard but Jim he went to the city, and
he's never done lick of work. y
.What business is he IMP" Hes q
champion of the laboring man. Lin.
cola Journal
Attorney Ito colored witness1-
''Mr. White, l understand that you de
tected discrepancy between the two
statements made to you by the pris-
oner" Mr.. white-''No, sab. / didn
tee no 'screpancy. What / said wu'
dat de fust time he done tole me h
crib dat ham. an de mex time h'
saycd he nebber saw de ole piece ol
meat Draks ssss=5as5se.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Oberlin College gets $50, 600 by the
sale of the Maplewood property in
Pittsfeld, Mass, which was generously
donated to it several years ago.
The largest salary received by an
American bishop is that of the bishop
of New York, which amounts to $10,-
600 year. The bishop of Maine, who
receives $1,000, has the smallest.
AT Juju, Africa, the converts have
erected a house of worship for them
selves, and the two leading heather
priests have thrown aside their idols
and left the idol l-house to decay.
One hundred years ago the Pres
byterian church consisted of 17S min
listers and $4,000 communicates. The
last minutes show that there are now
1854 ministers, 6,436 churches and
696, 757 communicates.
There are now in this country at
least thirty institutions to train men
and women for distinctively Christian
and church work among the Germans.
The greater number of these are sup
ported by the Lutherans.
Miss Emily Phillips has given the
American Philosophical Society IS, 900
to establish the Henry M. Phillips en-
dowment fund for essays on general
Jurisprudence The annual income is
to be awarded for the best essay on
general Jurisprudence.
Since the Methodist bodies in Can
ada were united several years ago,
their polity has been more nearly
Presbyterian than Episcopal or Con-
gregational, so much so that the SUBJ
ject of the union of the Methodists and
Presbyterians is by no means consid-
cred hopeless. The Methodists now
have no Bishops" but "Superin-
tendents."
The Christian at Work prints a
list of sensational topics announced by
American preachers, and says they
compare favorably. with dime novel
titles. Here are few of the sermon
titles ''Boycotting the Dead" "The
Great Oil" 'Straight from the Shoul-
der" Hell, and the People Who Are
Going There, Taken BY the Throat" "
Use Your Eyes" "Of Goes the
Roof" "Up Comes the Man."
In the past ten years the increased
enrolment in the public schools of the
United States was nearly 32 per cent,
while the children from six to four
teen years of age increased but 20 per
cent. In the South Central Division
the increase in children from six to
fourteen was about 80 per cent, while
the increased enrolment was nearly
100 per cent, and the increase of ex.
penditures was about "a per cent.
The Pacific Garden" mission Of
Chicago is in one of the worst neigh.
borhoods of this city. 1t has been in
operation eleven years, and the annual
report just issued shows substantial
vitality. 1t provides services every
night in the week and on Sunday
mornings. These services have beer
attended in the eleven years by some
600, 900 people of various races. Ii
one meeting representatives from thir
teen different nationalities took part
Thirty thousand have in that time pro
fessed conversion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
One Dollar Per Year.

gentleman, or q woman eny less OF
lady. Ihope may never vote II 1t Is
going to make me Indifferent to the
claims of any man who Is weaker, or
wearier, or much older than myself,
upon my generosity and gentleness.
Chivalry the desire to defend sthe de-
fenseless and help those lh needs not
confined to one sex"
Through the open door heard Buo
remark: "It's no use arguing with
girls; they'yes always some way OF get
ting round it." And Mr.. Elderberry
responded at does lock little like
that."-Bel 7histlcthwnite, IN Toronto
Globe.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The late Mrs. Sheridan Knowles
was an earnest member of the Baptist
church, as was also her distinguished
husband, the dramatist.
e. p. Roe, the dead novelist, once
sawed nine cords of hard wood in orr
der to pay for his fathers subscription
to Horace Greeley's paper.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the author
of Robert Elsmere." is an Australian,
having been born at Hobart. Her
father. Mr.. Thomas Arnold, held an
educational position in Tasmania,
where he married the daughter of Gov
ernor Sorell.
Mrs. General Custer is social fa-
vorite and fine-looking, impressive
woman, with voice as mellow and
refined as it is commanding; and there
is but very little in her personality to
indicate how much she has undergone.
John Bright never commits a
speech to memory He merely makes
notes and leaves the words to come
when speaking. Occasionally he writes
short passages, and almost invariably
his concluding words or sentences.
MIR. Gladstone seldom refers even to d
note, and never prepares single
sentence.
Mrs. Kate Upson Clark, whose
name is now seen so frequently in cur
rent literature, is a witty little woman
cf thirty-five or so, with d husband,
three boys and domestic tastes. Her
favorite costume is the Mother Hub
bard, and she thinks it combines all
the virtues that aesthetic and hygienic
reformers are looking for.
Mrs. Mona Cairo, who started the
discussion on sis Marriage FailureP"
spends most of her time on large es-
tate in Hampshire, dividing her time
between experimenting her farm and
performing literary work on a type
writer. She is the author of two or
three novels, and is as bright in con-
versation as she Is radical on all social
questions.
Lord Tennyson is not, as some
people believe, enshrouded id im-
penetrable gloom, for he has relaxed
again into social gayety Of a mild type.
The poet regards Mary Anderson with
an affectionate interest and considers
her "a living, breathing poem." Dur
ing her recent visit to the poets home
in New Forest, she was appointed high
priestess of his Lordship's pipe. She
filled and lighted it for him, and had
conferred upon her the title of Min
istering Angel of Tobacco"
Mrs. Mary Bryan was born and
reared in an isolated home in Florida,
without school advantages. Married
at fourteen, she began writing when
not more than fifteen years old, and
before she was eighteen she was edi-
tor of a political tri-weekly. A year
or two later she took full editorial
charge OF the Sunny South, a weekly
story paper published in Atlanta, and
kept two serial stories constantly
running, in addition to her editorial
labor.
Archbishop Cranmer's library,
which was one of the finest collections OF
fifteenth and sixteenth century litera.
ture has lately been discovered after
having been long entirely lost sight
of. Besides numerous manuscripts,
267 printed books have been found in
the British Museum, twenty In the
Cambridge University library, eight
cen at Lambeth Palace and five in the
Bodleian Library at Oxford. Many D
the bindings are engraved with Gran
mer's monogram and inter-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22
n LEE WE'RE ONLY oLADNEss.

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uearts -. S. sne .,' uoa . p'
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We ran ~ wrongs and pray tnat God
"ni rignt earth baleiul badness,
ou' shouid we not DOW meath the rod,
an" nnu the good OF sadness'
Js not dav ,,,a 80, ,..,
II ever ,o,,ows go
What eves n,ora .a,r ,t .,o, s-,n.,
Bv tears as w.,, a. Ianahtsrs '"'' '''s"'
The pressrt,s ,s,n ana trnnh,o .
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ZONES iortn without alloy
ny soul .nat pears tne cross OF woo
anu tchs tne saooest story
On earth, IN heavens peace snail know
Inc heignts OF love ana glory.
Ths, 4, no.
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22

-She--'Mr. Faintheart, did you
read that sad case in New York where
that poor girl died from heart disease
on receiving proposalT He
"fes, it was sad" She-"Very,
indeed What made it more in
teresting to me was the fact that the
doctor examined my heart only last
week aud found it perfectly sound. :"
Before he went home one chair was
amply sufficient-1erre Haute Express.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-11-22

Miss Lucy Larcom was an Illinois
schooi-teacher In pioneer days,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23

Notwithstanding Mr.. Blaine, the
most sagacious and popular leader of
the republican party, has said that his
name will not come before the national
convention, the party is in no way dis
concerted nor thrown into confusion,
as were the democrats in 1880 when S.
J. Tilden announced that he would not
be candidate for the presidency.
Tilden was about the only democratic
leader of his day, and his declination
left the party very much in the condi-
ton of an army without anyone COM
petent to lead it. But, fortunately, the
republicans are abundantly supplied
with men competent to lead it to
victory, and when the convention
meets in Chicago in June, there will be
a dozen names presented either of which
if nominated, will carry the party to
victory in November.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23

Eight hundred newspapers are pub
lished in Kansas, and the result is that
Kansas is the best advertised and con-
sequently the best-known state in the
Union. Each paper has on an average
a circulation, counting in all the
smaller publications both daily and
weekly, of about 600. This would make
100000 subscribers. Suppose that
each subscriber during year should
send to three different friends or rela-
tons outside of the state in the east,
west, north or south, copies of his
home paper. This would inform l .44O,-
600 strangers about Kansas and her
wonderful facilities and growth. No
wonder Kansas is the center of immi-
grafton, and the newspapers OF the
state deserve a great share of the cred
it for this very gratifying fact" ich-
tia Beacon.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-23
ABILENER EFLECTOR.
Thursday, February 1888,
RICHARD WARNe, Business Manager

The coal miners strike that has
caused so much trouble in Pennsyl-
vania for the past month seems in a
fair way of settlement. The represeD-
tative of the labor men presented a
proposition to the coal company, which
has been accepted. From this distance
it looks as though the laboring men had
been the losers and that matters stand
very much the same as they were be-
fore the strike, except that the laborers
have lost their wages and some of them
their positions. Strikes so far IN this
country appear to have resulted dlsas-
trously to the strikers.