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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS F. q A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, or before full moon.
J. b. MEYER, Sec'y +. d. BAILEY, w. NJ
ST. CLAIRSVTLLE CHA PIER, No. Il, Royal
Arch MdSOlls-S Stated convOeatiOns first Friday Of
each month.
j. b. MEYER, Rec. F. ID. BAILEY, ii. ii.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. q s. NJ
Meets second Tuesday of each month
j. Il. MEYER, Secy. j. B. RYAN, I. ]. NJ
HOPE COMMANDER, No. &c, Il. T-Stated
-conciayes. first Tuesday of each month.
J. b. MEYER, Sec'y J. B. RYAN, Z. c.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

y WESTERN critic of the Democratic
party says that you never can tell wheth-
er it is going to play the lion or the
donkey. This is not happily put. The
late Edwin Forrest used to say: 81
pla- Lear, and pla ay Othello; but,
sir, am Hamlet" So. in a similar way
it would be proper to say of the Demo-
cratic party, it tries to play the lion, but
it is donkey, whenever it essays that
character, which is frequently.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

TRUE modesty is ashamed to do any
thing that is repugant to the rules of
right reason; false modesty is ashamed
to do anything that is opposite to the
humor of the company. True modesty
avoids every thing that is criminal; false
modesty every that is questionable.
The latter is only a general undetermin-
ed instinct; the former is that instinct,
limited and circumscribed by the rules
of prudence and religion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE Ohio member of the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee,
which has just been formed, is Beriah
Wilkins, of the Sixteenth District. Be
riah's Repatriation at Washington as
being able to control ''boOdle" in unlim-
tied amounts, weighed nightly in ia
vor of his appointment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16
DELMONT COUNTY DIRECTORY,

Common Pleas Judge-John b. briggs.
Probate Judge-Isaae ii. CASTOR.
Clerk Of Courts William b. Cash.
Sheriff-Oliver F. FOulke.
Auditor-R. X. Barrett.
TfeasuTer-GeOrge Robinson.
Prosecuting AttOrney7jesSe W. HOllingwOrth.
Recorder-JOhn NJ. Beckett.
COmmissiOners-Mo Cope, William J. Berry,
John c. Israel
SurveyOr-C Chalkley Dawson.
COrOner-A. NJ. +. Boyd.
InfirInary Directors = Burget McConnaughy,
president; William Lodge, clerk; John A Clark,
auditor.
Superintendent Infirmary John SdebOttom,
East Richland.
Superintendent Children's Home-Peter Gifiin,
BaueSville
School Examiners-L. II. Walters, St Clairsville;
II. ]. Peck, GAINESVILLE; s. C. Murphy, Pitcher.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

MAST has excelled himself in a small
cartoon in Harpey's Weekly last week,
representing Mr.. George W. Childs with
the Ledger under his arm, which is evi-
IDENTIFY his pride and comfort, and with
his upraised arm quietly but decidedly
rejecting offers of office, from Mayor to
President, which are pressed on him.
The expression of content with the
Ledger and with the power and profit it
brings is perfect, and so is that of firm
ness in his decision.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

GOD appoints to every one of his crea-
lures separate mission, and if they
quit themselves like men, and faithfully
follow the light which is in them, with
drawing from it all cold and quenching
influence, there will assuredly come of it
such burnings as, in its appointed mode
and measure. shall shine before men,
and be of service constant and holy.
Degrees infinite Of lustre there must al
ways be, but the weakest among lis has
gift, however seemingly trivial, which
is peculiar to him, and which, wOrthily
used will be gift also to his race for
ever.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE adulterated lard investigation by
the Senate Committee on Agriculture at
Washington shows that most of the 'pure
leaf lard" sent out from Chicago and
other hog packing towns, contains 25
per cent. of cotton seed oil and stearine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE fiat has gone forth that fifty-nine
Republican ''rascals" in charge of light
houses in Michigan "must 60" The
Democratic Congressman from Michi-
gan have presented their demands to
that effect, and Secretary Fairchild has
agreed to set the official guillotine at
work forthwith. The greater part of
these lighthouse keepers are Union sol
diers with short supply Of legs and
arms, of soldiers widows, and the pay is
small. But that makes no difference.
There are scores of hungry and thirsty
Democrats who need these places, and
the old veterans and widows will be
turned out. The only wonder is that
they We're not kicked out before this
time. They were probably forgotten in
the mad rush for spoils of more profit
able kind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

u, and June o. and at Flushing at close of Institute
in August, 1888.
RULES.
Examinations begin at O'Clock A. NJ
Testimonials of character are required if appli-
cant is not known to Board.
Certificates will not be antedated nor extended.
Tests in the higher branches will be given at close
of Institute, and at the February examination At
st. Clairsve. The passing grades obtained Will
he added to certificates secured at either the JAN
uary or the March examination. and if grades are
sufficient, the time of such certificates will be eX-
tended
Certificates will be dated and issued by the Board
in adjourned session on Saturday following each
examination.
Envelopes furnished by the Board. Applicants
pay return postage
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A nrst-cass @ years. certificate is granted upon
an average of 80 per cent, including three higher
branches and the school law, with no grade below
75, provided applicant has had 30 months expert
encc in teaching.
A second-claSs a years. certificate is granted up
an average of 90 per cent, including two higher
branches and the school law, with no grade below
40, provided applicant has had "A months expert
ence in teaching.
a third-claSs % years. certificate is granted upon
an average of 75 per cent, including one higher
branch and the school law, with no grade below
G5, provided applicant has had 1S months expert
ence in teaching.
fourth-class q years. certificate is granted up
on an average of 10 per cent including the school
law, with no grade below GO, provided applicant
has had II months experience in teaching.
A fifth-class Il year. certificate is granted upon
An average of 65 per cent. with no grade below IS.
l.. II. WALTERS,
ii. L. PECK,
$. G. MURPHY,
9-sly Board of School Examiners
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE truth is, when we are under any
ailiiction, we are generally troubled with
malicious kind of melancholy; we only
dwell and pore upon the sad and dark
occurrences of Providence, but never
take notice of the more benign and
bright ones. Our way in this world is
like walk under arrow of trees, check
cred with light and shade; and because
we cannot all along walk in the sunshine
we therefore perveSely fix only upon the
darker passages, and so lose all the COM
fort OF our comfGts. We are like fro
ward children WIN, if You take one of
Their playthlngs fom them, throw away
all the rest in spie.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

BISMARCK plainly states the policy Of
Germany on at least one important point
the prime necessity of keeping Cen
trail Europe united against possible
French and Russian aggression. Ger
many, Austria and Italy are evidently
to stand or fall together as long as the
Iron Chancellor controls the position of
the three powers. As for the rest of
Europe, peace is to be maintained if
practicable without too much trouble.
but war is not to be feared
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

A BILL is pending in the Ohio Legis-
lature to prohibit persons engaged in
any business from offering money prizes
or anything of value for the purpose of
securing sales.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

MONEY buys certain grade of ser
vice, but that which is at all worthy the
name can come only from good will. 1t
is not the people who buster at their at
tendants, flout and abuse them, and in
sist always upon asserting their wills
and their position who are best served.
a kind bearing often effects more than
exorbitant wages, as has been said so
many times that the world ought by
this time to have learned and needed it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

VIOLENCE ever defeats its own ends,
Where You cannot drive you can almost
always persuade. A gentle word, a
kind look, good-natured smile, can
work wonders and accomplish miracles.
There is a secret pride in every human
heart that revolts at tyranny. You may
order and drive an individual, but you
cannot make him respect you.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE breath of a chronic catarrh patient
is often so offensive that he becomes an
object of disgust. After time liberation
sets in, the spongy bones are attacked,
and frequently entirely destroyed. \ con
stant source of discomfort is the dripping
of the purulent SecretiOns into the throat.
sometimes producing inveterate bron-
chitis. which in its turn has been the ex-
citing cause of pulminary disease. The
brilliant results which have attended its
use foryears past properly designate Ely'S
Cream Balm us by far the best and only
cure. 29-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

As THE most generous vine, if it is
not pruned, runs out into many super
fluous stems, and grows at last weak
and fruitless, so doth the best man, if
he is not cut short of his desires and
pruned with affections. Ifit be painful
to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me
be pruned, that l may grow, rather than
be cut up to burn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

How PROUD an Ohio Democrat must
feel of the course his party has taken in
this State for the past five years! Not
only has it been guilty of crime, but it
has stif1ed the warning voices of those
of its own organization who sought to
stay corrupt ways and methods and
threw them overheard that the thieves,
forgers, and bullot-box suffers might
have full sway. Old Durbin Ward, Sen
ator George H. Pendleton, and Allen G..
Thurman were sacrificed for Doodle, but
the latter two may yet live to see them
selves amply avenged in manner emf
nently satisfactory to them personally,
as well to the outraged moral sentiment
of the commonwealth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE root of good breeding is care for
others, not for oneself. Good breeding
is the perfume of unselfshness. If
we think of what others would like
what we should desire in their place
we must of necessity be well bred. If
we think only of our own desires, we
are Just as much of necessity i'll bred, no
matter what our social status.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

"GIvE me the name of some really
poor family that ton of coal would do
a heap of good" said a well known law
to an Edgls representatives one very
cold morning in January. The name
was handed the lawyer and the coal
was landed in widows cellar before
noon, and she does not know who order
ed it and said, IL always knew that the
Lord would provide" The lawyer is
one of the best counsellors in the city
PoughkeepSie Edgie.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE more honest our intentions are
the less suspicious are we of others de-
signs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

CHEERFULNEss is the best promoter
of health. Repinings and murmurings
of the heart give imperceptible strokes
to those delicate fibers of which the vi
tai parts are composed and wear out the
machine. Cheerfulness is as friendly to
the mind as to the body.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

SINCE time is not a person we can
overtake when he is past, let us honor
him with mirth and cheerfulness of
heart while he is passing.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THERE are no fragments so precious
as those of time, and none are so heed
lessly lost by people who cannot make a
moment, and yet can waste years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

THE more our animal nature is curbed
and restrained, the greater becomes the
souls supremacy over it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

IF the sacrifices to virtue are often
hard to make, it is always joy to have
made them; and a person never repents
having done good action.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

JUST in proportion as a man becomes
good, divine, Christlike, he passes out of
the region of theorizing, of system-build-
ing, and hireling service, into the re-
gion of beneficent activities.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

CALL that mind free which protects
itself against the usurpations of society,
which does not cover to human opinion,
which feels itself accountable to higher
tribunal than mans, which respects a
higher law than fashion, which respects
itself too much to be the slave or tool of
the many or the few.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

MEN are every day saying or doing,
from the power of education, habit and
imitation, what has no root whatever in
their serious convictions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

NOTHING is more enfeebling to any
one than to be assured of his weakness
nothing more injurious to character
than to be constantly reminded of its
defects. 1t is that which we desire
rightly to perpetuate on which we should
dwell; that which is most deserving of
honor should receive the emphasis.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

TIE Government should arrest every
man whose name is appended to the
dOctOred statement of the Cincinnati
Metropolitan National Bank. Directors
of banks who sign sworn statements and
then plead the baby act are even worse
than the officers who knew they were ly-
ing. Let it be once and for all settled
that the man who takes an oath as Di-
rector of bank is expected to direct,
and if he fails to do so he will be held
responsible to the creditors of the bank
for not performing his duty. There are
stockholders of mOneyed institutions
who insist that their names be among
the Directors and would feel offended
were they voted out of office. who don't
pretend to give day in year to their
trust, and when misfortune overtakes
the bank they plead ''that their health
was bad" or their business affairs pre-
vented them from giving the bank any
Very well, then, let such
men pay for the losses, and bank fail
ures will be thing of the past in a very
short time.-Pitts5uTyh Com.-Gaz.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

A WORD, or the want of word, is a
little thing; but into the momentary
wound or chasm So made or left, throng
these thrust wider and
wider asunder. till the whole round bulk
of the world may lie between two lives
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

TIE cloud which appeared to the
prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds
and storms, but it was environed with
golden circle, to teach us t,,a' TIE storms
of affiictiOn, which happcl 10 Go,rs clil-
dren, are encompassed wliiI Ilis s,.tt..ess
and smiling felicity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

ONE month in the school of aff1iction
will teach thee more than the great pre-
cepts of Aristotle in seven years; for
thou canst never judge rightly of human
affairs unless thou hast first felt the
blows and found out the deceits of
fortune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

WORDS are good, but there is some
thing better. The best is not to be ex-
planned by words. The spirit in which
we act is the chief matter. Action can
only be understood and represented by
the spirit. No one knows what he is
doing while he is acting rightly, but of
what is wrong we are always conscious.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

EVERY human soul has the germ of
some flowers within it; and they would
open if they could only find sunshine
and free air to expand in. Not having
enough of sunshine is what ails the
world. Make people happy and there
will not be half the quarreling or tenth
part of the wickedneSs there is.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16
New Series, Vol. %, No. 7.
THE INDIANA CONTEST.

Mr.. White retains his seat in Congress
and Judge Lowry steps out. There were
| forty-seyen Democrats who refused to
follow the lead of the Democratic ma
jority of the Committee on Elections.
LOwry's was about as bad a case as has
ever been presented to the House of
Representatives. He was defeated by
White, in Democratic district, by a
majority of $500. Then he discovered
that the court before which White was
naturalized had failed to record the fact,
and his contest was based entirely on
that. There was no doubt of Whites
naturalization. He has lived in Indiana
for thirty-four years, fought in the war
of the rebellion, and he became a citizen
more than a quarter of a century ago.
Mr.. White not only swOre to these facts,
but they were not disputed. Lowry in
sisted that he should be seated because
some court officials had neglected to
make record of the naturalization. The
people of the district had declared that
they did not want him to continue to be
their representative. Even the Demo-
Gratis showed that they did not want him
for some thousands of them voted for
White. And yet Lowry had the impu-
dence and the dishonesty to go to Wash
ington and ask Congress to give him
what the people of his district had re-
fused him. And this is not the worst of
it. The Democrats of the State of In
diana endorsed him. They insisted that
the State should be redeemed" by cheat
ing White out of the seat to which he
had been elected. There was apparent
ly only one Democrat in the State, Mr..
Bynum, of Indianapolis, honest enough
to protest against the intended outrage
Lowry found the majority of the Flee
tiOns Committee as eomplacent as the
Indiana Democrats, but there were
enough of the party to defeat the scheme.
The country is not prepared to accept
Indiana Democratic tactics.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

CHEERFULNESs is just as natural to
the heart of a man in strong health as
color to his cheek; and wherever there
is habitual gloom, there must be either
bad air, unwholesome food, improperly
severe labor, or erring habits of life.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

One reason for the increased atten-
dance at Franklin College New Athens.
Ohio: Boarding, room, and books, Sl.63
per week. Eft
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

MEN think God is destroying them
because he is tuning them. The vio-
linist screws up the key till the tense
cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is
not to break it, but to use it tunefully,
that he stretches the string npon the
musical rack.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

In asking the Reichstag to increase
the army by the hundred thousands,
Prince Bismarck says Germany desired
peace, but that for self-preservation she
must increase her military strength. In
asking its Budget to increase its militia
ry power, the Minister of Austria says
that peace is the one wish of Austria,
but that the war tendencies of other
European Nations make an increase in
its military power absolutely necessary.
France assures everybody that if there
is one thing above all others she cher
ishes it is peace, but that in order to
prevent her neighbors from eating her
up, she must keep million or so men
ready to take the field at a moments
notice. Russia says ''me too" and does
likewise And so on all along the line
of European Nations. How long they
can afford to continue to support hun
dreds of thousands of their ableSt and
most active men in ,dlenesS. remains to
be seen, but it cannot be long. The
wealthiest Nation that ever existed,
could never long survive the drain upon
its resources that European countries
are now subjected to.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16
TELL the good news to the suffering

TELL the good news to the suffering
At last is remedy found, lit.
Which might have saved, had they known
Many who'er under the ground.
Tell of the "FavOrite Prescription"
Bid hopeless women be glad
Bear the good news to poor creatures,
IIeart-Sick, discouraged and sad
"Female diseases" so terrible in their
effects, and SO prevalent amOnga all classes,
can be cured by the use of DIR. Pierce'S
FavOrite Prescription.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
1sss. BELMONT COUNTY. 1855.

Examinations will be held at st. ClairSville on
January IA, February Ii, March 10, April IA, May
II, and June O. and at Flushing at close of Institute
in August 1888.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-02-16

"Well, then, good-by. Got ter go in
now an make up ther mail"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-08

The business in State issues covered by
sales of Tennessee Is, new series, at 63 ana settle
American sold t34l at lo2 IL, broadway (2OOj
at 290, and Fourth National 40 at lab l-2
THE DAY IN Tie BOND MARKET.
The business in railway bonds was restricted
by the limited offerings. The market ruled firm.
Erie second Us rose TO 81 II. Philadelphia ana
Reading first preference rs were firm al 50, the
seconds at as "a and the thirds at 60 IA. and
the general Is rose to 49,. reference is made 10
our lull report OF bond sales TO- -
In the unlisted department. Of the Stock IN
change, Cotton Oil certificates were largely dealt
in at advancing figures; they sold (3s,2OO at
81 3-4a54a53a53 7-s, against 81 3-s yesterday
Chicago Gas sold 1900 at 4oa39 3-4a4C "a,
against AZ LA last o eIen nG at DIs' and pre
ferred ulO) at 10a20, Toledo Peoria ana western
Il 9O) at j s. Brunswick Company 800 at H. ana
Buffalo Iron (400) at Sc IL Lease 20;
For a Friday, when loans made at the StOcK
Exchange must ran till the next Monday, money
was unusually easy at 2a2 II per cent win the
business about evenly dlVided between 'he '"o
The Clearing House statement to-day was as
follows: Exchanges, sl2e,O1s,o53; Dalahces
The Sub Treasury today WAS debtor TO the
Clearing House s2,i53421. The business of the
Treasury for the week 6q ended d 1onsnt 'n
sSl, 5G44g9; leaving the general balance 40
Il o. 1876 237, against 81 90, 7Y9 iOl November 49,
showing an apparent loss of S3464. But deduct
ing from the payments II 1000 ana from the
receipts 81 &. 900 for items which Affect only
It's accounts with the General treasury, us gam
ne affecting the banks is SIl3 536. And this result
includes the payment Of sl,a75,O00 for purchased
bonds and receipt of $3.50, 600 for exchange on
Southern and Western Sub-lreasurles. Today
operations covered Receipts, S4,3I GA; pay
ments s5s21 $50: with balances OF sloO'4oV'-
O67 coin and Sl5,307,l 30 currency.
REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON.
The United States Treasury at Washington re-
ceived to-day $4,000 National bank notes LOT
redemption. IL,
The customs receipts were si75,463 and the
internal revenue receipts were s4l6,4ll.
To-day's Washington Treasury statement OF
cash on hand and deposits in bank compares with
the figures Of the last previous statement as
follows: -
Dec. g. Dec :. Difference
Net god on hand s202 SOB Inc S24g 5j2
Net silver on nd 24,i27372 %, 144OSJ Dec @S0-oo
Not legal tenders - 90, xo,
hand. 34,50a,2J0 Hs2Il 1O2 Dec -'i' oos
Actual cash in
Tress'y vaults