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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
NUMBER 8.

hibitfng the sale and manufacture of intoxi-
eating drinks, offers an opportunity to win
from among us a prolific source of evil in
many forms; and
Whereas, 1t is necessary that all who are
in favor of such amendment shall work to-
gether In unity and harmony to secure its
ratification at the polls; and
Whefeds The basis of such union must be
unsectarian and non-partisan, so as to in
clude all who favor the Amendment, how
ever widely they may differ in other things,
ReSotced, That We recommend that @ mn
mittees of three persons in each ward OF
this city be appointed to organize an
Amendment League in each ward on the
above basis. And we would recommend
the appointment OF the following gentle-
men as Cen trail Committee, whose duty 1t
shall be to select ward committeeman and
see that ward organizations are promptly
and properly made, viz: Judge j. L. Gram
mer, Chairman; IL. T.. McGregor, N. w.
Beck, A. j. Nash and Geo. w. Fuller.
The report was unanimously adopted by
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
Resolution Calling for an Amend.
ment Convention.

Rev. M. f. Dryden read the fol-
lowing preamble and resolution,
which was also unani mously
adopted:
Whereas, An Amendment to.the Constitu-
ton of the State OF West Virginia, prohi-
biting the manufacture and sale OF spiritu-
GUS and malt liquors az beverage, has
been submitted to the voters OF the state,
and y to be passed upon at the polls in the
month OF November next; and
Whereas, The ratification of said Amend
ment can be secured only by united effort
on the part OF the temperance people Of the
Resoioed, That we recommend the calling
OF a state convention at some convenient
place, not later than the month of March
Tor the purpose of inaugurating non de
nominational, non-partizan movement
that will bring together and unite upon a
the AM ndment, and desire its ratification
at the polls.
After an appeal for the "sinews
of war" by Mr.. Atkinson, Chairman
Finance Committee, and good
collection, the meeting adjourned
with Doxology and Benediction.
All in all the meetings through
out were gratifying success, Civ.
ing new impetus to the cause in
Wheeling, whose inspiring infu-
ence will be felt throughout the
State. 1t is an encouraging and
significant fact that the Wheeling
papers gave unusually full and
fair reports of the entire days pro-
ceedings. Let the good work spread
and grow till the whole State is
ablaze with Amendment enthus-
iasm.
THE SALOON MUST GO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
Tuesday, June 18th, 1888,

At 10 o'clock a. m, the following described real
estate. UO-Eit:
Situate in the county of Belmont and state of
Ohio and in the township of York, and bounded
and described as follows and of which said David
Neff died seized:
Ffrst Tract Situate in the township of York,
county of Belmont and state of Ohio, it being part
of The east hall of the southwest quarter OF section
%, in township 4. of range 3, beginning for the
same at stone at the southwest corner OF said
north portion: thence north 1864 poles TO stake;
thence east 50 poles to poplar tree; thence south
lO6ls poles to a stone; thence west 80 poles to the
beginning, containing 81 acres and 1O3 Perches,
Second Tract-Situated in the township of York,
county of Belmont and state of Ohio, and known
as being part of the northeast quarter OF section
49, township 4, of range 3, beginning for the same
at the northeast corner OF said section where a
rock is marked with three vertical lines; thence
west S1.50 rods to stone on the top OF the hill;
thence south 15' west 77.60 rods to stone on a
sharp point facing the east side of Captina creek
thence south 31z east 104S rods TO stone near the
Christian church; thence north S4li east in the
centre of the road leading to Powhatan Point;
thence with said road south SO east 1872 rods with
the centre of said road thence north SO east 24 6
rods in said road; thence north 659 east 34SSrods
to the section line; thence with the said section
line north 71.0S rods to the place of beginning,
containing 10 acres, roods and 16g2 perches OF
land, more or less.
Third TTdct-Situated In the township of York,
county of Belmont and state of Ohio, and being
part of the northwest quarter of section IS, and
part of the southwest quarter of section g. town.
ship T. of range 3, and in the district OF lands sub
iecJ to sale at Marietta, Ohio containing liz acres
and 159 poles, more or less, and being the same
land decided by John ClitherO and wife to David
Neff,
Fourth Trdct-Situate in the township of York,
county OF Belmont and state of Ohio, and known
as the east half of the northeast quarter of section
a. township 4, OF range g. in the district of lands
subject to sale at Marietta, Ohio, containing 81
acres and 30 hundTedthS of an acre.
Fifth TrGet-Situate in the township of York,
county of Belmont and state of Ohio, and known
as the east half of the southeast quarter of section
"a, township, 4, of range g. in the Marietta land
district containing 81 acres and % hundredths of
an acre.
said premises appraised as follows:
First Tract, S1147.50 second tract S136S0 third
tract, S2949.21; fourth tract S5705O; fifth tract,
$1495.26.
TERMs-One-third cash; e-third in one year.
and one-third in two years, with interest at per
cent. from day of sale, secured by mortgage on
premises sold.
o. e. FOULKE, Sheriff.
By NJ. NJ. SCOTT, Deputy.
J. W. Shannon. Pltff's Atty. std
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
7 EGAL NOTICE.

Hannah B. Irwin and Clarence IRWIN who reside
in Wheeling. West Virginia; Margaret Werlich,
Henry II. Alter, FTances Braekcn ana D. = bisiek-
en- who reside al Blairsyille state Of l'enlSsl
Samuel X. Werlich, Israel Werlich. Mary Ash
brook, Simon Ashbrook- Elizabeth Eley " llllam II
Eley, Susan MOmtZ. iaiueS hounfZ, " llllam =
Morton, Mary J. Morton. and Eta MOrtel- whO
reside at Washington State OF PENNSYLVANIA; Sli-
. san CarOthers. - CarOtherS Annie NJ Werlich,
Margaret Curtis, .--.- Curtis, kaefei L HeTInoii,
- Hennon Clara Moore. ...--. Moore, Lewis
W. Fisher Mary V Nichols and .----- Nichols. ali
of Council Bluffs State Of Iowa ;willi;.n 3 Werlich
Susan High, -. High, Jesse Werlich, Pau &Paul
rich. Louisa ' WoIc3tt. A. Wolcott, sarah E Wei
rIch AlfaFetta Ian. Henry Bal and Thomas H.
Werlich, all OF Monroe, Green county, State OF
WILL TAKE NOTICE,
That on the oath day of April, 1881 Catherine
SNYDER and Matthew Snyder. filed their petition
in the Common Pleas Court OF Belmont county,
Ohio in case number 4S13, against aDOve-nalned
parties and Others praying for partition of the fol-
lowing real estate situate in the City of Martin 5
Ferry in Belmont county, Ohio, to-wit:
Beginning for the first tract at the Intersection
OF Main or Water or First street, with Locust
street, and running with said Main street on the
east line thereof north 43o east 200 feet TO the inter
section of what would be Hickory street If extend
ed thence with the south line of Hickory street so
extended south IA east 6G feet to station; thence
south 43s 100 feet to the intersection of Locust
street; theEce with the northern line OF Locust
street north f7s degrees west G6 feet 10 place OF
beginning, containing one-haf acre, more or less.
Also, for tile second tract, commencing therefor
at the southeast corner Of the above described tract
and running thence south ~ east 40 poles 10 4
post on the bank of the Ohio river; thence up the
said river north J0' east l2.25 poles to stake;
thence north AZ west 5.S4 poles to post; and
thence south 45 west II II pole TO beginning, con-
tanning One-hall acre, more or less.
said parties are required To to answer on or be
fore the I5th day OF June, A. ID. 1858, or Judgment
JOHN s. COCHRAN.
9t,6t ATTY for PIt'ffs
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
MINORITY GOVERNMENT.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE State of South Carolina is ruled
by the minority-the majority beng de-
frauded by system of supervision that
makes the Governor of the State the
Head Center of the Frauduleney.
This is done in behalf of what is call
ed civilization, and among the forces of
civilization is reckoned fraud.
The excuse is that the Republicans in
possession of the State did not behave
themselves well-and that is true to an
extent. The Democrats have not done
well since they came into power, but
they have the divine right of fraud
One of the things done by the minor
ity Government is to provide State
pension law for Confederate soldiers,
and this business is growing in the South
ern States and will soon be a necessary
part of the legislation of each.
Of course, whenever, if ever, the DEM
ocratic party acquires the law-making
pOwer-gains the Senate as well as the
House and the President by fraud-the
State pensions must be assumed by the
General Government. This is one of
the processes of conciliatiOn.
All who object to paying Confederate
pensions and war claims and for emanci-
pated slaves will be bloody-shirt shakers
and sectional agitators and preachers of
the hatreds and revivalists of the horrors
of the war.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17

of statute, the change of a single word
meant millions, and when empires were
given to corporations. He stood at the
summit of his power, peer of the great
est, leader tried and trusted. He had
the tastes of prince, the fortune of a
peasant, and vet he never swerved. No
corporation was great enough or rich
enough to purchase him. His vote could
not be bought "fOr all the sun sees, or
the close earth wombs, or the profound
seas hide" His hand was never touched
by any bribe, and on his soul there never
was a sordid stain. Poverty was his
priceless crown.
Above his marvellous intellectual gifts
above all place he ever reached-aboYe
the ermine he refused, rises his integrity
like some great mountain peak, and there
it stands, firm as the earth beneath, pure
as the stars above.
He was of the classic mold-a figure
from the antique world. He had the pose
of the great Statues-the pride and bear
ing of the intellectual Greek, of the con-
quering Roman, and he stood in the wide
free air as though within his veins there
flowed the blood of hundred kings.
And as he lived he died. Proudly he
entered the darkness or the dawn-that
we call death. Unshrinkingly he passed
beyond our horizon, beyond the twilight's
purple hills, beyond the utmost reach of
human harm or help-to that vast realm
of silence or of joy where the innumera-
bic dwell, and he has left with us his
wealth of thought and deed-the MEM
ory of brave, imperious. honest man.
who bowed alone to death
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
THE LOUISIANA OUTRAGE.

In the parish of Concordia, La, there
were 4,249 resistered voters in 1884,
white and colored, of whom 44S were
whites and 1888 colored. At the cleo
ton the other day the Democratic vote
was returned at 4 4,249 and the Republi-
can vote at AS, or a total of 1884. So
you see that all the darkies (and three
or four thousand of the 44S whites) voted
the Democratic ticket.
However the vote in Concordia, unan-
imous and numerous as it was, did not
equal the unanimity and university of
the parish of Tensas. In that parish
there were 4,160 registered voters, of
whom All were white and 1869 colored.
Well, they too voted the other day, and
the returns show that an even 1000
Democratic votes were cast and not one
Republican vote. So here is another
case where the colored brethren and sew
eral thousand of the AL whites voted
the Democratic ticket.
Madison parish is like unto Tensas in
its Democratic overwhelmingness. There
they had 3,0S1 voters of the African
persuasion on the registry rolls, and 279
whites, and there, by the same strange
metamorphosis, the entire vote, to the
extent of $3.50, was returned solid for
the Democracy. Not one for the Repub-
lican candidate.
This miserable farce is called an cleo
ton, and it is the farce by which the
eight votes of Louisiana are to be count
ed for the Democratic Presidential can
didate this year.
Even the Madison. La, Times a Dem
ocratic newspaper, ridicules the whole
affair as miserable farce. We quote
its remark as follows:
"Only suspension of the law could
produce an unnecessary and exaggerat-
ed majority, and Louisiana and the
Democratic party, if it endorses such
methods, will become by-word and a
reproach. A weapon has been put into
Republican hands to break Democratic
heads, and the heads will surely suffer.
A mistake has been made and it will not
be long before everybody will know it."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBTTERI4N CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander pastor. Public worship every sabbath
morning and evening: Sabbath school 80 a IN.
ynung peoples SOl-iety Of Christian endeav0T Mon
day evenings: general prayer meeting. "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to al services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-liey.
l. III nollingShesid, pastor sabbath preaching, II
a m; y. M: yo;ng people meeting, Mohdal
evenings: general prayer meeting, thursday eve
ningS: men IS meeting. Friday evenings; Sabbath
sc,;ool 30 pan. Strangers cordially invited TO al
serS ices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN fHCRCH-hev.
Thomas Balpi. pastor Sabhaln SCHOOL, 10 m
public worship. IL a. NJ; weekly prayer meeting
FRIDAY p IN. monthly prayer meeting, LAST Halilf-
day of each month, p. IN; woman 5 missionary
society last saturday Of each month, T.. m; dis
trict PRAYER meetings first Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. m
Young women's prayer meeting. second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p IN
AFRICANM. f. CHURCH-Rev-J j. NJ Wilkes.
pastor. Sunday service, 1880 a. ~; p IA; SAD
bath school, 2:.O p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
Saturday, June Cd, 1888,

att O'Clock p. of said day, the following describ-
ed real estate, to-wit:
Situate in the township of Richland, county OF
Belmont and state of Ohio, and known as being
part of the southeast quarter OF section 90 town.
ship 6, of range s. beginning at the southwest cor
of said quarter and thence north SS1s0 east 81
poles to ASH thence north IL west 166 poles to
the mouth of a small drain; thence south SS1R
west - poles TO a red oak; thence -l13e east 166
poles to beginning, containing sc acres.
Also, another tract in section %, township 6, OF
range g. of said county and state, beginning at d
stake, corner to the lands formerly owned by
Jacob Endly and thence north 2o east 80 poles and
20 links to Stake thence east 106 poles to stake;
thence south IS poles and 0linkS to stake thence
west 109 poles until said EndlyS line to the begin
ming, containing 59la acres and 16 poles. Ercept-
ing 10 acres and 43 poles taken of the east end
thereof beginning at the southwest corner of sec
tion 3d. township range 3; thence east 1925 poles
to the northeast corner of section % thence south
by said section line Sc 4S poles to stOne supposed
corner between Lewis Sutton and Levi Dillon;
thence west by the supposed line of said Sutton
north 31s4' east GO56 pOles thence north Ice east
loss poles to the beginning containg 10 acres and
4SpOles
The first tract was conveyed to Levi Dillon by
deed recorded in volume P page 100.
Second tract conveyed by deed to said Levi Dill
lOn recorded in Vol 29 page 1885, and the exception
thereto conveyed to John Bell by said Dillon by
deed recorded in volume g. page 54S of record of
deeds of said county.
Appraised at $780,
Terms-CaSh. o. E. FOULKE, Sheriff.
By M. NJ SCOTT, Deputy.
C. W. Carroll Plff's Atty. Std
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17

Court of Common Pleas, Belmont County, Ohio.
Israel Werlich, plaintiff, as. Hannah EaglesOn,
Mary EaglesOn, Nancy Eagies0n, Mamie Eagle
son. Nancy Alexander, Robert A. Ring, Agnes
Ring, James Lattimer, and theunknown heirs oil
Sarah Lattimer, deceased defendants.
James Lattimer, and the unknown heirs of Sarah
Lattimer, deeed, whose residences are unknown,
above named defendants, will take notice, that a
conditional order of revivOr of the judgment in
above-named action, in the name of A r. Ong and
S. X. Werlich, administrators of Israel Werlich,
deceased, plaintiff has been made by the Court of
Common Pleas of Belmont county, Ohio, wherein
said cause is pending, numbered 1895, the object
and prayer of said cause is the enforcement of 4
judgment of foreclosure of a mortgage rendered
by the said Court of Common Pleas on the oath
day of November 1856, for 81 ,324.4 against coal
lands in Pease township, Belmont county, Ohio, in
said mortgage and judgment described, being coal
land formerly owned by James Eagleson, deceased,
and said mortgage having been given by said james
Eagleson, deceased, to plaintiff, Israel Werlich,
now deceased, in their life-times. That unless de-
PENDANTS show cause to the contrary on or before
the 9TH day OF June, 1888, said Judgment viii stand
revived against them.
412-6t JOHN S. COCHRAN, Atty for Pl'ffs.
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PRINCE BISMARCK is 70 years old.
THE NEW CENSUS.

New York Mail and Express.
The census of 1890 will not be as vol
luminous as that of 1880. This has been
decided by Mr.. S. S. Cox, who will prop
erly have charge of the legislation relat-
ing to the work, and the plan has re-
ceived the endorsement of Gen, T, A.
Walker, the superintendent of the CEN
tennial census. The new census is to
be comprised in seven volumes. and it
is to cost as much as the census of 1880.
which will fill out, when completed,
twenty-five big volumes. Why this
should be SO has not yet been explained,
but there is probably good reason for
it. The valuable special work which
was done in 1880 has been completed
for all time. Gen. Walker states that
much of it was undertaken because the
tenth census was a review of the coun-
try's industrial and social progress dur
ing the first hundred years of the exist
ence of the government. So far as it
goes, however, we have no doubt that
Mr.. Cox will make the eleventh census
the most perfect that has yet been taken.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
THE song OF THE SHIRT

4
THE STARVATION WAGES EARNED BY
NEEDLE-wORKERs NOWADAYS.
New York Mail and Express.
The number of women in this city who
earn their living by the needle is difficult
to ascertain. There are hundreds of es-
adjustments on all the business streets
where sewing is either done or given out
to be done. A reporter for the Mail and
ErpreSs recently asked two sewing girls
what sort of living they made.
"How much are you paid for making
those garments?" asked the reporter.
twenty-five cents apiece"
"How long does it take you to make
garment"
Il do very well if 1 make four day. -
said one.
"But it takes more than ten hours to
make four, work as hard as you will" re-
joined the other.
The garments referred to were thick
wooden jackets. They were wadded, lined
with alpaca and had the appearance of a
garment made by an adept. Tb9 sewing
machine did most of the straight work,
but the buttonholes, putting in the lining,
and other work had to be done by hand.
The seams had been pressed, the threads
picked off, and the garments were neatly
folded and all ready to be sold. Wages
for the making of underwear, and indeed
for all gentlemen's apparel, have dropped
considerably during the past few years,
The pay of the girls who make up the
smaller articles, such as gloves and neck
ties, does not average more than SIS a
week. Many have to be content with
less, and Sc is considered good pay now
adays. Most of the work is done by the
piece. Mems drawers are made complete
for so cents dozen pairs. For the hick
ory shirts that laboring men wear, made
out of striped blue, 55 cents dozen pairs
is all that is paid. Overalls are made
complete for so cents dozen. Striped
calico and white shirts are made for 65
cents dozen. The forewoman fixes the
price and sees that the work is satisfac-
torily DONE If it is not good it is not
paid for. ForewOmen's wages vary from
SIS to $50 week. A button counter
gets SO week during the busy season,
and S6 during the slack time, When the
new shirts come from the laundry she
counts the buttons to see that none are
missing. There is a general rule in fac
tories that those who work there are fined
for being late; cents if they earn $5 a
week and 10 cents if they earn SO.
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z3fl,1tn1tt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, MAY II, 1855.

REV. DIR. JAMES DRUNrI0ND died at
Cadiz last Thursday. He was among the
most famous and powerful of the old
time Methodist preachers. Fifty years
ago he was stationed at St Clairsville,
and at a more recent time filled the N.
E. pulpit here for a few months. His
wife and two sons (Fletcher, who died in
1862, and Captain Thomas Drummond,
who was killed in front of Richmond,
while leading his regiment, the Fifth o.
5. Cavalry, in charge) are buried here.
Their mother died in 1889, and the sons
were buried beside her.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17

GENERAL S. H. HURST, well known in
st. Clairsville, was one of the champions
of women as lay delegates in the Meth
odist General Conference. He failed to
convince majority of the body, but one
of his flights of oratory drew from Bishop
Foss, who presided, feryent and en-
phatic Amen!" A number of specta
tors have ever since been disputing as to
whether the Bishops exclamation meant
approval of General Hurst's position or
delight at his style of presenting it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17

IT would seem strange that our free
trade Democratic friends never think of
reducing the duty on sugar, which is 70
per cent. upon its cost, and last year
aggregated S5S,000,000, while sugar is a
prime necessary and the largest food
charge in every family, and also the
duty upon rice, which is 100 per cent.
upon its cost, did we not know that
these are two articles of Southern Dem
ocratic production, and that the English
hackers of free trade in this country do
not produce either sugar or riee.-Con-
gresham Miliken, Of Maine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-05-17
EGAL NOTICE.

Joshua Young who resides in Ocheltree, John
son county, Kansas, will take notice, that on the
18th day Of April, 1888, Catharine Davies filed her
petition in the Court of Common Pleas, Belmont
county, Ohio in case number, against the above
named defendant, the object and prayer is for the
partition OF the following described premises: Sit
lated in the township of KirkWOOd, county OF Bel
mont and State of Ohio, the first tract being the
west part of the southeast quarter of section 29
township 9, range 6, commencing for the same at
the quarter post of the southwest corner of said
southeast quarter section running thence east 80
perches thence north 160 peTcheS; thence west 30
perehes; thence south 160 percheS to the place of
beginning containing 80 acres. Also, another
tract containing l6 acres it being the north part of
the east half of the southwest quarter section 29
township 9, range 6-the whole containing 76 acres
You are required to answer the petition on or
before the 9th day of June, A ID. 1888.
CATHARINE DAVIES,
419-7t By ii. NJ DAVIES, her Atty