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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08
MY 10 TE.

You'd know what she is like-tho one
call my love?
Ask me an angel to describe-the sun, the
stars;
The calm seas evening smile, lho Silfry
winding stream,
Athwart whose bosom fall the new moon $
golden bars;
Like unto all of these, nay, like a poets
dream
Is she-my love.
How sings my love, you ask :? l know not
how, but when
Her voice is mingled with the evening
breeze, the birds
Arc silent! Ave, is hushed the rustlius
All lister to TN harmonious cad nee Of her
words,
Whose melody could wake tho hear. that
died ofgref--
Thus sings my love.
How laughs my love, you'd know? How
laughs the sunny brook
Whom stirred by od'rous breeze ? How
laughs the waving corn ~,
Whom kissed by smiling skie:: w hen SOFT
winds breathe upon
How laughs the yellow grain in alltnmn's
golden morn?
How laughs the purple vine when bathed
in rip'ning sun?
SO laughs my love.
Nay, ask me not tho light OF her soft a@ure
eyes,
Tho aureoie that hovers round her sanity
brow
TO ,,aiut-to draw the graccly lines Of that
dear face,
Tho sweet proud cl,rvc OF those chastc iirs,
The muses., lost in contemplation of tho
grace
or her-~my love.
-EasUc i'ickAa,N IN Ensio7, Globe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08

tricts, with an eye ON second term,
have great advantage In constiiuep>
cles appeasabie aud purchasabie With
garden seeds and public documents,
which is not iegsl tender among city
politicians. But the trail Of the money
serpent is bsginning to be visible 10
the South, too. There II member
from Georgia whose first election cost
him only $500, and whoee last cost him
$500 aud there Is another from Lou
isians who spsnt nothing tho iisss time,
aud was out OF pocket 5000 the last
time he ram"
'.Suppose poor man geis. q nomiua-
tion, how Is he 10 meet his asseasmsnis
aud pay the costs generally Of elections"
SNOW yoI are asking question that
every man must answee for himself. 1t
you are thinking Of running, however,
I may tell you conadenttaliy that any
man who has cheat OF Z chance Of
success can 6nd = hacker without much
dificully. Many corporations and
manufacturers nnd mortgage on Z
Congressman-e elect about o. good an In
vestment o. mortgage on real estate
or railway bond" ,
nHow about the foreclosure 2"
swell, you remember the topical soue
Ia Nanoa-'1ts q question Of aime."'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08

The New York World thus drops
into poetry upon the death OF Mr..
Crowley, the chimpanzee, who died
last Friday:
Here rost his head upon the lay of Garth.
a youth to fortune and to fame we'll
known;
A tropic sun smiled on his humble birth,
Bnt neutrality-suspicious. mnrke cd him for thoir r
own.
Snatched to a far-off land whose alien
cline
Gave hin dyspepsia, cstarrh and chiits,
Nostalgia did him up, and in his primo
lIe died despite gross of quinine pills.
No parents hero TO wear tho mournin g
Grape,
No sisters here the dropping tail to
whisk,
On that great shaft record of him: "Au A pc,
lie was brother to the Obeiisk Z"
No further seek his lineage TO disclose, ..
Nor draw his frailties from their dread
abode;
His faithful Kitty may solace her woes
BY riding on the same trapeze he rode!
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08
Society Life Fifty Years Ago.

An Intelligent view OF our own
ttmee, which Gomez only by conaparto
son With other ages, may bS much as
sisted by Mr. Walter Bsaaut's we'll.
prepared end iutsresling account OF
"Fttty Years Ago." For ali practical
purposes, the year 1887 is ~ useful for
study as . time In the beginning OF thu
century, for the English world, 1t least,
was 10 all intents aud purposes In the
eighteenth century. The England OF
that day, which Mr.. Besant describes
by statistics, by accounts Of life In the
street, with the poor, the middle class
and In society, had hardly begun to
feel the new stir of thought set In mo-
tion by the French Revelation. Gov
ernment was In the hands Of the few
aud was corrupted by bribery, the peo-
pie having 30 little interest IN the
State that, Mr.. Besant daree to assert,
trus loyalty to the sovereign was uu-
known. In time when there were
40 telephones or telegraphs aud when
the first railroad was only In process of
construction, life may have beesn aim.
pier, but II WAS also more dillicult, Que
Of the most effective parts Of the review
Ia the destruction of the Idea that there
was more leisure and calm In The eigh.
teen century than In the supposed hur-
ry and drive Of modern life. Labor
was incessant, houis Of labor extending
often far into the night. Legal penal
ties for slight Oiianses were severe. "I
see hatred Of the church, hatred Of the
governing class, hatred Of employees
whore, with all these things, is there
room for leisure 90 asks the writer.
Que Of his most interesting chapters,
that treating Of the middle class, shows
that there was certainly more mouoto-
ny In those days, when only the rich
travelled aud when class distinctions
were 80 strict that people could not
know one another. 5
In 10 age which produced Gladstone,
DlsraelI, Thackeray, Dickens, George
Elliot, Browning and scores of other
famous men aud women, there are
many opportunities for brilliant portrait
sketches, aud 1t is plain enough that
the earlier years were richer than the
present Ia famous coteriss. Where IL
the Holland House, and where tho
Gore House Of to-day? Are there any
salons, or recognized centres OF literA-
ture? Mr.. Besant says that there arc
none, and he falls 10 find any great
takers like Sydney Smith aud Mscau.
lay. The last fihy years In England
are represented a. time OF com merciHl
progress, the poor having grown much
better OIL. They have better education,
more tuxurtes and political power.
There has been an upward movement
in all classes but in the decay Of the
agricultural Interest tho Suthor sees y
threatening danger which may put an
end to all England, and may even be-
the ruin Of Great Britain. - Boston Jour
! nal #.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08

1t is sad commentary on the iusvati-
tude Of the snasses that while the Re-
publican party Is posing as the only
iriond OF the working men the iaborers
OF New York decline to support Labor
Importer Morton and the laborefs Of
Indiana are bitterly opposed to Chinese
Harrlson.--iN, Louis Post Dispatch.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08

President CievelaDd's recent message
has attracted attention in France.
French newspapers sre busy explaining
to their readers that Cauada is large
body OF water filled with valuable fish,
and that the quarrel turns upon the
ownership Of Three Mile Limit, an
island which lies near the mouth OF
River Montreal.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08
In the Cups.

The dawning sunshine lay golden
Upon the heSrt Of the year, -
Tho flowers had their cups upho1den
Each holding atiny tear.
- ErchunOe.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08

eve have met late-i' is too tnto to
meet -ihopH'"9.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-09-08
4 N G E L,

ny FANNIE MAY TROUSDALE.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
CONDITION VERSUS THEORY.

Cleveland Leader.
According to the annual report of the
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, just is
sued, our exports of woolen goods have
increased 35 per cent. since 1881. Dur
ing the same period the exports of cot
ton goods have decreased s per cent.
There is tariff on wool while on cot
ton there is none. One of the main ar
guments of the Democratic free traders
during the recent campaign was that we
needed free raw materials in order to in
crease our exports. That was their the
Ory. The condition, as revealed by the
statistics referred to, knocks out the
theory.
The protectiOnists have never claim
ed that protective tariff will enable us
to successfully compete with the cheap
labor products of Europe in foreign ma
tiOns. All we have claimed is that pro-
lection assures the home market to
home producers, stimulates home COM
petition, and gives us goods at prices as
low as are consistent with fair wages.
1t appears, however, that protection in
some instances does even more than
that, enabling our manufacturers who
use protected raw materials to increase
their exports, while the exports of others
who use free raw materials are decreased.
This may not in itself prove great
deal for the protectionists, but it Ger
tainly does disprove great deal that
the free traders have claimed for their
delusiYe theory.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

WE suspect that few who hang their
Ayers Almanac on its accustomed nail,
from year to year, have any idea of the
vast number of these pamphlets issued
annually by the publishers, Dr. j. c. Aver
& Co., Lowell, Mass, manufacturers of
the famous Ayers Sarsaparilla and other
standard remedies. We are assured that
from thirteen to fourteen million copies
of Ayers Almanac, in as many as ten
principal languages, are printed every
year. To accomplish this Stupendous
work, the publishers use machine which
prints and folds, ready for the binder. a
hundred thousand almanacS daily. turn
ing off at the rate of a hundred and
eighty books a minute, and consuming
about twenty-five miles of paper each
day! These facts and figures are given
in the preface to a neat volume of the
Almanac for 1889, consisting of specimen
copies of the several editions in English
and in nine other languages. also pages
Ofpamphlets in eleven additional tongues.
THIS book, accept our thanks, will, We
have no doubt, be appreciated by many
as rare literary curiosity. Your drug
gist can supply you with Ayers Alma
nae in its usual attractive form.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
THE SOURCE

OF CLEvELAND'S PLURAITY.
New York Tribune
Finding no comfort in the fact that
Gen. Harrison will receive the votes of
233 electors, or 30 more than is necessa-
ry to seat him in the White Houses
of our Democratic contemporaries are
pointing with pride to President Cleve-
lands large plurality of the popular vote.
They are discreet enough, however, to
be silent as to the exact source of this
plurality. 1t came from the South,
where fraud and intimidation of various
kinds have cut down the Republican
vote immensely, and increased the Dem
ocratic pluralities> to startling total.
In North Carolina, Tennessee, West
Virginia and Virginia there has been
more freedom of action on the part of
Republicans, and their votes have been
counted with greater fairness than in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
and Texas. It's to these eight South
ern States, in which the North at pres
ent does not look for free ballot and
fair count, that the Democratic party
owes its apparent plurality. They have
given Mr.. Cleveland 468,482 plurality,
the Republicans being allowed 346,061
votes and the Democsats 814,543. In the
other thirty States, which cast S6.33 per
cent of the total Republican and Demo-
cratic vote, Harrison has 1902, 1897 votes
and Cleveland 4,719,S25, a Republican
plurality of 372,572. A trif1e over 1888
per cent of the Republican vote and
S5.26 per cent of the Democratic vote
was cast in these thirty States. In 9TH
er words, eight Southern States, casting
14.71 per cent of the Democratic vote,
have, by fraud and intimidation, count
ed out a plurality for Cleveland of
468, ,482, large enough with his plurality
in four other Southern States, two
Northern States Q06,603) to exceed by
$3.50 Harrison's plurality of 497 ,375 in
twenty Northern and Western States.
In the eight Southern States named
above the increase in the Democratic
pluralities this year over those of 1884
is 132,772, while in the twenty Repub-
lican States Harrison has a plurality on
ly 32,790 larger than Blaine had in Is
States, although the Republicans made
large gains in the rapidly growing States
of the West and Northwest, and re-
gained Indiana and New York from the
Democrats by handsome pluralities.-
People who deny that the Southern cleo
tions are marked by extensive frauds
will do well to study those figures, and
explain how it happens that the Repub-
lican vote has fallen off in every one of
these eight Southern States, while the
Democratic vote has increased largely
in all except South Carolina. The in
crease of 132, Up in the Democratic plu-
rality in these States over that of 1884
may safely be taken as a close measure
of the extent of the frauds upon the
ballot-box and the effect Of intimidation
If this fraudulent increase were taken
from Mr.. Cleveland's apparent plurality
in the eighteen States (575, ,285) he would
have left only 442, ,513, or 36,862 less
than Gen. Harrison received in twenty
States havinga free ballot and fair
cOunt
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
From the o. S. Journal.

From the o. S. Journal.
Dec. 1.-Senate-Biu passed: For re
lief of Erie railway.
Resolution adopted: Inquiring into
condition of affairs at the Samoan isl
andS.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
considered at length.
HOUSe-The presidential votes of GER
tain states were laid on the table
The direct-tax bill discussion too up
the remainder of the legislative day.
Dec. -Senate-The day was spent
discussing the Senate substitute tariff
bill.
Houze-The river and harbor bill was
reported.
Bill passed: Refunding the direct
tax.
Dec ndte-Resolutions agreed
to: Asking for report of condition of
inhabitants of Alaska; for proceedings
of Sioux commission; to send to Cover
nOrS of several States copies of laws re-
garding electoral counts.
Bill introduced: To admit Idaho as a
State.
The tariff bill was discussed.
HOuSe-Bill passed: Adjudicating GER
tain Cherokee claims.
A number of committee reports were
made.
The Oklahoma bill was taken up and
discussed, but no action.
Dec. -Senate-Not in session.
HOuse-The day was spent consider
ing the Nicaragua canal bill.
Dec. 17.-Senate-Resolution adopt
ed: Providing for evening sessions of
the Senate.
A number of bills were reported and
referred.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
discussed.
HOuse-Resolutions adopted: Provid-
ing for holiday recess from December
q to January z; appropriating $4,000
to pay expenses of immigration COM
mittee.
Bill passed: For incorporation of
American Historical Society.
Bills introduced: To settle certain
outstanding claims between United
States and Arkansas; appropriating
$4,000 for public building at Arkansas
City, Kans.; to provide grand juries or
United States Courts in Alaska; to mod
ify existing tariff laws; to enable the
people to choose their own pOstmasters;
to divide the Sioux reservation; to strike
from United States treasurer's books
certain Worthless accounts.
The Dakota bill was made a special
order for Tuesday.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
UNIONTOWN.

Mr. David Davis, of this place, died on
Wednesday evening the 18th inst, at
the advanced age according to his own
estimate-of 102 years. Divine service
was conducted by Rev. G. S. Hackett, of
the Presbyterian Church, and Mr.. Walk
er, of Flushing, furnished the casket,
and acted as funeral director. Mr.. Da-
Wis was respected citizen, and one who
used what effort he could make to ad-
vance the cause of religion and morali-
| ty. He voted with. the minority for the
overthrow of slavery, and sacrificed bu-
Siness interest to maintain the political
principles which he had espoused. His
last vote was cast for Gen. Harrison.
The Bible was his constant companion,
and he retained possession of his facul
ties. His sickness was of short dura-
tiOn, and he passed peacefully away to
his future home.
Many thanks to your Flushing cor
respondent for kind words, and too much
praise is awarded. There is no literary
merit in local communications, and yet
it is a very difficult matter to write up
local news in a manner that will prove
interesting and acceptable to the gener-
al public. a local paper wants local
news, and it should be the duty of each
one to extend his patronage and favor
to the local newspaper, as it is the rep
resentative and promoter of home in
tereStS. We do not wish to make our
little village undeservingly prominent,
but each week we learn some item of
local news that should be sent in while
fresh, and so write oftener than we real
ly desire. We congratulate our Flush
ing friend on his or her success as a To-
cal writer, and infer that it is not their
first effort in writing for the press.
We are not dealing out taffy when we
say that the job printing done at THE
CHRONICLE Office cannot be eXcelled by
the best city presses. We have seen
many samples, the work of Mr.. J. p.
Hall, and in the way of artistic work
manship and beauty of design, they
have no superior.
Mr.. VIM. Hilles, of GAINESVILLE, came
over to attend the funeral of his father
in-law, Mr.. David Davis, and remained
until Monday. Mr.. H. is one of the
leading business men of GAINESVILLE,
and is one of her most esteemed and
worthy citizens.
OF Mr.. Davis children, David, Eliza,
and Isabella, were present at his funeral
-Rebecca and Harriet being unable to
attend.
PERsONAL.-Mr Thos. Ritchey start
ed for Oakland, Cal, last week, and all
his friends wish him a safe and pleas
ant journey.=Rev. Cummings, of Ale
gheny City, preached at the U. p.
Church on Sabbath last, and on the COM
ing Sabbath Rev, Holiday, of the same
city, is annOunced.=MissL Lucinda Krim,
of Flushing, paid a brief visit to our
town last Week.-Mrs. Emma Geddes, a
handsome young lady of Stockport, o.,
is the guest of relatives near town.=Miss
Maud Gregg, one of Flushing's incest
little girls, came down on visit and
spent three or four days in town.
While protecting her property from
the depredations of thieves, Mrs. Susan
Frater, of Wheeling township, wounded |
herself seriously in the hand by shot
from the revolver, few days since
She is plucl1y little woman, and can
still use one hand and the same revolv-
er, III.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

THE District tax-bill passed the House
of Representatives last week by vote
of 178 to SO, and now needs only the con-
currence of the Senate and signature of
the President to become a law. The
bill will return to the States an aggre-
gate of about S5,OO0,O0O, which will en-
able them to cancel debts due the Gov
ernment to the amount of about two
and half millions of dollars, that have
been standing since shortly after the be-
ginning of the late war. According to
the estimate, Ohio's share is 1892, 900,
being the amount of the tax levied upon
the people of this State, less Is per cent.
the amount allowed the State Govern
ment for assuming and paying it.
Should the bill become a law, as now
seems probable, even though the Presi-
dent intervenes with one Of his vetoes,
Ohio can make good use of her share in
applying it toward the paying of her
debt. In the meantime it will not be ne
cessary for our Legislative solons togrow
extravagant because of the prospect.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

EX-GOVERNOR FOSTER is credited,
in a special to the State Journal with
having expressed several opinions in
Washington the other evening. He does
not believe that Blaine has yet been
offered a place in Harrison's Cabi-
ner; he thinks that if Sherman is offered
a Cabinet portfolio he may regard it his
duty to accept; and it his impression
that the present Ohio Legislature
SHOULD not attempt any radical chang
es in the liquor laws" If there is any
body in Ohio with a more level business
head than Charley Foster, he hasn't
shown up yet.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

AT the beginning of the month the
Secretary of the Treasury reported $751;
100000 of public funds as loaned to
national banks without interest. The
average deposits in national banks from
1865 to 1884, under Republican admin
istrations, was about S10,O00,000, except
during a brief period when the debt was
refunded. These permanent deposits
in favored banks are in gross violation
of the spirit of our institutions. Re-
publican administrations never loaned
a dollar to the banks, but merely desig-
mated certain of them as depositaries
for the collections of federal officials.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
WILL CLEVELAND VETO
TIE DIRECT TAX BILL?

New York Sun.
The measure known as the direct tax
bill has passed the House by a vote of
178 to SO. 1t had already passed the
Senate, must go back to that body for
concurrence in the amendments now
adopted. The question of interest is
whether Mr.. Cleveland will veto the bill;
and, in that event, whether it can pass
over his veto.
Not only in the amount of money,
but in the principles involved, this bill
is one of the most important that has
come before the Fiftieth Congress. 1t
proposes to refund to the States what
they paid to the federal government on
account of the direct tax laid by Con-
gress in August, 1861, and also to for
give the debt still due to the federal
government by those States which new
er paid their full share of that tax, 4
This bin passed the Senate
last January, after full discussion, by
vote of 4S TO 10. There was little op-
position to the measure. The
whole history of the direct tax bill up
to date forms one Of the most singular
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

Two thousand citizens of one election
precinct of South Carolina have petit
toned Congress to restore to them the
suffrage, of which they were robbed by
the refusal of Democratic officials to
register their names so they could vote.
With two thousand Republicans dis
franchised in one precinct it is easy to
understand how the Republican vote in
that State has been reduced from over
100000 a few years ago to less than A.
GOO on Nov. 6.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

chapters in recent legislation. The
measure has been advocated or opposed
on broad principles of equity and JUS
tice, and an honest difference of opinion
as TO the constitutional powers of Con
greSs. More than two-thirds of the
Senators voting, and almost two-thirds
of the representatives voting have de
clared for it. 1t is neither a job nor a
steal, nor spasmodic indulgence of ex-
travagant propensities; nor has it been
pushed in the interest of any gang of
claim agents, but it involves taking
from the treasury, and consequently
from the cherished surplus, many mill
ions of dollars, and the question is, VIII
the President sign it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

THE total vote cast at the last presi-
Dental election was 11,340,5l8, an in
crease of 1885, ,O9Oover 1880. Assuming
that the vote cast in 1888 bore the same
relation to the total population as the
vote of 1880 bore to the total population
in the census year, it would appear that
there has been a growth of 10,396,503 in
eight years, and that count of heads
at the present time would show pOpu-
Iation of about 59,767, ,843 in the United
States, against 1887, $40 in 1880.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20

SATISFIED that there was nothing in
the attempted prosecution of Colonel
Dudley but partisan maIignancy, and
that no case could be made against him,
United States District Attorney Sellers,
of indianapolis, Democrat, has tend
cred his resignation. He is determined
not to be identified with a case COM
menced in mere spite and which would
inevitably result in Colonel Dudley's
acquital. President Cleveland as being
incensed at Mr.. Sellers for his course,
and as threatening to dismis him instead
of permitting him to resign. In reply
to this intimation, Mr.. Sellers says he
does not care how he gets out of the Of
flee so that he gets out.