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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-11

promotion.
The question Of weekly payments is
just now being agita,ed among the
operatives and employers Of the several
mills in this vicinity. There is only one
mill in this village where the help are
paid every Saturday; viz: the Weybosset
mill. The custom Of weekly payments
has been one Of the features Of Messrs.
Taft g. Weeden for the past fifteen years
and upwards. II all the mills paid their
| help weekly IL would benefit our rner-
chants greatly, as 10y the present system
/ Of semi monthly and monthly payments
/ the city merchants draw large amounts
from our mill operatives.
Consumption is a terrible disease gen
orally of fatal termination. A cough is
/ but q slight physical affection but is only
the beginning Of th, end. A cough or
I cold is caused by congestion Of the lungs
I and bronchial tubes. which ifnot removed
some terrible pulmonary disease will
surely follow The largest percentage ci
deaths in olneyville are caused by lung
Y diseases. II is dangerous 20 neglect
\ even slight cold nature needs assisting
Johns'on's Healing Lung Balsam is now
conceded 10 be the bes; cough syrup
Contains no opium or morphine, relieves
at once aud cures quickly. For sale by
Druggists. Prepared and sold by
JosRrH d. JoHSsToS,
Registered Pharmacist,
/ s3l High Street.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-11
Lowell 9leve CO.,
lee wssTaISsTkE 1T.
SPECIAL n0TICE 10 ALL.

L'OR the next two months we shall use every
II honest endeavor - reduce our stock 70
the lowest DOssible point, - thst 20 can enter
upon our sprins trade with q clean stocf Low
prices will only DO this and every week ve shall
of.r special LOT 81 prices that are really y"th
your attention. Make no mistake ffc' i-s
real aud goods are Just As advertised
Read our special Inducements this week
% doEen Pure six Mitieus. regular made Win
handsome wrist. 81 IS CeuD
We recommend this Nltten a. a special bargain
no mistake.
20 dozen sll-vOol Cashmere Gloves embruid.
cred backs. colss.ud black, st IS cents-nB mis-
take.
These glove, we're bought b. sell fof BIC. but
turued Out 10 be poorer than sample, and rather
than Offer them AZ Inst price, - have decided %
sell at The above los price. aud not - by again
from untrusiwOrthy manufacturers
We are agent for the genuine Florence -ls
Nittsns AlsO AGENT Tor the kussi Tanned
Inxlish Dsrby gloves that have delighted a.
hst have se.p tAea haks no zstsks. BIT
M tas o. once
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-11
1000

Yards Aliens Shifting Prints in rem
nanis, 6tc. per yard one case Ginghams.
new spring styles; one case Prints, fast
co.ors, best goods, SIC. per yard one case
Cashmere Dress Good, 6ic. per yard
Balance Of our Ladies' and Misses ClOsks
at greatly reduced prices, 70 close.
George =. Watson d. CO,
IL and l3 Arcade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
BITS OF BIOGRAPHY.

Henry N. STANLRY has sent sixty
tons of ivory to London.
HENRY CABOT LODGE is the most styl-
ish dressed man in Congress.
VERDI, the composer. was once an or
ganist at salary of $50 a year.
GEN. SHERIDAN will visit Boston to
attend a meeting of the Loyal Legion,
February.
THE prospects of raising 100000 fo1
a Mark Hopkins Memorial Building al
Williams College are good.
MORE than $4,000 has been secured
for purchasing at Washington house
for the widow of Gen. Hancock.
CARTER H. HARRISON, ex-Mayor OF
Chicago, writes from China that he is
disposed to doubt the existence of the
Chinese Wall.
RUFUS HATCH was once locomotive
engineer, and is said to boast that he
can take apart and put together any To-
cOmotive now in use
DIR. LYMAN ABBOTT, like his prede-
cessor, Mr.. Beecher, went to Brooklyn
from Indiana. He served his first con-
gregation in Terre Haute.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the iron prince
who pays one of his foremen $4,000 a
year, did his first work in a Pittsburgh
telegraph Office for So week.
GEN. FREMONT has accepted Christ
mas gift of lot from land company
in Southern California, and says he is
going to settle on it and grow up with
the country.
OF the labor of cOndensing an article
Sam. Bowles once said, when asked fol-
an immediate editorial: II can give you
long one, but l haven't time tonight
to write short one."
SIR KENNETH CUMMINGS, the son of
Gordon Cummings, the great lion slay-
er, is back in this country after years
absence, during which he visited Cen
tral Africa and killed three lions and
several leopards.
BISMARCK's illness is due to overfeed-
ing. In his earlier days he could man
age food compared with which ham and
sausage are light and digestible trifles.
The Chancellor has still his ancient ap-
petite, but not his ancient digestion.
GEORGE BANCROFT accounted for his
own longevity the other day with three
reasons: First, that he was the middle
child in his fathers family, equally dis
tant from the youngest and the oldest
second, that he had always gone to bed
at ten O'Clock, unless it had been impos.
sible, and, third, that he had always
spent four hours in each day in the open
air. unless prevented by a storm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
INSULT TO UNION VETERANS.


Cleveland Leader.
The erowning Democratic insult to the
veterans of the Union Army is the Com
mittee on Pensions of the national House
of Representatives, as announced by Mr..
Speaker Carlisle. OF its thirteen men,
bers eight represent states in the solid
south, and six Of these southerners are
Democrats. Only three northern Repu5-
icans s-Scull of Pennsylvania, Struble of
Iowa, and Delano of New York-were
given places on this important commit
tee. The two northern Democrats are
Bliss, of New Y ork, and Russell, of Mas
sachusetts, who Will, of course, vote with
the six southern Democrats. Butler, of
Tennessee, and Finley, of Kentucky, Re-
publicans, were put on to take the curse
off, but they viii have no power The
pension legislation of the Fiftieth Con-
gress viii be controlled by Henderson of
North Carolina, Hutton of Missouri, Bar
~ of Mississippi, Dougherty of Florida,
Bankead of Alabama, and Carleton of
Georgia. What could be more infamous
than this latest exhibition of Democratic
hatred for the Union veterans? Who
dares deny that the rebels are on top,
when men representing the states recent
ly in rebellion are placed by the Demo-
cratic party in position to say who of
the brave men who fought to preserve
the Union which the traitors sought to
destroy shall or shall not receive pen
sions? Fling out the bloody shirt! Nail
it to the masthead and let no man pull
it down until the American people shall
declare in emphatic tones that the South
must accept the results of the war; that
the greater section of this union Gn point
of population, enterprise and everything
else(shall rule the lesser; and that equal
political liberty shall be guaranteed to
people of all classes and colors in all
sections. This is the greatest question
of the hour, and it must be fought out
in 1888.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
THE COMMITTEES

Wash (Jan 81 telegram Cincinnati Com-Gaz.
OF course the main point of interest
to-day has been the announcement of the
House committees by the Speaker, Mr..
Carlisle. There has been much wrang-
ling over them, more than usual, in fact,
and the result of Mr. Carlisle's cogita-
tions is having a saddening effect in
many quarters, especially in the North.
The reader can without comment ap-
preciate the significance of the situation
from the fact that out of fifty Chairman
ships of committees thirty go to the
Southern states and twenty to the North.
All the more powerful Chairmanships go
to the South except the Craftsmanship of
the Appropriations Committee, which a
protection Democrat in the person of Mr..
Randall, of Pennsylvania, takes, as usual.
The greatest committee is acknowl-
edged to be that of Ways and Means,
and second to that comes the Committee
on Appropriations.
As the Committee of Ways and Means
was originally arranged by Mr.. Carlisle it
had upon the list five men born in Ken
lucky, Mr.. Carlisle's native state. As it
stands, after Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania,
was put upon it, it has for original Ken
tuckians the Chairman and three other
men, native Kentuckians, viz: McMillen
(of Tennessee), Breckenridge (of Ken
tucky), and Breckenridge (of Arkansas. }
Twenty-four states get all the House
committee Chairmanships. New York
has six places on committees of influence
and distinction. Missouri comes next
with five, Georgia with four, Alabama,
Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
Kentucky with three each, and Arkan-
sas, Tennessee, and South Carolina two
apiece.
The singles go to Florida, iowa, Indi-
ana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachu-
sets, Michigan, Mississippi, North Car
olina, New Jersey, West Virginia and
Wisconsin.
Fourteen states are left without Chair
manships. The Committee on Terrific
ries, curious to relate, has two members
from one state, namely Missouri.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
A NOVEL BUSINESS CALENDAR
AND STAND.

BY far the most novel, convenient, and
valuable business calendar for 1888 is the
Columbia Bicycle Calendar and Stand,
just issued by the Pope Manufacturing
Company, of Boston, Mass. The calen-
dar proper is in the form of pad, con-
tanning 366 leaves, one for each day in
the year, to be torn off daily. The leaves
are 511s by 224 inches, and a portion of
each leaf is left blank for memoranda, so
arranged that the memorandum blank
for any coming day can be turned to i'm
mediately at any time. The pad rests
upon a portable stand, which takes up
little more room than the pad itself, and
when placed upon the desk or writing
table the entire surface of the date left
is brought directly, and left constantly,
before the eye. furnishing date and mem
oranda, impossible to be overlooked. Be
sides the month, the day of the month,
and the day of the week, the numbers of
the days of the year passed and to come
are specified.
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New Series, Vol. %, No. 2.
THE OLDESTrAND BEST.

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The history of THE Posi- is the history
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there is hardly a writer famous in the
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12

CoNGESsMAN BRECKINRIDGE, of Ken
lucky, whom Speaker Carlisle has placed
upon the Committee of Ways and Means
is the enthusiastic free trader who de-
clared at thesBoston dinner that ''almost
all the articles, if not every article, on
the tax list has been put there by private
interest to secure private gain, and is
kept there because the combination can
not agree whose fleece shall be sheared.' y
This is the kind of raw material that Is
worked into the most important House
committee-the one charged with exclu-
sive consideration of tariff and industri-
al questions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
VCKS FLORAL GUIDE.

In the way Of catalogue, Vick's Floral
Guide is unequaled in artistic appearance,
and the edition of each year that appears
simply perfect, is surpassed thenext. New
and beautiful engravings, and three color
ed plates of flowers, vegetables, and grain,
are features for the issue for 1855. Its
lavender tinted cover, with original de-
signs of most pleasing effects, will ensure
it prominent place in the household. 1t
is in itself treatise on horticulture, and
is adapted to the wants of all who are in
terested in the garden or house plants. 1t
describes the rarest flowers and the ehoic-
est vegetables If you want to know any
thing abount the garden, see Vick's Floral
Guide, price only 10 cents, including a
certificate good for 10 cents worth of seeds.
Published by James Wick, Scotsman,
Rochester, New York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12

THIRTY-oNE railroads, aggregating
5,470 miles and representing an apparent
capital of 1925, 100000, were sold under
bankrupt proceedings during the year
1887. The RGiztCay Age, in comment
ing on the subject, says: at is remark
able that while the greater part of rail
way building has. been carried on in the
wild and presumably reckless West, the
old, conservative and wealthy Eastern
States of New York and Pennsylvania
furnished nearly one-third of the roads
that had to be closed out during the
year; while none of the States of the
West or South made such showing of
reckless or unfortune management"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
AN EVENING WITH WHITTIER

AN ENENING WITH WHITTIER.
Friend William RAIDER had a talk with
Friend John G.. Whittier after the ami
versary festivities, and sends some inter-
esting fragments of it to the Philadelphia
Press. He confirms the previous reports
that the good old poet was deeply touch
ed-almOSt overcome by the proofs the
day brought of the love in which he is
held. Tears gathered in his eyes. 'Yes.
l am happy" he said, "but it is my last
birthday. 1t will soon be over" He
cheered up in the evening, though, and
when Charles Coffin lost his hat, told him
to take the next best one he could lay his
hands on. II have too many hats al
ready" he said. Something was said
about his celibate condition. "Oh," he
answered with sigh, Il was so inter
ested with my poetry and in the slavery
question that [ permitted those golden
days to go by without getting married,
and now I'm'SOrry"
The talk turned on the old strenuous
times before the war, and the aged man
was soon fighting his battles DER again,
to the delight of his hearers. Iremem-
Der distinctly" he said, "we held d great
meeting upon one occasion in fremont
Temple. That was when the voice of
Abbie Folsom was heard in New Eng
land. We were divided as to the means
of settling the difficulty, and there was
great confusion. fremont Temple pre-
sented a wild scene on that memorable
night. 1t looked as though there would
be bloodshed. Upon the platform, with
many others, sat William Lloyd Garrison,
whose head was quite bald; beside him
sat Mr.. Burleigh, whose heavy looks fell
upon his shoulders. \ negro was also
present on the platform, and this negro
wanted to speak. At critical moment
a man rose in the rear of the house and
began to shout: "AIr. Speaker Mr..
SPEAKER! Mr.. .Speakerl" Finally he got
nearing, and he said: II only want to
say word. 1 wish that negro to shave
Burleigh and make wig for William
Lloyd Garrison" 1t was enough. The
house roared with laughter and trouble
was averted and good humOr restored.
Friend RAIDER reports that Friend Whit
tier brought both hands down on hts
knees and laughed merrily as he finished
the story.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
nEVEILLE.

Tile day star shines upon the hill,
The valleys in the shadows sleep,
In wood and thicket, dark and still,
My comrades lie in Slumber deep.
Far in the east a phantom gray
Steals slowly up the nights black pail,
And, herald of the coming day,
The distant bugle's soft notes call
~ can't get 'em UP,
l cart get 'em Up,
can't get 'em up in the morning;
can't get 'em up,
can't get 'em up,
] can't get 'em up at ALL"
A thought of motion at the sound
As though the forest caught its breath,
And belted sleepers on the ground
Move restlesSly, like life in death,
And slunlbering echoes, here and there,
Awaken as the challenge floats
And louder on the morning air
Ring out the CHEEKY bugle notes
Il can't get 'em UP in The morning.
can't get 'em up in the morning,
can't get 'em up in tie morning,
Icant get 'em up az ALI!
And as the thrilling strains prOlOng,
FLARES into rose and gold the day,
And springing up with shout and song,
Each soldier welcomes march or fray.
Through wooded vale, O'er.wind-swept hill,
Where camp fires gleam and shadows fall
Louder and clearer, cheerily still,
Rings out the merry bugle call
II can't get 'em up,
can't get 'em up,
can't get 'em up in the mOrningi
l can't get 'em up,
1 can't get 'em up
can't get 'em up at ALL
-BjTGette in Brooklyn EGGle
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
HER CLOAK.


From The San Francisco Chronicle.
1t s all very well to go on discovering
new tricks in electricity, and new laws in
political economy, and new cures for dys-
pepsia and things like that, but science
has to turn its attention to finding out
some new kind of patent which will en-
able woman to tell when she has her hat
fixed to her hair or her cloak fixed to her
figure. 1t s good thing women are not
absent-minded about dress, or many OF
them would go home looking like guys
1t was in a fashionable restaurant last
week. A lady was sitting eating lunch
and the place was full. Suddenly there
was cOmmotion. The waiter came up
The lady was looking under the chair and
the table, and at all the hats and cloaks
hanging up. She had lost something.
"Waiter, where is my cloak -
Your cloak, madam? do not know
g took my cloak off when sat down
1t has been stolen. | have been robbed
Everybody was attracted to the scene
Everybody looked up and down, all over
the house. No cloak The lady was in a
rage. Suddenly somebody happened to
catch hold of something on the back OF
her dress 1t was her cloak, and it was
tied around her waist, and hung where
she had thrown it off, gracefully on hel
hustle. There S an awful lot of hum ma
in very small episodes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
THE LITTLE GRAVE ON THE HILL

There s spot on the hillside far away,
Where in summer the grass grows green;
Where, beneath a ruStling elm trees shade,
\ mOSS-covered stone is seen,
'TiS quiet and unfrequented spot,
\ solitude lone and wild;
Yet-somebOdys hopes are buried there
'Tis the grave of a little child.
In winter, alas! that messy stone
Is hid meath a shrOud of snow;
But around it, in spring-time, fresh and sweet,
The daisies and viOlets grow;
And DER the summer breeZeS blow
With a fragrance soft and mild,
And the autumn's dead leaves thieSly strew
That grave of a little child.
And every year there S a redbreast comes
When the month of May is nigh,
And builds her nest in this quiet spot,
Mid the elm trees branches high;
With her melody sweet by the hour she trills,
As if by the scene beguiled,
Perhaps-whO knows? It's an angel comes
To the grave OF that little child.
Yes, somebody's hopes lie buried there,
Some mother is weeping in vain,
For, though years may come and years may 20,
Twill never come back again.
Yet blessed are they who die IN youth,
The pure and undefled;
Some road to heaven, perchance, runs through
That grave of 4 little child.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
GENERAL Doubleday.

Gen. Abner Doubleday, who fired the
first gun for the Union from Fort Sumter
twenty-seven years ago and fought from
that time till his renown eliminated at
Gettysburg, and who had previously serv-
ed forty years as Lieutenant in the reg
ular army, looks vigorous as he walks
spryly through the streets of New York
in civilian garb. The dashing and adj
ventrous young Lieutenant of the old
times of the Mexican war is now digni-
fed and reserved veteran on the retired
list: and is not easily let to tell of the ex-
plOits of his early life, but prefers to con-
verse about the living and stirring ques-
tiOns tt to-day. upon which his opinions
are both progressive and decided. His
contributions ON the military records of
the Republic during the wars in which he
took part ought to be enlarged in times
of leisure which he is enjoying.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12
EXAMINATIONS.
Issq. BBLMONT COUNTY. 1sgs

1SSS- bfyLShOAI tOOA L. 1SSh
Examinations will be held at ST. Clairsville on
January IA, February II, March 10, April Il, May
II, and June Q, 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 viii be given at close
of Institute, and at the February examination at
St. Clairsville. The passing grades obtained will
be added to certificates secured at either the JAN
nary 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-class Is years. certificate is granted upon
an average Of 90 per cent, including three higher
branches and the school law, with no grade below
20, provided applicant has had 30 months expert
ence in teaching.
on an average OF 90 per cent, including two higher
branches and the school law, with no grade belOy.
20, provided applicant has had "a months expert
ence in teaching.
third-class 9 years. certificate is granted upon
IN average of 75 per cent, including one higher
branch and the school law, with no grade below
81, provided applicant has had Is months expert
ence in teaching.
A fOurth-class (2 years. certificate Is granted up
on an average OF 20 per cent, including the sehoO
law, with no grade below co, provided applicant
has had 12 months experience in teaching.
fifth-class Il year. certificate is granted upon
an average OF GO per cent with no grade below 50.
H. l.. PECK,
s-f- =, G. MURPHY, -H
aSN ROapd OF School Examiners.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-12

FIVE petitions have been sent to
Washington from various dressed beef
and canning companies to the Inter-
State Commerce Commission. 1t is the
beginning of great lawsuit, involving
millions of dollars in interest, which
will be contested in the U. S. Supreme
Court, and involve the constitutionality
of the Interstate law.