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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
CRIME.
Pittsburg Chronicle.

Pittsburg Chronicle.
Does crime increase or decrease with
the advance of civilization? According
to statistics furnished by the speakers
at the late Prison Congress, there has
been an alarming increase in crime in
the United States, while throughout the
remainder of the world OffenseS against
the law have shown falling off proper
tionate to the advance of the people in
intelligence, in the arts and industries.
Here, he asserted, there were more
crimes, both in the aggregate and pro-
portionately, than in the early history of
the country. Then he said, we could
put forward in palliation for turbulence
and violence the rough and unsettled
condition of society on the borders, in
the territories and wherever society was
not fully organized for the enforcement
of the laws. This, excuse, he claimed,
could be no longer advanced, because
the vast majority of the crimes to-day
are committed in the older and more
thickly settled portions of the country.
The gentleman who read this paper
contented himself with giving figures
sustaining the position he had assumed,
and did not suggest remedy or enter
into consideration of the causes which
have led to the great increase in crime
of which he complains. 1t certainly
cannot be chargable to any lack of laws
for the repression and punishment of
crime, because, if we err on either side,
it is in having too many and too intri-
cate statutes for these purposes.
Where, then, shall we look for the rea-
son of this deplorable state of affairs,
with the idea of applying the remedy?
The skillful physician always seeks for
the seat of the disease before prescrib-
ing the remedy, and thus it should be
in our social system. In this question
we have one very important fact dem
onstrated thoroughly before we begin
our Investigation, and that is, that but
a small proportion of the more serious
offences recorded are committed by ma
tives of this country. 1t is equally true
that for many years past several Eu-
ropean countries have been quietly pay
ing the way of their criminal and pau
per classes to this country as the cheap
estssand most expeditions method of
getting rid of them. OF course we have
laws against this sort of thing, but they
were so easily evaded that they have
thus far had very little effect in shut
ting out the Objectionable classes. To
them are due large proportion of the
crimes committed in the United States.
They are here and we cannot now get
rid of them except by hanging or con-
finement in the prisons of the country;
but if we can succeed in shutting off the
supply of criminals from the old world
it is reasonable to believe that we will
hereafter show a better record as to
crime than any country on the globe.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

Have you a father? Have you a moth
er? Have you son or daughter, sister or
brother who has not yet taken Kemp's
Balsam for the throat and lungs, the
guaranteed remedy for the cure of coughs,
colds, asthma, Group, and all throat and
lung troubles? If SO, why? when a sam
pie bottle of gladly given to you free by
any druggist and the large size cost only
SOC and 81. Il
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
CARD OF THANKS

If the proprietor of Kemp'S Balsam
should publish a card of thanks. contain
ing expressions of gratitude which come
to him daily from those who have been
cured of severe throat and lung troubles
by the use of kemp's BalSam, it would
fill fair-SiZed book How much better
to invite all to call on any druggist and
get free sample bottle that you may
test for yourself its power. Large bottles
soc and 81 d
OF the l01 counties of Kansas the Re
publicans carried 100.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

A wORKINGMAN's IDEA OF A REVENUE
TARIFF AND LOWER WAGES.
The author of the Boomerang circu-
lar, which was an open letter to Presi-
dent Cleveland, published during the
late campaign, furnishes this tariff
talk:
"As matter of fact l spend about all
l get, and save but little-less than 1
wish. l find that having money in my
pocket I feel little Independent and
have got to like good things. When the
farmer comes to my door with his pro-
duce my wife selects the best, buys lib
orally and makes me pay good prices for
them. She does the same with the gro
Ger, the butcher and others. She makes
frequent visits to the dry goods and
other stores for necessaries or knick-
knacks, and gets rid of some of my mon
ev at those places. When sick she calls
in the doctor-she will not have poor
one-and he demands good pay. Ny
boy has the base ball craze, and l have
had to get him ball outfit. Not long
since | gave him set of tools, too, as
he has practical turn of mind, to help
while away his evenings at home. 9th
er ways take my money, too, until l
have but little surplus left. Never
mind! 1t adds to our comforts and our
pleasures as well. L get benefit from it
and am content. 1t goes to the farmer,
the miller, the grocer, the butcher, the
coal dealer, and through them to my
fellow workingmen in different trades,
contributing to their success and profit,
and by circulating at home helping to
swell the great current of business, COM
ing back to me again through my en-
ployer in a free demand for his goods,
which gives permanence to the necessi-
ty for my labor at good prices. If it
were spent for foreign goods its benefits
would be lost to me, but result to that
of the foreign workman. in the same
way.
'But suppose 1 am reduced to the
English wOrkman's pay. l shall then
have but $3.50 week to spend in place
of SIS as now. | must then confine my
wants to my money, and watch every
penny | spend. 1 can no longer be lib
eral in the quantity buy, nor particu
lar as to its quality. The farmer must
be content to sell me poor products and
less of them, and not expect me to pay a
penny more than l can help. l shall
have to take poorer meats and cheaper
meat, and probably go without part of
the time. l shall have to give up the
use of many groceries and decrease the
amount of coal l use. Visits to the
other stores will be so far apart as to be
almost stopped. In fact, 1 must get
down to rock bottom, give up my COM
forts largely and my pleasures entirely.
What good will it then do me if l am
offered some things little cheaper then
than now? will have no extra money
to buy with, and so far as my obtaining
them at all is concerned they might
Just as well be in another world. 1t is
my condition that confronts me-'not
a theory"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
DITTSBURGH. CINCINNATI AND
ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Time card IN Effect Noe. II, 1888.
tDaily, except Sunday. *Daily

At Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Depot with through trains ON the Pennsylvania
Railroad for Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia
and New York on which are run Pullman Buffet
Sleeping and ParlOT Cars.
At Chicago and ST. Louis connections are made
in Union Depot with prominent railroads for all
points in the West, Northwest and Southwest.
For further information call on or address near
est ticket agent. f. a. FORD.
JAS. MCCREA, Gen Pass. Agent,
General Manager. Pittsburgh, ia.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
BUCKLEN's .ARNICA sALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions. and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, % cents per
box. For sale by Patterson Il Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

7 IONNECTIONS-At Barton with al passenger
/ trains on C., L. & W. Ry; at Bridgeport with c. &
I 7. Ry for Steubenyille Pittsburgh. and interme-
diate points; at Bellare with b. < o. and B., z. &
/ G. RVS. Direct with Street Cars to and from
| Wheeling. Only direct route between st. Glars
/ vile and Wheeling.
| y. c. DARRAH, F. VI. TOWNSEND,
! President. Superintendent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

WHAT place is so rugged and so home
ly that there is no beauty, if We only
have a sensibility to beauty?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

WE neglect the advantages we have,
and think that we should do it if we
were something else than what we are.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

THE star 1 was born under tells me to
look up. If we didn't come into this
world to better ourselves, we might as
well have stayed where we were.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

All false practices and affectatiOns of
knowledge are more odious to God, and
deserve to be SO to men, than any want
or defect of knowledge can be.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

A CURIOUS piece of gold was paid to
a Lewiston, Me-, man the other day. 1t
is $50 slug coined in 1851 in san Fran
cisco. 1t is an eight eornered piece of
yellow gold about as big as the silver
dollar. 1t bears the stamp of the coiner
and his address in Frisco. 1t is said to
be worth $53. \ Lewiston lady has
kept it for years,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
4srl11tn1tt Chronicle.
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.

FREE TRADERS QUESTION ABOUT THE
WOOL TARIFF ANSWERED.
New York Press
This question Aas been referred to
The Press:
LET me, a believer in free trade, ask
you, a protectionist, where is the JUS
tice, the protection" in the doctrine
that you must protect" the manufac-
turer's pocket by taxing the consumer S
pocket? What right has a government
to make people who wear flannel pay
higher price for it in order that the man
who manufactures woolen goods may
get bigger price and so pay higher
wages to his employers (f he does it)?"
The same right that the Bank of En-
gland has to raise its rate of discount
and make the borrowers of money pay
more interest for short time in order
that the higher rate may attract capital
and give much more general relief to
the stringency. Such step is right or
iustifable when there are possibilities of
competition, for it tends directly to pro-
duce the competition in the most natural
and unrestricted manner. The duty is
levied not for the benefit of the producer
so much as for that of the consumer,
for experience shows that in the long
run the dutiable article becomes cheaper
than it was at first, even without the
duty. One sort of wooden goods after
another is becoming cheaper in this way,
and with protection for while longer
all will be cheaper than they ever were
or would be now under a low tariff. The
protection to the manufacturer is, like
the humble bee, biggest when first
Matched, and grows less continually,
while the benefit to the consumer is in
creasing all the time until competition
is checked by free trade agitation and
business uncertainty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

A GENTLE heart is like ripe fruit
which bends so low that it is at the mer-
cy of every one who chooses to pluck it
while the harder fruit keeps out of reach
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

APPLES command but 10 cents ;
bushel in Atchison county, Kansas.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

Gov. MARTIN, of Kansas, has pardon
ed Thomas c. ThurstOn, once a leading
attorney of Leavenworth, who was CON
victed in September, 1880, of assault
with intent to kill Col. D. r. Anthony,
of the Leayenworth Times, and of as
sault on John p. Douglass, and was SEN
fenced to eighteen years Imprisonment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

PROSPERITY shines on different per
sons much in the same way that the sun
shines on different objects. Some il
hardens like mud, while others it soft
ems like WAX.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

POWER, unless managed with gentle
ness and discretion, does but make a
man the more hated. No intervals OF
good humor, no starts of bounty, will
atone for tyranny and oppression.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

SELFTsHNESs, by its own law, not only
moves in simple circles, but is short
lived. What men do for themselves is
soon expended, and is soon forgotten.
Only that part of a mans life which in
cludes other mems good, and especially
the public good, is likely to be felt long
after he himself is dead,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has
consented to stand as godfather to the
ninth son of a poor workman of Marien-
burg.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

mall diseases of the nasal mucous mem
brane the remedy used must be nOn-irri
tating. The medical profession has beer
slow to learn this. Nothing satisfactory
can be accompliSed with dOuches. snuffs
powders, syringeS. aStringentS or any sim
liar application. because they are all irri-
tating, do not thoroughly reach the affect
ed surfaces and should be abandoned as
worse than failures. \ multitude of per
sons who had for years borne all the worry
and pain that catarrh can infiict testify
TO radical and permanent cures wrought
by Ely Cream Balm. II 6-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
A FAMILY GATHERING.

THE secret orders throughput the Uni
ted States are said to number 200.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

ALL the passions of our animal ma
ture are increased by indulgence. If
they are improperly indulged, they will
triumph in our ruin. They will Oblit-
crate those heayen-born qualities of our
minds which, if properly cultivated, as
simulate us to angels and bring us home
to God.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

THERE is an almost universal desire
at Indianapolis for change in the mail
service in that city.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

IT is proper that aims should come
out of a little purse as well as out of a
great sack; but surely where there is
plenty, charity is a duty, not courtesy;
it is tribute imposed by heaven upon
us, and he is not good subject who re-
fuses to pay it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

HOURS have wings and fly up to the
Author of Time, and carry news of
our usage; all our prayers cannot entreat
one of them to return or slacken his
pace; the i'll usage of every minute is a
new record against us in heaven.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

nETEppU SAMPLE TREATMENT RRER
lihlhnNH We mail enOught To convince. I'LL u
OB, S. Iauderback & Co. 773 Broad ST. Newark, Nj
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

CHILDREN should be Injured as early
as possible to acts of charity and mer-
cy. Constantine, as soon as his son
could write, employed his hand in writ
ing pardons, and delighted in conveying
through his mouth all the favors he
granted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

1t may be remarked for the comfort
of honest poverty, that avarice reigns
most in those who have but few good
qualities to recommend them. This is
weed that will only grow in barren
soil
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

THE truly great and good in atfiiction
bear a cOuntenance more princely than
they are wont; for it is the temper of
the highest heart, like the palm tree, to
strive most upward when it is most bur
dened
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

WHEN we pray for any virtue, we
should cultivate the virtue as well as
pray for it; the form of our prayer should
be the rule of life; every petition to God
is a precept to man. Look not, there
fore, upon your prayers as short meth
cd of duty; by what we require of God
we see what He requires of us.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

EMULATION is grief arising from see
ing ones self exceeded or excelled by
his concurrent, together with hope to
equal or exceed him in time to come, by
his own ability. But envy is the same
grief joined with pleasure conceived in
the imagination of some ill-fortuue that
may befall him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

NEVER travel without pocket com
panion. a well-flled pocket book is
the best.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

nOEA 4 MONTH No capital required good
Mill chance to make money Apply for territory
VNSN al once. b. 5. Lauderbaeh Co. Newark, NJ
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

PURE SPICES-Our Cinnamon, Pepper,
Alspice, Cloves, Ginger, Mustard, etc,
are not only pure and fresh. but of the
finest quality. GEO. JEPSON.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

EATING between meals is not so un-
healthy as drinking between drinks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27
Mason & HamIin Piano & Organ Co
Boston New York Chicago.

nm PER PROFIT and SAMPLES FREE 70 men
lVV CENT canyaSSerS for Or. ScntS Genuine
Electric Belts Brushes, etc. Lady agents wanted
Tor Electric COrsetS Quick sales Write at once
for terms. DIR. SCOTT, Sl4 broadway, New York.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

IHAvE had nasal catarrh for ten years
so bad that there were great sores in my
nose, and one place was eaten through.
got Ely's Cream Balm; two bottles did
the work. My nose and head are well;
| feel like another man.-C. S. McNIillen,
Shelby, Jackson county, Mo. For all
forms of nasal catarrh where there is dry
ness of the air passage with what is com
monty called "stufiiing up" especially
when going to bed, Ely's Cream Balm
gives immediate relief; its benefits to me
has been priceless.-A. G. Case, NJ. d.,
MillwoOd, Kas. II 20-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

THE new commander of the Loyal Le-
giOn in Indiana was instituted last week
at Indianapolis. General Lew Wallace
was elected Commander, ex-President
Hayes. Commander in-chief, delivered
an address. There was also ban
quet.
THERE are twenty-five cases of diph-
iberia at UniOnville, Tuscola county,
Mich. Ten deaths have already occur
red. Public meetings of all kinds have
been discontinued, and no children un-
der Is years of age are allowed to appear
on the streets. The citizens are terror
stricken.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

TIE passions are at once tempters and
chastisers. AS tempters, they come with
garlands of flowers on brows of youth !;
as chastisers, they appear with wreaths
of snakes on the forehead of deformity.
They are angels of light in their delu-
sion; they are fiends oftOrment in their
infections.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

\ CALIFORNIA farmer, beliving that
cats will eXterminate squirrels and
gophers, purchased a large number and
and set them at liberty on his land.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

GIVE me the boy who rouses when he
is praised, who profits when he is en-
coUraged, and who cries when he is de-
feated. Such boy will be fired by am
bition; he will be stung by reproach,
and animated by preference; never shall
l apprehend any bad consequences from
idlenesS in such boy.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-27

WHEN you have given over the prac-
tice of stated prayer, you gradually be-
come weaker without knowing it. Sam
son did not know he had lost his strength
till the Philistines came upon him; you
will think yourselves the men you used
to be, till suddenly your adversary will
come furiously upon you, and you will
as suddenly fall.
, 1888-01-26
A HIPPODROME.
The Godfrey-JohnsOn Fight
Witnessed By 400 People.
The Boston Man Wins the
Fight,
But the Stakes are Given to
Johnson on a Foul.
The Winner Worsted.

DENVER, Jan. 25.-About 400 men
left the city this afternoon on a special
train to witness the fight with two ounce
gloves, marquis OF Queensbury rules, for
81 1000, between the colored pugilists,
George Godfrey of Boston and McHenry
Johnson OF this city. The train stopped
fifteen miles from town, and a ring was
quickly pitched, and the fight began at 8
o'clock.
The first two rounds were very tame,
but in the third Godfrey caught johnson
a right handler on the right side of his
neck, knocking him almost senseless.
johnson, however, recovered. but regalned
his feet only to be numerically pounded
and knocked around the ring by Godfrey,
without being able to make any kind of a
fight in self defense.
In the fourth and last round johnson
again got the worst of the fight, being so
dazed that he was unable to hit Godfrey.
About the middle of the round the men
clinched, the referee calling them to
break away, to which Godfrey paid no
attention and continued to pound John
son until the men rushed in and separ-
ated them. The referee declared the
fight at an end on this foul and gave the
money to johnson, although he was the
whipped man.
, 1888-01-26

ooh, no, sailors are not the only per.
sons who purchase telescopes, " said a re-
taller in optical goods to a reporter re-
Gently. "a great number are being sold
now. You would be surprised if you
knew how many there arc in this city
who take an interest in star gazing, and
n great many gentlemen have some very
fine telescopes mounted in a small OBJ
%servatory on the roof of their house. The
sale Of telescopes is rather on the in
crease than the decrease. Yachting is
getting more popular every year, and
every yachtsman, eve if he only has
a small catboat, must have a telescope. ;"
"'WLat do they COST"
"Any price you like. I can give you
IL for 81, and l can make you one for
just as much money as you like to give.
The most popular kind just now is
mounted on n black or tan leather case.
1t will shut up into about six inches of
space and only costs $25.'-New York
Mail and Express.
, 1888-01-26
Corruption and Crime.

NEW YORK. Jan. ga Key West
special says: During the last ten days
Havana has been in a perfect turmoil and
on the verge of mob violence. The trou-
Bile was caused by the INSCRIPTIONS acts OF
Capt. Gen. Marin and his officials. Al
though Marin has been in office but three
months, his administration is reeking with
crime of every description. The govern.
ment tax is short $50, 900, the local board
of aldermen have gobbled $40, 600, the
Cardenas tax Office is short $40, 1000, and
every Office of trust is honey-combed with
fraud.
Two weeks ago, the indignant citizens
made vain appeals to Marin for protec-
ton. A mass meeting was held, but
Marin ordered armed guards about the
gathering and prevented the speakers
from addressing the people.
Ell PrOgrcSsO, the mercantile newspa
per, denounced Marin's act, and yester-
day the paper was suppressed by order of
the despot. When Marin learned that
several merchants were sending cable
grams of protest to the home govern
ment, he placed an armed guard about
the cable office. On Sunday there were
twelve murders, inc suicide, eight high
way robberies and four stabbing ARRAYS in
Havana and Cardenas.
A special from Havana last night SAID
that the situation is becoming more
alarming every moment.