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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.


1885, BELMONT COUNTY. 1883.
Examinations will be held at Barnesville, May
II; ST. Clairsville june g. and at Flushing at close
of Institute in August
RULES.
Examinations begin at 8 O'Clock A. b.
Testimonials OF character are required if appli-
cant is not known to Board.
Certificates will not be antedated nor extended.
Tests IN the higher branches will be given at close
OF Institute at Flushing.
Certificates will be dated and issued by the Board
i'm adjourned session on Saturday following each
examination.
Envelopes furnished by the Board. Applicants
ay return postage.
SCALE OF GRADES FOR CERTIFICATES.
A rst-class g years. certificate is granted upon
an average OF 80 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.
A secOnd-class years. certificate is granted up
branches and the school law, with no grade below
20, provided applicant has had "a months expert
ence in teaching
third-class g years. certificate is granted upon
an average 0i 80 per cent, including one higher
branch and the school law with no grade below
65, provided applicant has had Is months exDeri-
ence in teaching
A fOurth-clasS q years. certificate is granted up
on an average OF 75 per cent including the school
law, with no grade below co, provided applicant
has had u months experience in teaching
A nfth-claSs Il year. certificate is granted uDOn
an average OF 65 per cent. with no grade below 55
L. II. WATERS,
II. l.. PECK,
S. c. MURPHY
9$Iy Board OF School Examiners
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21
THE MOON-MAN.

The Swedish peaSantry explain the
lunar spots as representing boy and a
girl bearing a pail of water between
them, whom the moon once caught up
in her horns and carried off into the
heavens "a legend current also in Ice
landic mythology.
A German tale says that man and a
woman stand in the moon-the man be-
cause he strewed briars one Sunday
morning in the church path, the woman
for making butter ON the same day. The
Dutch have it that the unhappy man
was caught stealing vegetables.
The natives of Ceylon have a hare in
stead of man in the moon, the hare
having achieved that high honor by
jumping into fire to roast himself for
the benefit of Budha.
The Chinese represent the moon by a
rabbit pounding rice in mortar. Their
neurological moon is figured by beau
tiful woman with double sphere be-
hind her head and rabbit at her feet.
An Australian legend says the moon
was native cat, who fell in love with
some one else's wife, and was driven
away to wander ever since.
Among the Esquimaux the sun is a
maiden and the moon is her brother;
and the KhaSiaS of Himalaya say that
the moon falls every month in love with
his mother-in-law, who throws ashes in
his face, whence his spots.
The Malays believe that the moon
is woman and the stars are her chill
dren, whereas in South America they
cap this story by the assertion that the
moon is man and the sun his wife.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21

The primary meetings at BaTnesville, Bridgeport
and in the various Wards of Bellaire and Martins
Ferry will be open from to p. NJ. and in al
other Precincts of the county from ? TO P. NJ
The County Convention viii assemble at II O'Clock
A. NJ on the day designated, at City Hall, Barnes
vile, and after organizing will nominate candi-
dates for the following Offices
SHERIFF.,
COMMISSIONER.
INFIRMAKY DIRECTOR.
Necessary to a choice As
BY order County Republican Committee.
JOHN POLLOCK, Chairman.
J. B. LoNGLEY, Secretary.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING

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Local advertising 10 cts per line for first inser-
tion, and 5 cts for each additional insertion.
Rates for commercial advertising furnished on
application.
eS-All kinds of Job Printing done at reasOna
bic rates. Estimates furnished.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21

THE Democratic Convention for this
Congress District will assemble at Bell
aire Tuesday, July 10.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

~
PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. X. Alex
ander pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; sabbath school $50 a. m
young peoples society Of Christian endeayor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome TO all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
i n HOllingshead, pastor. Sabbath preaching, II
a. m: p M; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings: general prayer meeting, Ihursdaf eve
nings: mems meeting, Friday evenings; Sabbath
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited TO all
services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHUkCH-Ref.
Thomas Ralph rastor sabbath school, 10 a. m.
public worship, II n. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday p. m monthly prayer meeting laSI oatiI
day of each month, p. M woman missionary y
society, last Saturday of each month, 2 p; m dls-
trct PRAYER meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. N
Young w0men's prayer meeting second saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. m.
AFRICAN u Z. CHURCH-Rev.J J. NJ Wilkes,
pastor Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p. m; SAB
bath school, 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21

A MAD DOG bit several men and chill
dren, besides number of dogs and
horses, in the Chicago suburb of Lake.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21

INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINS has re-
signed, for the purpose of making can
vass for seat in the Senate from Ten
neSSe.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No 1e, r. d A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before 1nll moon
j. b. MEYER, See'y. F. ID. BAILEY, w NJ
ST CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch MdsOns.-Stated eonyOcatiOns first Friday oil
each month. - -
j. b. MEYER, Rec. +. d. BAILEY, H. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. q S. NJ
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
j. b. MEYER, See'y. j. ID. hhAN, l. l. NJ.
HOPE COMMANDER, No. rs, K. T.-Stated
i n. MFYER. Sec'y j. B. RYAN, E. C.
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r EGAL NOTICE.

s. L. Agnew will take notice that on May %, 1885,
John w. Fleehan filed against him in the Court OF
Common Pleas of Belmont cOutry, Ohio, petition,
mortgage given by said S. L. Agnew to one L. W.
TruaX ON lot No. in the town of New Castle,
Wayne township, Belmont county, Ohio, said mort
est at six per cent. interest payable annually,
bearing interest from date, and dated January 8,
1885, may he foTeclOsed
Defendant, 5. L. Agnew is required to answer
said petition before the 2lst day OF July SSS,
or the same will be taken as true and confessed
against him.
3 3l-Gt JOHN w. FLEEHAN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21
H. RIDER HAeeARD's new story, ''Mai-

H. RIDER HAGGARD's new story, 'Mai-
was Revenge" is begun in Harper'S
Magazine for July, and liberal install
ment twenty eight pages is given. The
conclusion will appear in the August is
sue. This is as charming a piece Of
work as Mr. Haggard has done. While
abounding in strong situations, it has no
recourse to the supernatural to pull the
heroes through. The scene is laid in
Africa, of course, and Allan Quarter
main is the principal character. In ad-
dition to working out the simple but
clever plot, the old hunter has some ex-
citing adventures in the way of elephant
hunting which are simply faeinating
reading. The story is literally illus
trated by Thulstrup, and one of the
illustrations answers for frontispiece.
The other fiction in the number is made
up of large portion of William Blacks
I'm Far Lochaber," which sustains the
keen interest the earlier chapters awak-
ened, and an ILLUSTRATED dialect story
called "Old Miss" and sweetheart" by
H. s. Edwards This is touching story
of Southern life that probes the tender
est spots in the human heart. 1t is I'M
possible not to pity the people of other
tongues than English to whom the un-
charms of dialect tales like
this, in all their sweetness, must ever
remain unknown. Mr.. W. ID. HOwells's
novel, "Annie Kilburn, is continued in
phrases. The authors types
are strikingly true to life.
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SATURDAY. MAY II. 1888,

and choose a member of the County Central Com
mttee for each Precinct or Ward, and Delegates
to represent them in a County Nominating COnyen-
ton. to be held at
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21
belmont COUNTY
Republican Convention.

The Republican Electors OF Belmont County
VIII meet at the usual places of holding elections
in their various Precincts and Wards, on
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-21

JOHN w. FLEEHAN.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
Why the Tramp "Scooted."

Falling Waters Pa.) Dispatch to
Boston Herald: Miss Ada Dodd is the
handsome 16-year-old daughter of
Capt. David Dodd, who lives near this
place. She keeps house for her father
and brother, and is known as the best
hot with rifle or shotgun ia the REGION.
A few days ago she was alone in the
house when Misunderstanding tramp
slouched up, seated himself in chair
on the porch and orderd the girl to get
him some dinner. She went into the
house, took down her do.rble-barreled
rife and told the tramp to leave. bah"
he replied, II amt afraid of any
woman's shooting. You can't bluff me. I"
At that moment chicken ran a across
the yard. When it was several rods
away and still on the run Miss Dodd
brought the rifle to her shoulder and
fired. The chicken fell dead. The shot
had cut its head square off. The girl
looked around to note the effect of her
shot on the tramp. He was halfway
across the yard and making for the
fence, with his tatterd coat-tails
straight out behind him. He never STOP
ped or looked back as far as he could
be seen flying down the road. Il pull
led up to notch his ear with the other
bullet as he got over the fence" said
Miss Ada, in telling her father of the
incident, ''but I had to laugh so to see
him scoot that l couldn't take AIM"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
WHERE NEATNESS PAYS.
Advantages Incident to the Good A
naaarancsa Of farm

advantages 1uCluenC 60 the Good AD.
poarance of II Farm.
1t can hardly be realized by a farm
ar who has never tried the plan of
keeping every thing about his farm in
repair, and the yards and fields in neat
order, what an improvement can BE-
made in the attract veness of 4 place
in this way. Not only will this
attention to the appearance of farm
be u source Of qualification to those
who occupy it. but it will a Id money
value by giving Il much more favora-
BILE impression to those who see il.
Visitors or passers-by from distance
remember such a place. and their
recollection of it being pleasant, they
mention it to others. The sale of a
farm at Il good price has often been
brought about in this way
The difference in value is more than
one would suppose in the eyes of a
purchaser, when he compares farm
where Ill is kept tidy and neat with
one where neglect is every where
manifest The farms may have the
sam. number of acres, and the build
ings on the neglected one may have
originally cost more than those on the
other, perhaps were erected some time
later. but for all that the buyer of taste
is attracted by the well-carcd-f for place.
and the other suffers much more by
comparison than the value of the time
and money required to secure the diff
ference in the appearance of the two
farms.
Where attention is given to repairs
promptly. the expense is 'r:fing, and
the time required to keep the yards
about the buildings in neat order is
very little if the work is not neglected.
but IS done before it accunulates.
Perhaps nothing detracts from the
appe arance Of farm more then fences
and gates out of repaiF, saying
nothing of the danger of loss and dam
age 10y the ~-cape of the owners stock,
or the O. croacnmenus of that belong
ing to his neighbors. Annoyance and
loss from this cause can be easily and
cheaply prevented by prompt atten-
ton
Let the fence corners be kept clear
Of rubbish and weeds, and the grass
be cut, the trees properly trimmed,
the low places drained SO they will be
produc i've. and the hedges. if there
are any. neatly trimmed. and the ex-
uc.'se required for this work will b
found mon " we'll Invested, if it is de-
sired to IF ct a sale, and source of
much satisfa. ton where this is not the
case. and the owner lakes amy pride in
the looks of his properly. or cares for
The good .opini n of those who see il.
The estimation in which Turner is
held by his neighbors often depends
largely OF The care with which he
looks after the appearance IF his farm.
-AatsonaI Live S.ock Journal
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
HOME AND FARM.

Vinegar is not only excellent for
keeping fish, but improves its flavor:
When the plate is sent up for
more meat. send your knife and fork
with it. 1t looks awkward to sit hold
ing them.
-Nico table-cloths and napkins
should not be allowed to become much
soilcd. so that they will require vigor-
Gus rubbing with soap or in hot water.
1T is claimed that if carrots be
made a regular dict as part of the
ration for milch COWS there will be no
necessity to use butter color
The best food for early matched
chicks is graduated oatmeal, which
! should be placed in little troughs. so
that the chicks can got all they wish.
and at any time.
The soil. like any other lender,
likes its loan returned with interest,
and in proportion us this is done with
a liberal hand. so will it be better pre-
pared to make now and larger adj
| vances.
No less than sixty-eight standard
breeds OF fowls are recognized. and
this does not include the common
barnyard fowl. There are ten breeds
OF ducks. and seven breeds of geese
and six breeds of turkeys.
Cranberry Pudding: O,e pint of
cram berries, one pint of flour, two
eggs. one teaspoon of soda, one tea
spoon cream tartar; mix with sweet
milk; pour into tin and steam one
hour and Il half. 1t requires sweet
sauce.
TO prepare an egg for sick per-
son. beat the egg until very Zig hi; add
seasoning to taste, and then steam
until thoroughly steamed through.
| This will not take more than two min
utes. The most delicate stomach will
he able to digest it.
Sheep here do not pay as great
| profits as those in England. Every
thing depends on the mode of man
agement- Our farmers compel sheep
to forage. while in England they arc
treated rs carefully rs are cattle.
"A heifer has no rings on herhotns
until she is two years of age, and one
is added each year thereafter. You
can. therefore, tell the age of COW
with tolerable accuracy by counting
the rings on her horns and adding
two to the number. The bull has no
rings. rs rule. until he is five years
old. so to tell his age, after that period.
add five to the number of rings.
Educate yourself and your chill
dren; acquire business habits that will
enable you to market your own pro
dHcc; practice economy; avoid debt as
| you would sin; be Industrious and dill
gent in business; diversity your crops;
| give greater attention to smaller in
dustries; be farmers. not planters;
give your personal attention to your
business; work out your industrial
freedom by perfect organization and
persistent. individual effort; and if
you would keep up with the progress
i've d>pirit of the ag'. subscribe for
and read the best agricultural jour-
nails of the county.-C B. Butler, to
South Caro- ina TURNER'S
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
Don't Give uD the Shin.

You have been told that consumption is
incurable; that when the ungs are attacked
by this terrible NAL dy, the sufferer is past
all help. and the end is a mere question o
time. You have noted with al RIM the un.
have tr ed ali manner Of so.caIied cures in
vain, and you are now respondent and pre-
pairing for the worst. But don't give up
the ship while DR.. Pierce's Gold. Medical
Discovery remains untried. 1t is not ture-
all, nor will it perform miracles, but it has
cured thousands Of cases of consumption
in its earlier stages, where all other mea'
had failed. Try it, and obtain a new lease
of Ii Q.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
The Thoroughness Of German Education

The Thoroughness of German Education
"The silaent fact" says Samuel
Smith, Nj. P, who had been studying
education in Germany, (Which strikes
| all observers is the universally of good
education in Germany. There is no such
thing as an uneducated class; there are
no such things, speaking broadly, as
neglected and uncared-for children.
All classes of the community are better
educated than the corresponding ones
in England; and this applies quite as
much to primary as to secondary edu-
cation. Nothing struck me more thau
the general intelligence of the humber
working classes. Walters, porters,
guides, etc., have knowledge of his
tory, geography, and other subjects far
beyond that possessed by correspond
ing classes in England. and the reason
is not far to seek. The whole population
has long been passsd through a thor
ough and comprehensive system of in
struction obligatory by law and far
more extended than is given in our
elementary schools. went through
| several of these schools and observed
the method of teaching, which was
simply admirable. The children are not
crammed. but taught to reason from
the earliest stages. The first object Of
the teacher is to make his pupils COM
prehend the meaning of everything
they learn, and to carry them from
stage to stage so as to keep up an eager
interest. saw no signs of WEAKNESS or
apathy among either teachers or schol-
ars. The teaching was all viva voce, the
teacher always standing beside the
blackboard. and illustrating his subject
by object lessons. The instruction was
thorough, the eye and the hand as we'll rs
the ear, and questions and answers sue
ceeded so sharply as to keep the whole
class ON the qui vive.''
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
Searching for Los, Treasure.

BUFFALO, N. Y, March 2O-The peopl
OF Welland are very much excited at rresen'
ever the Efforts OF Dexter Atwood, of tina,
village, to secure a fortune by taking the
muddy bottom of the Chippewa river. Dur
ing the war Of 1872 some $500, 600 in gold
was dropped overheard by a British paymas
ter who Was being hotly pursued by Y. nkee
troops, 1t Is alleged IL Is lain there ever
since Atwood heard the legend from the
grandson of the Britisher. Fri lay he sur
prsed the villagers by bringing a diver.
who has been at work ever since. No mon
ey has as yet been brought to the surface,
but a magnet shows. it is said, the pres snce
OF metal The search is to be con Timed
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28

The treatment Of many thousands of cases
to at
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded q vast experienced in nicely adapt
cure Of woman's peculiar maladies.
Or. Fierce's Favorite Prescription
Is the 9utgrowth. or result, of this great and
mails, received from patients and from physi-
clans who have tested it in the more aggra-
waited and obstinate cases which had baftled
remedy ever devised for the relief and cure Of
"cure-all, - but as q, most perfect Specific for
As powerful, invigorating tonic,
it imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the womb and its. appendaees IS
rundown" debilitated teachers. milliners,
dressmakers. eeamstreeses, ''shop-girls," house.
nursing otseF and feeble
Is the greatest earthly boon, being unequaled
as an appetizmg cordial and restorative tonic:
AZ aq1
qualed and is invaluable in allaying and sub
DUNG nervous excitability, irritability, ex-
haustion, prostration. hysteria. spaems and
monty attendant upon functional and organic
disease of the womb. It induces refreshing
sleep and relieves montal anxiety and de:
10 = legitimate medicine, carefully
6y an and
composition and perfectly harmless in its
effects in any condition OF the system. For
cause arising, weak stomach, indigestion, dys-
pepsia and kindred symptoms, it's use, in small
doses, win Prove very beneficial: ..
tive euro for the most complicated and OBJ
stinate cases Of leucorrhea, excessive flowing,
painful menstruation, unnatural suppressions
prOl0pSuS. or falling of the womb weok hack
female weakness" anteversion. retroversion'
bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion,
Inflammation and liberation Of the womb, in
accompanied with internal heat"
As q regulator and promoter Of func-
tional action. at that critical period Of change
from girlhood to womanhood, Favorite Pre-
and can produce only good results. It is
equally efficacious and valuable in it's effects
when taken for those disorders and derange-
period, known as 1.-The Change Of LIFE Sf''''
"EavOrfte Prescriptions, when taken
n connection with the use Of DR.: Pierce's
doses Of DR.. Pierce's Purgative Pellets little
Liver Pills). cures Liver. Kidney aud Bladder
diseases, Their combined use also removes
s Dlooo talnts. ana apohsnes cancerous and
"Favorite Prescription $ is the only
medicine Tor women. sold by druggists, under
tSst w SSs from the
case, or money will be refunded. This guaran-
tee has been printed on the bottle-w wrapper,
and faithfully carried out for many years.
bd da'Exe be, bottles goo dose 800, OF six
For For large; illustrated Treatise on Diseases of
cents IN stamps: ADDRESS, SSSsss0'e'e0' 'eno ten
Worlds Dispsnsaly Medical Association,
663 Main St, BUFFALO, N. Z.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
No especial Had Been Engaged.

"Mary.,' said the old gentleman,
severely. Il think saw you embrace
ing young Blinkersly this evening""
perhaps you did, papa"
"And yesterday evening Snifkins
had his arm around your waist.''
"Well, papa?"
"And the night before that it was
Brown whose arm encircled YOU"
"What of it, papa?"
Nothing, only I think it's about
time for me to take the franchise for
this Associated Press arrangement"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
A Lasting Benefit.

The world, it has been said, has more
need OF philanthropist, than Of philosophers
u truism which has been full verified in
the case Of the inventor of Aliens Iron Tonic
Bitters who has given to the Suffering
public tie most potent remedy for dyspep-
sia, ind ges ion, and their attendant ills,
ever offered, and thereby conferred or, ater.
benefits upon mankind than the whole
school OF philosophers from the days of
Zeno and Socrates to the present time.
All enuine bear the signature Of J. P
AEen, st. Paul, Mimi
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-03-28
Tragedy In q Boarding House,

DENVER, COL, March 2O-Charles sweig-
kart arrived here from Ucah Monday fore
noon, and at once repaired to the DO riding
house kept by his divorced wife The latte,
refused to give him meal, where
upon Sweigkart fired three Intellectual
shots at her. She dashed from the
house and jumped into the hack
In which her ex-husnand had ar
rived, and the driver lasaed his horses into
. run, but Sweigkart sent bree bullets into
the vehicle, none OF which injured the
woman. He then re-en cred the mouse and
opened fire on Charles Realm and George
Kreiner, killing the latter AMI rsaking che
right arm of the former Then he sent u
bullet through his own skull, and fell dead