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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

The Glencoe Literary has adjourned
for two weeks, bHt the Fairview society
meets Friday night
Mrs. Ida Bowtr visited friends at
Quaker City last week.
IT. James Wiley returned Tuesday
to Fremont county, Iowa.
The weather for the past few weeks
has enabled the farmers 10 do large
amount Of spring work.
Oak Ridge school. f. d. Meek, teach
er, closes friday. Nj Meek viii teach
the spring term also.
VIII HINES. Jr., sold fiae lot of furs
and pelts to Bellaire party last Friday.
Both creeks Were yery high last Satur-
day, and carried away some Of the foot
logs.
Sunday was very stormy cold Gay,
and but few people left their homes N
consequence thereof.
Rev. VI. :. Sutton and wife will at
tend the conference of the Church Of the
Latter Saints of Jesus Christ, at Wheel
ing, Saturday and Sunday.
Owing to the inclemency of the weath-
er and bad rocdS. Rev. Eicher failed %
get to Glencoe Sunday to ill his appoint
ment.
Rev. Eicher, assisted by Rev. Hissom,
of Sardis, is conducting a very success
fuI revival at Centeryille: much interest
is being manifested and large numbers
have already united with the Church.
Rev Hissom is rapidly developing into
great revivalist. He has aided in
large revival5 in Glencoe, Darlington,
Beailsyille and Centerville, this winter.
He is, to-day, a greater preacher than
either Sam Small or Sam Jones.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
INCARCERATION DAY.
New York Mail and Express.

New York Niii ana ENptC~S-
The plan to change Inauguration day
from March to April so mas failed. The
historical associations connected with the
latter day have no attractions for the
House Of Representatives, or at least not
sufficient attractions to secure the two
thirds vote necessary to the submission
of constitutional amendment to State
Legislatures. In view of this dafaat Of
the Senate resolution. Mr.. Grains substi-
tute becomes of Importance. That reso-
luton make; Inauguration day January
l, and provides that the Congress elected
in November shall begin its life on the
first of the following year.
The resolution provides for two good
objects. The second session of the Con
greSs under it may be as long as the first,
and the House of Representatives will
better reflect the viii of the people. Tn
der the present law, Congress may be
greatly at odds with public opinion. For
example, the FoTty-seventh Congress be-
gan its life March t, 1881. It's repreSen-
tativeS We're elected in November, 1880.
at the same time that Garfield was chosen
to be President. The FOrtv-SiXth Con-
gress was Democratic. and its second ses-
sion was from December, 1880, to March
!, 1881. After the people had declared
in favor of Il Republican President and
Congress. the Democrats continued 10
legislate for the country, and, as is well
known, the appropriation bills were con-
structed for the purpose of making the
incoming administration as much trouble
rs possible. The Democrats directed the
appropriations to June so, 1882. The
Republican Congress, in fact, did not
meet until December, 1881, thirteen
months after its election, and when pop
ular opinion may have been the other
way, for in 1882 a Democratic House was
chosen. The Democrats controlled the
expenditure Of money by the Executive
Departments for a year and four months
of the term of Garfield and Arthur.
If Mr.. Grains scheme had been adopt
ed. President Garfield and the Republican
House would have begun their official
life together. The last fiscal year for
which the Democrats made the appropri-
atoms would have ended on the 30th of
the following June. This would seem
the natural way of carrying oa d govern
ment which is supposed to give express
ion and force to the popular will. If a
Republican President and House of Rep
reSentatives should be chosen next No
vember on the tariff issue, the Democrats
will remain in full control of the govern
ment for four months. The people will
have declared in favor of protection. but,
Were it not for the Senate, which happens
to be Republican, the government might
enact a free trade law. As it is the Dem
Ocrats viii make the appropriations for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and
they have it in their power to greatly en-
5arrass the Treasury.
BY all means, as we cannot have April
30 for Inauguration day, let us have &r.
Grains scheme.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
THE RETURN OF THE FLAGS.

THE RETURN OF THE FLAGS.
Cincinnati Commercial-G Gazette
The argument of Secretary Endicott's
pamphlet on the return of the flags would
be discreditable to the discussion of a
moot court in lunatic asylum. And
vet his friends are in a continuing state
Of glGe over what they call his "bO1me-
rang" and his "pulyerizing" reply to
MIR. Boutelle.
The boomerang consists in this: He
has been able to tell Congress that his
department has not returned a single
flag, either Confederate or Union; while
the great War Secretary, Stanton, and his
Republican successors returned 4 cOnsid-
cradle number of such. But he does not
give a hint of that Northern uprising be-
fore which both he and the President
quailed and hastily reversed their orders
for the return of every captured C0nfed-
crate battle-flag in the possession of the
government. His pulveriGing statement
consists of the unexplained assertion that
Mr. Stanton and his successors were the
only ones who had handed over battle
flags to those having no legal right to
their custody. BY indirection he at
tempts to create the impression that Re
publican Secretaries allowed captured
flags to go back to Southern Governors
or individual -Confederates. This por-
ton Of his work is utterly unworthy of
his position, though the country will be
bound to assume that it is worthy Of
him.
The logic of this Secretary is this: Nj
Stanton gave Union flags to the States
or the regiments which formerly owned
them; therefore it was proper for the
President to make it his pheasant duty"
to return all the captured Confederate
flags "tO the Confederate States"
And again: Mr.. Stanton gave some of
the Confederate flags to the regiments or
tie men who captured them in battle;
therefore it was right for President Cleve-
land to send all these flags, taken at a
fearful cost, with his compliments, back
to the Confederate States which raised
them in treason against the government.
Secretary Endicott could do the Fresi-
dent less harm, and his party great deal
more good if he had the advantages of
field service in the Confederate army.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
srl,ltnitt Chronicle.
THURSDAY. MARCH /, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVE PoORNAN has intro
duced bill in the Legislature providing
for an Ohio Centennial Reception Com
mittee, composed Of three State officers,
two members of the Senate, and five
members of the House-tea in alI-and
appropriasiGg $4,000 to defray the ex-
penSes of the Commission in receiving
and entertaining distinguished visitors
to the Ohio Centennial.
To the average farmer and taxpayer
ten thousand dollars looks like a large
SIN to expend for this purpose, especial
l. when it is considered that the state
needs several hundred Thousand dollars
t. meet the current demands. The State
need not be mean in extending proper
courtesies to invited visitors, but, at the
same time, there is no occasion for one
half the expenditure provided, and much
less for Commission of ten to parade
at the public expense. 1t world be just
as well for statesmen Who preach econ
omy and retrenchment to practice it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
A MEMBER OF THE GANG

Steubenvle Gazette Dem.)
Ike Hill, member of the coal oil gang
and who consequently holds position al
Washington, on the witness-stand in the
talIy-sheet cases at Columbus denied that
he promised to pay Mat Martin to throw
out the returns from the precincts to
change which the forgery was commit
ted. In his testimony he admitted that
he was quite intimate with john r. Nc
Lean and was working for his interests,
which goes to show that the object of the
forgery was to give Mclean the senator
ship. As to the denial of Martins evi-
dence, the defense has undertaken too
much, and the testimony Of Hill ought
to weaken the defense very materially,
for it goes to show upon what the defense
depends. No one who knows Squire
Martin would doubt his word, and in this
case his testimony is corrobOrated by
James d. Poston, another honest man
and a good Democrat. Martin is also a
straightforward Democrat. whose word
is as good as his bond. But Ike Hill
doesn't have that sort of a reputation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

IT would be a lovely scheme for the
Democrats to bargain that Dakota shall
be let in IS State, provided Utah,
Washington, Montana and New Mexico
are let in at the same time. The three
last named Territories have not so many
people between them all as there are in
Dakota, and not many more than there
are in the southern half of Dakota, but
that makes no difference 20 a Democrat
if ne sees a chance of gaining six Sena-
tors and three Congressmen. As for
Utah, we hardly think that even a
Democratic House Of Representatives
will dare to admit her, SO long as she is
a slave of the Mormon Church. Dako-
ia will probably have to wait for justice
until the next Republican Congress
meets.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

W. W. CoRCoRAN, the well-known
Washington philanthropist, died at his
home in that city on Friday, aged 90
wears. Deceased was one of the most
prominent men of the. Capital during a
long period, and amassed large fortune
in the banking business, much of which
was spent in charitable and benevolent
enterprises. The beautiful Oak Hill
Cemetery, at Georgetown, the maSnif-
cent Corcoran Art Gallery and the Lou
Use Home for impoverished gentle
women, were among his public gifts.
Il is estimated that his charities, public
and private, will reach four OF five mil
lions of dollars.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

THE brutal assault upon the Proseeu-
ting Attorney of Franklin county, last
Saturday night, by one of the aides Of
the gang of taI'y-sheet forgers, is a re-
proach to the Capital City of our State.
1t was an assault, Tot upon the individ-
ual, but upon the State, of which ne IS
the representative, and daring attempt
at intimidation and terrorism that must
be promptly and summarily dealt with.
The people of Columbus must see that
the assassin gets his deserts, and that
speedily.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

Hos. GEOEGE W. THOMPSON diel, at
his residence, on the NationalEoad. East
of Wheeling, at an early hour Friday
morning, and was buried Monday.
Judge Thompson was born at st. Glars
vile. MAY Il. 1876. He read law with
Wm. b. Hubbard went to Richmond.
Va, in 1927, where he further pursued
his studies. returning 10 St Cla.rsvilie in
1928. He pursued the practice of law
at St. Cla;rsyille until 1885,, when he re-
moved 20 Wheeling, and the following
year was appointed Postmaster. In
/ 1851 he was elected to represent the
/ Wheeling District in Congress. Judge
Thompson served as United States At
tornev for the Western District of Vir-
ginia, appointed by President Polk, and
afterward was elected a Circuit Judge,
in which position he was serving at the
outbreak of the rebellion. Since quit
ting that Office, early in the war, he has
lived a retired life.
Judge Thompson was student, and
a scholarly man. \ man Of intense con-
victions, and firmly rooted in the old
Virginia class Of politics, he firmly and
obstinately refused to acquiesce in the
changed order of things brought on by
the rebellion, and Wheeling being in
tensely loyal and public opinion at white
heat, he was for years practically ostra-
cised. He lived to see the rebellion con-
quered, good feeling restored among his
neighbors, and the country more pros
porous and powerful than the most san
guine Virginian could have hoped to
see under the old order of things. De
ceased was a brother of 1ir. Robert
Thompson and Mrs. Eliza Steenrod, of
this place.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS
GLENCOE.

pA%As-NNcA1'
The roads are getting almost impass,
able.
There will not be much moving here
this spring.
Some of the farmers have commenced
breaking soil for corn.
Some Of our citizens still claim there
will be an oil or gas boom here next
summer.
T. W. Mellott will probably sell his
property here this spring and move his
family to Dellaire, where he is at work
We understand there is some trouble
about the bank boss at the Franklin
Coal Works, ard there may be a new
man put in the place.
V. NJ. Fulton is spendinga portion OF
his holidays in Bellaire and Wheeling.
The Misses Kirker will shortly move
back to the old homestead west of town
Lou Downs, who went to Pittsburgh
some time ago, has returned here.
J. Henderlong left Tuesday for Della
ware county, where he will remain dur
ing the summer.
With the exception of bad colds the
health of our citizens is good for this
season of the year.
Two large gangs of Italians passed
east on the Baltimore & Ohio on foot
last week. They We're likely going to
Wheeling to look for work on the new
Ohio river bridge.
J. N. Spencer, of Trenton, visited
friends here last week.
Miss Mamie McNiece closed her
school at Cumberland Run last Friday,
with an fashioned dinner, an enter
tainment and treat. There was a large
number of visitors present and speak
highly of the exercises. This was Miss
McNiece's first term, and as a proof OF
her success she has been given the
school for another term.
Our Philosopher knocked out our
Snowman in one round the other day.
Our =. not only talks science but prac-
tices it.
On Wednesday night of last week
there was large and pleasant party at
the residence of Robert McKelvey, near
Bethel; about twenty couples were pres
ent, and everything passed off in first
class style.
ID. J. McManis ard family leave this
Thursday evening for Richmond, Kas.,
where they intend to make their future
home; may success be with them.
Mr.. Cam. Meek and wife, of DelIaire,
visited friends here last week.
Mrs. DR.. Frank Keyser, of Pennsylva-
MIA, called On her Old friends and neigh
bors here last week.
Prof. J. l.. Crippen, of Bellaire, has
closed his singing school at Bethel
Church.
Mrs. Moses Workman, of Quincy,
called on friends here last week.
Owing to the inclemency of the
weather last Saturday, but one of our
teachers attended the meeting of the
Association at ,Iacobsburg, and we un-
derstand that the attendance was not
large just as we predicted when the
Association refused to meet at Jacobs
barg last fall. when the teachers could
get there. The meeting should never be
held in country towns in the spring.
PcOf. V. NJ. Fulton will teach ten
weeks normal school here this summer
if he can secure a sufficient number of
pupils, which should not be hard to do,
as Mr.. Fulton is one of the best instruct
Ors in the county, and well qualified to
conduct such q school
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
NOBLE SOLID FOR TAYLOR.

Noble County Republican, Feb. %.
Some progn0sticator of politics, who
does not know what he is writing about,
talks through the Wheeling TntelligeaceT
about the Congressional outlook in the
XVIIth District. He says Belmont will
be divided between Poorman and Jesse
Hollingsworth, Harrison will support d.
A. HOllingsworth, Jefferson viii vote for
Thomas B. Coulter, Guernsey J. D. Tay-
lor, and Noble Capell WeemS. until it
gets the key to the situation. There are
also predictions of diSsenSiOnS and bad
f. cling over the result, whatever the ac-
ton of the convention.
The writer may state the case fairly So
far as the other counties of the district
are concerned, but when he comes to No
be he is away off his base. The county
will be substantially solid for j. d. Tay-
lOr, and we have never even heard it
whispered that Mr.. Weems VIII be a can
didate. Indeed, it is more than likely he
will be selected to present Mr. Taylor's
name. In any event, if Mr.. Taylor'S
chances for the delegation are as good in
the other counties as in Noble, lie viii
haze no oppoaiti0n in the convention,
and the bad blood and other truck of
this writer will then have gene giimmer-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
THEODORE THOMAS.

New York Mail and Express.
"And how is your family, Mr.. ThOm-
as?' asked lady with whom Theodore
Thomas dinei after one of his suburban
concerts. The great leader hesitated.-
"Wen, really" said he, Il have not had
time to find out" 1t was the truth
There are few men who dO more work
than Mr.. Thomas. Here was his pro
granme for Thursday and Friday: Re
hearsal at 9 in the morning on Thursday,
after returning from New Brunswick on
the midnight train, where the previous
night he had given concert; another
concert in the afternoon; another at Or
ange in the evening, with return on the
late train; rehearsal at9 Friday morning;
Philharmonic concert in the afternoon.
and perhaps another suburban concert in
the evening. 1t is little wonder that Mr.
Thomas finds no time to ascertain the
health of his family. He has five child
ren. OF these one is Young man at
Yale and another at the School Of Mines
in Columbia College. A daughter is at
the Harvard Annex. Mr.. ThOmaS's
whole time is given TO music. When his
rehearsalS and concerts are over, his time
is occupied in studying. He gives to his
works his own Interpretation, and each
member of his orchestra must be thor
oughly imbucd with his peculiar ideas.
He is a strict disciplinarian, a hard work
er, an exacting director, but withal just
and impasslye. His popularity with his
sub0rdinates is no less than with the
public.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
WORTH KNOWING.
Cay.

Mr.. W. II. Morgan, merchant, Lake
CIV, Fla, was taken with u severe cod
a.te ,deG with a distressing courh Enc
IUId' lg into Consumption in is 81
sy3 ,es. He t led maly sO-cai!el p0Dula
c0u, d remedies aha stPaCilv sew wo- e.
was reduced in tie,a. ned q tficu!sy il
breath; Ig 9nd was un9 Dle to seeD. FL
? " tried Dr. KINGS New Discovery 20
Consumption ana found inne;:at te re.
e and after using a3out h9l% dozen
bottles found himself wei Fad nas haG
70 reyurn of tie disease. No Otner lem-
eCT can show so grand a recO- q Os cl.cs IS
ID Ki1%'s New Discovev TO; CoLsuTQ-
i;OI. Grarah,sed to do just wha5 s
c G-mcd for it. Trial bootie free 1T P2t-
terSolS drug store.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

TIE Austin (Tex.) Daily Dispatc4
DEM makes probably the strongest
argument against Mr.. Cleveland's re-
nomination that has yet come from a
Democratic source, and that will likely
be used extensively By the friends OF
Mr.. Hill before the next Democratic
Convention settles on a candidate. The
substance of it is that Mr. Cleveland has
suborlinated every branch of the public
service to the accomplishment of one
purp0se-hiS own denomination; that he
has administered the financial affairs OF
the Government in the interest of the
Wall street money sharks, and that ha
has "struck an unwarranted blow at the
manufacturing and industrial interests
of the country by virtually advocating
a policy OF free trade, fatal alike to the
prosperity of the country, and the indi-
vidual interests of the citizen"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

TIE Ames bill to provide for the
study of the effects of alcohol and mar
cJtics on the human system, was made
tne special order in the Legislature yes
terday, after having been amended by
striking out the clause providing for a
textbook on the subject. The bill as
it now stands, simply provides that
such instruction shall be given and that
teachers shall pass satisfactorily ex-
animation as to their ability to give such
Instruction before certificates are grant
ed them.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

TIE hangman at Columbus has been
cheated out of an early job on "Blinky'
Morgan, owing to the interference OF
the Circuit Court, which wants time tc
investigate alleged technical errors at
the trial "Blinky" scarcely made a
pretense of innocence, and The evidence
upon which he was convicted was sc
overwhelming that it does not seem pos
sible that he will finally escape punish
ment. Waste of money and useless de-
Law will likely be the only result of the
action of the Cirruit Court.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

IT is announced that there is to be a
live Democratic newspaper launched at
Bellaire about the middle of this month,
to fill long-felt want. The paper is to
be an eight-page one, and will be edited
and published by Mr.. W. c. WarIOck,
for many years foreman of the IndepeI1d-
eRt Office.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
InIIN F- K KA1srR- ncent of Az Metr.

JOHN T. KAISER, agent of the Metro
politan Life Insurance Co, at Detroit, was
found insensible in box ear in Jackson,
Mich, with his head badly cut and his
body bruised. On regaining conscious
ness he remembered being struck while
standing in the depot in Detroit, but by
whom or for what purpose he did not
know.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
Ir max not he cenerally known anal

IT may not be generally known that
there is already one Presidential ticket
in the field. The Industrial Reform
party he'd its convention at Washington
on the 22d ult.. and. nominated A. f.
RedStone, of California, for President,
and J. \. Colvin, of Kansas, for Vice
President. The platform calls for the
abolition of all banks and makes it the
duty Of the Government to provide the
people with all the money needed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

WHEN the Commissioners come next
week, they might suggest to Auditor
Barrett that it would be The proper thing
for him to pay back those little sums
amounting in ali to several hundred
dollars, which he has wrongfIily in his
possession, for mileage and work he din
not Derform.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01
FOR "DISCHARGING HIS DUTY


The action of Fred Steube in his as.
sault upon Prosecutor Huling, as the Cir
cumstances are gathered by Times report
ers, was a gross outrage. 1t would be 3
personal outrage if both were private cit.
izens, for the assault seems TO be entire,
ly unprovoked; but the assaulter being
accused of a crime, and the victim pub
lie officer engaged in the prosecution, il
is more than that. 1t is an act entirely
inexcuSahle and deserves the condemna,
ton of every good citizen. Even those
who are inclined to doubt the sincerity
of the prosecutor in this case will join
in the condemnation Of this public chas-
tisement of public official apparently
for No other reason than that he is dis
charging his duty.
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ed them.

THE weather in these parts has been
very severe for several days. Following
the spring-like weather that preceded it,
it has been the most uncomfortable OF
the season. Robins had put in their ap-
pearance a week ago, the air was balmy,
and other indications suggested the ap-
proach of spring. Within forty-eight
hours the mercury was hugging zero, and
all nature bore the aspect of severe win
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

ITappears that BARLEY Breen, whose
election as Congressman from the Elev-
enth district in Michigan, if effected,
was to be hailed as a great victory for
free trade and the Administration, made
rousing protection speech during the
recent campaign, and his home organ
says: Mr.. Breen is and always has been
a protectiOnist."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-03-01

\ COUPLE Of years ago the County
auditors prevailed upon the Legislature
to SO amend the law us to add about ten
months to the terms of incumbentS, as
they thought. Now they have procured
the introduction of another bill-this
time proposing TO grab but one month.