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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
PRUDENCEI PRIIDENCEI

In medication, as in aught else, pru-
dence should be our guide. Yet thOus-
ands cast it to the winds. Every new
nOstrum finds its patrons, the medical en-
pires of every false school have their gulls.
Every change in the gamut of humbug is
rung successfully-for time at least
the notes being furnished by the credu-
lous. In happy contrast to the many ad-
vertised impOstures of the stands Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, now in its third
decade of popularity, approved and rec
press of many lands, sought and priced by
invalids everywhere. 1t is an ascertained
specific for and preventive of malarial
diseases, chronic Indigestion, liver COM
plant and constipation, checks the growth
of rheumatism and neuralgia, is a peer
less invigorant and useful diuretic Ner-
vous people benefit by it. 10 AT.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

A SWEET spirit, like the scented flow
er, has fragrance to cast upon the path
of every one who passes by. 1t has al
so for itself a rare life of love that every
one admireS.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

THE yelling about war taxation does
not become the mouths of Democrats
If there are any taxes, they are the tax
es on whisky and tobacco-the internal
revenue taxes; and yet the Democratic
mind, we are told just now, shrinks
with horror from the contemplation of
free whisky and tobacco. The Demo
Gratis are not so sensitive about war tax
es as they pretend. They have one
point to make, and that is to destroy the
protective duties and go as far toward
freetradism as they can. They deny that
they are carrying. on free trade cru
SADIE, but they would laugh after the
election at any one foolish enough to be-
lieve them.-Cin. Com. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

THE world is, to be sure, all out of
sorts, and it ought to be turned upside
down and emptied out, in all probabili-
ty; but you can't help it by getting sour
at everybody and everything.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

REMEMBER that it takes no longer to
put thing where it belongs than some
where else; or at least if it does some
times take a little longer to put it there
it doesn't take so long to find it the next
time you want it in hurry.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

CONNECTIONS-At Barton with all passenger
trains on c., l.. & w. Ry; at Bridgeport with C. &
2. R'y for Steubenyile, Pittsburgh, and interme-
diate points; at Bellaire with B. & o, and B.. T. &
c. RVS. esy-Direct with Street Cars to and from
Wheeling. Only direct route between St Clairs-
vile and Wheeling.
A. C. DARRAH, F. NJ. TOWNSEND,
President. Superintendent.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

WINTER KILLING OF WHEAT.
D. S. Curtis in the American Agriculturist. @
The most effective and beneficial mode
of preventing the wheat plant from be-
ing injured or destroyed by freezing and
heaving of the soil is liberal mulching,
top dressing with fine manure or COM
post from the barn yard, or Stacked peat
from the muck pile, to be evenly spread
over the fall-sowed wheat field. In
autumn, when the ground is sufficiently
frozen to bear the wagon wheels, spread
just thick enough to have the ground
lightly covered, So that when the soil
freezes, cracks and heaves, the wheat
roots viii be covered, protected and not
torn out, but the mulch or compost will
fall into the cracks and cover the roots,
sheltering them from the effects of
weather. We have several times seen
fields which were liable to this freezing
and heaving, with wheat drilled in, por-
tions of which were top dressed in au-
tumn as above directed, and on which
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

SOME men do as much begrudge 9TH
ers a good name, as they want one
themselves! and perhaps that is the rea-
son of it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
DO THE HEAVY HOGS PAY?

StOckman.
1t is the delight of most farmers to get
their hogs as heavy as possible, and the
belief is strong that the heavier they get
them without losses by death the more
money they are making out of their
crops. Now it is very easy to arrive at
this conclusion, from the fact that as the
hogs grow older and larger, they make
pounds so much faster up to the point
near maturity. Now if the scales are
brought into use the bottom is knocked
out of this belief At the Massachusetts
Experiment Station eight experiments
have been conducted to test the most
profitable weight for the farmer to make
in feeding hogs. "The pigs used weigh
ed from % to % pounds at the begin
ming of the experiment" The expert
ments covered four periods of 81 days
each. The average gain per head for the
first 81 days was PA pounds; the second
period nearly IS pounds; the third near
ly So pounds per head, without the test
of the scales-showing the weight of the
feed consumed, and the amount of gain
for solid food consumed. The conclusion
would naturally be that the largest gain
made in a given time was the most
profitable. The feed used in this exper-
iment cost the same per hundred pounds
and gallon for the four periods of the
experiment: Corn-meal, $24.00 per ton;
wheat bran and gluten, each $22.50 per
ton; skimmilk, 1.Sc per gallon. The first
period the cost of gain per pound was
SIC; the fourth period it was SIC per
pound. While the greatest gain was
made during this month, it was made at
greatest cost. The results of these eight
trials, and those at other experiment
stations, prove conclusively that heavy
hogs do not pay the best. The most
profitable weight for the farmer that
grows and fattens his hogs is dressed
weight ranging from $50 to 180 pounds.
This is governed somewhat by the quail
ity of the hogs handled, and the price of
pork, and the cost of gain will be gov
erned by the cost of feed, which varies
very much in the different hog growing
sections. But one of the principal points
is undisputed-the larger the animal be-
comes the more it costs to make pound
of gain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

IMITATATION is born with us, but
what we ought to initiate is not easily
discovered.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

- HERIFF'S SALE
Belmont Common Pleas.
Henry FlOtO, Plaintiff,
Robert E. Sweeney, Defendant.
Pursuant to an order of sale in the above entitled
case, issued and to me directed from the court of
common pleas of Belmont county, Ohio, will offer
for sale at pulc auction at the front door of the
court house in said county, on
Saturday, October goth, 1888,
At 10 O'Clock a. m. of said day, the following
described real estate, tO-wit:
Situated in the town now city, of Martins Ferry,
county of Belmont and state of Ohio, and known
and described as lots numbers five hundred and
eight 5OS) and five hundred and nine (5C9) in said
city of Martins Ferry, Ohio.
Lot No. JOS appraised at 81, ,234.
Lot No. 500 appraised at 666-S1,9O0
TermS-CaSh.
o. Z. FOULKE Sheriff.
By NJ NJ. SCOTT, Deputy.
Geo. Duncan, PITTS Atty. 0 2O-td
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

Trains leave Wheeling for st. Clairsville at % a
m, 90 m, 90 p IN, 10 p m., daily, except Sun
day.
Accommodation leaves Cambridge at 80 a III,
GAINESVILLE at 30 m, daily, except Sunday, and
arrives at Columbus 35 III, Cincinnati u 40 p M.
Accom-. leaves Columbus at 100 p m daily, except
Sunday, arriving at Newark at 90 p IN, Mt Yer
non at 6 10 m, Mansfield at Z 80 pm.
Accom- leaves Wheeling at s 90 a M daily, except
Sunday, arriving at Cambridge at IL % m.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
From the London Sunday Times, July Is, 1ss


The electioneering campaign in America
ought to be most interesting to the English
people for historical, political. and phiIOsoph-
icaI reasons. The main question at
issue is English Free Trade against the Cont
mental system of Protection. The Republic is
on trial. Good, conservative government, un
der Cleveland, is opposed by the rule and ruin
party of Blaine, whose friends nominated Har-
rison. Thus the American people
are directly involved in the contest through
their pockets, which will be affected by the
tariff, and their future, which would be seri-
ously influenced by the restoration to power
of such fire brand as Blaine, with his home
rule sympathies and anti Canadian policy. The
American election is infinitely more important
to Englishmen than their own internal politics
just at this juncture, and they should observe
every phase of the campaign closely and un-
derstandingy. 1t is from this point of view
that the copious dispatches to the Sunday
Times are cabIed. The result of the Ameri-
can election will he p to decide many import
ant issues in Great Britain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

IHAvE not used all of one bottle yet.
] suffered from catarrh for twelve years,
experiencing the nauseating dropping in
the throat peculiar to that disease, and
nose bled almost daily. l tried various
remedies without benefit until last April,
when | saw Ely's Cream Balm advertised
in the Boston Budget. procured a bot
tie, and since the first days use have had
no more bleeding soreness is entire
ly gone. ID. G. Davidson, with the Boston
budget; formerly with Boston Journal.
10 All.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

DUTIES are ours; events are Gods.
This removes an infinite burden from
the shoulders of miserable, tempted,
dying creature. On this consideration
only can he securely lay down his head
and close his eyes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

CONSTANT success shows us but one
side of the world, for it surrounds us
with flatterers who will tell us only our
merits, and silences our enemies from
whom we alone might learn our defects.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

DISEASE generally begins that eluali-
ty which death completes; the distinc-
tions which set one man so much above
another are very little perceived in the
gloom of a sick chamber, where it will
be vain to expect entertainment from
the gay, or instruction from the wise;
where all human glory is obliterated, the
wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed
and the hero subdued; where the high
est and brightest of mortal beings finds
nothing left him but the consciousness
of innocence.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
IGNORING THE DRAFT HORSE.


Butterworth, of the Western Agricul-
turist, severely criticiSes Commissioner
Colman for ignoring the draft horse in
the 100000 copies of his last report re-
Gently given to the country. In the
course of his spicy remarks Mr.. B. says:
Col. Colman, although fast horse man,
is too slow. He is not up with the pro-
gress of the age; while he mentions the
importations of 626 cattle last year, he
perhaps does not know that there were
four times as many draft horses import
ed, ,fo he makes no mention of the draft
horse impOrtations which have for years
been the leading fine stock importing in
tereSt in America; but he gives this trOt-
ting horse paper, of over twenty pages,
in which the writer asserts that the trot-
ting horse is the national horse of Amer
lea, just as the thoroughbred race horse
is the national horse of Great Britain,
while if the writer had ever been out of
America he would have known that the
draft horse is the national horse of all
Europe, and is so recognized by every
intelligent hOrseman, every equine his
tOrian, and every stock journal. &.
The draft horse is only the work horse.
There is perhaps no speed, no style about
them worthy of the attention or recogni-
ton of department of agriculture, or
commissioner of agriculture who is
breeding fast horses; but the silent con-
tempt of our worthy commissioner Will
not affect the progress of the noble draft
horse to the front rank in American
stock breeding. No branch of our live
stock breeding has ever made such rapid
progress and attained such universal
popularity of solid, substantial charac-
ter among the leading breeders, farmers
and horse dealers, although the jockeys
and gamblers can see no good in them.
If it is not out of order, we would like
to ask Commissioner Colman to give US
the statistics of the importation of the
thousands of the various breeds of draft
horses, just as he has of the few cattle
imported.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday.
Accommodation leaves Sandusky at . 90 pm
daily, except Sunday, and arrives at Columbus mt
5Opm. Accom-. leaves Newark at % a m daily,
except Sunday; arrives at GAINESVILLE 8 40; Cam
bridge IS, Wheeling 0 80; Pittsburgh 90 p m
Accom- leaves Columbus at 30 IN daily, arrives
at Newark at % a m; GAINESVILLE at 50 u M.
Trains leave st. ClairSville for Wheeling at 5 10 a
Accom-. leaves Mansfield at 8 10 a m, Mt Vernon
81 a M daily except Sunday, Newark ut ~ Il m
daily, arriving at Columbus ut - am
Accom-. leaves Cambridge at 10 p m daily, eX-
cept Sunday, arriving at Wheeling at 10 m.
Sleeping and Dining Cars ON all Through Trains.
W. W. PEABODY, G. q. SCUlL,
Gcnl Manager, Gen' Pass. Agent,
Chicago, Ill. Baltimore, Md.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.-Dull,
heavy headache, obstruction of the nasal
passages, discharges falling from the head
into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery,
and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes are
in the ears. deafness, hacking or coughing to
clear the throat, expectoration of offensive
matter, together with scabs from ulcers; the
voice is changed and has nasal twang; the
breath is offensive; smell and taste are i'm
paired; there is sensation of dizziness with
mental depression, hacking cough and gen.
eral debility. Only few of the above-named
symptoms are likely to be present in any one
case. Thousands of cases annually, without
manifesting half of the above symptoms, re-
suit in consumption, and end in the grave.
No disease is SO common, more deceptive and
dangerous, or less understood by physicians.
By its mild, soothing, and healing properties,
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst
cases Of Catarrh, ss cold in the head,0
COryza, and Catarrhal Headache.
Sold by druggists everywhere; so cents.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

full crop of good plump grain was Sc
cured, while on the portion of the fields
not mulched, in every instance the crop
of wheat was total failure, not show
ing straw or grain enough to be worth
harvesting. In fact the grain obtained
from the top-dressed portion of the fields
much more than paid the cost of the
operation; besides the incidental benefits
of this light mulehing as surface ma
nure, it was protection to the soil from
the scOrching sun rays of summer and
sheltered the young grass when the grain
was cut off. In fact liberal, frequent.
careful top-dressing of fall sown grains
as well as meadows is one of the most
profitable and reasonable methods for
preserving fertility of soils and protect
ing winter grains and grasses that farm
ers can practice, and will be found al
ways profitable.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

A BRAVE man is the one who can
shake his fist under the DEVILS nose, and
tell him he is the devil.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
pENNsYLvANlA LINES WEST OF PITTSBURGH.

CIeUelG1ad and PittSburgh Railroad.
Time Gard In Effect Aug, 27, 1888.
Trains Run by Central Standard Time.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

Hon. GEORGE BANCROFT, the histor
ian, is eighty eight years old.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
DITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI AND
ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.
PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Time Card IN Effect dug. 5, 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 ParlOr 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 Pa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

THE richest endowments of the mind
are temperance, prudence and fortitude.
Prudence is universal virtue, which
enters into the composition of all the
rest; where she is not, fortitude loses its
name and nature
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

WE talk of human life as journey,
but how variously is that journey per-
formedl There are those who come
forth girt, and shod, and mantled, to
walk on velvet lawns and smooth ter
races; where every gale is arrested and
every beam is tempered. There are 9th
ers who walk on the Alpine paths of
life, against driving misery, and through
stormy sorrows, over sharp affections;
walk with bare feet and naked breast,
jaded, mangled and chilled.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

To MAKE our reliance upon Provi-
dence both pious and rational, we should,
in every great enterprise we take in
hand, prepare all things with that care,
diligence and activity as if there were
no such thing as Providence for us to
depend upon; and again, when we have
done all this, we should as wholly and
humbly rely upon it as if we had made
no preparation at all.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

TIME TABLE
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
July 29th, 1888.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

No MAN takes care to live well, but
long, when yet it is in everybody's pow
er to do the former, and in no mans to
do the latter We consume our lives in
providing the very instruments of life,
and govern ourselves still with a regard
to the future, so that we do not properly
live, but are about to live.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
CT. CLAIRSVILLE g. NORTHERN
~ RAILROAD TIME CARD
Time Schcdue, in eject May 18th, 1888.


Standard Time, SO Minutes SlO,rer than Local Time
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

TINE is grim banker. He places SO
much to your credit on your entrance
upon life's stage. After this you can
not add to the deposit, but you are COM
PEELED to constantly decrease it. When
it is all exhausted, your name is strick-
en- from the books forever. Make the
most of each day; it may be the last
dollar to your credit in Times bank.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

IT is remarkable that Providence has
given us all things for our advantage near
at hand; but iron, gold and silver, being
both the instruments of blood and
slaughter and the price of it, nature has
hidden in the bowels of the earth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

ART is long, life short, judgment diff
ficult, opportunity fleeting. To act is
easy, to think is difficult; to act accord
ing to our thoughts is troublesome. Ev-
cry beginning is agreeable; the threshold
is the place of expectation.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

IN a free and republican government
you cannot restrain the voice of the null
titude. Every man will speak as he
thinks, or, more properly, without think
ing, and consequently will judge of eff
fects without attending to their causes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES.

The Old Stand, Opposite Treasurer's Office,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11

SUCH is the condition of life, that
something is always wanting to happi-
ness. In youth we have warm hopes,
which are soon blasted by rashness and
negligence; and great designs, which are
defeated by inexperience. In age, we
have knowledge and prudence, without
spirit to exert or motives to prompt
them.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-11-09
AN7I.RAI1RoAD DOODLE.

Friends of the o. V. and Cairo 4
Tennessee railroad propositions need
not delude themselves with the be-
lief that there will be no organized
opposition 10 them at the polls. The
fact that the opposition is not noisy
demonsti alive, or even apparent is
no proof that it does not exist, On
the contrary, judging from expe-
rience, it rather indicates that 1t will
work with an activity, zeal and de-
termination proportional to its seCre
cy.
Intelligence from unquestionable
sources has reached here that $500
has been placed in the Belleview pre-
clint, to buy votes against the pro-
posed railroad subscription.
Around Pembroke negroes have
been offered s. head to vote against
the subscription. Nearly all colored
voters along the Tennessee line have
been approached and advised to pro-
fess to be for the railroads until Sat
urday and then vote against the tax
and secure their "boodle."
A prominent negro has been of
fered $25 per month to work against
tho subscription and the additional
sum of 81 for every vote he can make
against it.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-11-09

the masses must suOcumb and lei
misrule hold high carnival for anoth-
er four yers. Grover Cleveland, the
poor mans friend, brave and un.
swerving in what he conceives to be
the right, has been betrayed by those
who professed to be his friend and
were trusted as such, must give place
to one whose only recommendation
is that he is "the grandson of his
grand father" What strange page
of American history was written
last Tuesday A party that had con-
tended for supremacy for quarter
of a century and won, in four years
thereafter was betrayed and cast out
of power, supplanted by Its old foe,
and must again take its place in the
bitches. All honor TO the Solid South
All honor to Grover Cleveland.
Democracy smiles at defeat and will
buckle on its armor for another fight
The result, as near as could be Civ
Ell at the hour of going to press is fur
nished below, taken from the Nash
vile American of yesterday morning
New York should be added to the
States, which will give
Harrison 2lO votes, when POI would
have elected him.
nEAfOCRATIC STATES
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-11-09

The Atlanta Constitution says there
is minister IN that city who burned
800 sermons the other day and has
fully $50 more on the condemned list,
because they are old, stale and fiat.
Old sermons are sometimes the best
and the preacher and the congrega-
ton do not often put the same es-
innate on sermon. Pau's sermons
have lost nothing by age.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-11-09

John Forsyth, of Rockland, Mass,
informs the Democratic National
Committe, he knows the author of
the famous 'Murchison" letter to be
Charles E. Sumner, lawyer and ed
itor Of the Pomona Californian, who
moved there from cton, Canada,
abOnt four years ago.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-11-09

The successor of Axworthy, the
Cleveland defaulter, who was Re-
publican Presidential Elector, has
been discovered to be short in his &C.
counts to the extent of $1,000 during
his term from 1850 to 1888. lie was
Vice President of the Union National
Bank, but resigned to accept his
present political position.