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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.
From the Cleveland Leader.

From the Cleveland Leader.
That the Prohibition party in New
Jersey is on the eve of a virtual collapse
is indicated by some recent events in its
history. The State Convention of the
party held last week was doomed in ad-
vance by the Prohibition organs and
leaders, with the view to making it as
large and influential as possible, to
offset as far as might be the staggering
blows the party has received in the past
few months through the overwhelming
defeat of prohibition in PENNSYLVANIA,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island Sew
en- hundred and seventy-three delegates
were elected to the Convention. and an
enthusiastic campaign was predicted.
But out of the 773 delegates elected
only $40 attended, 403 showing by their
absence that they were no longer in
sympathy with the third party move
ment. General Fisk, the third party
candidate for President last fall, took
occasion to leave the State a few DAYS
before the Convention, and the absence
of some of the most active workers
heretofore was noticeable Some of
those who attended the Convention free
ly intimated their belief that the best
thing the party could do was to unite
with the Republicans to elect State and
Legislative candidates favorable to high
license and local option laws. The ma
jority of the delegates present decided
to go ahead independently, but it should
be remembered that they were consider
ably less than one-half of the whole
number elected. The 403 delegates who
refused to attend, joined to the minority
present that were opposed to independ-
ent action, constituted a large majority
of the representatives of the whole par
ty in the State, and it is fair to infer
from this negative position of the ma
jority that the bulk of the party will
support the Republican State and Legis-
lative nominees.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE town elections in Connecticut in
October will be held under the new secret
ballot law. The Connecticut law is pc
culiar in that it provides that each voter
must secure his ballot five days before the
election, a seemingly unnecessary provi-
sion, and deposit in a sealed envelope
Massachusetts viii also test her new Sc
cret ballot law at the town elections this
fall, and Indiana will follow next spring
The workings ofIegislation to purify the
suffrage will be watched with much in
terest all over the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
EITPEPSY-

This is what you ought to have, in fact
you must have it, to fully enjoy life
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not; thous-
ands upon thousands of dollars are spent
annually by our people in the hope that
they may attain this boon: and yet it may
be had by all. We guarantee that Electric
Bitters, if used according to directions
and the use persisted in, will bring you
good digestion and GUST the demon dys-
pepsia and install instead eupepsy. We
recommend Electric Bitters for dyspepsia
and all diseases of liver, stomach and kid
neys. Sold at soc and 81 per bottle by
Patterson j. Sons, druggists. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE production of pig iron in the Uni
ted States in the first six months of the
present year was larger than any of the
preceding six months in the history of the
American iron business and the stock of
unsold pig iron was larger. The produc-
tion amounted to 4,1O7, 900 net tons, 191,-
121 gross tons more than in the second
half of 1888.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Wisdom waits to be asked for advice.
He that will steal an egg will steal an
OK.
Some men discipline themselves to
death.
An ounce of action is worth pound
of words.
Contentment to the mind is as light to
the eye.
The way to silence conscience is not
to hear it.
Happy is he who knows his follies in
his youth.
Our lives are measured by our works
not our years.
Many man lives on the reputation
others make for him.
He that lies down with dogs must ex-
pect to rise with fleas.
Daub yourself with honey, and you
will have plenty of flies.
When a man cannot have what he
loves, he must love what he has.
If every man could have his way, the
world would be almost depopulated.
We believe at once in evil; we only
believe in good upon reflection. Is not
this sad?
Truths differ. Sometimes they are told
to mans face, and sometimes behind
his back.
Covetousness is a sort of mental glut-
tony not confined to money, but craving
honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Good breeding is benevolence in tri-
fles, or the preference of others to our
selves in the little daily occurrences of
life.
There is no policy like politeness; and
a good manner is the best thing in the
world, either to get good name, or sup
ply the want of it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
TALKS ON THE TARIFF,

From the New York Press.
Here is another excellent tariff talk
from the editorial columns of the Amer
lean EcO1ljmist:
"a large import trade, whether balanced
by large export trade or not, is a mis-
fortune to nation. Besides paying for
great waste and being robbed of the
blessing of home product ultimately
cheaper in price and better in quality
than the imported article, the nation thus
unfortunate must endure the chills and
fever of speculation which is always fos-
tered the more the further away from its
demand supply originates. For the
greater the distance which intervenes the
greater the number of variable factors
which may intervene between desire and
satisfaction, and the greater the number
of gamblers who are ready to trade in
hopes and fears.
The importing merchant is the pet
child of free trade; protection is to him
rOugh-handed step-mOther. As long as
free trade lives he baSkS in her smile.
trotS upon her knee and draws the sus-
tenance of speculation from her bosom.
The angels that watch his sleep are the
vicissitudes of wind and weather, war
and diplomacy; his pretty playmates are
trusts, corner and combines Under
free trade he wakes fat and merry, but
protection makes him lean and sad. Free
trade affords many point where supply
may be widely unequal to demand and
commodities may carry speculative val
ues; but protection balances supply and
value for its price, and brings nearer and
nearer the blessed day when the areas of
supply and demand shall coincide with
each other, and the producer with the
consumer; the day when it will be as easy
to rouse the producing class against the
consuming class, and rice UerSa, as it ID to
make man kick himself"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE last act of Congress appropriating
funds for the compilation and publication
of records of the rebellion provided that
they should be completed in five years.
Secretary Proctor says that if Congress
will give him money enough he will have
the work off his hands when this admin
istration closes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE Bureau of Education of the Uni
ted States government is issuing, as cir
culars of information, series of PAM
phlets on education in this country which
are valuable contributions to American
educational history. They are from the
pens of some of the best known writers
on this subject, and are edited by Her
bert B. Adams.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
a SOUND LEGAL OPINION,

f. cambridge Munday, Esq, County
Attorney, Clay Co, Texas, says: "Have
used Electric Bitters with most happy
results; my brother was also very low with
malarial fever and jaundice, but was
cured by timely use of this medicine; am
satisfied Electric Bitters saved my life. :"
Mr.. d. l. WiIcOxson, of Horse Cave, KY.
adds a like testimony, saying: He posi-
lively believes he would have died, had it
not been for Electric Bitters. This great
remedy will ward off, as well as cure all
malarial diseases, and for all kidney, liver
and stomach disorders stands unoqualed.
Price soc. and 81, at PattersOns. &
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE monument to Miles Standish at
Duxbury, Mass, is nearly completed
1t is to be 116 feet high and stands on an
eminence 300 feet above the level of the
sea. Navigators will note it as the first
prominent object as they enter Massa-
chusetts Bay. 1t can be distinctly seen
Is miles outside of Cape Cod.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

LEWIS Bros. & Co, dry goods commits
sion merchants of Philadelphia, having
branch houses in New York and Boston,
and extensive connections all over the
country, assigned Thursday. A rough
estimate places the liabilities at $4,200,-
600 and the assets at S5,500,0O0. The
Johnstown disaster is said to have been
partially responsible for the failure. 1t
is thought everything will be paid.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE latest report of rich petroleum dis
coveries comes from the Rocky Noun
tains, in the Northwest. The mineral
wealth of that vast region can only be
guessed at, and may prove to be very
great. The huge backbone of the con-
tinent has yielded treasures of enormous
value most of the way from Chill to
Alaska
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

POSTAGE stamps were first issued in
the United States in 1847 But two de-
nominations were issued, sc and 10c. -
The first bore the portrait of Ben Frank
lin and the other that of Washington
In 1851 letter postage was reduced to Sc
and in 1888 to &c.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

DURING the last year of Cleveland's
administration it was notorious that the
Civil Service Commission had no inf1u-
ence upon either Mr. Cleveland or his
party. When Harrison became Presi-
dent the Commission consisted of only
one man.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

*Trains run daily. tDaily except Sunday tDaily
except Monday.
Accom-. train leaves Columbus at 60 p m daily,
except Sunday; Newark 40 pm; arrive Zanesville
3Opm.
Columbus, GAINESVILLE & SanduSky Accom- leaves
Columbus a 20 m; arrives GAINESVILLE IS a M
Sandusky II 30 m.
Sleeping and Dining Cars on all Through Trains.
W. w. PEABODY, CO. SCULL
Gen1 Manager Gent Pass Agent
Chicago, Ill. Baltimore, Md.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE sickly green postage stamp is to
be replaced by another color. The Post
master Generals reported preference for
a brilliant carmine indicates an hitherto
unsuspected disposition on Mr.. Wana-
part to give the whole country
a touch of red coloring.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE convict Hill, mention Of whose
escape from the Ohio Penitentiary was
made in these columns last week, was
captured in cornfeld, with a stolen
horse in his possession.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

CARDINAL NEWMAN, who ranks next
to Gladstone as grand old man of Eng
land, is now in his S9th year. He is
haunted by dread of losing his sight.
In recent letter from Germany, where
he is now sojourning, he alludes in pa
thetic terms to this fear,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS will be so
years old on the oath of August. Mr..
Phelps is noted for his democratic man
ners and unconventional ways. He lives
plainly, though he has a fortune, and
walks, though he has dozen carriages
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

"
AT Pittsburgh connections are made in Union
Station with through trains on the Pennsylvania
railroad Tor Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia
and New York, on which are run Pullman Yilffet
Sleeping and ParlOr Cars
At Chicago and st. Louis connections are made
In Union Station with prominent railroads for an
points In the West, Northwest and Southwest
For further information call ON or address near
esL ticket agent L. A. FORD,
JAS. MCCkEA, Gen. Pass. Agent,
General Manager Pittsburgh Pa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
WHO THEY ARE

from Jne chicago lnter-Ocean.
Put your finger on the men who are
doing the heavy bowling about "the ex-
"travagant expenditures of the govern
"ment in pensions" and every last man
will be found "a peace Democrat" who
stayed at home and whined "let our way
ward sisters depart in peace"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

SUPERINTENDENT TYLER, of the Gin
cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
railway, has been arrested at New Or
leans, charged with aiding and abetting
the Sullivan -Kilrain prize fight.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
COns 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 81 Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

FATHER CURLEY, Director of George
town University, died at Washington on
Thursday. He was the Oldest priest in
the United States, and, so far as known,
in the world.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

JOSEPH ROGERS, aged II, son of Rev.
George Rogers, of RavenswOod, w. Va.
was standing on the bank of Sandy Creek.
watching the swollen stream run out. when
the bank caved in, and he was carried
away in the drift and drowned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
BRICE NEED Mt BOTHER,

From the Philadelphia Press.
Calvin Brice is wasting considerable
energy in protesting that he does Mt
want to be U. S. Senator from Ohio
There is no evidence whatever that Ohio
wants to impose upon Brother Brice in
that matter.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

IT is reported that Russia intends to
purchase all of the Polish railways, and
transform them into State railways. on
account of their strategic Importance
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

COMPLAINTS have been filed against
the Pension Office and the Sixth Auditor
that men have been discharged because
they were Democrats.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

Rev. J. b. HELwIG, of Springfield, has
been nominated for Governor by the Pro-
hibitionists of Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

CONNECTI0NS-At Barton with all passenger
trains on C., L. & W. Ry; at Bridgeport with c. &
T. R'y for Steu5enyille, Pittsburgh, and interme-
dlate points, at Belaire with b. & o, and B., T. &
Q. RVS. eH-Direct with Street Cars to and from
Wheeling. Only direct route between St Glars
vile and Wheeling
A. c. DARRAH, F. NJ TOWNSEND
President. Superintendent
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

A sTROLLING Italian musician in Phil
adelphia has an improvement on the
monkey. 1t is parrot which sings ope-
ratio music in soprano voice heard for
squares, and then collects coins from high
windows. The bird can fly where mon
key would fail to reach.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE dreariest and most heart-hroken
paper in the United States these days is
the Voice, the national champion of the
prohibition phantom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

IT is well that the book of life is open
ed to us page by page. Were all the
hard lines barred at once the task would
be too hard to master.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

A MAN in Canton, o., claims that his
board costs him only 35 cents week.
His food consists chiefly of oatmeal and
bread
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

WARNER WILHITE, of Indiana, has
been appointed Chief of Division in the
Pension office.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE great $4,000 stake at the Detroit
races was won by Hendryx in three
straight heats.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

Mr.. LINCOLN, the American Minister,
and Chauncey NJ. Depew were present in
the House of Commons during the debate
on the royal grants.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK and Gen
erals Hahnke and Wittick will accom-
pany Emperor William on his visit tC
England.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

ROBERT GARRETT finds the air of Bar
Harbor beneficial, and now eats well,
sleeps well and manages to do little
connected thinking.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

L. W. BUCKMAsTER has declined the
appointment of Postmaster at Washing
ton c. H., Ohio.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

WE wish we could hear no more de-
fences of roughness and boldness. Gen
tleness of manner is so excellent thing
it should be prOverbial everywhere.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

HELwIG "Phebus, what name, to
fill the speaking trump of future fame"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

MASSACHUSETTS has just placed loan
at % per cent. interest.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

CUNNING is none of the best nor worst
qualities; it floats between virtue and
vice; there is scarce any exigency where
it may not and perhaps ought not to be
supplied by prudence.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

AFFECTION can no more be pounded
into an animal than into human be-
ing. Kind treatment will insure it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
THE SUGAR TRUST.

THE balloon was invented by Mont
golfer, in 1888.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THERE are two classes of people in
this world: those who make fools of
themselves, and those who don't need to.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

FRANK NJ. BROWN, President of the
Denver, Colorado and Pacific railroad,
was drowned in the Colorado River, in
Marble Canon, July 10, by the capsizing
of his boat while running the rapids, and
on the 18th the boat capsized again and
two more of the party were drowned.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
Practical Hints
To Builders.

chapters on the Kitchen
dation, brickwOrk, nor
latiOn, the:rO0f and man,
ers. Mailed free on Tece
Address NATIONAL SH
$40 East 10Th st
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE difference between the II cents
which consumers are now paying per
pound for refined sugar and the 6 cents
that they paid before the Sugar Trust
was organized is divided between cents
of an advance in raw sugar and 4 cents
increase in the charges of the middlemen.
The latter item amounts to $120,000,000
per year; which sum is what the United
States pay on a single article for permit
ting combinations of capital to ignore
the laws of trade and the common law
alike.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

MEN of few words are generally safe
counsellors and safe friends where they
profess to be such. Words without point,
to them, are like titles without merit,
only betraying weakness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THOSE in the wrong use hard words
and soft arguments; those in the right
use soft words and hard arguments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

IF we could use our own advice how
happy we would be,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

A PROMINENT physician of Albany, n.
Y, attributes the general prevalence of
Bright's Disease in this country to the
almost universal habit of sitting down
while at work. Sitting steadily for hours,
he asserts, without giving any relief to
the tension of the muscles of the back,
results in a soft and f1abby condition CT
the muscles surrounding the kidneys
AS natural and inevitable consequence
the kidneys themselves become weak and
inert. He advises more exercise, in the
first place, both as preventive and cure
of such troubles, and standing rather
than sitting at desks.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

CONTENT not thyself that thou art
virtuOus in general; for one link being
wanting, the chain is defective. Per
haps thou art rather innocent than virtu-
Gus, and owest more to thy constitution
than to thy religion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

A LITTLE BOOK of 100
pages, containing solid
facts that every man con-
templating BUILDING,
should know before let
ting his contracts. Short
, chimneys, cistern, fOun-
ar, cellar, heating, venti-
items of interest to build
lpt of 1Oc in postal stamps.
=ET METAL ROOFING co.
'eet. New York City.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

WE celebrate nobler Obsequies to those
we love by drying the tears of Others
than by shedding their own; and the
fairest funeral wreath we can hang on
the tomb is not so fair as a fruit offer
ing of good deeds.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

THE NelC York Commercial AdeeTtiSer
thinks that the North Dakota Constitu-
tional Convention is disregarding Judge
Cooley's advice, because it has an article
pending providing that railroads shall
receive for their services only just and
reasonable compensation. As this was
declared by the United States Supreme
Court in the Camden and Amboy case,
nearly fifty years ago, to be primary
and essential condition of their charters,
it is tolerably clear that the innovators
are those who object to its incorporation
into modern constitutions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

CULTIVATION does not deprive us of
manly strength. The symmetrical col
umn is not less strong because it is
graceful; the block of granite is as use
full and firm beneath the chisel as in all
its native ruggedness.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01
BPlntp1tt GItrnttirlf.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1889.

THE London Morning Post ridicules
the claims of the English free traders
In leading article it says that so far
from protection enhancing the cost of
goods in this country, they are turned
out at rates with which in many instances
Free Trade England can not compete
"With the exception of made-up cloth
ling, which is dear because labor is so
"highly paid, and not because the duty
son stuffs is so heavy" it says, "there
"is not a single manufactured article,
"from carpets to cotton, from agricultu
"ral implements to cutlery and Yankee
"notions, as many little appliances are
"called, which is not as cheap or cheaper
Gin America than in England; and in
quality American goods are pronounced
in neutral markets to be as good as the
English. The protection sentiment is
growing in England. Against facts like
the above theory has hard time of it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

ONE of the surest evidences of friend
ship that an individual can display to
another, is telling him gently of fault.
If any other can excel it, it is listening
to such disclosure with gratitude and
amending the error.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

HONESTY being virtue having many
shades of meaning, and which, in its
highest sense, is lofty and delicate per-
ception of truthfulness and sincerity,
must naturally be more keenly develop
ed in cultivated than coarse mind.
1t is fostered by other virtues, and is
pre-eminent amid the true graces of the
gentleman.