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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-08
1889.
The new stock of ladies' muslin un-

derwear-as usual the assortment Of
nAsy styles ia very large. and the incest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-08
ALLEGHENY's CLASSIFICATION.

When the announcement of the decision of
the Supreme Court was telegraphed from Phil.
adelphia yesterday. it was noticed that the case
referring to the classification of the different
cities in the Commonwealth was not mentioned.
As this was the case in which Allegheny City is
interested, and the decision directly affects
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-08

Mr.. Barry and some of his friends then
left the hall, and the crowd soon thinned
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-08
ments as well as palmer styles.
Embroideries-all new for this season.

From SC q yard up to specially hne
goods. Edges in all widths-matched
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
CONVENIENT MARKETS.

Good soil, pure water and excellent eli
mate are advantages to be considered
when looking up home, business loea-
tion, farm etc. West Virginia, Mary
land and the Shenandoah Valley, Vir-
ginia, afford these with many more ad-
vantageS. No section of the United
States offers superior opportunities, and
persons seeking home should examine
these States before deciding upon a 10
cation elsewhere. Improved farm lands
adapted to stock raising, dairying, grain,
grass, and fruit growing can be obtain
ed at low prices and upon easy terms,
Thriving towns invite the merchant,
mechanic and business man. Abund-
ance of coal, timber, ore, water power,
etc. Free sites for manufacturers.
Persons desiring further information
will be answered promptly and free of
charge by NJ. V. Richards, Land Immi-
grafton Agent, B. 4 o. r. r., Baltimore,
Nd. I'll At.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE GREAT TRUSTS.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
1t has been developed in the past week
that the Lead Trust has capital stock of
SS3.OO0OOO, the Sugar Trust of S50,O00,O00,
the COttonseed Oil Trust of 100000, the
Whisky Trust of S31, 100000, and the Cat
tie Trust of S130000O0.
Not long ago it was predicted that in
fifteen years the business of the United
States would be concentrated in few
trusts. and that the social system would
then consist of few families of enormous
wealth. a middle class of lackeys, and a
great laboring class of degraded workmen.
1t really looks at present as if the predic-
E on that business was to be concentrated
entO few trusts is IN danger of coming
TO very considerable extent true-for a
time at least. The wonderful success of
the Standard Oil Trust threatens to rev.
OIutiOnize business methods-until some
great financial wrecks prove that very few
things can be mOnOpOliZed like oil.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
Of Ohio.
TAXATION.
AMENDMENT NO. I,

sEcTIoN l. Be it resolved by the General As.
semby of the State Of Ohio, That proposition
shall be submitted to the electors of this state on
the hrsi Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vrmber, lSSg, 10 amend section p of Article XII,
OF the Constitution of the Sate of Ohio so that Il
shall read as followsJ
ARTICLE XII
SEC . The General Assembly shall provide
for the raising OF revenue for the support Of the
state and local governments; but taxes shall
be uniform on the same class OF subjects Bury
ing grounds, public school-hOuses, houses used
exclusively lot public worship. Institutions Of
purely ppblte charity. public properly used ex-
clusively Tor any public purpose, and personal
property 10 an amount not exceeding In value
two hundred dollars for each individual NAV
by general laws. be exempted from iaxntion !:
end the value of all property SO exempted shall
from time 10 time, be ascertained aud publisheti
may be directed by law.
SECTION 2 AT such election those electors de-
string to vote for such amendment may have
placed uPon their ballots the words Taxation
Amendment-les," aud those opposed TO such
amendment may have placed upon their ballots
the words Taxation Amendment-No."
SECTIONS This amend .nent shall take effect
on the tiTsi day Of January, 1850.
ELBERT l.. LAMPSON,
Speaker OF the THF6 HGec Ti EBePTEfiser'A'ives BlPTiS
President > tenn. OF the Senate.
Adopted April 9 lSss
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONO !
OFFICE oF THE SECRETARY or STATE
l. Daniel j. Ryan. secretary of state of the
State OF Ohio, do hereby certify that the forego-
Ing is u true copy of a joint resolution adopted
by the GenerSl Assembly Of the State of Ohio.
on the 9Th day OF April A. d. 1889, taken from
the original rolls filed In this office
In testimony whereof ] have hereunto sub
scribed my name. and affixed my OH
tsKALl cial seal, at Columbus. the 10th day Of
ApTil, A. ID. lSSy.
DANIEL J. RYAN.
sAAFat.vs ~ eAaAa
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE COMING LEGISLATURE.

The Senate of the next General As
sembly will consist of thirty-six mem
bers, the same as in the last, while the
Representatives will be increased from
one hundred and nine to one hundred
and fourteen. OF the Senatorial dis
tricts the First, Fifteenth, Sixteenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourtb
and Twenty sixth each lose one Senator.
The Eighth, Tenth, Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth each gain one. In the House,
Butler, Clark, Darke, Lawrence, Lick
ing. Mahoning, Ross, Summit, Tusca-
rawas. Washington and Wayne gain
each one Representative, and Belmont,
Columbiana, Summit and Trumbull lose
one.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
AJACKSON DEMOCRAT.

From the Defiance Republican.
Judge Patton, of Hicksville, who was in
this city Saturday, is one of the few men
living, if not the last, who held Office un-
der President Jackson. He was appoint
ed a Judge of the U. S. Court in Pennsyl-
vania by Old Hickory" and filled the po-
sition with distinguished ability. Judge
Patton is a well-preserved old gentleman,
rich in political lore of the last half cen
tury, and still keeping pace with current
events of the day. He represented this
County one term in the Ohio Legislature,
but was defeated for denomination be
cause he had antagonized that powerful
schoOl-book ring that has been bleeding
the people of the State for so many years.
Heis, of course, an uncompromising Dem
ocrat, but like so many men of the school
he belongs to. is said to have the courage
to speak out against measures and men
that he believes to be wrong.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE SURPLUS

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette
The total receipts of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June 80 were
1888, ,591,6 ,675. OF this, $224,971 ,235 was
from customs, $13l, ,662,1 from inter-
nal revenue and $31 ,958,334 from mis-
cellaneOus sources. The expenditures
during the same period were $300,064,-
795, including $17,292,863 paid as pre-
MUM on bonds. This makes the ey=
cess of receipts over expenditures $685.
526, $50, and of this about $48,000,000 is
appropriated by law to the sinking fund.
The New York Sun takes some of its
free trade contemporaries to task for
having followed the cue of Grover Cleve-
land and ex-Secretary Fairchild in ex-
hibiting the customs receipts as the sur
pins eder-the great source of dan
ger To the country's finances and
making this pretext for attacking the
tariff and keeping hands off the in
ternal revenue tax, 1t shows that, as a
matter of fact, the customs receipts for
the year just ended fell more than
$3,000,000 short of the Fairchild esti-
mate, While the lnternal-revenue receipts
exceed his estimate by nearly $12,000,-
000-or more than SIS, 10000 out of the
way.
Since 1887 the increase in the annual
receipts from customs has been only
$7,6S4,342, while during the same peri
cd the increase in the annual receipts
from internal-revenue taxes has been
only 1864 ,342, while during the same
period the increase in the annual re-
ceipts from internal-revenue taxes has
been $12,83S,715. The big figures which
were used as campaign argument
against the tariff, shrivel into small pro-
portions when the truth is known, and
the fact stands out in bold relief that
the speediest way to reduce the surplus
is to revise or abolish the internal-rev-
enue taxes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
TIE CIVIL SERVICELAM.

From the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette.
The best test of the civil service law is
in its results Its intentions are of course
all right. But there is plenty of evidence
that the operations of the law defeat its
best purposes. Some of the most efficient
clerks in government employ could not
possibly pass the requisite school-book ex-
animation, consisting of questions that
the Examing Commissioners themselves,
except upon special preparation, could
not answer; whereas it is notorious that
the smartest young men in the examina-
tions make the poorest clerks. The best
employees are those who devote themselves
to the task of mastering the requirements
of the special service in which they are
engaged, and experts in practical affairs
soon forget the geographical names, his
torical dates, and smattering of sciences
they have gained in school. If the law is
to remain in force it should at least be
modified and brought down to a common
sense basis.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE WOOL INDUSTRY.

Cleveland Leader.
The report of the Agricultural Bureau
of the number of sheep in the United
States in January, 1889, has just been
issued. The total number is placed at
4, ,599,079, as compared with 50,626, ,626
in 1884. The decrease of over 100000
between the beginning and the ending
of the Democratic free trade admins
tration was directly due to the fraudu-
lent importations of fine woods as
waste" and "carpet wools," and the
free trade constructions given to the
tariff laws by Secretaries Manning and
Fairchild, which let in many millions
worth of woolen goods annually as
'worsteds" at lower rate of duty than
the law intended. The injurious effects
were aggravated by the fight of the
whole Democratic party last year for
free trade in wool.
The report of Consul Grinnell, of
Bradford, England, just issued by the
State Department, shows the extent of
the frauds in the expectation of waste
to this country. He presents a table
showing that more than 1,000,0 ,000pounds
of waste from Australian wool in ex-
cess of the whole amount produced was
shipped to this country last year. This
means, of course, that more than 1,000,-
600 pounds of fine wool were imported
into this country by paying the low rate
of duty on waste, from Great Britain
alonei The late administration was a
hard dose for the sheep raisers of the
United States, and it is no wonder that
they voted against Grover Cleveland
and free trade in November last.
The flock owners of Ohio were heavy
losers by the Democratic scheme for
free woolens. In 1884 they had 5,000,-
036 sheep, while in January last the
number had been reduced to 4,065, $50.
AS the Democratic organs insist that
the Ohio Democracy will take "no back
ward step in tariff reform" this year the
Ohio farmers will know what to do
about it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
TALKS ON THE TARIFF.

New York Press.
In yesterdays tariff talk The Press
quoted few words from late report
sent by Consul Frank II. Mason, our
representative at Marseilles, to Mr..
Cleveland's State Department in Febru-
airy last, showing that protective senti-
ment was growing in that country and
would be more thoroughly put into prac-
tice when certain ten-year commercial
treaties should have expired. The re-
port in question purports to be a brief
history of protective tariffs in France.
The leading facts given in it are as fol-
lows:
The protective system in France be-
gan with COlbert's tariff law of 1861.
1t stood for more than a century before
the Quesnay free trade school fixed up
commercial treaty with England in
1856. The revolution of 1889 caused
the overthrow of this treaty and restored
the Colbert system, and the country re-
covered from the terrible poverty of rev.
olutionary times to such an extent that
when the free trade leaders tried to put
their policy into effect in 1915 they fail
ed, as they did again after the reVolu-
tion of 1880.
In IS41 the French Society of Political
Economy was formed as sort of CONT
mental Golden Club. Louis Napoleon
came in 1859 under the personal influ-
ence of Mr.. Golden, and he proposed
scheme of free raw materials and
the abandonment of prohibitory duties.
He was violently opposed, but in 1860
he announced a treaty with England
admitting raw materials free and Eng
lish goods on payment of not more than
25 per cent. Under this treaty the bal
ance of trade turned heavily against
France, and in 1868 a committee of
inquiry was set to work on the question.
1t had not reported when Louis was de-
posed as a result of the Franco -Prussian
war, but it was privately given out by
its members that their conclusions would
have recommended a general return to
higher duties.
NJ. Thiers advocated a protective pol
icy in 1871 as a means of paving the
war indemnity, being strongly impress
ed with the recovery of the United
States from its civil war, but his plan
was never fairly tested, for it was re-
jected in 1873 in response to British
and Belgian protests. The balance of
trade became unfavorable after the spell
of prosperity tn. came to all Mediterra
mean countries of Europe with the OPEN
ing of the Suez Canal, and France be-
gan to feel the loss of her American
market for products that we were max
ing here. A revision commission was
appointed, and general duties were in
creased in 1881. England, however, Sc
cured a commercial treaty favorable to
her, refusing to agree to higher duties
on her cotton and wooden goods, and
other commercial treaties were made
with Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and
Spain, running to 1892. The treaty
with Italy expired last year, and has
hot been renewed, and the protection
sentiment will probably prevent the re-
newal of those terminating in 1892
Higher duties have been secured on ee-
reals, cattle and sugar, and prohibitory
duties will probably be placed soon on
wine and dried grapes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE WHIPPING POST.

Governor Biggs, in the New York Star.
There is not in the State of Delaware
to-day penitentiary. If a man beats his
breaks into his house, he is MT shut up
with lot of other criminals, with full
time and opportunity to learn all their
tricks of deviltry that he did not know
before. As a preventive of crime the
whipping post has a much greater terror
than a term in the penitentiary, and 1
have never known of a man who came
back for second dose. He simply leaves
the State. Maybe he goes to New York;
do MT know. At any rate he seeks an
other home, and you may rest assured
that if he stays in Delaware he lives a
very quiet life. To be sure 1t is relic of
barbarism, but it is Onr way.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
A STRADDLING PARTY.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Mansfield Shield and Banner says
the Democrats must take no steps back
ward on the tariff question. And why
not? They can go backward and strike a
plank in the national platform of the party
declaring for tariff for revenue only. Or
they can find one which is a pretty good
protection plank. Or they can find one
relegating the tariff to the Congress Dis
tricts as local matter, the ground taken
by General Hancock when running for the
Presidency. They can find planks that are
straddles and blinds. By all means take
step backward, and if you do MT see what
you want ask for it. You can find all sorts
of things in the Democratic tariff junk
shop.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE NEGRO PRORTFN

From Letter of Judge Tourgee
If he resists unlawful violence the peo-
pie of the South shoot him as an outlaw
and the people of the North regard him
as barbarian.
If he submits he is called a coward.
If he works faithfully he is told it is all
he is good for.
If he refuses to work he is termed lazy
and vicious.
If he asks for knowledge he is told "he
does not need it"
After working 250 years for nothing
the beneficiaries of his labor twit him of
his poverty.
If he makes mistakes as a government
al factor he is told that this proves his "a
cial incapacity for freedom.
His friends are coolly critical; his enc
mics relentless and unscrupulous.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
1selntn11t GItrnt1trle.
THURSDAY, JULY IS, 1889.

THE BeIaire Independent prints
letter purporting to have been written
by gentleman of that city, in which 1t
is asserted that the political affairs OF
the city are controlled by "the different
unions and by caucus gatherings in sa-
looms" and by "chaps who expect TO De
paid for their votes and influence"
This is a deplorable state of affairs,
if true. But is it true? and if it is, are
not the men who are crying out against
it directly responsible for it? 1t will not
do to assert that a majority of the men
of BeIlaire-or any considerable number
of them-are so mercenary that they
will sell their birthright for a few dirty
dollars. Not one out of hundred will
do it. 1t is unmanly to cover or hesl-
tate in the least in dealing with men of
that kind. if there are any.
Labor unions are organized, primarl-
". to afford legitimate aid to men who
belong to them, and who are supposed
to be engaged in the special calling the
union represents. As such, they are ca
pable of great good; but whenever they
diverge from that they weaken their
organization, and if persisted in will
break it down. Politics and especial
ly personal politics be avoided
above everything else. Individual men,
bers are entitled to freedom of opinion
in the support of men who may be can
didates for public office. No Organiza-
ton, as an organization, should inter
fere in the least with that, and we can
not believe that any one has undertaken
to do it, especially in the nomination OF
County officers. No man in such an or
ganization is so obtuse but he must see
that such a course would eventually de-
stroy it.
The men in labor unions who have
families have a deep interest in good
government, especially local govern
ment. No man in Bellaire should
have more. The taxes they pay
whether directly or in house rents
are almost wholly for local purposes.
OF the 1924 paid in Bellaire on each
one hundred dollars valuation, but ~
cents goes to the State-all the bal
is absorbed for local purposes. Heads
of families who do not own their dwell
ings and pay directly upon them, must
not console themselves with the refec-
tion that they escape this burden OF
taxation. They do no such thing. Their
landlords look out for that.
A very large majority of the men OF
Bellaire are as good men as are in the
County. If its politics are controlled
as indicated by the letter we have re-
ferred to, it simply establishes the fact
that they are derelict in a very import
ant public duty, and wholly responsible
for it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18

THE Bowdoin Paper Company Of
Brunswick, according to the Lewiston
(Me.) Journal, is now making regular
shipments of its product to Ireland,
Mexico and South America, and in ad-
dition is supplying the paper for print
ing the far-away Melbourne Age. Our
paper manufacturing industry, taken as
a whole, is a splendid monument to what
protection has done for the United
States, and it appears to be very ten
der subject with most of our Democratic
organs
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
ISIT ANY WONDER

That Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry outsells all other blood and liver med
icines, sinceit possesses such superb cur
ative properties as to warrant its manu-
facturers in supplying it to the people (as
they are doing through druggists under
conditions such as no other medicine is
sold under, viz: that it must either benefit
or cure the patient, or the money paid for
it will be promptly returned. 1t cures all
diseases arising from deranged liver, or
from impure blood, as biliousness, liver
complaint" all skin and scalp diseases,
salt-rheum, letter, scrOfulous sores and
swellings, fever sores, hip-jOint disease
and kindred ailments.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
THE RESULT OF FREE TRADE.

From the New York Mail and Express.
The population of the city of London is
now, according to the most reliable esti-
mates 4,250OO0
OF these 4,250,000people fully 100000, or
something over twenty per cent, are at
present in receipt of some form of pauper
relief.
Imagine for an instant condition of
the labor market in New Y ork and Brook
lyn which should make virtual paupers of
more than one-ffth of their population.
Yet precisely this condition now exists
in the metropolis of England, the chief
nation of the world that has developed
and persistently maintained policy of
radical free trade,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18

THE death of Mrs. John Tyler, once
the young bride of President who was
even then almost venerable from old
age, leaves Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Gen. Grant,
Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleveland as the
only surviving wives of former Presi-
dents of the Republic. Mrs. Tyler's
wedding, nearly half a century ago, Gre
ated something like the same feeling of
sentimental interest which attached to
Miss Frances Folsom's becoming the
wife of President Cleveland in 1886.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
A HEROIC NAME

From the Urbana Citizen and Gazette.
State Treasurer Brown clings to the C
in his name, though plain John Brown is
just as distinctive and much more famous
But back of that tenacity is bit of senti-
ment very creditable to the bearer of the
name. my mother gave me that initial" :"
explains he; her name was Cunningham
and l guess II use it as long as l live
In fact, when l think of it | remember
her, and somehow We grown to like that
c and am rather proud of it." And there
was the least little quaver in the old sol
dier's voice as he told us about it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18
"THE OLD SOLDIER BUSINESS" !"

From the Albany Journal,
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald, commenting on the revi-
val of the educational campaign in the
Northwest, says that had it not been for
the "old soldier business" last fall Min
nesota would have been a doubtful State
We are pleased to receive this explanation
of Minnesota's $4,000 plurality for Harri-
son. Wehave often wondered how it was
that Minnesota, although steadily claim
ed by the Boston Herald and other edu-
catiOnal enthusiastists last fall, was lured
into the support of Harrison. Now we
have it. "Old soldier business :" 1t is
not elegant, but decidedly expressive a
combination Of Harrison's patriotic con-
duct during the war with Clevelald's un-
paid substitute and heartless vetoes of
private pension bills. We understand
now why the enthusiasts are encouraged
to another educational campaign, and
await with interest the explanation of
the next defeat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-18

THE Auditor of Warren County has
gone wrong, and has disappeared. 1t is
feared his bond $4,000 is not sufficient
to cover his wrong doing.
A good man in public office is much
better guaranty than bond.
People are not as circumspect in the
choice of officers of trust as they should
be. Embezzlement is a rare thing
among appointive officers. The reason
is apparent: Men whose duty it is to
make appointments know that public
opinion will hold them responsible for
the character of men they appoint, and
they carefully inquire into the fitness
and character of men before they are
chosen; while in the case of an officer
elected by the people the direct respon-
sibility can not be fixed.
When all the people learn to take
more interest in the choice of public
agents, there will be less wrongdoing
and less cause for complaint.