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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-11

SATURDAY, July 10, 1859,
Al 6 j.. NJ. tho above PROPERTY described in
the said decree as follows: THAT LOT OF
LAND, with the improvements thereon, fronting
f. fcet inches mO-e or les, on Fourth street IN
that par. oi tue city OF Richmond known as
Rockctt-. and running back 100 feet inches,
more or less.n
TFRNs: 20 much cash rs will pay on and DIS
charge deed II trust amounting 10 flSj.ll with
interest and cost Of suit. &c. and the residue IN
ak aud twelve months, purchaser TO execute ms
negotiable notes for deferred payments, ana
tito retained until entire purchase-monoy Is
paid and conveyance ordered by court.
4. HILL MONTAGUE,
WILLIAM II. bENERlDGE,
Special Commissioners
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-11
old DOMINION STEAM Ia
" SHIP COMPANY. AFA

llckeis cal . 1i-alArA u - - Nos"Ft :, 49,
MAN street. ChesAoesxs G1d ono aud hich-
uond nod Peterspnlg depo5s. and 40 cOmpanys
olieea lsDl Nalu street aud wharf, hocketts
Freight forwarded and through bills ot isdins
Issued for points DsyOud New York.
Freight received daily rntii hour OF sailing.
pa,sengors leaving Kicamopd on AOSDAYS
TIlFsDAlS WEDNESDAYS. THURSDAYS. and
SATURDAYS % the Chesapeake aud ohio rslt-
way GOA Newport News GLs.sl A. Al. aad 3 z. NJ.
and By Richmond ana petersburg railroad lsAnae
daysl A. $40 A. Nj, wtll maze connection ~
NOHEOIk with steamer leaving those daya
GEOkIsk ". ALLEN * Co, Agents.
No. 1901 Main street. aud
suai tompspYsxharf. lSoekssuA
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-11

" MAl tOhfAnl.
SCHEDULE ~ EFFECT JrNg ~ isu
IkAyE RICHMOND.
$40 A NJ. Local, except sunday. fr Ciffoa
Forge.
S2OA n. E1Brss. daily Tor 0-i rg.ata.I S.r.
folk
ll:l0 A. N. NAL daily pr Cincinnati rl,u1l
Ia.l.r- AL sleep. ingram.
s9OP. n. ftrre.s daily Tor Oh ro.as al
Norfa.e.
t:i5P. N. Accommodates. en-og. suns = 'ls
hfR J.l...u.
Gl5P.M. q. g.. D. Nr.noIa ,s-t. ta.'y.
with U.ninE-,lr fr.m l.rr es.' I1
G Cincinnati RuI Asll.s.l.r. l.l.-
mau ~l.stiIg-, a. f...n Nu .l
TRAINS ARRlyg At KirHHQNh
SOS s. ". aui il o.. b.. 1a.Y ..l ' '.rnAi.
100 A. ". and l51H %. daIs from NoulIt
6.OO r. D. daily except c.ulhy i'u Nl-i'l
Forge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
TALK ON THE TARIFF.
COMPETITION CHEAPENS.

New York Press.
I'm 1850 the price of iron rails in
England was ninety shilIings sterling
(s22-5O) per ton. In 1853 the price in
England was 100 shillings (S47. 7.5O) per
ton. This advance" said Mr.. E. A.
HartshOrn, ''was caused by the stoppage
of the fifteen American mills engaged
In the manufacture of rails. The low
ad valOrem tariff of 1916 caused all the
mills In the United States to suspend
operations in 1850, and rails advanced
III per cent. That's the way free for
elgn trade reduced the price of iron
rails.
In 1867 steel rails from England
were selling at S166 (eurrency) per ton.
y tax of 45 per cent ad valorem, equal
TO s44.22 per ton, was put upon import
ed rails, which gave us chance to start
rail mills here, paying American wages.
and compete with English manufaetur-
ers- Did rails advance in price? No.
competition drove prices down, down.
down, until in 1888 the average price
was only S37.45 per ton, and in 1884 it
was S3O.75, while in 1885 it had fallen
to $3.50.
$50 that the total cost of home made
taxed rails since 1888 has been actual
ly less than the tax put upon imported
rails in 1867. The people of the United
States can endure that kind of taxing
much better than another delightful
privilege of buying cheap rails in Eng
land, such as the free traders gave us
'befo' de wah.'"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
ANCIENT BATTERING-RAMS.

ANCIENT BATTERING-RAM
Lieut.. W. R. Hamilton, in st. Nicholas for April.
They exerted greater power than any
gun or cannon invented up to the year
1860. These battering-rams were prob
ably as effective in knocking down a
wall or staving in the side of a ship as
the best modern cannon, but for making
breach, the guns are far superior. Such
was the solidity and thickness of the
walls of Jerusalem that, Josephus tells
us, it took all of one night for an enor-
nous battering-ram to dislodge four
stonesl
Vitruvius has left us the description
of ram weighing 10000 pounds; but
probably the most celebrated of all the
ancient moving tower rams was that
constructed by Demetrius PoliOrcetes
at the siege of Rhodes. The base
of the tower was seventy-fve feet
square. The ram itself was an as
sembly of large square beams resting on
wheels in size proportioned to the weight
of the structure, and all riveted togeth-
er with iron. The felloes of the wheels
were three feet thick and strengthened
with iron plates. From each of the
four angles of the tower large pillar
of wood was carried up to height of
$50 feet, and the pillars were inclined
toward one another. The tower had
three stories, communicating by two
staircaseS each. Three sides of the ma
chine were plated with iron to protect
them against fire. In front of each sto-
~ there were loOp-holes, screened by
leather curtains, to keep out darts, ar
rows, etc. Each story was provided
with machines for throwing large stones
and darts; and in the lower story was
the ram itself, thirty fathomS long, and
fashioned at the end into an iron beak,
or PROV. The entire machine was NOV
ed forward by $500 soldiers.
But it can easily be understood that
among so many men some must be more
or less exposed to the enemy's darts and
arrows; and so, to drive the enemy from
the walls and open places, to break the
roofs of his houses, and otherwise an
nOy him, machines were necessary for
throwing missiles, from small darts up
to huge powders.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
New Series, Vol 20, No 15.
A NEW VIRTUE IN PEANUTS.
BISHOP LYMAN DISCOVERS THAT THEY
ARE A REMEDN ENR INSOMNIA

ARE A REMEDY FOR INSOMNIA.
Under date of Raleigh, March 10, Rev.
DR.. Theodore B. Lyman. Episcopal Bish-
op of North Carolina. has written the
following letter to the Raleigh Daily
Nelcs dnd Courier.
! think | have made very valuable
| discovery, and | am anxious that others
should also enjoy the benefit of it. For
nearly two years l have been suffering
greatly from SleepleSSnesS at night, and
! frequently have not been able to sleep
more than one or two hours during the
night. have tried a great number of
proposed remedies, some of which have
helped me a little, but not for any length
of time. a little more than fortnight
ago, while staying at the house of
friend in the country, my good hostess
brought into the parlOr, quite late in
the evening, bOuntiful supply of fresh
ly-roaSted peanuts. As | am very fond
of them, when they are not too much
cooked, l ate quite freely of them, and
soon after retired to bed. l found the
next morning that l had enjoyed the
best sleep Ihad experienced for month.
| attributed this at once to the peanuts,
and determined to try them again the
following evening. i did so, and drank
glass of fresh, sweet milk after / had
finished the peanuts. That night slept
still better. and now, for fortnight, l
have partaken of the peanuts and the
milk every night, and have not only
slept remarkably well, but have also
fully recovered from a slight attack of
indigestion which had troubled me be- |
fore. now find that peanuts, carefully |
roasted and not OverdOne, so as to be at !
all burnt, are surely remedy for Sleep |
leSsness and also for that form of indi- |
gestiOn which is one of the producing
causes of sleeplesSness.
There is a popular impression that |
peanuts are indigestible, but have nev- !
er found them so, unless they were too /
much roasted or had been roasted many |
days before. When too much cooked, !
or when stale, they certainly are in
digestible, but when carefully roasted |
they promote digestion. They should |
be eaten shortly before going to bed,
anu Hol lHOTe Illdll HdlI-pIHI SnOu1u Ot
taken. They should be roasted before
they are shelled, and shelled only as they
are eaten. \ half-pint of shelled nuts
would be too many. l commend this
remedy, with great confidence, to those
who are afflicted with insomnia, partic-
ularly if indigestion is in part the cause
of it. The peanut is very valuable ar
ticle of food when carefully roasted and
partaken of in moderation. hope none
of my readers will imagine that 1 have
started peanut farm and am wishing
to create a boom in that article, but l
shall be rejoiced if what 1 have written
should be the means of bestowing upon
others the great benefit which have de-
rived from this simple agency.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

A LOT of rough words dug out of the
sewers of slang and bawdyism, so famil-
lar to the apologists of robbery, can not
make good the money wrongfully taken.
The taxpayers of Richland township
demand that the $500 wrongfully taken
frC m their treasury be returned to it, and
they mean to enforce that demand.
The people of st. Clairsville demand
that that $169 be accounted for, and they
will insist upon that demand until it is
complied with.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
A TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE.

1t is calamity of the direst kind to
feel that ones physical energies are fail
ing in the prime of life-tO feel more
nerveless, more dispirited, weaker every
day. Yet this is the unhappy lot of hun
dreds who surround us. A source of re-
newed strength which science approves,
in behalf of which multitudes of the de
bilitated have and are every day testify
ing, and which, in countless instances,
has built up constitutions snapped by
weakness and infrmity and long unbene-
fitted by other means, surely cOmmends
itself to all who need tonic. HOstetter's
Stomach Bitters is such medicine-pure,
Botanic, soothing to the nerves, promo
tive of digestion and fertilizer of the
blood. Dyspepsia and nervousness
first cause, the second consequence of
lack of stamina-iepart when a course
of the Bitters is tried. All forms of ma
larial disease, rheumatism, kidney and
bladder trouble, constipation and bilious
ness are annihilated by this standard
family medicine. 38-1m
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

A NEW method of temperance work
commends itself as reasonable and prac-
tical. The custom of treating" gen
erous, friendly, and sociable as it is
doubtless is the cause of a vast amount
of drunkenness. The new plan is to get
people to refrain from giving or accept
ing treat, and, as good start, it is stip-
ulated that the signer abstain entirely
from liquor for limited time-say, a
week or a month.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
AFRICA'S FUTURE.

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
Though Stanley's expedition was great
ly enfeebled once or twice by famine,
the country traversed as a whole was
teeming with natural wealth and capa-
BILE, when aided with modern agriculture
and manufacturing, of supporting a
as dense as that of Europe,
or Lightweight to the square mile, in
stead of eighteen to the square mile, as
at present. Perhaps while Stanley
struggles through Africa's great forests
and across its plains he sees in his i'm
aginatiOn populOus and rich cities. fine
ly cultivated plantations stretching away
for miles and miles and hears the rum
BILE of the railroads and the rattle and
din of manufactures. If he does he is
no idle dreamer. for before a great
many years all these will be seen and
heard. Owing to the efforts of men like
Africa is getting ready to AVA
ken from her place among the prosper
Gus abOdes of civilized men. The set
tiers have followed the lead of the ex-
plorers to distance of several hundred
miles along the Mediterranean and
South Atlantic coasts, and along the
West Atlantic and Indian coasts have
got foothOld in many places, and are
gradually working into the interior.
The slaye-trading interests have always
been great, perhaps the greatest, OBJ
'tacle In the way of Development, but
the direct attentions they Will receive
from England, Germany. France and
Italy within the next few years promis-
es to reduce their powers of obstruction
to almost nothing, when the develop
nent of Africa will be fast.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

THE temperance society recently Or
ganized in this town, and of which Mr..
James NJ. Rees is President, is the most
practical organization of the kind ever
attempted here. No pledges are requir-
ed of those who connect themselves with
it, but the organization simply under
takes by good influences and directing
the thoughts to nobler purposes, to save
men from the degradation of intemper-
ance. Its meetings are always pleasant
and entertaining. No unkind words are
spoken of liquor sellers. Over all of its
work is broad spirit of charity. The
ladies very largely predominant at the
meetings, but men are finding their way
there III increasing numbers.
The society will meet at Court House
Hall this Thursday evening.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
MERIT WINS.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, DR..
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen'S Arniea
Salve and Electric BitterS, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time, and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
on their merits. Patterson q Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

BLACKGUARDING and lies that would
put to shame the devil himself, much less
the assistant superintendent of Sunday
School, will not avail. If the readers of
the Gazette can stand such trash as that
concern dishes up to them, we are quite
sure we can; but we can not be diverted
in that way from our purpose.
Pay back that $500.
Fork ODer that S169
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
THE VERDICT UNANIMOUS.

W.D. Suit, druggist, Bippus, Ind, tes-
titles: 81 can recommend Electric Bitters
as the very best remedy. Every bottle
sold has given relief in every case. One
man took six bottles, and was cured rheu-
matism of ten years standing" Abra-
ham Hare, druggist, Bellville, o., af1irms:
"The best selling medicine | have ever
is Electric Bitters." Thousands of Others
have added their testimony, so that the
verdict is unanimous that Electric Bit
ters do cure all diseases of the liver, kid
neys or blood Only half-dOllar bot
tie at Pattersons' drug store. 2
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
A WOMAN'S DISCOVERY.

another wonderful discovery has been
made, and that too by a lady in this
country. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her, and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital Or
gans were undermined and death seemed
imminent. For three months she coughed
necessarily and could not sleep; she bot
of us bottle of DR.. Kings New DiscOv-
cry for Consumption, and was so much
relieved on taking first dose that she slept
all night, and with one bottle has been
miraculously cured. Her name is Mrs
Luther Lutz." Thus writes w. C. Ham
rick & Co., of Shelby, n. c.. Get free
trial bottle at Pattersons' drug store. 2
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
Established in 1918.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

RESBTTERIAN CHCRCH-Rev. X. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school $50 a m.
Young peoples society OF Christian endeaYor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome 10 all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
HOllingshead, pastor Sabbath preaching, II
Up m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, lhursday eve
1ings: mems meeting, Friday evenings; Sabbath
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited to all
eryiceS.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ReV.
Thomas Balph pastor Sabbath school, 10 a. III.
public worship, IL a. m; weekly prayer meeting
Friday D. m; monthly prayer meeting last Satilr-
day of each month, p. m; woman missionary
Icety last Saturday of each month, p: m; dis
trct PRAYER meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
THURSDAYS and Saturdays each month, p. IN
Young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p m
AFRICAN ". E. CHURCH-Rey. }. NJ. wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, lO3o a. m; p. m sab
bath school. 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
BPltttnttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, APRIL II, 1889.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN once said, "You
"may deceive all the people part of the
time, and part of the people all the time,
but not all the people all the time"
That is a terse sentence. Some day
the demagogues who are giggling over
the vote at the st. Clairsville polls last
week and paradiDg their infamy in their
Infamous organ will realize its truth
But what spectacle! Three hundred
dollars boldly taken from the Township
Treasury in defiance of lava robbery
of the Treasury-and the chief robber
parading his infamy in a newspaper, and
glorying over it and laughing at people
who object to it He thinks the People
have endorsed he and his confederateS.
They have done no such thing. Less
than one-third the voters of St Clairs-
vile precinct have since voted for one
of the wrong -dOers. Glencoe precinct
has spoken in emphatic terms its disap-
proval. So will ST. Clairsville precinct
We can not believe partisan prejudice
will permanently so warp the judgment
and scar the conscience Of men as to per-
nit their deliberate approval of such a
gross and plain violation of law. We
have better opinion of our neighbors
than that. For the time being, they may
be misled and deceived by designing
men; but the masses of the people are
honest and mean to do right, and in the
end are to be depended upon.
The impudence and defiance of the
robbers organ last week shocked the
moral sensibilities of every man CONVEX
SAINT with the facts and having brains
enough to appreciate them. 1t is edited
by the person more responsible than any
one else for that fragrant robbery. That
s the kind of jaybird the Democrats of
the county have in control of their party
organ. He seems to have no moral SEN
sibility, nor no appreciation of the enoT-
nous wrong he has been party to, and
Judging him by his productions in his
organ is more an object of pity than of
Scorn.
The mills of the Gods grind slow,
but they grind exceeding fine" Sooner
or later this wrong will be righted. Some
day these men will be brought to account
before the tribunal of the law Men can
not by their silence and inaction acqui-
esce in such palpable iniquity. The
safety of our institutions is imperilled,
good government and the honest trans
action of public business is at an end if
such transaction can be consummated
under the shadow of the court house, and
the guilty men escape with their booty.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
PRESIDENT HARRISON holds famil!

PRESIDENT HARRISON holds family
prayers in the White House every morn
ing. At half-past the family assem-
bles in the library, where Gen. Harrison
reads a chapter in the Bible, which he
explains in few words. The Lords
Prayer is then repeated by the entire
family, and the exercises end. 1t has
always been the custom for the Harri-
sons to have morning family worship,
and their occupancy of the White House
will not interrupt the custom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS of town
shin funds have been misappropriated,
and about 1859 of moneys received from
the town scales pocketed; but do MT say
anything about it, If you would avoid
Safeguarding through the Gazette sew
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
LET HIM RESIGN.

From the Boston Herald (MugwumpD
The nation would probably be able to
bear up under the blow if Senator Payne,
of Ohio, should resign his seat, as he is
said to have threatened to do if Mr.. Hal
stead was confirmed. Senator Payne is
an aged gentleman, who is the pOssessor
of about $10,0O0,0O0 worth of property.
How he has ever aided in the legislation
of the country we confess to not being
able to ascertain.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

GEN. SIGEL, % years ago, securing
the highways of Missouri on a magnifi-
cent charger, huzzad, cheered, followed
with fearful enthusiasm by the gliSten-
ing eyes of 10000 men; Gen. Sigel, in
civilians attire, bent and feeble, pass
ing along the streets of the city of his
adoption, and Gen. Sigel, sitting in the
seat of disbursement, head up, eyes
bright and keen, every element Of his
nature kindled with honest desire, act
ing as the right hand of benevolent
nation to the old and infirm, the maim-
ed and the Scared, presents to the
American people three pictures, each
worthy of remembrance and perpetuity
in golden frame of gratitude, says Joe
Howard in the New York Press.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

THE methods now employed in this
country to keep down abuses of liquor
drinking appear severe sometimes to
those against whom they are employed,
but they are very mild to the methods
IN vogue in some countries of Olden
times. The laws of SolOn at Athens
punished drunkards with death. One
of the acts of Lycurgus at Sparta was
to destroy the vineyards in his territory.
In Locris only invalids were allowed to
use wine, and in some other Greeian
States the punishment for any crime
committed under the influence of liquor
was doubled. All citizens of the Roman
Republic were forbidden to use wine
until 30 years old. 1t is worthy of no
tice, too, that during the time of these
anti-drinking laws the countries Of
Greece and Rome were far from a con-
dition of decline.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS, F. d A M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
4 X MEYER Sec'y. +. ID. BAILEY, W. NJ.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. Il, Royal
Arch HdsOns-Stated cOnyOcations first Friday OF
each month. -, -,
J. b. MEYER, Rec. F. ID. BAILEY, ii. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. & S. Nj
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Secy. D. b. RhAN, l. l. NJ
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 26, K. T.-Stated
cOnclaves first Tuesday Of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Sec'y J. b. RAAN, l. Z.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

A MOVEMENT is on foot in Democratic
circles at Columbus to bring forward ex-
Chief Justice Owen for Governor. The
ex-Justice has been waited upon, and has
taken the matter under advisement.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11
PRESENT AND FUTURE.

took her lily hand in mine
(She is my bride that is TO be-,
And slipped upon that hand divine
A golden circlet fair to see.
o sweetest time of love and youth!
Oeyes that no dark future sean!
o lovers VOWS and lovers truth.
Owe shekels to the jeweler man!
She viewed the rubleS bluShing red
With gracious glances sweet to see,
Il fear no future, DEAR" she said,
The present is enough for me-
-Imericu.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

1T S wise man who knows when to
keep his mouth shut and check rein on
his pen. A tip to some of our alleged
local politicians,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-04-11

THE Board of Managers of the Ohio
Penitentiary have suspended Deputy
Warden Cherrington for thirty days, for
cruelty to partially insane prisoner.