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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31

Prayer for sons, daughters and ser
wants; for Sunday.schools and all
Christian associations for young
people; for schools, seminaries, COL
leges and university. Prov. w.;
Dput. vi. 4-l5; Marx K. 1916; Eph.
vi. IA. Prof. w. A. Cate.
Let all Christians unite in the en-
dpavor by their prayers and their
presence to make these special ser
vices blessing to themselves and
10 the entire community.
Family Reunion.
James Cupp, better known as
"Big Jim," had family reunion on
Christmas day. He has eight chill.
dren and thirty-two grand children,
all of which are living. They were
all present but seven, who were
prevented from being present on
account of the inclemency of the
weather. Mr.. Cupp said a. hard as
it rained that there were fifty at
dinner and there was enough vict-
uals left to feed one hundred and
fifty more.
Mr.. Cupp is now siXty-siX years
old, and his wife is sixty-eight.
How thankful they ought to be to
God for health and prosperity. Mr.
Cupp volunteered and was muster
ed into the Union army in 1862 and
served az a faithful soldier until the
end Of the war. While he was
gone his f,ithful wife lab0red hard
TO keep the children in food and
clothing. But all these troubles
IRE passed and they are now enjoy.
ing a green old age surrounded by
all their children. A Goddard, ont
ofye publishers, was invited, hut
was sorry that he could not attend
Christmas has come and gone
A great many hearts have beer
made happy and many crimes have
IN its name been committed. A
great many hearts, too, have beer
brought more dir city face to face
with their own wretchedness and 6
reat .any miseries have beer
made to appear greater and disap
pointments have been given brit
to and hopes have been demolished
There are two sides to Christmas
One is the side Of sunshine, thu
nther the side o. shadow. One il
the side that the newspapers anf
story writer's tell about and tina
people love to hear of, and the Othel
is that which Is often to sacred t.
-ndure comment. "There are frag
nents of songs that nobody sings,
and THESE are the saddest portion
# the unsung song. "rhere's Int
unstrung and II harp withou
strings" and yet either instrumen
could start q melody which woul'
penetrate almost every heart AIT
sound its echoes away back in tn
darkest chambers of the soul. Their
are Christmases and Christmase'
There are those for the rich an
those for the poor. There are thOs
for the happy and those which can
,, not drive away the tears fror
moistening eyes nor Danish the Sc
rious thoughts that lie beneath
May the next Christmas find fewe
4 sad hearts and bring NOR, endul
ing happiness than any Of its pre-
q decessors!-Ex.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31

JEssR FRIERsoN, colOred, who
shot and killed policeman Musgrove,
Of Chattanooga, was captured about
six miles from that place and taken
to Knoxville for safe keeping.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31
Best Standard Coal Oil ID cents.
Best White oil at 20 cents at Steele's.
Full stock cheap wall papers at
Robinson's. Blank papers cents
per roll. Gilt papers 10 q IL cents.
Dissolution Notice.

Notice IL hereby given that the
tfrm Of Sims 4 Birks, late proprie.
tors Of Montvale Springs, has been
dissolved to take eject Ock2s, 1890.
The business Of the late Arm will
be continued BY D. II. Sims, who
assumes all liabilities OF the firm
and to whom oil accounts should be
paid. D. H. SIMS. a
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31

Mr.. ]. L. Caldwell, Of near Hol.
ston College, was visiting friends
and relatives, in and around Mary
willie, last week.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31

New Years Sunrise Prayer Meeting.
Will be held in the College Chap
ell on Thursday, Jan. l, 1891, COM
mencing at 7:l5 a. m. All citizens
are cordially invited to attend.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
For Sale.

My house and lot on Cemetery
Street. House contains six rooms
and is nearly new. The lot con-
tains about half acre. For further
particulars inquire of
w. w. SWAIN.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31

The Winter term of the Mary.
vile Normal opens December Goth.
Tuition $50. Send for Catalogue.
L. D. CLA1X. A. n. Principal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31
The Maryvi|Ie Times
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 81, 1890.
Notice..

All accounts for job work and
advertising will be presented for
payment at the close of each month.
BISHOP & GODDARD.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-12-31
SOCIETIES.

~ A r., LAMAR MCCONNELL POST NJ
W. 81. Meets at 10 A. M. on the Third Satur
day Of each month
CAPT. T. +. WALLACE, Commander.
I'M, WEBB, Adjutant.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

THE lottery swindlers attribute the
check which they received by the passage
through the House of the Anti Lottery
bill to the influence of the press of the
country. This is but another way of
saying that public sentiment is strongly
opposed to that grasping, demoralizing
and corrupting agency, the Louisiana
State Lottery. The newspaper press
voiced this sentiment, and with such
emphasis and persistency that the power
of the plunderers was broken. 1t is no
mean compliment to the press that,
after years of failure ON the part of the
authorities to reform the abuses COM
planned of, it should have earned the
credit of having compelled the adoption
of the needed legislation. There is no
reason to doubt that the Senate will
concur in the stringent measure adopted
by the House, and that thereafter the
lottery business will be shorn of its chief
element of strength-the use of the
mails.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening; Sabbath school 9 80 a. m.
young peoples society OF Christian endeayor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
]. ii. Honingshead, pastor. sabbath preaching, II
!. m; p m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting, Thursday eve
lings; mems meeting, Friday evenings; Sabbath
school 80 pm. Strangers cordially invited TO all
ervices
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rey.
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. IN. (;
public worship, IL m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday p. m. monthly prayer meeting, last Satur-
day OF each month, p m. woman : missionary
pciety last Saturday Of each month, p m. dis
trict prayer meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p. m. /;
young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. IN
AFRICAN ". E. CHURCH-Rey.J j. NJ. Wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 1890 a. m; 2. m; Sab
bath school, ? 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

NULLIFICATION IN MISSISSIPPI.
Cleveland Leader.
The extraordinary propositions sub
mitted to the Constitutional Convention
now in session in the capital of Missis-
sippi, for the obvious purpose of evading
the fifteenth amendment, and disfran-
chising most of the Negroes of the State,
deserve more attention than they are
receiving in the North. One suffrage
clause submitted to the Convention
would disfranchise all persons who did
not own homestead, or at least 5000
worth of taxable property, and would
give the Legislature the power to make
the forfeiture of the right to vote a part
of the penalty for buying lottery tickets,
for petit larceny, and for other venal
offenses of which colored men might
easily be convicted, rightly or wrongfully.
1t provides, also, that every voter must
be able to read the State Constitution.
Another scheme contemplates the pay
ment of poll tax, of 81 year as an
indispensable condition of the right of
suffrage. Another most un-American
and outrageous plan now being consid
cred would give every man an extra
vote if he owned $1,000 worth of real
property, and second vote to all related
within the third degree to the owner of
property worth $3.50. Compared with
such propositions the one which con-
templates the redistricting of the State
in such way as to give the white"
counties permanent control of the Leg
islature, that body to elect State officers
and the Governor to appoint all county
and district officials, is quite decent, and
it is bad enough, in all reason.
1t need not be argued that one of
these schemes repudiates the principle
of political equality asserted in the
Declaration of Independence, and is
directly at variance with the whole
system of manhood suffrage. The
Democrats of Mississippi are simply
studying ways and means of establish
ing, under cover of law, the minority
rule which they have maintained for
about fifteen years by wholesale law
breaking. To say that such plots do
not deeply concern all parts of the
United States is nonsense. Honest ma
jorities in the North are to be baked
and overcome, it may be, in the Electoral
College and in Congress, by minorities
in the Southern States, entrenched be
hind constitutions and laws designed to
accomplish exactly that result. If such
an emergency does not call for federal
interference, what political crime as
saulting the very foundations of the
country's institutions, would justify itY
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
HAPPY HOOSIERS.

VIM. Timmons, postmaster of ldaville,
Ind, writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines
combined, for that bad feeling arising
from kidney and liver trouble John
Leslie, farmer and stOckman, of same
place, says: Find Electric Bitters to be
the best kidney and liver medicine; made
me feel like new man." J. w. Gardner,
hardware merchant, same town, says:
" Electric Bitters is Just the thing for a
man who is all run down and don't care
whether he lives or dies" He found new
strength, good appetite and felt just like
he had new lease on life. Only 5Oc a
bottle at PattersOns' drug store
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
BOYLE O'RElLLYS LAST POEM.

Poets should not reason:
Let them Signi
Argument or treason
Bells should ring.
Statements none, nor questions;
GnOmic words,
Spirit cries, suggestions,
Like the birds.
He may use deduction
Who must preach;
He may praise instruction
Who must teach.
But the poet duly
Fills his part
When the song burst truly
From his heart
For no purpose springing,
For no pelf;
He must do the singing
For itself.
Not in lines austerely
Let him build;
Not the surface merely
Let him gild.
Fearless, univited,
Like a spring,
opal words, lnllghted,
Let him sing.
AS the leaf grows sunward
Son must grow;
As the stream flows onward
Song must flow.
Useless? aye-for measure;
Roses die,
But their breath gives pleasure
God knows whyl
Pilot, February 1, 1890
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

GEN. BANKS says that in 1926, when
he was Speaker of the House, he made
rulings in regard to the presence of
quorum exactly similar to those made by
Speaker Reed. The thing now for the
Democrats to do, is to dub him Gar
Banks. The chorister of the Gazette
might start up the tune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

is very likely the one that has conveyed poi
sons TO your system from some old well,
whose waters have become contaminated
from sewers, vaults, or percolations from the
soil. To eradicate these pOisons from the
system and save yourself a spell of malarial,
typhoid or bilious fever, and to keep the
liver, kidneys and lungs in a healthy and
vigorous condition, use DIR. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t arOuses all the ex-
cretory organs into activity, thereby cleans
ing and purifying the system. freeing it from
all manner of bloOd-pOisOns, no matter from
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originating from torpid or deranged liver,
or from impure blood, yield TO its wonderful
curative properties. 1t regulates the stom-
ach and bowels, promotes the appetite and
digestion, and cures Dyspepsia, Liver Com
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and SwelIings, Enlarged Glands and TumOrs
disappear under its use.
Golden Medical Discovery" is the only
blood and liver medicine, sold by druggists,
under a positive guarantee of its bene-
fitting or curing in every case, or money paid
for it will be promptly returned.
Copyright, 1888, by WORLDS DIS. MED. ASSN
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

THE New York Herald proposes that
the Democrats of Pennsylvania make
their campaign against the "war tariff" :"
the pension legislation, and the proposed
force bill" Such programme would
please Republicans. In fact they ask
nothing better than to fight it out on
tbiS limo
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

THE original package act shut up
fifteen thousand drinking places in Iowa
very suddenly. This is Republican
measure, and accomplished more in re-
striction of the liquor traffic than the
nj
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

If the loss in the battles between the
Central America Republics was as great
as the combatants say, there would be
hope for the establishment of good Re-
publics before long. immigration would
take the place of the killed and control
affairs. The reports of the large losses,
though, are too good to be true The
motto that is all powerful with the
Central American soldiers is: he that
fights and runs away will live to fight
another day, and he always observes it
except when he runs away before
the fighting begins. The soldiers who
began the war, and have not died of
fright and fast running, are still about
all alive, and promise to continue to live
for years and trouble their countries with
their fights from or pursuits of other
soldiers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
THE NATION IS GRATEFUL.

THE NATION Is GRATEFUL.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Congressman Mckinley had good
deal the best of General Butler in theiI
little encounter about the pension ques-
tion at Boston, if we are any judges of
logic and the facts. Benjamin F. Butler,
shrewd lawyer and brainy man as he is,
frequently allows his appetite for popu-
larity to interfere with his judgment
He thought to please his soldier audience
by holding up the United States as a
modern example of the ingratitude of
republics. The argument he made was
anything but lucid, although his con-
clusions were blunt and plain. The
Grand Army of the Republic has made
a bad bargain. The nation, according
to General Butler, has not paid its
debts to the soldiers who had saved it.
Congressman Mckinley very promptly
resented this insinuatiOn against Con-
gress, and against the people at large.
The tariff builder from Ohio cut away
the ground from under General Buffers
feet in one of the neatest and most
pointed speeches he has ever made. 1t
was not true that the Grand Army of
the Republic had been cheated. The
contract made by the soldiers to save
the Union and defend the flag had been
made and kept by them without thought
of what it was worth to them in money.
And Major Mckinley might have added
that the scheme of pensions now in Op-
Grafton is the most liberal the world has
ever known, and that no nation has
showed its gratitude in more practical
way to its preservers than the United
States. We believe that the soldiers
who applauded Major McKinley's senti-
ments to the echo represent the great
majority of the veterans. With the
pension legislation now in force, and
more liberal measures pending, it argues
an obliquity of vision, not unfamiliar in
in the man who declares
that the soldiers who fought for the
Union are not receiving justice. With
Major Mckinley we can say that General
Butler can not outdo us in advocating
the most generous provisions for the old
soldiers out of the nations treasury, but
we believe in recognizing the fact that
the nation has spent hundreds of millions
in pensions, and that next year $780,
100000 will be appropriated for this
purpose.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

THE Democrats of the House are In
small business obstructing legislation
that is in no wise partisan, but simply
business regulations for the benefit Of
the people. Last week they were op-
posing bills that are for the betterment
of the farming interest. The idea is to
put odium on the Republican majority
through its failure to pass needed legis-
lation. Such conduct is unpatriotic,
unprincipled and hateful.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

THE STRAW, THE COAL, THE BEAN.
In village there lived an old woman
who one day gathered some beans from
her garden to cook for her dinner. She
had good fire on the hearth; but to
make it burn more quickly she threw on
a handful of straw. As she threw the
beans into the pot to boil, one of them
fell on the floor unobserved by the old
woman, and not far from a wisp of
straw which was lying near. Suddenly
glowing coal bounced out of the fire
and fell close to them. They both started
away and exclaimed: "Dear friend,
don't come near me till you are cooler.
" nat brings you out here?"
"Oh, replied the coal, the heat luck
lily made me so strong, that l was able
to bounce from the fire. Had l not done
and | should have been burnt to ashes
by this time.
Then, said the bean, ~ have also es-
capped with whole skin; for had the old
woman put me in the pot with my COM
rades, should without mercy, have
been boiled to broth"
81 might have shared the same fate"
said the straw, "for all my brothers were
pushed into the fire and smoke by the
old woman. She packed sixty of us in
a bundle, and brought us here to take
away our lives, but luckily l contrived
to slip through her fingers"
"Wel, now, what shall we do with
Ourselves?" said the coal.
81 think" answered the bean, "as we
have been so fortunate as to escape
death, we may as well be companions,
and travel away together to some more
friendly country, for here we may ex
pect nothing but new misfortunes."
This proposal was gladly accepted by
the two others; so they started immedi
ately on their journey together. After
travelling a little distance, they came to
a stream over which there was no bridge
of any sort-not even one of wood-so
they were puzzled to know how to get
over to the other side.
and said: 81 will lay myself across the
stream, so that you can step over me,
as if l were bridge"
So the straw stretched himself from
one shore to the other, and the coal, who
from his nature, was rather hot-headed,
tripped out quite boldly on the newly
built bridge. But when he reached the
middle of the stream, and heard the
water rushing under him, he was SO
that he stood still, and dared |
not move step farther. Sad were the |
for the straw, being
slightly scorched in the middle by the |
heat still in the coal, broke in pieces |
from its weight, and fell into the brook. |
The coal with hiss, slid after him into
the water, and gave up the ghost. !.
The bean, who had cautiously remain
ed behind on the shore, could not con-
tain herself when she saw what had
and laughed so heartily that
she burst. Now, she would have been
in a worse plight than her comrades;
but, as good luck would have it, tailor
who was out on his travels came to rest
by the brook and noticed the bean. He
was kind-hearted man, SO he took a
needle and thread out of his pocket, and
5aking up the bean, sewed her together.
She thanked him very much, but unfortu-
lately he had only black thread to sew
WITH, and, in consequence, since that
ime all beans have black mark down
heir backs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
HTASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. I6, F. & A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon.
J. b. MEYER, Sec'y. +. d. BAILEY, w. NJ
ST CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch Mds0Iss.-Stated cOnvOcatiOns first Friday Of
each month.
J. b. MEYER, Rec. +. ID. BAILEY, H. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, X. d 5. M
Meets second Tuesday of each month
j. Il. MEYER, Secy. j. B. RYAN, L. L. NJ
HOPE COMMANDER, No. rs, X. T.-Stated
cOnclaVes first Tuesday of each month.
j. Ii. MEYER, Sec'y j. H. RYAN, E. G.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
COrns 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 & Sons. ly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

PRICES of agricultural products are
advancing rather because of scarcity
than in sympathy with general advance,
and unfortunately the only persons who
will be benefited by the situation are
speculators. Living will be high during
the coming year. Producers will gain
nothing, because they have a less guam
tity to dispose of, and consumers never
profit by scarcity in the markets.
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Belt1tn1tt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 1890.

THE Democratic majority in Alabama
this year is given as only $4,000. And
vet Alabama Democrats are "astounded
at their own moderation"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28
DELMO-;T COZ XTY DIRECTORY.

Common Pleas Judge-JOhn B. briggs.
Probate Judge-Isaac III. Castor.
Clerk of COurts-Henry NJ. Davies.
Sheriff-Oliver K. FOulke.
AuditOr-R. r. Barrett.
Treasurer-George Robinson.
Prosecuting AttOrney-JeSSe w. HOlllngwOrth.
Ree0rder-JOhn NJ. Beckett.
C0mmissiOners-Mil Il. Hart, WIN. J. Berry,
John q. Israel
Surveyor -Chalkley Dawson.
COrOner-A. NJ. f. Boyd.
Infirmary Directors : Burget McCOnnaughy,
president; William Lodge clerk; John A. Clark,
auditor
Superintendent Infirmary John SidebOttOm,
East Richand.
Superintendent Children's HOme-Peter Gifnn,
Barnesville.
School EXaminers-James Duncan, Bridgeport;
s. C. Murphy, Belmont; T. p. Harris, SomertOn
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-28

DRUMMOND POST No. 203 C. A. r.
Meets Tuesday evenings on or before the full
moon. Comrades requested to attends
J. }. RENNARD, +. C.
ii. NJ. DAVIES, Adjt.
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Copyright. 1888, by WORLDS DIS MED. ASSN
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Per cent. increased "a 4S Sc
By these figures 1t will be seen that
from 1874 to 1884 the area of land de-
voted to the production of these staples
increased Sc per cent, while the popula-
tion only increased 33 per cent. The
same tables show that up to 1871 there
were devoted to the cultivation of all
staples an area of 93,020,6S4 acres, or
about 2.35 acres to each inhabitant and
that from 1871 to 1884 this acreage was
increased to 161 1,041,312 acres or 3.51
acres to each inhabitant. The inevitable
result followed and prices of those sta
Piles, and all other farm products began
to drop because the increased product
ion Lad exceeded the demand for
consumption.
Other causes have, no doubt, had there
influences in magnifying the effects of
this over production and reduction Of
prices of farm products and among these
we think the chief one is increasing
burdens of local taxation due to high
salaries and extravagant expenditures
in the administration of township and
county affairs.
The agricultural department furnishes
evidence that the rapid increase In
farming area and farm production
caused by the rush of population from
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Address by Col. C. L. POOrman at the Har-
vest Home Picnic, in Stewards Grove,
Near st. ClairsviIle, Aug. 21.
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might start up the tune.
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plished.