Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-25
THE FINANCIAL FURRY.

Many causes have been in operation
to bring about the existing money strin.
gency, but the most potent of all is the
inordinate greed of spectators, who are
willing to risk anything for the sake of
possible gains. The Secretary of the
Treasury will do what prudence dictates
and the law sanctions in his efforts tC
relieve the pressure, but it will not be
safe for the spectators to rely too far
upon his assistance. If they continue
to SOW the wind they may expect to reap
the whirlwind.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat, in dis
cussing the various methods which may
be adopted for arresting serious crisis,
calls attention to the fact that whatever
may be the real situation, it is not SO
distressing as the alarmists pretend
''Two forces are at work." it says, "to
make the conditions appear more dis
couragin9 than the facts warrant. These
are the Democrats and the bondhOlders.
| The former desire to throw diScredit on
the party in power; the latter want to
secure higher prices for their property.
Both will fail if business men keep their
heads. If fair share of sense be exhib-
tied by the people the financial breakers
will all be passed in few days. Trade
generally is conducted on a safer basis
than ever before The wild speculation
which caused the panics of 1887 and
1857 and the currency imitation which
was chiefly responsible for the crisis of
1873 are all absent. There is nothing
whatever in the situation which could
produce any serious industrial and COM
mercial disturbance. A marked i'm
provement in the conditions may conf
IDENTIFY be looked for by the close of the
present week or by the early part of the
next, at the latest"
PREFERRED A SMALL AUDIENCE.
In the spring of 1876 the Common
Council of Chicago issued an order for
an election for city officers under the
new city charter, which order contained
no reference to the Office of Mayor.
There was great dissatisfaction with
Mayor Calvin, who was holding over,
and a mass meeting was called at the
Exposition building, which was adver-
tised to be addressed by many promi-
nent citizens, including the two eminent
attorneys, both since deceased, Leonard
SWEET and Emory Storrs. The former
delivered stirring speech in favor of
nominating candidate for Mayor, but
ha LOFT hn Of
the proposed election, and whose judg-
ment the courts subsequently sustained,
did not put in an appearance. The next
morning the two gentlemen met in the
street.
'Storrs." said SWEET, with one of his
well-remembered frowns, "why didn't
you come around last night? 1t was a
great meeting. Fully 10000 were there"
"Swett," replied the little lawyer, low
ering his voice and assuming tone at
once confidential, "when l definitely de-
termine that I've got to make an ass of
myself l select as quiet place and as
small an audience as can find"
WONDERFUL STONE-MASONS.
The old Egyptians were better build
ers than those of the present day. There
are blocks of stones in the pyramids |
which weigh three or four times as much !
as the obelisk on the Thames embank- |
ment. There is one stone the weight of |
which is estimated at $50 tons. There are
stones thirty feet in length which fit so
closely together that a penknife may be |
run over the surface without discover |
line between them. They are not laid
with mortar either. We have no ma
chinery so perfect that it will make two |
surfaces thirty feet in length which |
will meet together as these stones in the
pyramids meet. 1t is supposed that
they were rubbed backward and forward |
upon each other until the surfaces were
making them the worlds
wonders in mechanical skill.
Mr.. VAN PELT, Editor of the Craig,
Mo-, Meteor, went to drug store at Hill
side, Iowa, and asked the physician in at
tendance to give him dose of something
for cholera mOrbus and loOseness of the
bowels; he says: 81 felt so much better
the next morning that | concluded TO
call on the physician and get him to fix
me up supply of the medicine; | was
when he handed me bottle of
Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhea Remedy. He says he prescribes it
regularly in his practice and finds it the
best he can get or prepare. l can testify
to its efficiency in my case at all events"
For sale by j. b. HOge, druggist. 9-4-4t
If we wish to be just judges of all
things, let us first persuade ourselves of
this, that thre is not one of us without
fault.