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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
Established in 1918.
CHURCH DIRECTORY

PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH-Rey. L. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening: sabbath school $50 a. m.
young peoples society Of Christian endeavor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome To all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
]. III. Hollingshead, pastor. sabbath preaching, II
4. 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. m.
public worship, II a. H.; 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. IN.
young women's prayer meeting, second Saturday
each month at the parsonage, p. H.
AFRICAN VI. E. CHURCH-Rey. J. NJ. Wilkes,
pastor Sunday service, 1870 a m; p m; Sab
bath school, 23O D. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
British Testimony on Free-rrade.

In letter to The Manchester Courier
Mr.. John Walker, of Bury, Lancashire,
thus vigorously assails England's free
trade policy:
LET me draw your attention for q
moment to the great contrast between
the condition of the English and the con-
tinental poor. Do not the latter appear
to be not only immeasurably cleaner and
healthier, but cleverer and shrewder?
Where but in the large towns of Great
Britain can we find such hideous blots
upon civilization, such reeking miseries
as the slums of Manchester and Salford2
Taking the world as our audience,
and asking for show of hands on this
question of Free-trade VS.. Protection in
one shape or another. we have the fol-
lowing result: Canada, the United States
of America, Mexico and all the South
American states, Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Aus
tralia Except New South Wales), Russia
(Which we must now include), and some
countries of minor importance vote for
Protection, and the population under
this regulation is about 40, 900, ,000i
Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and New
South Wales levy a system of moderate
import duties ostensibly for revenue pur-
poses, and the population of these coun-
tries is in the aggregate about %, 900 900.
''Say 435, 100000 of people ranged
against IS, 900, 900 of Britons who are all
supposed to thrive and grow fat under
the system which admits absolutely free
of import duty all raw materials, food
stuffs, and almost, but not all, manufact-
ured articles, placing an import duty
upon tea, coffee, chicory, cocoa, tobacco.
dried fruits, silver and gold plate, beer,
spirits, lace and few minor articles. II
it is not egotism that makes US think
that the $4,000. 900 are right and the 49,
100000 are wrong, in the name of Cob
den l abjure you to tell me what it is.
1t is assuredly egotism, and the same
egotisrn which has displaced England
from her proud and prominent position
of bygOne times"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

THE Chinese question, reopened in
Congress by Representative Morrow's
bill, is one that will probably present a
serious side to the people of the United
States before many years have elapsed.
This is as to the admission of immi-
grants, seeking the better opportunities
of industry in this country, and the
saving of nearly all the earnings to take
back to the old land. But agitation of
the Chinese question on one side of the
United States has opened the way to an
inquiry into immigration affairs on the
other. The people of this country are
no longer supporting an asylum, soup
house and free picking grounds for all
the rag tag and -bOb-tail population of
the globe. For all intents and purposes,
we have people enough. An honest
man out of employment, and seeking
work, is soon made aware of that fact.
Labor of all kinds, from the pen and
the delicate machine to the pick axe and
the spade, refuses to seek men; it must
be sought. Opportunities to earn a
living do not go a begging; rather do
they who seek to live. So it comes
about that the American patriot who
ventures the opinion that residence and
citizenship in this country, for which
brave men have died ought not to be
freely offered to every offcast wretch in
the world, is not frowned upon and
threatened as he was during one period
in our political history. The sentiment
of American protectiOn-in trade, in
industry and in citizenship-is at last
on top, and will maintain that proud
position if our selfish, bigoted. unpatri-
otic Democratic friends are not power
full enough to overthrow Cleveland
LeGier.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
RATES OF ADVERTISING
THE FREE-TRADE PLATFORM.
The Tariff to Be the Only Issue In the
Coming Congressional Elections.

Coming Congressional Elections.
Congressional nominations are being
made almost daily. and from the candi-
dates speech or letter Of acceptance we
can gather the principles that are to be
fought for this fall OF course the
tariff question is foremost. In fact it
seems to be the only ISSUE The Demo-
Gratis are evidently firing of tariff re-
FORM" and have decided to call things
by their right names, and all give utter
ance to about the same sentiments. The
following quotation from the speech Of
NJ. d. Harter, nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of the Fifteenth Ohio district, may
be taken as tersely expressed speci-
men:
Il would abolish every custom house
in the land. would rather vote for the
establishment of an institution to spread
the cancer, or field in which to prop
agate cholera, or a school in which to
teach vice and crime, than to vote for a
protective tariff of any kind"
These sentiments were uproariously
applauded, showing that his views were
heartily indorsed by all his would-be
constituents The Democrats are evil
IDENTIFY following the lead of Henry
George, who said in The Standard Of
April so:
1.-THE tariff question will be renewed
at the polls at the coming fall elections,
and the duty rests upon us-the real
Free-traders of America-to exercise wis
dom and display activity in assisting to
bring Free-trader forwards as candi-
dates, and in helping to elect them when
they are nominated"
Well, this is what we want-a good
square fight.
Let Protectionists in every district In
the United States nominate only candi-
dates who declare themselves "uncom-
promisingly in favor of the American
system of Protection" and who can be
relied upon to vote as they talk.
The issue is plain and simple Shall
the Fifty-second congress have q major
ity of Free-traders or Protectionists2
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

THE New York Sun has discovered
that Speaker Reed has discovered that
in February, 1889, Samuel J. Randall,
from the House Committee on Rules,
reported a rule for the consideration of
Cowles international revenue bill, which
provided for abolishing the tax on Tobacco.
The rule thus reported provided that
after the consideration of the bill had
been begun, no dilatory motion what
ever should be entertained by the
Speaker. AS we have frequently remark
ed, Mr.. Randall was a very smart man,
the ablest and most honest Democrat
in the House in many years, and we
commend the precedent set by him to
the consideration of the Bourbon press
and politicians that are making so much
ado about Speaker Reeds tyranny"
The Republicans in the House have
simply adopted the plan suggested by
Mr. Randall to facilitate the transaction
of business.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
IN S GH 7.

On the river of life, as float along,
see with the spirits sight
That many nauSeOuS weed Of wrong
Has root in a seed of right.
For evil is good that has gone astray,
And sorrow is only blindness,
And the world is always under the sway
OF a changeleSs law of kindness.
The cOmmOnest error truth can make
In shouting its sweet voice hOaTSe,
And sin is only the souls mistake
In misdirecting its force.
And love, the fairest of all fair things
That ever to men descended,
Grows rank with nsttles and poisonous thing
Unless it is watched and tended.
There could not be anything better than this
Old world in the way il began,
And though some matters have gone amiSS
From the great original plan;
And however dark the skies may appear,
And however souls may blunder,
tell you, it all will work out clear,
For good lies over and under.
Ella Wheeler U-ileor.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
DAVY CROCKETT.

HERO NEGLECTED, BUT NOT FORGOT
TEN BY HIS FELLOw-COUNTRYM
Nashville Herald
While the people of the country are
building monuments to Generals and
Statesmen, the eccentric hero of the AL
amo has not shaft erected to his mem
ory. The Davy Crockett Monumental
Association, lately organized at Law
renceburg for the purpose of building a
monument to his memory, is a move in
the right direction, and ought to receive
the hearty support of the thousands of
patriotic men all over the country who
admire his sturdy virtues. Lawrence
burg, Tenn, is above all places the most
appropriate for the monument, as it was
many years his home, and there he first
entered public life. From Lawrence
burg he was elected to the State Legis-
lature, and afterward to the Congress of
the United States. The early records of
the courts at that place are filled with
judgments and DEGREES of his framing
while acting as Magistrate and County
Judge. In and about Lawrenceburg are
living to this day many men who knew
Davy well, and relate many pleasing and
entertaining anecdotes regarding him
never yet given to the public. These
will be printed in neat book and put
before the public by the Association.
Mr.. W. R. King, the Secretary, is a
young man of energy and perseverance,
and the enterprise will succeed from the
start. The monument will be carved in
Italy from pure white marble, and ship
ped to Lawrenceburg. to be unveiled at
the annual celebration of Davy's birth
day next year-August 10.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
England,s PlainE

The promised anti-Protection meeting
has been held at Sheffield, England, and
some twelve thousand Englishmen, in
mass meeting assembled, have declared
that Americans shall never, no, never,
under any circumstances, enact legisla-
ton hostile to English interests, however
beneficial it may be to themselves. The
tenor of the speeches shows plainly
enough that John Bull is convinced
that this world was made for him. and
that it is wicked for any one to attempt
to deprive him of his natural heritage.
1t is consequently very wrong on the
part of congress to pass any tariff bill
that will preserve their market to the
American manufacturers.
Here is passage from the speech of
the principal speaker at the meeting:
They were members of the same
race, race to whom the future desti-
nies of the world were intrusted, and
therefore anything that tended to dis
turb the good feeling that ought to exist
between England and America was .
distinct loss to the whole world"
In other words, so long as we are will
ing to let John Bull do our manufactur-
ing and permit him to pocket the profit,
America and England will be the best
of friends. But the moment we under
take to build up our manufactures by
suitable legislation, friendship between
us and John Bull will be at an end, 10
the distinct loss to the whole world"
The mayor Of Sheffield blurted out the
whole truth about the character of Eng
lands friendship for Us when he declared:
I'm this country we are interested in OBJ
tanning commerce. He was old enough
to remember when the American market
found occupation for one-half the popu-
lation of this town, but from time to
time arbitrary restrictions Of one kind or
another had been imposed, until at the
present time this county was almost en-
tirely shut out of that market" Eng
lands friendly feelings would undoubt-
edly continue undiminished If we were
still employing half the population Of
Sheffield and other English towns in
manufacturing for us articles that.
thanks to Protection, we are now making
for ourselves. The speeches delivered at
this Sheffield meeting would undoubted-
ly supply Protectionists with good cam
paign material.-Irish World.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES g.
BLAINE is looking much better than for
several years. His eyes are bright and
his smile has its oldtime cheerfulness.
He is busy upon great work-the re-
establishment of our commercial su-
premacy and he will succeed if given
half a chance. He could be kept from
the Presidency, but he can not be kept
from making reputation as Secretary
of State that will rank second to none.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
A RIDE ON A ROOF WITH A BEAR.

New York Post
used to know very intelligent Nor
wegian in Shasta county, Cal, who haC
the rare faculty of gathering birds and
small animals around him at will. Many
time l have seen him persuade the
chipmunks and gray squirrels in the
Sierras to come and feed from his hands
asked him whether he had ever tried tC
control grizzly, and he told me that
grizzlies were excellent cOmpany-he
knew, for he chad once ridden twenty
miles with one."
1t was the year of the great floods
1861-and Peterson, my Norwegian
bear-tamer, was living in hut ON the
Churn creek flats. 1t was swept away,
and out into the main Sacrament, about
3 o'clock in the morning. Just as they
got into the open river some large animal
which was swimming, caught on and
climbed up on the roof where Peterson
sat. AS daylight began to gleam across
the yellow waste of still rising waters he
saw that his companion was remarka-
bly, large grizzly of very peaceful de-
meanor, who sat on the ridgepole and
balanced himself like an acrobat. At first
there was little growing on the part of
the bear, but Peterson soon established
peace. He then bethought himself of
breakfast, and, tearing off some of the
oak shakes, took piece of dried venison
from its hook on one of the rafters. From
this he proceeded to cut pieces, and then
breakfasted with his bear, slice and slice
about, with great eXactitude. The bear,
it is said, entered into the spirit of the
thing so completely that when Peterson
inadvertently helped himself twice in
succession he raised an eighteen inch
paw and administered reproving cuff
that nearly broke PetersOn's arm.
Between them they finished the veni-
son, and then they sat on the ridgepole
within five feet of each other and tried
various means of scraping further ac-
guaintance. Peterson whistled and sang,
which seemed great comfort to the
bear, and the latter whined and muir
INJURED in sleepy, good-natured way
Really, as Peterson said, in a week you
could have done almost anything with
that bear. After while the cabin hit
a snag and spilled them both off, so that
they had to swim. The bear struck out
for the west store, while Peterson went
east, and they never saw each other
again.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. 1s, r. d A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full mo0II.
J. T. MEYER Sec'y 4. ID. BAILEY, w. VI.
ST CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No II, Royal
Arch MasOns.-Stated eOnyOeatiOns first Friday Of
each month - - -
j. B. MEYER, Rec. +. ID. BAILEY, H. IL
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, X. d ). NJ
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Sec'y j. b. RYAN, I. L. NJ
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 20, X. T.-Stated
conclaYes, first Tuesday of each month.
j. b. MEYER, Secy j. B. RYAN, T. e.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
THE LIQUOR THEY SOLD.

1t is reported that two men were some
time ago arrested in New York State on
the charge of violating the revenue law
in selling wine without license They
testified that they sold to saloons about
100 gallons of drink made by this recipe:
Put 16 gallons of water into a common
wash-boiler, add 48 pounds of sugar,
pound of tartaric acid and some aniline
dye for coloring. After stirring with a
stick until it is dissolved add quantity
of Orris root, cut with pint of alcohol,
to give the flavor of raspberry wine.-
This stuff had been sold for more than
year as wine.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

captain TILLMAN, you are a liar,
and black liar. You can't prove the
charge of perjury. We rammed the lie
down your dirty throat at Ridgeways." :"
That is the vigorous way in which the
bolting Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of South Carolina was interrupted
during the delivery of his recent Colum-
bia speech by straightout Democrat.
Tillman may not be in danger of assas-
sination, but certainly the amenities of
Democratic brotherhood in the Palmetto
State are good deal strained, as it
were
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

WAGON loads of well known novels
were seized in New York last week by
order of the Society for the enforcement
of Criminal Law. Copies of these books
mag be found in many house whose
inhabitants would be shocked to know
that the books have been condemned as
b ;cene
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

THE complete trough count" of the
returns from Philadelphia shows that
the Quaker City's population is l,044, 900,
in round figures, or about $1,000, less
than that of Chicago. This settles the
question of relative size between these
cities, now and for the future.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
TILE NEW DISCOVERY.

You have heard your friends and neigh
bors talking about it; you may yourself
sonal experience just how good a thing ii
is; if you have ever tried it, you are one
of its staunch friends, because the won
derful thing about it is, that when once
given trial, DIR. Kings New Discovery
ever after holds place in the house; if
you have never used it and should be af-
fiicted with a cough, cold, or any throat,
lung or chest trouble, secure bottle at
once and give it fair trial; it is guaran-
teed every time, or money refunded; trial
bottles free at Patterson's drug store. 6
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

THE people of European countries are
pretty badly alarmed over the reports of
the ravages of the cholera in Arabia and
Spain. The disease broke out among
the pilgrims to Mecca, as usual, and the
mortality is unusually large; it is also
epidemic in Japan,an nine out of every
ten cases prove fatal.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
Bel1ltpttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, AUGUST IA, 1890.

THE Republican party of Ohio is in ia
vor of National government, and be-
lieves that the government has as much
right to protect its elections as has the
States to guard theirs from unlawful
Interference
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
THE NEW PRIZE STORY

disappointment, is then tossed aside and
forgotten. But ladies who read of DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, read it
again, for they discover in it something to
prize-a messenger of joy to those suffering
from functional derangernents or from any
of the painful disorders or weaknesses pc
culiar to their sex. Periodical pains, in
ternal Inflammation and liberation, leucor-
rhea and kindred ailments readily yield to
its wonderful curative and healing powers
1t lie the only medicine for women, sold by
druggists under a positive guarantee
from the manufacturers, that it will give
satisfaction in every case, or money will
be refunded. This guarantee has been
printed on the bottle-wrappers, and faith
fully carried out for many years.
Copyright, 1885, by WORLDS DIS. MED. ASSN.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

In the last twenty years the export in
crease of the United States was nearly
twice that of Great Britain-One being
a protective tariff country, the other
supporting a policy of free trade. The
lesson is obvious to every person who is
not free-trade Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

GREAT BRITAIN will take a census
next April, and it will be a one days
work. But in England enumerators are
not invited to call again, or take a seat
on the kitchen doorstep until some one
comes home who has knowledge of the
family.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

For some days past the clay diggers
in Brown & Clark's brick-yard, at Grand
Rapids, have been bothered by wet
ground. While at work last week a
vein of water was struck that. fairly
gushed from the ground, overflowing
everything. Since then it has been flow
ing at the rate of $4,000 barrels an hour,
and the Grand Rapids people think they
have struck it rich. The water is cold
and pure, and the supply seems inexhaus-
tible.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
NOT WITHOUT HOPE.

Washington Critic.
"I can never be more than a sister to
you," said buxom widow, tenderly, to
an old bachelor who had proposed.
"Ah, madam, yes you can," he re-
sponded, gallantly. 81 am not man
to lose hope"
"Yes, but 1 say 1 can not" she per-
sisted.
"You have daughters" madam" he
said, land you may yet be my mother
in-laW."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

A COFFIN inscribed with the date 1893
was recently opened in the graveyard OF
st. James church, Clerkenwell, and to
the surprise of the workmen there was
little about the corpse to show it had
been buried hundred years, and not a
few days The flesh seems to have turn
ed into a kind of wax. The body was
that of finely formed woman of So
The features were perfectly distinguish
able, the teeth were in place, and the
lines of the body were firm and clear.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

In striking contrast to the hot dry
summer we are having, Great Britain is
having wet, cold and dreary summer.
Hot and dry weather has injured our
crops considerably, but wet and cold
weather has ruined theirs. We are
treated better than our English cousins,
if We have cause to do some grumbling.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

CHOLERA patients are dying in Mecca
at the rate of 500 day. Tie Meccans
who don't die lay their prayer rugs over
the Oriental filth in the streets and
houses and piously shake their heads as
they speak of the MYSTERIOUS dispensa-
tions of Providence. Providence is
mighty handy as scapegoat for our
own sins of defiance of the laws of
nature
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14

By the census of 1850 Illinois produced
manufactures to the value of $18, ,5S4, ,272.
At the census of 1860 these figures had
advanced TO 81, $780, $50. According to
the census of 1870 tho manufactures had
augmented to $205, ,620, ,672. In the CEN
sus of 1880 the manufactures Of Illinois
had risen to S414, ,s64, ,s72, and the figures
for 1890 will probably eclipse all former
proportions.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
Down in Nashville thew had two reg

Down in Nashville they had two reg
ular tickets to be voted for; one was
headed the "White Mans Ticket,
Straight Democratic, and the other
Coon" ticket. The latter contained
the names of seven white and three
colored men. "The moral of tale is
in the application ont"