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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
THE LOVE OF MONEY.


|
The present era is pre-eminently dis
| tinguished for the love of money get
ting. Syndicates, trusts and combines,
supplemented with grain and stock
gambling, confront us on all sides with
almost daily accessions, and it seems
that nothing short of the impossible will
set limits to this grasping and greedy
crusade to obtain wealth without hon
estly earning it. 1t is questionable
whether the earth alone would satisfy its
voracious maws without the atmosphere
being thrown in.
This condition of things constitutes
not to civilization itself; the power of
combined wealth is claimed to be ire
sistible in the affairs of men and ma
tions too. This prepotency of money is
the inspiring element and handspring Of
all combines and monOpOlies to control
commercial values, and thereby extort
and prey upon mankind. ExtortiOn is
but robbery in moral sense, and no
amount of sophism can make it other
wise or less than robbery.
The class of creatures indicated do
not merit the name of men-they are
but human leeches thrust upon the
world for some inscrutable purpose
The eruptiOnS of the Northern barbara
ans who overthrew civilization and learn
ing in the beginning of the dark ages
were inspired and prompted by the love
of spoils and plunder, achieved at the |
point of the sword; the primary object |
of the vandal and the extortionist being
Identical, namely, appropriating the
fruits of other mems toll without COM |
pensation or just requital, hence the |
chief difference between vandal and ex- |
tortiOnate mOnopolist consists in the |
latter's more humane methods. If our |
Solons at Washington cannot devise
laws to throttle and suppress those can
cerous tumors upon the body polite, and
relieve suffering people, the sovereign
people themselves should take the case
in hand and apply the all-sufficient RENE
dy; mild ones are always best pro-
vided they are efficacious; therefore the
should be arraigned at the bar
Of sound, healthy and virtuous public
opinion, and sentenced to the universal
)pprobrium of all honest men who love
and cherish the common good of all
and if this should prove too
mild, treat it then progressively as the
symptoms seem to require.
SUBSCRIBER.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
New Series, Vol. 80, No 80

me, whose face had an unwOntet
amount of color in it. Let's make tn
best of it now we're here. It's to,
late now to set the matter right"
Making the best of it proved yer,
good fun indeed. They danced in tht
new barn, to the music of the violin anC
banjo, until they could dance no more
And then Mrs. Madden, who had open
ed the baskets, invited them all into d
great cool room where most appetizing
supper was spread. She had contributed,
as Patty's share of the feast, great
bowl of Strawberries, which had been
picked for market, and two pitchers OF
delicious thick cream.
'If you always treat us so royalty,
Patty, We'll be surprising you pretty oft
en-" said Tom Parton, who had a weak
ness for Strawberries and cream.
"COme as often as you like, said Pat
ty. 81 have enjoyed myself as much
as any one. only wish Flora Graves
could have been here; butshe went away
to- day to spend week with her grand
mother in Utica, as l suppose you all
know"
Again the members of the surprise
party exchanged stealthy glances, and
Tom Parson nudged Pauline, who sat
next to him.
Patty drew Pauline to one side for a
moment after the good-nights had been
said, and the big express wagon was
taking on its load again.
81 want to tell you something, Paul
ine," she said, with shining eyes and q
little falter in her voice. 81 had very
hard thoughts of you to-day. l believ-
ed you were leaving me out of this sur
prise party just to be unkind. Will You
forgive met"
Pauline looked, as she felt, very much
ashamed of herself, and she began TO
realize for the first time what she had
lost in neglecting such bright, sincere
girl as Patty Madden. -
at is you who ought to forgive me,
Patty" she said. 81 haven't treated you
very well, Pm afraid. But mean to be
your friend in future if you'll let me-"
"If I'lllet you'll" said Patty; and the
two girls kissed each other, and turned
aside to furtively wipe away the tears
that had risen to their eyes.
at was case of mutual SURPRISE"
said Tom Parton, as the big express wag-
on rolled away few minutes later.
"And it was mighty lucky we did make
a mistake in the house. Just suppose
we'd gone to Flora's! We would have
had to turn right around and go home
again. AS it is, we've had a glorious
time, and think it would be a good
idea to surprise Patty every day or two
as long as strawberries are in market"
Every one laughed except Pauline,
who was strangely silent. She was think
ing how cordially Patty had treated her,
and how bravely she had confessed the
hard thoughts she had cherished.
an make it up to her-ifI ever can,"
thought Pauline, whose repentance was
really sincere.
And Patty, happy in the warm friend
ship which owed its rise to most FORUM |
ate mistake, never knew that the sur
prise party she had enjoyed so thorough
y had been intended for another.-FlO-
renee HOllo,0eU, in Harper's Young PeO-
DIe
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

81 RECALL the indignation with which
members upon the other side of this
Chamber protested that the Federal
Election law provided for Federal troops
at the polls. No man shall precede me
in denunciation of any and every method
which shall countenance the element of
force or intimidation to interfere with
or influence the exercise of the right of
suffrage; but if there must be bayonets
at the polls and there need never be
let them be the bayonets of a national
guard, and not the bayonets of a political
club. 1t is in proof in this case that the
State of Arkansas, in the person of its
Adjutant General, furnished guns from
the State arms for the use of a Demo-
cratic campaign club in the town of
Morrilton and 1000 rounds of United
States fixed ammunition Immediately
prior to the September election in 1885,"
-Representdtioe DGlzeU on the Breckifa-
ridge case in the House Of Representatives
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
JOTTINGS.

CYRUS W. FIELD raises an acre of
cultivated sunflowers on his estate, Ards
ley, near Tarrytown, on the Hudson, for
chicken feed.
| OVER 1000 children were refused ad-
mission to the public schools of Phila-
delphia because of the lack of accom-
modations.
A SCIENTIST computes that with the
aid of a machine constructed on the
principle of the boring, drilling and
pumping apparatus of the mosquito,
hole could be bored to the center of the
earth in less than day.
TIE widow of the late Rev. J. s. In
skip, who has just married Rev. DR. A.
l.. ). Bateman, circumnavigated the
globe ten years ago in the interest of
the sanetifcation doctrine in company
with her husband and a large party.
FARMERS in Fayette county, Pa, are
alarmed over peculiar disease prevail
ing among cattle, especially among
calves. The trouble is first noticed in
the stiffening of the joints of the fore
legs, the whole body of the animal final
ly becoming useless.
AMONG the incidents of the late Grand
Army reunion in Boston was the meeting
of two brothers, natives of Maine, who
had not seen each other since the war,
and each of whom supposed the other
to have been killed in that conflict. One
now lives in New York, the other in
Vermont.
GEN. w. III. ENOCHs, who is running
for Congress in the Twelfth Ohio dis
trict, was one of the youngest enlisted
soldiers in the Army of the Potomac,
and one of the youngest Generals, too.
He is said to have commanded in battle
more than 1000 men when he was but
% years old.
''OUR next issue will be our last"
writes Georgia editor. ave are salts
fed the people of this town can get along
without us, for we have been getting
along without them for six months past.
There are some subscriptions owing, but
we will not collect them, as the citizens
will soon need the money to defray the
funeral expenses of the town."
AN authenticated case of human
nose that had been cut off being restored
is told in a medical paper. The patient
was ayoung man employed in a cotton
mill, and the operation was performed
DIR. Kelley, sof Griffin, Ga The or
gan was cut cleanly off by a rapidly re-
volving belt, and had remained where
it had fallen for about an hour. 1t was
washed carefully, and every antieeptic
preeaution used, and healed in the course
of a week
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
THEY COMPROMISED.
San Francisco ArgOnaut.

san Francisco ArSOnaut-
A young married man named Johnson,
in Chicago, who was drawing liberal
salary, told his devoted wife that every
two-dollar bill that came to him should
be hers for pin money. Gradually Mr..
Johnson's friends learned of the promise,
and began to conspire to help out the
popular young lady. If they owed their
friend anything they invariably paid
him in two-dOllar bills. Finally they
got to borrowing from him on purpose
to liquidate in this way, and, still unsus-
pecting, Mr.. johnson continued to
allow the bills to flow into the willing
lap of his better half.
Finally, the cashier of the firm that
employed him learned of the generous
promise, and he, too, entered the con-
spiracy, and on the next pay day handed
Mr.. johnson roll that staggered him.
Every dollar of it was in the denomina-
tion of "two." Sweating under the
burden, the repentant husband wended
his way hOmeward.
"Mary," he said, as he met her at the
door, "Pve got to break my promise with
you, for the government at Washington
has ceased to print any money except
in two-d dollar bills. All the VS. and
KS, double KS, LIS and C's are being
sent to the paper mills. Gold and silver
have gone out of circulation entirely.
Nothing left, if you will believe me, but
copper and two dollar bills. I'm sorry,
but must break my promise, or else go
into bankruptcy. Can't we compromise
the matter in some way, as, for instance,
by my giving you regularly $50 a'week?"
They compromised.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THREE States have elected their Rep
resentatives for the House of the Fifty
second Congress, Oregon, Vermont and
Maine, and every one of them has
chosen solid Republican delegation,
in some cases by increased majOrities.
We seem to be doing pretty well thus
far in the campaign of 1890.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
READ THIS SLOWLY.
Is there a man with soul so dead,

Lives Inere u man WITH soul so dean,
Who never to himself hath said,
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
Established in 1913.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Ieey. X. Alex
ander, pastor. Public worship every Sabbath
morning and evening: sabbath school 9:9O a. m.
Young peoples society Of Christian endeayor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome TO all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev.
l. ri HoIIingshead, pastor. Sabbath preaching, II
L. 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
eryices.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Raiph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m
public worship, ii a. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday d. m. monthly prayer meeting last Satur-
aay OF each month, p. NJ; wOmans missionary
4 ,ciety last Saturday OF each month, p. m dis
trct 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 NJ. e. .CHURCH-Rev. J. Nj wilkes,
pastor. Sunday service, 1888 a. m; Z. M SAD SAD
bath school 2:3O D. IN; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

FREE TRADERS tell us that protection
depresses agriculture and reduces the
value of the farm lands. How about the
statement that there are more farms
coming vacant this year in the counties
of Kent and Sussex in England than
ever before known? What is free trade
doing for the English farmers?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
THE REBEL RAG IN NORFOLK

The REBEL RAG IN NORFOLk.
New York Mail and Express,
A strange incident has just occurred
in Norfolk, Va, which illustrates better
than almost anything else could, the
intense dislOyalty of most of the white
population of that city and of South
eastern Virginia.
Last spring Grand Army Convention
was held in Petersburg, Va, just after
the disgraceful Lee celebration in Rich
mond, at which the rebel rag was so
glorified. At this Convention one II. P.
Wheeler, business man of Norfolk and
an old Union soldier, offered resolution
protesting against the manufacture of
the contemplate rebel rag. This action
of his aroused" the white people of
Norfolk, and they boycOtted him
refused to do business with him, and
injured his business all they could. As
a result, his business was ruined, he took
to drink, and Saturday night he died.
The rebels have accomplished their end,
They are responsible for his financial
ruin, and partly responsible also for his
moral and perhaps his eternal ruin.
Men who will do their best to ruin
fellow man, body and soul, for the sake
of rebel rag, are not fit to be citizens
Of this ReDublic
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE party that constantly battles fer
free speech, for free votes honestly
counted and for protective tariff that
will give the labOrer good wages and
the comforts of life is the party that the
workingmen of the country can not
support too Steadfastly.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

al AM thoroughly glad that the vote
of my district will be an incentive and
encouragement and the bringer of hope
to the Republicans all over this country,
for we are engaged now in as great a
battle as ever the Republican party
fought" ."-iSpedker Reed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

Mr.. PATTIsON, in connection with his
Democratic affiliations, is posing as the
farmers candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania. His farming is confined
to his practice as Philadelphia lawyer
and to drawing salary of $4,000 a
year as President of First National
Bank. AS horny-handed son of toll,
Mr.. Patttison is not success.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THERE is nothing timid or uncertain
about the attitude of Indiana Repub-
licans. At their enthusiastic and earnest
Convention last week, they adopted a
vigorous and square toed
platform. Itnot only indorsed President
Harrison and Speaker Reed but favors
reciprocity and the federal elections bill,
and it advocates the election of United
States Senators by popular vote and the
local option system of dealing with the
liquor traffic. Free trade, the ownership
of American lands by aliens the adulter-
alton of food, the White Caps and their
deviltry, trusts, and Democratic misgov-
ernment in Indiana are all unsparingly
denounced. The Republicans of the
Hoosier State are of the fighting kind.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE platform on which the Maine
Republicans won sach a glorious victory
should not be forgotten. 1t favored any
measure which may be required to
secure free and honest elections, law
indorsing the course of the Harrison
Administration and of Speaker Reed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

MAGISTRATE, who is bald-headed
"If half what the witnesses testify of
you is true, your conscience must be as
black as your hair"
Prisoner-"If mans conscience is
regulated by his hair, then your Honor
hasn't got any conscience at ALL"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE characteristic feature of the
Democratic State platform, this season is
denunciation of the Republican party.
That is the sum and substance of all of
them. 1t is no wonder the Democratic
leaders are mad. The Republican party
is SO successfully legislating for the
good of the nation, and so safely dis
posing of the great issues that have
occupied the public mind of late, and
there is nothing left for the Democrats
to do except to howl.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE Republican party always does
well after warning. Vermont's light
vote and reduced majority were answered
by Names tremendous victory. And
that's what's the matter wife Maine
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

WHEN it becomes generally known
that the Post-office Departments intends
hereafter to prosecute those who use
the mails in corresponding with the
so-called "green goods" men, it ought to
put an end to that form of swindling.
But, as the men who are victimized
rarely read the newspapers, and probably
would not understand them if they did,
it may take some time yet to wipe out
the iniquity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE annual report of the Cotton Ex-
change of New Orleans shows that in
the last ten years the number of cotton
manufacturing plants in the South has
increased from SO to 270 or 275 per
cent, while the number of spindles has
increased 400 per cent, and the number
of bales of cotton consumed 300 per
cent. This is splendid showing for
the decade, and indicates very rapid
and healthy development of cotton man
ufacturing in that section.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

Mr.. SPRIGGINs-"W "Where is your
daughter, Mrs. Wiggins?"
Mrs. Virgins gone to the
cooking school, and that reminds me-;
| must go into the kitchen and get sup
per, for she'll be as hungry us bear
when she gets home"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE Philadelphia Record relates that
a pretty Quaker City girl met Wash
ington young man on the board walk at
Atlantic City one evening few weeks
ago, and after an introduction took a
short promenade with her, during which
a "love at first right" match was ar
and within three hours of the
first meeting they became man and wife.
This is probably tbs quickest marriage
on record. But it will be miracle if it
does not exemplify the old adage about
in hsste to repent at leisure.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE Democratic party has never done
anything for the workingman. 1t has
only sought to make tool of him for
its own selfish purposes.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
Is CONSUMPTION INCURABLE?

Read the following: G. H. Morris, New
ark, says, "Was down with abscess of
lungs, and friends and physicians pro-
nounced me an incurable consumptive;
began taking DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption; am now on my third
bottle, and able TO- to oversee Se the work G1! on
made" Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio,
says::"Had it not been for DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption would have
died of lung trouble; was given up by
doctors; am now in best of health" Try
it. Sample bottle free at Patterson &
Sons drug store. 8
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
Beltttn1tt Gttrnttfrlf.
THURSDAY, SEPT. IS, 1880.

If the Maine Democrats expected to
see a Reed shaken by the wind, they
were mistaken.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. l6, F. & a. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon
II X MEYER Sec'y F. ID. BAILEY, w. NJ.
ST CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch MdsORs-Stated eOnvOcatiOns first Friday oil
each month. - -
j. b. MEYER, Rec r. ID. BAILEY, H. H.
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, II. 6 s. NJ
Meets second Tuesday OF each month.
j. Ii. MEYER, Sec'y. j. Is. RYAN, l. l. NJ
HOPE COMMANDER, No. 2s, K. T.-Stated
cOncaves, first Tuesday of each month.
j. B. MEYER, Sec'y j.. RYAN, E. C.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
DELMoNr COUNTY DIRECTORY.

Common Pleas Judge-JOhn b. briggs.
Probate Judge-Isaac III. Castor.
Clerk of CouTts-Henry NJ. Davies.
Sherif-0iiYer E. FOulke.
AuditOr-R. X. Barrett.
Treasurer-GeOrge Robinson.
Prosecuting AttOrney-Jesse w. HOllingwOrth.
RecOrder-JOhn M. Beckett
Commissioners-MilesR K. Hart, VIM. J. Berry,
John G. Israel.
SurveyOr-ChaIkley Dawson.
C0rOner-A. M. Il. Boyd.
Infirmary Directors : Burget McCOnnaughy,
president; William Lodge, clerk; John A Clark,
auditor.
Superintendent In6rmary John SidebOttOm,
East Richland
Superintendent Children's HOme-Peter GlIlln,
Barnesville.
School Examiners-.James Duncan, Bridgeport;
s. C. Murphy, Belmont; T. 7. Harris, SOmerton-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18

THE Church of England has lost an
illustrious son in the death of Henry
Parry Liddon, Cannon of st. Paul's
Cathedral. He was one of the few in
her fold distinguished as preachers, and
perhaps the only one in London who
could hold his own in competition with
the great dissenting preachers of that
city. He passed away suddenly from an
attack of heart disease at the age of 81.