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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

THE Census returns reveal the fact
that many towns have increased in pop
ulation in ratio out of all proportion
to the surrounding country. In fact in
many country districts the population
has decreased, and the drift has been
cityward. This does not argue healthy
state of affairs. The wild and unscru-
pulous efforts to boom towns is largely
culpable for this calamity. The country
must keep even pace with the towns in
order to maintain equilibrium, and un
due imitation in any line is going to
catch somebody. A boom is about as
great a calamity as can befall place,
and should be discouraged rather than
sought after and welcomed. So many
fiat, dull, and doomed towns may turn
the tide in an opposite direction until
point of stability is reached. Then
prosperity will follow. 1t is impossible
to build town on boom alone, but it
must have territory to support it and a
market for its products. We need good
towns and if they are large that is only
an incidental circumstance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
Pittsburg Markets.

flTTSBURG, July ~.
APPLES-S4 .00G50O per barrel.
BUTTER-I reamery, Elgin, lS(1l9c; Ohio dc
17c; fresh dairy packed, l0Gl2c; countr
BERRIES-Black raspberries, 150l6c pc
quart; red raspberries, l6c; black berries I56ol6
per quart: Sl.25 per bucket; curranIs, Sg.OO pc
stand: huckleberries, l4c quart; Ives grapes
l06pl2c per pound.
CANfALOUPES-Ann Arundel, S25163.O
per crate; nutmegs, ESQ per crate: watermel
ons, SIS OOG35.0O per 100.
CHEESE-New Ohio cheese, 7140751c; New
York cheese &c; Limberger, l00lllac; do
mestic Sweitzer, l30l3lsc; Wisconsin bricE
Sweitzer. llGll21sc; imported Sweitzer, 24lSc.
EGGS-lS6JaDc per dozen for strictly fresh.
POULTRY-Spring chickens. 40lD6Oc a pair
dressed, ll0l2c pound; ducks, 65l115c d
VEGETABLES - New southern potatoes
$3.2JQ3.5O per barrel: sweet potatoes, $50
per barrel; homegrown cabbage. SEQ
G2.50 per barrel; onions, S3.1514.OO pc
barrel; green onions, ad25c per dozen
basket; wax beans, homegrown, 656G1Ot
per basket; cucumbers, Sl-JUtGL75 per crate
tomatoes, 23@5Oc per peck box; homegrown
tomatoes, $3OOlD3.5O per bushel; celery, 40c pc.
dozen.
WHEAT-New No red, 99a93c; No. 3. $40
90c; new wheat, No. red, S16esSc.
CORN-No. 2 yellow ear, 5l15IIsc; hig
mixed ear, 0659l9c; No. : yellow, shelled. 4IG
4Ilsc; high mixed shelled corn, 466D46lSc.
OATS-No. white, 42Ge421ec; extra No.
4Ol4lc: mixed, SS0l:Ec.
FLOUR-Jobbing prices-Fancy winter an
spring patents, S5.N95.75; winter straight
XAXX bakers, Si.2j04.O. Rye flour, $3.50
3.75.
HAY-Baled timothy, No. /, ,sI05n01l.OO; Ne
do, S1.A1DS0); loose from wagon, Sl+N4pl6u
according to quality; No. prairie hay, S6.5lS
200; packing do, S5.5O06.OO; clover hay, S51S
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

In Iowa there will be total failure of the
honey crop this year.
Chancellor Caprivi will accompany Emperor
William on his visit to the czar.
w. X. Vanderbilt has offered Governor
Sprague $4,000 for his country estate, ''Ca-
nOnchet."
Peter jackson, the pugilist, sailed on Satur-
day for Australia He expects to return in a
few months.
The Annie Goodwin inquest in New York
has been postponed owing to the serious ill
ness of the coroner.
The Uruguayan parliament has passed a
bill compelling the payment of one-half of
the customs duties in gold.
The senate on Saturday refused to concur in
the amendments to the original package bill,
and conferees were appointed by both houses.
The village of Montorfano. in Italy. has
chosen distinctively Protestant local govern
ment. The place was hitherto dominated by
the Catholics.
Rice A. Pierce, representative from the
Ninth congressional district of Tennessee,
fell off the platform of a moving train and re-
ceived fatal injuries.
The Norwegian bark Lloyd. Capt. Olsen,
sailed from the port of Guantanamo. on the
south side of Cuba, June IA, bound to Phila-
delphia, with a crew of IA men and 4, 500 bags
OF sugar, and has never since been heard from.
The president Friday nominated John s.
Bradford, of Pennsylvania, to be United
States consul at Antigua, West Indies.
Signor Crispi, the Italian premier, has in
formed the French ambassador that if France
should annex Tunis Italy would occupy
Tripoli.
Edward Hanley and Charles Ehret, two of
the men indicted for the United States express
robbery, secured their release yesterday on
5000 and $500 bail, respectively.
The house committee on invalid pensions
Friday ordered a favorable report upon bill
granting pension of 5000 per annum to the
widow of the late Gen. George B. Mcclellan.
All the cloak makers who have been on a
strike since June IL, resumed work Friday
morning in all the manufactures and shops.
The manufacturers say they will be able to
meet all contracts.
The Ontario prison commissioners have
completed their tour of investigation among
the Massachusetts institutions. They left for
Elmira Friday night, to inspect the reforma-
tory at that place.
About S:45 o'clock Friday night Miss Dora
Warner, aged "a years, started to cross the
tracks of the Michigan Central, at Pullman
Ills, just as the eastbound passenger train
was coming into the station. W. J. Cart
wright, seeing that she was likely to be
caught and killed, sprang to her side and
tried to snatch her from the track. He was
too late. Both were struck by the engine and
instantly killed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
WHY Is TT

What causes the Democratic party to
exist is a problem worthy of speculation
yet highly enigmatieal. For the last
thirty-five years the party has founder
ed on every question of moment, and
the voice of the people has declared 1t
in the wrong. For that length of time
it has struggled and squirmed to secure
a footing but always with a losing re-
suit. For several years before the war
only the adhesiveness of its rOttenness
held it together. and when the campaign
of go came with issues then foremost,
it was sucked into the whirlpool of pop
ular disapproyal Since then it has been
the under dog with the temporary ex-
ception of four-years' trial secured by
accident, when it proved wholly un-
trustworthy, and it was again relegated
to its old abode. 1t has been SO long
since it had any definite policy that it
regards that as useless superfluity.
Time has declared its total inhumanity
on the slavery question. On temperance
it is off color. On its tariff policy it was
Overwhelmingly beaten. The party is
distracted with dissensions among the
leaders, yet it lives Error is hard to
cast aside. When discarded in one
shape it appears in another form. 1t
clings to a man like a stone-bruise.
Democracy is disease. Its perpetual
ton depends on the laws of heredity.
The father bequeaths it to his son who
accepts it as his heritage and asks not,
is it right? He does not investigate the
record of his party. What is good enough
for his father is good enough for him.
1t is the Chinese policy of advance
ment that keeps the party in bonds. A
progressive or thinking spirit among its
young men would burst it in pieces. De
feat hardens them, and their natures
become more perverted by the disease of
Democracy. If it depended on princi-
pies for life it would have been forgot
ten a quarter of a century. But the
young men are thinking, and soon a
party must present principle and merit
in order to hold them. Tainted Repub-
licans who flop cannot long supply its
ranks, and then the Democratic party
must go down forever or get some prin-
ciples to build upon.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

THE Atlanta Constitution boycott was
a huge failure, and as such indicated
that the people of the South had much
better sense than the hot-headed Bour-
bon editor who proposed it. Not single
man of prominence with the exception
of Gov. Gordon indorsed the PROPOSE
tion, and the scheme fell with a dull
thud. 1t is now probable that the orig
inator of the project is in the back yard
kicking himself for being such con-
summate fool, and that he will continue
this demonstration until he feels that he
is regaining his normal condition.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

WARDEN DYER has issued an order
requiring E.L.Harper and other fine-hair-
ed convicts in the pententiary, whose
fancy meals have been sent in from the
outside, to be given only the regular
prison fare, and to appear at the table
with the common herd This will 90
hard, but it is just. Now if Mr.. Dyer
will direct his attention to guarding
against the escape of convicts, and to
catching those who have already gotten
away under his administration, also
make some of his under officials brace
up, he may be able to run the penitenti-
airy in a right respectable style.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

THE agitation in Louisiana over the
renewal of the Louisiana lottery charter
and the consequent expression of senti-
ment in all parts of the country that the
infamous concern should be stopped has
aroused attention to the matter in
Washington. The House Committee
on Post Offices and Post-Roads has
agreed upon measure to report to Con-
gress which will absolutely close the
United States mails to the lottery. This
would be most effectual way of killing
the lottery, for with only the people of
New Orleans to feed upon, its charter
would be worthless and its offer of enor-
nous revenue to Louisiana would be
withdrawn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

TIE 'peacefulness" of politics in the
South is illustrated in South Carolina,
where B. r. Tillman, the Farmers Ali
ance candidate for Governor, is obliged
to take bodyguard over the State with
him through fear of assassination by
the Bourbon Democrats. In Charleston
the other night special police detail
guarded the hotel where he was stop
ping.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
NEW SIITS

The following new suits have been filed
in the Clerks Office of the Common Pleas
Court since our last report:
Sallie w. Bendall VS.. David Park; civil
action.
Emma L. Perry VS.. Orrie Perry; di-
VOrce.
Julia NJ. Luke VS.. Andrew J. Luke; di-
vOrce.
Lizzie GOrby VS.. A D. Rodefer.
Ellen Bethel VS.. Richard Davis; civil.
L. DanfOrd vs. Dorothy Arnold; civil.
Martha Beck VS.. Ford Beaver; ;bastardy.
Owen Mehan VS.. Patrick DOnahoe ct
al; civil.
Thomas. w. Morrison VS.. Bellaire Nail
Works; civil damages; amount claimed
5000.
Mary f. Duvall VS.. Arrison R. Duvall;
divorce.
Mary F. Parker VS.. Jesse Parker; di-
vOrce.
Lettie NJ Colts ct al. vs. Mary Holland
ct al; civil
Ohio VS.. VIM. Collins; assault and bat
terry.
W. III. Gill ct al. VS.. Isaac Pelky ct al;
action in ejectment.
Maggie Ault VS.. Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Co.; civil damages; amount
claimed $4,000.
Robert Hall VS.. Martins Ferry Termi-
nal Railroad Company; civil damages.
VIM. Jump VS.. Martins Ferry Termi-
nal Company; civil damages.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
Shot Down by Bystanders.
WANT SHORTER HOURS.
Fifteen Hundred Bakers of Chicago Quit
Work Without Notice.

Fifteen Hundred Bakers of Chicago Quit
Work Without Notice.
CHICAGO, July 2S.-Fifteen hundred
journeymen bakers-all members of the
German union in Chicago-quit work
Saturday night without moments
notice. The strike is to enforce a
demand for two hours less mork on Sat
urdays. There has been considerable
friction between the journeymen and
the proprietors of smaller bakeries, in
which most of the craftsmen of the
German union are employed. Saturday
night the union held a secret meeting
and decided upon an immediate strike.
The Journeymens' Executive committee
announced that they would be at their
headquarters to receive any communi-
cation from the Bosses Association.
Unless the dispute is quickly settled
there is large chance that the bakers
of other nationalities in the city, number
ing probably 1,5OO men additional, will
also go on strike.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

ANOTHER black Republican politician
has been brutally murdered in Jasper
county, Miss, and Democratic paper
heads its account of the affair, "a Fire
brand Quenched." The only charge
against him is that she was a candidate
for the Constitutional Convention, and
is reported to have made very incendi-
AIRY speech during the day, which proba-
bly, led to his death" The "incendiary"
language was very likely an appeal in
favor of an arraignment of the "superi-
or race" for the wrongs perpetrated in
the South. So it goes. A cold -blooded
political murder is justified on the simple
pretext that ga firebrand is quenched."
And this is the gang who would boycott
the North if a Republican Congress
should have the temerity to pass bill
to secure honest federal elections.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
G A r AT BOSTON

REDUCED RATES VIA THE PENN. LINES.
For the National EncampmentG q. \. r.
to be held at Boston, Aug. 18th to 18th,
round trip tickets will be sold via the
Pennsylvania Lines on Aug Sth, 9th and
10th at greatly reduced rates, either via
New Y ork and rail lines to Boston, or via
New Y ork and steamer through Long
Island Sound Tickets will be good re-
turning until August 20th, inclusive, or
by special arrangement return limit can
be extended to September Both. 24-3t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

1t is amazing that Northern Dem
ocrat should be perfectly willing for the
sake of partisan success, to let Demo
crat in the South cast vote that carries
three times the weight of his own. The
Democratic party in the North seems to
have inherited the peculiar belief that
the South has somehow a divine
right to rule the country, and the whole
Democracy must necessarily bow down
and be its humble servant.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER
LIFE

1t was just an ordinary scrap of wrap
ping paper, but it saved her life. She was
in the last stages of consumption; told by
physicians that she was incurable and
could live only short time; she weighed
less than seventy pounds. On piece of
wrapping paper she read of DR.. Kings
New Discovery, and'go sample bottle;
it helped her; she bought large bottle;
it helped her more; bought another and
grew better fast; continued its use and is
now strong, healthy, plump, weighing 14O
pounds. For further information send
stamp to W. II. Cole, druggist, Fort Smith.
Trial bottles of this wonderful Discovery
free at Patterson's drug store. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
THE MARKETS.
New York Money Market.

NEW YORK, July %.
Money closed at per cent; highest, pei
cent; lowest, 2 per cent.
Exchange closed steady; posted rates, S4.S51.
a.. .Sg15; actual rates, SsS4404.S5 for sixty y-da
bills and S4.SS1s0I4SS SS4 for demand.
Government bonds closed steady; currency
6's, LIB bid; Is coupon, l.23H bid; 41s's do
1.0315 bid.
Pacific railroad bonds closed as follows:
Union firsts, Lag bid: do sinking funds, Ii;
bid; Cen trails, I.l21s bid.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
Enst Liberty Cattle Market.

EAST LIBERTY, IN, July y.
CATTLE l,a4l head: shipment
l,O44 head: market slow: shade Off from ias
weeks prices.
HOGS Receipts, $50 head; shipments, ~
head; market closed slow: best Workers an
medium. S4.l5GDi.30; common and heav
grades, SI.nDG6i.10.
SIIEEP-Receipts, 1000 head: shipment.
3.1O head: market slow; 10 to l5c of from la,
weeks prices. Shipments to New York We.
terday was thirty cars cattle and nine car
hogs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
RELMONT'S POPULATION.

We have received from Supervisor
Wood the semi official returns of the cen
sus of the townships and large towns of
Belmont county, and these figures tOgeth-
er with comparison with the census of
1880, is appended. The number of farms
and soldiers in each township is also given
as well as the total population of the
county. These estimates can be relied on,
subject only to slight error in counting:
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
GOOD MEDICINE"

Mr.. c. ID. Cone, attorney, Parker, South
Dakota, says: 81 take pleasure in saying
to the public, as have to my friends and
acquaintances for the last five years, that
| consider Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrh9a Remedy the best medicine
for the purposes it is intended that ever
tried. Since | have used it l would not
be without it. | was always subject to
cholera mOrbus and never found anything
else that gives the relief that this remedy
does. | never leave home without taking
ran with it to the relief of some sufferer
and have never known it to fail Ny
children always call for that good medi-
cine when they have pain in the stom-
ach or bowels" For sale by j. b. Hoge
druggist. 73-4t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

DEMOCRATIC free traders are having
much to say about Western mortgages
in connection with the protection policy
Democratic whisky and laziness are
more productive Of mortgages than any
thing we know of, says the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

Now that many of the leading jour
nails and business men of the South are
making haste to repudiate the boycott
ting scheme of the Atlanta Constitution
and Governor Gordon, the new rebellion
is ended. But it has served to show
that the Bourbon leaders are in fear
lest Congress shall pass law to enforce
a free ballot, fair count, and an hon
est representation in the federal govern
ment.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
EITPEPSY.

This is what you ought to have, in fact,
you must have it, to fully enjoy life
Thousands are searching for it daily, and
mourning because they find it not; thOus-
ands upon thousands of dollars are spent
annually by our people in the hope that
they may attain this boon; and yet it may
be had by all. We guarantee that Electric
Bitters, if used according to directions
and the use persisted in, will bring you
good digestion and Oust the demon dys-
pepsia and install instead eupepsy We
recommend Electric Bitters for dyspepsia
and all diseases of liver, stomach and kid
neys. Sold at SOC and 81 per bottle by
Patterson & Sons, druggists. 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

WHY continue the use of irritating
powders, snuffs or liquids? Ely's Cream
Balm, pleasant of application and sure
cure for catarrh and cold in head, can be
had for soc. 1t is easily applied into the
nOstrils, is safe and pleasant, and is cur
ing the most obstinate cases. 1t gives
relief at once 724-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

SOUTHERN Democrats who have been
carrying elections by force and fraud
during the last fifteen years, and their
Northern allies object to the Federal
Election bill, because under it Presi-
Dental and Congressional elections will
be carried by the force of honesty. 1t is
the plain duty of the present Congress
to provide for the blotting out of fraud
at elections for federal officers. Down
with the reign of fraud.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

JUDGING from present indications,
farmers will obtain good prices for
their wheat this season. The crop re-
ports from Europe are uniformly unfa-
vorable, and there is no great wheat
growing country in which there will be
a large available surplus.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

THE fact that the Farmers Alli-
ance in Louisiana has entered into a
combination with the anti-lottery peo-
pie indicates that the influence of the
Alliance will be for good, and hence an
tagonistic to the Bourbon Democracy
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
EIRING BEGUN Al PAL LERMo.

People Fired from the Houses-The First
Decree Issued-The Dead Lay in Heap.
in the Streets.
BUENos AYREs. July 2S.-On Saturday
the artillery was joined by civilians, and
firing was begun at Palermo and kept
up heavily. The police dispersed 6
crowd which had surrounded the gov,
eminent house, but the people fired
from the houses. A determined grouI
of forty men stood TO arms i'll front OF
the government house while the artil
lery firing and the roll of musketry
came nearer and nearer. A policeman
split an Englishman's skull and was
himself
Shot Down by Bystanders.
In the afternoon the first decree of the
revolutionary government was issued
ordering the national guard to be
modified. At p. M. two attacks by
the government troops upon the citizen
battallions were repulsed. Many were
killed, and the dead lay in heaps in the
streets. 1t was reported that the minis
ter of war had been killed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
A tornado demolished the buildings of

A tornado demolished the buildings of
three farmers living nine miles north
east of Marshall, MINI. A child of
Felix Deareau had its leg broken.
Another had its head crushed and died.
Mrs. Deareau was seriously bruised
Mrs. A. NJ. Opdahi and child were
seriously bruised.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
TO CHICAGO.

EXCURSIONS VIA PENNSYLVANIA LINES.
Tickets to Chicago will be sold from
stations on the Pennsylvania Lines at
low round trip rates on Aug. I'd, Sd and
4th, and at especially reduced excursion
rates Aug 9TH and 9th. The Triennial
Meeting of the Patriarchs Militant will
be held in Chicago. Aug. Sd to 10th.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

THE Democratic politicians are whist
ling loud to encourage the belief that
their party will be able to carry Belmont
county in November. They need not
give themselves uneasiness. The Re-
publicans of Belmont county propose to
nominate good clean ticket and elect
it triumphantly in November.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31
Consun,ption surety Cured.

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that have positive remedy for the abovenamed
disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless
cases have been permanently cured. shall be glad
to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any OF
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER, one of the
most distinguished of American Unita-
rians, died Saturday at Salisbury, Md,
the place of his birth.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

Lewis Berg, leader of a ST. Louis band
of hoodlums, who call themselves the
"Snare Gang" died from the effects Of a
blow by Watchman Saunders, at a re-
vival tent, where Berg and associates
were making a disturbance.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-31

THE keynotes of the Democracy just
now are obstruction, filibustering and
boycotting. And yet there are Demo
Gratis who imagine that their party
stands for principle.