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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
THE EFFECT OF A MIRAGE.

Boston Transcript
a mirage in the Caribbean Sea was
the cause of the total loss of the new
American barkentine Steadfast, while
bound from Port of Spain to Philadel-
phia. When the Steadfast sighted the
lofy peaks of st. Croix the atmosphere
assumed peculiar light color, and it
became impossible to detect the sky
from the Island, everything assuming a
similar shade and color resembling the
cirrostratus clouds, hiding the entire
lower portion of the island. The peaks
and mountains appeared to be twenty
miles away.
The tops of the mountains seemed to
be inverted, the tall cocoanuts appearing
to grow from the sky to the EARTH The
sugar grinding mills were pouring their
smoke downward. and the workmen
working upside down. The Steadfast
was kept under easy sail and perfect con-
troll. Everything went well until a
grinding sound was heard, and sudden
tremor went through the ship. The yes
sci crashed over the reefs, and was soon
fast on the rocky shore, where her wreck
still remains. The mirage made the
island appear twenty miles away.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
The Western Settlers Chosen Specific.


With every advance of emigration
into the far West, a new demand is
created for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Newly peopled regions are frequently
less salubrious than older settled locali-
ties, on account of the miasma which
rises from recently cleared land, partic-
ularly along the banks of rivers that are
subject to freshets. The agricultural OF
mining emigraut soon learns, when he
does not already know, that the Bitters
afford the only sure protection against
malaria, and those disorders of the
stomach, liver. and bowels, to which
climatic changes, exposure, and unac-
customed or unhealthy water or diet
subject him. Consequently, he places
an estimate upon this great household
specific and preventive commensurate
with its intrinsic merits, and is careful
to keep on hand restorative and pro-
moter of health so implicitly to be relied
upon in time of need. 11-5-4t
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

l HAD severe attack of catarrh and
became so deaf could not hear common
conversation. / suffered terribly from
roaring in my head. procured a bottle
of Ely's Cream Balm, and in three weeks
could hear as well as l ever could, and
now can say to all who are afflicted
with the worst of diseases, catarrh, take
Ely's Cream Balm and be cured. 1t is
worth 1000 to any man, woman or
child suffering from catarrh "A. E.
Newman, Crawling, Mich. 1l-l9 2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
Tariff Pictures.

New York Press.
The September report of the Bureau
of Statistics shows how efficiently the
Mckinley tariff is working in keeping
out foreign products that compete with
American goods. In September, 1890,
we bought of other nations dutiable
goods worth S75,939,742. Last Septem-
Der we purchased dutiable foreign mer-
chandise worth only SCI. sea, COS. The
tariff is American money in American
pockets this year.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.

THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
One of the most significant results of
the late election was the wiping out of
the Alliance party as a possible factor
in the presidential election. After the
large degree of encouragement which
had been extended to the movement by
Democratic leaders, based upon the as
sumption that the strength of the new
party would be drawn most largely from
the Republicans, it sounds strangely to
hear Governor Campbell attribute his
defeat, in large measure, to the Farmers
Alliance. He says in those counties in
which they expected the farmers to drop
away from the Republican candidates
they did not do so, and only Democrats
voted for the Alliance candidates,
The most wonderful change was in
Kansas. Last year out of 424 principal
county offices the Republicans secured
only II. This year in SO of the los
counties the Republicans carried 248 of
these offices. The other counties will
swell the number to 284. Scarcely less
significant is the showing in Nebraska
The Alliance party was practically dis
solved. Last year the Democrats elected
their candidate for Governor by small
plurality, the Alliance candidate having
polled 10000 votes, against 6S, ,S78 polled
by the Republicans. Now Nebraska is
back in the Republican column with a
safe majority. In South Dakota there
has been large falling off in the Alli-
ance vote, and in all the States in which
the farmer movement assumed threat
ening magnitude year ago there has
been swinging back to old party lines,
which indicates that the climax has al
ready been reached.
1t is fortunate for the country that
this threatened danger has been averted
by the sober second thought of those
who has permitted themselves to be led
astray by theorists and demagogues.
The leaders of the new party will meet
on February %, but it is doubtful
whether, in the light of last weeks re-
turns, they will think it worth while to
undertake the task of nominating a
candidate for the presidency. Whether
they do or not will make little differ
ence, as it is clear that there will not be
the least anxiety as to their ability to carry
a single State, or to figure as decisive
factor in the result. 1t may suit the
purpose of the leaders to keep up the
organization, as it may afford them an
opportunity to do some political huck-
stering on private account, but they will
not be able to induce any considerable
number of farmers to follow their lead.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
DRUNKENNESS


1t is manufactured as powder, which
can be given in glass of beer, cup of
coffee or tea, or in food, without the
knowledge of the patient. 1t is absolute
ly harmless, and will effect permanent
and speedy cure, whether the patient is a
moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck.
1t has been given in thousands of cases,
and in every instance perfect cure has
followed. 1t never fails. The system once
impregnated with the Specific, it becomes
an utter impossibility for the liquor ap-
petite to exist. Cures guaranteed, As
page book of particulars free. Address
GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co, 1S5 Race Street
Cincinnati, o. 6-4-ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
NOW YOU'RE TALKING.

indianapolis Journal.
The Democrats would rather have
carried Ohio by 5000 majority than to
got New York and Massachusetts. a
victory in Ohio would have been one of
principle, whereas those in New York
and Massachusetts do not signify any
thing beyond the temporary possession
of a few local offices.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
OH ESMEN WANTED. Salary and expense
Ohu paid. Brown Bros. CompY. ROchests.r \ j
GRATEFUL-COMFORTlNG.
Epps's Cocoa.
RREAKEAST

"By thorough knowledge OF the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nIl-
triton, and by careful application Of the fine
provided our breakfast tables with a deicately
favored beverage which maa save us many heavy
doctors bills. 1t is by the judicious use Of such
articles OF diet that constitution may be gradlI-
ally built up until strong enough to resist every
tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtitle mala-
dies are floating around us ready to attack wher
ever there is a weak point We may escape many
fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified
with pure blood and properly nOurished frame y
Cirit SeYrice Gazette. Made simple with boiling
water or milk. Sold Cnly in half-pOund tins by
GrOcers, labelled thus: JAMES EPPS & co,
Homeopathic Chemists, London England
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

In the Savings Bank Department of
the United Kingdom, under free trade,
the total deposits are s329,174,512.
In the thirty five States and Territories
of the United States from which returns
have been obtained the savings banks
deposits were in the same year 81 ,524,-
844,506
When the immense additional sums
invested by our working people in homes
of their own are considered, whereas in
the United Kingdom nearly all are ten
ants, the contrast is pretty hard on free
trade.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

1,445,400 GALLONS of blood are filtered
by the kidneys every year. How can they
stand this prodigious strain? Thousands
die yearly from some form of kidney
disease. Is there any warning given?
Yes; that stitch in the back, that pain in
the side and hundreds of other symptoms
cry out against neglect. The kidney
poison coursing through the veins, robs
the system of vigor and strength. Take
warning then and before it is too late
use swamp Root" a positive guaranteed
remedy for kidney disease. Sold by
Druggists. 2
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

PENNSYLVANIA has II towns or post
offices with very peculiar names, viz:
Stumptown, Bullskin, Shintown, Jug
town, Puckerty, Sin, Sis, Scrubgrass,
Hers. Mans Choice, Maiden's Choice,
and Bird in Hand.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

CnEvALIER SCRoG, while exploring a
cavern in the Peak of Teneriffe, found a
skull which must have belonged to a
man at least Is feet high. 1t contained
80 perfect teeth of monstrOus size.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
PUBLIC OPINION.

TARIFF BENEFITS TO TIE FARMER.
Cleveland Leader.
The annual report of Secretary of
Agriculture Rusk contains some stroDg
arguments in favor of protection and
reciprocity as embodied in the Mckinley
tariff law, and the benefits of that meas
ure to the farmers are pointed out in an
array of figures that is simply wonderful.
There has been great increase in the
exports of agricultural products since
the new tariff law went into effect. The
shipments of cereals alone during the
first three months of the present fiscal
year have aggregated in value $16,OO0,-
600. OF course, much of this increase
in exports is due to the immense crops
of 1891, for which thanks are due to a
kind Providence, but the opening of
foreign markets by wise Republican
legislation has furnished an outlet for
the big surplus of American wheat and
corn, and insured to the American
farmer good prices for the products of
his soil and toll. So well have values
been maintained by the creation of
foreign demand that the return in money
to the American farmers this year will,
it is estimated, be $700.000000 in excess
of that of last year. These are big and
eloquent figures, but they represent only
one side of the question, so far as the
farmers are concerned. The change of
the rates of duty on competing agricul-
tural imports has kept out of the Amer
lean markets millions of dollars worth
of the products of the farms of foreign
countries. There has been in the first
three months of the fiscal year decrease
of $11 100000 in the imports of tobacco,
nearly s., 500, 900 in barley, s., ,250, 900 in
eggs, 81 10000 in horses, and gradual
decline in all live stock imports. The
checking of competing agricultural i'm
ports, due to wise protection, is almost
as much of factor in the maintenance
of values, as is the opening of the for
eigh market through reciprocity. These
two great principles of tariff legislation
are inseparable, and they must and ought
to be linked together as they have been
in the Mckinley law, to insure the
largest measure of benefit to all the
people. The Republican party will go
before the people next year on this issue,
and the other great issue honest money
and by the time the election occurs in
November the American farmers will be
ready to vote the party of protection and
reciprocity into power again with an
enthusiasm that will sweep the country.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
IF you feel weak
and all worn out take
BROWNS IRON BITTERS

IF drunkenness is a disease, it can be
cured by cutting off the medicine swal-
lowed by the afflicted.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

a GIANT exhibited in Rouen in 1880,
Prof. Williams says, measured nearly Is
feet in height
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

AN old homestead sold lately at Bed
ford, Mass, has been in one family for
a period of 227 years.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

THE giant Galabra, brought from
Arabia to Rome during the reign of
Claudius CaSar, was 10 feet high.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

ALEXANDER's army knew no defeat
The same is true of Dr. Fenner's Golden
Relief; it is warranted to relieve tooth
ache, headache, neuralgia, or any other
pain in 2 to minutes; also bruises, burns,
wounds, wire-cuts, swellings, bites, sum-
mer complaints, collie, (also in horses),
diarrhea, dysentery and fiux.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

TIE giant Ferregus, slain by Orlando,
the nephew of Charlemagne, was % feet
high and so heavy that no horse could
be found that was strong enough to bear
him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items from Everywhere, Condensed for
Quick Reading.
THURSDAYS NEWS.

0u1ck Reading.
THURSDAYS NEWS.
A squad of 100 policemen made an
attack on an anarchist hall at Chicago,
where red-f1ag meeting was in progress.
A number of the anarchists were ar
rested.
Chairman Hahn, of the Republican
State Committee, spoke out for Sherman.
Heavy damage is REPORTED from a
gale in Great Britain.
Miss Willard was elected President of
the Worlds w. c. L. l..
George r. Lawrence, a prominent
lawyer of Pittsburgh, was found dead
in his room at New Y York hotel, having
suicided by shooting.
A case of leprosy was discovered in
Cincinnati.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Chicago anarchists were again raided
by the police and number arrested.
The midnight train from Chicago on
the Milwaukee and st. Paul road, was
robbed by masked men, who failed to
get the money they were after but
secured $4,000.
Colonel Don Piatt, the lawyer, poet
and soldier, died at his home in Logan
county, of la grippe, aged 81 years.
Philip Wise, of Portsmouth, O., was
chewed up by vicious dog.
The Brazilian trouble is reported to be
matter of federal interference with
State government.
A fire at Columbus, o., destroyed
valuable property, and five persons were
burned to death.
A horrible double murder was COM
mitted at Chicago, a mother and son
being chOked to death by robbers.
SATURDAY NEWS.
A labor candidate fund was Started
in England by Andrew Carnegie.
Governor Foraker visited Washington
on political mission: it is thought to
secure Blaine's aid in his contest for the
Senatorship.
A remnant of Indians in South
Dakota broke out in revolt.
The Chicago anarchists applied for an
injunction against the Chicago officials.
At Boston, the wife of Somner Well
ington, who. ten years ago tried to
poison her, committed suicide.
The X. of L., in session at Toledo, O.,
made a proposal to the Labor Federation
that the two organizations shall honor
each others cards, thus uniting over
100000 workingmen in one order.
President Harrison issued his procla-
nation, naming November 26th as
Thanksgiving Day.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

In the United States the working
mans dollar pays for 3 pounds of good
coffee. In free trade England the la.
borer's dollar only buys pounds of cof-
fee of the same grade. And the Brit
ish workers wages are at least 40 per
cent. lower than the Americans. Yet
there are people in this country who
want US to adopt the British system,
that taxes the tea, coffee and sugar of
the workingman, but does not afford
him one iota of protection from foreign
competition.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

DISEASES OF W0MEN.-We have special de-
Partmen., thoroughly Organic d. and devoted ex-
cuslvely to the treatment of diseases of women.
Every case consulting spec ialsts, whether by
letter or in person, IS given the careful sad
considerlte attention. Important cases land get
few which have bafiei he skill of all the
home pi ysicians) have the be- eft Of fu council
Of skilled specialists In tTe ttment Of diseases
peculiar to females, our success has been marked,
over two thirds Of patients being ladies. DID,
young, married, single, rich an poor. Our method
entirely free from objection able features of the
general practitioner, namely, Local treatment"
We seldom md It necessary. We prepare rene
dies, COZ sututional and local. a. the de1aands
and Insti ucf ladies' how to treat themselves.
Observation-Disclosures person :, or young men con-
teTlplatrIs marriage, aware of physical weakness,
loss Of ocreative powers imp ptency, any other
dIsIusht cation. speedily restoI ed.
PRIVATE DISEASES,-Blocd Poison. Venereal
Taint Gleet, Structure, Semin Emissions, Loss Of
Sexual Power, Weakness Of Sc Susl Organs, Want
OF Desire IN Male or Female, v hether from impru-
dent ha lits OF youth or sexual habits OF nature
years, any that debilit the sexual fnc
tons, sp ,edily and permanent, cured. Consuita-
tion free and strictly conf;denud Al. Absolute
guarantC ed. Medicines sent &c from observation
to all paris of the United States
EPilE SST. OR FiTS-PoSltv sly cured by a rev
and r-failing method. Tesiinonials furnished.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19

We can add the evidence of Septem-
Der to that of August in proof of the
fact that our exports of merchandise
are developing at an unprecedented rate
under the Mckinley law. In September,
1890, our exports were SOS, ,693, ,137.
In september, 1891, the last month of
the first year Of the operation of the law,
we sold to other nations merchandise
worth $S2,5S7,S
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-11-19
EREE EYiiSiNsIInN ns IsE nsiNE -F1ci

FREE EXAMINATION oS TIE URiNe.-Each perSo
or bring from to Of urine Chat passed first
Careful chemical and ncroScopca examination and
Persons ruined in health by unleained pretende
month giving poisonous and injurious unds, should
WONDERFUL CURES a s5sS5:d e . al or iss.s mee
possIbe personal consultation preferred Curabe
Fey Cases AMI correspondence confidential. 1rea
OF $50 questions free Address, with postage DR. FRANCE
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a 7p'yiny for medical ~ atment should send
, morning preferrzdl, v hich wisi receive a
ted written analysis vii BE giveu.
VINO keep tTIfiing WI thea month a;ser
immediately. Delay are dangerous
J ave been neglected or anskillfslly treated.
srties treated by mail express, bGt where
rarant=ed. No risks ir >urred.
M sent c. o. d. to an part Of U. s. L.si
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04

and assisted other efforts in saving sew
enty-cight vessels. valued with their
cargoes at So. SOP, 10, making the aggre-
gate number of vessels which they saved
and assisted to save during the year 247,
involving S3.2sS,9s0 of property. The
cost of tho maintenance of the service
during the year was S94O.20l. The saw
ing OF imperillcd property was propor-
tionatey greater than in any former
year with Il single exception.
A PAPER that will doubtless have an
important effect upon the long standing
litigation over the site of the famous
Conemaugh furnaces at Johnstown,
Penn. has been discovered 1t is a
deed and was discovered lying in the
bottom of tin box of old coins dug up
by some laborers eNcavating for house
in the Lawrencevillc district. The deed
was executed in the city of Pittsburg
February Is, 17T5. 1t calls for the con-
veyance of certain property situated on
the east side of the Kiskiminctas River.
in Armstrong County, of which Andrew
Hamilton c. Curtain was the owner, but
the sum of Els Gs sterling the lands were
conveyed to one Lambert Cadwalader.
The deed is signed by John Penn, at
that time the provisional governor. 1t
is written upon sheepskin and is in an
excellent state of preservation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04
THREE HUNDRED LOST.
A BRIG CAPSIzED AND ENTIRE
CREW DROWNED.
The Brig Tahiti with a Cargo of Gilbert
islanders Bound for Mexico to Work In
Practical Slavery Sighted Bottom Up
in the Pacific Ocean.
Happened a Month Ago.

The American steamer Roseville has
arrived at Manzanillo, Mex, and re-
ports passing the wreck of the brig Ia
hiti at sea. 1t was floating bottom up,
and the Captain of the Roscvile says it
must have been capsized, as the rigging
had been cut away on the port side, ap-
parently to prevent this. The Tahiti
created sensation Sept. 80 last by put
ting into brakes Bay, near San Fran
cisco, in distress. 1t had go Gilbert
islanders on board, under contract for
work in Mexico at starvation wages.
These men were practically slaves, and
there was much talk of selling the YES
sci. Collector Phelps, however, decided
that he had no right to detain it, and
the brig left. 1t seems almost certain
that all on board We're lost, as the ships
boats were still with it, and nothing has
been heard of any of the survivors. The
wreck must have happened at least a
month ago. Besides the islanders the
vessel carried officers and crew, twenty
one in number, making total of 291 Oh
board,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-04
THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

GURDoN, Ark, is excited over race
conflict. The town marshal proceeded
to arrest negro on the charge of steal
ing 500. A crowd of negroes over
powered the marshal and released the
prisoner. The officers summoned q
posse and a general skirmish ensued.
The whole town came out in force, and
guns, knives and revolvers were freely
used. Balls from Winchesters flew in
profusion, but as far as learned no
damage was done besides the killing of
one man and the wounding of negro.
The negroes are thoroughly aroused
and it is feared will make u general at
tack upon the whites.
PROBABLY the Oldest bridal couple in
the world were joined in the holy bonds
of matrimony in Atlanta, Ga. Hiram
Lester is believed to be 1874 years old or
Whereabouts, and his blooming bride,
Mary Mosely, has seen no less than so
frosty winters. The combined age of
the couple is therefore over 200 years.
The Circuit Attorney has filed man
damus suits against sixty corporations
doing business in st. Louis for non-com-
pliance with the antitrust law.
THE late II. c. Houk, of Tennessee,
will be succeeded in Congress by his
son, Republican.