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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
New Series, Vol. 81, No 21
TRIAL OF DR.. BRIGGS.

New YORK freSS.
The New York Presbytery, by vot,
of A to 80, has decided on a churel
trial of Rev. DR.. Briggs. The charge:
against him are yet to be formulated
The Presbytery in adopting the MAORI
ty report of the committee appointed to
consider the conformity of doctrines
taught by DR.. Briggs with the West
minister Confession and Catechism, the
standard of the church, has pronounced
his teachings to be out of harmony with
the main tenets of Presbyterianism.-
This will be a notable church trial.
The contest will really be between two
great elements which are at work in all
the churches-the liberal one on the
one hand and the conservative on the
other. DIR. Briggs represents pro-
gressive Christianity, whatever may be
the decision of his fellow churchman as
to his soundness in Presbyterian doc
trine, for which he will maintain a strong
fight. Whether DR.. Shedd is right in
his Interpretation of the Westminster
Confession, or Prof. Briggs is right in
his widely different Interpretation, is
fair question which Christian gentlemen
ought to be able to discuss fairly. The
latter eminent divine says he has spent
large part of his life examining the lit
erature of the subject, in studying all
the vast mass of documents that throw
hot IL
Westminster standards really meant by
the language used to designate the mys-
teries of doctrine. He says that he has
found reasons for thinking that the
Presbyterian Church, especially its lead
ing theologians of the old school, have
been unintentiOnally guilty of error in
the Interpretation put upon creed !
which every Presbyterian clergyman
processes to believe and promises to |
teach. He says, moreover, that he has
tried for many years to induce the latter |
eminent divine, his colleague in Union !
Theological Seminary, to examine into |
these documents, but without success.
Now, there is no matter of moral OBJ |
liquity involved in Professor Briggs |
conduct. If there were moral obliquity |
it would be in refusing or neglecting to
seek truth wherever it may be found. |
A man who swears to obey the United |
States Constitution is not to be rallied at |
as truculent knave because he reads |
the FedeTdlist to find out what the
trainers of the Constitution meant by
our fundamental law Nor is he neces-
sarily bad man, traitor, who ought
to be driven out of the country, because,
perchance, he reaches some conclusions
different from those held by persons
who never read page of the Federalist
in their lives.
In short, the time has long gone by
when the adoption of new views in the
Ology could be reasonably considered
sinful. Liberals are just as "hOnest" as
Honor" no more re-
quires Professor Briggs to get out of
the Presbyterian Church or its New
York divinity school than "honor' re-
quires DR.. Shedd to get out. The inter
ests of the church, of Christianity, of
sound doctrine, demand that if old
school and new school adherents must
be antagonists they will at all events be
gentlemen.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
THE PRESIDENT ASIAN ORATOR.

HdrpeTS Neehly.
Those who are disposed to class oratory
among the lost arts must reconsider that
conclusion in view of the Presidents
tour. He has been travelling across the
continent to the Pacific, and every day
he has made two or three clever speeches,
good natured, varied, full of fact, and
expressing his views courteously, and
the whole country reads in surprise, and
a great many worthy people say that
here is great man who has been some
how concealed under visionary hat,
but who will be henceforth estimated at
his true value, and undoubtedly renom-
mated and reelected to the Presidency
by the acclamation of his party. If Or
atOry can so radically change the general
impression in regard to the President, it
is certainly not a lost art. On the con-
trary, it seems to confirm the wisdom of
the saying that in country of parlia-
mentary government successful states
men must be great orators. 1t is, how
ever, true that none of the Presidents
except Lincoln have been especially
distinguished as orators, while two of
the greatest American orators, Webster
and Clay, sought the prize in vain.
President Harrison's grandfather was
preferred as candidate to Henry Clay.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

AND still the interesting question of
Cal Brice's back taxes continues to bob
up like a Democratic Banquo's ghost,
and every new twist of the subject gives
the people better idea of the small size
of the New York speculator who is to
them in the Senate for the
next six years, thanks to the late un-
lamented Democratic Legislature.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

nouncement of the Farmers Mutual
Benefit Association of Illinois, that no
wheat is to be sold at less than $1.25
per bushel, some millions of bushels
change hands daily at Chicago at the
price of S1.01@1.03. Immense fortunes
are to be made this year by buying
wheat at the market price and selling it
at the F. NJ. B. A. price.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

Mr.. PULLMAN says the statement
that he furnished the President with
transportation is not true. "He is
riding in Pullman cer," Mr. Pullman
is reported to have said, '.hired from the
Pennsylvania road"
Mr.. Cleveland rode in Pullman car,
on his tour, and nobody thought of ae-
cusing Mr.. Pullman with having given
Mr. Cleveland the use of the car free of
charge.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

DURING January, February, and
March, this year, the United States
received nearly ninety thousand for
eigners. This is about as great rate
of immigration as the country can con-
veniently accommodate. Our people
who have experienced how easy it is to
get out of work, and how hard it is to
get in again, are disposed to think that
our population is fully as large as it
should be-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

THE farmers of Pennsylvania desire
the Legislature to pass law that horses
are not to be taxed until four years old
Such an enactment might have benefi-
cial effect, as it would be impossible to
find a horse older than "risin' three
years old last grass" in all the State.
1t would be fountain of perpetual
youth-for the horses.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
DODGING THE ISSUE.

Cleveland World
There is good deal of worry in Dem
ocratic circles over the trip which the
President is taking. This worry is but
natural. The trip is great card for
Benjamin Harrison. Ithas demonstrated
that he is a much larger man than most
of the country had imagined. He has
been represented by the comic papers as
diminutive individual struggling un-
der an old bell-crowned fur hat. He
has been held to amount to nothing ex-
cept what his grandfather, old Tippeca-
canoe Harrison, made him. He has had
little opportunity to show himself to the
people, and many have held the picture
made by the eartoonists in their minds.
The present trip has not only given a
large number of people good opportu-
nifty of seeing the President; it has also
furnished everybody an opportunity to
read some of the best speeches ever
made in this country. What can the
Presidents opponents do to detract from
the effect of this trip? They cannot
criticise the speeches. Several dozen
have been made, but no sentence can be
picked up, no argument can be framed
to answer their points. The only thing
left is to make out that the trip is an ex-
travagant one to make and that some
one besides Benjamin Harrison is pay
ing for it. There is no proof on this
score. There is nothing that particu-
larly points that way except circumstan-
TALLY. But it makes something for the
''literary feller5" to write about during
the dullness at Washington, and it
sounds as though point was being
made against the President. But the
trip goes on just the same, and its eff
feet will be irresistible.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

GOVERNOR HoGG, of Texas, seems to
know what he is up to. His offer of
$1,000 reward for the arrest of any
member of a mob which takes life is
a notification that Texas will be a much
better State than Louisiana, for people
to smigrate to who hold any preferences
for having their lives protected by law.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
Established in 181 8.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
PRESRYTERLAN CHU

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r. Alex
ander, pastor Public worship every Sabbath
morning aAd evening; Sabbath school 9;30 a. NJ
younQ peoples society Of Christian endeavor, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting, "Wednesday
evening. Strangers welcome TO all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rey.
Ezra Hingeley. pastor Sabbath preaching, II
=. m; D. m; young peoples meeting, Monday
evenings; general prayer meeting. "Wednesday eve
n ngs: Sabbath s-hool 2:30 pm. Strangers cor
daily invited TO all services.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev.
Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a; N.
public worship, IL a. IN; weekly prayer meeting,
Friday D. m. monthly prayer meeting last Satur
aay of each month, p IN wOI1an's missionary
speiety, last Saturday Of each month, p; m dis
tricf nrayer 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 ME- ECHURCH-Rev. Albert March
pastor Sunday service, 1890 a. m; p. m; Sab
bath school, 2 80 p. m; weekly prayer meeting,
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
A SAFE INVESTMENT

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return of purchase price. On this safe
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
THE ENTRANCING WOMAN.


Mary r. Baldwin, in Harper's Bazaar.
One needs only slight experience il
general society to discover that taste ha
separate necessities in different individ
uals, and that beauty, wit, "style," ;
gift for light conversation, depth o.
mind, have each their admirers, fac
that sets the ones on the outside of the
especial circumstance to wondering
what there can possibly be in the par
ticular woman to ''draw."
Is there woman who is universally
enhancing? Is there one who commands
worship swift and entire-a worship i'm
patient of reasoning, that submits to NO
authority but that of insight?
If there is, we must naturally con-
clude that she possesses something that
appeals to more than one side of human
nature, and this does not mean that she
has that diplomacy that in the begin
ming is perhaps nothing more than the
desire to please the many, but which
often degenerates into positive insincer-
| ity, but rather that unconscious touch
upon her kind that comes from very
necessity of her being.
Sorrow and joy are at the extremes of
human experience, and the woman who
stands at the center stretching sympa-
thetic hands toward either condition
must be the one who is essentially
charming. Like Tennyson's "Rare pale
Margaret" she stands between the
rainbow and the sum-"
This woman of the sweet confiding
nature, who is filled with the delights of
life, upon whom is flashed all the beauty
and grace in nature, and yet who bears
about her evidences that the storms
have ragged at the very center of her
soul, and that she has taken the hand
of many a sufferer, to desceud in SYM
pathy to the deepest grave of affiiction,
is an enchantress. She is the one to
whom the young come with their en-
thusiasms and youthful fears and hopes;
indeed, so perennial are the springs of
renewal within her nature that in the
passage of the years time seems to have
refused to make its sign upon her, and
yet the middle-aged and the old recog-
nize in her friend and helper.
To her the knightliness of the manli-
est manhood bows and offers protection.
Perhaps all men naturally are suscepti
BILE to appeals to the strength of their
arm and to their bravery of soul and
this something in woman's eyes half
revealed, this touch of sadness, few of
the stronger sex are able to resist.
Such woman is beyond the art of
the copyist. Spend their efforts as they
may in trying to reproduce the fascinat-
ing effects, women who envy her are
never able to get true copy. Some
times they imagine that the secret may
be found in tone of the voice, or,
again, in glance of the eye, or in the
pose of the figure; but in the effort to
adapt these to their own personality,
they meet failure even before the first
trial of their experiment is made in
public.
But the enhancing woman pays her
price, in sense, for her power. The
rainbow that is hung in beauty in the
sight of the many to delight, cheer and
inspire them, was formed through the
mist of her tears, and when the glorious
colors fade away, some turn to the lonely
figure that stands amid the clearing
mists.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

PRESIDENT HARRISON is now home
from his long journey, and perhaps the
most remarkable thing emphasized by
all the published incidents of his tour,
is the homogeneity of our nation and
the stalwart patriotism that is found in
every section and under many varying
circumstances.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
Beltftnttt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, MAY q. 1891.

THE man who imagined that he could
scare 100000 out of Jay Gould was
not acquainted with the subject. Mr..
Gould's line is soaring S1O0,0O0,OOO out
of other people, and he is not liable to
efforts in the line of retail reciprocity.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

ACCORDING to the Census Bureau, the
nations of the earth owed, last year,
about S26,550,O0O,OOO, aside from local
debts. At first thought these immense
figures would convey the impression that
the world swarmed with Democratic
treasurers.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
MERIT WINS.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
for years we have been selling DIR. King's
New Discovery for Consumption, DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies thatsel: as well, or that
have given such universal satisfaction.
We do not hesitate to guarantee them
every time and we stand ready to refund
the purchase price, if satisfactory results
do not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity purely
on their merits. Patterson Il Sons.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
AN UNHAPPY CONDITION.

People are not naturally suspicious,
as is sometimes supposed. They have
brought themselves into this unwhOle-
some and unhappy condition by failing
to deal rightly with each separate sus-
picion as it arises. Instead of courage
ously testing it, or firmly resisting it,
they have permitted the constant pres
ence of one suspicion after another un-
til they cloud the mind, darken the
thoughts, and I'LL the heart with dis
trust and bitterness. But be who deals
intelligently and faithfully with his sus-
picions, mastering them, and never suf-
fering them to master him, will never
sink into the miserable and misery Civ
ing condition that every one must oc-
cupy who has suspicious disposition.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price, 25 cents per
box. For sale by Patterson & Sons. ly
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

THERE is a young woman in Colum
bus, Ind, says an exchange, to whom a
merchant of that place offered twenty
yards of silk for a dress ii she would
saw half cord of wood. She borrow
ed saw and went through the wood
pile in exactly three hours, and the ad-
miring crowd bought her Sl2 hat to
90 with the dress.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
DELMoNT COUNTY DIRECTORY

Common Pleas Judge John B. briggs.
Probate Judge-James +. Tallman.
Clerk of Courts-Henry NJ. Davies
Standardization Nj. Scott.
AuditOr-Joseph A. Henderson.
Treasurer-Frank B. Archer.
Prosecuting AttOrney-JesSe w. HOllingwOrth.
Recorder-JohH II. Beckett.
Suryeyor-Chalkley Dawson.
Coroner-A. NJ. f. Boyd.
CommissiOners-Miles X. Hart. John Z. Israel,
W. S. Mechem.
infrmary Directors-William Lodge, president;
John A. Clark, clerk; B. NJ. Loper, auditor.
Superintendent Infrmary John SldeDottom,
East Richland. -
superintendent Children's Home-Peter Giffin,
Barnesville.
School Examiners-James Duncan, Bridgeport;
s. G. Murphy, Belmont T. p. Harris SomertOn.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

AN ingenious fellow has invented a
mosquito screen connected in some way
with an electric apparatus, which, but
ton having been pressed by the protect
ed youth within the screen, "does the
rest" for the mosquitoes gathered on the
outside, shocking them into the insect
eternity then and there.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

HAVE had nasal eatarrh for ten years
so bad that there were great sores in my
nose, and one place was eaten through;
got Ely's Cream Balm; two bottles did
the work; my nose and head are well; |
feel like another man.--C. 5. McMillen,
Sibley, Jackson county, Mo. 5-14-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

"A GoD-sEND is Ely's Cream Balm;
had catarrh for three years; two or three
week my nose would bleed; thought
the sores would never heal; your Balm
has cured me."-Mrs. NJ. A. Jackson,
Portsmouth, n. III. 5-l4-2t
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

WATTS: "Women don't seem to mar
ry so early as they did some years ago"
Potts: No, they don't. The great num-
Der of 30-year-old widows with grown
daughters is proof enough of that"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
TARIFF PICTURES.

New York Press
The tariff does not seem to injure ou
exports of musical instruments. Their,
is an increasing demand abroad fo
American organs made by our we'll pait
protected wOrkmen. For the month!
ending March 81, 1890, our exports Of
organs were $559,375.
During the corresponding period in
1891 they were $701,483.
American locomotives, built by oul
skilled protected mechanics who receive
high wages, are the best in the world
And the world is finding it out, as the
following figures show: Exports of 10.
comotives for nine months ending March
81, 1890, SS06,137.
Same exports for nine months ending
March 81, 1891, S1,009,5 SOP.
American mowers and reapers, made
by highly paid protected mechanics, are
the best. The foreign demand for them
is increasing. In March, 1890, we ex-
ported them to the value of 1858, ,909.
Our March exports of these articles
this year were $427,115.
The Mckinley tariff has not hindered
the expectation of mowers and reapers.
The cost of shoeing horses is less in
than it is here, but the brawny
blacksmith gets less than half the Amer
lean rate of wages.
Average prices per day horse shoers,
$1.05.
United States New York State) ,$275.
Our exports of American manufac-
tured products are increasing steadily
under the Mckinley tariff. In March,
1890, we exported these products to the
value of s11 ,030,379.
In March, 1891, our exports of manu-
features were 14,726,917.
1t is no wonder that English pocket
knives are cheap.
Average daily wages cutters: England,
s120.
United States. New York State. S2. 90.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

BELMONT LODGE, No. IS, F. d A. M.-Meets
every Wednesday night, on or before full moon
X MFYER Sec'y F. ID. BAILEY, W. NJ
ST. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, No. II, Royal
Arch MdsOns.-Stated convOcations first Friday OF
each month. UT
j. B. MEYER, Rec. r. ID. BAlLEhi H. n
BELMONT COUNCIL, No 81, r. d s. M
Meets second Tuesday of each month.
j. B. MEYER, Sec'y j. b. RYAN, l. l. M.
HOPE COMMANDER, No IS, K. T.-Stated
p NEVER Sec'y j. b. RYAN, z. C.
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ForMa1aria, Liver Trou-
bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWNS IRON BITTERS

GENIUS may conceive, but patient la
Dor must consummate.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OHIO.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
J. Daniel j. Ryan, Secretary of State of the
State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true copy of joint resolution adopted by the
General Assembly Of the State of Ohio on the oath
day of April A. ID. 1891, taken from the original
rolls filed in this Office.
In testimony whereof, have hereuntO subscrib-
ed my name, and affixed my official
[sEAL.l seal, at Columbus, the 25th day of April,
A. ID. 1891.
DANIEL j. RYAN,
4-30-sm Secretary of State
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

1t is no wonder that English pocket
knives are cheap.
Average daily wages cutters: England,
$1.20.
United States, New Y York State, $3.50.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
Of Ohio.
7 a x q TIC NJ.


bly, of the State of Ohio, That proposition shall
be submitted to the electors of this State on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
1891, to amend Section 2, of Article XII of the
Constitution of the State of Ohio, so that it shall
read as follows
ARTICLE XII.
SEC. 2. Laws may be passed which shall tax by
a uniform rule all moneys, credits, investments in
bonds, stocks, jOint-stOck companies, or other
wise; and all real and personal property according
to the true value thereof in money. In addition
thereto, laws may be passed taxing rights, privi-
leges, franchises, and such other subject matters
as the legislature may direct; but burying grounds
public schOOl-hOuses, houses used exclusively for
public worship, institutions of purely public
charity, public property used exclusively for
any public purpose, and other property, may by
general laws, be exempted from taXatiOn and the
value of all property so exempted shall, from time
TO time, be ascertained and published as may be
directed by law.
SECTION 3 At such election, those electors de-
string to vote for such amendment may have
placed upon their ballots the words. Taxation
Amendment-YeS," and those opposed to such
amendment may have placed upon their ballots
the words Taxation Amendment-NO."
SECTION 3. This amendment shall take effect on
the first day OF January, 1892.
MAI r. HYSELL,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
VIM. VANCE MARQUIS
President Of the Senate.
Adontad AnriI oA 1901
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-21

The President completed his tour to
the Pacific Coast yesterday, returning
to Washington on the minute sceduled.
The distance traversed in the thirty
days was ten thousand miles. The
President made one hundred and forty
speeches.
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