Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-11-02
A YonnR Giant.

A Young Giant
Saws the Flushing Advertiser: This
ownship can probably boast of as large
specimen of the human family as can
,e found anywhere. The lad is 6 feet 254
inches in height, weighs l55 pounds, and
S only ii years old He is employed at
he Flushing coal works, and his name is
Chalmers Hollingsworth.
WHILE voting, do not forget the Con-
Amendments. They are both |
good and should be voted for by all
voters, irrespective of party. To vote
for the proposition make an y before the
words Constitutional Amendment
Yes" Failing to SO mark the ticket,
you vote against the Amendments.
THAT young doctor who took into his
system enough consumption bocilli to
kill six people predisposed to consump
ton, is yet in good health, and his con-
dition seems to prove his theory of the
existence in the blood of cOnsumptives
of corpuscle without which the person
cannot take consumption.
THE Republican voter in Belmont
county, who through apathy or over
confidence fails to come to the polls
Tuesday, or who allows some trivial mat
ter to keep him from voting, will be
recreant to himself, his party and his
country.
THE farmer who wants a better price
for his wool will vote for Mckinley. The
Governors reelection by tremendous
majority will probably frighten the Dem
ocratic Congress from its announced in
tention of putting wool on the free list.
THE coming election in Ohio attracts
more attention Throughout the country
in general than that of any other State in
the Union because the great leader of
the great system of American protection
is in the van of the Republican ranks.
BANKER NJ. j. BROWN, of Cadiz, got a
finger slightly hurt, so he regarded it,
while closing his safe few weeks ago.
but it continued to grow more painful,
and now he has been compelled to have
the member amputated.
DEMOCRATIC papers complain that
McKinley's arguments are old. Certain
ly-most good things are old. The truths
of the Scriptures are old. Truth is al
ways Old-though its applications are
ever new.
Now that the Sherman act is doomed
to go, let every one remember that the
Cleveland panic has brought more disas
ter on the country in six months than
this Sherman act could have done in six
ty years.
BE on the alert against the plausible
talk of the Democrat who would have
you scratch your straight Republican
ticket Every Republican nominee on
the ticket is better than his Democratic
opponent.
REPUBLICANS may be in danger of
losing through thinking of the sure thing
we have. But no fight since the fall of
Jericho was ever won by sheer force of
shouting. In politics votes only count.
A STRONG salt water, which indicates
the presence of oil or gas, was struck in
well that is being drilled for water on
the premises of Captain Smith, on Pult-
ney Bottom, south of Bellaire.
THE earnings of the great Pennsylva-
mia Railroad show decrease during
September of S1OOOOO and during the
past nine months of over 100000. Good
old Democratic times.
w. J. MORRISON, of Bellaire, was mar
ried last week, his bride being Miss Ber-
tina Woods. A sister of the bride was
married at the same time to Harry Nc
Donald.
THERE are ten or twelve young men of
Cadiz and ten or twelve maidens of
Flushing, who want bee line electric
road built beween the two towns at once.
THE Democratic exile was not so long
as the Jewish, but the next time we get
them out will keep them out more than
long enough to make the difference.
ASSUMING the working age to be from
20 to GO years, and counting only male
workers, 440 persons in this country live
on the labor of every 100 workers.
THE GaZoot some time ago attacked
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, but there is
no news yet of the Plain Dealers sus
pending publication.
AS soon as the silver question is out of
the way Congress will take up its bill in
behalf of the languishing industries of
Great Britain.
SUCCESSFUL revival meetings are in
progress at Cadiz under the Leadership of
Major Hilton, and the pastors of the sew
eral churches.
WHEN Neal arrived at CadiZ week or
two ago, there was no one at the station
to meet him, and he had started up street
before any one came.
THE prevailing Democratic idea of a
Republican tariff is that it taxes the
American products which it protects
Brilliant ideal
AM exchange tells of a child two
years old, who can sing AFTER the Ball.
The ehild's parents ought to be arrested
SMITH, the West Virginia weather
prophet, predicts warm weather for No
/ vamhpr nm Tn the LAST Of the month