fP eltusht (fiwraiflc Crrry Thursday Morning. XT. A. HUXT - - - Editor. f BR.MS OF BUBSCBlPTIOfc.. Single aabecrlber. par annum, tt 00 I Six moiiU,ll 08. ' Three monUia. Wota. U not paid within six months, tt M will be "acted of all yearly subscribers. OFFICE IN CHRONICLE BUILD LN 9. of the National Holal MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1877. uln.n.1 Lodae. No. M. P A A. M. maeU ev- f Wednesday night on or preceding the fall MASONIC DIRECTORY, 1877. JAMES B. RYAN . W. M. JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'y. St. Clalnvllla Chapter. No. IT Royal Arch monm. GEO. P. BUMGARNER, H. P. Jessie B. MEYER, Sec'y. Belmont Council, R. and 8. M., maeU on the H. R. BUMGARNER, G. M. F D. BAILY, Rec. flUopa Commandery No.M of Knights Temp oieeta jn toe nrst i mwiiv F D. BAILY, Rec. C. W. CARROLL. E. C. F. D. BAILEY, Rec. Busiaess Cards. ST. CUalR;KEl.LT, tAOarnew at Late. Hi. ClatrteHle, Ohio. a Offlea Oral door east of tba Coon Houae Mtrre IT. IJ instead. Aleomai & Covn$dor at Lam, BLOmrmOO. 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Solleltors of Patents and Clelmp, t PraoubalB tbeaoprema Ooort and Coortoi blatmaT and appear befbreall the DeparLnenu Promptness and satisfaction given in all busl- tartment .WA8HIN3T0N D. O. sep26tf a- READ THIS ABOUT " .TOHlSr HAGUE, And tre removal of his TAILOE SHOP 1 Hals now prepsied. In bis new quarters, one door west of the Chronicle offlea, to man ufaolure Suits toOrder In th:Latert styles and at reasonable ratef Transient Cutting prompUy attended to. Especial attention given to repairing and cleaning old clothes. Satisfaction guaranteed ta.US3r ; , ' ioHlt HAQtJE. J 5T OJJEBR AKEK, Barber and 7 " Dresser, ; Under Nat'l Hotel, St. ClairviUe Curls, Braids Switches, and Wigs, :: Prepared In ha Laten Styles and Mi ahor noiloe. HAI tpreparrd at aOc per oaea. sepiMKU O. W ROOM, tt at Asaaaans, -! J. B. COTTtaf Anion 43SIH r bhswts. x2 BOOK, IBKITI OO., ,. . dELLAlRE. OHIO. ftEALIN EXCUANOK.and ony Coin, Ooop ona.andOovrmantBo4a Depoalu In money raealvad Nearest paid lal dsooslts aers of foreign bills of exchange, a oaral banaiacbaslaaas - ybj NOBLE CARTER, COUNT Y 15 UB VEYOB, TS now prepared to attend to hla official; du- ' ues. ana wisnes ail persons auareasing ninr famish Township and 8eolloq where sm Teyr to be made. Fees 85 00 pa- day. At lisp rJUUlalrsvllle Belmont eo'qty .. FIRST NATIONAL BANK ST CUltotUE, OHIO; CAP iTAL, 100,000. ssr Bank obeo from a. k. until t r. . Dl onnt dr Tuesdays, at 10 a. a. Money reeelved on deposit. Vol leollons made and proceeds re mitted promptly. . Kzehange booghtand sold Dswtiii Conard Troll, David Brown, Joseph Woodmanaaa, George Brown. .j as it. x. wwxa. rresldent HO VabDAT Catbler. Jilkiis I'liiiiluii? 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HUaaES Pres Established in 18X3 . ST. CJLA.IR3VILLE, OHIO OOTOBER24. 1878. XSTew Series Vol. 18-TSTo 4-1 fif Sitiiif Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis R. PAN HANDLE ROUTE. Time Table East and West. MAY 12, 1878. Trains leave the Pandla Depot, foot of Elev- entb street. Wheeling. W. Va, near ruone landing, dally except eunaay, vJuminuus uiuv. i follows: OOIHQ HAST. Thro' i-X. Fast Line 1 07am 47 pm LeaTe Mixed Ft. 17 pm Wheeling Arrive ren 6 24 p m 7.52 p m 6 00 p ra 35 p in 9teabenvllle 8 a m Pltuburgb 10 00 a m T 4o p m . 8 SOam 7 46a m S 0? a m 7 85a m 10 85 a m 8 30 p m narruoorgn watpm Baltimore . Washington Philadelphia 8 00am sew l orx swam Boston 4 zo p m Pnc. Ex Fst Line. W'n Ex. Mall Leave ". A M . 7 07 8 30 12 Uuk A H 11 fie rat . 2 13 .830 8 40 I 33 8 00 P M 4 47 Wheeling Arrive Steabenvllle Cadis Dennlson Newark Oolambna Leave Oolambna Arrive Dayton . Cincinnati 8 00 8 14 11 28 A M 12 8H A M 1 10 T IS 6 80 A K A 10 00 p 1 us 8 00 11 15 P M 12 55 SO 8 80 Indianapolis II 28 AM St Lonls . . 7 S Chicago , 7 50 h 56 Trains leaving Oolambna at 8 40 p m and 6 26 a in, ran dally. Through Chicago Express leavea Colmobos dally except Sunday at 6 40 p m, witb sleeps Ing oars attached and arrives In Chicago at i w next morning. Toe "Pan Handle Ronte" la the ahortes esL all anlckest and moat comfortable Ronte to uolnta In Mlssoorl. Arkansas. Texas, Kanaaa. Colorado and the Western States and Territo ries. This Is tbe Route by which yon make the fewest cbauses of ears, obtain the lowest rates n Houeebold Goods, Live Mock, Ac, and 2) pounds of Baggage Free, on Every Colonist Ticket. Any Information about time of trains, con nections. Lands In tbe West, price ol Single Heand Trip or Colonist's Tickets, do. cheer, loll, famished by calling Of on or addressing JOB. M. BELLV1LI.E, Ticket and Emigration Aeenl. Wbeellna. W Va. or W. L. O HUIEN. General Passenger Agent, 210 North High St, uoinmDue, u. Rates always aa low aa tbe lowest. O W CALDWELL. W L O'BRIEN. Gen'l Manager. Gen Paaa A Tkt Agt, COLUMBUS, OUIO. t t o 45 Years Before the Public. THE CENUINE DR. C. McLANE'S CELEBRATED LTSTEIE PILLS, FOR THE CURE OF Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint, mnnu akd skx headacm Symptoms of a Diseased Liver. PAIN in the right side, under the edge of the ribs, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left side ; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appetite-and sickness; the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; the head is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part There is generally a considerable loss of mem ory, accompanied with a painful sen sation of having left undone some thing which ought to have been done. A slight,' dry cough is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains of weariness and debility; he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensa tion of the skin ; his spirits are low ; and although he is satisfied that exer cise would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them ex isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the liver to have been extensively deranged. AGUE AND FEVER. Dr. C McLane's Liver Pills, in cases or Ague and Fever, when taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give them a fair trial. For all bilious derangements, and as a simple purgative, they are unequaled. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar coated. Every box has a red wax seal on the lid, with the Impression Ds. McLANE'S Livek Pills. The genuine McLank's Liver Pills bear the signatures of C McLanb and FLEMING Bros, on the wrappers. Insist upon having the genuine Dr. C McLane's Liver Pills, prepared by Flem ing Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the market being fall of imitations of the name Me Lane f spelled diff-reutly but same "pronunciation. .SELLERS' LIVER PILLSi . aa Mttd far m yaar, tha Staadara Rased far the i I vara a xaacr comtfimlnt; Cawiaraadg, Kdt H4 a , avnd mU 4 t a feasant af tha Liver, lead : "Bwtlerr uar nuiaaraa atea. Urar CaapIatDl i wataa aamaallad fa ta att wart ."-Wsa. Asdreva. 1 F Tfcar aavwaawad awaaWi af doll smrtla aasnr Mlia."' BaMaMw. " I oaa pisamMaai tleUr Lata Pilla 1 J Tk. Adcasaa. Big sVaaaay. ftaaMakr. rrtaa a. a (Bac. tVat4 by all Draf and anaDtry Stat aaaan.! a . pklhw m tF.. rraaj-a. nttaMnra. ra. National Palling Mills AND .. . LUMBER YARD, BRIDGEPORT, 0., J R. BAGS & SONS, PROP'S ManufkctTirers of Doors, 8asb, Shutters, Frames, Mould Ings, Brackets, Palings, Stair Rail ings, Ballustere, News, nnd . DRESSED LUMBER, Of every description and Jealers In Lumber, Rliingles, Soantlincr, Lath, .Joists, Frttme- Timber, JFir Brick and Builders' Material In General BELMONT CHRONICLE ST. CLAHtSYII'LH OHIO. THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1878. GtSTAr Wallw, the most eminent of trav- eling botanists, died at Cuenca, Ecuador, last June. In 1860 he was commissioned by some very eminent Belgian horticulturists to gather new varieties of plants in South Amer ica, and for eight years traversed vast dis tricts in that couotry, making subsequently an excursion, at the instance of great Fondoo firm, to the Phillippine Islands. He died in a hospital, worn out and poor, in the cause of science, having given to European horticul ture not less than 1,000 transatlantic dovbI-'es. The N. Y. Herald says editorially : The cryptographic system which it sets forth is too intricate and complex Uo permit a sus picion that it is an invention of the Tribune as a whole, even if some of tbe alleged cipher dispatches have been interpolated into the great mass which bear on their face mark of genuineness. We do not allege that any of the dispatches are surreptitious, the probabil ities being the other way on the prima facio presentation made by the Tribune. They seem to fit Into each other so perfectly, and they so tolly with, tbe well known events of the period, that there is no reason to doubt the general authenticity of tbe dispatches. Unless it can be proved that the alleged cipher telegrams between and including those dates are fictitious or have been incorrectly trans lated, their publication must ruin irretrievably every person who had any hand in them. Col. Forney sends to the Press of Phila delphia an engaging description of 11. Gam betta. "Tbe man himself, " says the Colonel, "is the impersonation of self-poised resolu tion. A large, short, square figure, with a fine head, a Hebrew nose, one defective eye, yet a bright and inquiring face. Such is Leon Gambetta. On the mantel was a good biouse bust of Washington, and on the wall some boxing gloves and short rapiers, as if for ex ercise, perhaps fcr preparation. Dressed in de.:p black, and neatly dressed, with a strong ncivous hand and a suapely foot, he pointed me to the sofa, and took his pLioe at my side, holding me gracefully by the hand to seal his spoken welcome. He was looking at my card. and then began a fire of questions in French, which were rapidly translated by M. Simon in. He bad heard of me, he had read some of my writings; he knew many of my friends, especially Charles Sumner, of whom he spoke as an exalted, superb, magnificent Democrat. 'Ah, yes, he was called loo soon. He, at least, was the friend of France.' " Hon. Roscoe Conkling. L. D. Ingersoll in Washington Republican.] I am, and always have been, a great friend and admirer of Senator Cobkling. ne is surely the greatest orator now in the Senate. ISot one of our public men has been more ar dently devoted to tbe Republcan party than he. And yet outside of the State of New York he does not seem to have any consider able following. It is true that in everyStute in the Union, surely every Northern State, he has earnest friends among the best workers and thinkers In the Republican party, but not where does he seem to have many adherents among the masses of the people. In this re spect he occupies a position analogous to that so long occupied by Daniel Webster in the old Whig party, who was always believed by the best thinker? of that organization to be its greatest and truest representative man, but who never could come anywhere near a Pres idential nomination. Senator Cockling has little popularity, on which account I doubt the possibility of his ever being a Presidential candidate; but I am among those who believe that if, in politics, the selection of the fittest were a universal rule, be would be tbe next President of tho United States. I also be lieve that in that case we should have an ad ministration true to the principles of progress and universal liberty, political, civil and com mercial, and which administration would be beneficent to the country, and great in his tory. We are not making this sort of Presi dents so much as we were, and I am afraid I s tall not get my candidate as early as 1880. BjI, year by year, the people are occupying a higher plane of intelligence, and I do not despair of seeing the great New Yorker Pres ident of the United States yet. The Vote by Congressional Districts. The true test of the contest in Ohio was the vote for Congressmen. The Republican ma Jority over the Democrats was 11,059. The Republicans carried six districts by a majority over all, and the Democrats carried seven dis tricts by a majority over all. In these districts the aggregate Republican majority was 14,84.0, and the Democratic majority 0,130. In other districts tbe Democratic minoritie agirregated 9,665 and tbe Republican rmnoriUe 1,457. The aggregate vote in tbe several districts compare as follows: Districts Rep. Dem. Others. First 13,756 12,03(5 447 Second 12,914 11,940 533 Third 14.3.V) 15,437 442 Fourth. 15,879 10,822 1,196 Fifth.- 12,848 14,670 2,711 Sixth ...12,073 16,110 2,544 Seventh 11,278 13,183 7,893 Eighth 14,982 16,237 845 Ninth 16,798 17,788 1,783 Tenth 12,345 12,579 Eleventh 13,997 15,355 1,104 Twelfth 14,566 13,493 670 Thirteenth - 11,827 11,950 1,329 Fourteenth .12,0G8 14,350 2,491 Fifteenth 11,039 15,617 1,839 Sixteenth 15,489 14,255 1,366 Seventeenth. 17,253 14,575 Eighteenth 15,330 12,641 2,793 Nineteenth........... 17.106 7,553 3,148 Twentieth 13,081 ' 7,271 7,012 Totals .....277,924 266,86-1 40,159 It is thus seen that with 277,934 votes the Republicans elect nine Congressmen; with 266,865 votes tbe Democrats elect eleven, and with 40,152 the Nationals, Temperance, and Socialists elect not one. Taking another view of it, the Democrats, with a mi nority of tbe popular vote, elect eleven Congressmen, and the Republicans, with plurality, elect only nine. Had tbe apportionment law remained unchanged in other words, had the State been apportined according to voting population tbe Republicans would have had thirteen Congressmen and tbe Democrats seven In any way we look at it, therefore, the Repub licans gained largely upon the Democrats as compared with 1877, and Ohio is now a de cisively Republican State. Good for Ohio! Cin. Gazette. It Is said that a bit of cotton pushed into the ears will prevent people from dreaming. This, we believe, only ap plies to casps whore a man dreanw that tbe persons In the next rompnrtment is turning: up tiU nose with a view to securing; an appointment in Thomas' orchestra. Sesatou Blaini proposes, for greatr utili ty, that the Oat greenback be labeled one dollar on one side and one thousand dollars on the other. When flat money becomes the currency of the country there will be little use for bills of tbe denomination of one dol lar. A note ef this value will then hardly purchase the salt with which to cook a beef steak. The cost of the beefsteak can only be imagined. The (White) House that Sam From the Albany Evening Journal.] I. This is the House that Sam missed. II. This is the Job to capture the House that Sam missed, III. This is the Rat that bossed tho Job to cap ture tbe House that Sam missed. IV. This is the Public that smelt the Rat that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. V. This is the Partyt that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat, that bossed the Job to capture tbe House tlmt.S-m missed. VL. This Is the Cronin with crimson horn, J that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rat that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam mied. VIL. This Is the cipher 'bout Oregorn, that was sent to Cronin with crimson born, that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rut that bossed the Job to capture the House thai Sum missed. VIII. This Is the Tilden all tattered and torn, that sent the Cipher 'bout Oregorn, to Mr. Cronin, with crimson horn, that fooled the Party, that cursed the Public, that smelt tho Rat that bossed the Job, to capture tbe House that Sam missed. IX. This is the Marble all craven and shorn, that toadied to Tilden all tattered and torn, that sent the Cipher 'bout Oregorn to Mr. Cronin with crimson horn, that fooled the Party that cursed the Public, that smelt the Rut that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam misscd- X. This is the key as sure as you're born just see the Tribune dated this morn that shat tered Marble all craven and shorn, that sent the Cipher 'bout Oregorn to Mr. Cronin with crimcon horn, that fooled the Party that cursed the Public that smelt the Rat that bossed the Job to capture the House that Sam missed. Typegraphical error Tor Pelton. tSbcrt for Democratic party. XPatoii for Proboscis. X. CARRY THE NEWS TO THE DEMOCRACY! DEMOCRACY ! Another Chapter of Fraud! MOKE TILD EX-ISMS. The Scheme to Buy the South Carolina Board. The Tribune of the lGth publishes the third chapter in tbe history of Tilden's fraud ex ploits. South Carolina is the scene, and Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, New York, is the chief mourner, after Tilden. The pith of eight of the columns of the Tribune is the following : The first returns from South Carolina in November, 1876, gave the State to the Dem ocrats, but within a few days the aspect of the situation greatly changed. It soon appeared that the vote on Governor was close, and that Tilden's vote was considerably behind that of Hampton. So uncertain was the result that on the 11th of November, four days after the election, General Hampton leh-grapbed to New York that bis own majority was about 1,400, and that of Tilden somewhat less, while Governor Chamberlain at the same time telegraphed that, after giving the Democrats everything that they could plausibly claim, the Republicans still had a majority of 3,200 on the Presidential Electors, and 2,100 on the State ticket. The fact was that returns on their face gave a victory to the Republicans by a pretty close vote, but In two counties, Edgefield and Lausens, the fraud, violence and intimidation had been so flagrant that there was little doubt the Canvassing Board would throw out their entire vote, and this would put both Hayes and Chamberlain very far ahead. The chance of Tilden's securing South Car olina under these circumstances appeared so slight that when Mr. Marble, Mr. Wbolley, Mr. Cole and the other eminent Democrats dispersed themselves over tbe South, the pub lic apparently forgot to observe who took charge of South Carolina. Several eminent Democrats, however, reached the capital of South Carolina by the middle of the month; among them weie Senator and ex-Governor F. F. Randolph, of New Jersey; Senator John B. Gordon, of Georgia; Montgomery Blair, A. H. B- Stuart, and Captain G. N. Fox, ex-Assistant Secretary ot the Navy. But it was to none of these gentlemen that Mr. Tilden intrusted the real business of the campaign. The person selected for this deli cate duty was Mr. Smith M. Weed, who has long been one of Mr. Tilden's closest political friends, and who figured conspicuously at the Syracuse Convention as foremost representa tive of the victim of fraud and champion of reform. On Moadsy, November 13, the South Caro lina Canvassing Board perfected its organiza tion, and the same day Mr. Weed arrived on the field of action. The promptness and evi dent relish with which he set about tbe affair upon which be had been sent, must have sat isfied Gramnrcy Park that he was the right man in the right place. His first dispatch was : COLUMBIA, November 13. Henry Havemeyer, 15 West Seventeenth street. New York : Am here. Things very much mixed. Intend to count us out' If a few dMIarj can be placed in Returning Board (to) insure What say you? Give news from Louisiana, Oregon, Florida, Weed. Colonel Pelton answered : November 14. Smith Weed, Columbia . Telegram here. Remain with Hampton (in South Carolina) and exhaust every means to prevent trading. Tbe expenses of what you do will be met. Keep fully advised often. 1 ' Dehmarrt. Before receiving this. Weed telegraphed : COLUMBIA, Nov. 18. Henry Havemeyer, New York ! If tbe Re turning Board can be procured absolutely, will you deposit $30,000 ? May take less. Must be prompt. Colonel Pelton's reply to this inquiry ha not been found, but its nature is plain enough from Mr- Weed's rejoinder of November 14, saying the parties were to report that morn ing. Weed's movements began to excite sus picion in Columbia, and bis position grew un comfortable. He proposed to hurry matters, and. then to turn over the negotiations to somebody else. He says ' COLUMBIA, NOVEMBER 14. Henry Havemeyer, New York i Nothing definite yet, but working. Tbiugs mixea here. One party claims Hampton party are tradine off Tilden. I don't believe it. Pro ceedingsin Court don't seem to disturb Cbam- berlaiu party, bhall 1 increase to oU,UOU, 11 required to make sure ? Select a good man to send down if required, as that is the only way; I'm watched, and if it is as well I think I better turn over the mattei here to Gover WEED. The answer this time was prompt and posi tive, for Gramercy Park, too, was becoming NEW YORK, November 14. Smith Weed, Columbia ! Telegram here, You can go 50 if necessary. Perhaps the use of "future prospects" for some part, but you must see that trading Is not done, i aouut whether you can trust it to person you name. Kennedv and others should be able to assist. When do you thiak you can reach conclusion? Keep me advised. Telegraph what the ma jority is on Tilden. Friend will go through on train, leaving here at six ta-nigni. nee mm. DENMARK. Arrangements for getting the Board certain seem to hf ve met with entire approbation in New York, although with characteristic cau tion Mr. Pelton's principal urged Weed as follows i NEW YORK, November 16. Smith! Weed, Columbia ! Last telegram here. There is, undoubtedly, good ground upon which a favorable decision could be had. but to be consistent and sustainable, it would and should iuvolve electing Hampton or else it would be involved in inconsistencies imoossible to sustain. You must be satisfied that action upon which papers issue is justified by facts, and all trading is prevented. Try and make .(one) portion payable after the votes are (cast), and another portion after the Dual result. Doubtless good iuitb is intended, but there should be sumcient guarantee ac cepted. These conditions are very important. telegraph result and what you want done. DENMARK. Mr. Weed replied i COLUMBIA. November 16. Henry Havemeyer, New York i Telegram received too late to answer last night. Don't quite understand. Do you want me to go to the home of Stearns, Florida ? Board, late last night, demanded $75,000 for giving us two or three Electors. The interceder will want something besides, think ten thousand. What shall 1 do? Get no aid from the Hampton party, who, to say least, are indif WEED. Mr. Pelton's answer needs not one word of comment 1 NEW YORK, November 16. Smith Weed, Columbia i Your telegram here, should be willing to accept Delieve if Chambflrlain and. Board unite to prevent trading, and expense was made dependent on final success of Tilden in March, am inclined to think Florida best soil. If you can fix this contingently, or leave it open safely or in reliable hands, you had better visit Florida immediately, see that our friends remain; can't get others to go. Give me the exact condition to-night. C'apL Lieutenant Anna DENMARK. Weed answers i COLUMBIA, November 16. Henry Havemeyer 5 Telegram received. it looks now as though the thing would work at $75,000 lor all seven votes, tlave sate man to bring stuff on, receiving telegram in morning. Think now I will meet him witb party at Baltimore. Could not make it de pend on Marc'j, but would on regular certificate.- of tbe Board and other officers. The exact status is, that two of the Board have agreed and are consulting with the thirc, which is a majority, and will report to-uiglit. They set stakes, and 1 assented, but can with draw. Portugal telngraphed me to-day to spare no cot-t. It's late for me to go to Flor ida, but will see and telegraph to night WEED. Pelton answered ' Telegram of thirty-five (words) here. Full telegram left before 2 this morning. Speak when received. Charles Thomas Jones, Cap tain Anna- Unfortunately we have not found thi-t (full) telegram, but the nature of it may be inferred with perfect assurance from the alacrity of Mr. Weed's rejoinder: Telegram received; (will) see parties instant ly, perhaps two hours before answer; will try and get conditions. Smith Weed pushed his negotiations zeid ously, and finally telegraphs: COLUMBIA, November 18. Board have oeen securea. me cost is $8U,uou to be sent as follows: One parcel of $65,000, one of $10,000, and one of $5,000. all to be $500 or $1,000 bill notes, to be deposited as the parties accept; and given up upon note of band of tiamptou(t. ., state ot south Caro lina) being given to Tilden's friends. The three packs should be sent without inscription. and to-night, unless you receive a telegram from me countermanding, shau try to secure everything by tho plan of deposit. The friends of Hampton and (Bavaria) are here in force and I fear their money and careful watching and intimidation of the Board. For God s sake let it go if you can. Be safe in Florida or South Carolina. Do this at once, and have cash ready to reach Baltimore Sun day night. Telegraph decidedly whether it will be done. No doubt Smith Weed did get the "definite answer" he desired before 8 o'clock, for he broke out in the following exultant dispatch: Looks well now. You must have money at Barnum's in Baltimore, early Monday morn ing. 1 go at 10 to-night. Weed arrived ia Baltimore November 20, and New York November 23, but the action of the South Carolina Court spilt the milk and Tilden's chance of buying the Board was lost forever. An Auriferous Meteor. From the Yuma Sentinel.] A remarkable specimen of meteoric iron, more like steel, has been brought in here from the Mohave desert. It weighs about a pound, and carries free gold, of which nearly a dol lar appears on its surface. It is not magnetic, and has successfully resisted simple and com pound baths of acid. In this respect it re sembles specular iron, but in no other. One of its surfaces shows a fracture that reveals a crystalline structure, the color of which is a steel gray, tinged with yellow. It has defied the best cold-chisels in the blacksmith shop, and has not broken or chipped under heavy blows. If its composition can be imitated, there will be produced the hardest and tough est alloy known. 'Them are people who live bjhind the hill," is an old German proverb, which means that tbere are other folks in the world besides youiself, although you may not see them. Anxiety is the poison of life; the parent of many sin, and of more mis eries. Why, then, allow It, when we know that all the future Is guided by a Father's hand? From the Yuma Sentinel.] BOB INGERSOLL ON POETS. From the Yuma Sentinel.] BOB INGERSOLL ON POETS. He Arms Himself with Burns as a Weapon Against the Church. When Mr. Bob lngersoll came upon the platform at Checkering Hall last evening, he struck bis favorite atti tude, with the thumb of one hand un der his Wfiifctccmt and the forefing-er of the other assailing the audeinee, and observed: "I find, ladles and tjentle men, that we differ as much about po etry as we do about religion." There was a general smile of satisfaction and a great deal of encouraging applause. Then Mr. Ingercoll asked it to be un derstood that whatever be said against the poets whom be might arraign we'd be said entirely from his own stand point. "There Is no poetry worthy of the name of poetry," he exclaimed with vigor, "that is not born of the heart. Give me the poetry that is natural; I do not want tho word-pninting of the mind. 1 have read your classic wri ters.full of sublime thoughts, and have found them unnatural. I have read Dante. I have went down into his hell and crawled In among his snakes, but I didn't enjoy it." Solemnity and stupidity are twins born of supersti tion. But" he added parenthetically "I will give Dsnte credit for one thing-rhe was the first poet that ever had the courage to paint a Pope in hell, and that was no small thing to do in his day. And there was Petrarch. He wrote delightful things to a girl named Laura. And who do you sup pose Laura wm? Why, the wife of an other man. All pretence; all pretense. Not a throb, not a thrill of the honest fervor of the human heart. There was Milton. Magnificent wrlterl I read 'Paradise Lost.' I read it once. 1 don't intend to read It again. He may have been sublime, hut he was not a poet, beciune no man can be a pool who does not write as he feels, as he knows, and ns he has experiences. Sorrow is not sorrow, grief is not grief, wheu they are not felt. Milton put epauleta on the shoulders of God, gave us a btittlt) of the angels, and repre seated the devil as an artillery officer. Thul's pretty lively lor the imagina tion. But it isn't poetry. Where is there in Miltou a line of deep, of splen did lovo. He gave us the wooing of Eve by Adam. Why, Adam might have been a member of tbe British Parliament, so far as Milton 6bows. After reading that courtship read the courtship in the 'Tempest,' and you will see the dinerenee." Then Mr. lngersoll branched out In to rhapsodic indignation over religious poetry in general. There was too much terror and horror and misery in the alleged poetry of religion to suit him. 'Calvinism,' he said, 'is the world with poetry left out and hell left In.' Then returning to poetry as differing from religion, he said: "A real poem Is not imagined, it is lived; it blossoms nut of the heart, livery body talks about Tom son's 'Seasons.' What did Thorns- n know about the seasons? He used to lie in bed until 2 o'clock In the dsy and then prate about the weather out side. The classic writers were not poet-; they were literary merchants." And finally, as repr- - nling his Ideal of poetiy that poetry which broke away from the chain -I.issicism the lecturer singled out Kohi rtuurns, 'the second poet of the world ' "The first man who brcke down the wall of the classic models was Shaken pea re," he said. "A poem diire not be a lengthy theme. A poem must be full of broken lights, darting in from unexju-cted places. Take jour learned thinker, vour heavy orator; he hammers along the dusty highway of his subject, ti ring himself and his auditors. Con- trust him with the wanderer-poet who breaks away from the beaten path to pluck a Mower here, to wateh a butter- fit there, to listen to tne music ot a babbling brook. That's poetry thd poetry ol digression; that s tne poetry of Bums. Burns imbibed his poet's nature from his mother. There never was a man of genius who didn't have a wonderful mother! This with great emphasis to loud applause. Itdoes'nt make much difference who his father was. Laughter and enthusiasm. Burns did not believe in the Church. He lived wilh the aristocracy on one side of him ami the Church on the other, and he hated both. No great poet ever believed in religion! Ex citement in the audience. No great poet ever ran! No mau with a great and splendid heart ever cau! Burns had a grext and splendid heart. I hate Prehyterianism. I hate Calvinism. They teach the doctrine of a cruel Gk1. If 1 could turn that chair into a hu man being, could 1 have the light to torture that human being, and say I had the right to uo so because I made it? No, rather should I, being respon sible for its creation, love it and pro tect it. And that is what Burns oe lieved when he turned from a religion that preached a boaven up there that he didn't want, and a hill down there that he didn't deserve, to a religion that found a heaven among created things Here and Now. Mr. lngersoll then read several of Burns' poems in a strain pretty much as though they belonged to his lecture for the corroboration of his own relig ious views,occasionally breaking away from the dusty highways of his own oratory into the babbling brooks of rhetorical fancy, with ornamental and ex xlted gestures. Then in a great state of mind he made a general swoop upon the false claims of the imagination in painting as well as poetry, and referred to pic tures of angels as girls with nothing on but feathers, at which tbere was some hilarity. Bnt when in the course of summing up Burns' latter-day me ne said, 'He chose the tavern instead of tho church, and I honor him lor it," some one hissed and several people went out." N. Y. World. How Artificial Ice is Manufactured. tured. St. Louis Post. One of the greatest luxuries of mod ern times, which has become almost a necessity of human life, is ice," and the qnestion of its production and manufacture cannot fail to be of deep interest to the thirsty millions who an nually consume such immense quanti ties of this commodity. Until late yoars nature has held a monopoly in the production of ice, but owing to tbe uncertainty of the crop, and the difficulty of transporta tion, that inventive animal, man, has set to work to improve upon this somewhat slow and old-fashioned plan, and tbe result is seen in a variety of machines lor the manufacture of ice. The general principle upen which all machines of this kind are based is that heat iniy be utilized to produce power, of which the steam engine is an illustrvion; even so power maybe utilized tor the abstraction of heat.that is for the production of cold, and as the steam engine gives a cheap source of power, the only question is about the ; I proper means to effect this conversion. Tbe evaporation of volatile substances by tbe heat absorbed, and apparently difi'.ppearlng during this evnpnr-ttloo, furnishes the most ready means to produce an artificial refrigeration; but in order not to lose the volatile mate rial, and to use it over and over again, it Is Inclosed in air-tight vessels, in one or more of which U is forced to evapo rate by means of an exhaust pump driven by steam power, while in oth ers it Is condensed by the same pump and restored to its liquid condition,but as tbe evaporation produces great cold and converts the vetsels in 'which it takes place into real refrigerators, the recondensation produces as much heat and raises the temperature of the ves sel in which it is condensed. But this heat is easily disposed of by means ot an ordinary current of cold water, af ter which the luiquid is again ps83ed Into the refrigerator, aud thus, by re peated evaporations, the temperature Is held down to the desired standard. Prof. Faraday first discovered tbe li quefaction of ammonia by mechanical compression. Prof. Carre applied it to the absorption of heat. He invented a machine for the manufacture of ice by the combining of mechanics and am moniacal gases. Air has been re peatedly tried for the last thirty years or more, but without economical re sults, it requiring too much fuel. Sul phuric oxygen has been tried, but the changing it from sulphuric oxygen to sulphuric acid by gettiDg air or water into it destroys the machine, and it has been abandoned by all who have undertaken it as a failure. Carbonic acid gas has experimented with, but it failed: others also proved detective, and experiments with other gases pro duced no practical results. The only two practical results that are used now which are not subject to change, and have no action on tbe metals they come iu contact with, aro ammonia and i-hymogene. The only objection toammouia was the hih pressure re quired to liquefy it, but that has been overcome to a great extent by tbe in troduction of improved machinery. , The method of ranking ice has been improved very much since the first in vention was brought out. Then the ice was made very porous and vastly inferior to natnral ice; now it is made clear and transparent, in blocks weigh ing from one pound to one ton, at the ple.tsure of the operator of the ma chine, and it possesses one-fifth more durability when exposed than tne na tural ice. The first successful machine introdu ced into the United States was a small Carre. It was smuggled through tbe blockade Into the Confederate States, Thrn several tceiitlHtnen in New Or- 1. au bought the right of the United SUtes from tbe French Inventor, and built six lurge machines in New Or leans, which aresdlliu operation. The firsi successful ice factory erected in the Uuited States w-ts put up by Holland, Montgomery & Co., at San Antonia, Texa.-, In lBtiti; capacity 1 tons por day, cost oi machine, $48,000, One of the members of the firm, L. 1 Hol land, has continued to experiment in ice machines with gieat success, and machines cm now be built at much less expense than the original. It would require more spice than is al lowabie to attempt a full description of an ice machine. The great objection heretofore made to the artificial pro duction of Ice was the expense of its manufacture, but the improved machi nery above referred to has overcome that obstacle, as Ice c-ui be manufactu red at the rate of one dollar per ton, and, the average selling price is tweutv dollars per ton At this rate It Is plainly seen that the manufacture of ice by all large large consumers, sueti as brewers, packers, etc, is much cheaper than cutting, transporting and storing the natural article, to say notn lug of the immense advantage accruing from the certainly of the quantity nev er giving out through unusual length of intensity of the heated term. More especially is this Invention a blessing to the unfortunate dwellers beyond a troptcal sun. In South Amer ica, for instance, the immense expense of transportation and great waste by melting causes ice to be an almost un attainable luxury, just where it is needed most. The erection of these machines in all the principal cities ot S. America cannot fail to be a success. Mr. Ctowell, late master mechanic ol the S. A. It. K., builder Meiggs, has recently purchased a machine of JJ. u. Hidden, of Philadelphia, with a dally capacity of t wulve tons, and is erecting it in Lima, Peru, where ice sells for ten cents per pound. He proposes to sell It for five cents. The cost of man ufacture will be $20 00 for tbe twelve tons, or less than two cents a pound, The machine Is run by water power, In tbe cause of suffering humanity, success to the ice machine. Does Machinery Rob the Laborer? The complaint that machinery robs the laborer of his only capital is entire ly unfounded. Machinery never les sened the amount ol work to be done, though it has constantly changed the character of the work, rne laoor-sav-ing machinery employed in agricul ture is almost entirely the product of the inventions of the past thirty years. In no part of the world has the intro duction of such machinery been more general or more rapid than in tbe grain- growing states oi me west, ine re sult is shown in the census reports. During tbe ten years ending in I860, the larin bands of those States increas ed in number more than fifty per cent. During the next ten, In spite of the losses of the war, the increase was about thirty per cent. During the same twenty years, the population of the country as a whole increased only 67 Der cent. When Walter Hunt invented his sewing machlue in 1S3S, bis wife pro tested that it would throw all the sew ing women out of employment, and Dersuaded him to suppress it. Howe's and Sinner's and no end of other ma chines have come since then, and yet tbere is work for women to do. Not withstanding the thousands ot family machines in use. the number oi per sons earning a living with the sewing machine in this country is to-aay much greater in proportion to the pop ulation than was tbe number of tailors and sewing women before tbe inven tion of the machine, which a recent pretended labor lover has classed with the steam engine as one of the two worst evils that ever befell mankind. In noting its influence upon labor, we must not forget the 20.000 or more roe chanics employed in our sewing ma- cnine lactones, ana tne tnousanos oi others engaged in mining and making the iron, cutting and sawing the lum ber, and in transporting and preparing these raw materials for tho machines and their cases; nor the men employed in making the machinery used in the construction of sewing machines, and In transporting and selling tbe finished product. Counting these, the inven tion appears in its true light .as a great TEACHERS' EXAMIRATION. 1878-79. Belmont County, Ohio. Socond Natardav of November.bt Clalrsvllla. Flrat 8M unlay of Dnreniiier, St Clalravflle. "wind Saturday of Jannary, Barnesville. Third Saturday of February, fit Plalravllle. First Baiurday of Mnrch. Brruport. Third Hatarday of Msreh, St Clairsvllle. Second Hatarday ol April, Relmont, cond Saturday of May, Bellalra. First Saturday of Jane. Morrlstown. Fourth Saturday of Jane. Ht Clalrsvllle- At close of Institute Id Martin's Ferry. Ruminations begin ai o'clock. A. . Pi om ptneaa Is expected. Testimonials ol character are needed If an. oil can I Is not known to tbe Board, and certifl. -are. of "neesa In teachlnc are allowed thel dne weight. I Chas. R. Shrcvb, ; .Ex. Board, i R. ALixixDn, I J. M. Ya&sbll. creator of labor; and the average wages of the persons directly or indirectly employed .by the sewing machine is doubtless four or five times that of the old time sew ra. It Is but a little while since a metro' politan pater of high rank pointed to the shoe business as furnishing a forci ble illustration of the disastrous com petition of machinery with men. The truth is that while within 20 years, not less than 85 per cent of the work done on factory boots and shoes hi-s been turned over to machinery, thete are to-day more men at work in shoe factories than then, and more than would be employed except for machi nery. It is but another illustration of the old Industrial paradox. During these years of rapid progress in inven tion, tbe cost of materials has advan eed, wages have nearly doubled, and tne quality ot factory boots and shoes has been improved 25 per cent: vet the cost of manufacture has been so much reduced hy new and improved machi nery that American shoes have not only excluded the foreign made from our martcet, but have successfully In vaded the markets of the whote world. As a natural consequence, many more shops are. required not only in New England, but throughout the Middle States and the West; more workmen are employed in shoe factories; higher wages are paid; and a great multitude of other men are furnished with em ployment in tanning the additional leather used, in packing and transport' ing and selling the additional product. and in making additional shoe makers' machinery and implements. James Ricuahdsos; Scrlbner for November. . e . Ciioate's Irony. Nobody at the bar ever equalled him in paying iron ical compliments to the judges who blocked his way to the hearts and understandings oi juries. Judge Shaw was specially noted for the gruff way in which h interposed such obstacles. and Shaw's depth of lezal learning was nor, more conspicuous than his force of character. "Tisn't so. Mr. tJhoate," was a frequent Interruption, when Shaw was on the bench and Choate was arguing a case before him. Cboate's side remarks on the judge have passed into the stereotyped jokes of the bar, and are now somewhat ven erable. Oue is, I think, not commonly stated In the exact words. '-1 always approach Judge Shaw," he said, "as a savage approaches his fetich, knowing mat ne is ugly, out leeiing that he n great." Of Judge Story he once re marked,'! never heard him pronouneo a judgment in which he did not argue the case better than tbe counsel on either side; and for which," he added, with a twinkle in his eye' "he migbt very properly have been Impeached." He delighted in gravely joking with a judge. Thus be once asked that a case might be postponed, owing to bis en gagement in another court. Tbe judge replied that the case was one In whicit be might write out his argument. With a mock solemnity, which it al ways seemed to me no other human countenence could so readily assume, he replied, "I write well, your Honor, but slowu." As his hand writinir re sembled the tracks of Wild-cats, with their claws dipped in Ink, mdly d.tsh Ing over the surface of a folio shiH-t .-if white paper, tho assembled hsr could not restrain their laughter. Indeed, it is affirmed that he could not decipher his own hand writing after a ense whs concluded, and bad to call in exerts to explain it to himself. He congratu lated himself on the fact that if h fail ed to get a living at the bar, he mul l still go to China aud support himself by his pen; that is, by decorating tea chests. Edwin P. Whipple, ia Har per's Magazine for November. FARM LIFE. It is a common complaint th.tt tha farm and farm life are not nppreiUti-tt by our people. We long for the mo.e elegant pursuits, or tho ways ami fashions of the town. - But the fiinm r has tbe most sane and natural t.ccup. tion, and ought to find life sweeter, if less highly seasond, than anyotiie. He alone, strictly speaking, his a home. How can a man take root hit J thrive without land? He writes his history upon bis held. How oiai.y ties, how many resources he has; his irieudships with his cattle, bis tean., his dog, his trees, the satisfaction in his growing crops. In hisimprovid fields; his intimacy with Nature, Willi bird'and beast, and with the quicken ing elemental fore s; has cooperatioii-i with the cloud, the sun, the season-, heat, wind, rain, frost. Nothing wi: I take the various social distempers which the city and artificial life breed out of a mau like farming, like direct and loving contact with the soil. I: draws out the poison. It humbles him, teaches him patience and reverence, and restores tbe proper tono to hi system. Cling to the farm, make much of it, put yourself into it, bestow your heart and your brain upon it, so that it shall savorofyou and raitn.tr! your virtue after your day's work is dune! John Burroughs, in November Sen bner. "Sponging" on Newspapers. Every man thinks a newspaper a fair game. If a society or any body of men get up a concert or ball, or any other form or entertainment, the object of which is to put money in their own pockets, or, if the proceeds are to be de voted to charitable purposes, to add to their own glorification, they become very indignant if the proprietors of newspapers do not assist them with a series of gratuitous advertising for sev eral weeks before the event takes place. These men, says an exchange, should remember that literary men, in this practical age, work for money as well as for fame principally tbe former, however and the business manager of a newspiper, if he wishes to keep on the safe side of the ledger, conducts his charge on tbe same principal as the bead of any other business establish ment People who are getting up a ball would feel ci-iary of asking a pres ent of a pair of gloves from a merchant on that account, yet asking and expect ing to receive a gratuitous advertise ment is a similar demand. The editor of the Marlboro (Mass.) Journal stated the case very plainly when he Inform ed his readers that, "We long ago adopted the plan of charging our regu lar reading no'ice price for all editorial announcements of entertainments to which an admission fee is fixed. We make no exceptions to this rule. In the way of new topics, we freely and gladly insert sketches of all entertain ments after they trve become matters of history. It is on-ly the preliminary work, looking to tbf drawing out ox increased patron, -eftvoi the public for which we expect com, easation." It . costs money to conduct a paper, ami im printing omcos must have support. tnt same as churches or charitable Institutions. At the foot of his Drofeesion--tha chiropodist. Boston Com, Bulletin