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Belmont Chronicle OtBce Mala Street, lcaol W. A. HUNT, EDITOR AXD PBOPE.IETOE. Thursday, Nov. 18, 1880. Wade Hamptox regards the Presi dential election as settled. His address ia Columbia, S. C. A Stark county scoundrel, convict ed of a crime, is said to Lave revenged himself by burning the home and peril ing the live3 of the family of a juror. Is the next Uouse of Representatives a. ReDublican majority will have the opportunity to reinstate the crippled sol diers who were ousted from tneir poi tiou as doorkeepers, &c, by the Bour- . bous; A Washington correspondent pa thetically informs the country that the next Congress will be so close that it will be dangerous for a member to go out to take a drink without previously pairing off. Barnum, Hewitt, and the other Chi nese consoirators have, in solemn ses sion, in behalf of the Democracy, resolv ed on the appointment of committees as follows: -On Frauds and Coercion," On Federal Intimidation," on Prevention of Frauds in the Future." The list of candidates for the Xew Jersey Senatorship embraces ex-Senator Robeson, ex-Senator Frelinghuysen, Mr. Potts, the defeated Republican candidate for Governor, Mr. Sewell, an attorney for the Pennsylvania railroad, and a half dozen others of less prominence. Thomas Prior, the express messen Bnger at Newark, O, was found in his room dying early Monday morning.with a pistol ball in bis brain. He only said: "I don't know whether I shot myself or whether they shot me. There were two men in the room after me." Tqe Raliegh (Jf. C.) News is another disappointed newspaper, which causes it to remark that it "looks forward hope fully to the time which will eventually restore the Union and the Constitution to the hearts of the Northern people as it has to the hearts of the Southern peo ple." An old and bitter feud in Gallia coun ty, Ohio, between John J. Jeffers and Col. H. M. Montgomery ended Saturday in the fatal shooting of Jeffers by Mont gomery. The murderer served with distinction in the late war, has served a term in the Legislature, killed two men, and was tin Democratic candidate for the State Senate last Fall. A Washington special says that the Hon. Alex. H. Stephens has arrived in that city. He freely-criticises. the con duct of the leaders of the Democratic party in the late campaign, and says that the disaster that followed is clearly at tributable to mismanagement. He sums up the whole campaign by calling it a "rtad rush for the hog trough." BARXUii, Randall, Hewitt are the men who stand prominently before the country as responsible for the forged Chinese letter. A, number of lesser lights, some of whom are in this region, were aiders and abettors. All those who r.d vised, aided or abetted this infamous fraud, should carry the brand of dis grace. The official count of the vote for Pres idential electors in Ohio shows that the Republican electors received 373,048 votes and the Democratic electors 340, 871. . I. M. Lewis, the candidate from this district, received the highest vote of any elector on the ticket, 375,074, one higher than the next lowest man. Hav ing received the highest vote and being the highest man in stature, he should be chosen as messenger to carry the vote of Ohio to Washington. . Gen. Sherman, in his annual report to the Secretary of War, which is pub lished, renews his recommendation that the army be increased to 25,000 enlisted men of the line. He calls attention to the fact that the present legal strength of the army is 30,000 men. and that the increase can be effected simply by omit ting the proviso restricting the number in the next appropriation bilL General Sherman also recommends that the coast defenses and interior forts be put in or der against the possibility of a foreign invasion. The New York Times proposes to form a fund whose capital shall not be less than 8250,000, and whoso annual in come of, say 12,500, shall be paid to the oldest ex-President of the United States. Details as to investment and manage ment of the fund are to be agreed upon by trustees representing three-fourths in amount of all subscriptions, guided only by the general principle that the survi ving ex-President whose incumbency is most distant in point of time shall en joy the income of the fund during his lifetime, and while he holds no salaried office under the Federal government Subscriptions are invited from men of both political pat-ties, as the movement is non-partisan. It is stated that SS0. 000 has already been pledged to such a fund. The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Eastern Ohio Teachers' Association will be held at Barnesville, November 20 and 27. President M, R. Andrews, presiding. The following program has been pre pared : November 261 p. m.: Address of Welcome, by Miss Mattie O. Shankland, of Barnesville; Inaugural address, "Builders and Breakers," Martin R. An Andrews, of Marietta; Hobbies, H. N. Mertz, Superintendent of the Steuben ville Public Schools; Discussion, opened by T. C Orr, Superintendent of the BridseDOrt Public Srhnila- If ianolloho ous Business. 7:30 p. m.: A Plea for the Bible in the Public Schools, by Rev. F. M. Spencer, Plesident of Muskingum College. -V .November 279 A. m.:. Educational Forces, by D. W. Matlack, Principal of North School, Steubenville; U. S. His- tory, by T. B. M'Cain, Principal of First Ward School, Wheeling; Discussion, , opened by L T. Woods, Superintendent . of Cumberland Public Schools. The Mace of Iatiu in Elocution, by D. J. Evans, Principal of Putnam Seminary, Z-tnesvule. THE MOREY LETTER. let Inion of Judge Davis lii Ibe Trial of 2lilp. THE PIUSOXER COMMITTED. Euvelope and Letter Proven Forge ries. Democratic National Committee Partners in a Conspiracy. New York, Nov. 13 The fact that Chief Justice Noah Davis was to deliv er his opinion to-day in the case of Ken- ward Philp, charged with criminal libel on Gen. Gardeld, drew a crowd of spec tators this morning to the Supreme Court in which the decision was to be announced. Before the Judge took his place on the bench nearly all the seats provided for the general public were oc cupied, and the chairs within the railing, reserved for members of the bar and other privileged persons were also tilled. The press was largely repre tened. During the delivery of the opinion the room was very quiet, the auditors list ening with close attention to every word. Amusement was manifested by smiles during some passages portraying the ut ter failuie of the attempts to show that the person, Henry L. Morey, ever had an existence, and there was a slight rustle as many of the spectators turned to look at one another dui ing the comments of the court on Mr. Hewitt's connection with the case. JUDGE DAVIS' OPINION. In this State the liberty of speech and the press are prelected, and to some ex tent restricted by the Constitution of the State, and in certain specified cases by the statute under these provisions. During a politica' canvass every person has the right t speak, write and pub lish his sentiments and op'n'ous, and to discuss the chaiacter, fitness, qualifica tions, habits, opinions, defects, merits or lack of them, of any candidate for office, in such form and manner as to him shall seem proper, subject in law only to re sponsibility for the abuse of that right. For such discussions the law sets up no standard of morality, taste, humanity or decency; but leaves those matteg whol ly to the 'iejso ship, or moral sense of the people, except that wheu such wri tings or publications are libelous in their cliaractei, and are not privileged, the publisher must u able, on a criminal prosecution, to show to the jury not on ly that they are true, but that they were published with good motives and for jusl'jable ends. But these provisions wi!l Le searched in vain to find any right to publish as genuine any false or forged letter or instrument, purporting to be the act of another, although he be a candidate for office. In such a case, ne'ther the former nor the publisher of the forgery is writing or publishing '-his sentiments'' or opinions within the protection of the Constitution, or dis cussing any question within the range of his lawful rights and privileges. He is both avowedly and in fact, putting f jrth to the community as true the writing and a. t of another, and if the publica tion is injurious within the law of libel, he is bound in such case to know its truth, or take the consequences of its falsity. In respect to the former and of the publisher with the knowledge of forgery, there is simp y a casus omissus in the law of felony, which the con science of all decent people must recog nize and legislation should hasten to supply. Unhappily, under the present condi tion of the law, even such an act connot be reached, except as criminal libel, but I think it cannot be doubted that if the contents of such a forged letter be such as to expose the alleged writer to cen sure or injury, or public hatred, con tempt or ridicule, or such as might rea sonably provoke him to breach of the peace, they will be clearly libelous and the vedom of libel is oniy the more poi sonous because the forger lias it put in to the mouth of the party intended to be injured. 1 there were no precedent the common law is elastic enough to cover and redress such wrongs. In any view of the guilt or innocence of the accused in this case, the queition of the forgery of the letter is of the utmost impor tance, because, first, the accused actual ly wrote the letter and caused it to be published as genuine, those acts consti tute libel, for which he should be held to trial ; or, secondly, if he did not write the letter and cause it to be published, yet, as he wrote and furnished to the newspaper the article entitled "Lying and Sticking to It," in which, with the knowledge that Gen. Garfield had de nounced the letcer as a forgery, he reas serts its genuineness, and declares Gen. Garbeld to be a "iiar for having de nounced it He must be held to answer unless he has shown that in fact the let ter is genuine, and that Gen. Garfield is therefore a liar in having denied it, and also snow mat lie wrote and published the article calling him a liar "with good motives and for justifiable ends." It is settled that to call a man in public newspapers a liar is libelous. The Judge here recites the facts of the case and reviews the evidence, and says: Collating all the facts, which are in no material part contradicted or im pugned, wo are brought to discern, with almost the highest degree of certainty that the evidence can attain, that the envelope in which the Morey letter is saia to nave oeen received was never mailed, stamped, sent and received through the post office but once; that it was mailed that once at Waslnnston on some day later than the 15th of Februa ry, 1S80, and when the steel stamp was in use; that it was received in New York and stamped in the Receiving De partment; on tne mo, or 22d day of the same month, as those are the only dates or. wnicn tne ngure z can be the ter minal number; that it was sent to the station and delivered to the person to wnorn it was addressed, whose name be yond all doubt was not "H. L. Morey,' for in that case no erasure would have been necessary ; that this envelope has, since us receipt and delivery in New 1 ork, been taken and nsed bV some per son bent on criminal purpose, w ho eras ed therefrom the name of the person to wnorn it was originally addressed and delivered, ana every day or the month and day that would clearly show when it was, in fact mailed and received, for Lie purpose of getting into it a letter antedated to a day prior to the noraina tion of Gen. Garfield, and on which he was known to have been in Washington ; aim mat sucn person wrote, or caused to be written thereon, the address, "II. L. Morey, Lynn, Mass.," for the purpose of deceiving the publisher of the newspa per to whom it might be delivered into tne oener mat the letter it should en close was tne genuine letter of J. A. uariieiu. Doubtless it was not suppos- eu mat, me envelope would be the su ject of much scrutiny. The letter itself was the great subject of his thought and the envelope, lie probably presumed, having served its purpose, would fall un heeded into the publisher's waste basket. All the facts above enumaratnd winch disclose so clearly the character of this envelope, bear with no less force tinon the question, Is the letter a forgery? iu i next to impossible that they can be true and the letter be genuine. But they are reinforced by other facts which remove from my mind the last shadow of doubt There was no such person as "John W. GoodalL of Lynn, Mass," by whom the letter which accompanied the Morey letter to Mr. Hart purports to have been written. It is proved most clearly that no such person as II. L Morey, being the person to whom the letter purposts to be addre.- sed, ever ex isted. The experts on both sides all agree that the Morey letter, both in bo dy and signature, was written by the same hand, some of them declaring there can be doubt about it An exam ination of the letter itself shows this fact to every person who is free from obliquity of vision or perversion of judgment Mr. Hewitt's connettien with this letter and the transactions that have grown out of it are, to say the least of the most extraordinary character. According to the testimony of Mr. Hart when he received the let ter in the very singular manner in which it reached him, his suspicions were aroused ; he saw its importance, if genuine, as a weapon of deadly power in the hands of Garfield's political foes ; he was not satified to publish it uinm the examination which he and his editorial staff could make, and therefore took the letter and envelope to the Democratic Nationhl Committee for itisitection. He there saw Mr. Hewitt Mr. Barnum, Mr. Randall, and seveial others; Mr. Hart showed them the papers, and said, in substance, that he did not want to pub lish the letter if it was a forger', but if genuine he did, and wanted no other pa tier to set ahead of him in its publica tion. He says it was examined by all the persons named, but Mr. Hewitt made the closest and most careful examina tion, and spent fully half an hour on its examination, and then pronounced the letter, both body and signature, to be in the handwriting of Gen. Garaeld. Pho tographs were then taken for the use of the National Committee, and air. nan returned with the letter to his ollice, but his mind was not fullv s.ttisiied, and so, late in the evening. Ii'- -u-tuht and found Mr. Hewitt again, and was again assur ed that Hewitt had examined a large number of Gen. Garfield's letters, and that the Morey letter was genuine, and this was clinched by impressing air. Hart's mind with the idea that he would have made it out a forgery if he could It is not very surprising that Mr. Hart, with the usual anxiety of newspaper publishers to be ahead of their neigh- bors, should have published the letter without further inquiry, but it is aston ishing that a man of known sagacity, of great experience in business and in pub lic affairs, and who is supposed to have a dece.it respect tor truth and justice, and who speaks as an expert in writing, with all the suspicious circumstances that attended the reception or the letter, with the envelope and its erasures be fore him, with the city postollice and station stamp on its back, with the letter marked 'personal and confidential," and addressed to some person whoa he cer tainl." did not know, with a letter before him, the contents of which, if true, would be greatly injurious, and if false would do wrong to his intimate friend as base and wicked as an assassin's stab, should have thought it just to press and cause its publication without first removing all doubt as to its character. However much an equitable division may leave for others, upon Mr. Hew.itt must rest the larger share of responsibility of the first publication of this base and shame ful fo'gery, and his subsequent relations to the forgery do not lift a single shad ow from his conduct He was a mem ber of the National Committee ; he doubt less knew the intent and purposes for which it was taken and used by that Committee, and that went forth to the country with the sanction of his indorse ment. He knew beyond a question that it met speedily with the indignant deni al of Gen. Gariield, who denounced the letter as "a base and stupid forgery, and its sentiments as brutal." Undar our statutes, the utterer of a for ged instrument, with knowledge of its fulsitv. is placed in the same rank of criminality with the forger. Had the subject of forgery m this case been in struments purporting to be obligations of Gen. Garfield, and he had publicly de clared them to be forgeries, who could thereafter send them forth and circulate them throughout the commonwealth with his representation of genuineness, without incurring the penalties of the law? The difference is purely statuto ry, and in a moral forum wholly van ishes. It must be the wish of all honorable miiids that this case will lead not only to the discovery and exposure of the guilty, but to the enactment of laws which will prevent or severely punisn offenses of this character. V hoever be guilty in this case, right-thinking men everywhere must look upon the act as an appalling crime, wholly at war with the safety and sanctity or popular gov ernment. Fortunately no committee and no bodv of men hold in their hands the conscience of the people, and no party fealty is strong enough to inter pret the sentence of condemnation which honest men of all parties must pronounce upon such guilt. The -men most crimi nal in this case may not be reached by the hand of justice, but they will find no party willing to bear and share with them the just measure of infamy and scorn that awaits them. If they have failed in their guilty purpose, so they will fail in securing the approval even of those for whose success they have done the guilty work. It will be small consolation to know that they have gained by this forgery a few useless Electoral .votes, incited an infuriated mob to the murder of afew unoffending human beings, and caused a few of their own agents to suffer for perjuries and misdemeanors. The defendant is held to answer upon the charge of criminal libel, and must be committed or give ban for his appear ance to answer any indictment that may against Lucretia Mott, the well-known Quaker philanthropist died Tnursday evening at her home near Philadelphia. She was a New England woman, born on the island of Nantucket in 1703. Her maiden name was Collin. Iu 1804 she removed with her father's family to Boston, whence she was sent to reside with a sister in Dutchess county, N. Y. In 1S09 her father removed to Philadel phia, where at the age of 18 she met and married James Mott, the descendant of an old Quaker family. During the war of 1812 her fath-r died and left his fam ily totally without support. Lucretia and her husband undertook to provide for them. At the age of 25 she began to preach in the meetings of the Friends, and soon became a strong laborer in re ligious fields. Her principal work, though, was in the anti-slavery held. In 18:54 she was an active organizer of the Female Anti- Slavery Society of Philadelphia, and be came so identified with its interests that "Garrison himself was hardly more fa mous or more abused than Lucretia Molt." From that year until President Lincoln s Proclamation of Emancipation she was one of the strongest workers in the anti-slavery cause. In 1840 the World's Anti-Slavery Con- vention was culled to meet iu London. The Philadelphia society sent a number or delegates, among whom were Lucre tia Mott, and Anne Greene Phillips, the wire or Wendell I'lniiips. After a hot deoate the convention refused to admit women, and they took no part in the meeting. After the liberation of the slaves Mrs. Mott turned her attention to other works of philanthropy, to which ner lire was devoted until her death. Her husband, James Molt, died iu lSiM. As against the suggestion that Mr. Tilden would have been a stronger can didate than General Hancock, it is no ticeable that the counties in New York that are bossed by the Tilden faction show the heaviest Democratic Josses. COMMON WORDS. What are Legally Decided to Mean. "To resort" means to go once or more. In State against Ah Sam, the Nevada Supreme Court under a statute forbid ding any one "to resort" to any place to smoke opium, said: "The appellant also contends that the Distsict Judge erred in instructing the jury to the effect that going once to a place kept for opium smekiug for the purpose of smoking, is an infraction of the law. What the statute forbids all persons to do is to 're sort' to such places, and it is argued that resor means not to go merely once, but to go and go again; in other words, to make a practice of going. The etymol ogy of the word 'resort' lends some sup port to this argument but the defini tions given in the lexicons show that whatever may have been its original meaning it no longer means anything more in the connection in which it is employed in the statute thautogo once." "Eiiis" are not "meat" nor "poultry'" within a statute prohibiting the sale of such articles when unsound. Boring through a floor with au augur consti tutes burglary, says the Alabama Su preme Court, in Walker against State. This was where the prisoner bored a hole through the floor of a corn crib, stopped it up with a cob, and afterward, on a separate occasion, drew the shelled corn through the hole into a sack under neath the crib. "Brass knucks" is used in the statute as the name of a weapon. without reference to the metal of which it is made. Therefore a conviction of unlawfully carrying "brass knucks" wHl not be set aside because it was proved that the weapon was lead or pewter. "Terms cash" is not equivalent to "re ceived payment." "Terms cash" on all unreceipted bill of goods, sent by a wholesale to a retail dealer, cannot be held as a matter of law M imply that the goods were paid for before they were shipped. A farm overseer is irt a "laborer" within the lien law. Notes, bills, etc., representing money loaned on interest by a corporation, are ".roperty" liable to taxation. A railroad depot is a "ware- bouse" within the statute of burglary. A Sunday school is not "divine wor ship;" but a building for the sessions of a Sunday school and religions lectures is for a religious purpose, although oc casionally used for fairs and other be nevolent purposes. The court said (in a Pennsylvania (case;: "The Sunday school rooms and the lecture room of a modern church are as essentially used for religious purposes as the body of the church building itself. The Sabbath schools are an important auxiliary of everv christian church, and indispensa ble to its life and growth. That the ser vices in such schools are in the main a religious character is too well known to be seriously disputed. So of the lecture room. It is used for the mid-week eve ning lectures and other services, when the attendance is not large. The ex pense of lighting and heating the main church building is thus avoided. But the services upon such occasions are as truly religious in their character as the sermon on the Sabbath." A supervising architect is a person performing "labor," although not a "la borer," within the meaning of the me chanics' lieu law. A widow keeping a boarding house, with a female friend re siding with her, and female servants, be-. sides the boarders, is the "head of the family." But a single man, who keeps house and has no persons living with him than servants and emyloyes, is not the "head of a family" or a "housekeep er." And an unmarried man, who 'does, not keen house, but supports his mother and his unmarried sister, who board with' his married sister in another, town, is not the "head of a family." Albany Law Journal. "f The Future of the Wheat Market. It is now very certain that the demand for the wheat of this country, in Europe, will not show a falling off from what it was during the past year; and the fear which was exressed in so many quarters six weeks ago, that this country, in con sequence of the large estimate of our crop of the present year, would have a large surplus of wheat on hand, which it would be obliged to sell at remunera tive prices, or perhaps be unable to sell at all, is now known to be groundless, and the prospect is that for another year at least we shall continue, notwith standing the great increase ill our im ports, to maintain the balance of trade in our favor. Now that the wheat, both here and in Europe, has been harvested, and the con dition of every European country, as far as its own supply ol home grown bread stuffs upon which its people are to sub sist; for a year to come,' is known with sufficient exactness for all practical pur poses, it is possible to make some esti mate of how much of the American wheat crop will be required, or can be disposed of abroad during the year. As to our own ap, the latest and most reliable statistics that can be gath ered up to the beginning of the present month represent the total as.not greatly in excess of 455,000,000 bushels, which is considerably below the estimates made a m- nth earlier. Of this the re quirement for home consumption will amount to about 201,000,000 bushels, leaving a surplus for export of 184,000, 000 bushels, which is considerably less than the amount exported out of last year s crop. It is probable that the demand for our corn in Russia will be felt the ensuing year, as the price of wheat . will be too high for the masses of the people of that country if the shortness of their wheat crop is fully confirmed, of which there seems now to be but little doubt. In England the crop has been consid erably in excess of that of the year 1879, but by the most favorable showing it is still evident that large importations will have to be made. There were 3.057.7S4 acres harvested in 1880, and, allowing thirty bushels to the acre, there would' still be a deficiency of 84,000,000 bushels upon the usual estimate of live and oni- half bushels per head as requisite to supply the actual needs of the population. The Mark Lane Expresj ot hist week, in its weekly review of British grain trade, says the wintry weather has re tarded sowing, but, however, favored threshing, which reveals the fact that the large bulk of the wheat was har vested in exceptionally good condition, but a very material portion has since been damaged in stack by rains, and seed wheats are consequently salable at much over the ordinary market quota tions. Supplies of home grown wheat are small, and good samples are made readily salable. If the deficiency in home-grown wheal in England is as great as represented above, it is evident that one-half of her population must be fed, for the year to come, on imported wheat Reports from (lent nil and bouthern Russia, and from Northern Germany, districts which have for many years been among the chief sources of supply for the rest of Europe, represent that the harvest has been al most a failiirt.and that they will have no surplus for export. In Russia, indeed, the harvest has been so bad that there is already great distress among the people, who have called upon the government to prohibit the exportation of grain, and American shippers find a profit in seini ng wheat to the Black Sea ports. 1 lie deficiency in England then, whil ) it is not as large as. last year, stijl cawu t iu any degree be supplied by her European neighbors, and she 'ill be oblig d to de pend almost entirely upon this ccpjtfry; J Led and it seems probable that, although our shipments of breadstuffs for the month of September were considerably below those of the same month last year, the demand during the year will not be greatly behind that of the year 1S79. lialto. American, 13th inst SOMERTON. Health good. Hog killing on hands. Tobacco buying has begun. Large crop. J. A. Simmons is our new Postmaster. T. T. McColiough has gone to Indian apolis. Alice Fall is teaching a class in music. T. F. Martin is here. C. B. Steele is among us again. Madam Rumor says a wedding soon. M. E. Sunday school will have an oys ter and mush supper soon. Hermie Barnes of Barnesville. is here visiting his mother and sister. Directors have seated one school room with the Triumph Desk. Since Garfield's election. Miles has pur- cnased several thousand pounds of wool at 43 cents per pound. Our Democratic poles are stripped of banner and flags. The poles look tame wouldn't it be well to have them down ? We have a lady in town who borrow ed a St. Clairsville Gazette from a neigh bor, and after reading an article or two, dropped the paper and ran for the tongs to carry the paper back, but her daugh ter interfered and carried the paper home. The old lady claimed the paper was too viie to Handle without tongs. Who can beat the following for loyal ty : We have a family in Somerset town ship with the following names Abra ham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, Edwin Stan ton, John A. Bingham and William Sher man. The w hole family, from the old gentleman and lady down, are named Hayes. A few more families like the above, and no Democrat need apply. DART. Gov. Colquit, of Georgia, was inaugu rated for the second term last week. Epizootic is spreading to an alarming extent among the horses at Montreal, Canada. Two thousand bodies of victims of the Kurd rebellion are lying unburied in Janibolok, Persia. Complete returns from Wyoming Ter ritory insure the election of M. E. Post, Democrat, as delegate to Congress. Probably never in the history of the Boston shoe trade have the prospects been better than for the next season's trade. There are 1,191 manufacturing estab lishments in Louisville employing 10,451 hands and representing a capital of 320.30,449. During October llD.O-lS'.SIS postage stamps, valued at 83,255,490, were issued by the Postollice Department, the largest ever issued. Hon. Fayette McMullen, killed by the cars at Wytheville, Va., last week, was a member of both the United States and Confederate Congress. Over thirteen thousand immigrants one day last week landed at Castle Gar den. The total number thus far this year is nearly 300,000. Thomas W. Somers, of Cleveland, com mitted suicide, Sunday morning, killing himself, as he had threatened to do, on his divorced wife's doorstep. A warrant issued at Wakefield, R. I., last week, for the arrest of young Sprague, son of ex-Seriator Sprague, on a charge of attempting to shoot his mother's trustee. Ou hearing the young man was d s -barged. The statement telegraphed from Kai.- sas C'lty about the attempt to shoot President Hayes at Howell statiou du ring his recent trip through Arizona, is pronounced by all the members of the party to be a pure fabrication. Edward Atkinson, the Boston econo mist, says that there is growing up in the South a middle class, composed of small farmers, both white and black, small tradesiren and others, who, with the leaders in manufacturers, business. and railroads, are be-.-o'iuing dissatisfied with the tax laws imposed upon them by the Bourbon political leaders. In this rowing middle class, he thinks, lies the hope of Southern regeneration. ST. NICHOLAS for 1881. 5303 for England, 100,000 for America. ST. NICHOLAS, the charmi.tg magazine boys and girls, edited by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodire, has increased so mucn ia size and number of pages during the year past that the publishers have been obliged to issue the yearly volume in two parts, instead of one as he.etofore. As to its circulation, tbey report a gain of 10,000 in the average mouthly editions of 1880 over 1879. The announce ments fc r the coming year include a capital serial story for boys, full of exciting adven ture, ln .natures vvonaerlana,' or Adven tures in the American T:-opics: Stories of Art and Artists, by Mrs. Clara Erskine Clemcnt;a laithlul out Hue ol the history ot .European Art, with many illustrations: fbaeton Koirers.' a dcJighful and linmerous serial by Kossiter Johnson; 'JIvetery in a Mansion,' a six months' serial; The Treasure-Box of Literature, direc ting and encouraging young people in the best reading; 1 lie Agassiz Association, fully explained in the November number; Two English (Queens,' by Mrs. (.'liphant; 'The Land of Nod,' a children's operetta, with music, full of charming tableaux and effects; a series of beautifully illustrated Ealladg for Young rolks, beginning with the Christmas number; A opccial uudgetol r a.ry Stones by Frank It Stockton tbe flint of which is in the November number; An Indian Story by Bright Jiiyes, the f onca Indian maiden; a splendid holiday Etory, 'A Chtistmas with the Man in the Moon,' by Washington Glad den. Opera-aT Papers, stories of sports, and games, will be contidued, with all the popu lar departments. Subscript'.nns beginning with tbe Novem ber issue will include 'the wonderful Christ maa number,' of which the edition will be 5,000 in England and 100,000 in America. The price ot this nrmber, to be issued about November 30th, will be 30 cents. R -gular price $3 00 a year; 25 cents a number. For saie, and subscriptions receiv ed, by ail dealers, or tbe publishers, Scrioner & Co., 743 Uroadway, New York. LIVE STOCK MAKKETS East Liberty. Nov. 10 -15iittla Receipts to-day 1, 700 head. Selling a full qurrter better than the Inst of last week. Hogs Receipts 3,300 head. Philadel pliiiis $4 7"ia4 S ; Yorkers $4 50a4 65. Sheep Receipts 3,200. Selling fairat last week's prices. Italtiuiore. Nov. 16 Cattle Sales 2,600 head; market active; prime $00a6 25; good 5 372'a5 S7; medium $4 75a5 25; com mon 3 62ia4 62J4. Sheep Market active; 4ales 10,000 herd; prime 5 25a5 40; good 84 8714a 12J.; medium 4 37a4 75; common S4 00it4 25. Hogs Market fair; sales 6,500 head; prime . SO 75a7 700; medium 6 25atJ62; common $ti 00a0 12' '.. The most complete institution in the Unit- States for the llummli practical education of youinr ami mrlillc-Hcd men. student ailmliiufl nl u r. ip lim,, I'. ... ffMilt rfl atv!n,. full particulars, address J. C. SMITH, A. M., Pittsburgh, l'i U18 8w WIDE ATOE FOR 1881 3.00 Per iear. Post Paid. I F THF BOYS AND GIRLS OF AMERICA I c uld but see the piles of delightful inaaa- scnpiH, me oesaiiiui am wings lor tuera wailing to no grouped Into the twelve num bers ot tne Hide Atrake for 1NM, we are sore tbat duriug the next tbree months tbe ub scrlptlon list of tbe magazine would be more than doubled. Out of many brilliant features we announce tbe following, leaving dellgbt- iui surprises in store, remaps brat In general interest win ue A Xew Storj by Geo. Mar Donald, the Publishers having recently coinDleteil ar raogeiuenis aoroaa witn Air. ueo .MacDonaia to write sad send them too orlclLal n.auu- script of a Serial Story for older readero.wUich irom Its subject and cbaracte Americans win nud 01 greater Interest than any ot bis lormer doors, ins story, tne title of Which will be announce later, will beglvn com pie during lssl, in Monthly Supplements, tbus giving free to every subscriber one of Mr. Mar-lXinald s longest and nnest stories. Tboae who remember with delight that charming home story of the 'Dogberry Bunch will read with still greater delight Itocky Fork, a Story of t ie Obio Hill Country, by Mary Harlwell Catherwood. Those who have reud this Mtrial in manuscript pronounce it one ol tbe most fascinating stories thev ever read. It Is as gay and sparkling as a wid mountain brook. Mr. Ueo. F. Barnes will !luslrale tb's story with thirty. sx draw inns. Mrs. A. M. Diaz bas wiltun the Little Folks own serial, Polly Cologne, will be very fresh and funny. At least one hundred and twenty lHustrat'ons will accomoany it. Those famous twin boys, tne Jinimy-jolia', are prime actors in l'o Iv's wondenul adventures. For the older young folks there will be The Slory of Honor Bright. by Mar -us Me" rl weal her. author of 'A Gen eral Mist'udemaDdliig.' acd 'Royal Lowrle's Last liar at s. O ives, Th's new story Is dedlca.ed to boysola ce tain scbooi "ea live 000, who wrote to tbe au'.bor, cnalieugrg bun to produce a story eouat u tne two ii'jai mentioned, la response 'Honor Bisht has been wr lien, fa-superior toe he-, ia notn :nteres. ana tnnueuce. in the name of the hero. Honor Br'ol, lies a great surprise Mr. Wal er Sh.rlaw, instructor al-oeArl Wlndents' League ye Yoik, will ii -usi rate Ibis story f-fly Several str' kin TWO-PART STORIES w'll appear durinj tbe vea-: KINti PHILIP'S bhAD, by the bdi-or ot the Boston Coove TOT, THii DWAI'.F, by Margaret E'l'nje wtln egbl drawings by Ueoe Fos.er, e,o. A Xew Feaiu., inc'uding Cosfi Prize , .01 best oi'ig'pal slOt-es, diawiug, pu.-j.'ea, in. veolioos, e c, il be int.-oduced du.-Log lis', foil part'en ars .a Iiiiim'i dumber). And a'ter long consider! oo or wnat wo -Id best meet g-ow:.ug denands, the Ed' 01 have dee ded .oadd a Special Dep . 'Men. for Boys (which I he gl-ls are a'so lovlied toeujo.v) wu'.ca w't. no Xewspaper Xew, or what loe bo (and B'r i too) wish to know and ougl tio knowo' wnattl-e g-eatwond doiug. saying and tulnking. Tl'is oepa-tmeni w"i te onuei- me aire cua-Ke ot i-dwa-d Everett Hale, whose name a'o--e is guaran'ee ot its certain remarkable in le.es t and prac. cal value. The publlshe-s also have pleas :re loans nounc.ng a New Cove', ar.islio and genuinely Auier can in desiju and novel '1 coior,wrcb w'.th enti e new type, will add 'a-eelv to '.ne attracllveuess ot tnis poplar m igaziae. buDscrioe now :or mis most Delightful ChriNfinas Gift Specimen l'ee. Address I). LOTIIROP &. CO., Publishers, 11 Fran " in Street, Boston, Mass. 51st TEAR ANOTHER NEW DEPARTURE! Beginning witn Jannary Nnilier 1881. 1m obedlerioe to what vre be 'eve to be a growing desire of tbe reading public, tne publishers beg to sifiour.ee toat GoUe'a Lady's Book It, 1SSI wi1' CO a tain A COMPLETE NOVEL IX EVERY ADM BE IS! Bea'des tbe follow ng oVsiime specialties; Beautiful Or dinal Steel Plate Engrav iga. Diagram P-ieru 'or Ladies aau Children. Mam moth Co ored Fatib'ou laie. Short :stor'efl. Poems aod Skeicnes. Our Popu (a - Novelty Pvges ? 'Jo oru. Illustrated Ari. and Paa'i-on Uoru Work. Agricultural Des'-us tor Beft.'Vfu' Uomea. Godev g Keoipea. buley'a Puzzles and Games. Mouiuiy Cui'Cual on Fashions, e.c., etc. No Continued Stories. Every Number Complete in Itself! Subtler prions w i he received ttu u offle in cl.'bs wjih t,itt, nape, the Chronic and Godei,' Lady' i Book for one ear, poe aid, OUiv 3 uU, The JANUARY iJUluBF.R be ready Dec 1st. On rece-ot oi 2t)on. a tamu'e copy will be prompt'.- t-eni. bv tne puoDsners, aod this amooat cau be ueducted when the p 'ce of 1 yfa-'h Bubgcptoc ia mailed. iwnitt oy H'lDe oriier. or u-ait on fPid delphla o- Xew Yo k or by regUlereJ letter, payauie to So2cy'3 Lady's Book Pub. Co. (TJmitci,) 1006 Cuei. i.ul Hi,.. I'm adelph.a, Pa. fl R 12 A M Q tso ."". 2 :o 32 stops. UnuMliJ Pianos. S125 up. Papar tree. New Ad dress DANIEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N. J. WANTED Toco.eacase of CATARRH in each DeixiioorDooo. with V. Kanjer Remedy, to urod.-ce . S.imp'enee. OLE riLTON, Pittshureh. Pa. 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OF ijODEY'S J aDY'S JOOKJ V I-OW AQ PER VnJ PR. CE OF tb& YEAH. at. nH; J. A. SHERMAN AND THE ONLY DR. SHERMAN known to the pnbllo for the past ii years or more for his successful method of treating Rupture without the an noyance and Injury trusses lufllct, may be consulted at bis office. Ht. Louis. Mo., until the I? ' December, after that at his New York office. Office address Is In St. L. city directory. Mr. B. F. George. Altorneyat-Law. Kent. Union county. Iowa, treated by Dr. Sherman at his bis St Louis office, write: "Having used your Rupture treatment, and having been per manently cured, I have spoken highly of IU merits and recommend it to my friends." Dr Sherman is tbe discoverer of the only known cure for Kuptnre by local external treat ment. No man is safe who has a Rupture, rio matter how lnvignicaat he ir.v consider if. lor every man who has died from it once flattered himself that it was but a trifling ailment, and every man who now surfers from it and the Injury ot trusses, to such an extent that ,, n" no nJyments, once regarded it as unworthy special attention. It is not a stand still affliction: It is steadily progressive, even unto death, and be is wise who takes the necessary steps to be effectually relieved of it before the day of suffering and gloom comes upon blra. Patients from abroad can receive treatment and leave for home same day. Dur ing treatment any kind of active exercise or labor can be performed without Interfering with the treatment, and with safety from the dangers of strangulated Rnpture. HIS BOOK ON RUPTURE gives the roost reliable pruofs from distinguished professional gentlemen, clergymen and merchants of his successful practice and popularity therefrom throughout this country and the West Indies. The afflicted should read it and inform them selves. It is Illustrated with photographic likenesses of extremely bad cases belore and after cure, and mailed to those who send 10 cents. DR.J.A.SI 251 Broadway, cor. Murray St., N. Y., and 43 Milk Street, Boston. Beware of certain coafldence men and Impostors who represent themselves as Dr. Sherman An institution for imparting a Practical Business Education. Tonng and mlddls aged men fitted for the actual duties of life. (Students can enter at any time. In dividual instruction. Large and finely furnished Halls and Offices. Comprehensive course of utudy. Regular and appropriate Lectures. Thorough Teaching Practical Training. For Circulars address P. Duff A Hons, Pittsburgh, I't. - ! mmw One Case Kentuckey Jeanes been a little wet, but not hurt, at 4 Qin wnrfh QHn 142b-. IIU110 Zidb These goods 'will only be here for a few days. 5000 YARDS Fast Colored: Dart . Prints -AT- 41? 4 0JO- t Ever sold in the city for FIVE DOLLARS J. S. Rhodes & Co. 1152 & 1151 Skin 81., Wheeling, West Ta. exq BOOTS AND ! SHOES! ei CTT3 JAMES A.BARNES Has just opened a New Boot and Shoe Store in tbe room lately vacated by J as. Osborne, where a complete stock ol Men's, Boys' omen's, Misses & CMlto's Boots, Shoes, Slippers and Rubbers will be found. Tbese goods have been select ed with great care, and are of tbe FINEST illD BEST QUALITY AND ALL NEW. He also bas in stock a supply of Trunks and Valises Please call and examine, as it is no trouble to show goods. PRICES REASONABLE! SThe services of Mr. H. R. Bfmgakneb have been sccurred, and we will be able to Manufacture to Order and Repair Work on short notice. 8,16-3m JAME3 A. BARNES TO METHOD THE B3STCH3AP-ST THE PITTSBURGH A auorafc ESTABL'SHEO 833. Rev. A. WHEELEH, D. D., Editor. Cffiw, 131 Sa:t!:Hell Street, Orj;an ol the M.-th-xli'it Kj icojiaI Church in Y extern remikvlvjuia, ba-u-iu Ohio, and West Virginia. Able Editorials on .ill the live i;uctii.i:s of the day. The Cintrilnitir inc!u!e some of tbe mot eminent nii-is of the Cluiri li. The weekly ex iii' n o!" tlie Sunday School Lesson, is i"'noii!ieel by le.t-iin Suml.iy School voi!m: t. le unexcelled. luttTCNting news (mm :ill tile diuretics. Sj ei ial attention ivcii :o :bc Youn Folks' 1 e Miiini-nt. I". nn, f.'.oo i cr vi ar. in advance. All l:.n- r.i:,t M ni :ci "I the M. 1" Church are ft. i .il. to u !u :r. ci:i:-n m.iv be slid. :-..i i;.lt- copi i ' e. M niloii th s aj er. Al.ii cvs J. A. .kjI!K. ( W..-v. ate, l'i 1 1 ii. Kiat, 1'a. WANTKII A Uood Man ror Kvery Mtitte nd Tnrrltorv In th Union: a 'sir salary pair); Call on or address La Belle Manfg Co, Clark Ohleao IA Yl OH. All persons of family name or T AYUlK will receive Interesting- and val uable Inforniatioi by smiling address to J. KlHh, TA U'R, Jeisey Vv, ti,j, f kbtiani for Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley and Wheeling Railway. TIME TABLE. To take effect Monday, Sept 27th, 1880. NORTU BOUND TRAINS. No 2, No 4 No 18 No 6 N . 1 .. Stations. Ex. Cex mixed acco I-.; am t) m am nm , IjV Dnugepori ia 4a fj 3o 400 417 4 30 Pasco.. 100 6 05 111 7 23 124 7 43 " Barton, " Henderson... . " Fail-point " Bruce . " Lafferty " Flushing " Free port Ar Uhrichsville 4 45 4 59 1 35 8 05 139 8 25 157 8 50 5 11 520 5 33 6 14 7 05 715 750 210 910 2 48 10 03 3 45 1130 3 55 4 25 ...... 518 720 8 05 8 20 Lt " 5 43 6 55 8 40 11 33 p m 4 45 6 40 8ci0 Ar Canal Dover 6 15 MassilloD 7 09 " Grafton . 9 10 " Black River 10 20 " Cleveland ...10 15 SOUTH BOUND TRXINS. No 3, No 1 No 17 No 5 No 9 Stations. Ex. C ex mixed acco loca! p m 400 4 10 5 10 am pm am am Lv Cleveland . 715 710 8.20 " Black Kiver. Grafton , 7 10 9 25 p 01 335 545 7 05 "Massillon.... 7 0G 10 17 " Canal Dover 8 01 11 09 5 10 5 40 6 55 7 57 8 3'S 860 8 50 9 11 9 25 Ar Uhrichsuille 8 35 11 40 Lv 1150 12 47 2 40 Free Tort ..... Flushing Lafferty t ...... 418 1 25p 5 33 138 - 5 5o " Bruce 1 49 2 00 2 13 2 25 2 S 608 625 6 45 7 07 7 25 P..irpoiut " Henderson Barton.. .. ... Ar Bridgeport 9 40 953 2 50p 7 50 10 10 Wit II. Gbout, Gen. Frgt& Pass. Agt. Cleveland, Ohio. OsCAB TOWNSESD, Oreo. Man r, Cleveland, Ohio. JAMES DUNCAN, MuJa St., Oae Deor East af Sui'lTs Mill, BRIDGEPORT, OHIO, Keeps on hand a full stock of goods, embracing whatever belongs to A First-Glass Famify Grflcary Goods Fresh and Peur! Prices as Low as th.3 Lowest GIVE USA CALL I Established in 1841. The Old Reliable JEWELER, GEORGE BROWN, Has constantly on hand a large stock -r WATCHES. CLOCKS, Fine Jewelry, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, Ta ble and Pocket Cutlery, Spectacles, Revolvers, And a variety of FAxN'CY GOODS! These gixxls were purcli:isil for C;tsh, and will be sold at tlie Lowest possible prices. tRepairing and Engraving of all kinds promptly attended to and warrant ed. Geo. ISrown & Son, St. Clairsville. FARM FOR SALE. OFFER AT PRIVATE SALE my Farm, cooUinini; 50 acre, situated in Athens township, Harrison county, Ohio, on the road leading from New Athens to More- fleld, -ik miles west of riew Athens. The soil is as good as there is in Harrison county. is all in grs,--8 Dut tour acres; is watered by neveisfailinir springs. Plenty of timber and coal on it, peach and apple orchards, sn l other small fruits. House part log and art frame. Frame barn and sheep-house. For terms call on or address WM- B- JOHNSON. 10 21-lt pd New Athens, Ohio- The oldest and best appointed Institution obtaining a UuMness Education. for circulars address, 1. DUFF & SONS, oct 14-4t Pittsburgh, l'a. A HOUSEHOLD NEED ! !-A book cu Mslariai ijmum an i Ldver Oomplalnw. will KKEK. A Uil le Dr. Han lord, liti Broadway, New York. ; K N TS WA.VTKU Kor the oeol and i-m. selling notorial Books and Bible. Price reduced a .1. National Publishing Co. Culoato, n'l a its