The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-06-10

longer than a year. He is in very ii
health. ......
0TCounterfeit S5 gold pieces are in cir
culation in Charleston.
! 0TThere are seventy FIVE Roman Catho.
lie converts in England and Wales, beside
one hundred Anglo Catholic or Puseyite
nunneries which contSinwithin three thousand
| females. #... i.
05"About $50 United States soldiers are
to leave New York for Indisnolo, Texas
next week, to be sent thence to the northern
frontier of Texas. -.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES concluded one
o: his lectures upon "Poets and Poetry" with
a poem, of which the following characteristic
stanza gained footing in the memory of the
editor of the Boston Transcript
"A ep can touch the magic string
And noisy fame is proud win them,-
Alas! for those that never sing,
But die tpiM all their music in them"
0EFThe lands granted BY the general
government to the Illinois Central railroad
will it is said, build theroad entire, without it
costing the stockholders one cent. The same
of the Missouri and Pacific railroad.
01-Mss. Virginia Herman has brought
suit against the New OYleans and Carrolton
railroad to recover $4,000 damages for
killing her husband. ...........
0HFMoses Shepherd,5 rich bachelor of
Baltimore, and Il member of the Society of
Friends, has given three hundred thousand
dollars for the purpose Of building an Insane
Asylum in that city.
0TFRoM New YORK, June 4th. 1t is
stated here that steamer Vixen, which re-
Gently left under sealed orders, has been
ordered to Vera Cruz, to watch Santa Anna.
0TSingular Place for Swarm Of Bees
to Alight.-A swarm of bees lit upon a young
man named Fry, Saturday evening, near the
creek bridge, covering his head and face,
and suspending themselves from his ears as
if immense ear bobs. He took the affair
very coolly, by assistance brushed them off
into nail keg, and solA them to gentleman
present for two dollars. Two stngs was the
extent of his injury. Wheeling Gas.
0-A lad, of twelve years of age, came
into the Police Court of Cincinnati, and
asked to be committed to the House Of
Refuge. When interrogated as to what had
prompted him to take such course he
replied that his father and mother did nothing
but get drunk and abuse him, and that he was
anxious to be placed out of their reach and
influence.
0TThe General Synod of the Lutheran
Church of the United States assembled at
Winchester, Va, last week. This body
meets but once in three years, and now en-
braces all the Synods ofithe United States,
about one thousand clergymen, and over three
thousand congregations.
0TTERRlToRIEs TO BECOME STATES
Utah would make twenty States of the size
of New Hampshire; Nesraska. fifteen; Indian
twenty; Northwest, sixty-fve. Total, one
hundred and twenty-six States. Should
these Territories have an equal population te
the square mile with New Hampshire, they
would contain a population OF above thirty
eight million souls.
OrBRAINs AND DIGESTION The question
"Why printers did not succeed as well al
brewers!" was thus answered ;-Becaust
printers work for the head, and brewers fo
the stomach, and where twenty men hav'
stomachs, but one has brains. fr
OF RICH COPPER MINE.-We have seel
in the hands OF one of the lessees of tn
Albright Copper Mine, in Chatham county
/ nfo mo
richer than those first obtained, and lear
from him that at the depth of thirtee'
feet, solid body of pure copper, clever
inches thick, had beoa found. Its extent
in width and length has not yet been ascertain
i ed.--Norh Carolina Cbserrer.
The man who don't take the papers want
to know whether Jenny Lind is a native 0
Philadelphia or Pennsylvania. He says hi
has forgotten which of these she belongs to.
GArOne might think that the Democrati
platform was only market place for politicu
brokers, where false pretension, trickery, an
all manner of intrigue were stocks in trade
Nat. Democrat.
Just so, and there's no danger of failur
10. want VI SuP'toi' S'@o@'""" NA''"'"'
6T'Do you believe in second love, Misthe
McQuade! 'Do b'lieve in second Lowell
Humph. if man buys q pound of sugar ism
it SWEET and when it is gone don't he wan
another pound! and isn't that pound swee
too, Troth, Murphy, believe in second love-
WHERE DO WE SrAsDl--Well, that is til
great paramount question which, of ali Others
we most desire to see answered just now
Where do we stand! Can anybody answer
-Nat. Democrat.
The Bible can. "The wicked stand o
,, slippery places."- Cleveland Herald.
, THE CRYSTAL PALAcE.-The Directors {
the Crystal Palace have at last announce
tho dav IN which this Great exhibition is