Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-04-12
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49, " "'Pu"'eo" sa'h, NV0'
There were 500 persons arrested in Gin.
%cinneti, during the month of March, for
various crimes and diSordefly conduct.
Gen. WIN. Schouler, former editor OF
the Cincinnati GOzette and Columbus Jour.
nal, has been appointed AJju,ant General
of Massachusetts, in place Of Gent. Stone,
removed.
Tile New Lisbon Buckeye State, of the
9th inst. says that "the. wheat crop of this
portion OF the county presents q very favor.
able appearance. Our farmers are busy how
sowing their oats" gro
The Methodist Protestant Book Con.
cern are about erecting a building in Spring.
field, 30 by 80 feet, four stories high, in
which all their denomination books are 10
be printed, slereotyped and bound. le
STATE BAsD Observation-Disclosures
are being made to hold a State Band Con,
%ventioD at Wooster, on the LIST of June next.
Upwards OF fifty Brass Bands have been in.
vited to attend, and a large number have
accepted.
ROBERT r. CAocKEk.-The Freedohia
Advertiser desires the Press to notice that
Mr.. Robert e. Croker disappeared from
that place about a week since. He l. n
young man about 10 years of age, dark hair
and dark eyes. His friends and family are
painfully anxious to learn something OF him.
ANOTHER VIENNA man named John
! B~orghman, a shoemaker, committed suicide
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a lew days ago by hanging himself to a sap
ling, near Alliance. He was an intempe-
rate man and the coroner's jury found that
the deed was committed through the inme-
diate cause of intemperance. Carol Free
Press. i"
D Pure Logon WANTED.-,n Columbus
at the Temperance Convention recently
{ Gen. > F.. Carey offered a reward Of ten
dollars Tor q single pint of brandy procured
s from any hotel, saloon or drug store in that
city, which shall be found free from drugs
, or poison. The gentleman says that the
best French Brandy, so called, for sale in
Ohio, is composed of cornfuric ocid, nitric
: acid Guinea pepper and copper. rb.t aoai
Q BUTTER AND Eees.-Mr. Jesse Wicker.
G has shipped from this point within the las,
> four weeks one hundred aud forty barrels oil
butter, averaging one hundred and seventy.
d five pounds each; making, in the aggregate,
t~enty-iou thousand FIVE hundred pounds,
T, He has also shipped some three thousand
5 dozen Of eggs within the last eight or ter
II days, all OF them gathered in this county
2 and In the edge of Noble. Thirty-six thou.
e sand eggs shipped in ten days by me mar
: is doing well.-Marietta %lntelligencer.
The Morgan County Herald, of the 5th
q inst says that the body Of Alex. Green, q
!, resident of Windsor township, was found or
Friday last near the village Of Stockport,
and the Coroner's inquest resulted in Rudinp
that the deceased had caused his own death
by shooting himself through the body, whet.
r. her Intentionally or accidentally was no,
+. known. The gun which did the fatal work
was found lying by the side of the dead body
q We understand that the deceased left q
y, wife and children.
SENTENCE OF AN AGED MURpERER.--Ir
the Court of Common Pleas of Portage ca.
last week, Leonard Merchant Price, aged
T seventy years, was found guilty of murder
e 10 the second degree for killing Alansou
Baldwin, at Aurora, on the sth of November
S last. Mr. Baldwin was an old and respecte,
citizen of Aurora, and had been the bene.
s factor OF the man who, under the influence
OF liquor and passion, fatally stabbed him.
Price WIS sentenced to the Penitenriary for
life.
;. On Tuesday, Mr.. Thomas II eward, d
citizen of Cleveland, entered a drug store
in that city for some brandy. The drugpis,
i was busy at the moment, aud Mr.. Howard
. proceedod to help himself. As soon as he
. had swallowed some portion of the liquid he
poured out, he remarked to the druggist that
he thought he had killed himself, and desip.
mated the bottle from which he had drunk
1t contained kreosotc, and was standing
> where the brandy usually stood. Mr.. Hew.
4 ard lived only about two hours.
q DIEo IN AnS1AeE CoAoH-The Caro-
Fee Press says that on Tuesday morning
s OF last week, as the mail hack, which runs
f. between Carrolton and Steubenville, was
on its way returning from the latter CITY.
and within about a mile and u half OF The
village o. Wintersville,- Jefferson county, a
man named Mctonnell, who resided i'm that
Il place, and on his way home, fell dead with.
out u struggle. He had been a man of in
temperate habits. and it is supposed that his
death was caused by the long sud frequent
use of "%rile" whiskey, He had a family in
: Wintersville, whose first news of the sad
affair was the recePtion'of his dead body.
J, SCARLET FEvER.-The Morgan County
Herald says the scarlet fever is raging fear.
fully in the region of the M6sklngnm Val
4 ley. . Here lie an awful record: 100 oroo'i"
Died OF malignant scarlet fever, near the
Presbyterian Church, ii Bristol township,
the following children OF Alex. und' 3fsrg.
Roy'-Wm. Roy. March l, aged Q tyears, 3
months, 2 days; Thomas A. Roy March 9,
|, aged o years, 4 months, 10 days; Moses Roy
March 8, aged is years, z months, ls days;
JOS. Roy. March 9, aged ~ years, I month.
) 20 days; Me Roy, March Is, aged 2 yrs,
|, 10 months, 10 days. 81 '-ad] 9saoasie' od
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