Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-11-09
All Sorts Of Items.

tne PRESIDENT, but has not been acted upsn
yet. s r.
LOOK out for ono dollar grsenbacks
changed to tens.
:, SIXTEEN ocean steamers sailed from New
York In one day last week.
CALIFORNIA raises 100000 pounds of
wool per year.
1T is said that Chief Justice Tsney left
three dasshters who ARD very poor.
CoRN is selling at thirty cents a busbel
at Burlington, Iowa.
ARTEMUs WARD says his hair resembles
lovers on the eve Of separation. 1t is hard
to part
JOHN STUART MILL spends six months
OF eacn year near the grave Of an idoized
The first class hotels in Boston. which
reduced their price to four dollars per dav.
few months ago, have again increased II
to "a So -
LETTER writer says Tennyson's beard
IS white, his complexion sallow, his nose
straight and his face father long.
THE Chicago lake tunnel is now 1860 feet
10 length and is being added to at the rate
OF fourteen feet per day. The first mile
viii be completed by the first of January.
The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad
has offered $5 500, 900 for tho Mississinpi
and Missouri Railroad, which is the eSten.
sion Sc, ct the Rock Island road West Of the
Mississippi river. =. 'O
IHE great bridge soon to be built across
the Ohio river from Cincinnati TO Coving.
ton' n.y., Will be the longest in the world
tive thousand feet longer than that ever
the Niagara river ' ''o'
THE New York Commercial save. .Ror,
to differ, it is not to be expected that Wan.
dell Phillips will ever occupy a pa,form nm
any public question broad enough to hold a
second person" " "''' .
FREDERIcK SEWARD went to the Office
OF the Secretary Of State last Saturday for
the hrst time since tho assassination
last April. He will resume his duties soon.
Rev. hR, NAsBr says: 'The utter and
abgect state NV oussitood into which the
Dimocrisy find themselves, North and
south makes day of fastin' appropriat. "
1T is understood that Gen. Lonpstreet
who arrived iu Washington on Wednesday
Is anxousy desrous of obtaining a pardon
10 order that he may be candidate for the
Governnorship of bis State or be President
OF an Express Company.
>, GARRSTT DAVIS and Brutus Uav. Of
ny, having sued Geas Palmer and Bris.
pane Tor abducting slaves, counter suit
mas been brought before the Freedman's
bureau against Davis and Clay for holding
blacks to labor without pay. in violation nf
the laws of the United States.
A FIEND named John NJ Ingram. near
GrIfhn, Ga, lately tied UP quadroon girl,
and deliberately tortured her by dropping
burning pitch upon her naked body. She
was saved, hut scarcely alive, and he has
been arrested and ouehr to be hung. He
Formerly owned the girl and appropriated
her to base Uses. His fendish crime was
Gomm'ttcd after long debauch and while
ne was crazy with whisky, and illustrates at
the same time the barbarism of drunken.
ness and Of slavery.
| HERscuEL V. JOHNSON has undertaken
the prastco Of law at Augusta, Ca.
! JEFF. DAVIS has ordered an $3.50 over.
coat from fashionable Washington tailor
which his friends will pay for. Davis 4, said
to be quite hopeful, and letter from Mrs
Davis says that she has no idea of his being
punished even If tried and convicted.
THERE were on Sunday last ,;rtv.6vo
cases Of small pox at the nest house of
Nashville.
Gov. CURTIN made an address at Girsrd
Penn, on the lst, at the dedication of a
monument erected to the deceased soldiers
OF Erie county. Penn. by Dan Rice, the
snowman Inc monument is a beautiful
itaiian marble column, seventeen feet high.
with sandstone base and bearing suitable
Inscriptions. 1t cost over IS, 600.
THE Georgia StatoC Convention has declsr
ed Slavery forever abolished, by a uuani.
nous vote, and without debate.
WE have the report from Europe tbst
Gen. Mcclellan has offered his military
services to the Pope. A similar story was
preva."nt respecting Beauregard, but il has
been conu.dicted.
The Tolado BLADE has figured up 1915
barrels OF apples that have been packed in
that city during the season The growers
nave received an average of$I l24pev bush |
o. Tor them, or something near $35, 200 in
the aggregate. The Blade says: "The
frult hacked has been shipped to Massachu
sstts' Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York,
>""'y 'nu'a, auu 10 score OF cities and
towns in Ohio; and while the farmers have
realized handsomely on those sold "a pack.
ers' the latter have made good thing in
the shipment OF the fruit"
ADJUTANT GENERAL CeopER, of the reb,
ei army, is an applicant for pardon.
THE republicans have carried Nebraska
electing Augustus Kountze territorial treas
uIer by about 700 majority. aud Mr.. Giles.
pie auditor BY 500 majority. They have
also secured majority in both branches of
the legislature. The emigration of nre.
slavery men from Missouri helped the
democrats considerably, and the earlier re.
ports indicated their success but the repub-
lcan voters proved too strong for them.
IT isa singular fact that so great il the
demand for school books in the South, that
the northern publishers, to fll their orders
are compelled 10 send large amount of
press work to this city to be done. In ali
over twenty presses here are engaged in
printing these books. The prices CHARGED
for press work in Washington are 20 nsr
cent. more than in the northern cities
One retail dealer in school books here sold
a.aI