Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-02-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

A sINGULARLY bold attempt was made
by thief in New York, to snatch a
bag of money from the hands ofa man
WHO was coming out of one of the
banks. The attempt was unsuccessful.
EDWARD B. KETCHUM, the forger,
now at Sing Sing, is not employed in
making shoes, as has been stated, but
Is clerk in one of the offices.
FIFTEEN miles below Franklin, in
Western Pennsylvania, an oil well was
accidentally set on fire last week, the
flame at first being small, but defying
all attempts to extinguish it. 1t soon
increased in volume, and at last ac
counts presenteda most wonderful ap-
pearance, shooting up from sixty to
hundred feet, and lighting the country
for many miles. The ground 1lad be-
come heated for several hundred feet,
starting vegetation into the greenness
of spriug. The light is seen at Frank
lin and points much further distant.
A Nkw gas, made from crude petro-
leum is being introduced into Chicago
The Chicago Post says the light of the
petroleum gas is fully four times great
er than the light of the coal gas and
| that it can be made at much less cost.
The removal of the Kentucky State
Capital from Frankfort to Lexington is
being talked Of Lexington has offer
ed $500, 900 to pay expenses, and all
Investigation is proceeding.
A YOUNG girl, named Adeline Hill,
of Hopkins, Mich, was burned to death
few days since under the most hor.
riblc circumstances. After going a
few rods from home on her way to
school she discovered that her under
clothes were OH fire, and the flames i'm
mediately burst out and spread so rap
idly over her person that it was impos-
sible to extinguish them. A woman
near by, hearing her cries, ran to her
assistance, but it was too late.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Worcester
Mass. } Spy predicts dull times for the
boot and shoe trade. Manufacturers
who, ten days ago, were preparing to
do a heavy business, have suddenly
collapsed, and the price of work as well
as of goods have downward look.
Ir is said that Mr. Bancroft is a can
didate for Collector of the port of New
York.
THE New York Herald estimates the
number Of valentines which passed
through the New York Postoffice this
year at $4,000. .o..' q
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
says there are two thousand cases of
small pox in that city. -.........,
Mr.. CLARKE, of Ohio, has introduced
in the U. s. House u bill proposing q
bounty of eighty acres of land to hun
dred days men. ''' '' '."
The temperance Of the Richmond
Examiner has been allowed 1t Is not
stated who gave the required permis.
sion, but it was probably the President
r as the war office denies any action ir
the case. .l,,o.. .-, rlasl ~ raYJy.
| GEN. GRANT has instructed the va
f rious department commanders at thu
9 South to forward TO ms headquarters
g copies of such papers as contain dis
$ loyal and infammatory articles, and tt
b inform him whether they are in thu
habit of publishing them.
THE opera house in Chicago, Ill,
having been built from the profits o
+ the Wholesale whisky trade u pape
a in that city says: 1T is cemente'
!. with the tears of drunkards' orphans
and has barrel of hell-flre for it
corner stone. Fsugtrrn~asrn
An immense hotel is to be erecte'
: ! in Boston, on tile site of the pianofort
, mandatory of Hallett, Davis & Co
an also embracing the estate of Ger
t H. Davis, and others, which will eclips
anything of the kind of America.
will cover an acre aud half of grom
{. and be twice as large as the Fifth Az
II enue Hotel, in New York. There wi
It be one Thousand rooms, all of whic
is are to be magniticently furnished.
will be built Of white marble, at COS
of sl.5oo,oooTOIEYSr 81.
g The Steubenville Herald says lea
:, :. ore has been discovered in Saline .towI
u ship, Jefferson County
TnE Guernsey Times says the Gran
Ve Jury of that County, found los iudic
4. lscatss 9l for violations Of the liqnC
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