Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-17
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

n TGVOlutlOn IN the WhtNOU VI mtuhHlUk tuB
telegraph lines of the country, which were
now making immense profits, their annual
receipts pqualling the entire cost of the
lines. Experience has shown that this
mode Of communication was cheaper, and
required the employment Of less capital
than any mode before known. Within q
year or two, the tariffs n. charges must be
greatly reduced, perhaps nv the Govern
ment assuming the coDtrOl of all the lines
in which event, tRoFhtes Would diminish as
postal rates have diminished.
Tue New York Supreme Court has deci.
ied in the E P. Christy will case. that
Mary Miller was the mistress, not the wife
Of Christy, and hence that the will made to
her and other persons as executors, was null
and void. The properly is thus left to his
wife and children. The Court also decided
that he was insane at the time he jumped
out of the window, and hence was incempe
tent to make a will, especially in favor ofa
person who, it is alleged, he welded after
ward. About $780, 900 worth of property
are involved in his will.
A NEW telegraph compauy which was in
corporated by the last Pennsylvania Legis-
lature is about to build an independent line
of telegraph from Pittsburgh TO Oil City,
with connections eastward aud westward
with other independent lines. The enter
prise is said to have grown out OF the exer-
bitant charges of the consolidated Western
Union and United States lines. and the
principal eorporators are men largely enga..
ged in oil operations. The line will extend
from Pittsburgh TOOL City, Titusville,
Pitbole and Tionesta.
DURING a recent thunder storm in Tepnes-
see. a half mile of telegraph wires were
melted, and divided over the whole distance
into small fragments. irregular in shape,
and many ofthem no larger than a buckshot.
or a small rife ball. Fragments we're found
along the whole distance, and would not. if
put together commercially, make a wire
thirty feet in length. The glass insulators
were fused, and the poles were shivered
into fragments.
THE Lieutenant Governor Of Nevada re-
Gently went on a little frolic and came to
grief. Being &c o6icio Warden ofthe State
Prison. and in that capacity having received
a lot of now uniform clothing for the con
victs, he put nm a suit and went into town.
But he was Immediately ~apprehended,
taken before a justice of the peace, and sent
to the prison as an esca ped convict.
THE Presbyterian General Assemblies,
both old and new school. will convene at st,
LOUIS IN tue titVhhSL bO16 tuVuSHuu u
. gates are expec,e1 to he in attendance. -
3 Mississippi packet csmpaniss, and several
main railroad lines. have agreed to convey
the delegates at half fare. A religious con
l v%ention. called by Dr. Brnckinriage, Of Ken
q lucky. will meet at St. Louis at the same
time.
JAMES ROBINSON, the New York circus
rider. was severely injured a few davs age
rrk.l. h. .Atu anf in mhtOh ha
a il to jump from his horse. while going a,
: full eed. through a stage coach. The
y New York paners think that this is certain,
the feat in which Robinson is to break hi
neck.
g In response tn Gov. P%,tton's appeal ir
behalf NJ thu suff ring poor of Alabama. th'
v War Department has ordered that sup"li'
h be sent Immediately tn that State sniff ,ienI
TO relieve the entire destitute population =
a The supplies are to be issued through thu
Freedmen's Bureau.
y Gov OnR. Of Srrth Carolins, ha, ex
|. pressed his opinion regarding the teachinI
Of freed peonle. He h ,lieves it is good 70
the State. He says the teachers shall b
protected in their dnties, and that the pre-
10 JUDGES against them and their occupation
is disappearing.
O'MAHoNY has resigned his position a
Head Center Of the Frnians, and his resis
nation has berp accepted by Stephens. =
OMahony's last official act was to remov
' Killian from the Treasuryship OF tho Brotf
e. erhood.
IT is said by the Washington specials tbs
d it seems to be agreed among the memebT
, of Congress to take a recess from about tn
" first Of July tn the frsf If October. and the
l., continue in session until December.
,e TUE Now York Tribune facts up tn
n hank swindlings AMI entertainments fro,
Nav. 1861, 20 Msys 1864 at about -, 1914
T. 600, besides $3,473 600 Of what it Cal
vulgar and violent robberies."
Mt JEFFERSON DAVIS was indicted for tire,
- son on WednsSiavehvths Grand Jury of tt
> United States DISTRICT Court, now in sessio
' at Norfolk. The Court has adjourned
n meet in Richmond ip June.
THE Detroit Tribune, after q thorough i
veNiratinn Of the condition Of wheat in thl
State is comne'led to conclude that the a
grevate crop for 1865 will fall below Il
average yield Of past seasons.
THE largest amount at revenue paid /
d. the British peonle in any one year wi
1910 600, ono Tho amount which the pc
plt OF IN" OnIeu o'attS Will pay tuiS yc'
will be $540,00 0 900.
ROBERT TIFFANY, a halter Of 81
lie Francisco. paid $3.50 in gold for the fir
choice Of seats nm the occasion of the Dir
appearance Of Elwip Forrest in that city.
FRoM official documents which have bet
placed in the hands of Srcretary Seward, Il
ak fact comes to light that Santa Anna is {
adherant # Maximilian's Government.
DURING a late trial in the Circuit Cou
Nv at Pontiac, Mich, 10 vitae a lease, JudI
Green decided that tho absence OF a stau
80 did not invalidate the document.
on CHICAGO kilograms report winter whe
as very nearly a failure in the Northwe,
while white snrinp wheat will be abundar
unless injured hereafter,
THE gold crop Of the world will rrobat
int reach $3.50 O00, 900 this year. Previous
On 1890 rhe average annual yield was less tn
snt $3i 900 600.
=" THE Picaynns thinks that ths neg
population OF New Orleans is now three