Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-30
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hO NAAObSiNO tudCUiuo WOIk6 VI II. ~ |
+. Blsndy, in GAINESVILLE, were destroyed by !
fire Saturday. Theloss amounts to $200, ,000 |
on which there an insurance OF $4,000. |
Three boys were poisoned last week at
Louisville, by eating what they supposed to
be mushrooms. One has died aud the 9th
ers are in very precarious situation.
Upward of 5000 in National Bank
currency, was issued last week by the Treas
ury, making the total now in circulation,
$3.50, ,00OO0O.
The State printing for the coming two
years has been awarded. to D. Meyers g.
Brother, publishers of the Mansfield (O.)
Shedd, of Columbus.
The New York Herald has a story that
Friday afternoon deputation from Gen.
Sweeney had an interview with James
Stephens, with the object of bringing about
q union between the two wings. Stephens,
il is said, ,peremptorily refused to have any
thing to do with the matter.
1T has just been decided in the U. 8.
District Court at Pittsburgh that the death
of defendant does not abate suit in rem.
The distilery of Jacob Hays was seized for
a violation of the u. s. Revenue law
Since the seizure Hays died, and the oues-
ton, the disposal of which we have noticed
consequently arose.
The cholera has appeared at Mansfield,
o. -Four cases, one of them fatal, have been
reported.
There have been two or three cases of
supposed cholera in Portsmouth, Ohio, dur
ing the past week, which in the Country
thereabouts have been niagnied into scores,
and frightened country people from coming
to town.
Capt Brayton, Superintendent of the
Ohio Soldiers Home, has resigned.
The Northern Pacific Railroad reached
the station opposite Fort Kearney on the
10Th inst.
There is no cholera yet in Indianapolis.
The opening of the St. Louis public
schools has been postponed until the cholera
shall abate.
The inhabitants of Fulton, Muscatine
County, Iowa, were recently thrown into
excitement by tue discovery that a family
of seven or eight persons were suffering
from the poisonous effects of what they
supposed were mushrooms. 1t was only by
the most energetic treatment that their lives
were saved.
Reports Of the cotton crop about Mem
phis are said to be very unfavorable.
-Ofa family of eight persons in Spring
field, o., who partook of watermelons on
Tuesday evening, four were shortly after
ward taken very sick.
"A petition signed by nearly every Union
man in New Orleans, asking protection from
Congress and the loyal citizens of the nation,
is now on its way North.
Tho crops in Northern Georgia are
totally ruined by the drought; and now from
| all parts of Tennessee, especially Middle
Tennessee, are coming loud complaints of
want of rain.
The recent excessive rains damaged the
grain in all parts of Wisconsin; grain which
has been cut is yet in the shock and has
commenced growing"
A Mr.. Copsdell and Mr.. Brett had a
controversy in Kings city. Gentry County
Mo-. on Monday, when the former called
the larter horse thief Brett thereupon
drew his revolver and Cogsdell did the same
Both commrnced firing, when Brett was
shot through the body and killed, and Cogs.
dell through the wrist.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture gives
notice that he is now prepared to distribute
to agriculturalists specimens of superior
Mediterranean white wheat, which will be put
up in quarter packages, and delivered free
upon receipt OF application.
General James Naglee, who served with
distinction in the Mexican War, and the late
rebellion. died at Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
on last Wednesday.
1t is said the patronage of the Atlantic
Gable has become so great that it is proposed
to revise the price list, and increase the
charges for some messages.
"A negro child in Richmond, Va, was
bitten by spider. Two black 'conjurers"
were called in, and whilst they were discuss
ing the best method Of charming the
wound the child died.
Major General Hooker is now at Water
town, Jefferson County, N. Y, rusticating,
and with his health improved.
The hotels of New York ara reported as
gradually filling up with country buyers of
goods, and trade is improving in all direc-
tions.
"A doctor IN st. Louis prescribed for q
black man under an attack Of cholera, pre-
mangauate of potash as an injection, but
the man, by mistake, swallowed the prepara.
ton of potash, and 10 an hour or two was
cured. u
The Topeka, Kansas, Record announces
that Gen. Howard, of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, has been invited to assume the Presi-
dency of Lincoln College, in that place, and
he has promised to take the matter into
favorable consideration.
The presidency of Antioch College has
been accepted by Rev. George w. Hosmer,
ID. d., pastor Of the Unitarian Society in
Buffalo. His son, Rev. james X Hosner,
minister of the church in Deerfeld, Mass,
is to be associated with him in the faculty
as one Of the professors.
Claimants ofextra bounty under the
equalization act will probably have to wait
some months yet for payment
Near Lebanon. Tennessee, on Thursday
last, Mr.. Gray Harris engaged in dispute
with negro, and coolly shot the latter dead
with gun.
Mayor Muuroe, Of New Orleans, is ia
full exercise OF all his functions, and there is