Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-02-08
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
A DAILY line of boats between Wheeling
and the Kanawhs is talked Of.

A DAILY line of boats between Wheeling
and the Kanawhs is talked Of. :.
The Maryland Legislature has contributed
$500 to the Antietam battle ground ceme-
terry, making, with it's former donation,
$l50,000.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper says that ian
honest miner" from California shouldered
bis knarsack one day and struck out for
Idaho. He arrived there last spring and
took up quartz claim. A few days ago
he sold his claim for $500, 900 in gold coin
Of the realm.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania are
about to pass a special act, sanctioning
marriage between two persons held as slaves
in Maryland.
The population of Chattanooga is 81 200,
exclusive of troops stationed there. Before
the war it was only 4,500.
A CHICAGO man has sued for divorce
because his wife proves to have cork leg.
The Geutiles have a story that Brigham
Young has bought two islands in the Sand
wich Islands group, whittier to move his
wives and fellow polygamists when the
breakup comes in Utah. But he says he
will die in his tracks first.
In the Ohio Legislature bills are pend
ing to guard against evils of drunkenness in
railroad employees, by requiring them TO
pass examination before board and take
out license for one year.
The smallpox Is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent throughout many parts OF the
South.
The moral and social condition of the
people of the South is shown by accounts
received through the Southern press The
papers are all filled with reports of murders
and robberies. @ -
A RAILROAD collision is reported on the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near Corinth,
by which three persons were killed and SO
or 40 wounded.
The President has sent message te
Congress announcing that he has formally
recognized the independence of the Domini
can Republic, and nominated an officer tc
represent the United States of the same
grade as is accredited to the Republic ol
Hayti.
ELEVEN stores, and several other build
Ottawa, ILL.,, Friday morning. Loss heavy
mostly insured. ....
IT is said that If the bill for giving Gen
Grant the rank Of full General becomes {
law, it will be followed by another bill con
ferring the rank Of Lieutenant General upor
Sherman and Sheridan. Admiral Farragu
I will be likely to be made a full Admiral
the Vice-Admiralty in the navy being equa
to the grade Of Lieutenant General in tn,
army.
The heads of the severel Bureaus in tn,
Interior Department are engaged in tn,
preparation of a report showing the neces
sty OF increasing the salaries Of their clerks
They are unanimously in favor 80 per cent
increase.
IT has been ascertained that large duanti
ties Of corn whisky are being manufacture,
in North Carolina and Tennessee, which
pay no revenue tax, while brought into di
rect composition with the production Of 10y
al stills.
A SERIOUS affray between some United
States soldiers and some citizens at Darien
Ca, is >reported.r Shots we're freely ex
changed, and several persons were prett
r severely handled.
DEsERTToNs from the regular army hav
become so frequent that Gen. Grant has a
last taken notice OF them in very strin
gent order.
Work has been abandoned on the iron
clad Puritan, with no present prospect o
an early resumption.
TIE w. r. Carter, of the Mississippi
Steamship Company's line, burst her boile
near Vicksburg. on Friday, and taking fir
was soon destroyed. A large number o
| M saanuars rn ranorfa1 Loaf rrb. N.rta
was valued at $l00,0O0 A New Orlean
dispatch announces the explosion of the tu,
boat Baltic, killing two persons and injurinl
several others.
THERE arc twenty-one editors in the low,
Legislature.
THERE are two hundred and sixty.tw,
millions Of national bank money in circula
ton.
A LITTLE boy in a Brooklyn Sunda!
school was asked, lately, to say which wa
the most beautiful verse 10 the Bible. Attel
some hesitation he replied blushingly, II
any man pulls down the American flag
shoot him on the spot
IT is stated that the ice dealers Of Phla
delphia have secured, for the first time fo
several years, full summer supply O
Schuylkill ice, of the very best quality. =
The amount secured will reach about l25,
900 tons. The prospect Of cheap ice mex
summer is quite fattering.
A BILL is now before the New York Leg
islature to make eight hours legal days.
work.
A FREE school bill, making equal endow
ment, but separate schools for white anG
colored children, has passed the House oil
Representatives Of Missouri.
THE Union Pacific Railroad bridge over
the Kansas river having been completed
passengers now go through from ST. Eoui,
to Topeka, Kansas, without change Of cars
Texas is now the only State which has
Provisional Governor.
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