Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-16
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The Wilmington IN. C) Journal o
August 8, states that at recent marriap
in Sampson County, N. c., forty three per
sons were seriously poisoned and that sew
eral of them have since died. Whethe
the poisoning was accidental or intentional
was not known.
Two hundred Mormons-men, yomer
and children-bathed together at Wes
Quincy, iii, few days ago, in q state O
nudity. The exhibition attracted o larzt
crowd Of Spectators. During this promis
cuous bath lad belonging to the party wa,
drowned, but no attention was given to the
matter, and ne effort made to recover the
body.
William Connolly, of Franklin, Venan.
90 County, Pa, 30 years Of age, is in Pitts
burg Pa, sitting as Juror in the United
States Court. He is one Of the men who
have seen and remembered all absut Wash
ington and his compatriots.
There was aterrible storm twenty miles
West of Fort Kcarney, last week. About
forty telegraph poles we're struck by light.
ming and torn to pieces.
The steamer General Anderson was
caught, in gale of wind near Columbus,
n.y., Monday night, and came near going
down. Two deck hands we're lost and a
portion Of her cargo.
Butter is 75c. pound at Philadelphia.
An armless shoemaker at Cincinnati
does the finest kind Of sewsd work with his
toes.
"A South Carolina woman recently died
after subsisting 36 days on nothing but wa
ter.
-Budlong. the Geauga County, Ohio,
cheese manufacturer, has failed with $780,
600 liabilities.
The city authorities OF Indianapolis are
busily engaged in scrubbing up the streets
and alleys of that city, in anticipation Of a
visit from the cholera.
Nearly three millions of dollars we're re-
ceiyed at the various places OF amusement at
New York, last year, and Barnum's took
the most of any.
The best wheat crop in Is years is re-
ported in Canada.
"A New York alderman lost $4,000 at
faro the other day.
NO case Of cholera has occurred as yet
in Columbus. The Health Officers are hard
at work looking up all kind of nuisances.
"A child was recently born at White
Pigeon, Michigan, with one head, two
noses, four eyes, four ears, two mouths and
two chins.
There is new counterfeit twenty five
cent piece, in which Mr.. Fessenden has a
black eye and the last two letters of the
word assistant in the left hand corner are
tIaDsppsed.
Thursday was decidedly the hottest day
of the season at Macon, Ga. The mercury
stood at SO near the earth; but hot wind,
resembling the sirocco, was blowing, and in
the second stories of houses the thermome-
ter indicated l03, and in the third stories,
where it was fully exposed to the wind, the
mercury rose to l06.
C n Dunn. of Obion County. Tenn,
was arrested and lodged in jail at Troy, in
that State last week for perpetrating a rape
upon his own daughter, young girl of
fifteen.
Last Thursday, at Washington City,
VIM. Ii. Johnston. sixteen years of age,
robbed his blind father of $3.50 in green
La.k&
A pcddlcr in Arkansas attempted i'm
proper liberties with lady and was pitched
into well, where he died.
"A peculiar and fatal accident occurred
at Thin, Onio, on Wednesday evening last.
There was masquerade party given at
National Hall During the festivities Perry
A. Smith, ono of the masquers. went mp
into the gallery to lie down. While there,
by some mischance, he fell to the stone steps
four stories below. iDjuring him so severely
that he died in a few hours. Mr.. Smith
was Deputy Treasurer of Seneca County.
and young man highly esteemed.
Mrs Elizabeth Ream. near Louisville,
Stark County, Ohio. is l04 years old. She
has distinct recollection of the days of the
Revolution. and says that she was q hired
girl in Walltower's Hotel, at Greeasburg,
when Washington and his army passed west
through that town. Gems. Washington and
Wayne boarded eight days at this hotel and
Mrs. Ream was waiter girl at their table.
"A lump of ice, say ten pounds, placed
in we'll will render its water delightfully."-
cool, and far more pleasant than ice water
from pitcher. The ics has to be renewed
once in about ten days.
Apples of fine quality are being sold
in Evansville, Ind, for sixty cents per
bushel The crop throughout that region is
reported to be large.
G Tie La Crosse wis. J Republican learns
that there has been a great freshet in Root
river, Minnesota, and that the town. of
Houston was com pletely inundated on
Thursday. Several persons are reported to
have been drowned in Houston County.
During tornado at Saginaw, Mich,
Tuesday, brick building in process OF com.
pletiou was blown down, and number OF
men were buried in tho ruins. Five have
been since extricated-two dead, and the
other three in very dangerous condition.
An accident occurred on the P, c. L
G. Railroad, at Steubesville, on Friday, by
which Mrs. Day, OF Cincinnati, and several
other persons, were seriously injured. The
engine struck COW, AMI four passenger cars
we're thrown from the track.
1T is proposed to connect St. Louis and
Nashville directly by railroad. Cue hundred
and fifty miles OF new road only ale neoessa'
ry. '-D @t 9
-Ths cholera has made its appearance in
Richmond, Va. 8-l'ea s...
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