Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-03-08
STATE NEWS

oA n u y ENSs
MR. LEE, the man who was stabbed a,
Deerfield last week, died on Friday night.
lie was stabbed by DR.. ittleton, who was
accused OF an improper intimacy with Lee 5
! wife.
The Athens MESSENGER saws one Of the
companies boring for oil, some three or four
! miles up the river, from that place, have
struck a very heavy vein of salt water, and
are going to erect works at the well and 20
into the Manufacture Of salt.
The Macksburg. correspondent of the
| Washington County News says the Nc.
Farland Company few days since sold their
territory near. the village of Macksburg,
consisting OF some two or three acres, two
engines and three wells, bored to the depth
OF two and three hundred feet respectively,
for the enormous sum of $4,000 The
purchasing company is from the Sucker
State" Illinois.
The Washington County News record.
the following death from strange cause !:
On the 18th inst, small child. five years
OF age, belonging to Reuben Kyles. swal-
lowed grain OF coffee, which lodged in the
windpipe. For ten hours the little fellew
! CiSuo VI tHc UlUSL intense SUI
tering. At five o'clock the next morning
he was relieved by death.
THE Morgan Herald says the Federal and
Duck Greek Oil Company have made an
other fine strike on the Thurow Farm. one
mile East Of Caldwell, in Noble County. at
the depth of 24l feet. They will pump it
as soon as the river opens to enable them to
get pump and tubing. The quality Of the
oil is heavy lubricatrng and at times boil,
out over the conductor with such immense
momentum as to carry up stones the size Of
a hens egg.
Col. GORDON LoFLAND, of Cambridge,
has been appointed Commissioner for Ohio
in the Board Of Managers Of the Soldiers
National Monument at Gettysburgh, Penn
sylvania.
Tue Day ton copperheads suddenly 'smelt
mice, and did not hold the glorifcation
meSting Saturday night announced by Mr..
Failandigham.
We note by the Saniusky Register that
ZIG flags were presented Ohio soldiers
previous to going to the front and all but
four, which we're lost in battle, will be return.
ed. A good record.
"SHERNAN's March to the Sea-" was writ
ten by Mr. McFall. of Cootsville, Mahon-
ing County, D.
The Sandusky Register says Mr.. Lorenzo
Miller raised elghttuns OF grapes on one acre
OF ground, and got bat for it.
LICKING County is moving earnes:lg and
strongly to secure the location of the Agri.
cultural College within her limits.
The Guernsey Times says the report that
there are several cases of the small pox in
town is incorrect. There is at present enly
one case, and that in very mild form.
One of the large Touring mills in Akron
was burned down on the night of Feb. 24th.
Several thousand bushels of corn were de-
stroyed. The loss is Heavy. The mill and
its contents are supposed to have been par
italy insured.
HE house of B. Kimball, OF Woodstock,
Champaign County, Ohio, was entered last
Friday night by burglars, who secured as
booty over $4,000 in Government bonds.
JAMES b. SHELLER, a teacher at ST.
Stephens School in Hamilton, Butler Coun.
ty, Ohio, was arrested on Saturday last for
committing foul outrage upon a girl ten
years of age, and upon other girls from
eight to twelve years cid. On being taken
into the presence of the girls by their faith
ers, he acknowledged his guilt, and was no
tihed to leave the place" He was however
arrested, and on Saturday evening the ex.
citement was so great that threats were
made to take the wretch out of Jail and
hang him on tree.
The Cadiz Sentinel (intense Conperheadl
says the Presidents recent speech is ''the
greatest speech of the century,: The
good Lord help the century
REVIVAL. j. P. Caldwell,
and Samuel Mehatfey are holding protract-
cd meeting In the Presbyterian Church at
Barnesvllle, with gratifying success. Over
thirty persons have been received into the
church, and still the good work goes on.
Our STATE DEBT. Ohio is the only
State that comes out of the war with less
debt than it went in with, the principle of
taxation having been adopted even in tho
darkest hours The State debt is now $l3,
500, l75, against $l4, 250 22S in 1860.
WE learn from the o. S. journal, that the
llth U. V. O., now stationed at Fort Lara
mie, will be mustered out and started home
ward as soon as il is safe for the men to
cross the plains. .e.. -H,'
The Cadiz Republican says there were
only eight marriage licenses issued in that
County during the month of February.
The Cadiz papers are urging the people
OF that town to take steps to have the pro
posed Southwestern r. r. pass through
Csdiz
THE Atlantic and Great Western Rail
road Company have purchased tho Rich
moAd and Chicago Road, and intend laying
double track from Dayton, Ohio. to Rich,
mond, fud. % ef iaa'r- $3.50
So FAR as We have seen. hut two Union
papers in Ohio endorse the President veto
the Cincinnati Commercial and GAINESVILLE
Courier. The Ohio Union press is equally
unanimous in deprecating formidabl,
breach between Congress aud the President
A LITTLE son Of the editor Of the Cadi,
Republican was burned very badly q few