Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

CHOLERA still ravages Southern Russia.
Tar French Swans predict a hot sum.
mer. l'
THe California Senate has indorsed Con.
gress by a vote Of 80 to 81.
Tue Government is about TO commence
the rebuilding Of Fort Sumter.
GENERAL PALMER has not resigned, as
was reported. He has returned to Ken
lucky.
Tue President has issued q procla nation
declaring the war at an end in the States
lately in revolt. .lg
The. New Orleans Times says that there
are in that city not less than seventy.6ve
thousand liberated slaves.
b MAI GEN. j. s. NEaLEY has announced
himself as . candidate for Congress in the
Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania.
Ir is reported that orders have been is
sued for the muster out of all the colorcd
troops in the service by the LIST Of May.
GEN. B1DwELD, Of California, member
of Congress now, raised $4,000 bushels of
wheat last year. oT '.F "a .oer.i $50
TIE NJ. E. Church at Pikeion, Ohio, the
finest church in Pike County, is advertised
to be sold at Sheritf's sale.
THE bridge over the Mississippi at st.
Louis, will have one span Of 600 feet and
no span measuring less than 200 feet. .ra
Mas. JEFFERSON DAVIS, nied
by Col, Harrison, formerly private secretary
to her husband. left Memphis, Saturday,
for Canada.
MucB apprehension is felt in Central
Georgia. in relation to the fruit crop. There
IS a promise ofa good corn crop in that
The Strong divorce case i, likely to amuse
the New York public again, Mrs. Strong
having sued tor afmony while the still I'M.
settled proceedings are in progress. m t..l.
ANEW State Cspitoi is talked of at AL.
bany, with a dome All feet high. only a few
Rome. WI 1NE''T7
GEN. FRANK BLAIR has rented A cotton
plantation near Vicksburg. Several old
army officers have taken places as superin.
tendents. -a'H' "Hi - F'
A SUPPOSED corpse, while being shaved,
In Norwalk, Conn, revived, got up and
dressed itself and ordered a postponement
of the funeral Q .H.Ia ~ div ,.- -
The snow pillow on the Passumpic IVY
Railroad threw a drunken man out of a
snow drift few days ago, and thereby saved
him from freezing to death. '.''@
The Mobile Tribune of last Thursday saws.
the news FROM all parts of Alabama, is to
the effect that the freedmen are, realizing
their situation, and are going to work with
a will. a..'at, =, go. -
Our special dispatches from Washing
ton state that the election of an cut.and.
out Republican Senator from New Jersey.
in place of Mr.. Stockton, is now regarded
as certain. 'i" -yt -
Two weolen factories, three manufactures
Of farming utensils and many other shops
will be erected at Lawrence, Kansas. this
Spring, and it is proposed to dam the
Kansas river for power.
H %conspirators Spangler, Mudd and
OLaughlin, at last accounts from the Drv
I%Ortugas, were taking their Imprisonment
very phlosophietlly, and conducted them.
selves so as to get released from the heavy
irons they have been wearing.
THE Wisconsin House has instructed tbe
Senators from that State, enc Union man
alone dissenting, to vote for the Civil Rights
bill over the Presidents veto. The Senate
would have acted with equal unanimity.
but 1t had adjourned before the vote was
taken. ."
SOME of the English life insurance com.
panles are refusing to insure liquor sellers.
on account of the extraordinary risk. The
rate OF mortality among them is as high rs
~ IN 1000, while the rate for trades consid-
cred unhealthy, such as taller aud shoe
maker, IL only Is in 1000, d, -,' t..
MR George KILBUaN, the Oldest in.
habttant Of Hudson, Ohio, and a resident
CT the Western Reserve since 1901, died at
Hudson on the l4th of March at the ace of
96 years and four months. He was a native
Of Goshen, Connecticut, and was sixty days
in making his first journey West.
A LONDON letter says An idea has
got abroad among the English people that
the next President of the United States il
to he Charles Francis Adams. | do not
know how it originated. but il is very com.
mon remark here in England inst now
Would it be startling to have the Presidency
return to the third generation +? yjsq
The Ohio Senate on Saturday passed.
by a vote OF 20 against 9, the bill increasing
the legal rate Of interest from six to Sc
pr cent. 1t aso defeated, by one majority,
Tue itNrlcultural Colleges bill, ~pOstponiDq
the establishment of the institution. and
allowing the Trustees to receive proposals
and report them at the next session. aI
The editor of the Salt Lake Telegraph
saws that on two and o half acres President
Young raised last year $50 bushels of
peaches, 400 bushels of apples, 90
bushels of plums, 25 bushels Of straw.
berries, 2 bushels of pears, rs pounds of
cherries, 1875 pounds of grapes, and
gooseberries. raspberries, aud currants in
multitudes. .tI..
AN English astronomer, Mr.. George f..
Burder, OF Clifton, writes that a spot, or
rather cluster Of spots, Of very unusual
size may now be- seen on the SUMS disc.
1t is so large as to be conspicuously visible
to the naked eye when the sun is looked at
through a colored or smoky glass, or
through a fog Of suitable density.
MANY Phila1elphians were badly hoaxed
on Sunday by an announcement that the
President was in that city in response to an
Invitation from the supposed President of
aJohnson Club. They crowded the hotel