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

GEN. TERRY has issued an order requir
ing all publishers of newspapers 10 his de.
pertinent to send copy Of every issue to
his headquarters.
TIE bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Navy to detail ship OF war to assist the
Collins Telegraph Company has been signed
by the President.
THE Washington Star says that Max.
iinilian' force amounts to forty.6ve thousand
men, and his artillery to one hundred and
twenty I'VE pieces.
The excitement in Fenian circles over
tho suspension Of the habeas corpus in Ire
land continues. Meetings and proclars.
tions are the order of the day.
AT Grahar'a Town. South Africa,
Dccomher l3th. The thermometer was 1862
in the sun, 1913 in the shatc. 90 in room,
and II in the coolest cellar. A ducks egg
was roasted by the sun. t'
A NEW Express Company, the Merchants
Union, he's been formed in Western New
York with capital of fifteen millions Of
dollars,
iN Chicago now before they eat pork they
examine il with a microscope.
SOME Of tho Texas papers are strongly
urging division of the State.
THE Legislatures of Nevada, Wisconsin,
and Minnesota have passed resolutions sus
taing the majority in Congress in their vote
on the veto.
THE Texas State Convention has added
new article to the State Constitution. abol-
ishing Slavery, protecting blacks in their
rin nf nd oil ha
to testify in the Courts, by vote of Sc
against 26. ..,.
A MINNESOTA correspondent Of the New
York Herald advises persons who intend
seeking recreation next summer TO go to
Minnesota instead Of Saratoga and other
fashionable watering places. He gives both
his own experience and his observation OF
others to prove that even Minnesota win.
ter is beneficial to consumptives, many in
valids from the East having determined to
reside there permanently. He tells those
wishing to 60 in the spring not to start till
the middle Of April.
THE report that Gen. Grant was wounded
tho other day by the accidental discharge OF
a gun, is contradicted.
GEN. SCoTT was at Panama at last &C.
counts, in greatly improved health.
TIE st. Joseph (Mo.) Union of the lst
inst says that large portion of the winter
wheat crop in that vicinity has been severely
injured. Some Of the farmers even intend
blowing up their fields, and sowing sprinl
wheat.
THE meeting at Baltimore on Thursda,
evening. in support of the Union member
of Congress, was a large and imposing dem
onstration Among the speakers we're Sen
ator Trumbull and Hon. 8. Mckee, of Ken
tucky.
A DOZEN Virgnians, in Page County
lately seized Nj &. II. Hamlin, teacher o
freedmcB's school. dnckod him III tn
Shenandoah, and threatened his life if h
did not leave wi hin three davs.
' BISHOP CAMPBELL, thu eminent schoia
and divine, died on last Sunday night, a
his home, near Bethany, aged 7S years =
7 lie was the founder OF Bethany College
and one of the most eminent men OF hi
time.
:, 1T is announced that on clos, canvass
+ is ascertained that every Republican pape
a in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota
: takes grounds against President Johnson
4 veto, and in favnr of sustaining Congress :
The exception is the Chicago journal.
TIE telegraph gives us accounts Of riot
Gus demonstration in Richmond last Frida
night
, VERY heavy freshets are reported 10 Vel
i mont, Now Hampshire and portions of Car
ada. with great loss Of property, includin
, considerable live stock.