Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-12
GENBRAL Npws SUMMARY.

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CoTreN is selling at Macon and Atlantis .
80 cents for ~middling. G
THE Empress Eugene will be on the shs- .
dy side of 40, after May s. +,
THE Wisconsin Legislature will probably :
Senator Doolittle to resign.
THE price Of tobacco in Montana Territory
has recently been as high as Ave dollars q
pound.
IT 10 rumored that Green Clay Smith is
TO be appointed Governor Of Montana Ter
ritory.
TIVE Union majority in New Hampshire
is within 30 votes Of the estimate before the
election. -l ..v '.if -I
MINNESOTA, as we'll as Wisconsin, hiss
been visited by foods, which have done
much injury. ..,
TIE Union city ticket was elected in
Cleveland, on Monday, BY an average ma.
jority of 500. "'.. .H
TIE Superintendent OF the New York
police has ordered the arrest Of all begsars
and street sweepers. -v
The Mobile Register denies the report
that an unquestionable case Of cholera had
ap peared In that city. l'' "'. ID" n.-
THE municipal elections Throughout the
State Of Michigan, on Monday; show consid.
cradle Republican gains. .l.f .s.oer
Gov. CRAPo Of Michigan has appoipted
April 10 as a day Of public fasting and pray
er for the people Of that State. On"
A BILL is being prepared making the
office of Com ~ptroller Of the Currency indie
pendent Of the Treasury Department. no.
IT is estimated that one thousand persons
were killed or wounded by the lato tornado
in Pope and johnson Counties, in Illinois.
Gov. OaLEsBY, OF Illinois, has appointed
Sunday, April Is. the anniversary of Presi.
dent Lincoln's death, u day Of fasting and
prayer.
IT is asserted on good authority tia
nearly a million of dollars will change hands
In Connecticut on the result. Of Mondays
election. ... b.
AN order issued from the State Depart
ment, forhids the giving OF any patropsge
to ~. W. Forney, !" without specifying
either of his papers. ~ .v..I,. ..-t.
CgowAN County. N. c.. Is said to be q
perfect RhiHclapd for wine. One gentle
man makes $6. 000 a year from 100 acres
under grape culture.
TIE people Of S~mithville, N, G.. recently
captured q whale at the mouth ofCape Fear
river, below Wilmington. The monster was
fifty six feet in length.
, AT New Orleans and through the ad
Z jacent country, immense destruction OF pro
perty ia feared from a crevasse in the Mis-
I sissippi levee at Baton Rouge.
! The Jacksonville, Ella Times says thsI
. thousands Of negro children are now being
|. educated in that State by their presenI
\ employers, who we're shareholders. .,f
: THERE seems to be no doubt hut thal
Stephens has escaped from Ireland TIT
London News says thst it is positively as
serted that he is the guest Of John Mitch
eli, in Paris. .r'.f
= TIE Lima Gazette notices a Union gair
Of SO IN the majority in that township since
last fall. In Gallon the Republicans elect
q ed their Treasurer and tied the Democrat
! On one Trustee. ,..f,
j. THE municipal elections in Leaveuwnrth
T. Kansas, and Jefferson City, Mo-, on Mon
day, resulted in Republican, triumphs.-
= The Republicans ia 81. Lpuis we're defeatet
by their internal disstsn.ions. Ys ~
. FIVE steamboats, wcrs burned at the st
Louis ievee on Saturday. They were tn,
! Nevada, EfBe Deans, Fannie Ogden, Franl
. Bates aud Alex. Majors. The total los
. will reach halt million dollars.
GENERAL ScHENcK and Mr.. Bingham
received the compliment Of a serauad,
Q from the members Of the Soldiers and Sail
o ors' Union in Washington. April I'd. Boil
e gentlemen made appropriate responses.
! A FINANCIAL PANIC prevails at Rocbs'
q ter. N. Y, and runs have been made upoi
!. several Of tho banking institutions Of tn
= city. No danger existed that the bank
would not be able to meet all their liabil
!" ties.
. The Ways aud Means Committee nav
decided to report in favor of the repeal o
z the revenue tax on printing materials. suc|
as paper, ink and type, together with tn
l. materials which enter into their compost
n ton,
4 C%auyTERrElT twenty dollar bills on one @
a the Indiana National Banks have bee
!, detected at the Treasury. They are poo
4 limitations Of the original, and can readiD
be detected by the poor quality Of the in
and paper.
PROVISIONAL 0ON. nAmiLION u ripper
2 ed en- route to Washington to see what
q to he done with Texas. The Secessionist
have seized upon the entire political contrc
q Of the State, and are carrying everythin
with a high hand.
THE Petersburg Index says some Of tn
3. people of that city are engaged in diggin
o IN the remains Of soldiers buried along tn
n lines formerly occupied by the Federal an
Confederate armies. and selling them to b
ground into bone dustl
The Coshocton Age says, that on Tuesda
last George Mathew. q half.breed Indian
|. who was color bearer of the 9th o. WI.
y in q Ht Of delirium tremens, fell u~nnotiee
into the furnace at the railroad tank in this
2 place. and vas burned to death.
THERE is good news from the Atlanti
Telegraph Company. All the stock Of th
new company has been taken; the new cabl
IS is manufactured at the rate Of %ninetse
= nautical miles per day; the Great Easter
. is fitting out for her new voyage, which
to begin on the 30th of June, and the pro!
poets Of the enterprise are In every way eI