Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-31
TERMS OF ADvnnTfslse.
SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.


settled on Wednesday last, and settled as i,
should be. Gen. o S. Ferry was. returned,
10 place OF Mr.. Foster. by vote of thirteen
TO eight Every Republican Senator voted
for him, and every Democratic Senator
against him. Gen. Ferry is true man.
and be will prove valuable acquisition to
the ranks Of the Union men 10 Congress. =
The House had previously elected Gen.
Ferry. .-.
TIE Virginia Unconditional Union Con-
Ventien at Alexandra has sdjouiu ued, after
organizing Union Republican party in the
state, and making a very explicit declara-
ton OF opinions and PRINCIPLES, smeDg
which aTs those fayerai 10 to universal
an nesty and suffrage, and system of free
schools. A State COMMITTEES OF the right
material was selected to take charge of par
ty business.
TIE Cairo Times Of the 10th says that q
company have struck at the depth oftwo
hundred feet, at Du Quoin, six foot vein
OF coal, that after careful trial and thor.
ougb chemical test, is pronounced much su-
perior to any ever before found in the State,
and but little, if any, inf rior To the best
Pittsburgh coal. The coal is found in mex
haustible quantities.
THE Madison, lind. Courier, OF May IT,
ssys: Governor Morton was in attend sDcs
at the Grand Lodge |. o. o. +. yesterday
afternoon. He looks very bad, and those
who have not seen him since his illness,
would scarcely recognize, in his emaciated
appearance the once robust body Of Gsv.
Morton.
THE great Union Pacific Railway steadily
progresses westward, and in about two
months tho locomotive will follow the set
ting sun as far as Fort Riley, four husdred
and twenty miles West of st. Louis. As
fast as the road is built and accepted the
Governmental bonds are issued.
WAR in Europe is imminent. Austria,
Prussia, Italy, and the minor German States
are bristling with armed men; while Louis
Napoleon is backing the powers opposed TO
Austria. This state of affairs has produced
fna ncial crash, and some Of the heaviest
bankers in Europe lave. failed.
On the Hudson River Railroad, recently.
locomotive ran against man near Pough-
keepsie, picking him up and carrying him
ten miles before discovering the state Of
affairs. Some of his bones we're broken,
but he was perfectly consCiels. ind is nos
unlikely to recover.
The Louisville Journal has teeu shown;
by gentleman OF thai city, q sanrls of plug
tobacco Manufactured from brown paper
and tobacco stems. The plugs sre scented
with lauoTice, end painted with lamp-black.
The market has been flooded with this bogus-
article. -/
Os Sunday last three year old son of
Chas Fl. Bailey was accidentally shot and
LiilaA he t.t =, G.l
Pa. A boy named Edwards PICKED up q
gun. pointed it at the child for fun and 40
cidentaly discharged it.
Mas. CARLYLE. the wife of the great
English pnblicst, Thomas Carlyle, is dead.
Mr.. Carlyle was in Scotland at the time Of
her demise. and insisted on goipg down to
London. His friends are npprehensive of
the blow upon him.
AT the great stallion trot on the Fashion
Course Wednesday, for a purse and stake
Of 81 500. the California horse, George N.
Patcben. jr., was the winner. making three
heats respectively in 2:S0i, 2:30 and 2.2Tf
minutes.
By the tornado at Rochester on Sunday
there was very great damage done. A
church was struck by liehtring, and vereta-
tiun was severely dealt with all through .
territory of iouf miles square.
THE first green corn IF the season made
its appearance at New Orleans on tho lth.
The price paid was two dollars per dozen,
and it was served up at the Restaurants at
twenty five cents ger ear. -- .a
A CITIZEN Of Norwich, New York. had
bis pocket pick ed of 1860 thirty. three years
ago. The Other day the amount, with in
terest. was returned to b;r through tleUtica
posteffice. .4
j. w. TFxADA. a member OF the Louisi
ana Legislature. was shot by his brother, at
Aiexandria, and mor,sly wounded. a short
time since. The affair grew out Of poiti-
cu quarrel. .f..
GIN. B. f. RUTLER has been chosen ty
the Massachusetts Legislature 20 be &
Major General Of the Sta'e military, under
the provisions of new law relating to that
subject. ,s
TUE New York Hersld OF Monday. says
it is noticeable that rents and the prices OF
real estate in that city are lower Eow than
A SEEMINGLY inexhaustihle flock Of pig
eons conlimie to- furnish subsistence - ths
people of Morgan County, Ind, to the great
detrinent OF the butchers.
THE corner stone Of Congregational
church, the first in the city, was laid at
Baltimore on Wednesday. Rev. DR.. Boynton
took part in the exercises.
Mrs. SUSAN KING, wife Of Rev. Thomas
f. King, and mother of the late I. Starr
King, died at Charlestown, Mass, on Sat
urday, at the age Of so. .,.
TIE estate of NJ. d. Potter, the lstslv de-.
ceased proprietor of the Cincinnati Gem
mercial. Iroves unexpectedly to be worth
$500, 600. u, .
A PARTY of l6 friendly Indians we're kill,
ed by some lawles whites, Is miles from the
mouth OF Moore River, in Idab, March IL.
The two hundreth anniversary of the
settlement of the city Of Newark, n. j.,
was celebrated Thursday last. ., ...
AT Jauesviile. Wis, hcrse-thief mur-
dersd ycnng nan named Graves, because
he had informed upon him.
A LARGE part Of the tunnel on the
Mountiny bro hcb Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road caved in on Sunday. =
MRs. RoBT. TooNBs ra.sed through
/ Atlanta Ga last W. ok, on her way to JOIN