Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-12-13
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Cleaned from Late Mails.

| line Cnlcag0 hepuDIIcen proposes the
establishment of an Associated Press en-
terprise in that city. to furnish teleetsphio
news to 'st least hundred daily newspa-
pers between Kalamhsoo and the Rocky
Mountains" -
-Mr. Brady. Of New York, once said to
celebrated Rhode Island lawyer: "Wbyl
do yen vegetate in little country villagef
Why don't you go to New York, where you
could find proper sphere for your talents,
and would certainly rise 10 fortune and dis
tnction!" Little country villageW re-
piled the lawyer; take the thieves and
and it is not 30 much bigper place than
Wexford as you think it is"
--Ford's Theater building at Washington
has been undergoing important changes. =
| Thousands Of relics Of the war have already
found room in some Of the cases. Amest
every part of the human body usually at,
/ tackled hy disease and accidents incident to
the army, have been preserved in jars for
| purposes, the value of which cannot be
/ over estimated. Specimens of every variety
/ of artificial limbs which ingenuity and skill
/ have been able to invent, have been careful
/ ly deposited 10 eases prepared for the pur-
/ pose. The archives Of the defunct South
ern Confederscy will also be deposited in the
building
During the past fiscal year 100000
letters were returned to the deadletter Of
fee in Washington. .a'.
IA panther in Cass County, Iowa, has
been indulgng in such terrible music that
! the coach horses neighed with alright and
the hirsute ornaments Of the passengers
heads stood perpendicular with horror.
In l176 the hostage on letters between
/ Falmouth--now Portland-Me. and Boston
was two pounds sixteen shillings. We are
surprised to learn that at this high rate even
as many as five letters week. we're sent,
which was about the average. Itthen took
four days to go from one place to the other,
distance of one hundred and fifteen miles.
! Don Pedro H., Emperor Of Brazil, will
make tour OF this country before proceed
ing to the Paris Exposition.
"A Kentucky paper says that the heavi-
est and best tobacco crop grown in Kentucky
| for the past seven years is tbs crop Of the
| present season, just DOW beginning to move
to market.
Lead in great abundance has been dis
covered in the valley of the Green River,
in Kentucky. A mine will be opened at
once. Similar discoveries are reported in
/ Owen and Shelby Counties.
Very fine oysters are selling at The
whsrves in Alexandria at fifty cents per
bushel.
The firtations and pleasant tete-a-tetes
between the clerks of the New York Pest
Office and the young women who call for
answers to matrimonial advertisements are
com planed O { as puisauces
"A Western poet is the author of these
epigrammic lines:
"The old dog Trays ever faithful. they say;
But dog that l. faithful can never be Tray" T.
! Miss Field, who has been writing up
Ristori for the New York Tribune, is
daughter of Field, the actor. She learned
| "reminiscences Of Lander" published in
I the Atlantic Monthly. ..-..''.!
I'VE noticed, says the Topeka Tri-
buue, "a load of oats in town the other day,
the measurement of which vas fifty bushels,
but the number of bushels by weight was
sixty-nine. IF any State in the Union can
beat this, will they please let us know!-
Kansas is ahead on oats" That accounts
rebels try to drive them. They are always
sure to get their heels through the dash
boald.
A dispatch from Rome states that the
removal of the French troops from that city
has commenced.
One of the vessels of the Government
feet in the Mediterranean will, il is said, be
employed to bring the prisoner Surrstt to
this country at once.
The Imperial commander, at Acapulco,
Mexico. don't seem to intend an immediate
evacuation Of that port. He is expecting
reintorcements.
-Sixfy-three passenger trains come and
60 at Chicago; every day; that city being
the terminus of thirteen or more railroads,
and the charters for mere have been pro-
cured. .Er
From the Official records it appears that
during the war is 900 Federal prisoners
died in the South, aud 26, 1876 Confederate
prisoners died in the North. 'rA
-Charlos Bsadpr, Of Philadelphia, who
} years ago compromised with his creditors
!, and received legal discharge, recently in
!, vited them to dinner at the Continental,
, and raid each creditor the full smounti Of
his indebtedness
A rich man is proyidcnt efhis gold, but
berear is prodksl OF his coppers. A wise
man is provident of his thoughts, but fool
is prodigal of bis words. s"'
"A man who covers himself with. costly
apparel, and neglects his mind, Is like one
who ilIumnates the outside Of His house
and sits within in the dark.
Colorado Jewett, slwsys ineeaieus,
memoriaiizes Congress to declare Hannibal
Hamlin President Of the United Ststes =
He argues that the socend slestisn Of Mr..
| Lincoln was not constitutional, ~ eleven ol
r the States did not sppoint electors, ssd chs
Mr. Hamlin holds over, ss Mr.. Liscon
) would have done, in the absence Of lesa
| successor. We infer from this argument
, that Mr.. Jewett withdraws his support
q from Andrew johnson.
!. =, A man, short distance from the city,
!, SAYS no one need tell him that advertising
- :, won't cause hig rush, for he sdyertised ted
y bushels of grapes for sale and the hext
:, morning there wasn't one lsft--ths boys
T. = stole 'em all. oa ers - ysn
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