Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-11-08
State News.

Governor Cox has appointed the Goth
day of November as day of thanksgiving.
On the vote basis. the Hancock JEFF
fersouian claims for .Findlay Gill inhabi-
tants.
Twenty. -four deaths from cholera are
reported in Cincinnati for forty.eight hours
ending Sunday at o'clock.
The Fremont Journal says that Col.
Conger, who headed the party that brought
the assassin Booth to bay, was in Fremont,
his old home, last week.
The Eaton tObio) Register describes q
singular and fatal accident, which occurred
in that place Lucy G. Stephens, a daughter
OF John W STEPHENS, fell while carrying q
glass lamp. which was broken by her fall =
A fragment struck her neck, severing the
carotid artery and jugular vein, and the
poor girl soon bed to death.
Marble has been discovered near Zanes-
vile, Ohio The vein is thirty feet thick,
and it is said to rival Italian marble in its
fneness ana delicacy.
The Portsmouth Tribune claims, on the
basis Of the vote there, population Of o.
625.
There are thirty.two churches in the
city of Dayton.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: The
sIaughtering of hogs usually commences
about the lst of November, but it has been
so warm thus far that little has been done.
We are glad to see that prices are not likely
to be as high as for some time past; twenty
five cents for o slice of ham, puts it beyond
the reach of poor folks.
The Athens Messenger is informed by
a cattle dealer that the cattle handled in
the South part Of that County this year are
worth not far short Of q million of dollars.
The most of them are shipped East.
The Gallipolis Journal says colored
woman of that place was burned to death
by her clothes taking FIRE from spark
lighting upon them as she was sitting asleep
in front of the fire.
On Sunday last, boy about ~ years
of age, set fire to barn belonging to Mr..
Benjamin Courly, near Steubenville, which
resulted in the destruction Of six thousand
dollars worth of property. He had been
living with Mr.. c., and had been charged
BY him with theft. He confessed setting
fire to the barn. 9.,4 4.sla
The Springfield Republic reports q
large number of buildings for dwellings and
other purposes, including large hotel, in
preparation in that place.
The Washington County, News gives
an instance Of "the laws delay" in case
which has been before the court in that
County for twenty five years.
"A horse, standing tied to a post in
Hamilton, Ohio, on Tuesday last, became
frightened by the passing of Robinson
show, and in its efforts to free itself and gel
away, got impaled on the hitcbing post, III
bowels gushing out, and rendering 1t neces
sary to kill it at once.
--Circleville claims a population Of s.,
964.
George H. Pond, a graduate of thu
Marietta College. last commencement, dice
of cholera at Marietta on last Sunday after
noon. r~
--Cadiz is about to have d new depo
building, TO be erected by the 2. Z. u q. X
R., vice the old one torn down.
The Bucyrus Journal reports that tn,
hog cholera is prevailing In Crawford Coun
ty, o., and is very fatal. One farmer los
one hundred and twenty hogs by it.
1T is estimated that nearly one thonsanS
car loads Of lumber have passed over thu
Fremont Il Indiana road, between Findlay
and Fremont, distance Of 36 miles, durinl
the past season. lA-~ AtA
Mr. John r. Bond has purchased tht
Athens Messenger ~