Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-18

ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
bIeaned from Late Mails.

CLEANED from Late Malls.
The Sandusky Register claims popu--
lotion OF nearly $4,000 for that city. The
census Of 1860 gave 1000 as henumber Of
inhabitants.
"A young lady now employed as a com
positor on the Montgomery Advertiser had
300 bales of cotton burned during the war
"A man in South Carolina sends boy
every day 80 miles on horseback to get his
daily paper.
The Mansfield 70 Herald says that
the crop of apples in Richland County has
been unusually large this season, and great
quantities are being shipped from Mansfield. |
They are generally Of superior duality
With the exception of apples there has been !
no fruit to speak ofin this region.
The boot. blacks Of New York are to
have trial Of skill for "The Championship
Of America.
Work has begun on the western portion
of the Sioux City & st. Paul Railroad.
The Circevlle Union says that the citi-
gems of Wayne township, Pickaway County,
terminated rat hunt of four weeks dura
ton on the 9th inst. Each side numbered
twenty men, under the command of Cap
tains James Wallace and Jacob Wiggins.
The hunters assembled at the American
Hotel. six miles west Of Circleville, on the
above date, and counted tails with the fol-
lowing result: Wallace, 2,S0S; Virgins,
2,707 total, 5,5l5. .....
The work ofexhuming the Federal dead
will be continued until ali are removed to
ha National Gau,ataru at Marlatta
The LaGrange (Texas) News says that
the negroes near independence have among
them a singular disease, resembling cholera,
but unaccompaniod with pain. As many
as ten have died.
The United States forces at Chattanoo-
ga have made one or two trips after the
remnants Of Gatewood's S famous guerrillas,
who still intest Dade County, Ga. Two or
three of them have been taken. M a
We have the authority Of the Miami
| iazette for stating that a women near
Ridgeyille, in Warren County, Ohio,
recently gave birth to three chidren-two
boys aud one girl-all for the Union.
The grape crop near Seneca Lake, and
in other sections of Western New Y ork, Is
said to have bcen destroyed by the frost of
the 5th ult. The damage is said to reach
$200,000.
The citizens of Lancaster, Ohio, voted
300 majority, on Tuesday last, in favor Of a
new market house.
Minnie Stratton, General Tom Thumb S
infant daughter, died at Norwich, England,
on the 25th ult., Of inhamation of the brain.
A man named Thomas Hewitt, aged
forty-three years, recently from Pennsylva-
MIA. committed suicide at Shiloh, in Rich
land County, on "Wednesday last by hang
ing Having lost beloved daughter by
death short time previous, he grieved
over it until he became partially insane, and
committed the act.
"A aan at St Athanase, Canada, ap
piled coal oil to clt on his wrist, where
upon his arm began to swell, aud the swell
ing extended to his whole body, causing his
death in two days.
Quincy, Illinois, now contains 10000 in.
habitants. 1t was called "Qnincy,' aftc,
John Quincy Adams. by the marast accl
dent. The citiz 1ns of Morgan County hao
already named their loading town jackson
vile, " and at "A meeting of the Commis
si0ners of 4 lams County to locate the
J County seat, one of them Mr. Kellogg
read aloud the inaugural Of Pre.iden
Adams. and on finishing it declared thai
the new town should be called Q iincy -
Accorlugly, they drove stake near the
town pump, and putting their hands upor
it, with due solemnities declared that "thi
town hereafter shall be called by the nam,
Of Quincy.
DIR. John Andrews, President of tn,
Board of Control ofthe State Bank of Ohio
: died suddenly night before last. v
"A Missourian has realized 5000 thi
year from ten acres of peaches.
"A Sacramento establishment turns ou
"a, ,O0j cans of preserved fruit.
The Census Bureau estimates the pres
ent population of this country at 35 900 600
Instrumental music is to be made {
regular study in Camden New Jersey pub
lie schools.
"A rattlesnake is reported to have beer
killed az Parish $ Grove, in this State, re
Gently, with 10 rattles, whose body was al
thick as mans thigh.
1t is an Interesting item in the hister,
of the Atlantic Telegraph, that the manu-
factura of the wire for the cable laid thi,
hands employed in England for clever
months. Upwards of thirty thousand miles
were supplied.
--"Whst is the reason that men never
kiss each other, while the ladies waste a
world Of kisses on the feminine faces p
said foolish gent to a lively girl the Other
day. The young lady answered, "Becausc
the men have something better to kiss, and
the women haven't"
"A. I, Stewart of New York, recently
intmated his readiness to give 81 ,O00,0OC
for the erection of tenement houses tor the
deserving poor of that city, the coaditior
being that the land required should be pro
vided.
The Harrsonville mo Democra
boasts of having been presented with an
apple of the pippin species which weighs q
ounces. 1t was one of bushel and hal
raised on the same tree. that average ono
aud a-half pounds each. Large fruit, surely
1t is reported that in the vote on the 9th
inst, on the question of removing the
County seat of Wood County, frsm Perrys
burg to Bowling Green, there was a majori
~ Of 100 in favor OF that measure.
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