Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-11-22
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The financial editor Of the New York p
Independent thinks that prices have not
vet attained their maximum, and that they :,
will not do 50 for long time to ceme.
Many men who we're in the rebel ser.
rice during the rebellion have enlisted in
he regular army.
The wild geese are wipging their way
Southwsrd, which is reminder Of cold
Teather at hand.
The average weight per day of tho
mails passing into and out Of the New York
postofice is thirty'five tons.
james Russell Lowell, in announcing
the last of the "Biglow Papers," gracefully
let's his mantle fall upon that genuine and
delightful humorist, Rev. Petroleum V.
Nasty"
1T is to Mr.. Motley, author of the
Dutch Republic" that the American peo-
pie will look, o writer says, for an adequate
history Of the great rebellion.
--Foriune-tellers and and titing hoops
operate differently. The former reveal what |
the lady will be in the future the latter re-
veal what she is at present.
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly,
in session at Memphis, has adopted re-
port favoring the education of freedmen.
Another terrible storm. doing much
damage to vessels, swept the Atlantic coast
on the l4th.
Meat sold in San Francisco, California,
Wednesday, at ~ 05 per 100 TBS.
The meteor shower in England was on
time. 1t is described az beautiful and bril-
liant. Twelve thousand were counted in
the course Of the night at Greenwich Observ-
atory.
"A panther over eight feet long was trap.
ped and killed at unionyille, Centre County,
Pa, last week. This is the second that has
been killed in the County this fall
"A pike weighing 27a pounds was caught
down at Parkersburg, on Tuesday night last,
The following is going the rounds as a
Domestic Drama: Scene |. Mother in the
cellar splitting wood. Scene H. Daughter
in the parlor singing to Clarence Fiz Noodle
the pathetic ballad Of who shall care for
mother now?"
, Dan Rice has boon worsted in conflict
with his sacred cow" She throw him
over the fence.
0 AT least five hundred millions of the
/ rebel bonds are held in England
: @ L, Browne, "Artemus Wardn-
!. whose politics are Of the ooppeTy order, re-
. Gently made himself so conspicuous iu hit
: disapprobation Of colored actor, Morgan
= Smith, at London theatre, that he narrow
= y escaped being hustled out by the audi
ence.
J, The cholera has appeared in the OF
n regions of West Virginia, and at some places
n is raging with unusual fatality. At Eaton,
Il Tunnel, a small station on the Baltimore q
h Ohio Railroad, fifteen miles from Parkers
l. burg, there have been fifteen deaths in lou
- days, in population of not more than ont
ia hundred persons. The scourge is principal
e ly confined to the Irish workmen engaged
!. on the railroad.
The average price paid for sermons il
the United States is just three cents-6v
sermons for straight whisky libaton.
y --Phineas II. Barnum is lrcturing in tn
Ie West to large audiences His object in do
= ing 50 may be inferred from the follswin
J" extract ofa private letter to friend, whicl
ID we nre permitted to publish: From tn
ID proceeds OF my Western lecture tour sha
devote ono thousand dollars to school il
u Bethel, Conn. (my birthplace also on
le thousand to a school in Bridgeport, Conn.
p. the interest Of which is to be given in prize
annually to the scholars who may excel il
20 reading. writing, and arithmetic and one o
ii two thousand dollars to one or two Of tn
i churches in Bridgeport"
- An old sailor at the theatre said h
- supposed that the dancing girls woie the
g. dresses at half mast as q mark Of respect I
8. departed modesty.
Mt The litigation at New York concernin
, the will of Madame Jume, Aaron Burr
"' widow, has been ended by verdict decls
IN ing that Mad anne was of unsound min
SO when she made it, Previously, howeve
the parties interested had effected settl
ment. by which Nelson Chase. who col
he tested the will agreed to pay Tits bcques
,e and the heirs at law $40, 900, on conditio
that the estate be given to him. His entir
Is payment will bo $s5, 900, but the estate
g. worth great deal more than that.
@, Our Mexican intelligence is mcager br
10 very interesting. Max. still remains in tn
country, and it is said from New Orleans h
rs don't intend to leave at all, aud went 10 Ii
is sea coast merely for his health. Orteg
refuses to return to New Orleans. and il oh
Mt guest OF the Commander of the Unto
of States colored troops on the Rio Grand,
~ Csnalos had attacked Matamoras with il
,v Nv different success. Tapia had died of che
y era.
Nv The well known residence of Gener
~ Felix X Zollcoifer was sold at CHANGER
% sale, in Nashville, on Saturday, at $22, lC
"a low price for such property.
4. Antonio Barbarino, proprietor of
"' street corner fruit stand, in ST. Louis, die
few days ago, leaving an estate worth ov,
-: $4,000.
no The widow Of the late Nathan Hal
ist many years editor Of the Bosten Advertise
ng died al Brookline, Mass, on Wednesday,
in ths age of 10. She was sister Of Edwal
Everett.
~ -Mrs. Ann Kirby Barnum, widow
e, David BarDum, the founder of the VIZ
n. known BarnuIn's Hotel, died in Baltimo
y on "Wednesday. at the age of ninety.tw
es She was native of Litchfsld, Conn.
H. 1T 10 said that Nathaniel Hawthorn
ng has left a valuable novel, no portion
[r which has ksen published, bis widow hes
l =. T.