Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-09
2elmont Chronicle.
ST. CLAIRSvILLE, O.:
Thursday, August 9, 1865.
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Cleaned from Late Mails,

taken 70 clean up tho city. Ihe deaths last
week were I'll.
"A writer in the Rochester IN. 7. Ex.
press says | venture the prediction, based
upon information derived from farmers
themselves, as well as upon actual observa-
ton, that the wheat crop now being harvest
cd is ahead of anything Ontario County has
produced in that line for many years, and
ether grain is doing nearly o. quite as well.
George Kilburn, Hiram Price and Geo.
Price. arrested for robbing Mr.. Bristol, of
Huron County, Ohio, under the pretense of
being government detectives. were examin.
cd st Norwslk on Saturday last. and bound
over to the Court of Common Pleas iD the
sum Of 100000 each. They were fully
identified by Mr.. Bristol, ss the men who
robbed him Of his bonds and money There
was great excitement at Norwslk during the
examination, the people coming in from all
parts Of the country.
John Ros. Chief of the Cherokee ma
tion, died in Washington on last Wednes-
day, after a lingering illness of two months
1T is understood that Gen. Steedman
declines the appointment Of Superintendent
OF Public Printing. Cornelius Wendell will
probably be appointed.
Those whose official position in Wash
instoa entities their opinions to much re-
spect, believe thst the riots are not yet at IN
end 10 New Orleans. The whole RESPONSE
bilitv for the matter is charged directly upon
the Prssident
Nearly eight millions Of rations were
issued to destitute whites and blacks in the
South during the last ten months
The Uaion Congressional Convention
Of tho Eleventh Indiana District, met at
Wabash on Wednesday. A resolution in.
dorsins the course of Tbes. N Stilwell, the
pressst Representative, was voted down by
lsfes majority. Gen. P. G. Shanks was
Bsmiested on the second ballot as the Union
candidate FOR Coaer~as.
Miss Clam Bsrtan whose devotion to
sick snd weunded soldiers 10 the late war is
30 well tnevn. proposes, in compliance with
numerous requests. 70 lecture the coming
season nn Personal "reminiscences ofScenes
on the BAttle-6elds."
Hon A. A. Bradford declines 10 be
candidate for re- nomination as delegate to
Cosesess from Colorado, and Capt A. B.
Holle~s, announces himself candidate to
Gil the place.
Tho Union men ofthe Fourth Missouri
Congressional District nominated Colonel J.
J: Grayslly for Congress last Friday. COL
kelse is the present ius.mhent.
The Peoria fIll) Transcript REPORTS
that man named Joseph Wuermle died in
the upper part of the city from disense
which the attending physicians pronounced
to be the cholera. He wvs Swim, and had
been 10 the city about two npntAA
In Collins township, Pa. IN Sunday
i
gun which he did not think wa. loaded,
st the head Of companion, and pulled the
trIsser The whole charge in the gun
uckshot-antered the mans head. and he
died seen s&sA Bray delivered himself up.
Ats Conservative barbecue in Hunts
vile, Mo, on Saturday last ..the United
States hag was ordered to be pulled down,
and it vas accordingly lowered amidst cheers
and yels 81 deriton On the part of the sup.
portsrs Of A johnson
1T has been discovered at Detroit that
millsrs Of the interior have pyactised fraud
70 quite an extent in packing -four for mar
tet. The quantity falls short from one to
hye pounds per barrel.
.--At the meeting of the Alumni of Yale
College. at the late Commencement, Rev.
John Pierpont, who graduated sixty.two
yotrs ego, and is now over 80 years Of age,
was amoug the speakers.
l--Speaksr Cslfax has written to the Feni.
ans Of Chiosgo, telling them he would be
present at their pic mic on the 18th Of Au.
gust.
Mayor Stevens Of Portland has receiv.
cd from w. W. Leland, Esq letter en-
closing check for o. ,905, tho proceeds of
an exhibition Of tsbleaux vivants given at |
Saratoga BY the lady guests of Union Hotel
The fund is to bs applied to the relief of |
sufferers by the calamitous FIRE in that city.
Stevens, Boyd T. Co., of Chicago gift |
enterprise concern, has been put under |
bonds to quit the business.
Gem. Logan refuses TO run as candi.
date for Congressman at large from Illinois,
and II is reported that he az well as Mr.. !
Trumbull and Gov. Oglesby will be candi.
dates for tbs United States Senate next
winter. -
"A dispatch has bel4 feceived NJ the
military headquarters in Nashville, from
Mai. Gen. Wood, stating that on the 25th
alt there were ITO cases of cholera in Sa.
vsnnah. OF which one half proved fatal.
An ARRAY growing out of political diff.
ferences occurred at Madisonvillo, Mo-, in
which three men we're killed and nine seri.
susly wounded.
The Union Congressional Convention
Of the With Ohio District met on Wednes.
day last at London, aud within ten minutes
after their assembling renominated Hon.
Samuel Shellabarger for Congress by accla-
nation A resolution was also adopted very
complimentary to the distinguished Repre-
sentative.
meetings are being held In Georgia with
reference 10 the late projected negro emf.
grafton to Africa. The blacks have become
very unmanaseable since the matter oriei.
mated. and much difficulty is experienced In
Eotting,Any work out Of them. The white
people propose TO hold out inducements 10
the negroes TO remain in this country, and
pfomising proper treatment il they do their
duty.
--Seseral delegations, representing m.
commercial interests Of New York and
Bhiladelphia, have waited on the President
within the past few days, aud strongly urged
the removal Of Secretary McCullooh. T6ev
declare that 4 maHNof nerve and experiences |
u needed 10 take charge of the Treasure |