Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-02-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


A MR Dom, of Warren ILL.,, has sue
ceeded ia deliberately starving himself to
death, by Jthirteend days obstinate refusal to.
eat or drink, relsnting a. tIife at the last,
when too late to avert the fatal result For
nine whole days he neither alto q rporsel OF
food or drank drop Of water Sdsays Q
correspondent ofthe Chicago Ropublican.
A DISPATCH from St. Louis reports that
on last Saturday. difficulty occurred between
boisterous man, in Columbia, Missouri,
and the town Marshal, during which his
name was ascertained to be Thomas G. |
Bingham, brother of Hon. John a. Bing.
ham, member of Congress from the Six |
teenth District of Ohio. 1t appears that |
Thomas Q. bingham. is . graduate of West
Point was rebel doing service in the Con: I
federate army, and some time since was In |
dicted by the Grand Jury for grand larceny,
in taking a horse belonging to Judge Hiram
Phillips, Unionman of Boone County. On
Sunday Sheriff Baker arrested Bingham,
and he is now In Jail awaiting his trial 'iij
TIE Alton tIll.) Telegraph says an old
and experienced horticulturist Informed us
this morning that he had made. very care,
full and extensive examinations OF the peach
buds in this, vicinity, and that, while he
found majority Of them winter killed,
there was enough of them spared, If not
hereafter killed, to furnish very abundant
crop the approaching season. =. ,i.,,.'..''
GEN. GRANT recently Invited Gen. Butler
20 be present at one of his receptions, to
which the latter replied in short note tell,
ing Gem Grant that he did not wish to con-
tinue his acquaintance with him.
A, WASHINGTON letter describes General
Buffers daughter. as one Of the loycliest
blondes ever seen.
| INDlANAPoLIs papers speak of the preva-
lenco of snsilpox in that city, there being
fourteen patients now in the pest house.
GEN. BURNsIDE will be the Republican
candidate for Governor of Rhode Island.
Two YOUNG men of Washington, Wayne
County, Ind, were recently arrested for
administering drugs to two young ladies
and attempting their ruin. .i4 i.H s'H.
ONE million five hundred thousand pounds
Of cotton Of good staple have been raised in
the vicinity of Caroondale, Jackson County,
Illinois, the past season. f.. xxx.
WE find the marvellous story in an East
! ern paper that on Sunday night last some
body watchers at, Norwalk, Conn. dug up
thelbody of a young lady who had been
buried that aft ernoon, and succeeded beyond
their anticipations She had been buried
while in eataleptic fit, and upon being ex-
, posed to the night air, animation was re-
. stored. The resurtectionists fed, !, and she
,, walked home. Henparonts refused to ad-
NIT her, believing her to be ghost. She
then went to the house of young man to
! whom she was engaged. He took her
, in, and on Monday morning they were mar
Q ried.'I ~ 1. D-6 1ei9.sai n .aaiu
Ar Pontotoc Miss, few nights since
. the agent of the Freedmen's Bureau was
: murdered in cold blood while sleeping II
his bed, BY party of rebels. His body
? was riddel with bullets The people al
5 Pontotpc hated the bureau intensely fol
! igterf3ting with them in exercising contro
6v9r their slayes, ., .,...j '.a
A ROBBERY of the mail is reported Of
Wiilianlsport, Pa.
: THE western railroads are charging al
. average of IS per cent, more for freight thar
|, they charged in 1860.
f MANY colored women and children arr
J making dollara day by digging ont bullots
. in the soil about Petersburg, and seiDl
them for old lead '.s 49, rio .,
/ A SOLDIER named Henry ahorn turned
a UP day or two since ip tho court room a
d Benton, Illinois, just as David Williams
was being tried for his (Mahorn' 's) murder
, 1t seems that Mahorn disappeared from
: that locality a year since, and a few week.
! aeo q skeleton was found, supposed to be
Mahorns As Williams had accompanied
him-they having both gone to enlist in tn,
A army-suspicion was at once 6xel upon
/, him. 1t now appears that Mahorn did en-
1spk h,,ts Il ,,al, Al,
+ could not communicate with bis friends
, while Williams returned to Benton.
A WISCONSIN hill to amend tho election
, law makes such changes as will etfectually
prevent draft skedaddlers from voting. u.'
The New York Legislature has passed a
bill to prevent the manufacture and sale Of
! slung shots and other dangerous weapons.
House, at theWhite Mountains, which was
: in process of construction, was blown down
bya tornado few days since. ar.aa
, ..IT.is said by the St. Louis papers that
there will not be less than forty steamers in
the Upper Mississippi trade on the opening
OF navigation. mn, s.., ~ l~. ...,.,.l
J SToCK to the amount of $500, 900 has bee n
subscribed to establish an extensive cotton
factory in Chicago $500 0oO is required.
THERE is a great pigeon roost nearHuron,
on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, A few
nights ago MeSsrs. Parsons aud Pauley, of
Vincennes,. killed between eight hundred
aud Thousand Of the birds.
/ A WRITER in the Wisconsin State Jour
. nal claims that the honor of being the first
man in America who invented the Electric
Telegraph belongs to Mr. Levi Burrell, for
merly Of Rochester, and now, We believe,
!, Collector of the Port of Milwaukee. q p
THE trial Of Major MeGee, for cruelty to
Union prisoners at Salisbury, N. c., is to
begin at Raleigh in few days, sr, ~,
Mn WILLIAM SPRAoUr, the Rhode Is