Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-02-01
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


THERE Is a strong probability that San.
Cox will be Democratic candidate for Gem
gress next summer, in the New York Dis
trict represented in this Congress by Mr..
Raymond. IL was more than suspected q
year ego that Samuel went to the Empire
City for this purpose. .s p.a
JOHN FREw, one of the editors Of the
Wheeling lnteligencer, has been elected
public printer for the State Of West Vir'
ginia.
IT is announced that the Government is
determined to enforce neutrality on the Rio
Grande. The fllibustering Gen. Crawford
has been arrested.
AT the Dead Letter Office in Washington
letter was recently received containing
check for IS, 900 in coin, directed to lady
in New York, requesting her ITO accept the
inoosed as return for the kindness shswn
my father and mother, dated at the Astor
House, and signed "John." who was to
start Immediately tor Europe. The Post
master General directed thorough search
for the lady, and at last found her.
TIE grand Jury Of Lafayette County.
Mississippi, have found true bill
against Gen. A. j. Smith, U. s. A, for
J burning the Court house and town Of Ok.
ford, in the summer OF 1864.
THE Regular Army now numbers 1,124
officers and 23,793 men.
THE Richmond Examiner speaks of Wash.
ington City as the Yankee Capital.
A MAN in Christian County, ILL.,, has a
clock which was made 700 years ago, 30 it
is said, and which keeps excellent time,
though the works are large and clumsy.
THERE is curious fact concerning the Lin
coin medals struck for the great sanitary
fair at Chicago. Tho dye cracked In the
making, and the line it left marks the exact
course of the bullet which took President
Lincoln's life.
Royal w. WeMBLY, Of Niles, Michigan,
in playing game Of billiards, made the enor-
nous run Of 5000 points carom.
THE Washington Republican announces
the resignation Of Captain Fox, Assistan,
Secretary of the Navy.
THERE are 35, 36l miles of railroad in tn,
United States, and l6 900 miles in progress
OF construction. Pennsylvania has the mos
OF the former, namely, 3,797 miles. Th,
average cost of the completed lines wa
$35, 900 per mile.
So FAR only one National Bank has failet
that at Attica, N. Y.--and its circulation
is redeemed at par.
A STRONG effort is being made in tn
Wisconsin Legislature to restore capita
, punishment in that State, it's repeal havin
$ worked bad results.
, A NEEDLE which had been imbedded fou
weeks in the muscles oil u childs hip, wa
extracted by powerful magnet at Syracus
2 few days ago.
! CHICAGO holds the largest candy manr
: factory west of New York. 1t makes thre
). tons Of confectionery every day.
e A New YonK letter to the Phi,adplphi
Inouirer, states that Mr.. VIM. NJ. Evart
n has at last settled down to the work of pr,
I pairing for the trial of Jefferson Davis, an
y is mot at home" to visitors. being engage
in overhauing the records OF trials for trea
n son since the days of tue Stuarts. The Go'
q ernment. is is said, pays Mr.. Evarts fee {
Il one hundred thousand dollars in this case,
l. sum which is not an exorbitant charge fO
o professional service, when it is considers
x that his business is now fifty thousan
1t dollars per year, and must suffer to a gre,
in exteut during his preparations tor and a
tendance on the trial Of the President Of th
late "Confedcracy."
Tue Pittsburgh Commercial says that tn
/, old United States we'll, the pioneer of Il
# Pit Hole region, which ceased to flow
70 November, is now pumping about one hun
dred barrels, and steadily increasing. III
Elwood well, on TVrner & Prau's reserv
~ Rocker farm, which was struck on the l5ll
Is is now pumping and flowing at the rate
about two hundred barrels daily, the suck
n rods are still increasing.
y The pen with which the late Presiden
Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Preclama
n. ton is in the possession of the widow of tf
"a late Hon Geo. Livermore, of Camtridg
n Mass. IT was presented to Mr.. Livermo
- by President Lincoln soon after the preol
" nation was written, snd transmitted to thi
b. gentleman through Hon. Charles Sumne
A 1t is highly priced by the members
- Mr.. Lvemore's family, and the history q
taehed to it makes it valuable keepsak