Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-17

ed suicide last November, but although
~trenuous exertions we're made to recover
,is body at the time, they were unsuccess
al. The body was not so much blosted,
TOT 80 decomposed as IL would have been
reasonable to expect, from the long time IL
had remained in the water.
A VERY daring robbery occurred, Satur.
lay, in New York. The cashier Of large
,arpet house was Knocked down on Forty
third street, and robbed Of abont fourteen
dollars, which he was about to use
in paying of the hands. He was knocked
down. but after his. recovery gave such
description Of the scoundrels that il Is hoped
may be arrested,
Tue Municipal Police hill which has been
before the Tennessee Legislature for some
time past, is now a law. The House on
Monday adopted the Senate's amendments
to the original measure. by a vote Of 40 TO
90 Its provisions aprly to Nashville,
Memphis and Chattanooga. much to the
disgust of rebel sympathizers in all those
cities.
APAcTFIo papersavs: 1.-THE latest news
from Montan, is doleful enough-thousands
Of men vaiuly prospecting for digpinRs;
nothing paving over two dollars per day;
men constantly freezing TO death; tea four
dollars per pound; -four thirty dollars per
hundred; men living on bread and water, or
%vcnison straight.
THE Supreme Court Of Missouri has Just
rendered a decision of importance to per.
sons using the TELEGRAPH. 1t held that a
telegraph company has a right to prescribe
the conditions on which its lines shall he used.
and is responsible for no errors except those
arising from gross negligence on the part of
it's employees.
THE Orrville (Cal) Record hints that
certain persons have discnversl a veritable
diamond mine somewhere in tho vicinity Of
the Table M,uutajns, TO the West Of the
Mesilla valley. The specimnns are said tn
have been nronounced genuine hv those
engaged in the diamond trade of San Fran
Cisco.
DURING the bomhardment Of Valparaiso
the American Minister. GIN. Ktlpatrick.
on horse back. rode through the CITY. amid
the bursting shells from the Spanish A. ct
and the vociferous cheers of the admiring
Chilians, encouraging the firemen in their
efforts to subdue the flames.
IT is stated that within a month after the
opening of the New York State Inenriate
Asylum. over | 500 applications were made
by wealthy parents FIR the admission Of
their daughters, who had contracted intern
perate habits from the use Of liquors at
fashionable parties.
IT has been officially reported to General
Howard that Gnnaral< Fullerton and Steed
man would hardly listen to the testimony of
a Union man or n negro. unless charges
were made against the Frpedmen's Bureau ;
while every rebel complaint is carefully lis
tened to.
ONE Of the Philadelphia churches has
erected in the wall Of It's vastihule a marble
table, wherein is inscribed the name and
members who fell a victim to rebel bullet,
or to rebel barbarity during the war.
Mr.. s. s BRowN, of West G,lcna, re.
Gently shipped 70 Chicago, from his farm.
ninet, five he II offa' cattle. which averaged
in weight l,l90 pounds each and which h
sold for Sc 20 ner 100 pounds, live weight.
He was paid g. 09 for the drove.
SOME Of the Republicans of CONNECTION,
have presented to Col. Willism b. Stokes,
, Congressman elect from Tennessee. an ele
a CANT Snencer rife as an acknowledgement o
his efficient services during the recent politi
/, cal campaign in the former State.
The St. Paul MINI J Press says that the
aggregate of lumber cut This year is almost
y equal to that of the three precnadinq sea
sons. 1t is estimated that tho Upper Mis-
sissippi will send down this spring at lsas
!. seventy five millions of feet.
The Committee on Agriculture will pre-
coed in a few days to discuss the expedienc,
. of removing the Department of Asricultur
a to one IF the Western s ates. Judge law
' renee will address the Committee in favo
Of the change.
o HARTFORD. Conn, has had only fiftee'
different town clerks since the town WI
y founded, in 1885 George Willis serve
sixty four years, John Allen thirty seve
70 years, and Hezekiah Wylis twenty-seve
years.
= Mr. GEORGE PEABODY is stavine witt
= his sister at Georgetown, near South Oar
/" vers, Mass. He declined a former receE
y ton which was rendered to him by a con
mittee of the citizens of South Danvers.
AN association has been formed in Salin
County, Mo, called 'The Honest Men
League" having FIR its Obi ct the huntin
y down Of horse thieves and others of tn
same family.
y THE Hartford Courant announces tbs
the contract for the construction OF III
Gettyshurph monument has been awarde
II to its designer, Mr.. James g. Patterson, {
that city.
THE regular nackets from New York
Liverpool and Havrs are all filed. the berth
!" being engaged in advance bv families goin
to Europe to spend the summer.
- TIE United States Consul at Halifa,
70 under date of Nav 7th, writes that III
J" cholera has entirely disappeared from tn
quarantine station Of that place.
~ THE military force now in Virginia co,
!. sists Of forty. four companies Of reguli
- troops, numbering in the aggregate abo,
two thousand men.
VI A cHURcH In Henry County, lnaian'
u was burnt last week because a colorcd Gle
~ eyman had preached there on the i~nvitatio
Of the congregation.
" In the spring elections in Michigan
10 twenty-six Counties. the Republicans hs,
an made a net gain of seventeen supervisor
Col, JACQUES, who has been on trial
70 Louisville for murder, was on Monday a
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