Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-08-02
ALl SORTS OF ITEMS.
GIean.d from Late Maiis.

Lowell, Mass, are James q. Aver, $6l,-
s62' and BENZ. D. Butler, $2s, ,552.
w. B Fishs, editor of the Clinton
County 10 Republican, has associated
With himself in ttn management of that
paper Col ID. u Way, practical printer
and ready writer.
W, 9 Fargo, mayor of Buffalo, N.
T., had f68, ,703 incom, last wear. which
comes OF an interest in Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
Express Company. -
"A dispatch Of forty words DER day
through the Atlantic cable will cost tbe
press OF this country about Sl25,OoO per
annum.
"A man who lives TO eighty years Of
age could only expend 43.376.8i cents If
be should expend one cent minute.
There Is no tax upon itn ported cigars
In the Internal Revenue bill jut passed.
The cool weather has siighly diminish.
ed the cholera in New York.
New York has donated $'34,9l0 for
the Portland sufferers.
The whole amount of money absorbed
in Boston tor the Portland sufferers I'M to
Saturday night was Sl22,243 go.
"A United States Revenue Inspector
went to Danville, Virginia, to take action
against the Mayor Of that city for brging
revenue stamps, but found the Mayr so
defiant aud the people so hostile that lie ac-
complished but little.
The Chicago Journal, of the 2lst, says:
Three Of the editors and one of the fnan-
cial msuagers of the Chicago Tribune hav,,
in conjunction with J. w. Bum, ESQ.,, thl
wealthy banker of Springfield. H., bought
up the stock Of the Chicago Republican,
They have oil seeded from the; Tribune,
and will take possession of the Republican
on the lst Of September. Van Buren, Dem
slow, Who has for the past two years been
the principal editorial writer in the Tribune,
is to be the managing editor of the Repub-
lican.
The character Of the men who cem-
pose the boiling delegation Of the Tonnes
gee Legislature may be inferred from tho
following Nashville dispatch: "Bolter
Dounsway, who said his duty to his wife
required bin to be absent, we1 arrested in
bed with negro girl"
The sales of R. VI. Bishop l. Co., Of
Cincinnati, for the year ending April Both
we're s3 .s3l 900; those Of William Glenn
d Sons s4,06l 900
The grapes on the Lake Erie shore
begin to midew aud fall off.
The coal fields in Northwestern
Missouri have an area of more than twenty
six thousand square miles- ,-..
When the Tennessee Legislature ratified
the Constitutional Amendment there was
great cheering and speaking. Gov. Brown
low was called for. The correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette informs Us that his
feeble health would not permit him to re-
spond. The dauntess patriot lay, however,
upon q pallet in the corner of the hall. at
tentively watching all that took place"
Bonner made his great fortune, which
produced him Sl65, 900 last year, by liberal
advertising. .t
The Connecticut Legislature, at its last
session, passed law imposing hezvy penal,
ties for procuring the publication Of faiss
marriage notices.
The Concord IN. H. Statesman s,ys
that on Friday morning there were fires kept
on beard the ears on the Northern railroad
for the comfort of Passengers Two days
previously the thermometer was about 100
deg. .s
The Radical Convention at Sedalia,
Mo-, on the 23d ult, for the nomination of
candidate fer Congress was very large and
enthusiastic. II was estimated that 10 600
people we're present. Hon. Joseph w.
McC'urg was nominated By accamation for
reelection.
"A Washington special savs that there
is no Immediate prospect Of Mr.. Stanton's
leaving the Cabinet.
I'd The Pittsburgh people are endeavoring
to raise purse of four thousand dollsrs
which they propose TO offer to Kelley. if hs
will come to this country and venture race
in American waters with Hamill. ..s
News from Fort Smith, Arkansas. is to
the effect that serious troubles have arisen
between the Choctaws and their former
slaves, aud that troops have been sent out
to quell the disturbance. ,-..-
"A young married ledy in Pittshurg ,whe
had placed her child, three months old, in
a cradle, and had left the room, was recalled
by shrieks, and as she returned saw large
rat jump from the cradle and escape through
the open door. Upon raj ing the infant she
found it cold in death, the rat having bitten
tuC CnCChy
spasms, in'one of which the babe had died
The corpse was laid out in the parlor, and
being lett unguarded few minutes, a swarm
! of rats entered and attacked it, devouring
nearly the entire face and arms before their
presence was discovered
"A T. Stewart, of New York, is about
to establish branch store in Savannah.
James s Thorne, city editor of the
Troy IN. " Daily Times, and Abraham
Fonda, an assistant editor Of the same pa
per died on Saturday morning, the latter
at three, and the former at FIVE o'clock
Mr.. Thorne died of consumption, and Mr,
Fonda fell from chamber windoH and vas
killed. Though he wrote the greater part
OF an obituary notice Of Mr.. Thorne. which
appeared in the Times, ae died two hours
before its subject.
The President has signed the bill to aid
in the construction Of telegraph lines, end
TO secure to the Government the use OF the
same for postal, military and Other pur-
poses. This is in the nature of general
law. Tho President has also sisu.d the
! bill reyiving the grade Of General in the
army OF the Upited States, and nominated
to the Senate Lient Gen Grs-t for that
Office, and Viee-Admira Farrseut to heAd'
miral in the Navy under receut law. Both
nominations we're confirmed.