Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-11-15
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Cleaned from Late Mails.

-One OF the passes by which the Paciipj
Railroad is TO cross the Rocky Mountains "
about eleven thousand feet above the sea
level. - VI
"A comps 49, ybeiug organized in A.
lants, to be called the Widows and o.
phans Manufacturing Company. The pri.
mary object OF the company is to afford EN-
! pIloyment to women and girls in making up
cheap clothing.
| The canvassers Of one of the wards in
Albany. N. Y. asked the lady of the bo,,so
| what ticket the gentlemen voted. They
don't vote for turneoats, can tell you 70
Then they do not go the johnson aud
/ Pruyn ticketp mo. sir! if they did, th4T
couldn't live in this house IT,
! Mrs Frances d. Gage says in letter
from Pennsylvania: II met one of the Jury
men who helped to decide the fate of John
B7own--a more ardent hater of slavery and
secession than he is to day will be rarely
found. Truly, the mans soul goes march
ing on.
John G. Breekinridge has put his chill
dren to school in Vevsy, Switzerland.
"A boy in Pennsylvania has killed him
self by eating aeorns.
Twelve hundred balls are announced for
the winter in New York. ~
The Louisville Journal SAYS that sur
veys have been cotspleted for the railroad
bridge across the Ohio river at that point,
and that it will be commenced next Spring.
The Omaha Herald says that during
nearly nine years residence in Nebraska IL
has never known so many emigrsnts TO ar
rive in the fall Of the year as are arriving
this Fall
While Geo. Peabody was in Baltimore,
he was invited to a socis dinner by some
friends, and the capital represented by
those who sat down to the table is estimated
at $4,000 900.
-Government received $7,1l5,442 from
Internal Revenue last week, making tbet
total income from this source since July J.,
1866, Sl29 O90,S52; or equal to an averagoo-
OF more than seven millions week, whie 81
would give yearly aegregate Of over three
hundred and six.fye millions.
1t is reported By the latest India ad-
vices that the famine in India is almost
ended. Plentiful harvest bids fair 10 re-
store the country to usual prosperity. A
Calcutta letter says it is estimated that
three fourths of the laboring population and
halt OF the lower class of agrieulturists
have perished. or will perish before the
calamity is stayed. III
"A lady says in BIackwood's Magazine,
in reply to Mr.. Mills proposed plan for wo-
man suffrage, that ''al our powers are ne
cessary for our owu individual work, and
We must decline to seek another place until
it is proved TO US that we are not honorably
employed. and Of sufficient use and service
to our fellow creatures in the condition of
life in which God has placed us." iga
AT Denver dinner party the other day
where Salt Lake peaches and grapes formed
prominent articles of the dessert, the con-
versation naturally turned upon the fruits
o. that region. Various opinions were ex-
pressed and finally one to the effect that
Brigham Young was the best fruit gardener
in the United States. "A lady responded:
HE certainly ought to be, since, from all
accounts he has the most extensive nursery
in the world" 1E
Seventeen Of the signers of the Declara-
ton OF Independence, including both
Adamses and Mr.. Jefferson, were Of Welsh
descent.
The receipts of the Southern Hotel
bar, St. Louis for six months ending Octo-
Der l, was $4,000
"A rule prevalent in England for ascer-
tanning the weight of each dressed quarter,
will be one-seventh sf the live weight of the
entire sheep; thatis, if the sheep weighs
l40 pounds, the dressed carcass will weigh
so pounds. This rule is said to be tolera-
big accurate for sheep in fair order and not
very fat.
The citizens Of Crawford County, Pa,
contemplate erecting monument TO the
fallen soldiers and sailors from that County
which shall cost S25,000
The Marysville pa Sentinel says that
for more than year no death has occurred
in that village orimmediate vicinity Of adult
person. or child above year old. This, in
population Of about eight hundred, shows
a remarkable state Of hsalth, and is seldom
to be met with. ...r'
Mrs. Lear and her three daughters,
who live in Fulton County. Indiana, were
poisoned, the other day, by eating Siberian
crab-apples cooked in a copper kettle. One
Of the daughters is dead, and another not
expected to lire.
A young Illinois lover procured q
license without consulting his inamora,s. =
Explanation being made, she grew very
-spgry and told the young man that the
County Clerk could not sell her for dollar,
neither could anybody else ?" She remains
single. .t5Ef
1t is said that Senator BADGER, of North
Carolina, once received from Daniel Web
ster this odd letter of introduction: a
Dear Sir: present you my friend,
Hon. George +. Badger, your equal and the
superior of
Yours, very respectfully, 'f
DANIEL WRBsTER."
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