Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-12-20
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material decline in Washington prices. i
b The number of Jews in the great cities
q the world 10 thus stated: New York, H.
600; Philadelphia, 2,500 Baltimore, 1,S00;
Charleston, !, 800; London, 125, 900; Amster-
dam, 25,000; Hamburg, 5000; Berlin, s. |
900; Craoow, 10000; Warsaw, 10000;
nople, $4,000; Smyrna, 1900; Jerusalem,
5000; Hebron, 800. 1lr-I .- |
Some three or four weeks since q young
man, unused to labor, engaged to work for
farmer in Michigan. Being quite delicate,
he was kindly treated BY the family. About
week ago he requested an interview with
the farmers son, when, after exacting Q |
promise of secrecy for twenty-four hours. he
told him that he was one Of a band Of rob
bers; that they were to rob his father OF his
money, but that he had abandoned the idea,
and warned him to lsok out for cthoIs.
There is no instance on record Of we'll
sustained system Of judicious advertising
failing Of success.
The New York Herald's North Carolina
correspondent says that the regulators"
in that State are robbing Yankees and ne
groes, burning their property, and shooting
and hanging them every day.
Quite an excitement prevailed in Ha.
vana last week, on the arrival Of an Ameri-
can vessel from New Orleans with six hun.
dred aud fifty colored soldiers on board
en- route for their homes in the North.
--Grest destitutiou exists at Chattanooga, G
Tennessee, and it is proposed to open soup
houses for the relief ofthe peor.
"A moose seven feet in length and weigh.
ing over 500 pounds, was recently killed in
Polk County, Wis. .tI. ....
The Crockett (Texss) Sentinel reports
200 emigrant wagons as having passed
through that place from South Carolina. -
They we're bound for points in Texas. The
best fresh pork was retailing 10 San Antonio
at Sc per pound. The cotton crop in Belle
vile is reported favorable. Indian troubles
continued, and robberies by them were Of
constant occurrence.
MIR. Otto Goldschmidt, husband Of
Jenny Lind, has been appointed Vice Presi-
dent of the Royal Academy Of Music, Lon
don.
Professor Agassiz says that for forty
years he was a teacher, and never punished
pupil. He does not believe in the virtues
OF. birch.
Miss Hosmer's model of statue Of
> Abraham Lincoln, subscribed for by freed
| men, was placed on private exhibition al
Boston, last week.
--Agassiz tells about sort Of fsh in
Brazil which can climb trees. They are pro-
badly peculiar in the tropical climb.
, "A large meeting Of the people of Mem
{ phis, Tenn, was held on Tuesday evening
to demonstrate against high rents.
, "A dozen young Pittsfeld Mass. clsrkl
had what they called q "hunt On. Thanks
giving day 10 which the side killing tn,
most game was to wilma supper: One side
? brought in rod squirrel, and tho other side
very domestic looking rabbit. The rabbi
side was declared the winner, and they hat
( their supper,
/. The milwaukee, wis Sentinel states,
; that as some workmen we're digging vel
in that city, on Wednesday, they struck Q
f large pine log in q good state Of preserva
/. ton, at the depth OF eighty FIVE feet below
,. the surface. The depth at which it wa
discovered was fully fifty feet below the bot
tom of the marsh, and over it thick bed o
r hard clay, beside several layers Of sand anC
; gravel were deposited.
"A cane, made Of wood, from the steam
d er Merrimac, IL to be raffled for at fai
t given by the ladies Of the Catholic Church
in Norfolk. Va. 1t is to be presented t
J., jeff. Davis by the winner, and the frs
/. name on the list OF subscribers is Mrs. Gen
q Malone; followed by every member of he
Q family. The cane is to be beautifully ant
Q tasteiully mounted With gold, and appropri
ately inscribed.
}, A modest company Of capitalists il
,. New York have organized an Atlantic Tel
10 egraph Company, and have secured the in
4: PRODUCTION into Congress Of bill conferrin
ir upon them the exclusive use Of the entir
IS Atlantic coast within the jurisdiction OF tn
10 United States, for the purpose of landing
,s telegraph cable. Congress will hardly b
10 guilty Of ofgranting any such monopoly to an
company. .... ,...
Two men we're walking, very tipsy
', along the tow.path in Oswego, N. Y, o
. the lst inst, when one of them, Dani,
ppe Earle, walked off into the canal. His asst
y oiate crawled down the bank to his rescue
q aud succeeded in getting hold of him, as b
supposed, by an arm. and lifted him up
y. keep his head above the water; then calle
el for help. But when aid reached them
10 was found the drunken man was holdin
10 Earle by the leg instead Of the arm, and b
O. head had been under water up to that TINT
He was Immediately taken out, but life wa
il extinct HtF 1rH iai-'
ri Miss Charlotte p Hawes, whose nam
at has lately become familiar to the public frol
10 her charming writings In the Atlant
is. Monthly, died in Worcester, on the II
o. inst, of consumption, after q long Hines!
a Her last paper in the Atlantic was on "I'
s- vaiidism, ..r,- .,, ..t.
w "A gentleman, upon being asked witt
was the reason Of the present fashion OF loa
i'd ing young ladies' necks with huge chain
Of replied that il was to keep the dear anRe
ly earthward, lest they should soar away
by they were made to carry weight"
A handsome actress, connected vii
.st one of the Broadway theatres, recently mat
ng q run Of 1853 points on four pocket billial
ch table at private residence on one Of th
,al avenues, A lady who makes such runst
billiards pockets will be likely to make 'runl
on some other pockets. ~
~. ~ "A clergyman publicly stated that du
~ ing his lite he had been in three plac
where he doubted his right to invoke Il
lrs Divine protection. ln the Mammoth %