Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-06-14
TERMS OF ADvEnTTsTNG.
SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.

THE Court Of Common Pleas at Pitts
burgh hiss awarded MaftbaJ Kinds 50. $50
damages from the Piusbrrg, Fort Wayne
II Chicago Railroad Company The circum-
STANCES were somewhat singular. The lady
was passenger on the Newcastle accom-
/ modation train West, on the 5th day of
October last. and was injured by having her
arm broken, near Beaver Station, Beaver
County, Penn, during a fight which occur
red among some Of the passengers in the
car she was in.
The Oldest house in the United States
| now standing as it was originally built, il
| the Rev DR.. Whitefed's at Guilford, Conn.
IL wa- built in 1889 the walls are of stone,
and the woodwork is of oak. s.. The diamond
shaped windows we're rsm07sd some sixty
! or seventy years ago, but in other respects tho
venerable mansion remains in its original
state. The elevation of the FIRST story is
seven feet and eight inches; the hight of
the second is six feet and nine inches.
TIE Portland Argus says that Capt. J. J.
Boyd has secured patent which will make
complete revolutioa in applying buttons
to parmsnts. By this invention buttons can
be attached to any part Of wearing apparel
without the use of thread. The invention
consists solely in making the button with
spiral wire to be inserted into the cloth like
corkScrew, aud thin pressed down fiat so
as to form a ring to hold the button in placr.
Mr.. FEssENDEN has presented to the
Reconstruction Committee an elaborate re-
port on the questions al issue between Con-
press and the President, which will be sub
mitted to Congress when the Committee
shall have adopted it. The report is de-
crr, ta1 II
be, having the right side of the question to
argue.
Tue warstained aud bullet fiddled flags
of the Pennsylvania volunteers are to be
formally received at Independence Square,
iu Philadelphia, on the coming 4th of July.
The ceremonies are To be Of an imposing
military character. Gen. Meade has been
sected to present tie flags to the State au-
thorities.
A TRUSTWORTHY private letter from Ar
kansas, received by high official at Wash
ington. states that Gen. Steedmah is carry
ing on a plantation at Pine Bluff Ark, and
that negroes were transported thither at
Government expense from Atlanta, Ga. of
which State he was military commander.
THE meeting of a E1ropean' Congress is
not yet fully determined upon. Austria
still hesiates, and on her consent the meet
ing Of Congress will probably be made de-
pendent. The English Government has
again declared that it has but little hope
that peace will be preserved.
CHARLES f. NELSON. fifty-two years old,
hung himself few days ago at Lakesville,
Connecticut. HIS wife died a few weeks
ago, and grief for her death. his sufferings
from the loss of a limb in the army. and
feaIs that he could MT support himself, led
him to take bis life.
THE examining hoard at the United
States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, ex-
press themselves highly pleased with the
progress of the students The whole school.
four hundred and fifty in number, start
upon three months cruise on the 20th of
this month.
REvERDY JOHNSON, in private convera
sation few days ago. expressed the opinion
that if the pending constitutional amend
ment be passed by Congress it will be adopt.
ed by Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana
before the meeting of the next session of
Congress.
AT the Norwich Conn City election,
Monday, Lorenzo Blackstone, Republican,
was elected Mayor by $50 majority over
Lamphere, the eight hour candidate The
Republican ticket was elected by about the
same majority.
In the course Of an investigation in New
York lately it came out that the practice
was common among cigar manufacturers to
put American cigars into boxes bearing
Spanish marks, and sell them as imported
goods.
JUsT as a negro was about ascending the
scaffold te be hung, in Clayton, ala, on the
18th inst, a commutaton of sentence to
ten years Imprisonment was received froti
the Governor. Rather close thing.
A BILL has heen introduced into Con-
gress to organize territorial gOvernm mt for
the Indian Territory lying between Kansas
andTexas and west of Arka hsas aud Missouri
to be called Lincoln Territory.
Two SHARP young country boys recently
caught seven young foxes near Rockford,
Ill. They took them to town, and made the
Supervisors believe thcv were wolves They
got SO bounty for them.
Gov. BURNSIDE has appointed as his
aid de-camp gentlemen who have served
under him in the war, and have most hon
orably represented Rhode Island 10 the
field.
A CITIZEN of Troy, n. Y. who went
over with the Feuian army of invasion into
Canada says that more than one-half the
meu engaged were ex Confederate soldiers.
AN ex-Colonel of the Sth Illinois Infah-
try, and Brevet Brigadier, has enlisted in
the Regular Army in New Orleans. ie
was made First Sergeant of his company.
THE sales of printing cloths, at Provil
dence, amounted during the past week to
345, 900 pieces, the advance during the week
being from two to three cents per yard.
GEN. SPIoELY, a gallant officer in the
late war. has received the Uuion nomins4
tinn for Congress in the Second Indians
(JeffersOnvillo) District.
H. ID, COOKE, who has succeeded Mr.
Corcoras as the millionaire barker of WASH
ington has purchased villa near George
town for $50 0O0,
A YoUra in Louisville, ten years old