Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-04-12
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


OF an opera house iu Nsw York oity,on Asy
lst. -.
A WASHINGTON correspondent states
that Gen. Grant has no idea Of visiting
Europe at present. il tr
JAMES B DAYTON, brother Of the late
Hon. Wm. Il Dayton. is named for the
Senatorshlp from New jersey. , .f..,
GREEN, the murderer, will be hung. the
Massachusetts Supreme Court having da.,
nied the application for writ of error
THERE has been no action as yet Il =
New Jersey Legislature looking to an i0i-
mediate election OF a United States Senator.
I THE Republi ans Of Norwalk, Coma, fred
80 guns 10 honor Of the election of Gen.
Hawley to the Governorship of that State.
GEy BgaSstDE vi, an Wednesday
elected Governor OF Rho le Island b. vote
approaching uiaIimty. The Legislature
is also Union.
! Hon GEo. W. JULIAN. NJ c., from
the Fifth Indiana District, has been reu0noi-
mated for Congress by popular vote of the
/ Unioa meu of his district.
SENATOR FooT's remains were entombed
at Rut land, VT, on the 2nd, in presence Of
very large gathering Of the people Of that
/ State. n.
! News from Northern Alabama sta tes that
the people in that section are diving fer want
of food. Unless speedy relief is afforded
many must perish. ....8
THE project Of separate State. Govern
ment for East Tennessee is now being much
discussed throughout that portion Of the
| State. .r-..
| Gov. DGLLINGHAN. of Vermnnt, has ap-
pointed Hor. Geo. F. Edmunsd, Of Blu log
ton, to fill the Senatorial vacancy OCCASION
ed by the death OF Mr. Foot. ,-..
! THE New York "'Times says that fbe
Freedmens Boreau will be continued in
operation one year from the issue Of the
peace proclamation, April ..
Nh. NJ. D. Potter publisher Of the Gin
I cinnati Commercial, died on the 4th inst
He bad long bosn out Of health, and had
just returned from voyage to Cuba.
was recently shot dead by her husband,
while she was listening to the evening pray
crs of her children. Jealousy was the cause.
GEN. GLEN Evans, of the rebel army,
who commanded Gordon old division when
Lee surrendered. has turned his attention
to religious preaching in Cass County, Ga.
TIE papers of Richmond, Va. havs all
suspended on account of strike. The
employers offer 40 cents per thousand, aud
the journeymen refuse to work at that rate.
THE health Of Gov. Morton does not im-
prove as -anidly as his attending physicians
wish. He is not SO well as he was last weel
and is no. expected to return home for
couple of weeks.
THE city Union ticket in Cleveland was
elected by an average majority Of SOC show
ing Union gain of 2l0 over the vote of
last fall Seven of the eleven new council
men are Republicans.
/ MAJOR GEORGE X. LEET. OF Gen raj
Grants staff has, at the Generals request,
been made an Assistant Adjutant- General,
to supply the vacancy occasinned by the
death of the lsmented Colonel Bowers.
For the past fortnight a company of
about one hundred soldiers have been en-
gagged upon the battlefield of Shiloh in the
work of gathering the remains of the dead
into. cemetery upon the banks of the Ten
nessee. ..
A SPECIAL. dispatch to the New York
Commercial Advertiser states that Chaun
cey NJ. Depew has been appointed Collector
of New York. On the other hand, SBeer
ial to the Post states that no appoin aieTAt
has yet been made
FRIGHrFULLY cold weather has prevailed
on the Upper Missouri, the mercury sinking
to 40 degrees below zero Much distress is
reported among the Indians in the vicinity
! of Fort Suly. They are in starving ron
dition, and the small pox has also brokep
out among them. . , e.,s
COMMODORE VANDERBILT is 70, hu: pc-
tive as ever He has built and paid for 100
steamers and is now the largest owner Of
railroad stock in the United States He
controls both the Harlem and Hudson River
roads, while his interest in the New York
Central is not less than half million.
THE Philadelphia ledger asserts that the
President has written to james M. Scovil.
of the New jersey Senate, prom ng him
any place in the gift of the Government if
he will cause an Administration man to be
sent to Washington in place of Senator
Stockton, or if he will prevent the election Of
Radical.
, GREAT BRITAIN now has a feet of oSer
! twenty war vessels, mounting 500 Ga4
all, and carrying over 1000 msnI
| British American waters. =. The d
United States war vessels that is &C.
5 ready to cruise in that region, will consist
5 of seven of our best vessels, mounting in the
, aggregate eighty six guns.
.. AN intelligent farmer. residing near Fl lar.
risonburg. informs the Rockingham IVA
Register that more land will be plowed and
: put into cultivation in that section this
spring than has ever before been titled. He
has aveled ever large extent of country,
and believes, from what'he has seen, u that
j probably one-hslf of the cleared lapd will
be plowed up and under cultivation.
, CHICAGO enjoys the distinction. we bs.
5 lieve, of being the only place in the world
) where a prize fight has taken place between
. two women-if they could be called women,
: Two cyprians, attended by crowd of men,
|. went out to the edge Of the city, where q
{ ring was formed, and under the rules erdi-
s narily observed 10 such cases, they beat
II each other till one of them gave up. Sick
N ening. ArEs,4
= ! TIE Missouri Republican states that q
70 ,nas ahnuS hat tha ,rssz Of III Al