Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-07-11

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

"A New York paper hints that the
coolest theatres In the cityn are kept so
by putting the Thermometer on ice.
In Kansas, ,gmsshoppers are reckon
ed as an exampleo of curses which "bright-
Ell as they take. their flight. "
The London Fun snSs:-"We be-
lieve that there is no foundation for the
rumor that u well known Office has re-
fused to insure Mr.. Disraeli's life, on the
ground that IL was quite impossible to
make out his policy.'
The Lake Tunnel at Chicago is re-
ported to be in successful operation. 1t
furnishes an unlimited supply of pure
water, equal to that supplied to any
other American city, and the people are
delighted. setr~,.
"A very sensible woman, who is GO
ing to Europe, desires that when her
husbands name and her own are pub
lished in the list of passengers, it shall
be "Mr. - and s0ife, not lady, for he
goes abroad with his own lawful wife,
and nobody else."
Remember that nothing ever comes
out as good as you hope, nor as bad as
you fear.
bismarck drank nearly all the beer
there was in Paris. Parisians would be
glad to see him on his bier forever.
Few men get their life's labor accom-
plish ed without some heart aches.
-Galusha Grow is proposed for Vice
President. He must grow larger first.
New -four sells at Atlanta, Ca, for
SO so per barrel.
james Parton, the biographer, and
wife, Fanny Fern, " are rusticating at
st. Albans, Vt.
-"Ho for the West" would not so Of
ten be the cry of our young men if more
of them were willing to hoe at the East.
DIR. Holmes says that easy crying
widows take new husbands soonest /;
there is nothing like wet weather for
transplanting.
! "A great thinker has said that lego
tism is an infirmity that perpetually
grows upon q man, till at last he cannot
bear to think of anything but himself,
nor even suppose that others do"
1T isreported that Congressman Bing-
ham has said that if the President is
impeached, he will resign his seat in the
House, and appear as the President
counsel in the trial before the Senate.
The temper of Congress appears to lie
Enthusiastically i'm favor of IL short session,
during which all energis shall he devoted
to the work of perfrcting the necessary
legislation for reconstruction.
Elias White the lion king Of Thayel
=, & Moves Circus, was terribiN injured by
one of the lions at Rochester, New
York, on the 9TH inst
The Russian Empress gave $60,0OC
to the wife of the equerry whose horse
received the assassin BereznOwsk bul
let.
Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher
Secretary and Acting Governor of the
Territory of Montana fell from the decl
of u steamer, at Fort Benton, on the
evening of the 4th inst, and was drown
ed.
} Lazarus w. Powell, formerly Unitet
States Senator from Kentucky, died Il
} Henderson, in that State, on Wednes
day last. He was graduate of Bards
town College, and a lawyer by profession
! He was nearly 90 years old at the time
his death.
All Europe mourns the death of Max
imil;an. The Government of England
il is stated, will recall the British Lega
. ton, and Withdraw from diplomatic re
: lations with the administration of Juare7
That of France has sent out an orcler sus
pending all the functions of the Frenc
, Consuls in the Republic. The Frenc
Chambers denounce the execution as
crime against civilization. All festivitie
| in Paris have been abandoned.