Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-04-18
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THE President is reported quite unwell
and In ifeed Of rest mo A91 '0GIIinII
AtrcE ana Phoebe Cary are visiting
Whittier, at Amesbury.
THE levees on the Lower Mississippi
are still yielding to the pressure.
THE new, Steamboat, the Great Repub,
lie, has arrived at st. Louis in a disabled
condition.
THE daughters of Marryatt, Dickens,
and Thackeray have been very successful
as noyd writersat) urR pUiFt0ii
THE daughter of Henry w. Shaw Josh
Billings) was married on "Wednesday, in
Poughkeepsie, to Peruvian.
UNDER the death notices of the New
Bedford Mercury is that of parrot,
which died at the age of forty years.
AN entetprising consumption c,irer oc-
cupies the entire first page of last Satur-
days Boston Transcript. Advertising
pays. o.i.j H. si"l' ..i. .,.. - l.r. .1.
SENATOR WILSON proposes to make
an.extended Southern tour, speaking at
various points in all, the States between
Richmond and New Orleans = Ais JAJ
A CONSERVATIVES Convention in Mem
phis on last Thursday passed resolution
inviting colored voters to send delegates
to the, Conservatives State Convention
A MAN in Clermont County, DIR. Har-
ker, more than go years old, committed
suicide recently, because one of his sons
thwarted his design OF marrying a lady
in the neighborhood. an
MR.. BARNUM has ordered series of
wax figures illustrating Striking" in
cidents in the life of the editor of the n.
Y. Herald, who thus takes place among
the "moral monsters"
THE st. Louis Democrat says the ruins
of the Lindell look very much like the
cramblede monuments of the ancient
temples, which it resembled in its ornate
style of antique architecture.
REV. J.. J. WEST, of Winchelsea, Eng
land, has refused to read the burial SER
vice over the corpse of a man who was
washed up Mt sea, because "he did not
know whether he had been baptised!'
THE New York Herald's Paris cores
pondent says that the Christians in the
eastern provinces of Turkey and Greece
are completely organized against the
| Sultan, and that q war, destructive OF
OiiC pO"Si Al ALuiOpSt ID h'Sfie"
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The Cadiz Republican says a White
Swan, measuring six and One-half feet
/ from tip to tip of wings, and four feet
from bill to point of tail, was shot few
days since on the farm of Judge BOggs,
about two miles Southeast of Cadiz. The
bird is now In the possession of DR.. John
Scott, of Cadiz, and is creating quite
sensation.
THE Steubenville Herald says that on
Saturday last, near that place, a young
man named Mccoy deliberately fired at
man named Mcdonald, and shot him
dead, the ball striking him behind the
ear and passing through his head. There
had been an old fcud between the parties
and Mccoy had threatened repeatedly to
kill Mcdonald. Mccoy was arrested.
A CHARLESTON correspondent says
that at meeting held there on the I'd
inst. ), composed largely of old Democrats
and Secessionists, it was unanimously
agreed that the freedmen ought to be
permitted to have q candidate of their
own color on the ticket for the COnven-
ton and Legislature. A letter was read
from Gen. Wade Hampton urging the
policy of giving the negroes representa-
ton. ......s- t......t. .... ,.-
Fl.
The proprietors of the well-named
Huff House, in Winona, Wisconsin,
lately refused to entertain Frederick
Douglass. when he recently honored the
town with his presence. Learning the
fact, a citizen of the first social standing,
and withal lifelong Democrat, volun-
tarily asked the privilege of having Mr..
Douglass as n guest in his family during
the lecturers stay in Winona. The facts
are reported by the La Crosse Republi-
can. y 81 ~ ha - O. = I'd, ,as.
SENATOR SHERMAN addressed the
Union League, of New York, on Thurs
day evening upon the questions of the
day. AS to the action of the late
Congress, he said if they had yielded to
the counsels which prevailed with Mr..
Johnson, the rebellion would have been
restored and war by this time destroying
the country. 1t was therefore necessary
to reorganize society at the South. He
had Just received " letter FROM, Gov.
Brown, of Georgia, stating that the
movements towards reconstruction in
the Southern States was going on happily
and thatsoon they would acquiesce in
the measures proposed by Congress.