Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-10-24
RATES or ApvEarIsIr0
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS,

OAhPHoOL B editing the New YORK
Day Book.
THERE is Hayes tsS1u the sysa OF
Ohio Democrats.
THE poet Longfellow has cold his
country residence at Stockbridge, Mass.
Ex-GovRRNoB VANCE was the first
lawyer Of prominence in North Carolina
TO address a acolored jury as gentlemen"
JUDGE METcALF, the first appointed
surveyor OF Guernsey county, Ohio, died
near Cambridge, on the 5th inst, at the
age Of "a.
AN Eastern paper says Sheridan's re-
ception cost Boston $4,000. Well. Bos-
ton got the worth Of her money, when
she received Sheridan.
| DICK BUSTED refused to be a candi-
date for U. s. Senator from Alabama.
and promises to return to New York and
to the praetice Of law.
PROFESSOR LoNGFELI0v was 40
charmed with Mrs. Howard Paul's rem
dering of Excelsior" that he presented
the lady with an Ms. copy Of the poem.
THE Democrats Of Maine and New
Hampshire, who can win no political
battles themselves, are wasting powder
in rejoicing over Ohio and Pennsylvania.
AT Alliance, on Sunday, fully 2,OOO
people attended the funeral of Aaron
Whitacre, late of the Goth Ohio Battery.
who was killed at Atwater whileuncoup.
ling railway cars.
THE Scioto Gazette announces the
death of Michael Dolohon, of that County,
who commenced taking the paper sixty
four years ago. He died on the 2Sth Of
September. and expressed regret that he
could not live till the election to vote the
Union ticket. He was 80 years old.
A YOUNG Englishman Of wealth and
culture recently fell in love with squaw
i'm Omaha, Kansas, and married her.
The next day she got drunk and turned
/ sOmersaults in the street. Johannes
| Taurus is at loss what to dc under the
circumstances.
IT is reported that an old colored iani-
tress at the French Theatre in New York,
told Mr.. Grau the other day that she
thought Mrs. Lander could play ELIZA
beth" better than Ristori. The story goss
that this volunteer criticism enraged Mr..
Grau and he knocked the critic down
and kicked her out of his Office.
MAYOR THOMAS, of st. Louis, is not
the most peaceable person in the world.
Within three months he has had row
with Pacific Rail road excursion, cansd
a negress who ''sassed" him, and last
Friday he collided his buggy with
water cart, got into ajaw with the driver,
and was kicked by bis own horse.
A FEW days ago a shrewd villain in
Nashua walked deliberately up to a store
window and broke in pane Of French
glass, and when asked to pay for it -
deliberately drew out one hundred dol
lar bill, which the storekeeper took,
giving him seventy-five dollars in change.
THE will of General Scott, just pro-
bated, leaves all his property to his
daughter, the wife of Colonel Scott, his
other daughters having been previously
given equal proportions. His Pulaski
sword is bequeathed to the Military Aca-
denny at West Point, and the sword he
wore in Mexico to his grandson, Win
field Scott.
THE New York Herald Of Sunday
says: General Sherman, accompanied
by few personal friends, yesterday at
tended the Marie Antoi n G tie matinee Mt
the French Theater, and at the close of
the performance had an interview with
Madam Ristori, taking occasion to renew
his acquaintance with the great trage-
dienne, with whom he had been on terms
Of intimate friendship"
THE New York Evening Mail. Of the
l4th, says: A poor woman, Wilhelmina
Long, who makes pantaloons for eight
cents pair, made four pairs for one Jo-
seph Kymer, Of No. "A Avenue A. When
her work was taken home he offered her
twenty-five cents. She pleaded for more.
and was elected from his store. The
woman caused Kymer's arrest, and jus
nc RaII Iax,v T..
A MASSACHUSETTS paper says: Gen.
Forsythe, Of Gen. Sheridan's staff, 10
soon to wed Gov. Dennison's daughter.
at Columbus, Ohio. Much as the Gem
eral may think of Western ladies. and
of particular Western lady, he vet
frankly acknowledged to the editor OF
the Commonwealth on Monday last,
that he saw more handsome women in
Boston than he ever saw before in oil
his life.
A YOUNG man in New Haven on
Monday rushed into = drug store, and in
!. great alarm asked the clerk il benzins
was poisonous. "No, said the clerk,
"why?" Because" said the fellow,
, father went to the closet to take down
the gin bottle, and by mistake took
several swallows before I. he knew it, -
HE is all right, " said the clerk. "Ths
OHiy iulilerence between QenZlne and
, modern gin is in the smell"
GEN. SHERIDAN, in q conversation al
, Paterson, New Jersey, in explaining
the words in his speech, that "Rebellion
must not be made honorable" :" said "they
mean If you return the Copperhead party
to power you disgrace your soldiers and
. destroy their work. You return to pow.
! er party who mean nothing less than
repudiation of the national debt, and ths
payment OF the rebel debt, and the res
toration to power of the worst elements
of the rebellion"
, THE Boston Transcript replies to the
statement Of the Evening Post, that ex-
} Gov. Andrew had been requested to ac-
, cept the portfolio of the War Office, by
: saying: The Post is entirely misin-
formed. Gov. Andrew has never been
offered, directly or indirectly, a place in
President Johnson's Cabinet, and has
therefore, not made the acceptance Of
such an offer contingent upon the selec.
ton at the same time Of Reverdy John,
son as q Cabinet officer." ~
WHEN the celebrated Lord Castle
reagh was stopping once to change
J horses at some very poverty stricken pos
station In ireland, his carriage was sur