Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-01-03
ALL SORTS OF ITEMS.
Cleaned from Late Malls.

, -Minnesota has exported during the
! present season, over seven millions bushel,
! Of wheat. -
AT Minneapolis, few days ago, two
girls, respectively aged ten and fourteen
years, were kidnapped on the street while
on their way to church, and the most thor
eugh search has failed to discover their
whereabouts. The affair has created great
excitement in Minneapolis.
The London Court Journal notices a
statement that the Laureate is about to leave
the Isle of Wight, where he has pretty
little house and grounds at Farngford, and
says: ''lf the report be true, be will actu-
ally have been driven away by the curiosity
Of This neighbors. He has bought UP all the
land be could get round his grounds, but to
no effect. He is watched and dcgged " her
ever he goes. If he opens window or
pulls up blind, a score Of eyes are upon
him, aided by opera glasses and telescopes.
In London he is quiet enough; no one sus-
poets the great poet Of our day to be that
tall man with wide-awake, long beard, and
spectacles.
Colonel Badeau, one of Grants staff,
is writing life OF his chief. He has work.
ed two years on 1t already.
-Geu. Morgan L. Smith, late of the
United States Volunteers, and at present
Consul to Honolulu, was married last week
at Wick ksburg, to Miss Louise Genella, of
that city.
Prof Heniy Vethake died in Philadel-
phia last Friday, aged IS. He was one of
the ablest mathematicians in the country,
and famous chess player
Baron Adolphe Charles de Rothschild,
who presided over the Naples branch of his
great banking house. has retired from busi
ness with the snug little fortune Of $40, 600,
900.
Three little boys were drowned at Al
ton, Illinois, on the 18th inst, while skating.
Pure salt is said to be so abundant in
portions of Southwestern Kansas, that it
covers the ground like crust, and can be
shoveled up in cart loads,
John 81. Surratt is tweuty.six years old.
A sentimental dry-goods clerk in New
York has gone clean crazy because stub
born cid millionaire would not let him mar
ry his daughter.
-Secrstary Stanton has present on the
way from the Rocky Mountains Of beaver
fur robe ten feet square, but weighing only
four and bali pounds. -
The dienifed London Spectator, like
Henry Ward Beecher, goes the entire ami
NAL on the social question. 1t has an elab-
crate article, arguing for the abolition Of
the side-saddle, and that women ride on
horseback, nian fashion.
Gen. Howard addressed the Freedmen
at Nashville on Monday night. cangratula-
ting them on the evidence of their advance
ment which was found everywhere. He
said some of their schools would do credit
to the best teachers in the country. He
exhorted them to live lives of piety, and
shun vice. lie was listened to with close
attention.
An act has been passed by the Georgia
Legislature, and signed by the Governor,
providing that all property Of the wife at
the time of her marriage, whether real or
personal, or chosen in action, shall be and
remain her separate property; and that all
property given TO, inherited or acquired by
the vile daring covorture, shall vest in and
belong to her, and shall not be liable for the
payment of any debt, default, or contract
Of the husband.
The Detroit Post says that Ex-Alder-
man |. w. Ingersoll Of that city is heir,
with less than twenty other persons, to $l6,-
600, 900, the accumulation of a sum deposit.
ed forty years ago by his maternal grand
mother in the Orphans Court of Holland,
for the descendants of Isaac Weblers of
New York, one Of whom he is
Mrs. Cleveland, the sister of Horace
Greeley, has been holding series of Thurs
day afternoon literary receptions at her
residence in Cottage Place, in New York.
Many artists and musicians attend, as well
as some editors and authors.
An exchange says that General n. p.
Banks was once an actor upon the stage in
Boston, and played the character of Claude
MelDotte in the Lady OF Lyons Mr. Banks
has played good many characters" since
then. ~
Professor Patterson, member of the
United States Senate, is aboutto inaugurate
a course OF lectures in Washington. This,
with the daily prayer meetings organized by
ether Senators, shows a tendency in the
right direction.
George Fisher was mortally wounded
by panther at SALISBURY, VT. few days
since, which he had shot, but not seriously.
The animal lacerated his side to sbreds tore
his left arm from its socket, aud injured him
30 that he lived but few hours.
"A story is told Of young man in Free
port, H., who was crossed in love and at,
tempted suicide recently by taking dose OF
yeast powder. He immediately rose above
his troubles .f -
The fossil Cops. Of Illinois are in trib
nlation about the course of the Chicago
Times. ~They threaten to, start o new and
orthodox Democratic organ, and have sub
scribed $3.50, 900 for the purpose, it is said
1t will vigorously oppose the late war.
IN. p. Willis lies ia critical condition
at Idewiid, his home on the Hudson. Hi
last stroke of paralysis threatens to prov,
fatal, as he sleeps all the while and fail
every day. Sp'Fs ~ i4.si ~ 4
bs--A little girl in. Montour, Pa, swallow
ed shawl pin. She died. * lay.
The Ohio River is ,closed to navigation
] blythe severe weather. .,f-ns..,wJSr