Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-03-21
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CURRENT NE WS.
-zTwenty-seven lives are reported lost
at Helena, Ark, by the high water.

---Twenty-seven lives are reported lost
at Helena, Ark, by the high water.
1t is announced that the Atlantic
Cable Company refuses to reduce its
charges.
Oysters in the shell are hawked about
the streets of Baltimore at seventy-five
cents bushel.
The Somerset TO- Advocate has been
presented with Golden Pippin which
weighed 33 ounces.
Pursuant to vote, the members of
the Minnesota Legislature visited cir
Gus in body, on Wednesday last.
The New York Tribune says that
the cotton crop of the South last year
was not far from two million bales.
The Cleveland Leader says that dur
ing the present cold weather, ice, has
again formed upon the lake, as far from
shore as the eye can reach.
1t is said that all the new Senators
will vote for the Colorado bill, which will
make more than the necessary two
thirds to pass 1t over veto.
-Diptheria in an aggravated typhoid
form has broken out in the Asylum for
the Deaf and Dumb at Columbus. The
institution has been closed.
The distress at the South continues
very great. In some parts of South Caro-
lima the people have consumed all their
corn, and are eating the husks.
The Pittsburgh Leader advocates the
division of Pennsylvania into two States
as the easiest means of getting out OF the
clutches of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad.
The Rochester IN. W Union says
that during week past butter has fallen
in that place from thirty-five to twenty
five cents pound, retail. The Eastern
markets are gluttcd.
The cable intended for the subma-
rine telegraph from Cuba to Florida, is
said to be i'm satisfactory process OF con-
struction in London, 1t is expected that
| it will be laid in the early part of June.
The Dayton Journal learns that a
| man has been arrested on suspicion of
having exploded the dry house of the
Miami Powder Company on Tuesday last.
The arrest took place the day after the
catastrophe.
The Fenian excitement is growing in
Canada. Fort Wellington, at Prescott,
has been put i'm u state of defense and
garrisoned with troops. There are many
strangers in that vicinity who are
thought to be Fenians.
The National Democratic Commits
tee, at meeting on Tuesday, determined
not to call National Convention until
next year. Measures have been set on
foot for thorough organization of the
party throughout the Union.
The SteubenyilIe Herald saws that
child of widow lady in that city
which was kidnapped about two years
ago was lately restored to its mother
having been found in the possession o.
a family who left Steubenvillc at the
time of it disappearance. 1t was two
years old when stolen.
The New Lisbon Buckeye STATE
says that man in that County sold III,
farm at high price, and sold the gen
tlemen who bought it,, by pouring oil il
and around u spring on the farm, thus
getting upan oil excitement. The 'sign5'
were examined, company formed, the
land purchased and the boring com
menced. The oil did MT come.
One of the circus riders at Robin
sons Circus, at Chicago, on wager, rodt
one of the circus horses from the bottom
to the top. of the circular stairs leading
to the dome of the Court House. Th'
dome is one hundred feet from the land
ing. The stairs are not more thar
four feet wide, and the banistcrs no
more than three feet high. The daring
performance attracted q large crowd.