Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-01-17
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man ne na0 Daptizeu, as 6ne was coming
out Of the water, how she felt in her mind,
and was somewhat surprised to hear her
answer, Bully"
The Beaver (Pennsylvania) Argus says.
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad have for several months past been
engaged 10 digging deep cut, for the pur-
pose of STRENGTHENING their road north Of
Wallace's Run, in Beaver County. They
had carried their project well nigh forward
TO completion when land slide OF about two
acres overlook them last week. .burying the
cut in some places to the depth offorty feet.
The Christmas tree in Trinity Church,
New York, on Monday, evening, was light
ed " are hundsed anS yeasy xss jets. !,
I, Two Sunday school teachers 10 Chica.
go, by way Of example TO the children,
fought in q church recently, and were fined
the next day. ~.
Mr.. Commissioner Webs recommends
the reduction of the duty on whisky to one
dollar gallon. Mr.. Greeley thinks It should
be reduced to fifty cents. Both think the
law should be more rigidly enforced There
all the trouble lies. ...-
"A Paris correspondent wrisss of the
last great musical sensation in that city6r-
His name is Joachim. and be is the most
eminent viohnist that ever was heard. The
effect be produced was unspeakable; he
subdued, crushed bis public he held his
auditors painting, intoxicated, under the
master charm of bis 6dde bow nothing
surely nothing in the last twenty yeere-like
this has been heard in Paris" Joachim
has long been Known in Germany as an ex-
traordinary riolinis,.
,-GoveTnor Fenton in his Message gives
. summary of the statistics Of the Census.
The Population of New York is now 1927
8lS. The increase is almost wholly in the
commercial and manufacturing districts
The native citizens number 81 81 per cent.
Of the whole population. The voters mum.
her s23,s73. The negro population is
diminishing.
The burnt district Of Richmond is slow.
ly being rebuilt.
-Agsntleman in Elizabeth, N j., is the
possessor of the pistol with which Col.
Bdrr killed Hamilton.
The Rev. James Priestley, D. D., of
Pittsburgh, Pa, is about to study law.
Les Dernier BAiser," the Last Kiss,
is the title of song composed BY Adelins
Patti, and published recently in Psris.
The citizens Of Columbia, South Caro-
lima, have combined to rebuild that city.
The city Of Boston is considering tho
expediency OF the erection of tenement
houses at the expense Of the city lands, and
renting them to the poer and middling
-slesaee-
Mr.. Dean, Of the United States Coast
Survey, reports upon the cable that it has
Le0tamore than one quarter Of the business
whicbit 10 capable OF doing and he believes
that a marked increase would be observed
in this respect we're the. Company to reduce
its spresent charge OF ten shillings per word
to q more re easonsble figure.
q ID. X. Jackman of Philadslphia, and
chased 1900 acres Of the richest cotton
lands in South Carolina, and intend putting
it at once Under cultivation. The price paid
was $12 per acre.
--Gen. Grant has purchased his father
in-!aw's homestead, 10 miles from ST. ouis,
for $26, 600. as final residence for himself
and family.
-Braxteh Bragg is in New Orleans, for
the first time since the ''lats unpleasant
ness"
The King of Prussia is the only monarh
in Europe that knows his Bis.
AT Boston on Thursday evening the
wires of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany were put in direct communication be-
tween New Orleans, La, and Hearts Com
tent, N. f., via Louisville, Ky. JSuperiu-
tendeht Mckay, Of Hearts Content, re-
ported bis time 2;08 O'Clock A. M, ther-
mometer 20 deg; Valentia, Ireland, time
.09 o'clock P. NJ, thermometer at freezing
point.
Two large Jumps of coal, weighing a tun
each, arrived at Conneilsvilla depot . few
days ago; from the mines at Alpsville, on
the Youghiogheny river. They are square,
strongly bound in order to avoid breaking,
and will be shipped to the Paris Exposition.
So says the Pittsburgh Commercial.
There are more than hundred miles Of
good sleighing in the streets Of Boston.
The medal proposed by the working
people Of France, in honor Of Abraham
Lincoln, was presented to Mrs. Lincoln on
Monday, without any show or ceremony.
"A good tenor commands a salary of
from s5 90 to $S 90 in New York choir.
Tho New Orleans Times says the sugar
crop of Louisiana will reach $4,000 hogs
heads, against l6, 600 last year; that unusa-
al obstacles will keep it below 100000 next
year. and that the old average Of 450, 900 will
be restored in three years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cbauncey Chapin. Of
Grand Blanc, Michigan, celebrated the fifty
ninth anniversary.oi their marriage on Tues
day last The dinner table was set with
dishes which were used on their wedding
day.
Wendell Phillips recently delivered his
lecture on Temperance to crowded audi
ence in Boston. He did not. hesitate to
charge city and Stats officials with holding
Offices through the votes of the rum sellers,
and being pledged not to execute the Law.
An interesting decision was rendered
last week in the Common Pleas Court in
Cincinnati by Judge Murdock. In June
last some OF the colored walters of the Wal
nut Street House struck TO compel the pro-
prieter to reinstats one Of their associates
whom he had discharged. Refusing TO work,
they were turned out Of the house and de-
MED the pay which they subsequently claim-
cd. They subsequently, brought suit Tor their
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