Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-20
PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

'14oi. Ets,
Receipts of customs for the week
ending the Sth were So, 1913, ,739.
Horace Greeley has been reelected
President Of the American Institute.
q in executive session the Senate
confirmed Noah l.. Jeffries as Reg
lister Of the Treasury.
"A Grant Club has been formed In
Riply, Ohio, which was the home OF the
General in his boyhood.
ADr. Collins, who issupposed to be
the murderer of Manly, was arrested
Friday, near Louisville.
The nomination Of Horacs q. Stoms
for Assessor of the First District Of Gin
cinnati, has been confirmed.
The funds in the vaults Of the
Treasury last Thursday were, coin, $102,-
675,OOO; currency, $2s,o3s,OO a'.r l,sl.l
The California Legislature passed an
Eight-Hour bill last week. The Gov
ernor's signature is expected. Il
The municipal elections in Western
New York, on the 18th, went about as
the State election last Fall.
More than Ave hundred women are
employed as oompositors on the daily
and weekly papers In New York.
In the Pension Office at Washing
ton last month 52S4 claims were present.
ed, 3S7l allowed and 1413 refused.
Edward M. Schofield, brother of the
commanding general, has been appoint
ed Assessor of Richmond, Virginia.
Gen. Lorenzo Thomas has been re-
appointed Adiutant General, by the
President, in place of Gen. Townsend.
"A brother OF Jackson who shot Col.
Ellsworth has just been killed by his
own son, whom he had kicked out of
doors. ............. .r. ......, .....
-"Toboganing" is one of the fashion,
able winter sports at Montreal. We call
1t sliding down hill, or coasting, in this
part of the world.
"A matrimonial engagement between
| Mr.. Robert Lincoln, son of the late Pres
ident, and daughter of ex-senator
Harris is announced.
| There Is said to be a. man in New
| York city who has expended $5O, 600 on
tickets of Havana lotteries without ever
receiving cent of return.
The Steubenville Real Estate Build
ing Loan AssOciation--cApita $500, 600
filed certificate of incorporation in the
secretary of Stst8's office, last week. NJ
by the late decision of the Supreme
Court, Mrs. Swisshelm, 8 lady OF litera-
ry merit, RECEIVERS real estate to the
amount of some sixty thousand dollars
Madam Juarez was arrested in the
| City of Mexico for fast driving, taken
before magistrate and fined. Juarez
| than n1 tha nnlinatnan and H..
fine. ~ rlt, -..I.,-...' .r....1
General Meade has advised the hos
tile factions of the Florida Convention,
TO come together, elect new President,
blot onttheir work to date, and begin
anew. r1'.i 'It ..--
T. The January bulletin from the De-
partment of Agriculture states that the
general appearance Of the crops at the
LIST OF January WAS not quite so favora-
bic as usual. -. ....
The Senator who came down to
breakfast at Wizards, Il few days ago,
en- dishd6iHe, WAS Mr.. salisbury, of Del
aware, and not Western Radical, as
some papers allege.
The Alabama Constitution kacks s.
600 votes of ratification. In three conn
ties no polls were opened, and in two
others the ballot boxes and ballots were
destroyed by rebels. u.etr1l .. .e
Henry G. Neela, n Metho,liatp preach.
er, was on sunday, seized by a gang OF
ruffians whilst on his way to fill an ap
poin ment in Blount county, Tennessee
and cruelty whipped. ''''
--sSoms one asked Thad. Stevens tn.
other atisrnooH what he thought of Gen
eral Grant now. His reply was, "He ID
q bolder man ..ean | thought him; WI
will let him into ti.a church now" r
The New York Herald says nothing
can prevent the election OF 3rant to the
Presidency, and it advises the Democra
ey to vote with the RepuCl licans fol
Grant, and make the fight on Congress
The Springfield Republic says The
will OF the late Daniel Hertzler murder.
ed near the city some time ago) ha,
been admitted to probate, and cover,
personal property, moneys, notes and
bonds to the amount of $236, $780, 10.
Mr.. Thomas Pedan, farmer OF
! Owen Co., Ind, recently sold for the
New York market a yoke of five yesI
old cattle which weighed $500 pounds
and received for them S694. They were
. sold in New York for twenty-five cents
u pound, or Sl,276 .,...+.I NJ. XIX
I The New York World, in an articl,
OH Gen. Grant, says that "nobody evel
heard of his being inside place of wor
ship.o This is mistake, says til,
, Washington Republican. Gen. Gran
Is a regular attendant at the Wesle,
/ Chapel, in Washington.
--Whitelaw Reid, in his interestin,
: volumes, "Ohio in the War" settles tn,
disputed question as to the birth place o
Gen Phil. Sheridan. Massachusetts,
which has claimed him, must Yield /,
: Ohio. He was born in the village q
Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, March 9
A private letter received in Wash
: ington from Beirut. Syria, gives an ao
count OF the appearance, and converse
. uon of John Z. Breekinridge. He ask
no favors us an American, though h
says no other country can ever be his
he would like to come home, but dom
care to be " martyr. ,s,.al.0 If..ui
After Mr.. Frederic Douglas lecture
I, Fat Ann ArbQr, u shart time ago, the so
! of United States Senator attending col
q lege there, stepping upon the plalforr
: advanced to Mr.. Douglass, extepdin
his hand and remarked My nansisr--
T am the son ofa United States Senator.
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