Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-02-06
Personal AND NEWS ITEMS. I

be worth $40, 600, 900.
MAST, the artist, has made $30,0 by
his drawings.
r.. II. DANA, JR., is President of the
Union Club of Boston.
BLoNDIN when last heard of was in
Amsterdam, and not appreciated. vi
A, FIRE at Frankfort, KY, on Monday,
destroyed 100000 worth of property. I
GEN. MEADE and staff have gone TO
Alabama to remain until after the cleo
ton.
a FIRE at Galveston, Texas, Sunday
night, destroyed property valued at $780,
600.
A MILITARY COMMISSION is investiga-
ting charges against the Mayor of Savan-
nah.
WADE HAMPTON is to bs one of the
editors of the Charleston Is. q. Mer-
curry.
THE Henry Chauncey, from Aspin-
wall, brought 81, 900, l25 In treasure to
New York last Saturday. .lIf...I
A BILL, for the aboishment of capital
pun 'shment has been introduced in
tne Wisconsin Legislature.
THE Arkansas Convention has adopt-
ed a memorial in favor Of the continuance
of the Freedmen's Bureau.
OTwAY G. BAKER, the murderer of
Woolsey ID. Higgins, Is to be executed in
Omaha on the 18th inst.
THE Atlantic Mills of Millbury, Mass,
reduce their operatives wages by 25 per
cent to-day.
THE Arizonia Indians recently attack
ed Bale Springs Station and Camp Will
liams, and shot orcarried offall the stock.
Gov. FLETCHER is about to seize the
Missouri Pacific Railroad in the name
! and on behalf of Missouri.
THE Memphis, Clarksville and Louis
vile railroad employees, not having been
paid, have struck.
IT was rumored in Congressional cir
cles that Charles Francis Adams, Min
lister to England, had resigned
HORACE GREELEY lectures at Indian
| apolis on the 18th inst, and Petroleum
V. Nasty probably on the 10th.
Rev. JOHN HAswooD, of Springfield,
Ohio has received bequest of ESQ, 900
from the estate of relative in England.
THE Senate has confirmed the Gov
ernor's nomination of Moses G. Mitchell
for Director of the Ohio Penitentialy for
six years. ........ ....,
Two hundred and seventy-cight i'm
migrants passed through Columbus last
week., of whom thirty-two will remain
in this State. .l,.au. .aas . Hi
THE five National Banks of Indian
apolis paid S21 500 of State and county
taxes last year, and S44,2SS As to the
General Government.
THE latest reports of the loss by the
great fire in Chicago on the 2Sth ult.
make the losses somewhat smalle than
at first stated. The aggregate loss is set
down at 81, AIS, 900, and the insurance
at $2l0, S75.
TENNESSEE and Arkansas have APP
pointed delegates to the Chicago Con-
vention and instructed them to vote for
Grant for President. AS beginning
this does not look like the South coming
up In body for Mr.. Chase as has been
predicted.
VALLANDIGHAM's friends throw out
mysterious hints in regard to the disas-
ter to Burns In the Eighth District.
They say Paul has agreed that Barnabas
shall go his own way, and they have
=. parted company. See Acts of the Apos-
ties.
BAD INvEsTMTHT.--Pend Sl,-
900 in the Eighth District. George will
probably be willing to take a note, with
out interest, renewable at the pleasure
of the maker, in acknowledgment
This is the Pendletonian scheme of fl
nance.
THE New York Herald and the Gin
cinnati Enquirer are quarreling as to
which first brought forward the claims
of Pendleton to the Presidency. Before
the close of next November each paper
will he striving to prove the other re-
sponcible for the mistake.
THE fractional currency issued last
week amounts to S550,000; amount for
warded, S502, 1856, including $200,O0O to
the depostary at Cincinnati. National
Bank currency issued 500, ,040; amount
in circulation 500, ,542, 1896, Fractional
currency destroyed for the week, $780,
100.
IN reply to Mr.. Doolitte's attack on
Gen. Grant, Senator Nye told the story
of the attack on celebrated New Eng
land clergyman, who met his accusers
by asking them If they had ever seen
dog barking at the moon. "Oh, yes"
they answered with sneer. "Well,
now, my friends, please tell me if you
ever heard of Il dog getting near enough
to the moon to bite HW
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