Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-10
NEWS ITEMS.

Inc iumDer mills In Minnesota have
closed for the season; and the lumbermen
are going into camp in the pineries.
Lang of England and Harding of New
York will run for the championship OF
the world, on Fashion Course, on the 2Sth.
Three millions of pieces, worth nearly
3 half a million of dollars, were coined
at the Philadelphia mint last week.
Secretary McCulloch has rejected
Judge Comfy, of Dayton, for Supervisor
of Ohio, and this makes five vacancies.
The receipts of Internal Revenue on
Wednesday and Thursday of last week
foot up over a million of dollars.
One thousand persons attended the
Minnesota State Christian Convention
at Minneapolis, on Wednesday.
The New York Times warns the peo-
pie against investing money in the al
legged newly discovered gold fields in
Dutchess county, in that State.
The expenditures of the Patent Office
during the past year exceeded the re-
ceipts by only one hundred and seventy
one dollars.
r. ID. Bogart, II paymaster's clerk in
the New York navy yard, has abscOnd-
ed with $4,000 of the Govern ment
funds. He lost the money in gambling.
The receipts of oats at Chicago for
nine months Ofthis year, up to October 1st,
foot up to eleven million bushels. This
is equal TO the entire receipts of last year.
1t is said w. H. Seward and several of
his friends are making preparations to
visit Europe Immediately after General
Grants Inauguration as President.
Secretary McCulloch officially reports
the entire reduction of the public debt,
for the year ending Nov. l, 1868, at lit
tie more than thirty-five millions of dol
lars.
The exportable surplus of the cotton
crop of the United States for the present
year is now estimated at $125, 900, 900 in
gold; which is near to the average from
1876 to 1850.
A letter is published from General
Barnard, setting forth the utter ineffi-
cheney of our forts at present to compete
with the service ordnance of our own
and other countries.
In his message the President will urge
the consolidation of the Agricultural,
Educational and Statistical Bureaus,
and the three to form bureau of the In
terror Department.
An oil train, with five hundred bar
rels of oil, was burned near Fitchburgh,
Massachusetts, Saturday morning. The
condutor, named Hubbs, died fiom the
effects of burns received.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins,
sailed in the steamer Java, Saturday, for
Glasgow, on their way to Paris, where
the cord which has so long un ted them
is to be severed.
The Navajo Indians have commenced
a series of depredations on the Rio Vir-
gin, in Colorado, and have stampeded
considerable stock. The citizens and
friendly Indians are following them up,
and have recaptured part of the stock,
killing two NavajOes.
The Congressional Subcommittee on
Whisky Frauds is still sitting with
closed doors in New York, and it is said
expect to present startling report to
Congress during the early part of the
session, which will induce radical
change in the Internal Revenue laws.
One of the greatest feats of modern
times was accomplished in Philadelphia
last week. The new Ironsides, burned a
year ago and sunk in fifty feet of water,
Island, was successfully raised
BY the use ofpontoon boats. Her boilers |
were taken out uninjured, and she will
probably be rebuilt.