Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-04-23
Personal AND NEWS ITEus.

Sweet potatoes and green pens are plen-
ty in Florida.
A new hotel, to cost S50O. 900 la to bs
erected in Toledo.
The sugar crop OF Louisiana is large
ana promises well.
One million and halfof people live In
New York city, including Brooklyn.
Fruit about Columbus was not dam
aged seriously by the recent cold snap.
The fruit in the region round about St.
Louis ia not damaged 50 badly rs at first
reported.
A sportsman in Peorla claims to have
killed $500 wild ducks since the 10Th of
February
The American shoe tip Company in
Boston paid $25, ,OO0in dividends ON tho
first of April.
Thomas Jeffsrson is said to have baan
the first white owner of ths Natural
Bridge of Virginia.
The steamer Fulton. from Aspinwall.
April.7 has arrived ut New York, with
IS 40, $50 In specie. +...s -...
Cincinnati inaugurhssa her new opsrs
hall, built by Mir. Pike, with grand
ball "Wednesday night. i.
r. n. Collman poisoned hIinsslf Lass
week in Mississippi by taking morphine
in mistake for quinins. .'..''-......
Twenty-seven million pounds of gun
powder were cansuIaad bg the Govern
| ment during the late rebsliipn.
Vesuvius has three active eruption on
! hand at present. One is from the uld
cratar and two are from Ssw ONES.
From January 1st to April Cd, 1895, IL,
49,, ,455 gallons OF petroleum were export
ed from tho various ports OF ths Upited
| States.
1t isestimated that Dixon's and PAINS
majority Ia WisnaasiR will probably
reach above 6,e00, which il very heavy
Repubii AN ssaiai lH1
Tho Memphis Bulletin has changed
hands, and will hepeeEorth be published
as Republican paper. lis conductors ars
J. NJ. Currie & Co. ..t
The Republicans OF Jack snn, Niss., csi.
ebrated the Republican victory in Ar
kansas by firing one hundred guns aud
holdiHs pabiie meeting.
Kentucky, Missouri and Illincis
newspapers all assert that the fruit,
although most probably injured, is not.so
badly hurt us was generally feared.
The life insurance companies of New
York hold nearly S3D,tGa,Ol0 Of United
States securities, and the fire insurance
| companies more than twice as much.
John Bell, the fugeman of the defGnct
Bell and EvertS party although still
alive, is said to be fearful wreck men
tally and physically. He is seventy-six
years old. 5flf
The deaths fro-> the awful railroad dis
aster on the Erie road number twenty,
four. Six bodies remain unreeognizsd.
All the dead and nearly all the wounded
remain at the scene of disaster. l-j
The town elections In Eastern New
Jersey and Essex county, show that the
Republics ns have elected twenty chosen
freehoiders and the Democrats fourteen,
The Republicans gain one in Clinton.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, dispatch,
dated the 14th, says that B. F Rice and
Alexander Mcdonald were elected Uni
ted States Senators by the Arkansas Leg
| islaturs on that day. Rice has the long
term. ........ q
During the last fiscal year the United
| States sold seven million acres Of land. 1t
still has four hundred and sixtyfive
millions remaining, besides three hum
| Alaska. .i. 81, t..ai,ia III, .l..f
Wilmington, Del ) is to have another
copperhead newspaper. Wilniinton IL the
| metropolis of the State where negroes are
still whipped in public and white women
still wear the scold's yoke or are COM
PEELED to sit in the stocks. ips =. .-4.. 70