Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-14
NEWS AND MISCELLANEOUS.

THE track on the Denver Pacific Rail
road is completed sixteen miles from
Cheyenne.
Vice President Celfax is In Cheyenne,
where he is detained on account of the
sikness of mis- mother.
VIM. Kriel, the Kentucky wife MUIR
derer, will be hanged on the 18th of
November, that being the day fixed by
the Governor.
THE earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad for the month of September
were S743, 709, SO, an increase of SIZE, ,05S,-
IA over August.
A fool in high station is like man
on the top of high mountain-every-
thing appears small tc him, and he ap-
pears small to everybody.
At the recent funeral of Gen. Esca-
laute, in Madrid, the emblems of
Masonry were publicly exhibited i'll
Spain for the first time.
On the 9th Of September the Bohe-
M ians residing at Berlin celebrated the
5O0th centenary of the birth of their
national martyr, John Huss.
The Hon. Mrs. Norton was, it isstated,
the author of the first article in the
Times on the Byron case, indorsine
Mrs. Beecher Stoves opinion.
The Postmaster General has opened d
negotiations with the British Govern
ment for reduction OF the single rate of
letter postage on and after the 1st of jan
uary next to six cents.
A jury in Elkton, Nd, has Just ac-
quilted q young man, son of a wealthy
family, who murdered negro. 1t was
only an unfortunate affair."" and the
young mans "good cha aracter" was suf-
ficient for his successful defense.
ADNIRAL FARRAeUT, who has been
in Chicago for several days, is lying
dangerously ill at the Sherman House.
He took cold during ane excursion on the
lake the other day, which has resulted
in cengestive chills, and grave appre-
tensions are felt for his recovery.
The Boston Journal says that one of
the leading poets of New England
derives more income from a gravel bank
which he owns than he does from his
literary productions. 1t would be in
teresting to know how much income he
derives from the "gravel bank"
Three years ago Georgia planter sold
his plantation for 5000. As the pur-
chaser was unable to make the pay
ments, he was compelled to take the
land back and cancel tine bargain. Since
then he has made three good crops of
cotton on the land, and a few days ago
he sold it for SIS, $50.
RICHMOND, October S.-Both Houses
of the Legislature, to-day, ratified the
14th and 18th Amendments In the
House, there was only six votes against
them, and in the Senate, only four
against the 14th and two against the 18th,
one of the latter being that of colored
Republican Senator, who declined
voting, because the Legislature is illegal.
The Legislature by joint resolution,
then adjourned till October Is.
A fault has been discovered in the
French cable at point about eight
hundred miles from st. Pierre, and
one thousand miles from France.
which, though not at present sufficient
to prevent its working, is constantly
growing worse, and will ultimately
require the cable to be underrun TO the
spot where the fault exists. This costly
task Is to be undertaken next summer,
| it is said.
Letters from Macon, Ga, say that the
black residents around that CITY are
now bringing in 5000 bales of cotton,
worth S300,000. The letters speak very
| favorably of the industry of the blacks,
and state that the distribution of SO
much money among them will add
greatly TO their LANDED possessions anu
relieve large nunfber who have been
in want while the crop was maturing.
THE steamer China, which left San
Francisco last Monday for Japan and
China, carried away besides an Ameri-
can minister to Japan aad several Con-
suls to Japan and China from the Uni
ted States, Great Britain and Belgium,
and large batch of missionaries to
China-no less than eight hundred and
five returning Cinnamon and three
hundred and thirty-seven thousand dol
lars in treasure. Thus the relations of
San Francisco with the extreme Orient
are steadily increasing. 1t is said that
the majority of these returning China
men have gained money in America,
but that many of them, perhaps almost
all, go back to their native country in
consequence of the hostility manifested
towards them by the Californian popu-
lation.