Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-02
NEWS ITEMS.

Seven counties of West Florida have
voted far annexation to Alabama.
Letters from Havana say that five
Spanish war vessels are about 10 leave
that port for New-YOrk.
The President has appointed Samuel
4. Wheelwright consul at Rosario,
Argentine Republic.
The Spanish Minister announces
that a powerful fleet of Spanish iron
clads is on its way to New York harbor.
Conrad Meier escaped from the Toledo
jail on Tuesday night. He was under
sentence of death for murder.
The bridge across the Ohio River, at
Louisville, will be ready for the passage
OF trains in about twenty days.
1t is stated that over thirty thousand
Spanish volunteers, i'll all, have been
sent TO Cuba.
1t is expected thei com ng session OF
the Ohio Legislature will be the short
est held for many years.
The customs receipts last week were
three million one hundred and tweh "
five thousand eight undre d.and ninety
four dollars.
The victims by the Boylstio Bank
robbery, i'll Boston, had meeting sat
urday. The less by the robbery will
reach SS50,000.
The Treasury will be able at, the end
of this month 10 show further reduc
ton of about four million dollars in the
public debt.
1t is stated that General Spinner will
shortly resign his position as United
States treasurer. His age and failing
health is given as the reason
The double-turreted monitors Mian-
tonomah and Terror and torpedo boat
have been ordered to New York harbor
to do the honors for the Spanish iroG-
clads.
Asa King, of Athens County, Ohio,
last year moved to Jasper County,
Missouri, with a wife and eleven chill
dren. He has returned with one child
left alive.
The constitutional amendment, IN
creasing the pay of the Governor of Wis
consin to five thousand dollars, was
carried at the late election by majority
of 1859.
Horace Greeley appeals to Ben. But
Ter, in an open letter, to place himself at
the head of a movement to grant conf
plete amnesty To all persons who favor
the adoption of the 18th. Amendment.
The State Christian Convention will
assemble at Columbus on the 30th in
stant, and remain in session three days.
Many distinguished Christian workers
will be present.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to contine the sales of gold and
purchases of bonds, without change,
through the month of December.
Gold is lower than it has been since
the war. 1t was quoted in New York
Saturday, at a fraction above 124. The
nearest it ever approached this was
soon after Lees surrender in 1865, when
for day or two il was l25.
| The ball by which Mr.. Richardson
twas wounded on Thursday night, at
| the hands of Mcfarland, has been found
it having passed through the stomach
and lodged near the spinal column,
below the kidneys. His condition is
very critical.
The Congregationalsts OF this coun-
try, for a number of years last, have
given over $780, 600 per annum for edu-
cational work in the Southern States,
being more than has been done in this
direction by all other denominations.
Joseph B. Adams, Republican, was
elected Mayor of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, on Tuesday, receiving nine
hundred and siXty-five votes against
five hundred and ninety-six for Frank
Jones, Democrat. the present incumbent.
The New York Supreme Court has
awarded Norman Il. Smith eighteen
thousand dollars for injuries sustained
on the New York Central Railroad one
year ago, by the collision of special
train with u working train. Smith was
engineer on the special train.
George Peabody named in his will,
as executors of his estate, Charles w.
Chandler, of GAINESVILLE, Ohio; Singleton
Peabody, of Rutland, VT, and George
Peabody Russell, of Danvers, Mass.
The first named married daughter OF
deceased brother of Mr. Peabody; the
second is the son of brother now liv-
| ing in Ohio, and the third is the son OF
his sister, Mrs. Russell, still living in
| Massachus usetts.
The Ways and Means Committee will
recommend various notifications of the
revenue and triff laws. Among the
amendments to the tariff law, Kelley, OF
Pennsylvania, will urge the removal OF
duties from long list of articles not
produced in this country, which will re-
duce the revenue by S70,000,000 per
annum. The scheme is said to find
favor with the commi, tee.
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