Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-07
GENERAL NE WS.
The tobacco crop i'll Ohio and Kentuck.
has been injured by the early frost.


Cincinnati.
CHEsTNUTs are very plenty this Sea-
son, aud the frosts of the past week are
opening them nicely.
Gov. CLAFLIN has issued an order for
IN election in the Seventh Massachusetts
Congressional District. on the day of tn.
state election.
The National Bank of Norwalk, Con-
necticut. was entered by burglars Thurs
lay night ami S3O.OOO stolen. The los
tn private individuals is immense, bu,
mount not known.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
'"inrn,nced t'IilG'ng shops AT PromoH
Ory on Saturday. he question of th,
junction of thet eutrai and Unicn Pacific
remains unsettled.
The Chicago Journal expresses greaf
confidence thai the irosts have as We,
lone no injury to the corn crop oi the
Northwest, whlcu lis likely To- be the
largest in quantity, and in quality one oi
the best ever produced in tins country.
THE reunion of the Old and New
School Presbyterian Churches, ON The
basis adopted by the two General AS
semblies, is certain of consummatiOn.
Thus far the voting in the Presbyteries
is all one way. Thirty Presbyteries
have taken action, and not one has re-
corded its name on the list of nays. In
some instances the vote has been unani-
nous, and in every other case the
minority has been very small.
THE Pacific Railroads commenced
carrying Immigrants to California for
$40 from New York or S42 from Omaha
oil the lst of September; and the experi-
ment has proved gratifying success.
The number of emigrants has averaged
100 per day; they are carried in good cars
on the express freight train, and make
the trip in less than ten days. Next
year will witness large increase of busi-
ness on the emigrant trains to the
Pacific.
GEN. DODGE is strongly urged in the
West for the War Department, and it is
altogether probable that he stands high
on the list which the President is pre-
sumed to keep in his mind. The death
of Secretary Rawlins leaves the west be-
yond Ohio, without Cabinet Minister,
and Ohio is 10 longer West. Two from
New England, with New Jersey and
Maryland each representative in the
Cabinet. the question of locality would
take the next appointment to the Miss
issippi Valley, where it is likely to go.
AN intelligent citizen of Savannah,
Georgia, over forty years engaged in the
cotton trade, estimates his years crop
at from =, 100 900 to 5000, 900 bales. This
will be worth much more than the crop
of 1860, which was the largest ever rails
ed. The crop of of 1860 brought $3.50, ,0OO,-
DO. This years crop at present prices
will yield much larger sum. The South
is recovering rapidly; chiefly from its
Income from cotton, and the cotton ports
of the Southern States are in a much
more furnishing condition now than al
at any tine since 1850.
TAX ON SALES OF FARMERS PRODUCE.
-Deputy Commissioner Douglass has
modified the order directing that
special tax rs produce brokers bL
imposed on farmers VINO sell products
away from their farms and at a store
nr stand. The new order says: ''Thc
farmer who actually makes il u busi
'rss tn so sell should he he'd as produc,
.r0li-r. Occasional acts, lowe yer, dc
al create 81 liability TO special tax; anG
= IT Is believed 10 he the policy of the
aw to place as few restr Ciiuns as is con
Si~tent upon agricultural pr. ducers, the
tatute should be construed liberaliy."
A DISPATCH from Fillmore. Utah.
llted the LIST. says: AT t. minutes To-
seven clock this evening IL violent SHOCK
'f earthquake WIS felt here. 1t passed
from South to North. apparently in Il du.
line. The State House rocked am!
Irembled for five or ten seconds, then
he shock gradually v collapsed To u trent.
ing, and u distant rumbling was heard
IN the dwelling houses in the city. tn,
doors and cupboard furnitur,
ratified and shook. 1t is said to be the
most violent shock that has been felt i'll
this part of Utah since the first settle |
Ment. The shock and trembling alto |
sether lasted two minutes.
THE fall of Lopez and virtual extin-
yuishmeut of Paraguay is sufficiently |
confirmed to be accepted as true. Brazil |
will be that much the gamer and to this |
extent the gain Of the monarchy of Brazil
8 a loss to the republican system in ali
South America. The Argentine Confed. |
.ration will probably go next, and then
and so on, until all the South |
American republics will be wiped out.
In this view the fall of Lopez, says the
Herald, becomes general misfortune,
md we suspect that the Argentines will
De the first to suffer for their folly in
urning over Paraguay into the hands OF
Brazil.
GEN. AMES, who took command in
LIST March, reports that
ince that period he has received official
notice of thirty-two murders, including
hat OF Col. Crane, of thirteen assaults
With intent to kill, and of thirteen out
ages. Within the year rewards have
'een offered for thirteen other murderers.
'ut none of these last have been arrested.
)f the other arrests made under his or
ers for murders and other violence,
hirteen have heen taken out of his
lands by the United States judges He
elieves that the Ku-Klux-Klan are at
To create u reign of terror with
view Of affecting the approaching elec-
ions. and thinks that through either in
bility orunwillingnesst the civil authOri-
les are remiss in enforcing the laws.
IT is claimed that Fall River is the :
irsest cotton manufacturing town III
he United States, its spiDdles being
lOre than even those of Lowell or Law
ence. There are twenty-five mill- :
1ithin its limits, aIrd the place car boasI !
t twelve thousand eight hundred looms
nd nearly six thousand spindles. Thes;
i've employment to 500 hands. whose 1
'ages approximate n quarter of pil-
on M nthly, and whose labor produces !
ne hundred and twenty million yard
{ goods year 1t is said that the mills.
Though thrifty, and undoubtedl,
rotiIable, have been tue subject of bat I
tile improvement for "a number of yea {
asst, except in the character of tn, =
used. Some will be surpris
d to learn that this is for the most pari !
The managers of one pstah
>hmrn, have recently ordered teI.
..ousand spindles from English makers
nj in spite ot duty and cost of trans
"f'ation, claim TO find profit in 81 .
DING.
Nar the least entertaining feature o.
ne lIre-tnt canvass is tn ne ioGn IN the