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

| Two million bales is the estimated cottor
| crop of North Carolina
st. Louis merchants claim the Septembe
| city.
| Settlers are pouring into Kansas, from thu
| Eastern and Middle States, in an unprecedent
| ed manner.
What church do you attend, Mrs. Parting
| TOM" "Oh any paradox church where the Cos
| pei is dispensed with"
Josh Billings says he will never patronize
| lottery long as he can hire body else to rol
| him at reasonable wages.
| The ladies of Austin, Minnesota are ver!
/ particular. A man was fined SIS for squeezing
: the hand of one OF them.
johnson Vaughan killed three deer at two
shots. in the western portion OF Williamson
County, tennessee, the other day.
A lady in Charleston, South Carolina, re
Gently gave birth To twins, with an interval o.
} fifteen days between the two births.
The total number of acres sold by the Union
/ Pacific Railroad up to the 2Sth of September
amounts to lS9, ,26S, valued at SS95, ,i97.
/ "A Cineinnatian nas wagered 500 that ht
/ can carry an anvil Weighing 40 pounds dis
/ tanee of seven miles, without resting.
Punch defines the difference between pitch.
fork and a tuning fork. One is used to make
| nay with, the other TO make "a with.
The Republi an State Committee of New
| York, yesterday nominated Gen. Sigel for Sec
retary of State, and it is understood that he has
accepted
| AT Napoleon, Ohio on Saturday night week
a livery horse 'aci<ed into well twelve feet
deep. and II party of men worked all night to
! dig MIN out.
estimated to be worth from $1,000 to 81 800 The
.rOp this season, IN Ocean county alone, is val
ued al s, 2,5OOOJ.
"A western writer says If as much attention
was paid to improving corn as is given to grapes
one hundred million bushels might be added tC
the annual crop.
THE Government has Just DISCHARGED super
fiuOus employees of the New York Custom
.I"pSe. ntf'''' ''' n saving of s25,0OO per annum
The work goes on.
N. r. Patten, living near saltwater. Mime
sofa, raised, this season, O turnip weighing
twenty pounds. and having q circumference Oi
three feet seven inches.
-"Manma's darling did MT hurt his little
cousin purppsely. did he dear? 1t was all aIi
accident, to be sure. " Yes, mamma; and all
1 want is a chance to crsicEl him again. :"
-rhere is-a landed proprietor living abou,
eleven miles South of LeavenwOrth, Kansas
who has mis- year 20V0 acres in corn aud all un-
Ter one fence. The area embraces three sections.
"A Damon and PythiaS case occurred the
other day in an Augusta, Ga, court, where a
negro insisted upon serving out the sentence o;
! brother who had a sick wife dependent upon
ann.
"A three-year-old child named Sedgwick, at
Weymouth, Medina County, rect ntly swallow
ed shingle nail which. lodging in its throat.
remained there thirty-two days. when it was
coughed out.
An attorney. on being called to account for
having acted unprofessiOnally in taking less
than usual fees from his client, pleaded that he
had taken all the man had. He was thereupon
honorably acquitted.
Delaware is a small State, and is grow ng
smaller. The Delaware encroaches upon it from
ten to twenty feet every year. and the sites of
houses that once stood in the midst of fields
are nov under water.
The serious illness of Senator Brownlow, OF
Tennessee, is reported. and it is not improbable
thai the Legislature now in session at Nash
Vile may have two United States senators to
elect before it adjour1s.
AT Vincennes, Indiana, a few days ago. a
mother was trying to force her child 10 take a
dose of pills, and in its struggles against swal-
lowing them, one OF them entered its windpipe.
and 1t died in few moments.
The latest information about the explosion
at Indianapolis places the number VINO have
been identified at twenty-one. The Coroner
has lot of remains which, it is thought, arr
parts of three bodies, making total killed twen-
ty-four.
yer palace cars are to be run through without
change from New York to Omaha, over the
Pennsylvania Central, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne
and Chi ago. and the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railroads.
No less than five oaths are put to the Cover
nor of Virginia-an oath of fidelity to the Stat,
Constitution, another to the United States Con-
stilution. another against dueling, another thai
he not concerned in the rebellion, and st
fifth that he will properly perform the duties OF
his office.
"A Bachelors Club ut Topeka. KS, offered
premium of $40 to the prettiest unmarried giri
at the fair in that city, and selected the editors
the judges. They despaIred of giving salts
faction TO the bachelors. as each expected his
III lint rinfff
theiI own Judgment.
Coy. Palmer. of Illinois, tells the colored
peoI l. in his publ C addresses h 1t all Dugh th
;onst. tuition OF the state does not allow them
privilege OF holding Office The qualifications
for the exercise of the two rights are different
bnt very explicitly stated in the constitution.
The damage to the tobacco crop in the Con-
necticut Valley is estimated by parties who
have recently returned from a purchasing eX
petition to be over fifteen per cent. of its whOii
value. The crop in Massacn nusetts is more THAI.
half cut and about One-third cut in Conneeti-
cut. The crop is considered equal to that OF
1866.
The statement of the summary collection OF
SS2,oU by John Morrissey from Fisk Jr., turn,
,ut to be a solid fact and we are glad of it, /
vas the amount OF a cash balance due the NJ e.
by Fisk, when he fled from Wall Street on tie
eventfu Friday. Fisk had his choice. either 10
pay the money or carry MorriS~eyS pugiliStit
autograph on his face through life. Mr.. Mo ris
Sey is noted for his prompt and quiet way of do
uS business IN Wal street, and l. never rutfled
by losses great or small when fairly and square
Y incurred. But there are some "hard otst.S'
it seems, he will not stand, and Fisk Jr is on,
of them.
bio Lewis's plan for temperance reform, a.
aid down i'll a lecture at Boston. is as follows
Organize at public meeting-for example, in d
town of five thousand inhabitants-a commit
tee Of fifty or one hundred women, who, through
I subcommittee will prepare an appea fr Ia
the women of the town To the dealers in intoxi-
eating drinks. Appeal in hand the committee
will call upon each of the rumsellers read IheiI
earnest, womanly paper, sing verse, join in "A
brief prayer, and so pasS on To the next. Ten
such visits, IN ten successive days, will gener-
ally leave nothing to he done.
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