Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-11
NEWS ITEMS.

| There were eighteen lncnes OF SHOW al
Hudson, O., Monday morning.
Delano has gone to work on his report,
and hopes to finish it by the middle OF
the month.
General Mcclellan, with two hundred
men, is working on The Stevens Battery
at Hoboken.
Steamer Rhein sailed last Thursday,
from New York, and took $50, 900 in
gold, to Europe.
Twenty letters for every man, woman
and child in the United States were
mailed in this country last year.
Fourteen prisoners confined in the
barracks at Omaha, knocked down the
guards Thursday night and escaped.
The uncompromising Democrats OF
Mississippi could master only thirty five
delegates at their State Convention.
The clerks and day laborers of San
Francisco have S24 ,00O, 600 in gold depos-
tied in the savings banks of that city.
A. J has been a Democrat SO long that
he isn't at all particular, and will take
anything he can get.-[Detroit Tribune.
Elias Jasper, a negro of Norfolk, has
invented a new handsaw, which. worked
by lever, moves with great swiftness.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars for the new Merchants Exchange
building in Cincinnati, have been sub
scribed.
Dent and Alcorn closed the canvass in
Mississippi at Holly Springs, Thursday,
Judge Dent left for Washington on a
brief visit.
A scouting party left Fort Sanders
on Thursday to scout for Indians that
have recently committed depredations
in that vicinity.
Three hundred mechanics and labor
ers were discharged from the Boston
Navy Yard, Wednesday. Nearly every
department is reduced.
In OctoberS61, 200 in gold was collected
at the Custom-house in Bangor, Maine,
for duties-a larger amount than was
ever before received there in one month.
During the last fiscal year about 7OO,-
900 acres of lands were entered under
the homestead and other laws, yielding
the Government between four and five
millions dollars.
Too much Sam. Cary and too little
principle, according to the Commoner,
accounts for the defeat of Pendleton in
Ohio. The reasons assigned are GER
tainly efficient.
The latest news received from Hayti,
says that Salnave's troops have been
again defeated by the Jackmel garrison,
which sailed forth and drove them as far
as Sogoane, where they halted.
Gen. John A. Dix will probably sue
ceed General Daniel Busterfield as AS
sistant Treasurer, at New York. We
hope he will succeed in keeping out of
the lions den better than Daniel.
DR.. Cullen. at Hanover County, Vir-
ginia, has raised, this season, twenty
three barrels of cranberries on quarter
of an acre. A Richmond confectioner
bought the crop at ten dollars a barrel.
Two children, aged two and four years,
belonging to Henry Hurst, living on the
w. S. Gilmore farm, south of Hamilton,
O., were burned to death last Friday.
The mother was at a neighbours visiting.
A special dispatch to the Herald, from
the city of Mexico via Havana, states
that the great exposure and change of
air has caused Mr.. Seward to fall ill, and
consequently heis not expected to reach
the capitol until the latter part Of
November. s5aa
Ben. Crissey, a worthless fellow en-
tered the house of Mrs. Dodge, in Steph-
entown. Rensselaer, county. N. Y,
Friday, and undertook to ravish her,
when she seized an aXean split his head
open. He died instantly.
,,.Mrs. Solomon and her son, living
about eight miles from Charlottevill, Va,
were burtally murdered Friday night.
They were found Saturday morning
with their heads split open. No arrests
are yet made.
William Ashley, aged twelve years,
died of hydrophobia, in Covington, Ken
lucky, on Wednesday night. He was
bitten last Christmas eve. The first in
dication of hydrophobia was Tuesday.
Six physicians attended him and agreed
as to the disease.
The Provisional Governor of Texas has
applied for authority to enforce the ordi-
nances adopted by the Reconstruction
Convention, but Gen. Reynolds has de-
cided that they are not valid, and says
that the ratification of the Constitution
will not in any degree validate and
make of force those ordinances.
The Lake National Bank at .Wolfoen,
N. H., was broken open Friday night,
and robbed ofall its valuable contents, in-
Guiding money, notes, bonds and private
deposits. Loss large. The bank was
organized in May, 1865. Its capital was
S75, ,O00 andit had considerable surplus.
The elooses will fall heavily upon private
depositors.
Bonner's new colt, five years old, was
driven several days ago, to the Fashion
Course, where Bonner drove him, in
road wagon, half a mile at the rate of
BIS per mile, road wagon and driver
weighing 3l2 pounds. He was then har-
messed to sulky and driven mile in
2:19. The colt is a grandson of Hamble
tonian, and cost Bonner ten thousand
dollars. His time of 2:1S is the fastest
ever made by colt of his age.
The New York Herald has concluded
that Chase will not do for Democratic
candidate for the Presidency in 1872,
and pronounces him "worn out" Three
weeks ago the Herald was Chase organ
The present candidate of that versatile
sheet is General Thomas. In thejudg-
ment Of the Herald Thomas is the only
mau likely to have the strength TO beat
Grant in the next race.
The Oxford Miss, Falcon, has been
forced by the Radicals to the following
sensible conclusion: 1.-The colored man
has the right to vote at the ballot box,
and we do not propose to deprive him of
that privilege. The question of negro
suffrage has been settled, and is not now
a subject for debate. The Conservative
party plants itself upon the question of
universal suffrage, and universal am
nesty, and is in favor of liberal system
of free schools" .'
The bill providing for Constitutional
Convention in Tennessee, having passed |
both Houses of the Legislature, the
friencs of Andy Johnson assembled in |
Greenville on Saturday last and nomi-