Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-23
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! Texas had population of all colors. in 1850
| of about 800, ,000 and now, perhaps, has 10000
! or about half as many as Massachusetts. Ac-
/ coriing to the Secretary of Wars report. there
/ were three hundred and eighty-four murders
there in the nine months ending October |. AT
| that rate Massachusetts would have thousand
| murders year instead of its average of fifty.
| Fifteen thousand acres of valuable coal land
were sold. a few days ago, in Grant and Miner
al counties, West Virginia, to John L Crawford
James Boyce and Samuel !. McCubbin, OF Bal
timore, for s225OoO in cash. The purchasers
will open the mines in a short time.
! The quantity of spool cotton consumed an
nually in the United States is estimated at H.
900 dozen, OF which about two-thirds is man.
ufactured in the United States. A strong COM
petition exists between the American and
foreign manufacturer, and prices have declined
from 81 10 to 81 Us, per dozen to SO and 80 cents
within the past three years. The duty is a per
cent. ad valrorem.
An efsctual remedy for small pox is said to
have been recently found by a surgeon of the
British army in China. The mode of treatment
is as follows: When the preceding fever is at its
height. and just before the eruption appears,
the chest is rubbed with CT Oton oil and tartaric
ointment This causes the whole of the erup-
tion TO appear on that part of the body to the
relief OF the rest. 1t also secures full and com
plete eruption. and thus prevents the disea..
from attacking the internal organs. This is now
the established mode OF treatment in the Eng
lish army in China, and is regarded as perfect
cure.
George Peabody's will leaves 100000 in Eng
land. of which he leaves sl50,OOs to the poor of
London, and 5000 TO each of his executors
There is few little legacies. and the balance
is left to his relatives. The Trustees are George
Peabody Russell and two other newphews.-
They are residuary legatees and are to settle
theestate in America, amounting to from $780,
o0o 10 s.. 5000.
The Western States are redeeming themselves
from the old imputation about backwardness
in paying their State Indebtedness. Iowa has
cleared Off alarge war debt entirely, and Michi-
gan's State debts officially announced at So
5iS 40, with a cash balance in the Treasury of
sSsO,0OO, and tax reduced over one-third during
they year now dra wing to a close. In the last
thirteen months the Indebtedness of the Com
monwealth has been reduced one-thfrd.
1t is compliment to the reputation of the
Americans for practical science. that the Brit
fsh Governments making avail of citizens of
TINS country in projection of railroads and de-
velopment of mineral resources in the East
indies. The British Minister, Mr. Thornton,
has recently engaged the services of American
railway engineers and petroleum export, who
have been employed at liberal salaries. for SER
vice in the British India possessions, whittier
they have gone.
On the great lakes Of our country this year
one hundred and twenty-slx vessels have been
totally wrecked, against one hundred and three
last year. The number of vessels that met with
disaster this year, thus far. has been I9I4, in
volving loss of 81, ,l6O 00O being an increase OF
disasters over 1868 of $50, and an increase of
loss of sI,Oi6,OO