Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-02-11
NEWS ITEMS.


Thesreceipts of customs from January
23d to tn, 30th were upwards of three
millions.
In Buffalo, from July 20 to February
i, tax WAS paid on whisky 10 the amount
Oh szSg, ,OU0.
Lewis DAVIS was hanged in cleveland
last Thursday, ior the murder of ID. r.
skinner, oil Independence, Ohio.
john e. Brecklnridge arrived III. Bal
timore OH Saturday. de Is the Suest vi
Lis Urother-ln-iaw, Rev. Dr. Buiioch.
Mrs Leonhard, all insane woman COLI
fined III j,ii at fiinI, iMIcii., SET neE
clothes OH hre FRIDAY night, anu "as
burned TO death.
The alarm at Fishkil, New York,
over the cattle disease has subsidized
l'ne caJile proved 10 nave been poison
ed. ~ eNl-----.--a t-- - - ~'7A
There are thirty-three daily, Two hum
dred and twenty weekly, i've semi-
weekly and twenty-iour monthly news
papers published III Onis.
The steamer Japan sailed from san
Francisco for Hong Kong last week,
with one hundred and fifty passengers,
and $4SO, ,UU0 in treasure.
There is al present at the TOombs,
New York, twelve murderers, two OF
whom are women. Most OF these pris-
ohers were arrested during the past
month.
Al the election for Postmaster, in
CadiZ, o., there were 232 vOIes cast, OF
which III Were for John FOgle, Fsq.,
the present Clerk OF the Court OF Com
mon Pleas. .s.-,..-- = ze-~-.
The skill exerted by some individuals
in an attempt to 20 between a lamp post
is equailed by Gov. Harvey, OF Kansas,
who, in his message, says of the woman
question: '.All political restrictions bas-
ed upon color or sex cannot last much
longer than they are desired, and cannot
be removed much sooner than they
should be-
An attempt was made, Friday night
10 rob the Treasurer's Office of Mahoning
county, at Canfield, Ohio. The burglars
did not succeed in getting through the
first door, however and were evidently
scared away, as they left a light burn
ing IN The office and decamped without
their implements. 1t Is only about tws
mont since an attempt was made OH
the same place,
The Erie and Pennsylvania Central
Railroad war has been carried into the
rates OF freight, And on Friday rates
from Cincinnati to New York were cut
down tC thirty seven aud half cenLs
per hundred pounds, being a reduction
of fifty per cent. in five days. AT this
point ii is said the Erie begged off.
POLITICAL ITEMS.
At the last election in Illinois a ma
jority of TO votes in favor of constitu-
tional convention were east.
Ex- Governor Brown and Ex-senator
Foote have written letters, which are
published, concurring in universal
amnesty and impartial suffrage.
The Maine House of Representatives
have refused, by majority of four, to
pass an act allowing parties to fix a rate
OF interest they might agree upon as 1.
legal rate.
A special dispatch from Austin 10 the
Galveston News, dated the 4th, says :
The Convention to-day engrossed the
Oruludnce suUHlittlnS the CONSTITUTION
to the pople. 1t provides for the election
of members of Congress and State OFF,
GERS on the first Monday of July. A mo
tion 10 adjourn sine die, for the purpose
of defeating the adoption OF the orliin-
.ance, was voted down. ST.
The Republicans of Connecticut again
nominate Marshall Jewell, their candi-
date for Governor, and this time hope to
elect him. The resolutions of the Con-
vention express advanced Republican
sentiments, being especially noteworthy
for their prompt and unqualified endorse
menr of the proposed new. Suffrage
Amendmentoit OF the Federal Constitution.
The terms of twenty-one United
States Senators expire with this session
of Congress. OF these twenty-one Sen
ators, thirteen are Republicans and eight
including Henderson. OF Missouri, and
Dixen. of Connecticut--Dem =
Their places will be filled by five Dem
ocrats and sixteen republicans, being q
net gain of three Senators iha Senate
already three fourths Republican.
Tho Acquisition 81 Cuba.
The New York Herald argues that
from events transpiring ia Cuba, a poll