Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-05-06
News Items.

tAc ouUyCOI vi His IuStFucIlOHS was nc
considered in Cabinet to-day.
News Items.
There were seventeen deaths in Mem
phis last week.
The Erie Canal generally is ready fo
navigation at any moment.
The receipts at the custom House a
st. Louis for April were S249, ,95S.
Crop accounts from all parts of Geor
gia are very favorable.
J. @. Atkinson, Treasurer of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, died suddenly
Saturday evening. % as1e
There was frost in the vicinity of Gin
cinnati Monday morning, but the fruit
was not damaged thereby.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Richardson has declined the position Fl
Justice of the superior Court of Massa.
chusetts.
An immense meeting was held at the
Philadelphia Acadamy of Music, on
Friday night, to sympathize with the
struggling Cubans.
The Tribune says: The bark Grapeshot
sailed from this port recently with full
cargo of arms and number of men for
Cuba.
Hon. E. B. Washburne, Fernando
Wood and M. Bertheny, French Minis
ter, were passengers on the Pereire,
which sailed Saturday for Europe.
A. D. Bordman, Postmaster at Madi-
Arb hoo faA
robbing the mails, destroying the COM
mission of his successor, and arson.
Steamer Montana sailed from San
Fransisco for Panama Friday, with
1895. 600 in treasure, $3.50, 900 for New
York, S326, 900 for England, $2O, 900 for
Panama.
Forty-three thousand three hundred
and one immigrants have landed at New
York from the 1st of January to the 21st
of April, against 81, ,629 last year; an in
crease of ,672.
Hon. J. R. Doolittle, late United States
Senator from Wisconsin, and Hon.
Jesse o. Norton, late United States Dis
trict Attorney, have formed law part
nership in Chicago.
The late rains are proving very disas-
trous in Alabama. Many Of the streams
are out of the banks Much cotton and
corn has been drowned. The rain still
continues. Farmers are much depressed.
An abstract of the returns of the fifty
six National Banks in New York city
showing their condition at the close of
business April lTth. gives their liabili-
ties and resources as S426, 107, ,942, SO.
Chief Justice Chase left Washington
Monday morning for Richmond, in
which city he holds court during the
week. Thence he goes to Raleigh, North
and Charleston, South Caroli-
ma, for the same purpose.
Representative Sargent, of California,
asked President Grant, whether he in
tended to visit California the coming
summer, when the President replied
that the distance was too great: He
could not spare time from his official
duties.
The announcement that the public
debt statement for April will show de-
crease in the public debt of s., ,O00, 900.
and that large decrease for the month
Of May may be confidently looked for,
will not be received with dissatisfaction.
At the granite quarrIes above Rich
mond a block of granite ninety five feet
long, thirty-eigit feet wide. and thirty
one feet deep, was blasted ous 1t con-
tains Ill, $40 cubic feet, and weighs g, 1928
tons, or Is, ,652, 900 pounds.
The Pacific Railway connection is not
vet made. The Central rails were laid |
20 the point of junction on Friday, but
,he Union is delayed by heavy rock
work. which may require all of the
present week to overcome. to 8a'9 ;afa
The Commissioner of internal Reve-
lue has sustained the action of Assessor
Webster. of the Thirty-second District
If New York. in taxing capital and de-
,csits of brokers. The decision was
on an appeal made by Clark,
Dodge & Co. s..rt.- .ariE ~ e5
A verdict in favor of the Government,
,urities, for 5000, 900, was rendered in
he United States District Court, at Cow
ngton, last Friday afternoon. There
we're fifty suits against Darling and his
ecurities on whisky transportation
,onds.
Gen. Rosecrans did not make good
tart on his Mexican mission, and we
ear his work is likely to correspond with
Is beginning. Fit he true that his late
dispatches ask the grace ofa little longer
ime in his office that he may finish up
lis pending bargains and buy some land
f Mexico, we hope his successor NAV
ct off as soon as possible. We must
ave done with this foolerly of buying
and that we don't want, when half the
pare land on the continent and In the
stands round about is pressing upon us.
nd may soon be had for the taking T.
Tribune.