Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-01
News Items.

Two hundred and seventy lives were
lost by the wreck of the Hermann.
The ice in the Hudson river is break
ing up, and navigation will he resumed
in few days.
Hon. Edward Bates, ex United States
Attorney General under President Lin
coin, died in st. Louis, Tuesday after
noon.
Lieutenant General Sheridan has as
sumed command of the Military Divi-
sion of the Missouri, wit. headquarters
at Chicago.
Thomas S. Woods, editor of the Ohio
Patriot. and prominent politician of
Columbiana county, Ohio, died at Salem
on Saturday.
The Erie Railroad has entered into a
contract with the Michigan Southern
Railroad, by which IL secures a broad
gauge to Chicago.
Thomas Bignlow Lawrence, Consul
General to Italy, died at Washington
Sunday morning. He was the son of
Abbott Lawrence, of Boston.
bridge, at st. Louis is progressing favor
commence work on the center pier.
Orders have been received at the
Portsmouth, Mass, navy yard to fit the
! United States steamer Galena for sea-
1t is supposed her destination is Cuba.
| The State of Iowa may be regarded as
jim an exc llent financial condition. 1t
does not eve a cent, and has surplus of
six hundred and thirty-nine thousand
dollars on band.
1t is found the late severe weather has
greatly injured the peach crop i'm North
Carolina and the South generally. In
Maryland the recent cold rains have had
a damaging effect.
Ex-Mayor James Harper, of Harper
Bros, New York, who was injured last
Thursday by being thrown from his
carriage, died on Saturday night. He
was seventy-four years old.
A telegram received at Washington
Monday night, announced that Alex
ander ii. Stephens, of Georgia. late
Vice President of the late Confederacy
was lying at the point of death at Au
gusta. ...
The Union Pacific Railroad laid six
miles of track Oh Saturday, and coptin
ues pushing the work west of Ogden,
and also expect soon to finish the per-
manent lines through the Tunnels at
Echo Canon. -.f..--
IT is understood there is to be consid-
cradle seduction in all the bureaus of
the Treasury Department on the first
of April. The dismissals will be made
from the least efficient aad most obnox-
ious, politically, of the employees,
A Washington telegram states that
a large number of the army officers who
are left waiting orders by the recent con-
the opportunities Offering to enter civil
life. and the reduction seems TO provoke
no dissatisfaction i'm the army.
The statement of the public debt for
March will be out promptly on the first
of this month. it Ia believed it will
show a reduction of about $1,000. .00G.-
The March pensions paid amounted to
SIS 200. 900, and the customs receipts
will. it is believed, cover an amount ex-
ceeding Sl9 ,000, 900 for the month.
NEAR Knoxville, Tennessee, a Mr.
Campbell has succeeded in raising the
tea plant and IN gathering tea for. his
own use. The plant needs there very
little protection from the frost, and the
tea produced is declared equal to the
imported article The experiments have |
been quietly made, and Mr.. Campbell
has kept the results to himsslf, If tea |
can be profitably 'aised In Tennessee,
there are MANY other localities in the |
country where it can be produced.
Ir is stated on what ought to be re-
liable authOrity-namely. that of some
of the Cuban Junta i'm New York-that |
not a few of the officers who went to |
Cuba in the Henningson expedition,
are from that city. They are good poll
ticians as well as good soldiers. Making |
no doubt of the establishment of Cuban |
independence, they expect to return to
the United States Senators and MEM
bers of Congress, and 30 have deemed IL |
best to be ON the gronnd early.