Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-02-04

Government at $50, 600 per mile 1t is
represented that the company have made
arrangements in France to procure suf1i-
cient money to build the road on this
guarantee. They ask no further land
grants. having already eight million
acres. The route proposed is on the
thirty. second parallel. rs-
rsaF . NEWS ITEMS. --.sst, ~.
A war is PROBABLE between Salvador
and Honduras.
Frequent earthquakes occurred at
Guatemala in December. -il. 1.i
Gen. Sherman and his Secretary, Col.
Dayton, with their families, have gone
to New Orleans. So
y boy i'll Huntington county, Penn
sylvania. who was bitten recently by q
cat, has just died of hydrophobia.
Five hundred and sixty-five thousand
and three hundred hogs is the number
packed in Chicago this season to the
30th ult, E2.s ~ sr.-.t-
The ship Marlborough left New York,
Saturday, for Antwerp, witt 500, 900
gallons of petroleum, the largest single
cargo yet shipped. 5s ..eH ..f
In the Illinois House, on Saturday, all
the members from Cook county, but one,
being absent, a joke was played upon
them by the passage of bill ceding the
city of Chicago to the States of Indiana
and Wiseo nsin.
Official dispatches from Caleb Cushing,
at Bogota, Columbia, have been received
7 by the Secretary of State. His mission,
which is believed to be to negotiate rela-
tive to the ship canal through the 18TH
mus of Panama, is said to be a complete
success. a-.-r ---a .- -..s. ..e
The Central Pacific Railroad is COM
/ pleted 10 twenty-one miles beyond Elko,
4S1 miles east of Sacramento, and within
$50 miles of Monument Point, head of
Salt Lake. The track is being laid at
the rate of two miles per day.
/ A Havana letter of the 14th states that
the insurgent chiefs are reported not to
! be in ACCORD, and two Strong parties are
forming. General Quesada is working
hard to be made General-in Chief The
cholera had broken out in Bayamo.
Governor Geary has issued warrants
for the execution, on the twenty-sixth
of February, of William Brooks and
Charles Orme, sentenced TO be hung at
Streudsburg, Monroe county, for the
murder of Theodore Broadhead.
| d. In the murder trial of Mrs. Twitchell,
at Philadelphia, Friday morning, the
| District Attorney abandoned the case.-
The Judge charged the jury to bring i'm a
verdict of not guilty, which was done,
and she was discharged from custody.
AT St Domingo letter says the portion
of President Johnson's message, in
which he treats of the annexation of st.
Domingo to the United States, has been
received there with the liveliest satisfac-
tion. 1t is regarded by all parties as the
only peaceful solution possible of the
existing difficulties. Special instructions
| have been sent to Mr. Toben, Dominion
Envoy, to press the matter at WASH
ington. i.i s- -.
- At the New York State Workingmen's
Assembly on Wednesday q resolution
was adopted that a committee be APP
pointed to draft bill to be presented to
the Legislature. providing that all APP
prentices shall serve not less nsr more
! than five years at trades. The Labor
4! Committee reported in favor or the total
abolition Of prison labor, BUT the report
was reeommftted for modification.
Albert d. Pyke was arrested on Thurs
day at Fitchburg, Mass, for adultery
4 with his daughter-in-law, and an indict-
4 rnent for the murder of his wife was
issued shortly after. His conduct toward
! his daughter-in- lay becoming known,
4 it is said he told her he would or could
I marry her if the mother was out of the
way Mrs. Pyke died on Thursday in
I violent spasms. declared by the physi-
clans to the effects of arsenic. The daugh-
tier has also been arrested. Deceased was
| about fifty years old, snd the daughter
I in-law Is twenty-six.
THE official returns relating to the
!, arrival of emigrants at New York show
that the number of German.:arrivals was
! more than dalble, those of the Irish, the
figures In round numbers being 102, 900
Hand 47,090. Gnglohd, which used to
send asnere handful in comparison with
4 ireland, was but slightly behind in 1868,
and the indications are that the Green
Isle will soon fall behind England in
4 the number sent to settle among u.s.
! The city and State of New York retain
! ed 67,7l4 of the whole number who are
rived, Illinois, which took "a ,625,s being
the second favcrite. slIa- ssi3a. e3r
Mr.. Weed writes aietter from Charles
d ton, s. c., in which he says: young
1 men Of cultivation and refinement. who
once supposed that the Divine injunction
relating to the "sweat of the brow" was
applicable only to the colored race, are
now eagerly seeking EN- ployment, how
ever laborious, 10 maintain themselves,
while their mothers and sisters, with
equal alaority, avail themselves Of every
occupation suitable to their sex and
character The Intelligent and civil
/ conductor of a street car, in which we
were riding, is a grandson of the late
Episcopal Bishop Bowen, whose family
before the war was wealthy"
! The State of Ohio seems TO be unfor-
/ tunately situated in respect to the rela-
4 tions which its Legislature bears to the
| United states Senatorship from the
Estate, that body heiug Dem ,oratic.
while the two sitting Senators are Re-
publican. The result is that the Legis-
tiature remained In secession last year
about two months longer than usual
awaiting the issue of the Impeachment
trial, with the intention, in the event OF
Mr.. Wade being elevated to the Presi-
dency, Of sending n Democrat in his
| oil ce Their expGctation is again excit.
ed in the same direction by Tie ruinors
| that Mr.. Sherman is to be invited to a
pi ace in President Grants Cabinet, an
the probability is that both houses will
sit until after the.4th OF March to catch
this plum In case it should fall. In he
/ meantime, it is said, Mr.. sherman r.
special illness for the 'SecTetaryship OF
I the Treasury was never so generally
Understood and conceded among his
4 political opponents as nov. But as,
I the cost Of the Legislature to the State
is governed by The iength 9f its ssssions,
this waiting for dead mems shoes' is a
J title rough on tax payers. rs.-[Wash. Star.