Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-25
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Europe.
Dispatches frsm all points South state
that Thanksgivi ng was duly celebrated
there.
North Carolina owes S34, 900, 900 and Is
not paying the interest on its snli-war
debt OF SS,O00,000.
Gov. Merrill wilt have the Iowa Legis-
lature elect . successor to Senaror
Grimes, the Governor declining to ap-
point one.
JEFF. Davis has been elected President
of the Carolina Insurance Company of
Memphis, Tennessee, and will reside
there.
The banking capital of Virginia before
the war was 81 00,000, or SIS, So to each
inhabitant; and now only s., 400, 900. or
! 50, 10 10 each inhabitant.
A life insurance company Of st. Louis
has paid to Mrs. Rawlins five thousand
dollars, upon policy for that amount
held by General Rawlins.
Terrible storms in New England the
last few days. Burbsnk's ne. six story
hotel at PittsfeId, Massachusetts. was
blown down Saturday morning.
New Orleans ha. exported 700, 900
bushels of grain this year, and three
large vessels ale now being loaded with
grain at the New Orleans elevator.
Over two thousand five hundred per
sons are now employed in the Brooklin
Navy-yard. Unusual activity prevails
at all the yards, save Charleston.
Official returns from the State OF New
York shows Nelson's majority to be
| 20 .566. The total vote is only GIL 1856.
Republican decrease from last year is
109, 9,09S-Democratic S9.476.
The Little Rock Journal SAYS: Hun
dreds of colored men in Arkansas have
made each their one thousand dollars
this year, and can do it any ordinary
year with good span Of mules"
Omaha is projecting a great hotel to
csost Sl50 coo, of which 500 ,0O3 has been
subscribed, but the subscription lags now
on account of a rule prohibiting any one
from taking more than two shares.
The receipts of the Ohio State Treas
ury for the fiscal year ending Noyem-
ments were 81, 9l3 ,675, ,l0-leaving a bal
AdHSO III sliO 1AOe'0u4J OAtr'1ooioO',Af.
\ A train on the Mississippi Central
Railroad ran off the track at Duck Hills.
on Friday night, smashing the cars and
breaking the limbs of number OF pas
sengers. There are no further particn-
lars.
1t is stated that the subject of resump-
ton ofspecie payments is being boldly
advocated by General Garfield and other
western members of the House, and it is
considered probable that the discussion
will be opened in Congress.
There is a scarcity of seamen for the
| United States at present, so much so
that great difficulty is experienced in
finding men to enlist. The Secretary of
Navy has issued an order providing for
the payment of a bounty to men willing
to enter the naval service.
Passengers from Lexington, KY, re-
port that while funeral services were
going on in the Second Colored Baptist
Church, before very large congrega
ton, the floor gave way, killing five OF
six and wounding ten or fifteen coIored
persons.
The Second Ohio District produced in
October IA, ,s93 barrels of whisky, being
8, l03 barrels greater than the production
in October of last year. The tax on this
was 1857, ,372, an excess. of SO, ,i65 over
the amount collected on spirits in the
same month in 1858.
i The Kingsland iron Company, at Car
ondelet, near st. Louis, have sold 2.30t
tons OF pig iron to GiTard Ball0u, of ST.
Louis, to be manufactured there into
railroad iron. This is said to be the
largest single sale ofiron ever made west
efthe Alleghenies.
Sixteen persons were killed by col
lision on the Pacific Railroad last week
The Coroner's investigation ELECTED the
fact that the switch tender, who was the
cause of the accident, could neither read
nor write; that though he had time
table, he knew not what it meant, and
was ignorant of what was required OF
him.
Judge Johnson, in acknowledging the
receipt ofhis credentials as United States
Senator, writes to Gov. Walker, indors-
ing the principle of the Fifteenth
7 Amendment, and hoping it will soon
eating TIE observance of exact and COM
plete good faith in the payment of the
public debt, and advising the casting be-
hind us of all dead issues.
The Suez Canal, we are assured, is a
snccess, the imperial yacht with the
French Empress on board having reach
ed Suez. the Red Sea terminus, on Sat
prday. Intbe fleet which nassed through
were essels drawing between seventeen
aud eighteen feet of water, while the
Canal is wide enough TO allow steam
ships of thousand tons to pass in oppo-
site directions without difficult.
The gale of Saturday was very severe
on the Northern lakes and throughout
! the Middle States on the eastern slope of
the Alleghepies. AIany buildings were
unPoofed and some completely demol-
ished; trees, fences and telegraph poles
were prostrated, bridges destroyed and
vessels driven ashore. So far as heard
from on Saturday night, the destruction
of property had not been attended with
any loss OF life.
! \ safety car-wheer, which it is claim
ed will prevent railroad accidents, has
recently been exhibited in New York
The invention is reported as consisting
of an axle, with two wheels attached to
either end. These wheels run on both
sides of the rail, but they do not touch it
except where the surface of the inner
wheel rolls on the top of the rail. The
bevel of the wheels is such that when A
ear is off the track, the outer wheels force
il on again, since they cannot leave the
track so long as there are any sound
rails.
| The New York Times says that Com
missioner Delano has resolved that the
income returns of last year shall have a
thorough overhauling. TO this end Off
GERS have been detailed to do special
duty, and are now at work in the lead
ing cities of the country. Their advent
| in New York city is creating nnite a sep-