Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-08-25
News Item 8,

News Items.
Gold closed in New York on Satur.
day at l145@115.
The Patriot of New Lisbon says:
Last week, about two miles from town,
inches thick and extremely rich. I'm
mine.
The actors of almost all the Berlin
theatres have volunteered for the war,
almost to man. Even many actresses
ccompay the as Uivandieres.
At the beginning of the war great
number ofships taking in loads of grain
for France at German ports were COM
PEELED to nlad again.
What has become of Prince Napoleon.
His silence at this time seems a little
remarkable.
The latest is that Brigham Young
wanted to marry the Lydia Thompson
troupe en- gros.
The authorities of Dubuque, Iowa,
having shot dog which had saved
four human beings from drowning. The
act was done for five cents reward.
The total eclipse of the sun, to occur
December %, is not forgotten even in
the excitement of the war. Scientific
parties are preparing in all parts of the
world to observe it.
A Chicagoan sues another for 81, 900
damages for trespass. The tresspass
consists in pulling out divers large
quantities of hair from plaintiffs head.
Five students of maine college COM
bined recently, and afttr much labor,
produced dime novel.
A"Society for the Encouragement of
Young Men desiring to Marry" is Or
ganizing among the young ladies of
Roundout, N. Y. Those. societies have
accomplished much good at the water
ing-places for years.
A flock of bees swarmed into a church
in Gloucester, Mass, last Sunday,
during divine service, but retreated
when the sexon shook the contribu-
ton box at them.
A mans own good breeding is the
best security against other peoples i'll
manners.
A guest at hotel in Leavenworth,
9 " RJ
corn at one meal they day before his
funeral.
Upon hearing that the Prince Fred
erick Charles meant to attack Nancy,
Mrs. Partington told Ike that she all
ways thought those Prooshun Princes
were mean enough 20 strike woman.
Congress will have no further trouble
with the justly expelled Representative
Whittemore, of South Carolina, that
person having given up his announced
intention of once more appealing to the
fellow-citizens of his district for Con-
gressional honors. Having resigned
his Washington aspirations, White
more by no means contemplates re-
tirement from public life, but turns up
anew as a candidate for the States Sem
ate of South Carolina. 1t is to be hop
ed that he will he defeated; but should
he prove successful, the question will
arise: Is y man pronounced unworty
to sit in Congress eligible to a seat in a
State Legislature? And to this peril
nent though vexed query, the Senate
of South Carolina must give an answer.
Indiana thus far is the only State in
which, the campaign has been opened
with vigor. Joint discussions between
rival candidates for Congress are being
held, and the canvass pushed with
much energy. The chief interest
centers upon the congressional districts.
The Fourth was Republican at the last
election by but 1l6 majority, the Sixth
by but 1872 and the Seventh
by but 457. In these the fight promises
to be bitter one.
The elephant got loose at a circus in
Kentucky, the other night, and a quick
witted darkey, in the panic cut his way
out through the canvas he unfortunate
ly stepped from the tent into deep
creek, and appeared no more.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher writes in
favor of putting cloathes to soak" on
night as an innocent recreation,
not ct all inconsistent with the sacred
ness of the day.
Ruskin, is one of his recent lectures,
says: Though England is deafened
with spinning-wheels. her people have
not clothes; though she is black with
digging of fuel, they die of cold, and
though she has sold her soul for gain,
they die of hunger.
The Boston transcript says: "In
private conversation, during a ramble
in the streets, Dickens once said that he
was sure that God looked leniently
upon all vice that proceeded from hu-
man tenderness and natural passion"
A man recently walked from st.
Louis to Kansas city in search of q lost
wife. He had received slight clue to
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