Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-08-11

and causing his death.
A Cincinnati servant girl, stating the
grievance of her class, in the public
prints, thinks the kitchen and the par
lor should have closer relationships
She wants the privilege of receiving COM
pany in the parlor with the "missus,h
and sitting at the table while the head
of the house goes down stairs after the
tea-kettle.
Barnesville has organized an Agricul-
tural Society.
Why are the armies of Franch and
Prussia like fleas on hog? Because they
make it lively on the Rhine. Eifteen
minutes for refreshments.)
1t is said the French troops will not
evacuate Roman territory until Septem-
ber. The Convention between Italy and
France for the protection ofthe In,
dependence ofthe Pope is re-established.
Washington has been abandoned to
the bats and owls. Congress has left,
the President has left, and now the
newspapers correspondents threaten to
leave, so that until next December we
shall have peace.
Revenue stamps on receipts for mon
ey are no longer required under new tax
law, a piece If information which,
though apparently out of place here, is
of personal interest to everyone who has
money to receive.
In Butler county, a young man named
Dunn has been arrested for firing pistol
at the head of young lady named
Dodds, because she refused to allsw him
to accompay her home from singing.
The young lady was so frigh tened as to
become insane, and at last accounts her
life despaired Of
William II. Hanna, one of the most
prominent members of the Blooming
ton, ILL.,, bar, was instantly killed last
Friday night, by stroke of lightning
in bed. His wife, lying by his side, was
seriously stunned by the same stroke,
but soon after recovered to find her nus
band dead by her side.
Gen. VIM. Terry, commander. of the
Stonewall brigade in the last of the war,
is the Democratic nominee for Congress
in the Eighth Virginia District, with a
good chance for election.
A foot race between three Young ladies
and pig is the last exciting episode in
Beloit. The Register says: Owing to
the equatorial neatness,' the member OF
the swine persuasion came out few
feet ahead, and thereby managed to save
his bacon"
For the Democratic nomination fol
Congress in this District there have
been mentioned the names of A. Pat
rick, Esq, and J. B Read, ESQ.,, of Tus.
carawas. R. E. Chambers Esq, and
Sample Clark, Esq, OF Belmont county
A Southern reporter, in furnishing
"his account" of the recent execution
at Richmond Va, says: AFTER hanging
for four minutes, his soul left its earthly
tentement and went where the woodbine
twineth."
The Roman Catholic Cathedral at
Cincinnati, Ohio was entered by burg
lars on Monday night, who, after gath
ering together quantity of gold and
silver plate, were forced to abandon the
plumber in order to make their escape
from the police.
The census taker of the Fifth Ward
District, while in the line of his duty
yesterday, called upon an old lady to
state her age, and received in reply:
"Shure, honey, don't know how ould
l am this minute, at all at all, but was
born about the time of the last big wind
in ireland, and yees can figure that up
for yerself, if yee be a scholar."-[In In
dianapolis journal.
Mrs. Stanton thinks that courting
ought to be left entirely to women. She
says: II candidly believe that nature
intended man for the rough work OF
life; to dig into philosophy, politics,
parallelograms, and potatoes, and humb-
ly to wait in his material sphere until
selected by the queens of the hearth
stone." Mrs. S., thinks men are too
vacillating and awkward" in their love-
making.
A young gentleman from the West,
driving carriage through Thames
street, the other day, with a stylishly
dressed colored gentleman perched on
seat behind and above her, with his
arms folded, as is the custom among
the big folks" remarked that "it must
cost that niger good deal of money to
hire that good looking young lady to
drive his carriage for him."
A fisherman, of Bloomsbury, Pa,
was caught in a thunder shower the
other day and struck by lightning. The
fluid stripped him stark naked, but
didn't hurt him particle. In his re-
port of he catastrophe he says it is a
first rate way to get your clothes off if
yon are in hurry.
An Arkansas paper says, 1--WE had
two great shocks in Arkadelphia last
week, one of which was the impaneling
for the first time, of negro jury. and
the other an earthquake. The earth
quake won."
A boy at Medina, o, looked into a
toy cannon, just as another boy touche
it off, and the looking boy was feeling
around for his eyes when the reporter
left. Parents should buy toy cannons il
they have got more children than they
want.
If the best mans faults were written
on his forehead, it would make him pull
his hat over his eyes.
The largest Sunday School in the
world is at Stockport, England. It has
three hundred teachers and Fl We thousand
scholars.
Base Ball.-The Harvards, of Cam
bridge, played the Nationals, of Wash
ington yesterday afternoon. The former
club won, the score being Harvards So
and Nationals l3. The Olympic Club
of Washington, left that city yester-
day for the West, where they will play
the Red Stockings, of fCincinnati; White
Stockings, of Chicago: Forest City, OF
Rockford, and other noted clubs of that
section.
G. G. Harrington and wife, a young
married couple, stopping at Usage, iowa,
have been arrested for numbering their
own child, an infant of few weeks. old.
They took carriage, went into the
country some distance with the child
and smothered it to death, and then
rolled over large log, placed the child
where the log had lain, and then rolled