Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-05-19
All Sorts.

Breakfast caps for ladies are again
fashionable.
Women are successful as telegraph
operators in Russia.
Two drinks of whiskey in Pittsburg
recently resulted in a funeral.
Sharks, measuring six feet in length,
are plentiful in San Francisco harbor.
s-Napoleon III. was sixty-two years old
on the 10Th of April.
Maine has appropriated S50,00O addi-
tionaI for the State Agricultural College.
Lexington, Kentucky, has colored
population of IL 900. Most OF them are
members of the church.
The Fenians are runnored to have an
army of 81, 600 men somewhere between
here and the Canada border.
The first Chinese convert 20 Metho-
dism in San Francisco is Chick Slen
Hong.
Strawberries are selling at ten cents
per pound in the San Francisco mar
ket.
The native Russians at Si.ka are
diving out, and Americans are taking
their places.
New Orleans recently had q duel, two
stabbing cases, and a shooting affray in
one day.
At the Louisiana State Fair q girl
twelve years old took premiums for the
best pound, sponge and fruit cake.
Chattanooga hotel clerks eject people
waiting for trains from their parlors, if
they don't order supper.
Firing pistols at a mark in the yard is
considered proof of Philadelphia lady's
insanity, and her will is being contested.
She left SS00,000.
They have such.handsome hearses in
Nashville that moribund patients all
over the State rush thither to be buried.
"Cometh up as fiower"-Very likely
it does; but there is one thing that don't
go down as the four-and that's the
price of bread.-[ [Punchinello.
The Ku-Klux of Ireland don't send
threatening letters. They just dig a
grave in the landlords front yard.
Anew Yorker advertises his willing
ness to give SIS for situation as street
car conductor. Money is no object with
him; 1T lame he wants.
jefferson, you say?" was the remark
of P. Green, while complimenting the
potrait on a ten cent stamp. Jefferson?
That don't look no more like Joe JEFF
ferson than it does like me-"
A terrible tragedy was enacted near
Pensacola. Florida, recently. A man
named Allchin murdered his wife and
then cut his own throat. Both were
buried in one grave.
John H. Cobb, eldest son of the late
Howell Cobb, owns and manages four
teen thousand acres of rich land in one
body, about fourteen miles from Ameri-
cue, Ga.
The Grass Valley (Cal,) Union sug-
gests that the men who go about shoot
ing people and then plead insanity
should be tried by a crazy jury that is
insane enough to hang them.
A number of young gentlemen at the
Capital city of Indiana are organizing
an association to be called the Indian
apolis Dramatic Association, for the
purpose of giving performances ouce a
month for the benefit of charitable as
sociations.
At Galveston, Texas, there is a
French merchant who furnished
quartermaster's stores to haximilian's
army. The possessors at that time OF
over SCI, 900, he staked it on Maxi
milan and lost. He now sells soda
water fora living.
Mrs. Cady Stanton, in speech at
New York on Tuesday, said "The
Methodist Church had been the first to
strike out the ward obey from the
marriage ceremony, and until the other
churches did the same she hoped all the
women would see it to be their duty to
married by Methodist clergymen."
Applause.