Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-11-10

opened the boxes. All the teleSrapn
wires were cut west of Reno. Two OF
the Western Union wires. however, were
repaired by daylight, and business is
not interrupted. Parties are searching
the mountains, and will probably be
able to throw more light on this bold
robbery. During the day the railroad
wires were still down.
VIEWS ITEMS.
Gold-closed in New York on yester-
day at l1lf@111s.
A drunken farmer, in Clermont coun-
ty, recently chopped down three hum
dred apple trees "to spite Betsey."
More Cabinet changes are lumored.
1t is said Boutwell, is to soon leave the
Treasury, and that he will be succeeded
by Mr.. Deiano.
To promote pedestrian exercises
among students-Have no drinking
places within three miles of any insti-
tuition of learning.
Wear your learning like watch, in
private pocket, and don't endeavor to
show it unless you are asked what time
it is.
A frighte ned wife told her husband
the earthqu axe made her heart beat,
and the cruel brute replied that only an
earthquake could.
An impudent fellow says, "Show me
all the dresses a woman has worn dur.
ing her life, and will write her biogra-
ply from them"
Pet poodles are now amused with rub
ber rats, which eeueal when bitten. It
gives the little darlings exercise and
cheerful spirits, you see.
The report of the Comptroller of the
culation notes issued under the act of
July II, 1870, during October has ST.
$50, 900. Ofthis amount $672, 100 went
to new banks.
Miss Bessie Cotton, of Cass county,
Indiana, boasts that she was engaged to
eight young gentlemen at tue same
time, and succeeded in keeping up the
deception more tlan year.
At Rensselaer,, Indiana, Saturday
evening, there was to be a wedding, but
no groom appeared. 1t was afterwards
learned that he committed suicide be-
cause his intended was too good for him.
A fellow in Evansville, the other day,
borrowed money of a girl to whom he
was engaged, in order to pay for a mar
riage license, and expended the money
in procuring license to marry another
woman.
Iowa has ninety counties, only four
are Democratic. Three counties at the
late election did not poll Democratic
ballot, and one county gave single1
Democratic vote. Bully for Iowa!
A fiery volcano of large proportions
has suddenly appeared in the interior
of Mexico. Whether its appearance
had anything to do with the recent
have not informed us.
Miss Kate Field, according to the Bos-
ton Gazette, says that she received $500
from the publishers of the Atlantic
Monthly for article on Mr.. Felchter's
Hamlet.
More than three hundred tons of but
ter and almost seventy tons of cheese
were madein Tuscarawas comfy during
last year.
Gen. John A. Logan is said to be a
candidate for office of United States
Senator from Illinois, in the place of
Richard Yates, whose term expires in
March next.
In the senior class of Dartmouth Col
lege, numbering seventy-two, four are
from Indie, three from California, one
from Oregon, two from Illinois, two
from Missouri, one from Michigan, one
from Indiana and four from Ohio.
Miss Kate Field is said to have 10l
engagements to fill this winter-100 to
lecture and one to get married. AS she
presumed she will fill the one first.
The young men of Cincinnati are be-
coming greatly interested in the or
phans since the uncle ofa young and
beautiful girl in the asylum has died
and left her $4,000.
The landlady of the hotel at Pitts
burg, where Mrs. Surratt and Payne
are said to have Matched the scheme
for the assassination of President Lin
coin, recently became a raving manica,
and bad to be removed to lunatic asy-
ium.
Mrs. Esther NJ. Davis, of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, who left her husband because
he was to lazy to work, and was in the
habit of whipping her seven times q
week announces that the situation is
open if any of the Cedar Rapids women
wants to try him on.
The use of opera glasses at wedding
in churches suggests to the New York
Mail that the next thing will be fence
posters heralding the performance, and
q moderate admission-free.
1t is money in Secretary Cox's pocket
to go out office. In cincinnati he makes
SIS, 900 year by his practice, and lives
on $4,000; in Washington his salary
was $4,000, and he had to spend $15, 200.
A Detroit editor describes rat of that
city who was vigorous and plucky
enough to fight one hour and quarter
for his life, and get away with it at
that. He first vaEquished a terrier,
then a tame raccoon, and then fresh
dog. His final trial was to escape blows
aimed at him with broomstick in the
hands of the owner of the defeated ami
mails. These blows he lodged and made
his escape.
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