Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-08-18
News Items.

1165@I17.
The war spirit in Prussia-korn
sehnapps.
The man who had Just got his han,
in" was pickpocket.
An Iowa town has base ball eIuI
called the Red Foxes. They're awfu
Oh fouls"
The Republicans gained some 4U,0J
IN the popular vote at the kentuch!
election.
1t costs three cents less 70 raise I
pound Of cotton now than it did before
emancipation was procIaimetl.
The safe in the r. r. Office ut Worth
ington, O., was blown on Thursda,
night. The burglars got $40.
a rattlesnake was recently killed il
Cameron county, Pa, with a cluster o
thirty raFtles on his Narrative: He Wa:
4 RATHER.
The city Of fSteubenviIle has a popuia
ton of ten thousand ore hundred anC
eighty-seven, a gain OF four Thousand
one hundred and eighty-seven since
1860.
c. ". Potwin, of GAINESVILLE, was
nominated yesterday for Congress by
the Republicans of the 18th District.
john N. Langston, u colored professor
in Howard University, ut Washington,
and = noted colOreGorator, lectUred On
temperance at Bellevue, August l.
Chas. Foster, of Seneca county, was
nominated for Congress by the Repub-
licans of the 9Th district. "Wednesday
The district is about 300 Democratic.
y Young lady about to I've married
says she will not promise to love, honor
and obey" but will instead, love,
honor and he gay"
An Illinois grave digger, who buried
an man name Button, sent in his bill 10
the widow as follows: "To making l
Button-hole g, ,25."
The President has forwarded to
General Sheridan official letters accred-
iting him in Europe as a representative
of the United States, Ministers WASH
burn and Bancroft have been officially
notified
A black snake was killed near Cald-
well, Noble county, last week, which
measured eleven feet III length, was ten
inches in circumference, and weighed
one hundred pounds.
Chicago is said to have It divorce case
now in which the happy couple had
only been married four days. They are
improving on it all the time, and will
soon have it so you can get q divorce the
first night.
Two steers STAN peded from a drove of
Texas cattle passing through Buffalo,
Monday, and started on {; rampage, gor~
ing ana killing one by. and seriously
wounding three other persons. One
man had both his shoulders broken.
There is an Intelligent dog at Mid
Pine, Indiana, so sharp that whenever
comes to the house he proceeds
at once to catch a chicken, II thing he
will not do ut any other time.
1t is estimated that there are about
10000 homeless, friendless vagrant
children i'll New York, who, if not
cared for, will help swell the list of
murderers, AID desperadoes,
that throng 'the great city"
Ebony ahead. During the late war
colored brother, whose flock had suffer
ed from the extortions Of suffers, took
for his text: NOW de serpent was more
sutler dan any beast of de field dat de
Lord God had made"
A rowdy intending TO be witty, thus
accosted lady in the street: MADAM,
can you inform me where [ can see the
mo, but if l had a look
ingglass I could show you very large
The rowdy sloped.
The Democracy start in the coming
elections with some
-ather heavy weights-hatred of the
Union soldiers, of the freedmen, of The
Chinese, of the reduction of the public
1ebt, and of the economy Of the Grant
The bridge being build by the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad across the
Ohio river at Beliaire, is approaching
The stone work will be
inished this fall, and the entire bridge,
,arly next season, will be ready for
he passage of trains.
AS matter of encouragement to the
French, Italy has, or is reported as hav-
ng offered 10000 troops, and Austria
10 respond with 4 like number
,fmen. If true, this movement on the
)art of Italy anu Austria will bring into
equisition the friends of Prussia, and as
Il general European war.
The Paris True Kentuckian says
One negro told US yesterday that his |
yoting the Democratic ticket had 50
his beloved wife that she forth
with left his he'd and board. We ten
lprnH hin, pup Sup,nathu ha
Ilied that 1T didn't make much differ |
nee, no how; there were plenty of wo-
nen who wanted husbands, and would |
axe a Democrat rather than go it alone |
When the Enquirersays the Demo
.racy carried Oregon by 5000, does it
peak financially? Because the Demo-
ratio majority of votes was only about |
00-a loss to the Democracy of more
han half its majority at the last elec-
ion. Oregon is making rapid progress,
md will be all right next time.
Gen. Grant has been in the Presidenti-
i chair sixteen months and over $780,
00 900 of the public debt has been wip-
"a out. The credit of the nation is con-
greatly enhanced and it is
made safe and eXpedient to reduce the
BURDENS of taxation, which has been
lone to the amount of some siXty-five
Millions a year.
The Technologist, usually good au-
hority upon scientific subjects, says it
S an error to suppose that the air near
he floor contains more carbonic acid
han air near the ceiling, but that ow-
ng to the law of the diffusion of the
.ases, the is generally the case;
dding, "If it were otherwise, every |,
radle would be a tomb"
The Democratic press of this county,
,sympathize with France in
he Present struggle of Prussia with
hat power, and indulge in many rid
culous expressions at the expense of the
Germans. For instance, the Democrat
ic organ at Hillsborough wants to know
if so great nation as France is to be
whipped by beer and saurkraut in uni
orm." Germans should remember