Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-12-15

HAD 'EM FIRsT."-Two years ago,
during a great rivalry between two ho-
tells in Massachusetts,, both houses run
ming free coaches, one of the proprietOrs
had put every available vehicle on the
road, among which was one in most
dilspidated condition, threatening dis
solution with every bounce. This coach
was driven to the depot, anu having E.
cured two passengers the driver drove III
triumph to the hotel which he ap-
preached with grand flourish OF the
whip and an air ofihe greatest triumph
Calling to the waiter 10 open the door to
help out the passengers, the coach was
found to be empty.
"Where the dickens are they?" SAID
the proprietor, as he looked in with
glance of CONSERVATION.
"They dropped through the bottom,
up the road about a mile," said a niue
fellow who just then drove up, land OLD
Wattles of the Horseshoe picked 'em
up and carried them home"
Did he?" said the rival Landlord
"well, by thunder, knew l had them
first-there is some consolation III thai;
the other house has 20 be content "ith
my leavings."
In indianapolis, a charming yonng la
dy physician was called to oadninister 10
a gentleman down with fever. You
need good nursing" said ihe lady.
Nurse me for life" replied the patient.
I"I will, ;" was the so t answer.
E. Z. Hale, on arriving at Albany, on
Wednesday morning on his way to Chic
ago, having an hour before the depart
Ii train, was seen steadily writing in
in the ticket office, as if it had been his
study illustrating how, by tie use of
time that most people waste, he is ene-
bied 10 do the work oftS ordinary men.
mo man dares TO call me his own"
ltriumphantly declared Miss Susan B.
i Anthony at the Woman Suffrage con-
vention in Cincinnati.
The Chunchos of South America, th e
lheathen that they are, believe that We
men are impure beings, and were crea-
ted for the torture of man.
A yourg lady in Kansas City put on
her dress wrong side out, and wore it out
of doors that way. She never discovered
: her mistake until her attention was
called to it on her return home.
Miss Pauline FIetch er, at TIL, ags of
fourteen, an adept in all the mysteries
v
so forth, is the champion mathemati-
clan of Indiana, in Lagrange County.
"mister tomus brown, president OF
nashurnui bank. fellerdelfy," was the
superscription on letter that passed
through the Boston Postoffice, recently,
Earthauake proof buildings, with walls
horizontally and vertically bound to-
gether by wrought iron bars and rods, are
{ talked of at San Fran oisco.
Some boys at Fort Dodge, Iowa, play
ed European war. The "Prussians"
: burned a haystack, behind which the
French" had taken refuge, and dis
lodged them. The owner OF the hay
stack says he doesn't know much about
I this war business, but he'd liked 10 see
the man that pays fol his fodder.
4 YauktoD (Dakota) man, on Thanks
giving Day, drank twenty-tw.. glasses
If rye whisky, in Wamhold's saloon, in
o fifteen minutes, and afterward was
forced by others in the saloon to drink
e dozen more glasses of beer. The man
g died in five minutes after drinking the
e last glass of beer.
a young lad named Harry Pease, re-
+ siding in Carroltown, a few miles from
! Cincinnati, was few days ago .;ceiden-
. tally shot and killed, in AleXanderville,
' by Nelson Lindermuth, who was en-
q gagged at the time of the sad occurrence
in killing hogs, when his revolver sud-
denly went off, the bullet lodging neal
the heart of the unfortunate lad. The
Coroner's jury, in their verdict, excul-
j pate Iindermuth from all criminal in.
e tent in the premises.
e A terrible murder was committed in
o Greene township, Adams county last
week, the full particulars of which we
J find in. the West Union Defender. a
d young man named Harvey Biewer was
4 cut with knife in the hands of Edgar
o Adams. The knife entered his left side
penetrated his stomach, and nearly cut
the body in two. Blewer died the next
morning after great agony. Adams, who
is about eighteen years of age, escaped
q and has not been captured. A reward Of
500 is offered for his arrest.
, Mr.. Locke C"Petroleum V. Nasby")
. has lately done very novel thiug-that
of lecturing in the State Pris' n at
Charlestowh, Mass, before an audience
of five hundred prisoners. Now that Sc
y many people are clamoring for more
= humanitarian and hence reformatory
treatment OF criminals, would it N, be
good idea for more of our popular lee
e turers to follow up this initialory step
: throughout the land?
On Wednesday an Evansville jury
were brought in the Court room in order
e that one of their number might be in
4 structed upon the following points O
law: "If L believe that the evidence
was one one way AMI the other clever
k believe different, does that Justify any
other juryman knocking me down will
y, chair?'' The judge answered in gen
eral terms.
y Some careful man has ascertained tina
Il the average head contains about 130, ,00l
q hairs. The average mustache contain:
: about fourteen.
:. The receipts of the Baltimore ant
= Ohio r r. average a million a month.
{ The Min sral Region News says hun
IL dred houses will be built in New Lex
Iington next season. Railroad!
n 20 houses have been erected.at New
Straitsville already. Railroad!
II Beecher took strong grounds in hi
! Thanksgiving sermon in favor of "th'
II ! heather Chlnee." 1--WE wanted labor,
u u he said land. therefore, God bless tn
d Dane, the German, the Swede, and al
who will come; and God bless littl
3 more the Chinamen, because he Aeed
q it little more"
VI A Boston gentleman who could no
waltz offered young lady hundred
l. dollars if she would let him hug her as
st much as the man who had just watze'
with her. 1t was good offer, an
Ich thof object Il
him, but they put him out of the hous
so hard that his eyes were quite black.
l. Oswego, New York has had sad af