Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-10-20

eIa. This gun Is the largest in the
world. Weight of gun, 2,Oe0 pounds;
weight of carriage, $4,000 pounds; call
bt r, IA inches; weight of steel slot, 1.2ll
pounds; cast-iron shell, 1850 pounds;
extreme length, II feet inches; cost,
$100, 900.
A very respectable brakemen on the
Panhandle Railroad left his post sud
denly, the other day, and went on a
terrible drunken spree. He declared it
was the result of modification at not
having been offered the English mission.
He didn't want it, he said, but he could
not bear to be sighted.
LARGE TRrE.-Sarahsville, Noble
County, has solid white-oak tree with
in her limits which measures % feet
around the articulation of the roots, and
20 feet around the stump, and its height
is supposed to be over 100 feet. 1t is
claimed to be the largest tree in Noble
county and perhaps in the State. Gov.
Hayes and Judge Bingham when there
payed 1t a visit and pronounced il the
largest tree of the kind that. they had
ever seen in the State.
A Gentleman cent a lad with letter
to the post office and money to pay the
money he said, "Guess I've done the
thing slick; I've seen good many folks
putin letters in the post office through
q hole and SO watched my chance, and
got mine in for nothing"
Twenty-eight German immigrants,
the vanguard of quite celony to fol-
low, have arrived in Savannah en- route
to Quincy, Florida, where they propose
to engage in agricultural pursuits.
The residents of Northern Michigan
are kept stirred up by band of young
highway men, averaging twelve years
of age, whose style of brigandage would
be creditable to older operators.
The packing trade of Baltimore is
enormous. The canning of oysters,
fruit and vegetables gives annual en-
ployment to about 20 600 hands: 10000
900 cans are packed, and the amount
realized annually is put down at $40 ,000,-
900. u r4
One Denver gentleman shot another
and was promptly arrested for "obstruc
ting the pavement" He was discharg-
ed when he clearly demonstrated that
the way the deceased stood it was i'm
possible to shoot him in any way so that
he would not fall on the sidewalk. q
A Lady of Morgan county, Indiana,
who had occasion to discharge her hus-
band, presented him with $50 and told
him to ''git. ",He got.
A negro who was tried in Tunica
county, Mississippi, for hog stealing and
acquitted, was Immediately put on the
jury to try and scquit one of the jurors
oh "a roed with horse steaIinp
A Kansas lady, on retiring to her
room one night, found it literally filled
with martins, which had flown in dur
ing her absence. Instead of harshIy
turing them out into the cold, The
kind-heartedl lady captured nearly all
the little creatures, and had them serv-
ed up the next day in pot-pie.
The following incipient ballad was
swep out of one of our restaurants since
the State Fair:
Ituk her to the Fair Grounds,
Before that place was shet:
That happy, happy afternoon,
recoiex 1t yet.
And when bought her gingerbread
She smOle you'd better bet;
That happy. happy afternoon,
IrecolIex 1t yet.-lFort Scott Monitor.
The Washington Star says that Secre.
tary Cox gives rs reason for resigning
the fact that his means are not sufficient
to allow him to indulge in the expensive We
luxury of holding q Cabinet position
where the cost Of living exceeds the
salary. This is the time of life when he
must make hay, if at all, and he pro-
poses to return to the practice of his
profession-the law. He has been a
dignified, able. hightOned officer, anu
the public will regret 10 hear of his