Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-13

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81 the Southern District OF Ohio.
The skull of a mastodon that stood 2
= feet high in his barefeet is on exhibition
I at Columbus. 1t was dug up near Chill
j. .f1icothe, last summer.
81 A party by the name of Jones. ha.
q written book to prove that the United
: States is the Kingdom of Heaven,
: The Cardiff Giant, the guest of DR.
Wilford Wiley, of st. Louis, has beer
attached for the debts owed by his host
A. T. stewards income for the pas,
| year, as recorded on the books of the
Eighth Collection District, was 81 ,537
I595.
A Virginia city man shot his wife just
,l for accompanying another man to the
ltheater. Some folks can't n'tappreciate del
icate attentions.
i SPA" said little friend of ours,
"what's the use of giving our little pigs
so much milk? They make hogs Of
themselves" Pa walked away,
How much did he leave? inquired 4
gentleman Of wag on learning the
] death Of wealthy citizen. Everything
responded the wag; she didn't take .
dollar with him."
General Moltke was the candidate Of
the conservatives in eight districts at
the recent elections for the German
Parliament. He was beaten in seven
districts and elected in one. ,..n - >
It is said dth,r John O. Whittier, never
puts three iiuesOf poetry together with
out bringing on an attack of neuralgia, :
a disease from which he has suffered &
long time. b s..~e q" ias.slz - izs
,lsifE - - =. ii's.il4ass
AN NCNPARALLELEDO EDOFFER.-Afi first-
class Family Paper forty weeks for one
dollar. See adv't. 4
Why is baby like sheaf of wheat?
Becuse it is first cradled, and then
|thrashed, and finally bee. ms the
flower of the family. 7
OF the nineteen Senators what shiel-
ded A. ]. in his impeachment trial;l
not one, Republican or Democrat, has
been reelected, and only two remain
in the Senate.
The number of Germans expelled
from France during the war is liz, 200
These 112,0O0 demand on an average
three thousand francs indemnity for |
their involuntary exile.
The completest punE in the records OIL
literature is produced in the following
words, which were inscribed on tea
chest: ,'1d doces,n which is in the Sec
ond person singular, present tense, Of
the LatinJ verb Sdoceot . teaeh;and /
when literally translated becomes thou
ac"fSYFRM 1HR giasa aa9v |,
Mrs. Jones, of Dubuque, Iowa, wants.
a divorce from her husband because ne
does nothing but stay at home and i'm
pose q large family of children upon
her for whose support she has to Pfo-i
vide by running sewing machine. -
Mrs. James T. Fields, wife Of the.
well known Boston publisher, has es-
tablished i'm ttisE city "a cqRee-house
which furnishes nice wholesome food,
coffee and tea in clean attractive
place, ndatthe lowest possible eprices;t Il
thus providing a substitute for the bar
room, into which 30 many men stay for i,
want of better resorts.
Aletter Vas Il ] 4 rfeceiSed al he treasury 1; |;
from o lawyer in Balen 1
Baden, indorsing bill Of exchange or |,
s50, 600 in gold with the statement that
it is from a former citizen of the United
States who desire to make anonymous
restitution to the United States Treas :
ury. II
Commissioner PleAsanton decides Il
that persons whose gross incomes dur !,
ing 1870, estimated in United States I
did dsnot exceed two ta0asaAd Il
1ollars, are not required to make any f
Income returned. II
He, who is aetuated by no higher !
in the exercise Ofthe right j
,f suffrage, thap. that ofconferinga BEN !,
Eft upon the candidate for whom lsofts
votes, has but miserable conception Z
Of the rights and responsibilities ofan
American citizen. -
A STOLEN kiss saved il girls life inl
Fond du Lac last weex, for ifthe hijhia
who did the deed had not pulled b r
head forward ju as he did, a beam,
which fell frun tiss upper loer,' weulda
have dashed her brains out. Since then
all the young men in Fond du Lac are
going around saving the lives of tie
young women Rhey say,itis- sweet 70
be philanthropistNS Az Y 4AkA
A Stout old gentleman and his wife
~ 70 s,t thair chif1rxsrAs, r,aip ~ ftsyis,a |
who are encircled in each others
arms in the cradle. Wife-ssD9 look
at them husband; ain't they $pfecious
pair of lq,n6s?' Husband Av$ryHinno-
they are pair Of lambs,
pray tell me, love, what am II"
A Lady who could never buy any
thing without trying TO beat down the
price, went to the post-ofiice the other
day to get four advertised letters, and
on being told there was four cents to
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