Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-06

Assume virtue if you have it not"
Ben Butler will not speak before
lyceums this year. Nor will Schuylel
Colfax. The latter replies to all ap
plications the succinct word ''impOssi
ble."
Spurgeon says that if he ever lee.
lures in this country it will be in thu
churches, and for religious purpose.
Carl Schurz is booked for thirty lee
lures next fall. The American Liter
ary Bureau makes all his engagements.
1t is true that the poet says: "FrienG
after friend departest" but it by no
means follows from this statement thai
the Quakers will vote the Democratic
ticket.
The people of the United States pay
doctors $3.50, 200, GOO a year for slaugh-
ferrous service, and spend $25, 200, ,00C
annually for quack medicines.
Horace Greedy, in his Essay on Farm,
ing, says that the only way to effectually
destroy "widow's weeds" /" which seems
to thrive in some kind of sosl, is for the
husbandman to say, ''Wilt thou ?o
That makes them Immediately wilt.
William Young; the Mormon cadetat
West Point, said to an interviewing re-
porter the other day that he has sixteen
brothers and twenty-one sisters. Thus
one of the greater questions of the time
is settled-thirty-nine children in Brig
hams family.
Paul Marzluff, the owner of peach
orchard of six thousand trees, near
Chillicothe, expects to realize $4,000
for his crop this season.
A Chicago policeman poisoned dog.
His master-the dog's-twisted his ear
the policeman's-and he now wears
his eye-the man does-in a sling.
California enjoyed an Indian-hanging
a few days ago. A report says: "Eve--
rything was conducted in the most
orderly and systematic manner, and the
utmost respect was paid to the Indians
feelings, for which the worthy Sheriff
and his assistants deserve great credit"
Samuel Buck, an eccentric charac-
ter, died recently in Coneaut, Ohio, in
MS 85th year. More than 60 years ago
ne was Tilted by a young woman, which
70 affected him that he retired from so
,iety and lived alone until the day of
MS decease. In public he dOnned
mans habiliments; but under his own
.oof he wore feminine attire, declared
ne was Mrs. Buck, and always spoke
If himself and desired to be spoken of
Is woman.
An old lady walking with her grown
on a moonlight night, dis
played her knowledge of stronomy by
heavenward and eXclaiming,
'Oh, my dear, do look at them beauti-
'ul stars, Juniper and Mars ]"
Mr.. Emerson, in heuncultured wilds
IF California, struck an Observant jour-
1alist after this fashion: "This Yankee
Plato is tall, thin, sloping-shouldered,
narrow-browed, long
losed, unbeared man, rather gaunt and
in body and motion, yetwith
certain expression about the eye,
mouth, and nestril, deuoting superb
,rity."
The New York Times says: Among
he thousand and one criticisms OF the
new departure" It would be dlmcult
o find more apt illustration than thaf,
,iven by Senator Sherman, VIZ: tnat
he resolutions embodying 1t reminded
linn of a famous brouZe horse at Milan
eager to start on Ill every ui-
.ection, but really going nowhere.
An Illinois rural paper advertises:
'Wanted-a good rain; one that under
stands the business thoroughly. Ap-
ply all over the country"
That high toned journel, Vic. Wood
1ull's Family Weekly, has writer that
,ays one half of the elite, the creme de
a creme, of the fashionable world are
The virtuous Vic. and the
Tennie are veritable expo
nents.
A young man by the name of McCarty
II Castalia, Erie county. who had sore
upon his hand, was picking potato bugs
from the vines few days ago and IL is
was poisoned by the insects,
as he was suddenly taken sick, and
within an hour died In great agony.
Whitelaw Reed, managing editor Of
the New York Tribune, is visiting MS
friends in Green county.
Lord and Lady Z orne will shortly
take up their residence in London. IN
moderate sized house, long occupied oy
the Earl of Clarendon, i'll Grosvenei
Crescent 1t is understood that tneil
establishment was on very moderate
scale.
Mark Twain says that after writing
his lecture on the rights OF children, ahs
still another one. "Reminiscences nl
some Pleasant characters Have Met''
This he saws, covers his whole acgu amt
ances-kings, humorists, luDatics, ieuot
and all--and this alone he proposes Z
talk to his lyceum acquaintance ne%l
winter
The morals of Chicago are evidently
imp rowing, for Edward Walker has beer
fine So in that city for an ineffec.ua
attempt to kill his wife.
The Washington Republican comfortl
Greeley thus: "He ought to know wei
enough that the White House is goa
he can never reach, and that Edito
Horace Greeley is a stronger and great
er man than President Greeley coul'
ever possibly become"
A Fairfield county (Con.) man VIII
| figures pretty close" ". feigned sicknes
! the other day when his wife was TO b
buried, in order to save his car-fare, a
she was 10 be taken to a distant place
but when 1t was found necessary to tax
a rope to hold the coffin in the wagon
as 1t was taken to the depot, he appeare
and put in the request that said rop
should be returned, as cit was handy :
tie up the calf" a-
A Paris correspondent that reveng
upon Germany and future reetifici
tion of the frontier still rest In the min
of the Parisians. The sentiment OF n
venge is natural, but 1t should be hope
!, by every friend of France, as well as
: peace, that this generation, at least, sha