Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-27

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thirty three of the United States. Of
this number the State of New York has
twelve, Pennsylvania seven and Massa-
chustts six.
United States courts have decided that
the extension of the patent for making
paper from wood and straw was invalid,
and Illegal. and that the business is
open to all. This it is thought will
soon reduce the price of news paper.
| Agents Representing I50 colored fami-
lies have left Hamilton county for Kan
sas, to purchase farms on the line of th,
Kansas Pacific railroad.
It is now announced that Mrs. Laura
Fair, whose execution was set for this
month, is to be respited. The Judge 10
whom an apoea has been made in be-
half of new trial, has announced that
he will examine the papers in her case
at the earliest possible moment, which
will be in October next. The Governor
will therefore have to grant respite
until after that time, and thus give the
fascinating Laura another chance for
| her life.
"My DEAR" said ali affectionate spouse
to her husband ''am ] not your only
treasurer" "Ob, yes" was the cool
It ply. land I would willingly lay it up
in heaven"
People who send money to swindlers
who offer to sell them counterfeit mon-
ey, and whose letters are Intercepted by
the New York Postmaster, are to haze
their names returned ani posted in
their home offices, with a statement of
facts. There will be some rich develop
ments.
1 The statistics of the General Life in
lsurance Company of London prove that
lifone huDdred thousand intemperte per-
sons from fifteen to twenty years of age
be compared with one hundred thou
srnd personc of regular habits, thirty
two of the former class will die as fire.
quently as ten of the latter class. Out
of one hundrd thousand of each class
16, ,60T ofthe intemperate, it is said will
be dead before the age of fifty, and only
i 4, ,266 OF the temperate. The proportioR
of the deaths of incorporate to temper
ate persons, it is calculated, is. there
fore, thity-two to ten.
Several lawyers have informed us that
it was Nathan who raked David about
thas little affair with Uriah's wife. Glad
to find lawyers so we'll posted-they are
great fellows to hunt up precidents!
The Galena Gazette says a letter has
been received in that city from Hon. E.
B. Washburns, Minister to France which
Indicates beyond question that he will
not come home this'year. He is suffer-
ing from ague and is about to visit
Carlshed for the benefit Of his health.
/. Slander is like tin kettle tied to a
dog's tail-fiue fun so long as it isn't
our dog. .
A drunken man, named Rafferty,, liv-
ing in Norwalk, Ohio, acoidently set his
houseloD fire and was b4rned with it. His
body was found burned to crisp.
President Thiers, who recently de-
clared amid the APPLAUSE of the French
T National Assembly, 81 was always a
f ProtectIonist and ''am one still,n lauda-
f bly, intends to use his great oratorical
, ability in securing cordial support for
the Protectionist policy, which lie de-
termined to MAKE q leading feature OF
his administration. 1t is, however, evil
dent from previous kilograms that it is
only the details of the Tariff. and not
the policy on which it is based, that he
will have to elucidate to the represent
atives who find themselves for the first
, time in nearly twenty years revising the
import duties. Nothing like Free
Trade exists in France says the Paris
correspondent of the london Econc-
/ mist; and the final result in the Assem-
bly, will confirm his statement.-(N. Y.
5 Tribune.
Rev. DIR. NJ. Jacobus, for forty years
Professor of Pennsylvan ia College, died
in Gettysburg on Saturday.
+ Who would have believed there is q
f County in Ohio without a grog shop.
! / The County of Noble has not a grog shop
. within its borders, every one havi ny
, been abated during the past year. And
: the temperance people who have accom-
: plished this reform have the good sense
! not to mix the matter with politics, but
they laboriin temperance cause within
existing lines of party politics.-Cleve-
f land Herald.
: It has been definitely ascertained that
= Joseph Caldwell vas committed to the
Y New Orleans Insane Asylum on the
D 26th of October, 1870, by Recorder
: Houghton, of that city, and that lie
Il died on December I'd, 1871, of apoplexy,
r and was buried on the 5th of December
: in Locust Grove Cemetry at tn. expense
S of the city. In ac ;ordance with this in,
s formation, III. T. Chittendon, Esq, who
t has been acting as Mr.. Caldwell's 8 agent,
b has withdrawn the petition filed with
r the Probate Court the other day for the
j setting aside of the appointment of ar
: Administrator of Caldwell's large estate
: in this city and county.-O. Is. Jour.
J. The Hon. Samuel Sheltarger, NC.
8 in letter to J. @. Howard on art cul
# ture, takes occasion thus vigorously tc
% state an opinion which he may not bs
) altogether alone In entertaining
Though we(the American people)are
the allmightiest people that ever wBs Oh
or will be, yet the tendency of our al
mightiness' is to run US into black
guards"
The Republican papers out West are
indulging in all sorts of jokes about the
Democratic ''New Departure" One
Iof them illustrates the policy by this
anecdote of boy and a woodchuck.-
: The boy was observed watching for a
woodchuck to come out of his hole.-
s''Do you suppose you can catch him?
said passer-by. "Catch him?" sale
Il the boy contemptuously. "I've got to
catch him, stranger; we're out of meat.
Bret Harte is to leave the United
States -and settle down in New Jersey
1t is announced that President Gram
has given up his contemplated visit tt
California. M =
!. INFANTS most irritable an(
= = restless of these tender little household
- buds, are charmed as it were into quie
and sweet repose, by using Mrs. Whit
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