Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-10-26

A carrier pigeon flew from a steam
er,at sea to MOntelain, New Jersey, at
the rate of one hundred and eighty
miles an hour.
AS an offset to the Republican tri-
umphs in Pennsylvania and Ohio, the
Democrats are consoling themselves
over the fact that they elected may
or in Savannah, Georgia, on Monday
last.
"a Penghkeepsie bigamist has been
given two years and six months tolearn
trade in, and become moral.
At Canton, a man named Hurford,
voted his doctor bill, at the late cleo
ton, instead of his ticket. 1t wasn't
counted.
Peoria, ILL.,, had a haunted house, un-
til the proprietor fired half pint of
bird shot into a young man named Nc
Graw.
The woman suffragists have already
petition signed by upward of thou
sand Washington ladies, praying Con-
gress to pass declaratory law, to the
effect that women now have the right
to vote under the Fourteenth Amend
ment.
The Hearth and Home" says: 'The
oracles of the human soulspeak in favor
of the purity and perpetuity Of mar
riage. Men may f0rsake the oracles
and live like brutes. Men may fore
sake the oracleS and build socialisms
out of their own fancies. It is all the
worse for them. But the institutions,
the loves, the moral impulse of the race
are on the side of marriage"
/ Casyville, near Salt Lake, contains
lseventy-three husbands, who have, in
the aggregate, three hundred and forty
seven wives and five hundred and
twenty-five children.
An election will be held in West Vir-
lginia to-day for delegates to Constitu-
tional Convention. In Wheeling the
Republicans have; nominated a strong,
progressive ticket, as follows: A. w.
ICampbell, formerly editor ofthe Wheel
ling hstelyigeace-, Hon Benjamin STAN
ton, and S H. Woodward Among
the questions to be determined by the
tCOnventiOn,are return to the vi1a Uoice
mode of voting, instead of the ballot,
as under the present Constitution; an
abandonment of the township system,
eaHu luO duOptiOu VI du 1HtcIHdl lii
lprOvement policy, like that now in op-
Grafton in Virginia.
Gen. Grant has concluded that Tom.
Murphy, Collector of New York, will
have to give place to some one else
more acceptible to the people. There
are other Government officials through
out the country equally obnoxious to the
people, who need looping off for the
credit of the party and the interests of
the country.
i The gratifying intelligence comes
from Constantinople that the progress
of the cholera has been checked, and
the alarm which was felt concerning
the spread of the epidemic eastward
, and toward Europe and the west is SUBJ
siding.
Among the churches destroyed by
. the recent conaagration in Chicago,
there were fifteen Catholic, twelve
Methodist, six Presbyterian, and a
great many others, forming a total of
lseventy-two churches, converts and
nunneries laid waste by the devouring
felement.
The New Bedford Standard says that
a mate of a whaler recently returned
+ from voyage, proposed marriage to a
girl belonging to village not far dis
! tant from New Bedford. She wanted to
wait till he went another voyage, and
, he left and engaged himself toa more
pliable female of that city, who consen-
|; ted to be married right off. The coun-
, try beauty heard the news and repent
. ed, wrote to the personificatiOn of
II hoahol.,rhond @Lo
urgent letter brought him back to her,
and they are to be married this week.
, After the great fire in London in 1869,
/ Parliament enacted that every house
. should be built with party walls, and all
j infront raised TO equal height,and those
walls should be of stone or brick, and
! that no man should delay beyond sew
! en- years.
D A citizen of Marion was bitten nv a
t rattlesnake last Thursday. and swal-
: lowed seyenty-two grains of carbonate
Of ammonia and one gallon of whisky
r in thirty-six hours, and he did not die
l He didn't even become intoxicated in
the slightest degree.
There is said to be enough sulphuric
acid in the whisky sold at the bars in
some of the western towns, to eat
through plate of five eighths boiler
iron in two minutes by the watch.
! Nothing short of porcelain lined
stomach is proof against it.
: Grinnell, Iowa, Village fifteen years
Z old, with population of some $500 to
!, 1000 people, has no bar-room, no saloon.
lager beer or otherwise. Every deed
covenants that the purchaser shall not
lseu intoxicating beverages nor allow
i them to be sold on the premises and
any violation of this compact would be
i sure to cost the violator more than he
could make by it. 1t is Unnecessary to
add that Grinnell has no paupers, no
loafers, no ruffians, no braWlers. and
that her people are equal. in morality,
Intelligence and culture to any COM
munity.
The famous French tri-color is still
i flying from the spire of the cathedral at
Metz. There is said to be in al, Metz
only one man who is both skillful
enough and daring enough to climb
the steeple to its entire height. This is
ne who placed the flag there. He is
poor workman, who during the war at
tached the flag to the peak of the spire
Ior nve-francs, but the patriotic French
man has refused the Prussian Govern
or's offer Of 5000 fancs to remove it.
The New York Standard applauds
the President for suggesting that the
money intended to be expended by the
Bostonians in reception for hun. be |
given to the poor and needy of Chicago. |
1t was an act characteristic of the preai- \