Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-02-09

Hon. ThOs. L. Jewett President OF
the p. c. q st. L. R'y, it is said. has
offered to furnish half the stock for .
Railroad from SteubenviIIe to Wheel
ing, on the Virginia side.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
given notice that ON the 9Th of March
books will be opened both in this cotln-
try and Europe for subscriptions for the
new bonds.
An exchange sensibly remarks that
a man who will take newspaper for
a length of time and then send it back
refused and unpaid for, would swallow
q blind dogs dinner, and then stone
the dog for being blind. = :
For two years or more ex-Secretary
Seward has been meditating the publ
cation of book, which he describes as
a History of the Obligation of the
world to America" and for which, in
part, his recent travels in Mexico and
on the Pacihc coast were undertaken.
A BurlintOn (Vt.) woodchopper lost
his life last week by running against a
tree with a pipe in his mouth. The
stem was driven into his throat. making
| a liberation which resulted fatally.
Bishop McIlvaine says that of all the
Bishops of the Protestant episcopal
Church cOnsecrated before himself, not
one is living; and of those consecrated
with him, thirty-nine years ago, only
one survives.
A bill has passed the Indiana Senate,
by vote of thirty-seven to three, to
strike out the clause from the divorce
law empowering Courts to grant di.
yorees for any cause they may deem
proper.
A Church-gOing man is said to have
offered 500 per annum for the use of a
certain pulpit for advertising purposes,
agreeing to present to "notice" more
worldly" than some which were read
there every Sabbath. rI--.
John Surratt having happily failed in
|hts attempt to lecture about his own in
A{ny, we have Daniel Mcfarland in
the field with "Women's Rights and
Woman's Wrongs" as hisTsubject. He
began at Newark, N. LION Friday
might, with an audience of ninety per-
|Sons. The lecture, as reported, indi-
fcates that the statement of the India
nap0lis Journal that Mcfarland is in a
Fiunatic asylum should be true, if it Is
mot. ..if
Nettie Brown, "a young woman form
|erly from Zanesville, Ohio, shot her
|paramour, jeff. Gilman, a river engi-
|neers at Evansville, Indiana, Saturday
forenoon. Gilman says it was done
while he was asleep; the girl says it
was done while he was in the act of
striking at her with a hatchet. Gilman
Is not dead yet but the surgeon think
he cannot survive. The girl gave her
self up and is in the city lookup.
! Gov. Hoffman's last spasm of aspir-
ing virtue consists in recommends
ton for an act to punish bribery at cleo
tons. Very good, indeed! We suppose
be will, Ofco1rse, have it so drawn that
the Governor who signs an act to help
Fisk and Gould to steal the Erie Rail-
way,.in order to obtain the votes of the
0,eO0 employees of that road, may be
convicted under it. The most potent
system Of political bribery is that by
which an officer agrees that, if elected,
he will confederate with thieves who
nominate him.. 5-
John Chinaman is receiving really,
more legal attention than he is by right
entitled to. The bill in the Oregon Leg
islature however can scarcely be said to
equal one lately passed in California. 1t
enacted that no person shall carry a bas-
ketOr baskets, upon any sidewalks sus-
pended rom or attached to poles across
or upon the shoulders. John was ar
rested but his counsel took the ground
that his client had not been carrying a|
Q sidewalk suspended from poles. The
Judge held the matter under advise
ment.