Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13
Hendrysburgh Locals.


six or eight thousand dollars. Messrs.
James and Mccartney are contractors
for the brick, and Mr.. Arrick, for the
carpenter work. -
A Necktie Festival will be held by
the ladies of Hendrysbugh and vicin-
: ity on Thursday eve, the Goth inst, for
for the M. E. Sabbath School. A SPLEEN
Ibid supply of the good things will be
: on hands and all will be amply repaid
who attend. A cordial invitation Is
lgiyen. A liberal subscription has al
ready been secured toward the same,
by our young ladies. faE -
The wheat is mostly harvested and
farmers report well. Other crops are
fiourishing, except potatoes, which are
much damaged by the Colorado bug.
Mr.. Geo. Smith of this place died at
his residence on the 7th inst. His re-
mains were taken to Morristown for
interment, followed by large process
lsion of relatives and friends. 4
On account of rain we had dull
Fourth. sI tJH
/ Commodore Vanderbilt is announced
Ito soon start daily paper in New
York with SS00,000 capital.
The Earl de Grey is to be made Mar
fquis for services in negotiating the treaty
of Washington.
Seventy-eight women are now regu
larly ordained preachers in the United
I States. .f-r 81.
Som one wrote to Horace Greeley in
lquiring if guano was good to put on po-
tatoes. He said it might do for those
whose taste had become vitiated with
tobacco and rum. .sbut he preferred gravy
land butter.
/ A child was born at Manchester. VT,
onI Tuesday, which weighed only two
ounces, but was perfectly formed, and
hopes are entertained of its living. Its
4 face can be almost covered ty an old
i fashioned cent, and a.lady's finger ring
can be slipped on the arm.
An Iowa woman has begun her. suicide
by marking the place on her throat
where she intends to cut when she gets
her courage up. q
/ The C:ncinnti Enquirer, to the bestof
its knowledge and belief, is opposed to
| the intermarriage of whites and blacks
Yet it contends that the doctrines enun-
ciated in heDemocratic platform tend to
that direct and inevitable result, and at
the same time argues in favor of the
platform. Manifestly, the mind of En-
quirer is badly torn up-Journai.
The Times and Chronicle says the
IOhio Democratic Committee have az
ranged for two hundred speeches from
ten speakers as the first installment in
the campaign.
The Republican party not only recog-
nize the present binding force of the
thirteenth, fourteenth. and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution, but
also view them "as just. wise and valid
articles of the organic law, to be defend
ed and enforcd as part of the constitution,
Now, Hencerorth and Forever --,o5
A Texas paper says: " We are looking !
for the Democrats to come out for negro
social equality, now that they have come
out for negro political equality, for they
have always said that the two were IN
separately Connected 51a
5 The first settlement in Monroe county |
was at Woodsfieid, in 1915. Arthur |
Okey citizen of the little State of Del |
aware, broke the first ground;built him. |
self home and raised large family at
this place.
Several tenements and stables were
burned in St. Louis on the 4th, having |
caught from fire crackers, snd involving
a loss of SIC, 900, .,..l 5----. -,-a-
Picnics in the neighborhood of Nor
folk, Va, wind up by the girls standing |
in q long row, while the young men go
along the line and kiss them all good
night"
G. A. Townsend says seven of Brig |
ham Young's wives are the prettiest
women in America.
Pope said, Beauty draws Us by sim
gle hair.n In view OF the prevailing size
of ladies, head gear, we must be permit
ted to doubt the infallibility of Pope.
The Scientific American has also the
courage TO dispute the justice of lavish
| ing alfthe credit and honor upon Prof. |
Morse for the invention of the magnetic
telegraph, and ascribes to Professor IoT
seph Henry and other scientific men the
credit of fdiscoveringthe principles which
made the telegraph possibility.
A Prominent Government official re-
Gently wrote to friend in New York,
inouiring AS to the position, financially
and otherwise, OF. a resident of that city
He received the following reply: Il am
(happy to in, FORM you that Mr."stands
at the very to ofrespectability of here, he
owns a fast hol Sc, New York judge,
and intends to steal the frat railroad ne
sees laying aroun d loose. 3ee
The Secretary of Tho Treasury has call
ed in 600. 900 of the three per cents.S5,-
coo in the numbers between 1871 1881,
inclusive; $40, 900 in the numbers lheh
toned. Several certificates of the d"-
nominations above mentioned haE
been returned leaving outstanding nnil-
| lion of dollars also between the numbers
The interest ceases on these eeftlicaIeS
August 81, after which time they VIII
no longer be available as legal money
reserve of any national bank.
/ Edward Arehbold of Fairview,
| Guernsey Co., was robbed of 500 in the
Columbus depot, n the 4th, by some
/ thieves who were on the train with him.
The theft occurred while there was an
/ immense crowd in the depot, and about
the time Wilbur was run over and Kill
ed in the yard, whittier the officers had
! gone.
4 A New England man, now in Rome,
writes that religious intolerance under
the old papal government reached an IN
i tensity little understood outside, as pre-
vious to the occupation of the city by
81 italian troops, every Protestant Bible
j that could be found was seized and burn
ed and even the possession of such book,
if known, would subject the owners to
: arrest and imprisonment. Now, how
ever, the British Bible Society have
opened an establishment where the
: scriptures can be obtained.
At Ashley, Delaware county, on the
4th, an aeronant didn't get off with his
, balloon in time to suit the crowd. and
they proceeded to carve the article into
tatters with their pocket knives.
A shark caught off Charleston had a