Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-20

1He COhJuuclINe InOOO|InOuSntS o
matrimony.
A Wisconsin teacher has been finet
S62 for whipping a pupil.
: Smiggles says he always has to. keer
his word; because nobody will take it
!, An Iowa grocer has been shooting hi:
customers with spring gun set fol
burglars.
The convicts at the Michigan State
Prison are building new wall around
themselves. -
] A new vegetable destroyer, name
unknown, re-enforces the potato bug in
FFuseola County, Mich. ~ i.
Who was the straightest man in the
Bible? JoSeph-becaus ePha-oah made a
ruler of him. "a - fi-5
/ A ''girl'' died recently, in Portsmouth
n. H, who had been in the service of
the family sixty-nine years.
Only one man, negro, has been
hung in Alabama since the war. MUIR
Eders are Of daily occurrence.
There is living in Texas a voting man
who has married his fathers divorced
wife. Hefcame within asteDaof marry
ling his own mother. .rg ~ =
A New Orleans thief lately sent back
the stolen clothes of-an understood eiti-
zen with .nOte3 saying that he would
wait for his victim to grow. 1 l3
/ Rsctors daughter( to Sundayscholar)
ETR1Qh, you haveau elder brother; well,
how old is ,he?:'", Sehoolboy-"Dun
miss; but he Just started o. swearing"
SPY the by, Jerrold,' said Heraud,
did you read my Descent Into Hell?''
No sir responded the irascible drama
list, but | should ike to see it.''
a, Pittsburgh paper thinks it would
be a good plan for thieves to carry Ian
terms, so that policemen could <find
them! ~ htNil't 10 9u1n.I ~ l3slu
The Cat$kill Mountain House stands
{, 1000 feet above the Hudson, and from
hefront balcoay q view extending over
abe eut 1000 square miles can be had on
a clear day.
a Columbus lady says the Cincinnati
Convention is triumph for woman's
rights; for although the wo.nan were
not allowed a voice in thatbody,. it
selected an ''oid granny" as its candi-
date for the Presidency. - CfrcIerilLe
Herald ~ la 5iHst3.1 .lislH13- he4s
Z How many are there ov yes down
there" shouted an Irish overseer to
some men in coal pit. Five" was
the answer; swell, then, the half of
yes come up here" said he. -''-'
/. The law abolishing the grand Jury
system i'll Michigan, and authorizing
the prosecution for feIohies by inforrna-
tIon;has been pronounced constitutional
by the Supreme Court of that State.
Chappaqua is historic. Major Andre
left on the morning of his capture. and
Horace Greeley returned to it on the
nightof his surrender.
i IN the Apache country the Indians
are said to have become so peaceable
that it is hard to tell a redskin from a
white man; the only difference being
that the white has no scalp and the
Apache has two or three.
4 negro, after gazing at some Chi
nese, shook his head and solemnly
said, 'sIf de white folks be so dark as
lat out dar, wonder what's de color of
lie black folks ,"
Eve was the only woman who never
threatened TO goand live with mamma.
And Adam was the only man who
never tantalized his wife, about ssthe
Way mother. used 10 cook. .,..
An ingenious schoolnIa'm in Iowa
punished doy for kissing the big girls
~ making him show how it was done
before the whole school, 1t didn't
work well, however, for the idea be-
anne altogether too popular at once. sr
"A new styie of ornamenting parssols
5 with a top, which is a small there
nometer, so that they. can always tell
o. what degree of heat they have
'eeR subjected to in their morning
'r0menaole.i ~ lbnltH Ci Has 2a7
"A lady in Clinton, Iowa, gave a bur
lar very severe f1ogging with dust
rush the other night. She said she
wouldn't have done it, if she hadn't
cen under the impression that it was
er husband just getting home.
A Dutchman, getting excited over an
count of an elopement of married
roman, gave his opinion thus: 'sIfmy
ifeTuns away nit anoder mans wife,
shake him out his preeches, if she be
zine fadder mine Got pia uo.
at a revival meeting not long since,
n old lady prayed fervently for the
young lambs of the fiock.n A t.lady
l black" not to be Outdone by her
ster, responded, and blandly asked
sh0 was to pray for the old ewes S''
Another victim, snatched away in
he prime of a useful life, to be charg-
i to the abominable vice of tobacco
sing. He was Virginian, and after
noking and chewing for 110 years
Tas finally fine-cut off at the tender
&c OF 1lSI ,yHiHhr ,s'e..}s Ual
A form offever hitherto unknown is
revaleht in q portion of Buffalo Town
iip, Noble County, and in Valley
ownship, in Guernsey County,. II is
! some respects, in appearance and
simelar to the erysipelas,
ut far more malignant. In almost
very case where it has occurred il has
roved fatal. nn.i "a il.li i..eraa-
A new form of religious lottery has
lst been invented in Biidgeport, ct.
ll.'tea meeting" is held, and a silver
rick from Nevada given to the person
tho estimates its weight correctly by
hefting''--each estimate % cents, for
le benefit Of the infant class.
A man one hundred years old went
have pair of shoes made. The
lopkeeper suggested that he might
Dt live to wear them out, when the
d man retorted that he commenced
lis one hundrd years q good deal
than he did the last one.
'Here, waiter" said a gentleman, as
> was about leaving hotel, "here's
,llar for YOU. give it to you be-
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