Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-21

OF his family fired at him, but missed.
The avenger in a moment knocked
him from his saddle, disdaining to kill
the seducer, but reServing him for a
more terrible punishment, and seize
ing his wife with an iron grasp, despite
her prayers for mercy. gave her her
false teeth which she had left behind.
His work of vengeance done; the hus-
band rode leisurely away. He has not
yet been captured.
Miss Harriet Colfax, sister of the
Vice President, is light keeper at
Michigan City, Indiana, at salary of
$3.50 year.
The Duke of Devonshire allowed his
son, Marquis of Harrington, while he
was still under age, $150,OOO year as
college pocket money.
The average number of visitors daily,
during the past two weeks, at the EX-
ecutive Mansion, was fraction over
five hundred by actual count.
On the 18th, at New York, Mr.. Bon
ner's four year old colt, Startle, trotted
mile in 2:19a, the fastest time ever
made by stallion or by horse of that
age.
A balloon capable of a certain degree
of guidance through the agency of a
rudder and screw, worked by four men,
has been constructed at Paris by NJ.
Dupuy de LONE.
A prominent Western Democrat was
recently asked if he would support
Greeley. He said: 81 would stOop a
great way to conquer; but to stoep SO
far and be licked after all, wouldn't be
agreeable"
! A. S. Abel, Esq, editor and proprie-
tor of the Baltimore Su1, is stated to
have amassed a fortune of over $10,-
lOOO, 900. He commenced life as jour
neymau printer forty years ago, and is
reported to be the wealthiest man in
Baltimore.
A young married woman in Titus
vile, Penn, has varied the uniformity
of fiagellation by publicly cowhiding
her own brother, who had varied the
uniformity of gossip by slanderiEg hel
character. The brother must have
been a sweet sort of person, for we are
informed that everybody in Titusville
is glad that he was thrashed. We
shouldn't be surprised if he changed his
place of ofresidence.s
CARL SCHURZ was not popular in the
army as military commander. The
War Department sent him to Sherman
when that great commander was
"marching through Georgia." Sher
man sent him toSlOcum, then command
ing the left wing of the army. Slocum
who was every inch a soldier, had ne
use for Carl, and so started, at the SAME
time asking what he should do with
him. "Confound him! Drown himp
returned sold Tecumseh".
i Prince Arthur turned the first sod or
IAN English railroad the other day. A
Isilver spade and an ornamental wheel
barrow were provided. II. r. III. went
to work with so much vigor chat he
broke the spade handle at the frs
!! stroke. Remembering that fingers
were made before shovels, he lifted the
turf into the barrow with his hands, to
: the intense qualification of the assem-
: bled thousands, who hailed with cheers
this act ofroyal magnanimity.
!; Brain-work costs more food thar
hand-work. According to careful esti
, mates ard analyses of the excretions
: three hours of hard study wear out the
body more than whole day of severe
; physical labor. Another evidence o
: the cost of brain-work is obtained from
i the fact that though the brain is only
Ione-fortieth the weight of the body i
receives about one-fifth of all the blood
! sent by the heart into the system
: Brain-workers therefore require more
I liberal supply of food, and richer food
than manual labOrers.
A gentleman of New York, who ha.
a passion for pearls, labors under the
singular hallucination that he shal
! lsome time find, when opening oysters
a more valuable pearl than any as We
, discovered. In pursuit of this hobby
he has opened during the past winte
,, more than 10000 oysters, disguisins
himself as a professional opener anC
working at the barges. But he has no
/ yet fodnd the pearl.
In Illinois the public have as yet beer
t furnished with the names of only tive
Republican journals that have lef
| Grant for Greeley--the Chicago Tfibtt7a,
and an obscure evening concern called
the Peoria RevieU--and it seems lit
r tie remarkable that both these orgrn.
e of Republican opinion Mr.. Grant is the
second choice? There are in Illinoi:
| about one hundred Republican papers
Have only two per cent. of them pro
nounced for the Cincinnati ticket; anC
: is this the per cent. of support which
thai ticket really receives in the Re
publican party in Illinois? Definite
! information upon this point is what al
sincere Democrats desire.
5 The welcome news comes from Japar
that the prosecuting edicts passed
: against Christianity nearly three cen
: turies ago, and SO long and fearful!y
: carried into execution, have been abro
gated. They were originally enacted
, through the apprehension that the
: Jesuit missionaries were plotting
against the political independence OF
the interests in the Catholic monarchieS
| of Europe. Intercourse with our coun-
f try has doubtless satisfied the Mikadc
and his advisers that freedom of faith
will insure tranquility better than re-
pressiye enactments.