Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-05-09

have been recently sold for taxes
/. Who bought it? The tax collector?
A professor of American history has
been added to the Cornell University.
1t is the only one of the kind in the
country.
The inmates of Sing Sing Prison
want to know what there is i'm a name,
| if they are not permitted to send del
egatiOn to the Peace Jubilee.
AS specilnan of gorgeous writing,
how is this; r''It will be the superIa-
tive felicity; Of my sublunary existence
to meet you sagafn.psi She s had it
bad.
How high up should lady'f' crino-
line come?-Above two feet.
A Mississippi paper tells a very re-
freshing story of a young lady who. on
graduating from school, went home,
hired few colOred labOrers, and went
to farming. The result of the first
seasons experiment was six hundred
bushels of corn, a large quantity of po-
tatoes, and $3.50 realized from the sale
of cotton, after all the expenses of the
year were paid.
The Urbana Union says that while
two little, boysaaged respectfully III and
g years, werel Fighting i'm Piaua, on
Friday last; the eldest, a son of DIR.
lehman, struck the other, named
stone, causing death few hours after
ward. The verdict of the Coroner's
jury was, death from spotted Jecer."
& A New York letter writer says that
Josie Mansfield, the woman in the Fisk
murder business, has all sorts of propo-
sails made to her, and receives a dozen
letters a aayOn an average from: stran-
Fgers. Last week brought her prop
IOsitiOn from man in Montreal to start
on lecturing tour through Europe, he
to furnish the means, etc. Same mail
bfo't a letter from st. Louis from a man
who describes himself as a wealthy
and influential citizen, offering her a
beautiful villa near that city at mod
crate rent, and urging the salubrious
climate and lovely surroundings, and
saying it will form sweet resting
place during the summer to recuperate
her energies, and her many warm
admire s in st. Louis would delight to
see her.
1t is stated that there are. received
and kept regularly on file at the Amer
lean Newspaper Advertising Agency of
Geo. p, Rowell & Co., New York, no
less than 5S2 different American Daily
Newspapers, 56 tri-weekIies, 49 semi
weeklies, 1862 weeklies, s 8semi-month !.
lies and 800 monthlies, making a week
ly average of over $500 periodicals of
all kinds which are regularly filed and
Kept open for inspection by advertisers
and Others who may be interested. The
visitor to New York from Oregon,
Texas Florida or Maine, can find at
this estA blishlnent thejlocal paper pub.
fisheu st home. aIsas SsSs
Z When ihe Boesel bill came up i'm the
House, Mr.. Cunningham moved to-
amend section II by providing that
counties townships, cities and towns
now owing stock in any railroad COM
Pahy may sell the same, on vote of
the people, and apply the proceeds 10
roads that they may desire to construct
Under this act. Carried yeas 6S, nays
10. Whereupon the question has aris-
en- whether ION vote of the people"
means twO-third vote or a majority
vote.
The point, it seems to us, may easily
be determined by the legal rule. The
action of any corporate or other body
may be determined bya majority vote,
unless it is otherwise specially prOvid-
ed. And, secondly, the provision of
a law requiring twO-thirds vote upon
one question, does not effect the rule
as to another question. Therefore, the
provision requiring a two-thirds ma
jority in favor of constructing a new
road, does not operate to require two
thirds vote m favor Of selling stock
now owned in roads already built. Al
majority vote will be sufficient
Journal.
AaNohD. > Durfng the traitor Ar
nold's predatory operations in Virginia,
in 1871, he took an American captain
prisoner. After some general conver-
sation, he asked the captain "what he
thought the Americans would do with
himif they caught him" said, g Why,
sir, if must answef the questioH. YOU
will excuse my telling you the truth: ifI
my countrymen should catch YOU, Il
believe they would first cut off YOUR
lame leg, which was wounded in the
cause of freedom and virtue at Quebec.
and bury it with the honors of war. and
afterwards hang the remainder of your
bodyOn a,gibbet." Eii vi
A "womans paper" published in
Nashville, Tennessee, regulates its SUBJ
scription at the rates of three dollars a.
year to men, one dollar and half toI
unmarried women, and seventy-five
cents to "Uomen who have lazy hus-
bands to support. This, is, offering a
premium to the latter to keep men who
would otherwise be industrious from
indulsing in honest labor.
3 A Tennessee electrian claims to have
invented device for propelling rail-
road cars by the power of electricity.
He claims that speed of q hundred
miles an hour can easily be attained.
A committee of scientific gentlemen,
appointed by the Nashville Indu strial
Exposition, has made q favorable re-
port on his invention.
Quantrell, the famous guerrilla chief
who was the terror of Eastern X .nsas
during the border ruffian epoch, and
who directed the Lawrence, = Kansas,
butchery during the war, has turned
up at Los Angeles, California. His
deeds have caused him to be declared
an outlaw by the government, so that
his recognition in that nlace was fol-
lowed by a speedy DEPARTURE nlAM i