Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-02-15


III. G.. says he isssatisfied with the
stones that are thrown at him promiscu-
ousiy, and he don't want any statue or
erected over him till after he
is dead. =
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has
contracted to pay one thousapd dollars
a year to the citizens of Zanesville, for
the water 1t uses at its depot and in its
shops from the water works.
Some sixteen or eighteen persons are
passing the winter in the Yosemite
Valley, entirely cut off from the rest
of the word by the heavy snow drifts
that fill the mountain passes.
Brick. Pomeroy comes before the
world again in a suit for breach OF
promise by New Haven lady. The
damages claimed are. only $25, 900, and
the country will wait anxieusly to see
if Gen. Butler takes. the prosecution.
The London Observer says the British
government has sent dispatch to the
government OF the United States de-
claring they will withdraw from the
treaty of Washington, unless the de-
mand for indirect damages is abandon
ed.
The Chicago Post claims tsohase on
its editorial staff a lady extraordinary
abilities. The editor says he "never
knew any one who could write. with
equal ease upon so singular a range OF
topics with informa tion so exact in de
tall" Whereupon an envious e0nteIn-
porary asks the Post whyit never pub
fishes any of her articles. a. - ,s
A company of Edinburg, Scotland,
capitalists, having visited ruscarawas
county, Ohio, has bought 500 acres oi
land for s150, 900. They have succeeded
in finding large deposits of black band
Lore, eight and nine feet thick. They
purpose erecting, the coming season,
four large furnaces.
A Wisconsin girl wanted her lover to
swear on the Bible that she was ali the
world to him, and when hesaid that he
wouldn't, she knocked him down with
the sacred volume.
'C-c-can that p-p-parrot talk?" asked
a suffering man of an Italian. "sup
pose he no cah talk so much better thar
that what you talk, / chop his head OF
was the reply. -
A little girl down East, who was i'm
patiently waiting the tardy movement
of her mother few Sabbathss ssince, cri
ed out: "Come, mamma; the BELTS a
ltolin, and Dod'5 a-waitin' ~.
A Nebraska man thought he woulC
charm a snake, but soon resigned ia ia
Ivor of professional undertaken.
Grace Greenwood acknowledges tha
\ imam is grand creature,even If he is {
little stingy about the franchise"
Wendell Phillips has made the bril-
liant discovery that "the LATEST institu
tion in the United States is a Court.p
An absent husband received the fol
lowing comprehensive letter from hi.
wife, in Bangor, Maine; "Dear HUSBAND
III have washed and baked, and had I
boy baby; otthrough at 2:36. Think
will rest a week. .AffectionateIy. voul
loving wife, NJ. .
A woman in California, whose canary
had left her, hung the empty cage out
Iside the window and soon had the sat
isfaction ofseeing it occupied bya beau
ltiful brown strangef about the size o.
her lost pet. Another woman, =, Whose
husband had abandoned her, took the
hint and rendered her pafIor 50 attract
i've that soon she had d better, bigger
!, browner fellow than he who ran away
4 Opelika, Alabama, has created a sen.
sation by the new leap-year mode ot
eating philODnnaa In fhaf Y,Ioaa : nrj,n