Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-11-06
GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.


"Where are those seven hundred
millions of currency" shrieks a con-
temporary. Well, we can account for
two dollars and quarter Of it.
Medical opinion Is the authority for
the statement that the present style of
''ehokers' for gentleman's wear, and
the Elizabethan ruffs so much affected
to ladies, are the causes of the preva-
ience of sore throats, and that the win
Ter will be profitable one for physi-
clans if these styles De continued.
We have had the golden age, the
greenback age, and it seems that we
are now to have the ''silver age" Let
US hope that it may be the "silver lin
ing" TO the black panic cloud that
lately overshadowed the country.
= 1t is consoling to know that if wages
are shrinking as well as Stocks" the
value lofgroceries, clothing, boots and
shoes, and other necessaries of life, is
also gradually working its way to cor
respondingly lower points. This may
help to equalize things.
-E Chicago has an enthusiastic scientist
who maintains that the hydrogen
molecule vibrates 300. .Oe0, ,00O, 600 times
in a second. That a million times a
million molecules are contained in a
cubic inilliDeter, and that the mole
cule vibrates through space one hun
dred times greater than its own diane
ter. For ourselves, we never enter
tanned doubt of it.
Among the idiotic resolutions adopt
ed by the late Farmers Conve ntion at
Chicago, was one to fix the price of
hogs in that market at five dollars per
one hundred pounds gross. These
saplent philosophers evidently care
nothing for the law OF supply and de-
mapd.
The Rochester Union reports the
discovery of fraudulent issue of the
bounty fund bonds of that city, the
amount being stated at al, 300.
People who perfer wetting the win
ter's store ofcoal to the dust on putting
itinto their cellars do not, perhaps,
generally know that they are laying
up for Themselves store of sore throats
and other evils consequent upon the
practice.
New York importers complain loudly
OF smuggling, which they say ha:
greatly increased, to the damage o.
legitimate business.
The census of $50 give Rhode Is
land populatioa of 2I7.35s 49,417 o
whom are emplaxea i'm manufactures
The most liberal estimate puts the pro
portion of persons thus far out of work
or on reduced time, on account OF the
panic, at less than twenty-five pel
cent.
Sir Samuel Baker is reported to bt
lextremely enthusiastic concerning the
future of Egypt, and anticipates mag
nificent commercial results from thu
railway now building along the Nile
Valley to connect Alexandria will
| Khartoum,
A conference of farmers was lately
held at San Francisco to consider mea
sures for procuring legislative actor
for the determination OF squirrels ir
the farming districts, the pests having
become the source Of great and inereas
ing loss. Get mp schutZenfest.
The Baltiasors -dn,ericdn thinks il
would be rather below than above the
actual figures to say that the canning
trade requires fifty million of can:
yearly, all of which are made in that
city.
Repofss from the rural regions of the
Northw wsst would seem to indicate
that the bears have left the woods and
come down 10 gather pork crop.
Some Cinnamon last winter rented
one huDared and sixty acres of land a
short distance from New Orleans, and
now they are gathering a splendid rice
crop. They used a gsyphon,, to flood
their fields from the river.
n .arly al the wire is constructed
aad the contracts out for new cable
bet, geen England and some point on
Long Island. The capital is ten mil