Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-30
ADVERTISING RATES
GENERAh AND paRrnCUL4R

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Whethcr roaring Bill tAIlen will ae
/ ieepts that situation as fox horn on the
Rhode Island coast is now somewhat
doubtful rgil ...t-.J 3-l'<
Great Britain, in PROSECUTING the
Ashantec War, has blockaded the gold
coast OF Africa from Cape Coast Castle
to the river Assinee. .i.t d
st. lawrence county, New York, ap-
pears as the arrival Of Oneida in high
priced cattle, flVe short horns have
recently beer sold in that eoanty for
ISl5,Oe0. '..' .-.'..i. DEE
a GGmberof merchants in Baltimore
advertise that they will give silver as
change 10 purchasers of goods, and
many merchants in other cities are
doing The same thing.
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The granite platform quarried f0rthe
Winfield Scott monument, weighs one
hundred and fifty tons, and is believed
to be the largest stone ever successfully
quarried'inthis country .alGi'J
For long time in. the South, and
now particularly, railroad tickets have
been and are used as currency. Two
Hundred thousand dollars worth of
these are'in circulation in Georgia.
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Hundrcsls of enigrants who followed
Horace Greeley's advice ard "went
west,p are Returning from along the
line of the Atchison, Topeka aud Santa
Fe Railroad, much disaiypdintei in the
nature OF the c0untry..T.-Ic-
y singular rosr'It the panic is siel
IN Utah. where an enormous quantity
of bullion has been locked up. Silver
which is ordinarily worth something
ike a d Ilarand quarter per ounce, is
nov. selling 1T less than seventy cents.
Serious changes have been reported
in Boston farbor, and it is feared that
unless precautions are taken, the sea
will form permanent channel seIa-
rating the Hiain part of the Long IS
land from the rromonotory, and clos
ing Sculpin Ledge channel.
Tie Wheat crop Of Minnesota for
1872 was l2,SS:,,1G3 bushels-I7! bush
els to the acre. The assessors report
an increase of 23S, ,i43 acres in wheat,
which ut the same rate per acre, the
St Paul Press says, would make The
crop OF 1873, q, sol ,39l bushels.
Alcxanifia, Virginia, thinks its
prosperity is assured, because the work
of extending the Washington and Ohio
Railroad is soon to be begun, and the
extension of that road to
the rich coal fields of West Virginia is
among the possibilities of the future.
The Roman catholics in this country
are gradually gathering their children
into schools of their owndenomination
and deserting thepubic schools. Since
Bringing this policy into effect, they
have found great need uf more Catho-
lie teachers, and are now importing
them from abroad.
The English people are discussing
The question CT modification of the
laws relating to imprisonment for
debt, and The London Times, which is
not often in. advance Of public senti-
ment in matters of this character, IA
yOrs changes in the law for the benefit
OF the poor CLASS OF creditors
In the midst of the general pity
which is felt throughout the country
for the victims of the epidemic OF yell
low fever which has been so long the
scourgc of Menirlis and Shreveport,
there is also felt critical doubt, wheth-
er it might not wholly or in part have
been prevented by attention to proper
sanitary measures. .7i'- ii'aii -'iA
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