Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-23
GENERAL AND PARr1oULAF.

GENERAL AND PARTICCL4E.i
The autumn frosts have come and
glory of the season is unspeakable. Thu
I vapors rise from every horizon, fillin;s
4 the fields .of the sun with ilanguft
I ethereal haze. The oaks are steepe
In scarlet; the naples glow with an
effuigence borrowed from the sun him.
self, and every flower puts on its last
ibright look, kisses the last soft bree0;,
and dies. 74- 40 lil ell -
4 The matrimonial season has opened
\ with unusual animation, notwithstand-
ing the financial crisis. The eastern
hotels are filed with wedding parties,
] making their usual tour of observation
/ before settling down to the realities Of
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An Ohio man became angry because
I he hadn't a clean shirt, and he sold two
cows and purchased gross of shirts
ready: made. His wife said it was
gross outrage. -.i 4z4 -. .s..t
\ . A Michigan manufacturer has eight
cen Thousand broom handles ready for
shipments. This ought to set husbands
to thinking about coming home early.
~ Awriter in the popular Science Mon
] thly says that in boxing ehild's ears
there is danger of COMPRISING the air
in theiear SO as to burst the thin MEM
brane called hetympsnum upon which
the sense OF hearing depends. H. si O.
I The demand for that handy little in
Innovation, the postal card, exceeds all
! Expectation. Is was estimated that one
hundred million of these cards would
pc used the first year. They have now
been in use about five months, and
more than sixty-four million have been
| There Is to be n grand rally of the
teachars ofrhIaine, probably on Thanks
giving week, at4some central pOint,the
object being to- obtain from them geL-
leral and decided expression of opinion
on the educational questions that ara
likely to come before the next Legisla-
ktufe.sulT ssV . e7--itit. -T
= Whale Skins are reported to be grad
uatly supplanting COW hides in the
northwestern eordwainery market. sl
The prosecution of Minnesota bar.
ber, charged with performing his re-
guar lunSorial business on Sunday hay-,
ing Tesulted ini his acquittal, on ths
ground that BARRIERS work on Sunda,
was a necessary labor, Sunday shaving
is to be generally resumed. ''Diiis2-
4 horse in Jersey city chews Iobacco
like 4 vetern, preferring the weed tl
lihis-regIlar oats; but he swallows ths
Juice, instead cf distributing 1t around
with the, generosity peculiar to ordin-
airy tobacco chewers.
Nearly two hundred thousand dol
lars rent are annually paid by the ma
tiOnal government for private bull
dings, Which are used for offices, in
Washington. Why should not this
money be saved by making further ad-
ditions TO the present government ac-
cOmmOdations2 IN ~ ff.s. lfe a.r.et-, .,
rC0pious showers of mamma are re-
ported in Hill county, Texas. 1t re-
sembled gnm and had all the sweet
ness and flavor of honey. t-
The commissioners appointed in
March last to negotiate for the removal
of the American Indians from Mexi-
can territory are in Washington, and
are preparing to report to the present
Secretary of the Interior The report
will also touch upon the general poll
teal condition of the Texan border and
viii probably have some suggestion re-
garding various proposed schemes of
anneXatiGD. 1il1H'. .li 81 -ii5Dl- 81 ls
a war-of1S12 pensioDer in Massa-
chusetts, of eighty-five years, at this
late day finds the payment of his pen
sion suspended, on the ground that his
company was called into service as
Ininute-hien, to guarG the sea shore,
and was not regularly mustered into
the service of the United States.
The municipal aud other corporations
in Aiibama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and
other Southern States have issued large
amoonts. of small notes, used as cur
reney, but which have become nearly
valueless. The Commissioner of In
teraai Revenue, it is stated, will im-
ImeGiately proceed to tax coporations
ten per cent. ON the amount of their
issues. -.
The impression prevails among the
Southern Journals which are still de-
voted to the Lost Cause that Beaure-
gard's recent accident on the Bull Run
battlefield was a Judgment. They be-
.lieve that Beanregard's horse was
scared by the ghost Of some confederate
soldier of who arose from his grave to
rebuke the General for trespassing on
that sacred ground after proving "re-
creant" to the cause for which the SOL
dier and his comrades died. .-,r ra ,a
Several prominent citizens of Troy,
Nnyr NOrE fr VT ix-<s
iron mills on an island in the Hudson
near that city,. .ar B, -,.-..-......-.- ..
The Superintendent of the Carson
City (Nev.) Mint Informs the Secretary
of the Treasury that the trade dollar
has, since the financial troubles and the
depreciation of the value of silver, gone
into circulation extensively ,and, though
not intended for home use, the miners
and business men prefer it to fraction
al currency. y .-..,.
The feat has been accom- plished of
obtaining a complete circuit from
Charleston, South Carolina, to San
Chicago, a distance of over four thou
sand miles, by the Atlantic and Pacific
Telegraph Company .a.a-,. f.e
b New Orleans has fire company
whose Secretary must be kind of mod
|ern Joshua. He announces that the
''siXteenth anniversary of the afore-
said company, which was to be had on
the 5th of October, 1873, is postponed
on account of Sickness"
The celebrated old pacing mare POGO
hontas died last week at Providence,
r. I. Her remarkable performance
was over the Union course, Long Is
land, ON the 21st of June, 1855, when
she beat Hero, distancing him in the