Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-10-02
GEFER AL AND PARTICULAR

Id Q proposition has been made in
" lcinnati, and is meeting with good
deal of favor, to establish Geological
Society.
Several months ago young man In
Evansville went to sleep with a gold
dollar in his mouth, and he forgot al
about it until his bad cold was cured
last week by his coughing the coin
from his lungs. He doesn't feel nearly
as dolorous now.
A stone which 'bends and stretches
like India rubber" is one of the curios.
tiles of a North Carolina newspaper
office. 1t is said to resemble a lawyers
conscience.
Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut,
recognizes the right of women to a
share in public duties by including the
names Of two in his appointments to
the new State Board of Charities.
The spiritualists have finally fairly
launched themselves on the sea of po-
litics, and there is offered a chance for
the Democracy which no one anticipat-
ed. If it is possible to raise the dead
the spiritualists can do it.
England is suffering from the potato
rot. One is inclined to exclaim, "Rot
the potato rotp'-but that branch of
blight seems to have permanently es-
tablished itself in the potato fields of
Christendom. E8
Three young ladies ascended Mount
Equinox, Vermont, a few days since,
going straightup by the shortest and
also steepest route. This is the first
time the feat ever accomplished by
ladies.
Members of Congress are already be-
gining to settle down at Washington,
ten weeks in advance of the time when
they need be there.
There is no better counsel to give
business men than to advise them to|
Keep cool, and, remembering Harry
Wadsworth's notices, to look up, and
not down; look forward, and not back;
look out, and not in, and to lend help
ing hand.
Exclusive reliance upon cotton, it is |
aid, has caused failure among the
cotton planters this year. Cotton is |
not king in this country.
The field of Louisiana are 1ow cover
ID with every variety of game. The
,apabote, the snipe and partridge are
more abundant than at any time since
he war.
The light steamboat is to be put in
he Yellowstone for the purpose of pro-
seeding up the river to lest how high
lr navigation is practicable. A full
md accurate test will be made.
A Boston paper thinks DIR. Samuel
Johnson, were he now alive in New
England, might say that epizootic
pasmotic affections of the nasal organ
re not eminently conductive to CALI
.raphic legibility, the perspicuous
phericity of rhetorical sentences, or
colloquies uninterrupted by
osequakes and explosive manifesto
ions ofthe olfactory arrangements.
The wife ofa Wisconsin postmaster :
as been detective opening letters. Z
Ie preJers divorce to removal.
The movement to secure the recogni-
on of God in the new Michigan con-
tuition was defeated by a tie vote in !
he convention.
Preparations are making by the d
merican Colonization Society for its
,gular fall expedition for Liberia.
ut of more than three thousand vol
ntary applicant for settlement, a Sc 7
ction will be made-the actual num-
pr accepted depending upon the means :
for the purpose. |.
A very superior quality of cham
lgne, it is said, is now fabricated,
ith petroleum as the chief ingredient.
is rapidly taking rank as "a native
inc. II
Alta funeral which took place in
Ieveland a few days ago, there were
resent six gentlemen whose:aggregate
res amount to FIVE hundred and five
ears. Their names and ages are: b.
!. Beers, Sc; DIR. Aiken, "a; A. Young,
); A. Sherwin, 80; E. Cozad, SO; r.
[artin, So.