Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS


ed of at present.
Mr.. Evans, of Exeter, N. H., will
pull hemp February q, 1874.
The ready-money system-Dun or
be done. l-s l..5..
When man becomes a printer~he
"sets up III business.
Cast iron dish clothes are advertised
by Maine hardware man.
A recent charity-ball in New York
netted 900 for the Inf,nt Asylum.
Chicago has a colered hose company
-"The Blue Stockings" 49,,
Pawnbrokers prefer customers who
are without anyredeeming qualities.
A bill has passed the Arkansas
House exempting ministers from road
duty.
Hlndostan contains ,1S6, ,O37. 900 peo-
who pay revenue to the British gov
ernment.
Illinois has elected twenty-one Jour
naiiSts as mayors during the last eight.
teen months.
clearwater, Minn., has organized a
temperance society with the name of
the town for motto.
What is the difference between
sailor and a beer-drinker? One puts
MS sailup. the ether puts his ale down.
The Chicago T,i5u2le includes auack
afchltects and builders among the
dangerous classes.
/, AT Pottsville, Pennsylvania, We'd
nesday, William Stahl fell 225 feet into
coal shaft and was instantly killed.
That ingenious farmer brought a
turkey to the Boston market with
eight pounds OF shot in its crop.
i, General Fremont and Others have
: been indicted in Paris in connection
With the monopolies of Ell Paso rail-
road bonds. ---i--..J -i----.. 3
A black bear undertook to hug Mrs.
Mason, of Wisconsin, to death, but she
jabbed the tip of an umbrella into his
eyes, and he seeded. lie
g A young man who was crossed in
? love attempted suicide recently by
: taking dose of yeast powder. He i'm.
mediately rose above his troubles.
A Chicago paper says that it is
+ wonderful how quick the blind beggars
! of that city can tell the differenc be-
+ tween ten cents and quarter.
: Says Paine, ave in France are too
!, ready to believe that when a woman
u ceases to be a doll she ceases to be
d woman"
v The Danbury Ne,cs remarks that
v "the dearest object to married man
should be his wife; butt it is not unfre-
tquently her clothss." g..
4 AT a recent Patti-Mario concert,
some one asked witty lady, if GER
( tain performer was Ole Bull. "No,"
+ she replied, 'it's a young calf"
d Charles Francis Adams has been Sc
l. sected hy the New York Legislature
is to deliver an oration upon the late
/ VIM. II. Seward.
A bill has been reported in the Mass
achusetts House appropriating $4,000,
'e and authorizing the Governor to ap-
1t point a commissioner to the Vienna
d Exposition.
is AT Logansport, Indiana, Wednesday
e night, a smallpox patient became de-
j, lirious, jumped out of a second-story
a bedroom window, broke into the q.
% S. Express Office and went to bed with
one of the clerks without waking the
sleeping individual.
The city of Philadelphia paid last
r year S1,1OO,S09 net revenue to the
d State, not counting the railroads, that
- paid 81 ,4SS, $50 more.
i "How does that look, eh?p said a
to big-fsted Wall-street man to q friend,
r. holding up one of his brawny hands
; ''That." said his friend, looks as
though you'd hone short on your
soap"
is Calling guns, that fire four hundred
), shots per minute, with range of over
= one thousand yards, and which weigh
sr only one hundred and twenty-five
Ie pounds, are now being made at Colts
10 Armory, Hartford, Conn.
aE Doesticks, who went to Minneapolis
,s for his health, got it, and now goes
n back to New York to run down again.
y He says he would rather be an invalid
II lin New York than an athlete in Min
,sI nesota in winter.
Is When Alice Cary died subscription
Is among her personal friends was made
T. for monument to her memory. The
70 plans were not completed until after
~ the death of her sister Phoebe, when it
II was determined to erect the monument
4, to the memory of both Alice and
III Phoebe Cary and their sister Elmina,
u who is buried beside them in Green
'o wood Cemetery. 1t has just been COM
ie pleted and placed in position. 1t is Of
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