Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-11
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The island Of Campobello, the "seatD
OF one of the Fenian was, has been
bought BY a Boston firm, and will be
converted into summer resort.
Beavers are sad to beragaiu appear
Ing on some rivers in Canada, where
they had been extinct for over half n
century. ss.rs 5--.T
The large supplies of tin now coming
into the marEe,s of Europe from Aus
ITALIA are affecting lhe shares in the
mines of Cornwall.
The Iowa State auditors report shows
that last year Iowa paid 5000, 900 in pre-
miums to fOreiga insurance companies.
while only little over 5000, COO was re-
tuted for losses. This would show
either that Iowa is taxed pretty heav-
lily to pay the losses of other peorle, or
thaf the rates of insurance are Just
about three times too high.
y new steamship line has just been
e. sabl she'd to run between the porss of
Now Orleans and Rio de Janeito touch
ing at.Jamaica, Port Spain, Trinidad.
Para, Marauham, Pernambuco and
Dahia, making the outward trip in
twenty-five days and the home passage
in twenty-three days, thus opening
vast commercial trade between those
ports and the great States of the Missis-
sippi valley. 70 .9uq, . f-o.
/ The great equatorial telescope now
being constructed at Cambridge, Mass,
fer the Naval Observatory, will be
finished in the latter part of this mont.
or early next month. The new bull
ding in which it is to be mounted is
nearly completed, and the new instru-
ment will be ready for work about the
middle of November.
Information gained from five of the
leading dry goods houses of st. Louis
enables the Democrat to say that the
position and prospect of the trade are
very fiattering. lE
Louisville spectators have made
large purchases Of land contiguous to
the new Mennonite settlement in Har-
vey county, Kansas.
There have been eight persons drown
ed at Atlantic City, two at Coney Is
land and three at Cape May this season
while at Long Branch, where the bath
ing is reputed to be so much more dam
gerous, there has not been single case
of drowning reported so far.
Minnesota has more miles of railroad
than Massachusetts, the former having
1,9O6, and the latter 1,S5S. In 1858
Massachusetts, had 1,2S5, and Mime
gotta only 81 miles.
Recent geological surveys of the new
Territories of the Far West have re-
vealed the very important fact that the
known coal deposits of the Rocky
Mountain region extend over an area
of upwards of two hundred and fifty
thousand square miles, in strata wary
lag from five to thirty-five feet in thick
ness.
The anchorage and unexpOsed parts
of the great suspension bridge at Nj
agara have just undergone a close in
spection. Everything was found to be
as perfect as when laid, twenty years
ago. sa1-'l $500 -e d9
Governor Smith, of Georgia, recent
ly stated that the States of Georgia,
Alabama, Florida and South Carolina,
even under The agricultural changes of
the South, do not yet raise enough
wheat for their own use within sc, 0,OO0,-
600 of bushels.
California grape growers have found
out that il pays to dry their fruit. One
hundred pounds of fresh grapes are
worth 81; when dried they are reduced
to twenty pounds, and are worth - 50.
The Twenty-third and One Hundred
and Third Regiments o. V. 1. will re-
unite at Wellington, September 17th,
the anniversary of the battle of An
tietam.
The prospects are promising for the
new narrow gauge route from Toledo
to Maumee. Only $4,000 stock re-
mains to be taken before the work will
proceed. t..-...
Elder Solomon Demick, age ninty-
three, died last week in Olmstead,
LOrain county. He was Hard Shell
Baptist and was wont 10 say that a
man who couldn't exhaust any textin
the Bible in half an hour wasn't fit to
preach. -f
Joseph Leiby, formerly Treasurer of
franklin county, now seyenty-eieht
years old, has been taken to the County
Infirmary. He is imbecile, and has no
fIiends to look after him.
The Perry County Agricultural So
ciety holds its Fair October 10. Is, IL,
and IS, 1878.
Rev. j. H.Iangile, pastor of the Bap-
tist church in Oberlin, has fallen from
grace, confessed and resigned. The
Elyria Independent says the charges
preferred against him are of too vile
character to appear in print.
\ Richland county congregation met
together to pray for rain, during re-
cent drouth, forgetting 10 carry their
umbrellas, and were wet enough when
they reached their homes.
The farmers are complaining loudly
of the ravspes of the orasshonnarS In