Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-04-24
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ioS Out IVY tHouStnu DuStjeS per Qay.
f'How long, oh! Lord, how long?"
/ A California stheater is performing
i'Coriolanus," though the actors say
they don't know how to pronounce it.
A man writing POLITICALLY of the
weather says: ''The backbone of win
ter is broken, but the tale wags yet oc-
Icasionally."
The President has not yet taken ac-
ton on the subject Of successor to
Minister De Long.
The Governor of Kentucky eneour-
Iages Ku-Klux outrages by taking no
notice of them. els Democrat.
4 The question of religion in the public
schools has been opened again in the
Jersey City board of Education.
Three Ku- Kluxers, wounded in the
late outrage in Henry county, Ken
tucky, have died and gone for their
REWARD % $3.50
i Sir Samuel Baker and wife, of Eng
land, are reported to have been muir
Idered in the interior of Africa by
natives.
I Ex-Senator .Cole and family left
Washington "Wednesday for California.
Jesse Grant, son of the President, ac-
companled them.
Railroads are stripping the country
IOf its timber at the rate of 100000
acres per arinum; and their demands
are rapidly increasing.
I Small beginnings may have large
Iendings. From one grain OF wheat
PLANTED three years ago, Florida man
inow as'three acres of grain.
The British and American Claims
Commission have disposed of most of
tine cases before them, and have still
about hundred on their docket not
Iacted on. -iL -71
St.Louis is moving in the matter of
calling a convention Of Congressmen
to ,be held next month, to consider
matters OF interest to Stetes in the Mis-
Isissippi Valley. l
General Wickerham declines being
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor OF Virginia. This
leaves Col r. W. Hughes the only
candidate in the field.
A fond husband boosted to friend,
! ''ToRl, the old woman came near call
ing me honey last night "Did she,
Bill?'' What did she say? s'She said,
We'll, old Beeswax, come to supper"
Il Peter Fay, of Brooklyn, who kicked
his little son to death because he would
not go and get some beer on trust, has
been found guilty of manslsughter in
, the fourth degree
I A murderer in California Jail, un-
IdeF sentence of death. committed sui
Icide in very ingenious manner. His
friends furnished him with letter pa
per and envelopes saturated with so
luton of morphine and by chewing
lthese hesuceeeded in absorbing enough
lOf the drug to produce death.
i A Louisiana paper asks, in dis
Iftressing tone, ''If We can't raise the
sweet potatoes we eat, in heavens
name what can we raise ?' As they
have been raising the devil in that
Estate for year past very successfully,
we don'tsee thenecessity of inquiring
ANY farther. s,. .-l.- .---. .-.s
They take time by the forelcck down
in New England. Halfa score Of Re
publicans already are mentioned in con-
Inection with the next Gubernatorial
nomination in New Hampshire. The
Ielecdon will take place in about eleven
months.
In more than one recent instance the
Congregations of Methodist Churches
have been on the point of rebellion
fagainst the itinerancy system, but no
lone has gone as far as Brooklyn
church, which has given notice to its
preacher that its doors will be sum-
marily closed against him if he en-
ldeavo rs to fill the position in which he
has been placed.
Fashionable female pick-pockets in
Gotham now put on third arm attach
ment when they go out for game. \
igentleman in a Broadway stage on
recent evening, felt hand cropping in
his pocket on the side next to q we'll
dressed woman. At the same time q
meat, gloved hand rested on her lap on
the same side and seizing this as she
was leaving the vehicle, he pulled her
arm off.
An unique establishment, and the
only one of the kind In the country, Is
the asylum for aged indigent negroes
BOW building at st. Augustine. Flori-
Ida. The endowment is due to the lib
erality of the late Buckingham Smith,
at one time Minister to Spain, and
lifelong. STAKEHOLDER. who willed his
whole estate, amounting to over
go eco, to this object. "a.
\ The stone monuments which marked
the course of the line between New
York and New JerseySas surveyed in
1872, .bave been broken down and
burned into lime, and dwellers along