Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-18
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A soap peddler has sued a Connecti-
cut paper for ono thousand dollars
damages for calling him nuisance
There's lye somewere.
Fall bonnets are to do something to-
ward covering the head. This change
will help turn the ornamental into the
useful.
@eturns from the country" continue
to be large, and In a short time the sea
shore, the mountains, the forests, and
the watering places will be left to their
native quiet.
One of the jokes of the day is, that
all the great poets of the United States
should be invited to sing sin enduring
verse; the nations farewell to its first
century, in 1876! What q caterwauling
there would be should this sublimely
SILLY suggestion be complied with by
all Americans who consider themselves
to be ''great poetsp
There are three estimates as to the
cotton crop: one is 4 1000, 600 bales; an
other is $500, 900; and the third $780,
GOO. All depends upon the weather.
A genuine pOmpano, which is pecu-
liar to the Gulf of Mexico and is the
favorite of New Orleans epicures, was
taken, few days since, off Nantucket,
Massachusetts,, by members of the
United States Surveying Expedition.
1t is believed to he the first of this
choice species ever known In that vi
cinity.
The prevalence of yellow fever at
Galveston and Shreveport causes much
uneasiness. The disease is very malig-
nant at Shreveport, and that place is
isolated from the surrounding towns by
a strict quarantine.
Last Friday negro was hanged In
Carrie, Ill. Even after the moose was
adjusted about his neck he was given
choice of being launched into eternity
or residing permanently in that delight
full town. "Jerk dat roper was his
Indignant reply-and they jerked it.
The latest Chicago dodge to escape
the liquor law is to get up mock mar
triage ceremony, perform the marriage
about one O'Clock at night, and then
pass the remainder of the time in cele-
brating the nuptials by getting drunk.
mo cards." is the frequent announ-
cement to the marriage notice; and
now comes ''no carriages, t" to the funer-
al notice. Why not? A great funeral,
ia these latter days, has become more
expensivc than Il marriage, and mar
riage often costs enough to start a young
man in prosperous business.
The Michigan constitutional conven-
tion has got to work. One measure
proposed is prohibition of municipal
aid to railroads. Another project is the
choice of Senators for six years, and to
classify them.
Apple trees are rather eccentric IN
Illinois this year. Many that have no
leaves are bearing fruit, and several
that did not blossom in the spring have
Just now concluded to 90 so.
The COdorus iron ore, found in York
county, in this State, is said to corre-
spond with the ore of the ancients from
which the famous Damascus steel was
made, and is similar to that imported
into England from the East Indies,
"Gath" epitomizes Long Branch as
ga stretch of frame houses on green
bluff, with good air, fair roads, bad,
dirty and dangerous surf, and great
monotony, relieved only by dissipa-
tion."
"Chivalrous" kentucky, Several of
the local physicians ran away from
Lancaster, in that State, when the
cholera broke out badly. So great was
the stampede generally that the local
paper of that town compliments by
name the physicians and citizens who
remained to take care of the sick.
The champion postal card writer Of
Charleston, s. c., has reached 2,014
words.
The man who wrote, 81 am saddest
when 1 sing" was foolish if he sung
much.
A prudent clergyman, unwilling to
accuse citizen of lying, said he used
the truth with penurious frugslity.
eyes, take her and welcome" re-
sponded an Illl0ois farmer, when q
young man asked for his blushing
daughter. "She's run away with q
school-master, eloped with Snowman,
shot wildcat, and whipped her moth
er, and the sooner you take her the
better"
An old lady hearing somebody say
that the males were very irregular,
said: sit was just so In my young
days-no trusting on 'em."
The 3orchlight, Of Xenia, says q
farmer residing east of that city har-
vested about forty tons Of first class
timothy from II little over sixteen
acres. Meadows in that country have
made an excellent yield this year.
Hezekiah Taylor, of Richland coun-
ty, mistook bottle Of aconite tincture,
prepared for curing gaps in chickens.
for cholera mixture, and took dose to
relieve crsmp in his stomach. He
died in less than an hour. The Coro-
ner's Jury 'scensured" the druggist who