Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-04-17
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very uniavorabie for the early paekino
and shipping of trees.
: san Francisco papers note the fact
'hat the pedestrians of that happy CITY
are seeking the shady side ofthe street
Think of it. ''' CO..
NehtacAy produced in the year 1879
according to the duditor's report o.
27,25i pounds Of tobacco, 80. .28s 97s
short OF the product of 1871.
Nearly all of the elevators of Chica-
go are erected upon made ground. tho
original ground was aswamp. Several
OF these elevators are ROW SLOWLY bnt
surely settling down into the earth
The fate that overtakes prominent
men in Kansas is having counties nam
ed alter them. None are allowed to
escape. One by one the LeeisIatpra
gathers them in. 1t is sad.
The statistics Of the Chicago Board
OF Health show the unpleasant fact
that the deaths exceeded births in 1879
by over two thousand. But perhaps if
is best for the children.
The people are beginning to regard
the money-grabbing practice with do
cided disfavOr. \ number of indoes
in Tennessee. have been Indicted 5o-
drawing five dollars a day when the
law only allows them two.
me southern papers have begun
the'r annual task of advising the peo-
pie to plant less cotton. And. as coon
as the people read such advice. tbev
Immediately go to buying more cotton
seed aud hiring more land.
a Fhiladelphia prophet predicts a
period OF pestilence. Jupiter. Saturn
Uranus and Neptune are all approach
ing the earth. In their train come
plague, famine, intensely hot aud bit
terly cold weather.
a cat IN Nicks5urs. Mississippi, has
oeen occupied in sitting upon a nest of
hens eggs. At last accounts she had
succeeded III getting three chickens
safely from The shell and has hopes of
q large brood.
fhe New York literary market is
largely 1verstocked. Several of the
editors state that MnIS n,
iidiid have never been 50 ample. and
that they could get along very comfort.
ably ii Hot another article we're offered
10 tI'"1' f'nTi'i" thr next three wears.
I"lzFc'Nillll Kelley holds that the
embarrassment under which
We are iiqsE suiftrin. is an evidence of
Most conclusive character, that Enc
Ia;ld i Passing into ii commercial crisis
no:" serious than that If 1866.
There i a good deal Of human ma
-ure in manEiud. There are no liquor
saloons in BUstDn, but ninety.seven
drunken iiiV:. rsegt arrested there one
iay last week.
Ihe returns ffom April fools day are
beginning to GENE in. \ Bostonian
'Siled a few friends around to a straw
perry supper; about twenty came, and
here w;is one -fr!srDerry.
1t Is now stated that the high lake
relghts OF the present season are the
fSuit of corner, 1.-The bear party
II grain having taken up all these ves-
els some tiale since at about 12l orl2
ents, 10" which they now ask Il or
S cents.
The lioi carriers employed in the
'urnt district of Boston TOOK advant-
ge OF the Importance OF their work
lst now and struck for higher wages
he other day. Their places were i'm
nediately filed by cOlnred worknen
nd the w0Ik went on without serious
Interruption. Served themIight.
The rapid growth of the pine is
hown by the fact that logging has been
arried on during the past winter in
Wisconsin, where twenty years ago the
ime trees were hardly large enough
If Oar-stems.
y conscience man has sent tbirty-fvo
ollars to the United States Treasury
'r what he asserts TO be upaid taxes on
lagic lanterns. Let that man cut a
ole in his conscience and insert can
lie, and he will have a magic lantern
'orth showing and paying for.
The acknowledged bell of the village
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, weighs 1900
Dunds. She was taken prisoner by
le Germans at Sedan, and was recent
sent to the pastor of the Lutheran
lurch i'll the cannon forH, melted and
lng in the church tower.
The Legislature of Massachusetts has
sssed bill which provides that eggs
ust be sold by weight, and that the
andard weight of a dozen of eggs
hall be one pound and eight ounces.
rom this time forth, therefore, it will
Ivolve a suspicion of disloyalty to the
ate for any hen to build an egg weigh
x less than two ounces.
Some startling facts have just been
eveloped concerning the proportion of
embers ofevangelieal churches to the
ltire population of the United States,
hich is one to eight; in some of the
der States it is one to five and half;
that portion of the country west Of
e Rocky mountains one TO twenty-