Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-09-25
GENERAL AND PARTCIIAR


hood and Bondage"
James Parton, it is said, is writing a
life of Charles Dickens.
Bret Harte has been translated bv a
dozen different Germaps.
About IL ,OGO books have been copv-
rlghted in this country since New Year.
May Agnes Fleming's "Guy Earls-
courts Wife" has reached its ninth
edition.
Josh Billings Almanac for 1874 will
be illustrated by j. III. Howard, in sill
houette.
Howard Glyndon, the deafand dumb
authoress, is learning the "reading by
! lip method.
Gustave Dore's most striking and
characteristic Spanish drawings have
been added to new illustrate d edition
of 'Don Quixote."
| There will be less number Of poems
novels, books of science, and sermons
printed in England during the season
of 1878 and 1874 than ever previously.
Everybody is coming to the United
States to lecture.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley, the bril-
liant and popular English author, will
visit this country soon after Christmas.
He does NOT come to make money as
lecturer, but, as he writes, ''to spend a
few months in seeing with hy own
eyes your wonderful country and peo-
pie"
In Switzerland, it is said, milk
maid, who is IA good singer gets more
salary than others, because, under the
influence Of music, cows "give down."
better and give more milk. A Western
farmer is trying to hire Parepa-Rosa
and Kellogg to sing round his pump.
Shreveport, where the yellow fever
is now holding high carnival, Is about
eight hundred miles from New Orleans
\
via Red river and the Missippi, and
has population of over ten thousand.
1t is one OF the busiest towns in Louisi-
ana, and, when the river is navigable,
enjoys very large trade with Texas
and the other States.
i a movement, not yet well defined,
has been started in the States of the
Northwest looking to convention of
representative producers of that sec
tion OF the country, to be held in sou1o
Iceutral locality this Fall.
| There is war between the cattle own
ers and sheep raisers of Southern Colo
RADIO. The cattle owners, who are in
the majority. are the aggressors. Cor
rails have been broken into, and sheep
Slaughtered upon the plains. The cat
tie men seem resolved TO drive the
sheep men out of the country.
An English paper advocates the abo-
lition of godfathers and godmothers.-
The causes which led to the institution
of sponsors, ii says, ceased to exist; the
sacramento of baptism is complete with
out them, and if they were done away
with very many religious dissenters
woulGlreturn to the Established Church.
1t is usual to throw away grape stones
as waste product. but it now appears
| that they can be turned to good account.
When roasted ana ground they possess
an aroma very much like that of East
India coffee and the beverage obtained
Itherefrom is about the same as coffee
in taste, though inferior in quality.
The Nathan mansion, which has
stood vacant ever since the mysterious
murder, is to be sold at auction, it be-
ing impossible to obtain desirable
tenant. The owners complain that the
constant revival of the tragedy by the
arrest of suspected or self-proclaimed
assassins has nearly ruined the prop
erty.
The partial cleanup of fiume at
Cherokee, CAL, few days ego yielded
gold which, when ru1 into q brick,
weighed 142 pounds avoirdupois, worth
about forty-two thousand dollars.
Immense quantities OF wheat are
stored at the railroad stations along the
line of the Union Pacific and other Ne
braska roads waiting shipment. 1t is
estimated at over two thousand car
loads.
1t seems that we are not only send
ing American Goals to Newcastle and
American iron to Birmingham, but the
tables are so far turned that American
"Durhams'' have been bought by Eng
lish dealers at almost fabulous prices.
After all Chicsgo's filings at Milwau-
kee as ''village" and ''Iiver settle
ment," the papers of the Lake City are
obliged to acknowledge, though with
rather bad grace, the importance Of
that Systematically belittled city as a
primary wheat market. The receipts
of Milwaukee, one day last week, Were
49,, 600 bushels, or 16S, 900 bushels more
than Chicago.
Vicksburg nurse girls have taken to
racing with carriages, and having re-
Gently adopted the hurdle system, sew
eral babies have been killed.
Gerritt Smith, who, it was supposed,
would sustain their cause to the last, is
pouring cold water on the Temperance
by advising them to be
more moderate in their demands.