Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-20
some currency, requesting him to bring
down quarter of pound of fine cut


tobacco.
A political orator, speaking of a GER
tain General whom he admired, said he
was always, ,on the field of fbattle, where
the bullets were the thickest. "Wbere
was that" asked one of the auditors
'In the ammunition wagon, - respond
ed another.
The picture for the Daily Graphic.
the coming illustrated daily paper of
New York, are to be made by the
photo-lithographic process by which
the sketch, equal in all respects to the
old copper etchings, can be put on the
press in half an hour after the design
enters the Office.
In one of the scenes of pantomine
recently produced in Paris, characters
become musical instruments, and there
is ballet by ladies dressed as guitars
and bells, assisted by children with
skirts, while the background
is admirably filled up by an army of
gigantic clarionets and flutes.
The subscription opened by the Per-
severance, Of Milan, for monument to
Napoleon III. has already reached
A $50 lire. Milanese ladies formed a
committee for collecting the fuIds for
a funeral service in honor of the late
Emperor. Similar subscriptions have
been opened at Brescia and other
towns.
An unintelligent foreigner, who is
quite unable to understand and appre-
ciate American manners, writes home
that t-"when a great man dies in the
United States the first thing done is to
propose a fine statue in his honor; next,
to raise part of the necessary money;
next, to forget to order any statue, and,
last to wonder what became of the
money"
From the recent census in India it
appears that the people owning the di-
rect authority of the Queen of Great
Britain number 1876, 6,037 900, and those
who obey the rule of native chiefs,
subject to her protection, number 55,-
250,0 900.
Hundreds of petitions are reaching
the United States Senate from the pub
fishers Of country newspapers protest
ing against a nrovision in the bill now
before the House for the reduction of
rates of postage, providing for trans
mitting through the mails free of post
age weekly papers (which are iprinted
and published wholly within the
county.
The directors of the Anglo-American
ard French Atlantic Cable Companies
have resolved to reduce the tariff on
messages between Great Britain,
France and. New York, from one dol
lar per word tosseventy-fve cents per
word on and after the 1st of May next.
1t appears by the accounts of the
Pacific Railroad, that they know
how to make the bills against the gov
eminent cover as large ground as
possible. When any part of the road
is threatened by hostile Indians, they
telegraph to the nearest military post,
get a lot of soldiers, ,carry them to the
point of alleged danger and back. The
result is a goodly-proportioned bill
against the.gOvernment for transporta-
ton of troops and supplies.
On the fifth of March the Canadian
Parliament will meet.at Ottawa. This
Will be the first session of the Second
Dominion Parliament, elected, last
summer, for five years. The First Do
minion Parliament was elected in 1867
and finally prorogued June II, 1872.
Federal officials have seized the
books, weights and measures of the
San Francisco and Pacific, and the Call
ifornia sugar refneries in San Francis
co, on the charge of making false re-
turns of weights.
The Massachusetts, Senate is consid-
ering bill designed to recover the loss
of taxable property which the city of
Boston annually suffers from persons
having little real estate in Boston and
a large amount of personal property
going to some suburban town about
the first of May, and claiming that as
their residence for the.purpose of taxa
tion.
Northern Texas is now actively en-
gagged in raising cattle, and men who,
a few years ago, could barely earn a
are now the owners of
large "stocks," Notwithstanding great
losses by cattle thieves and Indian
The lumber trade of Canada for 1872
was not profitable in consequence of
labor and provisions having risen from
twenty-five to thirty-three per cent.
and although the cut of logs in the
winter was very large, yet in conse-
quence of the continued dry weather
and low water during the summer, it
was impossible to send down the logs.
1t is not an absolute necessity of
mans nature when his wife. ''stoopS to
folly" that he should degrade himself
to a worse crime by shooting her or
her paramour, or both, and perhaps
to boot. A Hartford merchant
lately, discovering the faithlessness of
his wife and the villainy of his own
clerk, rose in his dignity, paid the