Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-06-25
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS. Il
The graduating exercises at Wsst |
Point took place on the 18th inst.
Gen. B. +. Potts, of this Stats; has |
been re-appointed Gov. of Montana.
Dunlap, the murderer of Carpenter,
at Columbus, goes to the penitentiary
for life.
The yellow fever has broken out in |
Bohia, Brazil, and is raging with great
violence.
Mrs. Cameron, wife of Senator Simon
Cameron, died at Harrisburgh on the
18th inst.
Mrs. Audubon, widow of the cele-
brated naturalist died at Louisville ON
the 18th inst.
Jas. G. Blaine has been re-nominated
by the Republicans of the Third Con-
gressiOnal district of Maine.
A boy in North Centre, Geneva Co.,
was badly poisoned by the vapor aris-
ing from scalded potato bugs.
The President has signed the currency
bill reported from the last committee
of conference and it becomes law.
The Massachusetts, House Of Repre-
Isentatives, on Friday, passed license
bill to engrossment by vote of 100 to
s..
Boss Tweed appeared in court at
New York on the 18th inst, as q wit
ness. He was much thinner than of
yore.
Governor Allen and Lieut. Governor
Hart were in attendance at the open
ing of the Cleveland sengerfest this
week.
At the Nelsonville mines, Athens
county, on the 18th, one of the negro
miners shot and killed a colored COM
panion with a musket.
Fifty witnesses were examined be-
fore the grand jury of Ross county, this
State, but nary" an indictment was
found against the liquor sellers.
A highway robbery was perpetrated.
Thursday night last, near Parker's
City, Pa. Six m,sked men attacked
man named Grain and took from him
$500.
The mineral resorsces of Tuscarawas
county, by the al Of railroads, are be-
ing rapidly developed. Sandstone has
been shipped to Cleveland, Pittsburgh
and Chicago. -
| The Supreme Conrt at Clinton, Iowa,
on Friday returned verdict of three
thousand dollars against a salOOn-keep-
er for selling liquor toa drunkard. The
complainant was the wife of the victim.
General P. M. B. Young, u member
of Congress from Georgia, has declined
to accept the prominent military posi-
tion rendered him by European
power.
A Herald Philadelphia special says
it il runTed reconciliation has been
efected irtwecn Senator Simon Cam
eron and Col. john W. Forney and that
in political affairs they will hereafter
pull together. r..
A Havana letter reports the safe land
ing ON the north coast of Cuba, Of an
insurgent reinforcement of 1000 men,
8 x pieces of artillery and a large
quantity Of ammunition, all under
Aquilr;a. '.
An attempt by the prisoners in the
Missouri peniteniiary to escape, was to
have been made ON Friday last, but by
prompt action OF the part of the officers
the inutinous spirit is supposed to be
subduel. -'7- is-
Biuford Wilson, nominated by the
president to be Solicitor of the Treas
ury, vice Bantield resigned, is at pre-
sent United States Dis rict Attorney
for the Southern District of Illinois,
HIS stomnission rs such expires in July.
The fastest time made by any train
in the United States is made by news
paper train which runs between New
York and Philadelphia. Last week
five miles Of the road WIS run in 81
minutes, or at the rate OF S5 miles an
hour. -.
! The marriage OF Lieltenant Fitch, Of
the United States Navy, aud Miss Min
ME. daughter of General Sherman, Is
annaunce for O.'tob,r IA, at thn Gen.
erals residence in Washington. The
Bishop Of Ohio will perform the cere-
mOny. 81 ,
| the President has nominated Benz.
Moran to be Thiri Assistant s cretary
of State; Geors g B. Chalmers To be Ap-
praiser of Merchandise at Pittsburgh,
and Robert NJ Donglass To be United
States Marshal for the Western District
of North CtrOlint. LYNN K. Bass,
Representative to Congress from Buf-
falO, has been no:niastej Secretary of
the Treasury.
|
Three m ,skei ,i.n burst in the door
of SAMUEL Bears dwelling, near SOM
erset, l. ln:aster county, on last Friday
night, and robbed the family of FIVE
hundred dollar, in money, "a gJii watch,
shot guH, Il -'voiver and Il knife.
Nothing has |, iisc ,yered 10 lead to
the detection t;,. III sves. +
In the NJ ,in. ,-.pa ,iicsn State Con-
ventiO.I, .. 4. 18th inst, resolutions
were al ,psnl favor. :: F,a early re-
sumptio of -p..ie piy.n .lts, approx
ing Ia Pfesii,ht's veto of the currency
bill, reiteratiug former declarations of
principles of party, and recognizing the
NECESSITY of judicious liquor laws.
Tae t,iaLof Ernest Ortwein, for the
murder Of the Hamnett family, near
Pittsburgh, WIS conclu led on Frid,y
last. i t'.jury, aft n an absence of uriy
fifteen minutes, retIrnei a varlic. uf
guilty of murder ia the first degree.
The prisoner seemei to show ~ Siy.,-
of emotion when the verdict was an
nounced. The Court remarked that
the verdict was proper and HI the in
dorsement of the Court @
SCRIBNER's MONTHLY FOR july
contains some notable ft.nIIlri.s n,lf ii,..