Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-12-03
NEWS FLASHES.

Ross county has completed a new
Infirmafy.
Mercer county has neiter a railroad
nora pike. f7a--
Miss Ada Ford, daughter of the late
Ex-Governor FordS of Ohio, is soon to
marry Mr.. Eugene Brady, aLWashing-
ton lawyer.
Work on the southern end of the At
lantic and Lake Erie railway has been
stopped for the winter.
New York churches and the theatres
were equally crowded Thanksgiving
day.
Nineteen citizens of Lafourche par
ish, Louisiana, have been arrested for
violation of the Enforcement act.
The Louisiana Returning Board has
resolved to promulgate the returns OF
the Senatorial districts canvassed.
The longshoremen's strike now
threatens to be3ome general in New
York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Ho-
bOken. ...-.-
Reports that parties of gold miners
have invaded the Black Hills country
prove, upon Investigation, to be ground
less.
The vote for Delegate to Congress in
Dakota is as follows: Kidder, Rep,
1897; Armstrong, DEM, 2lS0; .najority
for Kidder, 2480.
The inmates of the New York char
table and correctional institutions
were generally abundantly supplied
with thanksgiving luxuries. sa
Warren; williams, conductor on the
Cairo and Fulton railroad, had his head
crushed Thursday of last week, against
q wood pile while the train was in mo-
toni
The breaking of a driving wheel at
Clark'sthread factory at Newark, n
j., causes a loss of $4,000, and win
throw three hundred out of one thou
sand operatives out Of employment
probably for six weeks.
In his Plymouth Church prayer
Thursday morning, Mr.. Beecher allu-
ded to the Affections that church had
passed through during the year, and
thanked the Lord that they had re-
suited in the spiritual advancement of
the church.
Three large steamboats, with knights
Templar, bound for New Orleans, ar
rived at and departed from st. Louis
going southwark Friday, amid the f.
ring of cannon and a general display OF
bunting. Many of the knights were
accompanied by their families.
The Governor of Massachusetts on
Thursday t26thD, pardoned out of the
State prison three prisoners sentenced
for life, and one for fifteen years. They
had served from six to twelve years
each, and executive clemency was ex-
ercised by reason of their good beha-
viour and mitigating circumstances.
The two white girls recently rescued
from Indians on the Kansas frontier,
Adelaide and AJulia German, aged
five and seven years respectively, were
cz ptured by the Indians in Kansas en-
route from Georgia to Colorado. They
state that their father, neither, broth
er and one of their sisters were muir
dered, and thst they and two older sis-
ters were kept prisoners. They have
no positive knowledge. of their sisters
WneICdDtutS. III " OO anu
suffering is simply too horrible to re-
late. They were almost naked and
nearly starved, and are now under the
charge of a surgeon. r,
In the Washington safe burglary case
the Jury reported that they agreed in
finding Walter B. Williams innocent,
but they could not agree as to the guilt
or innocence of Whitley and Harring-
ton. The jury was then discharged,
when Harrington, his brother and A:
b. Williams at once stepped forward
and congratulated Barker, one ef the
colored Jurors. The dismissal divulg-
ed the fact that on the first ballot they
stood eight for acquittal and four for
conviction. The jurors agree in their
that Craig stool like rock
for conviction, and that Mann and
Mosely adhered to him. They also as.
sert that Craig was cursed, reviled and
called every vile epithet 1t was posi-
bic TO Imagine in order to make him
his opinion, but he did not
llinrh. He was intimidated by every
plan they could devise, bat without e'- /,
|ect,