Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-03-05
NEWS AND GOSSIP:

Ne w . AN - tIOSSlfs
j. Gordon Bennett, jr., advertises tt
rent the old homestead at Washington
Heights where his father lived so ma
ny years.
A prominent elder in an Influential
church in New York owns the largest
beer garden in that city. Here's CON
sistency for you!
Who owns the tunnel? is now the
question in Massachusetts,. And the
Legislature finds the hole in the rock
bigger bore than ever.
A Mississippi postmlstress has dis.
charged her husband from clerkship
for rnon-attenGance to duty. She want
ed no nepotism in hers.
1T is said that a Washington belle
gets but three hours sleep a day du-
RUG the fashionable season. Quite
enough for her intellect, however.
The Home Rule cry for Ireland,
which threatens to give so much trou-
Bile 20 the British government, has now
also been raised in Scotland.
Oregon papers complain of the want
of ministers tn supply numerous va
can't parishes where good churches are
erected aud Il sufficient support guar
anteed.
"A Washington BELLE says the Bos-
ton Post, is looked upoa as az encyclo-
p@dia of faSinations.' That speaks
volumes, says the sauey Brcekly Ar
gus.
Florida papers say that the State has
been talked of South more rOmantical-..
ly and examined less accurately than
other section OF country on the conti-
nent.
Recent investigations prove that fog
signals cannot be depended upon at a
distance of more than three miles, as
they are 50 affected by the condition of
the atmosphere.
1t is now intimated that Tweed will
gOtO work at that book Just as soon as
every legal measure looking to his re-
leafe has failed; and then look out to
see the fur fly.
A New Orleans court has made the
very plain decision that the printed
words mot negotiable upon the face.of
note drawn to order, do not affect its
negotiability.
Poor Andy johnson will have tol
emigrate from Greenville, Tenn. InI
that village prayer has pulled the stop
pens out of the bottles and the bungs
out of the kegs.
The newest swindle is an attempt to
obtain money from inventors and own
nf rStnnt rinhtl hu nforinn lornn
sums by ciTcnlars for an invention for
term of years.
At Mardi Gras time in Galveston, the
church-yards yawned and graves gave
up their dead. At least, the local pa
pers said the city was crowded with
breathless spectators
The Ku-Klux hat is the latest style.
Fair bonnet, Rafferty, necktie and al
Woodruff brand of paper coHarss the
world will be happy.
1t is suggested that to prevent the
sale of food poisoned by adul.eratiOn,
Life companies be thoroughly Organ-l
lied pecuniarily interested in an effort
60 prevent it, 4
liz OIduGtIS vi Tic w WCSb diC Aud
king movement against some OF the
Patent laws, and especially against ex-
tension of patents which have run sew
enteen years or more already.
President Grants homestead farm,
near st. Louis, issteadily advancing in
value. and st. Louis people say that it
will make aim a millionaire. Alto
gether, his situatioD is not deplorable.
An Illinoisian publishes the follow
ing singular notice: i have left my
house and home, and / hereby warn
the public that will not hereafter be
for any debts contracted by
my wife, |.
The Illinois Changers are moving in (
the matter of establishing manufactc-
~ of agricultural implements. 1t is
said that by making their own plougts
alone. q saving of fifty per cent can be D
effected. IL
Trinity Church, New York, proposes |
10 take up the temperance movement, {
oy refusing to renew the leases of about {
two score buildings owned by that cor
poration, and now use;. as liquor sa- I
oOns. Is
Il should like to destroy without re-
the city of New York. says 4
with an air of thirsting for |
'oreign gore scarcely to be excelled.
In fact New York to him is a red-rag
Of extraordinary dimensions.
The old swindle about hearing the |;
of the sea in shell is Il hum
bug. For, if you will hold a beaver /
nat, or goblet, or pickle bottle, or J
IN oyster can to your ear, you will hear j
,he same delicious murmur.
New Orleans may be happy yet. The !:
receipts of cotton at that port Up to
late are upwards of million bales;
I35, GOO 1uore than were received at the :
'ame date last year, and the largest re :, !
,eipts since the war. :